Developers posts on forum

Draschel:  well technically, you didn't answer me. The game isn't running 3/5/7 anymore every battle. I can see more than 3  +2 tiered tanks. What?  And while there aren't crazy differences between tiers 6-7 or 9-10, there are notable differences in tank capabilities between 5-6,  7-8,  8-9If 5/10 is the most common +1 / -1 MM spread, having to deal with 5 +1 tanks is quite a ways better than dealing with the same 5  1 tier up tanks, +3 more 2 tiers up. Are you kidding me? And in that 5/10, 10 tanks are within my tier, whereas a 3/5/7 only 7 are. It compounds. And answering, yes 3  +2 tier tanks can easily sway battles, while  3  potato +2 tier tanks on your team may easily doom battles too. I don't know why you are getting fixated on just three tanks though, when it is more than that. Balance of power and thrill, shouldn't rest on the shoulders of a trio of players in a match. It should be spread out amongst more, and while doing so, also having the magnitude of that power reduced as well. 

Draschel:  There is no crime in shooting premium ammunition back at those shooting you with itAs well, there is no crime in minimizing bad luck, by using all tools at your disposalYou did mention 2 auto-loaders. Autoloader flexibility in ammo department kind of limitingMy auto-loaders always run straight premium, except strv 57 in T6  strong holds.  

Draschel:  but that is just it, you don't play. perhaps if you played, it'd be an issue.

Draschel:  Buff the 120mm, to what it should be,  400/400/515 alpha.Buff the view distance to 380. You got a tank then. 

Draschel: AMX50B  mobility.  T57 armor level.T57 self-propelled gun dispersion, aim-time, and randomness 

Draschel: I don't hate HEAT changes against spaced armor, reducing TD alpha to 750, HEAT pen to 395.I don't hate HE changes. I don't hate removing type 5  1,400 damage HE club. I don't hate 430U, 268V4,  PTA nerfs. I don't hate the EBR nerfs. I don't hate continuous arta re-balancing  (AKA nerfs)I don't hate removing reward tanks from RankedI don't hate the addition of over-target markers, artillery lob cam, HP score card, battlefield circles (render, spotted, spotting, proxy) I don't hate the addition of playing under anonymityI don't hate the ability to exclude maps not-liked. All these points, are geared towards introducing beneficial content, making the game fairer. +1/-1 MM is right up this alley. Fairer.  

Draschel: Why is +1/-1 so bad, while +2/-2 isn't? After all, with +1/-1 at least 15 out of the 15 tanks you face are +1/-1 of yours. Do those 15 out of 15 that are only 1 tier away, really make something so terrible, lopsided, uncool?  This seems to me, like some people are so fixated on the very few perks of +2/-2, versus the overwhelmingly fair benefit to the entire playing population 1 tier difference provides. As if the probably <10% player base who don't mind +2/-2  matter.   

Draschel: I'd even say this.I'd trade away my randomness in current MM, the 33% chance to be +2, in +2/-2  MM......for the prospect of +1/-1 for everyone else, except me. I'd rather be the 1 stuck at  -1 at the bottom all the time, for the rest of my days. And I'd be fine with that. I don't need the help, but the overwhelming player base, grinding their tanks, do. They deserve a fairer playing field. And while such a move doesn't guarantee a fair field, it certainly does more than +2/-2 

