About Field Modifications in World of Tanks!

[@edevjoe7619]

WG: "15 - 0 in FIVE minutes? Not fast enough! Let's go for maybe two minutes.....yes.....excellent."

[@mhplayer]

At some point they'll just decide the results of games by comparing the teams' global stats: no more 3d bullshet, no more heavily mobilised servers to pay, no more requirements to play aka more potencial player. Oh and the possibility to make it a mobile game and spam ads everywhere. And why not triple all the prices and put EA like forced dlcs to progress

[@hdf31]

faster games = more games played = job done, the game is alive (NOT)

[@wyllmRox]

lol i feel like i saw this exact same comment word for word on someone else’s vid about field modification, either skill’s or dez’s

[@MegaOS_Ver_NEET]

can you say that to the SEA server? my server kemp too hard that we eat 10-15min of game time. PER MATCH.

[@edevjoe7619]

@@wyllmRox rly ? I also feel the same way that WG wants to make games go faster, what a coincidence ! I dont watcha EVERY skill's video so yeah xD

[@soulhunterex1525]

imagine stock tier8 vs fully modify tier10. i think a lot of f2p will rage quit this game

[@antonyt3446]

Already done it after this news and what happened with the idea of releasing a bond turbo

[@FishFind3000]

I quit after the HEAT bs

[@goaway7346]

WG don't care about f2p players. They have bots for that. Blitz had had stealth bots for over a year now. Maybe WOT does too.

[@soulhunterex1525]

@@goaway7346 kinda agree on that. rather than modification to give advantage better give appearance modification. heck i would love to pimp my tank

[@ICCUWANSIUT]

@@FishFind3000 what was that? You mean the gold to silver change or something else, haven't played in a year.

[@Cavush]

It’s simple. Because WG isn’t playing their game, really, they believe that it’s not grindy enough. Also, the economy is booming right now because of all the million events going on in every single moment. The solution? Increase the grind, increase the credit sink. Job done. The gap between veterans/p2w players and the others is going to increase, which of course will gain WG more money. Instead of tackling the difficult issues, they choose the easy ones.

[@apexjager2528]

isnt that what every game company does want money. i dont ever see a game thats put out with some kind of gimic to make money form you lol

[@Cavush]

@@apexjager2528 of course, and they should make money, so they can keep the game running, no problems there. But, the way they make money, in this game, in part, kills it for those who want to pay less, or not to pay at all.

[@apexjager2528]

@@Cavush so you can agree that other free to play games are the same also

[@raymee1015]

@@Cavush so you think us guys that have finished everything else don't deserve something new to grind? Do you want it all to be for free to play people?

[@Cavush]

@@apexjager2528 nope. Take fortnite for example. All the content is available to everyone, for free. The only thing that you can spend money on, is cosmetics. So no, not all f2p games are the same.

[@BOStrola]

This is perfect. Now we can sealclub new players or casual players even more. Thanks WG.

[@jerrydelorme9100]

Just like I said , Turkey shoot, lol.

[@fungames24]

Sounds like BS. The short games come from sh*tty programmed opposing side. The games were way more fun against human opponents previously. Now it's more useful just to delete the game.

[@TheZoepers]

you missed an important part. i now have to choose between crew training or this thing.......

[@jacobsekela8691]

This sounds absolutely brutal for new players - they’re going to get totally shafted by this.

[@xxstephxx1005]

I mean just look at how bad t6 free players are now lots of noobs I feel this will kill the game

[@ksuma715]

There are just too many stuff it's getting very confusing to get used to

[@xxstephxx1005]

@@ksuma715 low tier is gonna become the main play tiers because nobody is gonna want to grind or have to pay money to become competitive buying a tank is one thing buying silver and exp is completely different nobody except whales who have all the exp and sliver will be competitive because they can make all the tanks better than free to play players can and teams will become lop sided

[@EyefyourGf]

@@ksuma715 And that's not good really,its a fkn tank game,and they are trying so hard to fuck it up lol.

[@slimeinc.751]

@@EyefyourGf yep

[@ezicaj8957]

Wargaming, making the new player experience worse and worse since 2010

[@lolofblitz6468]

Nothing unusual Wargaming developers are greedy bastards no life idiots If They dont change the course of the game soon Game will be forgotten :D!

[@Milumani]

@@lolofblitz6468 But they dont understand that and want money

[@Milumani]

yep,just bc they care about money more than players...

[@Daefus]

@@lolofblitz6468 It's not the developers that are "greedy", it's the higher-ups. And they're not being "greedy", it's just that Wargaming is an entreprise so they make money, it's just that unlike other studios, they do it while making the wot experience worse instead of better

[@mhplayer]

Something bugs me in your comment So in 2010 they started worsening the game for new players For *new* players The game was published in 2010 Who tf wasn't new in 2010? Or in 2011?

[@doitean1342]

So, after 5 years of playing I have finally got some tier 10 tanks. Granted I am a casual player and I went pretty wide in the tech tree because I have trouble grinding just one tank over and over. Seeing this I am thinking "crap, I'm going to have to grind these tanks even more?" Even with the elite tanks I love to play it has been a struggle to get my crews up to competent levels. Yes, I have used gold, and yes, I have bought premium tanks, but I just don't have the time to do all of this grinding. I think I'd be ok with the being able to switch loadouts, but all of the extra stat boosts should be put in either a different game mode or incorporated into the matchmaker. I already have trouble in games with +2 matchmaking, and these changes increasing that disparity makes me wonder about how long I can continue to enjoy this game.

