Furthermore the tier ratio is generally skewed, where top tiers are dominant, while the lower tiers are fewer in number. This should not happen, and tiers should be more evenly spread in a game, with at least a ratio of 1:3 or less (i.e. 5 top tier tanks, 5 mid tier tanks, 5 bottom tier per side).

What we see now is 1:1 ratio or worse, meaning at least 7-8 top tier tanks and up to 10, and the remaining tanks being mid or bottom tier. Instances where a battle is made up of the same tier (all 10s, all 8s) should not happen. And they do.

It has been an issue for a very long time, now.

They could add a fov slider, if they really cared about it. But the simpler, elegant solutions aren’t WG’s forte.

Nevertheless, this begs the question, why screw around with stuff that does not need fixing?

FOV has absolutely no impact on FPS. Console games (typically last generation ones) have a narrower FOV because they only support TV resolutions (particularly number of horizontal pixels), on which they play. It is a non-issue because console games are generally played in a living room, far away from the screen, thus fitting well with the perspective of the eye.

This is not the case with PC games, where the distance between the player and the screen is about 40 centimeters or less (5 times shorter).

@joyuesp
I love this game. and hardly even use Gold ammo. My favorite tank is M7. And I’ve done 1,600 damage in it once(I also did a fair amount of spotting damage that match). I’ve also taken out a T29 that never saw me. I continually tracked him and did 75 damage till he was dead. (I bet he was mad :P)

Most players think M7 is a useless piece of garbage it uses the 6-pdr 105 pen, 75 damage gun- and has no armour to speak of. Yet it can be used very well in tier 5-7 games. The point I’m trying to make here is, the matchups are perfectly fine.
Think I’m some uber who can play like magic? HECK NO. I’m horrible. Check my stats on noobmeter, I’m not that good. But I at least put SOME effort in learning how to play.

(My username is “Kauris” NOT Kauris Azurai) NA server Noobmeter.com check it.
Not some unicum uber player. just a normal non-whiner.

I, unlike some others, RELISH a challenge. Take away the two tier spread and the good, semi-good (and the non scrub sort-of competent like me) players have no challenge anymore. the game becomes too easy. Three-four tier spread is way too much, but -1 +1 is too little….

Please go to youtube and try to learn some. and get at least 6,000 battles before complaining. And If you’re past 6,000 battles and still don’t like it. maybe this ain’t the game for you pardna.

Is that a fact? Because I keep a record of the battle tiers I don’t get anywhere near an equal amount of top tier battles. It is nearer 20% Own tier – 38% +1 & 42% +2 (+2 = T5 tank in T7 battle etc) There are other players who keep a record too, and they also get a broadly similar tier balance to me. I have been trying to establish whether there is any mechanism in place to ensure that everyone has a fair spread of battles in their own as well as +1 & +2 tiers.

I have never been able to find anything which even mentions this subject, much less confirms there is supposed to be something in place to ensure we all get put in an equal amount of +2 battles, almost always with a team that doesn’t have any brains between them, which promotes the bottom tiers to the official rank of cannon fodder for noobs.

=not beneficial

Fov change is the second thing that really pissed me off (after luchs moved to tier4). i cant pull back the camera enough to see something behind me, it feels like when horses get that black stuff on their head which blocks their eyes to concentrate on other thing than the road.
Wg better not implement this, or it’s time to download camera mods.