Developers posts on forum

Draschel:  it is not enough, unfortunately. No where near enough for any sensible prevention.The AI has gotten smarter, have been given more tools, but are still bots. Predictable, repetitive.A little hurdle with the 1.12 patch, and people are back to their antics with their lessons learned We need harder countermeasures. Capping crew skills to max 2 skills present tiers 1-5. Adding +3/-3 MM to queue to people playing more than 100 battles in a single tier 1-5 tank.Longer queue waits to ensure 15v15 battles, max 5 bots per side. Bots getting the snapshot/auto-aim accuracy properties of that Is2shielded battle theme, to make them more dangerous These are quick and dirty suggestions to remove sA server farming and low tier clubbing

Draschel:  I like the changes. Think they are great for the game. and I don't have a chieftain, 260, 279E. and none of these tanks you pay for. You have to play for them, not pay.No more 60TP shooting someone's tracks, properly side scraping for 300 damage. No more T92 light tank trying to get a cap reset, and shooting is7 turret for 0 damage bounce. Consistency is key, The game is more consistent and predictable. No more easy street no aim HE spam. No more leaning on a crutch.    

Draschel:  spg were not nerfed. And they cannot be compared to 9.18,  that time is gone and passed. They are to be compared to 1.12I don't care about stun. And many others that care about their personal performance, that want damage and kills don't care of stunThey want damage and kills to get past dumb arty missions, and never have to play them after, while not tanking their WN8 in the processNot all people are the 48% pub you think of, that value something useless like stun. Assistance can be got through immobilizing anywayArty will pen more now, with increased penetration. They will do more damage too with the higher base damage. The splash effects are still enough, more so than tankshells, to make near misses still damaging - esp considering increased base No one is talking about pre-1.13 stuff. We are in 1.13 now, and unless you have a time machine, go figure   

_BobaFett: Completed the survey. Thank you for sharing.

Draschel: The title. Nerfing M44 jut means any sPG regular will just move on over to sU8 and do better.It deals more damage per hit, fires faster so more DPM, matches M44 mobility being quick too.while it does not have the gun-arc traverse or camo, people will benefit with DPM and lethalityinstead of 39 pen now, we have to deal with arty bombing us with 48 pen, and 9% more dmg Life is great, isn't it 

DeviouslyCursed: Windowed (Borderless) is the thing you are looking for.

Draschel:  ?? it was like that before. They changed it because artillery was dealing too much damage, and nerfed artillery calibers over 122mm. The nerfs came along with adding stun feature.Artillery and tank/TD damages used to be the same basically, by bore size 

Draschel:  I have had mine forever too. It 3 marked, years ago, still sitting in garage, not jut with dust over top, but a tarp too o i can't see the shameful thing and many layers of spider webs and dust.  Technically, it is not a D25T. Its 703 gun. The huge boost in velocity is comical. The shot zips out of the barrel, and goes where you didn't want it, but extremely quickly rather than slow. Nevertheless, gun disp and gun dep boosts are nice, to say the least. I would have liked at least some accuracy and aim-time improvement though. Engine upgrade would have been great, like T-10 or Is3-II top mobility module   

Draschel:  It is very slow. Trying to play Lowe in any specific way is daunting because it is slow. Slower than an IS6. At any rate, even properly positioned, at the advantage - the DPM is pathetic. Tier 6 DPM 

Draschel:  are you trying to be funny?ignorance ain't a sense of humor. 

MA77: Saudações, As edições sugeridas devem corrigir o desequilíbrio entre as bases, bem como tornar as partes central e sul do mapa utilizáveis para uma jogabilidade ativa.   Jogabilidade  Posições para caça-tanques foram adicionadas. A parte central do mapa que focava os veículos leves foi melhorada. Uma área de combate com posições confortáveis para tanques médios foi adicionada. Uma conexão entre as posições para tanques leves e médios foi adicionada. Imagens: Antes | Depois Não se esqueça de deixar o seu feedback e lembre-se que alterações não são finais e dependerão dos resultados dos testes. Grande abraço e boa sorte no campo de batalha!

Jaguarz: Try a VPN to route your traffic past any trouble spots (nearly always telia) I used surfshark when things were bad.

_BobaFett:  What is this fun you speak of... elaborate. 

