Developers posts on forum

Jaguarz:  It means literally nothing, if you quit out of 100 games one after the other it would still be the same, you dont get xp or credits, thats it.

Jaguarz:  You still pay a premium for it

churchill50:  Good to know. I'll try that tonight.Thanks for the tip!

churchill50:  Ah, but you see that would have been an actual improvement to FL, and WG couldn't possibly allow that. People were already having too much fun in FL.No, they have to add tier 9's and minefields instead.

Jaguarz: did my 260 mission on EU server in Maus going to the notch in the middle road lakeville, bounced nearly 30k, these days its probably easier in the Pz7 as you just need find a wall and poke nose out at the appropriate angle and tease.

TragicLoss: 1 Week left to sign up! Pass it on to your favorite streamers!

Draschel: The game is over ten years and roughly with the same scope. People leaveWhy does it matter? A game should be thankful its been around for a decade 

Draschel: RoflRed Sky aren't quitters!They have been a clan here forever! Wait a second, wha......?? 

Draschel: T55A had a great game.Wonder why he got more exp than both T95 and Phase 1Unless he spotted like 2k or somethingYou really should sort your results by EXP 

Draschel: 121B is CW capable. It can take spots of 907 and 140 

Draschel: have you ever considered, that maybe you 44.5% because of the fact you can't read? Get that checked out.what does blacklist even have to do with blocking, rotating  *loading*  gear. Or text bars for chat, either in contacts / general / clan / advance. Blacklist and Friends list were just two of the issues described. Learn how to read. Your losing personality here, screams "I lose because I don't know how to read" 

Jaguarz:  Nonsense, WN8 is easily gamed, padded and misses several metrics of performance

Draschel: Avoiding TD LOS is easier than avoiding arta looping rounds everywhere.Because tank destroyers have a far more difficult time than medium and light tanks, to use proper bush mechanics. This leads to them getting spotted far easier, even if their camo stationary is quite highThey get spotted easier, they tend to be punished for their action, unlike artillery. And because they need to aim, their action may even be fruitless, whereas arta can miss by 12ft and still do 150~The TD which lack alpha, like S1, Strv 103, E25, T67 are by far the worst to deal with. 

Draschel:  Planes is pretty crappy now.  It doesn't focus on wit and domination anymore. 

Draschel: Yes, well i used to be a terror of the skies. I was on Dracaries. But a life time ago.I got XP77, XF4F3, Me 209, Ki88, LBSh premium planes, a huge assortment of tier 2-3 premium crappers.I got to tech tree tier 7 for Japanese multi-role, British heavy, and 2 Russian fighter lines Warplanes got left behind when I lost my PC. When it was re-built, never returned. Planes 2.0 came, and the game changed huge  

churchill50: And this is why we need the downvote button back.

Draschel: can you give some insight plswhat type of mission requirements?I have not played WoWP in many yrs I do have a hangar full of dust though. 

Draschel: the AVRE variant with the 165 derp gun?That is what the game needs.

Draschel: TD can be compared to arta in alot of aspects, but they are fundamentally different. They have to aim, accuracy is a big deal for them, they can't fire over crap, don't need protection as muchfocusing on draw range, and ultimately susceptible to enemy fire and need to worry of concealmentThese reasons alone make TD far fairer being within the game than arta ever will be.  Camo is not all of why people are leaving. People are leaving for many reasons. Camo is but just 1 of them. When people complain about big alpha TD, camping 500m back?  Or arta bombing / stunning them 1,200m back? Or unable to dig out spotters ridiculously bushed/kit out - these sorts of things really drag a game into attrition and boring pace. People do not like it, and it ain't dynamic. We are talking about ranged force multipliers benefitting from a spotter. And spotters rely alot on camo in these passive situations. 

Draschel: I do not run mods. Haven't since changes to WG policies made public. Just vanilla. 

