Developers posts on forum

Draschel:     why should people be funneled into a pot of 50%    why not people be left to be in charge of their own destiny, with them putting no effort for 43%. casual attempt for 50%, or lots for 60%? 

Draschel: So lets all just shut it, the whole half a-- sitcom we have started here.  Let the poor guy have a rightful recruitment thread?Just a thought

Draschel:  listen. What you say MAY be true. It MAY be false. Who cares. This isn't judge JudyThis is his recruitment thread, and you have no business doing this. Do you understand?Just because you maybe right, doesn't mean you can go about expressing it wronglyI don't even have to know what did or didn't happen, and its irrelevant. This is the wrong way, wrong place for expression

Draschel: real weird.   lol?I don't see anything about 907, 260, 279E.Since when is T34 heavy a preferred tank.  

Draschel:  Your point? You can have it, and feel grateful, for how much of the time?Do you honestly elieve someone who has 10k PR, 60% W/R is grateful for it? to always have a team like that? 

Draschel: even on level ground, armor profile displays alot of red vs 340 HEAT. And certainly not alot of green. I don't like taking a 50/50 yellow pen marker.Even with the protection, the HP is alright, fairly arty resistant as the sides are 100+. front roof is 90mm, top of the turret is 50. Thats like a super heavy.  The mobility is not spectacular, but compared to something like super conquer or IS4 is quite a notch better.  Thats the speed it -SHOULD- have.   The gun also performs radically better than IS4, somewhere in the middle between IS4 and 113.   in its near release form, the bottom of the hull should just have been raised from 20 to 30, not 55. 55 is too much. Drop the pen to 310 like ST-II. Drop the HP/T to 12-13 like IS4 and super conquerThen the tank has compromises more of a fit

Draschel: How about appropriately -weighing- inter-class differing tanks into MM? For example, S1 isn't TS5. The MM can be made to appropriately sift out mismatches, such as AMX50B vs E100.  How about capping powerful, specified tanks per battle, per team. Just like PzK 35H in tier 2, that WG did a DECADE AGO. Powerful, unmatchable tanks, capped at 1-2 per side. ALWAYS matched vs another, other side. They can do this exact thing, NOW with chieftain and Concept1, kamp panzer? 907s and 121B. 260s and 279E. Mirror match them, and limit them to 1-2 per side. WG response was removing them from ranked, for the same reason How about removing artillery and light tank classes. And making them tank destroyer and medium tanks respectively. This removes broken, hard to counter aspects of the game. This forces people to learn more of performance, mechanics, and use less of broken crutching handouts The EBR dilemma. Make them tank destroyers. Remove auto-lock. make them trackable. Make them able to over-turn and crew death time-out. Severely nerf their terrain crossing stats.  Rebalance autoloaders to their former selves. Autoloaders are supposed to have terrible stats, like age-old Even 90, Bat Chat 25, T57.  Not stats like Progetto 46.  How about making 6th sense free, but 4 seconds. Make the newer skill 6th sense 2.0,  an improvement to 3s. And then the directive improves to 1.5 How about removing bots in the game, and capping tiers 1-6 with 3 skill crews only, so we don't have proliferate man clubbers Last but not least, do something with this dreadful ridiculous 25% RNG, and instate +1/-1

Draschel: because such an idiotic way of balancing teams, won't include or work for the current players who try so hard to win their battles will get to continue with that type of balance???? how does pulling everything into the central gravity of 50% W/R for all, mean that players who currently try hard to win more than 50% benefit? and players who don't try and don't give a flying F about the game, don't mind a gracious 44% but certainly would accept being pulled towards 50. How is this fair? Are you a communist? There are fairer ways we can modernize the game.  

Draschel:  That is where you are wrong. You do not think, "take the game seriously"You (only thing important) need to think, take your PLAY IN THE GAME, as seriously as can be.This game is not life. It isn't work at the office. Its a very selfish 15 minutes of take take take take until you can't anymore So what we have here, is a tiers 8-9-10. People should be deep in thought, real serious in achieving 2k if tier 8, 3k if tier 9, and 4k if lucky and 10.  Dismissed. Nothing else matters. Nothing else serious. Turn off your 3rd party statistic display mods and play better because of it. Only you matter in the game, what you do.   

