11.2.2015

Hello everyone – I got two e-mails today, asking me whether this site is real:

http://wargamingbonus.com/

Just to be sure – no, it’s a scam site. Do not click it. Linking it here = automatic permaban.

- developers are finishing with the motion physics testing, public test of new MP will come soon
- spotting system was not changed for a very long time
- players can get sometimes stuck in the air when going down slope like this because in current motion physics, the contact points with ground are not the entire tracks, but the roadwheels and in the case linked here, the first roadwheel is hanging in the air (thus it counts as no contact with ground)


- during the large map testing, compared to current state, there was much more driving and much less shooting, which is not exactly the desired effect
- Storm states that getting rid of rigged battles is actually very complicated: if you talk about it openly (for example during the battle loading hints) you will only bring the rigging to attention of people, who wouldn’t think of it before – and not allowing the same clan members to play against each other in random battles wouldn’t solve anything anyway, as it is really easy to create another clan
- Chieftain Mk.2 will come in 2015, Storm is waiting for it himself
- it won’t be complicated to get a hold of tanks suitable for historical battles (SS: as in, lowtier tanks)
- the spot check frequency is not tied to new BugWorld version, coming in 9.7
- it’s possible that in the future, during non-penetrating HE shell hits, the part of the damage that was “eaten” by armor will count as damage blocked by armor (for the statistics purposes), developers will consider it
- Storm on skill MM: “Skill MM would break the game. I explained the reasons many times. To play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring.”
- 25 percent RNG pen reduction? “In real life, the penetration spread is even higher.”
- PvE mode will come
- developers discussed completely disabling the option to fire at your own teammates, but then decided not to do it
- VK4502B as an alternative hull to VK4502A in the future? “I cannot say anything.”
- popularity of a vehicle is not directly tied to its combat performance – slow vehicles are less popular in general regardless of their qualities
- a proposal to give players who were not very active in battle 0 XP automatically? “Unfortunately, we can’t do it. It would screw a huge number of bad players.”
- Storm personally does have nothing to do with various game monetary decisions (shop prices and such)
- there is no vehicle to replace the Jagdpanzer E-100 with, that’s why it won’t be replaced for now (SS: that is weird, considering it’s at least partially historical)
- apparently, E-25 size will not increase: “Noone knows the historical dimensions of this vehicle, because it was never built.”
- arty XP buff will be considered
- T-34-2 buff? “I don’t know. We have to have a look at the statistics.”
- platoon IM’s will not be removed for now
- current (9.6) optimization (and performance) is already superior to the one before 9.0
- premium account “pausing” (interrupting the premium account for some time) will not be implemented, because it is financially not advantageous for Wargaming
- there are not enough vehicles to introduce tier 9 and 10 light tanks into the game
- regarding the issue where you get 4-5 maps over and over, Storm states it is very difficult to fix for certain reasons
- Q: “Fuck you, you nerfed TD’s to death and killed them!” A: “Hurray!”
- (continued from above) Q: “I will stop buying premium!” A: “Good luck.”
- Q: “9.6 accuracy sucks, Germans suffer!” A: “How terrible.”
- a player proposed random spawn spots for both teams on the map, Storm states that moving the spawn points even by 50 meters could create a serious imbalance
- getting really weird MM in some battles? “This means that there was nothing better in the battle queue.”
- Storm personally checked the camo factor of the Airfield map bushes, they are correct
- Storm comments on the “ghost shell” case, published on FTR not so long ago: “At such distances (more than 500 meters), there can be problems with the coordinate transfer accuracy. Which is this case. It’s very hard to deal with this.”
- WoT Dx11 support is being developed, Dx12 support development was not started yet
- Leopard 2 prototype with 105mm gun is not a suitable candidate for E50M replacement
- Krupp-Steyr Waffenträger will apparently not be a normal prem for sale, but some sort of event vehicle

180 thoughts on “11.2.2015

  1. - apparently, E-25 size will not increase: “Noone knows the historical dimensions of this vehicle, because it was never built.”

    Fucking bullshit. They wont change it, cause a lot of whiners would cry because their beloved rapemachine would be nerfed. And “thats not what I payed for!”
    Just admit it and stop spewing bullshit

      • Just proved my point. Thank you.
        Edit: And also I payed for a Jagtig 8.8. Because it has a killer good accurate gun. And now WG will make it worse. Do you see me complaining?

          • Atleast the Jagtig has a humongous weakpoint. The belly and its atrocious speed coupled with turning speed. And mediocre to nearly-non-existant camo rating.
            E25. A gun that reloads faster than an autoloader, good armor (this shit bounces off a T29s and a Jpanths top guns). Camo value of Romulan quality, and fastasfuck.

            • Not sure if frustrated WoT player and troll or if doesn’t have E-25 and instantly puts it at the OP, tank blessed with all the gods pedestal.

              Bouncing T29′s and JgPanthers top guns… right…
              It bounces some lucky shots and ricoshets some others, but it is not even close to being remotely reliable so you cannot count on using it in battle. It happens due to RNG and bad aiming.

              E-25 is superior due to it’s rate of fire, camo rating and people who can use it wisely in battle. So kindly please stop spreading rumours about god like stats of E-25′s armour.

              • Camo rating is not only superior,.. but also dont lose so much camo by shooting trouth bushes as nonpremium TDs,.. cause dont wanna nerf premiums,.. didnt get wiew range nerfed to hell like others TDs,.. cause dont wanna nerf premiums,… it was very good before others TDs get nerfet,.. and when they did it stay the rame,.. so its not only whinning about OP mashine,.. but OP mashine confirmed
                Fact that u need to use it wisely dont mean it isnt op

            • Also has no view range, no turret, limited traverse rate and a popgun with meh penetration, especially for a TD. Driving an E25 requires skill and doesn’t guarantee a win at all.

