Forgotten Hope News Update: 16th July 2008

[Zehnder]

Originally Posted by General_Henry

mobile steel box with a 88mm ! imagine the power...


but it will still fall to hordes of allied shermans and Crusader IIIs. (i suppose reload rate is low...) not to mention the biggest threat- the kamikaze pilots(damn noobs!) and bombs of beaufighter, or a angry TKing teamswitcher which died 20 times in a tank being killed by tiger.

I see no reason why the reload rate of the Tiger will be slower than it actually took to reload the turret, faster or slower as it may be than other vehicles.

We've seen the Tiger in the hands of noobs, and newbs and we've seen the end result which is nothing short of a sacrificial lamb charging forward to be cut down with a quickness. However, properly maintained and deployed with a competent commander, the Tiger can last an entire map without being destroyed.

Then it will be the hordes of Allied Shermans and Crusader III's that fall to the Tiger.

While tanks like the Tiger or a coordinated force of Shermans can influence a map, it is the infantry man who wins them.

[John_McClane]

Originally Posted by [FtN|GT] Die Happy

so be amazed when 2.15 will arrive at your public PCs and not just because of the tiger, so many changes have been made (which still need lot of work so it wont be done in a just a few weeks i guess).

Hey, please fix these sound- and explosion bugs - you know, I miss it hearing like my own tank explodes. I also can't hear and see the HE shells of enemies, which hit me. Is this problem famous or is it just mine?

Another question:

Didn't the 3,7cm Pak or the Semovente have Pzg 40-/HE-shells? And what about the Crusader 1? Did he have just AP 40mm-shells?

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

I think that the sound problems with tanks and HE shells happen to everybody, but I don't use tanks enough to know for sure.

[Ts4EVER]

Originally Posted by John_McClane

Another question:

Didn't the 3,7cm Pak or the Semovente have Pzg 40-/HE-shells? And what about the Crusader 1? Did he have just AP 40mm-shells?

British tanks were known for not having HE shells. The semovente is an italian tank, so I don´t think the crews were issued german special ammo.

[[FtN|GT] Die Happy]

the "silent tank death" problem has been addressed there are some new sounds for hits, ricochets, destroy.
but there was (i dont knwo if still is) a problem with some sounds that would only be played in single player and not multi, dont know if this is that or something else. i will look into it if ther have been any changes on that topic.

i read somewhere that there were 2pdr HE shell but they were never issued cause they were not seen as very effective with only very small amount of explosives used inside them, giving the Germans in fight like pak36 vs 2pdr a huge advantage.

also i read that the semovente (and i think the carro armato) had some special HEAT ammo called EP ( effecto pronto) whcih rendered quiet effective against british tanks like grants and even shermans. however there were various different numbers of semovente and the one ingame is a very early version so i dont know if they were issued this kind of ammo. i have no idea about semovente and HE ammo.

if i rember it when i get home (i m at work rigth know ) i ll write a suggestion in the interal forum to add more ammo types for different vehicles like pak36 (although this pak is used only very little), semovente etc.

[Nephros]

what kinds of ammo will the Tiger have?

[Biiviz]

Originally Posted by Nephros

what kinds of ammo will the Tiger have?

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Ammunition used:

PzGr.39 (Armour Piercing Capped Ballistic Cap)
PzGr.40 (Armour Piercing Composite Rigid)
Hl. Gr.39 (High Explosive Anti-Tank)
Sch Sprgr. Patr. L/4.5 (Incendiary Shrapnel)

There you go.

[hockeywarrior2]

Originally Posted by Biiviz

There you go.

That shrapnel could get a bit nasty eh?

[Biiviz]

I like it nasty.

[Mokusaku]

How good was 88 HEAT ammo? Was it better than PzGr.40 in terms of penetration?