[@Therios3000]

Dude Exactly ! I agree with all your arguments !

[@dezzyboi3931]

Spot on, very difficult to enjoy the game nowadays as a f2p

[@typicallymoody]

I’m gonna quit if this shit goes into the game

[@-saklo-2256]

Exactly... I am in the same boat as you... I am a casual player... who does not have time for this endless grind... I have tier 8 premiums... but now they would be all useless against modified Tier Xs.... seems all my money have went to drain...

[@apptreeline]

I feel you og

[@Qwerty-jl2yw]

BTW quicky, WG confirmed that equipment can be shared between two sets, so if both sets of equipment have rammers you only have to pay for one

[@cirlu_bd]

good news, at least there will be more slightly less backlash now...

[@YoRHaAttackerNo2]

Sandbox confirms it. You can use equipment already equipped at no cost.

[@Gewaldrocm]

This also means that the point quicky brought up about non bond equipment being better overall now is also invalid. If I have a bond gunrammer I can use it on both loadouts.

[@DarkorbitForever12]

@@Gewaldrocm that point was about the bond equipment not getting slot bonus

[@blifi77]

Now imagine you wanna max out a Tier 8 techtree tank that you love, which you have a choice on to either research ONE or ANOTHER tier 9 tank. That means you have a tier 8 tank which, in my opinion, doesnt have the best overall matchmaking with all the top-tier tanks driving around, that also has to grind an additional 110k-130k experience more than other tier 8, to only elite it! That means you'll have to grind, for example about 120k exp. (some T9 guns cost 50k exp alone) to only get all the modules (Guns, Engine, Turret and so on), then another 120k for one T9 researched and another 130k for the second T9. That alone means that the tank would need 370k exp. to only elite it and it would take what... another 180k or so to max it out on Field-Upgrades. Thats 550k experience on a single tank! An now, to finish this off, imagine you're a player that earns about 400 to 500exp on average every game. This would take you a lifetime to achive and even after that you only finished one tank! Thats just stupid really.

[@xxstephxx1005]

Yeah wg is gonna kill the f2p people and then the p2w players will get bored only fighting themselves

[@gamerbrian1701]

I disagree, I grinded 500k on the tiger p to unlock all 3 the branch lines before the tech tree adjustment getting a average of 650 exp a game . Took me about 3.5 month to do it and it was not bad.... plus what is wrong with the above average players or p2w players having to work for something when a new feature is added rather than them being able to pay gold to convert an automatically have everything, I don't have a problem with that. Only people that want instant access to everything would have a problem.

[@blifi77]

@@gamerbrian1701 but well you CAN just get instant access if you're a premium / p2w player if you convert gold or rather the exp. And yeah you might have done that, which is fine, but not everybody can or wants to do that, what you did. (One of) the problem(s) is that p2w players will have all the stuff a lot lot lot faster than for example a f2p player. Thats the case with a lot of things, i know, but those changes will really impact the battles and performances and arent really gonna be optional. So you'll have a great advantage if you pay (more). I'm not saying this is gonna break the game, but its really something that should be thought about another time.

[@gamerbrian1701]

@@blifi77 and I totally agree with you. What I really wish they would do as a player gets better, I think they should reduce the amount of advantages they have so they start removing some of these perks and some of these extra benefits with equipment and all that because as you get better you should be able to compensate for the lack of equipment simply based on your skill. However I don't think they will ever do that because that would give a balance to the game and that will never happen.

[@JS-mp7fy]

I have 48 tier X tanks in my garage... WG expect me to grind out 200K xp on each one? Ridiculous. The first week or so are going to be outstanding with the amount of Chieftains, 279 (e)'s and every other OP clan war reward tank grinding this stupid thing out. The more I think about it, the stupider it is. I am all good for having the set up you can change before a battle starts, but the 7 levels of modifications are BS.

[@xxstephxx1005]

It's going to make it where nobody plays high tier or they play tanks with pref mm so they don't see tier 10 tanks this isn't a good thing for the game alot of casual players are gonna leave

[@CptAeRoTR]

No they expect you to grind your wallet.

[@katernis]

Creating another gap between hardcore players, and casual or those who like to enjoy multiple tanks, again WG, huh ? Yeah, you're doing it good buddy. I would enjoy this grinding more for custom skin for my tank than this bs.

[@Bluewoofz]

yeah maybe something that doesnt actually impact gameplay to show off that you played 1000 games in your tank. A flat out buff to stats just for playing a ton, or even just buying your way through, is a horrible idea. But for wg its great because of the possibility of more money, which is all they want from wot anymore. As if rng wasnt already bad enough, now theyre gonna make the game even less based on skill and more based on money paid and playtime.

[@rexmexzilla]

@@KawaiiFemBoi might not be a game for casuals but idk, it just doesnt feel fun anymore, im playing the game more becasue i like tanks, rather than liking the game itself at this point

[@galvinng1997]

This is not the world of tanks I once love and played….

[@clauditzu02]

I have the same feeling

[@justinhelbig309]

yeah i loved this game but now its just to fast and makes no fun to play i hope there change some time but then i think it is to late =(

[@revolver2750]

Time to give armored warfare a try.

[@heyho4770]

When grinding to upgrade the tank from stock is not profitable enough anymore so you introduce grind 2.0

[@Zeknif1]

E25 loads into a zero light tank match on Prokhorovka… switches into scouting equipment.

[@XSharkdarkX]

I was thinking the exact same thing during the video mate

[@Zeknif1]

@@XSharkdarkX Mine is geared for passive scouting… and honestly, on zero LT matches on good scouting maps it legitimately feels like cheating… had a few 2k xp matches with zero shots fired this way.

