Developers posts on forum

DeviouslyCursed:  Jammer/ECM on one side, other side has none, GG. ...or whatever the radar and it's counter were. If one side had them both and you didn't, you were screwed. It was a long time ago and I forgot the names.

DeviouslyCursed:  As was his opinion of people that buy tanks in this game. See what I did there? Or did you miss it... 

Draschel: The biggest buff required is a gun mantlet buff surrounding the barrel. It is pathetically weak. For some reason the turret armor behind the gun shield isn't modeled into the game, and is a void space.1-  The gun shield and ring are supposed to have base armor of 70mm, but it gets left out in some spots but is present in other spots. This at times leaves the armor as only a 120mm spaced armor or 160mm spaced armor exterior shield, and naked under. Rather than what should be there, 120+70 or 160+70. The surrounding parts of the mantlet are fine, which have this 70mm base armor present, becoming 200+70 or 300+70 or 200+160 even 200+220 - these of course are not problems and how the front turret armor should be. Just give the `120 and 160 sections the 70mm base armor behind. 2-  secondly, like its CW cousin VK7201, fix the turret mounting into the sides of the tank, the barbette. The bulge, which houses the turret ring. VK7201 got buffs so it is not as weak when side scraping, instead of 160mm flattening out in angle when side scraping, the area was increased to 180,190,200mm. The Panzer 7 however it stays only 160mm, making it very weak side scraping like tanks with similar issues such as FV215B and 183. Object 268 V 4 does not have this problem, as the cheeks / shoulders that flatten out when angled, are extremely thick, 220mm. so make them thick. AE Phase, 60 TP, and 50TP proto also share this cheek problem when side scraping3-  Make the engine roof in the front 50mm on most german super heavy tanks, not 40mm, so no 122-130mm overmatch4-  Make APCR more effective. The AP is 12 pen more than Maus and E100 L55 128mm, so too should the APCR be 12 pen more. Make the APCR 323 mm penetration I think these fix Panzer 7, and make it more comparable to VK7201 and 705A. Would it become competitive, probably not. so the changes shouldn't be too much to ask for or game changing  

Draschel:  He calls arta, arta. And I assure you, childish he may be, but his gameplay makes yours look the part of a child, and his the genius

Jaguarz: This should cover it.... 

DeviouslyCursed:  I can't wrap my head around why anyone would want a boat, much less spend their hard earned money towards items for one. Every dollar spent on a boat I would consider the same as setting the money on fire and watching it burn. Gaming on the other hand... I will spend my extra money on that, whether board games or video games. What's it matter whether you can hold it? You're not taking any of it with you when you die anyway.

DeviouslyCursed:  What he meant to say is he plays almost exclusively tier 8 prems. And if that was all I played I'd be bored too. That's why once I get about 15-20 tier 10s I reroll and do it all over again.

KRZYBooP: Pinging this for visibility.  CAN YOU SEE ITS POWER?!?!?!?! 

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! On track for 5Jul- 20Jul is the 60TP and coincidentally so is a fast track offer to get there faster.More information on the On track missions click HERE.  Get the Fast track bundle to get down to tier 10 a little bit quicker with x5 Missions for select Poland Tanks. These bundles start at 4.99. For more information on this click HERE.

Jaguarz: EU were all playing the mode yesterday, seems weird that the NA would just turn it off given pref MM tanks are a small minority

Draschel: What you want in the end are 277, IS7, 705A. ST-II and IS4 are quite mediocre if anything  But answering your question, all 5 of the tier 9s are good  

Draschel: Skill4ltu meme. On stream, in a battle, there was an artillery, focusing Skill4ltu in a battle. Because he does not use anonymizerThe guy who was focusing Skill, name began with Jeff--- and whatever. So Skill began referring to all arta players, as Jeff. Needless to say, it has caught on.  Jeff on.  

Draschel: No different than Panzer III IV  and  Anhou. No different than M4 Improved. If those can be crappy in tier 7 battles, I don't see an issue with IV / V being crappy too 

DeviouslyCursed:  The pointless whine threads you make several times a day are a joke. Your ability to understand this game is a joke. You are a joke. 

