Developers posts on forum

TeriyakiTanker: So let me get this straight, there are no SH specific rewards anymore?

TeriyakiTanker:
My setup too.  You also might want to play around with the IRM in place of vents, though I haven’t personally done that.

Draschel:  Arty is an unfair annoyance. It isn't particularly devastating or dangerous. It is just a nuisance.  it rarely dominates. 

Draschel: Strv m/57 and M4 FL10 also have sort of longer intra-reload, and low DPM. AMX12T is the worst of the bunch. Skoda T25 dumps its clip fast but does it with good DPM, but has lackluster AP pen. Generally, because Type 64 wasn't nerfed in the massive overhaul of light tanks, it is extremely powerful compared to others. Type 64 isn't a favoured target for auto loaders, as tier 6 auto loaders generally have bad gun handling like Strv and 12T and are prone to miss it instead,  and likewise the Type 64 is pretty quick, and with its high DPM basically machine guns out damage close to an autoloader itself.  They are very different tanks. Type 64 is a light tank, that secures map control and spots.  12T is an ambusher, that doesn't do well as a light tank. Keep in mind 12T has alot of bad faults, but the gun still is 135 damage and 144 pen, significantly better than Type 64 in dealing with tanks with armour like Pudel / Bret, and T3485M. The muzzle velocity is significantly better, allowing you to hit stuff 500m away much easier. And the APCR penetration is miles ahead, allowing you to threaten tier 8s too, easier than Type 64. But in terms of brawling and DPM, view range - you just can't beat Type 64. 

Draschel: Don't call them that. The opposite of good, is bad, so it is as easy as that. Concerning a bad player, chances are they are not as likely to complain about anything that truly matters, rather than nonsense and boulderdash that they don't understand to begin with, like this thread for instance, or rigged RNG, or some other ridiculous pastafarian tin-hat reason. And again, stop hating on good players. You say a good player should grow up, and not care about sullying their purple stats? Well, bad players should grow up and stop acting the part of an imbecile, acertain that they are an element of a team and team's depend on one another, and not be given a free ride equaling out to 50% average because someone carries them there. They need to earn it. Has nothing to do with elites. It has to do with fair. Everyone, every single person, should be tossed into the same vat, the same mixer - and do from there whatever they please.  It does push farming, even if it is still just dampened effect.  Slightly higher better than nothing. A KV2 once in tier 5, with either 107 or 152, farmed a heck of alot. It still farms much,  but drastically less. Cracked down on S35CA, T67.  So, employing this exact strategy, push farming back. Farming tier 6 is harder than 5, and importantly get rid of the bots. I see people farming in T67, Pz IV/V, Leh18b, excelsior, leopard and Elc  -> have these guys try it in panzer IV schmult, Hellcat, VK2801, M44 (they already do this anyway)  or churchill VII   lol. Of all the bottom farmers and tier V *peak* players I see, most do quite awful in tier 6 using their Types, 85M, Crom B, excaliber, Etc.  Bad players complain lots too. warp103? cheapbooks?  And as I said, bad players complain more. Because naturally there are more bad players than good ones. No one takes them serious though, because they are complaining about childish, and largely false things. Think of it back in high school. Are you content with getting 60% in trigonometry? Or would you go for extra help, and by doing that making the right choice in peer students who excel at it. Rather than banding with friends who do as terribly as you do, other 60%ers? It doesn't make sense. Should federov, mario lemieux, jaromir jagr, patrick roy have played in a league only, with other players comparable to them and only them? Because they were great? This premise is nonsense.  https://ibb.co/thrLZsh This is what I mean where skill-based is quite unruly and should be enforced, with for example longer wait times.This is ridiculous, these team oriented battles shouldn't be so lopsided. Tier 6, even so, happens alot in 8 and advances too.       

Draschel: Everyone complains about dropping down tiers. -from bad players who farm even worse ones, to develop some weird sense of accomplishment they can't achieve higher up -bad players taking the next step, and farming SA server bots because frankly can't do anything else (think this account) -there should be a low tier cap, on games played there and then out. It promotes greater game health -should also include a skilled crew cap, to ensure no skirting the system and farming new people.  claus, skill4ltu, quickybaby, raging raptor, lemmingrush, sirfoch (RIP) have been talking about these sorts issues years. Everyone complains about it, and its a complete pandemic now with SA serverRemove marks of excellence on tier V, have it VI and+Only have 2 available 100% skills (+100% base) on tanks tiers I - VRemove bots on the SA server, allow for entire +1/-1MM spreadPref premium tanks (T-34-3, IS6, FCM50, Jagd88, Panther M10) should be given MM like Valentine, PzB2, SU76(l)  -> but severely increase their personal weighting, were they very commonly invoke all single tier battles. For example, a 112 or IS6 are very powerful in tiers 6-7-8 and 7-8 battles, but not so in tiers 8-9. However, a middle ground where they are okay, is single tier 8 battles. Not as good as 6-8, but way better than 8-9. This makes pref prem tanks like their initial purpose, an IS6 or T-34-3 are supposed to be better than stock IS3 or T-34-2, but not as good as the elite ones. 

