73 thoughts on “Storm comments on KTTS”

1. “- multi-turret mechanism has been postponed for very distant future (very few tanks would benefit from it)”

   poor M3 Lee :|

   • And B1 |:

     • Churchill I too :|

       • T-35 heavy tank ;__;;

     • MUH FCM 2c ;__;

   • ARL V39? :))

     • One of the M3 Lee guns was a specific “anti-tank” gun…

       …so a Med and a TD in one…

       Would be fun at that tier… (and yes… I am one of the masochists who liked the M3 Lee)

     • Dont forget the fugly SAu 40

   • It’s just…
     In WT you can assign button for different weapons (for me left click machine gun, right click cannon), Basically this is all what WoT needs to enable multiturret mechanism. 2-3 separate fire button + all gun try to aim where the mouse is, and fire when they button is pushed.

     • But they would need to bring in blocks so you won’t shoot yourself. They will take a ready mechanism from WoWs in one years time probably.

       • Such a technology already exists called Safeshot. it’s a fairly simple mod that disables firing on allies.

2. - Q: “The graphics is somehow meh” A (Veider): “You don’t like the new IS-4 model? I start jerking off to it even when it didn’t have the texture yet and was still a set of polygons”

   Wat?

   • Tank porn!

   • It is called being Legendary.

3. No questions about the tier 10 Japanese heavy I guess?

4. “Veider states that garage battles are crap and War Thunder experience confirms that” We’ll see… I like the WT planes with the “garage battles” more than the historical battle 1 plane only… But it is true that we would see more arties on maps where arties can be played easily, which would be bad (for me :))

   • The best thing about War Tuhnder garage battles is that you have to focus on the objective, not on slaying enemies out, exsactly as in real life.
     And a death is much less painfull.

     • Well, first of all, Garage battles occur only in Arcade. Both more sim-like (still not sim) modes are single-vehicle engagements.

       And no, people spend as much time chasing each other. Especially since bomb splash has been nerfed and it’s hard as fuck to land a bomb directly on a tank.

       • i blap tanks just fine

5. “- Firefly “will come”, Sturmtiger will come too, but it’s not yet sure in what form”

   Muh tenkz ;-;

6. They could at least focus on optimizing the lowest graphics for weak computers

7. so, if the computer can’t handle all these HD graphics, will all these improvements make any difference if I use the current settings? because if it doesn’t, then all these patches will mostly be meaningless, with the exception on flying turrets and distributable terrain.

   • I think it will be implemented into the settings, like it’s now. for instance, under “texture quality” you will have:
     -low (shit tanks)
     -medium (meh)
     -high (like it is now)
     -maximum (the new HD models)
     at least that’s how I’d do it, but it has been confirmed the old models and textures will remain as a part of the “old graphics”, I mean why delete all the models if they can still be used on old computers?

     • I guess I didn’t answer your question. The current “highest” settings will probably be the new HD. Pure speculation, of course. So no, nothing will change if you use low settings, apart from the suspension and the new physics.

       • I wonder if the engine gets optimzed and altered. and not just maximum = HD.
         WoT doesn’t scale very well with good PCs now. just adding hd textures would suck.
         i hope for optimization. MASSIVE OPTIMIZATION!!
         i mean you have to agree that bigworld is shit. maps look like straight from CSS. DX9 shit
         And runs crap on good PCs

         • For huge optimization they must first change to Dx11 renderer (Dx9->Dx11 meant +20% fps for me).

       • what I meant is.. if I’m not gonna use those HD graphics, then what I’m getting in those next patches if they all going to be about HD?

8. - only like half of vehicles will have researchable hulls and apparently, VK4502B (rear turret) will not be one of them

   Does this mean the 4502B won’t have the A hull as an alternate option (which would bloody well make sense) or they won’t have it as a researchable hull for the 4502A (which would bloody well not make sense)? Bit of a vague statement that one.

   • there were ideas about making VK4502 with two hulls at 8 tier, and Proto-Maus at 9 tier.

   • Isn’t the 4502b completely fictional? Atleast the armor properties, as in they never were that thick, cant remember in detail.

