Sandbox 2021: HE Shells and Artillery Combined
7 min readFrom March 23 through March 29, the sandbox is entering the final stretch and launching the most important, combined pre-release test. At this stage, all previous suggestions will be put together and take their almost-final forms.
If by the end of our collective testing, Wargaming concludes that the changes can go live, you will likely be able to see them around May during the Common Test. They will be added to the game simultaneously as a single update.
Upon analyzing player surveys from the two previous tests, both Sandbox iterations showed good results. This is further confirmed by statistics: for instance, after the testing of the reworked HE shells, more than 70% of reviews from players who played on the Sandbox were positive.
KV-2 still work the same? WTF is WG drinking
I bought my KV-2(R) for it’s 152mm derp. I will demand a punitive refund.
“Preliminary statistics show that the idea to introduce three types of tactically diverse shells works, and SPG players used or learned to use all three types of shells.”
Of course what do you expect is gonna happen on a test server people are gonna “test” it out… Im certain once live almost all the shells will be the standard ones that stun with some damage.
Am I alone who did not get the pop up window about SPG changes on sandbox after last SPG test? I had bunch of stuff to say, but no survey. I am just curious how many players played sandbox and could not express their feelings…
If players are randomly chosen to participate in sandbox how do wg want their feedbacks to be pertinent ? I’m sure most of these 70% of positive feedback are players who don’t even have enough experience in this game to give pertinent feedback and now wargaming is doing bullsh*t
Vodka mixed with paint thinner?
It’s amazing that WG doesn’t even realize how asinine their own statements are. Of course we were using all 3 shell types, the whole point of the sandbox was to test all 3 shell types. And of course there was less stun happening than on the live server, because we were testing 2 types of non-stun shells.
I never got a survey for the sCrew 2.0 sanbox either. Clearly not everybody who did th testing was actually surveyed.
They also claim that the KV-2’s survivability increased despite literally nothing having changed about its survivability stats. Yes, the KV-2 won’t eat as much damage when it takes non-pen HE hits. But aside from other derp tanks (fellow KV-2s, O-Is, Shermans with the 105 at lower tier, etc) almost all the damage a KV-2 takes on the live server is from HE.
The KV-2 is far more HE-dependent than most tanks, so saying “HE being weaker for everybody gives the KV-2 more survivability” is complete BS.