Developers answer in Odessa

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2152808.html
Author: chelovel_bek

Basically, there was a community meeting between the developers and gamers in Odessa on 15.6.2013 and one player did write down the developer answers. The responding person was Evilly, Russian chief community manager.

You’re going to like this…

Here goes:

- players from 80 countries play WoT
- King of Jordan plays on EU server
- Evilly states that while the M40/43 shell is flying, he has time to have a cup of tea
- 0.8.7 will come by the end of July or beginning of August and will bring British arty and the Chinese premium 112
- 0.8.8 will bring 2nd branch of Soviet medium tanks with Object 430
- Superpershing will recieve a new gun (current M26 Pershing’s top gun) and its maneuverability will be improved
- current IS-7 ingame armor is thicker than it was in real life, but it will stay as it is
- tanks don’t roll over on their backs, because the game is unplayable that way
- 2nd German TD line will be after 0.8.8, it’s top vehicles will be the Waffentragers, tier 10 will have a 4-round autoloader (SS: I WAS RIGHT! Damn, I really was :) 4 rounds and not 3… that means 128mm FlaK 45 I think, expect amazing accuracy and brutal penetration, but low alpha)
- until Fall 2013, the economic model in the game (prices etc.) won’t be reworked
- Type 59 was removed from shops because there were too many of them and because there will be another tier 8 Chinese premium MT
- multiturret mechanism won’t come anytime soon, there are higher priority tasks
- hourly premium account is not profitable from economic point of view
- no details are known, but there WILL be special tier 10 tanks (like M60, VK7201 and Object) available for random battle players
- in the future, Germans will shoot more accurately on extreme distances
- in the future, all 3 of WG projects will be somewhat compatible, but not as much as those of Gaijin
- Evilly doesn’t like the AMX40, but likes to own in E50M
- this year will also bring a premium medium French tank
- Chinese tree has a TD branch upcoming, either by the end of 2013, or in 2014
- it is yet not decided whether Sturmtiger will come as TD or artillery, if it becomes an arty, it will have a very short range, it won’t come in 2013
- there might come an event analogical to the White Tiger event (SS: as a partnership advertisement of the Russian White Tiger movie, a special Tiger P was implemented into the game and in a special mode it was fighting against 15 T-34/85′s)
- Clanwars implemented into the client will come either until the end of the year, or in 1st quarter of 2014
- roaming test is planned for autumn, it will be released around New year
- vehicle velocity doesn’t depend on full/empty ammo rack
- there will be an option to switch whole chat off
- game engine won’t change, but it will be improved
- national crew voices will come
- during WG’s birthday event, players will recieve a free lowtier tank
- Soviet premium medium tank (early T-44 with 85mm gun) will come this Fall
- WG is working on an official mod portal
- there will be massive changes in graphics – weather and night battles will come, as well as turrets being ripped off by explosions and pieces of armor flying off when hit
- garage battles are really complicated to do in randoms, so they will be done in CW’s/companies, possibly this year
- historical battles won’t come in 2013, there are problems in balance
- Type 59 will never return to the shops, ever
- skill MM will never come to randoms
- 30 vs 30 battles have been postponed, the stress on client computers is way too big
- AMX ELC didn’t recieve a fully rotating turret, because it’s not a turret and the head of the crewman is sticking out
- minefields will come to clanwars, they will work as consumables
- Xbox and PC WoT won’t be unified
- no premium T9-T10 tanks
- combat missions aka “miniquests”, awarding top 3 damage dealers of the team, will come apparently again during the WG birthday event

101 thoughts on “Developers answer in Odessa”

  2. “- Superpershing will recieve a new gun (current M26 Pershing’s top gun) and its maneuverability will be improved” well if he reach the 38km/h that was a good point :)

    • Uuuuuuuuughhhhhhhhhh. That sucks. The Pershing’s top gun is only 180 pen, and the T15E1 is supposed to have 200!

      The maneuverability improvement will be nice though, I realized yesterday that it struggles to hit the 35 km/h it historically had on flat ground, never mind the 38 km/h listed in game.

  3. - Type 59 will never return to the shops, ever

    Feels so good to own a Type59 and know that no one will be able to get one anymore :D

    Next one will be 112.

    • it doesnt mean that i wont come as a gift shop item as it has in the past, maybe on wgs birthday ?:P

    • Unfortunately, that is WHY the rigging of contests goes on. If WG would release the Type 59 and other premium tanks used as prizes back into the game store, it would put an immediate stop to the rigging of contests.

