Insider Info

Hello everyone,

a little bit of insider information from Wargaming againg. Had a nice long chat with the insider over the internet, this is my summary of the conversation.

- Sturmtiger will likely not be implemented (or, almost certainly according to what Storm said) because of the issues with the line. The biggest issue is the balance – at one point, developers considered implementing it as an artillery vehicle, but they are afraid of the massive, massive whine. During the tests, the Sturmtiger could oneshot even hightier tanks and developers don’t want “oneshot derp” on high tiers. Another issue is – strangely enough – the fact that the line has some issues on lower tiers, specifically around tier 3-5. There was a thought of separating StuH 42 from StuG Ausf.G (effectively removing the StuG 105mm derp and making it another separate vehicle), but that was not judged a good idea (for undisclosed reasons).

- Sturmtiger might appear in the game still… as a consumable. Developers are working on an “artillery fire mission” consumable for Stronghold mode. Basically what you’ve seen earlier – you aim the fire barrage at some sector or something and off-map artillery battery starts shelling it. The idea is, this consumable would be available in several tiers and the Sturmtiger fire mission would be the highest one.

- the “fun mode” will be indeed a Chaffee race, actually something like Mario Kart – a wacky race on the Port map with various boosts and obstacles and such

- Minsk (WG RU) actually listens a significant deal to the feedback from American server, especially some employees such as the Chieftain. They mostly ignore Europe to the point of just ignoring some allegedly really good ideas. It’s mostly pointless to propose any changes or suggestions on European server.

- developers are aware of some of the notorious players by name, specifically Garbad is extremely infamous. His vile rants were considered offensive to the point of developers instructing (*someone, couldn’t quite understand*) to get rid of him personally and permaban him. They also blame him for starting a vicious rant trend (“go get cancer, jew”) and such on US server. Way to go, developers, now if you could kindly purge the EU server of cancer wishers and antisemites, that would be nice… :)

- weather was developed, but it was put on hold with no current ETA, due to the fact it messes with the gameplay balance

- a year and a half or so ago, the developers created a system, where players could select whichever garage they wanted (could even “collect” them), it was even tested, but it was scrapped for unknown reasons.

- at one point, hardcapping gold ammunition was considered. The developers however in the end decided not to do it (so this idea is closed), specifically – and I am not quite sure I understood this a hundred percent, but I think I did – to preserve the economy (eg. gold ammo is an important money-maker for Wargaming and also a credit/gold sink).

- KV-1S split was delayed a lot for a several reasons, the first one was the gun – developers didn’t want to mess with the 122mm, but they wanted to keep it on the vehicle. Another reason was this tank’s massive popularity.

- a lot of things depends on Havok. Right now, many developers are actually learning to work with Havok, specifically regarding the environment (maps and such) and tank behavior. That’s like the center point of development. Month or so ago, Havok was scheduled for 9.5, but it’s completely possible it will be delayed further, as it was in the past. Developers also do not want to add many more vehicles before Havok and HD models come.

- currently, Havok increases the game net traffic by 45 percent. The goal is to reduce it to 18 percent. One of the most difficult parts is synchronizing the engine so that all players see the exactly same effect.

146 thoughts on “Insider Info

  1. It’s more likely that WW3 will come before Havok…
    EDIT: Fuck it, I might go on a roll and say that WW4 will come before it!

      • Wrong.

        Mother russia will go on a crusade to rid the world of the western fascist scourge and bring about the perfect governmental structure of putinism. Also there is going to be a Jesus Putin, but shhh, that’s a secret.

        • Fuk yo Evropan kapitalist pig! Comrade Lenin wil show yo vhat is teh komunism about! KGB on yo! Hail king emperor Putin!

      • Before trying to insult a religion , maybe try to write it correctly :)

        well SS , if you really dont want conflicts to arise , how about you actually Edit his post . For once . be a neutral and do it .

        • Where did I insult? Oh oh I got a few screens where one muslim was screaming to a dude that he gonna murder his christian ass and cut his head of. Want screens? I can deliver, np. Point being is that whatever religion there are rasists and cunts everywhere. Dont be so touchy, bad for the health :-)

          • How about i tell you this : in islam : killing is forbiden whatsoever , killing animals is forbiden , hitting people is forbiden . Need i say more ? Before you go insulting people with your little retarded childish attitude how about you go make some reasearch?

