The Circle of Life in WoT - a prediction of how the game as we know it may ch...

XenomorphZZ, on Jul 01 2012 - 22:06, said: First off, this is a prediction, and quite frankly I can be completely wrong, and nothing may not change at all...
Right now, the most used tank in UC is the Heavy Tank.
SPGs probably make a close second since teams are more likely bring SPGs than medium tanks.
Lights and Mediums tend to be used in the same regards, but usually bringing one or two lights is the norm...
TDs are mostly a joke, mostly...
Now we with the incoming tier 10 vehicles for mediums and TDs...
I personally do not expect a huge power creep with these vehicles - to the point that nobody brings a tier 10 heavy tank over a TD or medium tank.
What I do expect is that TDs suddenly become much more revelent. Also mediums just might be able to brawl with heavy tanks and have a better surival chance 1v1 utilizing agility and not by standing right infront and shooting the front glacis of a heavy tank, also not being borked in CQC...
Back to TDs... Serb (the WG dev) has stated that the average damage for the 17cm gun for the german tier 10 TDs to be 1000 damage... thats a lot compared to what the most practical tier 10 Heavy tanks can do...
In addition to that... its said that the average damage for 150mm/155mm guns is going up from 750 to 850... notice these guns are almost exclusively found on TDs...
So... It seems to me that TDs will almost mimic SPGs, key differences being that they will fight from much shorter ranges, and from a direct angle of fire. This may cause tier 10 TDs to be signicantly more of a threat then they are currently to heavy tanks... or atleast make TDs a more viable choice in UC... I dont play TDs as much as I do mediums, but I noticed that TDs are much more easy to suppress than a heavy tank especialy when you look at what a TD gets over a heavy tank in regards to raw firepower and the lack of a turret...
Now in regards to the tier 10 Mediums, the hints that they might actually get APDS rounds as a standard (but expensive) credit round might shake things up. We can expect higher penetration, but possibly lower damage. However I'm not expecting anything beyond 10% in damage loss... I could be wrong though... how will this change the dynamic in a 1v1 fight between a medium and a heavy tank?
- It will level the armor advantage any given Heavy has over any given Medium (tier 10s).
- Heavies will have an Alpha and Hitpoint advantage over Mediums
- Mediums will have an Agility and RoF advantage over Heavies
If these preditictions do come to fruitation... I imagine that:
1. A T10 Heavy cannot bull rush a TD T10 from the front at most distances but extreme CQC and expect to survive or come out with more than 40% of his total hitpoints.
2. That Mediums will not be quite as soft and weak as before, enabliling them to fight and push directly with Heavies.
Thoughts? Is this just a silly prediction? Am I a QQing Medium player that has psychosis in regards to Heavies? Will this break the game and/or further strengthen the power creep with new tanks that some players claim that WG is practicing? Are Heay tanks supposed to be the be all and end all of UC? Will this enrage the playerbase? Speak!
I know this rather premature...