Profile of donofsandiego

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Many thanks.

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See post #8



Both tanks were at exactly -160 HP when I started crew repair.

What I find even funnier is that this ability can almost outrepair the damage of a P4.

I remember multiple occasions of either my or a friend's T34 being found out pants down repairing in the back, while the P4 desperately tried to finish it off thinking it were easy prey. These T34s often stopped the whole push if you had an ATG supporting the T34

*the sounds of soviet tank crewmen desperately trying to run around the compartment picking up all the little bits of metal so they can weld it to the hull before the p4 fires again*

*insert gigachad image* yes

On a serious note, I think the whole mechanism of soviets, a faction that always floats muni, should get an all the way self repair bonus.

What do you mean by this?

At any rate, be a smart boy and park your t34s in base to repair.

Well yeah but my post still stands.

Alright, now I know this has been discussed before on these forums. I distinctly remember Vipper pointing out the fact that unlike other crew repairs, Soviet crew repairs go all the way until the tank is repaired, so one really shouldn't be complaining.

However, can we just admit how stupid this is? Seriously. You find a (clearly risky if you're getting caught and put into combat, but this is besides the point) spot to start repairs and then issue the command. Assumedly, inside the tank, the crew pulls a repair box out of wherever and starts hitting the engine with a wrench idfk. Alright cool. A few seconds later, enemy pioneer squad runs up to the T34 and starts chipping the paint job with their mp40s.

Now, because of this, you aren't allowed to stop repairs, because you're in combat. Explain to me why it makes any sense at all that the T34 crew now has their wrenches superglued to their hands. Okay, cool; the pioneer squad is over here wasting ammo, big deal right? But now here comes a wild Panzer 4 with the big guns (or at least big enough to actually damage the tank). You're telling me that these ruskies are SO DEDICATED to repairing the tank, that THEY DECIDE TO DIE IN A BALL OF FIRE instead of putting the freaking grease gun down and shifting the f@ck into reverse?

Please, explain why this is the direction that the balance team decided to take with balancing soviet crew repair. It makes zero common sense besides from a balance standpoint. They could have done something cool like make it so that the tank abandons on hit like with Sturmtiger (at least then it's not like having your skin peeled off while you're tied to a chair, now it's quick and painless) or hell, why not double the damage and instantly cancel the crew repairs? That would be one hell of a penalty, but it wouldn't be watching your nearly full health T-34 die to a panzergrenadier with one shreck slowly but surely taking the tank down to zero.

EDIT: And before you make the joke, no I didn't just lose an IS-2 to crew repairs or something and then immediately came to the forums to complain . It's just something that I thought of while I was reading the ability guide and saw OST's crew repair ability.

Though this did happen to me once in a 1v1 years ago and I was so confused and furious that I stopped playing for the day. Rest in peace, poor T-34/85. You were missed.