Developers posts on forum

Jaguarz: The Pz7 is the ultimate troll tank, you can angle the nose to such an extent as to bounce anything in game though that makes the target smaller and less juicy, Unless theres a Jagzilla spamming 450 pen HEAT you can troll the nose hard behind any wall or rock and tie up their team or bounce then poke out and take your shot safely. You can even use your nose to give hull down tanks mobile cover on city maps but this requires "teamwork" the rest of the tank really needs an armour rework, the mantle is flawed and shaped like a star with weakspots interspersed around it and has no reason to be like this. Its a bad tank but its a tank I enjoy.

Draschel:  and heavy assault tanks need to bypass in-game systems by having little/no weakspots, weakspots impervious to peer  tier AP rounds, huge amounts of HP, to make players look WAYYYYYYY better than they are. The amount of certain shell spam would be reduced with more tanks with credible weak spots, and pathetic people's stats who want to sit in a super heavy in the open and getting shot by 10 enemies and still live ..... would be gone too

Draschel: Kills, Assisted, damage combined?would you be doing more in Skoda 56 or Somua?

Jaguarz:  Whoa there Tex, Im pretty sure reading chat and having a laugh about it had nothing to do with their removal, the loss of cross team chat was a massive boon to the game and while team damage loss has taken the edge off things it was ridiculously abusable. So While I would love to take credit for it that particular honor goes to humanity.

Jaguarz:  Go and actually look up what the cheats in WOT do, they are out there and well documented, theres a "last know position" marker which basically puts a snapshot of a tank where it was but thats about it in the context you are ranting about, you cant see the enemy team without them being spotted. Theres no point even talking to you, you are just too unbalanced to listen to anything, you are literally consumed by delusions and seem fixated on making out that Wargaming is some kind of S.P.E.C.T.E.R like entity when its nothing more than a company. I hope you get the help you need.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! Starting today 20Jan and running until 20Feb is the On-track to the PZ.Kpfw.VII  These missions are here to get you and your crew XP for this sleeper favorite tier X.  More information on the missions, rewards, and other goodies can be found HERE. Looking to get down that line a little faster? Then click HERE, for Fast Track bundle offers that unlock missions for the tank that give you a x5 bonus after the first win of the day and other sweet loot.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! From now 20Jan until 27Jan you can get your butts into this sweet German Medium Tank. Parked here for a limited time is the Kampfpanzer 07 RH. Feel free to take it off the lot with deals starting at 37.96.For more information on the sale including getting a hot new(ish) look to the tank click HERE.   

Jaguarz:  Im very interested as to how

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! The Object 259a, a Soviet Tier VIII heavy tank, is coming to the closed Supertest.  The Object 259a has a characteristic feature typical of all IS-7 prototypes—a pike nose. Its frontal hull armor reaches 110 mm. The tank's turret is streamlined, cast, with frontal armor of 260 mm. The vehicle has 1,450 hit points. Maximum speed—60 km/h, specific power—15 h.p./t, view range—380 m.  The tank is armed with a 122 mm gun with an average damage per shot of 420 hit points. The standard APCR shell penetrates 233 mm of armor, while the special HEAT shell penetrates 285 mm. Aiming time of the gun is 3.2 s, reload time is 15 s, and dispersion is 0.42 m.  Object 259a is a frontline heavy tank. Thanks to its good armor and relatively good maneuverability, the vehicle can occupy advantageous positions and engage in successful positional combat. Also, keep in mind that the gun's accuracy won't let you fire effectively from long range.  More pictures can be found in this link HERE.

Draschel:  Rofl Strong to who? Who told you that?

Draschel: i'd  put panzer VII, jag panzer  Maus, Grille, Sheridan  in trash too.IS7, 113, T62A  to goodAnd E50M, Bat chat to passable. 

Draschel: Ranked has always been suspect with exp getting dole out.Before role exp earned, scorpiany posted some really silly things about IS7 over-earningNow with roles, exp is extremely out of whack. Exp NEEDS to be calculated by whats done. 

Draschel: why you want them gone? They are free barracks spaceits barracks space thats the problem, not garage openings

Draschel: its a pref tank.Its hard to buff. When looking at the very similar Panther 88, they increased alpha to 280, and because they could not nerf RoF as a premium.....they ended up buffing Panther with a whopping 400 DPMIf they did these changes to Jagd 88 as well it would have 3,436 base DPM, an astonishing 500 DPM increase because they '-can't-' nerf the 11.76 RoF Thats 100 DPM short of tortoise and Badger. 400 DPM more than Turtle. Simply put the tank is too hard to balance.What they can do is give it the old Tiger 2  870 horsepower engine. That improves mobility. And -8 gun depression     

Draschel: I don't use carousel filters. Its worse than I thought.Conquer FL, M46 FL, E50 FL are gone too.I have over 50 people stuck in limbo. 