Draschel:  Artillery can and will damage and destroy tanks. But its context is very unlike how you are portraying it.  An 105mm  howitzer battery (common WWII medium artillery)  could have saturated a battlefield, thousands of HE-Frag ordnance over a short burst. The typical situation in that an 105mm HE-Frag shell lands *onto* or rightly adjacent to moving vehicles are very, extremely rare. Most WWII main battle tanks (mediums) have at least 38-51mm side armor, which is 1.5-2in rolled steel, for the exact reason of resisting shell splinters or autocannon immunity. Now, if the examples of Panthers, Tigers, Ferdinand, Tiger II are used in that they are gang-banged at nearer ranges VS self propelled or towed artillery, such as 105 / 122 / 152/ 155mm guns firing direct fire HE-Frag ammunition, directly onto the target - what you have is no more an *artillery* concept. This is direct fire, Anti-tank gun role, with a different ammunition and velocity.  --Artillery in indirect, looping action is extremely inefficient, ineffective, wasteful at targeting AFVs. Can it happen, certainly. Does it happen, not often. Does it involve huge expenditures of stockpiled ammunition with low net-ratio to success, yes. But in this game it is rather the contrary, decently effective. --An artillery in direct, LOS action against AFV but using their typical HE-Frag and WP ammunition, can certainly disable and destroy enemy armor. But this isn't the issue, because they no longer are serving as artillery, but are now simply direct-fire guns shooting an improperly designed shellcase for the job.  

Draschel:  Games don't last forever. Its a long run already. 1-- gold spam isn't an issue. Gold spam is a grievance used by complaining defeatists. I see armor working all the time. and if you think the game is press 2 and shoot gold and pen and win, you are most certainly mistaken. 2-- the nerf to HE shells something we needed back in 2011, nevermind 2021. HE has been a crutch for people to lean on for a decade. HE teaches very little, other than complacency and laziness, instead of valuable things like positioning and map awareness. While I do believe some aspects were too severe, like spaced armor / tracks x3 thickness buff has been too much, moving that to normal x1 effectiveness and removing weird high HE random damage rolls that exist seldom, makes the good HE changes much better  3-- playerbase attitude is an impossible task. There will always be bad attitude. There will always be good attitude. No one cares. This game doesn't measure attitude. It measures results. No one cares. 

Draschel: why is it so hard to fix this issue of general communication and /or interaction. I can remember, no issues from 2011 when i started to probably 2017...? I would think. Maybe 2018. But it hasn't worked properly sinceFriends list not appearing. In -game mic on and off  (lol people that don't use TS)  Friends list auto-accepting invites. Blacklists' still talk to you. PMs down, outright. Can't even click text bar of Contacts. Contacts list goes on infinite *gear* rotating symbol, Etc.And when WG fixes something, something else goes. They fix that, friends list back on the fritz. Why is this issue so hard? pardon me if its not a problem or a problem only I am subjected to, but I play alot of neverwinter. Path of exile. Diablo III. And in the past, Diablo II. Starcraft. And never chat issues as with world of tanks or warplanes. What kind of a modern day problem is this? 

Draschel: i can't watch his content, don't know why I attempt. it is just horrid. Rife with nonsense. Clearly from someone without much of an inkling about what the game is or isn'tBut what bothers me, is he publishes this nonsense and has followers believe it What is his point, mind you? Before everyone goes hissy this, or hissy that.For heavy tanks to jumble up and sit 1-2 line to do nothing? Is that what he is looking for? its not even a debate. if someone asked, would you rather sit and watch Claus or Jingles for 12 min or  Warpits jingles or Claus.  15 out of 10 times.   

Draschel: I am not saying, the game should turn into Maus, E100, 705A, Type 5 face punching each other on corners of buildings 200m away in narrow alleys. I never said that. Make VR extend out to 475m, make proxy now 75m, make bush transparency 25m, make CVS commander skill not equipment piece. These limit camo spam And all these forests we got going in redshire, prokhorovka, malinovka, murovanka need severe trimming. -BUSHY- maps are better than -FOREST- maps  

Draschel: in all honesty, camo is a reason people are leaving. Why wouldn't war gaming act on it. No one likes being punished by broken camo tanks like 1357, T67, Type 64, S1, strv 103, E25., WZ120G, K91PTNot only that, these double up as spotters in great position like LT, because many of these use binocsThey passively freeze, horridly knock the game. The reason why arta becomes problem, is because of this 

Jaguarz:  oooh burn

Jaguarz: All I know for sure is anyone who shoots, kills or otherwise outplays me MUST be cheating, there's just no other logical possibility!!!!

Jaguarz: I think the mission is screwed and has multiple hooks into timers which are conflicting, a friend also didnt get his Scorpion

Draschel: skirmishes, professor. 

