What is that new volumetric system?

[Cercamon]

Don't know about it.

[Lunovus]

https://warthunder.com/en/news/6856-development-volumetric-shells-in-the-raining-fire-update-en

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Most stupid thing they ever introduced... until the next most stupid thing, it never ends.

[Futuristic Hexagon]

Basically, what it means is that your giant 152mm round is no longer a cubic pixel that can fit through the smallest of spaces.

The way it is implemented did make some rounds rather useless for one reason or another. Whether or not this is for the better, it is hard to say. Guess that means some tweaks will be needed for it, be it BR reorganizations, or checking the performance of each gun and round (for the 700th time.)

[Kamahl1234]

Basically, shells now longer are 1 pixel in size which can get through places and pen armor that it would never fit in.

So now it has physical size and going for say an armor gap in a mantlet, your shell now actually impacts the armor around that cap (provided the gap is smaller than the shell is.


So it's a massive buff to armor and fixes a ton of problematic spots on various tanks that you'd be killed by things you rightfully should not be. What it also means is various weakspots are no longer as weak as they used to be, because they abused or greatly benefitted from the 1 pixel wide shells.


For reference with the above, a pixel is an infinitely small point in the game, smaller than a screen pixel could render.


Now it's not perfect and seems to add armors together when hitting spots with two different armor thicknesses next to each other.

[Eftwyrd]

gone are the days a 128mm Jagdtiger shell could somehow fit down the barrel of a 100mm bore T-54's gun to punch through the breach, now shells actually have to fit in the gaps they penetrate which i can only see as a plus once they iron out the bugs... someday maybe

[Omega Sirius]

Escrito originalmente por Rumpelcrutchskin:

Most stupid thing they ever introduced... until the next most stupid thing, it never ends.

How is it stupid?

[Druckform | INSOMNIAC 3D]

so now the t95 is viable to play without everyone shooting cupolas and immediately killing me

[x8CrimsonHarp8x]

Escrito originalmente por Piggy:

so now the t95 is viable to play without everyone shooting cupolas and immediately killing me

Thank you and finally they fixed that issue

[Druckform | INSOMNIAC 3D]

anyone who thinks the t95 is overpowered has never played the t95. its the slowest tank in the game alongside the maus and tortoise, can easily be tracked and flanked or just shoot the barrel and then hes out of the game for at least 40 seconds, or just shoot cupola to instakill. its not OP and its gun is the same as the t34 so not even a powerful gun, just a lot of armour that can easily be taken out

[-reno-FR-]

Escrito originalmente por Omega Sirius:

Escrito originalmente por Rumpelcrutchskin:

Most stupid thing they ever introduced... until the next most stupid thing, it never ends.

How is it stupid?

For him it is stupid because HIS stuff is less operational now.

So, he feels the need to cry here his frustration.
Because he can't adapt himself to the new situation. He will not be anymore a roxxor.

[Suthirak_D42]

Bias patch

[Depression_pills]

its basically an armor buff, so everyone suffers

[Suthirak_D42]

76-pounder is now more useless.

190mm-pen in 20m can't do any dmg on KV1

DAmn more SU bias

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Escrito originalmente por -reno-FR-:

Escrito originalmente por Omega Sirius:

How is it stupid?

For him it is stupid because HIS stuff is less operational now.

So, he feels the need to cry here his frustration.
Because he can't adapt himself to the new situation. He will not be anymore a roxxor.

It`s not about adaptation, it`s about another layer of RNG in the game that already had enough of it. What it actually does is screw with the game balance making bunch of nearly invincible tanks and nerf the ammunition of other ones making lot of heavy caliber slow reload weapons basically useless and then they scramble with changing the BRs again or add some more heavy repair costs. Dont fix stuff that is not broken.

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

I forgot to ask does this help the Maus? I feel like it could Tank more Shots now.