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Draschel: looking at 703-ii, T-rex, Bourratt, progetto, Somua, Skoda 56  DPM?I'd say Even 90, GSOR, Lorraine, Skoda 27, T77 would like DPM too  122TM is the medium equivalent of T34 heavy and Lowe. I guess thats what they thought

TeriyakiTanker: That’s what I did and the very next game got on Prok and did 3.5k assistance.  Such is life.

Draschel: I wouldn't say its bad for good players. Its just not catered to their strengths and potential.It passively boosts sub-par and average players. No different than a Defender. Slow, so they don't get themselves in trouble too quickly. And very well armoredVery weird to see tanks having horrendous turret traverse dispersion, but good movement dispersion and aim-time. Supposed to be the other way around. Only American TD like T28HTC, T30, 110E4 had this problem before, or the CDC. Now they are adding more actual tanks that have it, like AMX30 Proto and Tomato. At any rate, all I think Tomato needs to make it more reasonable, is UDES Alt 5 engine, they both share the Scania '14' and have the same fit basic hull shape. And lower the turret dispersion to 0.20. These changes make it more bearable, without making the tank any more un-counterable than it currently is. Even with UDES engine, and bonds turbo, the thing would still be slower than Krevlasky or 50TP proto without any equipment.  And lets be real here, even the lowered 0.20 turret dispersion would still be awful.    

Draschel: Who cares? Better a bad tank as a premium than one too powerful. We don't need anymore powerful onesThere are plenty of bad tier 8s. Who cares about another one. Why must the tank be competitive?  

Draschel: Unusual post there. Odd unusual language. Google translate?WG branching of each class for battlefield role and field mod doesn't have to make sense. They do what they wantAt any rate the assault role for the apparent heavy-tank armor, pen, alpha. Its also tied for highest Soviet/Chinese med HP in the tier  

Draschel: Ask yourself this, when complaining about a hull down Badger, Kran, IS7, Chieftain, VZ55, STB1.Just ask yourself a few things.                             1. did it drive more than 300m for it? Typically unless your map is westfield, the answers yes.                             2. How much time are these hulldown tanks spending skulking in forests? Very little.                            3. is this vehicle and user, playing the game with one hand, just clicking the mouse? No.Now as arta scum - ask yourself. Did you drive more than 150m from spawn? 90%, no. Time in forests, if a forest map. 100%. Game played 1-handed? 90%, yes. Case closed.  

Draschel:  Arta are not necessary, at all. In fact, they are among the most hated, toxic things that frustrate users within the game. And when they are NOT in the game, the game enjoyment typically raises quite the margin according to participants. Everyone HATES 3-clicker per side teams. EVERYONE loves no clicker per side teams.  You weren't around for the start of the game meta. It wasn't hulldown heavies, because the only hulldown heavy was T30, and T30 was slow. Heavy meta was IS7s, then introduced E100s, then introduced 110E5s, to 113s and FV215B until they mega-buffed E5, then Maus+Type 5. Hulldown meta didn't really take off until the second take 110E5 mega buffs, and then the super conqueror + WZ111111111115A that replaced 215B and 113.  Scumbag arta were USED LONG BEFORE  hulldown tanks were a problematic work-around. Arta were even used when they only went to tier 8, in fact many tier 7 arta were used like M40/43 and 212A because they were thought to be better than 261 and T92. It was like that even with medium tanks. Medium tanks weren't a thing until they were expanded to tier 10, and when they WERE EXPANDED, only 140 and T62A were useful. STB1 wasn't a hulldown part of meta until japanese med re-work.  Medium tanks for a long time were tanks that don't necessarily attack with hulldown, but just go hulldown for armor  (907/140/T62A) Arta is a force multiplier that callers exclusively coordinate in CW for digging out camp using conquer GC looping velocity, or mass push support taking advantage of stun. Or for attrition defensive fire in stall wars for draw. Arta is not a hull down breaker. Chieftain vs chieftain and STB1 are hulldown breaker, using superior tactics and performance, down to the commander and each man. It takes BOTH TEAMS RUSHING OUT for the same hulldown spots, using hulldown tanks, to break the hulldown. Not arta. Problem is with these notions, none of this crap happens in random battle, because CALLERS  &  COORDINATION DON'T EXIST in pub. Holy bananas from bananaland, why speak about junk you don't have a clue of.  The only whiners here are poor performing players that whine, because they can't play their arta like they used to. Like wanting to play their arta, eat Doritos, watch ESPN, smoke, have a beer, listen to their wife yell at them, play with the kids..... all at once WHILE STILL playing WoT. And STILL do 2k damage they can't manage to do in a normal tank because they know little about the game if anything. 

