Update 1.13 - General Feedback

HeroOfTheLostCause, on 25 June 2021 - 08:35 AM, said:   I am sorry, but this is a poor excuse. In the Frontline mode, arties accepted the longer queues and MM also worked there. According to the feedbacks in this forum (which is closely monitored by you) it could have been a compromise between arty-haters and arty-fans. Almost everyone agreed in limiting the number of SPGs per team. Even one SPG per team seemed acceptable.   Returning to the current changes of SPG. Since I left the Random Battles, I have no direct experience. Based on various feedbacks from my friends, my understanding is as follows. (Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong)  The first shell has normal trajectory, splash radius and stun with significantly lowered effective damage. The second shell has lowered trajectory, smaller splash radius with modul and crew damage, and somewhat lowered effective damage. The third shell can only be used for a last shot in close combat.  As a result, SPG is becoming increasingly map and RNG dependent, since the second shell is not efficient, if there are the smaller slopes of a hill or the lowest covers. Random Battles become gambling for arty. SPG can be somewhat efficient only if a suitable map is chosen (CW).


pseudodespot, on 25 June 2021 - 09:52 AM, said: Due to the changes to HE I quit this game. 


Cowboy974, on 25 June 2021 - 10:30 AM, said: -The community just want one or two Arta max per game , and you did an arta rework, nice.... -The community just want a rework of premium shell , and you did an HE reword nice .... -The community want some balanced map and you did new map nice....  The communtiy can talk to a wall and havind a better response 


reesku, on 25 June 2021 - 10:33 AM, said:   A little offtopic, but since you provide such detailed numbers, how much positive feedback was there before introducing EBRs into the game? Above 2%?   Yes, from time to time developers listen to complains, if they're overwhelming and not affect company's potential income too much, then potential changes are being canceled. But if there's significant money to be earned then gameplay and players satisfaction doesn't matter anymore. I could even understand if the company would say it straight, but coming up with ridiculous excuses is disrespectful. Like for example people complaining about EBR's breaking games, and developers come out and say that according to their excel statistics EBR's on average survive in the game and deal as much damage as other light tanks, so essentially they're the same as other lights...   Regarding current update from the perspective of lightly armored tanks not much changed, arty can still deal too much damage. Improved shell tracing is nice to locate where arty is, and looks awesome, but can't protect you from getting hit, when you see it you have under 1second to react and no tanks except broken cars can accelerate so fast to avoid the shell. Circles on the minimap after the hits are nice to know that arty just shot and where it's looking, so there are some minor improvements.   Arty players tears on the forum are sweet as honey though, so all in all this patch is positive one, thank you.