Hello everyone,
just a quick heads up about a mistake in the WG EU 8.10 patch announcement. The tree WG EU linked is old. Because the post will probably be backedited at some point – here is the old version EU posted:
and here is the more recent correct version from Russian portal:
As you can see, there are some differences between them:
- some tanks have been renamed (eg. Chi Nu to Type 3 Chi Nu, or STB1 to STB-1 for example)
- Type 97 Te-Ke was removed and the remaining light tanks were shifted down a tier (Te-Ke is suspected to appear as low-tier premium or reward tank)
- Chi-Ri lost its 88mm gun, it’s top gun will be 3 round 75mm autoloaded gun
- Type 61 and STA switched places, Type 61 is now tier 9 (this is historically more accurate, as STA prototype was Type 61′s predecessor)
Edit: they already fixed that, good :)
Well it is WG EU we are talking about so I am not so surprised here.
Ewww, auto loaded 75mm gun…
I really would’ve liked an 88mm :)
Same here would of loved an 88 on it… hope the 75 has decent pen like 190.
Not happening. It’s going to be tier 7 medium hell, knocked up a notch in terms of pen.
I know just wishful thinking… and i just remembered that the 75 auto loader is a teir 6 gun.
Well, T20 got nice gun, so does Comet with its insane RoF, Russian 85mm is nice with its combination of 180dmg on average and workable penetration value and then, you got here the Chinese 100mm with interesting penetration and damage. Probably the worst tier 7 medium top gun is 75L70, since it does not have the RoF nor damage nor pen to make it on par with others. 88L56 got too low pen, 10.5mm is obsolete on that tier, 75L100 is… well, strange, too specific to place in comparison with others gun.
The 75L100 has 195 of penetration, that’s almost on par with the 203 of the 88L71. It might seem like small comfort, but at least you can still hurt people 2 tiers above you, unlike with the ‘muricans or british, where you have to get insanely close.
And it somewhat feats the machine ; every time you hear a german apologist blatter on about the Panther, it’s along the lines of “Well, the Panther could hit and kill a Sherman at 2000m but the Sherman has to drive all the way to its side and hack it with a pickaxe LULZ”.
It makes sense though, no t7 medium has a great gun, ugh, this makes me wonder of what will happen to the AMX 45 when it is released…no DCA 45 would make me gag.
The Panther was my first tier 7 and I had a great time in it. T-34-1 and A-44 seem pretty cool too.
The A44 has the ZiS-6 and “fuck-you” sloped armour, which is insane.
In fairness, the T-34-1 sold all of its armour to buy a shiny gun, as for the Panther, well, just check my comment on the thread just up there.
It looks like WG even can’t post proper news about features they are introducing to their own game.
OK,
One: Te-Ke would have been perfect for this tree
Two: Chi-Ri was SUPPOSED to have an 88mm gun. So WG has fucked up a tank and it’s not even in the game yet. Great.
We should all be used to it by now.
Only 75 mm was planned for Chi-Ri.
Yes, the 88 thing was what US intelligence assumed based on what they knew immediately after the war. I don’t think it was ever truly considered by the Japanese.
http://ftr-wot.blogspot.ru/2013/05/chi-ri-imperial-japans-most-advanced.html
> In documents about the Chi Ri`s development, there has never been any mention of installing an 88mm cannon in the Chi Ri or on any other Japanese tank.
IIRC Daigensui debunked that; the Americans just found some 88mm AA guns nearby and assumed ZOMGZ THEY GONNA PUT EIGHTYEIGHTS ON CHI-RIS TO MAKE JAPANESE TIGER.
It wouldn’t be out of character. They borrowed Comets and Me 262s by the end pretty much everything they could from their “ally”.
But, hey, the Japanese spent the second half of the war borrowing things from everyone. And that’s a shame for them, because they were pretty well in advance in the 30′s.
well, they focused their relatively limited resources to make ships, so they needed to “borrow” other tech from other nations
Whole medium line? Very good :)
There Will Be Campers Episode Two : Campers of the Rising Sun
Capital Letters: Episode Twenty Two
Only Brits have whole medium line.
Ah, they fixed it already. I am glad WG EU employees read FTR constantly so they know what they screwed up :D
*drumroll*
*badum-tss*
*triangle*
They show the wrong image of the Chi-Nu-Kai on their site as well.
http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/19/version-810-announce/
It’s Chi-Nu, not Chi-Nu Kai
yep, but link goes to Chi-Nu-Kai just to confuse me.
Any idea what happens when 8.10 arrives with regard to what we get? For example, choices may include:
1. We get a free tier 1 Japanese tank with 100% crew like we would as a new player to WoT, and possibly a free garage space with it; or,
2. Nothing
I think when the Chinese were introduced we got the tier 1 tank, a slot and 50% crew. So I assume same will happen with the Japanese.
That’s really good !
That’s just par for the course. They also give you every tier 1 when you join.
Chinese tree was introduced BEFORE they changed that new players are getting 100% crew on 1tier tanks. This suggests me that new 1tier tanks shall come with 100% as well..
Am I naive?
You do know that the Tier 1 is just another Renault FT derivative and nobody is complaining about there being too many FT’s. But then it is a Tier 1 and not a T-54 copy pasta… Oh wait, it IS…
Guess it is a good thing that I actually like the FT.
The FT *is* tanks. It defined tanks first. It’s in this game even though it is 23 years younger than the Leichttraktor.
So basically, the Chi Ri will have the 75mm type 5 AT gun, wich is Chi Nu Kai”s gun, but autoloaded?
125mm pen at tier 7? Eugh!!! Or they would use the Premium AP round for the Chi Ri, buffing it up to 150?
No, it has the tier 6′s gun. 155 pen, 130 damage.
if te-ke was so bad why not make it tier 1 intsead of that copy?
Because Japan, like so many other country’s, started their tank corps with the Renault FT.