Hello,
most recent Q&A compiled by Edrard and translated by Ivan:
– The German 88mm gun parameters will be rebalanced, but no ETA yet
– The most important upcoming fixes in WoT are the matchmaker, artillery, tank rebalance and same gameplay mechanisms, game performance, multi-core mechanism and vegetation quality
– It’s possible that the accuracy RNG will be rebalanced
– The problem with bigger maps in WoT that was never solved concerns slow vehicles and their inability to drive around quickly enough to make a difference. Other unsolved problems include the fact that there’s not enough time to introduce a reasonable number of big maps in short time and performance issues on weak PCs
– WG will not establish a special department dealing with illegal mods or issuing certificates to legal mods. Such a WG certificate would get hacked very soon
– When it comes to future vehicle rebalance, the developers will not only use small scale changes such as penetration buffs or nerfs, the overhaul will be global
– The Rampage mode is less popular than CW or Stronghold. The income perception in this mode is not good either, the problem was that the mode had too high income rates (artificially enhanced) during testing and the players got used to it
– WG matchmaker will be overhauled from scratch, it will come this year
– The whine about Super Pershing getting ammo racked too often is not confirmed by statistics
– 9.15 release date depends on the testing results
– There are no plans to buff accuracy on the move for the T-34/85 top gun
– There is no rule saying that track links hanging on the armor have to be considered thicker armor zones, it depends from case to case
– German tank side skirts (E 50 E 75 Tiger II) will become spaced armor in the future
– Himmelsdorf is well balanced when it comes to winrates of both sides
Thanks for the update!
“The Rampage mode is less popular than CW or Stronghold. The income perception in this mode is not good either, the problem was that the mode had too high income rates (artificially enhanced) during testing and the players got used to it”
The problem was that not every fucking player has 3 fucking tier tens.
BADWOLF527 Use the rentals they let you have.
but most ppl who take tier 8 to this mode do it to grind them without wn8 rating or, in case of premiums, to compensate for their shitty income. its not about not having enough tier 10, its about beeing antisocial fukktards.
wiht the absolute crap crews that come with them? with no equipment? yeah…rentals are more like easy targets.
Then don’t play.
“Then don’t play.”
I tried this. It works.
Then you lose hundreds of thousands
Then don’t play.
Income in Rampage seems to come up frequntly in thr QAs translated here, and the dev’s answer is always the same, “we’re monitoring it but it’s comparable to the income in randoms”
Comparable to randoms is the problem to begin with. Your average WoT player stops earning credits around tier 8, so a gamemode limited to 8+ is automatically going to dissuade poorer players even if you give them all the rentals they could ever use.
The problem was I lost more money playing 1 rampage mode than I did playing 3 tier 10 games in my IS-7 as you have to fight other tier 10s instead of farm free elo against tier 8s that can’t fight back.
And a lot of us don’t really care to play/grind to them either. The rewards rarely sound worth the effort in those tiers as the potential to lose money far exceeds that of any other tier in the game. If you want to do CW or statpad that’s the tier you want, but a very small portion of WoT players even care about that aspect of the game.
Rampage is fun, but we are not motivated to play it, we are punished for playing it.
Problem with Rampage is the income. I like playing it, it’s fun, more action paced, and really good distract from randoms, but it’s just not worth it. -40k on regular game. +10k on very good game without prem acc.
Not sure if they fixed the bug with repairs – if you get killed in one tank, you pay repairs for all 3 of them.
This is the only deal breaker for me.
I bet if they changed it so that it’s a way to earn credits, it would be successful.
But after 10 games, when I see 400k credits less, I’m like, fuck this shit. What’s the point anyway.
Won’t get T22 anyway and if I do, it would cost me like 400 billion credits.
This.
I played it a bit, but it made zero sense to play it. I really liked it, but I just couldn’t afford to play it, simple as that. If your gonna force someone to play with tier 8+ tanks you need to make it so not every single game(ish) is a loss in income. Otherwise people like me who otherwise would play it, don’t.
I like how AW does the PVE income, zero cost for ammo and repairs, but there is a “logistics” fee that you need to overcome. Anything you make over that fee you keep. That would prevent the insane repair bills for the tanks, but still make it so you need to try for your income. Not sure how well this would translate over to WoT’s rampage but in AW PVE it works really well (I think). In both cases your doing WAY more damage than in a normal match so I think it ~could~ work (with maybe some tweaks to deal with prem ammo and stuff).
