Comments on: Storm Confirms: Soviet LT8 will be the LTTB http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: nublex http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-151071 Fri, 16 May 2014 23:48:58 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-151071 I think they will just go for D10T/LB-1

]]> By: Sergio Montserrat Sánchez http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-151054 Fri, 16 May 2014 22:17:13 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-151054 And then WG repeats the madness of the american tree (LT –> MT –> LT –> MT –> HT)
Such crews get wrecked by the retraining, or require slots in the barracks or for the tanks while the next one is being researched…..
So, LTs –> T-28 –> KVs –> MT-25 –> KV-122 –> LTTB? poor russians….

]]> By: Sergio Montserrat Sánchez http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-150598 Thu, 15 May 2014 20:58:38 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-150598 They are aiming for Team Battles Tier (8).
If they add a Light in Tier 7, it will be a step, not a keeper.

]]> By: Sergio Montserrat Sánchez http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-150597 Thu, 15 May 2014 20:57:32 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-150597 WG public stance: “Yes, there are many paper tanks in this game.”
WG private policy: “But put them in anyway, as we’re almost out of real tanks.”

]]> By: Sergio Montserrat Sánchez http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-150596 Thu, 15 May 2014 20:55:45 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-150596 Hope they don’t up the armor.
But if they do, we can blame bias.
If not…. well, we’ll need to check the rest of the stats.

]]> By: Sergio Montserrat Sánchez http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-150595 Thu, 15 May 2014 20:54:10 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-150595 Interesting enough, I recall when the policy was not designing light tanks because “nobody cares about lights”.
Then they added the french lights and people loved them and started playing lights…. WG had to notice some day.

They must be adding it to tier 8 because that’s where half of the competitive stuff is: Team Battles.
Also, it’s the current ceiling for Lights.
As with SPGs (and as it happened before, with previous ceilings at 4 and 5), it might get raised, but that depends on WG finding enough tank blueprints and projects to fill the branches…. or imagination to invent the tanks, whatever comes first.

]]> By: Sergio Montserrat Sánchez http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-150594 Thu, 15 May 2014 20:50:02 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-150594 Chinese magical engineering.
I may be biased (hated chinese premiums since ever and quit the nation after eliting tier 3 light), but my perception is that chinese gets too much love and overperforms in this game.
So, I’m only touching these tanks when I ram them.

And about bounces…. I have bounced had had bounced many shells on paperthin tanks (Hellcat bouncing 88mm shells and such), so I guess that most of those should be autobounces due to unlucky angling.

]]> By: Sergio Montserrat Sánchez http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-150591 Thu, 15 May 2014 20:44:17 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-150591 All lights since Tier 4 face tougher enemies, unless they’re slow and get tagged as infantry tanks.
All lights since Tier 5 (but Crusader) won’t ever see a match where they’ll be in the top tier.
All Lights since Tier 6 plus Chaffee face Tier-10s.
That’s how WG has treated light scouts since the beggining: They are the little buggers that get stomped by meanier tanks if they’re not careful. That doesn’t mean they are one of the top-tiers, only that they should know their place among giants and tread carefully.

The good part of being tagged as lower-tier is that ocassionally they get a good match where the enemies aren’t that tough. Then they get real fun (unless the player gets careless)

]]> By: Sergio Montserrat Sánchez http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-150586 Thu, 15 May 2014 20:34:59 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-150586 Don’t think they’ll ever return T-50-2.
Russian and American trees need a serious redesign regarding their lights and the meds they fitted in between everything.

]]> By: Sergio Montserrat Sánchez http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/storm-confirms-soviet-lt8-will-be-the-lttb/#comment-150584 Thu, 15 May 2014 20:27:32 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=11907#comment-150584 There are easier and harder tanks to play with.
They may have issues aiming (M3 Lee).
They may have crappy cannons (AMX 40, Vk Leo).
They may have bad MM (Pz 38 nA).

When a tank has redeeming qualities (nice cannon in M3 Lee or armor for AMX 40, for example), one can say that such a tank is hard. That if “used corrctly” it has a “good performance”.
THOSE are the hard tanks that one has to learn to drive.

If there are no redeeming qualities, the tank is bad.
If you have an unexperienced player that doesn’t want to learn how to drive that particular bad tank, you get a shitty tank, which means frustration for both said player and his teammates.

So, sorry if I still consider some tanks to be shitty, but if there is no reddeming quality, I have no other adjective for the steel.

PS: If you add a non-experienced crew, specially a 50% one, you’ll get a worse-than-shitty tank.

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