Draschel: I had free earned battles as rentals with the following Renegade, Bisonte, Turtle, Skoda 27, Lowe, WZ120G, S1. Never played them, was just using them as garage space.I guess the Under the Hammer micro-patch cleared these vehicles from garages. As well, T44100, Chrysler (GF), Patriot which were just there, no rent battles with those.Problem is, the vehicles were holding crews of course, so 34 guys now.  lol, immediate barracks spots issue Interesting to note, that my Barracks STILL REVEAL, that my crew are in these tanks. As in through barracks member search. But the Tanks themselves aren't in the garage visibly. So I can move the crew through barracks search and ''send to garage'' and then a crowded barracks. Or just leave them to be ghosts forever, not even in my garage. I guess I should pay for another set or 2, of barracks seats, when they come around on sale 1/2. I even see, IS7 ®  140 ®  WZ111111111111115A ®  are gone too.The crack down.  lol  

churchill50:  One has to remember not to confuse being trash at a certain tier with that tier being trash. An easy mistake to make. For some people at least.

Draschel:  I do not know what planet you came from, but I played Football, basketball at my high school. And that was VERY amateur. And they recorded our stats.I don't think you know what analogy means If a coach didn't record a players successes and who plays well or importantly doesn't, even if mentally, the results would be they would or would not play. Even in high school. They would be a starter and log minutes, or a bench warmer. Bench warmers taken out only for when your team is winning by 20 pts, or losing by 20 pts and nothing matters. Why is this? Because coach sees, and has logged who plays to win and can, and who doesn't   

Jaguarz: Cant see replays as need to request access and not that bothered about it, I have been getting some success at blind firing arty after i see a tracer in a normal tank and leading it back using minimap and terrain knowledge, maybe 1 in 20 attempts gets a hit in. Counter in arty depends on the other player being dumb and not moving after each shot.

churchill50: Look at the specific one you have, then train the crew to that one. They have different letters at the end to differentiate them. Or, the better thing to do is just take a crew from another Russian medium tank and put them in the T-44-100 without retraining. Since it's a premium tank, they won't suffer a penalty from being put in the T-44-100, and you can train them (one of the main points of premium tanks).

churchill50:  If you'll reread the OP, he already has the Chieftain and STB-1 pimped out.

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Draschel:  yes. Because let leagues remove stats from sports like hockey, basketball, baseball, olympics, Football, too.because it facilitates what these professions have and use. Keep your toxic nay say to yourself. 

Jaguarz:  Yeah, those were the days of real toxicity...... though I do miss the camaraderie of "you kill your arty and we kill ours and we can have a real battle" then seeing the arty go pop and spend their time ranting in chat.

Jaguarz:  Unnecessary, I run bond optics, CVS and rammer in my faux scout spec and it works far more effectively with 506 view range and -concealment CVS in a scout slot, I can literally supplant scouts and out bully theirs through HP, alpha and dpm. In this game from yesterday I simply parked in the light bush and ruined the other team and there was nothing they could do about it. Im in try hard spec as figured may as well 3 mark this thing. I guess I could throw a optic directive on there, didnt really think. But you know, whatever you get the most mileage from, whatever works for you. Oh fun fact, currently rated 7th in it for rating in current period.  

Draschel:  it is a reward tank though. It trains crews. The quiln can use your 1111111115A crew, 113 crew, 1111111114 crew and 110I add 110, because after the buffs its semi-decent for sure, like an IS3 

churchill50: I'm not sure if the Type 59 does that, although I'm pretty sure it doesn't.What does do that is the WZ-111 Quilin. When you fire, flames shoot out from the muzzle.

Draschel:  there are many like him. There are many out there.

Draschel:  were you expecting progetto? bourratt? The tank is better than astron rex. Which is useful enough. Though the speed cap is low, it accelerates just fine.The tank is basically a heavy tank. With medium tank HP and camo. While the LFP is cheese, the sides are overmatchable, the UFP is ricochet angle. And because its decently thick, if you use HEAT to avoid ricochet angle you need at least 270mm HEAT pen to pose a threat. Its not a side scrape tank, so the side armor who cares? The cupola is also very small. While the gun handling seems subpar, compared as a heavy tank, which it is.....the gun handling smokes Somua, Bisonte, Skoda 56, Emil 51  The tank is definitely in the good category. Why the bitterness. If you don't want it, it doesn't want you 

churchill50: I would definitely take Repairs next on the Commander. It's far more valuable than Camo or Repairs.Start Firefighting on the Gunner.Clutch Braking on the Driver.Intuition on the Loader.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! This Tank starts at the lowest price for a band you will ever see at 44.72. (also one of my favorites!) This one starts at 48.64 and loves to blast all shots and find a corner to reload.  This speedster starts at 24.60 and is a staple in every tank collection. More information on these tank sales can be found HERE. These sales run from now 18Jan until 25Jan, so hurry up before they are gone!

Jaguarz:  If you were going to quit then you would just do so, these posts are just looking for validation and back patting.

