Developers posts on forum

1LT_Dwayne:  

1LT_Dwayne:  Nah I think the guy nailed it. Vin Diesel would one hell of a commander!

1LT_Dwayne: Ok yeah my ISP is garbage. They use a shared bandwidth and it's peak time right now.

1LT_Dwayne:  Ok thank you for the explanation. I never experienced any lag today so I assume that my ping was alright. That mean it could be my computer? The reason I say this is because the 2nd shot on the kv2 seems to hit his lower plate witch I should pen 100% of time.

1LT_Dwayne: I have a replay to share. The only thing I can see for my 2nd shot on the KV-2 is that my internet connection was not good but my ping seems reasonable. Maybe some explanation how ping and fps works? I think the first shot landed on the left side of his turret but not sure.http://wotreplays.eu...1lt_dwayne-is-2

Jaguarz: Toxic addition to the game given its current implementation to the game, there was a 1000 ways to add in wheeled vehicles and Wargaming chose literally the worst and as a result additional wheeled vehicles are unlikely to come. I play them when Im feeling toxic and dont feel like breaking out the arty. Fast, small, cant be tracked, Wheels which eat shots from any calibre gun and take no damage, an autoaim which is an illegal mod for any other tank, high pen HE, good on the move accuracy even though none of them could actually fire on the move. I expect the French Wheelies were a project done by the same plonker who thought crew 2.0 was a good idea.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! Since the introduction of Wheeled Tanks, there has been a very big divide in the community about them. I know from my limited time on here that there are plenty of negative things to say about them. According to WoTLabs, I would consider them semi-popular as it appears about halfway down the second page when you sort them by average battle count. I have always been a person who wants to form my own opinion on things and see for myself. I don't listen to a bunch of film critics, I go watch that train wreck Vanguard movie starring Jackie Chan and heckle the bejesus out of it as if my mind was being monitored by aliens. ( MST3K). 
 I am curious to know how many of you ever tried the wheeled tanks, or if you just saw them in the game and said, " No Tanks!". Have they gotten better or worse since they have been added to the game? 

1LT_Dwayne: No no I was talking about Berlin not Mines!

1LT_Dwayne: Sex, power and love will never go away!

1LT_Dwayne: Maybe they use a score system where depending on the amount of money you spend, the number of time you get chat ban, number of all other players reports and then the algorithm choose the mm and the rng you'll have. I also noticed that my first 3-4 battles of the day seems to be easy and then it turns around and it's complete garbage for 3-4 battles. Looks like they have already implemented a sbmm.  

1LT_Dwayne: What is so terrible with it? Just asking.

Jaguarz:  The afk part is pretty damning, send in the replay *edit* just saw your comment above, yeah thats normal then

Jaguarz: No idea if this is the case but its the current "twitch meta" to have attractive girls pretending to be playing games as the "face" of the channel while a fugly dude actually plays the account

1LT_Dwayne: WG need to address the mm issue. The levels of players is too wide to put them all together.

1LT_Dwayne: She is beautiful indeed!

Jaguarz:  A "B"? Maybe its the participation trophy world we live in now but a B is really, really good in virtually any academic standing. The AR is far from a B though is perfectly usable. Its camo isnt that good compared to other t8 mediums its middle of the pack, its view range is middle of the pack, its ammo capacity is incredibly low, its DPM is middle of the pack, its power to weight ratio is low, less than several heavies, and while that doesnt really hamper the tank it does make flexing more arduous than it should be. It has low ammo capacity, poor velocity, bottom of the (normal) t8 medium pen and a tumor that makes the 59 Patton feel better about itself Still, all that being said it has the second highest mark requirements for a t8 tank (behind bourasque, above progetto) and is harder to mark than the T9 Kunze Panzer which is the 4th hardest t9 medium to mark so some freaks are doing amazing things in it out there. To each their own

1LT_Dwayne: Anyone has tips to be that accurate?

