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The thing that annoys me the most is the overall hit to effectiveness due to taking away the 14% or so Commander passive boost and locking it behind the Level 75 wall in increments, meaning that you have to get a 5-skill equivalent crew to activate the old passive Commander bonus. Another thing that I've found annoying is the RNG for the instructor skills (You get random presets given to you, you don't get to choose where the bonus points go). They said in the video that they wanted to get away from having must have skills that are always picked, but Repairs, Firefighting, scuffed BIA (Coherence) and Situational Awareness are all still needed for randoms IMO. From a CW perspective (I've really only watched Daki experiment so far), I can see that there's a massive variation in skill loadouts that you can have for CW, but I feel that for randoms this won't change much and there will be a figured out set of skills when (I say when because I know that WG will most likely have already decided that they will push this, regardless of feedback) this comes out, like for equipment 2.0. There are some very nice and unique skills that have come out of this such as redution of RNG for pen and damage rolls, but I don't feel that they will be effective enough to be used. Oh also, damage rolls seem to be very bugged on the Sandbox, with min rolls and max rolls becoming incredibly common to the point where you will hit multiple in each game.

Last time I sent in replays, you pointed out my indecisiveness in the options I have during a game. This has generally gotten better since then, but then I got the Bourrasque. I've been hardstuck at 2200 DPG because I'm just not consistent when I play it, I do 3000 damage in one game then 0 damage or the like in the next 2 games, rinse and repeat. I also can't figure out when to switch roles to help either myself deal damage, or the team win the game. Additionally, I find it difficult to exploit openings (However, I feel that I am able to see them when they open), or really do anything with any information (Such as spotted tanks) that appear throughout a single game. This session shows the inconsistency I have with this tank, and I think also highlights my inability to decision make effectively in the Bourrasque. All 5 games were played back to back: http://wotreplays.eu/site/5779189#airfield-spinee-bat_-ch_tillon_bourrasque http://wotreplays.eu/site/5779190#westfield-spinee-bat_-ch_tillon_bourrasque http://wotreplays.eu/site/5779192#murovanka-spinee-bat_-ch_tillon_bourrasque http://wotreplays.eu/site/5779193#live_oaks-spinee-bat_-ch_tillon_bourrasque http://wotreplays.eu/site/5779197#redshire-spinee-bat_-ch_tillon_bourrasque Whenever play this tank, I almost always feel that I could have done more in a game, even if I played badly, but have trouble figuring out how. I can't figure out what I'm supposed to play this as, a Light, or a Medium; and this ends up affecting my positioning a lot, as I don't really know the macro/micropositions that I'm supposed to take at times, and you can actually sometimes see me just sitting still wondering what I'm supposed to do.

I'll believe the performance improvements they claim when I see them via benchmarks from reputable tech sites and YouTube channels. That 3070 seems like a steal though if their claims do hold true.

That GSOR looks so broken in its current state and would completely outmatch the Skorpion in terms of how aggressive you can play (I like playing Skorp aggressively like a Medium when situations allow me to do so), on top of that has a TVP clip and 320 APCR.

Fresh new Leopard PT A nerf just announced:

Played these 5 back to back: http://wotreplays.eu/site/5307305#studzianki-spinee-object_277 http://wotreplays.eu/site/5307327#fjords-spinee-object_277 http://wotreplays.eu/site/5307328#serene_coast-spinee-object_277 http://wotreplays.eu/site/5307355#mountain_pass-spinee-object_277 http://wotreplays.eu/site/5307415#kharkov-spinee-object_277 I think my mechanic knowledge is relatively good. The two biggest problems that have crept up on me again is using team lists, both mine and enemy team, in order to decide what positions are effective upon deployment. Additionally, a lot of times my indecisiveness in the mid to late game in terms of positioning can cost me to be late to key positions (Which you see in the first game actually), health or damage. I think this comes down to the fact that I generally don't like to make plays until I'm absolutely certain of where enemy tanks are that can affect those plays (Unspotted TDs) etc., so I'd like help on this too. Edit: Removed a 5A replay that was just a straightforward W key win and added another 277 game instead.

The hull traverse values of the E 75 seem to be the wrong way around BTW. Currently on the live server it has 28 degrees/sec on its stock tracks and 30 on its top tracks and, so I think they're actually buffing it from 28 to 36 for stock tracks and 30 - 39 for top tracks. As if this tank needed a buff Personally, I think the biggest buff here is to the T32. I'm interested to see how it'll perform. I really liked it even when it had terrible pen, and whilst 208 still sucks, with the increased DPM, it'd have 2,200+, so that thing would be pretty good with full Gold.

The only thing I personally think is worth it is the T8 Prems like the T26E5 and AMX M4 49 for F2P players that may have saved up bonds and need a T8 Prem. Otherwise, yeah, save it up and wait for something good. I'd wager that the VK 7201 will show up at some point, but I highly dout the Chief and 907 will be sold.

Sandbox is up for HE shell testing. Here is what's changed in detail:

I was in the same dilemma. I think a high caliber tank with full HE would do the trick. Was gonna try it with the 268 v4 but maybe the SU-152 would be a better bet.

Hiding stats and retaining a username wouldn't work at all. XVM would just update so as to show the last recorded stats of the player before they hid their stats, and you'd be back to square 1. I was initially skeptical of this name hiding feature, as I thought it might have been possible for XVM to somehow fetch the original name, but they claim that this problem is solved. Another potential problem with this is making the list of possible nicknames something predictable, because if one originally used XVM to target the best players before, and now they see someone had their name hidden through a pattern of predictable hidden names, they'd assume that anyone who has hidden their name is a good player and proceed to focus them.

Wait a minute Could it be that it's finally fixed?