- Storm states that exact vehicle changes weren’t in the test server patchnotes, because those get written only in the final patchnotes that will go live
- trees growing from stones (North-West map) are a bug
- Storm confirms that the frontal armor angle of IS-4 has been fixed
- recently the graphics have not been touched (SS: some players complain about FPS drops in hangar)
- Hetzer too weak and imbalanced? “Don’t play Hetzer”
- according to SerB, one movie that showed HE shells ricocheting off armor was “completely realistic”
- apparently, additional garage slots won’t be unified in WoT and WoWp
- apparently, the Christie US branch is still not forgotten
- SerB confirms that stock suspension has less HP than the elite one
- stock suspension with “springs” extra equipment (SS: that gives HP bonus to the suspension) and elite suspension have roughly the same amount of hitpoints, however the “springs” equipment does not increase the vehicle maneuverability
- SerB states that the MM weight difference between tier X and X+1 is roughly 50 percent
- there will be historical battles in WoWs and WoWp too, WoT HB’s will come sooner tho
- SerB states that there’s no room for kill markers and number decals on tank hulls
- SerB states that should there be a case where – when the unlockable hulls are implemented – one hull option had historically a different crewmember number than the other one, the historical number will be ignored if needed (both variants will have the same amount of crewmembers)
- SerB states that there is no hard limit on how many tanks will there be in a branch (SS: in this case a Soviet branch) as “the archives are endless”. But SerB also states that soon a big re-work of all models will come (to improve their quality), so the amount of new vehicles being implemented will decrease significantly. Plus, some modifications will not be introduced as tanks, but as optional hulls.
- SerB confirms that optional hulls will be tied to suspensions: you unlock suspension, you unlock the hull with it
- if your loader with Intuition dies, the Intuition perk won’t work
- with the optional hulls, although the hulls should present equal options (for example, one has armor, the other has speed), it is not guaranteed that with both hulls you’ll be able to use top guns and turrets of the vehicle
- the point of tier 2-3 premiums is according to SerB “some farming (although smaller), crew training and fun”
- skill MM won’t come to random battles
- SerB states that there are lots of German material in Germany too, not just in US/Soviet archives, not long ago, the Maus prototypes were published in a German book
- WoT Blitz will most likely not work on Windows Phone 7
- SerB states that the T-44-85 differs from stock ingame T-44 by having different hull construction
- KV-5 being underpowered? “Don’t play KV-5″
Storm states that exact vehicle changes weren’t in the test server patchnotes, because those get written only in the final patchnotes that will go live
That’s kinda dumb IMO, it should be in test patch notes too
i wouldn’t have noticed it , if it hasn’t been stated here.
Writing patch notes is alot of work actually, there’s no point in doing it if those are not final.
It’s actually piss easy compared to actually putting changes into the game, it’s called documentation and if you’re not a total amateur, you document all changes.
Pasting together all documented changes is piss easy.
Exactly
- Hetzer too weak and imbalanced? “Don’t play Hetzer”
You serious?! NEVER USE THE WORDS HETZER AND WEAK IN ONE SENTENCE. 104 pen with 350 dmg in T4 isnt weak, and + quite fast and enough armour to bounce few shots…
“Don’t play hetzer” . How very appropriate . That thing is too good for the noob.
Yeah I was thinking that too… in fact in my experience a lot of people say the Hetzer is borderline OP (definitely best tier 4 TD IMO).
Since when is HEAT a default ammo for Hetzer? -.-
everybody uses the Hetzer with Derp gun and gold ammo… :/
And in 95% cases HE works better. Only thing HEAT is better are relatively weak armored, large HP tanks – so tier 5-6 meds. VS KV-1 or T1 frontally HEAT can be really iffy (~102mm pen vs 95-105mm effective armor)..
Yup. HE is almost always the better choice.
I don’t, I prefer my 7.5 L/48. Works great of fours and fives, sixes too if you know where to shoot.
not everybody, i’m using it with HE shells only. and it sure isn’t weak (Hetzer)..
