26.7.2013

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- A-32 tank underpowered? “How terrible”
- nerfs of previous patches unreasonable? “Your opinion is very important to us”
- average and maximum damage player statistic might be changed to not include the premium account influence (like in WoWp)
- Q: “Is the maximum amount of implemented premium tanks per patch somehow limited?” A: “Yes, 100 thousand.” (SS: in other words, no)


- Q: “From which tank will the new Soviet branch start?” A: “From a Soviet one”
- T-44 buff (including penetration, passability etc.)? “Stop whining and begging”
- T-111 (T-46-5) will be implemented in the future
- FV4202 wrongly modelled? “How terribly” (SS: a player complained that the angles are wrong and that the ingame model doesn’t look like the real FV4202)
- WoT Tweaker not supported and deleted from RU forums? “And where is it written that we have to support something?”
- the removal of premium account on player statistics is possible, but it has little priority
- clans of WG employees getting M60 tank for free without playing WG’s? “How unjust is the world!” (SS: it was explained earlier that WG employees get these tanks for testing)
- SerB on farming: “You farm on tier 5-6, if you want to farm online. In other words, you make money either in game, or outside of it.”
- MS-1 having the same camo factor as T-34? “How terrible”
- tank fording equipment (SS: to allow the tank to pass thru water without drowning) might be implemented as an equipment into the game (SS: SerB states “module”, but that would make little sense), but its chance of appearing is smaller than that of amphibious tanks, as it is difficult to implement correctly
- Pz S35 and FCM36 were not removed from the shops, because developers don’t consider them imbalanced
- regarding finding info on Japanese tanks: the Japanese archives don’t have the same problem as in China, where everything’s secret – a lot of Japanese archives were destroyed during bombings and for example from O-I, only one track piece remains in a museum
- Havok has nothing to do with the movement of tanks, which is calculated serverside, while Havok works clientside
- Japanese tier 10 medium tank should have roughly the same armor as Leopard 1 and Batchat, the concept was the same
- apparently, the balance weight of tier 8-9 tanks in 8.7 was not changed
- 8.8 Soviet branch tier 9 is still being uncovered, there is a paper variant of the Object 430 in Kharkov documents, but only little info is available (SS: which means 8.8 might come later than we hoped)
- apparently, the Highway map base balance is just fine
- Q: “When the option of creating companies on regular account was introduced, one developer mentioned that premium account will get some sort of buff, what will it be?” A: “Secret”
- apparently, the VK2801 gun depression is just fine (SS: some player complained that it’s less than it should be)
- SerB confirms that the Camouflage skill is counted based on crew average
- currently, HESH rounds have no additional effect on crew/modules than other types of rounds (SS: mechanics-wise, HESH rounds are HE rounds)
- free camera is already implemented into the client, but it has been disabled, because according to WG, it will only confuse/get in the way
- manual vertical aiming will be implemented in the future (SS: currently, player basically doesn’t aim on distance, the game does it for him – you just point and click, in the future, it might be possible to adjust the gun elevation manually without moving the reticle, so that the shell flies where you want to)
- SerB is still in France, he states that he will definitely grind the second Soviet med branch and the British arties, “when I get out of cities, where every 5th packet disappears”
- second German TD branch will NOT include Jagdpanther II
- WT E-100 might get its spaced side armor (“skirts”) removed, other armor will also be thinner
- apparently (SS: and I have no idea what this means), Wargaming has not given out the “API stats” for M60 and rating sites are not happy about it, on which SerB stated he doesn’t give a damn about
- serverside replays are still planned
- apparently, there are no formal “minimum” requirements for a vehicle to make it to the game, for example the E-50M was based on rumors only – that the Germans were creating a rear-transmission E-50
- Chaffee rebalance? “When it’s done it’s done” (SS: there were hints that it actually might happen in 8.8/8.9)
- RU251 German T8 LT? “When it’s done it’s done”
- MT-25 is unlocked from KV-1S, because both vehicles were made by the same designers

86 thoughts on “26.7.2013”

  1. “- average and maximum damage player statistic might be changed to not include the premium account influence (like in WoWp)”

    Tin foil hats on! WG admits that premium account gives you better damage! :P

      • With premium account you earn more credits and that means that you don’t need to play so many battles with lower tier tanks to farm credits. You can play more battles on high tier tanks without going backrupt and that means more average damage.

        This is a “PayToHaveBetterStats” game.

        • mercenario, this is garbage!
          Average means average because the average is calculated. The only stat that is directly influenced by premium account is the earned XP. Probably this is meant, need to be confirmed by SS

          • Read the official wot wiki. In the “Gold economy” section you’ll find that a premium account “gives 50% more credits and 50% more experience per battle, and a clean garage”.