Please begin with fixing the vegetation quality – you know, first things first.
I’d imaging that to be a low priority as it doesn’t really affect the game. I’d much rather see them work on Arty, RNG, or matchmaking fixes asap.
That guy was being sarcastic lol
When they talk about accuracy rng I hope they mean “not any chance to hit the center of the circle when not aimed” and “not any chance to hit the outside part of the aiming circle when fully aimed”.
Nerf rng.
Yeah, nerfing ALL accuracy by lowering the chance to hit the dead center was a great decision…
./sarcasm
you left out the other part of that change. the number of shots that go dead center did decrease but so did the amount going to the outside.
Maybe, but we don’t the ratio between that. For all we know 10% of the shots have been moved outwards and only 1% inwards. There is also the issue of latency between your reticle and the server reticle. If you even have a little bit of lag, your shots will always land further outwards, but never further inwards.
– There is no rule saying that track links hanging on the armor have to be considered thicker armor zones, it depends from case to case
/// Physics, how do they work?
Must been a wows dev answer this one.
There isn’t a rule but I love how the Tiger I got fucked over while the Bias-3 got because of track links. I honestly came to expect the lower plate on the Tiger I would be better than the Jap Tiger because of the track links but nope. Only the Russian tanks have the track links that count as armor mounted in a position that is actually helpful.
– WG will not establish a special department dealing with illegal mods or issuing certificates to legal mods. Such a WG certificate would get hacked very soon
Yeah, why bother locking our doors, people will break in anyway. Great logic.
true. but as I read it, WG admits that they themselves just suck at programming. they don’t know how Soviet ZERTIFIKET might work.
Better be the shorter 88 that gets ‘rebalanced’… that thing is not very good.
I hope so, since the bulshit O-Is and even Bias-3/6 tank changes it has been struggling more than ever.
theyve been telling us for years that its fine,and if they buffed it for one tank they would have to re balance all the tanks that have it…but there isnt a single tank i can think of that id like to run the 88 on
Tracks don’t count as extra armor when bolted into tanks in every case. They are right, they only make it extra armor on Russian tanks. BECAUSE RASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
They cont on the Pershing but they are mounted on the side of the turret so they really don’t add anything of value unlike on the Bias-3.
with the is3 hes either angled straight on and if you shoot the ufp you deserve to bounce, or or hes angled and you can shoot through it….it is literally next to useless if the player cant play the tank. dont try and make excuses for not being able to kill is3s
TIL VK36.01H is Russian.
LOL! 5 Years in and still talking about multi-core support… guess they’re still playing Tonks on Ti-82 Calculators over there.
Oh yeah, global rebalance, can’t wait to have my favourite tanks that I’ve been collecting all those years turned into shit.
Also, I have a sneaking suspicion (weird, right?) that WG will fuck it up completely.
“– The German 88mm gun parameters will be rebalanced, but no ETA yet”
Nah, comrade, 132 pen is perfectly fine on tier 7 mediums and tier 6 heavies. It’s 12 more than tier 5 Soviet heavy! Don’t let them get spoiled!
Yep, WG’s idea of global rebalancing sounds like a cluster f*ck in the making.
Global rebalance more like global inbalance increase.
Reading comments on these Q&A posts are so cancerous that I am glad WG have more common sense than the average wot players.
I wish that WG had common sense, then maybe the game would not be in the broken state that it is right now.
“Common sense” does not exist. If it were so common, don’t you think it wouldn’t be an issue?
i think most people just want to cry russian bias so they dont feel like theyre bad.
Yes, the T32, Tiger II, Caernarvon etc. are just as good (actually better) than the IS3. People are just stupid and can’t use them.
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Kappa.
– The German 88mm gun parameters will be rebalanced, but no ETA yet
Give L56 at least 145mm/190mm pen like 85mm D5T 85BM and im ok with it, at least is still have better change to pen OI from the front (VK36 and JPTiger) or more chance to use against high tier (VK3002)
As much as everyone would like that. 132mm of penetration is completely historic. It was more then enough to deal with any Allied tanks during WW2, except the IS-2. But let’s face it, they will never buff it because they rent concerned about Mid-Tiers, because there are tanks like the O-I, KV-2, SU-100, SU-100Y. And the Skoda T-25.
The funny thing is, while it is a correct number, it is a correct number against an angled plate (About 30 degrees). Penetration against straight plate was about 150mm. What is interesting though, is that good number of the soviet guns penetration tables are against straight, not angled plates.
