Tank Destroyer Stats & Features.

i think you guys imagine this better than it will be. what hinders a heavy to just drive pass?

 

but this isnt ww2, tanks dont die in a few hits. and if tank destroyers can reliably kill heavies it will have three effects, first any other vehicle more or less insta dies, second heavies become redundant and thrid and thats the worst a blob of tank destroyers is going to bump into your comms ass and kill it in seconds ...

 

if it kills a heavy before its in its back, it will kill a medium in 2 shots. there goes your support. and it cant be more than 3-4 hits for that heavy either, because thats about how long it takes before its right next to you if you are stationary.

 

and the other heavies? i dont know where you get this defined frontlines from, i think you guys played too many slaughtered games.

also this starts to remind me of the tank version of sniper rifles again - a weapon excelling at range. because we want players to stay as far away as possible.

 

Vulcan gave a mention of it doing a % of max hull hp along worth some damage. I don't think the damage should be a ton but if it always does like 20-25% of max hull that would mean it takes the same amount of shots no matter the vehicle, except for jeeps and no armor.

Tama gave a mention in the original thread about standardizing the hull hp of tanks and just making the cannon do like 50 damage but against tanks it would do it only to the hull. Honestly hull hp between chassis isn't terribly different, it's like 150-275 I think with nf heavy having 275 hp(be heavy has 225).

 

so 4 shots per heavy? good bye, tanks ...

 

That's the intention, it is a tank destroyer. Value subject to change and balancing. 20% was a guess.

See? TD brings along new armour possibilities.
Also, the 4-5 hits is in addition to damage dealt to armour. The tank isnt supposed to 1 shot LT or AFV, but 2-3 shot perhaps.

 

You say that like it fires every second, it might not be so bad with a 3 second cycle time or something.

And yeah ranger I always thought the way it should work was for the number of plates to basically dictate how much of it pierced the hull, like say it was 10% a plate and a heavy had 6 plates that would mean only 40% of the damage made it through. This would also give more advantages and disadvantages to lighter or heavier armor which at the moment is kinda not a big deal with hp not terribly different from one another. But I wouldn't integrate that idea with how tanks currently works, it kinda screws over lights and would just make any tank explode in hte current spam fest, along with keeping heavy tanks rather beefy against everything.

 

well, for protocol, im very sceptical about balancing so that its neither oversituational like arty nor replaces one or even all tanks.
but i dont want to be the naysayer either, so i better stay out of this :D

 

Perhaps the Tank destroyer deals more hull damage proportional to armour on that facing?
More armour = more hull damage.
Say 20 hull dmg base. Then multiply that by the number of plates you got on that facing.

Of course damage would be dealt to that armour facing too.

TD better against you the more armour you have

"This Cannon superheats armour. Causing catastrophic structural damage to the tank hull. The more armour you have, the more damage it does."