23.9.2013

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- the option to buy an additional crewmember with 4 skills when you have the rest of the crew with 4 skills and need one more for the next vehicle won’t be implemented
- Q: “Where can the players whine about buffs/nerfs of tanks?” A: “Nowhere. It’s possible to actually whine about some specific parameters we try to make as historical as possible, for example ‘the speed is not correct’ or ‘I found the correct armor scheme, that is different from the one in game’. Generally however it’s absolutely pointless to whine about tank balance”


- the special “bell” sound when you damage the enemy module (crits) won’t return (SS: anyone has any idea what that is?)
- Object 907 will remain a reward tank, it definitely won’t be implemented as a regular tank
- there is no WG department dealing with conflicts between WoT and 3rd party software (SS: for example the Mumble issues after 8.0)
- there will be a possibility to retrain a tanker from one role to another without any loss of XP (for example radioman to loader), this will however definitely not come in 0.8.9 (it will be possible to do without any crew XP loss, but for gold)
- Storm on MM weight exceptions: “Actually it would be best if there weren’t any exceptions. They not only complicate the MM function, but they also complicate the understanding of players of how MM works. We do them only in exceptional cases.”
- the system that would increase crew skill effectivity based on how many players did the player have with them (SS: as in, a crew with 100 repair and 10k battles would get 10 percent bonus compared to the crew with 100 repair and 1k battles for example) won’t be implemented
- apparently there is another “T-54-like” candidate for a top tier tank (not necesserily Soviet): “When you see it, you’ll be very surprised” (SS: recently the info about a “light tank” T-54 has surfaced again… who knows?)
- when the researchable hulls come, it’s possible some vehicles (specifically those that are prototype/paper projects) won’t have 2nd hulls displayed
- it’s theoretically possible that the Japanese heavy branch will – until lowtier heavy candidates are found – temporarily start from the medium branch (like it is now with the Chinese)
- dynamic tank hangar characteristics: “when it’s done it’s done”
- reward/gift tanks are in the “group of high interest” when it comes to balance

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        • wow, a video from when the game was still fun!, incredible how they manage to ruin it ever since…
          (look at that glorious IS7 rush, that’s endgame, not op57 and all the shit that is ingame today)

          • So much glorious fun, heavies hugging the hill to avoid artillery fire and tanks moving around retardedly due no physics.

            • Hugging the hill… how I remember they still hug the hills… ? You still think arty nerfs actually did something and think that tanks hugged hills because of arty only? :D

            • They still move retardedly cause suspension doesn’t work except when stopping and starting.

          • Time when there was no 6th sense… Only REAL intuition when you where spotted… Those days… *Drool*

          • Yes, really…. the moron T 54 sniping is 7 fornts and ignoring a chance to kill enemy artileries, T 92s too stupid to get noerth for an angle on those pinned is7s, T 30 wasting time…

            • You know shit about CW tactics and old game mechanics. Map was different, spotting range was different, the same goes for usage of meds and arty in CW.

          • Yeah, the days of the OP7 were glorious. All that happened is the is7 was made normal. Clan wars was even worse when it was just is7s.

            • Yeah it’s so great now. T57s which out-DPM an E-100 even with the drum reload and Foch 155s one-clipping a Mouse on a good roll lol

      • Not a word of a lie, I lost my 3rd ever battle as I genuinely thought there was someone at the door!

      • It’s still available as a mod…. it’s actually a part of Joves modpack too :) but the problem is that in 8.8 with new voice options it writes over them…. so u gotta pick either the bell or the nation specific voices…( which do say sometimes when u critically hit someone anyways)

    • God i miss that sound. There are only one kind of WoT players that remembers it. The veterans who started playing way back when WoT was a little toddler so to speak :D. Personally i started in 2011. Watching some older videos and hearing that sound again, awakens so many memories in me. Please bring it back WG! im sick tired of shooting enemy tracks and heaing : we’ve dinged them!! bounced off!!. I dont even properly know when the enemy is tracked! THE FUUUUUUUUUUCK????

      Ok im getting angry il stop here.

      • Well, that damned bell sound make me go to the door, or checking mobile phones, etc… during at least the first month and a half of playing…..

        Everybody has been a noob….

      • *in old man’s voice* BACK IN MY DAY, THERE WAS JUST THE KV, AND IT WAS BROKE AS SHIT.

        • Oh yeah, before it got split into the Tier 5 KV-1 and the Tier 6 KV-2 and the Great HE Nerf occurred, that thing was so much fun! It’s a shame that I left once I got to the KV-1S and took a 2-year long break. Then I discovered the game again, and it just isn’t the same. I won’t say that it’s better or worse, but it’s… different…

    • after update to 7.2, it was removed. Because they were implemented new skills for the crew (commanding skill Eagle Eye)

    • I remember this. I think it should come back like – remove voices that say “critical hit” etc. And make them avaible after the perk is activated – u know when u did critical + it can be showed in small window near ur target.

  4. >the special “bell” sound when you damage the enemy module (crits) won’t return (SS: anyone has any idea what that is?)
    >SS: anyone has any idea what that is?
    Almost 2 years ago, hitting an enemy and criting him was followed by a bell sound. It was useful but annoying as hell.

  5. apparently there is another “T-54-like” candidate for a top tier tank (not necesserily Soviet): “When you see it, you’ll be very surprised” (SS: recently the info about a “light tank” T-54 has surfaced again… who knows?)

    Could it be some German design hidden away deep in some archive :O.

  7. As much as I like the Object 907 the turret skull cap is only 20 mm thick* and about 20 degrees from the horizontal where it meet the thick part of the thick belt of armour around the turret. Spamming HE at the top of the turret of the 907 looks like a good way to deal with them.

    *http://ftr-wot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/leaked-object-907-will-be-implemented.html

  9. - dynamic tank hangar characteristics: “when it’s done it’s done”.
    Because we needed new fucked up Service Record so badly.

  10. - the system that would increase crew skill effectivity based on how many # players # did the player have with them (SS: as in, a crew with 100 repair and 10k battles would get 10 percent bonus compared to the crew with 100 repair and 1k battles for example) won’t be implemented

    Should be # battles # ?

  12. - dynamic tank hangar characteristics: “when it’s done it’s done”

    It comes together with reload timer around 2016

  13. - there will be a possibility to retrain a tanker from one role to another without any loss of XP (for example radioman to loader), this will however definitely not come in 0.8.9 (it will be possible to do without any crew XP loss, but for gold)

    Holy shit! I’ll make a solid crew of my poor russian unneeded high tier radiomen!

  14. >T-54 based light tankI lurk the Epic Thread, is it the “ultralight” one that was linked there (it was a really old post though, 2011 I think as it was in conjunction with mentions of the French tree)?

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  17. “- it’s theoretically possible that the Japanese heavy branch will – until lowtier heavy candidates are found – temporarily start from the medium branch (like it is now with the Chinese)”

    Looks like there might not be a need to blow up on the forums after all. :)

  18. I hate the idea of gift only tanks… reward the minority of noobs while the masses suffer gj wg! Please make them gift shop at least ffs!