Jaguarz:  It wasnt great to be sure but I ran one on my arty magnet Pz7, crew protection and stun reduction did help a fair bit

KRZYBooP: Booping this for visibility 

churchill50: You don't need to research the 10.5cm gun. You can just research the E50M, and then I believe you get the 10.5cm gun on the E50 researched for free since it's the same gun as the E50M. EDIT: Nevermind, the 10.5cm gun is on the research path to the E50M, so you do need to research it to research the E50M.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! I. General Description   Berlin Map RedesignThe suggested edits should fix the imbalance between bases, as well as make the central and southern parts of the map usable for active play.The central and southern parts of the map have been changed.II. Gameplay  Added positions for tank destroyers. The central part of the map that focused on light vehicles has been improved. Added a fighting area in the medium tank direction with comfortable positions for this vehicle type. Added a connection between directions for light tanks and medium tanks.III. Screenshots  

Jaguarz:  People want everything without having to work for it, even if you never touched the mode swap gimmick its still a better base tank than several t9 mediums in various aspects

Jaguarz:  Precedent was also set here ala Super Pershing when they refunded purchases after altering it

Adam_Antium: ¡Saludos, comandantes! En esta nueva instancia del supertest, se aproxima un rediseño de un mapa ya conocido por muchos: Berlín.  Los cambios propuestos deberían solucionar los problemas de balance relacionados al posicionamiento de las bases. A su vez, le otorgarían un mayor protagonismo a las áreas del centro y sur del mapa gracias a sus modificaciones. 
En su estilo de juego, Berlín ha sido rediseñada de forma que:Posea más posiciones aptas para cazatanques. El área central, donde habitualmente combaten tanques ligeros, muestre mejoras. Tenga más posiciones cómodas para el manejo de tanques medianos. Posea una conexión entre las áreas de control de tanques ligeros y las de los tanques medianos. A continuación, ¡les mostramos el antes y el después de los cambios!  Antes:     Después:     Como siempre, recuerden que estos cambios  no son definitivos y pueden ser modificados de acuerdo a los resultado de las pruebas. ¡Saludos y buena caza!

Adam_Antina: ¡Saludos, comandantes! En esta nueva instancia del supertest, se aproxima un rediseño de un mapa ya conocido por muchos: Berlín.  Los cambios propuestos deberían solucionar los problemas de balance relacionados al posicionamiento de las bases. A su vez, le otorgarían un mayor protagonismo a las áreas del centro y sur del mapa gracias a sus modificaciones. 
En su estilo de juego, Berlín ha sido rediseñada de forma que:Posea más posiciones aptas para cazatanques. El área central, donde habitualmente combaten tanques ligeros, muestre mejoras. Tenga más posiciones cómodas para el manejo de tanques medianos. Posea una conexión entre las áreas de control de tanques ligeros y las de los tanques medianos. A continuación, ¡les mostramos el antes y el después de los cambios!  Antes:     Después:     Como siempre, recuerden que estos cambios  no son definitivos y pueden ser modificados de acuerdo a los resultado de las pruebas. ¡Saludos y buena caza!

Elias_K_Grodin: I played a few battles on the Minsk map myself.Avenues of approach appear altered to allow safe passage to the contact points Corridors on the built up areas more suitable for brawling instead of just getting trapped and encircled More open spaces for mobile tanks and fast vehicles and less cover/concealment positions  Being mainly a medium tank player, I find these changes refreshing and suitable for dynamic gameplay! "Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction." - Oliver P. Smith, United States Marine Corps

Hey_man_Gneis_shot: I played a few battles on the Minsk map myself.Avenues of approach appear altered to allow safe passage to the contact points Corridors on the built up areas more suitable for brawling instead of just getting trapped and encircled More open spaces for mobile tanks and fast vehicles and less cover/concealment positions  Being mainly a medium tank player, I find these changes refreshing and suitable for dynamic gameplay! "Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction." - Oliver P. Smith, United States Marine Corps

Einzelganger7: When he released that video some days ago I went Piri-piri to fill and submit that survey, let's hope wargaming listens to Skill and his community.

_BobaFett: I use getgud.exe and playbetter.wotmod


They're pretty useful.

_BobaFett:  Actually now that I think about it is odd that they went for the across-the-board approach rather than individually nerfing the outliers, whatever those may be.

_BobaFett: Nice game!

_BobaFett: I dunno know if I would count 0:09 as rage. I was simply making a comment.

DeviouslyCursed:  

DeviouslyCursed:  I think you guys are missing the point. It wasn't a joke. It was what actually appeared when I searched it. That's what makes it funny. Or at least ironic.

Draschel: So when you fire HE and deal  0  damage, likely these are the scenarios. HE fails to penetrate a screen,  like spaced armor panel, decal, tracks,  fences  and doesn't reach a tank body to detonate. Or HE penetrates a screen, track, Etc  -  but misses the vehicular body afterwards.  

