Duraframe300
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AW Rich Interviews
So, it's just like real life.One thing I would like to know is how Obsidian plans to balance the Artillery. Wargaming has been trying to do it since its introduction and has failed to the point that, It doesn't matter how good a player and tanker you are, It doesn't matter if you hold the corner or not. As long as Artillery is on the field victory or defeat boils down to how well some guy sitting at spawn clicking on a minimap plays.
Yeah and after they nerfed them, World of Tanks became World of Tank Destroyers because TDs have way better armour than tanks and had no artillery to keep them pegged down, so the tanks themselves became less useful.Artillery? Obsidian my want to rethink that. Artillery is the most complained about aspect of world of tanks to the point that no amount of nerfs, and reload times is enough to silence the butthurt it brings to the game.
What in the fuck did I just watch.
Yeah and after they nerfed them, World of Tanks became World of Tank Destroyers because TDs have way better armour than tanks and had no artillery to keep them pegged down, so the tanks themselves became less useful.Artillery? Obsidian my want to rethink that. Artillery is the most complained about aspect of world of tanks to the point that no amount of nerfs, and reload times is enough to silence the butthurt it brings to the game.
Watching Armoured Warfare to see how it turns out.
Who are those guys? Are you one of them?
Who are those guys? Are you one of them?
No, not at all.
JT is the only Obsidianite in that video - the one wearing the Obsidian shirt. He is the loveable, good hearted, nerdy junior designer we have here at the company. The fact that he got up and participated in a dance contest is hysterical. it gets even funnier for me when you consider the following:
1. The dance contest is at the Wargaming booth and he is wearing an Obsidian t-shirt.
2. The whitest whitey pants white lady is doing THE worst beat boxing I have ever had the misfortune of hearing.
3. They are all horribly white, yet they give it their all. One guy doing the worm so hard he loses his shoe - and he LOSES. Eric Fenstermaker was equally shocked by this as he confided in me that he thought the worm was an unbeatable dance move.
It's just glorious.
Maps 1200x12000m
(WoT is 1000x1000m)
Not particularly impressed so far. Anyway, I'd take 1:1 WoT copy with better matchmaking mechanics (or better playerbase...) any day...
Wow, this is a rather hot issue. But I'm the guy who made the armor mesh maps, so I will let you know something happy.
Any spot on a vehicle that, if shot, should not result in affecting the integrity of the vehicle or it's ability to operate/affect the crew and other internal components (What you'd call HP damage/What makes it explode), doesn't. In some cases they are components with other functions, others aesthetics. Jutting out machinegun blocks, or protruding random electronics from the top, or a particularly large ventilation system for the engine on the top or side. They won't hurt the tank, regardless of the iteration. Sometimes if you shoot directly into them the armor might be weaker behind, however, like a gunner's sight on an MBT.
It is possible to shoot things on the tank that don't cause it any harm, and nothing else. The goal is to provide good feedback on this, and not make it seem like there will be 'ghost shells' that pass through and do nothing. And there will never be an instance where you hit something useless that has a hit mesh and it claims you penetrated. If that's all you hit, it will tell you that it was ineffective so you can adjust where you shoot or what position you fire from.
Don't weasel me for more information than what I said, like 'is it HP or not?!'. Anything I left out was intentional.
External modules might hide weak points beneath them, but just shoot them and nothing else and it won't damage the vehicle (But it will damage the module). They will act like spaced armor and shots will go through, so if you fire a super high pen shell at a tank and hit an external module unluckily, it won't just devour the shell. It'll pass through and hit the turret also, potentially. (As in the arc of your shot would have otherwise hit.)