Draschel: Garage dust? Is it even a year old? AMXCDC. T25 Pilot. Those are garage dust.  I am not saying Rex is progetto or AMBT, because it is clearly not. But it is not an F grade. It passes, by a margin. Its a B. Tanks shouldn't be a game where things are single dimension, either Great or Trash.The thing has decent DPM for an autoloader. The inter-shot can be frustrating, but shouldn't be that big of a deal because of big-boy alpha. In a tier with many meds still doing 240, 320 hits hard esp with shots soon to follow. Though the accuracy is poor, it has strong gun handling values which are more important. While it may not steam around at its top speed often because of the HP/T, its however incredibly agile and reactive, the reverse speed is funny. The camo is strong for an American tank, and pair that with nice VR.  I think the best buffs for Rex should be minor ones, as there are plenty of more deserving tier 8 prems needing buffs compared to Rex. All I'd suggest for now are a loader, 4th crew member and recessed cupola into the turret like T92 LT, so its not obnoxious and sticking out.  T95E2, Pilot, Skoda 27, CDC, M48 Ru Pz  deserve a metric ton more than Rex.  

Draschel:  tsk tsk tskTrading in.

Draschel:  Obviously 850,000 is not 1,000 000 and that is what a standard crew is, 4 people  (when popping an universal book)  Some 5 some 3, lets average that to 4. But if you happen to have holes in crews, and have single guys laying around, 850,000 single exp is better value than 250,000 entire crew exp. Lets say you play alot of Lansen, and then what are you left with? A 4th guy who maybe powerful, but nothing he can do because of Swede silly crew setups. With two extra 850,000 books you can recruit 2 new guys, and with the Lansen guy being the third have a complete crew right there. 1 personal 850,000 crew book will bring any dude to 100,100,72. Thats more than three universal books, which leaves the crew 100,100,58 - at the cost of morePerpetuated by the fact that crew books have not fallen under discounted sale yet, unless in the flip magic card mini games and trading caravan so far.  You get the value for the 2.8 million. You get more than the value. 

Draschel: The ideology, mechanical-physics behind spaced armor used so early on, especially the early kind devised to defeat chemical charge attack proliferating WW2, is an obstacle  (even flimsy ones)  to predetonate the HEAT warhead of an incoming projectile, not on the tank hull, preferably away from it to disperse the produced narrowed HEAT jet. This could be just about anything, such as the slat/cage armors on Striker vehicles today. The flimsy link panel armor on PziV or jag Pz IV even helped. Sandbags and railroad pegs even provided protection None of these have equivalent protection as RMA

Draschel:  Spaced armor shouldn't be more than tank armor effectiveness?Rolled homogenous steel is supposed represent, and quite frankly is, more effective at stopping attack than abrasion steel and rubber used in suspensionAll spaced armor has to do is provide some protection. Not a great deal of protection.   

Jaguarz:  3k battles in his 279e, 37% win rate...... Has a 279e.....

churchill50: Send a friend request to Jambijon_NA#8814. Once he accepts (which can be a bit depending on how busy he is), send him a message explaining why you were banned and that you'd like to appeal the ban. Source: I'm a mod on the WoT NA Discord server.

Jaguarz: Yeah....never heard of KZK-A before, interesting how 49 people, mostly with trash to mediocre stats joined in the last 22 days..... A cynical man would be forgiven to thinking their recruitment process before these campaigns is an Ebay listing for running an account through for tanks.....

Draschel: you have the things mixed up a bit. The gun handling is on the stronger side, esp for an autoloading tank. 2 aim-time and .18/.13/.10 are good values for clip tanks. It on the other end, is the accuracy that is real bad. Somewhat akin to WGs new release policies, in making tanks inaccurate as to what they were before. For instance, older clip tanks like T69, AMX50100, progetto  have accuracy. But newer clip tanks like Somua, Bourratt, Skoda 56, Bisonte, Rex have poor accuracy. I am actually surprised, in that AMBT got fair accuracy to begin with. This means that perhaps stabilizer isn't so necessary, and aiming class a better choice What I find very weird of Rex, is the awesome best in class pivoting traverse, the excellent reverse speed, great terrain resistances - but then topped off with bad HP/T. Rex has a terrible engine, put into perspective T92 LT and M7 medium have stronger engine than Rex, 33% stronger in fact. I think this is definitely the limiter.   Rex needs an engine buff like how STG got one. Then it would be far more popular. Decent DPM for a clip tank, decent camo for an american med, nice burst fire sum, good gun handling, and good VR. But still checked with balancing features,  bad pen, bad accuracy. 

