Developers posts on forum

DeviouslyCursed:   I call BS. You're known to just make up random crap and blame WG. I bet your replay will show something else.  

Draschel:  and it only went so far, as to pre 1.12 center-of-mass shot @ 500m away and hit the tracks of  KV4  or oho for 350 damage? And you think that is fine?Still seeing plenty of OI and KV2 shoot for 100+ damage splashes. I think its fine, if they don't want to aim, or are supporting the team against T8 tanks  

Draschel:  Stock Jag tiger, so long as you have engine and radio from jag panther II or Tiger II, both of which you can do in front lines is fineStock jag tiger is no less dangerous to tier 8s. L55 128 is devastating even if stockWould you rather risk playing stock jag tiger in tier X battles? Play it in front linesJust make sure to choose where you deploy. Jag tiger isn't for crossing too much ground Remember, WG is sort of fixing tier 9 economy for FL. Tier 9 will make *more* creds than they do in public battleI would assume, it is more than plausible to resultingly break even or even make creds more often.  

DeviouslyCursed:  Actually, it can. That's like saying, "Hey, maybe cleaning products WILL cure COVID, can't hurt to try!" It won't affect blowouts, because blowouts aren't caused by skill imbalance. All you have to do is watch clan matches that split their games 50/50, a lot of their battles still end in landslides. Why? Because it's about pressing an advantage, not which team has more skill. And when an underdog team wins, it is often by a landslide or close to it. The longer a battle goes, the more likely the skilled team will win. You're just mad I said people who think SBMM will fix blowouts are idiots, and you're one of them. Stop being an idiot, if you don't like being called an idiot.

DeviouslyCursed:  You are crying about your win rate over 14 battles, you whiny little s**. Way to embarrass yourself. Glad you're not my kid.

Draschel:  Average damage for OI pre 1.13 June:  1,600Average damage post 1.13 July:  1,450 Average damage for KV2 pre 1.13 June:  1,825Average damage post 1.13 July: 1,690 The same trends follow other HE dependent vehicles, like Sheridan, T49, SU152, oho. While this can be seen as a dramatic drop, it by no means regulate these vehicles anywhere NEAR what people are depicting them as HE NERFS HAVE KILLED THESE TANKSWhat kind of data are you conforming to? I am getting these right from vehicle ratings. And yes, people are not only trying, but are still playing these tanks. And as I see it so far, still doing just fine.  

DeviouslyCursed:  Kind of makes your whine about RU tanks in Kursk and GI Joe pointless, huh?

DeviouslyCursed: That would be like fearing a TOG II if the made a tier 6 version of Front Lines....

Einzelganger7: They will put some tier 9 as rentals for 320k credits, you could get as rental an E-50 for some quality ramming on tier 8s.

DeviouslyCursed:  Actually I support having it at all times. That would completely end the "WoT is P2W" threads. Give the free players a mode to get credits without impacting their stats and there is very little to complain about after that (just OP prems).

DeviouslyCursed:  Actually, new tanks tend to have higher win rates as the better players grab them first. Being new AND on the bottom is a death sentence. The tanks are trash. Now having said that, some tanks will just "fit" a person. For instance the Deathstar is one of the lowest win rate tier 10's in the game, but my cousin absolutely loves his, and he has a 58% win rate in over 200 battles (it was over 60% but he tried to help me pull up my S Conq win rate. I don't know what it is about that tank, but I lose in it a lot!). That's over his account average of 55%.

DeviouslyCursed:   But... but.... but....  MAH FEELZ!    Don't invalidate Mah FEELZ!!!!

DeviouslyCursed:  The McNamara Fallacy does not make trash evidence into good evidence. It is more about using one aspect or metric and ignoring other credible evidence (for example, when trying to determine if a player is good, you look only at a player's win rate, without considering tanks/tiers played). Anecdotal evidence is not good evidence.

DeviouslyCursed:  Ooo! The "I know you are but what am I?" response. Clever! Did you think that up yourself or did you have someone help you? Also, you're still wrong about SBMM. It won't fix blowout matches. Educate yourself, or keep being ignorant and be (to use your word) "butthurt" when called on it.

DeviouslyCursed:  Don't forget, he's got that stupid little chart that showed him winning like 65% of his 55% chance to win battles. It never occurs to him that there might be something wrong with he data, his rating, or the win chance calculations. He is too SimplySimple to understand things like that.

DeviouslyCursed:  Great, so you take however many matches you want to consider. Each side has 1 purple player for balance. So in any number of matches, you will always have purples winning X and losing X where X equals the number of games played. So, 100 games, you have100 wins and 100 losses. The problem is, purples played 200 games total. Half of them are wins, half are losses. There is no possible way to distribute the wins and losses so that all purples still have purple stats. It can't be done. What you are stupidly asserting as fact is impossible. If a purple is always matched against another purple, all purples can not maintain purple stats. It is impossible. 

DeviouslyCursed: In terms of win rate on the server, the order is: Char          \AE Phase   - these 3 are close to top of tier 9'sObj777      /(large gap)Kunze - middle of tier 9's(large gap)K91 - one of the worst tier 9's I don't agree with Skreebus above. And any CC that recommends the K91 as the second choice overall is a CC you don't want to watch. The only people who should get that are players who really, really like TDs and completionists.