Draschel: in all honesty  malinovka, prokhorovka  need to be dismissed from at least medium skirmishes too. They are fine in tier 8.medium skirmishes are the easiest to put together, and most often played by people who have no idea what they are doing. That being said, they sit base because sitting in bushes is the simplest, easiest strategy for a clod to concoct and for people within to follow, and further for people without a clue to do well at. And because of the massive swathes of forest, right by base, you have large volumes of people.... who don't know what they are doing, sitting in forests right beside base for 10 minutes.    Even an idiot driving an O-I tank can have 55 base camo if sitting in forests, like those provided in malinovka, prokh. Thats ridiculous, like 15 more than kit out AMX12T. Imagine the tanks with actual camo. And these forests accessible, they are right beside base. Its fruitlessly hard to spot for even 481m sight type 64, pretty standard build, and the ensuing fight not worth the rewards for a medium skirmish, that is for sure.  Redshire and murovanka are fine, what we want. Because the forests are far safer to approach / access / penetrate for either attacking / defenders. And taking these, usually also adds some map control that is good for rookie teams to learn 

Draschel:  arta shouldn't be shot-gunning anything. it should be whiffing every single shot not dialed in full aim-time

Draschel:  Consider Rotator over GLD. Unless as you may have hinted, its a bonds GLD. As bounty rotator are rare, I fully get it. Dispersion stats on gun and movement traverse, are far more important in maintaining accurate fire (colloquially known as gun handling)  than aim-timeThis is why people complain about TD gun handling, like grille or skorp G or hellcat. They have insanely bad dispersion, despite having strong accuracy / aim-time.           yet why people don't really complain about SU130PM, object 430U, STB1  accuracy.....because of their stronger relative dispersion stats.  What I don't particularly like about gun layers, are their very diminishing return. A boosted equipment slot GLD, only yields extra 1.5%. A bounty, 2.5%. A bonds, 3.5%.  Compared to rotator or aiming class, it gets less yielded result when boosted. Not cool. GLD needs to be akin to other eqp,  3% when boosted, 4% when bounty, and 5% when bonded  

Draschel:  Remove it from skirmishes, at the very least. Why was it even added, if they took a moment to realize and remove mountain pass Remove pls, at the very very very very least, all bushes within 300m of cap. To remove idiotic sit at base  camps to take a  10min draw.  

Draschel:  The key difference here is  KV5 of course is used for the weight. Its got 7+ tonnes But the big part of the successful rammer, is practical nature in achieving a ram to begin with. Thats why E50M and AMX50B and IS7 are popular rammers, even if they don't weigh 100 tonnes. They can FIND rams. This is where KV4 Kres has the upper hand. It has superior terrain resistances, track traverse, and HP/T. This allows it to FIND those rams, whereas KV5 will struggle even if it can actually ram 5% better. KV4 kres will have the stunning mobility of T3485M with bonds turbo.But KV5 will only reach the mobility of something like suka pershing   

Draschel: i think  (by think I mean know)  it is more of your math.Not WG

Draschel: Rotator is more important than gun layerDispersion stats are more key, in taming gun control than aim-time.  If your arta can mount ventilation, like FV304 or M53/M55, remove GLD for ventsCamo net is not good, as most arta have bad camo. Most arta also camp in forests, providing the camo they need. Rammer rotator GLD. If you can mount the vents on very few specific arta, drop GLD 

churchill50: One thing I would suggest checking is to make sure that the Accelerate Crew Training checkbox above your crew isn't checked.if that box is checked, then the xp that would normally go towards that tank will be given to the least skilled crew member. If the box isn't checked and you're still not getting xp, then I'd suggest sending a ticket in to support:https://na.wargaming.net/support/en/products/wot/ Hope that helps! EDIT: Ninja'd! +1 to Jer!

DomoSapien: All good! Just wanted to clear up any misunderstanding
 

DomoSapien:
Y'know, I'm not really well versed enough in the legal side of things to comment on this one way or another but for what it's worth all of the imagery in-game that's related to "The Boys" is generally quite tame. I'm personally a HUGE fan of the show and I was super-excited to see that we were doing a crossover but it is indeed a show that is very much aimed at an adult audience. 

Common sense and good parenting/good role modeling is definitely the key here. Use your best judgment.


 

DomoSapien:

I'd say it's too early to make such an assumption, should have more info on that front sometime *hopefully* in Q1 of 2022 but I'm totally spitballing here.

DomoSapien: Tankers!
One more quick bit of news for this lovely Friday afternoon:
Frontline stage IV is on the way! Below are the key dates and times.
For more info and useful links related to Frontline, please head over to the article on our news portal.
Starts: Monday, November 15 at 03:00 PT | 05:00 CT | 06:00 ETEnds: Monday, November 22 at 00:00 PT | 02:00 CT | 03:00 ET