Developers posts on forum

Draschel: I actually happen to really dislike the range of RNG. I mean, its not an excuse. But considering the amount of games I have played, 25% range is horrific. Pretty sure the only thing looked at is tier X combined performance. Nothing else means anything. Re-roll or not rerolled

Draschel: Do you know how to read? Just asking, because I am pretty sure you don't 

Draschel: i don't think anything, EVER cheeses defenders armor. Its like an IS7. The 150mm upper sdies and no cupolas certainly help, but Defenders pike nose is actually better and will stop 350 HEAT from VK7201.... the defender will always be a great heavy to have on a team. Unlike Tomato, its more than 1 trick flash card. defender is more like a deck of 3 cards, for 3 tricks. 

Draschel: First off, i really don't care about what the people do in Type 64 or LT432 in random battle. Random battle is quite different where the win isn't as important as personal result, and everyone should be out to squeeze the orange and get as much use possible. This has solely to do with tier 6+8 skirmishes, where on the flip side, the win IS EVERYTHING and personal result actually means little. And I'm not talking about playing for wins to pad some dumb skirmish Elo thats a fart in crosswind, I'm talking about cash for clan members in wins. Or people out for x5s. You don't want to be wasting your time in losses or draws getting 5k. People want to win in 4min and get x5 / 60k. I have seen many last minute carries, where a light tank out-mechanics 3 or so guys and he wins because of VR and camo, or forces a draw by running away. Fine, great job, kudos. But chances are this said light tank, put himself and his/her team in that position in the first place, by not spotting to begin with. Not cool. Not a great job. A light tank can spot enemies, for an entire team to shoot at.....VS him/her shooting at a guy him/herself. What kind of silly viable math is that? I've seen lots of higher performing skirm actually forgo light tanks altogether, using more capable versatile things like bourratt/progetto and cromwell, in their place. If you want to sit over 400m away and fire at unsuspecting people in your Type 64 or LT432, why not be in a progetto or T3485M or LIS? Better yet, a skorp or SU130. Drives me bananas. Not saying Type 64 or LT432 and EBR75 can't deal damage or shouldn't, or shouldn't be used - they should. Especially on maps like himmelsdorf where spotting isn't practical. Or combining team HP in wolfpack on an overmatch. But spotting shouldn't be at the expense of choosing to deal damage. AKA, TLDR, farm your WN8 pubs. Where it actually calculates. Not a skirm where it doesn't, where people just want to fast boy and win and get paid 

Draschel: I have this tank, and yes I do hate it too.But honestly, I don't think i have ever been overmatch through the 40mm turret roof. Its such a small pixel. The cupola is more the issueAnd while the mobility is bad, surprisingly this tank moves faster than Lowe. It has more mobility,  lol   than the Tomato.While the aim-time and dispersions are truly horrendous, when finally aimed the accuracy is actually acceptable. Better than IS3 or VK10001P, considering the alpha too. This tank is need of its pre-release initial statistics tested by supertest.   -increase the DPM back to 1,859. This leaves it right into comparable spot of Defender, IS3, Liberte.   -increase the LFP back to 180mm. The turret chins to 210mm. Not 160 and 200.  -Restore dispersion characteristics to .24/.24/.17 not the horrendous current .28/.28Again, these are statistics that the tank USED TO HAVE, that WG nerfed in pre-release. 

Draschel: Indien panzer is kind of sluggish. Not T26 Eagle, thunderslow, or M48 Rhz rated slow....but like panther 88 or Panther M10. It can move around and re-locate, but thinking of flanking? Or dashing across the open? No. If all you play are medium tanks like progetto, RH07, LIS  - Indien pz will definitely feel slow and chunky. And the camo rating is among worst present for tier 8 mediums, further nagging the tanks presence. Indien pz doesn't ahve much armor, but it is enough to block HE attacks and has actually decent ricochet zones around the tank. The big selling point of the tank is the dangerous gun. It matches the DPM of Lansen, the penetration of 259mm is also very good. You are also supplied with good gun depression, and solid HE ammunition like Mutz. I personally think Mutz and indien pz HE shells are much better than HK30, M41GF despite less penetration, because of the enormously superior accuracy and shell velocity. M41GF and HK30 HE shells though neat 102mm pen, can be difficult to use because of horrid 750m/s shell velocity. Indien pz and Mutz have the same shell velocity on their HE as their AP  

Draschel: Completely false and a lie. Unless your targets were things like CDC, Bourratt, or Bat Chat 12T I stopped carrying HE altogether on my mid tiers like Pudel, Pz IV schmulturm, Thunder slow, Strv 57 because HE would literally do 0, 0 0 0 0 against tanks like OI or AT8. Nowadays with the small bore buffs, HE so long as you aim and hit the hull or turret, and not gun barrel or tracks, HE will at least do 5-10 damage. Enoguh for guarantee cap reset 