[@tomaszgie509]

13:29 I will answer to that. 1. Schemes and other grind boosters for red players, so finally they can get their X tier after 600 battles overall. Of course after 600 battles they still don't know the game, so they do average 300dmg per battle at X tier, being fresh meat for better players. 2. Speaking of better players. When they see team of tomatoes, they rush cause they know they can do more dmg without significant attention to their shooting. Now we come closer to 15:1, 15:3 battles. 3. Better players usually play meds. Why would you play heavy and td nowadays anyway? Td can only make a bush camp, shit their pants and being outspotted by 600m view range of rhm pzt. And heavy? Why would you play heavy in first place (sarcastic), if u can play med with almost same (sometimes even better) spotting range as LT, and if u press 2 key, you can penetrate almost every heavy and use your reload time, dpm to destroy it. And as i mentioned above heavies and tds are often use to to fill out queue in today's battles, cause with one side rush, maus, t95 etc. can't make it to the battle anyway. They are supper for those 10 lights and meds who cleared the field minute before. 4. There's no need I should write more than the WG quote from few years ago: "We want to make battles more dynamic... let us introduce you to the wheeeeeelers" (the tires of which are made of idon'tgiveafuckaboutyourhitjgpzE100minium "more DYNAMIC" - average battle time from my last 200 battles - 02m50s. Now that's not what i call dynamic. It calls 'better learn to play fast tanks, cause u won't make it to the battle to do any dmg'.

[@falcon6329]

in general heavies are stronger than meds. Heavies got hp buff now they get mobility buff. If they add this field modification heavies will be faster than meds.

[@antonyt3446]

@@falcon6329 Heavies are irrelevant compared to the impact of meds

[@ryanmatthew609]

that's explained why I am more successful in my M48 rather than T57 or T110E3

[@emilgasberg4163]

@@antonyt3446 so you are saying sconq and wz 5a is not competitive? Lol

[@jurnikjilvacz471]

Perfect description.

[@Nathan-of3so]

I really don't mind the exp requirements for grinding for this system. As WG said in their video this is meant for your favourite tanks and so it's not really expected that everyone is gonna have maxed out field modifications on all their tanks.

[@TKScreamer]

sadly only few people realise that and not focus on the "too grindy" part or "balance".

[@celian7445]

I like the fact that people can customize their vehicules according to their playstyle, but it should be available for everybody in any vehicules without grinding/spending more credits

[@corruptsage9154]

That is exactly what the game needs, people who reach tier 10 in most tanks (Like me) we need something to do once we reach there, this is a perfect solution to it!

[@cirlu_bd]

The switching load out should be free of charge wtf, this is way too convenient for new players to be locked behind a playwall of so much xp ! Like so many people, I check accelerating crew training as soon as my tanks are elite, so I have zero xp on my favorite tanks at the moment ffs

[@GrinnenBaeritt]

100% agree about the ability to change load-outs (at least on consumables and ammo). There is nothing more enfuriating and futile as having paid 20,000 credits for food and being placed on totally the wrong map for the vehicle... e.g high-tier arty on a small city map.

[@mkzhero]

Also sixth sense. Like TEY PROMISED for FIVE FUCKING YEARS

[@apptreeline]

@@mkzhero did they promise to make a ovetall game feature?

[@mkzhero]

@@apptreeline For like at least 5 years they've been talking to give sixth sense to all for free.

[@apptreeline]

@@mkzhero lol

[@SappeREffecT]

So WG tried this in WoWS, slightly different form, they called it NTC. Basically they wanted us to regrind entire lines to gain permanent combat buffs for select ships. This idea is just stupid. Pros, veterans and the better half of the playerbase don't need more advantages over the lower half. Part of the reason I stopped playing WoT with any consistency or vigour was bond equipment. The simple fact that WG wants to give the most active elements of the community the best combat power, those who need it the least - NOPE. No thanks. I hope for all the WoT players out there that this doesn't go through but that the loadout options do (without extra grind).

[@EyefyourGf]

One thing you have to understand no one asked for this,im active in world of tanks I don't need this fkn grind,and I really agree with you average or worse players will suffer because of this shit,because I will get d just like the other better players to stay competitive vs better players when I need that edge,or grinding marks,so really this is bad move from wargaming and I don't support it at all,but then again they don't care about what we want do they.

[@robinkhn2547]

I believe games become faster and faster also because WG still doesnt want to implement skillbased mm for random battles. The longer this game exist, the bigger the skill--difference between new players and veterans will become. And those short rushed games are neither fun for the winning team nor for the losing team. It is time to at least loosely implement a skillbased mm based on ones rating. It's absurd to have for example several 10k+ rating players on the enemy team while you have a bunch of tomatoes with 3k rating. There is no way one can win against such odds.

[@hanscarlsson6583]

Skillbased MM or similar is probably the only thing that would bring me back. All the 15-0 and 0-15 games are what made me leave. Of course, increased grind is no plus, but if the matches were better I could probably live with it.

[@hanscarlsson6583]

If they made ratings part an official part of the game, then there would be something in it for the good players too. They would get to show off their skill. Mediocre players like me would get to play in matches were having a good or a bad game, actually would make a difference. Now it almost never matter. My team wins or looses completely independently of how well I perform.

[@MakMak02]

Cant do that, it will take minutes to queue me.