          • pz2j is pay to win. reason why they introduced the su-76i to counter the 2j because my god i love killing pay to win whiners. omg a 7$ tank just raped my 1000$ tank waaaaah!!!!!

            • As a 2j Driver I have never had issues with 76i due to their rarity, I have way more issues with Tetrarchs. I can say that I and 99% of people that own a 2j didnt pay anywhere near 1k, It is more to own a tank that few do

        • Everything in Wot got it’s accuracy nerfed. So the enemies won’t hit you just as often as you don’t hit the enemies. I am pretty sure I read somewhere in a Q&A that someone said that the E-25 was the right size.

      • U payed for the e25, but u didnt buy it, you just bought the “permission” to play it. They can do whatever they want with the tank, but in this case, they wont change it..
        But i wonder why they nerfed the Type 59 and not e25? Becase of limited mm on type?

      • WG can do whatever they want to do with their game. They can nerf premium tanks so they don’t even have stats and you can’t do shit about it. But they don’t want to do that because they would lose customers and money.. Instead, they are not giving a fuck for that OP E25 (other OP tanks included) and trying to milk as much money as possible before doing something.

      • Looking at Storm’s answers, I get the feeling the don’t give a fuck about the questions… He is mocking every question with answers like ‘good luck’, ‘How terrible’. Fuck you you asshole – this is how you respond to our problems ? FUCK YOU, this is not the only game we can play. FUCK you again.

    • Leopard 2 prototype with 105mm gun is not a suitable candidate for E50M replacement.

      No, a Russian design of a german vehicle, E-50, that’s so much more legitimate.

      You know what the M stands for don’t you? M, is for Minsk, where the guy lives.

      This game is rigged and dying. This is one example of why. No German heavies at Tier 6…….why isn’t the Krupp turret on the 3601? Where is the Heat Ammo for the 88mm?

      How is It in this game, Russian guns are better then Germans? And no, not the stats you morons, the Tier placement.

      Are you guys gonna sit ther and tell me I’m the only one that notices the best german tanks are in Tiers that cant be used Competeviely?

      If the 50M is made up, Then use the Goddarn E50 u POS’s.

      One last thing, whomever told you Serb that we wanted to miss more, is working for someone else or has another agenda.

      People to don’t shoot guns or anything to MISS!

      Think about it!

      • ffs its just a game so you could stop whining you stupid shit, otherwise fuck off and go play something else, no one is begging you to stay!

        • Don’t worry, As soon as Armored Warfare opens, I think we all be leaving.

          LOL, SS will start a new blog, and Wargaming can buy that one from him too.

          • AW this, AWQ that!!!! Its gonna be the greatest thing since sliced bread and flavored vodka!! Wait – that’s exactly what the masses said about WTGF and that game is fucking garbage 110%. All the hype was about how pretty it looked and how optimized it was. Still 110% SHIT. Quit thinking this game is a game and treat it as a hobby. I could choose golf for my downtime and be out a couple hundred $$$$ per month, or anything else. I like tanks, I have a job, and spend my money where I like. If AW is the end all when it comes out, then so be it, but stop with the silly dreaming that it will be so far superior and better – WE DONT KNOW.

      • “M, is for Minsk, where the guy lives”

        Actually not. M – mean Martynenko (Всеволод Мартыненко), guy who did the drawing E-50M for WG

        • Oh, srry, I cant keep with everything WG does. I believe he does live in Minsk? But if its just for his name, that makes even more WarGamming sense. Put a Russian Designers name on German tank.

          just another sign……lol

      • Think about this, in a game where tanks lines are supposed to follow a common theme, would a leopard with little armor be a good replacement for a historically heavium line? Also the E-50M very could have been a historical design if E50 got adopted by the German army and the war lasted longer.

    • - Q: “Fuck you, you nerfed TD’s to death and killed them!” A: “Hurray!”
      - (continued from above) Q: “I will stop buying premium!” A: “Good luck.”
      - Q: “9.6 accuracy sucks, Germans suffer!” A: “How terrible.”

      Thers your proof, Good luck.

      Heres something to think about. All the gold they give away, thousands and thousands of pieces. Do you think those players are paying Wargaming anything?

      So, then who is supporting Wargaming? US. We pay them so they can give the gold out to clans that Wargaming favors?

      I don’t know? Do you?

      • yes these words comming from a player with 31k games played, 751 wn8 and below 47% WR.

        i see noobs crying in battle chat all the time. didn’t expect them to do so on the internet too….

        • is that you Sateron? Enjoy giving me another ban? Yes of course, my stats prove that I cannot think.

          All you guys with loosing records, your wasting your time here, that’s what hes saying.

      • I knew that WG is shiting on us players, but now they said it. Buying premium ? GOOD LUCK ?? FUCK you man. I bought premium 2 years, now you tell me good luck. Do you know how many games I could have bought with that money ? Now you are moking us ??? FUCK you WG and fuck your dumb ass, old and unoptimisez game. With Armored Warfare coming out you think you can say FUCK YOU to your players ??? Enjoy it wille it lasts, soon many players will leave and you will have only Russian and Polish players on your servers who will pay 2$ for 2 weeks of premium on Christmas.

      • My rapemachine too was bought for real money and I still think it deserves to be nerfed. Dpm nerf however is more important than everything else

    • oh so in real life tank shell penetration varies by over +/-25%? care to take chemistry and physics, then explain this? Maybe shitty soviet shells made with vodka soaked black bread instead of cordite, but for actual WW2 era ammunition I think not. Having more than a 5% variation is just farcical. Maybe thet shoud also check the damage rolls as well, see how “average” they actually are, ha ha, 105mm tier ten guns doing 350-360 almost every shot.

      • no theres a chance that the shell might get jammed in the gun or it might back fire into your ammo rack. which has happened during ww2 poor sods..

      • Your comment is so stupid I just signed up to tell you.

