13.7.2014

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- apparently (SS: if I understand it correctly), the new motion physics will introduce more “contact points” between tracks and surface (SS: as in, more realistic looking tank movement)
- Storm does think that Aufklärungspanzer Panther should be changed to something better, but there are no suitable replacements available
- Storm states that tanks in real life are much less maneuverable than in the game
- Q: “What and how long will it take to implement realistic track movement” A: “100 years and the US national debt”
- Storm confirms, the premium tier 8 Soviet medium tank (T-54 Model 1945) will have 120mm frontal plate
- Storm states that the MT8 Soviet prem will be a slow tank, like the Super Pershing (it won’t be a second Type 59)
- World of Tanks ingame gravity is 1,2G (“otherwise the tank would fly as if passing through jelly”)
- Q: “Will WoT HD IS-3 be at least as good as the War Thunder one?” A: “We will definitely not have a rectangular gun”

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  1. Aufklärungspanther isnt a bad tank! I have some fun with it but it takes some time to get the hang of the playing style… and good camo rating is something to wish for in this tank. Looking forward to RU 251!

        • if you try to scout like a regular small scout yes, you get hit from everywhere!

          you need to be passive scout and take some distance from the enemy!

      • I like my AufPanther , but only because I root for the underdog. Yes, occasionally it is fun, but it just isn’t a good tank. And explanation that there are no alternatives is taking a piss. Aufklärungspanzer E-25, Aufklärungspanzer 38d, Spähpanzer SP I.C. Not to mention my preferred option – STICK A BLOODY BEOBACHTUNGSTURM (and give it 400m view range) ON IT ALREADY!!! Make it suitable, for what is it’s task on the field – scouting.

        • To be honest…

          The stockgrind was horrible on this thing, maybe WG could do something to make it easier for non “masochistic-scout-fanatics” ;)

          I liked it, but the other Tier 7 scouts are far superior.
          Except when you do some crazy stuff…

          *Helm, engage ramming speed” xD

            • AFK panther was pretty fun on test server. dat ramming power…
              All what they need to do, is change its MM. Give it regular T7 MM, and its fine

    • Afk. Panther is a light tank allright, but its not a dedicated scout. It definitely should get normal tier VII matchmaker.

      • It follows a dedicated scout/anti-scout, and judging by the leaks so far, it will precede a dedicated scout. So for crying out loud make it a bloody scout! What else there is to do? Now it’s just a Panther, but worse, with it’s sub-par gun and infinitely worse matchmaking. And don’t get me started on a moron who thought “Let’s make it a battering ram on tracks! This will be fun!”

  2. - Storm states that tanks in real life are much less maneuverable in the game – shouldn’t there be a “than” somewhere. I.e. “tanks irl are much less maneuverable than in the game”

  3. “Storm states that tanks in real life are much less maneuverable in the game”

    That is true, so please try and implement that. If I am not mistaking, no tank “Brawls” IRL unless unavoidable, they are all engineered to be long range snipers. The ones that can see and hunt the other first wins.

    I would welcome a reduction in Brawling.

    NOTE: I wrote “REDUCTION” above.

    • Cause thats what we need, more camping, much skill, very experience, stronk fun.

    • Why don’t you go and play GF instead of wanting to make WoT what it’s not supposed to be

    • well, there’s already too much those long range “snipers” in this game.

    • This game is not supposed to be realistic, it’s an ARCADE game. And also, imagine the fun of everyone camping and waiting for someone’s mistake, I don’t know about you, but for me that’s not fun, and games are supposed to be fun. If you want realism, join the army.

    • Except that is completely wrong, read it again.

      “Storm states that tanks in real life are much less maneuverable in the game”

      What Storm said is the tanks in game are not as maneuverable as they actually were, there was no THAN in there.

    • I would tend to agree with you. The people who complain about snipers just don’t want to climb out of the comfort zone provided by their cushy, inaccurate Soviet heavies–or tanks ill-suited to ranged game-play. And while brawling as it is requires a great deal of quick thinking and instinct moves, it’s often overlooked that the people who excel in this form of engagement lack the restraint, patience, and macroscopic tactical awareness crucial to being an effective sniper, artillery, or support vehicle.

