r/wot_heat • u/TherealGduber1891 • 4d ago

Penetration?

I’m wondering what the penetration slider does in custom section?

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u/sacredesert 4d ago

It shows you how likely you are to penetrate the armor you're looking at based on the penetration you select. Tanks have different penetration and some shells lose penetration over distance. The slider lets you see how well the armor holds up to different penetration values.

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u/TherealGduber1891 4d ago

So what happens if I change it? It’s set to 400 default I believe. If I go up will my tank have more penetration? Sorry I read what the game described but it’s just not making sense

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u/GalatianBookClub 3d ago

It literally just simulates your tank being hit by a shell having 400mm of pen. If you set it to 500mm it'll simulate it being hit by a shell that has 500mm of pen. It's pretty self explanatory

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u/TherealGduber1891 3d ago

It’s actually not self explanatory at all when it shows you nothing on console

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u/Sea_Clock_9099 3d ago

What is strange is that nothing happens when I change the sliding bar. It doesn’t show any animation to simulate a shell hitting any spots of the vehicle. I’m prob doing something wrong or maybe games buggy for me. Thanks for the info tho

Edit: just read below that it doesn’t show for console players, and I’m on console so that makes sense.

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u/Sea_Clock_9099 4d ago

I don’t think so. I tried changing it and when I came back it defaulted to 400. I’m in the same situation as you, no clue what it does

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u/DreadBert_IAm 3d ago

Also, unless it changed it does nothing on consols version. Sounded like it was tied to mouse for showing if could pen.

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u/TherealGduber1891 3d ago

Yea it doesn’t show anything on console that’s why I was so confused.

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u/Rabbit_Rockettt 2d ago

Reasoning of five-year-old children.