Draschel: That guys clan. 

Draschel: Deadefedder can actually climb to 26.01 camo value. Without using camo net or low exhaust or natural cover directive. Just running rations, ventilation directive, ventilation, BIA. And that is without a bush, so deadefedder -CAN- actually sit in the back and shoot. I find it extremely dumb that it can justifiably, according to WG have more camo than 110E3 and Grille. The accuracy and velocity are alright for the job. The big problem is the inability to relocate. It can't manage it at all. Tanks like SU130PM, S1, WZ120G, AMX CDA are examples of things that can leave, and turn up somewhere else. This thing can't. So I wouldn't snipe with it unless a map like prokhorovka or El Hallef and tier 10 battle

Draschel: You also need to consider a big problem deadefedder has. The frontal shoulders, mud-guards. Not just the LFP, the shoulders and mudguards are awfulSort of like AMX M49 and Type 4. When the tank shows some side profile, these plates 'even' out in angle, to ridiculously vulnerable thin armor. Even frontally, its only 115mm~ effective. Its full of weakspots, which is why I just stated trading 490 damage to enemies. The armor only ever works hulldown. 

Draschel:  How far have you made progress into Field Mods?Deadefedder does not need Gun layer.  If you have done Field mods, choose survival bonus equipment slot. Run         Vents, hardening, rammer. This setup should be selected for maps like Himmelsdor, Ensk, Ruinberg, Pilsen, ParisIf you have done Field mods, your alternate setup for grass maps can be:        Rotation mech, vents, rammer. This setup still has survival slot boosting vents. Choose maps like Prokho, Sand River, El Halleuf, Highway     Deadefedder can use scouting as secondary bonus slot, with optics. This provides synergy with radioman having ''situational awareness'' as an early skill, something 4-man crews have more difficulty getting. This setup would be Vents, optics, rammer. For city close encounter maps, you can still have the scouting slot boosted by vents, for a net bonus. Rotation mech, vents, rammer. But I personally think Hardening+survival slot is the better choice If you do not have powerful crew, your first skills should be 6th sense, situational awareness, smooth ride, snapshot, safe stowage. Then start working on repairs or camo, your choice. When repairs or camo are complete at 100%, start building up the next skill using the default (+) sign. After about 45% in, retrain the crew to Brothers in Arms for the 2nd skills, and start working on repairs or camo again.  A casual Deadefedder load, are 15AP / 10 APCR / 5 HE. I personally would use 2 AP / 26 APCR / 2 HE.  Remember to paint your tank using the 75k buyable option.  

Draschel: Wait,  isn't BE a cheating clan?

Draschel: So does it make pro-arta players, activists? peddlers?    

Draschel: First of all, cancel maps like Redshire and Malinovka if you have premium time. Ferdinand is too slow for these. Ferdinand (Deadefedder actually its name) is a heavy tank with no turret, not a TD.  Like Badger or Jag pz E100 What you want to do is pick on enemies, like tiers 6,7,8. Not tiers 9-10. What you want to do is trade HP, 490 vs attacks like 240-320. Choose survivalability for 2nd Field mod bonus spot, and use hardening for even more HP Try to use as much hulldown spots as possible. Remember its better to stock enough 311 pen APCR and not need them, than to go against tough high tiers and not have them.   

Draschel:  I am pretty sure you mean this:: https://ibb.co/7psZ4pt As in arty is on the sidelines, and doesn't give two s---- about line of sight 

Draschel: There are alot of factors in play here, that need to be narrowed down What kind of tank, without gun depression?--Are the tanks soft targets, without gun depression like Nashorn or Achille? This is particularly bad setup--Are the tanks tough, like 121 or T28HTC, but have low gun depression. Here they can at least block damage, spot. What purpose is the gun depression to be use for?--Spotting? IS7 doesn't have great gun dep, but can go hulldown and be a real nuisance.--or do you wish to block, spot, deal damage? Like how Kran, Badger, Chieftain do Tanks like the old, pre-buff FV4005 were in particularly bad situations to be in. They were large, require alot of aiming for pens, have no gun depression, and on top even have no armor for spotting. 