        Everything in life has ‘hidden variables’, not necessarily true hidden variables (like quantum states) but things that change which are invisible to human perception. Metallurgy is a science, and like all sciences it has a margin of error. You know when you buy a bottle of coke there’s a little e next to the volume measurement? That’s to indicate it’s that amount ‘within manufacturing tolerance’, that’s something produced in the 21st century with all the cheap computing power and affordable high-precision sensory equipment that entails. Let’s rewind to 1945 where a computer less powerful than the circuitry inside a chinese knockoff $2 keyring toy was the size of a house and known only to two dozen people cracking codes, and the meter was still defined as ‘however long this platinum/iridium stick in a box in paris is’. Hell, that definition didn’t change until 1960 and everyone knows industry doesn’t change standards unless it’s profitable…

        Those tolerances (especially on a half dozen pieces of metal made for the purpose of hitting another piece of metal so fast that they break it) are going to matter. Hell, it took the US long enough to get good at casting complete Sherman hulls to spec, and they had experience casting 200 ton railway locomotives, germany didn’t get good at it until after the war. US AP ammunition suffered from inconsistent quality throughout the war, leading to inconsistent penetration. Just be glad your HE shells don’t randomly fail to explode (or explode in the gun when you hit the trigger).

        Randomness is all around us and arguing it’s unrealistic is stupid. Arguing its role in WoT is negative? Maybe you’d have had a point, but I can’t agree with you now because I don’t want to be on the side of a raving nut who doesn’t understand a thing he’s talking about.

  2. “- apparently, E-25 size will not increase: “Noone knows the historical dimensions of this vehicle, because it was never built.” ”

    half of the vehicles ingame are blueprints: “its historical cuz its in the books”

    One of them has its size wrong according to the books: “wasn’t real so we don’t know its size”

    flawless logic ftw

      • Whole waffeltrager line, e25, e50, e75, e100. Im just rambling along. Also a wooden mockup, small versions. Fuck knows how they would really look. Hiding behind the excuse of “wasnt real so we dont know its size” is just plain bullhockey

        • Paul how dumb could you be, the Majority of the WaffenTrager line existed and even saw combat…..

          The E-100 had a hull built too by the way (a proper hull).

        • Whole Waffentrager line? Mate, Nashorn is so real it was even in Historical Battles XD

          For the rest, I know that the tier 5 and 7 were actually built, and the Marder 38t is AFAIK a ‘real’ tank as well.

        • Paper Tank %’s
          Japan – 0%
          USA – 14%
          Britain – 19%
          USSR – 21%
          China – 22%
          Germany – 25%
          France – 32%

          Overall – 21% of all vehicles in WoT are paper designs or worse(varying degrees of WG meddling with the core concept)

          • I might count Ke-Ho as one of the fake tanks.
            I mean It WAS actually built, but no remaining photo nor blueprint, and only a single sketch remaining AFAIK.

        • Half of soviets? What are you on? All Soviet tanks were build and have their prototypes displayed at Kubinka! Only blueprint ones that weren’t built that I can think of are the Object 430 II, A-43 and A-44. Every other had real-life prototypes or at least mock-ups. Not to mentions there are literally tons of very real tanks in Kubinka that will never be implemented, but could be pretty easily.

  3. - Krupp-Steyr Waffenträger will apparently not be a normal prem for sale, but some sort of event vehicle

    not surprising when these days only like 1 in 7 ‘premium’ vehicles is a ‘normal premium’ and not tied to events or clan shit.

  4. Don’t link to them, you are making their rep in google rank go higher (and your site can get hit with a penalty if google will clasify it as a scam site)

    • i think gg to me…:D

      somhow scrooling down with mouse wheel i clicked wheel on that link…= new tab opened…and this happens not the first time
      …my fingers are heavy..

  5. Q: “9.6 accuracy sucks, Germans suffer!” A: “How terrible.”

    Oh Jesus I can’t wait to read how badly this player would complain about the Chinese and Russian tanks.

    • Except russian and chinese have things to compensate for it like..small size/good camo, good armor, good turrets, mobility and alpha.Take away the acurracy and pen off of german tanks and they have nothing.

      • Heh, You’re talking as if the T-44 and T-34-2 always fight in close combat. mediums only fight close combat 1 vs 1 otherwise they die miserably. All mediums shoot from larger ranges and all but the tier 10 of the russians and tier 9 of the chinese have to hit weakspots on tanks to do damage unlike the central mass penetration ability of certain germans. Camo does no good when you cannot penetrate the target in front of you without getting too close.

        All tanks are effected by this with perhaps the exception of the IS and IS-2 but those two tanks where already mediocre as all fuck in anything but tier 7 games. The IS-3 has always been a little overpowered and has enough penetration to penetrate tanks it’s own tier from shooting central mass.

    • You fail to see the point Tupi. First of all, soviet and chinese tanks are built for close combat, at that range 0.46 or 0.7 acc, it’s the same damn thing, you’ll still hit.

      But when we’re talking about long range combat – the only way most german tanks can play – a nerf to accuracy is disastrous, even if it’s small. Instead of placing your hit on the hull, you hit the well armored turret or a bad angle, not to mention complete miss.

      Hopefully now you understand.

      • No, the inconsistency is obnoxious.

        When accuracy got buffed everyone whined about how it screwed German tanks because now everything could snipe and there was no point to accuracy.

        Now accuracy is getting nerfed and everyone is whining about how Germany is getting screwed again because nobody can snipe.

        Its one or the other, not both.

    • Three prototypes were under construction by wars end but weren’t located when the allies went hunting for em

  6. - Chieftain Mk.2 will come in 2015, Storm is waiting for it himself

    New Years Ever 2015 :p

    - there is no vehicle to replace the Jagdpanzer E-100 with, that’s why it won’t be replaced for now (SS: that is weird, considering it’s at least partially historical)

    Orly? How bout the JagdTiger (P) GT-101 test bed? Duh.