1984BigBrother: and LFO created a 2nd C2A for tonight if you want to earn some clan gold, registration is open for just over 1.5 hours
https://worldoftanks...AwMDAwMjA4OA==/

1984BigBrother: I can confirm that the map will be frozen through the night, we are hoping to have it up by tomorrow's prime time. We will update you if anything changes

Draschel:  It doesn't work one way and not the other. This is a principle of what is fair, and what isn't. If there is an unwillingness to bite into skill-based queues, which so far there hasn't then the fairest is none at all.  But anyway in explaining it, giving bad players the opportunity to remain bad and play others bad like them or worse, for an easy environment - is bad. While having good players struggle with their every move or else expect severe punishment.... and remain diligent and passive for long stretches, until they make a near guaranteed exploit, because the people alongside them are good like themselves - that is pretty bad. Condemning. A bad player has every opportunity to become good and knowledgeable, and in sort of the same manner a good player can certainly make bad choices and seem like a bad player.   The best way to look at it, random queue isn't to be taken as competitive. Which is a harsh oxymoron, I get it.... because majority of a players battles are these, and the results from these battles are certainly depicted in service record and are used in judging whether or not one person plays at a competitive state or not. I get it. But WG decision to make skirmishes, advances (probably more competitive than random) as weighted PR based, and I think that is fine due to the team nature. So, if you want weighted PR battles, join an advance or skirmishes, and for the most part wait in queue face off against others like yourself (more often than not)  but randoms should be just that, random. I think it is the very particular, last stand reward that is most gratifying when I play, for as a good player to be so rewarded in a flat out loss, trying my best and reaping as much as I can before being sent to the garage.  

1984BigBrother: Tankers, At this time we have discovered an issue with the way time zones display on the global map if your pc is set to any of the US time zones, the devs are working on the issue but unfortunately will not be able to resolve it before the affected battles start. To prevent confusion and unnecessary tech defeats, we have decided that it will be better to freeze the map until the issue is resolved.  We will update this post as soon as we have more information, but right now it is safe to assume the global map will be down for the rest of the night. I apologize for any frustration this may have caused.Big

Einzelganger7:
Oh, I see. Thanks for the screen captures, I thought the explosion would be like an artillery shot. But hey, at least it is an already known issue by wargaming so with a micropatch it would be fixed soon.

Draschel:  Again, I don't know if you are practicing your next act for the stage, but please spare me it, comedian. You aren't educating anyone.I looked clearly enough, no games played. Both in random and skirmish battles. TD, heavy, light, medium - 0. No games played.I'm not being sucked into bad bait. if you want to be insulting, that's you. It is not my arta that is being nerfed. My arta are barracks placeholders rusting in my garage. Don't care. Weird tongue tie, right here. Someone who has re-rolled, who call someone else a re-roll. Even weirder, is the re-roll calling out another re-roll, being a particularly subpar performing re-roll to begin with, that doesn't even play in the re-roll account either.   

Draschel:  Your entire post is a complete contradiction. War gaming designed these changes, not you or I or him or her. They did. And they think it is fair, or at least fair enough to publicly test. So if (they)  (not you or I or him or her)  believe these are fair counters, nerfs, insight on artillery - I am sure this vilin guy had nothing to do with it. And with that said, don't you worry, we aren't done here either. Arta nerfs come every year, it would seem. This will be an after thought one day, when the next iteration of arta nerfs roll on by. 

Draschel:  Actually, the whole point of the thread is a salty poster complaining about arta nerfs. Crying about unfair treatment to arta. Now that is music, to my ears. Arta has been the single most nerfed class. Nerfs come, like every year? I love it. Just more and more and more ideas, counters, nerfs - and more crying. Lets say I continued the journey of 3-marking Centurion 7/1, do you think I would cry because C  GC crapped on me for 300 damage, then has to wait for 40 seconds? Sure its irritating, you bet. But if I ran into object 907 or 140, and they crap on me 320 damage every 5.7 seconds, yep I am in some deep crap hole of a spot. Struggling with a chassis far more flexible, consistent, fast - compared to any arta too. That is where I cry. 

