You might have seen it on forums earlier, but it’s confirmed: the “Sisterhood of Steel” of girl crewmembers is compatible (activates) with BIA (basically, if you replace one crewmember in a BIA crew with a girl with SOS, BIA will activate). It is however possible this will be removed, as it was not intentional.
Update: Confirmed, it’s a visual bug of the client, that displays incorrect boost, that’s not there in reality
- Storm will investigate whether the Maus mantlet looks correctly in the game
- it’s not possible to say, how many HD models will appear in 9.7, as a few days ago, they removed some of the HD models from the build, because the patch was too big
- Storm confirms that developers are working on a completely new mode
- T54E2 and AMX 65T in the game? Storm: “I cannot say. Anything can happen :)”
- for now, the E50M will not be replaced (even though it’s a fake), because there are no suitable candidates for replacement
- E-25 to be made bigger (to its historical dimensions) when it gets reworked to HD? “Unfortunately, I cannot tell you anything.” (SS: from “inside sources”, this is actually a very radioactive topic, as it would be a defacto nerf of a very popular premium vehicle)
- T-54 armor change when it was reworked to HD did not reduce its popularity, it was actually increased (related to the pretty new HD model)
- Storm confirms that the Havok situation is complicated, when it comes to destructable buildings. They’ll work on it nonetheless.
- Char 2C model was made in 2012
- alternative hulls will come in distant future
First comment is dedicated to Masha!
Who is Masha ?
should i know him/her ?
Masha is the enemy of potatoes.
noooooooo. i love potatoes. then Masha is my enemy!
Masha is a eastern porn model I think, just search for masha on the porn site of your choice.
http://www.hegre-art.com/models/masha
3rd then :< It'll do :D btw T54E2 ? Where would it fit? premium autoloader?
E2 is the one without the auto loader. Could be a bridge between the auto loading meds and the regular meds or lead to a new T10 med
It could lead to the T95 medium.
To T95 TD xD
Did you complete StuG mission? :D
even if i am a fan of mashawolrd, i m sure SS did not mean “that” masha :)
He meant that one because they are also eastern just like SS.
Pretty sure SS is in central EU.
Your First SS Hammer Ban is dedicated to Masha Enemy Ban.
- E-25 to be made bigger (to its historical dimensions) when it gets reworked to HD? “Unfortunately, I cannot tell you anything.” (SS: from “inside sources”, this is actually a very radioactive topic, as it would be a defacto nerf of a very popular premium vehicle)
… of course its a nerf .. but a good one
considering E25 is not just slightly OP
so no hard facts get touched like the ROF .. its just little bit more likely to get hit – especially on the move etc. and maybe if thats not enough a slight nerf of camo values but without changing its gameplay … so seriously it would get away much better than other OP-vehicles
Your talking out of your ass. E-25 is a good tank, but it isn’t extremely OP. I use it solo pub without too much prem ammo and get 55 % out of it so far. The trade marks you consider OP only apply on a few maps and can be called compensation for every time you have to play on corridor maps, where you essentially get two-shot. It is mobile, but not especially agile, so you have to rely on camo and distance, where you have your StuG gun, which has problems penning KB-85 from the front reliably – let alone most tier 8s. It can be used by a good player to get good results – under the right circumstances. That can be said about nearly every other tank. So eather your a unicum, or your talking out of your ass. It’s the latter because most unicums are smart enough to understand this basic shit.
I agree fully with ur opinions. E25 is only OP in the right hands. Look at the huge decrease in the win rate since all the terribad players bought it recently…. I dread a game when I see a platoon of tomato e25s as a top tier toon on my team. The maps are also becoming more and more anti TD, it is not OP.
These tomatoes need to STFU and stop whining.