Draschel: Would a stock broker tryhard & pursue clients, go after 500k commissions a year?Or is it alright to lounge around in a third rate 1-story office, satisfied with 60k. Who on earth would even try to compare the two guys? Its bananas 

Draschel:  Panzer IV/V well I agree it is very strong, but panzer has an equally easy fix. First, part of a larger problem, is simply dealing with bot-farm. Bots should only be in tiers 1-2, and even after their improvement, still need better AI scriptAfter that Panzer IV/V should get equal treatment as normal run-of-the-mill tier 5 tanks, +2/-2 MM. Because it is a late edition tank to tier 5, it used to be tier 6 anyway, it is used to dealing with tier 7s. Remove the pref The big issues are the premiums in 6-7-8-9-10.  

TeriyakiTanker: Because its an interesting topic and a patch with significant perceived impact just dropped so he probably is looking to see if the patch had a net positive or negative impact......... Do you have a problem with his question for some reason?

Jaguarz: breaking from this game helps

Jaguarz:  More likely a telia traffic node than the servers, think of it like a freeway, the closer you get to your destination the routes start to merge into less routes then garbage telia can screw over large amounts of people with their substandard service...

_BobaFett: I would pay some serious $$$ for these. 

_BobaFett: The Japanese Heavies weren't relevant before the update, and now they're just even more irrelevant.

Draschel:  You are right. Not worse, far far worse. T14 APCR round is lamer, more inaccurate than T1 Heavy normal AP ammo. And back then, you couldn't fire those off because those APCR cost gold, you were stuck with 92 AP. T14 has a front road wheel sprocket tied to the engine, T1 heavy don't and back then that kind of damage is like German stuff, sustain a hit frontally and boom.....damaged or broken, and chance of fire engine. Other than that view range, mobility, gun dep are very similar, but T1 heavy offers nearly 200 more DPM with better alpha/pen/accuracy/velocity KV1 used to be the damn KV2 we have now, with either choice of ML10  152mm or 107mm we see tier 6....it had them in tier 5. You also had the choice of ZIS  57mm, D5T  85mm, U11 122mm. The tank had an astounding 5 viable tier 5 guns. All pretty much better than Churchill 6pdr. KV1 has always been able to side scrape, while churchill can't because it can be damaged through tracks, and side hull is visible on the OUTSIDE of tracks. All it has, is some HP and VR Matilda IV, M4 E4 Beta have always been outrageously bad, especially considered they get compared to panzer IV, M4 Sherman, T34 which are quyite good. Only good tier V premium tanks early, were Ram and Skoda Pz T25 112 was a joke then. The side armor dipped to 50mm so you couldn't side scrape, the LFP was only 80. Engine horsepower started out 520.....I hated it so much. Lowe has been buffed immeasurably, numerous times. Lowe gets buffed like arta get nerfed. It used to cost 7,500 gold, not its current price. The LFP used to be all 120, not a mix of 150 and 220. It used to always sustain a hit there and break down with engine fire. The turret isn't what it is now, no where close, and it didn't have -10. Didn't have its powerful engine back then, and side hull wasn't as thick as it is now. Only thing it had over Tiger II was AP pen, but the DPM was like 300 lower so even firepower was iffy. KV5 was way worse than IS3, and still is. M26 Pershing AP was actually buffed some time ago, to 190. It didn't retain 180mm pen for long, certainly before Suka Pershing finally got 192 itself. It had mobility, great dispersion, while Suka Pershing was a snail, had the horrific recoil spring weakspot, and disastrous dispersion for a medium. Been playing since 2010. I have SP, WZ111, 112, IS6, T34 heavy, excelsior, T14, Matilda, Matilda BP. They were awful then. Some of them are still awful.   

Draschel: Take the resident gold spam complainers. That think gold makes you jesus, all you have to do is press 2 and voila, there you are. You know who I am talking about, cough and cough.  Str-----------5mm.  He makes a heated, hate thread every week or so about premium ammunition villainy. Go, do a control experiment with him. Do the exact same as above, 30 battles. Do you think that the only think, making a person good or bad is premium shells? And that camo paint, 5 skills, large consumables, elite setups, full equipment, directives, blocked map of choice (or even 2)  don't matter, don't leave you at an advantage? Compared to someone without these tools? S-C-A-P-E-G-O-A-TBads, occupy a spot totally out of position and incredibly susceptible......get turned into swiss cheese, because they occupy a terrible position or want to sit still and be invulnerable against peer AP ammo in their Type 5 or OI or 110E3, and spew out un-aimed HE glow orbs themselves without aiming themselves as well, to deal very irritating damage no matter what target they hit. And when they get turned into that flimsy, aerated cheese, they come here to complain about OP tanks, their HE not working anymore, and their bad armor.   

