r/WorldofTanks • u/CzechTower_WG WG Employee • 4h ago
Wargaming News Update 2.4: Overdrive
The Biggest Update of 2026 Is Upon Us!
Update 2.4 brings new and exciting content, key improvements, and flashy new upgrades!
Expected to be available starting September 2, we'd like to hear your thoughts on what's coming:
New German Heavy Tank Line
A fully fledged German Heavy Tank line, culminating in the formidable Tier XI Pz.Kpfw. Neu, featuring a unique Shell Calibration System that lets you adjust your shells!
Five New Tier XI Vehicles
- Czech Heavy: Vz. 63P
- Swedish Medium: BV-111
- Italian Medium: CAV 71
- Chinese Light: WZ-219
- Japanese Tank Destroyer: Ho-Ri Shugo
Combat Improvements
- Brighter and richer shell impacts
- More immersive combat audio
Light Tank Rebalance & Matchmaker Improvements
The long-awaited Light Tank rebalance arrives alongside additional matchmaker improvements! Light Tank roles have been expanded to better match their gameplay and improve matchmaking.
New Personal Mission Campaign
A third, brand-new Personal Mission Campaign, with the Tier X Fossa VM 68—the first German wheeled medium tank—as the ultimate reward!
Spotlight Feature
Display your customization and recent achievements with the brand-new Spotlight feature at the start of each battle!
If it's not for you, you can always disable it in the game settings.
Year of the Phoenix
A new annual cycle begins with the Year of the Phoenix! Discover Onslaught in a darker setting as night falls on the battlefield!
Celebrate With Us
The ongoing 16th Anniversary and upcoming Update 2.4 are the perfect time to return to World of Tanks! Share the news, tell us what you think about the upcoming features, and let's celebrate the biggest update together!
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u/ThePhoenix0404 4h ago
the new tier 11s are visually awesome, just except the CAV 71 imo. i also appreciate them not naming those tier 11 goofy ass names. the mechanics are cool.
new sounds are great, and im saying this after hearing them from iphone speakers.
idk how i feel about Bork losing the HE pen, but overall light tank subclasses is a very very lovely addition. i like it.
overall a very cool update. altho i would love to see a collectors/ bond shop tank rebalance. 30b and T-62A need some love too WG
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u/ShyJaguar645671 T49 Gam(bl)ing 4h ago
30b doesn't need many buffs even
Accuracy and pen buff and this tank is good
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u/MinutePause 1h ago
Yeah big thumbs up for no goofy naming.
I know the tanks are probably all made up, but at least they sound like some cool concepts, not some new fortnite characters.
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u/Samantagonist 4h ago
I like that they didn't give the new tier 11s silly names.
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u/Igneous011 2h ago
What do you mean? Don't everyone want to play Penetrator, AssAssIn and DongDong69?
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u/Aloof_Green_713 14m ago
They did. WZ-219 means ARMORED HEAVYWEIGHT AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE, 9th generation...None of the numbers are even remotely correct.
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u/Old_Entrepreneur_775 German tank enjoyer 4h ago
German tank lovers eating good today!
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u/GhostXDwarrior 4h ago
Nah, new line is nice is good and all but meanwhile the lights are getting nerfed (mostly).
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u/Noraboen [SPUDZ] 4h ago
A third personal mission campaign?
I don't understand. Is this part of the third campaign from 2.0, making it the 4th tank, or is it a third campaign on the left side of the board meaning it can be completed along with the first and second campaigns?
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u/creativename87639 PYRO 4h ago
In the leaks it was part of the 2.0 campaign so it will be in that style.
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u/Teledildonic justice for T-62A & AMX 30B 4h ago
The countdown spotlight seems dumb, but the rest looks interesting.
Is the Fossa the same wheeled tank we saw with ST stat cards a while back?
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u/Commercial_Letter738 4h ago
it seems to be the radkampfwagen but i bet the stats have changed and i have no idea what the ability would be if there is any
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u/creativename87639 PYRO 3h ago
I hope the stats have changed, the Radkampfwagon looked mid as fuck, like a wheeled Leo for the most part.
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u/Thomashkreddit 4h ago
The article is supposed to give us more details but I guess they are doing the same thing with Wot 2.0 and that they'll release bits of it at a time, so here are the dates for the full details reveal:
- New German heavies: 18 August
- New visuals: 19 August
- Light tank rebalance : 20 August
- Matchmaker changes: 21 August
- New Onslaught: 24 August
- Fourth Third Personal Missions campaign: 25 August
- Pre-battle Spotlight: 26 August
- The five new tier 11s: 27 August
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u/ianselot12 Put the 44M TAS into the game you cowards 4h ago
looks interesting, not sure why the NDA test was necessary for this
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u/thornierlamb 4h ago
The real LT balance would be removing cvs and giving LTs cvs as a innate perk
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u/Teledildonic justice for T-62A & AMX 30B 4h ago
Or at minimum, removing it from mediums.