Draschel:    Don't make everyone laugh here, please. Comedian. I don't see a single battle you have played, much less in 5 minutes. Readying up an arta and clicking that battle button, isn't *playing*  it is called eating Doritos, smoking, watching youtube, ESPN, watching something with Scarlett Johansson in it, and whatever miscellaneous activities in addition. That isn't playing. And you are lying to yourself if you think otherwise.  

Draschel:  lolI like that. Well said. 

Draschel:  Neither have you, so why would you say that? 

Einzelganger7: I do not have that issue, can you record it please? I am intrigued to see that.

Einzelganger7: I thought the current tests were about RNG, I just saw this on the website. lol
 

Einzelganger7: Well, first of all the Panther II is not a close and personal brawler, it is meant to be a mid-long range support tank, I know is ridiculous that Panthers have paper armor in the game considering they were so resilient to enemy fire in WWII (along the Tiger I) but asking for more armor is not the solution here because with the role it has in the game it is meant to not have direct engagements. As for the handling, I agree but it has nothing to do with the dispersion, it's the sigma, Claus' conspiracy theories may be taken as a joke but the one I can tell is even tangible is sigma, it determines how much the shots will deviate from the middle of the aim point, it is an actual stat in World of Warships (you can even find it in the official wiki) though it's not shown in WoT, but apparently here the better the dispersion, the more it tends to deviate. How often Grilles or Leopards have hit the dirt while shooting perfectly aimed and have .26 dispersion (while properly equipped) but for example kv-2 can do pixel snapshots at 500 meters away?I guess this message got some tinfoil in the end but I think that everything would be the same even by making the Panther II with .26 dispersion, if the shell deviation is that big there would be no change. P.s: I got the Panther II when it got buffed and I enjoyed though, even if the gun doesnt behave from time to time, I do not think it requires more improvements.

TeriyakiTanker: See one of the big problems with you is that you shouldn't be getting the figure higher.... you are so biased it isn't even funny anymore.

TeriyakiTanker: The sad part is all three of us actually took an entire minute to figure out how stupid the thread really was...... 

TeriyakiTanker: So I was looking at your chart, it is showing you have 1951 battles but only predicted 1231 correctly with WR, now correct my ignorance but how is that 95%?  to me that would seem like 63.1%?  Which seems right in line with PR and XP.

Einzelganger7: Nebelwurfgerät (smoke launcher)
Releases a smoke grenade that instantly conceals you and any tank within 50 meters for 15 seconds but the view range is decreased by 80% while the tank is concealed by smoke. Cooldown 180 seconds.

(Many German tanks already have the nebelwurfgerät on their 3D models so the equipment icon would look like that).
 

Einzelganger7: I thought it was just me and my superstition, in my case my talismans are these StuG Life emblems that were available during the anniversary event, I had a lot of anniversary currency so I got like 20 but still we can say I didn't choose the StuG Life, the StuG Life chose me. lol
 

TeriyakiTanker: Fair enough, I just see the Tiger as a bit of a lumbering beast and you aren't really going to get anywhere fast either way but I see why you might want it.

TeriyakiTanker: The obvious answer being that you should stop playing Japanese heavies. But you are actually pretty solid for 3600 games, so it isn't like you are behind the power curve.  Basic things you can do to get better1.  Platoon with better players and see how they play.2.  Plethora of YouTube people you can watch, not going to list them here.3.  Get better crews, people like to pretend like this doesn't matter but thats just BS.4.  Find a tank you want to play and play it for a while, then rinse and repeat.5.  Don't grind up too many lines at once, stick with one style for a while until you are good at it and consider moving on after that6.  Don't play with stock tanks7.  Be aware of the map, make sure you increase the size of your mini map and use it8.  Don't be overly aggressive or passive9.  Learn the maps, this is one of the best things about watching streamers, you will learn about spots you didn't know about10.  You need to play a lot, practice makes perfect11.  Use Automatic Fire Extinguishers, over time they pay for themselves 

TeriyakiTanker: I would rather have the Baroness but thats just me.

TeriyakiTanker: Considering you haven't played the Tiger I , at least on the account you are posting from I am just going to tell you that you are wrong.  The Tiger I is one of those tanks that really benefits from having the extra crew skills. Commander - BiA, 6th, and Recon or RepairsGunner - BiA, Repairs, and Snap ShotDriver - BiA, Repairs, and Smooth RideRadio Op - BiA, Situational Awareness, and RepairsLoader - BiA, Safe Stowage, and Repairs You really should skill up this crew and learn the game at tiers V and VI.  Tiger I is a beast if you know how to use it, and if you actually want to play a tiger that much I would suggest buying the Tier VI Tiger 131 when it is available again.  That way you can play a Tier VI premium version and get your crew looking good while earning extra credits. 