Draschel:  Yes, there certainly is. Make arty tank destroyers. Perfectly, immediately balanced. They already gave them AP/HEAT to use in 3 ammo spread. Apply this to all tiers, not just tier 5 up. Make their HE like tank HE shells. Remove stun, remove alternate HE. Improve their VR, HP, dispersion, accuracy, aim-time. Case in point,  M37, M7 Priest doesn't become that different at all, comparing T40 w/105.  Lorraine 50 doesn't become all that different compared to something like SU152 w/152 

Draschel: Note to self, better get more familiar with the game and environments, than post over something not entirely familiar in. I agree, raising the cost of premium ammunition would lower some of its usage. But it does nothing to balance the other plaguing issue of too much heavy armor that AP has very little chance to pen EVEN WITH AIMING. Aiming simply doesn't solve all problems with some armor models. And WG is ever current up-armoring tanks as they see fit. Ask yourself, why is HEAT or APCR a problem, for you? When you can buy and use it as well?  You need to be more familiar with the game. It isn't a retort, or insult. Its advice. 

Draschel:  arta is perfectly balanceable. WG just refuses to balance it. They prefer to continue to nerf it instead every 8 months 

Draschel: of course I do. You.

Draschel: And him. You started it. 

Draschel: I think that one and HE are 920m/s. But who use those?I have 2 of those, 1 to fire in the air at the beginning of the game, or at the airship in redshire, or to fire in the air at the end of the game if it was awesome. 

Einzelganger7: For me it was quite a nice session 10/15 were victories.

DomoSapien: Sorry to be following up on this late - I don't get notified of these pings and the Tanksmas streams aren't my project so I haven't been keeping up with the thread
I have a very surface level understanding of the activities so questions regarding specifics might need to go to Tragic's DMs but if I'm understanding correctly - drops didn't work on the first day? 
As for drops being limited per region - we often have multi-region campaigns. Sometimes we want to run a campaign that EU doesn't want to run, or vice versa. Such is an unfortunate biproduct of regional publishing There are drops on CC Channels but in order to get the mystery drops approved they needed to be limited to our channel. 
To my knowledge there is enough scheduled programming between official streams and CC streams  (We extended our official stream schedule as well, for the event specifically) in order to ensure ample coverage to give players at least the minimum amount of watch time needed to claim that day's respective mystery drop. 

Draschel: CS63 turret is terrible. The 260mm is only in a small spot. 

Draschel:  Bisonte should have the front, and turret armor reduced to 75mm.The 105/55 should be swapped for the larger 127/70The gun depression changed from -10 to -4, but elevation to +60Lower VR and HP. Turn it into a tier 8 premium self propelled gun It has the freaking accuracy and dispersion to be SPG. And it looks like Palmaria 

DomoSapien: Please feel free to DM me your ticket ID. To my knowledge this is not working as intended, so it may require an additional data pull to identify boxes that were gifted instead of being purchased directly, if it's affecting everyone whose boxes were gifted. 

DomoSapien: Well, unfortunately I don't have the ability to change any of those things but I am definitely keeping an eye out for feedback in that regarding and stressing several of these points in sentiment reports about the event. Nobody anticipated a big mixup like this and the resolution was taxing on our existing tools. Several workarounds were tried before we were able to identify a functional solution.
I am happy to stress in said sentiment reports that many affected players are dissatisfied with the resolution, as potential credits were missed-out-on during that timeframe.
To be real with you for just a moment - I may work for WoT but I was a player long before I started working here. It's not like I don't understand why you're frustrated or I'm 100% cool with how things have shaken out so far. Gathering your feedback and advocating on your behalf is quite literally part of my job description and I'm more than happy to do it. I can't make any promises about immediately being able to fix the things you're providing us feedback about but passing that feedback on is very much in my wheelhouse.

DomoSapien: Yeah it was a typo, sorry about that. Kind of a high pressure situation and I wanted to get info out ASAP. Hence the redundancy in my messaging - "Tomorrow" 
That said, technically we're always working. Send me a DM on Discord if you can't reach me on the forums. I get discord notifications on my phone whereas forum PMs go to my email inbox. 
Sarcasm aside (albeit your sarcasm is justified) I would certainly hope that the shards aren't delivered in September 2022 because they would be functionally useless at that point. Without going too far into internal details, there were several situations that sort of stacked up to exacerbate the delays - bit of a perfect storm of technical issues and other factors. 
Additionally, Tragic is constantly watching Reddit - even on her days off. Boop is constantly watching the forums, even on his days off. Jambi is constantly on Discord, as am I, on our days off. My Discord DMs are literally always open - I have Discord on my phone and get notifications for all my DMS - and if something is urgent, you can bet we're getting back to you or at least looking into it, same day. 
 

