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    opinions on sirfoch being censored?

    in Casual Purple

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, lordawesome7 said:

    he actually proved the threat here http://imgur.com/a/RGPfh

    soured from his reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldofTanks/comments/6c3ixa/clearing_up_some_things/

    Keeping in mind that screenshots of web pages are comically easy to fake.

    There are five possibilities that come to mind given the seemingly conflicting statements of Foch and Wargaming. In no particular order:

    • Foch is lying with faked screenshots. Really easy to do.
    • Wargaming is lying about what they threatened to do. Again, easy to do.
    • Wargaming internal communication has failed and Nijal doesn't know what happened or was given incorrect information.
    • Ph3lan exceeded his authority and this is beginning spadework for dismissal or reprimand.
    • Very careful wording in that statement leaves room for the action they took whilst appearing to say they didn't.

    Do the Garage Shuffle - LT edition

    in Metagame Discussion

    Posted

    I sold the 59-16. I was never particularly enamored with it and largely kept it around because the autoloader was quite useful for tier 6 tournaments. Sans that, no reason for me. I still have a T37 because I don't want to sell a triple-marked vehicle, but I haven't driven it because blech. May keep the T49 and shift the crew to that after the female T49 crew goes to the Sheridan.

    LTTB got an extra 2 degrees of depression so now LTTB fights aren't just endlessly skipping shells off the other guy's engine deck.

    New Vehicle Trade in Program

    in Shenanigans

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Enroh said:

    for those thinking of offloading the dicker max, why? 300 alpha, obscene view range and gun depression make this a beast at tier 6. 

    su100y is NOT getting traded either as this thing is just plain fun!

    I find casemate TDs quite boring unless they're something like the E-25, Jagdpanther II, or Object 263 (that is to say, very mobile and dynamic, this camping in place junk bores the shit out of me).

    New Vehicle Trade in Program

    in Shenanigans

    Posted

    I might be interested, save for there's little in the tech tree to begin with and even less I don't already own. I'd trade in the 50% off TOG or SU-100Y I purchased years ago and never used for something, except the only tanks I'm interested in (M46 KR, AMX 13 57, Mutant, or 252U) aren't generally available.

    Also only getting 50% feels kind of cheap, though I guess it's that way to prevent people from buying something on a 50% discount and trading it in for 75% of full price or somesuch.

    Patch 9.19

    in Upcoming Changes Discussion

    Posted

    I for one hope they stagger WoT ranked with WoWs ranked. I'm not sure I could handle both of them simultaneously.

    23 hours ago, GehakteMolen said:

    they can always stealth nerf it, all the module crap (crew deads, fire chance etc) are hidden

    No, actually, they can't really. They're all visible in the client files, so while changes may not be immediately apparent or documented they can be found. It's how I know many artillery pieces had their module damage cut in half in the 9.18 patch. Crew death is listed in the crew file (and is different based on whether they're being hit by an explosion or a kinetic round/HEAT jet), fire chance is listed right on the engine module.

    11 hours ago, Vindi said:

    they've done this with the fcm I'm 90% sure (weaker ammorack, higher fire chance and accuracy/bloom) but maybe its paranoia

    It's paranoia. You can see the totally identical stats here.

    9.18

    9.17.1

    Post patch thoughts

    in Metagame Discussion

    Posted

    The tier 9 lights. All of them received significantly improved power/weight which feels wonderful. Often the speed limit felt more like an aspiration instead of an actual limit with the 9.17 state of the tanks. You can accelerate, climb, juke, or drift with much better results now than before. The Type 64, which was previously one of the peppiest lights and did not receive these changes, now feels downright pedestrian after an entire weekend of tier 9 lights. Don't even get me started on jumping into the 4502 Ausf. B and feeling like you stepped into a temporal distortion.

    AMX 13 90

    I think this was a big winner from the changes. It lost two shells from the drum but gained considerably better gun handling, faster inter- and intra-drum reload, and the ability to mount a vstab. Few other changes but that's probably the biggest thing. I often found it difficult to actually land all six shells in many situations thanks to awful gun handling and the long intra-drum reload, now you no longer need to separate moving from shooting with several seconds of aiming. You can be a light tank instead of a tiny mobile tank destroyer.