That’s what I was thinking.. and I really don’t even care for the Hetzer too much (does not fit my style). But even I know its more then just “good”.
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Rhetorical question: Where do these question asking idiots come from… Ahh… Russia.
- SerB confirms that optional hulls will be tied to suspensions: you unlock suspension, you unlock the hull with it
and i presume only by mounting the suspension you get second hull!
I’m thinking when you unlock the 2nd suspension, there will be an option to toggle between the different hulls.
“But SerB also states that soon a big re-work of all models will come”
Impatient I am.
you will have to wait till end of 2014
- the point of tier 2-3 premiums is according to SerB “some farming (although smaller), crew training and fun”
fun more likely, there is no crew training with such little xp!
Given the dynamic nature of lowtier randoms, it’s sometimes possible to farm similar amounts of XP in the same time as in higher tier premtank. And don’t forget double (or more) XP for first win ;)
Of course there is. After few hundreds games you may have 100% crew with at least one or even two fully developed skills. Retrain them to high tier tank and you’ll get excellent crew.
why would you retrain them from a premium vehicle? You should have the crew already set to a regular vehicle. there is no point in training a crew to work on the T-127, for example.
Because quite often you’ll get premium vehicle with crew.
And if you don’t have such crew, you are no using premium tank?
Imagine following situation – you have no German tanks at all and you were given Pz S35, III tier premium German medium tank. To drive it you have to use its own crew. If you like this tank and you are driving it a lot, S35 crew learn a lot too. You may start German tree but first meds are on tier IV. If your crew on S35 is 100% and with some skills, you’ll not convert it to the IV tier meds – this is waste of good crew – but you’ll drive it more and you’ll wait for higher tiers. Then you’ll convert it to Panther, VK3002D etc.
My T2 Light tank with 80% on thirth skill is so much fun, 100% camo, 6th, after this Im going for BIA. Equiped with 1 mil + on vent, vert stab and coated its. So much fun. 900+ games with it.
Can’r have a vert stab on a T2 Light
And what about Windows Phone 8?
How about no?
completely with you bro i would like this answered
Windows phone is a platform which is outdated compared to android and iOS, why would they offer something for such an outdated and useless software that can’t compare to android or iOS. The windows mobile platforms are awful.
List the reasons how windows phone 8 is outdated compared to ios and android like how you said it is
iOS is practically the same thing from 2008 when the first iPhone came out. Tweaked a bit, but the same thing overall.
iOS is practically the same thing from 200
ROFL, Windows Phone 8 is the newest platform, both IOS and android are rehashes of VERY old code.
Windows Phone 7 was based on older code but 8 used completely new stuff, changes were so radical that WP7 couldn’t be upgraded to 8, something pretty unique in MSFT history.
Fanbois will never die.
I’m no fan of WP, but it’s ignorant to call it outdated. The problem that it faces is being too late to the party. I actually think it works rather well and it’s quite a bit more efficient running than Android is. But I’m already in the Google ecosystem now, and the apps aren’t there. So no WP for me.
Almost certainly not.
In mobile world you can use almost the same codebase on both Android and iOS devices. Just some small stuff will change (How to open the screen, how to receive input from the OS, where to read files) but the crucial core will remain identical. iOS and Android both use OpenGL ES for rendering and that’s probably the biggest reason why it’s so easy to port across those 2 platforms.
Windows Phone 8 is a different beast. There you must use the mobile directX (Dx10 with compability profile or whatnot was it) so you have to rewrite your engine. Did you want to use some scripting engine with built in JIT compiler in your game? Though luck as WP8 explicitly forbids making JITted compilers so all the fast script engines won’t work.
In order to make WoT blitz for WP8 they’d have to completely rewrite it. And if they’d want it to work on the Windows RT tablets they’d have to do yet another, though smaller, rewrite because MS made the WP8 apps and Windows RT apps different unlike in iOS and Android where the same app will work on both tablets and on the phones.