Draschel: The bad thing to take away here, is the spaced armor modifiers. x3 effective armor against HE shells was uncalled for. The tracks and gun barrel have more resilience in many areas than actual tank hull. This change was unnecessary. I believe alot of the angst around HE would be curbed, if WG removed this factor and returned it to normal x1 armor values. Heck, even less, they should make it x0.75 

Jaguarz: Its a poor tank which has an effective role late game sweeping up and thats about it, sniping isnt a good option due to its 30 round ammo capacity. You can enjoy a bad tank, enjoyment doesnt make a tank good though.

churchill50:  Just to clear this up, assist damage doesn't count towards HT-15. It's only damage done, damage taken, and damage blocked.

Jaguarz: I do this all the time in the Pz7 of all things and unlike the hull down monsters more maps are able to facilitate its odd strength of its almighty nose, you get a tight enough angle on the schnoz and you can bounce Jagzilla HEAT though that does diminish the size of the "bait" so to speak. Pick a high traffic corridor, park tank behind wall or rock, stick out that nose, go make a coffee....

Jaguarz:  Knowing and caring are two separate things.....

Draschel:  This. Be prepared for alot of fighting for and on caps. They happen startlingly fast.  KV1 w/ 57mm stomps most threats in front of it with base 2312 DPM, high HP, 189 pen APCR. On open maps Panzer V  IVVK3601 with HP from field mod, boosted slot hardening, will have a gigantic 1360 HP that will allow it to deal with cromwell or A43 or T3485M that have DPM advantage over it.                     And it isn't blind at all, its best to use Konisch gunTiger H is an extreme danger to people thinking they can ride with their T29s. It has huge advantage DPM, HP. I honestly don't play open map T7, but I imagine 13 57 or E25 are the go-to, or maybe VK3002Much like Tiger, Caernarvon is the same thing. Caernarvon has a gigantic 250 DPM over the next tier 8, Caernarvon AX. It too, also has a strong HP pool. In 2vs 2, I bet Skoda 56 and Somua are dangerous too   

Draschel:  Can I ask you something?Is this your playing account? Or an alternate account?  When you say something like this, it is really questionable. People most usually, don't turn to their HE stockpiles to deal with tanks like T150 or Churchill, unless you are in spam tanks like OI or KV2, or low tier spam tanks like Hetzer, T40, Sav43  And these things have howitzers which tend to fire HE projectiles as their main rounds. But what I am trying to say is, these are weird examples you are picking out. How much experience do you have in more immersive battles. Which leads me to believe that you don't know how problematic this has been high tiers. We aren't talking about Churchills and T150s, what WG concerns itself with more primarily are Maus, Type 5, E100, Jag Panzer E100 getting shin kicked and blasted for 400 or so, by particularly lazy people who don't want to aim with 290 pen AP, who don't want to pay thousands for premium, yet are perfectly fine not aiming at all just placing the cursor on the opponent and blapping them for care free comfy damage using 1,100 base HE. More disgusting too, is doing it with ridiculous gun barrel, track belt, gun mantle hits which are usually the most armored parts / acutely angled.  Or 60TP and Type 5 with their own gun depression, not particularly too concerned about Kran / Chieftain and their gun depression, shooting the most armored part of them in the face with HE, and taking that damage roll.  This is laziness. Its bad for the game. I am not saying that Kran or UDES or Chieftain or Bofors tomato or tanks are good for the game, sitting hull down with rid donk culous turret armor values having their way with the enemy team while hull down, but these things can be balanced by means such as, adding a cupola like Emil 1951 onto Kran turret, so it has a turret weakspot? Or avoiding areas occupied by hulldown chieftains and not frontally assaulting them across stretches with tanks not made for the duty, like Maus or 705A. Those same 705A or Maus or VK7201, instead of assaulting them frontally in an narrow alley while they side scrape, maybe think of something better to do?  HE is a tool, a tool to use when the tools' demanded, or beneficial. It isn't supposed to be a crutch to lean on, or some scooter for lazy people. 

Draschel: lol?

Draschel: Not to mention.....the opportunity cost for time spent to generate free exp.....is lopsidedly in favor of instead spending that time to gather credits? Its pretty clear there. 