Draschel: lol I don't know who he is. Don't care. And am not trying to defend himAnd even if your opinions are true, that also doesn't matter the slightest You guys are hijacking his recruitment thread and are spreading filth. Slander, actually. Should be ashamed of yourselves, and its against the rules. Why bother posting? Ask yourselves. Who is more toxic and irate? Him, whom bystanders and readers can't know or see - without knowing him. Or you guys, showing yourselves to be clearly toxic and irate, in full view? This isn't the right way to express yourselves   

Jaguarz:

Draschel: It is slow. STI may look the part, as a more compact stream-lined design, but in reality HP/T doesn't change from KV3 and KV4. It basically drives around like 110 and 112. Slow. How slow, well a touch faster than VK4502B (P). Not exactly breaking any speed records. But hey at least you are faster than Type 4 heavy, Maushcen, E75?  And have significantly more sloped armor. In addition STI follows through with bad gun handling, having poor aim-time, accuracy, dispersion values. The shell velocity is legit, but all in all the gun handling is bad for tier 7 nevermind tier 9.  View range is acceptable, DPM after buffs are acceptable, but where ST-I shines is its complete armor package. It has generous armor everywhere. Even the cupola, like Type 4 and 5, or 268 V 4, T62A is significantly hardened and iffy pen for 240-250 pen AP  

Draschel: I was like that, before. When I started. Hundreds, thousands of games into a collection of free, tier 4-6 grinders.  T150, KV1, Jag pz, VK3601, SU100, Matilda. My first lines were object 268, Fochs 155, E50M, JP E100, Conquer GC. I'd do the daily double in each of the lines, and appropriately play 10-12 support battles in the crappy credit gatherers to provide for the progress. I'd be lucky if I even managed 25,000 credit progress a night. BUT, luckily seldom did I lose credits. How the things were different back then, where 5 million credits meant the world to me. No, 5 million credits are things I can throw down a night, then the night later. While not to say I make a plume of credits every night, and I certainly work now as opposed to then, around 45 hours a week - a weekend to myself doing SH I can manage 1-2 million. So 6 million a month seems reasonable a goal. My fortunes changed big, 2012. I won a tier IV tournament, awarded 40,000 gold. I bought IS6, 112 the first moment they went 30% off sale price. A year later, won 12,000 in a cross world of tanks / planes tournament. Even without premium time, and even just spam 530 damage HE splashing things like mini-KV2 but with more accuracy and ROF, they could easily make 30,000+ credits a battle and cause 1k+ damage. Economically huge, training wise, huge. But not so great on the WN7 and efficiency. Then I bought 59-patton, STA2, won IS5 in CW - and these became my more played premiums because they teach speed. And speed teaches ability. Have not looked back, and no longer grind tiers 4-6 for cash anymore.   

Draschel:  No one should say work is easy. That is why we have tools to ease off on work, premium. The age old argument. Time and effort, placed into progress? Or pay for the fee, the added convenience, payment stretching your efforts. It confuses me to heck though, to see someone say nonsense as,  ''trying to grind credits and profit'' using a tier 8 like borsig. When proper free to play account management, sees people using common choices like BDR1GR, KV1, T67, Jag pz IV, Cromwell, M6 for thousands of thousands of games, to grind make their funds 

Draschel:

Jaguarz: If anyone was doing a study on confirmation bias they would have field day in this thread, people naturally fixate on things that are net negatives to them as opposed to the positives, how many people do you think have gone "oh no, I rolled high AGAIN...." Besides which you will never know your real damage rolls, how many times have you ammo racked a really low HP tank? So they take 20 HP damage (and die) as opposed to 1500, its the same with normal rolls, your 20hp kill shot could have been a max damage roll, you will never know. Im confident that in the long run it evens out, even if it doesnt "feel" like it.