Draschel: They still can. But now they just have to settle for 1/3rd the damage. Still, 1/3 the damage of what was once 300-400 can still mean something, if::A) you have nothing better to do  B) the enemy is in a tough spot  C) you don't have to aim for it  D) SU100Y,OI/KV2,SU152-> enemy is +2 tier 

Draschel:  But it is their business? It took them a while to figure things out, but they can make profits - selling Skorp G and SU130PM - as opposed to selling IS6 and 112? You know this. What do I think? Well sure, I think initial premium tanks are better. Even current buffs to premium tanks are acceptable. But they want to sell. How can you blame them, the game has been going for over a decade.By the way, though not renegade, M  IV  Y is considerably -not- balanced according to historic Wargaming premium tank creation. M  IV  Y may have avg DPM and view range, but its new mechanic is worth something. A good armor profile, it is CONSIDERABLY mobile compared to mobile tanks already, like Renegade, E75TS, Emil1951. Its more like AMX50100, with a tonne more armor. This isn't balance.   

Draschel:  We have T23E3 and T26 Eagle.I would be better off with World of Tanks appropriately balancing tanks with buffs, not in their *nationalistic biased* way.When we look at the buffs to tanks like (T92 light tank, T95E2 medium)  ......then look at 59-patton, ISU130, KV4 kresl.....its a complete joke. T25 Pilot can get something like 8.00 RoF. 102mm hull like Pershing, 114mm front turret. Importantly 600 horsepower engine like T37. Do you know Pershing stock engine more powerful than T25 Pilot? How does T37 fit that engine while they don't fit it into Pilot. These kind of changes, make sense and are worthwhile to turn the tank into something capable, not a turd.  M48 Rhz still hasn't been looked at. T95E2 got .03 aim-time, 9 penetration. Is this so kind of joke? Or T92 only getting penetration? 59-Patton is the same basic tank as T95E2, and has whoppingly already been buffed 4 times. 

TeriyakiTanker: The basic answer is kills, damage, and assistance.  If you want to up your EXP make sure you are spotting your own damage, damaging higher tier opponents, and getting as much assistance as you can.  Do that and you will win more and get more EXP.  

DomoSapien: If you didn't receive the appropriate number of antiduplicator charges I would contact support. They should be able to verify how many you received. Can confirm that the counter only shows double digits so if you have over 100, once you have less than 100 you'll hit 99 again.
 

DomoSapien: If you purchased boxes on the NA premium shop within the compensation window, you should have received compensation. If you have not - it couldn't hurt to contact support. You should have received something already, if you were within the initial compensation window.

DomoSapien: Hello, Tankers!After reading through feedback regarding the correction to the article for Large Boxes, we've made the decision to expand the window for compensation to the server reset of the morning following the Article correction. The window for compensation of the Large Boxes is now the start of the sale until Server Reset at 4 AM Central time (11 UTC) on Dec 10th. Compensation is being processed and should complete by end of day tomorrow (12/23) Thank you for your diligence and your vocal response.
NOTE: The anti-duplicator charges can not show numbers above 99. They will still be there, but if you have more than 99, you will not see the third digit.

Draschel:  The German, French, American 105mm howitzer HE shell can devastate many tanks in tiers 4,5,6. This also includes the Soviet 122.Derping should be dead, it never should have been a thing at all. Derping is distinct from aiming. Aiming to penetrate with HE, means something. Derping is the casual vomit out of a gun barrel and roll of the dice. Really shouldn't have ever been part of the game. I am pretty sure HE works just fine, so long as the player using it knows whats he is doing with it. Even if tracks cut into the damage of HE lower tier, making a pen a splash instead, low tier tanks except things like B1 and B2, AMX40, Matilda have so little armor that the splashes still cause large quantities of damage.  Swede and German 105mm howitzer also have AP rounds, though they are low penetration the ability to overmatch all 34> armor, regardless of angle kicks in too. 

Draschel: This is an improvement for him, actually. Usually complains about ammoComplaining about a problem vehicle actually a step in the right direction.