Jaguarz: This game is played ONLY by super unicum players, the reason they are in the 40-45% range is because of the rampant cheating on the other side, gold rounds and wargaming writing specific algorithms to screw them over..... Unfortunately the world is populated by morons, whats sad is so many inside this game are seemingly incapable of learning, 100k battles and they will still do the same thing that got them loss after loss after loss just because its familiar and comfortable to them but hey, it worked that one time... But its not all doom and gloom, sometimes I have been saved by a complete red player who alone manned up and played as a team player while wannabe 48-52 percenters are fixated on their WN8 farming because thats what makes them good..... apparently... I genuinely feel WN8 is cancerous to this game, its an inefficient metric which can be gamed and gamed better when you cause your side to collapse and have lots of damage to farm before your loss reaches you. I believe there are people among the "red" players who are highly capable, they just need real instruction to give them clarity, recently I lold while I overmatched a Torvagn doing some extreme sidescraping in a 152, after the match I took the time to explain why his efforts failed due to overmatch, I "adopted" this guy and have been platooning and he has improved exponentially, it turns out I do know exactly what to do and how to play in theory, I just choose not to listen to myself when I play myself.... This game is a microcosm for the world right now, massive amounts of deluded, entitled people who lack the capacity so see they are at fault and are so terrified at looking at themselves will project all their flaws onto others but there are good people out there, and in here.

Jaguarz: 18

Draschel: IS5 ''resembles'' object 277 the most, out of your selection. But IS5 can be very frustrating unlike 277, because it has a real derper gun. 277 tends to be reliable.  Go with 703(ii) and Defender, they are better tanks than those listed. or just train with IS3 using boosters? 

Draschel:  What you are doing can be done by just about any tier 9-10 medium, except maybe derper ones like 430 and Bat Chat.People do play with AMX30 well. It has speed, firepower, camo. There are just way better tanks that do those jobs better. 

Draschel:  Thats why i turned player names on. Especially for ranked. If I see stryker105  -> gold ammo. Even if he is in light tank or arty, gold round. 

Draschel:  you mean ST-II or STA2? I like STA2, but STA1 is much better. I hate T34 heavy. But I got my with an 70% discount from WoWP promotion many many many years ago. I want to play it, its just too hard to justify, even with its buffs. It only ever gets taken out in skirmishes where I'm on teams like CrackD, Givup, Buckt where a near guarantee of stomping the enemy without even my tanks' help, or on Frontlines start up queue and play it till I die that front. Even if T34 heavy can magically fit gun layer, aiming class, rotation mech, vertical stabilizer, vents.....sigh still worse gun handling than no equipment Caernarvon AX, Kreslavsky, Renegade, 53TP. That is preposterous.  I hate why WG can and does, show a tonne of love to ISU130  Kreslavsky  WZ111  Type 59  59-patton  T44100 and fix alot of issues the tanks face.....yet stagger with things like T95E2  T34 H  T92 Lt and not fix inherit problems at all. Or half-fix. For T34 heavy case, over multiple iterations and still not done right. If they have finally got it right with Lowe, why taking so long or left so dumbfounded with T34 H Up armor cupolas of KV4, KV5, 122TM, 274A but hey, leave Liberte with 60mm wart that can be pen by HE. T34 H can't even hulldown. If it hulldowns too much using max gun dep, it exposes the radioman and driver hatches, and that center hull stub beneath turret. If it hulldowns -8 or so, the gigantic 38mm bobblehead roof gets shot. Which is far worse than IS3 and IS6 roof overmatches, because those are small. The tank is just for trades. Pick an enemy that only does 240 and pray your gun rolls 400 and take it. They will laughably ''''nerf'''' obj 430U and 268 V 4, and buff 268  113  121 on more than one occasion, cripple Grille and leave it there, leave 110E4 in mediocrity for years. They'll fix IS4 dispersions, remove weakspots, and make sure ST-II and Vz55 dispersions are fine, yet .....leave T57 and release Rhino with dispersions like that of SPG? The game is very clearly anti-west, it is propaganda and I am sick of it. And releasing content like Renegade, EBR75 and 105, Chieftain, super conquer, conquer GC aren't the right way in attempting to prove devs aren't anti-west. Its 2022. Just balance the game. Play it, and balance it.    

Draschel: Are you trying to be funny? Bat chat 58 has the best camo amongst tier X SPGs. It also has the smallest bore size and shortest gun, which typically effect camo after firing. The camo after firing is whats influenced, a pretty useless trait to begin with. The stock listed rate for Bat chat is 0.90. With BIA, natural cover, camo skill, rations, outer paint job you are looking at 2.11. And with this field mod you go to 2.25. That is pretty much 7%, more of 6.3% but you get the point. Splitting hairs.  It is an useless addition. Just take the +5km/hrYou are supposed to use bushes for firing concealment, after firing concealment won't help anything except something like E25, SU85 (i) 

churchill50: I'd run Rammer, IAU, and IRM for equipment. Bounty if you have them, as it helps the tank a lot.You could also drop either IAU or IRM for Turbo, as it really helps the reverse speed of the tank. I'd suggest running half AP and half premium HESH. Skip the regular HESH. You're not in this tank to make credits. Intuition is absolutely amazing on the FV4005, since both the HESH and AP have their uses. Being able to switch between them in ~4 seconds is huge. Just be aware that you have to have it trained on both Loaders to be at full effectiveness.

Draschel: If you are tier 8+ arta units, binoculars maybe can work unlocking the scout bonus slot. But I would stick to mix of rammer, gun layer, rotation mech, ventilation.