Hi Fellas! You can check out the mod on the following link: wgmods.net/6349

Skill, you could play ONE battle, record replay and after that show it side by side on same screen with mod and without mod. Just split screen in half and here you go. It would have shown obvious difference.

Basically: without the mod you had to predict where your shells can go, with the mod you don't need to predict anymore, just aim until you're satisfied with the enemy tank fitting inside the reticle.

It's not increasing the hit chance or change the rng but helps a lot in the confidence to shot. Game changer mod/feature

Wargaming should really implement this mod as part of the base game, maybe as an extension of server reticle. I had no idea the actual dispersion of tanks was so much smaller than displayed. Huge confidence boost in taking long range shots or firing at cuppolas, very nice.

So... WG hides: - Gun dispersion during movement/traverse - True speed depending on ground resistances - Real aim time to fully aim (the time in the garage is to 1/3) - Real engine power (see E50 M on tanks gg, for example) and now: - Real reticle size And I wonder why some people claim the game to be rigged...

I think the best TLDR for the mod is: it changes nothing about how the game plays. It is only a *visual* alteration to how the reticle is displayed. You've always been this accurate, but now it shows it correctly.

Let's leave big wet thumbs up for Jak Atackka. You discovered this, thanks to you many players will enjoy this game more. Thank you

This mod will basically give you the confidence to shoot earlier knowing that it will land within the aiming circle somewhere. Never use mods, but this I will try

Installed it 2 days ago, it makes a big difference, before I wasnt taking shots at distance because reticle was much bigger than the target, now it feels easier to tap the fire button and my average dmg seems to like it

Playing with KV2 or O-I is crazy with this thing. I recommend

The way it works is preaty simple : the dispersion value is equal to a standard deviation of a Gauss distribution. It means that a circle with a diameter of 2 standard deviation will contain approximatively 68% of the shots. A circle with a diameter of 4 standard deviation ( the mod's one) will contain 98% of the shots. A circle with a diameter of 6 standard déviation (the actual game circle) will contain 100% of the shots.

Good video ! I think a few warning though, after playing with it for a few days. - Most people instinctively knew that shots went to the center, so if you took shots because the probability of it going far from the center was low, it's not true anymore. Shots actually will go everywhere in the circle. - If you don't have server reticle, some shots will be outside the circle. But having a good representation of the circle is helpful for sure.

Im curious about making experiment with shooting into the wall with different guns of different nations. I have a suspicion that the "heatmap" of areas where shoots are going will be different for different guns. i played few battles with that mod on Wz1-4 and I think i saw some shoots going outside the circle. Im using Server reticle ofc

Aslains modpack has a checkbox you can check off that also reduces the reticle. It's under the aiming section.

If you think about it its only working in a shorter range, because i think the default circle is showing you the maximum shell dispersion, meaning with the mod you will likely shoot outside of the circle in a longer range.

This mod doesn't seem to fix another problem I've noticed - there's a mod that adds a countdown to full aim next to the reticle, and it goes to 0 quicker than the vanilla reticle animation stops shrinking. I'd want a mod that changes reticle colour on full aim - easier to react to than gauging the final smallest reticle diameter for each separate tank by eye.

Installed the mod yesterday and played the Iron Arnie, if you have the tank you know how dreadful the gun can be at times as it's really unreliable with 2.7s aimtime and 0.36 accuracy with my setup. It felt like a completely different tank and I was shooting more often as I felt more confident. Still the most important part is to aim properly and make good ingame decisions. This will basically benefit any tank, especially ones with which you're feeling inaccurate.

Trust me with this RNG system you're not having >70% precision with this mod. This mod removes 30% of bad RNG in the retical, which means you're putting yourself in the situation where they can force you to miss shots whenever they wanted you to be as a free2play player and you can't prove if they intentionally did that. +Some maybe benefited since they doesn't really care about aiming, because RNG balanced their precision to be

Smaller reticle can be more frustrating i believe... once you get used to it because it looks like more wild rng because now it can actually hit the edge of the circle.

