Lobbies, voting with my wallet + tank meta normandy

  1. So as it currently is, some of the games (and in bad hours, most of them) are just full of bots which is too tedious to keep playing. either the devs will implement option for players to join mid-game (thats u can untick, just like u could in WT), or they wait till all people are on the server (true 10vs10) or I just quit paying for premium, squads etc.

  2. tank meta is broken in normandy, so in pz4 if you shoot drivers hatch in jumbo you will kill someone behind it, and thats it, no more kills. I know, flank, yeah, but something about tank battles is utterly wrong, ping pong batches between bad players, or completly onesided (pz4 kills everything till jumbo, then jumbo kills everything till panther, then panther wins it all… it’s just bad imho, gives you no counter play)

  3. allies on normandy seems to love their hug the gray zone and tank. I like to see that because I know allies will lose if they dont push up with their tank, but it pains me to see these people top scorring the leaderboards with over 6.5k games while being completely and useless for their team.
    Please implement some kind of calc, the more in the grey zone you are, the less points you get. This also comes back to my point nb. 2, where I said that you can’t counter that with a ā€˜worse’ tank. you can’t flank something so far away where the magic timer will kill you before you even get close. not to mention that they will one shot you if somehow you get spotted

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this is really irritating and tanks camping in the grey zone definitely need looking at

I’m sure players with Panthers wil never stick in grey and will solve the problem entirely… :+1: :face_with_hand_over_mouth: :smirk:

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I never said it didn’t also apply to axis. Being shot from something that isn’t in your playable area is always bullshit and it needs fixing. 90% of this problem would be solved by making the maps bigger (i.e. less grey area per map, move spawns back if we have to, there’s issues with shooting spawn protected players anyway). Let pumas have the space they need to flank, they’d fit their role and actually be useful, and panthers/jumbos will have more room to flank each other. So there isn’t any need to be a smarmy prick about it.

and give them back weakness from 75mm he

uhh no, theoritically M10 still can penetrate Panther turret tho i never experience it since i never meet any M10 in the first place, the thing is overshadowed by jumbo

M10 is simply not worth using, you’re scarfice all the jumbo can do only for (possibly) destroy a Panther.

Better camping the Grey area with the jumbo so the Panther can’t pen frontaly no?

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just bought 200 dollars worth of gold because of this post

one of the main reason people camp in the ā€œgrey zoneā€ is mainly due to the amount of infantry that have the det packs

Well, no. They will pen you from front. I’m defo adding M10 to the battlefield when I unlock it next to the Jumbo cuz I’m not goona just sit and look at the Panther A waiting to be killed in my Jumbo. M10 at least should be able to kill it.

I haven’t test it yet (I changed side) but if you angle right with the jumbo at 100+m, it should be able to bounce mostly all the shoot if the enemy isn’t good at hitting weak points.

If the Panther has the situational awareness of a chair yes you can easily kill it with the m10, if not you’re gonna blow up instantly.

Trust me. You won’t be able to. I’m playing both tanks since the update and Panther A simply (good player) will always pen it. You might bounce first 3 shots. It’s just matter of time.

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Well yes a good player would absolutely destroy a jumbo everytime, I’m talking about the average random player that shoot only in green indicator.

Well, that’s the thing. I’m always counting I’m facing an enemy player on same skill level of mine.

If that the case im switching the jumbo for the m8 scot at least I have hope to evade the panthers with the speed.

Ok. Forgot to mention this. I don’t know if I was in bad position (terrain, overangled, etc.) but M8 Scott killed my 3 crew member last night in my Panther A.

how?

that derp cannon?

No idea. I was gobsmacked. Got outplayed I guess lol

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And I’m saying from front. No kidding m8. He shot me at front/frontal armour.

Ah, that is something I suggested a while back and support wholeheartedly. I’d GLADLY wait a lil 30 seconds timer in match for the spots to fill up. A bit like in H&G.

For the rest I don’t play Normandy enough to comment. I don’t like that campaign/theater.