For 30 degree angle from vertical, yes its histocial correct. For 90, its should be higher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_mm_anti-tank_gun_M1943_(ZiS-2) – look here, I know its wiki, but look on pen table. Look for 60 degree, and then for 90, and see in game, and witch pen is closer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.5_cm_KwK_40 – look here too, and see pen table for 90, and 30 degree. And see in game, witch are closer.
As u wil see, they dont use 90 degree pen, for many Germans gun, and why?
Dev already said pen now are balance factor, and iirc, 88L56 of WoT console version have much better pen (149/190)
Wargaming says that they do not solely balance using historic parameters. If the gun is underpowered for the game, it is underpowered. As simple as that. The 8.8cm L/56 is not necessarily a bad gun, it is just not competitive against its counterparts in the game.
There is precedent for buffing the short 88, I believe they did buff it for Blitz.
For other crazy factoids about Blitz, did you know they actually made the DW2 there decent but giving it a 75 that actually pens.
Yes 132mm may be Historic and accurate
BUT as we know WOT tank mechanics is not accurate is it? after all the 88mm L/56 now faces tanks from post 1950 and newer
– please remember that this gun is pre 1940 and historically the worst it faced was the T34 and Churchill’s, and Sherman’s into summer 1942 and after that it was replaced and upgraded as now obsolete
(132mm AP penetration is Tier 5 really not Tier 6, and the APCR is very poor against tier 8
and of course WOT now has many tanks that ‘do not’ or ‘have not ever existed except in blueprints’ and most are post 1945 or even more modern to give us ever more in-game tanks
~ or in the WG WOT developers fertile imagination with ‘what they feel is good’ lol
I hope they are not nerfing the 88mm…
Well, all they need to do, is give germans gun pen from 90 degree angle, and for example: 75 L\48 has 135 Ap pen on 100mm, apc4 176( in game, way less) , 88 L\56 Ap 162, apcr 219. But ofc, only soviet 57 long gun can have 90 degree, or Sherman gun. Its not that hard. I dont know why Germans use 30 degree angle, and all rest 90. Game its not russian bias, its simple anti-german.
Sherman 76 mm gun use 90 degree pen, and have like 125 mm pen, for 30 angle on 500m only 93.
The differences in methodology are far more complex than that…
Yea, like how. I just show, how WG fucks Germans guns. Look on stats. On wiki 57 zis 2 has pen for 90 and 60 degree. Look at them. Go to game, and look what pen is closer to game one, that from 60 or 90. Its nothing complex in it. Anti-Germans game, simple as that. Why Tiger 2 dont get space side armor in HD, but in near future, but most Russian have that for long time.
Nothing complex? Except for every nation using different standards for test plates, range, angle, ammo, what counts as a penetration, how high the probability of penetrating is, etc.
Anti-German? You mean like their projectiles getting impact angle normalization, which was present only in case of Soviet blunt-nosed shells? Or 8.8 cm KwK 36 having higher penetration than 85 mm D-5, even though they were equal? Or that 12.8 cm KwK/PaK 44 has much higher penetration than it should? Or most Soviet guns having worse accuracy than German guns, even though they were equal?
You’re using the anti-German nonsense as a way to justify your own bias, simple as that,
Oh and if you actually manage to show me a Tiger II with Schürzen, I’ll give you a cookie.
u wut???? literally none of what you said relates to the game. all pen values in game are at 90* pre normalization.
stop blaming lack of understanding on russian bias…
It totally relates. 88 L/56 in game has the historcal penetration number of 132mm. But the one in game is 132mm against a flat 90 degree target, while the historical penetration is 132mm effective penetration against steel angled at 30 degrees. This means the real penetration value would be higher.
Not for Germans, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.5_cm_KwK_40 – look for pen for 90 degree, and tell me same is in game. For 30 it is, and next : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_mm_anti-tank_gun_M1943_(ZiS-2) – look there, and tell, witch pen is closer in game, 60 degree, or 90
They don’t even understand why rampage mode failed, wow. Their incompetency seems to be getting worse and they seem to be getting more distant.
Just for clarification Rita, which 88mm/88mms?
More vegetation and multicore support. Good. Improved MM. Good.
But dont touch arty even if average DPM is too high…no, it isnt.
Yeah:
WG matchmaker will be overhauled from scratch, it will come this year
and make it even bigger shit, set up and fail.
Inb4 nerf to 88 l70 instead of buff to l56.