Having troubles penetrating KV-85? MAYBE if you meant IS, but still…
i really dont find E-25 op…yes its very small, fast, has insane RoF and limited MM. but its pen and dpm is low.
i have E-25 and SU-122-44 and i have never gotten a ace tanker bagde in the E-25 but in the SU its just too easy…
tbh the SU-122-44 is more OP than the E-25
It is harder to get ace in tanks that are performing good.
..make it bigger. One e25 in battle is ok, but platoon with 3x e25 hiding/camping on hill is F* too much, it just spoils the entire battle. Just “nerf” it a little bit (to have the camo value like Su100 has) and it will be all right IMHO.
E25 is a good example where mobilty, camo rating and rof can outweight the armor, HP and pen/alpha. And E25 does this very good, just like the new tier 7-8 scouts due to their mobilty and retarded rof. Too high rof to some extent makes HP irrelevant because you dont have time to perserve your tanks HP wheres with other tanks who have a significant reload, that gives you time to save your HP and act. Imagine tier 5-6 that are seeing e25, lol poor them.
This^
IMHO SU-122-44 is more OP than E-25.
Yes, but more good players are playing E25 now days than su-122-44 which is why it is harder to get ace in E25. Like tiger II and vk45a they are easy as fuck to get ace and get high xp, you only need to make 2600-3000 dmg and make some assistant dmg to get 1200-1300xp and ace, because most players who play these tanks perform very bad (less than 1000 avr dmg).
The is3 is harder though, you need more xp because players on a average perform better (more dmg and more assistant dmg) = higher xp. Also is3 is very liked by pretty much all competitive players and statspadders. Also gold ammo usage makes it harder to get ace because it boost dmg capabilities alot. And this is visible on tanks like e25, t54, t69 and t54e1 which has mediocre pen with AP and OP pen with apcr and heat.
Pen is low on regular ammo but troll platoons with stat padders using nothing but gold ammo are quite common and that is what pisses people off.
Removing them from the game shop just put a tap on who could get the vehicle now but what do you do about the thousands already roaming around?
Any vehicle that can be used for stat padding is OP, be it regular or premium. People used to do it in the KV-1S and Hellcat and they got fked right.
SU-122-44 is OP too as rightly pointed out by many and is regularly outperforming the regular tier 7 TDs and so does the stupid cockroach E 25.
A size increase will be welcome nerf for that TD.
Why would they want to replace E50m. Even if it’s fake i think it’s a nice tank in the game and seems “real” enough. E50m has its place in the game. In fact, i wouldn’t mind WG putting in other fakes of that quality if it meant completing/complementing tech lines.
Has to be said…. E50m is weak.
Compared to ruskies – yeah.
no it’s not
You keep telling that yourself.
I say E-50M is an excellent tank, and thats final. But its a timebomb, WG will eventually find something to replace it with.
Ew you are only negative because you lost the hope for wot, possibly due to the accuracy change and future penetration change of tier 10 heavys. Also nobody cares about you anymore in wot community.
I think e50m will stay.
E-50M is very decent. It doesnt need nerf or replacement.
yesterday I rammed a Obj 140 with my E-50M. He did +-140 dmg to me, I did 998 dmg to him.
Ruskies are mean machines but this guy is the ultimate random battle badass
Compared dick to a tree….
One is all rounder and another one is ramwagen.
50m is amazing, far from weak.
Kaikibeb disagrees :D
*rams with E100*
E 50M confirmed weak!
What might happen is taht E 50 will go to tier 10 and tier 9 will get something new.
Can’t really seeing it being a good tier X without unhistorical buffing.
U only say that cause E50M is a decent tank, that works well with good players and noobs won´t utterly smash u in it. Other opinion might be “Why do the E50M get to stay, when WTF100 gets removed”
Anyway, they “wouldn´t want” to replace it, as u just read. :)
Aka. The e50m is well balanced and not broken as hell like the wt e100. Wt e100 is impossible to balance. It’s one of those tanks that is either OP as heck or terrible.
