Developers posts on forum

DeviouslyCursed: I had been playing my new-ish alt account, but decided to log in to claim the New Year's gift with this account. I missed many of the previous bonus codes, and could only enter 3 of them. But those things combined I was able to get to Festive Level 10. Disclaimer, I played 1 battle last night, so probably got some boxes from the daily missions I completed. I got some boxes gifted from friends, but it was less than 20. I also have not completed a single Arnie mission yet (the 1 battle I played was a loss). Still, that was quite a gift from WG. Getting all 4 female commanders for playing a single battle (and probably didn't even have to do that). Thanks again, WG!

DeviouslyCursed:  It's pretty easy to get it right after you see its stats over months of random battles...

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DeviouslyCursed:  You misread the New Year's gift. You get 10 non-dup decos for each collection (so 40 total) plus other stuff for logging in, and the code is for 22 small boxes.  The correct details are posted by saffron at the end of the first page of this thread. Assuming all browsers cut the page at the same spot, never thought about the possibility of it looking different depending on what you are viewing the forum with. Screw it, I'll just repost it here. 

DeviouslyCursed: *You'll receive 40 Decorations you don't already own (10 New Year, 10 Christmas, 10 Magic, and 10 Lunar). If your collection(s) is full, each extra Decoration will convert to 350 Shards.
Use the bonus code in the following link to claim an additional 22 Small Boxes: https://na.wargaming...mode=HAPPY22WOT   

1LT_Dwayne: The big problem are not tanks or rng. The problem with this game is their incompetency to balance maps and mm. Every maps should have spots where all kind of tanks have options like some of the new maps or the one that got tested. They are big enough and offers different kind of terrains. Concerning the mm I find it ridiculous that you sometime land in battle with 3 spg's and 7-8 td's. In my opinion spg's should be limited to 1 and td's to 3.

Draschel: Its the first, or second strongest tier X heavy. It is not OP. It is ridiculously both broken and OP. 

Draschel: I think he is joking.This is a joke right? He can't be serious here.

Draschel:  Definitely. Studzianka. I think Stud is a great map.Minsk close second https://www.youtube....h?v=ylX7fcqEa8wReally well done. 

Draschel:  Quite narcissistic and silly.  

Draschel: What if they like the image they've built and don't like what you envision their image to be?

Draschel:  Whatever you say, Charlie don't Surf. Former Yugoslav was a part of, and was devastated by continental total World War. Vietnam was a media proxy conflict. Do you know the difference?How many million people died WWII, again? More Yugoslavs, Czechs, Polish died than USA and English serviceman combined. I don't care if your conscript dad was given a duffel and sent to feel the monsoon heat in some swamp in Asia. Good for him.  

Draschel: On wotlabs, there is unicum who talks about always keeping your gun in the game, but keep your HP out of the game. Kolni I believeHP is a currency. You don't want to spend it in the beginning, at least maybe only for crucial map control spots. When teams weaken, spread apart, and end game comes - then you can spend your HP in mop-up  

Draschel: https://rpggamer.org...k Walker (fanon)https://rpggamer.org...k Walker (fanon)https://rpggamer.org...lass airspeederhttps://rpggamer.org...ame=Mandalorianhttps://rpggamer.org...Fighter/Gunship They make their own? Tanks, hovercraft, gunships.  If they were them, here? Chinese and Soviet types.Well balanced in speed, armor, firepower. Think designs like WZ111111115A, IS7, 277, 113, 260, 279E, 705A, 268V4, 430U.

DeviouslyCursed: Tinfoilers weren't right, never have been. Maybe one day they will be. But it's evidence that will determine if they are correct or not. So far, they haven't presented any. (No, I'm not banned.)

Draschel: What is the point of this post.Why post if you have nothing to post.Typical attitude from Red Storm, just nonsense. The guy was helping people out, with possible 40:1 instead of using 35:1 

Draschel:  Fair enough.If you do not like doing things you do not like doing, why bother with Tortoise in the first place? Tortoise gameplay isn't much different than AT15. Things don't magically change becoming tortoise. It is slow, has horrendous gun handling, everyone treats you as a prem-spam meatball, you always get tracked. Why bother if you don't like slow. You had options. You could have went through achilles, challenger, charioteer, Conway. Which are not bad tanks at all, and certainly not slow.You could have done Churchill game carrier, a tier 6 is bearable. And then skip AT7 like you did. AT15 is a simple grind using FL Even as casual, you can make your gaming experience far more convenient if you placed 1 or 2 thoughts into it first   

TeriyakiTanker: Have you ever worked on the programming for World of Tanks?  If not how do you know what is or is not possible with the code?  Please tell me because right now you are talking out your fourth point of contact.

