Comments on: On introducing new premium tanks

By: Nya-chan Production

Nya-chan Production — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:08:04 +0000

I prefer to see how I improve in the game, reaching some level of play (and cooperation in terms of CW/platoons/team battles) deemed “good”, than to pretend I am the best just because I have better gear than everyone else. That’s the point of my post – I play for fun all the time, but it’s really easy to see that the people whining for reward for every minor thing don’t – they want free stuff without any effort, which is a really warped view of “fun”.

By: starlight2098

starlight2098 — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 02:38:08 +0000

I’d love a better British med premium – as long as it was better then Matilda BP. I’m not even buying that, no matter how useful it would be to me.

By: J. Moynihan (Polandballs World of Tanks News)

J. Moynihan (Polandballs World of Tanks News) — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:34:50 +0000

With 2 stand premium lines the american’s desperately need a premium. I mean the Germans had 1 TD line and 3 premium TDs fr a while. I mean we haven’t gotten any new American tanks in a long while.

By: Mauschen04

Mauschen04 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:01:13 +0000

>Currently, the Jagdtiger 88 doesn’t have historically correct speed (and LFP thickness if I recall correctly)
You’re right, the JT’s lower glacis was nerfed a few patches back, but they didn’t touch the JT 88.

>M56 Scorpion
The predecessor to the Ontos deployment?

I dig.

Oh, also this is one of the tanks meant to be air dropped. So if you’re still worried about making high tiered airdropped vehicles viable, well here’s a tier 8 for you. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

By: Breakalegs

Breakalegs — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:12:07 +0000

play for fun. to be the best at a battle isn’t fun anymore?

By: Bugii

Bugii — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:07:39 +0000

- it shouldn’t be a copycat of an already existing vehicle

Like Panther M10 ? Which is basically identical to stock Panther? Just painted brown and wooden boards glued to chasis so it looks similar to M10 ?

By: Septfox Malkier

Septfox Malkier — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:12:35 +0000

Right, that’s why you would have the second module option unlockable for free/0 exp. Anyone buying it for its elite capabilities will know to unlock the optional module(s) to enable elited status, and go from there.

Or, as you say, have them unlocked from the start, but I’m not sure how complicated it would be/what problems would crop up with effectively marking more than one of the same module type as “stock” and therefore unlocked at purchase. *shrugs*

By: SpudmanWP

SpudmanWP — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:45:11 +0000

One of the selling points of a Premium tank is that it is Elite the moment you buy it and can be used more efficiently to train a crew. If it had modules then WG would have to change the program to consider it Elite no matter what modules were researched. Either that or buy it with all the Modules already researched.

By: SpudmanWP

SpudmanWP — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:43:06 +0000

172 pen, not 210.

It basically has 2/3 the Hellcat’s speed, no 360 traverse (only +/- 30 degrees), and only get’s a 12 pt buff vs the Hellcat’s pen.

No way in HELL that is Tier8.

By: SpudmanWP

SpudmanWP — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:38:16 +0000

I am not concerned about it’s “Historical” pen as WG changes a lot of stats for “Game Balance” purposes. I was just showing that it (the same gun as on the M46 Patton) has 12 more pen than the 90mm on the Hellcat. btw, The M56 has the same 90mm M36 gun as the M46 Patton (a pen of 172 vs the Hellcat’s M3 pen of 160).

Before you say that it has too much Pen for a Tier 6, the Nashorn, Dicker Max, SU-100, SU-100Y, ARL V39, and AT-8 (to name a few) all have the same or more pen and a LOT more armor than the M56.