    - Leopard 2 prototype with 105mm gun is not a suitable candidate for E50M replacement

    OOOOObvious. Just move the E50 to tier 10 with the current E50M’s stats. replace tier 9 with Panther Ausf. G GT-101. I actually covered this in a LOT of detail on the NA forums Suggestion Sub-forum in my “How to Fix” series a few days ago. http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/420455-how-to-fix-the-fake-e50m-replacement-part-11

    Sensible tankers “Get it” … Philistines shat on the idea because they essentially want a tank with the power of an arty, the armor of the Maus, and the speed of the T-50-2 …. which you can’t have.

      • Not really, I probably owned one before you did – I had it the day it was released (additionally I wrote an article about the update that contained it in a full pictorial guide on bashandslash.com prior to release). WG was too proud to pay the licensing fees to the model company that made up the Krokodil design (which made a lot more sense like a giant Jagdpanther). The alpha, while intoxicating does not make up for the fact that it has 1 strength but ruined by 7 well-known weaknesses.

        It’s a crap TD – if you don’t believe that, you’re in denial. If you want massive alpha, use a 183 (but that has crap armor – worse than the 215b – 120), if you want decent a well-rounded useful TD the 268 is hard to overlook. The 263 is great as long as you’re unseen (artillery + open top = bad). If I want slow and powerful with a passable front end, I’ll play my T110E3 because it’s physically smaller and presents a harder target to hit at distance.

        • Krokodil design made more sense? Only if you, you know, don’t factor in things such as weight distribution. There’s a reason why a lot of the hightier German TDs have mid- or rear casemates.

          • Use your head dude – look at a Jagdpanther. Look at the Krokodil. It’s a Jagdpanther where everything was scaled up 40%. Meaning if you needed weight distribution, you’d scale up the gun, which if you looked at a Jagdpanther’s 88mm historical gun, would be 123.2 – or in the games case, a 128mm main gun. I didn’t say the Krokodil would have a 17cm now did I?

            Even if we went with the 105mm gun, the 40% upscaled equilivant would be 147mm, or in WG’s case, the 150mm, which is actually 149mm and some change – so even that would have made sense.

            The suspension would be 40% stronger to support the weight of 40% more armor, and the engine would be 40% heavier in the rear.

            I’m not disputing the 17cm Kanone 18 is heavy – I never implied it would have been there had they used a similar modelled hull either.

        • I have a 268 and I hate the gun (arc almost like an artillery, forget sniping) For all i know JagE100 IS somewhat historical and more than that, I just dont want something removed from my garage that has been there for a long time and i really like. I didnt say it was the best TD at all. And i definately dont want a fucking Jagtiger with a better engine!! What are you thinking?

          • I’m thinking it’s more real than any Jagd E100 ever was. They actually had one .. it was built (because it was simply a JagdTiger with Porsche suspension), it had the GT-101 turbine in it (because it was sent for a fitment test bed). It could very easily have been in the game with a tier 10 HP pool, that great penning 128mm main gun, and with the concept extended casemate – offered up more comfort, equating to a better aim time and faster reload time to help it’s lack of a lower plate using the King Tiger chassis. It could have performed a bit like a Hetzer and could have been statted in the game with great acceleration and traverse having so much extra power at its disposal.

            • It doesnt sound bad, but i still dont want 3/4 E100 chassis vehicles removed from the game. Just no, Imo its too late for that now. Or make JagE100 premium :P

            • Sounds a bit like it would be to the JagdTiger as the E-50 is to the Tiger 2: similar armour and firepower, medium tank mobility.

              Which is something I’d LOVE to see. My progression down the German tank destroyer line has been fairly low priority because, frankly, the Jgpz E-100 is not something that fills me with enthusiasm to play.

    • we have the lttb it has more armor then a bloody panther lol and has its gun xD

      and has the mobility of the t-50-2

    • Leopard 2 would be indestructible for any tank in game. No tank has pen high enough to pen it frontally, probably thats why.

  7. You linked it SS, did you permabanned yourself ? :D

    “- developers are finishing with the motion physics testing, public test of new MP will come soon”

    I still have high hopes that those motion physics will bring us this feature of hill climbing and that they wont remove it

    “- Storm on skill MM: “Skill MM would break the game. I explained the reasons many times. To play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring.””

    And the community explained it many times – various other multiplayer PvP games have it in various forms and somehow no one is complaining

  8. Storm on skill MM: “Skill MM would break the game. I explained the reasons many times. To play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring.”

    I don’t care for skill based MM, but I do care for game after game where I am stuck with tomatoes – I had a period on Tuesday where I had win rate (according to XVM, I know its not the most reliant of predictors – but nevertheless its the best measure I have) of nearly a dozen games in the row of 25-40% chance of winning, (and at least half of those below 36%, two of 24-26%). I think I lost all but two games, at most.

    Surely they could equally distribute tomatoes and unicums so that – unless there is an excessive wait – there is win rate (prediction) of 45-55%. (Or even 41-56%)

    It can almost be frustrating to be on the other half and play a team of tomatoes so that there is little skill or experience in the battle.

    tl:dr: Sort the bloody MM so its fair for all, tomatoes and unicums alike!

    • I keep wondering why people put XVM (WN8) in the same boat with WG. It a fucking third party (not WG) made mod that uses data to create what they think is a measure of skill based on the data available through the API. Bitching for WG to make the predicted WR more to 50% because your 3rd party mod tells you that you’re likely gonna lose is no problem of theirs and I’m sure they find it very fucking annoying. You made the decision to install XVM so put on your fucking big boy pants and deal with what you see instead of bitching about it. WG did not design their game to show you the fucking win chance or player skill so you should quit bitching to them about it because all you can really do is ask “tomatoes and potatoes” to stop clicking battle the same time you do.

