Lorraine 50 t (France, Tier-9, HT, Promotional)
Changes relative to the base 1.27.1.
Firepower:
• Gun loading: Reduced from 13.42 to 12.37 seconds.
• Rate of fire: Increased from 4.47 to 4.85 rounds/min.
• Aiming time: Reduced from 2.88 to 2.68 seconds.
• Dispersion from turret traverse: Reduced from 0.15 (4.69) to 0.12 (3.75).
• Average damage per minute (AP projectile): Increased from 1,788 to 1,940.
• Average damage per minute (APCR projectile): Increased from 1,788 to 1,940.
• Average damage per minute (HE projectile): Increased from 2,302 to 2,498.
The tank I always wanted buffed, but never expected to be buffed finally getting some love. Slightly improved dpm and gun handling is what it mainly lacked.
I think so yes, but because of the high silhouette and bad hull armor this tank will still be challenging to play.
Im afraid this will not be enough to make a difference.
I agree, the Lorraine 50t needs a more substantial DPM and aim speed buff to matter.
Or WG could demote it to Tier 8, it’s a kitbash of two Tier 8 tanks after all (Lorraine 40t and T34).
Maybe giving it a bigger gun with improved DPM would be nice. At least you don’t have to expose your weak armor for keeping you DPM.
Lorraine 50t uses the same turret of AMX M4 51/54, that turret could house the 127/130mm guns found in the techtree. No DPM buffs but there’d be a significant alpha damage buff. Alpha over DPM is a better deal for a heavy tank in my opinion.
Just because you can’t make it work doesn’t mean higher skilled players might like a challenge rather than the point and click can’t do anything else players like you….
this tank needs an exceptional gunhandling and/or dpm to make it worth anything, and these micro buffs wont bring it to that level.
this piece of fucking garbage has no speed, no hull armor, a big ass turret thats only somewhat armored on the front, still pennable, no dpm, no alpha, gun is below mid in handling.
this buff does nothing.
Ah the ol’ lorr 50T, a tank that exists for the meme of a heavy going 66/67 kph across all terrain and largely known as the downgrade to a concept 1B. Buff’ll at least shrink the DPS gap between the 2 but that’s never really been the 50T’s problem. Thanks to the weak af hull, it’s a peak and shoot tank, it wants alpha, not DPM, but at least this buff lets it peak and shoot better.
I do wish they’d just give in to the meme and designate it as a breakthrough tank instead of versatile, just so it could benefit from the +4 kph forward field modification and embrace the speed machine meme, breaking the 70kph barrier as a “heavy”
Now that there are tier 9 premiums i have a super hard time imagining why people would bother playing tier 9 promotional tanks, why would you bother playing promotional over a premium? (Apart from cobra for the chaos)
Fun level. Enjoyment of unique platforms. Same reasons some people keep tech tree tanks.