Developers posts on forum

Draschel:  DPM isn't a main concern for auto loaders. But it isn't a non-factor either. Being able to dump damage more often, is great. Think T57. The comfort provided, by something like progetto  703-II  Somua and Emil 1 in DPM provides more opportunity than things like Skoda T27, T77, GSOR. And not just opportunity offensively, but vulnerability defensively.  

Draschel:  Lorraine has issues with after-shot dispersion, and it has issues with aim time. But its inter-shot is slightly slower, so it can do more to control them shots. But GSOR has incredible flaw, in that the dispersion in traverse is excruciatingly bad. It is like a self propelled gun. If it so much as touches traverses, it deals with massive bloom. Although GSOR does have better after-shot dispersion, it still isn't good, and it fires faster meaning bloom is more. It is like hellcat or charioteer. This is awful for gun handling. In addition, Lorraine can equip vertical stabilizer, while GSOR cannot. Dispersion the most important gun handling stat What I mean by ranged performance, is the APCR drop off. @ 500m, GSOR pen is a lie. 320APCR drops to 220. This is pathetically bad, among worst APCR drop off in the game. Despite Lorraine 60 less APCR pen, at range it only drops 10mm to 250, a whopping 30mm pen over GSOR, which starts off with 320. That is terrible.  

Draschel:

Jaguarz:  yeah, I rerolled in 2012, try again batman and as for recents Im doing the silly 279e missions so padding wn8, which I dont do anyway, is even less of a priority.

Jaguarz: Well duh, dropping a few million creds on crew books to have a viable 4 perk crew isnt going to get the current development team phat bonuses and thats literally all they have their eyes on because the current lot running the game are just wage slaves, they arent the guys who started it, they arent the ones who became multimillionaires so everything they are tryig to push is about personal enrichment. Fortunately though as they are just wage slaves they have to get this mess past the actual stakeholders who are protected by a ring of bean counters who will have to be presented with an increibly convincing cost benefit analysis for them to throw a late middle ages games core into upheaval when EVERY other time that has happened has led to disaster. The window of opportunity to alter a games core is at the beginning of its life, WOT is in retention mode, its expansion phase is long gone and you dont retain players by doing this mess and the dev teams imaginary economics of a million players forking out $1900 for a pimp tank commander just wont fly. Its overcomplex for a game in retention mode.Its literal days of work for players to convert all their crews and plan their "builds".Its a shameless cash grab and its brutal, a new $30-50 tank can get by because its not that much and it plays to sunken cost fallacy but crew 2.0 will make most whales balk. The positives just arent there, for anyone bar the kid of an oligarch, they think no random radio operator sticking out in a crew setup or "free" sixth sense can camouflage this garbage? Personally I dont care if these changes go (through though I seriously doubt they will), theres plenty of other things I can do and I wont support this odious direction.

Jaguarz: Its nothing more than a blatant cash grab by a development team jealous that the original team made millions off their work and are trying to come up with something that will yeild a short term gain in order to pick up some bonuses for "increasing revenue".

DeviouslyCursed:  There's currently about 4K mods on LoversLab for Legendary Edition (LE or 'Oldrim' ) , and about 1K for Special Edition (SE). While many of the core mods are being shifted over (often times with original mod authors permission, meaning the original author has no interest in making SE mods), my mod list would take a drastic hit and fundamentally change my game if I tried moving to SE. No thanks. As long as Kimy, Momoman1, and Lupine00 are supporting Oldrim/LE, I'm staying with that.

Jaguarz: Lorraine is a nimble barn, it can get in, dump the clip and get out, the GSOR dumps a clip and then hopes they dont get spotted/pushed while on clip. They couldn't be more dissimilar if they tried.  You also dont play the Lorraine very well and have only 9 games in the GSOR, the flexibility hit is a massive drawback for game changing play. Im glad you found something you are enjoying. 

TeriyakiTanker: I'm thinking that if it goes in as is right now there is a potential for a much bigger drop than that.  When they made the change to 3-5-7 template MM the server dropped close to 15k users.  I don't think it will be that bad but it could be a really significant chunk again.

Jaguarz: Dont know until its tried

Draschel: I mean, 1,685 is low end DPM for tier 7 mediums, nevermind tier 8. And GSOR has 150 DPM less than that....Anemic. A bit about this though, they really need to balance tier 8 auto loaders out. It is ridiculous. EBR75, Bourrat, Progetto, Somua, IS3A, 703, Emil all have sensible DPM......and Lorraine, Elc, GSOR, Skoda T27, T77 have horrendous atrocious DPM in comparison, not even close.   

Draschel: They are comparable, sure. But there are differences, and GSOR doesn't really do everything lorraine can GSOR::Better armor, no contest.                  - bad DPM, even worse than LorrBetter stationary camo                     - poor ammo capacityExcellent gun depression                 - horrendous APCR drop offGood close range APCR pen           - average mobility Nice alpha and burst                         Lorraine::Better view range                              - Huge size, HE screws you over                          Better gun handling                           - annoying aim-time and after-shot dispersionBetter traverse and HP for brawling  - annoying cupola, GSOR has noneBetter mobility and reverse Better ranged performance  

Draschel: Bad things happen without it.May want an umbrella, too. 

