Developers posts on forum

Draschel:  I never brought it up, credibility. And while failing criterion of using an alternate account, it begs the question that it is exactly that, an alternate account. Not a re-roll. A re-roll implies switching out and abandoning what you have done prior to, to start anew. I haven't started anew. I play my primary and get goals on primary, this one doesn't go anywhere. If you are going to start a new alt account and farm too, at least let it be known that you do it well too, which this does. Making an alt then doing poorly too, is sort of lol. First and foremost though, credibility should be in part lasered in on with, "what is said. The content."  You can ascertain knowledge, abilities of someone, PRIOR to seeing their service, simply from the words coming out of them. More than 75% of the time, I see something stupid posted, and I KNOW it is from that which is inexperienced, unknowledgeable, juvenile. Stupid talk, smart talk, the two to look for. When there are many great players, or many bad players, incessantly repeating smart talk, or the bads with the stupid talk - you start seeing clear distinction.  There are a great many streamers, tubers that I have tuned into over the years with WoT. They are all great players, and yes all have bias towards artillery as something negatively impacting the game. However, the bias doesn't make them wrong in their assertion. When you hear them, year after year streamer after streamer, all saying the same thing about artillery in general - they can't ALL BE WRONG. If it webbed feet like a duck, walks like a duck, waddles like a duck, floats like a duck, bobs like a duck, quacks like a duck......................guess what you probably got a duck. Voila, credibility, 2 components met. General criteria summing up artillery::Easy to play, not strenuous or thick into combat, less knowledge and mechanics required, less mechanical swiftness needed, more RNG / map / team dependent. Doesn't operate on ownWon't get outrageously high scores for W/R, WN8, DPG, PR. But is easy to achieve averaged out scores, its effort to result ratio is very low. General criteria summing up tanks:Harder to play, punishing those without vested knowledge into game concepts. More into the thick of combat and retaliation. Number knowledge such as alpha, DPM, weakspots more important, reflexes beneficial, less RNG / team / map dependent. Can operate on own.Can get extremely high scores, brimming with possible potential. Carries the team. But it takes mucho efforto to achieve. Effort to result ratio is a high investment.    

DeviouslyCursed:  Doesn't matter though, they all show up when you try to convert. Ticked or unticked. I'm talking about when you actually go to convert the xp, you have to remember which ones NOT to take the xp from.

DeviouslyCursed: Holy crap, WG seriously needs a button to select only tanks that have field mods fully researched. Holy crap this is a pain in the rear trying to remember which tanks you still need that xp for, and which have been completed!

Draschel:  It is strong. We have yet to see how it will do in centric CW, because there hasn't been a campaign with it yet. The premium pen is perhaps low for dealing with 279E.On the other hand, great gun handling for its alpha, and matches tanks like WZ1111111115A and chieftain in mobility. Also has surprising DPM for an autoloaderWhile it main not push over tanks like 260, 279E, Chieftain in CW - it will most certainly be a staple alongside Kran wan and super conqueror in Ranked 

Draschel: If you are using fire fighting skill, which really isn't a bad tactic with more experienced crew loadouts, USE TWO MORE ITEMS.First, what you want to do is run firefighting directive. This improves firefighting more so. Secondly, ditch fire extinguisher and run rations consumable As for the query, fire fighting skill both reduces duration of fire 'ticks' damage taken, and reduces sustained damage of each 'tick'Sadly, fire fighting does not prevent fires in any way like auto fire extinguisher or preventative maintenance. 

DeviouslyCursed:  You get the thrill of seeing all the tank lines fill up again as you research them! In any MMORPG I've ever played, I would get my character right to the "endgame" and then reroll. Just grinding endgame content is so boring. Watching your character level up was far more interesting.

DeviouslyCursed:  Maybe you are misusing the word "rigged."

DeviouslyCursed:  So far for win rate, the M103, T-10, AMX 50-120, Obj 257, E75, Progetto C50, Type 4, T54E1 are worse off. Though that can depend on which server's stats you are looking at. For RU it is right at the 50% mark (11 above, 11 below). For US it is about the 2/5 mark (2/5 below, 3/5 above). For EU it is about the 1/4 mark (the worst of the 3 servers). For me though, if it has a good turret, I can make it work. The most frustrating thing about a tank for me is not being able to hull down effectively. That's why despite people saying the Progetto 46 is all that, I don't like playing it. I'll take a 274a, T122, TL-1, or Cent 5/1 any day.

