Unlike the modern era of BF4 and BF3, the tank for each nation during WW1 is vastly different each other.
The british had side cannons, the germans one is freaking tall with a front cannon, from the concept art the french tank seems to be the saint-diamond while they would probably get FT-17 as well which is the only tank in WW1 to have a rotating turret
There is so much imbalance among the tanks, i fnd it hard for DICE to have each nation using only their own tank.
With the reveal that the tanker will be a class rather than a vehicle on the field makes me think that rather than one tank for one nation, they are actually making each tank as unlockable with the british Mk4 as the starter and the french Renault FT as the last to unlock.
To counter the use of same tank (like everyone use the Renault FT cuz it has a turret)…
i think they are making each tank have some advantage and disadvantage, the Renault FT probably has the weakest gun while the german AV7 will have the best HP or so on..
British tanks had a Male and Female version. Male had side cannons and Female only MG on the side.
Different speed and turning ability might also be feature.
No, I don’t think Tank Class will have tank chassis unlock. This means that players on certain maps could not use those tanks, as they had not reached the rank.
You could end up with a Tank sitting there not able to use as you have not unlocked it. But with weapons you could still pick up a dead soldiers gun and still use.
It is to hard to have a individual choice of tank/plane on every map.
Unless of course maps with tanks simply simply allow you to spawn in in whichever tank you have unlocked. In this approach, all maps with tanks would allow any tank to be used.
You will have maps with a specific tank on it that no one can use. Think about you take a flag but not allowed to use the tank that just spawned because you have not unlocked.
I can only hope that we get more precise damage models than in BF3, where you just had to hit wherever you want to deduct hitpoints from the tank.
For me that was the point, why I stopped playing BF3, when I started playing Warthunder.
I just couldn’t stand the simplicity of BF3 Tank Combat.
I just want more realism, which means more emmersion.
I want no Simulator, that would be too difficult, what I mean is that the tanks should deflect hits or get penetrated depending on their armor and the projectile which hit them.
Furthermore I would like to be able to detrack a Tank, disable its guns by hitting them and kill crewmembers to slow down the operation of a tank. That would add to realism .
Maybe use two modes an arcade mode with less realism and a hardcore mode with the features I mentioned above
Just to clarify, the tanker kit is something that your soldier transforms into once you hop into the driver’s seat of a tank. If you bail it doesn’t switch. You’re stuck with that class until you die or pick up a new kit from a dead guy.
No just no I don’t want to see a Panzer on the British side and I don’t want to see mark 4 or whatever on the German side it’d ruin imersion for me. I’m sure they will balance it accordingly just like aircraft or armoured cars.
And to comment on the thread- I find the variety and differing designs to be really exciting. This gives Dice so much room to actually make them handle different, have different amounts of health, stronger or weaker guns, different mobility, MG positions, soldier capacity etc. The possibilities are endless.
I’m excited, not worried, that the carbon copy M1 vs T90 battles are gone and we are getting a breath of fresh air. I have faith that Dice will balance the tanks well.
Giving teams access to all tanks is the only way I can see of balancing the vehicle designs. I probably wouldn’t even buy the game if that wasn’t a feature because even in BF4 the vehicle designs are completely imbalanced. Where you have American vehicles that are much better than other countries equivalents and vice versa which leads to teams having an unfair advantage.
The same goes for BF4’s map design too, teams can have a big advantage depending on what side they’re on. Praying to god BF1 doesn’t fall victim to that too.
Remember how painful metro was for american side,
Oh yes if the american capped B and manage to hold it , it would mean death for russian, but everytime russian always get B and hold it to win…unless someone is stupid enough to not check the left side of the map when playing as russian
