GehakteMolen

Well, i will atleast give it a go This damage nerf should have been done in 2013 though, 6 fucking years ago (gold ammo was put in the game in 2012 and half a year later it was clearly ``not working as intended``, but WG beiing morons, they didnt do the cpt obvious, and instead ruined the entire balance) As others above said, undoing the damage of 4 years buffing armor to keep heavies relevant is gonna be a hell of a task... ps: dropping the hitpoints with 10% on the few obvious problem cases when this goes live will tone down the worst offenders atleast (Maus, Type 5 etc.) ps ps: but im sure WG will fuck it still up + i doubt they will do it in next patch, and the longer they wait, the smaller the change it will bring back players / slow the drop in players

Gold ammo and arty fucked it, those 2 made heavy tanks useless, and when the heavys suck, the bads will drive TDs or artys, many fun.... Over the years anything and everything got good gun depression, accuracy and turret armour, and every tank is now the same, with a different skin, aka shit. The main reasons why historical accuracy was so important, is that it forced WG to be creative, a tank with crappy RL armour and no gun depression needs to be amazing in other stuff, while a tank with fat armour and (often big gun) needs to be bad in other departments to make it balanced. Beiing a bit creative for the sake of gameplay, ok, but the last 3 years have been a total shit show in this regards. Only way to fix the game (perhaps): One arty in each team as hard cap Start removing autoloaders, it should be a nich, not something half the tanks have cut gold ammo dmg down by 25% Reduce hitpoints of all tier 9 and especially tier 10 tanks a bit and nerf dpm of tier 10 Reduce accuracy, especially of top tier tanks Add weakspots and when tanks become to weak, buff them a bit in other department. Tier 10 was always the cancer of the game, and it spread to all tiers over the years...

I never understood all the hate Serb got, Serb made only 1 single mistake: Arty. And thats it, serb had a very good idea on whats good for the game and what not, and listening to the morons on official forum is NOT good! Most of the time your customers are drooling morons, they wanted a fun game, serb gave it to them, so shut up and play. What they think is ``fun`` is only fun for 20% and shit for 80%, if every turd idea gets put into the game, it means you gain 1 good idea at the cost of 4 awefull ideas... In retrospect, they day serb quit beiing in charge of wot, is the day wot started its long decline... ps: Serb was not some random turd developer what some on NA always seemd to think, serb was lead game developer, aka he was the head of game development.

1: whining implies im complaining about something thats not true / not a problem, only blind retards think arty was or is fine so im not whining, im mentioning a fact... 2: i was unicum before that term was even used, and what makes a unicum a unicum is beiing able to adjust and adapt to the new situations, the noobs will suffer, while the good players will kill said noobs regardless of the situation... 3: why should i even bother with elc? i dont wanna play elc, i want to play a tank, drive around and shoot people, like i could between 2010 and 2016/17, its not my problem WG fucks it up, i will just stop paying and do something else instead... Infact, its WGs problem: Wot is for me like watching tv, a nice filler, Wot is for WG their cash cow and their work and salery, people like me are the reason worthless developers like them even work in the first place... Pissing / losing your best and most loyal customers always ends in disaster, not short term, but long term, same with sports, if you loose the die hards fans / supporters from the first hour, your sport / club / team will be doomed, it might take 2 or 10 years, perhaps you can even keep exsisting, but you will never be what your where... and this is what WG has been doiing last 2 years, they made all the player who play for the sake of playing quit... death by a thousand paper cuts, and a big fat middle finger in your eye in the form of arty...

Yeah, sticking your barrel in hes barrel means bb arty (and no punishment). Still, we need more hero`s like the E100 in this team He didnt say anything, he just turned around and killed the CGC, when other arty complained he said something along the lines of: get cancer arty, and also killed the other (he also wasnt banned, hurr durr) Due to arty, the maps are shit and shit maps + arty lead to TD hordes, this coupled with gold ammo makes heavys pointless unless they get buffed, making mediums crap (they now get shit on by arty, tds, bad maps and OP heavys) and its not heavys thats the problem, not is gold ammo helping meds, its arty fucking it, arty and nothing but arty. Arty not only always fucked my games and ruined my glorious wins, arty ruined the entire game. For every fucking dog that plays arty for fun, there is 1 player that left the game due to said arty, outright removing arty and giving only compensation in credits and free crews would have costed far less players as the constand arty shit does. im 100% certain that arty is the most common reason people quit wot, its not OP / UP tanks, russian bias, bad balance, ``low tiers beiing to weak against high tiers``, or all the other tanks people complain about, if people could pick 1 single option it would be fucking arty, every single person i know irl that played wot and quit wot quit due to arty, every single person in the clan that quit, quit partly due to arty, sure they might also dislike other things, but arty is always one of the main reasons what makes wot so rage inducing once in a while. to all arty players: FUCK YOU VERY MUCH