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! The Tier IX Swedish STRV K heavy tank is returning to the closed Supertest after a year.This vehicle was previously more of a support vehicle, but now the STRV K has turned into a classic heavy tank. Its gameplay will be a fusion between the M103 and T-10. Most tankers will like the STRV K and be able to achieve good results in it.Which characteristics of the STRV K were changed?The gun has become more comfortable due to the higher armor penetration of its standard and special shells (252 mm and 310 mm respectively). Gun accuracy has increased to 0.34 at 100 m. Aiming time has also increased to 2.3 seconds.The vehicle dynamics have also become better due to improved specific power (16.4 h.p./t), but its hull traverse speed has decreased to 30 deg/s.

Draschel:  When did I ever say I am sided with cheating? You don't know what worth is all about, so its frightening you are one to talk about what is worthless. Should T22 rigging have been punished? Yes. Was it? Yes. Was it punished enough? Who knows, I am not a judge. Is it still a problem now, and is T22 so unbearably powerful we should all be blind to everything else and hold on to this meaningless contempt towards a now insignificant transgression? No. They had their punishment, and they served their time. Is 279E and 260 pay for obtaining, punished? Certainly not. How many 49% crappers and their accounts suddenly have 3 marked tanks and T55A, 279E, 260 in their garage. And they proceed to of course do terribly in them, like tier 8 terrible. Have about these same people, all of a sudden stunningly dominating ranked, and getting kamp panzer and concept 1. Then their pay for play is up, and proceed to do absolutely nothing in these tanks.   

Jambijon: Evening Tankers! The new season of Steel Hunter starts on March 15!  For stage and event details, check out the link provided below: Brace Yourselves for a New Season of Steel Hunter! 

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TeriyakiTanker: Commander vision system is a waste on the Tiger I, I am guessing, based on your total number of battles, that you don’t have a very good crew.  You probably don’t have vision maxed out yet which is your real problem.  Personally I suggest you use rammer, vents, and optics but that’s just me. I know you aren’t going to like what I am about to say but you aren’t ready for higher tiers yet.  I would suggest playing tier V and VI until you have at least a three skill crew, honestly shouldn’t take all that long with boosters and what not.

The_Chieftain: It's a very odd tank. By every measure, it's supposed to be pretty poor, yet I tend to do quite well in it. Maybe it's because it has such a poor reputation on paper that I'm subconsciously very conservative with it, and it works out quite well. The 2pr is an autocannon, and the depression is excellent.

The_Chieftain: Oddly, I've been rather enjoying the Tier IX. Even with the base 130mm gun, when it connects, it seems to do damage (over 500hp) more often than not, more than I would expect. I'm -presuming- the 152 is better, but both are listed as Tier Xs. I've had to put a turbocharger on it, though. It is a little unresponsive.

The_Chieftain: He does. Basically there are two basic track types. The 18" track with the external guide horns, and the 23" track (HVSS) with the center guides.The very original track was just a simple flat rubber block, which gave limited grip and had to be rotated after a while to wear on the far side. Then they decided that was inefficient, and made one with double-thick rubber on the road-touching side.Still, though that gave good wear and pretty fair grip on roads, offroad it was still poor, so they developed a 'tread' or chevron to give  a bit of bite. This eliminated the need to carry additional grousers, such as you may see on an M10's hull side (or on an early vehicle, turret rear).There was also a track with steel chevron which used less rubber, which was a critical material.

The_Chieftain:  Have you (a) created an account over on ID.me, (b) been verified by them as military, and © associated your Wargaming account with that of ID.me? If so, then in the garage, top left, click your name, then you can select your badge.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys!  A 15 v 15 Tournament of champions is here for our competitive folks. This time it is being sponsored with monetary prizes for the winners. 15v15 with 5 Reserves - Tier X - Attack/Defense - Two Caps March 12 - April 3 (11:59 pm CT) - Registration For more information on this tournament click HERE.Register for the Tournament HERE.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! I. General DescriptionEN Name: Duke of Zhou RavineMap size: 1000x1000 meters.Game mode: Standard Battle.Setting: autumn-winter.II. GameplayA semi-enclosed area for heavy tanks.Large hills allow control over the majority of the map with almost any vehicle type, particularly medium tanks.The connection of routes across the ravine in the center of the map allows light tanks to play a key role in battles.There are additional tank destroyer positions for holding off the enemy offensive.III. Screenshots  

MA77:  Salve, Dukki. Tudo bem? Nós estamos recebendo relatos de alguns jogadores do sul do Brasil do mesmo problema, porém, não nos são fornecidas as informações necessárias para identificar o problema. Com isso, peço que siga as instruções deste tópico, envie tudo para o nosso Suporte ao Jogador e também abra um chamado na sua provedora, informando onde está o problema na rota da conexão deles até o nosso servidor. Grande abraço!