     • yeah, the armor thickness is unhistorically buffed ingame (IRL they were planning to have the armor along the numbers that Ausf. A version of VK 42.02 has)

     • The A and B should be the same hull with the engine and turret swapped round.

       In game the A is a lightweight med/heavy hybrid and the B is a heavy heavy.

     • Historical tank armor: 80/80/80, same armament as King Tiger.
       Jentz states some up-armoring was planned so maybe one could speculate even up to 180mm front, still the tank is nowhere tier IX material.

       Maus with nerfed HP and mobility to the historical 13 km/h would fit tier IX, with Maus II going to tier X.

   • @Kena: by the rules of logic this could also mean that VK 45.02 (P) Ausf. B would cease to exist as a separate tank (then there would be no need for it to have optional hulls) ;)

     • This is what I was presuming that comment made, but there was that niggling voice in the back of my head suggesting that wg was thinking of doing away with that dear old tank altogether, ie no hull option for the 4502A!

9. Actually, 37mm gun on M3 Lee is not have much effective. B1 75mm is more effective, but if it can use this, will it have normal MM or still +/-1 like now? because if it meet tier 6….meh. Maybe only Churchill I will happy with muti turret
   BTW, can i expect weather effect in HD patch? Sorry if some one ask about this before, or there are some developers said it never be implemented. I’d like too see tank battle in snow, rain with some water/snow effect on screen. Or some snow storm/ sand storm/ mist with reduced view range. May be they should implement it in a new battle mode (“Real weather” for example), so if some one don’t like it, they can disable it like now with assault and encounter mode.

   • Possibly,

     But dont get your hopes up.

   • From memory the AP rounds of the B1 bis’ casemate gun had similar penetration to its 47mm SA35. The extra alpha would be offset by the fact it had no traverse side to side. Frankly I don’t see any use to it over the SA35, or the markedly superior SA37 that is the top gun in the game right now.

10. Maus – yes truly legendary… like dragons and unicorns

    - Veider states that garage battles are crap and War Thunder experience confirms that
    How extacly?

    • Cause throwing crap at your rival is absolute truth?

    • They describe it in the video. Essentially, they last longer than some peoples attention span, and you end up losing players when their team is losing. It does have potential for high tier matches, so I assume they may be looking at this as a separate game mode or maybe a change to Clan Wars.

11. ”Sturmtiger will come too, but it’s not yet sure in what form”
    TD! TD!

    • ARTY! ARTY! ARTY!

      • in real it was a TD to be honest. but in WoT the arty als also more like TD than arty in real. (a satelite aiming TD)
        so both would match.

        • In Hungary, the only deployed Sturmtiger fired at enemies 8 km from it… Yes it’s really a TD…
          Btw, the Sturmtiger in Kubinka is the one, which I’m talking about.

        • It was used like the soviet SU-152 and ISU-152, but ST only mainly in indirect fire with the rockets.

12. dynamical dirt (SS: tank gets dirty when going through mud) will be implemented
    - various equipment, boxes, mudguards etc. will be torn off when hit

    Glad WT is making them do their job and implement some nice features in game.

13. So does this mean DX11 grade graphics, full multicore support and a native 64-bit client?

    • probably not. Since they admitted 40% of their playerbase plays on computers that dont even meet the minimal reqs set by them, and that they want to support them too.

      • Funnily DX11 allows for better performance too, but only on cards that support it. Dunno how about DX10. Anyway World of Warcraft did wait with that too for a very long time, probably because it means double work, as you have to keep an DX9 client for all those Windows XP gamers.

      • That wouldn’t be a problem since users would have the choice to use either DX9 or 11. Most games such as Warframe greatly benefit from DX11 and I’ve noticed around 25% improvement in rendering speed compared to DX9. That would definitely be a plus for WoT players with capable systems. DX11 is already 3 years old and every single modern game uses it.

14. - Q: “The graphics is somehow meh” A (Veider): “You don’t like the new IS-4 model? I started jerking off to it even when it didn’t have the texture yet and was still a set of polygons”
    _____________
    Really mature and professional answer. Even i as claimed obnoxious cunt from some FTR readers wouldn’t come up with better answer.