DomoSapien:   Er, you should have gotten enough antiduplicator charges and shards to ensure that all the ornaments you craft via the compensation will not be duplicate.   

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Draschel: 1,150m/s really considered  ''relatively slow shell''Holy moly Guacamole. Tough crowd. 

Draschel: This isn't work  Grandpa.He's done 4x more than you, in 3x less games

Draschel: The right response is:: ''ok boomer'' 

churchill50: There's an easy fix for this though...Just load ammo into the secondary loadout. As long as you load the same ammo counts into the secondary loadout as you have in your primary loadout, you won't have to pay any credits to do so (for instance if you load 30/15/0 in the secondary loadout on your ELC EVEN 90).

TeriyakiTanker: The loot boxes have been delivering less value for me since the first year.  Got less gold this year than the last two and as a non-heavy player I was disappointed in the premium tanks offered.  Got them all of them, which was nice.  I think WG really tried to do something cool but the decoration shenanigans just seems like another in a long list of self inflicted wounds that partly has to do with not caring about the North American market. Anyway, long story short, probably not going to be buying loot boxes next year unless I see some real value.

DomoSapien: Valid feedback! I've been under the weather all week (covid tests came back negative though!) so I admittedly haven't been keeping up with the situation as closely as I'd like. Will make more of an effort to keep y'all posted as the situation develops.
For what it's worth, though admittedly not the greatest excuse, we haven't been posting super regularly so you can generally keep up with updates by checking the "Staff Posts" section of the forum. But definitely not ideal, I hear ya.
Edit 3: Actually, good news! The operation just launched for the compensation to go out, it will gradually go through the list throughout the day and night. Should be wrapped up by tomorrow at the latest. 

Draschel: CS-53 has a shadow hanging over it. Quite unexplainable. Most streamers publicly shame it as extremely unreliable, a whiff. While on paper, its an entirely different picture. The tank is SUPPOSED to be somewhat effective. High pen, decent gun dep, more or less acceptable gun handling, good mobility, good camo. The armor isn't good, but neither is the armor bad like CDC or STA2. But for some reason, most people hate the tank. Probably because of how good premium  LIS  is CS59 is generally thought of as an improvement. Keep in mind these tanks have enough armor generally to block HE, or stop -2 MM med and LT  AP shells, but has dramatically less armor than peer tanks like T54 or WZ120. Think of the armor as like Skoda T50. Some, more than crap like PTA or Kunze, but no where near enough. Compared to E50, M46 Patton - CS59 enjoys a substantial premium shell pen increase though.  CS63 is a clan wars tool. Its properties allow for significant versatility and early opportunity. It can race to locations like LT, but arriving there can bring the firepower/pen of a medium. Sort of like how fast heavy tanks, like 113, object 260 and 277, appear in medium flanks, but bring the HP and armor of heavies. This is a tremendous use for skilled people who know of deployment and map positions. If you can't use this property though, the tank is rather mediocre. Sort of like Centurion AX. It really needs to use its highlights for any sort of reward. Beware the turret armor, as its not its listed '260mm'  Its a joke. Also when fighting CS63, beware the auto-ricochet hull. Its like Progetto, aim at the turret or LFP.    

churchill50:  Yep, they were. I guess this might be a more widespread issue than I originally thought...

