12.2.2014

- Storm states that the fact artillery MM weight was reduced by 10 percent does not mean that artillery absolutely cannot appear as a top top vehicle of the team, it only means the chance of such a thing happening is much lower
- it is a known fact that WG support employees can be mistaken: recently, a player asked on RU forums whether the spall liner reduced chance of crew being wounded applies only to HE shells. The support employee answered that yes, but Storm states that it works for all shells.
- Storm states that some players reported that in 8.11, the effect if shells hitting your tank is much less noticable than before, he states WG is investigating the issue
- SU-122-44 bad in Confrontation mode (national battles)? “Don’t play SU-122-44″
- Storm asked players, whether they experience some sort of issue, where shells in sniper mode don’t fly from the center of the sniper scope, but from upper left side of it for example (SS: yes! I’ve noticed exactly this issue on my Centurion I, I found it very very weird, running no mods too)
- apparently the new ricochet effects are historically correct
- T-54 will be reworked into HD in 9.0
- until HD models arrive, Type 59 model will not be touched
- no plans to add 3rd turret to T-54
- Storm states that statistically, the amount of long waiting time cases on tier 8 became much smaller

44 thoughts on “12.2.2014

  1. - Storm states that the fact artillery MM weight was reduced by 10 percent does not mean that artillery absolutely cannot appear as a top top vehicle of the team, it only means the chance of such a thing happening is much lower

    Aww, the good old times when my SU-8 was top tier, made less common :(

    • :D 183mm hmmm the effect must be like KKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOO BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM … or something like that xD

      • Had a 100% ricochet from a T30 150mm on my Foch. The sound was really DAAAMN loud. I saw the bouncing shell flying away and a clear ricochet-”scratch” on my Tanks. Still I got ~800dmg by that hit….. seems legit.

        • I saw a shell riccochet off the roof of a T34 and head vertically up into the air, it was kinda weird.

  2. ”- SU-122-44 bad in Confrontation mode (national battles)? “Don’t play SU-122-44″
    Just gonna love those answers :P

    • I’m going to bet it has something to do with Russias lack of really good scouting vehicles at tier 7.

      The MT-25 and A-43 [which can scout pretty well] are both pretty uncommon.

  3. - Storm states that statistically, the
    amount of long waiting time cases on
    tier 8 became much smaller

    And it ruined my WZ-131 – not that I cant damage Tier 10, but getting it almost everytime is exhausting.

  4. Storm asked players, whether they experience some sort of issue, where shells in sniper mode don’t fly from the center of the sniper scope, but from upper left side of it for example (SS: yes! I’ve noticed exactly this issue on my Centurion I, I found it very very weird, running no mods too)

    I usually have this kind of problem on my Indien Panzer when not fully aimed….then again IPs gun has a mind of its own….its even worse than BL-10 used to be before acc buff…

    SS: How long have you had your Centurion I? I played it a while back and i dont seem to recall having this problem so this problem has to be quite new

    • The same thing happens with the T1 Heavy (or it did when I had it a few months back).

      It affected gameplay in the cities a lot as you would aim for a bit of a tank as it was peeking out and would continually hit the wall. Yes, every time.

      In the open and at long distances it is not as noticeable, but it’s really bad up close when you are aiming at weak spots and exposed tanks.

      It’s easy to check for. In arcade mode drive up to a wall so that your barrel touches the wall. Now right-click (to freeze your turret) and rotate your view. Your gunsight should be at the center of your barrel tip. If not, there will always errors in shooting due to a bad gun & sight calibration.

      • I noticed this back when I had my T1 also the E-100 shots come from the top right of the camera.

    • I noticed it today while playing the T6 Japanese med. The shells were coming for upper right side.

      I also played wz111, T8 wtf german and Tortoise but didn’t notice anything different.

    • I had a feeling that stock Comet in hull down position hit the ground just in front of the tank, but I never noticed shell flying from below the view point. Just found that if ground covers 2/5 of aiming circle shell will nearly always go there (despite the fact that aiming circle shows dispersion at 50m and ground is just 10m far for example). But this was in August or so.

  5. Hmm my Ke-Ho always shoots a bit right from the barrel, lookin throu the sniper mode. It is damn weird O.o

    Plus, the shells hitting the tank got weird to in 8.11.
    I get hit but sometimes, there is no sound or explosion, like invisible hit. This is really weird, i don’t know if its because of the lag(didnt have it that much) or is it a bug.

  6. - Storm states that some players
    reported that in 8.11, the effect if shells
    hitting your tank is much less noticable
    than before

    Very small effect – I only can notice it by sounds.

  7. “- Storm asked players, whether they experience some sort of issue, where shells in sniper mode don’t fly from the center of the sniper scope, but from upper left side of it for example ”

    Same here.

    “- T-54 will be reworked into HD in 9.0″

    Then what was the point fo the remodelling in 8.11? They are doing twice as much work compared to what they should do.

      • IIrc they said that exactlxy this wont happen.
        No seperate HD-Client. HD models will be used for both low and high detail.

  8. SilentStalker please find some more info what is causing this massive lag. Game is absolutely unplayable, and not just for me but for everyone I asked from our community.
    What is the story behind it? Bad patch?

  9. - apparently the new ricochet effects are historically correct
    ___________
    Are they being fucking serious right meow?? “Effect” is historically correct? Ermerghed, soon we will see “Fire effects on Ruinberg on fire map is historically correct”

  10. - it is a known fact that WG support employees can be mistaken

    Omg call an ambulance, I can’t stop laughing heeeelp!

  11. After 8.11 I have very bad feeling of graphic. I have more than 50fps and feel like below 25fps.
    My reaction to confrontation battle was to disable it after first match.
    Playing with KV1S against several autoloaders from French …very unbalanced.

  12. ” – Storm asked players, whether they experience some sort of issue, where shells in sniper mode don’t fly from the center of the sniper scope, but from upper left side of it for example (SS: yes! I’ve noticed exactly this issue on my Centurion I, I found it very very weird, running no mods too)”

    It’s not the first time when it’s happening.
    WT PzIV has this issue since it was released(shell flies from above)

    • That’s as may be. But as far as I can tell, since this patch it’s doing it on vehicles on which it *didn’t* do it before (confirmed on T-34 [med] and Chi-Nu — couldn’t play any more today wit dat buttton of dropped packets).

  13. “Storm states that statistically, the amount of long waiting time cases on tier 8 became much smaller”

    So today I played a few games with my tier 8′s. Waited for 2 min to get into the battle and there were 1.3k tier 8 tanks in queue. I have never seen that before. Fuck you Storm and your statistics.

  14. Storm states that statistically, the amount of long waiting time cases on tier 8 became much smaller

    yeah my Pershing and STA-1 are waitin 1:30+ then tierX battle.. working as intended

  15. “- Storm asked players, whether they experience some sort of issue, where shells in sniper mode don’t fly from the center of the sniper scope, but from upper left side of it for example”

    AFAIK even Jingles noticed the same thing when doing the preview for the WT auf Pz IV… and it was highly noticeable, since that thing has a really weird gun height.

  16. “SU-122-44 bad in Confrontation mode (national battles)? “Don’t play SU-122-44″”

    -> Wrong. The correct answer is: don’t play Confrontation! ;)