So, World of Tanks, I play it, here's some criticism.

[Ulminati]

17) Do NOT rush to the high tier tanks just because they are "better", drive the tanks that are russian.

Fixed that for you.

Indeed

 

[Average Manatee]

T5 french TD does look about even with SU-85, will have to see what its other characteristics are (SU-85 should be nerfed hard still, and so should this). The T6 TD gun is just insane though, that's T8-level penetration along with sniper accuracy.

17) Do NOT rush to the high tier tanks just because they are "better", drive the tanks that are russian.

Fixed that for you.

Indeed

My first thought on starting the game was to check the nationality of the devs. Oh look, WoT is made by Russians.

 

[trais]

My first thought on starting the game was to check the nationality of the devs. Oh look, WoT is made by Russians.

Belerussian actually. Slightly different thing.

Still, I don't agree with statement that russian tanks are better. It's just the fact that this game favors heavy tanks and USSR gets the good heavies earlier than other nations. Germans have to play meds until t7 when they get Tigers. Americans theoretically gets T1 Heavy at t5 but it sucks balls and is kinda med/heavy hybrid anyway, same with M6 at t6. So one can argue that the Americans gets it first proper heavy tank at t7 too. So russian KV-1/2 and KV-1S and T-150 rule uncontested in their respective tiers.
But at tier 7 and higher things are kinda balanced.
As of TDs, every nation has a different role and they are harder to compare. But yeah, except for Marder II, low tier German TDs suck.

 

[Average Manatee]

Russians have more above average tanks though. I would say 2/3rds of russian tanks are in the top 50 percentile of their tier level.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Fuck I'm hooked again

 

[trais]

I had a battle with 4 t7-t8 arties per side. Enemy team had 2 T-50-2 and we've got none. I hate this fucking game

 

[Gregz]

Yeah the (play for free -> pay to win) model is some shady shit

 

[Zdzisiu]

Paying do not change the retarded Matchmaking in any way, you may be paying all the money you want and still be put in a 4xT7-8 arty per side battle ect.

 

[Average Manatee]

Arty is always balanced between sides, there are no problems there. If you are in an arty-heavy match change your tactics accordingly.

 

[trais]

I take back everything I said - this game is soviet biased.
http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index....er-of-transmission-in-the-front-part-74-patch
I gave up on the E-50 because it's too expensive to drive anyway, but they will also fuck the E-75.

 

[Ion Prothon II]

[in 7.4]
Rebalanced several parameters of M103, T110, KV-4, M18 Hellcat, T30.

M18 Hellcat

So I thought. If they break this tank, they can go fuck themselves and I'm going play my Ultima 0 instead.


Heh, some butthurt on their forum

we cannot pose a trheat to any russian tank. In any foreign tank or vehicle.

No one is allowed to have anything nice, unless it has a red star on the side.

 

[trais]

KT is being raped too, gearbox will be much bigger and the machinegun on UFP will be a weakspot.
http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/45447-tiger-ii/page__view__findpost__p__2038832

 

[Ulminati]

Meanwhile, in Russia

 

[Gregz]

[in 7.4]
Rebalanced several parameters of M103, T110, KV-4, M18 Hellcat, T30.

M18 Hellcat

So I thought. If they break this tank, they can go fuck themselves and I'm going play my Ultima 0 instead.

Great...just after I bought it too.

*sigh*, one thing I've always hated about MMOGs is the constant nerfing and balancing.

An entire programming staff of biased butthurt Russians makes WoT even worse in this regard.

I wish D3 didn't suck so bad ... holding my breath for Torchlight 2, PoE, and Borderlands 2.

 

[Elim]

Meanwhile, in Russia

That video always cracks me up, then i cry, because i have the tanks in my garage...

 

[trais]

The Hellkitty nerf is -2 deg/s to the hull traverse speed, tho' I wouldn't be surprised if they stealth-nerf the handling on the soft ground too.

 

[Average Manatee]

trolololol

 

[Gregz]

The Hellkitty nerf is -2 deg/s to the hull traverse speed, tho' I wouldn't be surprised if they stealth-nerf the handling on the soft ground too.

fuckers

 

[Ulminati]

So I'm digging around on the official forums, reading reactions to the patch notes. Even the russian forums are in an uproar about this. Several schematics have been posted showing that the "historically accurate" changes of making a tank designed with a rear transmission as a major design feature have a front transmission are bogus. Developers respond with gems such as:

"We can read, and even in English. And as much as we know, Germans were more likely to lie to exaggerate their engineering abilities - as example we can take a look at their
1200hp engine from "Ahnenerbe", which they failed to make with frenchmen and weren't able to catch up even with 1000hp.

And

"I think, that germans are trying to fool everyone. They did like to brag about their victories, and the closer it was to Berlin - the more of a bragging. See 1200hp engine.
There are no proofs in the form of shedules, which can show the possibility of rear drive placement with spicified by Doyle's pictures case geometry.
No, I know where the truth is. And in two weeks (to be more exact, in 13 days), I'll tell. But for you it's gonna be too late."

Yes, puny germanophiles! It is historically proven that gloriuous comrade Putin won the war when he singlehandedly invaded Berlin in 1941 and exploded hitler with his mighty russian fists. Glory to communism!

A fustrated (russian) forumgoer summed the discussion with the devs up thusly:

Arguing with devs is like playing chess with a pigeon, no matter how good I am at chess the pigeon is going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it's victorious.

 

[Gregz]

A fustrated (russian) forumgoer summed the discussion with the devs up thusly:

Arguing with devs is like playing chess with a pigeon, no matter how good I am at chess the pigeon is going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it's victorious.

 

[Average Manatee]

How eminently quotable.

 

[Ulminati]

It should be noted that the "Working as intended" guy is an actual, honest to god picture of SerB, the WG.net dev who made those (and many other) classy remarks about "germaniphiles". Yes, he's at his office on the picture. Yes, that's a bottle of alcohol in the window.

 

[JohnTheRevelator]

I'm on a (probably very long) break from WoT because of this bullshit. I don't even play german tanks (I do have VK3601 sitting in garage but that's it) and actually I finally got T-54 so my problem isn't with my "toys" but with attitude of devs. It's like they make active effort to make their game crap and most of all I hate their stealth nerfs, if you fucking list changes made in patch list them all instead of hoping "dumb masses" won't notice you fucked up something. I signed up for beta of Meh Warrior: Always Online, hopefully that will be good replacement for WoT.

 

[Ulminati]

Yeah, I was gonna give them some jewgoldz for virtuagoldz so I could have a premium account and grind high tier tanks now that I'm back in the game. But the attitude of WGN during this patch has snapped my wallet shut tighter than the vagina of an innocent girl who just encountered prosper in a dark alley. Odds are I'll just play my StuG III in free mode until WGN decides that tier 1-5 german tanks are still not inferior enough to their glorious communist counterparts and kill low-level play as well.

 

[Zdzisiu]

Ulminati, on the plus side, StuG III is going to earn 2xcredit from Friday till Tuesday.