Developers posts on forum

_BobaFett:  Don't forget the German too.

churchill50: Generally, the tanks you'll want to bring need to have a good combination of HP and DPM, with either armor or mobility.Tanks I would suggest would be:Tier 5: Pz V/IV if you can. KV-1 with the 57mm gun if you can't.Tier 6: T-34-85M, VK30.01P, HT No VI/Tiger 131.Tier 7: Tiger I. T29 with the 90mm used to be a decent option, but it's not anywhere near as viable after the Tiger I buffs, except on a few maps.Tier 8: Caernarvon is easily the best option. 53TP, E75 TS, Obj 274a, and Progetto 46 are also decent choices. For equipment, I would run Improved Hardening, Rammer, and Vents. This boosts both your DPM and HP. On some maps, you'll want to drop Vents for Optics (Malinovka, Prokhorovka, Redshire for instance). A few guidelines as far as strategy/playstyle:You do have to play the cap, or at least close enough to reset it if the other team tries to cap.If you can safely do so, try to get some early shots. If you risk taking too much damage while doing so though, then don't do so.Depending on what your enemy takes, you can just push them and force a DPM fight. For instance, if you're in a Tiger I and your opponent takes any other tier 7, you can just push into them because your combination of high HP + high DPM will allow you to win. To add to the last point, always be aware of the pros/cons of your opponents tank. For instance, if you're in a Tiger I and your opponent is in a T29, you can absolutely push them and force a DPM fight. BUT, you have to be careful not to facehug them, as the Tiger I doesn't have enough gun depression to shoot the T29's hull when facehugging.If it's a 2v2 or larger tournament, don't get separated. If your opponent can catch you out one by one, you'll lose. Stick together, focus fire, and share HP and you'll do well.You can look up your opponent before the battle (on the tournament page) to see what tanks they have and what their skill level is. You can use this to make sure you can counter their most likely tank picks.If it looks like you're losing, try for a draw. A win gets you 3 points, a draw gets you 1 point, and a loss gets you 0 points. So it's always best to draw instead of lose. That 1 point can make a difference in the end standings. That's about all I can think of right now. If I think of more later, I'll come back and add to this post. I hope that helps!

_BobaFett:  The show is pretty good. I would honestly recommend it even if you only like tanks. 

_BobaFett: Damn it, I was hoping for an EU transfer...

_BobaFett:  The mod I use does that. It's brilliant.

DeviouslyCursed:  I've been top dmg and top xp and still acknowledged a loss was my fault if I missed an easy shot because of a muscle twitch, or made a boneheaded move, or just flat out choked when it mattered. But yes, it is rare that people admit to their mistakes.

DeviouslyCursed:  It's literally the first news thing on the WoT website. Lazy much? Okay, now it's the second one. They literally posted the change to US East like 3 minutes ago.

DeviouslyCursed:   This is a funny reply, because when I was in Smok3 years ago with a different account, one of the officers had his own modpack that was comprised of a bunch of illegal mods that he wanted all of us to use.  I just realized you said "SMOK3" and not "5M0K3"  Mostly because I saw some guy in SMOK3 in another post. Though this is the reason I wanted your main's name so I could verify you were even in the clan. If your answer was "Rev" that name doesn't come up in Wotlabs, so I can't check your clan history. This is why name and shame isn't allowed on the forums. I was suspecting something was off from the start, because unless something has changed over the years, you are not good enough to be in 5M0K3. I'll be expecting your apology and acknowledgement of your mistake.

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DeviouslyCursed:  They've actually had this type of MM for low tier before. It didn't work very well because without AI Bots you just got put into regular matches too fast. The AI Bots have been needed for a while now as queue times for low tier could cap out at 5 mins.  They need to put the bots into the regular queue too if they haven't done that with this change.

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DeviouslyCursed:  If you are blacklisting players just because they are not good players, you deserve any issue you have with having a full Blacklist. That is literally one of the stupidest reasons for blacklisting someone. Maybe work on your own self-esteem instead of using the blacklist as some form of attempt to validate your misguided sense of superiority. I should blacklist you for being that dumb.

_BobaFett: A step in the right direction, for once.

_BobaFett: Two for the price of one that may or may not be good is a better deal in my opinion. That's what I'm doing anyway.

churchill50: Give the OP a break guys. At least this video isn't from QB (unlike the other 3 threads he's made today).

_BobaFett: It reduces the chance of a penetration significantly but does not eliminate it. If the penetration is high enough it will go through.

_BobaFett: What's the point? Seriously, I can't for the life of me think of a logical reason. Unlike what seems to be most people I actually enjoy the mode a lot. So why close it down?

_BobaFett: I already have a mod for the Pz IV H that turns it into an Ankou, but I may get this package for the special crewmembers alone.

_BobaFett: This video is from 2015.

Draschel:  Explains the discrepancy between the 50B and 54, versus the M48A5 and 113 What I want to know is, what exactly is the person mad about anonymizer for here?  lol?What game dynamics were changed? What difference is there yoloing into an un-spotted tank if it is anonymized or notWhat difference is there with the person that anonymizes, if how they play is yoloing. Anonymity doesn't change that I think anonymizer has been great for the game. We got great unanticipated results. I never expected poorer players to use it, and they certainly do. A great pool of anonymized people to bask in.    

Draschel:  Isn't a re-roll, as the account doesn't play. Just an SA server experiment that don't care about.I play my first account still, I try to everyday I have. Ten long years, something like that.   Foch 155, FV183, FV215B, T95E6, 121B, M60, 907, Phase 1, 777. And actual premium tanks? Too much to let go.

Draschel: I'd say K91T is overall stronger, easier to play than Char FuturThis new and coming Udes Alt 3 looks sub par too.I think it favourably compares with T55A, Kamp panzer, Phase 1. Concept 1 is in its own world, a tier 9 Chieftain world.  