[@robinkhn2547]

@@MakMak02 because ur rating is that high? In such cases the mm could be designed so that u can face players with a much lower rating but on the enemy team then there will also be someone with the same rating as you. That way it would still be somewhat balanced.

[@pocatheone]

I'd like that too. But doing that will break WoT economy as everyone will have medium games, less often crazy games with high XP and silver. I don't think they will ever remove the random queue, I'd rather have permanent "ranked" queue where only winrate is important (not the awfull ranked that put you in competition with your teammates and is just a farm mode because more chevron are created each game, and player that have all rewards stop playing it) such a ranked mode (for tier 8 or 10) would remove skilled player from the random queue, hopefully not increasing too much the queue time

[@heftyjo2893]

WG: "We're testing the idea to allow you to change loadouts at the beginning of the match." Everybody: "YAY!" WG: "And theeeennnnn......" Everybody: *rubs temples

[@sylvercloud6631]

That's nice being able to change loadouts at the beginning of the game. Provided you load in the game in time and not after the count down ended, in which case you are fucked. And believe me, that's quite frequent when you are not running the game on an SSD...

[@njc964]

I think it totally fine to put behind a play wall. If the premise is that this is for your favourite tanks, then you will play your favourites a lot and the additional benefits will come your way in time

[@amanpathak2k]

No field modification please, just give that tank : 1) ability to grind 15% extra credits and crew XP after having Elited them. 2) 2nd set of equipment and consumable slots. 3) ability to assign multiple vehicles to crew members. I'll be more than happy to have these three changes implemented in the game, it'll make a free-to-play player's life a bit easier.

[@zigakrnc8497]

thats a great idea

[@doornocker93]

Yeah I haven’t played in 3 years but I love to see what’s new and going on thanks!

[@timothytan4257]

Dont ever come back. The game has been destroyed

[@userdog682]

I don't play world of tanks anymore but I'll watch anyway xD

[@rpra6435]

Same

[@timsomething9142]

I played up until they ruined the console version of it.

[@phillewis1749]

Such a broken, problematic game; made by a company who are happy to bleed their player base dry. QB is the only reason I am here

[@radas92]

I think there is a lot of us 😄

[@mayatuck]

Same. The game is just bad as far as balance goes. If you take a shot in the enemy team that you know has a green dot in the first couple of minutes, and you miss, the match was decided already decided. Don't waste your time.

[@edwinvermeulen8187]

nice concept, i don't mind the grindy aspect of it, its intended to focus (at start) at your favorite tanks. It might stagnate or improve meta's depending on the different final buffs. The only big drawback that i can see is that not all tanks will be able to reach the same modification level as different tiers, and the to grind the same amount of experiance is going to be bigger in lower tiers.

[@sebastienvantiggele5182]

Again, WG introduces content that will separate the good and bad players even more.

[@Filaseth]

As it should be

[@phillewis1749]

Don't you mean their P2W player base and the F2P player base?

[@shaitei2397]

or at least the turbo active people who can even get the meta setup and have the max rank boni, which gives them boni instead of all those noobs.... this sucks a big DEEEEEEEE. it's a pretty direct strike against casual players, who can't grind those 250k extra xp on one tank.

[@AlexMcNulty0]

More like people who enjoy certain tanks, don't twist things to serve your own unrealistic view

[@heyho4770]

@@Filaseth Lol good players do not need additional advantages they already are better. This will just make the game even more unfriendly for new players

[@DvdV1337]

The map is now a 10x10 grid. You saw some other games with MASSIVE maps. Maybe a sollution is bigger maps and a 5-10% hp boost to ALL tanks excluding arties

[@caviaporcellus7253]

Differences in hp between tanks are negligible. IS-7 hp and Maus hp are only like 500 apart. That’s only 1 shot for a lot of tanks. Honestly the Maus should have 5k hp. Make tanks have real differences between them. Basically every tank at tier 10 does 390,400,440,490,650, or 750 damage. And really the damage from 390 to 490 isn’t too different when you consider the rng.

[@filiplayz1893]

personally i dont like this but unfortunately this looks way to far into development to not implement.

[@robinkhn2547]

well they developed Crew 2.0 and decided not to implement it in the end, so nothing is for certain regarding the field modicfications

[@antonyt3446]

@@robinkhn2547 Crew 2.0 shall come sooner or later with a few modifications

[@MegaOS_Ver_NEET]

it's still in sandbox test server, so it's not a sure road to the game client yet. they're still looking if the player liked the idea or not. if this is the public test server, THAT it is on their way to go live, in one form or another.

[@lividmatter4862]

Hey QB, two questions: - What is the use of having more than max cap view range? How does it benefit you? - Should I uncheck accelerated crew training on all of my tanks to be safe? How much more XP do your crew members get from accelerated training?

[@Ace42x]

Wargaming have been trying to figure out how to introduce Tier 10.5 for years, and have started sneaking it in in WOWS. They're very good at hiding P2Win elements behind systems that - if implemented fairly and generously - would actually add some value to the game.

[@sijmen2670]

The equipment slots will be OP. Light tanks will get camo and extra spotting on spotting maps. Making them far more powerful in the battle. Heavy's won't be able to do anything anymore in these open maps.

[@neeevirus]

"Eventually, we stopped thinking" -newbies and f2ps

[@SomeGuy-ty7kr]

I think it might be better if instead of using exp, they just used # of battles, so field modifications would slowly unlock as you ground through to the next tier. They could calculate it so most players would reach the next tier well before they maxed out field modifications, whereas weaker players would slowly unlock better and better field modifications to help ease them through the last leg, and also people who just really loved the tank could unlock all of them as well. This might also pair really well with a final level that was like "Universal Tankers Manual" or something, so tanks a player just really really really liked could eventually become able to take crews from other tanks without penalty (i.e. become crew trainers).

