Developers posts on forum

Jaguarz:  "I can resist everything except temptation" I can see a validity in your point but I feel mine is also valid, I see no reason for Sheriff accounts to have the facility to platoon, or if platooned disable map choice. Realistically catching someone abusing the function is nigh on impossible. *note* I dont think most sheriffs platoon would do this, or would have even considered doing it, as ever its always just a few bad apples.

churchill50:  Sorry, I totally missed this reply until now. Some clans will let you use the Obj 140 instead of the Obj 907, others will be more picky. Generally, the higher the level of clan you're in, the more they're going to want the Obj 907.You can still play pretty commonly with only tech tree tanks. If you have the Obj 277, CS-63, STB-1, and a couple of the niche tanks, you should be good to go. At that point, it's just a matter of playing well in them so you get picked for battles.You can also talk to your clan's commander about making sure you get enough battles in a Campaign to get a tank, in return for sticking around the clan once you have it. Clan requirements vary wildly. I'd focus on trying to find a clan that you think would work well for you, and then seeing what their requirements are.Some clans look at what meta tanks you have and your stats in them.Some clans just eval you by having you play in some Advances with them.Some clans you get in by knowing the right people.

churchill50: I'd highly suggest getting the Obj 277.The IS-7 is more forgiving (because of better armor), but the 277 is the better tank overall due to much better mobility and a much better gun. There's been no news of any possible nerfs to the Obj 277, and there also aren't any tanks coming soon that would make it obsolete.In my opinion, it will continue to be a staple of Clan Wars for the foreseeable future.  As far as what defines a meta tank, that's hard to say.For a tank to be meta, it has to fulfill a role that's needed in Clan Wars better than the other options out there. That means that some tanks that are really solid in Random battles (like the S Conq and Kranvagn for instance) are almost never used in Clan Wars. A quick list of meta tanks would be:The best tech tree tanks to have are the Obj 277, CS-63, and STB-1. Other tanks like the Vz 55, AMX 50B, Bat Chat, E100, Leopard I, Strv 103B, T110E3, T110E4, and IS-7 are also used, but much less commonly.Depending on the clan, you can use the Obj 140, although higher level clans will want you to use the Obj 907.If you have an Obj 279(e), that's also used. The Chieftain, VKK, and 907 are used constantly, but you have to play CW in order to get them.If you're a good arty player, then I believe the GW E100 and CGC are the two best arty to have? I'm not sure though since I don't play arty.If you're a good light tank player, then the EBR 105 and Manticore are used. Everything else is obsolete. Hopefully that helps!

1LT_Dwayne: What about the fun aspect of the game? It is fun to not be limited to one and only one tactic because the maps and mm had decided so.

Draschel:  people would be more willing to help you, if you seemed more genuine and less irritating.There are a surplus of 3rd party resources available to you, to compare/contrast VR and camo.Tanks gg, WoTCamoValues. There are also streamer specific break-down youtube clips on optics VS CVS Generally speaking, supposed of course you are in a tank with reasonable camo (not heavies, or german assault TD)  and are behind a layer or 2 of bushery - and are waiting with something like Binoculars active and have 445m, you have advantage over scouts running optics and 445 VR as well. This senario generally applies to late game, not a 15vs15 environment. Because you are stationery and they are moving quickly, you also have a notable gun handling advantage and 1st strike potential. VR is great for spotting fat meds and heavy tanks moving across the open at great distances, quickly. But VR doesn't really counter people camo'ed up and experienced in camo/bush mechanics proficiency. These people generally need a smarter approach unless you wish to toss away free HP   

Draschel: lol I  gave him benefit of the doubt. Scorpion G at least has -some-  armor. M56 has none. 

Draschel:  how are you 48,000 battles in, and you still can't see this sort of thing happening?Ask yourself. What is skorp G armor. Really, ask yourself. Then go see it.Now ask yourself, what is Caliban HE pen. What is the HE damage Holy bananas. No one here is inherently trying to be mean to you.But you aren't attempting thinking, at all. You are not even trying to think.  

