Players Questions and Developers Answers

Orkel2, on Dec 17 2011 - 23:12, said: Q:
I have heard that there is a "module saving throw" in addition to the "critical hit roll" if a module gets hit. Do these have something to do with
1) module absorbing entire shell damage, tank health doesn't go down, resulting for example in a destroyed radio within a 100% tank
and
2) module absorbs some of the damage and gets damaged, tank health goes down resulting for example in a damaged ammo rack and the tank going from 100% to 75%
I made a graph about how the critical system might work. Can you confirm or correct this graph?

That is my speculation.


HLS30, on Dec 19 2011 - 02:00, said: With the decreased ability of HE to do general damage, and with an EFFECTIVE increase in armor relative to AP, are there any plans to tighten up the tier spreads (especially for arty), make lower tiers more useful in higher tier battles, and if neither, why not?


turtle722, on Dec 19 2011 - 18:23, said: Thanks for the replies to my questions.
I am surprised about your response on the 5 man platoons. 5 man platoons had been mentioned previously with no mention of 30v30 battles. Is this a new development? We had been expecting a new play mode possibly of three five man platoons together and not 5 mans in random battles.


hazywater, on Dec 21 2011 - 00:37, said: Has there been any consideration for adding the auto-loader on french tanks as a hitbox and module?
What are the effects of a dead crewman on the autoloader time and the drum reload time? Does it effect the former as well as the latter or just the latter?
Also, question:
Why does it cost 50-60k or so XP to research a chaffee/T50-2/VK2801 when it costs 14k for the AMX12T? You might tell me there is a difference in performance, but you would be wrong. Considering the autoloader, they have similar firepower, similar speed, similar power to weight ratio, and similar armor. The only real significant difference is in their hit points, where the AMX12T has 200ish less.
The tier 6 AMX13-75 is basically a chaffee with an autoloader and 100 more hit points for about half the XP cost. And these tanks are profitable, unlike the Chaffee/T50-2/VK2801.
So you can research a light tank for over 50K XP and get something that preforms around abouts tier 5.5 or you can spend considerably less time and experience to research a true tier 6 light tank and actually have the cash to afford to play it.
You need to seriously reconsider your light tanks.


Orkel2, on Dec 21 2011 - 22:24, said: HE armor absorption factor was reduced in 7.0. The old value was 1.3 if I recall correctly, what is the new one?


Otto_matic_Reiffel, on Dec 22 2011 - 01:31, said: Hi Vallter
Any roadmap details on when the German premium E-10 and E-25 TDs will be released? Old in development had them as Q2 2012 with the JagdTiger 88.