            You disgust the guts out of me . Oh wait , thats my feeling towards the Whole “Childish” clan of yours .

            Do you even know what allahu akbar means ? Dont you even know that muslims HATE those people who kill under the name of god ? how old are you for god’s sake ? How can a person be so uneducated ?

            Am i the only one on earth who does a reasearch before saying something ? who knows every single religion’s rules ? i’m not even 16 yet and i can clearly say i’m more educated than you are

            • Coming from someone that has this sentence on his FB page?

              “Too bad i cant kill stupid people in real life aswell”

              How fucking hypocrite can one be lol!

              And again this is quite interesting how you get upset and try to reason with utter bullshit. You are a kid thinking he ate all knowledge on the planet. Son, life will teach you dont you worry.

              I still very well remember how you raged like a fucking spoiled child for 8 minutes straight in a game.

              • Well seeing as you dont know any of my “fb” affairs you have no right whatsoever to cricitize what i post , whereas i have total right to cricitize you cause i have seen such acts before both on the forum , ingame , and here . Please refrain from writing stuff that you and i are sure would lead to conflicts . and grow up a bit , you’re a man with a family and a house , so act like one and stop being ‘the funny guy’

                • Iam not trying to be a funny guy. Iam commenting on something. Your post on FB is in total oposite of what you posted, so yes, in my eyes its very relevant. You got offended by two words to such extend that you wrote an essey insulting me lol.

              • What’s the argument here? Christianity, Islam and Judaism all worship the same god… they are all as deluded as each other as obviously there isn’t a deity or deities.

                Can people please auto-report all people using Jewish, cancer abuse every game, I get to 10 every day and we need more of these morons reported.

            • Yea, stop insulting Islam!… Where the heck did i put my suicide vest, damn, saw it, anyone?

              Nah, just kidding, those armed assholes with towels on their heads are not anywhere close to the true muslim.

            • Funny how Islam defenders always say this, yet we never see these ‘real Muslims’ stand up and condemn the terrorists. I still remember how ‘Palestinians’ were dancing in the streets and handing out sweets on 9/11.. .are those your real Muslims who don’t like killing? Who were dancing as 3000+ innocent men women and children lay crushed and burnt? The lie is that Muslims are not supposed to kill other Muslims, but non-believers you can do as you please…THAT is what your religion teaches, so stop lying, or maybe you need to go learn your own religion.

              • You don’t see too many people practicing their faith strictly. But there are a lot of Muslims who are not violent, who nice individuals, who do not have death wishes for you “infidels”, a good amount also who simply do not care for politics or said “infidels”, westernized, moderate and traditional. You don’t hear about them, or from them, because they are not interesting from the media’s point of view. They are average citizens in a lot of communities in and outside the middle east.

                Whom you hear from, and whom the media loves to show, are the uneducated, backwards, and radicalized people who were raised in destabilized regions, who were taught by previous wackjobs, or for whatever god knows what reason, turned monstrous. And they are the loudest, and the most dangerous to anyone who do not follow their way of thinking (Irrelevant of Religion, you can get in harms way even if you practice the same thing).

                And they are condemned, but you don’t hear about it, the ISIS shits are a latest example, from Indonesia to the middle east and elsewhere, they are condemned by every sane Muslim. The Taliban and Al Qaeda are the butt of jokes, no sane person likes them.

                The Palestinians dancing about the news of 9/11, are generations of people with a history of genocide (the birth of Israel included genocide there is no denying it), loss of territory, loss of home, loss of moral, and loss of future, and for those who are not philosophical enough, Vengeance is thought that looms and cultivates. Loss of innocent life, and the moral question of the attack was overshadowed by the thought that Israel’s biggest supporter was attacked. The world is not black and white, and not everyone that is Muslim is a Muslim down to the letter, a Muslim can be a Muslims by name and culture.

                “The lie is that Muslims are not supposed to kill other Muslims, but non-believers you can do as you please…THAT is what your religion teaches, so stop lying, or maybe you need to go learn your own religion.”

                Funny, those so called Muslims didn’t find difficulty in killing other Muslims. No, this is not what the Religion teaches, it is what cruel men with a warped view on reality and an agenda at hand teach.

