Supraluminal, on 07 June 2012 - 10:25 AM, said:
It sounds like it might work out this way to some extent, but on the plus side it certainly looks like they're doing a lot to make sure smaller/lighter 'Mechs have a truly viable role to play in any fight - moreso than a lower-tier tank in a high-tier WoT match.
I hope so, cause lesser tier tanks are garbage. Given 3 vs 3 sherman / T20....the shermans will lose by a large margin even if all six guys were even skilled. When a sherman tops out at 460 hitpoints, a single T20 tops out at 1300, and that the T20 has 3x the HP of a sherman...the T20s will own the shermans fast and my guess would be that a single T20 loses maybe half health. Yeah, since a lower hitpoint count does not equal to what a higher tier tank can bring to the table, the lesser tier tanks are garbage even if both sides are equally skilled or if the highe tier were going to newb out...extra safety buffer helps out before the lesser tier is destroyed.
Leanansidhe, on 07 June 2012 - 11:56 AM, said:
Its because the WG developers are greedy idiots. Lowe...high pen gun and thats all you really need to get credits...they raise the price yet the KV-5 hasn't changed in the year it is available because its more of a novelty (greed in the case of the lowe). Type 59 and the Hochtkis tier 3 tank...removed because its somehow breaking the game in but it couldn't be that one has super high speed, a high pen gun, thick frontal armor, and the other just has a high pen gun that rips up lowbie tank (idiots in this case).
WG doesn't have a clue how to balance their game, only an idea how to get the most money with a low quality product that people throw out massive quanities of cash for. Still haven't introduced more public match types that could seperate the mid tier tanks from the top tiers, a tier 5 is still crap everytime it comes up against a tier 7/8/9 and a tier 6 is worse when facing over 2000 hitpoint heavies when it only has 800. I love the mid tier tanks, but despise playing 75% of my matches up against tier 7/8 all day where I am quickly destroyed and have to wait until the match ends play a particular tank again.