Draschel: It does improve a persons performance. No one doubts that. So do equipment, 5 skill crews, large consumables and nation rations, exterior camo paint, directives Use this example, because prior to equipment 2.0 it was clearer::A casual but determined lime-green grinder (50-52% bracket) who still seeks wins and does his or her part in getting those wins, who doesn't spend lots of gold and free exp, grinding through a tank with 100% basic crew - former binoculars / tool box / camo net that were mountable and de-mountable (decent choices for casual grinders on temporary tanks) didn't really bother with rented exterior paint camo, didn't bother to use directives or nation's rations / auto fire extinguisher but rather sticks with small kits and manual fire extinguisher or something reusable like engine governor. Didn't bother to at least unlock tracks with free exp, so all modules from last tank can be immediately applied and full equipment can be mounted if weight restrictions are in play without the tracks. Didn't bother blocking a beneficial map of choice.....and finally used a 75%/20%/5 AP/APCR/HE ammo split. Now take the same player, same tank who unlocks the tracks and turret using free exp, immediately gaining access to not only no restrictions for equipment and former tier middle modules - but also has the turret HP+dispersion+view range+armor upgrade. They decide to use the middle gun from last tier, middle engines and grind to elite, fine. They instead of using demountable, savings equipment, focus on traditional setups like Optics, ventilation, vertical stabilizer  or  gun layer,  rammer. They use not necessarily nation's rations, but definitely large kits and automatic extinguisher. They have a 5 skill crew trained with gold so no exp loss from former tier transition. Tank is painted in camo.  Crew skills are core setups, like BIA/CORE/repairs/camo/firefighting. A directive of choice is used. A beneficial/annoying map is blocked by the user, not favoring the tank. And finally......the users load out is 97% APCR, 3% HE Who is doing better? We both know. But ONLY PREMIUM AMMO, isn't the sole reason. Premium ammunition shouldn't be held in such a sole and high regard, as it alone is an example of something one can implement, to make you better, even if  just 1-2% W/R better. Many things can be done to make someone better. Premium ammunition gets such negative hype, because it is a bad players scapegoat. 

Draschel:  It isn't. While Suka Pershing, IS6, KV5, 112 have always enjoyed the pref MM that doesn't send them into tier X battles, they have had to deal with 167-175 pen AP for a long time. And extremely bad soft stats with their dispersion, bad aim times. Which in the past, have made them feel like crap when they aren't facing anything other than tiers 5-6-7, just plain loathsome VS tiers 8-9. These aren't the same tanks we have buffed today, with better dispersion, aim-time, 186 pen AP, increased armor. Think way worse. IS3 has always been a very fine tank, M26 Pershing was once decent, and Tiger II long ago was certainly better than notorious Lowe.  T1 heavy, KV1 are way better than T14, Excelsior, Churchill even if the latter enjoy pref MM. 

Draschel:  Because slowly, WG seems to be making decisions to more fairly balance the game. Such as cropping Type 5, or 430U / 268 V 4, Maus. Rolling back arty several times. Removing 3/5/7 MM. Adding skill based queuing to advances and skirmishes. Making bots tougher, to attempt thwarting low tier farms. Kicking 260, 279E, 907, Chieftain, VK7201 out of ranked battle. Rolling back EBRs not once but twice.  But there is only so far they can push this way of thinking. Sooner or later, they are in a corner where premium tanks just need to be addressed.  

Draschel:  But that has been done before already. If that is what you believe is a direct nerf, then it is that WG has already nerfed premium tanks many times like it already, and far more substantially than what you think is a nerf, like some weird s--- such as SU100Y, VK7501, 50TP, SU130PM being HE spamming tanks  (according to you)  Which news flash, they aren't and certainly explains alot.   

DeviouslyCursed:  Given your attitude in your "win rate is trash" thread, you got the reception you deserved. You come in here not having a clue, and telling that that clearly know a lot more than you that they are mistaken and clueless. I don't think you had the ability to really get your win rate up anyway. So no loss by your leaving.

DeviouslyCursed:  I don't think he's capable of it. Basically, he doesn't know how to win games, so he is focusing on a metric that is more easily defined  (and farmed).

