PIAT needs a lot of work!

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For the past 2 days now i have been using the PIAT and noticed it seems either Bugged or just really underpowered. I can shoot the German starter tanks point blank in the side and it will do 0 damage to them. Same for a shot in the front but i understand heaver armor in the front. Even read engine shots ive had do 0 damage and ive seen a few times now the tank not moving at all but firing. Just take all 5-6 of my PIAT rounds to the side and it do nothing and the tank drives away. When ive see a Hand Grenada 1 shot a tank.

Another problem is the shit aiming system the PIAT has. you aim at a tank or a window with someone camping it and shoot with the cross air on the target only to find it go 4-5 feet over the target and hit the roof.

Why did we go from having the Bazooka in the CBT to the PIAT in the OBT? If it was for testing purposes i can understand but let us have the Bazooka as well as an option. its completely out of the game and no faction has it anymore.

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The damage is a HEAT issue in general. Maybe you’ll OHK, maybe you won’t deal any damage.

Aiming though is user error.

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I don’t think my aim is a problem I know about the zeroing it has and it works well with tanks camping on hills. Problem is when aiming out of a window at a tank or someone and you fire only to have it explode in your face because it hit the top of the window

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yeah, i can confirm what @8383908 said.

it’s not only PIAT issue, but Sturmpistole as well.

Damage of HEAT always have been an issue.

from shells, to rockets.

not to mention, bad models of tanks are playing a good part as well.

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yeah the sturmpistole will oscillate from penning straight through and doing almost nothing to catastrophically killing in one hit. its bizarre and not very reliable. probably easier to charge it with mines/TNT

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I suspect Enlisted straight up copy and pasted the vehicle code from War Thunder, and thus all of that game’s balance issues as well.

HEAT was mega in War Thunder once upon a time, but it negatively impacted Soviet tanks, and so was nerfed into the ground. Same thing with solid shot AP rounds.

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Yep, HESH was the same way. It negatively impacted Soviet tanks. It was the only way to kill the IS-6 for awhile when the IS-6 “mistakenly” had 300mm of turret armor.

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HEAT was always garbage

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Not in War Thunder, until the Commieboos started crying. Then it was ‘adjusted’.

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I played tanks since the start and it was always garbage

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As did I mate, and it was not garbage. Solid shot was also not garbage, until the Soviets started whining. I was there, I saw it for myself.

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So you’re telling me every ammo type was nerfed because the Soviets are at a disadvantage against every ammo type.

Perfectly reasonable.

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Against ammo types they personally didn’t make much - if any - use of, yes. Clearly you weren’t paying attention at the time, because it was fairly obvious what was going on.

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It’s fairly obvious you have no idea what’s going on.

HEAT was always bad, AP was always fine.

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HEAT goes as follows: Shoot their ammo rack or fuel tanks or don’t even bother XD

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You must be talking about a different War Thunder, which only you played it seems.

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It doesn’t always detonate ammo when it hits

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Funny how you mention this see I played Germany (moscow) and US during CBT. The anti tank rifle for me (moscow axis AT rifle) had garbage performance, The then bazooka was extremely effective and the now PIAT to me is a very solid AT weapon. Also to answer your question it seems theyre testing weapons thatll be later unlocks in campaign level such as the bazooka and other weapons that were removed during OBT.

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The HE rework from war thunder needs put into enlisted so the PIAT can pressure kill pumas. Also, would be nice for it to work against ground units too.

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PIAT should be hard to use in general if you dont get angle right no boom or even sparks! They should also introduce chance that 200 pound spring not being cooked and player need to cook said spring!