Draschel:  TL1PC came after the fact, the American M46 and M48A Patton re-work. And SPECIFICALLY didn't come with the cupolas for that reason AMX30B would not be top of the class even if it got back its 320 HEAT pen and had a smaller cupola.  Why play super conquer and 110E5? Chieftain exists. Why play IS7 or 277 when someone can use 260. Why T62A, when 121B, 140, 907 a tonne better? Why play IS4, 279E better. Why play 113, WZ111111115A anymore, VZ55 and 430U superior. And none of these tanks I'm naming are even bad. ''But better exists, so why''?  Terrible response. They have buffed 113 more than once, another collectors tank. If they can buff 113, they can buff 30B.  

Jaguarz:  It was a bait title, the problem with everything is people.

Jaguarz: The problem with sheriff accounts is often overlooked and its the capacity to pick whatever map you want and tailor it to certain tanks. This would not be an issue in itself as people playing sheriff accounts have no personal gain, they can however platoon with people and tailor the map to them. Got some campaign missions to get through lads? Here we go.... I dont think they should have the capacity to platoon, if they want to platoon they can use their own accounts and it would prevent the few abusing a feature

The_Chieftain: Ah, Monday. A new workweek, new work year.... Welcome to 2022 everyone!

Jaguarz:  Why would someone play any other tank with those being so "awesome"? The T1LPC never had a tumor and the M60 still has it, you can also buy a 30b without having played a French medium ever so why exactly should it be buffed? Not everything can be top of the class and I would argue there is a whole ream of tanks that would be more deserving of a buff than the 30b but everyone has an opinion, good luck.

Draschel: Considering how good the Leopard 1 and STB1 are, who would want to drive 30B?  Can this thing lose the top hat cupola? Really. Doesn't have to be gone, but just give it the tier 9 version on 1er. That don't stick out like a fugly wart. They did the same to M48A Patton and T1LPC. Normal cupolas. And then raise the HEAT back to 320mm it had before.And.....AMX30B fixed. 

Draschel:  Precisely. OI, Oni, Oho can have their 20 base damage back, returning the howitzer to 910 like it was before, like T49 and KV2 and SU152. I would even raise the premium HEAT to 160.  Type 4 needs both the radio man and driver hatches, both 20mm less than the front hull. @230, they are 50/50 hits for something like Bofors tomato, T34 heavy, Lowe. Instead of it being 250 and bouncing most med-to-heavy 250-260 APCR even. Lower the cupola 10mm too. Increase the butt of the tank armor all to 150, not 75. Funnily enough, I've seen both Type 4 and 5 take massive HE damage rolls, like over 400 from flanking T49 and sheridan, shooting it in the a-- with HE where the armor drops to 75 instead of 150.  Include Oho 150mm howitzer as stock gun with better stats, significantly buff RoF with current stock 127mm to 4.3 and have it new top gun choice. Remove the 140mm gun. Buff the 150mm gun to 0.47 accuracy, increase the damage to 700/1000/1000, reduce pen to 242. Increase to 400m VR  Type 5 like the type 4 needs both radio man and driver slits 250. Lower cupola 10mm. Increase the butt to 150 too. As with the type 4 150mm changes, the same. Increased 700/1000/1000 alpha, but pen drop to 242. Increase to 410m VR 

Draschel:  lol You are more polite than I am. I have always been told I got no tact.He doesn't have a clue what he is talking about, doesn't know whats useful and what isn't, is irritating on purpose. Any attempt at trying to convince him otherwise just meets another 'spaced' response of nonsense 

Draschel:  i don't mind the 6000 WN8 and the 82% WN8 But I thought single games only went to 15minutes. Not years. 

Draschel: LIS is the best non auto loading medium in tier 8.  T44100 carries more ammunition so it can seem comfy, but in FL the resupply circles are usually quite accessible

