Remove penetration indicator and give us realistic tank sights

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This is not my suggestion, @73359070 asked me to make this for him

Tank sights should definitely be more realistic and should differ between tanks. For more information, click on this post I made during CBT:

In case of damage indicator for tanks, it’s not realistic so that’s probably why @73359070 suggested this

But in my honest opinion, I will implement this only if certain tanks like puma get fixed and we should get a tutorial where new players can learn to shoot at weakspots

I will also give a penetration indicator the main menu so players can always look where to shoot and where not

If these things don’t get added, I think removing damage indicators might not be a good idea

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maybe instead of getting rid of it completely, we make it into a perk?

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Nah a lot of the realistic sights were dogshit and I know that this would be unplayable for new players.
Maybe only leave the pen indicator for low pen tanks though since all the big gun tanks do fine.

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i would be fine with it as a perk, and yes historical tank sight are needed but like warthunder they should allow custom ones.

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maybe the description for the perk could be “sees enemy tank weak points”

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I don’t know if @73359070 read your messages so I am calling him to read all your feedback and maybe answer some of your concerns

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It would be much more than just seeing weak spots, it would also auto detect enemies for you, all you have to do is just turn your turret around.

If is is removed by default, it should not be turned into a perk.

These historical sights might be a bit hard to use for newbies, so idk whether I like them. Maybe optional? I myself would use them for sure.

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yes i read I gave love to your topic :heart:

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The tank penetrations are bugged, because when you use the AP shells and the reticle is on green, on the impact cam they show a ricochet, so i will like to now what the actual penetration for the shells are, because its seems that is set like to 30% of the actual penetration, because a puma can’t ricochet a 45mm cannon shoot from the side, and it does (puma bias?), it’s a shame that comming from warthunder, the vehicles guns are so bad made…

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again i’m ONLY talking about the pentation indicator being turned into a perk

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Oh damage indicator, not penetration indicator? Then I misunderstood.

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sorry still kinda of waking up and i meant penetration indicator, but yeah you did misunderstand anyways because i was only talking about that one specific feature that only works on vehicles, AA guns, and AT guns

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You mean the green/orange/red marker then? That is the penetration indicator, which I thought you were referring to.
The damage indicator is that hit cam top right when you shoot something and you can see what stuff you damaged.

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yeah because i was referring to penetration indicator, just used the wrong word since i woke up a little over ten minutes ago

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The thing with the penetration indicator is that it only pops up if you aim at something, meaning that it can spot a tank through 10 bushes for you even though you’d have no way of seeing it yourself.

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we can always make it so that it can’t happen but i was mostly talking about turning it into a perk instead of getting rid of it completely

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But that perk would do that auto spotting as well if no marker appears without the perk. Which would be too powerful.

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again we can always make it work on any visible tank/aa/at gun, so if it’s in a bush then you don’t get the indicator

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Bushes do not count as view obstructing within the game engine. And it still counters people trying to conceal things

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we can always balance it accordingly if we turn it into a perk, so it may not be perfect but you can make changes to it if powerful or too weak