I took a measurement without the mod 1/2" reticle, with the mod 5/16" reticle. All depends on what size screen you've opened to. A reduction of 37.5%. Quite substantial!

I cant thank you enough for making this video Skill, I have been noticing this shit in many replay videos for at least 2 years now and other major wot youtubers have been either lying about it or denying this mod works. You have shed the light of truth on this community finally! God Bless you!

Can't wait to try this mod out, thank you for this video skill! You're probably the most helpful content creator that I've come cross this past year, I learned quite a bit from you. And the index page is like my holy bible of tanks, thank you !

Just picked this mod up after Iyou's vid. Honestly 10/10 recommend. supposedly using it without server retical and its fantastic and i bloody hate mods!

Good point with the server aiming reticle, it's good to have a mod that has both on screen

I think the original reticle is portrayed pretty d@mn large to "hide" a bit of network lag. It used to be described as having a 95% chance of your shot going anywhere inside that reticle.

The only issue I have with this mod is that I already have a sence when my shell will hit when I am not fully aimed without this mod. Now, when I try to snap shot someone, I have a sence that my shell will go in but it misses because it shows actual size of reticle.

The bigger reticle was meant to encompass for server lag so you won't fire outside of it even with bigger ping.

the reason server reticle is bigger is for lag compensation mostly, and also keep in mind this isnt server reticle so you can miss some snapshots. slso im kinda sad SPG reticle was accurate, even if it was .7 times smaller it would still be hard to hit, but it is what it is

I was trying to concentrate on the reticle size but my eyes were always drawn to the beautiful Baboon on the screen. Damn you and your good looks Skill!

Considering how often my shots hit the outermost edges of the reticle, this makes absolutely no sense what so ever.

Nice one! What are your reticle settings if I may ask?

Nice videos. Going to test this mod out. I also hate playing with the server reticle, lags to much for me.

great video as always!!! If I remember correctly about 5 years ago, the creator of the jumbo crosshair had implemented the crosshair with the double circle instead of reducing it in size and on the official forum "I seem to remember" that it was considered a cheat

Skill "you could fit a Moon". Obi-Wan "that's no Moon ... It's a space station"

J1mb0s reticle back in the day had this two tiered reticle system, something like 95%+ land in the center circle, I loved it

When I play grille it always feels as if every shot wants to fire on the edge of my regular unmodified aim circle

I would not be suprised if this mod would become a feature in the game just like many other mods

I do have to say, after using this mod, my DPG went up by 400 (or one extra shot). However I've been using it for 2 days so it isn't concerte evidence.

The important part to make clear here is that the mod does not affect the precision of your gun. Neither the bloom, aim time, or maximum precision are affected by the mod what so ever. The only thing the mod does is change the visual representation of your aim distribution to be more in line with actual fact. And that in turn obviously affects the player. If anything, this will probably make most players a bit worse - since they will be worse at fully aiming when they actually should.

Everything about this explains why so many ppl quit the game back in 2015+ as it became World of pixel shooting, this mod now brings it to a new level, theres already outlines pen indicators, last know positions, etc etc which part of this is fun now Everything is given to the player on the mini map now.. game used to be fun when the only info you got was a red dot on the mini map that disapeared after.

Tbh, I always wondered why the aim circle is so big on the strv 103b whilst being supposedly the most accurate tank in the game.

But I have experienced many times (with standard WG aimcircle) where shots go to the outer ring, or even to completely weird positions, even with low latency and no lag and aiming with server crosshair. Still can't believe the actual hitting area is so much smaller

I am pretty positive that I hit the edge of reticle circle with german arta on multiple occasions. Now I am curious if it will hit outside of the reticle with this mod :D

Definitely going to try this mod. Thanks Skill!

This is basically a UI scale mod, which only scales the reticle back to its true size.

It's interesting that it has taken so long to figure this out. I had no idea.

And that does work for Tanks like the FV4005, the KV2 etc. too?

idk if you mentioned it already but one should use the server side reticle to make it accurate.