DeviouslyCursed:  ...and the Sheridan, and the K91, and...

DeviouslyCursed:  Yep, you. You are the type of "Give us SBMM!" fool I was referencing. Thanks for giving a perfect example of what I was talking about.

DeviouslyCursed:  Front Line is NOT universally loved. I hate it with a passion. I personally don't care what they do to Front Line. Until they make winning useful, it's a pure boring grind fest. EDIT:  ...and making winning useful would be so simple: everyone on winning team gets boosted 1 rank (General is still max). Boom, done. Winning is useful.

DeviouslyCursed:  What is the problem with current MM? Most people cry about blowouts, but SBMM won't fix those. These complainers just aren't smart enough to understand why blowouts happen and their opinions on the matter should be dismissed right off. A few cry about 2 tier spread. Those babies just need to find another game. Period. Most of the rest cry about mismatched skill balance. The thing is, no amount of mismatch is insurmountable. There is no such thing as a 100% chance to win at the beginning of the match. And even if there was, if you kept track you'd see the 100% chance to win teams lose some. You say it's about challenge? You want a challenge with skill mismatched teams? Try to get your stacked "we're going to win" teams to actually win them all (you won't). When you're the underdog, try to snare the win (then rub it in to the best players on the opposite team). Both of those feats are far more challenging then having boring 50% chance to win games every. single. game.

Draschel:  How much have you played tier 6? I see KV2 splashing non penetration rounds against tanks like Cromwell, Type 58, Skoda T25 for damages 500+. Tanks with just enough armor to make HE pen 50/50, but  that is even more than 1.12 pre-change. And what is wrong with using the 136 pen AP? How about aiming for the multitude of opportunity you have to over-match foes? Sorry, no sympathy for no-aim derpers that can't continue down that broken road.  

Draschel:  You have a point actually, a great one. Since  0  damage HE hits now, are either category  A:  blocked by spaced armor  absorption.....and  B:  Penetration through decal or spaced armor but missing the tank  after.  Category A, is certainly a use of armor, isn't it?  

Draschel:  If you wish to play the part of a fool, that is fine. But doesn't mean that society should be subjected to it.If you had folks, who perished from a flesh eating, liver dissolving, diarrhea and vomit inducing hemorrhagic fever which has large open sores rupturing to show massive internal bleeding -  and you weren't even able to visit and see their death bed because its a class 4 contagion  I guarantee you wouldn't use such words so lightly.   And many do die from monoxide inhalation. That is why I respect it enough to -exclude- it from such deranged comments when trashing a bad tank or broken mechanic. What is your point? 

Draschel:  No real different than Defender or 112 already, except have cupolas  (albeit small) while 705 does not? In fact, Defender, 112 even have better side armor than 705. If you can LFP pen tanks like VK7501, 703-II, 112, Defender, Chrysler - you can do it to E75, 257, 705, ST-I, Ausf B too. The problems will be Phase 1, Concept 1, Emil II - because they are extraordinary powerful gun dep tanks. Not only that, they are reasonably mobile tanks like T10, but offer huge improvements in armor.  T95 Jag Tiger Tortoise will be artillery turret static defense gimmicks, nothing much more. They will be consumable air and ground strike hotspots too. Frontlines needs speed 

Draschel: why lie? I don't have a GWE100. What do you gain by lying? I didn't make that point about the heavy tanks and TD, WG made it themselves. They had a game loading pointer, "protect artillery versus light tanks, because they will protect you versus the heavy ones"  They had it for years. Don't you get what it implies?  If I were to complain of something, I wouldn't complain of something using ridiculous examples that compromise my point. It makes no sense. If there is a lack of speed, play something faster. You don't know what I play, apparently. IS6, 112, VK3601, object 704, KV4, Ferdinand are my most played tanks by games. Not really renown at all with their speed. You need to put yourself in position where you can be involved. I am not saying that position solves all the issues very little speed causes, but it mitigates some certainly. The game isn't fast because artillery were nerfed, it is faster sure - but that was the case before. The metagame was a fast one, before 1.13. EBR, fast heavy tanks, powerful reasonably armored med tanks, fast turret TD - all these things were major before the hammer struck arty. If it is a fix for you that involves premium account, and disabling maps for your borsig like Ensk, Himmelsdorf then you need to. If you want to play faster, flexible tank destroyers - think about the charioteer. Don't diss it until you play it, Skill4ltu has plenty of videos about it. It is no less versatile and capable than Skorpion and SU130PM. other flexible tank destroyers don't even include premiums, try out jagpanther, T25, Challenger, SU100M1. Even excalibur that you unlock for free.    

DeviouslyCursed:  And your platoon guarantees 3 good players on one team, and 0 on the other if there are only 3 good players in the match. Funny how you ignore this fact. Random MM has a chance of assigning them to each side, but not if you are platooned. Funny how you ignore this fact. If there are 4 good players? At best it can be 3 on one side, 1 on the other. Every time. Funny how you ignore this fact. You claim to want balanced matches, then go out of your way to make sure the current system works in your favor as much as possible. Funny how you ignore this fact. 