            • And where it says “50% more damage”?
              Wait… until your most important stat is the average damage of all tanks combined? Not each? Is it? Really?

        • Doing 1000 damage in an MS1 is more impressive than doing 1300 on an IS-3. Besides, he means XP. If so I hope it happens because average XP is useless now… unless its over 900 :D.

    • It refers to XP.

      Why? Because WoWP currently shows average XP without prem. How do we know it? Well first flight with a new plane gives as an example 3000 xp (x2). Then we check the stats page and it shows maximum XP for that plane as 1000. Same with average XP.

  2. - average and maximum damage player statistic might be changed to not include the premium account influence (like in WoWp)

    I guess you mean average XP here?

    about API: rating sites get data from WG for all tanks except M60 which means rating results get fucked up – difference in actual games played if you sum games played on all tanks and what WG provides.

      • The sides need to know what tanks u played and how many battles u played on that tank to calculate ur avg. tanktier which is needed for most ratings.

          • Well, since it was given only to supposedly good players maybe they want to avoid random players crying when they see it’s high win rate ;p

    • WG are going to introduce a specal stat for the M60 and the other elite gift tanks. It will be how may seconds on average they survive in games before they are rage killed by their own team.

      • Jealous and bitter you didn’t get one yourself? I am yet to get any team damage in my M60 so I guess people like you are just a minority (and a very amusing minority at that, now go to the forums and make some funny raging posts about how unfair it is that good players get to win rewards)

        • The M60 is given only to good clanwars players however this doesn’t mean that they are good players at all.
          Yesterday I had about 20 battles with M60s in and the majority of their drivers failed hard in their gameplay even if they were platooned.
          Its easier to win a cw battle with a team you can rely on and a commander that has a well chosen tactic and can reorganize his forces during the battle than being placed with 14 randomly selected players you know nothing about and can hardly communicate with.
          So enjoy your special tank but dont be so arrogant to claim that only cw players are the good ones.

    • There are worse in this very community. He is just “trolling”for fun. At times it seems silly or even mildly offensive, but still pales to what I have seen :( .

      • His sense of ‘fun’ gets your teeth kicked in sooner or later (count on ‘sooner’!) where I live.

        • Good thing he doesn’t live in a “nasty, short and brutish” Dark Ages shithole then. :|

  4. shouldn’t the Pz S35 be removed anyway?
    Since they are planning to add S35 in the french tree.

    • on the other hand matilda IV, valentine II and churchill III are still available(british tech tree says hi). Not to mention a certain ‘chinese’ tier 3 REGULAR tank which is even more awkward.

  5. “- manual vertical aiming will be implemented in the future (SS: currently, player basically doesn’t aim on distance, the game does it for him – you just point and click, in the future, it might be possible to adjust the gun elevation manually without moving the reticle, so that the shell flies where you want to)”

    This apply to artys only, right?

    • It would surely be useful on derps and other high arc shooting guns.

      Imagine a situation: enemy tank on a ridge/horizon that just got invisible again, but you know that it is sitting there – but you can’t hit it, the game aims “behind him” and the shell makes a huge arc, thus overshooting the intended target.

      However, it’s usefulness would greatly depend on the implementation – controls, switching between the modes etc.

    • No, it means when you aim at a tank (e.g. at 400m) sitting on a ridge, your “aim / beam” ends at that tank and the elevation is calculated that the shot hits this spot after 400m. If the tank disappears when it’s not spotted, then your “aim / beam” ends at the obejct behind the hill, either a mountain or the sky for example. Then your shot is aimed at the mountain 800m away from you and the shell will miss the invisible tank.
      Sometimes you can see that your reticle doesn’t match your aim anymore. This is similar.

      • I usually lock the turret/gun when aiming at a far away tank so if it disappears, my gun won’t move, helps a lot. This distance lock will help too, especially on derps.

  6. - apparently, there are no formal “minimum” requirements for a vehicle to make it to the game, for example the E-50M was based on rumors only – that the Germans were creating a rear-transmission E-50

    So when can we expect the Weserhütte Tiger?

  7. - WT E-100 might get its spaced side armor (“skirts”) removed, other armor will also be thinner

    ……great. No more side scrapping? -,-

  9. Quote:
    - apparently (SS: and I have no idea what this means), Wargaming has not given out the “API stats” for M60 and rating sites are not happy about it, on which SerB stated he doesn’t give a damn about
    End of quote

    M60 will definately have a higher win rate, damage, kills than normal tanks because it is driven only by the best Clan Wars players. If WG provides the API and the ranking sites start pulling data from WG and general player base will find out M60 have 60%+ win rate then all the guys who do not have the tank will consider it overpowered and demand a nerf.