                I try to view the world in different perspectives, view other people in different perspectives, including the people I do not like. But I am not perfect, non of us are, so forgive me for thinking incredibly lowly of you even if you might not be in your own right.

                • Its not just about your views on Islam (by all means believe what you want), its this toxic uncompromising, shortsighted and often egotistic view that a lot of you have about a lot of topics, especially the ones that you do not like, that its hard to like any of you.

                  It comes hardly as a surprise that WG wants nothing to do with the EU community.

            • Killing is forbidden, of animals included? Really? Explain the concept of halal then.

              On topic: +1 on the closing comments idea, or at least deleting these as they offer nothing constructive.

              • Deleting nothing constructive will be leaving out a good portion of the comments around here. /j

                You’re thinking of Dhabīḥah, which is using a well sharpened knife to cut an animal’s “front of the throat, the carotid artery, windpipe, and jugular veins.” In order to have the least amount of suffering.

                Halal, is simply things that are permissible to be eaten.

                Killing an animal is permissible only when you intend on eating the said animal, or if you are in danger because of the animal.
                Killing for, say, sport is forbidden.

        • Why are Muslims so easily offended!!??. A joke offends you, a stick drawing of Pedobear Muhamed offends, my freedom offends you. Yet we shouldn’t be offended by beheadings, stonings and terrorist attacks.

          Religions are the cause of multiple counts of genocide, war and other nice atrocities.(I’ve seen quite a few stonings and beheadings recently) The ones that aren’t violent are still bat shit crazy and make lots of money for a select few. If the TRUTH does not insult religion then nothing does.

          Yes SS, you should just delete our posts here.
          Now back to tanks.

          • Religion is how stupid/monstrous people try to reason their monstrosities or make their goals seem worthwhile.

            Religion is pretty much never the reason for a war. It is just what you use to motivate the stupid peasantry to follow you in it.

          • But didn’t you know? All those terrorists and barbarians in the ME aren’t muslims! They’re Mossad agents really!
            Their behaviour certainly has nothing to do with the fact that it’s so easy to justify killing for whatever religion you believe in no matter what the more moderate followers say.

    • WW3 might be closer than you think. If Russia keeps this up, there is going to be an almighty clash sooner or later. I thought Putin had the brains to stay just shy of that, but he seems to be getting awfully close to the line where pretty much the rest of the world says: “nope”.

      • Its the 21st century where money rules the world and not dictators like in the early 20th century. There wont be anything even close to a WW3… The wars nowdays are being held on the stock markets and in banks. All the leading nations in armies are so dependant on eachother that a war would be a death sentence for them and that not from the conflict itself. Especially Russia or USA where the oil industry is worth 100s of billions of USD.

        • Yet, Russia is at war with a country that actually matters enough to the world at large to make all the preliminary moves. Maybe it does not seem all that threathening now, but if you look at the buildup, and the slow, but steady change of pace in the normally pacifistic EU, you should notice severe similarities with earlier times. Remember, this is how WW2 started as well. Hopefully we won’t get a repeat performance, but it is not out of the question, either.

          • Thats true, but then again aliens might contact us or a meteorite the size of a super unicums ego might hit and wipe out life from Earth.. Ukraine is my country neighbour so if shit goes down we would be fucked here aswell, but oh well… To busy getting my life sorted out to worry about such things atm anyway :/

          • Actually, Schepel, the whole situation in eastern Europe is much more similar to the events leading up to World War I. Disturbingly similar.

            Also, to all you who argue that WW3 could never happen today because the world is so small and everyone is so politically and economically interconnected that to start a world war would be economic suicide… Well, that is actually the exact same thing that people argued right before both world wars, right up until the shells were landing in their back yards.

            Sorry to be such a doom and gloomer, but I’d rather be a realist and prepared for anything than a dead optimist… :P

  2. “- Minsk (WG RU) actually listens a significant deal to the feedback from Russian server, especially some employees such as the Chieftain. They mostly ignore Europe to the point of just ignoring some allegedly really good ideas. It’s mostly pointless to propose any changes or suggestions on European server.”

    I wonder what that means for the petition for adding the czechoslovakian branch, SS. Not saying it was likely to happen in the first place, but reading this, it seems almost pointless.

