The release of these vehicles is scheduled for the very beginning of next year, in January, and with the line starting from the KV-3.
This is one of the 3 “branches” of new content in World of Tanks for 2020.
And now this is the 3rd iteration for these tanks (4th for IS-2-II) and almost final performance characteristics.
IS-2-II
• Gun reload time (1/2): 8.5 / 8.5 sec (not touched)
• Preparation time of a volley shot: 2 sec (did not touch)
• Recharge lock time: 4 seconds (did not touch)
• Cun change time: from 5 to 4 seconds.
IS-3-II
• Gun reload time (1/2): 10.5 / 10.5 sec.
• Preparation time of a volley shot: 2.5 sec (did not touch)
• Recharge lock time: 4 seconds (did not touch)
• Gun change time: 5 sec (did not touch)
• Engine power: from 750 to 780
• Specific power: from 13.52 to 14.06
ST-II
• Gun reload time (1/2): 11.7 / 11.7 sec.
• Preparation time of a volley shot: 2.5 sec. (did not touch)
• Recharge lock time: 3 sec. (did not touch)
• Gun change time:5 sec.
• Upper turret armor: from 250 to 300
Exp cost? Anyone? But not guesswork, 60k+ I know.
No changes to the pen on the stock guns ???
Obviously not
So they one changed they needed to make wasn’t made.
What?
Stock gun, on a tier 8, has 120mm AP pen and 161mm gold pen.
At the very least they should’ve made the AP pen 144mm like on the T-44.
Because as-is, the stock gun is basically unplayable even with goldspam.
It really bizarre that this tank cannot use any of KV-3\’s guns like 100mm or even 107mm, while its brothers such as IS-M & IS-3 got workable stock gun…
A ST-I with two shots. Now that’s scary. Sti is a very mighty tank as it is.
Remember its tier higher. T9 tank with two guns.
nicey, whatever it takes to destroy gameplay 😀
How would balanced tanks destroy gameplay?
“Upper turret armor: from 250 to 300”
what the fak means that?? CUPOLAS??
ST-II’s turret armor will most certainly be identical to the ST-I’s turret.
In other words, 250mm at the front, plus 50mm on the gun mantlet. So, 300mm.
Inb4 the 703-II ends up better than the tech tree tier 9.
Not super impressed by those stats tbh, especially since the armor will be meh before tier X.
The tier 8 especially. Can’t wait for the common test
I hope the tech tree will stay that way. I bought the KV3 and accumulated 90k xp on it, building a 3-skill crew as well.
I ground enough exp for it afaik (65k) as well as the KV-4 recently. 😉
sure is great that 2 x 390 damage from Russia, be soon only Tech tree anyone needs to grind looks like!
sure the game will not suffer from OP Tanks at all (lol
Russian bias, not.
None of these seem OP, like the prem wasnt either.
The problem I have in my 703 is that the armor is too god. It should be paper, like german medium armor, or riddled with weakspots, like again the german heavies. So when you shotgun and are useless for 20 seconds and you can bounce and laugh while you wait. There’s no real “risk” unless your severely outnumbered or under a gold round rain (golden shower?)
I dont get it, even with the double gun the chassis and turret are the same as a lower tier? that’s not good….