Wont be playing WT, im not so keen on realism, wot (for me) always had the right balance between realism and gameplay Well, we once had a clan vote, and i won + im know for my limitless arty hate thus im the #1, except, me, as #1 think that Vodkjha hates arty even more (he tked hundreds of arty in all those years , put a stock radio on hes T-50-2 to make sure he wouldnt spot for arty, always went full retard in chat against arty, ignoring enemies who went to our base and even lost game he could win, just to spite arty) (i have also driven back to base, to TK an arty and thus assure he wouldnt get a top gun) The other would be Morgotz, he sometimes even tked arty in tank company, at the start of the game (cant find back screenshots right now) all in all, Morgotz hes arty hate was also legendary. So its either me, Vodkjha or Morgotz, most other arty haters are wannabees, i will 100% trow away a game if i can deny arty a top gun / special medal, and will NEVER EVER not hug an arty in enemy base, forcing my arty to either not shoot, or shoot me (i mean, Garbad was hating on arty, but was also busy doign everything he can to win a game, even defend / help arty, if you help arty your by default not an arty hater

Hello all, After 8 years of wot, i give up. I started playing wot during the closed beta in augustus 2010 (so almost 8 years ago) and while i was often mad, the core of the game was so good, that all the small things WG did for the good or bad didnt change that much. The overall direction the game was goiing was also good so slowly the game grew more and more on me. This was the game i always wanted: tanks fighting tanks, without all the other lame ass crap** (except arty, arty was, is and will always be c****r) All i wanted (and did) was bashing random bobs in randoms while platooning with stronk pleyers. Hence i have been in 322 / 247/ FAME / 322 for 6 years, not for worthless cw trash, but for stronk plutons. Over the years WG showed the amazing abibility to: Make the worst maps in gaming history and despite rewoking some 4 times (cough *komarin* cough) still failing in making them playable Too retarded to fix the elephant in the room that killed the game as a whole (arty) Total lack of foresight when adding things you cant undo (tier 10 TDs and later on arty and light tanks) Toss in the fact the only person in the whole company with both common sense and real power was siderailed (our lord and saviour ) And the game never mananged to live up to its full potential. OP tanks were originaly always nerfhammered, to keep the average the average, and most ridiculous forum suggestion where ignored, and when they didnt ignore it, like gold ammo for credits, it lead to a shit show, which ofc took a year to fix (m4 sherman with 150 pen and 350 dmg anyone? etc etc etc. However despite all of it, the game roughly stayed the same: The real problems, gold ammo and arty got ignored OP tanks dont get fixed fast small all round improvements Yet, the past 2 years, it started to change. the core strengths of the game got slowly ditched: The menus / garage where updated, making it a cluster fuck of chaos, instead of a clear easy to read menu for missions (which the game always had!), the menu became worthless, i simply stopped following missions, too much work / clutter Historical accuracy got ditched, leading to fantasy tanks and bs armour models new OP tanks dont get nerfed, insead old models got buffed, leading to powercreep Due to the above, all tanks slowly become the same, they all got dpm and gun depression buffs, all tanks started losing weakspots The real changes, which would have totally revived the game, sandbox, never happened, while heavy tanks got better, they did it by buffing them, not by nerfing what makes them crap in the first place (gold ammo!! and arty) Toss in the awefull map reworks, and a physics patch which makes driving TDs a pain and the game went for me downhill fast and as cherry on the top, still tons of arty to ruin your game. The game is now back to square 1: camp 2 win, and you try? you die! It was fun the all the time i lasted, i think i never played a game longer as i played this one, but the game simply turned to shit because WG was unwilling to remove arty in 2012 and reduce dmg of gold ammo 20% in 2013. And now the player numbers slowly start to fall, ``forcing`` WG to milk the playerbase for as long as they can, ruining the game entirely (see all the new russian super tanks) I always said the only company capable of killing wot is WG, and for me they succeeded, after playing daily/ weekly from august 2010 till jan 2018, having 6 years of non stop prem account and playing more as 50.0000 games during those years, WG managed to make me basically quit. (i do have enough credits to keep playing for ever, but i probably wont even bother) Imo its a shame WG fucked the game up so hard, but so be it, i still got 6 months of prem left, so gonna play a bit. ps: perhaps the gold ammo changes + inevitable rebalance that will follow 3 months later will magically improve everything, but i somehow doubt that, ever since Serb left, WG never had the balls to really change something, they always backpeddled like coward weaklings... Wotlabs is also almost dead, so thats why i made a topic GehakteMolen, the biggest arty hater to ever play ps: something that always bothered me: unlike all the wannabe arty haters, my arty hate knows no limits** there are only 2 players who hate it as much as i do, everybody else i just pretending to hate arty. I never defend(ed) arty from scouts rushing in nor protect them in anyway way or shape, and the only reason i dont mass tk them is due to the ban system, anyone who helps arty win a game is a traitor for the good cause: trying to ruin the game for arty. All arty deserves is curses and friendly fire, they are the scrouge of this game and the reason everything is the way it is (open maps not working , heavy tanks badly balanced, TDs they way they are and so on and on). I also never platooned with arty (for 2 players i made and exception) and never told them gg or anything other positive (i thinkg, perhaps i made a mistake) what i always did do was report them for unfair play, untill WG disabled that feature, due to unicums getting falsly reported aswell.