Draschel:  I think it has to do with the separation, and keen study of  A)  battlefield tactical rigged s---  B)  and tinfoil hat theorem of ridiculous pre-ordained I can't change s--- rigging.The two are very separate items, and 1st  I believe in and see every time I play, and the other is hocus that bads like to hold onto. The ridiculous B camp, is were I think the problems are for widespread complaints over W/R rigging, team stacking, lucky guys getting all the rolls, and other nonsense. Not going to talk of it, because it makes me stupider even mentioning it and trying to disprove this to tater tots who don't know any better.... The A camp, is the extremely frustrating RNG tied crap I hate seeing. 240 alpha gun, stressful carry situation, 218 HP foe and you low roll (massively) Next shot you bounce. 10~ HP guy still there you try HE,  3 damage. This sort of stupidity, Life saving roll RNG exists. It really does.But on the opposite end of the spectrum, 240 alpha again and full HP target? With AP nevermind premium, you pen and deal 280 damage. He has 280 alpha, and he aims more than you did....shoots you in return and does 240. This is the kind of s--- that needs to go. LFS crap, needs to go I see the same happening with arta, whenever I watch it. French arta the most. Bat Chat lands 155 shell on Maus with full HP dealing 175 damage, tracked too. When the Maus has 45 HP left, it deals 0-30. Wth is that   

DeviouslyCursed:  Now it's time to reroll.

DeviouslyCursed:  I'm surprised to hear you say that. Now if we can just get you to use that line of reasoning on RNG... 

Draschel: Cannot believe he is actually complaining about a new meta tank. RidiculousThis just in, formerly meta tanks like 113, WZ1111111111111115A, 277 aren't super armored either 

Draschel:  I just wished VK2801 had some DPM and more sensible APCR pen. Looking at the stark difference between 59-16 gun and VK2801 makes me sad. The AP pen is fine, no trouble there. But APCR needs +20 to 178. And +1rd/min to 16 leaves it still behind T37 and 59-16 but not sadMuzzle velocity increase to 810m/s seems reasonable. Can't stand the derp range from 750-793m/s, that so many mid-tiers are stuck inThese things considered, I think VK2801 would easily slide into second best tier 6 light without doubt. 

DeviouslyCursed:  Well, the dmg you listed was less, and so was the win rate. I'll give you an example for me: when I am trying to get a mission done that says "be top on your team by dmg or xp," if I am actively trying for that it's pretty much a guarantee I'm not getting it that match. I've found it's just best to forget that mission is active and just play for something else. Getting frustrated also tends to lead to a downward spiral, as you are more determined to "make and impact" on the next match, get to aggressive, and get deleted fast, thereby giving the enemy team a head start on the 'snowball effect' thing. At least for me that's when I've noticed. The screw up can be as small as trying a bit too hard to get that shot in, you go too far over the hill and expose your hull, and get wrecked. 

Draschel:  I didn't say arta were easy to 3-mark. I said arta were easy to play.Easy to play ==/== easy to 3-mark. Do you know what 3-mark is defined as?Imagine this, scrub who is hopeless, does 1-2 shots of damage, maybe spots/tracks 20% HP worth.All of a sudden, the same scrub ends up doing  A)  5 shots of damage  B)  4x their HP worth of combined  in an artaYou see the stark differences here? Obviously that isn't enough for 3-mark, but is considerably more an achievement than the guy in a tank 

Draschel:  False representation of obsolete, never catered tech tree windows. T-46-5 never existed, branches out from AT1? Yet has been on display since 2012. You are using falsified tech trees, or envisioned things never coming into fruition.If what you have to post, shows arty released at a date tier 9 TD like Jag Tiger and 704 are released - obviously gameplay existed before, WITHOUT arty, with tiered normal tanks and tiers 2-8 TD. Doesn't make sense.  You persist though in disagreeing, why?

Draschel: You make no sense at all, you must see that. You are being hypocritical, you know that?You talk about account credibility. What is credibility, if there are no results, positive results to look at. What do you define as credibility? 

