Bigger tanks, I dare say even smaller tanks, should be able to push wreckage of destroyed tanks or ran them over flattening them. In certain maps, you get spawn blocked with the tank, if previous player died with his tank in a choke crossing or enough tanks die in spawn making a blockade.
A good example is second US spawn point, on D-Day Beach. Both entrances are tight and if another tank dies there in the entrance, you are stuck unable to leave spawn.
In the same spawn, due to the choke entrance, people dig wholes there, where you cannot cross as a tank, being spawn trapped.
Especially funny in Berlin city maps.
Most wreckages should dissapear after certain time becouse it make some spawns impossible for tanks.
Wreckages also completly neglect damage from bombs, which is completly ridiculous when you consider 250kgs or 500kgs.
Stalingrad and Berlin have way too many panths that are undriveable for tanks because there are so many wrecks and many various objects that keep your tank stuck and shaking your vehicle like madman, even moscow has a few weird interaction with those objects (why we can’t destroy some wooden structures by just driving at them?)
Counter Suggestion:
Make rubble piles destructible.
Especially in Berlin and a few other campaigns, there are very strategically useful locations and pathways absolutely blocked by rubble. Tanks should be able to “destroy” these (essentially just changing their form and making them much easier to pass through.
Totally agree. IMHO they need to clean up the maps a bit, too much junk blocking you from passing/ getting over things, and im not talking about huge hunks of wreckage… it can be part of a fence, a thin tree, rickety pieces of wall, indestructible sandbags and sandbag walls. This game makes the tanks seem underwhelmingly weak to hills and debris, like its a pebble in the road and the tank almost tips over or uses 10 -20 seconds to get over it . Any too many points that seem to just box you in so you cant back out, drive forward or turn the tank. Some obstacles should be left in the game of course! …But a bit of cleaning up of the maps would be nice… no more stuck on a curb and a piece of a wall and a planter.
Is there any guide for how to use the manual gears and how the mechanics not explained in tutorials work, how to use “deeper” functions for the tanks and planes etc. anywhere?