Maj.Hans

Crew-able M1TTB, even if using an "ersatz" interior or no interior at all.

Wasn't the T-62 in many ways regarded as a lemon specifically because of ammo advances with the T-55 eliminating most of the T-62's reason for existing? I'm not intimately familiar with Soviet/Russian designation systems and stuff, but I seem to recall that the T-55 was frequently updated in many of the same ways as the T-62 was upgraded, producing very similar lines of vehicles, except that with the T-55 being MUCH more widespread it often times got more attention. Maybe it's just because I don't "get" the T-62 fire control system, if you can call it that, but the few times I have toyed with it in Steel Beasts, I felt like I could have done more damage to the enemy with a Tiger IE or a Panther...

I think he's being a smartass...I think....I'm just not sure...

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For the record, I regret having had a part in starting this. I thought it was fun to see someone who I can only describe as "very enthusiastic, but totally clueless" climb around an M1... In response to@Lt DeFault: I don't know if she's feigning interest or genuinely interested, and I don't really care. She does, however, remind me of an ex-girlfriend or two of mine, from the hair right down to the clothes and the whole 'showing interest in guy things'. It's all fun and games until you say "later babe I'm going to the shooting range with the boys!" and then she wants to tag along. Like I joked about when I first posted this, I think she's kinda weird. Very cute. But still weird. By female standards anyway... @Captain_Colossus Pardon me while I shift the gears here a little bit...But, what's funny is that I tend to see this, "conditions that used to finish people off fairly early have been increasingly mitigated", not resulting in a pronounced gender war, but rather resulting in many more stupid people surviving and breeding. We live in a world where firearms are manufactured with a warning engraved into their parts to let you know that guns are dangerous and they can kill you. Well...No S***?! Just saying, but OSHA and lots of other places have done more than just eliminate unnecessary risks and hazards, they've created workplaces where stupid people can not only escape death but can do quite good at their jobs, and go on to procreate with other stupid people.

Oh I know about those... I mean the whole darn vehicle and the missiles all together though!

Ill have to watch that later but the SA-4 launcher in the thumbnail always looked hilarious to me, like its gonna tip over any moment...

As far as I am concerned, you can get microsoft sam to say "Slot 3" and "Slot 4" and splice it in. All I want is some kind of notification that I'm using a different ammo. Edit: We already have English (US) loader voices for HEP/HESH, Beehive, MPAT, OR, FRAG, Missile, "Special AP", and "Special HE". What prevents enabling "Special AP" for Slot3/HOME key, and "Special HE" for Slot4/END key? They're very, very generic...And remind me a bit of Panzer Elite tbh lol.

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Nah, I think that's before they had IR panels, if that's GW1 1991? Those look like velcro strips for MILES like someone else mentioned.

About the CROWS / RWS thing... I think what my solution would be to that, would be to go back to something akin to the A1's CWS as fitted with the stabilized CWS equipment and IR camera, and call it a day. Maybe replace the M2HB with an M240 and go with additional ammo capacity rather than big gun, move the M2 down to a position above the main gun. Maybe by going with an M240 you could get more elevation while keeping the mount low profile?

I just came here to say WOW is that CROWS mount mega tall! Also, WOW if I were a tank commander I would utterly HATE having that in front of me! Why not move the M2HB down to gun mantle mount for the gunner to blast stuff with and get a low profile mount with a TC's M240 or something?

No I think you misunderstood. I'm suggesting that for every localization, you take whatever voice clip plays when the loader says "HEAT" and make new versions of it named Slot3.wav and Slot4.wav If we as the end user change nothing, we'll continue to hear "HEAT!" for those ammo types. If we as the end user so desire, we can literally record freaking clips of ourselves going "M-PAT!", "Cannister!", "FRAG!" and so on. If you wait long enough, members of the community will probably find a way to cut up the existing voice clips into semi-passable replacements that can be done as a third party mod. All I'm asking is that you open it up for modders to fix the problem.

We really, really, really need to do something about that so that slot 3 and 4 can have separate WAV files, even if it is as simple as putting in duplicates of the existing "HEAT!" wav so that we as end users can change that.

Ditto, had to go back and carefully re-read.

Ahah, a half a bug, and a feature I was completely unaware of. But that explains a few things...I kinda thought the use of the TC's sight as an AA sight was, uhm, dubious at best with that traverse rate!

Interesting, good to know they all use one file. It's definitely something I'd like to have so that all the T-55s don't look totally identical. As to which one for when and what... I think the "vanilla" T-55 most LOOKS like the Finn T-55M upgrades, but the AM2 with it's better fire control might be a more accurate approximation of gunnery capability, although the BDD "Brow" armor was never on Finnish T-55's.

Any chance someone can make a Finnish skin for the T-55AM or AM2? Was thinking to put some Finn T-55's in a scenario but I think, given their upgrades, one of these would be a better representation.

I've been spending a little time messing around in the BMP-2 since I hadn't played with it very much at all up till now... I noticed that the turret traverse speed seems slower when using the TC's sight and override than when controlling from the gunner's seat. Is this a feature of the vehicle, or is this a glitch? I read through the section on the Wiki and didn't see it mentioned. At first I thought it might have been a difference in magnification making me think the turret was slower, but it looks like it actually IS slower! Edit: Also the sound of popping smoke seems to be completely absent from inside. Same question: Bug or feature? I swear on everything else you can hear it when you pop smoke.

Well, I didn't explicitly state to put those in, but I naturally expect that they would be part of a blow out panel upgrade. I expect that the cost, time, effort, etc required to get a smaller power pack and rebuild the interior is going to be more than most are willing to invest. I'm aware that many parts of the Leo2 can be considered weak or poorly designed, but the idea of a catastrophic T-Tank style turret launching explosion is what bothers me the most about that design. Even if it required a reduction in the size of the stowage area, I'd rather have blast doors than what's in there now if I were having to crew it.

Blowout panels on the hull... Leo 2 needs hull blowout panels and suddenly it's even closer to perfection.

So maybe the answer here is that this is actually accurate. I wasn't actually expecting to get a kill, but I was hoping that I could break the GPS, maybe even take the main gun out of action, or otherwise simply distract my target for long enough to let my infantry get out and into a position to hit it with an AT-4 or Javelin, but I guess a 25mm kill is still a kill!

Well...I did kinda dump the entire AP ammo load into that tank, so...That's a lot of dice rolls!

Ironically, I switched to 25mm spam because I had aimed my last TOW missile right at the turret ring under the gun, and it didn't even scratch him! Rather than sit there and take it, I told the infantry to bail out, overrode the gunner, switched to AP HI and let it rip and prayed. I didn't expect to destroy it, but thought I might get lucky and break the main gun or some fire control stuff.

While running some very quick test scenarios to generate a log file, I stumbled across this... Having just spent my last loaded TOW missile to no apparent effect, out of desperation I told my infantry to "GET OUT!" and decided to spam some 25mm at this T-55 to at least, hopefully, smash some things up so my troops could get out and set up. It had more effect than I thought... Range to target here is rather short, probably 500m or less. Is this a small leak in the armor model, or did I luck out and hit a thin spot?