Draschel: Is it a cost thing? We aren't debating cost. Hetzer and T40 respectively own L48 75mm and M1A1. These are more accurate, higher velocity, ranged guns that have reliable enough AP to profit. OI-exp, Pz IV, English and USA M4, KV1, Wolverine each have longer barreled, AP guns that can net profit. Without the need of indiscriminate use of premiumOI, KV2, SU100Y don't need to derp around with HE either. Each 105mm, 107mm, 130mm respectively all have good enough APSU152 and much like OI, the Oni don't need HE either. Fast firing 122mm and the 105 are AP guns. Heck SU152 HE howitzer can even fire AP Common trend. People want to derp around and have 'fun' while causing others on the receiving end, to not 'have fun'  This isn't a profit issue  

Draschel: its easy to spot ridiculous posts, and sub par performing players. The ones that write up this kind of post.  For everyone, this post sums up why HE was nerfed to begin with. So this silliness doesn't perpetuate 

Draschel:  Subjectivity, your fun, doesn't equate to objectivity, balance, game health (everyone's fun)  Having a Hetzer or T40, or OI/KV2 one shot things drives people away too. And obviously they still one-shot things with HEAT or AP, and HE too - but the ridiculous freebie splash damage rolls prior to 1.12 were unacceptable. Fun shouldn't equate to laziness, broken, crutch play. And the rampant, general purpose spamming of HE really had to go as it ruins fair gaming

Draschel: Frankly, it is has been overdue. In any tiers, not just high tier.  First off, the biggest issue is the inconsistency. Hetzer or T40 one time can shoot OI or AT8 for 150~ damage, and the next time it would be 0. Hitting the same spot. Now WG made it 25~ or so avgContinuing on to other issues, whole idea of 705A or VK7201, in perfect side-scrape and Type 5, HE100, FV183 shooting extremely acutely into the tracks for 250-350 is ridiculous. 600 for the FV.The whole reason they got rid of Type 5  1,400 damage HE ammunition. And the change to get rid of the imbecile mechanics, shooting Maus /Jag Pz E100 in the face to splash the engine through the roof. I think the final nail in the coffin, was the horrendous display and amount of spam seen in semi-pro ranked battles. WG didn't want 60TP, Fochs 155, 110E4 running around spamming anymore   I enjoy the direction they took by adding more skill to HE use. So long as you properly aim, even 75mm HE rounds from things like  T92 light tank can even damage IS7, so long as you avoid gun barrel or tracks. Before how it were into the front hull or turret it would be 0,0,0,0,0,0 straight in a row. Now you can at least avg 4,5,6,4,5,6. And guess what, 5 damage resets cap, 5 damage kills you at 2 HP.  0 dmg shots don't. In addition, shooting HE through obstacles is pretty cool, or hitting through tracks for penetration still. And even if you did not penetrate through the wall, through the tracks when adding vehicle base side armor - you still get your base non-splash damaging shot. The big thing they got rid of, is shooting acute angles against heavy armored tanks through tracks, or mantlet hits - those are rightly so now 0. And they should be. My own big issue with the change, or screens should be 1x,  not 3x effective thickness. 3x too much.   

Draschel:  And if you fired 104mm pen HEAT, which lets be real will penetrate PZ IV, T-34, M4, Cavalier - the main tier V meds faced, you'd do 350.  Not 30Stop shooting tracks and gun barrels. I know that was broken, and worked for you before, but that crap don't anymore. Adapt? Adapt just a tiny bit? Not too much really

Draschel: isn't everyone supposed to be talking to dilbert, in riddles? i guess here its the other way around 

Draschel: But this does happen. Its happened for a decade. Do you not notice even in your tier, PzK S35 and Pz38H commonly being weighted to low number per match, and near always mirrored by an enemy one? It happens on specified tanks. I don't know for sure if E25 is, but I would learn towards it not being one from experience. I see more matches with E25 only on one side, than I ever see matches without Hotchkiss on both sides. And, funny you say no judgements, but you judge moments before. Nice. So is that why you only create 23 battle accounts to post? Because prior to it, is an account banned? 

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Einzelganger7: There are some tanks that are grills with tracks (most soviet-chinese mediums since they have the fuel tank on the front) so try to either put an automatic extinguisher instead of food, or train firefighting skill on the crew.

TragicLoss: Then I apologize if I ever worded something to make it seem as though the community was to blame for not understanding. 
I only ever try to be informative. In the case of our streams, I know for sure I did let players know that the premium store did have the correct information throughout the duration of the event, but if I ever implied players didn't understand the article I had no intention of making it seem as such.

TeriyakiTanker: Makes me wonder if the WG bots on the SA server can send you presents. To the OP, this is often a very bad time of year for people who are lonely.  If you need help I would suggest you find some because coming here and ranting incoherently with that kind of anger is a pretty bad sign of where you are mentally.

Draschel: i am pretty sure the one who isn't understanding things, is you. 

