Responding to issues regarding dev server reports & an update on spall lining armor from the developers

If I remember correctly, they use a calculator to determine that amount of spalling that is created when a round penetrates a piece of armor. If that is indeed the case, then it becomes a simple adjustment to each tank by what percentage increase the T-90M gets with its modeled liner. Again, that’s how I remember it being explained. Could be wrong completely or a little bit.

My first ever bug report was on the KVT. The reply that came like 30 minutes was a simple “it’s not a bug, they did it for balancing” and it was locked. Balancing what? The amount of premiums being unveiled? The amount the US would have? Didn’t get a chance to ask any follow up questions.

I’m going to be that guy and suggest maybe we stop striving for four updates per year and maybe go two or three better quality updates. increase the development time between each so we don’t get the lackluster additions we are staring at this update.

It happens all the time, the t-80 series are especially bad for it. It’s not helped by the armour around the carousel which is juuuust thick enough to stop spall, but not quite thick enough to spall on it’s own in the game code.

Weird how that happens, must be just a coincidence.

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It happens if you miss the ammo and spalling hits the ammo instead.
Mild steel doesn’t spall IRL either, welcome to realism.

It happens when the ammo turns black. It is not an uncommon experience.

You’re gonna have to back up the whole “mild steel doesnt’ spall” thing.

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That’s rare for me cause I always hit the ammo or I miss entirely.
I also ain’t gonna be a metallurgy instructor.

The spall liner on the T-90M is actually physically modelled (in the damage model). They’d have to re-do the damage models for all tanks that had them, after researching where the spall liner is actually physically present for each tank.

for giving the US a 10.3 premium. Also, as they admitted already, communication on bug reports is seriously bad. might’ve been a mod wording that wrong.

That would be worse for hooking new players and getting veterans back in to play more, so they won’t do that. People have to accept that they’re first and foremost a business and a 10 year old game in a very niche genre with an already comparatively small player base in relation to big f2p games. if they slow down that much noone knows if they’ll even survive.
And sadly capitalism dictates that a business that doesnt increase its profits regularly is basically dead to investors.

I’d suggest making a “already known issue” or “is already being worked on” tag, you can give those bug reports instead of “not a bug”. All the users need to know is that something happens with their information and it is not dismissed and that the bug they reported will be fixed.

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Invincible? No. As close to accurate as reasonably possible to it’s IRL capabilities in regards to mobility, armament and protection? Absolutely.

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The reporting process among the moderators definitely needs to be reworked and consolidated. It seems like there’s very little standards between the team for how they handle reports.
Better tags for reporting will definitely help, but it shouldn’t be the big take away for the solution to the problem.

Also, the whole T-90M spall liner situation is just sad. I predicted that the devs were unprepared and this proved it. Only a small handful of vehicles will receive them, none of which are T-90M competitors, so it will be running around games longer to dominate games as it can just absorb killing shots, even if it’s just 1 or 2.
NATO tanks as well have historically had them for much longer. Why was no research put into their addition? Comparatively, the liners themselves are layered and a few appear to be rubberized. While not the biggest deal to implement it just seems silly that the tanks with more advanced anti spalling technology still won’t be getting anything.

So reiterating that the devs had no idea what they were doing with this update just makes this whole situation even more sad.

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What are you on about?
2A7V, the new most armored best penning tank in the game is getting a spall liner.
They clearly had more planned but Christmas deadline’s getting in the way; clearly research was done.
We also know the spall liners are one shot dead for the time being.

It’s over guys, the Leopard is getting spall liners so the jobs done and we can all forget that the problem still exists.

In all seriousness how do you expect me to take your comment seriously?

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I expected you to be happy knowing your worries are alleviated.

I’m capable of reading that the Leopard is getting spall lining developed.
My problem is still that they weren’t very forward thinking. So instead of just the USSR and Sweden dominating, Germany will get to become a meta defining tech tree again. But that still means everyone else is getting left behind because they didn’t do a very good job researching the subject.

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lol Spall lining isn’t as ground breaking as people think.
What’s the metaphor… Seeing the forest for the trees? Something like that.
You’re looking at an unknown minor addition that may or may not screw up our first shots.
However, we’re getting 4 new MBTs that will force top BR players to aim for weakspots more.

What about other tanks

We don’t know how close they are to finishing.
Could be hours, days or too late.
Too late can be an hour after the update goes gold.

Thats a shame

I thought it was clearly sarcastic but apparently not…

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The SEPv2 last I knew was still dead in the water, but I haven’t been catching up to what the US mains have been up to.

Otherwise spall lining still means that you can just eat 1 or 2 shots that would have been fatal, only a few tech trees are getting it.

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They finally found numbers for the first time & put it in a new first of its kind report on SEP.
Progress.