Each tank should be good in the hands of good players and bad in the hands of bad players. Skill should be rewarded
Even though i don’t have an e50m i would be sad if it got removed. Thank god wg isn’t planning to remove it yet :)
Actually ppl, there are historically 2 Variants of the e50. The 2nd one was from weserhütte. Search the Blog, there is an article on it somewhere
The E50M is semi historical I think. The config is based on historical proposals for tanks, but I dont know if there were any specific documents saying that the E50 should have a rear mounted engine and transmission.
Actually there were not even plans or suggestions for it, E-50M was a redesign of the initial demands of the E-50 specifications, completely made up. Its an “what if” E-50 was made to spec.
That said, E-50 had rear transmission, yet WG stuffed it in the front as a nerf. So much for “historical” accuracy, the transmission doesnt even physically fit in the front of the E-50.
It’s fully fictional. WG even made a Patent for their E50m design so noone else can use the design :P
and as much as i remember it was SerB’s invetion:)
Couldn’t they just leave it as it is in it’s most balanced state? And maybe see if they can resolve the server bottlenecks that might cause the rubble to be in different spots server/client side? I mean.. it’s been going for like 2 years or more now..
Ahaha alternative hulls, most tanks are not even in HD considering how long they have been talked about HD models and hulls. Also note “not many HD models will come in 9.7″. What a fucking joke, they make less than 1 model per month and it would require 300+ months to make all tanks into HD, and then alternative hulls. Hulls will never come I think and if they come they will be to only a few tanks and then they will scrap it just like the original havoc idea.
Havok*
It’s like 3 models per normal patch but they said that 9.7 will focus on HD models so we can expect a larger number. 10 maybe?
I doubt that, they have barely finished the is3 and E100 will not be relased in 9.6 either due to screwups. Lately they have made less than 1 model per month.
HD IS-3 is not in the game because IT DOESN’T EVEN HAVE THE TEXTURES YET!!!
Then it is not finished. Simple. They make less than 1 HD model per month, and in 6 months we have gotten less than 6 models.
“You might have seen it on forums earlier, but it’s confirmed: the “Sisterhood of Steel” of girl crewmembers is compatible (activates) with BIA (basically, if you replace one crewmember in a BIA crew with a girl with SOS, BIA will activate). It is however possible this will be removed, as it was not intentional.”
I thought it only showed you the percentage in the garage as if it was active, but in-game it wasn’t really, as someone tested the reload speed and it was slower. So it’s a UI bug.
- it’s not possible to say, how many HD models will appear in 9.7, as a few days ago, they removed some of the HD models from the build, because the patch was too big
They said that they will release a large amount of HD tanks, now i bet they will as allways release 4 or 5 max
- T54E2 and AMX 65T in the game? Storm: “I cannot say. Anything can happen :)”
Moar Frenchies yes please :D
- for now, the E50M will not be replaced (even though it’s a fake), because there are no suitable candidates for replacement
Well, technically, it isn’t a fake since SerB patented it :P
They patented the interpretation of how a possible E50M would have looked like. It would be so much easier if WG would just change the description to “artists interpretation based on historical blueprints and proposals and balanced to fit the game”. This is pretty much valid for all tanks since they are balanced to fit the game, such as HP, gun characteristis, mobilty, camo rating, view range etc. These are all game balances of how the tanks would perform taken into consideration historical weight and engine power as well as firepower and ammo type.
Lorr.65t please WG 2nd French HT line with Lorrain G1L, Renault G1R, AMX M4 1948 and other patented WG-tenks!
I have an E25 and I’m in favour of increasing the size to historical. Wouldn’t make it that much larger anyway.
How many tanks have wrong size in wot really? Some seem totally out if shape like the obj 268 for example.
268 is fine. Chieftain measured it :D
But yes – many are not exact as IRL but some are really way off.
The shapes dont look real, the obj 268 in the game looks much more stealthy and has a lower casemate.
Its virtual distortion.