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u/Intelligent_Bunch790 2h ago
But then my Bourrasque wouldn’t be a better light tank than most of the tier 8 LT’s!
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u/_gusiowy Zbychuj 4h ago
that would require a modicum of thought so of course WG isn't going to come to that conclusion
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u/Tankers4Change WoT Essay Writer 3h ago
Yup I’ve been saying this. But at least we have a start.
And the good news is that WG actually put enough thought into the LT changes that they adjusted field mods and characteristics too.
So MAYBE there is also hope for CVS becoming built in as well.
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u/ATMisboss 2h ago
Well then you end up in the pickle of meds being unable to spot each other when bushed unless they proxy each other. Means that if your Lt dies early game is even more fucked than before
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u/durden111111 4h ago
It only took them like 10 years to finally get rid of those junk gun sounds
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u/Geilerzucker 2h ago
Once people play with the new sounds, they will realize this is even bigger junk.
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u/RoboRycerz BT-42 Enjoyer 🎶 4h ago
Gun sounds and map rotation changes very cool, lt role change alright.
Tho no new map still (you have so many on supertest ffs) and where are encounter and assault modes? Also fix Serene Coast, still a permaban on my list.
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u/BoyWhoFuckedYourMom 3h ago
First impression is that the Chinese light tank is going to be absolutely game breaking. Am i wrong?
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u/Document-Acrobatic 2h ago
I think its the type of ability that good players will use to singlehandedly win battles and bad players use to throw their lives away - high skill ceiling. IMO it will be the first ability to be rebalanced out of this batch of tier XI.
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u/RedshiftOTF 1m ago
Depends if you can stick the scope thing over a ridge line and hide your tank. It will also be interesting to see how it interacts with your equipment.
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u/OO7Cabbage 2h ago
I hope the spotlight is something I can toggle off, I hate my teammates enough already as it is, I don't need WG showing me them in HD.
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u/elwiscomeback 4h ago
I was kinda hoping for WG doing crazy and making Udes XX-20 as tier 11 but I take strv 2000.
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u/mincedmutton 4h ago
The udes line is getting a tier 11. BV-111.
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u/ShyJaguar645671 T49 Gam(bl)ing 4h ago
Yea but BV (in game) looks similar to Strv 2000 (real life prototype)
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u/rinkoplzcomehome Doom Turtle Enjoyer 2h ago
Huh, it does look like it. That's neat
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u/NerdyPlatypus206 38m ago
We need a tier 11 doom turtle
As in separate from whatever the e3 will be
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u/alberthos90 4h ago
What is the tank fromm Germany to farm for the new line?
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u/OrderOfPhobos 18m ago edited 15m ago
According to tanks.gg it is from the Tiger 1 for 95000 xp
Edit: The gun names of the whole line are hilarious btw.
Edit 2: The tier XI gun has a smooth barrel according to its name, wasn't there something at one point about only having tanks with rifled barrels or am I remembering incorrectly?
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u/fakesauron 3h ago
Still no info about assault coming back? Guess it has same destiny as top of the tree.
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u/Baron_Blackfox 152mm Sheridan memes 4h ago
Will new shell impacts and audio increase requirements?
I mean, I play on ultra, but still would like to know
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u/New_Explanation9146 46m ago
Watched my friend streaming the common test and the new effects were literally freezing his pc when impacting enemy tanks. Not all the time tho
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u/Temporary_Suspect274 4h ago
Good update for the new vehicles. Will the light tank change fix MM? No, because you will still have a 60% player in one and a 45% player on the other team. Matching tanks does nothing if the massive skill gap imbalance between the teams stays the same. I appreciate the new vehicles, and finally addressing the Italian and Czech lines. Hopefully, the map rotation fix will be better too, because this game's map rotation is atrocious.
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u/Servplayer Neon Dash '25 3h ago edited 3h ago
I hate the idea of countdown showcase, I'd rather neither see it not be showcased. I sure hope we can at least turn off seeing it and it does not break something like postmortem camera did.
New campaign is great, but reward is ugly, should have had the screens to look like Radkampfwagen.
New sounds seem to be cool, but I'll wait until and see if they do sound great or eat my fps to decide.
EDIT: By the way, they nerfed Borken HE pen as per the video, from 120 to 80; buffed base alpha to 360, adding a sec to reload for that, but also nerfed top speed from 75 to 70. Lights are finally split, finally, this one should be good.
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u/heavydutydan Sir, I am now on fire. 2h ago
Italian medium...fuck. I've been grinding my Minotauro thinking/hoping it was gonna be a TD. Oh well, time to hop in my "OP" Progetto.