Inb4 tracks count as extra armour on all Russian tanks and nothing else.
Inb4 improved mm gives 95% chance to win and 5 to to the in every game and gives 4 tier difference.
Inb4 wg are fucking idiots that can’t do shit straight for fucking years and make the game even more broken if that’s possible.
if 15mm of track armor is what you think is keeping you from penning you need to actually aim. because its basically only small areas. even if you do hit the tracks its only 15mm more which is well within rngs toss.
Or maybe you need to learn to understand how armour works.
Let me teach you my padawan.
Is3 from tal armour 110mm angles so effective 170-180 depending which part of the plate you hit. The outer edges are closer to 200m effective.
The weakest part of the frontal plate is exactly where they added the track armour. Sure it’s only 10 or 15mm in most cases but because of the angle that armour becomes much more effective. 215-225 effective instead of 170-180.
So next time you want to spout your mouth and talk utter garbage think before you speak.
Himmelsdorf=DINOSAURUS=delete
“The Rampage mode is less popular than CW or Stronghold. The income perception in this mode is not good either, the problem was that the mode had too high income rates (artificially enhanced) during testing and the players got used to it”
How dense can the devs really be? There needs to be a reason to play the game mode. I am not going to grind credits so I can play Rampage mode. I am have heard a olot f good things from WG recently, but if the people who implement these ideas cannot figure out simple stuff like this then nothing is going to change.
“WG will not establish a special department dealing with illegal mods or issuing certificates to legal mods. Such a WG certificate would get hacked very soon”
i was thinking about the system used by Steam Workshop for some moddable games (eg: GMOD), where you can “subscribe” (install) mods, and it’s generally patrolled mostly by rabid fans of the games that will flag and downvote trash mods/junk uploads.
because nothing pisses a Skyrim modder more than someone uploading a junk mod.
(one of the primary reason why Skyrim modders use Nexus to mod instead of Steam Workshop is how easy it is to manage mods with NMM compared to manual)
Making Rampage not require t10s would help. Part of the credit problem is that they charge the player repair fees for their exploding t10s, and t10s don’t normally earn credits even in random battles.
I feel that the rentals doesn’t help with the problem.
I personally rather play my t9/t8s on random battles and actually get xp for my grind to the t10s(and occasionally get a bit of profits) than to play rental tanks, waste the earned xp on rental tanks and crews that I don’t care about, and also lose credits.
There’s no reason for me to play. Its fun, yeah, but it burns my credits and it doesn’t actually help in my grind. Why should I play a game mode that burns my credits hard and doesn’t earn me any xp on my grind tanks unless I bring them in(And suffer because non-t10)?
It’s all a lie.
Over years the WG mongols refused to fix the MM, 25% RNG and arty f0ck because it all worked as inteded.
Now – over five years of communist incompetence – another tonk game teaches them how to do it properly.
Lol – any math studend after 1 year of studying is more competent to develop a fair MM. Stupid mongols will never fix their commie game.
Well – Wargame either fix and improve the
Awful Match Making ~ and the +- 2 MM system
the 25% RNG
The OP Arty
The Corridor Maps
The Small size of Maps
The small Map Rotation with same maps, all day, every day
Or more and more people will stop playing there WOT game for many reasons above
and simply take there ‘premium moneys’ to spend on another game
simple really
4000 un-employed Wargame staff if company profits fall away
and it WILL be there own fault
Whats new about change of Lorrain ?
WG keeps saying they’re going to fix the game.Its been almost 2 fucking years since the game got broken and they still haven’t done anything about it.Players are sick and tired of empty promises
Type 58, upgrade top gun from LT line gun with 145 pen 180 dmg.
” – German tank side skirts (E 50 E 75 Tiger II) will become spaced armor in the future”
WG buffing german tanks? I’m pretty sure that breaks some fundamental law of physics and will result in the collapse of the universe.
– The German 88mm gun parameters will be rebalanced, but no ETA yet
– The German 88mm gun parameters will be rebalanced, but no ETA yet
– German tank side skirts (E 50 E 75 Tiger II) will become spaced armor in the future
Oh, gods…finally some love for German tanks. I hope they will buff pen for short 88 and dmg for the long one.
“The German 88mm gun parameters will be rebalanced, but no ETA yet” What does it exactly mean? They will nerf it because works better than russian guns?
– The German 88mm gun parameters will be rebalanced, but no ETA yet
Love how they put this 1st so that by the end of reading this you forget about it.
I want to know how they will “rebalance” it.