DeviouslyCursed:  Wow, way to post an insulting, non-constructive post and attempt to derail the topic, troll. The hypocrisy is real with this one.

Draschel: 03:00He openly starts mouthing off and insulting the team.And  a community contributor. Awesome attitude. 

Draschel: What are you trying to prove exactly? That you are the Newbi guy that averaged 2.1K? You aren't even close.This isn't about you or me. This is about artillery changes 1.13 are just fine. Maybe more will come, too.   

Draschel:  My mistake, Guido is very down to earth and solid indeed. And I like coffee.    

Draschel: What part is the the BS? You refusing to look into alternatives? Or you coming off as insulting? The highest damage artillery in tiers 7-8 over the last 2 months, was 2,035 per battle. Now it is 1,650. While this is a large drop, 25% to be exact, it still resembles substantial damage for basically no applied effort, just sitting in the back and firing ammo off in safety. What is there to complain about? I am not making this up, go to Vehicle Rating on NA WoT Web, and look yourself. And stop lying to everyone here. I don't even need to get started with insulting. Just read  

Draschel: The direction I don't like is poorer quality content by NA content creators. Generally people should be able to find, watch, learn from keen tubers, which is bare now. Lemmingrush hasn't done You Tube content in 7 months. Truvoodoo hasn't in 7 months as well.Taugrim hasn't in over a year.Dread shells hasn't since 2019. Even massive names like circon in EU, pretty much stopping video outside of twitch. Twitch is fine, but can be hard to attend for many people with schedules Pretty much what we got is 4tankers and sahm. But they don't do too much.  

Draschel:  Do you know if he was using spall? At any rate, not much sympathy. You see, artillery is a supporting class, that the goal especially when equipping that ammunition, is to de-buff enemies. You take away its reload rate, aiming, speed, traverse, view range  leaving the enemy more of a hapless unit..... on top of the damage dealt. While you think it is minimal, to him the 705A it is not and I can assure you the irritation felt. You did this damage from range, with very little effort, little deployment, and complete safely. There is no sympathy here. But....why not try the alternate damage shells, if you are hitting targets more often? There is a jump in lethality. The HE 1.13 effectual changes, don't effect artillery bursting damage. The game is not an artillery game. It is a tanks game. You shouldn't have any expectations. The class shouldn't even be here.      

Draschel: Hey man, just stating the obvious. KV2 still performing more or less reasonably for the month of July. Its survived the patch, heartily.Keep in mind the massive bore size allows for  A) overmatch for tonnes of thin armor plate   B) x2 normalization effect.  A T3485M effective armor is around 128mm vs AP from typical guns, like its own gun, cromwell 75mm, Type 64 75mm  -  but against KV2 howitzer is only rated to 106mm. People forget this, but it is a distinct advantage, that is an extra 21% effectiveness. Not much tanks tiers 5-6 have 75mm all sorts of places  

DeviouslyCursed:  There is one player that is not random in each match you play. If you are getting more matches stacked against you then for you, guess where the issue lies?

Einzelganger7: I think I will have an unpopular opinion but I actually like that skill tree system, it reminds me to the one in Borderlands where we can make dozens of different builds adjusted to the specific style of the player instead of the current crew skill system where everyone uses the same 6 skills no matter the tank class. 

 

DeviouslyCursed:  Sorry if I've asked this before, but this chart, did it use the same number of games at each % for the good and bad players on the SBMM side? If not I would expect the highest players to have more games at the higher end. For instance more games at 55-60% than 40-45%, and the lowest players would be opposite and have more in the 40-45%. That could account for why low skilled players are losing more of the 'SBMM' range.

Draschel:  Have you tried using more of AP? 110 penetration, 136 penetration may not provide the most opportunity - but with careful aiming 700 alpha damage is definitely tasty. In addition, splashing enemies high tier, so long as you avoid shooting tracks, gun barrel, gun mantlet will still typically deal 100-200. I think that is just fine for a low tier support tank helping out against high tier enemies.  Lastly, shooting lighter tanks like Type 64, super chaffee, T78 through obstacles, through their tracks for instant one-shots is definitely nice now as well. Before it would be impossible because HE exploded on walls, or a 300 damage track splash  

Draschel: I didn't compare them to World of Tanks. I explained the importance of position. Watch Iyouxin movies, on position. He has lots of short clips showing great positioning. Even in city maps, Pilsen, kharkovI see skill4ltu, Iyouxin, lemmingrush playing lighter vehicles in city maps all the time, and successfully. Check it out Why wouldn't the game be declining. Its a decade old. Things don't last forever  

Einzelganger7:
Oh, that is nice! I did a single match some minutes ago and got 713 base exp so I am going to participate with that, fortunately I made the three screen captures. Thanks a lot for the help! 

Jaguarz: current development team are sad the original team became multi millionaires so are trying to set in place a short term cash grab which will net them bonuses and share options, this is literally this answer.