Draschel:  And this is the crucial, most important point. Huge importance.This game, was rigidly created with a core of heavies, and within the heavies each weighing the balance of speed, firepower, armor. All weighted in, WG initially had a concept of balance. That room though, has just turned off the lights I guess. Well, when introducing new things like artillery, Tier X lights/meds/TD, armored cars, swedish siege mode, Etc - you upset the balance. To get that balance back, to the cornerstone of the game,  IE  a core of heavy tanks dictating pace, WG decided to chop up maps into more corridors, and remove the open ones. Marginalize bush locations. Resort to NEW heavy designs, blending speed, firepower, armor to ridiculous levels not seen in original game balance, of isolating speed, armor, firepower in a triangle like initial concept of IS7  VS  Maus  VS  T30. E100 was immensely popular at the start, featuring T30 firepower with Maus armor. Heavy tanks like T10 (IS8) and WZ1111111114 and 113, featured good firepower but retained IS7s mobility. Heavy tank autoloaders with high DPM, unlike medium tank autoloaders with less. They took it further, introducing a next stage of fast heavy tanks, like WZ1111111115A and 277 that can basically do heavy jobs, AND act like poor man mediums such as the fatter ones, E50 or M48 patton.  We got to remember the game's initial insight, its  pedigree. What we have right now, is a farcry. And thats why balance suffers incredibly. 

Draschel: Not all premium tanks require nerfing. Not all premium tanks, tend to outrageously disturb game balance. But there are some that do.This is bigger than an individuals loss and feelings. Its just a better decision for better gameplay, game health, and fairness.I can't speak for others, but many share the opinion. Good or bad. However you look at it, 279E, 260, 907, Chieftain are bad for the game.And it is not just them either. Tier 6, tier 8 examples exist too, which ridiculously alter gameplay. Some did the altering overnight, even  If WG can justify releasing relatively new premiums, like T103 or Mauerbrecher - believe me they can be justified in nerfing premium tanks to the level.   

Draschel: Because before, if you were around when the game started, premium tanks weren't comparable to tech tree ones.M6 mutant, Lowe, KV5 weren't comparable to Tiger II, IS3, T32KV1, T1 Hvy were better tanks than Churchill, T-14

Draschel: Listen man, you are fine to express opinions, that is what this is for. But try to not be outright incorrect and misleading as to what you wish to express.lefh18 doesn't follow the Stun/Alternate HE/Anti-armor reduced damage model artillery follows 1.13. It's 3 shell system is far different, from pre 9.17Lynx was nerfed like the 9 and 10. Giving T92 14 APCR pen and 10 HEAT pen, doesn't fix its glaring, needless faults that persist. Same with the planned CDC buffs. FL doesn't show variety. The only variety you see is poor souls grinding stock tanks. Which granted, is better than random battle.FL is dominated by LT432, EBR75, progetto, skorpion G, SU130PM, The next set of FL, will simply replace T44100 with newer better LIS, and CaernaAX/Patriot with newer better renegade. 

Draschel:  Seems your responses are    lol.Lynx lost dispersion, and HE pen was reduced to 75. T92 buffs were laughable. Real laughable, and its among worst tier 8. While lefh18 has been introduced with tracers, and fire-warning - it dodged the arty stun-damage schism. 

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Draschel: And before the screaming and yelling, I understand what I am set to possibly lose. I have a garage of 125 premium vehicles. It doesn't matter, if the game continues to spiral, what good are my virtual tanks? Desperate need of rigid balance, that we haven't seen since 2016. 