Draschel: how about we add a new game mechanic where all world of tanks players just shoot premium ammo only at you. No one else except you.

Draschel:  Credits are used in whichever way the user wants. It is not a problem at all.

Jaguarz:  Dont engage the strawman

Jaguarz: How completely and utterly redundant, penetration of a IS6, worse handling gun, worse power to weight ratio, reload (but not alpha) and armour of a defender I mean, just why?

Jaguarz:  Not necessarily, people wont stop shooting the nose of the Pz7 when poked out even with an angle giving them no chance of penning it, I used it for all my block missions (bar nation locked ones). People dont see them often enough to understand them and most maps have a wall you can sit behind and rack up the bounces.

churchill50: That starts at tier 8 in the line.The tier 6 and 7 don't get the ability to switch between travel modes.

Einzelganger7: Indien-Panzer is actually a hidden gem, overlooked for the fact we get the Leopards after it and everyone wants a Leopard, some people even free exp Indien without even feeling how it performs, so you should get it and I'm sure you won't be disappointed, is a nice tank.

Draschel: CS53 and Indien are the best of those. 

Draschel: What 90mm gun has 533mm penetration? Or even 457mm. No searches I have seen, indicate a British, USA, Japanese, German 90mm gun with either APDS or HEAT warhead doing that kind of pen hitting 60 degrees The last variants of 90mm HEAT ammunition for guns on Type 61, M48, M56 scorpion had up to 350mm pen. They could also use HVAP ammunition for 370mm pen. There wasn't even any APDS for them.The modernized Cockerill gun still on AFVs today can fire APDS-T ammunition with 310mm penetration, and French O-F3  90mm guns have either HEAT or APDS-T, both 310mm too.  Are you confusing 90mm for 105mm?

Draschel:  lol....do you read? Whatever happened to picture worth 1,000 wordsHe was shot at 14 times. He blocked 2k damage.Assistance may also mean tracking damage. 

Draschel:  FV183 armor is unreliable at its best. Many tier 8 have more than 250 premium pen, and that is enough to threaten FV183 even if hull-down.

Draschel:  I noticed it it 3 seconds. A huge, 6-thousand number that FV183 doesn't get alot of. 

Draschel: I hope i don't sound the part of debbie-downer, but this tank is horrible stock.The stock turret maybe theoretically thicker armor, but is completely flat without a gun mantle to protect it. The stock gun can be serviceable in front lines as 220 AP is acceptable, but the premium APCR pen is horrid for tier 92nd gun,  105/76 had so much potential because of the accuracy, pen, velocity - but is crushingly crapped on with DPM. Avoid it.The engines only provide 90 horsepower altogether, you may want to use turbocharger. Thankfully you can afford to, because gun handling isn't terrible like Rhino I'll pray for you. If you have 85,000 free exp, use it. Turret + 120mm. Then grind out tracks. Then engines. 

Draschel: He just called the best tier 8 non-autoloader medium tank there is  worthless. Nice, hear something new everyday.I wonder what he thinks the best is. Probably T25 Pilot.  

Draschel:  while I am not, per se against your cataloguing - that is fine do what you wish. But....It has very little to do with if you pay or if you continue free. It really does not.There are far superior ways you can invest your time and records into, than vehicle in-game dashboard stats. Which don't tend to mean too much either.In addition, there are 3rd party theorymonists and websites, that can give you this information freely, without you having to invest this time. Food for thought. 

Draschel: people actually do this??Holy bananas from bananaland 

Draschel: For the record, WG is not unsympathetic to requested changes. But they are very slow to make them. And majority of the times, don't make them in the right way or what was asked for. Or even worse, don't know the root problem and make useless alterations instead. But WG MOST CERTAINLY KNOWS AN OPPORTUNITY WHEN THERE IS ONE, to net 9 million dollars cash for what? As simple as someone being held responsible for damages and tinkering of intellectual property

Draschel:  1) it did effect them. Thats why it was changed.2) ''Has always been here'' is not an excuse for the amount of frustration it causes.3) Maps were worse. Map balance and map removal always has been bad. Proves my point?4) The point here isn't to argue what games don't ahve arta in or not. The point is WG doesn't have the slightest clue what to do with arta. And because they don't know, both camps suffer.           A   the people that enjoy arta hate it, because its periodically nerfed and their effectiveness gets limited. They feel robbed with their investments           B  the people that hate arta, still remain hating it because nerfs don't fix a broken aspect of the game and its abilities. WG doesn't care about their game. They did, at one time. Now, for sure not. They care about cash. Not their game. They don't need care, in introducing something, that generates cash. They are two different things. 

