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can we please stop the useless bickering about what makes a heavy tank and if the panther is one or not to get back to the original topic? can't believe i'd ever say this but the only reasonable suggestion within the last 2 pages came from mrgame2...
if further performance buffs are out of scope i agree that making the pershing cheaper and/or reducing pop slightly is the best solution. that way you have a formidable tank with comparable AI to most other heavies, while the lower survivability is compensated by the price tag and the fact you can squeeze another tank in your unit composition to make up for the lower AT.

i agree that the winter scenario really emphasizes the overall feeling of hopelessness and despair that both sides must have felt during the majority of the war. everything blurs into different shades of white and grey and you can almost feel the frostbite numbing your fingers. in contrast, the bright, colorful setting of the WFA theatre looks much less hostile and dreadful. i know ladoga karelia was despised my most of the 1v1 community, mostly for balance reasons, but the visuals of the map captured that grittiness almost perfectly. i also enjoyed the recent master league tournament that featured winter versions of the most popular tourney maps... wish some of these would make it into the live game at some point.

I mean, this would be meaningful if the Brummbar had an equivalent to the WP shell, but it doesnt, so I'm not sure why this is a "goose/gander" situation, really. When was the 105's WP shell changed, anyway? I can't say I recall.

i guess he's talking about the dozer upgrade to the 75mm sherman in mechanized/urban assault. which, of course, doesn't make the argument and especially the conspiracist conclusion any more valid, since one is a beefed-up medium with great AI and adequate AT while the other is a purely AI casemate assault gun with some emergency AT capability.

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geez... wipe the foam off your mouth and actually read the thread and what's been posted. i think there's no doubt that the pershing needs a bit of help beyond what's already implemented in the beta and there were already a ton of suggestions of how to achieve this. fact is that the pershing is still viable in 1v1s, regardless of if it can go head to head with the tiger (though the fact that it has 960 HP instead of 800, as you posted, certainly helps). in 2v2 and above, maybe not so much. will the M26 receive some last-minute buff of some sort to address what's been brought up here? i hope so but i'm also not holding my breath.

Since so many people are negative on giving Pershing durability of Tiger. I'd say give Pershing more AI dmg somehow. I do know many people "think" Pershing does more AI than Tiger. But the tests shows it does not. Or even if it does, very neglectable.

With current stat, Pershing is just inferior version of Tiger with 10mp difference in cost.

While i don't agree that the Tiger has better AI than the Pershing, the difference is definitely pretty small - too small maybe if this is supposed to be the defining distinction between the two.

Another thing that came to my mind after reading the beta patch notes and which I hadn't considered yet is that the Tiger will receive a 10% bonus to scatter at Vet 2 (unless that has been scrapped) in the new patch. Now that doesn't sound like much, but due to how scatter works this will make it ~21% more likely to hit something and further close the gap between both tanks in terms of AI.
In light of this it might be justified to beef up the Pershing's AI DPS a little as well. This could be done in many different ways; for example, mirroring the scatter bonus with Vet, improving base scatter and/or AoE, or something more in line with the general faction traits, such as a lower moving scatter penalty. Right now the Pershing should have a x2 scatter modifier on the move, as most other tanks including the Tiger have. This could be cut down to x1.5 like it is the case for the 75mm Sherman or even lower than that to make the Pershing more deadly on the move.
Other ideas, such as higher base MG DPS or a pintle .5cal might work as well, though the performance gain would probably be rather small.