30.8.2013

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- for now, no tier 8 premium French medium tank has been found
- maximum speed buff for JT88? “We’ll see. We are very careful when taking decisions on premium tanks”
- unified chat and friend contacts are planned for WoT and WoWp
- if you gather 240 WoWp tokens every day between 1st and 26th September in WoWp, you will be able to buy 2 months of premium (common to both WoWp and WoT) for your account for them
- new alternative ways of gaining free XP? “No comment for now, the final concept for that is not ready yet”


- for now SerB doesn’t see any possibilities for a lowtier (2-6) medium French premium tank
- the top Pershing gun (T15E2M2) is fictional, it was invented to avoid overlapping with other guns (SS: as in, it was invented in the order for the T32 and Pershing/Patton not to use the same gun, if I understand it correctly)
- the issue, where a gun “stick” to a wreck you are hiding behind or your aim reticle is aiming behind will be solved by the optional possibility to disable automatic aim height compensator
- re-worked tracers: “when it’s done it’s done”
- the new branch of US medium tanks (2nd branch, 3rd if you count the T57 one) will consist of non-autoloading tanks with regular (not oscillating) turret
- if I understand correctly, the T15E2M2 and T15E2 stats are different, because the T15E2 stats are overblown, it’s possible the T15E2 stats will be nerfed (SS: this doesn’t make sense to me much because the E2 is the weaker of the two, could be SerB’s typo – in any case, one of these guns might lose its stats and be considered lower tier weapon)

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  1. - if you gather 240 WoWp tokens every day between 1st and 26th September in WoWp, you will be able to buy 2 months of premium (common to both WoWp and WoT) for your account for them

    interesting.. he he

    • Not! You need to spent few hours to accomplish that and it’s just not worth it to play that crap game…

    • bloody hell WG is finally going to give more or less free premium and I miss it because of being on vocation till 20′th sep :/

    • Will get 3 months because of wowp events and contests (got 1670 alredy and waiting for another 500 tokens and 500 gold from community event.)

      • depends of your skill..

        for example to get 10 buildings destroy for total of 80 tokens ( 10+20+50 ), you’ll maybe need 1 game.

        for planes.. if you are an okay player, you’ll get around 2 kills per battle maybe more in one of the games.. that will end up with let’s say around 5 games for 10 kills. That’s 80 tokens more.

        And the last 80 tokens is for 10 victories.. that knows to take a bit longer if you get an unlucky loss streak :P

        • 1-2 games for ground targets
          3-6 games for the kills (maybe overlap with ground targets if you get lucky and shoot down fighters with your bomber)

          And then you can just spam all of your planes to get the wins. Who cares about win ratio in WoWP? Just spam planes, suicide rush into the enemy, some of the teams are bound to win. Do it in low tiers to maximize speed.

          • Exactly.. win ratio is not important at all considering that it’s still beta phase and your statistics will be deleted anyway :P

            Basically you can finish it all [ Kills and Ground targets ] in 3 round [ 1 for ground, 2 for kills if you have a nice plane :3 ] and then just do that.. spam the rounds with planes in order to get those 10 victories

      • I forgot to say that for the buildings you should unlock the USSR tier II ground attack aircraft ( or GAA ) Tsh-I.. with him you can destroy that much buildings per game :P

        • Nah, too much time to spent in really shitty game just to get couple of months of premium. I’m already used to standard account and i don’t mind playing like that.

          • To get 1 month premium you litrally need less then two weeks playing 20-30 minutes max.

  3. Does this mean we can finally hit a scout crossing a ridge line somehow? How would that work visually, will we get a curved line showing our shells trajectory?

    • Well, from your perspective you would only see a line (as the camera is lined up with the gun, unless it’s currently traversing), so that wouldn’t work. Maybe lines showing dropoff at various ranges, like real gun optics.

  4. It’s shit to ppl who are not interested. And actually you could accumulate 7200 tokens from the beginning of stage 2 which equals 2 months, 1 week and 4 days of premium

      • half of year premium account is 7500 tokens ( gold ), try to earn it somehow :P

        I can even bet they are in such a trouble now that they will give us some kind of additional missions for tokens so that we can go that far xD

  5. “for now SerB doesn’t see any possibilities for a lowtier (2-6) medium French premium tank”

    Bullshit. There’s plenty of possibilities that I see them possibly using. Granted, most of them are light tanks, but still, here’s some they could use:

    *FCM Char 2C (Tier 4 or 5 Heavy Tank) – this one was on a leaked tech tree listed as a premium tank, but that and the other leaked trees have since been removed.
    *Renault R40 (Tier 3 Light Tank)
    *AMR 35 (Tier 2 Light Tank)
    *AMC 35 (Tier 3 or 4 Light Tank)
    *Char G1 (Tier 4 Medium Tank)

    • Oh and I forgot to mention, there was one particular Char 2C that was fitted with a 105 mm Howitzer in the hull, which lends the possibility of it being a tier 5 premium tank destroyer or self-propelled gun as well.

      • Yeah the 2C Bis is a TD however I do not remember there being a 105mm gun in the hull. I believe the Lorraine G1 L would probably be ok around tier 4 or 5. I think the problem with French tanks isn’t so much that there aren’t enough designs to draw from but that it’s hard to find designs that fit into the game. Once they get the multi turret function in game that’ll open the door for a good number of French paper tanks.