    • That has nothing to do with regular channels, that’s my personal pet project. If the only option to push it was a regular “suggestion” at EU forums, we wouldn’t have bothered.

      • Oh, I didnt get it concerns forums, I thought its meant in general. Good luck for it, then :)

  3. very interesting, thanks SS/insider/informer.
    Damn, now I will have to listen to Snow’s “Informer” for the rest of the day …

  4. “They mostly ignore Europe to the point of just ignoring some allegedly really good ideas. (…) It’s mostly pointless to propose any changes or suggestions on European server.”

    How terrible…

    • Indeed … How terrible…

      Trught being said there was quite a few very interesting ideas and improvements proposed, but it was obvious that WG gives a rats ass for the EU forums.

    • Well seeing as it isn’t a western game and they aren’t exactly a democracy that the fact that they tend to ignore western countries shouldn’t come as much of a surprise

        • лолка ща перводчики встроеные и моментально все переводят и читаю я твои коменты на русском языке and Google translator to help you

            • google translator is terrible. If I want to comment in Russian I go to translit.ru and try to punch single letters in Cyrillic :D It is much easier to type in Russian words with Latin letters like Woras did.

      • But Gaijin aint a western company aswell AND even the Russian devs respond to the suggestions from which some were added or some game mechanics tweaked. Ofc 99% of the suggestions are shit or biased, but the 1% is worth the effort.

        • But any good idea that comes up on EU has quite a good chance of showing up on RU as well considering they have a shitton more players.

          • Yes, but SS posted something regarding that. Such as there is so much OP that and nerf this suggestions that they simply stoped going trough the sheer amount of them. Other good suggestions such as limited premium ammo for certain tanks (for example more on a stock tank and very limited on T10 meds) would make sense, but then again that would influence the money income of WG and what company wants to lower their income on purpose… :-). It was said that doing that would be easily adjustable, but never gonna happen. Same as limiting arty to 3 max per side.

    • If you could name only 1(!!!!!) company that listens to EU community while being a foreign developer then i crown you as a king. Or as a queen.

      As i experienced the world: US servers are the “gems” of every game developers, ASIA servers are the second for profit’s sake, OCE is only active because there “needs to be one”, AFRICA will never be and EU is always ignored even if it is full of Einsteins.

  5. SS, what’s the story with you and Garbad? I mean sure he is a huge dick talking out of his ass all day, but I get the feeling there is more to it.

    • Garbad is well known for his rages. Well obviously directed towards arty and he is more or less the one responsible for the term “sky cancer” and similar cancer combinations. He indeed is the definition of a douchebag, BUT aside from his sick mentality he did post often valid and to the point accurate threads.

        • I would not only take painting lessons but “basic politics” lessons to! But yeah otherwise nothing else.

        • You realize that this statement “go get cancer, jew” attributed to Garbad is bullshit right?

          First off rarely does anyone on NA server even uses ‘jew’ as a pejorative, that is a mostly Euro thing (cause I guess some Eruos are bad at history or something). Secondly while he will rage on pubbies and especially sky cancer (and rightfully so, it is broken trash that WG are too stupid to fix), I have never seen him use racial slurs in his posts or in game on the few occasions where I have been in the same games.

          So either this is a an actual misunderstanding, you know comments being translated from NA to RU (broken telephone and all that), or it is WG attempt to hide their own incompetence at designing a broken trash game mechanic by attacking and trying to discredit the messenger.

          I love FTR and think you do great work SS, but posting unverified crap to disparage other players is a bit beneath you, ask your WG insider to show ONE post or screen shot where Garbad made that comment…just ONE. If they can’t they need to STFU.

          We had Ectar addressing your other ‘leak’ and he claims it is bogus too, given that there are no such dev’s as ‘NA dev’ etc. But then again WG would want to say leaks are bogus, so yeah… ;)

          • Well, Evilly was very interested in my “sources” the other day, so I guess it’s legit after all :) Not saying everything is 100 percent accurate of course.

            Plus, anyone working on the game is technically a developer, so even if the guy was – let’s say – a community manager, still counts.

            Also, as you can imagine, I don’t exactly put a lot in what Ectar says.