Now you look like an tank expert but thats just “internet know it all tank expert” distortion :D
All we know are based on explicit knowledge, most tanks in wot are even based in blueprints. So not many “irl” measures there. If Doyle and those would say suck a dick, that would also be historical accurate.
isn’t the E-50M one of the iconic tanks in the game despite being an original concept? its also patented as well.
speaking of which, are there any visual differences between E-50 and E-50M?
E50M is lower I think and have a bit different frontal angles, it also has the big drive wheel in the rear instad of the front. E50 is basicly a tiger II with different shape front armor.
- for now, the E50M will not be replaced (even though it’s a fake), because there are no suitable candidates for replacement
Duh…
Move E50 to tier 10 (with corresponding HP increase)
Place Panther GT-101 at tier 9 with E50′s current HP figure.
Problem solved.
Yes but not really. A panther at tier 9 really has too insignificant armor and alpha. E50 on tier 9 is much more solid, it has armor and a high alpha and okay pen gun.
Panther and panther II hardly has significant armor at tier 7-8 wheres E50 has significant armor at tier 9 because it can bounce shots on both upper and lower plate if angles and also the turret. Most paper tanks at tier 9 has 390 dmg and 257-270mm pen opposed to 240 alpha that the turbopanther will have.
Tier 7 armor and tier 8 medium alpha is not enough for tier 9, specialy not when there already was a semi historical tank at tier 9.
The issue with the panther chassis is that it is as big as a tiger II but has half the armor thickness and it is like a box. The added mobilty the turbo panther will have makes no sense because you will get autopenned if you get spotted and you can only make 240 dmg in return, why would anobody play like that, you have panther 8.8 and panther II at tier 8 that can play like that.
They could always do as the russians do:
tier 8 100mm = 250 alpha ( shell cost 256 silver )
tier 9 100mm = 320 alpha ( shell cost: An arm and a leg )
tier 10 100mm = 320 alpha ( shell cost: 1000 silver )
because: alpha is a balancing measure.
So:
tier 8 88mm = 240 alpha ( shell cost 210~ silver )
tier 9 88mm = 300 alpha ( shell cost: An arm and a leg )
even easier: replace it with T-62 of the east-german NVA … :-D
I WWWAAANNNTTT my AMX-65t !!!!!!! Put it in the game WG PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE !!!
As SerB said – “Stop begging”.
Pssshhh Mr. SerB, give us Lorr. 65t! *hands 5 bucks*
Dafuk is buck?
Also, SerB needs many euros for rockets.
Why do you want a tank that you dont know anything about IRL???
Because he is 15yo kiddo.
“Buck” is american synonym for “Dollar”
Example: “That hooker offers bj for 5 bucks”
I want it because I want a real French heavy not that shitty 50-120 …
If they make the E-25 bigger it’s a nerf and I want my gold back.
Jokers.
BUHU sad gold noob tank owner is sad, they sould nerf that tank, gold tanks are meant to be worse than the regular ones, not OP
Should be, but its WG that balances stuff xDDD
iirc WG’s plan currently is that they’re eventually going to move the E-50 up to tier 10 and integrate the E-50M’s improvements into it once hull upgrades are implemented (thus shifting the transmission to the rear of the vehicle on the “Ausf.M” hull). The only problem then is what to put at tier 9…maybe they can dig up another one of Porsche’s paper projects or something from MAN?
And an E-25 “nerf” could be alright…provided they make it available again for purchase. Seriously, removing the E-25 but NOT the SU-122-44? Something about that sounds fishy…
Lastly, so they have the Char 2C modeled as of three years ago…and yet like nearly all of the other non-autoloading French heavies and mediums, they refused to add them within the year as promised, and then promised to add them later and later, always failing to do so…I’m starting to have the impression that they won’t come at all.
