Artillery Overhaul Test: Results

Commanders!

Following our earlier Artillery Overhaul announcement, you had the opportunity to test an overhauled Akatasiya in the field for the entirety of the last week. We’d like to thank all of you who did so and submitted their opinions via our survey.

We have gathered more than a thousand detailed pieces of feedback and have the weekend reading and analyzing them. Today, we’d like to share the results with you.

The most important thing first – the test was a success with roughly three quarters of players supporting the direct fire overhaul. Specifically:

• In the EU region, 72.5% of players support the overhaul
• In the RU region, 74.7% of players support the overhaul

The more detailed results are also remarkably identical for both regions:

• Firepower-wise, most of you thought the vehicle was adequate (60%) or underpowered (30%)
• The HEAT shell was deemed relatively weak (55% adequate, 40% underpowered)
• The protection level was deemed either adequate (55%) or too low (42%)
• The mobility was deemed adequate by most (80%)

In other words, as you can see, almost nobody believes the vehicle was overpowered and a good chunk of you believes it was actually adequate in most aspects, which is a good start. Regarding detailed feedback, the most common points were the following:

• You expect longer reload time but also higher damage per shot
• You expect burst damage potential (such as the three-round magazine the Akatsiya has now)
• You expect additional ammunition types
• Protection levels need to be increased (but no too much)
• Smoke shells and WP shells need to be tweaked

All in all, these results surpass our expectations and, as a result, we’ll be proceeding with the overhaul while taking your feedback into account by, for example:

• Changing the firepower towards higher damage per shot and longer reload times
• Improving the HEAT shells
• Adding new shell types and checking the current ones

The overhaul will take some time to execute and more tests might be necessary but this is the road we’ll be taking. You may expect the results this summer. The Premium SPGs will stay exactly as they are now, for the time being, but any future SPG vehicles will arrive in the direct fire form.

And last but not least, the winners. Aside from the 250 Battle Coins for 5 PvP victories and 250 Battle coins for 10 PvE victories using the direct-fire Akatsiya, the following players will be getting their 6.000 Battle Coins for submitting useful and detailed feedback:

EU:

• axelrajr
• Dimitris_1
• AndCosta

RU:

• Weaver_1995
• Енотвшарфике
• MXsharkMX

We’d once again like to thank you for your participation in the test. Stand by for further news and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!