22.9.2013

- there will be no option to enable the old statistics window in settings
- new crew skills aren’t coming anytime soon
- devs considered increasing the amount of slots for equipment, but decided not to do it, because “the choice of what to put on a tank is also a part of the gameplay, the more you can mount on your tank, the lesser the role this part of gameplay has”
- Storm states that big game releases (such as BF3, Warcraft datadisk, GTA5) have almost no impact on WoT playerbase, there have been temporary short drops by several percent


- Storm confirms that the difference between the MM weight of both teams must be lower than 10 percent
- the fact you can see the destruction of objects by a tank that’s not seen yet by your team is intentional
- more convenient mechanism for searching players for companies and platoons is planned
- Storm states that the distance from bush to tank (specifically the 15 meters rule) is measured from the center of the bush to the center of the tank, but he’s not absolutely sure
- Storm (regarding the packet loss issue in 0.8.8) states there has not been any engine update in the patch, but it seems the 0.5.3 WoWp now has the same issue
- Q: “SerB, why do you think the game that is supposed to be relaxing provokes so many negative emotions in many players?” A:”I think that this is because ‘many players’ are immature, envious and they blame everyone but themselves for their failures”
- the tank with best camo factor in 0.8.8? “Won’t be disclosed”
- the possibility to “prolong” the time remaining on camos brought by credits (SS: for example you buy camo, then it’s 3 days left and you want to prolong it by buying another week) is not there, because in order to introduce it the devs would have to make the system more complicated, it won’t be done in the future
- consumables that increase crew XP gain? “Wait for announcements”

71 thoughts on “22.9.2013

    • - new crew skills aren’t coming anytime soon
      tbh it shouldnt be hard to make some new crew skills, 2 per crew member is ok

          • Yes there are times where auto aim is usefull. Such as drive bys and other times where you can’t aim and drive at the same time due to where the target is compared to your tank.

            But most siemas? Just use it to shoot normally.

            Tank driving at 500 m away. IM GOING TO AUTO AIM!!
            German tank facing me at 100 m and I could aim at his lower glacis. IM GOING TO AUTO AIM!
            British TD right in front of me. IM GOING TO AUTO AIM!

            • Dude, you can joke, but I in my Leo 1 had this situation today, I poked out a corner, autoaimed at enemy FV 215b 450m (!!!) away, fired and backed into cover in less than 1 second. The shot went in and penetrated. I LOVE Leo 1 for its poke, fire, back capabilities.

        • Gunner:
          Cheating the RNG – your gunner has finished advanced quantum physics studies so he can predict movement of random particles. He is so perfect in his job, that there is a 5% chance that he will predict the actual point the gun will shoot and mark it with a red dot on your crosshair. Use it for super precise shots over long distances or at hard to hit weakspots.

          Radioman:
          Decyphering Enigma – your radioman randomly switches frequency in order to hear enemy commands. There is 10% chance for every hidden enemy tank in your radio range to be detected in that way for 10 seconds. Check is done every minute. But this ability makes communication with teammates harder, so your radio range is reduced by 20%.

          Satellite hack – your radioman can do something useful – he hacks the artillery GPS satellite system. Whenever any artillery aims at you, a warning sign appears. When it fires a red glowing “NUKE INCOMMING!” sign appears.

          Loader:
          Super strength – your loader is strong enough to carry one shell in one hand, so he can load two in rapid succession. Every second shell reload time is reduced by 10%. If you have two loaders, both must have this skill to make it work.

          Safety? Didn’t heard – Decreases reload time by 0,2% per every 1% of this skill (up to 20%) while your ammo rack is damaged. In case of two loaders, average skill level is taken into account.

          Driver:
          Hard… Eeerm… Soft landing – reduces damage done by falling by 0,5% for every 1% of this skill – both damage to your tank and modules. Applies also to landing on top of another tank.

          Commander:
          Obi wan moment – may be learnt only after sixth sense is learnt. Whenever a gunner, driver or loader is on path of incoming shell commander will take the shot and die to save a fellow tanker. He doesn’t save radioman – nobody cares about him.

  1. - Storm states that the distance from bush to tank (specifically the 15 meters rule) is measured from the center of the bush to the center of the tank, but he’s not absolutely sure

    so thats way most people know shit about game mechanics… even devs dont know it

  2. Sooo, when I did 2k dmg, with which I was first in our table and the third in whole battle and had 3 kills in tier 8 battle with my 59-16, wreaked havoc in their rear, subsequently leading to collapse of their whole flank while on the other side their tanks just “came by” around our tanks, who supposedly were “defending it” and then let them capture our base, not able to decap? Yep, lose of this one particular battle from few days back this week was indeed caused by me, perhaps being the “top dog” in said match, not being able to kill 9 of them and score 5175dmg, i.e. shoot all my rounds and make dmg with all of them. (Map Arctic or how is it labeled, even have screenshots and replay of it).

