Comments on: Interview with Storm from a Czech WoT magazine

By: martin4x4

martin4x4 — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:18:42 +0000

Is it not that JgT8.8 at 400 (or 500?) has same penetration values for both AP and APCR?

By: Trent

Trent — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:02:15 +0000

“I do hope that HP differences will be lowered in Historical. It will be highly unfair for a T-34 of a Panzer 4 driver to shoot a tier 7 like 15 times to kill it and for the tier 7 to be able to kill it with 1 or 2 shots.”

This is the second time I see this kind of thing here on FTR and I don’t understand it, to be honest. How is that different from normal -/+2 tier spread in randoms? This kind of argument would be kinda valid if the only way to drive T-34 in a historical battle was in a “15 T-34 vs. 15 Tigers” battle, but I somehow doubt it’s WG’s plan.

By: Homer_J

Homer_J — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 08:08:54 +0000

It is limited enough already. ;)

By: ggram

ggram — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 00:19:55 +0000

WT E-100 fanboy spotted…

By: Hustodemon Zewel von Lelek

Hustodemon Zewel von Lelek — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 21:46:28 +0000

that might be true, AFAIK ;)

By: WorldsDawn

WorldsDawn — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 20:16:12 +0000

And no camo and a minute reload and a high silouette and no sideskirts and prone to engine damage…
shall i continue? :)

By: WorldsDawn

WorldsDawn — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 20:13:17 +0000

to help those, they will spawn in the enemy base :D

By: ggram

ggram — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:51:29 +0000

“- Storm states that while WT E-100 is very strong, it might face the same effect as FV215b 183 (SS: that means that while a lot of players consider the vehicle OP, statistically it’s balanced), he admits it might be rebalanced after a few months”
It IS overpowered, this thing has extremely low dispersion when moving the turret, laser like accuracy, kills a Maus from full HP with a single burst, highest view range in the game, decent mobility and very high HP. Only cons are the unarmored turret and the negligible turret armour.

By: yowanx7

yowanx7 — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:48:38 +0000

Graphical improvement? Does this mean that the old Big World engine will finally get multi-threading support and DX11?

By: Septfox Malkier

Septfox Malkier — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:33:28 +0000

I think the speed difference depends on the gun. Some HEAT is slower than normal AP, some isn’t; same with HE.
Example: the shells used by the M-63 (semi-unique gun on the Object 416) and iD10T-2C on the T-54 have a consistent shell speed between AP/HEAT/HE, and the stock iD10T gun is the same between AP and HE. The gun and shells on the Chinese 113 are the same.

On the other hand, the Chinese 112 has the same between AP and HE, but loses a whopping 160m/s (800>640) when switching to HEAT. The D-54 on the Object 430v2 is the same, but only loses 115m/s.

So saying that “APCR is faster than AP which is faster than HE/HEAT” isn’t necessarily correct; you have to check for yourself with each gun you use. APCR does seem to be consistently faster, though, especially on the tier X mediums where it’s primary ammunition; up to around 75% faster than HE/HEAT there (the Batchat in particular has a massive difference in HEAT and APCR velocities, the Soviet mediums aren’t far behind). But on tier IX and below, it doesn’t seem to be a general rule.