Draschel: Madilda LVT is still as slow as other matilda, maybe a tiny hair faster. The turret rotation however is slower, the turret also has less view range. The armor is still the base hull, but the turret is much weaker and vulnerable to any threat, even some autocannon and HE. Less overall hitpoints.The firepower features less accuracy, less DPM, poorer shell velocity....but maintains the gun depression. 110 alpha damage is quite good tier IV though.Overall, its kind of a contrast, because you have weaker presence than normal Matilda in terms of DPM and durability, but don't even have the ability to snipe either 6  /10.  KV Sh is pretty bad. While the protection is alright, the DPM is alright - it certainly isn't a proper mix compared to tech tree KV1 or KV220. KV Sh has T-34 Sh gun. It has considerably more reliable firepower than KV220, though does not have KV220 reduced MM spread. In addition, KV220 is bizarrely much quicker.In comparison to KV1 on tech tree, KV Sh lacks the up-armored turret module, the bolted on space armor panels are mediocre at best. And lacks firepower, as KV can use 122/85/57 which are all better.KV Sh is the slowest of them all, which is a problem considering KV1 on tech tree isn't fast to begin with. 950 HP is good, but really what is with that -5 gun depression, awful.3  /10. M4-85 is probably the most worthwhile, neat one of the bunch. But be careful of the big flaws, such as DPM and gun depression. People maybe slighted by an M4 tank with bad gun dep.M4-85 has low DPM, but it does not mean it has low firepower. It has a tier 6 gun, the gun found on KV-1S. While it does not have KV-1S gun handling, it does have some camo, some VRThe base M4 hull is not like the rounded M4s or T6 or Firefly, but instead more like Easy Eight. Not 51mm, but instead 63mm. This is important because it will splash threats like 105/122mm howitzers, or block alot of the 75mm 75-90mm HEAT pen ammo. It also has reasonable chance to block 92mm AP commonly used by tanks like T14, Excelsior, M3 Lee. Overall, don't rely on this armor though, but it can show up everynow and then. The LFP is not useful weakspot either, but unlike RAM or M4 improved the side armor is weak. Keep it in mind, M4-85 doesn't have the HP pool Valiant, Pz T25, RAM, Turan get. It has base T5 medium HP, rather than improved HPThe mobility is sort of disappointing. While it is not slow slow slow, like matildas or Valiant - it is not mobile like T-34, PzIV, or Shermans. The mobility seems to be alot like Turan, Hydrostat, or M10 RBM. Keep it in mind, enough for re-location, but not enough for encircling targets and dashes across the open. 7.5  /10    

DomoSapien: er, well this is just my personal opinion but all of my professional training about Community Management has generally implied that apologies are counter-intuitive because no matter how sorry we are, what matters is the results and what we're doing to resolve the issue. 
I don't think anyone on our team is happy that any of this occurred or intentionally trying to misguide y'all or misrepresent the facts. Instead of telling you I'm sorry, I'm thanking you for putting up with my shenanigans. In this case, the shenanigans being the initial miscommunication and the considerable delay in getting y'all compensated for the mixup. 
I could certainly tell you we're sorry - because we are, but that wouldn't really be worth much in lieu of the actual compensation you were promised and deserve. So getting that out as quickly as possible is our utmost priority.
Again, thank you for your patience. We genuinely do appreciate it, as well as your support in the first place. And your passionate feedback in keeping us accountable... We're thankful for quite a bit this holiday season.

Draschel: lol.   Comedian.Release a tank. And nerf it in 3 weeks.35,000 battles. No joke. But what has been done in that 35, definitely a joke.  

churchill50: In my opinion, definitely the CS-63. The CS-53 has good pen and a decent alpha/pen mix. But the gun is quite derpy. It also takes quite a while to reach its top speed, has virtually no armor, and only has 1,300 HP. It's not that good a tank.Plus, the CS-52 LIS is miles better. The CS-63 on the other hand is rather solid. Sort of a different flavor of Leopard I that trades some gun reliability for insane mobility and good DPM. It's quite solid in pubs, and is also used a lot in Clan Wars.

DomoSapien: So, more somber news to share unforunately:
There is a technical issue with our mass-invoicing tool that's preventing us from sending out the shards compensation en-masse. It seemed to do just fine with the antiduplicator charges, so those appear to have gone out without issue, but the shards aren't playing nice with that system. 
So, we are looking into another way to credit them out - it's likely that will be in the form of manual invoices that will be processed in chunks today. We can't process too many of those at the same time without completely bogging down our backend systems and preventing CS agents from assisting players with other inquiries that require use of the backend systems, so it may be a bit slow.
Edit: Apologies, I misunderstood - the mass invoices via backend can't necessarily happen today BECAUSE it would completely bog down the systems and potentially cause players to experience account issues. Options are being investigated for a proper solution ASAP.
As for cutoff time to qualify for compensation, I've been told that it was publicly stated as being 2PM CT - two hours after the article was changed (12 Noon CT)
Needless to say we are equally upset about the considerable delays in resolving this issue and greatly appreciate all of y'all's patience while we work towards a resolution.