      • One of the 2Cs was experimentally fitted with a *150mm* howitzer in what at least looked like a nonrotating turret-like structure.

      • Possibly, but there’s few places to put them unless they somehow make whole new trees. That being said, the Char 2C was designed during the last year of World War I, so it would be impossible to fit it into the normal trees; it would have to be a premium tank.

        The Renault R40 could possibly be a normal tier 4, but I listed it as tier III because its firepower is comparable to a tank like the AMX-38.

        The G1 could also possibly be a tier 5 medium as it was supposed to be comparable to the M4, Panzer IV and T-34, but development on it was halted with the fall of France so there aren’t a whole lot of modules that it could be given.

      • G1 will probably be in regular tech tree. Rest of them are not meds and answer was about medium tanks. French super big heavies will be implemented after multiturret mechanism.

    • there’s a likelihood all those will be in the regular techtree though, that might be why he said he can’t find a premium candidate

  6. - the top Pershing gun (T15E2M2) is fictional, it was invented to avoid overlapping with other guns (SS: as in, it was invented in the order for the T32 and Pershing/Patton not to use the same gun, if I understand it correctly)

    Didnt you mention (or one of your staff) that the real 90mm T54 gun (that was indeed tested) is functionally identical to that fictional gun? This could be used instead…

    • It depends how fast you can make 1 (10 tokens), 3 (20) and 10(50) frags, ground targets and wins.

  8. I sense a removal of Pershing’s top gun, to be compensated by +10 radio range

    • I really don’t see why they want to nerf that gun though, it’s not a particularly powerful one, I was hoping the Super Pershing’s gun was gonna be brought in line with the Pershing’s, not the other way around…

  9. Is it just me or is EU1 lagging so terribly tonight that it’s just unplayable? Five rounds in a row my tank drives itself in the middle of the map and I can’t do anything.

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  11. Now French premium mediums?

    BS!

    There are 3 “G1″ tanks that currently aren’t in the game.

    The Renault G1R
    The Lorraine G1L
    and the Poniatowski G1P

    As it currently stands…
    The Renault G1R will research into the ARL-44
    The Lorrain G1L will be a part of the second medium branch.
    This leaves the Poniatowski G1P as a candidate for a premium medium.

  12. Curious why no mention of a possibility for a tier 7 French medium tank was made. Is there a known tier 7 French medium tank in the works?

    - for now, no tier 8 premium French medium tank has been found
    - for now SerB doesn’t see any possibilities for a lowtier (2-6) medium French premium tank

    • Probably because if all else fails a trophy Panther is a near shoo-in at that tier (compare Ersatz Panther in the German tree) – the French operated the things longer than the Germans themselves after all. I’m under the impression there’s also a wealth of immediate postwar “paper projects” to pick from if it comes to that.

  13. - for now SerB doesn’t see any possibilities for a lowtier (2-6) medium French premium tank

    BDR G1R – problem solved.

  14. Eventough i knew that this token thing is just a propaganda from WG to make people play WoWP i had inention to play it and earn a couple of months of premium, but from the comments from people that actually play the game it seems like a rather boring job to do every day and not really worth it if you aren’t really big of a fan of aeroplanes and WoWP itself.

    • It takes no more then 10 minutes to get everything done but the 10 victories.

      So its worth it. Simply get low tier planes and pimp them (No tier restrictions for the missions)

    • and they refuse to balance them when they suck, all they do when they touch them is nerf them.

  16. We figured the new branch won’t be auto’s we saw a screenshot of one of the tanks almost a year ago with so much talk of them now I am surprised they are still on the to do list

  18. Second. Third. What’s the hell’s the difference? Just give me the American Medium Tanks already!

  19. No matter what incentives they offer people to play WoWP, it is still shit and I will never play it. War Thunder all the way.

  20. No possibility for french low-tier premiums? There are already two, it’s just that they are stuck with the germans atm. How about dropping the german copula from the PzKpfw 38H, painting it up french and voila, french Tier 2 premium. Same could be done with the B2. As both are not in the shop any longer this would work rather well while also giving the french both a light and a heavy crew trainer in the low level range.

    …almost forgot, The S35 could get the same treatment. So we also got a potential low-level medium crew trainer too.

    • Not seeing why a German modification of a trophy B1 would be a French prem, and the two others are nigh certain to be part of regular trees once those come out.

  21. Sorry for a completely unrelated question that is still quite important..

    Anyone knows if the E-50/E-50M gun depression changes (frontal section now only -5°/.-6°) are a bug or are intentional? This isnt mentioned in the patchnotes..

    in test 1, the -5°/-6° only applied to the headlight bump, rest had -8° gun depression, including the rest of the frontal section.

    in test 2, the whole frontal section only has -5°/-6°. You can only get -8° gun depression on the sides.

    • Just checked on test server, frontally it defiantly has less than -8 (in tank viewer -8 clips the headlamp AND view ports) but i cant say is it -6 or -7 or something in between. Once you get passed view ports, you get -8 (except over engine deck)

      Btw, 8.7 50m has -6 over the frontal arc too and it clips trough view ports (bad mantlet design)

      • p.s tank viewer is buged as it lets you lower the gun much more (clips) and you cant rotate the turret at all…t hats why i played a game on test server so i dont have exact numbers. i maid SS and its certainly not -5 as some people suggest but it also isnt -8 over frontal arc