Remove Tank Barrel Sniping

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This wonderful mechanic should stay in War Thunder and anyone who knows what I’m talking about should agree. It creates an awful unfun meta. Tanks as they work right now are great and don’t need that getting transferred over.

Remove barrel damage from being shot because it creates an awful meta where everyone strictly aims for barrels to disable the enemy’s ability to retaliate. It’s a bad mechanic and shouldn’t be added. Disabling the turret with penetrating hits is the way to go. I’m not sure if the AT rifle banana peeling my barrel was a fluke, but he could have just penned my turret and knocked it out that way.

tl;dr Shooting tank barrels to break them is an awful mechanic and creates an unfun tank meta so it should stay in War Thunder where it started.

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if it’s not in the game it doesn’t need to be removed?

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I never said it wasn’t in the game already.

4

This entire thread makes no sense

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That doesn’t imply it isn’t already in the game. It’s saying that’s a facet of WT we don’t need.

Nice WT clan btw, bro

7

Go try this on someone else, friend.

10

“barrel” sniping could refer to a number of things, including War Thunder’s barrel-centered optic mode and shooting at gun barrels themselves.

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11

Yeah you’re right. People who haven’t played War Thunder would have no clue what I’m actually on about.

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As a big user of the PTRD, and having had to do it with the T-60 as well as in War Thunder with the R3, aiming for the barrel is something I only really do if I can’t pen from my position. Damaging barrels is usually doable when you don’t have enough pen for the turret.
It’s along the same lines as aiming for tracks, just harder to do and more rewarding.

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tfw G*rmans are the main group that snipe barrels because they’re too bad to just kill the tank outright.
Your heart is in the right place at least.

Also sniping the long stick on a tank isn’t high skill lmfao

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it’s higher skill than hitting a plate

16

Tell that to the Leo 2A6s that snipe my T29 barrel despite being able to core me at any angle. Who then proceed to pump ten or more darts into my tank))

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Barrel sniping > OHK shot placement
Aha

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Again, this is the enlisted forum. MBT shit really doesn’t apply here and it takes more hits to break a barrel than would make it a sensible first choice.

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It only takes one hit to break a barrel unless you’re placing god awful shots, bro.

20

that’s not how barrel damage works

21

Then explain how you think it works because that’s how it works when I shoot them in the turret and accidentally hit the gun. And how it’s happened in return with me.

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Why do you think modular damage exists to begin with? A hint: it’s not there to punish players for aiming at small critical components.

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23

Fighting Panzer IIIs Ausf E with a tiny and helpless T-60 is also unfun, don’t you agree? The only way I’m able to disable the enemy tank is through shooting its barrel.

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The barrel has a health bar that goes down the same amount wherever you hit it.
What does matter is the damage of the gun you hit it with.

A 15mm or 20mm needs more hits than a 45mm does.