    • Strange, I am having fine distribution and platoon could easily fix most of bad days. Or probably you should consider why you did get too many low winning chance… Well, the only factor which stay unchanged is the stats of yourself, riiight?

      Also, f u. I don’t want to thrown into harder battles constantly just because I am better than the average pubbies. Good players should keep the right to pawn.

      • Just because you are an above average player doesn’t mean you won’t pwn anymore, you will still have the same amount of bad players in both teams which you can feast on.
        Skill-balanced battles will get boring? Oh yes, because those 4 minutes 15:3 wins/losses are so exciting and rewarding.
        I always imagine: there are people sitting for hours creating a matchmaker and then they forget one of the most important things to include; skill. And vehicle setups based on the maps. I don’t like team heavy vs meds on prokhorovka or himmelsdorf.

  9. - Storm comments on the “ghost shell” case, published on FTR not so long ago: “At such distances (more than 500 meters), there can be problems with the coordinate transfer accuracy. Which is this case. It’s very hard to deal with this.”

    OK ok , now this really fucking ticks me off. It is a similar tone to that “clean your computer” interview a few weeks ago….The fucking arrogance. It’s very difficult…..Well, Storm, game development is difficult in general, lets not fix anything and not do anything BECAUSE ITS HARD TO DO …
    ….And fuck that prick telling me to clean my PC to get better FPS….why dont you actually develop your game, so it works better, instead of telling me how to maintain my fucking electronics.

    I understand WG got fat because it created a new tank game market, but come on, get a fucking move on already…Or don’t , whatever , but at least don’t parade with your bullshit.

    • I wonder why they haven’t hired you yet, your smart-ass seems to know everything about game developing anyway.

      SARCASM OFF MOTHERFUCKER!
      it’s fucking hard to make a game. and if you’re so keen on teaching them how to do their job go make your own game or apply for a position at WG, but until then, provide educated opinions or stop spewing useless junk.

      • You realise your entire reply was useless junk, right ? Practice what you preach, son

        Also, game development being hard is exactly what i said..I don’t think WoT is so revolutionary, that it is difficult to overcome issues that have been around for a long time.

        Reading comprehension.

  10. 25 percent RNG pen reduction? “In real life, the penetration spread is even higher.”

    Had to laugh so hard on that.
    So what is like in reallife in world of tanks?!
    and why u explaining then something ingame with reality?!

    Rng is just for controlling the ingame money and in the end, the real money. They just should admit this, cause its proofed 100k times.

    • No man, he is right. In real life, real soviet tanks had a much greater penetration spread, ranging from normal pen – best case – to less than half. How else could you explain IS-2′s 122mm gun bouncing several consecutive shots on Tiger’s side armor at close range ?

      • Yeah maybe he is right, but since when tanks got hp bars? or need time like a circle to zoom, or drive on 15 vs 15 maps…. So u got me now? Maybe its right, the reality is like this, but world of tanks is just not the play ground to talk about reality or even compare it, so thats what he actualy did, and thats just funny.

  11. - a proposal to give players who were not very active in battle 0 XP automatically? “Unfortunately, we can’t do it. It would screw a huge number of bad players.”

    Well isn’t that exactly the point of doing it?

  12. Hey SS i would love to see the upcoming Events and the Top of the Techtree Tanks.
    Can you try to get some information about that?

    Trank you! :)

  13. “Chieftain Mk.2 will come in 2015, Storm is waiting for it himself”

    I have the bad feeling that this is going to be a Havok like mystery of 2015.. WG keeps promising that tank but eventually it will be postponed because of reasons…

    • Havok shelved (hopefully scrapped) – replaced by Frostbite 3 or … 4? (let’s make this happen!11!!!oneone-eleven!)

      • I would be jealous of you…but you have to grind it from the 1390 which is, though not a bad tank, certainly not the one i would’ve wanted to use to grind them … :/

        • Well, i play 13 90 in strongholds and clanwars, and, made about 100k xp in a month. Not even grinding it, just regular clan gameplay. Keep it up a month more and i got the xp right away to unlock amx 30

    • I actualy hope fhey will never add chieftain. Why? Because they are still talking about balance, now tell me how do you want to compare Chieftain Mk.2 vs. M48 Patton which was made like 30 years sooner? Even now it is worst 10 tier med and after that it would be just useless garbage…

      • Chieftain was 1960s, contemporary to Leo1, AMX-30, M60 and T-62. And the M48 is apparently a late-model M48 that has similar characteristics to the M60.

  14. I get why you posted the url here, but why on earth did you make it a hyperlink. You usually link to some interesting stuff at the start of this and people might just click before reading…

    • Think “Third heavy line”

      The only viable MBT-70 usable would be the mild-steel prototype hull … which for all intents and purposes would work just fine. The gun it carried is already the same as the one in the T49LT/XM-551 Sheridan.

      WG had the perfect opportunity to have the first “dual nation” tank (one tank, two different guns, two different engines, two different national camo options) by offering up this MBT70 to Murrca as a tier 10 heavy and having the KpZ-70 for the Germans but their fear of smoothbores with first generation ammo are still too “OP” … lol power creep.

  15. “- there is no vehicle to replace the Jagdpanzer E-100 with, that’s why it won’t be replaced for now”

    Ok, I’m sorry, but this sort of pisses me off >. Will get replaced.
    WT auf E-100 -> Will get replaced.
    G.W. E-100 -> Will get replaced.

    And now even Jg.Pz. E-100?!?! WHY? Why does German tree has to take all crap? There are many, many vehicles MUCH more unrealistic then this one!

    Well soon they will replace the entire ******* german tree :(

    • Dunno what happend to that part :/ Should have been:

      E-50M -> Will get replaced.
      WT auf E-100 -> Will get replaced.
      G.W. E-100 -> Will get replaced.

  16. “- VK4502B as an alternative hull to VK4502A in the future? “I cannot say anything.”

