I discovered a Tiger 1 player had difficulty shooting my SU85 from the front, I managed to shoot his weak spot by luck due to him taking too long to kill me.
Even the T-34 can get many kills including 76mm T-34s in Moscow and Stalingrad.
I just prefer 85/88mm over 75/76mm with the bigger splash and the reload still being fast enough to fire more shots. There are times that I was driving my IS-2 where I get annoyed by my teammate in a tank not taking care of the enemy tank im engaging while reloading my main gun.
Why the SU-85 when you can just use the T-34-85 with ZiS-S-53?
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Tell that to KT, which smashes everything shooting at toe of driver or any freakin pixel. To remove disbalance, they should just make it ±realistic, leaving wt’s explosive damage to trashcan and slightly buff solid APs, instead of this they made solids totally useless (APCR having less piercing than any other AP lmao) and gave all supremacy to deutches. Little exception is damage, but it is so random that you may kill very few members in pz4 throwing 122 woodstick into him.
And despite all disrespect to bugthunder, just look at this (also killed 2 KTs by hitting front turret at 1200m but didn’t save screenshots T_T)
Because it SHOULD be used also against tanks. And it WAS projected to be used against tanks. And it ACTED against tanks well, except some shitty stabilization
I have read reports about how the Soviet 122mm is also intended against Tiger and Panther besides the original intentions of being a breakthrough tank. I never said the IS-2 is useless against enemy tanks where I have an ace crew for the IS-2 obr 1944 its just its annoying to not one shot Panzer IVs with the APHE in this game sometimes to the point that HE is much better in some situations as long as I’m able to shoot the turret face.
I remember in War Thunder, 122mm APHE would’ve killed a Panzer IV instantly when penetrated.
It’s still some kind of half-solution. Moreover way the HE affects infantry is also weird, so I’d prefer it couldn’t do tricky things with roofs of targets’ hulls but instead it won’t ricochet at freakin ground and do no damage when explodes inside Lehrter Banhof. Bugthunder exactly gives behavior of D-25 which is close to reality except fact that it didn’t easily pen KT’s turrent front but did terrible kinetic effects when stroke armor instead
It would knock out just about any tank in one shot unless it bounces or magical german optics decide to completely negate the hit. And then you’re stuck with a 30+ reload time while five panthers pelt your engine because you’re advancing in reverse. Good times. 
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T34 > IS2
sad but true
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Lol in warthunder even a 57mm russian round instantly kills anything german. Warthunder loves the he filler stat…a little too much
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