      And referencing Perkele, “Why don’t you go and play GF instead of wanting to make WoT what it’s not supposed to be” — War Thunder’s Ground Forces provides a poor arena for ranged combat. There are few tanks in WTGF that can manage sniping even adequately, outside of which, the only way to destroy enemies is to seal-club bots, play large vehicles with the tendency to one-shot most other tanks, or play close ranged to be able to strike and weaken a tank with successive shots to the same point — impossible from a distance with the game’s spastic/”realistic” beta physics.

    • At tier 8 a 120mm plate at 60 degrees is very good. I prefer to wait before passing judgement. Hard to see something like that being as slow as the super Pershing.

      • Tier 8s with 220+ pen will still easily pen it, like they do with regular T-54.

        • BS. 220 pen guns struggle to pen an angled T-54. Once you get up to 240+ pen guns you can start to reliably go through a T-54 hull, and that is OP armor as fuck for a tier 8 premium.

          • who care about shooting the hull when you can pen the front turret every time with a 170mm+ pen gun?. A T-54 with 150mm front turret is suck

            • your aim is a bit upwards, it’ll bounce
              your aim is a bit sideways, it’ll bounce
              it’s small, so the margin between pen and bounce area is really small

              • Well, it has a large mantlet like T-44 with no armour behind it, If you can miss it, you suck…

        • Without angling while shooting from the front you need more than 240mm of penetration… in a tier 8 tank…
          *albanian kidnapper voice on* – “good luck”

  5. “- Storm confirms, the premium tier 8 Soviet medium tank (T-54 Model 1945) will have 120mm frontal plate ”
    I already prepared my wallet!

    • - Storm states that the MT8 Soviet prem will be a slow tank, like the Super Pershing (it won’t be a second Type 59)

      are u sure?

        • it means it’s gonna be a well armored medium and slow speed like pershing! wont have the 56 speed of type!

          they said the speed will be 44, and at this speed trying to be a spotter can kill you!

        • Im confused too. I guess he means it will be like IS-7 when it comes to reaching top speed? aka only downhill. Sluggish.

          • The Type 59 (T-59) kinda sluggish now… How slow the T-54 will be if it’s even slower than T-59 @@

  7. - Storm does think that Aufklärungspanzer Panther should be changed to something better, but there are no suitable replacements available
    Panzer 38 (d)????

    - Q: “What and how long will it take to implement realistic track movement” A: “100 years and the US national debt” huehuehue :D

    - Storm confirms, the premium tier 8 Soviet medium tank (T-54 Model 1945) will have 120mm frontal plate
    - Storm states that the MT8 Soviet prem will be a slow tank, like the Super Pershing (it won’t be a second Type 59)
    Just when I got my hopes up I read the 2nd line :/ They will probably overinflate its price like they did with T-34-3

    - World of Tanks ingame gravity is 1,2G (“otherwise the tank would fly as if passing through jelly”)
    We’d probably have flying Russians :D

    • [- World of Tanks ingame gravity is 1,2G (“otherwise the tank would fly as if passing through jelly”)
      We’d probably have flying Russians :D]

      Unfair plane!

      • AFK 38d was pretty poorly armed, basically same as the Puma armored car.
        There’s a design of a Jagdpanzer 38 hull with a Panzer IV turret but it would be pretty slow, basically a tier V or VI stretching up.

  8. - Storm does think that Aufklärungspanzer Panther should be changed to something better, but there are no suitable replacements available

    Give it the GT engine :D That way some of us will fun extra fun while the othes can suicide faster

    - Storm confirms, the premium tier 8 Soviet medium tank (T-54 Model 1945) will have 120mm frontal plate
    - Storm states that the MT8 Soviet prem will be a slow tank, like the Super Pershing (it won’t be a second Type 59)

    dafuq? Super Pershing is slow because it is a regular Pershing with extra armor (and therefore extra weight)
    The T-54 is a new tank,to be superior to all contemporary Soviet tanks, I cant believe it was designed to be slow (like Super Pershing slow)… makes no sense.