Jaguarz:  For you after having a look through your stats and tanks Phase AE for sure, its the strongest tank for you, the char is a difficult beast to get the best from and the 777 is kinda meh.

Draschel: No offense, but you are off by 40 yards. Real off. I don't think you understand how things work Short answer is, you have no idea. Long answer is, well long. The game was designed, a decade ago to have convenience delivered, in the form of rewards+time, AKA gains primarily seen with premium account. Yes, early available tanks like Churchilll III, IS6, Type 59, Lowe, Mutant 6 were great, especially stacking with premium account but premium account is the major thing. Remember, there were no 5x victory reserve multipliers, were no boosters, were no battle pass. These things are now things, that people didn't have for years. So when you say nonsense such as I can't make that money in borsig, you sound laughable.So, free to play existed and still exists. Sure. And players can still do it, at a very fine competent level. But it discards convenience, time, value. And people DIDN'T DO IT, with a tier 8. Cromwells, T150, M4  &  Pz IV, Jumbo, BDR GR1, KV1, Jag panzer IV, SU100, T67 were the earners. Do you think free to play players, are going to sit in a tier with expensive repairs, where most ammo costs 1k per shot? Tier 5 and 6 has the ratios people, wise enough to easily realize, require. T67 can spend 300 credits for 300 damage. Even a Lowe though a great eanrer, spends 1K to cause 320. Thats just not the free to play, viable economy. Free to play economy, didn't invoke grinding. It was one step forward, 3 steps to the side, 1 step forward again, 3 to the side. AKA, play your tier 5 + 6  -3x, then get your doubles in 2-3 tier 7-8-9 grinds, then -3x of your 5-6 earners again.  Does such an economy still exist? It can but isn't popular, and with all the new boons is rare nowadays. Boosters, battle pass, missions, campaign side quest rewards, tournaments ease the pain of the once tedious grind, and yes now its something you can do in tier 7-8. But the truly responsible, account manager who wants to progressively earn and not dig a whole, isn't grinding tier 8s for cash unless FL: (rentals)  clan SH,  tournaments, and putting tournament rewards to use.  

Draschel: I would be frothing, if I wasn't even 48% after 33,000 battles. No laughing matter.I am not sure you know who here doesn't have a clue. 

Jaguarz:  The difference between a blowout and a close game can literally be one person in the right/wrong place, sometimes it doesnt matter what we do and you are going to get trounced severely. To put it into conext the difference between a pretty good player and a bot is the ability to win one more game out of 10. Looking over your statistics this poor quality run you are having is being influenced by you playing tanks outside your comfort zone and as a result you are getting frustrated which compounds with inexperience and makes things worse. You are playing t9s and t10s, a pool which your ability to influence a battle positively is reduced due to the HP vs damage spread you need to work with, mediocre players will never do well in t10 and to be honest, its not even a very fun tier imo. I assume you are playing these tiers to try and skip parts of the marathon? Not that it matters, just wondered. You need to find your joy again, I notice you are best in TDs and light tanks and are less good in mediums and heavies, its good to branch out into areas you dont do well in, it helps you grow as a player and teaches you the drawbacks and weaknesses but it can be a hard time, especially in the high tiers and you dont want to learn there, Pack your prog 65 and conqueror away and practice in the Bisonte and 54 mod 1, I would sooner play the pantera but I dont know if you retained that after researching the next tank. If you are a pleasant conversationalist and are willing to co-ordinate and be on discord (and speak english) throw me an in game friend request, Im not sure my method of play is anything anyone should learn as I like to do high risk/reward plays but the offers there and sometimes sharing the pain is therapeutic anyway. Never forget, some days you are the hammer, some days the nail, I have had days of 20% wins

Draschel: "Surely you can't be serious.""I am serious, and don't call me Shirly." Trust me, he is very serious. But I can't take him seriously. 

