And I've got a fraps film I sent in of a top tier arty firing at 10X the rated load time....
Link 'er up. I'm not doubting you but if it's true it's just a hack. There was a recent thread about there being a bunch of bots that got banned...I've yet to see one however.
I've seen some fishy shots when I was sitting behind rocks but sometimes they just have the perfect arc of a shot. Regardless they should implement no-arty servers.
Spikes conceptually its great for game play but the reality is that 95%+ of WW2 tank battles (that were decided by direct fire not bombs/arty) were 1st penetration wins. WW2 tanks were not very survivable, many tanks were actually lost with no penetration at all do to spalling. So you have a double wammie for mid tier tanks. They have to risk getting in close and to a flank or rear and then if they do get penetration they score "4-7%" damage.
I think its a great game and hope it does well....
Well it wouldn't be fun getting 1 shotted in a big tank all day would it.

Some unrealistic things need to be done to help playability and that is one of them...if all tanks could be knocked out in 1 shot battles wouldn't last more than 30 seconds...everyone would charge forward and whoever gets the most shots off wins.
Balance is really bad atm I agree...they really should do some sort of tiered mechanism but I've not the slightest clue how to go about that. It sucks having a little tank, trust me I've been there...we all have. After owning a Tiger, Tiger 2, and 4502 I will say I love running the VK3601H more than ever...low cost, and overall I have a bigger blast trying to flank and what not, helping out the bigger tanks. Just because a side has 3 IS7's vs a 4502 doesn't mean the battle is lost, not at all. Yesterday something similar happened where all of their tanks died except their IS7's, and 4 or 5 of us (IS4s, IS3s, T2's, 4502) successfully killed their IS7's only to get booted from the game and not get any creds.
