Sandbox 2021: Get Ready for New Tests!

Max_Calibre, on 05 February 2021 - 02:53 PM, said: Revamped Crew 2.0   This alone all by itself will destroy all of wargame hard work over the years to improve WOT just so guaranteed to lose 50% or far more of the regular players that are now playing on the EU servers   why? it has taken me 7 long, long years to get  most of my crews onto 4 skills some 5 skills from Commanders to Loaders costs me a S--t load of XP and Gold not to mention 7 years of playing hard and skillful as possible to get them where they now are ~ not including all the Reward Girls with x2 free perks from the Campaigns which are like Gold dust and involve months and months and more months of frustrating missions (now for what?   Crew skills are as Important as the Vehicles in the game (some may say more so) but has probably has cost me so much more than paying for a new Premium Tank, or many Premium Tanks   so if Wargame f--- this up which would be incredible stupid of them (surely not?   then    goodbye as what is THE point         


Zamieszki, on 05 February 2021 - 03:01 PM, said: a survey after 5 games? ok, so crew rework will be cancelled, mark my words.


Maki711, on 05 February 2021 - 03:06 PM, said: A disastrous game changes and bunch of PR talk from the Staff... Completely out of reality like almost every patch or suggested change...
I really cannot remember when there was a patch where i would praise WG... The only good thing that happened in last few years is the reduction of minimap spam...


Ragnaguard, on 05 February 2021 - 03:20 PM, said:   Will break it to u in portions in case i did not made my point understood from a dev/moderator point of view..... Like the last one?You mean when you didn't like the HE changes last year and we decided not to go with the planned changes? u decided not to go with the planned changes last year to do what? apply them this one? Nerf lights?they were nerfed already. You feel they weren't nerfed enough?pretty sure u missed my NOT in my op sentence...... the most anticipated patch was the one that took lights from t5 and drove em up to t10... nomatter the fact that people in the sandbox back in the day (search ur news to check when as i am too bored to do it) told u not to nerf the lights , u DID nerfed em , ruining something that was meant to be one of the best updates in wot...... Maybe with the HE changes, thing will change a bit. Don't you think?the problem is that there is absolutely 0 trust in what u think balance is , so the real question is will it be for good OF GAMEPLAY or u will screw this one in the name of  monetizing ur game? If, we decide to add those changes on the live server, we will then consider other mechanics. We can not change everything at once. One step at a time would help us get better results and help us find solutions and improvements to others aspects if needed.rework the major problems then before introducing more... u even read forums? fix cars, gold spam and add moreto personall rewards in terms of exp and credits after battle... reward players for playing their tank roles so we do not see lights trying to play snipers full of gold in any level, or heavies running uphills for 4 mins (pretty much when game ends- and i do not mean fast one but u know type 5's or e 100's or similar) ... reduce arty to one per team , and balance the weight of each team by skill also (a feat u could implement in finding platoonmates).... SOLVE what exists, and then implement what u like... start in the correct order..... 

got it dwigt? u seem to miss the problem! ur focused more to the tree than the forest..... not sure if its done on purpose or not, but u miss the point


Misago, on 05 February 2021 - 03:24 PM, said:   Aaaaand a nice dodge around the premium shell and OP premium tank question by our team from cold belarus, these corporate shills are at their best today!!!!   What this is gonna do is force even more players to use gold against heavily armored enemies, which, of course, is good for a certain greedy game developer we could mention. Yay, more gold spam! We totally needed that!   Also, I will take bets right now that crew 2.0 is gonna do what equipment 2.0 did: Sneak in a way to make equipment just a bit more expensive and mandatory. Slow down things for non-whale customers to keep badgering them for that credit card info. Make crew skills a bit more essential, to get people to pay for crew boosts etc.   And the player you quoted seemed to say you promised not to nerf lights, even though they are pretty damn useless now (except the russian ones! What coincidence!)   God, I keep wondering if being Wargaming staff on this forum is kinda like being press secretary for that orange just kicked out of the white house. Dwigt, if you know what you are saying is BS, but Wargaming is holding you hostage, blink twice!


INFERNO1892, on 05 February 2021 - 04:45 PM, said: So we gonna lose all our crew members we worked so hard to train all these years and in which we invested our money, time and effort?


SnowWeasel, on 05 February 2021 - 04:52 PM, said: Let's give WG the benefit of the doubt....Oh they may read them, laugh, and then blow their noses on the feedback and throw it away.


Ragnaguard, on 05 February 2021 - 04:58 PM, said: what will happen to a tank with 6 skills per crewmember? will i get the equall crew members , or just a commander with lets say 2-3 perks? (see wow for example)........ or each tank will have a commander and seperate crew tanks  armoured warfare style?) why they not trying to tell us what they plan to do? instead they have what they want ready and they throw us the "sandbox" so that we can tell them how they "fixed" it......  i see no patchnotes (even in a preliminary state)..... what they fear to share?     


zentor, on 05 February 2021 - 05:23 PM, said: I really like where this is going... About 2 years ago WG started to listen to community and are trying their best - less OP tanks, less OP premiums, much free stuff and they really emphasize everywhere how important it is for them to listen to our feedback. Sure, they can not satisfy everybody, but changes they made were in the right direction, although with minor issues (like not giving free demount kits for all old equipment when equipment 2.0 came, or the map ban feature that works for no aparent reason only for standard battle and not encounter). I think that special ammo rebalance (should be nerf really) is more important that these changes, but at least they know that special ammo is also a problem and want to deal with it later. Better late than never (still you could do it on time but...) Lot of comments about equipment 2.0 said the same as many do now - "these changes will kill 50% of playerbase". Update came, players actualy liked it and now we are enjoying it. As long as crew 2.0 will have transition from old to new smoother than equipment 2.0, then it can add more variety HE rebalance, again, is not the main issue, but nice. Finaly no-skill-needed FV4005-like tanks will have to aim those HE shells (But Chieftain will be even more powerful) Arty rebalance, oh yeah finaly somebody realized, that you can program bot overnight to play that class. More counter-battery fire ads new choice for arty players - hunt arty, or shoot enemy. More shells, more options (but this time pls real options, cos on normal tanks there is no choice as long as special ammo is just better). Signal that you are being fired at is oh so good, cos now shell travel time will mean something and arty will have 1 more reason to use keyboard - to be closer so you dont give enemy much time to evade your shot. Changes like these will hopefuly make arties skill-based too, so there is a major difference between good and weak player and while these changes may sound like nerf to arty, it will only affect performance of bad arty players - those experienced ones already move from place to place, already take into account that enemy might move after they fired at him, and they will deffinitely welcome ammo choice as it my even increase their performance. BTW, it would be nice if we could see tracers of tanks and arties in normal tanks too so we can counter-fire So far so good, make it work, it will improve the game. And then nerf special ammo and Chief already...


Zwooop, on 05 February 2021 - 05:50 PM, said: Regarding Crew 2.0 what will happen to:   T-34-85 Rudy, with the special dog Szarik Primo Victoria T1-LPC, the offspring tank T42, with «the boys crew» and «the seven team»   And there are probably lots more + special crew bought/rewarded separately.   Will there be a refund if crew that people have grinded or bought suddenly is removed from the game ?


cosssma, on 05 February 2021 - 06:12 PM, said: we said ebr is bad we said equipment 2.0 is bad u didin t even listen 2 us so why shoul we tes sand box!?!?!? this game is broken with ebrs 3 arties and unbalanced mm u can do wahtever u want is useless