Draschel: Way to go, nice work.What was your build? 

Draschel: I think alot of these guns are actually different. ST-II gun doesn't fire 340 HEAT.263 and SU101 version has 800m/s not 900.ST-I and IS4 have a derp-gun version that can't hit anything   While the damage, pen, velocity are the same on ST-I and IS4, 279E is radically different. More like 113. It actually has gun handling and DPM. 279E isn't simply a better IS4. Its a ridiculous IS4 that removes 100HP and some side armor to load it into the front and remove nearly all other heavy tanks weaknesses available, the LFP. Then it gains better firepower, mobility WG has shown to us, they are willing to nerf premium reward vehicles. VK7201 was nerfed years ago, lowered top speed to 30. The exact same can be applied to 279E and Chieftain and 260. These tanks shouldn't be the way they are 

Draschel: Don't want to seem harsh, but paying attention is a good idea. Mapping your routes. Better to start now then never. If you read, pay attention - you would notice Tortoise 120mm cannon is unlocked stock with Conway. And you would notice Charioteer stock gun is also AT15 1st  20lb gun upgrade. By weaving your way through the lines, while also unlocking 3 lines together - you save tonnes and tonnes of EXP and frustration. Caernarvon engine, is also Tortoise engine, meaning you gain mobility rather than remaining stock Since you haven't run the 32lb gun, you don't have a choice. But you can make choices to enhance your abilities by running lots of APCR, or waiting for front lines next year. Or alternately, spend lots of free exp Learn to map, plan, progress through tech trees. Study them abit. Skill4ltu Extras, has an AT7 video just out. Watch that for pointers, AT7 plays similar to Tortoise.

Draschel: What I don't understand, is this nonsense plea of sympathy::  '' (around $9 million) in damages, as many frustrated players abandoned the game upon encountering cheaters.'' Many frustrated players, you say......Since when has player frustration been a thing for wargaming to acknowledge. When at all in the slightest. -people leave by the drove because WG can't simply get arta right, and instead nerf it every year-people leave in drove, because WG won't balance properly and instead come out with more unbalanced things-people are tired and leave, because of ridiculous unfair +2/-2 MM and wide berth of 25% RNG-people are tired and leave, because of useless map rotation, removal of maps, unfair maps, Etc Since when has wargaming actually cared about frustrated players leaving. They are after their ''claimed'' 9 million in losses. Why lie about it. 

churchill50: The only shell mechanics that have been changed are HE. So, unless that's all you're firing (which shouldn't be the case in 90% of the tanks in the game), it's you, not the round. 

churchill50: I believe I saw something earlier that suggested that Season 2 of Ranked Battles will come in January. 

churchill50:  At tier 6 and 8 crew skills/field mods don't really matter all that much. It helps if you're playing the T-34-85M since you're kind of expected to have a good Soviet medium tank crew for the Obj 907. But if you don't yet, then that's not really important. At tier 10, 3-4 crew skills will cover all the important ones on most tanks. Of course, if you have better crews than that, it's always better.On tanks like the Manticore and EBR 105, you're expected to have very specialized crews since those tanks need 6-7 skill crews to get all the important skills/perks.  For Field Mods, they definitely help. But they're not gamechangers most of the time. So get them if you have time, but if you don't have them then don't worry too much. Also be aware that in Clan Wars on some tanks you'll have different equipment loadouts than in Random Battles. The dual equipment loadouts in Field Mods really help with this.For instance, in Random Battles I run Turbo, V-Stab, Rammer on the Obj 277. In Clan Wars you want to be running Hardening, Turbo, Rammer. Same situation for the Chieftain on some maps.Hardening especially is really important in Clan Wars. One tank having an extra 200-300 HP doesn't make too much of a difference. But when your entire brawling force has 200-300 extra HP per tank, that makes a massive difference. For map blocking. I wouldn't say it matters too much.The map rotation for Clan Wars Campaigns/Seasons changes semi-frequently anyways.Plus the ways you play maps differs so widely between Random Battles and Clan Wars that not having experience on a map won't affect you too much in CW.