Developers posts on forum

Jaguarz:  Thats how I did HT-15 for the 260 way, way back on EU account, middle road lakeville, bounced near 30k

1LT_Dwayne:  Exactly my thought. I think the maps has something to do with it. I saw more teamplay in general on bigger maps and maps with more variety of terrain for every kind of tanks. If you land on Prokhorovka with a AT8 for example don't expect him to help you.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! We want to increase the number of maps that support the Assault battle type. The following maps will be added to the Supertest as an experiment: Redshire, Steppes, Mannerheim Line, Tundra, Overlord, and Safe Haven.Once the test is over, a decision will be made on the upcoming improvements and further steps.On some maps, one of the defending team's spawn zones is not marked on the minimap because it overlaps with the location of the base. The same applies to the attacking team: If you see only one zone, the entire team spawns there. See the screenshots.Redshire   Steppes Mannerheim Line   Tundra   Overlord   Safe Haven   The bases and spawn zones of the teams are placed according to the specifics of the Assault battle type.Balance changes have been made on the Ghost Town map: The base of the defending team has been relocated in the Assault battle type.  

Draschel:  Well, sort of blunt, placing ''use'' as akin to subconscious meaningless sacrifice.  

Draschel: lol.....A tonne of experience, right?60,000 battles and how many 3 marks. Not even a tier V one, a walk in the park

Draschel:  I have to say, it is a results based game. I can't have humanitarian and noble intentions interfere with getting as much result as possible.I don't want to make up for bad team mates, with a game in front of you you have enough to do on your plate already.Making team mates useful? Errr, having them serve as HP piñata for users to exploit, well I'm not sure they'd see the use in that as others using them for it. The end justifies the means. Do whatever possible to net the results you want. Everyone except you, is sacrificial to that goal.  

Draschel:  are you trying to say that for any particular tank, in order to 3 mark it, just be good? 

churchill50:  That was my question when I saw the title. And then I saw the title of the video, and realized he isn't even right now.

churchill50:  Yes and no. People are definitely the root of the problem, but XVM's win chance provides an excellent avenue for their toxicity.It's similar to friendly fire in WoT. Sure it isn't the cause of toxicity, people are. But it was only ever used as an avenue for trolls, and thus only added to the toxicity in the game. XVM's win chance is the same way, in that it only ever leads to toxicity. And just like team damage, it should be removed from this game.

TragicLoss: There was a link to the tracking page added to the main post of this thread. You can click on the different text and it will bring you to a separate page.
Otherwise, you're still free to donate directly to the USO: https://tiltify.com/@bted/raise-shell
This is the second time we've run the Silent Auction (the first was during the Memorial Day charity drive for USO)



On that note, crediting is going out to users! I've credited many of the in-game goods at this time. Only a couple will be credited slightly later. You can see this on the tracking page. 

Once again thank you to all in this amazing community. We were able to raise 40k matched which brings the total to 80k.

We will be having a x4 EXP event to celebrate this achievement on the NA Server Thursday.

churchill50:  It's also never been accurate since it relies on overall stats, not recent stats, to determine the win chance. Not to mention it's been the cause of a lot of toxicity...

_BobaFett:  Yeah, yesterday when I tooned with cloudwalkr and Campers_Party, we only ever got the Immortal down to 1000 HP. It's really really difficult on hard. 

churchill50:  It's an email that gets sent to the email account attached to your WoT account.It might be sent to spam depending on your email account settings.

churchill50: Honestly, none of them are worth it. IS-6B has alright armor, although it's not great anymore due to pen creep at tier 8. It does have pref mm, which kind of helps. But the gun just hurts. Bad gun handling + really poor pen is not a good combination.Senlac is perhaps the best of the lot. It's a decent light tank, but not great. There are too many strong tier 8 light tanks that just crush a Senlac.M46 KR is far from ideal. Low top speed, unreliable armor, gun handling isn't the best, combination of alpha and DPM is low, pen and shell velocity are both bad. It's kind of painful to play nowadays, and that's coming from someone who used to love the M46 KR.AMX M4 49 doesn't really have good armor for the tier. The cupola is a huge weakspot. You can't sidescrape because you show the weak hull cheeks. That leaves you just driving straight on and wiggling, but most of your front isn't too difficult a pen, especially to premium. The mobility is decent for the armor though. The gun is okay, but too derpy for my taste. It tends to put a lot of shots in the dirt.Alpine Tiger is the worst of the 390 alpha Chinese prems. The T-34-3 has better mobility and a better gun. The 112 has better armor. The WZ-111 Alpine Tiger is kind of stuck in this awkward middle ground where it doesn't have any of that. It does have pref mm though, which is always nice.