Draschel: I don't want the chance to be amazing. I want things as fair as possible for participants involved3K WN8 I get in tier 7 facing tier 5,6,7 is the same 3K WN8 I get facing tiers 7,8,9. Bonus exp earned and cash, insignificantBut I have to try and carry 5x more in the latter, while breezing through the former. I don't want it. And I get utterly s--- on in 3rd marking, consistency is far more difficult to achieve and far more punishing a resultWe need to stop thinking of highs and lows, but instead a more equal playing field. People want less to complain aboutThere is plenty of variety in +1/-1 MM spread. Plenty. I don't have trouble with +2/-2. I said its premise is unfairIf you think WG has been spot on with their MM for 11 years so far, when did you start playing? October 2021? I have no doubt, that your other alt accounts are as good or less than the one you are using now. If it weren't, you'd be using them anyway. But you aren't. Now there could be a myriad of reasons, but commonality suggests they simply aren't. But for someone to say such nonsense, in a game that has said matchmaker is fine throughout its run history, which started off as +4/-4 and even worse for lights/SPG. Then changed to +3/-3 and 4s for artillery and LT, then to +2/-2 and 3s for LT, then  universal +2/-2,  removing tier 3  +2/-2,  then +2/-2  3/5/7, then removing 3/5/7.....How many changes are we talking about here? MM is one of the single most hated aspects here.  And for those that think +1/-1 would then bring about the complainers +1/-1 is too much a MM spread,  lol.  Everyone and their brother, have +1/-1 MM right now, as we speak. In the forms of KV5, IS6, T-34-3, E25, T14, KV220. It is fine, and the world of tanks we need right now. With all the tier _____insert number + (0.5) tanks we have currently, like 260, 279E, Chieftain, renegade, Skoda 56, progetto and even lower....like Type 64, T3485M -- we actually have a 2.5+/-2.5 tier spread, not 2.   And complaints work. Have you ever been to the grocery store to return sour milk, stale bread, after you just purchased it? Is that fair? Without complaints, we'd still be in +4/-4 and our LT/SPG would be +5/-5. Without complaints, Type 5 would still be derping 1,400. Without complaints, ranked would still be 279E chieftain fiasco. Without complaints, meta would still be sidescraping on corners with 3,200 base HP Maus tanks. Without complaints, armored cars would still be their release editions, not what we have today having 2 instances of nerfs. You say cry, and cry away. I look at your service record, and I cry. But people shouldn't be crying about actively grinding a tank, and getting completely crapped on by an elite +2.5 tiered tank. Even if they were responsible, and passive - what good does that do them if they are not a flexible mobile tank with camo? This isn't skill4ltu or iyouxin, camping in position, bushed up, but still in a tank with speed. What on earth is someone in churchill VI or thunderslow or Jumbo to do? Be passive, with a slow tank, poor camo, and even bad alpha to boot even if they do dip into APCR to pen stuff. You don't have a clue Look at it this way. If tiers tightened, to +1/-1 everyone does better. Tank mastery and 3-mark reqs increase. Thats my challenge. I am willing to live up to that, take up that challenge, than to have to deal with unfair crap. 

Draschel:  Just ignore him. He is a troll, let him trollLet him enjoy other accounts to 3-mark Tiger P +2/-2 is awful. Regardless if good or bad. To be clear, I am not saying it cannot be done. It has been done and will continue to be done. I have been through MM, with good scores, even +4/-4 nevermind 2. But for me, these examples do not matter. It is not fair, and not healthy for the game. The game is not made up of me, players that are responsible, determined, obsessed with doing well. The game comprises in large part, 47-50% casual base, that frankly do not like +2/-2 MM. And even in my examples, the amount of effort and situational awareness, I have to constantly crunch when down 2 compared to 0-1 is ridiculous, for no real reward change. Yet the looming punishment that exists for misplays 2 tiers down is ruthless. And this is not something that people need to delve deep into, it is fairly easy to plainly see. +2/-2 is bad, very bad. And WG knows it is bad, and keeps throwing bones to inch close towards +1/-1 but never actually does it.  there is not one universe out there, that exists in that +1/-1  spread is bad. Even if you had to wait an extra 15-20% for battles. You'd be rewarded a huge increase in fairness, far outweighing the 15-20% time sink you pay forward.  279E, Chieftain, 260, 907 aren't farming stock grinding tier 8s. An  OI  or KV2 isn't flagrantly one-shot ing poor M5 stuart. Likewise, the other end bottom tiers in +1/-1 find it far more conducive to contribute. Less premium ammunition is used as well 

TeriyakiTanker: Yeah but all you do is seal club against bots on the SA server so no one cares or is impressed...... but congratulations anyway.

churchill50:  I agree completely with Cowcat here. They're not a good tech tree for beginners, but there are some definite jewels in there.

