Light Tanks and the problem with shifting gears.

[Stryker]

So currently, the Light Tanks have a major issue with the way the gear shifting is set up. There are several issues, one of them being the painfully slow time it takes to shift up to fourth gear. If you go too fast shifting up, you go into this weird hover mode where you no longer hear the engine and the whole tank bounces alot and sort of just glides forward. The Panther and Sherman don't have this issue. You can gear up quickly and get rolling forward quickly. Turning is smooth with the Medium Tanks if you properly shift down and feather the throttle.

Another major issue is shifting down when at higher gears and letting go of the throttle for just a second, completely halts the tank. You then have to shift all the way back down, and struggle once more to shift back up to speed. Any kind of rotating is again, painfully slow and clunky, letting up off the throttle during a rotation slows you to a stop in whatever gear you are in. The whole Light Tank itself, because of these gear issues, is summed up perfectly with the word "clunky".

Maybe something you guys could do a quick fix on when the Tiger drops? I just won't even get into a light tank because of these issues.

[Stryker]

Here are some videos of what I mean, just recorded these recently. Maybe this will help more in explaining the issues.

The Luchs tank suffers from a strange bug when shifting up, it goes into this weird hover mode and the engine goes silent. You just bounce around and drift like your floating. Here is the video...

YouTube™ Video: LightTankProblem 

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Weird problem with the Light Tanks when shifting up. Hell Let Loose. The Tank hovers and is hard to control.

The Stuart however, doesn't have the same bug. You can shift up like normal and go to full speed. However, both the Stuart and Luchs both suffer from stopping if you let up off the throttle at all. You can't keep throttling to keep momentum, it's like the engine cuts out. You have to shift all the way back down and back up to get moving again.

YouTube™ Video: Stuart Problems 

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Similar problems with the Stuart tank, just no shifting problems. It comes to a dead stop if you release the throttle at all.

[[KAIRA] Dead Meat]

100% agree with this. Light tanks should be more agile than medium tanks, now it's quite opposite.

[Team17_Help]

Hey Stryker,

Thank you for sharing your feedback about the tank driving.

I have passed the links to the videos along to the dev team for further investigation.

Thanks!
Team17 Support

[Stryker]

Originally posted by Team17_Help:

Hey Stryker,

Thank you for sharing your feedback about the tank driving.

I have passed the links to the videos along to the dev team for further investigation.

Thanks!
Team17 Support

Awesome, thanks!