    T49

    The other big winner. The 90mm lost the high penetration HESH round but gained a 212mm penetration APCR round and massively better gun handling. The tank went from existing solely for the 152mm derp to being an excellent run-and-gun DPM machine. You can still use the derp for fun but I personally prefer the consistency and flexibility of the 90mm instead of throwing the dice every ~20 seconds.

    RU 251

    Mixed but generally positive bag. Lost 10kph off the top speed and ~300 DPM, but gained gun handling, 200 HP, and a high velocity high penetration AP round (no more softballs!). Unlike many other lights did not receive a huge hit to base dispersion. Still, unfortunately, has Woll Smoth face and I never really liked in the first place and still don't, which is probably coloring my perception.

    T-54 Lightweight

    I rather think this one got the short end of the stick. Initially it seems like a net upgrade. Little more HP, better penetration, muzzle velocity, etc. etc. But holy shit 0.40 dispersion. This is just beyond aggravating. I wasn't even trying to camo snipe. Wargaming's idea that lights should get in there and fight it out is at odds with a game that severely limits your avenues of approach and is full of high caliber TDs that can end you in two shots or autoloaders that can do it in a drum.

    WZ-132A

    The only "new" one, but actually quite similar to a WZ-132 w/100mm that got the T-54 Lightweight treatment. Oh, and it lost 10 meters view range. One unique thing it has is a super 100mm gun with 320 damage instead of the 250 of the T-54L, which is similar to the WZ-132 and WZ-132-1 compared to their peers. With these light changes Wargaming has unified the Chinese lights and mediums under the theme of wedge-hulled bowl-turreted Soviet knockoffs with higher damage guns. I completed it over the weekend with better win rate and average damage than my WZ-132 but I'm not really sure they can be compared. There were, after all, lots of bad light drivers out and about to farm, and I platooned so much more with this than the WZ-132.

    Also, aaaaaaaaahhhhhh 0.40 dispersion!!!!

    Edit: I really want to reiterate on how frustrating 0.40 dispersion is. Basically take your mental guide book on the D-25T and throw out the pages on damage per shot advantage and overmatch (so most of the good parts). It's really quite an experience when you fully aim a shot at the center of a broadside Type 5 Heavy and it flies over the engine deck or hits the dirt because the tungsten got homesick.

    Edit 2: I forgot to mention the ratio of barrel length to tank size on the 132A is a bit silly.

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    All that for only 12mm more penetration than the T-54L.

    Overall

    I would say they took a class that was niche and marginal and made them anywhere from slightly less niche and marginal to about the same. They still, unfortunately, do not have maps that allow them to truly stretch their legs and leverage their primary advantages over mediums, so for the most part if you want to win just bring mediums instead.

     

    The future of Type 62 - is it/ will it be worth it now??

    in China

    Posted

    Played a few matches with it post 9.18. It didn't actually get any better, but it has better matchmaking (never seeing tier 10s again and no more than three tier 9s max) and its fellow tier 7 lights are no longer massively more powerful than it. It rather felt, dare I say, useful again. I am tentatively upgrading it from "Awful garbage do not buy" to "If you're willing to accept some tradeoffs and perhaps some small net nerfs from the WZ-131, this might be your thing."

    The real winner is the AMX 13 57, though, having gotten better matchmaking, better gun handling, and a vstab. They scare the crap out of me when in another light now. They can dump 720 damage in 7 seconds with pretty good accuracy at close range, then drive away.

    Safe Stowage Effectiveness

    in Core Skills & Mechanics Discussion

    Posted

    Hello friends from the past. As of 9.18 many artillery pieces had their module damage halved. I have updated the spreadsheet accordingly, creating an artillery-specific tab.

    You will see some duplicates, because there is no longer an iron consistency where all guns of a given caliber have the same module damage. US 8" guns arbitrarily have 5 less module damage than Soviets. A French 75 arbitrarily has as much as the 76s. The GW Panther gets 3 more points for giggles. Some 122mm guns now have more module damage than the 240mm of the T92 HMC. This does not seem to correspond with which vehicles do or do not have the stun mechanic.