Draschel: Cheating does exist.  It is all around us. Just usually, in different ways rather than expected ones The common cheating the game has to deal with is actually 3rd party socking, for money. Unauthorized monetization.  IE:  Account in question _______  Pays friend, or business service, or pub star,  whomever  for ________. Easy discrepancies seen are a result. The _________ could be many things. W/R improvement, WN8 improvement, PR improvement, obtaining 3 marks, tech tree grinding, credit earning, bonds earning, ranked battle grinding, clan wars participation,  strong holds leveling, Etc. 

Draschel: I don't think so. I agree, it is more useful than it was. But the acceptable dispersion changes don't solve the 3.2 / 0.46 issues. Like how IS6, 112, WZ111, T-34-3 have had their gun control buffed. It just doesn't seem as fast as it should be too, because of the worse terrain resistances, track pivot, reverse compared to IS3 

Jaguarz:  It tells you everything you need, do some basic math if you want to extrapolate the base XP, my point was a fairly similar game but 6s and 7s as opposed to 5s-7s

Draschel:  panther 88 suffers from problems. I think the Lowe is a better chassis. Panther 88 already had DPM. It didn't need that sort of buffThe aim-time is bad for it, which doesn't make sense because the dispersion stats seem okay. Why s--- on it in aim-time? And with only 203 pen? Why can't it have 212 like Jag Tiger 88, they basically share the same gun. Still, no german engine buffs either, like the old 870 horsepower these tanks used to have. 59 patton, T95 Chieftain, Type 59, KV4? KV5? Everything getting engines except german tanks. The camo rating is also very poor for a medium, limiting its use. I'd rather make do, with fine-in-class-already tier to tier  2,176 DPM, but have something like 2.1 or 2.3 aim-time and 17 HP/T.....rather than raw buffed DPM to 2.5K and the rest of the tank remains s--- on a stick Don't get me wrong, the idea has happened before and its changed certain tanks. Like Caernarvon. Caernarvon is an epic tournament gold winner right now, where maps are picked and you just DPM demolish your same tier foes in controlled environments. But it really doesn't help too much of the tanks glaring faults in pub battles.     

Draschel: It depends. How you hit the track. What caliber you used, to hit the track. What angle, you hit the track. -The goals being, you need your HE shell to penetrate the track. If it will not penetrate the track, it will not go through towards the body of the tank, where it can deal damage.-So 90mm tier 8 medium gun, with 45 HE pen, most likely will never penetrate 279E tracks. It gets caught up in track belt and absorbed.-A generic 122mm has a chance to penetrate the track belts,  but cannot have the shot be too acutely into the tracks or the track effective armor increases and again, the shell doesn't penetrate the track and is absorbed. -Important to note, the shell must have a trajectory through the track, hitting the tank body behind. Penetrating the track, then flying off into space or hitting the dirt, and narrowly missing the tank body behind will not yield a hit or damage anymore. The HE simply wont detonate this way anymore and have detonations this way cause splash.  So ask yourself these parameters. Is my shell on course, to hit the actual tank body, and not just outer decals or spaced armor? Does my shell have base HE pen to beat objects track effective armor? If the armor is 40mm, alot of guns already can't beat it especially if angle of instance is sloped. Guns like 76, 85, 90mm are whole out of luck, unless unique HE like EBR75 or Senlac or RU251 that sees these small bore guns with high pen HE. You'd need very high pen HE like Leopard, M41GF, ISU152K, Etc. After all these are met, then yes. Even a simple 76mm HE shell can cause some damage 1.13 to 279E. It just can't be interfered with, like vision blocks, gun, tracks, spaced armor. But actually hitting the tank, small bore HE effects have been increased. And rather than causing  0,  will likely cause 5-10.  And 5-10 damage is certainly enough for a 2HP enemy, or a tank on cap. 

Jaguarz:  Nah, its the tier 5 tanks that sapped the xp 

Jaguarz: I got my 260 and the missions for the 279e are so hateful I dont even pay attention to them so Im good.

Jaguarz:  Now now, you also cant possible imagine that the figures Wargaming suggests as metrics are even close to being a valid representation of the playerbase either and are more likely only indicative of the response they want to have.

_BobaFett:  Oh I too hope that he goes. Just wishful thinking I guess. 

_BobaFett: WG hasn't listened to community ever. They've been detached since 2011.

Honestly I just don't care. This sort of thing has happened forever.