[@cirlu_bd]

Uh oh, I'm checking accelerated crew training on as soon as the tank is elite, I will have to grind like a zombie if I ever want to get those convenience options like switching loadout.. I don't care about the other small tradeoff, but the switching should be free of charge ffs

[@Gewaldrocm]

I mean getting like 40k exp per day aint a problem anymore. You get 5x exp on like every occasion today.

[@smf33124]

The dual load out uses the same equipment you already have, not an additional piece. It was in the wargaming video of you guys paid attention.

[@dinamitemaster]

Ah yes, another thing to make that gold-spamming, bounty equipment and premium consumable using, 8-skill crewed wannabe unicum's already OP tank even better than the one I'm grinding for the next tier.

[@s4m1s.58]

I don’t see this as a mandatory grind as much as giving a ”second life” for my most favorite tanks that I love to play and have been playing so much so I have tens of thousands of free experience allready.. Now I can get some new and novel gameplay for those tanks and get a use for the XP st the same time..

[@ImDudePlayinADude]

I recently played tier 5 in the first time for a few years. I was helping a friend grind. The low tier game is entirely ruined by every team having 3 artys, usually m44s or lefafas with thousands of games in those tanks. I made it to traditionally arty safe spots, and was showing him how to uses them when lefs, M44s, and an occasional burt would hit us, because they knew arty safe areas, and where to park to hit them. Now we are adding even more areas where people who sink exorbitant time and or money into the game get to have even more better tanks than free to play people?

[@tomaszgie509]

You can show your friend all useful areas in traing battle. I guess it will be more relaxing. It's a random battle. No one will wait with shell for u guys, when u are showing him the basics when a one side rush is coming.

[@ImDudePlayinADude]

@@tomaszgie509 I'm not ignoring the game. It's more as we play, I tell him "no, sit here instead. You can usually expect Arty from here, fast mediums here" etc etc.

[@ImDudePlayinADude]

@@KawaiiFemBoi it's not that the leff is super op, but that it puts out a shot like every 8 seconds, and it can Perma track you. M44 is for sure worse. It's just when 1 of each or 2 of one targets you they basically can send you back to the garage as a tier 5 it 6.

[@ericandi]

We should definitely be able to switch back and forth on the upgrades from battle to battle with no additional cost.

[@skydivingmoose1671]

Imagine playing a tank that leads to like 3 other tanks, then you have to grind the ex for all 3 tanks plus the xp to unlock things

[@nightbird7208]

Granted i may not have a bajillion credits lying around wanting to be spent, but 460 games in the ISU has racked up almost 400k elite XP(not including the researching costs of the 122mm, the top 152mm and the rest of it). Personally, i think ill be able to slowly get my ISU stacked up pretty damn hard tbh.

[@andyyy5855]

I hate those field modifications

[@makemap]

They need to take into factors that EBR going faster will break the entire game. They should implement different types of modules for specific tanks that shouldn't be allowed for them first place. EBR should not be able to get anymore speed buffing for example. I only like the extra equipments setting and extra consumable. The rest seems pointless and game breaking.

[@JohnDoe-bu3qp]

The idea is cool, my concern is that the difference between a stock tank and an upgraded tank is already way too big. I would be fine with this if stock tanks were less of a miserable experience (getting rid of track upgrades for starters).

[@neilwilliams2907]

Should we untick 'accelerate crew training' on tanks now?

[@robinkhn2547]

too early for that IMO. I'd be maybe consider unchecking when those changes make it to the common testserver, that way you will still have several weeks to months to prepare. Because if they decide not to implement these changes in the end you will sit on a bunch of useless experience which otherwise could have been invested into ur crews.

[@heyho4770]

If they scrap it you just have thousands of XP lying around

[@hennyjr6530]

NO, it is still sandbox and WG still has to release the results from our feedback. but we all know how that works. then there will be still some testservers if they implement it. so no need to do it now and get a load of xp on tanks that will be useless when it doesn't go into the game which you only can make useful when you convert for gold

[@connerenoch8070]

I think that if you earn an ability by grinding 9n your favorite tanks makes perfect sense. It's not an unfair advantage to have 1 kmph faster than other players if you grinded and earned it

[@sjolson68]

When will people just stop giving their money to WG. The biggest changes they've made in 5 years always are around increasing their revenue. Also, there's almost no way WG set the cost for each upgrade tier in modifications being the same cost. I'd drop a large bet it'll be scaling up just like all other forms of XP simply increasing the grind in a non-linear way.

[@sethwhitehead8712]

I actually like the concept of having something end-game to research for tier 10s. Right now you get your tier 10, then there's really no point to the experience you earn. You're not really working towards anything besides maybe getting more crew skills. Now, your xp actually goes towards something.

[@rommel25687]

This isn't specialising your tanks, this is making them stock. Not to mention how do they plan to keep up the balancing between tanks with this, or do they gave up on ever balancing the tanks out from now on?