    I’d love to drive that at T8. But I’m certain that will never happen, the IS-3 bitches will start complaining, and there’s A LOT of them.

    “- apparently, E-25 size will not increase: “Noone knows the historical dimensions of this vehicle, because it was never built.”

    So basically, WG follows it’s rules only when it suits them. Wouldn’t want to piss off those paying customers, would they ?

    “- Q: “Fuck you, you nerfed TD’s to death and killed them!” A: “Hurray!”
    - (continued from above) Q: “I will stop buying premium!” A: “Good luck.”
    - Q: “9.6 accuracy sucks, Germans suffer!” A: “How terrible.”

    Goes to show you how little WG cares about people in general. Fortunately, Armored Warfare devs are very open to suggestions on how to improve the gameplay, and they would go as far as removing the arty completely from the game.

    • “Goes to show you how little WG cares about people in general. Fortunately, Armored Warfare devs are very open to suggestions on how to improve the gameplay, and they would go as far as removing the arty completely from the game.”

      If they do actually remove arty, me and my few hundred dollars a year will go there.

      • It all depends on the players vote. Right now the main options are : remove the arty completely, remove the arty and make it consumable or nerf the arty so that it won’t one-shot anything.

        You should follow AW main site news. It is interesting.

    • there are at least 1 milion people playing this game do you think a company can give a damn to players’ opinion when its dummy?

      nerfing all the tanks in game makes accurate german tanks better but the question up there shows how player base really is

  17. - developers are finishing with the motion physics testing, public test of new MP will come soon

    - PvE mode will come

    EGGCELENT NEWS

  18. I bet Storm drinks himself to sleep every night having to answering the same questions from the same stupid people.

  19. - developers are finishing with the motion physics testing, public test of new MP will come soon

    Wonderful!

  20. - the spot check frequency is not tied to new BugWorld version, coming in 9.7

    Lol sites that mean the Bigworld is buggy?

  21. - a proposal to give players who were not very active in battle 0 XP automatically? “Unfortunately, we can’t do it. It would screw a huge number of bad players.

    And? They already screw battles.. Ban them.

  22. “play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring” – just a sport example: Federer vs Nadal in wimbledon, how many times did it happen? Loads! All of them “tedious and boring”, nobody remembers any of those matches…

  23. - Q: “Fuck you, you nerfed TD’s to death and killed them!” A: “Hurray!”
    - (continued from above) Q: “I will stop buying premium!” A: “Good luck.”
    - Q: “9.6 accuracy sucks, Germans suffer!” A: “How terrible.”
    i second these answers

    • people are dumb enough to think germans will be less accurate compared to others at 0.9.6 ITS A FUCKING BUFF DANG IT

  24. It’s not same when you give money charity and they share it to someone, since they can only work with what was given to them. In this case, they are the ones redistributing as they wish because it is their currency and they can make how much they want of it.

    TL:DR; It isn’t same thing

  25. - Storm on skill MM: “Skill MM would break the game. I explained the reasons many times. To play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring.”

    I’ve got another idea, not sure if that was discussed so far.
    I’m also against skill MM as a complex solution for all players. However, I would split the whole playerbase into TWO leagues, no more, no less.
    1. Normal players (from tomatoes to unicums)
    2. Special players.

    About the special ones. Under this term I mean people, who don’t contribute to the battle in any way. Just to give a few examples: notorious shooting enemy tank ICONS instead of tanks – even if enemy is behind a mountain (Lakeville, shooting a tank in the canyon from the town); constant shooting for no reason at the battle start, occasionally hitting allies, then yolo death when still shooting everywhere but the enemy tanks.

    I think you also see such players way too often and will agree that they shouldn’t be allowed to play the game. You can’t prohibit them, but you can send them to a special server, where there would be ONLY such players. Then, for Storm’s and WG research purpose, replays from such a server can be collected and watched to check how are they doing. And how do their battles look like.

    There is a very easy way to find such players and thus, automatically log them to the ‘special’ server. The mysterious stat indicating it is… accuracy.

    Let’s say, after 100 (or 200, or 500?) battles (excluding artillery battles, as they hardly hit stuff, especially at low tiers with small targets and little splash) – every player’s accuracy is checked. If the accuracy is under 40% (or 35%? the number doesn’t matter that much now) – such a player will be allow only to join the handica… special server. Once he improves, he or she will be able to join the regular one. Or rather, automatically moved there. Once the player is back to use the cannon in a silly way – back to the special cluster.

    After watching a lot of players doing everything but shooting the enemies (myself being over 19k battles atm so I’ve seen some) I’ve noticed a correlation with very low (as little as 10%) accuracy with completely no contribution or team effort, present even at high tiers.

    My favourite was a player, who decided to reach the destroyer (warship in the port) in Fjords, driving his KV-1. And that way we were out of 1 top tier heavy tank, as he was just trying to get to him, but retreating when he was drowning, occasionally shooting the ship as well. Nothing else done the entire battle. His overall accuracy was about 16%.

    I assume that (temporary!) splitting such players from the rest, even from tomatoes, who play very bad but at least FIGHT, could improve the gameplay greatly WITHOUT any drawbacks of skill MM, mentioned by Storm so many times. What do you think?

    • +1000.
      However, acc isn’t the main factor to take into account.
      I have lowish accuracy, but I have 1165 ER. And it’s screwed if you play Pz1C or T7cc repeatidly.

      The should establish a formula based on average Tier played and damages inflicted/ personnal rating.
      Then send retards to the garbage server.

    • Frustrating as it is to see some moron with an IS head to the sniping positions (and sometimes denying that position to a tank that actually is a good sniper) there are times when fighting from a distance as a heavy is the smart thing to do. Particularly some of the more thinly armoured heavies like French, hightier British, and lower-tier Germans that are more suited to fire support than tanking hits.

