Ok.. so tonight since they added the feature where you can switch equipment for free, I decided to do some comparisons between various equipments. I spent several hours in a training room running numerous different comparisons on a bunch of different tanks.
The biggest thing I noticed... enhanced gun laying drive not only does NOT appear to improve aiming time, as advertised, it actually makes it WORSE! It seems to be broken currently.
To test the effect of vertical stabilizer, vents and gun laying drive on aiming time here is what I did:
In a training room on himmelsdorf (because it has long stretches of flat ground) I drove a bunch of different tanks with different configurations of equipment up to full speed down the same lane (heavy alley) then stopped and timed how long it took to come to fully aimed (it makes a click sound).
What did I learn?
The vertical stabilizer was the fastest in every case, followed closely by the vents... the gun laying drive actually made aiming speed WORSE than without it at all!! (Confirmed on several different tanks with and without other equipment)
I would really like an explanation or clarification on this from wargaming, as it is advertised as +10% to aiming speed, so you would expect it to be the best (or at least better than vents) at improving aiming speed... and definitely not to do the opposite of what it's supposed to do! It currently appears to be increasing the aiming time, rather than the aiming speed.
Conclusion:
enhanced gun laying drive appears to be broken and actually making aiming speed WORSE.
Edit:
I would love if someone would run their own tests and could tell me why I'm wrong, or explain to me what's going on here... what is the point of the enhanced gun laying drive if it doesn't improve aim time?
Edited by Tuberculosis_Victim, 02 November 2016 - 02:39 PM.