World of Tanks Update 8.6 Brings New SPGs, Map

By Michael Dunaway, News Editor Posted: June 19, 2013

Update 8.6 for Wargaming.net's F2P juggernaut World of Tanks is just about ready to hit the live servers! The meaty update expands self-propelled guns (SPGs, a.k.a. artillery) to Tier X, but not all is well for SPG fans. Tier X vehicles (except SPGs) will get a 10% damage bonus, with a corresponding, but smaller boost to non-SPG vehicles from Tiers VI to IX. Additionally, the velocity of SPG shells has dropped from 10% to 15%.

A variety of other smaller improvements, like a re-working of the post match report and new camouflage patterns, are also part of the update, and there's a new map, the Korean-inspired Sacred Valley. You can read the whole (long) list of changes on the World of Tanks site. Update 8.6 goes live on EU servers June 20 and on NA servers June 25.

As someone who's been obliterated at long range from SPGs he couldn't even see, I can't say I'm totally against toning them down a bit, but there are sure to be artillery hounds who will lament the changes. What do you think?

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Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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wot lover 11 years ago

trust me after the updates goes live ..arty will become not much a treat now...for tier 8 you now will never get in tier 10 arties anymore ...

rocknrollgaming 11 years ago

Anyone knows when world of tanks is coming to the xbox 360.

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dagudman 11 years ago

Why don't they make sure that the damage of tier 10 arties(or any other higher level tanks) in mainly lower tier games is more balanced. It is not fair if you are a lower tier to be one shot because you haven't got enough money to buy a tier 10 tank.

SomethingFishy 11 years ago

What i dont get with this update is that they "balance" SPG's then they add 9 new SPG's
Something is really fishy around here....

ReallyFun 11 years ago

Arties are ok and if you know how to move on the map they can be avoided.But the truth is that the matchmaking sucks bad and after the patch i been in many games with arties as high tier.I played more than 10 matches that both teams had tier10 arties and the rest was tier 8.I even seen them one shot other players causing 1800 dmg in one shot.I mean come on people its ridiculous.

MrPants 11 years ago

Yea they talk about the changes being a nerf but watch the video, it seems like they are rubbing one shot arty kills (which happen too dammed often) in the faces of everyone who is pissed about them

its like they're saying "No change, just more of the same"

I'm tired of losing 50-75% of my health from one arty shell that didn't even hit me 2 minutes into the game. Best way to fix arty is to remove it so the rest of us can actually play the game and have the thing called "fun"

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