    This is far away from being the only battle with such a ridiculous course. Only that it was the one which I remember the best from last week since I quite suck in 59-16 and even after such performance we lost. I do not mind losing. I mind having those nonsense battles after you consider stop playing since no matter how great performance you may have in a battle you will still lose. Statistically you still will be progressing further up the ladder of players if you play better than average but the frustration will rise also.
    They made a great step forward with those missions. I returned to the game after around 2 months of brake from it to fulfill those which I consider easy and rewarding enough. Else I would be doing something else.
    Maybe I took it wrong, maybe he is referring to those who rush forward in the middle of malinovka and die in around 20 seconds in their slow heavy tanks. But where will this game be in 1, 2 or 3 years if it continues to piss everyone, from those “immature noobs” to “regular, average players” (in WoT or XVM language, high above average, since “average” in WoT terms is around 48% WR right now and 600 effi?)
    I spend “some” money in it and still I am investing more, I do not regret it, I had my fun. Only that I am spending less and less, playing less, tanking longer and longer brakes from it and I can see the same in all of my mates who play this game. If this continues, in 3 years, when all who may have been interested will be in it and got annoyed too much so they left, whole WoT will be forgotten and will disappear. I do not want it to go down that road, but I can not affect it and if they wont come up with something or if they do not want to come up with something which will end or at least lessen all that frustration, rather sooner than later it will be the end of whole game.

      • Are you alright? Did anyone hurt you? You know there are people who can help you, right? Perhaps you should tell someone about it. It must be something happening to you in there if you take time to read such a long post and yet blab such a nonsense and insults right away.

    • I just had a battle with T34 on Mountain pass encounter, we overrun one side, so I went near the lake, shot few rounds which killed their Covenanter, then turned barrel at their SAu40 when out of sudden our KV1 rammed me from behind and started to push me down in the lake, so SAu40 opened fire on me, luckily he failed to penetrate several times (I had around 80HP left) until someone from our team killed him and KV stopped pushing me. Then, pissed off, I let him pass and did a good-ol-detrack to him, no dmg, just one track fell off. So he, in other circumstances MAYBE partially excusable, turned his barrel at me. I did not want to hurt him, so I tried to circle him to avoid him, but I did not had the speed, so he killed me and started insulting me for “blocking the path” on open field :D He said I blocked him (on open field) so he pushed me and he also said “I did no dmg to you so it is ok”, and when I said I neither did dmg and that he was pushing me at enemy TD, he just continued to insult :D and THIS is so much common in lower tier battles (he had 47WR, 559 effi), also, I did not insult him, only at the end of the battle, long time after my death and his insults I called him moron, though.

      I just wanted to point out that it took me around 3 battles to meet some moron :) This game is infested with people like this that should never be playing multiplayer team-play dependent game ever. How many team players will, for example, that KV player push or kill “for fun”? Are these kind of players so wanted by WG that they wont ever start punishing and banning them or what? Man I miss the short time when all got instaban for minor team damage back then, right after patch. He would be right now cursing at everybody that he can not play.

          • It was the most appropriate response . Considering you took the time to type out all that butthurt it would appear that the donkey already visited you mate :).

            • Do you feel better after posting such a douchebag response, scumbag? No? M164 has a higher mental capacity than you could ever hope to achieve, so yep, take out your butthurt by trolling people so your pitiful existance actually has a meaning, because, a special troll like yourself clearly has nothing productive to do.

    • Im about to quit too, too many noobs, u cant rely on anybody. I have to carry my team all the matches that I play…

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  4. - Storm states that big game releases (such as BF3, Warcraft datadisk, GTA5) have almost no impact on WoT playerbase, there have been temporary short drops by several percent

    it only proves that that WoT players cannot play high end Games due to Graphic/PC requirements.
    ;)

    WoT is the Nokia of Video games, and yes microsoft will buy WG in 2-5 years from now…

        • Selling their money-making machine? Why would they do that?

          They had 217 million € income in 2012 with a net-profit of about 5-6 million € (those are AFTER the wages for ALL employees, including SerB etc.)

          You should keep a good money-making machine for yourself and not sell it on the first opportunity you get.

          The purchase of several developers’ studios around the world indicates, for me personally, that they want WG.net to be a long-time project, and not a simple ‘sell-as-soon-as-you-can’-project.

          I really hope they don’t Microsoft will only fuck it up ..

          • low margin of profit, less then 5% not good for investors.
            they will have to sell and only big networks guys can make big margin of profit as they already have the capacity. so WG must sell, and MS is going to be the ones that will buy them.

            my M&A predictions never failed..

          • The only way that WG sell up is if they are strongarmed into doing it and considering where they are based it could happen. It is good that they are investing (diggin holes in the jungle apart) in historic war tech and museums as well as development of the game/s (I think WoWP is a scrub) and I dearly hope that WoWS comes good. If you agree with their approach or not they are passionate about it and I only think as far as the EU players go the customer service could do with a gee up. Truck the donkey to Paris.