TragicLoss: The Type 59G went for 400 last auction! I am warmed by the amount we raised last time in the silent auction alone during Memorial day. ($4400 USD)

TragicLoss: Yes, this also goes for any silent auction items.

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churchill50:  https://www.tomato.gg/ It's a great site. You can look up player stats, server-wide tank stats, moe reqs, etc.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! The time to grab the T77 is now! Starting at 44.32 you can run off my lot with it like you stole it! (Cause I sure did.) Or you can jump into the GSOR 1008 and growl like a dino"SOR" as you do a donut in my legally parked "lot" that is definitely not in the front yard of someone on vacation. This tank starts at 41.16. For more information on the T77 click HEREor if you wanna check out the GSOR stuff click HERE.

churchill50: If I remember correctly, there was a code for a rental HWK 30 last weekend. I would bet that's what's caused the massive drop.

TeriyakiTanker:
That’s funny, I’ve been playing since 2014 and it certainly was a thing in the past and was widely accepted as such.  No clue if it still happens though.

Draschel: ultra-specific

churchill50: The T-100 LT and LT-432 are the only tanks in the game with that ammo setup.  It is a rather interesting idea in my opinion, since it gives both rounds advantages and disadvantages, instead of the premium APCR round always being the better shell in every situation. For these two tanks, APCR has shell velocity, while AP has better pen (emphasized by the better normalization).

Draschel: T14  M4E4  M4 improved  all need help.  And Pz T25, Turan III T14 should get 76mm UFP,  63mm both parts of side hull,  25 track traverse like T1 heavy,  M7 75mm stock gun on T1 heavyM4 improved should get M7  75mm  stock T1 heavy gun,  63mm UFP, 660 HPM4E4 gift sherman should get  M7  75mm stock T1 heavy gun, 680HPPz T25  350m view range. 32'' turret traverse. Turan  350m view range, 45pc ammunition, 300 Bhp engine

Draschel: Who said NA streamer?Only NA streamers I ever tune into, haven't made content in a yearWhat kind of assumption is that. 
Maybe If I said it in Czech, you'd understand? 

TeriyakiTanker: You have no idea what you are talking about, this was fixed for the second iteration of crew2.0.  So you are fortunately completely wrong.

churchill50: This was posted just earlier:http://forum.worldof...pport-articles/ Looks like they know it's an issue and are working on it.Hopefully it's fixed faster than the chat issues of a few years back  (if anyone remembers that issue). 

churchill50:  Please no.

churchill50: It isn't the Manticore, or any of the other British lights, or any of the other tier 8-10 lights. It's not the T110E5, S Conq, Conq, 113.It's not any of the recent additions to the game, like the Astron Rex, Skoda T56, tech tree Czech heavies.I can't think of any others that would be likely to get an ammo capacity increase. So color me confused. *This is all taken off tanks.gg, which might not be correct.

TeriyakiTanker: You need to know where to go hull down on maps.  This can be on ridge lines or even rubble.  If you show your hull they will penetrate you.  Just search youtube for videos.  Good people to watch would be skill4ltu, DezGamez, and Quickybaby come to mind.  Other people will have a lot more to share, but you want to watch any video that shows you how to use a hull down tank.

Jaguarz:  K91 is a poor tank, good dpm but a limited turret makes it worthless outside of sniping and there are better tanks for that role.

TeriyakiTanker: My big concerns with 2.0 being that it is going to be a huge investment in time for me, I have over 500 tanks.  Certainly not all with crews but a lot of them do.  I am not looking forward to changing them all over.  So my concerns come down to 1.  A lot of time to relearn and set up crews.2.  I think its a huge money grab, specifically with how much they charge to add the other two tanks to your crew.3.  Experience crews are going to be way better than new crew, good for me but really bad for players with significantly lower battle counts.4.  Some tanks can just do broken things, specifically higher camo scouts and even more specifically the EBR 105, just sick and in my opinion game breaking.5.  I actually like the meta game of crew management and having to plan out my crew in the long term, I do get others perhaps in even a majority of players disagree but I like it.  That will be gone in Crew 2.0. So overall I think it would have made more sense to just rework the current system.  There is no reason they can't just add, remove, and change the existing perks and skills.  