Slava Makarov is the new guy in charge? - Slava Makarov is a huge opponent of removing artillery, because arty players would be really screwed Gonna be fun

Its fucking unplayable... It looks awesome, but plays like shit, gameplay -> graphics crap, so fuck this patch. I will vote the only way i can, with my wallet / time, and simply not play for a while, fuck this so much (campers everywhere, TD tards all around and on top also more arty it seems, FU WG!!) / rant

As kolni said, aiming itself isnt much skill** **edit: as for sensitivity, i can move cross screen by moving mouse 4cm, so everything with wrist / fingers, but thats pure personal preference, some prefer it very high, others low, its better to put dpi very high, and turn the mouse speed slow in-game, this way you have less ``lag`` as the other way around Where aim skill comes in play is hitting moving tanks with slow shells, where you need to aim in front of a tank, and shoot at the right moment, especially if there are some bush in between. ps: the trick there isthis: Guess how far in front of the tank you need to shoot, to hit it) say 5m: Put you crosshair far in front (say 20m), Let the tank drive towards your crosshair, untill its like 5m away, and shoot. In a fps game you can lead the target, in wot you cant (well, you can, but you wont hit shit, like 95% of the players., because they do it wrong) so you need to aim in front of your target, and shoot at the right moment, the further you aim in front of a tank, the more time your gun has to zoom in, but aiming to far in front, the chance of your target stopping getting despotted gets bigger and bigger ps ps: the SU-152 shots are mostly what i talk about, i aim in front, and wait till the tank drives into the right spot, even on slow moving target (or look last shot for extreme example, imo best wot shot on youtube ^^) ps: i have deathadder aswell, 6400 dpi, no idea how much dpi im using

Buffing gold? Its needs nerfing (and a lot in some cases) And when they are done nerfing gold pen, they can nerf some armour / add some weakspots (or this is already part of gold ammo changes: nerf the fkn dmg with 20% and call it a day)

those are more Serb trolls answers then ``sane`` answers a normal dev would give

Well, the mediums are fast, so they can flank (instead of go hull down and gun down said heavy with HEAT) Long, long ago, when there was no gold ammo (or tier 10 tds and meds) the game was also fine, infact, tier 9 mediums with 220 pen ruled the game, not IS7`s or mauses, best platoon was 2x T54 and an IS7 or E5, the T54** because: Rashia and the tier 10, so you had atleast 1 non-cripled tier 10 tank **: while many M46 fanboys where drooling over the dpm / alpha dmg of the M46, the real sealclubber was the tank imprevious to 175mm pen / highly resistant to 200mm pen guns: T-54 (before HEAT-54, it was alrdy the best, T-54-lyfe & T-44-lyfe

yeah, it was gold spam that made tanks like the VK-B and Maus unplayable bad, forcing WG to buff the armour so much that even gold will bounce a lot (and making normal AP next to useless) Even now the armour of a Type 4 is junk, any heat shell that flies in your direction will penetrate it, so 2 morons may bounce AP all day, 1 single medium shooting HEAT will gun you down in no time, especially if you try to do what these tanks are supposed to do: cross some open space and attack ps: the whole purpose of these super heavys is drive into the open, towards the enemy, so a maus crossing campinvoka field is not ``stupid gameplay``, but it should be the whole fucking purpose of the maus, the maus should be so strong, it should win vs anything 1vs1, even with a worse driver, the maus should be ignored till the end, or get flanked by a big td / heavy and shot in the ass, but head on (arc of 90 deg) it should be unkillable. In return, the maus should have awefull firepower, since dealing dmg should not be its role, so pre buff gun is more then enough... ps: without gold ammo, and some nerfs to pre-buff status, the super heavys are actually fine, a type 5 is also almost impossible to kill head on AND has ghetto firepower. ps ps: the tier 10 TDs are ofc totally wrong, an E3 will wreck any heavy with AP, while there is not a single heavy ingame capable of killing an E3 head on (and the same for Obj 268 and badger) so they will need armour of gun nerfs (E3 with 120mm and 2500 hp, while badger can just get hp buff and dpm nerf) 268 needs a weak lfp. Its not that hard, sandbox was ok, its just that instead of nering everything to MAUS levels, and cutting gold ammo, they simply buffed everything to E5 level and buffed the armour (which is as a said 3 years ago, heavys tanks MUST dominate and WG will MAKE heavy tanks dominate..., the way they do this is retarded, but thats because all the baddies cried about sandbox, WG had chosen their end goal, all we could do is change the path, and as always the retards chose the wrong direction hence armour and heavy buffs, instead of gold ammo and (medium) / TD nerfs)

How many village do i need to clear? 5, 10? Gold ammo benefits morons as much as unicums, using wasd is too hard for anyone below blue, so if they cant switch to gold, they will all suffer big time... ps: wg should ofc add some weakspot (mg holes, viewports, hatches) so you can actually penetrate tanks like the 268 v4 and Type 5 or maus, buuuuut, who knows