[@Marc-br7sw]

Great video! Thanks for the (terrible) content and the short explanation. Some thoughts: -What if, you get five games to test the modifications. Within these five games, you can change the equipment for free to test them. After these five games, you have to pay again, if you want to change the equipment. -For the grind: I understand WG why they want to implement more grind into the game, they want to give you a reason to play. But it is definitely hard to find the sweet spot. -In my opinion, it is ok to have a difference between the strengths of vehicles, it is the same with the tier system. So why not create, in the tiers 6-10, a + and ++ version (depending on the level of your field modification). For example: when you reach level 4 you get a + and after lv 8 a ++, these + and ++ tanks will now get ranked against each other. All in all I really like the idea, there has to be some more fine-tuning but I'm looking forward to seeing these changes somehow inside the game. Ps: I'm a common player(~5.8k games) with just above 50% win rate and not too much pay to win, only firing gold when I have to or it's really important in that situation to pen and I don't want RNG to mess me up. PPS: sorry for my English. Thank you QB! Looking forward to the next stream! Marc (Scramy)

[@guilhermevitorio273]

Hello from Portugal🇵🇹 and Wot Blitz! Quicky, will you cover the arty changes soon? I'm curious to see your reactions on it! And will you try wot blitz one day? Id love to see a video like "wot PC player plays blitz"

[@andrewng4684]

I think he played blitz but he did not make a video, there are other people who have done this tho

[@Eddywars]

Chouriço

[@guilhermevitorio273]

@@Eddywars queijo

[@guilhermevitorio273]

@@andrewng4684 true, i know there are people who do it like meadsy69 and droodlesblitz but id love to see quickybaby play it, he is one of my favorite wot KZbinrs and I'd love to see a video of him play wot blitz!

[@Eddywars]

@@guilhermevitorio273 vinho

[@sovelisholimion]

There's also to say, along with the 220k exp, you also have to get 1'200'000 credits to buy the various things... that's not cheap especially when we would also be buying the extra equipment along with it. The fact that the tanks get a little bit better I think makes sense if crew 2.0 is also coming (in some shape or form) because then it's a choice on whether you want to use your exp to train your crew or to get these modifications. However, without crew 2.0 the passive scaling bonus as well as the 2nd class slot are just kind of bogus (not to say worse)

[@daemonkiller4920]

For what the upgrades do I don’t think the experience is all that painful of a grind, besides for most people who already play their favorite tanks every time they are on could have double the experience needed already

[@littlekong7685]

Most people use their favourite tanks to grind crews, so they use accelerated crew training and never earn more than the scrap overflow from the last battle when they could elite their tank. Most average players will need 200-350 battles to earn enough xp for ONE tank, with no boosters.

[@nabusvco]

I only see hate on the comments, yes I get this will make a gap between experienced players and newbies and affect player retention overall but this change is one of the better ones in my eyes, at least compared to the past 2 years and the upcoming he changes

[@hennyjr6530]

how do you see creating a bigger disparity as a good thing. because that is how I read your comment. but correct me if I am wrong. It would only be a good thing if WG puts in the extra load out options for equipment and consumables. and make it available when you either elite a tank or when you get all the modules for a tank unlocked so people dont have to grind a tier 9 tank for example when they dont want it.

[@JohnSmith-qk4rm]

I dont think new players is a issue here. Lets be real, how many new players are there at all? >The game is fully depending on old players, so it is actually not a issue at all

[@Zergling.]

I will say the game more fully depending on the potato or bad players, if they leave i can promise you most of the players will leave too, they are the reason people still play the game, so they can have the fun of killing them and doing damage, getting that 3 or 6 kills in a game. If all the bad or mediocre players leave you get a boring game with no fun.

[@panzerkampfwagenviausf.b2236]

the reason that they added that grinding field modification is to keep the players playing, to those long time players that enjoy the grind to have another thing to grind for, keeping them into the game for much more time. and to get money ofc.

[@pirig-gal]

Imm need to play the sandbox soon to get that dang questionnaire and reply with "NO" to them adding that to WOT

[@mariokuppers5686]

Worthless their Stats will tell you that 70% of players liked it

[@pirig-gal]

@@mariokuppers5686 I mean, yeah, even IRL approval polls can be, ehem, *made* to be higher than theoretically possible.

[@bozydargroch9779]

I really hate the fact that QB says "oh I rammed him for 1k damage, how often can u do that" and he even adds "what would vents give me in such situation". Like this equipment would make such an incredible difference here... Even without it he would've done insane ramming damage, because it's E50M, not because he put some eq to buff it's ramming potential. +10% ramming bonus is just 10% ramming bonus. And arguably 5% to all crew skills including reload time is a lot better, since u will always fire more than 2 times per every ram you make. That is the reason vents are better, do not get misslead by QB guys, he is advertising things that are not changed by THAT much. I get it, it's fun to ram ppl to death, but it's the vehicle that ramms, not the equipment

[@EconomicsMate1]

I feel like its been forever since Ive watched a QB video.

[@benjaminwallace457]

Feeling nostalgic ?

[@usecom1]

I would say he went on holiday but he's still pasty white

[@brianjones3540]

Play to Win. It used to be that you earned experience and credits in order to move up to higher tiers, where opponents could match you. You no longer have to do that. Now you can upgrade your current tank into a higher tier tank without buying the next higher-tiered vehicle and meeting tougher opponents. To do that trick though, you will exchange boatloads of free experience for tank experience, and gold is needed; and then you'll buy premium time to shorten the horrendous grind. Both of these are money handed to WG on a platter. This has been very well-thought out. And any player who gets eaten up by one of these monster versions will want to do the same thing, too, and will go the same route of buy gold and buy premium time to do it. Wow: I'm deeply impressed with the thought process WG put into 'gaming their own game.' This is really exceptional thinking I must say, and not sarcastically. I have to give them credit how hard they're working to make money, even after we get to tier 10. I've quit playing WoT and WoWS, after spending several hundred dollars, and once in a while I've been tempted to get back in , but I see what they're doing, and I don't want to give them more of my own money.

