When introducing new vehicles to World of Tanks: Mercenaries, we often receive questions on how we decided to adjust the vehicles so that their stats differ compared to the PC version. Today, we’d like to cover this subject using the new Italian Tech Tree as an example!

When introducing new tanks from other Wargaming products (such as World of Tanks for PC), we always take an in-depth look at how these tanks are performing on the original platform(s). The data generated by the other platforms is vital and provides us with extremely valuable information. We can see how the tanks perform in their original ecosystem and compare that with our own vehicles in World of Tanks: Mercenaries. By looking at the new vehicles, their performance, and their goals ,we can see if any adjustments are necessary when bringing vehicles to World of Tanks: Mercenaries.

The Italian tanks in World of Tanks: Mercenaries have received some adjustments from their original PC variants, especially the Tier VIII-X vehicles that feature the recently introduced gun mechanic known as the 'auto-reloader'. Auto-reloader weapons are quite different and require a whole new perspective for judging their effectiveness. These weapon systems have a variable DPM instead of a static DPM. This is a huge difference compared to other guns and changes how we determine how effective a gun is. When compared to existing weapons, auto-reloader DPM can look pretty poor. What the paper stats don’t show is how potent this new mechanic is due to the variable per-shell reload rates. Auto-reloaders have flexible firepower: players can use them as both single fire and burst fire weapons based on the situation they find themselves in. Auto-reloaders can fulfill multiple playstyles and take advantage of changing battlefield situations in a unique way other weapon systems can’t.

Let’s look at the current damage performance of Tier VIII-X Italian tanks on PC compared to the existing tanks on World of Tanks: Mercenaries. Italian tank performance on World of Tanks PC is represented by the orange bar. World of Tanks: Mercenaries' current performance is blue. The Ariete Progetto M35 mod. 46's current performance is grey. When we saw this data, we decided we needed to adjust the vehicles before we could introduce them to our game.

The vertical axis is the damage output.

The horizontal axis is the win rate of the player.

We hope you enjoyed this inside look, and we hope that it helps you to understand how we introduce new tanks to the game and why there are differences between our game and others. Roll out!