Sandbox 2021: Try Out the Reworked HE Shells!

NiXxXO, on 15 February 2021 - 05:30 PM, said: Why do you ignore the main problem 90% of the player base have, and it's not the HE spam... think if you look in this thread you can find it mentioned at least 50 times.    Can you give us a figure of how much dmg HE does to let's say Special (GOLD) at each tier in the game so we can see how much it is a problem? give us some number and tell us Special ammo is a smaller problem than HE spam   when you make one shell more useless in most case, players will have to pick something else and they have a choice of two, one with slower traveling time and lower pen (probably too low if they would have used HE) . or the one with faster traveling time and higher pen (high enough to properly pen).  so, yes how dare he come to the conclusion, you chose a small problem where players would be forced to use more money, instead of tackling the bigger problem that might not directly give you more money but keep the game alive. 


Aqks87, on 15 February 2021 - 05:54 PM, said: FIX REWARDS THEY JUST DISAPPEARED !!!!


Anonymizer, on 15 February 2021 - 06:08 PM, said: Is it me only, but understood that we will receive some style by participating in the tests. It will be at the end credited or???


vixu, on 15 February 2021 - 07:06 PM, said: Even if you add more weak points to those well armored tanks it doesn't eliminate the HE spamming and how it's used to now As a new player (speaking of myself) I'm learning how to hide my tank weakspots, side scraping  and I do like to play heavies. Positioning is very important in WoT and it's not easy to find the right spot to park your tank if you're playing heavies. With the current HE mechanic, it's very hard to that. Whenever a tiny part of your tank is exposed, and I'm not saying a weak spot, the enemy tank can hit you with HE and do some damage, damage your internal modules, perma track your tank while you're just staring at the wall in front of you.
I have a question. What is HE spamming you are talking about???  I mean, I have never noticed "HE spam" but gold spam I see in every game. If I drive a heavy tank I am actually fine with other players shooting HE at me - it means that they don't shot gold and do less damage.

Ofc, there are that rare situation at tier 10, when you are actually outmatching your opponent's prem rounds. And then you have some derp gun taking you apart. But, hey... those slow chunks of free HP should be good for something... for other 90% of situations they are totally losing to gold spam. And I suspect that whole HE rebalance came from this corner case, when some unicorns in t10 were not happy that a derp gun could touch their invincible CW-reward tonk.    Also I've seen players asking "How can I flank in a KV-2 now to deal damage?" You don't, you let your team mates do the job. So, in other words - if you are driving KV-2 into the battle - you are not helping your team.  18:10 Added after 3 minute That's mostly if you were doing **** on the test server. If you were really trying out new HE mechanics you would get nothing due to not being able to make it to top 10 ever with a rubber bullets gun.


grasho, on 15 February 2021 - 07:12 PM, said:
Erm...   How is that a problem?   Are you suggesting the enemy shouldn’t be allowed to damage you until you’re ready and gotten yourself into a position that prevents them from damaging you?   Here’s a thought - pick a better position or change your approach direction to minimise exposure.  Or learn when to trade HP for advantage.   What you are essentially saying is that you lack the skills to succeed, are not willing to learn, so support changing the game so it allows you to succeed.  Whilst preventing the players on the other side from succeeding...


grasho, on 15 February 2021 - 07:27 PM, said:
So you’re advocating that a heavy should passively sit back whilst other do the donkey work? Great way to encourage in-game toxicity.   Flanking in a KV2 is a valid tactic.  Hell, it’s even in accordance with the “you need to put HE shells into weakspots” change WG are foisting upon us.
  Or are you saying your WG bosses are wrong?   ETA   A few reasons for flanking with a KV-2:
To target the extra squishy parts of a higher tier heavy. To avoid getting hit when the enemy has slow traverse. To force the enemy to rotate and thus expose their weak sides to your waiting team.