[Sandbox] New Balance Test Kicks off on February 10

Han951753, on 12 February 2020 - 12:33 PM, said: The idea of making a change is great, but some of then Changes in current sandbox server is simply not good enough. I see that WG encourage people use more standard shells and not premium ammo, that is a good idea. But why the price of special shells are still so high for now? I understand that special shells are special, so a bit more expensive, but being 4 times more expensive is just a joke. Also the HP increases, Of course is necessary, but is it necessary to all tanks? Such as EBR, 279e, T95/Chiftan, 2684, do they really need that much HP? They are already very very OP right now and with this HP increase they are literally indestructible. Standard shells can in no case do DMG to them and using special shells take years to take them out. Right now tanks like 279e can simply drive across all enemy fires and using their massive HP pull to push through a entire flank and still survive and there is nothing his enemy can do to him. I hope WG can do a bit more adjustment on those facts and use this as an opportunity to balance out the game now. This is the best chance to make some big changes set things right and still make everyone happy.  12:36 Added after 3 minute Also some advice to arty game play. make them use AP only if they want to do dmg. WG can give them very high AP alfa so they will be happy as well for example the AP alfa in the old arty days, but really stop artys from using HEs that is pure annoying. 


WoT_RU_Doing, on 12 February 2020 - 12:22 PM, said: WG - one thing I notice from the Sandbox is that the Depot has now been moved to the Store, so it no longer has it's own direct access tab in the garage, PLEASE don't do this.   Also, I have a concern that if I eventually purchase ALL special vehicles, I won't know what tanks in my garage are premium credit earners, and which are just "Special". Please can you add either a new identifier (different colour oak leaves perhaps) or at a minimum another filter in addition to the current Elite and Premium garage filters.


facmanpob, on 12 February 2020 - 12:13 PM, said: All we know is that the changes are planned for 'spring'. The question is, what does spring mean to someone in Belarus?   All I have found out so far is that the Minsk Spring Tango Festival is happening in mid-May. A must for all you Strictly Come Dancing aficionados!   https://www.springtango.by/en/index.html  


Kupsztas, on 12 February 2020 - 12:18 PM, said: The changes to standard ammo value are interesting. I would like to see just the premium ammo damage reduced by 20% instead of all of the buffs to HP and standard ammo damage, but I understand they have to do it this way due to policy of not directly nerfing premium vehicles. 
This makes standard ammo more of high risk - high reward ammo. It doesn't fix the problem of absurd penetration difference, causing standard ammo to be not enough to reliably pen weak spots, while premium ammo goes in while auto-aiming into upper plate. The mindless gold spam is the reason I can't stand playing heavy tanks on high tiers and it won't stop because of those changes 

So, this change is interesting, but the hardcore heavy tank players will see it only as an effective DPM nerf, as they will still need to use lots of gold to break enemy lines.

And when it comes to HE changes.... PLEASE NO. This is terrible. All the fun of punishing glass cannons is gone, as the high risk - high reward factor of HE is absolutely trashed. The problem with HE not being used as an alternative to gold spam is still not fixed, as you still deal practically no damage to a heavy tank in defensive position. With limited ammo count it is just not effective... taking down a tier X heavy tank with 50-100 damage shots would require driving full HE and being able of killing one tank. JUST NO.
You took all the fun part of HE ammo and didn't provide any real use for it. Just remove it completely if you dislike it so much!