Jaguarz: is knowledge, pure and simple. People dont understand that even with tens to hundreds of thousands of battles under their belt they still lack basic knowledge of the games functions and seem incapable of either learning or looking at the minimap. We have all seen them, someone with 40k games at 45% overall, yesterday it was one of these in a T9 Prog 66 whining that the t8 mediums (in a t10 game) didnt flank the heavies even though a cursory look on the minimap would show they had complete cover from their mediums AND TDs, 200 games he had in his Prog 66 and a 37% win rate. You cant explain things to people like this, its always everyone elses fault, they are seemingly the worlds greatest tankers in their own minds who have their games ruined by incompetents on their team and cheaters on the other. I generally add these people to ignore so as I know to grab kills on them in the future and not support them if they are on my team. Then I came across a new player in a Torvagn who was trying to sidescrape like a boss but I was in my ISU 152k and 50m of side armour meets overmatch rules... I dont know why but I actually took the time to explain to him why he got wrecked after the game, he soaked it all up like a sponge, asked to platoon  and we have done daily for two weeks and his progression has been exponential, he wasnt a complete newb, he played wot on console (lol) but hes getting the basics down, learning to read the map, learning to place himself in the best position based on tank, team dispersion and tier spread, learning weakpoints and flexibility. I have no doubt my new minion will surpass me in probably not very much time and then become an elitist butthole but its actually nice to see someone possessing the capacity to learn pull himself out of a 44% win rate rushing too fast to t10 and then turning it all around. Sadly being a cynic I believe my minion to be in the minority, that the arrogance and stupidity of most poor players prevents them from realizing that they are the issue not the team but still, there are people out there able to grow. Theres a Unicum on these boards who offers coaching on these boards with no strings, I would suggest anyone above average to reach out to find people who want to be an asset to the team and see what you can do together or if you want to improve reach out for advice and experience, its also nice to have someone to commit with you when you want to do a high risk/reward play.

Draschel:  Just asking, could you maybe also additionally acquire more performance in this round? If this is kept getting done, by the end of the day, so much more damage, experience could be earned. You need to be careful in assuming what you think as fun is fun for all. Some play to compete and test their mettle. 

Draschel: just a look over the last 2 months, a -G-, Youjo, Teach, Crackd have not been able to manage 1.5k damage in Elc 90. And they lead the leaderboard. Thats a good damage game. Trust me, with its explosive diarrhea gun handling, thats a good game 

Draschel:  You trying to be funny?

Draschel: interesting to note Prototypes ridiculous LFPPrototype has better LFP than Maus, Badger, or 110E3 and is just about never a weakness for it. 

Jaguarz:  Its a weird one and you need to patch its deficiencies more than you would other tanks, I have grousers, bond rammer and bounty IRM on mine in order to fix up its sluggish demeanor and traverse issues which are overlooked by many. I find the grousers more use than turbo as the traverse allows for bringing the gun to bear faster and to keep its armour pointing the right way. YMMV.

Draschel: You need to get out of the habit of playing under tier VI. You need to get out of the habit of playing on SA. These won't teach you anything. Getting good enough to use a tank properly, starts with the lessons you learn about positioning, map control - that simply aren't things people encounter dealing with bots. 

Draschel: 76mm makes a huge difference. Lets look at the numbers. Don't use 70 degrees, because that is ricochet angle. That means null, as any tank with 41+ can do it. Lets use an applicable angle of 65 degrees, as a usable angle extended past ricochet angle. 51mm @65 is 102mm effective thickness. Keep in mind, this is without an AP or APCR shell over 2x bore size. So the normalization value is not 2x. With a bore size over 2x, which is fairly easy as it only means 105mm, it is even less. 76mm @65 is 152mm effective. This is 50mm extra armor. And while it will not keep you safe against most threats, such as 175 pen from common 100 and 122 mid-tier guns, it will stop alot of mid-tier light tank and med tank AP shells that frankly current 51mm sides has no chance stopping. 76mm sides effectively removes NEARLY EVERY x2 normalization opportunity. only exception FVs. It also removes pesky HE penetrations like from EBR75, Excalibur, or IS6. There is a back plate, behind the turret that needs to be increased too, or it remans a horrible weakspot that also gives you engine damage. 102mm.  Turret cheeks from 139 to 152mm may not seem like an improvement at all. But lets average the cheek curvature to 46 degrees. That turns from 186 to 203mm effective. That basically removes alot of easy penetrations like Mutant 6   Panther 8.8   Skoda 27   Suka pershing, to 50/50 instead.  T103 is the closest example that compares to Prototype. And with its 1250 HP, I would say that is a good number to start with.   

