Then the enemy artillery isn't helping their team much picking tier 8 targets, and you are helping your team eating the shot protecting your tier 10's.
The problem is when you play a slow T8 with T10 artillery, then you get one shot a lot. Without any warning.
Except 1 shotted is not normal. For example, played my 261 last night, there was a tier 9 type 4 heavy, boom hit right on it - took off 40%. That's 3 hits to kill. I've had some take 5.
A good rule of thumb in these games is not to leave the player disabled. That's not very fun for players. The only praise I expect you'll see for that is 'better than destroyed', but it's not fun for players.
And how often is your tank going to be shot as arty vulnerable and stunned for 10 or 20 seconds or whatever and not destroyed? And talk about 'historical accuracy'...
Well the stun is intended to replicate being shell shocked. Which I assure you is very real. And yes being 1 shotted as a tier ten is rare, it did happen to my T62a the other night. Was full health and a T92 one shotted me, as he hit my engine deck with AP. And while T9/10 arty going for T7/8 tanks may not be helping their team much, but it does happen.
I think what they are trying to do is make it to where you don't get out of the game after being killed by an enemy you can't attack. After being stunned, the player can heal their crew which lets them move again, so they are not out of the game. This is similar to being tracked, you can repair your track, or wait 10-30 seconds for it to be fixed. Although in this case you can still fire.
I do think the fall off for being stunned needs to change. Direct hits from a tier 10, sure 20-30 seconds. But if its just in the area, the stun time should shrink significantly.
Obviously it is always harder to be bottom tier, but if I see a tier X tank in my tier T28 prototype, then I can do my best to avoid it. The only option I have when there is three tier X and IX artillery is to find the nearest rock and stay there if I want to avoid getting one shot. I don't have a problem with sometimes being steamrolled because of mm, but matches with 3+ artillery are just not fun. A simple limit of two per match would have helped a lot, but that doesn't seem to be the way wg want to solve it.
I thought this thread pretty much died, I guess not.
Regarding artillery, I've talked face to face with many WG employees, including Victor Kislyi (CEO) and Thaine Lyman (Head of Development). They know they screwed up the game by introducing arty, and are now trying to fix it. Not my words, but what they said themselves. I'm not sure how this can still even be argued, there are even several videos explaining how their focus is on fixing artillery, maps, balance and matchmaking.
I've also recently started streaming. Usually on Saturdays. If you'd like to support me by following that would be great, or just stop by and say hi next time I stream: https://www.twitch.tv/akulav_na
I thought this thread pretty much died, I guess not.
Regarding artillery, I've talked face to face with many WG employees, including Victor Kislyi (CEO) and Thaine Lyman (Head of Development). They know they screwed up the game by introducing arty, and are now trying to fix it. Not my words, but what they said themselves. I'm not sure how this can still even be argued, there are even several videos explaining how their focus is on fixing artillery, maps, balance and matchmaking.
I've also recently started streaming. Usually on Saturdays. If you'd like to support me by following that would be great, or just stop by and say hi next time I stream: https://www.twitch.tv/akulav_na
So something I just learned watching DezGamings latest video, when you are 'stunned' you can still move and operate normally. But your crew efficiency drops by 25%. So reloads, aim time, etc are all 25% higher. Originally i thought you were basically stuck not being able to move, but this is not the case.
Haven't they been threatening an arty nerf of one kind or another for 4+ years now? I seem to remember discussion about it going back to 2012 or so when I was actually trying to be involved in clan wars. I'll believe it when I see it.
Count me as another player who was never an arty fan. The appeal of the game to me was always tank brawls, not hiding behind rocks and houses to avoid the fist of God from the other side of the map. I've come back and played for few weeks several times over the last few years, but it never lasts.
The problem with arty is that they are very fun to play but not very fun to be in the receiving end. If they somehow where good to break stale mates then it would be fine, but they punish those who actually move away from cover.
They give scouts their most fun gameplay.
Scouts are most useful scouting, but how many do that well? They LOVE to race into the enemy's backline and kill arty. Not much point when arty has no bite, if any are left.
With the current pen numbers, I think they could still pen most light tanks. So shotgunning lights will work I think. But have not had a light charge at me on the sandbox servers yet to test that theory.