The_Chieftain: Can't say it's my ideal pastime. Too much fear of collapses/getting stuck/lost/whatever. 

TeriyakiTanker:
I give your post at best a B- and it’s nowhere near as good as Maniacs meltdown post from today.  I mean maybe you are a coked up card carrying member of the aryan brotherhood but you are still at best, and even that’s a stretch, the second best  poster of the day.  You really need to up your game.

TeriyakiTanker: Well to be fair this is a much better goodbye post than most if the other ones I’ve seen.

Draschel: i believe he was out on a strike or  2 before, explaining his absence. Looks like he is back thoughHowever, seems like the way he has chosen to come back, may lead him to go on out again 

DeviouslyCursed:  Oh, he'll be easy to spot. Just look for the whiny little s*** that white knights conspiracy rejects when people suggest they provide proof or calls them out on their lack of evidence, and never tells the conspiracy nuts to stop insulting people who respect logic, reason, and the nature of evidence.

DeviouslyCursed:  He always was a hypocrite and a piece of feces. Glad he finally gets what he deserves. Good riddance.   What's really funny is in the end, he sacrificed everything he claimed to value. Though, him being a hypocrite and all, I guess that really wasn't all that surprising? I don't know. I'm drunk. But still a better person that this fool.

Jaguarz:  Tough guys never, ever have the need to prove they are tough guys, you are making yourself look a fool.

_BobaFett:  I love your pfp.

1LT_Dwayne:  Since your talking about ping it would be interesting to know how much it can affect your wr. I always run at 100-130.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! From today (1Nov) until 4Nov, hop in-game now to get some sweet decals and camos for all your tanks.They are all Dia de Muertos-inspired and some of my personal favorite styles.  More information on where to unlock this stuff and get an awesome shirt in the same style can be found HERE. 

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! Up for sale is a M54 Renegade starting at 48.06 with a sweet Outlaw style. Up next is the Bat.-Chatillon Bourassque starting at 35.54 for the plain version with no sweet style. The bundle with the style starts at 66.02.These will be on sale from now (2Nov) until 12Nov. More information can be found HERE. If you are looking to get some premium time. Well, there is an offer for 30days that gives you a free T-29 tank.This offer is from now (1Nov) until 1Dec, and is only 12.63.More information on this bundle can be found HERE.  

TragicLoss: Thank you all that participated! We reached our stretch goal of 40k!

Draschel: if you are really good at anticipation, and do more aiming* than you do pivoting* prior to aiming....choose the gun traverse.If you are bad at prediction, and find yourself commonly making pivotal corrections, choose hull traverse,Keep in mind, 261, GWE SU212A, GW Tiger have real bad arc swing angle. They will doubtlessly have to pivotIf you have wide angle arta like GW panther, M53/M55, conquer GC go with gun traverse. They don't pivot so much 

Draschel: Roflbrawling TD high tier, narrow choke point mapssniper schnitzel TD bottom tier, foliage maps 

Draschel: i'd be willing to bet in competition, renee actually beats Skoda 56. Unless pre-planned map deploymentIn tight spots like himmelsdorf or ensk, tanks like Caernarvon and Skoda will give renee trouble, sure.But Skoda 56 isn't like 279E or VZ.55  It is considerably slower, inaccurate, less protected Renegade however fulfills alot of the things chieftain does, except.....besides the cupola 

Draschel:  Nope. Close, but even close is without the cigar. https://ibb.co/5x1MPjq Nearly 2,800. Got 2,700 needed for Euro play, but not here in NA where people playing for 3,450 combined. I am no insano, and that ain't no Tiger P, sorry. Will have to wait until it calms down. For such a bad tank. T1LPC has lower reqs, and is twice the tank 

_BobaFett:  Sounds good to me. See you then.

