Comments on: Straight Outta Supertest: Reworked Prokhorovka

By: Barbu

Barbu — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:54:26 +0000

I’ve played arty less than 5% of my total games, and only in low tiers (max one was M41). Still, I would really enjoy for the arty to be buffed, contrary to the hipster trend; camping is caused by OP TDs and idiot medium/heavies waiting near their own base, too lazy to actually play in bushes.
Way too often, campers abuse the one/two bushes spotting rule; I’d say that this is the real camping bonus, the fact that campers can stay hidden as long as they like.
And it could easily be fixed: if a tank fires twice in the same 25-meters radius circle, make the second shot nulify ANY spotting cover (ergo, make it just as visible as it would be without any bush between him and the potential spotter).

By: DarkSumi

DarkSumi — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 11:21:25 +0000

Yeah, one more map for crying kid heavies…. Every map specalised for heavies, and don’t leave map for other classes tanks advantages… Because I love playing with nashorn or 13-90 on kharkov, stalingrad, ruingberg, himmelsdorf, (el halluf is shit now) etc… Why are they pick all map when other class has prevail?

By: Crucis

Crucis — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:35:47 +0000

Ah, but I don’t think that any map is perfect. And even if one was, I have no problem with tweaking them from time to time just to make them fresh because maps that don’t change occasionally get stale and boring, no matter how good they may be.

By: Pawbro

Pawbro — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:26:20 +0000

After all this “reworks” and retarded new maps they did in the last six patches I will not trust them anymore for a long time when it comes to this. Currently a “rework” in WG way is to throw a lot of shit all over the map and block any line of sight. If something is not broken don’t fix it. WG can’t understand this simple rule.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 21:07:56 +0000

It only prevents camping in instances where an advance isn’t locked down by other vehicles, particularly tank destroyers. In reality, artillery is an “I win” button for killing heavily-armored vehicles that people are unable or unwilling to damage by other means (i.e. flanking).

By: Crucis

Crucis — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:59:49 +0000

One thing I’m curious about is whether this map was originally based on actual terrain around Prokhorovka or created from whole cloth with Prok as its inspiration. We know that the Stalingrad map was based on the actual lay of the land. So I’m curious if this is true of this map as well.

By: Crucis

Crucis — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:55:59 +0000

Too bad. There are plenty of other maps where big, slow heavies rule and soft TDs take it on the chin. What a crime it is to have some maps where TDs get to be top dog and heavies have to fight against the odds!

By: Slyspy

Slyspy — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:52:19 +0000

It would be a shame to touch a map which works.

By: Crucis

Crucis — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:52:08 +0000

I’ll say it again. What a darned shame. There’s already a considerable number of maps that are heavy tank friendly and TD unfriendly. Why is it such a freakin’ crime for there to be a few maps where this is reversed?

By: Crucis

Crucis — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:50:10 +0000

Oh come on. Give them a chance. Could the map be wrecked? Yes. But I want to wait and see before I start dumping all over WG about it.