Skill - great work to you and the developer. I remember years ago someone in the WoT community did some videos on the distribution of shots within the reticle (mostly using the training room shooting at a wall video). I can't recall who did the work. There was a distribution of shots (e.g. 85% of shots fall within X diameter) and they concluded that there was another parameter (hidden) at work for certain tanks. You would see a normal distribution curve, but the 'squatness' of the curve could vary significantly.

now we can finally see the real size of the grille15 reticle. it's no smaller than 0.5

Center shell concentration was first introduced in update 8.6 in 2013 then improved more in update 9.6 in 2015. But i never know when smaller real aiming circle happened. I dont have this mod and my shells are sometimes flying to the edges so i do not understand something.

Just played a few rounds in IS-3A with this reticle mod and I can confirm that while its not giving you any unfair advantage, it gives me a confidence to shoot a bit earlier than I usually would. Maybe RNG gods were at my side but I really think this will help a lot of people, me included. Edit: Playing with server reticle enabled.

*They should combine that mod with the SERVER RETICLE Mod....* so we ONLY see "one" circle. The reason I ask this is something has always been wrong with the games Server Reticle setting. It causes some sort of "lag". But whenever I've used a "Sight Mods" server reticle option there's generally never been lag.

Is is necessary to have "server reticle" enabled in order to use this mod? what's the difference between server reticle on and off? ty

in my opinion its only a visual adjustment where 80% of the shots go....and about the "test scenario": if you only aim from less than 50 meters....its clear....that all shots are inside the half of the aim circle, because in my knowledge the aim circle discribes a hitting chance for a specified range (guess for 100 meter).

Hi, didn't notice any changes on Rhm.-B. WT... looks the same - with or without mod (server reticle enabled, disabled).

Thanks for the tip and examples.

one disadvantage i see for using this mod is learning new tanks... imagine skill plays lion for the first time with this mod, reticle size is small, because dispersion is small but aiming is bad and dispersions while moving arent great either, the way i see it, it will be more tricky to decide which equipment piece you will install, but we have streamers and youtube that do the job for us which is fine :)

I think there should be a setting in WoT client to use user defined ratio for aiming circle radius.

It should be said that using this mod, truly is awesome. Mostly it just increases your confidence to fire more often, and try more difficult shots. However, you WILL notice 1 or so errant shots per game with this mod. Meaning a shot will go OUTSIDE your reticule every once in a while. Also, your loadout is more important with this mod. You will use a lot more ammo.

Skill may be the only youtuber that uses clickbaity titles that are in fact not clickbait but the truth. That deserves some cred!

i was always wondering how half aimed shots were so accurate most of the time

Seems like it will save time waiting on reticle to shrink whereas that time wouldn't be needed for reasonable hits. Interesting.

Wow thats amazing Skill4ltu!!! big thanks man helped me alot!!!

Just one question, how does it "force the shell" to always stay within the reticle boundaries and can not go outside of it?

tried this with bz176, the thing actually feels like a leopard now haha

there is mod that show you both local reticle and server reticle, so you can smoothly aim and also see where your real reticle is.

Thank for video! I try this mode and this mode is game changer for me! I feel much better about the game since installing it! Yes some times hit flies out of the circle=lag. Thank for developer!

how do you open the mod to install it i downloaded the mod but it dont know what to open it with

This mod is nice, especially on tanks that aren't super accurate to begin with. You get a much better idea of where your shots will ACTUALLY go...

