Assassin7

what the others said, its bad because of the imbalance between prem and base XP and how they get lumped together, it makes it impossible

my first thought on reading the title of this thread is that there are about three hundred Exponentially more pressing issues that this game needs fixing than changing the equipment, which is a long standing and conventional mechanic with no inherent problems. before watching the video and reading some comments in the thread, this has further strengthened my opinion that this will be in no way an actually good change. skimming through a small portion of the video. I already, seriously, seriously do not like any of this idea. they're trying to fix something that aint broke.

Do we really need ANOTHER russian heavy?

average tier, and other stuff would change for the overall and per tank. Im not sure how the formula works myself, but the way I'd understand it is that if you played one battle in a T5 tank, and one battle in a T10 tank, with both being at say exactly 3000 WN8, when adding them together for the overall stat, your average tier of 7.5 would yield slightly different expected values than a simple case of "this tanks expected plus this tanks expected divided by 2" Ok so I just tried this, the M4 Shermans expected (513.45) plus the M48 Pattons expected (1864.403) divided by two is 1188.9265. for an Average tier of 7.5. but the T20s expected is 944.827, and the Pershing is 1119.194. So just by adding the expected damages, your average tier of 7.5 already has higher expected than a tier 8 tanks expected. I could be talking completely out of my ass here, but thats how I'd understand it working. This basic premise would also apply to spots, kills, and all the other stats that get included. also its more likely that the per tank is wrong and not the overall, as WN8 is intended to show stats over a large sample size and for smaller sample sizes or even for per tank, its not entirely accurate.

Around the time of the 3rd campaign was my best time for me. That was what? Late 2014? 2015ish i guess. The general game and vehicle balance to me was the best its ever been. The only real cancer tank was the Waffle, the most OP tank in the game was the E5 and even then that was barely OP. It also was around the time I felt the game population in general was at its peak (at least on NA), its only ever really been going down since. Maps were turning corridor-ey but there were still some open maps where you could move around. Back then I was in FOXEY, who were also my favourite clan to be in, and I still play and chat with a bunch of the old foxey guys even today. Clan wars meta was also the most varied that I can remember. The E100 was viable. If you wanted an RU med it wasn't just the 907 or bust. The 62A was still viable. Heck if you didn't have one of the right tanks, the general balance was so much closer that running an off meta tank was easily workable - heck I remember playing my T10 VF4202 in one game and winning while doing near top damage lmao (rip that tank, so much fun) After that, they started releasing bullshit. The Type 5, which I believe has not had any remotely positive influence on the game, ever since its release. The STRV, which is the same.

Bruhhhhhh and all those naysayers denying the gloriousness of the STBae-1 for ALL THESE YEARS. maybe I Should log in and play a proper session in it again

woah woah woah are you saying what I think you're saying? STB-1 is a viable tank now? say it aint so

it wouldn't be a problem if they were all balanced properly. Or if the rest of the damn tier was balanced properly. the ultimate fix is still to do the obvious, and fix the major imbalance of vehicles at tier 10. we have effective tier 9s and effective tier 11s all in tier 10 ffs.

TFW getting a free 1K WN8 puts my recent just at where it was before I stopped playing tanks properly.

Shhh, get out of here with your logic. that has no place in the WG balance department

Its a step in the right direction, but I still think they should just nerf all the fucking new shit. And I dont agree with armour buffs. All that means is just more gold spam

Announcement a few hours ago, NZ locking down effective immediately. No work, no school. For 4 weeks. Fun times

NZ is two Islands in the South pacific. our closest neighbour is Australia which is a 3 hour flight away. Assuming we had no cases in the first place, closing our borders to ALL non NZ residents, and properly quarantining the relatively low number of residents coming back home from abroad as they are currently allowed to do before all passenger air traffic is halted which is currently planned, would be pretty effective in assuring we would never get any cases.