      • People who rig the contests would continue to do it because they are cheaters and thieves who think they can get away with it. Bringing the Type 59 back to the store / gift shop wouldn’t stop that behavior at all!

        • Seriously guys, The Type 59 was OP, is still pretty damn good, and yes, I bought one when it came out. They had a good reason to remove it from the store and frankly they should have removed it from the game and reimbursed everyone who bought it because of the amount of bitching it gets.

        • Totally agree with that. The Type 59 (or what I called it a ‘Troll 59′) is plain OP and easy as hell to play that maybe even chimps can play it right.

          Putting it back to in-game store will only escalate the number of noobs who want a great tank with little effort and better return income. And I’m pretty sure chunks of players from a certain cluster and a certain country would dump their money on it and we will end up seeing a great bunch of it in each match in that cluster

          • Thats utter BS. More like sour grapes crap. Type 59 is simply unbalanced as a premium Tier 8, as in, its almost as good as a regular Tier 8 medium. Its not OP at all, and its no easier to play then other tier 8 mediums like T44/M26.

            I don’t disagree with Type’s removal from shop though, but you need not get all bitter about it because you couldn’t get one, or didn’t bother learning how to deal with types.

        • > they are cheaters and thieves who think they can get away with it

          But they CAN get away with it! WG doesn’t even check replays, I know several people who rigged contests and none of them got caught, ever, and none will be. KingAlphyn only got caught because he trusted a subhuman traitorous pleb.

      • The type 59 was removed because it practically ruined the game. It was so OP that everyone who could bought one. They were in every mid to high tier battle, and groups of them dominated the battle to the exclusion of everything else. Bringing it back would be a horrible mistake.

    • I don’t own a Type 59, but I’m Chinese, so I can get one whenever I want :P

      • The Type isn’t OP at all in relation to normal tanks, it’s just very fun to play and earns a lot of money, the former not being usually the case with premium tanks.

  4. “2nd German TD line will be after 0.8.8″
    But when? Also no news about the RU251. Or if they would implement that Pz 38 D with some kick ass weaponry, I would be happy.

  5. hmmm the graphics-rework/rebrand gets closer, yet neither serb or anybody else from the WG staff stated if it is scheduled for 2013…
    Anymore info someone?

    • I wouldn’t bet on it being this year. If anything, it’s probably 2014-15.

      • I hope u are joking, i wouldnt be surprized if it was released by the end of 2013. They already have all the high quality art assets available ( when u create new asset, you first do it in ultra high detail and then scale them down for game). So only thing they need to do is improve game engine performance, add new features to it and then add better art assets. We already seen somewhat better looking game for xbox360 e3 presentation(it seems to be using new updated engine, with new effects and art). And honestly talking, xbox360 is something like 5times weaker than gaming pc today, so u can expect PC version to look much much better.

  6. “- there will be an option to switch whole chat off”
    -about bloody time, now I don’t have to listen to any more holocaust deniers, Nazis, political muppets, homophobes, bigots and other racist morons.

      • We’re seriously going to deny the Holocaust on a Czech blog about internet tanks, huh?

      • When people deny the obvious and proven they don’t hurt my feelings you sanctimonious and pompous imbecile, they hurt my intelligence. I would rather they stay under their own little rock playing with their genitals than offend me with their stupidity. Hopefully time spent fostering their own conspiracies about the world and nurturing their fascist hard-ons will deny them breeding time so evolution can take its course.
        The sooner these spineless gimps are completely ignorable the happier I will be.

      • “did someone hurt your feelings with your opinions” How could his feelings be hurt by their own opinions? Or are you too stupid to property construct your sentences?

    • Very bad thing if chat mode can be turned off completely. There is a lot of good information going on in there that must be addressed to all team members. Team which has more player who hade turned chat mode off is automatically in shorthanded position

    • Totally agree here, there are quite a chunk of them in the NA cluster.

      Now I’m in SEA Cluster and I am glad I will no longer be seeing square languages

    • Shouldn’t the Somua SM be a regular tier 7 heavy? Maybe it’s one Char G1, I think the Lorraine-one was planned as premium, or it’s the promised chest TD. :D

      • I’m assuming it would be a high-tier medium, but I’m also OK with a tier 5 one. I just really want something to train my Lorry crew. :)

  10. That is one shit load of good news in one post. Free tank, ability to get premium Tier X’s for non-clanwars, Soviet premium, French premium, mini-quest (please worldwide), auto-loading kraut TD’s, Super P with a new (better?) gun and better manueverability. NICE.