  9. - Q: “Will WoT HD IS-3 be at least as good as the War Thunder one?” A: “We will definitely not have a rectangular gun”
    No, you will have a whole tank that looks like plastic.

    - apparently (SS: if I understand it correctly), the new motion physics will introduce more “contact points” between tracks and surface
    Great, so the KV4/5/TOG2 and other “long” tanks can’t get stuck when crossing small sinks anymore. About goddamn time.

  10. - Storm confirms, the premium tier 8 Soviet medium tank (T-54 Model 1945) will have 120mm frontal plate
    WTT KV-5 to T-54 1945

  12. Why not just replacing the Aufkl. Panda by the Spähpanzer SP I.C. , I would rather take that tanks instead of that fat panda.

  13. - Storm states that the MT8 Soviet prem will be a slow tank, like the Super Pershing (it won’t be a second Type 59)

    It won’t be a second Type 59, (can’t bought already 2 years) It will be 2nd Superpershit.
    It will be crappy heavy with medium gun, cause we need a useless light in tier 8.
    Why dont have a real 8 premium medium???

    • Well, it should be something like a 38 ton tank with a 520 bhp engine. It will be faster than the SP and have less weakspots but less gun depression and probably longer aim time.

  14. t54 proto will be slow like SP?

    they just cant give us a proper medium can they?

    unless it can reach 40kph with satisfactory acceleration im not going near it

  15. WG really does everything thay cant to make me stop buying prem tanks. I love mediums so i waited for T-54 L – finally real premium med – fast and mobile. And what they give us?! another “med” slower than some heavies.

  16. the question i am waiting for the most is when roaming will come.
    Does anyone know?

  17. “Storm does think that Aufklärungspanzer Panther should be changed to something better, but there are no suitable replacements available”

    Inb4 Zarax mentions AFK E-25. :D

      • Similar mobility, same potential armament and sideskirts, all in a smaller package, what’s not to love?

    • Don’t worry, someone did before me :D
      Seriously talking, I’d do tank design QA for free if WG wanted, at least I’d help avoiding the most horrid designs.
      Trust me, they are terrible at plugging tree holes… Every time I see a leak of what they want to do with the Italian tree I die inside a little.

  18. - Storm states that the MT8 Soviet prem will be a slow tank, like the Super Pershing (it won’t be a second Type 59) you gotta be fucking kidding me… hey look we have a decent med for you. LOL JK its gonna be a LT, have supershit V 2.0 instead…

    • Here, has a LT prem.
      Nah, here have a T-54, again, as premium.
      Nah, its going to be slow as fuck.
      Gime monie please.

      • pretty much… that awkward moment when best t8 prem medium(apart from type) is a heavy tank… vivat FCM

        • I want a FCM in my Garage :(

          It’s the only way to experience a French non autoloader tank above tier 7 :/

        • Totally agree, FCM works just perfect in a role of medium. I even have several Scout medals in FCM, because in many battles I can do the scouting work better than dedicated scout tanks..

  21. I think it’s because they are afraid of an other “Type 59 wolf pack syndrom”. While ago, before nerf, Type 59 was a really strong tank, but not this problematic alone in a 15 vs 15 game. In a platoon of 3 however it was a balance breaker ’cause the synergy was really too strong and i think this is what they try to avoid with tier 8 meds.

    I think however it will be more dynamic that the supershing (’cause it can’t be worse. Hey it’s a T-54 after all.)

    Bought the T-34-3 this week end, really fun tank if you like mobile derp gun. (and very very good moneymaker if you don’t shoo golds.)

  22. - Q: “What and how long will it take to implement realistic track movement” A: “100 years and the US national debt”
    “Year 2114″
    storm: “realistic track movement will not come this year , also havok engine will not be introduced in this patch”.