why is HEAT-FS os popular?

[Lithium]

i've been trying it out latelyand it seems pretty bad. it is the penetration statistics? because it sure seems like it.

[Katokevin]

I've always thought due to the penetration and how, if you have enough, it's probably going to penetrate (and used to have the best chance at setting ammo off). Personally, I never used it much though (never felt it was worth spending 1000SL on a single shot) so I often stuck to sabot and AP with explosive filler (if the tank had it that is).

[Desolator]

Point and click insta kill insta pen anything you see, that's why

[Mechanical_Lamb23]

Very high pen value and has no problem penetrating angled armor. You point and it pens.

Personally i hate HEATFS. Its damage consistency is piss poor when compared to something like HESH, APHE, or SABOT. Even HEAT has better consistency. Doesnt mean HEAT is good cause HEAT is like AP that doesnt spall. If you want to pen, HEATFS is the way to go.

If you dont want damage to come down to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ levels of RNG, id stay away from it.

[Blitzkrieg Wulf]

Originally posted by Desolator:

Point and click insta kill insta pen anything you see, that's why

Reliable penetration, sure.
Reliable killer? Perhaps in the past. Nowadays it seems like a roll of the dice, at best.

Originally posted by Mechanical_Lamb23:

Very high pen value and has no problem penetrating angled armor. You point and it pens.

Personally i hate HEATFS. Its damage consistency is piss poor when compared to something like HESH, APHE, or SABOT. Even HEAT has better consistency. Doesnt mean HEAT is good cause HEAT is like AP that doesnt spall. If you want to pen, HEATFS is the way to go.

If you dont want damage to come down to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ levels of RNG, id stay away from it.

This has been my recent experience^

Take M103 for example: Before, the only (and I mean, ONLY) way to play it was to buy the HEAT-FS module with GE, and forget taking any other kind of ammo.

After remodel of its APC round, the APC round is (again, my experience) far superior to the HEAT-FS, not to mention, the cost is far less.

[cobalT]

HEAT-FS used to kill people when you look at them with your barrel, but now it can't set off ammo for and sucks ♥♥♥♥. Gaijin sure made it "balanced"

[Jeff]

irl HEAT or HEATFS would mean instant death or serious flash burn to the crew if it penned anywhere in the crew compartment due to the extreme heat from the plasma jet. One of the reasons modern tank crews wear nomex.

[Wiesell]

heatfs hates addon armor

[Arc]

Originally posted by Blitzkrieg Wulf:

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I can agree with this observation. I'm grinding M103 in AB last couple of days and the AP seems good enough (except some RNG) that i skipped HEAT-FS altogether.

Playing M46/M48A with HEAT-FS i see that it have less post-pen dmg than anything even APDS/APCR as for some reason it just stops going through modules (like, Driver is killed and nothing else is damaged after him).

It even have lower chance of igniting ammo then APCR which is infuriating.

But as a go-to-pen round is good enough i suppose.

[-NODER-_Novastorm_]

Heafts require more good aiming to ammoracks, it still 1 shot kills most of the tanks, i do it all the time, but at the moment if im in a tank that has apdsfs option that is what i always use, i think apdsfs is the best round in the game.