Draschel: But there are people that do not wish to convert their free exp?There are people with millions of credits to use for this purpose?Crew books have not been on discounted sale yet, to my knowledge. This was a good deal. My only problem was it wasn't the 250k universal crew ones, but the singular 850s

Draschel:  You underestimate, or do not understand close distance. Sitting on corners in Ensk, Himmelsdorf, Paris - aimtime and accuracy don't mean a whole lot. Your dispersions are controlled by rolling out by using 'R' technique. Since KV2 is not particularly concerned with ROF, it can honestly run GLD, rotation mech, and ventilation. You do not need to 'AIM' for a LFP or Cupola. Center of mass shot and bam, randomized damage. This is not a win for Chrysler. Its a win for KV2 This is exactly why Type 5 lost the 1,400 damage derp shot. And this is exactly why they reduced the chances of HE doing this to any great effect anymore. All it promotes is not aiming, simply hoping to just 'HIT' the enemy. All it promotes is laziness.  

Draschel:  I have seen this argument so many times it is so poorly thought through. Have you tried to side scrape in VK7501 or Chrysler and then just have KV2 or OI  2 tiers below hit the edge of your tracks and still deal 350? HE doesn't care about weak points. It just randomly does whatever it wants. That was changed.  Your argument is false, too. I see people like orzanel, Skill4ltu, awesome epic guys have fun in tanks like caliban. Iyouxin and Skill have had fun in 4005. Many people still roam around low tiers with PZIV, Hetzer, Sherman, Wolverine with 105 short barrel. People still enjoy playing with T49 and Sheridan. Every single OI  I see, has the 150 not the more reliable high pen 105 

Draschel:  Let us try to take a look at this impartially shall we? Analytically. Rather than baseless complaints in anger. According to how tanks, tank classes, shoot and acquire damage;  and tanks, and tank classes block damage.  --A  76mm gun like on Jumbo or Type 64 - pre change 1.12 could shoot at tanks like KV4 kreslavsky or VK100 01 with HE  10 times in a row and deal 0 damage every time. How the formula functioned before, the HE burn effect and radius and damage was just too small and ineffective to harm these tanks, and these HE rounds are useless even for important utility like trying to annoy heavies within entrenched position, de-cap, low HP left. Etc.       -The fix however, small bore HE cannons received buffing, to which so long as they avoid spaced armor or guns or track belts, the HE can even hit 305mm in the face like Tortoise, and deal -SOME- damage. 4,5,6,4,5,6 is better than 0,0,0,0,0 and will reset cap. It will kills someone with 2HP left. And will annoy heavy tanks hull down who think enemies have AP and will bounce. --An  152 howitzer like on things such as OI, Oho, SU152, KV2, Sheridan could pre change shoot at tanks like E75 or E100, deal 350 damage one shot then the next same basic shot, same position.....deal 75. This sort of inconsistency is atrocious and not good for healthy gaming, at all. In addition, these guns could shoot at side scrape tanks like 705, VK4502(P)B, VK7201 at ridiculous over 70' ricochet angle, and in the tracks not the tank body, and deal 300 damage? To which Jagpanzer E100 even firing 400+ HEAT pen will bounce there. These are BROKEN qualities, in nature, and override normal gaming mechanics and consistency, and don't add anything at all to the game but actually detract.        -The fix, howitzers need to aim and hit hulls. No more cheap shot gun or track hits, on side scraping tanks for 300+. No more gun mantle hits to IS7 with 100E4, E100, 60TP and still deal 300+. No more Fochs 155 not aiming at all, just center of mass HE spam, and all it has to do is hit the vehicle, 300-400 per shot and 3 shots in the magazine. This is using a crutch. It isn't using your head. Position shouldn't be countered by ridiculous HE mechanics. Position should be countered by critical thinking, or avoidance. I understand, Kran and UDES and STB1 and Chieftain are no fun on cliff or westfield owning the map and sitting hull down - but these are problems that the tanks themselves need fixing. Broken spamming of HE isn't supposed to be that counter.  The changes to premium ammunition, firstly should try to involve correcting (reducing) +2/-2 MM and +/-25% RNG randomness. With changes to these, premium shell expenditure will be reduced. From there we can see if further changes are needed. If so, while premium rounds are examined, front and side armor profiles of increasingly changed/released super heavy tanks need to fall under scrutiny as well.   

Draschel:  and....does this include simultaneous no front weak spot assault vehicle nerfs too, then?

Jaguarz: The rentals were literal insanity and brought nothing but ill will from the players, its not even as if you can use the "buy" function which is on them because they never implemented it for tanks not currently for sale for in game currency but they will keep filling up your garage with this unwanted trash.