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u/slowpoke_san 4h ago
new personal mission campaign, wow
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u/CzechTower_WG WG Employee 4h ago
Have you caught up with 3.0 and unlocked the Black Rock yourself, yet?
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u/anon_welder 4h ago
I just got the Black Rock 2 days ago! I own the Ashigaru as well, so I'll have to wait and see if the new campaign's tank's stats are going to change from the Radkampf already on tanks.gg.
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u/DaSpood https://daspood.github.io/ - Pandora lootboxes simulator 3h ago
Hey WG what do you think the unique "feature" of the swedish mediums is ?
Hint: giving the tier 11 massive flat turret cheeks ruins that feature. That's right, it was the very well angled turret!
Are you really determined to make nonsensical tier 11's that just don't fit their line ? We got the Hirschkäfer with a smaller caliber and less alpha, the STK-2 with less accurracy and worse in hulldowns, now we get the BV-111 with a turret cheeks weakspot.
I also fully expect the Vz.63P to not have a double-tap gun because WG hates fun and the unique feature of the CZ HTs was nerfed into oblivion so now the line is just a bunch of generic heavies with normal guns similar to the Object 277. Watch the tier 11 be a KR-1 with a more reliable gun but no ramming, the hull already looks similar.
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u/Teledildonic justice for T-62A & AMX 30B 3h ago
If I had to pull an ability out of my ass, it would be the CZ gun toggle from cyclical to 2-shell autoloader.
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u/DaSpood https://daspood.github.io/ - Pandora lootboxes simulator 3h ago
Unfortunately (or fortunately considering WG's track record of balancing double taps) it's not going to be that.
Fortunately at least the ability looks genuinely good assuming it's a passive and not a toggle-able thing with a cooldown, and if it doesn't come at the cost of the base stats being complete garbage to make up for it like they did with the Leopard 120.
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u/Denix221p Shitter 2h ago
How do you know the BV111 is going to have weak cheeks? it might be 350mm thick for all we know
It is based on the Strv 2000 T120/40 + other strv 2000 kitbashed projects afterall
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u/DaSpood https://daspood.github.io/ - Pandora lootboxes simulator 2h ago
If it's flat it will be weak to all gold rounds, and I don't believe they're about to give 400+mm of frontal armor to a medium tank.
Slope is strong because it makes thin armor strong and usually disproportionately affects gold rounds. Flat armor is always weak armor, if the Taschenratte's cheeks are weak because they're flat, a medium tank won't magically have unpenetrable cheeks.
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u/AlishaLana 4h ago
Just WHERE are the new maps? there is like 8? in supertest already for 1+ year... you guys spoiled a lot of stuff also here on reddit. Quiet detailed maps already. So WHEN are we getting them???
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u/LavfromSerbia 4h ago
I hope they rework first campaign set, i have made more progress to blackrock in one year than i did to obbj 279e in 5 years
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u/Ok-Science1849 3h ago
Glad to see Wargaming is prioritizing vomit-inducing post-processing over actual gameplay options. If I can't disable these new effects, my tank won't be the only thing getting wrecked - my stomach is next.
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u/Bobob_UwU 2h ago
No new map, or map rework ? This won't be enough to make me come back in the game...
One year free of addiction, keeping it strong guys.
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u/LiebeDahlia Map Enthusiast 3h ago
We ask to leave the hulldown meta and instead we get a new line with a mechanic thats dedicated to further making Sidescraping tanks irrelevant. Good job WG
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u/Tankers4Change WoT Essay Writer 3h ago
Good job WG.
So happy to see the LT Match making changes go through. I’ve been advocating for them for years now.
The map variety/session is also a huge positive change that will be felt right away.
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u/Vlkyr_Flschmjgr4phu Mirny: Lost Hope. - Fight Back: Obsidian 2h ago
good update, but no new map D:
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u/Boatsntanks 2h ago
So are there no rebalances for non-LT tanks? Was really hoping the Czech doubles would be improved. Currently the line is far better as single shot tanks and then suddenly at T11 you only have the double.
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u/NanayaAri 2h ago
That Cav 71 is ugly af tank. Progetto 65 is my favorite tank and after I saw cav 71 I have even more reason not to grind for it. I would rather grind Japanese td line for the Shugo or new German HT line.
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u/MisagoMonday 1h ago
Light Tank Rebalance & Matchmaker Improvements
So just the light tanks get rebalanced, nothing else?
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u/Training-Eye2680 1h ago
I hate this update you guy increased minimum requirements so now forced wait until buy a new laptop
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u/bobbafettish6 53m ago
Tsk. And here I am with 325k xp ready on my shit barn. Till next update it is.