Draschel: It should have it. Should is a big, key word. Not only *should* it have it, T28HTC needs extensive buffing AT15A received years ago, which is also a pref tank. Seeing how strongly Chimera and T55A has been buffed too, you would think that some can be spared for Stug IV and HTC.  Eh, no.  And in likeness, T95E2 reward buffs are planned to be a complete joke too.   It should have general up armoring, like TS5. Not necessarily everywhere, like TS5, but more of something in between like KV5 or Turtle. Glacis and LFP should be moved to 76mm a pretty standard American number, because although excellent angle they are just clicker food for arty, HE spam, and HEAT pen because very thin thickness. KV2 and OI, can still derp HTC in the glacis or LFP for 200+ damage even after HE enrf, because armor is so thin, ~51mm. Like TS5, a cupola weakness is still weak at 160mm, just not the low effort weakness like HTC 101mm side-boobs. Make the side boobs and roof cupolas 160mm, and roof vision blocks 120mm, sort of like TS5 weak spot armoring. Because they aren't well angled, 160mm still leaves them vulnerable, just no longer vulnerable to tier 5 AP ammo   Like AT15A, being a super heavy TD, the HP available should be increased to 950 - 1,000 Prem round would be alot nicer like T77 stock round, increase to 232 APCR. Increases its ability to defend itself against tier 8 without being ridiculously high penetration

Einzelganger7:
How does it work? Everyone who beats the score gets the rewards or only the player with the highest one is the winner? It's the first time I see a Saturday showdown with a tank I own so I have no idea, heh.

Jaguarz:  You illustrate a complete lack of knowledge about crew 2.0....

DeviouslyCursed:  Currently there is no reason for hackers to go after WoT accounts. There is no benefit from it other than just being a jerk. Once you can more things from one account to another, you change all of that. A big "NO" on that. And as other's have said, you can buy them a tank straight to their account if you want.

DeviouslyCursed: All those tier 9 Battle Pass reward tanks have the permanent free Large Repair Kit though, so that's something. Can potentially be a 20K extra per battle that you save.

DeviouslyCursed:  I'd have no problem playing that battle on either side if it means my performance affects my win rate. SBMM sucks. SBMM: "Oh, you're a good player? Here's some extra baddies for your team! Now everything's all balanced!" Player: "But I don't want all these baddies on my team. Every. Single. Game." SBMM: "Too bad. You could start afk'ing every fight, then eventually I'd put good players on your team instead!"

Jaguarz:  You offer an opinion but where are your facts? You offer nothing but musings which fly in the face of the actual facts of not only iteration 2 but some you also offer a weird suggestion they are going out of business and crew 2.0 cash grab is their last ditch attempt to stay in business when in actuality they are continuing to make money hand over fist year in year out.

DeviouslyCursed:  *Player Looking into the Statistical Mirror* Player: I don't like what I see. WG: Then change what you are. Player: Can't we just have SBMM instead?

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DeviouslyCursed:  Get Skyrim for PC, and get "Oldrim" not the Special Edition. For one of the best NSFW mods, search Skyrim + + loot.  You will have to turn down the frequency of traps a lot. That's if you want to get any type of adventuring done. There's also an entirely separate game made from Skyrim engine called Enderal. You can have both Enderal and Skyrim installed at the same time. I haven't played it yet though.

Jaguarz:  Its all relative, to normal people its abhorrent, to some spoiled brats its less than nothing.

Jaguarz:  You mean PLAYERS dont want it, the current development team do because they think it will lead to a surge in spending for people to bump up OP crews and they will get bonuses and share options.

TeriyakiTanker:
The irony of that post coming from someone with your forum name is delicious.

Draschel: Position =  or  =/= Skill > Tank > tanks individual gear > RNG (rolls,crits,sigma,Etc) The first one is confusing, as I am not sure which is more powerful. The two seem to feed off one another. Obviously, great players in bad tanks, still do quite well. And bad players in great tanks do well. Great players in poor position, tend to do poorly but know where to penetrate people, dealing damage at least before death. Bad players in good position, do well but can struggle penetrating people, but they spot lots, are hard to pen, Etc so they can afford to bounce their shots. However, bad players don't tend to know how to put themselves in useful position, whereas great ones do it all the time. The biggest problem. Position is the best way to influence your gameplay, not the easiest but the best. A great tank, is the easiest way. A person, any person can pay cash for a 260, 279E, Chieftain and outfit it with great items, and do reasonably well even if they aren't accustomed to playing well in random battle. Lower on the totem pole, they can play a powerful tank itself, with loaded BIS to rank up their performance, especially against lower tiers. Where they may do 1,500 in IS7/Super Conqueror, they all of a sudden do 2,000-2,500 in the reward vehicles. But because they don't know of position, or are often stumped and slowed down by better players more common in high tier who use good position, they don't unlock the potential of these reward tanks by getting 4-5K per game.  Why the tangent? Whats all this mean? Well, you keep going on about position being an overstatement, won't matter in corridors. It always matters.  A boxers best weapons, aren't the joules of force in their fists, or size of their biceps, or a durable chin. A boxers best weapons are position and stance, to strike while doing their best not to be struck.A chess player, must know position. It is all about position. Even the lowly pawn, works great in great position. But the high queen, sucks and gets taken easily, when out of position.