Draschel:  If the tank is angling in such a way you cannot grab penetrations, chances are the tank is in too great a position to frontally assault to begin with. Especially being beneath tier. Flanking obviously is not a thing for black prince, you just need to rely on team work. Black prince is importantly not DPM tank either, its not an anything tank except an HP punching bag. Plenty of tanks like IS, AMXM4, VZ-44-1, T29 have more DPM, better features. This is more of poor scope of play, rather than blaming the tank. But pardon me of course, Black Prince and VTU deserve plenty of blame, just not for these reasons. Black Prince and VTU have a horrid list of failures and shortcomings, setbacks - and the reality is not being able to challenge Concept 1 or Skoda 56 is a real thing, for even better tanks than them. I could be in a much better platform like Panther, with more speed, camo, DPM, 244 pen  -- and I still wouldn't want to be messing with Skoda 56 or Concept 1. If you make it a point to be in a completely bad tank, and to gripe about challenging stronger higher tiers in attacks, Jesus.  Premium account, means convenience. It does not necessarily mean better. Convenience. Convenience, generally means time saved and less hassle. It is not to say a free playing player, cannot spam premium consumables and shells. They just need better account managerial skills, and more vested time. A free playing player, can play their higher tiers for a daily double, and NOT GRIND the tank straight through, but for that daily double play 3-4 tiers 4,5,6 games to equal out the money required to support the higher tier daily. Tiers 3-5 now are incredibly easy because people just sit in SA and farm bots. It all comes down to management, and convenience. Which is more important.  

DeviouslyCursed:  And you keep telling yourself it's horrible. I seem to be doing quite well in it so far.  It's clearly not OP, but it's not as bad as you make it out to be.

Jaguarz: because you can coordinate an attack/defence on 3 different fronts? Not everything is a potato blitzkrieg......

Jaguarz:  You dont earn them at the same time, you earn bonds and increased credits for around 20 battles then no more bonds and 100 bonds is complete junk, just like the STRV K which has poor earning potential because it has poor capacity to influence a battle and do things that allow you to earn credits, you cant flex, you have poor dpm (lower than an IS6), glacial standard shell velocity, no camo, no armour outside of the gun mantle. You would literally gain significantly more credits and bonds by playing between your premium 8s and t10s and have more fun doing so. But if you spent money on the tank and are trying to convince yourself it was a sound investment, well good luck with that.

churchill50: When I platoon, it's to play with friends. That means that we each just pick the tank we feel like playing. If those tanks don't work well together, or we are placed on a map where they aren't going to work well in the same place, then that means we play in different places on the map.We're still working together to some extent. We'll tell each other how the fight is going on our flank, anything important we feel like the other should know (like a tank that disappeared from our flank and is probably rotating to the flank a platoonmate is on), and in the case of a carry where only 1 or 2 of us are still alive, we'll feed them information about hitpoints of remaining tanks and talk through options.So we still work together, but we may or may not be on the same flank.

Jaguarz:  Its a bad tank, I can understand them erring on the side of caution with first t9 prem but its hot garbage, worse in every way to a cent 7/1 and classed as a heavy to boot with a 40 kph top speed of all things. The whole "earn bonds" was clearly tacked on as an after thought as a hook because the tank itself is craptastic but 100 bonds a week is worthless.

DeviouslyCursed:  So you admit you didn't play as well, and you lost more games, and that is somehow the fault of WG and RNG? The fact that you think x5 missions matter, and that you noticed you had them, I guarantee you are playing different. Same thing with x5 weekends. People who complain because more baddies show up? Well that means you should be higher in the population skill wise, and you should be winning more. There is a higher chance more baddies will be on the enemy team than yours (14 v 15). If the baddies are killing you, maybe they are not as bad as you think they are...

DeviouslyCursed:  Or you could just stop playing different when you know you have them, because the game itself doesn't care and doesn't change. If I lose more when I have x5, it's because I'll play stock tanks or the crappy tanks I have to grind through so I don't 'waste' them on good tanks that I like playing. But that is me making a change, not the game.

DeviouslyCursed:  How much are your tier 8 prems capped at? Thought so. How many credits do you get when you play your tier 10s that are also capped at 100 bonds a week?  Thought so. The point is you get both at the same time.

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Jaguarz:  It more likely to be a packet loss issue over a bug and thats a consequence of online gaming in at its current technical level

Jaguarz:  Its capped at 100 bonds a week, its a virtually irrelevant amount.

Jaguarz: Finished the grind a couple of days ago to get it for free, now taking a break from game, never intend to play it.

DeviouslyCursed: I still think it's nicest feature it getting bonds while grinding credits. Well, that and the super cool 3D camo.