      What might be justifiable to encourage heavies to move up is giving them a smaller share of the XP and credits for hits on tanks they aren’t spotting themselves. However, this could overly penalise some of the heavies that really are more like turreted TDs in their behaviour. (Protip: No Russian or Chinese heavy falls into this category. MAYBE you could argue the KV-2, but that’s certainly no sniper.)

      • I agree, no german, american, russian, chinese or british heavy tank should stay back in high tiers (8-10). But they do, how often dont you see E75 sniping close to base and them coplain about the “innacurate gun”.

  26. 8.6: “fucking russian bias, this accuracy buff negates the german’s advantage of accurate guns!”
    “9.6 accuracy sucks, Germans suffer!”

    • I bet if WG was stationed in Germany people would say German bias… Personally I don’t see the Russian bias. E-75, E-25, VKB, Waffentrager E 100, Rhm, Tiger P, and many others are great German tanks.

      • Aye, we can at least be thankful that the IS-7 is super unhistorical.

        While a lot of russian tanks are at least okay there are plenty of ”meh” tanks to say the least.
        The T-44 is among the mediums with the lowest average win-rates and is terrible stock even when compared to most other stock tier 8 tanks.
        The IS is hilarious in open maps against tier 8′s and up and very easy to counter in tier 8 tanks even in city maps while seeing more tier 8 games than the T29 which is generally considered far superior.
        The MT-25 is hilarious, just hilarious. ( and relatively easy to hit thanks to fat profile )
        IS-8 is the worst performing tier 9 heavy tank in the game at the moment.
        SU-100M1 is hilariously awkward and even with the top gun the least threatening tier 7 TD.
        SU-101 is awkward as all hell and not very threatening as well but can rape faces albeit it’s ammo costs are ridiculously high so most of the time they barely shoot back anyway if they can even get the gun down.
        SU-85 is laughable compared to the STUG III especially in gun-handling and driving comfort.
        T-50 used to be a bad joke, it still has enhanced (semi-scout) matchmaking despite being terribly sluggish. It’s better than the T-70 in terms of armour, but still it feels cruel.
        A-20 is a joke, a very cruel joke just a little less of a joke than the Lee and grant to some.
        ( Though I thought that the grant was more useful in tier 5′s than this thing since it’s camo-factor isn’t particularly good when you take it’s viewrange into account. )
        AT-1 is absolute trash compared to the other tier 2 TD’s.
        S-51, SU-14-1, SU-8 and especially SU-122A are among the most unreliable and uncomfotable arty in the game.

        That said, god damn germany has a lot of useless tier 4 tanks, of course a lot of good ones as well, but a lot of trash is available.

  27. - apparently, E-25 size will not increase: “Noone knows the historical dimensions of this vehicle, because it was never built.”

    1) Doyle knows it. And i doubt he would just blurt out “I believe it was about that big” outta the damn blue, if he mentioned some expected dimensions he most likely found some data in some real wartime documents.

    2) It actually makes sense: Hetzer is more than 1/3 lighter and ingame it’s bigger than E-25, which suggest three possible explanations:

    A) WG Fucked up while creating original E-25 model.
    B) E-25 was made out of lead.
    C) WG fucked up while creating original E-25 model AND E-25 is made out of lead.

    3) E-25 chasis was supposed to replace pz. III and IV chasis, not 38 (t), so this “jägdpanzer E-25 (it might not be called such in WoT, but that it is)” portraited ingame can be expected to be about the size of regular StuG, which roughly corresponds to Doyle’s dimensions.

    4) Let’s wait for E-25′s HD model, maybe it won’t grow to Doyle’s expectations, but i am pretty sure it will grow a bit…

  28. - Storm on skill MM: “Skill MM would break the game. I explained the reasons many times. To play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring.”

    Why are they so narrow minded???

    Not a single player is asking to play with 29 people with the same skill… They are asking for ———-BALANCE———- Do you recognise the word? Oh, of course not, since your game lacks totally of it…

    If you have 3 tomatos 1 side, the other team gets 3 tomatos, and so on, is it that hard? Why on team battles is it possible, and not on random battles? Of course, as usual money, he stated before “People who gets awful battles between good ones, plays even more”. So let the random fest continue…

    Armored Warfare, I’m still waiting for you….

  29. > Storm on skill MM: “Skill MM would break the game. I explained the reasons many times. To play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring.”

    Yeah, all those close games would be WAY more tedious than losing 15 to 1 all the time.

    And, the boredom! Oh the boredom! 15-1 games are so much more exciting than games which go down-to-the-wire, why would anyone want to lose them???

  30. > “Noone knows the historical dimensions of this vehicle (E25), because it was never built.”

    There’s an easy way to see which size is the correct one (considering one option is WAY bigger than the other) – just look at the crew seating. If the seat is the right size for a human man, that model is in the correct scale. If the driver’s seat is big enough for a Sasquatch, then the model is too big (and vice versa).

  31. (during the large map testing, compared to current state, there was much more driving and much less shooting, which is not exactly the desired effect)

    Hmm? according to wot forum theory the “constant variable” (only one it would seem lol) I understood staying alive was to effect the outcome of a battle. Versus getting spotted by 1 enemy and then having 15 guns pointing in your direction from several different zip codes, On a small map. I believe the “desired effect” is getting in your pockets with the “financially advantageous” attitude toward customers.

    (developers discussed completely disabling the option to fire at your own teammates, but then decided not to do it)
    AND what did I point out yesterday?

    (premium account “pausing” (interrupting the premium account for some time) will not be implemented, because it is financially not advantageous for Wargaming)
    and
    (continued from above) Q: “I will stop buying premium!” A: “Good luck.”)

    The Answers & Business practices do not seem very “financially advantageous”

    Does Anyone else see or catch the contradictions in almost every Q&A volley?

