Commanders!
Today we’d like to tell you more about the overhaul of High Explosive shells for autocannons that’s coming in the next update.
The fact that something like this was coming was unfortunately made clear by an incorrect version of these changes that appeared on the game server along with the Seahawks Battle Path in Update 0.240. Just to be clear, the fact that some HE shells can frontally damage Main Battle Tanks is not intended behavior – quite the opposite.
This is one of the features where the goal is very easy to explain but the execution is difficult. Long story short, we sought a purpose for autocannon HE shells for a long time since they have been either rather toxic or completely useless.
The role we envisaged for these shells is therefore as follows.
- HE shells will only deal full damage to unarmored or very lightly targets
- Armored targets will be dealt no damage (or very limited damage)
- The HE shells will deal a lot of damage to external modules such as tracks, guns and ERA/NERA elements
In other words, these shells will have a specific purpose now and we are sure you’ll put them to good use, commanders. You’ll have the opportunity to try them out very soon and, as always:
See you on the battlefield!