Draschel:  Not asking anyone to be hipster or popular.All I suggested were to be honest, tactful, insightful;  not needlessly denigrate 

Draschel:  Even you should agree. What kind of post was that, who does that help?               

_BobaFett: It was a bandaid taped onto a gash.

Ineffective and painful.

No reason to remove it, that'll only worsen the pain.

_BobaFett:  Get off your high horse.

_BobaFett:  God I hated the Chi-To so much I rage sold it after 20 games. Was not going to be able to endure an entire tech tree of the same thing.

DeviouslyCursed:  Am I the only one who is going to mention he trained repairs on a med first? Why would you do that?

Draschel:  > Potato:  A player who is entirely incompetent and ignorant, vesting no importance, knowledge, positioning, awareness, responsibility into a team-oriented past-time. Such a person generally lacks intelligence, is rude, has not one bead of care for others and is certainly selfish.> Non potato:  A player who cares in what he or she does and/or accomplishes. This individual does place effort into the team-oriented responsibility even if a just past-time, as this person realizes they are one functional cog of a clock (team)  Fixed. Just for you, free of charge. Just a tip, people would respect you more if you made sense, and weren't so contemptuous about nothing. You probably aren't delightful in life, are you.  

DeviouslyCursed:  This is where I start calling people morons. You seriously just said good players can have other good players shifted to the enemy team, therefore making the battle more likely to be won by the other team than it would have been; and then you say this isn't going to affect win rates. This is a failure to understand basic principles. It is stupidity on a scale that is baffling. And no, the opposite happening won't even it out. Not for good players, because they are for more likely to have good players shifted OFF their team than ONTO their team. The opposite for bad players. Therefore baddies will win more than before, and good players will lose more than before. This isn't even hard. 

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DeviouslyCursed:  That convinces the intelligent people who can actually analyze things and think them through. Unfortunately there are a lot of people on the forum who think absolute proof is "knowing" it's true, and knowing it's true is simply a matter of believing it really really hard.

DeviouslyCursed:  You are not nearly as smart as you think you are. I looked at what you are trying to use as "proof." It's the type of science people do who don't understand science. You made so many assumptions with your methods that your conclusion is meaningless. You also don't know much about the game. For all the seal clubbing you do at mid tiers, the fact that you only have a 50%-ish win rate means you do not know what you are doing. Your high tier win rate is going to be around 45-46%. You are a below average player yet you are fond of running around shouting how bad the other players are.   

Jaguarz: If you really dont care about something you dont go out of your way to tell people you dont care about it. By going out of your way to claim you dont care means you really do care but are too lazy/inept to do anything about it so you embark on this whole song and dance routine which is designed to help YOU convince yourself its true.

_BobaFett: Depends on how well you think you play. If you are a higher caliber player, the Renegade is better. And vice versa.

Draschel: I don't think players necessarily want artillery banned. Most players think 1 artillery per side per match is fine. As WG commonly points out, many players do actually play artillery, and these players would not want their investment gone. Many players would enjoy artillery as optional. Sort of like Encounter/Assault/Grand Battles can be check-boxed on/off. Or how you can turn off undesired maps in your queue. WG seems to be getting closer and closer with perhaps one day giving us the option, seeing their recent Modern Armor release, who knows maybe PC will get that soon too. The problem I have with these pro-artillery supporters and advocacy, are that majority of them are from players that quite frankly do not understand the game. They do not understand the unfair problems that artillery poses, as a class. Advocacy really needs to come from an understanding, knowledgeable advocate, rather than an ignorant incomprehensive one.  

Draschel: CW and Adv and Ranked, aren't SKBMM. But they are more SKBMM than randoms, that is for sure.Any orange tater tot can grind ranked battles. They simply (pay) (get) someone to do it for them 

Draschel:  Please don't send me anymore personal messages, as they are deleted without even opening. I don't need to read PMs that seem to come from someone with 35 IQ. With an inability to discern what effective tiers things are. 

Draschel: Renegade. Renegade is the best tier 8 heavy.Patriot is a second rate caernarvon AX

TeriyakiTanker: Ok, I'm not sure how many times I need to say this in the same thread BUT I AM NOT A PROPONENT OF SBMM, get it through your head.  And even more importantly than that I am fully aware that WG will not be implementing it.  SO PLEASE READ WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN BEFORE YOU REPLY. Now your first point is interesting about them trying +1/-1 MM on the Asian server and the effects, do you have any links to that information?  It would be interesting to read.

DeviouslyCursed:  Because most people are smart enough to know that doesn't happen. Then there's you. Also, most people are smart enough to know any form of SBMM is going to move people CLOSER to 50%, not away from it.  Then there's SimplyPzB2.

Draschel: Because you are patiently aiming too much.The IS7  130mm is a snapshot gun. You point your gun in the direction of the enemy, do not aim at all, yell RUSHA and fire. You will see the difference, trust me. You are not supposed to aim with tanks like IS7 and 430U. 

Draschel:  Most of the time, I talk fact. You talk fiction. None of what you post, is useful. Those armor values, are fact. They were searched, verified, and are truthful. What you say from the mouth, an idiotic opinion, is just that. A held useless opinion.The LIS is widely recognized as a superior tank. While that maybe an opinion, because T44100 still possesses many better attributes than LIS such as ground crossing resistances, gun dispersion stats, ammo capacity, camouflage  -  LIS combines more meta-game specific desired attributes such as maintaining the same gun depression, the same DPM WITH higher alpha damage for trading, has better penetration, higher muzzle velocity for dealing with armor cars, more reliable turret armor. This is reflected in the massively higher target mark requirements LIS has in comparison to T44100, it is far more competitive a beast.