DeviouslyCursed: Okay, I've been trying to not insult people lately on the forums, but you would have to be a colossal idiot to think WG would put a brand new tier 9 prem (the first of it's kind) as a reward for BattlePass when the marathon just ended (or hasn't even ended, isn't there a day left? I don't know, I already bought it). Trying to bash WG for not putting the Strv K as a reward? What a moron. Oh, and WG should really put other stuff on the prem battles pass. I mean, it's a shame that the only thing extra you get is tokens... Side Note: Fairly recently there was a well known person in the US that also used phrases like "many people" when what he/she really meant was "I".  You're not fooling anyone OP.

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DeviouslyCursed:  Your first post is contradicting your second. You keep hinting that the RNG is biased, and occasionally you slip up and outright state it. It is very clear you think the game is rigged. You just try to keep what you believe in such a nebulous state that no one can hold you to an actual position. You can keep claiming you don't think it is rigged, but you keep posting in support of the people who do claim it is rigged, and some of your posts (like the first one above) outright state it. Whether the game is rigged or not isn't an opinion. It is either rigged or not rigged. It is a factual thing. Objective, not subjective. Therefore your opinion means squat, and if you are going to take the positive assertion (that the game is rigged), then you should be able to back it up. If you can't back it up, then your position is fallacious. In other words, when you talk about objective things, your "opinions" are not immune to scrutiny. As an example, "chocolate ice cream is the best" or "I like pizza" are opinions. They are positions on subjective topics. Many people in the USA in particular don't understand the difference between objective and subjective items, and they've had the whole "everyone's opinion is valid" thing rammed down their throats for years. As such people here are used to making up their own reality and get all pissy when someone challenges it. That's why you've seen me say things like "reality is reality, and it doesn't care if you agree with it or believe it, it is still reality."

Draschel: Weird post. Skoda 56 isn't powerful because the hull armor is strong. And Black prince can certainly penetrate Skoda 56, even with AP nevermind 239 APCR.VTU should be running the long 88, it has 237 pen which can hit through the concept 1 in exposed positions.  Why are you using the worst possible tech tree tanks for comparison? And you are finding this out just now? This is so 2017 

Draschel:  I don't cry about arty nerfs, because I want arty nerfed. And guess what, it gets nerf. I don't play it, why on earth should I care of it getting pummeled into the dirt. I play it in FL to bypass it. Arty doesn't limit great players from being great, lol. You serious? When you watch someone like QB or Skill4ltu or orzanel, complain about being bombed by Jeff, is that your retort? Get good? Really? Because 11,000 PR isn't good?Like WG would listen. Nice. So, who is WG listening to, actually. When as I have just stated, that whats just been done over the past year, that has left arty screwed over? Lets go Einstein. Have fun with future arty nerfs. 

Draschel:  Of course it is possible to have reputable stats and play artillery, and confer credibility. Take a look at Tinyguan from LYB, 3-marked GC and M53/55 in 1K battles. Playing well is playing well. But playing for WN8 and DPG are different.Being great at the game, does not mean the person knows what is best. For sure. But by best, subjectively what is your take on that? Best as in....at what? Equality? Balance? Performance? Realism?Just make artillery TDs. Problem solved. What is the difference between Wespe that is made a TD compared to T40 with 105mm? None. What is the difference between lefhB2 made a TD and Stug II with 105? None.Buff HP, buff VR, reduce their dispersion/aim-time, increase accuracy. SPG with new penetration rounds, those become the premium ammo. No one loses their work, crews, exp. There you go, problem solved.   

Draschel:  Your posts make no sense. You talk about credibility, and what exactly is credible? The win rate? The PR? The stats?Why talk about credibility, then dismiss stats? What is the point of looking at someone's records, if there is no merit to records? You make zero sense. Zero. You were just told by another player, of much better ability than you, that you have no credibility. Account is not active, but at the same time you say you play 25-30 battles a day? Are you alright? Do you need a doctor? 

Draschel:  Artillery is hated everywhere, NA, EU, SEA, RU. It is even hated in Blitz, thats why its not there.   

DeviouslyCursed: I did everything I wanted today, just in case.

DeviouslyCursed: I would hate to live with a mind that saw everything as a threat and all things conspiring against me at all times.

Jaguarz: Im looking forward to trying this fancy Directx9 I hear so much about....

Draschel:  https://worldoftanks...om.com/wiki/SPG