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8.6 supertest arty numbers... for now.

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Originally Posted by dswartze

So, unless there's something else we don't know about here's what's going to happen.

People are still going to get hit by artillery. Maybe not as often, but it will still happen and when it does they may get 1-shot or take massive damage, and be upset, and there will still be cries of "remove arty from the game" and every other complaint that we see now.

It will also frustrate arty players a huge amount. most of the complaints about arty seem to come from people who don't understand how hard it can be to actually hit somebody.

Also, when they can't hit anything ever anymore, teams are going to do the "arty sux" or "it's all arty's fault, not the fault of us the people who drove into the open and got shot and died" because all they'll see is a bunch of arty with 0 kills, and nobody taking any damage (plus, if anybody goes anywhere near enemy tanks you can expect friendly fire).

In the end, this means that the people who hate arty will still hate it, and blame SPGs for the reason they're not having fun. The people who play arty are going to hate things because everything got all around worse for them. And the people who don't care either way are still going to get frustrated by "useless" and "sucky" players on their team because there's nothing the arty can do.

So everybody loses. I can't imagine this being the whole story, perhaps there's something else. Maybe the current accuracy counts the distance the shell travels, and the new one counts the distance between where it was fired from -> where it lands. Maybe there will be a massive increase in the blast radius so that even though you miss every shot, you still do a little damage. The lack of price changes also makes me think that these are still a work in progress, I don't picture tier 10s being available for ~3.5 million when the patch goes live.