Draschel:  -arty is supposed to be keeping heavy tanks they can more reasonably hit, at bay. Not lobbing shots at lightly armored small vehicles they can expect to aim at 25% more and still miss-why play borsig with 15cm gun then complain about aim time and shell velocity and fast tanks? Really?  Play charioteer. Play skorpion G. Play SU130PM. Heck play borsig with 128 Your post is rife with inconsistency, and reads to be dubious in choices at best. Comes and rubs off as non constructive complaining. 

Draschel: Strong tier 9s will be influential and game changing like Concept 1, AE Phase 1, Kamp panzer, T55A, Leopard. Fast heavy tanks like T10, 257, 777 will also be strong and popular. Emil II, significantly stronger than Emil I and 1951, will also be powerful. 

DeviouslyCursed:  Now if you can just cure yourself of your WoT forums addiction, we'd all be happier.

Draschel:  Isn't police speech. Isn't political correct spin. I am not on any high horse, It is called respect? Tank A:  sucks fierce, or is broken as f---Tank A:  call tank A, broken? Call it trash? Call it useless? X   Don't call it a disease, or whatever else slaughters humans. What kind of attitude is that? Just call it bad. Terrible. Useless. Powerful. Broken. Unbalanced.Is that hard? 

DeviouslyCursed:  You have to try really hard not to see blueprints when in your garage...

DeviouslyCursed: I like how they made a big announcement of giving you a free day of premium when you already had 721 days of it.

DeviouslyCursed:  Watch his dance. He's going to use the "those numbers are about the same" whenever it suits himm. Just watch... So, if there is a match where there are 2 good players on one side, and 3 good players on the other.  Your platoon of 3 good players gets put on the side that already has 2. Now there are 5 good players vs 3, and they get an orange platoon. Had you not platooned, it would have been 1 good player and 2 random, and 3 random on the other side. Likely yielding a very balanced match, but since you were platooned, it is 5 vs 3. So 5 vs 3 good players.  Did your platoon just unbalance the match? Watch as SimplySimple carefully explains how 5 = 3.

LargeForeignObject: Tankers, The playoff stage of the Season 16 Playoffs continues!. 4 matches between the 8 strongest teams will be played tonight, only 4 will advance into the semifinals! Battles will start at:
18:00 PT | 20:00 CT | 21:00 ET I am creating this post for players that are streaming tonight's battles to provide links to their streams and maybe a little additional information (other posts will be removed). Also, I will be suggesting that all players stream on a 15 min delay to prevent stream sniping. Rules and additional info can be found in the MegaThread. GL HF,LFO

Elias_K_Grodin: Individual games don't really say much other than there were opportunities that either your team took advantage of or the other team were able to exploit and the end result was a loss/victory with minimal casualties. The important thing to note is what were the contributions from not only yourself but allies as well. If everyone just runs to different spots on the map without supporting each other, the likelihood of the OPFOR picking off isolated or overextended targets increases. I've been in quite a few "lopsided" losses but this was mostly due to either myself or my allies overextending and getting caught in a crossfire. Also never underestimate luck as sometimes you're at the end of someone's crosshairs or you catch a column of enemy tanks unaware you are about to lay waste to them. "When eating an elephant take one bite at a time." - Creighton Abrams, United States Army

Hey_man_Gneis_shot: Individual games don't really say much other than there were opportunities that either your team took advantage of or the other team were able to exploit and the end result was a loss/victory with minimal casualties. The important thing to note is what were the contributions from not only yourself but allies as well. If everyone just runs to different spots on the map without supporting each other, the likelihood of the OPFOR picking off isolated or overextended targets increases. I've been in quite a few "lopsided" losses but this was mostly due to either myself or my allies overextending and getting caught in a crossfire. Also never underestimate luck as sometimes you're at the end of someone's crosshairs or you catch a column of enemy tanks unaware you are about to lay waste to them. "When eating an elephant take one bite at a time." - Creighton Abrams, United States Army

DeviouslyCursed:  You tried to slap me with made up lies. Okay, admittedly I can't tell if you are lying or if you really are this stupidly clueless. List the average damage of the 4 players you claim have 2,300 average damage.  Because what I see in your post is: 2156 (You, lowest by far)235624312574 But you just said there were 4 players with 2,300 average. The only one at 2,300 or lower is you and you're about 150 lower than that (146 lower). Go on, baddie, show me where I'm wrong. Your sloppiness with numbers is why no one should listen to anything you say. Ever. ...and you still suck at high teir. No amount of your buddies carrying you is going to change that.

Einzelganger7: Nice contest, I just finished this model. Unfortunately Jagdpanthers had no participation in the Battle of Kursk, but good luck to the participants.
 

Adam_Antium:  Estoy considerablemente más activo en el Discord oficial de LATAM y en otras redes sociales. Aquí no hay muchos mensajes así que, en general, me limito a controlar que nadie se agarre a madrazos con nadie y compartir noticias. Pero siempre estoy observando.