adding this tank was a mistake, not only should the IS 2 never even been a rival to the regular Tiger II P - since by even its stats alone it was not capable of being serious competition.
But now with a Tiger II H being a thing, the only way for Soviet players to have a fair counterpart would be by drastically buffing the IS 2 beyond its real life performance - which is already kinda the case, just not ridiculous enough to be “balanced”,
or, the other option would be by keeping up with new vehicles, the question however, when would this “cat and mouse” game of always adding stronger and stronger tanks be over? Because once the IS3 is in the game, there will be again the need for the German side the counter this one - which again will lead to “better and stronger” tanks.
The idea behind just adding the Tiger II (P) with thin turret armor was the perfect compromise for the “final stage of vehicle performance”.
The devs have opened Pandora’s box, and I don’t like it.
First, there’s nothing wrong with the Tiger II H being added. I shouldn’t have to explain blah blah WW2 sandbox toys
Second, every vehicle has its pros, cons, roles, etc. Just because something is particularly strong doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be added. As I say I like seeing Stuarts and Tigers or Ha-Gos and Shermans in the same match
Third, theoretically the IS-3 can be added because it was made late in the war and came so close to seeing service but was at the Berlin Victory Parade. Like many of the other rare, prototype, and experimental content in game
well, yes but that’s my point, Tiger II was superior to IS 2, IS3 was superior to Tiger II, so now Germany will also need a new tank, which would be what? Panther II and Maus? Do we really need max BR to be prototypes only?
By adding Tiger II H they ruined whole Berlin balance, because T-34-85 could be used to counter ALL German tanks, even Tiger II P, but not Tiger II H. So now - a player is forced to used bad IS-2 or pay for SU-100.
However adding IS-3 will not help that much, as it has better armor, but uses the same ammo as IS-2 and will suffer the same long reload time.
I know I’m a different kind of player, but when I play I don’t get into all this meta this or that, I just want to play a WW2 sandbox shooter.
I’m not one of those players who only cares about power creeps. I pretty much use whatever I feel like it.
If I decide to play the Tiger II it’s not because I want to pwn n00bs xD, I just feel like playing that vehicle and playing it’s role on the battlefield. And sometimes I feel like playing the light M5 Stuart.
It’s like right now in the Pacific I currently have the Ka-Chi as my vehicle. Everything has pros and cons. It has decent armor but it is the extremely un-ergonomic to use. Slow, takes up a lot of space, not so good views. And yet I play it because I feel like bringing it to the battlefield. Maybe I’ll play as the Ha-Go instead if I feel like it.
I have the same philosophy with everything else. With Premiums I don’t use them because I think they’re super n00b destroyers, I just use them if I feel like using them. I could have every single Premium and I’d still use the regular squads, because sometimes I just feel this way or that
well, im using is2 and i really not have problems againts tiger 2H
if someone wants a more powerful barrel the isu 152 heat will probably help
(at the moment its in game files and I saw that someone managed to make it usable in a mod)
Cool that you all are using IS-2 and can kill Tiger II H, but before the update a player could do the same with T-34-85 and Tiger II P but 2- 3 times faster.
I dont want “more powerful barrel”, I want the silent Soviets workhorse (T-34) do his job as before.
I will look at this after gym, but at first glance it looks like that the king tiger in enlisted is much stronger vs. Is-2 (and particularly the is-2 '44 more advanced shells) than the war thunder king tiger.
Which, if you assume that war thunder is correct, is the main reason for the issues.
I think that they are the same as in War Thunder, but Enlisted and War Thunder are different type of games, and IS-2 performs poorly in urban environment with narrow streets and constant danger of enemy infantry.
I men the T34 can onshot any german tanks before Tiger II H exist so what really change when the german tanks are mostly underperformed against T34/85?
Honestly they should just add the BS-3 100mm and the PaK 43 88mm anti tank guns as upgrades to AT and engineer squads and be done with it, they will decimate any tank in game and somewhat fix the grey zone camping tanks.