    Post patch thoughts

    in Metagame Discussion

    Posted

    There's a new .xml file in the client called "stun.xml". It contains the following: 

     <stun.xml>
   <baseStunDuration>   30  </baseStunDuration>
   <guaranteedStunDuration>0.45</guaranteedStunDuration>
   <damageDurationCoeff>0.55</damageDurationCoeff>
   <guaranteedStunEffect>0.75</guaranteedStunEffect>
   <damageEffectCoeff>0.25</damageEffectCoeff>
   <minStunDuration>    5   </minStunDuration>
   <shellEffectFactor>  1   </shellEffectFactor>
   <stunFactorEnginePower>0.7</stunFactorEnginePower>
   <stunFactorVehicleRotationSpeed>0.8</stunFactorVehicleRotationSpeed>
   <stunFactorTurretTraverse>0.6</stunFactorTurretTraverse>
   <stunFactorViewDistance>0.75</stunFactorViewDistance>
   <stunFactorMaxSpeed>0.75</stunFactorMaxSpeed>
   <stunFactorReloadTime>1.5</stunFactorReloadTime>
   <stunFactorAimingTime>1.5</stunFactorAimingTime>
   <stunFactorVehicleMovementShotDispersion>1.5</stunFactorVehicleMovementShotDispersion>
   <stunFactorVehicleRotationShotDispersion>1.5</stunFactorVehicleRotationShotDispersion>
   <stunFactorTurretRotationShotDispersion>1.5</stunFactorTurretRotationShotDispersion>
   <stunFactorMinShotDispersion>1.75</stunFactorMinShotDispersion>
 </stun.xml>

    I don't have anything more on that, but I imagine there's some various factors taken into account. Might be distance, tank armor thickness, etc.

    Also, all spall liners, irrespective of weight, have these keys added: 

     <stunResistanceEffect>0.0</stunResistanceEffect>
 <stunResistanceDuration>0.1</stunResistanceDuration>

    The item description in-game says 10% reduction in stun time...but I don't always trust the item descriptions.

    Post patch thoughts

    in Metagame Discussion

    Posted

    Arty module damage was cut in half, which is good as otherwise you'd see your modules dying left and right with this improved accuracy, rate of fire, and splash.

    Crew, however, might well be in greater danger. They don't have health and are just dead or alive, and the death chances haven't changed, but the number of times they have to roll to not die has gone up considerably.

    Edit: Looks like it's not all arty, some of the lower tier ones weren't touched (which means that at a certain point you lose module damage by going up a tier).

    Tier 9 lights

    in Upcoming Changes Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, hazzgar said:

    LOL. 

    They do. There are plenty of other complaints one can leverage about TDs (deficiency of the casemate platform for example), but low firepower isn't really one of them. Almost without exception they either have a more powerful gun than same-tier heavies (see German 12.8cms at tier 8 vs 10.5cms) or an improved version of the same gun (compare the reload time and accuracy of the SU-122-54 with the T-10 or ST-I).

    Cleveland?

    in Cruisers

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Pocktio said:

    I'm not hugely interested in the endgame, but the RU line seems better than the American endgame cruisers too.

    Mind you, I've only gotten to the tier 7 for the Rooskies so I can't speak on their endgame, but I do have the tier 10 American cruiser. The tier 8 and 9 Americans are just bland and boring. Globally their win rates are worst in class, they just don't really have any leverageable strengths. They've got the best AA, but that's like saying they've got the best resistance to arty (situationally useful but not an exploitable trait).

    The Des Moines, however. Oh boy. It's got a bunch of limits and I would still say it's 3rd or 4th out of 4, but holy shit is it fun. Nine 8" guns with a six second reload (5.3 with the reload mod). The shell arcs are like the Cleveland, but if you can get close you can spray truly silly amounts of damage. I once got broadside to an Iowa and blasted him for most of his HP, thanks to a handy cyclone. Here was my first match in it.

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