  11. lets just it will be able to reach its top speed or its gone from my garage

  12. “current IS-7 ingame armor is thicker than it was in real life, but it will stay as it is”

    because historical accuracy matters only when it can be used to nerf German tanks or buff Russian tanks.

    • I see, that’s why Tiger II’s lower front plate is 120 mm instead of historical 100 mm, and IS-3′s frontal armour is 110 mm instead of historical 120 mm.
      Oh, wait…

    • You won’t believe it, mate, but the IS-7′s rate of fire was actually higher in reality.

      • You won’t believe this but experienced Tiger crews could manage a RoF of 15 per minute.

        • 15 RoF for a tank gun? Bullshit. This is rate of fire for FlaK gun, with crew of 4-6. They have enough space and peoples to load gun fast.

          But inside of Tiger turret (And KT turret too) there is not so much space, and there is no 2-3 loaders. RoF of 88 guns in Tiger turret was ~5-6, 7 at best. In KT case – about 5.
          I even don’t speak about situations, when turret Ammorack is empty, and poor guy need to grab shells fron hull ammorack.

          • Stop destroying the “german tanks where supermegaüber stronk tanks”-bubble!!!

  13. - combat missions aka “miniquests”, awarding top 3 damage dealers of the team, will come apparently again during the WG birthday event

    time to get four miniquest reward every five games ^.^

    • Yeah, I see myself on the top of the rooster 9 games out of 10 ^^ I can’t wait!

      And if I’m playing something OP….may luck be in your favor, since odds wont be.

    • - combat missions aka “miniquests”, awarding top 3 damage dealers of the team, will come apparently again during the WG birthday event.

      Yeah right. Did you notice the lack of -on all servers. I have no faith in WG on this point.

  14. Oh yes, the second Soviet medium branch :D
    And the T-44 premium :D
    And nation dependant voices (seriously, why couldn’t WG did such elementary things in the beggining…)

  15. >King of Jordan plays on EU server
    Do they need other Arab chief of state who play WoT to introduce more Middle East’s flags?

  16. Anyone have any idea what the birthday gift tank will be and when exactly are we going to get it?

    • According to the Russian wikipedia entry, Wargaming.net has been founded on 12 August 1998 (there’s a “citation needed” note though). I understand that no info about the specific tank has been released, it’s the first time I hear anything about this gift tank.

  17. Wow. Simply wow. Just an amazing dump of information for things coming months ahead out of nowhere.

    Thanks, thanks a lot SS.

  18. >- Soviet premium medium tank (early T-44 with 85mm gun) will come this Fall
    I wonder if they explicitly confirmed that it’s going to get the 85mm or the writer just assumed that, the 122mm one was also one of the early prototypes..

  19. They mentioned the sturmtiger that fires rockets but not the Churchill AVRE, I would of expected the AVRE to come first considering how they already have a base model for it and it would be easier to decide how its shell would fly and work. Also there’s is most likely to be more info on the AVRE. In every way I don’t understand why AVRE isn’t first in line when compared to something that shoots ROCKETS! If there has been info on some forum post or somewhere else that the AVRE is coming sooner, all I know is that it might come late this year or next year maybe, then I’ll look a right fool posting this :3.

    • AVRE fired the petard mortar, not rockets. Rockets were used on the Churchill Wurlitzer which was for clearing minefields.

  20. This is a lot of god and interesting news SS. WoT’s future looks bright based on this Q&A but it’s WG after all, so everything can happen.

  21. Very important question: Will WG import multi-core support,because single-core support isn’t that great on multi-core processors.

    • They stated the havok physics will run on another core, so it should take some load off the first and even it out.

    • Old tech tree had it starting with T-34M, tier 6 medium unlocked from T-34.

  23. “- King of Jordan plays on EU server”

    What could be his username? JordaniaFTW? :D

  24. ” King of Jordan plays on EU server” No wonder Jordan is the only flag from the middle east (I think).

    “0.8.7 will come by the end of July or beginning of August and will bring British arty and the Chinese premium 112″ Joy, more arty and still no Firefly or Achilles.

    “Type 59 was removed from shops because there were too many of them and because there will be another tier 8 Chinese premium MT” Well now there’s too many heavy tanks out there. 112 only makes it worse.

    “Chinese tree has a TD branch upcoming, either by the end of 2013, or in 2014″ Great, more Chinese and still no EU tree. China market FTW

    “during WG’s birthday event, players will recieve a free lowtier tank” How sweet. Guess we won’t have to wait until Christmas then.

