Author: Tyraforce More thoughts on the Personal Missions fails Before I even start, let me make one thing clear. I do not think WG is generally doing a bad job when it comes to WOT development. Yes, there are bugs, lag and late rebalancing, however, compared to the MMOs I had previously played, WOT is pretty solid. I specifically remember one game (DDO), where you sometimes had a group of 12 people going on a 2-hour-long quest, which found the final boss stuck or there was another reason why the quest couldn’t be completed. The support would say “sorry, but you have to do it again”, which frequently caused an amount of frustration WOT cannot compete with. That said, I struggle to understand how WG managed to fuck up almost every aspect of the PMs. They had been testing and discussing them for months, activated them weeks after they were installed in the patch, yet they still look like something school kids developed during their 2-3 lunch breaks. Again, don’t get me wrong, I like the general idea of PMs and sure welcome an opportunity to give my T34 credit grind a rest but the extent of the fuck ups is just shocking. NAME FUCK UP: CHECK “Personal missions are named so because you have to complete them personally.” I wonder if WG realizes that you have to complete ALL the missions personally. You even have to personally buy the tokens to get your WZ mission done, right? But wait, some of these missions force you to platoon! “There are platoon missions, but those too are personal, because every player has their own personal role even in platoon missions.” Sure. I guess football is a personal game then, cuz every player has his own personal role. The funny thing is that in the mission menu itself WG uses the term ”campaign”, which surprisingly makes sense when referring to a set of stages with a common goal. Why not use it from the start or at least rename it now?

Hello everyone, following is the complete list of individual mission objectives, pulled out from the EU client scripts, courtesy of Edrard from wot-news (whereas yesterday’s list was based on translations of Russian portal). Each mission listed has 4 sections: the first two rows are for StuG, second for T28C, third for T55A and fourth for Object 260. The first line is the primary, the second line the secondary objective. LT Mission #1 At lower tiers, your light tank can easily neutralize every other type of vehicle. Advise – Try to avoid head-on confrontations. Instead, try flanking your enemy or attack them from the rear. Observe carefully where the enemy vehicle’s gun is turned. Additional – Win the battle. Be among the top 10 players on your team by experience earned. Additional – Survive the battle. Additional – Win the battle. Be among the top 5 players on your team by experience earned. Additional – Survive the battle. Additional – Win the battle. Be among the top 3 players on your team by experience earned. Additional – Survive the battle. Additional – Win the battle. Finish the battle as the top player on both teams by experience earned. Additional – Survive the battle.

Green is new, grey is old version from first round of 9.5 test. As always, first row is for StuG, second for T28C, third for T55A and fourth for Object 260. Many thanks to Edrard for this :)

First row is for StuG, second for T28C, third for T55A, fourth for Object 260. Courtesy of Edrard, who exported it :) LT Mission #1 At lower tiers, your light tank can easily neutralize every other type of vehicles. Advise – Try to avoid head-on confrontations. Instead, try flanking your enemy or attack them from the rear. Observe carefully where the enemy vehicle’s gun is turned. Main – Win the battle. Join the top 10 players on your team by experience earned. Additional – Survive the battle. Main – Win the battle. Join the top 5 players on your team by the experience earned. Additional – Survive the battle. Main – Win the battle. Join the top 3 players on your team by the experience earned. Additional – Survive the battle. Main – Win the battle. Finish the battle as the top player on both teams by experience earned. Additional – Survive the battle.  

Hello everyone, let’s look at the vehicle changes in 9.5. The biggest change was probably the FV215b (183) rebalance. The armor change is described here (basically, front of the turret got buffed from 152mm (above gun), 127mm and 101mm (sides) to 170mm (above gun), 200 and 210mm (sides). To compensate for the changes, following mobility nerf took place: – terrain resistance nerfed from 1,2/1,4/2,4 to 1,8/2/3 – hull traverse nerfed from 32 to 24 Basically, the vehicle in the game is now a very, very slow but well-armored juggernaut (in contrast to the FV4005). StuG III Ausf.G got rebalanced: – stock track traverse buffed from 37 to 39 – elite track traverse buffed from 44 to 47 – 75mm gun (L/43 and L/48) traverse nerfed from -15/+15 to -10/+10 T37 Light Tank 75mm M6 and 76mm T94 depression got nerfed: – 75mm M6 from -9/+20 to -8,7/+20 – 76MM T94 from -9/+20 to -8/+20 Object 260 got new HE shells with the same properties as the old ones, but it’s possible the old HE alpha will be nerfed again Object 907 got buffed (see details here) Several tanks got their tracks model changed (Tiger, KV-1S and others). It’s not visible in the viewer, but in the game, it’s not really so bright. Plus, the Sherman hull recieved a slight retexture, just some small shadows added. Model changes: Hetzer had this little hole in the mantlet under the gun. It was fixed.

Hello everyone, just a few tidbits about the upcoming individual missions: – the final artillery mission for Object 260 is actually “be top 1 in XP and damage from BOTH teams”, not just your own team – you will be able to get a unique female crew – this female crew will have a unique perk, called “Sisters in Arms”, gives 5 percent to crew skill (same as Brothers in Arms) – it does not count as a “perk” XP-wise, so for the next perk/skill, a crew with this perk only needs enough XP to unlock the first perk, not the second one – this crew will be traineable for any nation and any vehicle type – these IM’s will be kept separate from the mission menu and have to be MANUALLY ACTIVATED, so you can’t just fulfill one “by accident”