the issue isnt the armor or health. those are fine, its a heavy tank. the issue is it deals 40 damage per hit. it takes at most, 2 seconds to kill an entity. no other flamer is that powerful. im not claiming the kv8 is a one man army. it obvoiusly gets countered by other tanks. good players solve that by using the kv8 with su85s. now your p4 counter is getting sniped by an su85 while it bounces shots off the kv8.
no one seems to respond to the actual stats. do you guys honestly think 40 damage for 5 seconds, with AOE and flame crits (that can also be caused by AOE, not just the primary target) is balanced? thats not rhetorical, i actually want to hear a response on that. the fact it is countered by tanks doesnt mean its not too powerful. look at the flame ht from beta. it got killed in 2 hits by AT guns, but its damage was still op, so it got nerfed. flame ht was never even close to this dps.
brummbar is very powerful as well but its not as consistent because flamers never miss. brummbar has no turret, much less armor, and less hp. brummbar is better against vehicles though. however the brummbar now costs 5 more gas and 320! more mp. thats practically twice the mp cost.
Do I think KV8 is OP, hell yeah. I hate seeing the damn thing on the field. It gives the biggest noob ability to force me to retreat/hide and forces me to tech/buy units I may not necessary wanted to go for.
Would I like to see KV8 nerfed? Yes, I would. Providing that commander it comes with gets properly balanced with nerfed KV8. Why, nerfed? for reasons I wrote ^ there.
Do I think KV8 makes commander, it comes with, OP? No, I don't. So far, other then pissing me off, I haven't noticed that I win or lose more games as direct result of KV8 being OP. In greater context of ultimately wining or losing the game, I haven't noticed that I lose 60%+ of games when I face Kv8 commander .
This to me, makes perfect sense. I simply can live with KV8, despite not liking to see it face me...