  5. - Q: “SerB, why do you think the game that is supposed to be relaxing provokes so many negative emotions in many players?” A:”I think that this is because ‘many players’ are immature, envious and they blame everyone but themselves for their failures

    First time Serb said something smart ;_;

    • Like if you never played a game which pissed you off or made you laugh for some players actions (in your or opposite team) :) I do not know your stats, but I consider myself at least average player (effi1250 iirc) and yet I meet so often such … people, so I am also sometimes “feeling negative emotions” and I see no reason why I should not admit it. In fact, everyone is constantly pissed off in this game, from 600effi people about which he was talking about to unicums. The problem is, WG is only concerned about those “WoT average players”, i.e. those 600effi ones. The sad thing is, I seriously doubt anyone with such a low effi would ever look for some forum or blog like this, because if they had intentions to look up such information as these pages provide, they would never make so many newbie mistakes that they do in game since they would long time know all the basics and even some more “advanced” hints how to easily deal with tanks so many players struggle to defeat.
      Go read one of my comments in here where I blab about some examples if you want.

    • sure, its my failure when I do more damage than 10-13 of my other “teammates” and still lose because the vegetables can’t hold a flank even when they outnumber the enemy 2:1 there, sure

      • I feel your pain…I once had a battle in which not only did I do more damage than the rest of the team put together, but I was the ONLY one who did more than 200 damage (I did about 4,000)…and I was in a tier 7 tank destroyer in a tier 9 game. You just can’t excuse that kind of stupidity.

  6. its weekend so theres a lot of siemkas out there.
    and they want to foch your game up..

    best way is to find a tank you REALLY enjoy and do Your best.

    3 first battles today playing the fv215b 183.
    7, 7, 6 kills.
    lost all of them :-D

    there were some one shot victims so I didnt cry ;-)

      • thats why I like noobmeter and yasenkrassen msg mod.

        at the end of the day you take a look at the stats.

        knowing that you won 50-60% of them with quite good performance really can cheer you up.

        or you just drink some strong alco that helps deal with stupidity of others ;-)

  7. - Storm (regarding the packet loss issue in 0.8.8) states there has not been any engine update in the patch, but it seems the 0.5.3 WoWp now has the same issue
    __________
    Well clearly they fucked up something. We don’t care what it is. We care when they’ll fix it. The sooner the better.

  8. >consumables that increase crew XP gain? “Wait for announcements”
    that sounds like premium account will get redone, buy gold consumables to boost xp / game?
    nobody is alarmed by that? next we will get a spell of invisibility or invulerablity to consume! ;-)

  9. WG staff are fail ass niggers.

    The mods ban for virtually ANY trivial reason, it’s hilarious.. I appeal every chat ban and EVERY ONE has been overturned on appeal.. They get their fucking nigger mods off the street, unemployed bums from the looks of it.

    WOT is a scourge, and needs to be taken to hell by Satan. Shittiest company on the planet run by faggot niggers.

  10. - Q: “SerB, why do you think the game that is supposed to be relaxing provokes so many negative emotions in many players?” A:”I think that this is because ‘many players’ are immature, envious and they blame everyone but themselves for their failures”

    I honestly like this, even when I get mad I look back and see that I did pretty poor for myself. Good Job for once SerB!

    • SerB is human trash. Russians lack innovation due to thousands of years of oppressive dictators and leaders, it shows in their absolute lack of humility, lack of innovation, and general spiritual decline. SerB is the embodiment of Russian trash.

      Fuck WG, and their broke ass pile of shit game. Can’t wait for WOWP and XboxWOT to fail,a nd they both will fail.> Watch.

      • WOWP is already failed and it is just bundle for WOT , entire WG staff knows it.
        Forum mods just trying to save their own ass but they will fail soon.

      • That must be why several notable if not outright important equations and theories are named after Russians. And why the fuck are you spouting stinky 19th-century Orientalist bullshit with the serial numbers filed off?

  11. I have yet to meet a person in a leading position that is as much of an immature, sociopathic and all around negative person as SerB. Why doesn’t he seek help and sees a psychiatrist? Oh right, he is getting through with it and making shitloads of money anyway.

    WoT has many frustrating and illogical features, that’s a given, and things are made worse by the fact that this POS (piece of software, what did you think), is made by Russian quality standards. Oops, did I just use the term “quality”? Please forgive me.

  12. Is WG that stupid? Idiots, you have packet losses because yo uare using cheap ass data centers, with connectivity based on Telia…

    • Its not really that easy dude, nothing we can do about it. I live in sweden, one of the most connected countries in the world, and we use telia, or skanova. Here in sweden teliá is the best you can get though. But I can imagine telia in eastern countries have lower quality, because suckers dont wanna pay.

  13. “devs considered increasing the amount of slots for equipment, but decided not to do it, because “the choice of what to put on a tank is also a part of the gameplay, the more you can mount on your tank, the lesser the role this part of gameplay has”

    This is the dumbest excuse I have ever seen.