Draschel: I have thought to return to it. I did it very long ago. Before its buff. I have no way to tell the combined assistance I was pulling in, but I averaged 1,650 damage.  If I ever did make a return for field modification, I would use the stock gun from T71. The thing is, T69 has sickening gun handling like T57, its a shame when T54E1 was re-balanced they did not take a look at T69. T69 could have certainly used 0.20/0.20 movement dispersion. With the stock gun, you get rid of the annoying aim time, slightly improve your turret rotation accuracy, the APCR boost is welcome, and intershot dispersion bloom is improved. The DPM works in your favor too.As for the pen, well as an ambusher T69 can get away with losing pen. 90mm sucks at penetrating anyway. Pick your targets, like progetto or Lorraine. 5x150 is pretty sad compared to 4x240, but at least you will be doing it more often.  Pains me to think, T-34-2 has already been buffed twice. In probably not even a year? AT15 at least got a gigantic armor increase, even if it sucks still. All T69 has got in a handful of years is 50 measly horsepower. While they are at it, buff Bat Chat 12T too

Draschel: I would say the T28 prototype needs changes like the side armor. An increase to 76mm would mean quite alot in making the tank more versatile. In addition, the side cheeks should be increased to 152mmIf prototype had side armor increases, angling the tank would be possible rather than being death trap it is now, if you decide to angle. And if it could angle, the front armor would not need increaseI think the TD desperately needs is an HP increase to 1,300 HP too. This gives it some actual use playing in the thick of it. Considering T28, and TS5 HP? No reason 1,300 would be a problem 

Draschel:  I would say some gold shell spam gets reduced. This and making MM +1/-1Take for example, mid-pen guns within favorable tier:: Say for example Firefy VC. I wouldn't have much qualms shooting 171 pen against T3485M and T150. But because of ridiculous 25%, anything more armor than Rudy or Cromwell I shoot APCR at. 

Draschel:  WZ1111111111111111115A had its time under the sun. And for cheap-seats clans, I am sure its an makeshift 277 replacement. 121B is solid now. After so many buffs,  lol. It can easily slide into 140/907 spots. What it loses in gun handling and DPM, it makes up with 350 HEAT 

Draschel: and it is the bottom players that want to hold on to old HE mechanics and cry about the new one, because they liked being lazy and just HE spamming and not aiming shells. 

Draschel:  Are you being sarcastic here? or serious-It has a very comparable camo value to Leo PTA. Do you think the PTA has camo? -The striking damage sucks, but is offset by good potential HE shells and high DPM. If you can make these work, you can score some good damage-Armor of the hull is good for medium, LFP  UFP and side armor. Turret is poor, but just enough to protect you from IS6/112 blasting you with HE, or EBR75.  -HP is fine for a medium tank. Are you trying to be funny by saying it is not quick?  RH07 compares alot like the STA1 but with more speed, DPM, HE ammunition, armor. But it loses some alpha damage, pen, camo, and gun depression. 

Draschel: Just to mention a few things here. Capping is very easy. Its simply sitting inside the circle. Really, capping is quite simple.But playing the game and destroying the enemy, isn't so simple. This needs thought out. While to get to the cap takes time and safe passage, when there capping is as easy as ever, simply sitting in the cap. With this reason alone, -ITS BEST TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE GAME AND DESTROY THE ENEMY- as this grooms critical thinking, experience, game skills. Sitting in the cap doesn't gain you gaming skills. Sitting in the cap is as easy as driving, and well.....sitting in the cap. Learn how to beat your enemies, destroy enemies, will earn you more wins over the long run, than sitting in a cap collecting cap points. There is a time for cap. Certainly is. But World of Tanks tends to favor more, trial of combat. Learning of combat, or assisting combatants, is more helpful in player development, than capping. I just want to also talk of the importance of base defense, as the superior choice to capping. Base defense, wins more battles than capping does. If you see the signs coming, on your minimap, that your teammates can and are making the play to push to cap....but your own base is in danger or will soon be, let your team cap. BUT YOU RETURN FOR BASE DEF, learn to see the signs first. Generally the base defenders have advantage over cappers, use this advantage.  I don't play to cap. But do I not cap ever? Certainly not. There are times where its a last enemy on the team, they maybe left at one-shot hitpoints, but they are fast and have high camo rating, against superior ally heavies and mediums. The one-shot enemy will try to play cat-and-mouse, or hide. If there is little time left, capping maybe necessary for winning, so cap.  Alot of this controversy, stems from two main reasons. A)  People playing for 3-marks. 3-marks don't give a steaming s--- about whether you win or not. They care about assistance provided and damage. Generally, competitive individual shuns cap for assistance and damage.B)  Completing missions. Sometimes players, working on account missions for reward tanks, need an objective. Whatever the objective is, they want to complete it, and this is usually not by capping. 

