Developers posts on forum

Draschel: The gun handling isn't bad, when compared to Somua, Bisonte, Emil 1951, IS3A, T77.  And while the gun handling soft stats lag behind 703-II, its balance are better aim-time and accuracy to produce a better gun simply. None of these tanks are accurate anyway except T77 or AMX50100, and those are significantly less capable than Skoda 56. 248 penetration isn't a flaw I would say, its just the number you need for tier 8, and because the normalization boost compared to APCR, the number actually is effectively better than you would think. Its enough for the troll cupolas like KV4 / VK100 01 and LFP of Defender / AMX49 / TS5. Will go right through UFP of things like Tiger II and AMXAC48, which is all you require out of tier 8 premium shells.   The big problems are of course the hull armor, which lends to this thing not being designed for boxing brawls with tanks like VK100 01 or Defender or KV4, unless you are undergoing a favorable double trade. And then its versatility compared to things like Renegade or 53TP, the mobility and range-control. The mobility is like a Defender or Somua. So you'd need to know your positioning and where to drive out to. The tank is great though, I'd venture a guess it firmly seats itself right beside Renegade as top notch 8 heavy 

DeviouslyCursed:  Translation: "You made a point I can't refute, so now I'm running away."

DeviouslyCursed:  Name the last Premium tank that got nerfed.

DeviouslyCursed: Seems to be the old MM that put like tanks on same team. I personally liked that as it leads to disparity in tanks really being shown. For instance, one all tier 9 match there were 7 mediums per side. They had 7 Chars. We had one Char and an assortment of 6 other mediums. They also had 2 257's, and 2 AE Phase. We had 0 of each. Guess what happened. It makes it much more difficult for WG to ignore OP tanks with this type of MM.

Draschel: Do you honestly believe, that the only thing separating people who perform very well, and appear skilled  --  from the people who seem average and are bland, are how many gold shells they choose to fire? Is that what you are saying? Well you are not alone. Problem is, it is a trait and ideal shared by many, and among them they all share in common, that they tend not to be good players. Now, no one requires people to be good, people can be however, whomever they wish to, but lets keep the ignorance and nonsense in check, how about that? If you wish to learn more, know more, test yourself.Okay, so we know you perform average. We won't be using a matilda, because matilda can bot spam, and that teaches us nothing. So lets start with 6s, try your panzer IV schmulturm, so you at least make credits and train crews along the way. Lets dig right in. Play 75 games with panzer IV turm, setup with ventilation in boosting spot, bonds rammer, bonds turbo. Large repair kit, large first aid, 105 octane gas. 100% firefighting skill, with fire fighting directive. Exterior paint. 60 APCR rounds.Play 75 games with panzer IV turm, setup with ventilation in boosting spot, rammer, turbo. Small repair kit, small first aid, manual fire ext. No run directive, crew just base 100%. No exterior camo. 55 AP, 5 APCR How do you think you will perform here? Show us, post your results eventually. I am willing to wager, your panzer IV turm stays the same, with the second setup. 52% W/R, 550 DPG. I am willing to wager, your panzer IV turm improves with the first setup, say 53% wins, 700 DPG. While this may seem major, as you add over 20% damage every battle, put this into perspective. Gold shells are affecting the overall effect of seen WN8. Your WN8 has risen a notch, for sure. But....has it made you the person that plays for WN8? Have you become the person you hate, the gold spammer who has all their tanks with ridiculous scores, 60+% W/R? Did you turn into a purple player? Most certainly not. Panzer IV turm for sustained 2nd mark requirements, are 1,400 combined and people nowadays easily pull out with 1,000+ DPG in a panzer IV.  So the answer is yes, in short gold shells increases your WN8. But the truthful answer to your real, inner question is no - gold shells won't make you a 60% purple who 3-marks and aces tanks.  

_BobaFett: http://wotreplays.eu/site/5995537#murovanka-jangofett-45tp_habicha   I haven't been playing a lot lately, so I'd like to get some advice on how to improve. Thanks in advance.

Draschel: https://www.wotgarag...52865/emil-1951https://www.wotgarag...1057/skoda-t-56 It must be a cold day in some universe of h---   when some guy has the crazed idea pop up, to say Emil 1951 out competes Skoda 56.Skoda 56 2nd mark requirement, are already crushingly, astonishingly 400+ combined over Emil 1951  3-MARK requirementSo this guy wants to vouch for the average guy. The free to play. This just in, free to play people can also buy premium shells. 208 pen? 248 pen.Emil is stuck with 242 pen, has ridiculous self propelled gun soft dispersion stats, and can't even spot on a ridgeline because of bad VR  A free to play, player ==/== person who doesn't fire premium rounds. They just needs to work more for them. What kind of thinking is that  