I would like to clear few things about this mod: 1. Wot reticle size is bigger for a reason. Very few shots go on "sides" of bigger aim circle because dispersion is such which confirms report if people that rarely it happens that with mod shots go outside aim circle. So skill is not actually correct when saying shots will not go outside mod aim circle. 2. People are very correct when saying it makes you more confident in taking some shots. It is straight forward. Example is3 is side scrapping you aim at his flatter part if hull pike, circle is covering that pike entirely and you take a shot. Without mod you would wait more thinking i need to make sure i hit that part when in reality there is lets say 98% you will hit it because of distribution of shots) which us still way more than enough to make you take that shot. 3. Very important. Mod will kinda make you think there is more rng as weird as it sounds, bcs now shots will go almost evenly spread throughout circle ( still bit more than towards center because that's again, distribution, which is programmed to be such, could be different if developers wanted different one) while without mod it might feel shots go more towards center (shots cover smaller % of bigger circle while with mod go everywhere on entire circle which could make you think there us more rng) hope this makes sense 😅 Skill points this out by saying you will have shots going literally on edges of circle with mod

This clearly makes a huge difference, I just tried it and im hitting 98% of all my shots on target now.

So basically, WarGaming made the aiming circle bigger than where the shots actually go. This mod just shows the correct circle of where the shots can go

i always found it weird since lets say a tank has 2.5 seconds aim time it litterly takes almost 4 seconds to fully aim if you count real time so there was always something off

World of tanks on the console (PS4) Introduced this feature years ago. Overnight it improved my accuracy being able to actually see what the real spread was. It's super useful. Even tho it doesn't actually make you more accurate you don't waste time fully aiming since it shows you exactly where your shot spread will go

So this is what it feels like when you get unplugged from the matrix

I cant play with server reticle because my ping is usually 60+ so the reticle comes delayed compared to crosshair but in this mods case if u have under 20 ping i suggest u use server reticle

I have used it for a few days and to begin with I didn't hit s**t. Guess my brain had gotten used to shoot with about 75% vehicle in aim circle, but with new circle that's a 25% miss chance. But now after some more games I like it :)

What does it look like with the improved aiming device added to that the bounty one?

Nice video skill, so u will play with this mod ?Or u prefer without it ?

The mod doesn’t fix anything or make the gun any more accurate. It just better models the dispersion

Buttom line is, it doesn't chance anything. it just looks smaller to your eyes. Aiming and hitting your shots is decided by the algorithm which contains accuracy and rng inside the limits of your accuracy. it doesn't matter if you use a dot for aiming or building at the center of your screen. It won't change the algorithm so it won't effect your accuracy. As long as you aim at the center of your target ( center of the lower plate etc.), youre good to go. It is just visual, nothing more. So don't get excited :) Good luck.

didn't work for me, my leopard kept throwing shots to the very edge of the newer small aim circle, same with my fv4005, still missing a lot of shots, I was using server reticule and had good ping.

Man, my shots often go outside the circle even without the mod :) I need an aim circle size enlargement mod.

will knowing this exactly, gonna make you change the build for tanks in index?

My philosophy is "every shot not taken is a guaranteed miss" so even with my circle the size of a balloon, i still have the confidence to attempt to snipe a cupola across the map lmao and i still do hit some. Very satisfying when they do

Skill i like your videos i used to watch quicky only now i watch u too. U are kinda humorous and joyful to watch.

so it basically gives you a smaller, more accurate circle of dispersion...

Thanks Skill for all your help!

I didn't know that if you install this mod, the 1st map you get is Ruinberg...

Why did WG make the reticle bigger than it actually is?

I tried to load it, but that mode is unknown program, and my laptop don't want to do it

"the default aiming circle isn't quite right" How is this possible ? Does it mean rest of game is not quite right too ?

I tried this with Lion and it wasn't feeling great. Very often shots went outside the circle.

Its not kinda suspicious its just statistics. If you go from a 100% chance shell ends within reticle to 90% chance shell will end within reticle of course your reticle will become much smaller.

Just put it in the game without having to use a mod. More WG bs!

I thought it was just common knowledge that the aiming circle wasnt representative of the actuall spread? I remember explaining this to some friends years ago. You also mention how the mod wont fix lag, bad aim or bad rng. But you should probably have made it more clear that this mod doesnt improve accuracy what so ever, it simply gives a more accurate represantion of the potential spread of shots.

this mod is legit. You can feel that when play with high accuracy tanks like Leo,Grille,... the normal circle didn't match the accuracy, aim time at all

They should implement it to game or debuff every gun to present +70% circle.