Draschel: https://i.postimg.cc/WtQ3sPL8/T-50-122.jpg Now that we have quite a useless VK2801 mit 105, could we have better, counterpart T-50-2 No:174-122? Its a T-50-2, with the U11 122 short howitzer you can find on T43, T3485, T150.  61/140 pen  370/450 damage   

Draschel:  The aliens bit is more believable than anything you have to say Taken out because you lack the fundamentals in positioning, map awareness, susceptibility. You put yourself in that place, easily taken out.This is why poorer performing players, perform poorly. They seek not to blame the real underlying issues, but instead seek scapegoats and hoaxIt isn't the position or poor map locale. The bad spot. The game-mechanics. Lack of support, where you know you haven't any support......its rigging. NiceSpotted early, by chance? Spotted, which you otherwise could have avoided being spotted? Spotted, which where you were spotted is quick death? Getting top score in arta isn't that big of a deal. Quite literally, drive 75m from cap sit in forest and point+click. Wait, point+clickBlocking damage isn't that big of a deal either. A complete chimpanzee can quite literally ready Defender or 112 and block thousands You haven't provided a single piece of logic, in your logical explanation. But you have a logical explanation, to why you clearly perform poorly. 

Draschel: except by HE shells that deal 0, not 1 damage. seriously though, what is the point of survival slot if you can't use hardening? 

Draschel: This guy always complains about ridiculous false things no one believes but himself Tier 8 has lots of tanks that are well armored. Tier 8 tanks like VK100 01 and 112 are popular block mission heaviesTier 8 has lots of tanks that punch up their tier, being stronger than their peers. (Progetto, 274A, LT432, Renegade)Tier 8 is still excellent for grinding credits in FL, SH especially with clan credit boosters activatedTier 8 is nowhere near undergunned. Tanks like skorp G, SU130PM, Renegade, 274A, Caernarvon, Skoda 56, Somua....Tier 8 has many tanks falling between 390-410m view range. The tier doesn't have VR shortages Most important of all, no - pressing 2 isn't a substitute for skilled play. wasn't right the first time you said it, isn't right now   

Draschel: Not big on mentioning arta buffs, what I believe they should get and deserve is ability to mount hardening or resistance. Since arta get survival as their new field mod secondary bonus equipment piece, spall .....could.....work but seldom better than hardening. Hardening gives arta great chance to survive important 1-shots: tier 8 from common 440 alpha, tier 9  490 alpha, and tier 10  560 alpha.  While it may seem stupid to not use firepower boosting equipment, not everyone is super duper hipper turbo competitive or in CW. Bang for your buck, suggests using bonus slot spaces. I think choosing scout slot could also work, but using binoculars or camo net is stationary or bust. And  when arta are forced to fend for themselves, it generally isn't an stationary ordeal. That leaves optics which gives provides useless VR still, or low noise exhaust? 

Draschel: These following changes, will also address the 5 minute battle (the Ensk Syndrome) situation. 1.  Make SPGs now tank destroyers. 1.12 has already provided them with anti tank ammunition, just change back their HE damages, to normal tank gun HE damage. Apply 1.12 HE changes, remove stun.2.  Improve these new tank destroyer HP, VR, track traverse, aim-time, accuracy, dispersion values, shell velocity to mimic current tank destroyers, and similar armament. For example, a Wespe with 105mm will perform alot like Hetzer with 105mm. SU8 with 152, would perform much like SU152 with 152mm.3.  Apply normal tank class rules, such as maximum 720m shell flight range, draw circles   The 100 HP direct hit damaging rolls, have you ever considered they are balanced with the 100 HP damaging hits landing 8m away? Just saying 

Jaguarz: "Balanced" isnt balanced Two identical tanks with same crews and same equipment is balanced, then you and I as drivers and boom, unbalanced, its impossible to account for players. That said there are nonsense tanks like the chieftain which are just out and out better, otherwise its mostly close enough to bear.