Draschel: isn't about the aim time. Or really that accuracy. Its about the huge increase in muzzle velocity. The L56  88mm is a derp gun, that sling shots ammo. While that may work in tier IV battles where other tanks are using 700m/s ammo, its not a pleasant feeling in higher tiers. I cannot stand Tiger 131, Mark VI, Cromwell, Thunderbolt, Type 64 for the exact same reasons. I hate derp guns. And because of it, those tanks I tend to run all APCR.  I said the DPM boost is low. But the DPM accumulates, because its easy to miss a shot with L56  88. And you aren't as punishingly hit by missing a shot with waffleIt is just better. You save 1,300kg using waffle, making the chassis feel alot better. Basically equivalent to half a turbocharger. If you use the L56  88mm, use all APCR I guess. The additional gun mantlet armor could work. But trades for 220 seem silly. 

Draschel:  You are delusional, and incorrect. Show someone with 1,000 battles in object 260. And 1,000 battles in IS7. See who is performing betterThen use 1,000 battles in chieftain, and 1,000 battles in super conqueror.Next, use 1,000 battles in LT432, and 1,000 in LTTB. How about EBR75, and Lynx. A free to play account, can still have an unusually highly skilled player behind it, and said player can still pay for the definite edges in battle incorporating things as premium ammunition and large consumables. And that exact player, could have also grinded out 14day marathons for great tanks like T44100, LIS, Renegade, SU130PM, Etc. Such a player, would also work towards 279E, 260, and could be a part of a clan to win stuff like VK7201 and 907. With this dedication in mind, yes the player is more or less as skilled as any great paying player - but his work is harder on him because a lack of extra earned convenience, But this all isn't the point. The point is, the rule of average, what we can see over populations, not individuals. Someone who pays has a battlefield advantage over those that don't. Not all players, actually very very very very few do, follow the model of the one I described as above, or has the time available. Using the average NA tank player data, such a player has a striking advantage if they pay, over another average player that doesn't 

DeviouslyCursed:  Filling out a survey that may improve a game you spend a significant time on you would consider "nothing better to do with your life?" Really? If you have this opinion on the game, then posting on a forum about said game is a far greater waste of your time, so what do you have to say for yourself? And certain people on this forum wonder why I refer to some posters as morons...

DeviouslyCursed:  OMG, I would love it if they brought back the ORIGINAL Steel Hunter, which was insanely awesome. But they ruined it, and all subsequent versions have sucked. The original rapid fire clip tanks were some of the most fun I've ever had in WoT in all 11 years.

DeviouslyCursed: Small sample size but... Overall win rate:  53% Win Rates for Czech Hvy tanks...Czech Tier 7 Hvy: 70%Czech Tier 8 Hvy: 55.5%Czech Tier 9 Hvy: 62% So far I love them. Don't have tier 10 yet. And for the record...Czech Skoda  T 56: 71%

DeviouslyCursed:  I agree they should definitely show up in Session Stats. I was like you until someone asked if I was sure and looked it up. Was news to me. Though really didn't matter as I was stomping face and won my first 4 battles anyway

DeviouslyCursed:  The OBJ 777 has demonstrated by it's win rate statistic across the US, EU, and RU servers to be equivalent to the Char and the AE Phase. The Kunze is lower, on all 3 servers. The K-91 is last, on all 3 servers. Also, your win rate is 45% overall, with a tier 8 win rate just barely higher than an afker. You know... since you want to point out other's stats and all.  

Draschel:  Who cares about your irrelevant posts in a forum? If you have nothing useful to contribute, why bother?What do your irrelevant attempts at stirring trouble, constitute, towards any sort of accomplishment?It is only a forum. Nothing more. Why bother posting?

Draschel: I am confused.  This isn't alpha like 750 vs 490. 220 isn't too much alpha at all, for a heavy tank. By sacrificing 220 for 135, while gaining tremendously in precision - I see the huge worth. And you aren't struggling against more T8How do you not beat the T3485M with 7.5cm. You gain in DPM, pen, gun handling, mobility. All L56  88mm provides is alpha, and minor benefit sometimes where 88mm over matches. Whereas 145mm average penetration can be confounded by armour like pudel or bretagne or T3485M,  157 certainly isn't and makes it an easier pen. By running turbocharger and importantly removing L56  88mm, you arrive @ 13.9 HP/T, I think its large step up from 12.6 HP/T Modified configure works because German engine modules suck, with their placement. With a hit box in the front, any LFP damages your engine instantly, I'd recommend preventative maintenance too. Its unfortunate.  

DeviouslyCursed: I wouldn't bother playing anymore if Frontlines became the default. Lame game mode is lame.

DeviouslyCursed:  I thought someone posted an announcement by WG that the stats do count, they just don't show up in daily session. 

DeviouslyCursed:  I've liked all three maps so far. Feels like there are options again.