[@jack_sugg10]

Anyone got advice on how to get extra credits, as I am currently grinding towards the M18 Hellcat TD (and I'm struggling to get 950,000 credits to buy it) and I hope to play for free ....

[@caviaporcellus7253]

M44 artillery makes money like a premium tank it’s very good for money that’s why there’s so many of them.

[@MA-fm8du]

@@caviaporcellus7253 M44 is getting nerfed

[@DeltaCmndrElite]

I agree you should not have to research the next tier before having access to field modification, should be available once you have researched all modules on current tank!!

[@malicious1968]

that tank is too op nerf hammer equipment 2.0: pay us to undo the nerf

[@juanzulu1318]

Bonus/malus decisions are ok. A second bonus slot or flat bonus on tank stats like HP boost are NOT ok.

[@whitefox25]

this is fine but make matches only 1 tier difference than not 2

[@nickc9375]

While I like the ammo/consumables choice during the countdown (because as you say this is a convenience feature), allowing such a selection for equipment will make extreme configurations practical (since the player will known the map and MM). Furthermore, as you also note the bonuses aren’t insignificant and will make balancing tanks even more difficult, as well as widening the gap between tiers and casual/hardcore players.

[@danielferguson4911]

What about tier 1? I accidentally have 260,000 in my MS-1 from missions...

[@xxstephxx1005]

It's only gonna be tier 6 and up from what I saw and heard

[@bjarnetodte5017]

QB: "do you really want to grind out 250k exp on your E50M?" Me(who has already 270k on my E50M waiting to be spent): "hmmm, interesting..."

[@johnname7163]

As if the game wasn't grindy enough already.

[@StronkiTube]

Thanks QB! You're taking all the words out of my mouth! This is really some gamebreaking stuff.

[@Razre]

Loving the changes WoT has been proposing in the last few months.

[@worldofworlds1453]

You love HE changes Are u Lost

[@clarkclements7204]

Arty changes are fantastic. H.E. changes are meh. These field modifications are meh too. Could be better if each buff/nerf modification had more nerf than buff making them more optional.

[@FlaviaPitariu]

People can grind the xp during top of the tree. People don't tend to bother with the top of the tree if they already have the tank

[@TornadoADV]

This is a FtP game, one that has been going for 10 years. WG needs to constantly come up with "prestige" grinds to keep the veterans playing their game so that they'll keep spending money and keep the lights on in Belarus. I can't tell if you're being purposely ignorant or not on this subject so you're not seen as a "shill" because of a couple of terrible takes you had on things like the Defender, Patriot and Object 268 V4. Unlike Bond Equipment, (that you decried as the end of the world for the tomatoes as the unicums would lord over them forever and ever) this gear comes with drawbacks instead of flat buffs. My extra 3-4% hull rotation speed is not going to give me enough of an advantage to shut somebody down that I wasn't already going to beat.

[@michaeloracion3927]

I think that the most affected gameplay by field mods would be ranked battles, a set up where players would be able to showcase their playstyles even more, also grinding isnt that hard recently, i mean we get missions for tier 10 that reward at least 20k xp and can be repeated up to 8 times ie dragon boat festival, and with all the xp boosters we get for free and if for example we play during the christmas event well you get the idea

[@fipa1988]

This grinding part is so bad, that I think I'll stop playing this game after 10 years. Also that difference between tire 10 and rest tires is outrageous, if they implement all as it is, it will be their doom, and I wish them doom

[@George-qw8ss]

Bye

[@fipa1988]

@@George-qw8ss Georg from jungle? 😅

[@AndrewWhiteKhanty]

I agree with QB very much so at 22:09. If they do go ahead and put something like this in, how about they give us the opportunity to also have a second way of setting up our tank's gun selection. Great examples are HE dominant tanks that also have really nice AP guns. O-Ho, T-49, KV-2, M4A3E2. Also, tanks that have other competitive guns such as the Conquer, T-95, E-100. Thank you for the updates, QuickyBaby.

[@sammango5005]

use more credits so you need to buy more credits

[@lohatrons1353]

At least I run accelerate crew training on my t10s so get 0 xp for the tank. So I wonder can we use the xp that we got while playing it. It can calculate this by multiplying average xp and the battle amount. So we get the full bonus of the grind

[@Endkeeper]

I dont like this at all.

[@johnsonshen8824]

I was a WOWS player for 4 years and switched to WOT few months ago. To be honest, the great thing about WOT is that it actually has Sandbox to test out fantasy changes to the game. This is good cuz WG actually listens to what happened in Sandbox. If any of you played WOWS in recent years, you will know that WOWS is basically broken now because the developers were so frustrated of people rejecting their "balance" changes in test servers, they eventually delay the new features until common test servers (yes even CCs cant access before this), which as you all know, eventually get into the game in its unbalanced state. Seriously I feel like the WOT developers are actually trying to make the game better (while still earning money), and the sandbox is a great way to implement it. You think Arty is annoying? Try getting bombarded by three carriers in WOWS (yes this happens a lot). You think there's Russian bias? Load into Rank/Clan battles in WOWS and you will see 2/3 of the team(if not 100%) are soviet ships. Honestly if guys out there thinks WOT is bad and the developers dont care about game balance and only their pockets. I strongly suggest you to go play WOWS, you will immediately cherish what you have in WOT. LOL Great Luck guys

[@corndoge3992]

