I noticed a weird moment when I tried to shoot the StugIIIF barrel - it wasn’t destroyed with USA 105mm HE shell.
I thought it was kinda bad angle so I tried to do the same in the shooting range and it took me 8 shots to destroy the barrel…
Here is the link to the video (200MB so I uploaded it to the Google drive) 2024-11-27 07-09-59.mp4 - Google Drive
Where I first trying to destroy the king tiger barrels (with 3 and 1 shot accordingly) and then with 8 shots directly into the StugIIIF barrel with 90±1 degree angle (aka almost perfect angle).
So to me it looks like either a bug or a barrel which was produced from the stolen STALINIUM and should be either nerfed to become a REAL barrel or returned to the USSR.
Its just a broken gaijin damage model that dates back to the days of Barrel and Track torture by a certain 3.7 Italian rat.
Gaijin as usual tried to “fix” it, and in turn broke the entire thing and now we are stuck with it, just like traction and a solid handful or two of other things.
I get the best results by shooting for the muzzle break on barrels so that might be worth a shot.
I’ma let you in on a little secret if you hit the roof of a target with high caliber HE in the range and it damages internal components you just killed the crew in a real match.