Draschel: Why would even low tiers use gun layer if  they can fit rotator mechanism. Which also not only boosts gun handling, but allows you to rotate If not running a rammer, I would use Konisch 75mm gun, not the 88 L56. It is not that the DPM is the issue, as the DPM only raises a tiny tiny tiny bit higher - it is that the rate of fire makes DPM hugely better when dealing with shots missed. The Konisch 75 has a more capable gold ammunition for tier 8 encounters, and does better against 3601 sworn enemies, like T3485M or  OI.  I understand running no more rammer is alot more common now because of 2.0 opportunities, but why bonds optics? Because 3601 has radio man, situational awareness is easily fit in, and with +ventilation directive, situational awareness, recon, BIA, bonds vents you are looking at 420? Which is fine for a slower tier 6 heavy tank. If you are worried about tier 8 games all the time, with hate to say it L56  88mm is horrid in tier 8, and so are slow tier 6 heavies. And you would be running boosting consumable then anyway, too. I'd run bounty rotator, or bonds turbocharger instead of the optics.  

Draschel:  The whole idea, doesn't necessarily mean ''Pay to win, all the time''  It means, ''pay to win, more than you deserve to''  I will explainAn average performing player, as defined by world of tanks NA population standards, will scratch out 48.6% W/R, and perform @ 1,100 WN8.  This average performing player, will do this kind of performance in an IS3, or IS7 typically. Here is where the problem starts. If this exact player is playing Defender, or object 260, object 279E - their performances tend to be slightly higher than they otherwise are capable of. So instead, now they are averaging 50.5% W/R,  1,500 WN8. You see the big problem here? It is the same, comparing people who have super conqueror and then also got Chieftain, doing better than expected according to prior performance. And how they got these tanks, paying of course. Someone average, PAYING for LT432 may not break the record books in performance, but sure as heck is doing better than they did completing LTTB. Someone average PAYING for Somua, will do better than that said average guy struggling through AMX50100. This is paying, and winning. Even if they aren't what you expect, out with a 60+ W/R dominating the game. They paid, and as such are reaping benefit and winning more. The misuse of this language, of ''pay to win play'' gets spammed most with gold ammunition usage in my experience. Although, exclusively when a user starts spamming premium consumables, ammunition, directives --- they will undoubtedly win more - the problem is premium ammunition isn't exclusive. Premium ammunition is available to everyone. Premium ammunition can be acquired, without a heap of gold for it. Which means the complaint is a means to an end, and just someone talking s---  They got beat, bested, and are looking for scapegoat s--- to complain over. And this is a big issue of pride, rather than truthfully looking into what "pay to win" model means  Now before all the yelling and screaming, 260, 279E, Chieftain can't be bought with gold, "what do you mean paid for, paying to get them and win?''That is another story, but don't you worry, the underhanded, low levels of World of Tanks involves plenty of lucrative contracting, paying - for people to get these tanks you can't normally get with gold is there. Astoundingly and pronounced.   

Jaguarz: One shot of damage in a skorp? Nice.......

Draschel:  After grinding out some M40/M43 to finish it and sell it in FL so I can sell these s----, because I don't play that s--- in public battle, I have to say artillery is very non-lethal. Being non lethal though, does not really stop you from ranking up easy in FL, playing an arta defense mode - its insta-captain. Arta, was pretty much made for FLBut playing it in public battle, is a definite no-no. Unless you want to tank stats to 1,200  WN8, which no one does. The problem with artillery isn't that it is over-powered. Dangerous, whatever. The problem with artillery is the class is messed up. I consistency nightmare, not a 6 dotted dice, but a dice with 364 dots and sides, one for each of the day. It makes worse people, better. It makes better people, worse. You can shoot at a target and sadly deal 160, which isn't even 15%.....  but you can also shoot a target with the same ammo and deal 250 the next time when in the same situation jag panzer E100 with 450 pen roll HEAT would  do  0 not 250. *Broken* is the right word, but WG can't seem to hurdle that they went wrong with arta long ago. So they continually nerf it and nerf it, hoping someone takes notice in it getting fixed. That is not the way to fix things. Arta could be made to have 9sec aim-time, 2.50 accuracy where it rains shells everywhere, except where you want it and still people would complain. Because no one wants people bombing them, 1,100m away from safety over obstacles. Arta safe don't exist. Praying exists, pray enemy arta shoot your allies, not you. 

Draschel:  Many great players, still play FV183 and FV4005. And Conway, 60TP, T30, E100, T110E4. And they play it properly. You don't.Your gripe, complaint - is that WG took away a fools tool against great players in some weird, lazy attempt to even the score.What has always been the gripe according to game mechanics, is that WG took a stand and removed the bad paly commonly used by bad players  

DeviouslyCursed:  The new maps are awesome. And in regard to your "waaaaaaaah!" post: stop sucking.

DeviouslyCursed: Amazon.