- E-25 to be made bigger (to its historical dimensions) when it gets reworked to HD? “Unfortunately, I cannot tell you anything.” (SS: from “inside sources”, this is actually a very radioactive topic, as it would be a defacto nerf of a very popular premium vehicle)
I think that won’t be such an extreme nerf at all. It will still be quite small, and like all premium TDs will benefit from not being viewrange-nerfed. Might be they “have to” offer refunds for gold like when they changed the Super Pershing frontal armor. “Have to” because of the whining. It might even reduce the number of E25s on the servers because of that.
It will lose one of the most fun things about it: face hugging people. Most tanks would go from barely being unable to shoot you to laughing at you… That would make me really sad.
Okay, you got a point there. It would still be good, though.
Hey, SS, I know this is unrelated to the current Q&A, but…
Some time ago there was some talking about captured tanks appearing in the tech tree, like a KV with German gun (the example I’m personally most interested in), was there no news of this ever since then?
They wont appear, a german KV was spotted in a video one day and people asked about that and the developers said that that tank will not appear in game
“- Storm confirms that developers are working on a completely new mode”
Please, Please, Please Let it be the option to play the game WITHOUT ARTY!!!!
I WILL PAY MONEY FOR THIS!!!!
Dont get your hopes up.
Sorry but it will NEVER HAPPEN, so u just have to use your brain and learn to counter them
Lemme just use my Teleport Hax mod to counter arty.
“- E-25 to be made bigger (to its historical dimensions) when it gets reworked to HD? “Unfortunately, I cannot tell you anything.” (SS: from “inside sources”, this is actually a very radioactive topic, as it would be a defacto nerf of a very popular premium vehicle)”
This really pisses me off. Premium tank owners need to stop acting like entitled little twats and face the fact that just throwing money at the game doesn’t entitle them to easy wins. Game balance overrides what a few wallet warriors feel they deserve.
And before anyone calls me out, I too own an e25 (and many other prems).
“e25 is op”
“e25 remove
“e25 sold a lot”
“e25 not accurate” (remember big attemps to get rid of paper
“will it get “nerfed””? …. …
some one noticed the pile of shit they got in?
why they just didn’t nerf it in the first place…
than they could buff it now again …
NOOO… remove $$$ was to good.
can anyone record a problem with the test server? i cant log in on the last updated version! it says incorrect pass or nick!
E50M to be replaced? didn’t wargaming go as far as to make a PATENT for the damn thing a couple of months ago to make it real? now its a ,fake’?
Its just SS who translate it to “fake” they may have used another word in russian.
I have E-25 and it’s OP like shit… I dont care if it’s a premium tank but EVERY tank deserves proper balance!! SU-122-44 and E-25 included!!
- for now, the E50M will not be replaced (even though it’s a fake), because there are no suitable candidates for replacement
SS, Didn’t you mentioned there was a postwar Panther that was planned to be modernized in competition with the Leopard 1? I really want to know about that and it could be the replacement of the E-50M.
If you are happy with 80mm front armor and 40mm side armor and 240 alpha… Basicly a panther 8.8 with faster rof apcr pen and mobilty at tier 9…
Give me my AMX 65t already, you promised and teased it over 2 years ago anyways.
What’s with WG and it’s stupid streak for getting rid of unhistorical tanks?
Why the sudden interest in making a game with many unrealistic features into a historic quasi simulation all of a sudden?
If people want realism, they can go play that shit stain of a game called War Thunder.
That “shit stain of a game” gains a lot of help and money from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation because of it’s historical accuracy and realism.
That’s what WG wants to earn back with their newly found “war on unhistorical tonkz” BS.
Oh WG, the lols never stop. Make prem vehicle desirable, announce its removal, reap the cash, then nerf. Lather. rinse, repeat.
Serb laughs. “Good one comrades, which tank do we do this to next? Pappi needs a new Mercedes to put his roubles into as the currency freefalls!”
If you are waiting for a refund on a product which was arbitrarily changed, you won’t have to wait long. You will get yours right after the Type owners, and the SP owners. Go on, hold your breath.