    “historical battles won’t come in 2013, there are problems in balance” There’s no such thing as balanced in historical battles (remember Villers Bocage?). Balancing it just defeats the purpose.

    • If u want to take the winner’s side and smash some enemies tanks just load a single player game.

      That’s the problem about historical battles. They’re more single player than WoT really want to be.

      • They could’ve just remove the victory/defeat status and voila, whatever team you get yourself into you have just to do your best and you’re awarded.

    • “Chinese tree has a TD branch upcoming, either by the end of 2013, or in 2014″ Great, more Chinese and still no EU tree. China market FTW

      love it, when **** think the world turns around Europe…. guys get some education, theres more on earth than just Europe

  25. “- Superpershing will recieve a new gun (current M26 Pershing’s top gun) and its maneuverability will be improved”
    Neat. So it gets its historicalish gun, and either a more powerful engine or improved tracks, in exchange for a drop from “bounces everything” to “bounces nearly everything” for its frontal armor (keeping in mind that in 8.6 you’ll be able to engage from a longer range due to accuracy changes and more accurate gun).
    On top of this, WG has offered to let owners try it and, if they don’t like the changes, buy it back at full price (even if it was bought on sale).

    Sounds pretty damn good to me. And yet, knowing the community, people will *still* bitch about it, despite the tank overall ending up buffed. *sigh*

    Wonder if they’re going to raise the price. Sure, it’s a medium, but it’s pretty much going to be a slightly slower, well-armored version of a fully-upgraded Pershing with better matchmaking and tier 8 premium credit multiplier…

    • Hmm, I’m still not sure about it…

      The frontal armour was enabling the player to get close enough to hit the weak spots, but I doubt that the Pershing’s gun will prove to be reliable enough to even out the armour nerf (however, didnt play with the Pershing after the accuracy changes). and even with raised top speed, lets say 35 kph, flanking manouvers will be quite difficult

      but anyway, lets see how it performs and what they change in the end, I like the tank a lot and do not want to trade it in :D

  26. King of Jordan user name, anyone? i wanna platoon together

    new Premium? who cares…. do you want to spend 45eur on ingame tank? better pre-order battlefield 4, they will have nice tanks also…and somewhat passable graphics, not like WoT amazing one core graphics but still…

    ha! Arma 3 Beta is live today!

    • yeah, using the dev-build currently but looking forward to see the stable beta and the workshop integration

      …hopefully they add a mods section to the workshop :)

  30. -0.8.8 will bring 2nd branch of Soviet medium tanks with Object 430
    – Superpershing will recieve a new gun (current M26 Pershing’s top gun) and its maneuverability will be improved
    – 2nd German TD line will be after 0.8.8, it’s top vehicles will be the Waffentragers, tier 10 will have a 4-round autoloader (SS: I WAS RIGHT! Damn, I really was :) 4 rounds and not 3… that means 128mm FlaK 45 I think, expect amazing accuracy and brutal penetration, but low alpha)
    – no details are known, but there WILL be special tier 10 tanks (like M60, VK7201 and Object) available for random battle players
    – in the future, Germans will shoot more accurately on extreme distances
    – game engine won’t change, but it will be improved
    – national crew voices will come
    – during WG’s birthday event, players will recieve a free lowtier tank
    – Soviet premium medium tank (early T-44 with 85mm gun) will come this Fall
    – there will be massive changes in graphics – weather and night battles will come, as well as turrets being ripped off by explosions and pieces of armor flying off when hit

    —> I LIKE :-)

  31. That special Tiger P events must be somewhat frequent, I mean, some type of “historical” battles should pop up when for example 15 T-34/85 and 6 Tiger 2 are available. It would be great to get into some special battles time to time in randoms

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  33. any other about 8.8 (2nd branch rus med) where it ill start from ? t-34 ?

    and where i can ask something from Serb or anybody who answers and in the dev team (tried overlord nothing)

  34. Is there any reason to postpone so much 2nd German TD branch, since they promissed it long ago? I dont get it.

    I read that there will be a feature to change a crew members job? is this true? is it a priority for now? It would help a lot, since i have plenty of commanders and pilots and lack of loaders and gunners.

    • “Is there any reason to postpone so much 2nd German TD branch, since they promissed it long ago? I dont get it”.
      because german techtree has the most tanks of all techtrees and noone except some crazy german fanboys cares about it?(Im German myself so nothing against german ;) )

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  37. - current IS-7 ingame armor is thicker than it was in real life, but it will stay as it is

    I KNEW IT