_BobaFett: If so, what are your strategies/tips? What tank is best for trying to beat the Immortal? And what consumable loadout do you use? I've had a go at it about 8 times now and no luck. Farthest I've gotten is getting his HP down to half on the second stage.

Jaguarz: You seem to play heavies more so I guess Renegade may be more your speed.

Draschel: do you have a 30% off coupon? 

Draschel: you sure looking at NA req? EU is at 2,700 right now. surprised after panther 88 DPM buff its not highermaybe it is because everyone prefers RH07 and lansen

Draschel: No. Unless you got TS5 for free in marathon. I guess grinding 10 marathon levels is easier than grinding a self tier XBut you had 14 days for marathon, no time limit for getting the tier X. Either pay, what is it, 52 bucks for TS5?or pay 18 for T95E2 when you could. if you grinded to level 6-7 in marathon which was pretty substantial in itself, echo 2 still cheaper  

Draschel: T95E2 could have been acquired very easily.I am sure lots of people have it. 

Draschel: is NA really liking Echo 2 buffs or sometin? The buffs were tiny and insignificantThe thing is 3,450 combined right now, for marking; what on earth is that. Hilarious. That is more than TS5, progetto, or LIS to mark. Even more weird than 122TM mark.It is laughably close to being similar amount to mark as kunze pz, a tier up.  lol?? What is even weirder, EU tend not to care at all. Its marking req is like 1,000 less I left this piece of crap on my 2nd star way hey day back, but won't  attempt it now 

Draschel:  Scorpion can penetrate even tier 9 tanks, but has extremely bad soft dispersion stats making it like an artillery. 240 alpha on a TD in tier 7 doesn't cut it unless you have have some DPM. Things like AC46 mle, Jag panther, T25, T-34-2G, Steyr all using the same middle gun 90 or 100mm class have way better workable DPM, even if they trade the pen compared to scorpion. And they have better gun handling. While you may say SU12244 armor don't work, it is more or less comparable to down-scaled WZ120 G and can be aggressive top tier. Can give alot of things trouble at the tier. And most certainly will non pen HE splash even high pen HE like Leo PTA or arta like GW Tiger even using higher pen alternate shell. Scorpion has absence of any armor at all and gets wrecked. 160~ mm effective UFP may not seem great, but pretty much makes it combat effective resilient vs tiers 6-7 LT and Med, most of them anyway. The hull is pretty much comparable to LIS, and the gun mantle soaks up just about anything   How can things like super hellcat, scorpion, ikea 90 have that low DPM, when something like challenger has 200-300 more with a turret, gun depression, mobility too.  

Jaguarz:  Again, you dont seem to see the nuances. People claim the game is pay to win already when it literally isnt, crew 2.0 is p2w, doesnt matter where you move the goalposts increasing cost to benefit if its there its game poison. If its balanced and doesnt have any pay to win features in it then is the cost investment in the feature worth Implementing? The answer is likely no, its a clunky RNG addition to a game where a great many people whine about RNG already, it creates work where none was needed as people need to prep crews for specific tank features, armour? DPM? Accuracy? Speed? Then its 3 tanks per crew, lets look at russian heavies, there are 25ish premium/reward tanks in the category alone and where people could have one crew before for all russian heavies now they will need 9 different crews to cover. Even if crew 2.0 was nothing but sunshine and lollipops and was good for everyone (and it sure isnt that, this is not the second time its been rejected, it got tossed out of WoWS because they couldnt get it past the playerbase) it would be change for changes sake and would do nothing to gain players or even retain players, its only possible outcome would be to piss some players off and lose them. Star Wars Galaxies New Game Experience for example was a technical improvement across the board, its also a prime example of how you can create failure where none was needed because it literally killed the game, in the biggest IP in the world, at a time when there was barely any alternatives. So, wheres the benefit in crew 2.0? There is none to be had. *edit* Just to note I dont care if they implement it or not, I will find something else to do with my time and still glean entertainment from watching it all unfurl