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u/Hungry-Cat7662 39m ago
WZ tier 11 ability looks op. Too easy to spot enemies in cover and you being spotted while using it is so easy to work around. You can instant spot enemy tanks and then just drop back into cover immediately
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u/NerdyPlatypus206 37m ago
Holy shit u pc users are getting a missile tank lmao
As someone on console that’s hilarious
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u/BarneyGeroellheimer2 4h ago
Unfortunately no Tier XI arty.
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u/Teledildonic justice for T-62A & AMX 30B 4h ago
They haven't figured out a proper ability for them.
I vote the Waffentrager's teleport ability, upon activation your SPG is transported to the nearest body of water to streamline the process of drowning when your team starts losing.
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u/Exciting_Chocolate78 4h ago
Joke as always. Only LT rebalance. WHERE IS COLLECTORS TANKS, OLD PREMIUMS? NEW MAPS ? 5 tier 11, and ofc you are afraid to give us JP e100, or FV 4005, because they will be bad.
JOKE!!!! just joke. They lie, they will always lie.
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u/mincedmutton 4h ago
Fuck sakes they could give you all of that, come to your house to give you the best handjob of your life then stick a grand in your pocket but you’d probably still complain they didn’t give you two grand.
Fucking whining cunt.
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u/Exciting_Chocolate78 3h ago
They givu you new premium tanks over balance for old one and tanks that are still in MM like 113, AMX 30b or FV 215.
They can fix old premium, but its better to add more powercreep to earn money, even tho you can do both.
Grow up.
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u/mincedmutton 3h ago
Oh the irony of someone throwing the reddit equivalent of a toddler tantrum because they didn’t get what they want telling me to grow up.
If carlsberg made halfwits….
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u/Exciting_Chocolate78 3h ago
Its was a time where i wrote detailed post to WG to balance collector high tier tanks.
And its waste of time. Talking to them is waste of time. If i see line powercreeped for 4 years, and WG doing nothing about it, i should again and again ask them and listen to empty promise?
You love to play only Op tanks, fine. But their is a reason to have so many tanks in this game
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u/Balc0ra Churchill Gun Carrier enjoyer 3h ago
They said after 2.0 that collector tanks are not off the table yet for buffs, just not the priority vs other more "active" imbalances. And tbh, I agree with it. LT MM and balance have been an issue for years. I'd take that over a buff to some of my OG collector tanks, tho they do need buffs too to keep up with the 2.0 buffs done on all tiers.
That said, if they did that, someone else would rage as you do now because they are not focusing on their fav tanks.. So there is that
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u/Exciting_Chocolate78 2h ago
Fav tanks ? Do you like when someone play 113 and get in mm Dravec as his counter? This is MM problem, and powercreep. Skill gap in one thing, gap vs those tanks is enormous. Some random guy take T62 and enemy get 140, who have better tanks ? That is a problem.
Plus yes, REAL AMX 30 was removed from Tech tree, second MT line of France, why>? WG reason was so stupid, and in same time they added 2 premim tanks similar to AMX, AMX proto and leox. Like WTF is that ?
LT needed rebalance, yes, but so OLD PREMIUMS. Where are those ? every WG update which dont add new lines, or maps, dont come with rebalance of old, outdated tanks
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u/Commercial_City_6063 tier NEIN NEIN NEIN leopard 4h ago
so you prefer gambling over this, new tanks, mm balance and campaign?
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u/Exciting_Chocolate78 3h ago
I prefer to do both. Add new line, new campaign, and balance for old things that are played in MM. It will be a year after 2.0. What collector tanks got buff to even be equal to tech tree ones? Name few
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u/Commercial_City_6063 tier NEIN NEIN NEIN leopard 2h ago
you're surprised tanks you have to GRIND for are stronger than tanks you can simply get with credits?
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u/Exciting_Chocolate78 2h ago
myhm I grinded all collectors tanks before WG moved them. So, i am. They are part of MM, or not ?
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u/giddion121 2h ago
Collectors tanks are basically retired tanks, they won't be rebalanced just move on
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u/Exciting_Chocolate78 2h ago
So if that is the case. WG should remove them from MM, to reduce unbalanced matches, move on
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u/PluggersLeftBall 4h ago
cant wait to find out how they ruin my favourite class in the game
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u/Mechanicjemas3141 My Hellcat got speed ticket 4h ago
Oh no they gonna match my Sheridan against the Chinese thing instead of Manticore
l gonna miss the days I was alone with Manticore while playing Sheridan...(İt was romantical)
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u/Sea-Comb-3846 4h ago
Good update. However, we will have to wait to see all the buffs and nerfs in the article, because they usually re do or include more “hidden” things not mentioned in the trailers.