Draschel:  Can you, instead of talking garbage, clasping your buttocks, for one moment show me an account with a good player, who averages 3k+ damage on his non light tank tier X vehicles, and does the same in their arta? I know a few close guys who play arta to 3-mark them, that get around 2.5 to 2.7, but please, do tell. By the way, the guys that do that, typically average close to 4k in tanks, nevermind 3k.  Now on the other hand, I CAN SHOW YOU  TONNE, A METRIC TONNE of accounts, that arta typically match their same tier peer tanks in damage. Some of them as low as mid-40% W/R. Why is this, professor? Do tell You know nothing about the game. At all. All you are good at, is being a boomer, and makign 20 battle accounts. 

Draschel:  But good players do play arta. Wrong again. Speaking about butt and hurt. They just struggle at it, because it has an extremely low skilled ceiling, means the cup overfills rapidly quickly. How long have you been here in that you still don't know the fundamentals of the game? Go make another 20 battle account Good players play bad tanks all the time. What do you quantify as a good player????? In that you can't seem them playing bad tanks. Wrong again Stats are important to them, so they acquire them. They do so in every tank. No just chieftain or 260. Every one. If these are so easy to do well, why don't you do it and show us? You miss every point as usual. Thats why you perform poorly. Thats why you only make 20 game accounts to post things you know very little if anything about. Continue rambling. Continue making 20 game accounts Learn how to play. And not 20 battles. Not in SA, either.    

Draschel: this is what happens when someone gets banned from the forums, plays 20 battles in a new account so he can post again to probably get banned again. Not only that, doesn't have a clue about the game either.

DomoSapien: I would humbly ask the folks calling for Tragic's crucifixion to bear in mind that while we are representatives for our organization, we are not infallible or incapable of making mistakes in a high-pressure situation.
Having to field the brunt of the community's ire gracefully, on stream, right after the big shakeup occurred and operating on incomplete information is no small ask. It's certainly possible that in the heat of the moment she may have mis-articulated something but knowing her personally for many years and working with her I've got nothing but great things to say about the lengths to which Tragic goes to advocate on behalf of our community. There isn't a bone in her body that would intentionally place the blame for a corporate blunder on the players that she is constantly advocating for. In that regard, I would ask that you take that into consideration before passing judgment.
That said, I don't have much of an update because for a number of reasons, both technical and otherwise - the compensation plan for gifted boxes is still a work in progress. A timely resolution is still very much a priority - we haven't forgotten about y'all - and we've spent quite a bit of time working on an extra urgent sentiment report to make sure we're clearly communicating the extent of the community's sentiment on these issues to our leadership teams. I'm cautiously optimistic that maybe we'll be able to get some extra quality of life improvements that might help ease the burden of the event progression, as some players have suggested.
I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record at this point - by no means is this an attempt to placate you - but your continued patience is indeed appreciated.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! The next On-track is here from now (20Dec) until 20Jan22. More info on the On-track can be found HERE.  If you are close to completing the line or just want to power through that last bit we are offering a Fast track offer that will give you x5 XP missions. More information on the Fast track bundles can be found HERE. Good luck and have a great holiday.

TragicLoss: I'll be 100% honest, I do not recall saying this at all.
The only thing I remember being somewhat close to this was I did remind players that the Premium Store's Description was correct the entire event and that it's generally not something that one should skip over reading. If the article was wrong, but the Premium Store description was correct, players may have noticed the error earlier.
I don't recall saying "You should have re-read the article" or any of that sort that players should have gone back to the article.

churchill50: Usually the next Campaign takes place in mid to late January, usually a week or two after Holiday Ops ends.

Draschel:  Caliban may have a low to speed, but its remarkably agile. 

Draschel: This is something a boomer says. Boomers don't understand things. They sit in 1960 diner living rooms with felt furniture, watching a CRT television still with 2 wire antenna. So they feel the need to angrily, hastily snap back at something, like  ''kids crying'' about crap they don't understand. 

Draschel: ok boomerlearn how to play. If you expect to usher poorly thought out, unrelated responses. Expect them in return boomerWhy should I respect an elder, who has no or never learned respect themself 

Draschel:  It makes perfect sense professor. You answered your own query in your post.How about this, YOU earn chieftain, YOU earn 907, do  great, and show us all here how great you do.You are full of talk. And talk is most certainly cheap. You make no sense at all 

Draschel: ok boomer.Sure.

churchill50:  This ^CVS is restricted to tier 8+ light and medium tanks. All heavy tanks, TD's, and SPG's can't use it, and all mediums and lights below tier 8 can't use it.

Draschel: Arta was never fine.The only people crying are the people crying their artas are getting nerfed again and again. Because arta players like to sit still, drive 200ft from cap and point and click all match. Fire with impunity. WG has been trying for a decade now to fix this mess, by continually nerfing the class.  Hence the part, if players are bad, can't contribute in a tank; ready up and arta and point and click.