IS-2 is such a garbage. Neither good at AT or AP

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Compared with its competitor, it is incapitable to deal with enemy tank. Too hard to aim.
Also nearly half minute reloading time means AP is nearly useless. A slight glitch can easily eat up all the HE damage.

And it dosent even come with smoke shells? Cant even support infantry attacks.

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Walcome to enlisted balance, if is good need a nerf, you can only hope wen the BR drop all game equipment get realistic performance instead of this half-arcade one

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I have no hope BR could solve anything. ATM game can’t deal with basic team balance.
Just go play the stronger side

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it’s good at ap with 122mm he, but the ap shell sucks… it couldnt even penetrate the panther g at an 100% rate even if u aimed the weak point carefully.

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Perhaps you can try shooting at the top of the turret with HE? But shoot before the opponent fires.
At the beginning, switch to HE and fire at the top of the enemy tank’s turret, which is likely to kill 2 people in the enemy tank’s turret.
You can also choose the yellow 16 point shortened filling skill for the loader, which will change from 22 seconds to around 16 seconds, but don’t misinterpret my meaning, IS-2 is still very poor.

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Ap is garbage because it bounces all the time it would be fine with 8sec reload a d below but not over 20sec. He is really good when it hits group of enemies but tiger/jagdpanther could rank up way more infantry kills at same time is-2 manages to reload. Panzerwerfer after merge going to be menace to the Soviet infantry and I bet is-2 going to bounce it’s 1mm armor just because.

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T-34-85 is still the best soviet tank at the moment

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I played the IS-2 not so long ago, my squad with the IS-2 is nearly maxed out. I have to say I have fun with the tank, sure it’s not the OP tank people expect with the 122mm, but I have no problem playing it in Berlin. I try to seek cover and fire when it’s appropriate. I see many people with T-34s and IS-1/2 charging headfirst into the enemy lines/positions, that’s easy picking for someone in a Tiger H or Kingtiger. I normally aim for the turret or the lower glacis, the turret is where it deals more damage for sure. You don’t even need a side shot on the Kingtiger, just the sides of the cannon most times will do.
So yea, the tank isn’t bad, but I prefer the Kingtiger if I’m honest. IS-2 requires more patience, it has 12 rounds and a long reload time, whereas the Kingtiger can reload much faster and it has good armor.
TL;DR - Shoot turret or if appropriate lower glacis.

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Technically speaking, its HE round alone was powerful enough to take our Tigers , yet its main purpose wasn’t fighting tanks, the IS 2 was a heavy breakthrough tank - thus to make its role fit better a HE increase against infantry + a dshka HMG for the commander would make sense.

I swear, I can’t stand the fact that the only soviet tank that people play with is their starter tank, this needs to change, IS 2 needs to be powerful.

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Big joke :IS2 cant penetrate panther s front armor even its possible in warthunder their own games and reailty
totally junk in this game

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But it can but only at perfect angle (which rarely happens), when angled you will bounce most of the time

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I find your lack of faith disturbing

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I have no hope about that

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Bcs they didnt have any in real life.
Soviet tanks having smoke shells is bs .
Tank drivers were using their exhaust pipes and engine smoke to create smoke cover.

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Good thing they didnt make it so you have to depress your gun all they way down to reload in the is-2