        • if WG stoped doing incredibly stupid and retarded stuff then people with righteous like Garbad woulnd’t pop, but nope, everyone knows skycancer/LOIC/finger of god/pillar of death should be removed from the fucking game, did WG listen?, nooope, they kept adding more retardtillery(there was tier 8… then turned into 10, then more added) and more, and more… (just like they did with T10 meds and dozens of tanks the game doesn’t needs).

          ¿and then they get butthurt because someone got so pissed it started a righteous “rantvolution”?, fuck you WG, they know no shame and keep doing retarded game design choices(delays, broken patches, stupid “balancing”, etc etc)

    • SS just hates anyone that’s good at the game for weird reasons that no one really knows. Except for Medjed, he’s cool with Medjed.

      And Garbad does do a lot of helpful things for the Wotlabs community, believe it or not. In particular, he writes great guides, starting out with the old unicum diaries that first brought me out of deep red. And no, he doesn’t constantly sperg out at arty randomly, only whenever he gets hit by it.

      The few times that I’ve seen him in a Tier 8 tank (T-34-2), there have been all these Tier 10s in the open to arty, but because of his uber-dark-purple stats and aggressive gameplay, arty will wait for him to make to pop out and blap him. Then there’s nothing that he can do besides helplessly rage at the broken mechanic. Made me feel sorry for him.

      • Apart from a normaly working brain, two hands (except arty, for that u need only one) and a working mouse with keyboard you shouldnt need any guide to go out of deep red lol.

        PS: FU! you edited your post -.-

      • “The few times that I’ve seen him in a Tier 8 tank (T-34-2), there have been all these Tier 10s in the open to arty, but because of his uber-dark-purple stats and aggressive gameplay, arty will wait for him to make to pop out and blap him.”

        I have this in 9 out of 10 games when there is arty involved so I can understand that frustration and I have to admit of using “cancer game mechanics” a few times out of sheer and pure frustration after one arty waited for 2 minutes untill I get spotted again or obvious focus fire only on me even tho iam moving without stoping. If there are platoons of arties and a map with open areas I know that any sort of pushing will be punished instantly.

      • PeanutFly how the fk you know what SS hates or likes? he said he doesnt even know him. You’re funny.

    • The things Garbad says in game chat would qualify for the SS Hall of Shame. SS likely doesn’t have a personal grudged against the guy, but like many of us he does have a grudge against the type of person Garbad appears to be in public.

      • That.

        Douchebags who think they need to vent their anger using racism etc., need to be banned. Also, what happened to adapting your play to the map and the teams? If you are playing on an open map with a lot of arty, you do not agressively push and make yourself a target.

        • He never uses racial slurs, this is WG bullshit, and now spread by SS all of you accept it as truth, can anyone find a screen shot, replay etc, where Garbad used racial slurs? He has tons of replays up, has shown tons of games, all out there in the public, so go find it.

  6. “During the tests, the Sturmtiger could oneshot even hightier tanks and developers don’t want “oneshot derp” on high tiers.”

    GW E-100, T92, and all other T10 arties approve.

  7. I’m fairly certain that Garbad never said that…he does say some pretty nasty things at times to arty players, such as saying that they’re sky cancer and equal to street pissers, but he never said that. Give me a link with evidence of him being racist and going that far and I’ll believe them, but until then, I’m calling BS.

      • I have personally seen some of his old rages (lots of the stuff was deleted, so sorry – no link), invoking jews, cancer and such. I think he was even in Hall of Shame for that, so yes, this is sort of valid.

          • Wow, actually arty player in this rage is brilliant :D The fragment with “every key macroed to a gun” is perfect.

            • “I have every key on my keyboard macroed to shoot my gun, so when its time i smash my head on the keyboard and win”

              Next time when i play arty and someone rages about arty, i will use this as response XD

              • Thus confirming that arty players are drooling baboons as everyone knows they are anyway…

          • I’m pretty sure in the real world, wishing someone to choke to death is more insulting than a racist comment. A generic “gas jews” isn’t nearly as personal and direct as telling a person to die.

            Don’t let your inner SJW forget that not being PC isn’t the worst thing in the world.