Draschel: Ever hear of,  "all roads lead to Rome" ?  It all comes down to premium tanks, a stand that needs to be taken. And I know, it is impossible to please everyone. Impossible. With any change that maybe put forward, considered a nerf, there will be players and arm chair generals who scream foul. That is human nature. But instead of trying to please any particular lobbying group, how about we try just to make things as fair as possible? Is that a bad goal to push for? When we all agreed to play this game, we consented that none of the virtual belongings, are retained as our sole property. WG is free, to reserve the rights, to altering their intellectual property. We all agreed to the same thing. At the very least, easy enough would be compensation in delivered gold....not your money back, virtual currency - for which you at the time consented to pay. Let's take a look. Nerfing, knee-capping the Standard B->Progetto 65, and leaving Progetto 46 out of it is not cool.Nerfing HE penetration and dispersions on Lynx->EBR90->105 was nice, but leaving EBR75 out of it isn't.Nerfing OI, oho, Type 4, 5  but then leaving out KV2 because of KV2( R ) just isn't cool. Nerfing artillery, but having the nerfs stop at tier V so LefH18 isn't touched is comical. Clever too.Nerfing before release/going live, examples like T92, FV4202(P) but last second buffing 279E, 252U?  These are just a few clear examples, but there are more. And it wasn't always this way, simply because premium tanks initially weren't always out the door so powerful as they are now. When the game started, IS6 wasn't an IS3, Lowe wasn't a Tiger II, and suka Pershing wasn't an M26 Pershing. And WG has shown us, they still are able to produce newer premium tank designs that aren't ridiculously over the top, like STG Guard, Skoda T27, T103, T42, T77, Senlac, 122 TM for example - relatively new premium tanks that certainly aren't game changers like skorpion G, progetto 46, bourratt, Defender, EBR75, LT432 have been. Proper game balance needs to be established, desperately.  We can fix 110E5, Type 5, Progetto 65, Maus, object 268 V4 (laughably) object 430U (more laughably)  EBR105 (ignore the actual problem)  but large problems persist, that can't be touched like 279E, 907, 260, Chieftain. And the solution isn't....."oh everyone can get these tanks, they aren't exclusive to people here or people there"  Well, yes, difficulty aside.....everyone can get them. But that isn't the point, they break gameplay and if everyone did get them, I don't want a metagame of JUST THESE TANKS where the actual tech tree fade away into obscurity. That's the whole reason WG kicked them out of ranked, its the only way WG could think of, to practically nerf them, without physically having to actually nerfing them. And another simple fix, isn't releasing new tanks that shift gameplay either, like 274A, LIS, SU130PM, Bourratt that people just gobble up and buy.  If this doesn't take effect, we get a continual leapfrogging of other tanks, instead of proper balance. And this results in nonsense like doing something great to tank A, doing something not great at all to B, and simply ignoring C.....Tanks get ridiculous buff schemes, in order to make them more effective - leaving other tech tree examples not touched since 2012, instead of nerfing the actual problem premiums to more manageable levels, which would result in alot of this leapfrogging buffing not necessary/reduced too.  Rant off.      

Draschel:  even 100mm+but why don't their 50%WR become 60? You can be 7ft tall and practice rebounding 3 hrs a day. Won't make you an excellent dribbler, passer, 3pt shooter, know man-to-man defense, Etc. Skill is the amalgamation of tools, utilized in practice. Because any joe, jim, rob - are provided a single tool, won't make them jesus all of a sudden 

DeviouslyCursed:  

DeviouslyCursed:  If it happened nearly as often as you people make it seem, OP wouldn't have taken note, made a post, and put up a screenshot showing what happened. The fact that this match stood out as being really bad, bad enough for him to do what he did, proves it does NOT happen all that often. Another proof it doesn't happen nearly as much as claimed is SimplySimple with his screenshot he has been posting for about 5 months now. He finally got his "holy grail" of lopsided battles and has been posting that screenshot ever since. But if it was as much of a problem as he claims, he wouldn't have to keep using the same screenshot. All of you should have similar screenshots every day, every session.

_BobaFett:  This is unfortunately the truth.

Draschel:  Tank destroyers can't shoot beyond 720m, and don't even see beyond even shorter distance. Tank destroyers can't miss by 15ft and still cause 300 damage. They need to hit. Tank destroyers still need to aim their fire, it isn't just hitting the tank. (at least now)They do not bypass armor, and armor model knowledge is actually applicableThey benefit far more from using map awareness, proper positioning, bushes, camo.Tank destroyers are more team involved, they can push, spot, trade, spend HPTank destroyers don't lob shells 1,200m away over 60ft obstacles for damage Tank destroyers are vulnerable to spotting from enemies, they need to watch map circles  Sorry, but not sorry. TD aren't the same. And they aren't broken. Camo can sure be annoying, like S1, E25, T67 - but no where near arta scumYou don't have to like, or dislike a class for it to be ridiculously broken and bypass normal tactics & gameplay. TD don't. But arta do.  

Draschel:  Three arta still way too much. One per side plz. And make arta missions optional. Stun shells should have taken the 10% damage nerf, so far so good. Reduced module damage, love it. Team mate friendly fire from stun, fines, going blue, temp bans should be increasedAlternate increased pen HE, should have retained the same damage as 1.12 normal ammunition, not be buffedAP or HEAT ammo, should be capped at the same max flight render of tank classes ammo,  720m