  32. People complain that the E-25 is OP but the SU-122-44 Is worse, it has like 7 second reload, 390 Alpha, 175 pen at tier 7 with decent armour at the front and fair enough mobility

    • SU-122-44 is also OP as fuck even in tier 8 games, immagine the poor tier 5-6 that meets it :(. The fucker can almost our dpm a tiger II and that is wrong.

      • But the Tiger 2 has almost twice the HP, and the SU-122-44 will not pen it reliably. SU-122-44 shells also are extremely expensive. As a source of income, the SU-122-44 just sucks and is a major rip-off, courtesy WG.

        • You dont get it idiot, the ROF in relation to the alpha is very high and that is for a premium TD with pref MM. 175mm will pen the lower plate of a tiger II pretty consistent even if angled. Imagine what su-122-44 will do with tier 5-6 tanks, poor little bastards.

      • Luckily it has no viewrange, loses a lot of camo after firing, bad gunhandling, normal matchmaking and a low healthpool to compensate. It’s OP versus (the shitty) tier 7 mediums and the IS/IS-2, but in other heavies I have no problems dealing with it even the IS has a workable chance of penetrating it frontally even when it angles it’s front 45 degrees.

        It’s a little overpowered, but really it cannot be abused much. The gun quite bad for sniping and the gold shell needs to land to penetrate the enemy tanks. So playing the ”çamo game” with it is generally not the most effective way of playing. And a brawling TD is much more vulnerable than a shooting bush even when taking into account it’s good hull traverse.

        It’s also really not popular, the last time I saw one was 3 days ago. I see E-25 every god damn tier 8 or tier 6 game.

  33. “In real life, the penetration spread is even higher.”

    NOT IN ARTILLERY IT’S NOT YOU FUCKING KNOB

  34. - during the large map testing, compared to current state, there was much more driving and much less shooting, which is not exactly the desired effect
    Bullshit. Larger maps would allow much greater tactical diversity. WG just lazy.

    - Storm on skill MM: “Skill MM would break the game. I explained the reasons many times. To play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring.”
    Bullshit. Storm has no idea how statistics works, and has no idea how to properly implement an effective statistics-based MM.

    - popularity of a vehicle is not directly tied to its combat performance – slow vehicles are less popular in general regardless of their qualities
    Bullshit. AMX40, KV-2, Maus, Tortoise…want to name some more?

    - apparently, E-25 size will not increase: “Noone knows the historical dimensions of this vehicle, because it was never built.”
    Amazing bullshit for a company that continues to state they are striving for historical correctness. If it was never built why is it even in the game?

    - premium account “pausing” (interrupting the premium account for some time) will not be implemented, because it is financially not advantageous for Wargaming
    At least this is an honest statement.

    - regarding the issue where you get 4-5 maps over and over, Storm states it is very difficult to fix for certain reasons
    Bullshit. LAZINESS

    - a player proposed random spawn spots for both teams on the map, Storm states that moving the spawn points even by 50 meters could create a serious imbalance
    Bullshit. Stop being lazy and spend a few hours locating equally-matched spawn-points. Players suggest them and test them all the time…WG is just too arrogant to listen and too lazy to implement.

    - Storm comments on the “ghost shell” case, published on FTR not so long ago: “At such distances (more than 500 meters), there can be problems with the coordinate transfer accuracy. Which is this case. It’s very hard to deal with this.”
    Bullshit. LAZINESS

  35. How you can tell that website is fake:
    1. website is .com but the links at the top are all on the EU server.
    2. The font is different than the normal font WG uses.
    3: It says wargaming bonus instead of wot bonus but it shows the wot template.
    4. If you go over something, it turns red instead of just underlining it.
    5. It doesn’t show the update number in the top left corner.
    6. It shows the previous background image instead of the current image.
    7. The WOT image on the browser tab is different than the normal one.
    8. It doesn’t show all the links at the bottom like the normal one.
    9. WG would NEVER do something like that.
    10. Just read the terms of use, you can tell its fake. “The data you submit to other websites while filling surveys or any other forms is beyond our control. Some offers might require you to send a paid SMS or charge you in other ways. That is beyond our control and you are not forced to complete those offers. Once you complete an offer, you should receive a code. However, that is not guaranteed.”

    So in conclusion, it is easy to tell if a website or not. Just compare it to the original and you will be able to tell the difference.

  36. By now i am repeating myself too much:

    - during the large map testing, compared to current state, there was much more driving and much less shooting, which is not exactly the desired effect

    No S#17 Sherlock.

    - regarding the issue where you get 4-5 maps over and over, Storm states it is very difficult to fix for certain reasons

    No, this is really easy fix, just WG devs are too dumb to think about it (frozen brains from winter and vodka). YOU INTRODUCE 6 – 7 (or whatever) MAPS PER WEEK ROTATION. Come on FFS, how hard is to even thing about it.

  37. Storm on skill MM: “Skill MM would break the game. I explained the reasons many times. To play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring.”

    This is bullshit. I and others have explained it many times. Simple logic is too much for simpler Belorussian brains. Belorussians know everything better than the entire rest of the world.

    Repeating bullshit mantras doesn’t make them any more true.

  38. ” 25 percent RNG pen reduction? “In real life, the penetration spread is even higher.”

    What is this? A game, or a sim?

    Yet another stupid reply from WG.

    “If you want realism, go to the army, Storm!”

  39. - Storm on skill MM: “Skill MM would break the game. I explained the reasons many times. To play all the time with enemies of the same skill level is tedious and boring.”

    i don’t think it’s the i only want to play people who are +/- 50 WN8 of me. more of, well can we even up the teams to be like 40/60 or 45/55 split or something? about half of my matches last night were about 50%. the other were <30%. we had a green or two, few yellows/orange and rest were red/white. other team had 5 blues, 4 greens, yellow.. really? could they have split that a bit differently?

    or is this completely wrong? i guess the big problem is how do you "determine skill" of a player. because a unicum in TDs can be a complete donkey in an arty.