            Besides Garbad spent so much time farming his upvotes in GD no one in higher echelons of the game took him seriously. I like to think he wasn’t banned, he merely left in shame after a sweet beatbox battle with Antonio Handsome in the skill plateau thread.

          • Garbad is so smart, insulting arty player ! let’s see what he already played:

            http://www.noobmeter.com/player/na/garbad/1000125653/

            Oh yeah,

            S51: 200 games, that means he must have miss clicked 200 times for the least. -(57% win nice)

            Object 212: 181 games, yeah must be 181 miss click again…. (70% uber clicker)

            Object 261: 101 games, boy again so much miss click. (75% best arty spammer NA)

            And he had to “smash his head on the keyboard” every game and not leave at the start, because otherwise he could not have like that super high winrate.

            So let’s sum up: he unlocked a tier 10 arty, farmed 100 games for the least, managed to have very high winrate (so no “i was trolling in arty” excuse) and when he got hit by a T92 he crys and whine like a raging baby.

            You can’t play almost 500 games with arty, spam everyone, and insult the other players when they do the same.

            If you take an average player that got a job and wife/kids that can play 2 hours a day, that represent 6 min/game, 500 games, 25 days playing arty non stop.

            Miracle of internet: do what i say, not what i do.

                • When you complain about arty one of the standard responses is ” play arty then come back and comment” so he does exactly that and is a bad guy for doing so? Maybe he played it to see how ridiculously easy it is. Even Quickybaby says so.

                • The challenge was to show how stupidly low skill arty is and he made the point quite well.

  8. I like how the Chaffee special mode is called ‘fun mode’, because normal WoT isn’t fun. :-D

    That gold economy issue is the fundamental flaw to WG’s approach to F2P, or perhaps the system itself, from a player’s perspective: gameplay is subsumed to profits, and WG can get away with considerable gameplay flaws (that benefit them financially) because a lot of people tolerate them. Instead of trying to make the best game possible and profiting from that alone, they try to make the most profitable game possible that only has to meet a critical baseline in gameplay quality to maintain player interest.

  9. Garbad, you make us proud. You managed to actually get the devs their intention, maybe one day they will pull their head out of their ass and actually do something about the plague that is scumbags/sky cancer/clickers

  10. Garbad was the King of Whine to win and shape the game to suit your self. FFS he could not just play the game as it was. As a deep purple princess he must have trolled other players up the wazoo but he does not seem to have the capacity to take it like a man when he received it. Maybe he imagines himself as some sort of Randian Ubermensch. But it seems that whining shapes the game and we can look forward to the nerf death of all the fun tanks that stand out. As if they were not available to everyone.

  11. I’m pretty sure the *cancer jew* shit comes directly from the EU server and has nothing to do with Garbad at all.

    But hey, I could be wrong.

    Personally, my current shtick is to yell “Hope you die of ebola” into all-chat at opposing arty players.

    • ……and that does precisely what, apart from put you, OOP, top of their target list. Welcome to the self fulfilling prophecy trip.

      • Naw, I usually only do it after they’ve hit me :-)

        Waste of time to rage on arty before they’ve landed on a shot on you :-)

        Which reminds me, last night I was tooning with some fellow IOC_5s and literally 5 seconds after BountyHunter told me to stay alive while he circled around an opposing arty nuked 2/3 of my BatChats health. It’s like he had some kind of platoon chat telepathy…

        • Indeed to rage beforehead gives the arty player even more motivation to hit you :-).

          but then again if you see a platoon of top tier arties starting the game with the sentence “you are first unicum hacker”. Then sir you know the game is over even before it started. You can avoid more or less random arty players, but when they coordinate fire… Oh boy oh boy… You better be in a scout that game :-)

          • Indeed. The perfect match to yolo into a cluster of enemy vehicles and hope those greedy arties are willing to drop a load on their own team-mates :-)

  12. Cancer wishers, well, in some cultures cancer wishing is just a way to tell someone to fuck oneself. I am a “cancer survivor” myself and I have lost relatives to the cancer, but I must say, you’re just making big deal of that, sure, it’s nasty but in the end harmless.

  13. IF Garbad would play on EU server, in the very same game i am in and i drive arty…
    Well, just due to the fact that he hates arty, but abuses it (check his acc) by himself:
    YES i would totally focus him, only to make him rage :D

    And no, i am no tomato, but i understand the need for arty in WoT, especially in CW.