DeviouslyCursed:  So wait a minute. I want to be sure I understand you. You are stating since there is randomness in the game (RNG), then that is WG manipulating things. So by the same token, playing a board game that involves rolling a 6 sided die for randomness, that the creator of the board game is manipulating your game. So any game with any random element is manipulated. Is that what you are saying? If it isn't, please clarify.

DeviouslyCursed:  If you see it every game, it should be easy to prove. But yet you can't. So what is far more likely is that you are simply delusional.

DeviouslyCursed:  I'm a total jerk on the forums, but generally pretty chill in game. You see I don't blame people for not being able to process all the things required to be good at this game, really fast so that they can actually apply it usefully. Not everyone can do that. But on the forums, you have as much time as you need to think about what is being said, and what you are going to say. When the sum total of all that careful thought deliberation is "It's rigged! I just know it to be true!" then I'm going to call the person an idiot, and justifiably so. I rarely rage at someone in game, and if I do it is at someone that is doing something like sitting 10 meters outside the cap, stationary, while the enemy has a massive lead and your only hope is to cap. The guy on the cap is screaming "Get on the cap!" Everyone else is screaming "Get on the cap!" And the clueless baddie just sits, not moving, looking around, 10 meters outside the cap. Then the guy capping gets reset with about 10 seconds left to cap it out. 

DeviouslyCursed:  I don't understand this. This is part of your problem. This is an appeal to authority, and it is completely irrelevant to the data. If WG said it was in game, but data showed it wasn't, then it isn't in the game. If WG said it isn't in the game, but the data showed that it was, then it is in the game. What WG proclaims is irrelevant. You are demonstrating a lack of understanding on the nature of evidence. I will give real example that occurred. A very long time ago there was a mission involving getting lots of xp (it may have been the WZ111 or T-34-100 month long mission, but I can't remember). During this event, WoT had a double xp weekend. Every single match was double xp, win or lose. They said on the website that the double xp would NOT count toward the mission. But when you checked in game, recorded what xp you were on, then played a match, and looked at where your mission was, the double xp WAS being applied toward the mission. I was telling people about that in the matches, to grind fast before they fixed it in a mini patch or something. Some reject started arguing with me, saying it doesn't apply. His "proof" was the WG official announcement that the double xp was not going to apply. I told him how to check it. He still refused. He called me a moron because "clearly WG would know more than I did about it." I don't understand how a person's mind can function like this. I couldn't believe someone could actually be so clueless as to think what was said by anyone carries more weight than actual reality. It's like that idiot never figured out that parents can be wrong, teachers can be wrong, and your boss/manager can be wrong. Apparently if an authority figure says something, it has to be true no matter what reality says. Yes, I know what is most likely the cause of this flawed way of thinking.  And there are places people can go to meet up with others who think like that. I just don't know how to fix a mind that is that broken. In the case above, what WG said was irrelevant. What WG wanted was irrelevant. What the coders said they did was irrelevant. What matters is how the program functions. And regardless of what anyone said, wanted, or tried to code, the double xp was applying, and that was the only relevant piece of information.

Elias_K_Grodin: Commanders! The first part of the Czech Challenge is over, and 15 lucky Community Contributors get to split the 255,000 Gold prize pool. But they're not going to sit on their spoils of war for long. The amount of Gold they secured will be distributed among their communities. Czech out the second part of the Gold Challenge here!

Hey_man_Gneis_shot: Commanders! The first part of the Czech Challenge is over, and 15 lucky Community Contributors get to split the 255,000 Gold prize pool. But they're not going to sit on their spoils of war for long. The amount of Gold they secured will be distributed among their communities. Czech out the second part of the Gold Challenge here!

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churchill50: If I remember correctly, the CVS can only be used on Light and Medium tanks that are tier 8 or higher.It can't be used on any tanks tier 7 or below, and can't be used on Heavy tanks, Tank Destroyers, or SPG's.

1LT_Dwayne: You are a good player. The ones you referring to are great lol. 

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1LT_Dwayne: Does improved equipment get the bonus from slot categories? If I mount improved ventilation for example will I get 8.5% view range plus the 1%?

KRZYBooP:  I am pretty sure they changed stuff cause last night I nose-dived off a small ridge super slow and wound up destroying myself. Now I have done this with a bunch of other heavy tanks on the same ridge and was just fine. 

1LT_Dwayne:  Ridiculous! WoT have it's share of difficulty with it's mechanics and having 2 types of ammunitions that is just op doesn't add to the complexity but only make it easier.

DeviouslyCursed:  As we've all pointed out, the part of the patent you guys think is indicative of rigging is the part that would make people be top tier if they lose a lot, and bottom tier if they win a lot. Anyone who have kept track has come to the same conclusion: this isn't happening. Therefore that part of the patent is not implemented. Proving that it is used would be pretty easy. But of course you want attempt that.