15. - Veider states that garage battles are crap and War Thunder experience confirms that

    I concur. I hate this about War Thunder, which is a shame because I like their planes better than WoWP.

16. I wonder if we will be able to get the HD tank models on the old render… Old render gives me lots more FPS than the new one but I allways set the tank details on highest cause i like looking at my tank, so im just wondering…

17. AS A PLAYER ON THE ASIA SERVER , WG SHOULD FIX THE MM , I RECEIVED UNFAIR MM , ABOUT 6 TIMES IN A ROW , WITH A PLAYER WITH XVM LIKE ME , THE ENEMY TEAM ALWAYS THE UNICUM AND THE BEST , AND I GOT THE NUBIEST RUBBISH TANKERS . THIS DISSAPOINTED ME , U LIKE FIGHTING WITH 8 TIER 10, and 3 TIER 10 ?? . TRUST ME I REGRET

    • Here’s an easy quick fix, uninstall xvm. And grow up.

    • Seeing your pic… not sure if trolling or being serious. On the off chance that you are being serious:-
      A) Wrong topic to cry about unfair MM.
      B) Go easy on Caps, maybe?
      C) It’s SEA server. I play on it as well and I know 2 things about it.

      Firstly, it’s the most rubbish server filled with idiots to the core. The only upside is that most of those idiots are not dicks/jerks but genuine baddies hence you don’t burn your blood screaming at each other. And secondly it’s the holidays. The idiot gang is out in full force. Go take a break for 48 hours or so and MM will be fixed automatically.

18. Yeaa new graphics, but what about optimization?

    • watch the video and you will see.

      • Will do ;)

19. Here is a question to ask SerB or WG:

    Will going with the Havok Engine offload a decent amount of work from the primary core?

    In other words, in testing are they seen a decent FPS increase when turning Havok on?

    • We don’t currently have Havok physics in the game…why would we see a performance *increase* from them adding it?

      I would expect a slight performance decrease when it’s added and enabled, but it shouldn’t be too bad if the work is offloaded to an otherwise unused core.

      • Because the current collision models and physics calculations are being handled but the main core. If these are offloaded to the Havok engine, there might be a FPS increase.

20. “- reworked Maus model will get extrernal (empty) fuel tanks apparently”

    http://hbucollegian.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/success-kid-i-hate-sandcastles-ayer.jpg

21. ” – IS-4 will recieve side armor like on the KTTS picture, it will be implemented into the collision model”

    PzIV sideskirts plzthx.

    ” – it will be possible to tip your tank over on the roof”

    Wonder if this is going to be insta-kill. I’d imagine having the weight of the tank trying to shove the turret and turret ring down through the crappy top armor is harmful to the tank’s well-being.

    Turretless TDs should be ok, I guess, to a point. As ok as beached whales with guns and upside-down crews can be anyway.

    “- Storm states that large houses (like in Ensk) will not be completely demolishable, but it will be possible to make holes in walls and shoot through them”

    Entire artillery-playing portion of the community just became moist in their special places with anticipation.

    -

    As far as the M3′s 37mm gun goes: no, it’s not very good, but consider there’s no real reason that you couldn’t load APCR (or HEAT if applicable) for secondary guns. M3′s high enough tier that that 37mm would be rather quick-firing, it’d be great in combination with the main gun for killing weaker/thinly-armored opponents VERY quickly. Japanese tanks in particular would piss themselves whenever they saw an M3 ambling towards their end of the map.

22. When do you forsee the 9.0 update?

    • after 8.11

      • January, 2015.

        • Hope you’re trolling :-?

          • Cuz I’m 2.. now..

23. Q: “The graphics is somehow meh” A (Veider): “You don’t like the new IS-4 model? I started jerking off to it even when it didn’t have the texture yet and was still a set of polygons”

    Made me laugh so hard

24. - Storm states that the detail level of HD WoT models will be roughly the same as the one of War Thunder models

    except you get one core to use instead of all of your computers….so good luck enjoying those graphics

    • Rumors are that they will change the graphic engine in 9.0 and the new one is able to use multiple cores.
      Hawok – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havok_%28software%29