    • “YES i would totally focus him, only to make him rage :D”

      Thats the spirit many clickers share. Lets hit the unicum just to fap on his rage and frustration only to totaly fuck up his own game with dealing damage only to him while you could do 3x so much hitting more important, stationary and bigger targets. And his name doesnt needs to be Garbad. Just purple color is all that matters.

      “And no, i am no tomato, but i understand the need for arty in WoT, especially in CW.”

      And thats the place where the top tier arty should be played only. Something like the stronghold arty mode. I also would limit the usage of premium ammo for specific vehicle types, but that again is never going to happen bcoz WG would lose money :-)

      • “Thats the spirit many clickers share. Lets hit the unicum just to fap on his rage and frustration only to totaly fuck up his own game with dealing damage only to him while you could do 3x so much hitting more important, stationary and bigger targets. And his name doesnt needs to be Garbad. Just purple color is all that matters.”

        Well, being a good player by myself, i often get targeted and WIN sometimes through this. I cant count the battles in my T6 Pz IV S. where i get shot to pieces by T7/T8 artillery, while some wild greenish T8 tank rapes their whole team, because arty just focusses on me.
        On the other hand you have to consider that it is sometimes really smart to take the best enemys out first and fuck the noobs later – especially if the unicums are playing high tier meds/mobile heavies. Every damage point counts then, because it softens their ability to stomp your tomatoteam :)

        • Personally, i choose my targets playing arty by how much threat is to my team, so my primary targets are TDs, OP tanks (KV1-S, Hellcat, WTF E-100, T18, etc), but also it depends on the tier of my arty (high tier artys are very slow to change flank, so i usually attack whatever in my traverse angle comes)
          Also, some hyper super unicums with mobile meds are almost impossible to hit with arty, because they constantly moving, and did not giving any oppurtinity to attack them (so instead i aim one of the other tomatoes who just camp and shoot shoot shoot ;)

    • Isn’t that kind of the definiton of being an asshole/douchbag? Having fun out of other misery. Not caring about having fun but only focusing of destroying other fun?

      ….typicall arty cancer

      • Maybe because it is fun? Same fun as raping someones sorry ass in a T10 tank when he is driving T8?

        Or the same fun a IS-3 has when he rapes my Pz IV S. while ignoring the T8 tanks next to me, just because “you are purple”?

        Yes, I see, “typical arty cancer”.

  14. That Garbad guy needs to get a life. Who knows what a weirdo is IRL. Maybe he’s Josef Fritzl son lmao.

  15. - developers are aware of some of the notorious players by name, specifically Garbad is extremely infamous. His vile rants were considered offensive to the point of developers instructing (*someone, couldn’t quite understand*) to get rid of him personally and permaban him.

    How terrible. The funny thing (ironic) is that I will out last him in in playing WoT. His bias is so bad on inferior players he is a WoT Nazi.He is the reason why I wont join clans in WoT. I would love to burn him in effigy. He really must be a joy in real life.

    I do hope they ban his ass like some others (AFKers,bots,griefers,etc.) from the game. And yes he is part of that group mentioned above that is bad in WoT.

    • Well, just to make a point of how stupid this argument is that some dumb people still uses to protect arty, ill use it but using “garbad” instead:
      “It’s part of the game, get over it, adapt, he is harassing you and there is nothing you can do? Stay garbad safe, learn to play, its in the game so you can say something too”

      Here it is, shove this kind of argumen up in you (&*% arty’s baddies
      OR
      Keep your head down and dont complain when someone harass you when use arty

  16. Garbad says a lot of things. But I have never seen him say anything racist. He did say some things on the EU forums for a while, so may have trolled some folks over there. As far as focusing him with arty. I don’t think he has been hit very often if at all since the 8.6 nerf. All the top players rarely sit still long enough to get hit. If someone tracked him, you would have a chance. He has been banned on the US forums, but I think he was trying to get banned. He kept poking the forum admins till he got banned.

  17. Garbad is the voice of the view who can actually play the game. Unlike most of us he actually takes the time to make points and explain stuff to those who don’t know (WG staff).