I've been playing since 2012, and it's really awful to see the amount of different ways WG is implementing ways to gain small (but importantly, meaningful) advantages over other players. This system smells like a grind fest that disincentivizes progressing up the tech tree. The field mods unfortunately look very far in the dev process, so it's unlikely that these won't come to the game in some way. Consuming experience to gain these advantages in my opinion is toxic because it not only means newer players have to deal with stock module grinds, but even when they're fully upgraded they will still be firmly behind vehicle specialists. The game already has a problem with the majority of matches ending quickly, this will only exasperate the problem. If the system was a free choice one where the player earns a certain amount of xp over time, then they unlock a slot where they can choose a module to fill (3 milestones, no consuming of xp, no upgrade tiers, the equipment itself is near-useless to prevent the gap between regular players and vehicle specialists from growing so large). As a whole, this system appears to be both a credit and xp sink where if u want to meet the new standard you have to dump near-hundreds of thousands of xp, and pretty much a million or more credits per tank...

[@apexjager2528]

play another game then its not hard battlefield said the same thing when battlefield V came out and no one played it.

[@corndoge3992]

@@apexjager2528 Well saying "If you dont like it don't play it" isn't exactly a solution to the problem. This isn't a thematic change like bfv was, this is a game balance shift.

[@apexjager2528]

@@corndoge3992 so it still applies if you don't like it dont play it simple. It's not real rocket science at all lad. If you don't like someone in the real do you still talk to them? No you stop talking to them. It's changing the gameplay balance okay then go do something else play a different game people quit games cause they became trash look at league of legends and over watch

[@PoddioHead]

Great video, and fantastic work by QB in identifying the ways the grinding mechanics will really hurt F2P players, noobs, and anyone playing (for example) a low tier 8 tank in a tier 10 battle. The field modifications themselves look brilliant, and hats off to the developers, but it looks like the sales guys got their grubby paws on the new toys, and did their best to pick every penny out of players' pockets. I hope WG follow QB's advice, because making it a better game will do far more to earn WG more revenue in the long term.

[@nicholascarman7031]

Idk about field mods, they might be good or bad, great vid!

[@deirasjankauskas3381]

Should use vents since it increase the controlled impact perk effect for hp

[@cmft9358]

It would actually be a solid idea and something good for the game I think, if WG was to keep just the 2nd alternative equipment & consumable loadout from this sandbox test. And yes, the grind is a bit much and would hopefully be reduced, but I also understand that they can't just give use new content like this for free and without having to do anything for it. I mean, all these sandbox tests quite obviously show that WG is running a little thin on hard content, like for example new tech tress and so new ways in which to keep the playerbase occupied must be found and this is obviously one of them, especially if they were to fully implement everything from this sandbox test.

[@hebrewhammer4086]

As a person who has literally every tier 10 in the game besides the t22... I'm excited for this. I will finally have something new I can grind... granted I would prefer if it didnt affect the games as.much as this will.

[@Fortebx497]

If this actually does get implemented, I’ll be pimping out my KJagdpanzer 105 with the increase rof. Don’t mind the accuracy drawbacks since it’s already accurate as hell. Might as well pimping the Strv 103B as well lol

[@JacekKos]

sounds like a thing really relevant for tier 10 and for premium vehicles below it (these vehicles will get to start grinding straight after you get them) this may make them even more "supertanks". on the other hand making the grindwall so big looks like a way for wargaming to reanimate the game that has fixed number of tiers so people start to see need to grind again ;)

[@laurisr911]

I really love the people of WG who removed the tech tree behause they were to complicated. And now there is the field equipment

[@darkboot100]

So another issue if this makes it into the game. I and a lot of veteran players have either our favorite tanks or tier 10's with "accelerate crew training" on which means all xp goes to the crew. Are we going to have to turn this off to accumulate the xp to upgrade the modification system?

[@darthcalanil5333]

Aside from the outrageous grind, the main thing that I absolutely hate is how higher tiers will disproportionately get better than lower tiers, at the same time when the MM is still the same.

[@NaguNak]

Gonna be honest, I play Wot because I enjoy grinding. So I'm not worried about the grind wall itself in the slightest, the issue isn't that there's a grind wall. The real issue, in purely my personal opinion, is that there's also the option to just buy the whole 224,000 exp. It's just a bit sketchy how pay to win™ it seems like right now. Ultimately, I do think, like always, Wot has a lot of potential in this update as QuickyBaby basically said.

[@day8366]

Wargaming: it won’t change much. The changes: can boost everything by 10%

[@Torskel]

I think QB is my longest one I've been subscribed to

[@SolntsaSvet]

Imho, it should be: either this or that improvement/buff, not trade a buff for a nerf to some other parameter.

[@biengabrielmanzares408]

Instead of having to unlock a level of Field Modification per tank, they could alternatively have each unlocked levels available across all tanks. This is in order to justify that 28,000 exp per level and 150,000 credits that'll be sunk into that level. They could also make the cost of the slot you are using the only expense you are paying. Rather than paying for both. Overall, I think Field Modification is a good addon, but it needs tweaking before it should be implemented into the game.

[@The_Tool_To_Victory]

Yeah i agree. I like being able to switch between consumable and equipment, thats a cool feature. But i seriously have no interest in the modifications. I think they should drop the grind wall and simply make the field modifications available as you progress and unlock your guns, turrets, radios and so on.

[@vesanius1]

I came back to the game like a week ago after not playing it for like years and the amount of extra grinding that is required to achieve the equal playing ground is scary. There was already a lot to gind before and now it's basically doubled.