Draschel: We see it clearly. In Skill4tu latest rendition of IS7, we see him go hulldown against super conquer in Karelia, north cap.Skill  switches to HE to hit the roof and cupola of super conquer, and deals 130 and 240 damage consecutively. Not bad damage rolls at all, considering 51 & 69mm of armor. It seems indepth, the HE changes dramatically decrease the sustained damage from HE attack to thick armor. Light armor seems to not fare any differently, maybe even worse.In Mannerheim, Skill sees Leo PTA take 950 from 183, non penetration. Thats quite alot. With FV4005 just recently, he splashes EBR105 for 850.I shot hulldown progetto 46 in FL with HE out of 50TP, which was loaded for 2HP  Skoda T27 - over 280 thats more than half HE damage roll. Typically these sort of splashes pre 1.12 would do 600-800 for a splash.   

Jaguarz:  Right? In xvm I would look like a very useful player if I didnt go anonymous and sometimes I am, but often I play high risk/reward strategies which can look like going full potato whereas I have seen people with abysmal stats carry a game like a god

Jaguarz:  If it makes no impact on your play or choices then it serves you no use and you lack the maturity to make effect of its information and prove my point

LargeForeignObject: Does "listening to the players" qualify as a legitimate reason?

Jaguarz: Seriously, its literal mind cancer and very few people have the discipline to interpret its useful information properly. For example today a very slightly above average player in a EBR starts sounding off from the get go about how the match was a loss even before it began, he proceeded to continue to whine while putting out a garbage display of map reading. grabbing a little bit of damage from tanks out of position, he died then continued to mouth off about loser teams and how his stats were the best (they werent, he was the embodiment of mediocrity) and unfortunately I wasted too much time expecting him to do anything of use before moving to support the collapsing flank, my bad. Still it was a very close game which would likely have gone a different way if imbecile EBR hadnt resigned himself to a fate before it began thanks to the literally worthless XVM win chance. It takes a mature player to get the best from XVM and it can provide very useful intel but the amount of people who can use it to influence a battle are few and far between, especially with the anonymizer in effect, I dont use it because seeing a bunch of red players on my side would have a negative effect on my state of mind which would likely effect my play and choices, Im mature enough to appreciate that Im not mature enough to use XVM. XVM is trash, weak players need to stop fixating on it.

Jaguarz: Crew skins as a "reward" is not only lunacy but its also incredibly insulting, anyone mod the skins into anything they like yet Wargaming puts a crazy high value on this trash

Jaguarz: Send it back, 250 Alpha + 7.5 reload + 0.41 dispersion = worthless.

Jaguarz: Its automated and if my memory serves it came about after a Wargaming employee was caught being inappropriate in World of Warships chat.

Draschel: Most certainly wrong. It is not the same tank at all. 

Draschel:  Who cares? Really who cares.A person can hide behind a good alt account, IF THE ALT ACCOUNT PLAYS WELL.Who on earth hides behind an alt account, if it plays bad? It doesn't work that way.He clearly performs, and knows, subpar. 

churchill50:  So 2-3 battles a day, and anecdotal evidence and confirmation bias for the rest? Well, I guess this is the forums after all.

Jaguarz:  It is absolutely 100% your connection TO the servers, it is not the servers themselves, its not your ISP or internet connection, it IS 99% telias backbone giving you a pathway to the servers which is hitting problematic nodes on the way. When it happens to me I use a VPN to bypass the problem areas (surfshark I think it is). The WGNA team can do literally nothing about this bit whine at Telia who will laugh at them. Think of the internet as a road network and theres a accident at a junction slowing traffic down to a crawl, the VPN allows you to bypass that to a degree by choosing your own route. You can easily test by using a trial of a VPN

churchill50:  No, it really didn't. There were no changes to that gun when the VK28.01 was released. The only recent change to the Hetzer gun was with the HE changes a couple of months back. 

churchill50:  It still does plenty of damage. You just have to know when to fire HEAT and when to fire HE. Plus it's been the most fun I've had in this game in a while, so I would say it was a great Well-Deserved Reward.