    On a side note if Producer A is using one coding system and Producer B is using another different coding system if they wish to communicate they develop a 3rd system that can be understand by both their system. That is called an API.
    Something like : I speak Romanian, you speak Chzech but we understand each other by talking English. In our case English is the API language.

    I guess you could just skip the API word because prolly some other players do not know what it means. Just say : ” Wargaming has not given out the stats for M60 because…”

    • No. They are already all over RU server… And their drivers sux, because everyone one knows how they “achieved” them in clanwars.

  10. The FV4202 armour IS wrong though! Even the_chieftain agrees its wrong. WTF is WG doing? Talking about being uncoordinated on sending a message to it’s users….

  11. >“when I get out of cities, where every 5th packet disappears”
    This is what happens when you’re spoiled by those damned fast connections in eastern Europe.

  13. “second German TD branch will NOT include Jagdpanther II”

    Is this a reference that JagdPantherII will be taken out from game?

    • No. It simply won’t be connected to the second branch, it won’t be a part of it either, it will stay as it is now.

      Plus, hightier 2nd TD branch German vehicles will be VERY different from what you’re used to. You’ll see.

      • I agree with SS, as before WG did say (i can remember) that the normal line is over Jagdpanther II and not Ferdinand, cause Ferdinand is a Porsche vehicle based on Tiger P, cause Tiger P was a fail development but they realized it at the Point already many Tiger P’s was produced. So its a really good know TD of the German, and it was already in the Techtree, but Jagdpanther II fits the T8 gap better in this line.

  14. “Your opinion is very important to us” (this sounds like a troll – like always) and when players give him some opinion, his answer will always be “How terrible !!! ” So for me it’ logical not to give them an opinion because they will not listen anyway :)

  17. - free camera is already implemented
    into the client, but it has been disabled,
    because according to WG, it will only
    confuse/get in the way.

    Yep, just have to unlock it and you good to go. Nice tool.
    Works only for replays.

  18. - SerB is still in France, he states that he will definitely grind the second Soviet med branch and the British arties, “when I get out of cities, where every 5th packet disappears”

    Telia.FR ? Welcome to the plight of NA players SerB ;)

  19. - WT E-100 might get its spaced side armor (“skirts”) removed, other armor will also be thinner

    But don’t worry. It still will be slow as shit and maneuverable as a brick…

      • Foch 155 is doing fine only becouse have very good armor in front, nice camo, and autoloader, and i fast and agile, but WT E100 is based on very big chassis, i dont think it would be as fast as Foch, will be bigger, a no armor, cuz JpE100 have it, so what will be hes strenght?

        • Pop up with 4-5 sheels magazine from a corner, unload them, having a chance to bounce some sheels with the E-100′s armour and than retreat to cover.
          Also, don’t forget it has a turret.

          • 4-5 sheels magazine for 150mm, I dont think so. Maybe hull could bounce, but this tank like most waffentrager have open-top turrent, so very easy to get destory by arty shoot, and for plans ona RU forum, turret of WT were very tiny, 60 mm eaven less, this is not much.

  20. - apparently (SS: and I have no idea what this means), Wargaming has not given out the “API stats” for M60 and rating sites are not happy about it, on which SerB stated he doesn’t give a damn about
    API stats would be file location/type as in they are referring to a .api file (or at least that is what I presume they are referring to.

    - E-100 might get its spaced side armor (“skirts”) removed, other armor will also be thinner
    I swear WG does seem to enjoy nerfing German tanks, its why I never tried to progress down those lines.

    • Read the full text assy…it says “WT E-100″, not E-100…WT=Waffentrager
      WT+E-100=Waffentrager E-100, got it now?

  21. - A-32 tank underpowered? “How terrible”

    A-32 is far from being underpowered, if you know which ammunition use (penetration only 66 mm) it is easy to score nice damage. I have 56% winrate including many battles from times when i was fighting against tier 6.

  22. “- apparently (SS: and I have no idea what this means), Wargaming has not given out the “API stats” for M60 and rating sites are not happy about it, on which SerB stated he doesn’t give a damn about”

    How nice. Wot developer admitting he does not give a shit about how a feature of his own game works. Api broken . serb doesn’t care. Working as intended

  24. Hey, SS, could you write more about the Tweaker removal? I’m using it for quite a long time to increase performance, and even saw a version for 8.7 few days ago. What happened?

    • yeap, the EU thread is still up with WOT Tweaker, the linked on RU forum (which I was always checking first) seems to be down. Why?