Einzelganger7: In world of warships there is a stat named Sigma and according to the wargaming wiki it is described as "Sigma is one of the parameters for gunnery in World of Warships. It describes the tendency of a shell to land closer towards the center of aim, aka the middle of the dispersion ellipse described by 'vertical dispersion' and 'horizontal dispersion'. The higher the Sigma value, the more likely the shells are to land closer to the center." I bet world of tanks has the same parameters but how they work is completely hidden, still I think they linked sigma with dispersion but in this case the smaller the dispersion is also lower the sigma because is ridiculous that derpy tanks almost all the time land their shots pin point.

Einzelganger7: For me this patch is mostly meh for the lack of interesting content, but I am happy because I saw this while watching the article, we are going to get Mirny-13 once again! That became into my favorite mode since I started playing.   

Draschel: Number of games matters, but doesn't matter. It is complex.While it doesn't matter, because your average over the span, 100 battles But your average over that span of 100, is calculated ongoing, as HOW MUCH you combined. An average comes from somewhere. And 3-mark standards fluctuate. The HOW MUCH, demonstrably effects your increases or decreases per match. While an 100 battle period  is used, the average of that 100 battle is based on HOW MUCH you earn. Which in terms of a 3-mark, could be sufficient, or just shy of it, or exceedingly beyond. 

Draschel:  perhaps the words weren't understood.Before the buffs to leopard, leopard was in pretty bad shape. So, in discussing possible *over* Leopard,   *for, applicable, trending*      VS what you may have misinterpreted it as,  *over*  as  in  *more than needed, surplus*Wrong choice of words. I should have used ''concerning''.  Interestingly though, WG did however decide PTA was apparently over-buffed 

Draschel:  What kind of people? It is very important. For what I believe I should do?Simple scaling. 2,000 tier 8,  300 assistance for good measure.                         2,500 tier 9,  500 assistance for good measure                           3,000 tier10  700 assistance for good measureRough guides, of course, with TD numbers favoring damage at expense of assistance. No real changes for LT, as I don't scout. Keep in mind, I am sort of potato, so alot of others and their standards will be quite higher than this. Many people play for their 3-marks, at a fiercely competitive rate, and do them in 75-150 battles, yes so I'm not that and don't ever think I could amount to be. More of a lax......get them in about 300-400 games instead. 

The_Chieftain: That does seem to have happened. I stopped posting in here as it became a little more politics than general chitchat as it had been for years. I've been checking in on occasion, but little to chime in on. Currently doing a master's in military history. Coursework includes watching Machinima from IL-2 Cliffs of Dover (As part of the Battle of Britain segment) and playing Combat Mission for the "war in Europe" segment, in addition to the more normal stuff of reading academic books and writing papers on them.

Jaguarz:  and thats the huge issue in a team game and why good as well as bad players will do garbage things like red line snipe in inappropriate tanks The "mistake" comes from expecting your team to have half a brain cell between them and its depressing when a great deal of the time you have to assume they are complete amoebas. I play hyper aggressively for the most part, I play to win not pad, I win more than most and can live with that.

TeriyakiTanker: No it wasn't, not even close.  There were certainly people opposed to it but not anything close to what has been seen with Crew 2.0.

Jaguarz:  Well to be fair in respect to 1 if you take a high risk/reward location early it can be a game winner IF your team supports it and it can be their fault for being too stupid to read the play and get into a useful position. Problem is you can rarely depend on your team because its filled with people who match points 2-10.

Jaguarz:  The HE with the larger radius IS the stun round, the one with the smaller radius is the increased damage round

Jaguarz: Who uses Bing......