Seeing more and more talk about this new hulls stuff i wonder if M103 will be able to select T110E5 hull? aka better armor?
It’d probably get a “T43″ hull as a stock option, the E5 should get it’s planned uniform slope hull
- Hetzer too weak and imbalanced? “Don’t play Hetzer”
Most op tier 4 TD, srsly who the hell asked that?!
- KV-5 being underpowered? “Don’t play KV-5″
Most op tier 8 in 1v1. srsly who the hell asked that?!
kv5 OP??????
you have much to learn
“Most op tier 8 in 1v1. srsly who the hell asked that?!”
KV-4 and Tiger II disagree strongly.
KV-5 has puny pen, hence the cry.
http://pokit.org/get/img/077ce5ecefaaf2d039ad87588db1ae84.jpg Did you just said to someone he needs to learn more?
haha, good one.
anonanus got it right. people say its UP because of the pen.
Sooo, Tier X+1 means Tier 11 :) Or Tear X1 / XI, it doesn’t matter, it is still “another tier” behind Tier X no matter what. So, there are actually 11 tiers while they said tier 10 will be the last. Just so they did not have to look bad or what, they officially call them tier 10, while they give them tier 11 matchmaking to balance out their “tier 11 stats”. Interesting. I was always saying that sooner or later more advanced tanks will find their way in, it is only a question of time. New tiers will sprout out or existing will somehow “merge together”, beautiful example – E50 / E50M, which will make one tier open for any vehicle they would like to implement. Meanwhile, they will sort out how to implement features of more advanced vehicles from ’60, ’70, etc. or they may even decide to omit some of them… it is all about virtual tanks, everything is open for imagination. Some crucial characteristics of some tanks are already omitted or altered so much they are miles away from real life vehicles.
lol…..
It’s just a placeholder for an undefined number. Basica math stuff.
There are 12 battle tiers, you know?
You could also say it as “Tank Y”, “Tank Z”. So, for example, the MM weight difference between Tier 3 and Tier 4 would be 50%. And so on.
- KV-5 being underpowered? “Don’t play KV-5″
what happened to the IS-6 question, where someone stated mechanical transission has a topspeed of 43 km/h and electrical transission got pivot ability?
yea! more info about IS-6 here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1436653/posts
- WoT Blitz will most likely not work on Windows Phone 7 I hope this doesn’t mean WP8 will be excluded please NO
I want Blitz to my Wp8 phone
Could someone please explain what unlockable hulls are? Is it like unlocking another armor plate or something? Thanks
You can upgrade everything…your gun, your engine, your turret, even your radio, but not your hull, which everything sits on. So your stuck with the same armor on your hull whether it is elite or stock. All this means, that at some point, they will add in hull upgrades.
Currently, if you try to mess with the game models, and change around the chassis file, it will lock up your game.
- WoT sucks?
“Don’t play WoT, play WarThunder”
serb
SS, please read my E-mails…
Sometimes he gets many emails give it at least 24hours for a response.
” – SerB confirms that optional hulls will be tied to suspensions: you unlock suspension, you unlock the hull with it”
” – with the optional hulls, although the hulls should present equal options (for example, one has armor, the other has speed), it is not guaranteed that with both hulls you’ll be able to use top guns and turrets of the vehicle”
So this will be the next retarded feature they’ll add.
I’m not against it, but why it should be tied with the suspension itself?
If those hulls weren’t changing one stat for another(eg: speed for armour) and could only add something i’d be ok with it.
But, what the hell.Most tanks require the suspension in order to be able to mount important modules such as guns and turrets.
Small example… Pz4′s new hull will most likely give more armour but take some mobility/speed(just a speculation)… maybe I want the Pz4 without the aditional, keeping it’s mobility and being able to mount it’s top turret and gun which can’t be mounted without the suspension.Why would I be forced to take the new hull, only to mount it’s top modules which could be mounted without that shit anyway.
