It's a small touch, but you should feel the 'weight' of the weapon a little more. You will also note that the weapon sways a bit in your hands in first person view with the RealSights mod. Try distracting enemy armor, setting up an ambush, and luring it into your line of fire. With these changes, tank battles will require much more maneuvering, forcing you to position your tank to do maximum damage while protecting it from more devastating fire. With the CustomWeapons mutator, you can also increase the anti-tank weapon damage, which means you can set it so that a tank will be destroyed with only one hit to the rear from an enemy tank's cannon. Direct hits to the front or rear will now register as a hit, fixing an old Gearbox bug. It will use the same damage model as with other anti-tank weapons such as the Panzerfaust, and the damage can be scaled using the CustomWeapons mutator.

With the RealTankShells mutator, tanks take more damage from enemy tank fire, especially from the side or rear. They also often did no damage when hitting the direct front or rear of the larger tanks. They do less than any other anti-tank weapon in the game. In the default unmodded game, tank shells do the minimum damage to other tanks no matter where they hit: front, side, or rear. No real sense of danger or realistic tank combat. It goes on for a while, then one of them blows up.

Ever get bored of the tank-to-tank combat slugfest in Brothers in Arms? Two tanks kind of just park facing each other and just fire shell after shell.

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