{"id":1726,"date":"2013-06-01T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T06:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2013-06-01T18:06:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T10:06:23","slug":"0-8-6-test-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"0.8.6 test impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u30101\u697c\u6709\u8bd1\u6587\uff0c\u8bf7\u731b\u62fd\u6eda\u52a8\u6761\u89c2\u770b\u3011<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hey everyone,<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s kinda pointless to post here the test server vehicle stats (the data are out on various places anyway), so instead a few impressions for those, who don&#8217;t play on test server and don&#8217;t intend to. Please, feel free to comment, whether you agree with me or not. Keep in mind that these are<strong>subjective<\/strong>\u00a0feelings of mine, not facts.<\/p>\n<p>The comments are written from the POV of a non-arty player, who prefers mediums and heavies (tested vehicles: T110E5, Maus, Panzer IV)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; probably the most important part of the patch: the arties. While it&#8217;s hard to say how many arties will be &#8220;left&#8221; on public server, I have a really bad feeling that this patch didn&#8217;t fix the old arty issues (but created new ones). In other words, there are a LOT of arties around on top tiers. Now, arty has a chance to be top vehicle of the team (for some reason it happens very often, but maybe it was my bad luck).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; my impression is that in hightier (T9-T10) battles, arties weren&#8217;t nerfed too much when it comes their ability to make heavy tank&#8217;s day very very miserable. I assume that the accuracy nerf somehow helped the fast medium vehicles such as the Batchat or Leopard, but subjectively, T110 doesn&#8217;t have its job any easier and despite increased durability from the new heavy spall liner (subjectively, it doesn&#8217;t work at all, because it doesn&#8217;t help with the real arty problem &#8211; module damage and chain detracks, maybe the damage recieved is better, but I didn&#8217;t spot that really). I can imagine even harder accuracy nerfs for toptier arties in the future &#8211; as I said, very little changed. Either way, top artillery does influence the battle perhaps more than it should. If your team has arty retards and the other team doesn&#8217;t, you WILL lose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; speaking of the new XL spall liner, it&#8217;s not very effective. Maus still gets pounded to dust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; midtier arties (from the POV of medium\/heavy player) feel a bit OP actually due to their limited MM spread. I had several oneshots done on my Panzer IV. On mid tiers, slow = dead. I can imagine this will frustrate new players heavily. But maybe it&#8217;s the fact they are being tested, so there are so many.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; armor buff &#8211; it works. Spaced armor now eats HEAT like candy. This is especially visible on E-100 and Maus &#8211; earlier, you could load up gold and shoot it wherever, now sides will eat it and front will ding. If we count out arty, Maus is now a pretty awesome tank to drive. IS-6 is a total monster now, it dings like hell at eats HEAT shells too, IS-7 feels buffed too this way, T110 &#8211; no buff, feels even more fragile than usual. As for tanks with heavily sloped frontal armor (Chinese especially&#8230;) &#8211; remember the pre-nerf T-54 frontal armor? Yea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; accuracy buff &#8211; works. Guns are more accurate now. This is bad news for tanks with glaring weakspots (again, T110 with its tumor turret, but also KV-5), they do get hit more often. Sniping on longer distances is a joy, shells fly where they are supposed to (funnily enough, it feels easier to derp-snipe with KV-2 too, which probably wasn&#8217;t an intended consequence)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u30101\u697c\u6709\u8bd1\u6587\uff0c\u8bf7\u731b\u62fd\u6eda\u52a8\u6761\u89c2\u770b\u3011 Hey everyone, it&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/?p=1726\">\u7ee7\u7eed\u9605\u8bfb <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wot-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xvm.garphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}