They could’ve add the hulls as a new researchable AND OPTIONAL module…why they chosed to tie it with the suspension?…
Now, for statement guys, yeah, I know that there will be alot of tanks without those new hulls, but still.
“…maybe I want the Pz4 without the aditional *armour*”
…was kinda hungry there.
I have a Jentz/Doyle publication saying that due to the weight of the uparmorings, by Ausf. H the Panzer iV”s top speed was 38
If they implement an Ausf. H hull upgrade(Instead of going with equipment for implementing shuerzen), I won’t be surprised
That’s what I was talking about.
If they do that you’d be able to mount the 10.5cm gun only by reducing it’s speed with 10kph and also increasing it’s weight, thus reducing hp/ton ratio(those aditional plates for uparmouring aren’t made of air to weight nothing…)
That might make the game better. SO as the guns and armor add up the tanks start to actually slow down… Which would be nice and more realistic in 99% of cases.
The hull is unlocked with the suspension, but does it get mounted if you mount the new suspension? They haven’t explicitly said that yet. There may be a sixth module slot that opens up, allowing you to pick which hull you want separately from the suspension.
- SerB confirms that optional hulls will be tied to suspensions: you unlock suspension, you unlock the hull with it
This means that if there are different hulls, we would only get 2 hull options? (currently there are either stock or elite tracks, only 2 per tank)
If SerB keeps saying “some” tanks under powered? don’t play it. sooner or later WoT will run out of new players.
Now knowing that War Thunder will be releasing amazing ground tank battles. WG better do something to keep us players.
- SerB states that the T-44-85 differs from stock ingame T-44 by having different hull construction
Uh yeah, you can kinda tell that rather easily because of the frontal armor, lower hull roof, shape of the rear armor, position of the turret, and of course the rather obvious driver’s hatch up front.
“- if your loader with Intuition dies, the Intuition perk won’t work”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gutCFMc5khY
Terrible perk stops working? Peter Griffin puts it best.
KV-5 being underpowered? “Don’t play KV-5″
Then give me back my money for it, you drunken bald fuck.
Oh my
how terrible
Indeed, nerfed (mostly indirectly) in every aspect that I enjoyed this vehicle – ramming dmg, MM (now mostly sees tier 9 vehicles), gun accuracy (now a little buffed from 8.7 -yey). Well, I am disappointed that it didn`t meet Super pershings destiny. It was a good experience in marketing policy though – they even buffed +180 hp +2 turret treverse speed so it looks like they REALLY buffed KV-5. Hehehe – funny guys…
Hetzer too weak and imbalanced? “Don’t play Hetzer”
why not just tell your customers to fuck off you arrogant git!
Hetzer is not weak
WHY oh WHY on every QA there is a post that whines about KV-5?
I mean, I have it, and i wont mind a buff on it, but seriously, this is one of the most powerfull tier 8 heavies, you can actually carry a game and lead your team in it no problem, plus it has preferential MM…i mean wtf do you want? yeah, the gun is not that great, but hell i prefer it to some atrocity with 3.4 aim time and no accuracy at all (D-25T im looking at you)
Well maybe they feel like they should be 1337HAX after spending money on a tank
They could have at least read its stats before buying it
Allways, ALLWAYS try a tier 8 prem tank on a test server before buying it. for this amount of money you should be sure of what the heck you are buying.
Then comes the fact that my beloved KV-5 was gifted to me and I never wanted it. At first i hated it, but then i started to adapt to the playstyle and now its, IMO, one of the best tier 8′s.
Then give me some tips. First 300 matches in it 57% WR, next 200 goes down to 48%. Between that 300 and the last 200 there was a pause. I came back and I couldn’t drive that monster any longer. Angling, baiting with R2D2, sidescraping on the left, assaulting ass backwards, nothing works anymore. And it feels like 8.6 didn’t touch the shot dispersion on this gun because shells go all over the place at 150m+. Also, KT is a hull down king now so I have no options to kill it frontally.
Then again, probably it’s just me.
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