Draschel:  Thats some tough luck man. I hear it. Glad to see you got some great stuff 

Draschel:  Actually, 1/3rd? 1/4 of Type 4, nevermind 5, is still beat red using 350 HEAT from VK7201. Enitre? I doubt that very much. That don't seem too binary to me. The tank has considerable ricochet zones, and they are WAYYYYYY to thickly armored for any amount of HEAT pen present to even consider going through.  

Draschel:  While your fun maybe ruined, the people that experience this ''fun'' don't have to anymore. Because it is not fun, getting shot in the tracks while side scraping by FV4005 and taking 650 damage.You think HE shells are limited to 0.50 accuracy howitzer? IS7, 277, 5A, Maus, E75 could fire HE in the most ridiculous fashion. 30% of 630 is almost 200 damage, which is significant Its as simple as this, you want to do chip damage and annoy your opponent, aim your shots and hit the tank body. You still will do reduced damage, and won't get 0. If you want to still not aim, just derp someone not caring if it lands even in the gun barrel, gun mantle, or track belts - enjoy your 0 damage. Aim? OBW, I enjoy the skill it takes, playing a tank like Charioteer, shooting HE through a doghouse, and chain fence, and 15mm arty track and still pen for full damage. 

Draschel:  Side scraping heavy tank hit for 250 damage in the tracks by another side scraping KV2 or OI, allows for ''dynamic gameplay''  ????? You serious? Half the HP spammers, seriously went to the same location to do just that, because they can get away with broken chip damage.  While the game certainly may have lost what you think is funny, the game has gained huge amounts of skill required. This has little to do with hull down, this has to do with aiming your shots to hit tank body, not tracks, not gun barrels, not spaced armor -  but the actual tank body. Kran van, Emill II, UDES 15/16 can very simply be fixed by actual cupolas added to their frames. Emil 1951 has a cupola, the same cupola can be added to Kran. Tanks with ridiculous hull down abilities, but only in armor like STI, 279E, 430U, IS7, T62A as well need more credible weakspots attributed to their turrets. They cannot shoot like kran, UDES, chieftain..... but heck can still spot, tank damage, hold up flanks. Tanks like 110E5, Type 5 heavy, 110E3, 268 V 4 need weaker weakspots, like Jag pz E100, E100. Weak spots that even tier 8 tanks can pick out, opposed to resorting to premium shells.  

Draschel:  Rofl2nd time. USA in the first war was amongst the biggest collection of imbeciles, that probably should have never even joinedNot only did Jerry, think the yankees were kooks entering WW1, so did the French, Brits alongside them

Draschel:  You talk out of yours 

Draschel:   How is this right, in anyway, to say. Close to 11 million czech, polish, yugoslav people died in WWII and NONE were conspirator nations. And of these people that died, many were innocents. Many were abhorrent deaths of death camps, and I am not even talking about the unfortunate and poor of Jewish descent that had to go through that nightmare. How many innocents, in comparison had to suffer in Canada, England, USA? We are talking thousands, not millions. At least in the West, there was rigidity and assuredness - that if you were to die you were enlisted. You accepted the risk of dying. But civilians to pay for it?  Nazi conspirators you say? How can you say such vileness. Czech was annexed in the 30s, to which the world was just silent to. Did nothing. Yugoslav and Poland had early bloody take overs. What co - conspiracy are you talking about? You condemn me for saying something? I condemn you for saying something. Count it, 11 million people.  Latent communist? At the time of the great war or before it, none of these eastern countries were communist.    

Jaguarz:  arent you a special little fellow, also boring and apparently naive and who you served with means literally jack and you STILL dont know them, there arent many phrases which have been uttered more than things like "my friend/child/spouse/family member/acquaintance would never do anything like that!" or "I cant believe my friend/child/spouse/family member/acquaintance would do that!" and any variation of.

Jaguarz:  You know virtually no one and even the ones you "know" you really dont.

Jaguarz:  Several do....