  18. - the “fun mode” will be indeed a Chaffee race, actually something like Mario Kart – a wacky race on the Port map with various boosts and obstacles and such

    Sweet, now I’m excited

  19. They could make the Sturmtiger a clan reward tank. That way it’s in the game, but there will be few. Thoughts?

    • I think the time and space continuum would fall apart and even Morgan Freemans godly voice wouldnt help us and our universe would explode in a huge mega explosion from all the whine and crying it would produce. Arty, FV183 HESH and premium ammunition for credits are a weak fart in the wind compared to this.

    • My common sense said long time ago, that it is not possible to balance Sturmtiger into WoT. (at least not into random battles, but maybe in PVE historical battles)

  20. >> They mostly ignore Europe to the point of just ignoring some allegedly really good ideas. It’s mostly pointless to propose any changes or suggestions on European server.

    Yea, i noticed that long ago… They should remove whole EU suggestions subforum, why cheating on players and wasting their time?

    • Guess it seemed like a good idea at the time, removing it though would be a hassle now, and it would bring some unneeded nagging and whining.

      “why cheating on players and wasting their time?”
      Not like the lot of them are using their times constructively.

  21. - Sturmtiger might appear in the game still… as a consumable. Developers are working on an “artillery fire mission” consumable for Stronghold mode. Basically what you’ve seen earlier – you aim the fire barrage at some sector or something and off-map artillery battery starts shelling it. The idea is, this consumable would be available in several tiers and the Sturmtiger fire mission would be the highest one.

    So, tier I Artillery Barrage will fire 76 mm HE shells with 165 damage, 42 pen and 1 m splash, while tier X Artillery Barrage will fire 380 mm shells with 3000+ damage, 160+ pen and 25+ m splash? ;)

  22. lol “developers don’t want “oneshot derp” on high tiers” so the way you avoid that is by adding a light tank with a 152mm gun that can deal 1,000 dmg to the leo1, stb1, batchat.

    just had entire batchat crew knocked out by a t49 shell to the face, that was his second shot… the first shot killed 2/3 of the crew, i healed them all back. he shoots me for all 3 members and another tank comes in to take the dmg while he just goes derping around at 65 km/h.

  23. WG can blame Garbad for the arty hate all they want…but the jew hate and such can stick to the european and russian servers. Leave US server out of this.
    And I wonder what came first, arty hate or garbad? I bet on the first.

  24. All i read here is:
    - We don’t give a fuck about EU
    - We don’t give a fuck about anything unless it brings us profit
    - Our developers will learn how to program on our multi-milion worth game because english2hard to hire someone more competent
    - If something is good it gets 100% more chance to get postponed for a couple of years(if we are optimistic)
    - #BlameGarbad2014

    • Wargaming’s forums have always been a joke. To be blaming Garbad for other people’s actions and to say that he uses racial slurs proves that. Yes garbad isn’t perfect hes gotten ROed on wotlabs before but most of the stuff he posts are very true and helpful to many players in the game. that’s why many of garbad’s thread must have at least 20 up votes or something.

      ops meant to make my own post

    • Lol, so true

      And like the another post i read here on ftr, saying that the devs “ARE” aware of arty, and is “nothing wrong with it the way it is on the game”….yes, they are SOOOOOO aware. They must be like those clueless red players saying shit like “arty takes a loooooot of skill to play”,”keep moving and they will neeeever hit you”

      “oooo, this player is very skilled, he complains about artys and write tons of valid arguments about it….hmm….he is just a baddie whinner, lets ignore him, cause we know arty is sooooo fine in the game”

  25. - weather was developed, but it was put on hold with no current ETA, due to the fact it messes with the gameplay balance

    :D :D :D :D :D
    Just like in 1941 during battle for Moscow

  26. I think i can become muslim now !
    I have all of the possible instructions … how to… up there on that rage alah post

    They retyped the whole coran up there

    Thank you guys and girls

  27. “During the tests, the Sturmtiger could oneshot even hightier tanks and developers don’t want “oneshot derp” on high tiers.”

    Ha… Haha… Hahahahaha! Ya I’ll just take my FV215(b) 183 loaded with nothing but “nerfed” HESH and continue derping tanks out of existence. Let me know when WarGaming wakes up to how overwhelmingly powerful premium
    Ammo makes tanks.

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