Hello everyone,
as you might have noticed, in last few days, Russian videos from new light tank gameplay emerged on the internet. Handpicked Russian players and streamers, who are basically so friendly with WG their channels are de facto WG extensions were allowed to do that. Here’s one with T49.
Source: Various (wot-news, world-of-ru, Wladimir S.)
If you are wondering about the red parts on some models, red is the replacement color for missing texture.
Chaffee – stock turret, stock gun (75mm M6)
- Storm confirms that the entire set of vehicle models in the game will be reworked to HD (there won’t be a special non-HD client)
- the HD tanks are not textured as dirty from mud, because it would look weird on winter maps
- no plans for changes of the gold ammo for credits mechanism
- camo looking weird on HD models? “Everything is the way it was before”
- IS-7 will not be reworked to HD in 9.3
- it was confirmed in 9.3 supertest patchnotes that suicides will be punished in World of Tanks. A player asked, how will the game know if I for example drive off the bridge by accident. Storm answered that you’d have to “drive off by accident” three times in a row, so that’s apparently the limit of suicide punishment.
- you won’t get bonus XP for blocking shells with your tracks (SS: for example sidescraping). Storm: “Blocking shells by tracks – that’s bullshit and not tanking”
- Storm confirms that shooting hatches will NOT produce less damage than shooting other parts, because it would be counterintuitive for players
- +/-1 MM will not be implemented (Storm: “It would be boring shit”)
- Storm considers current tier 1,2,11 battles (those that have 1 MM spread) boring
- the biggest problem for creating HD models for now is that outsourced modellers suck (lag behind)
- Storm states that having full HD resolution for all tanks (and not just yours in battle as it was changed in 9.2) is pointless, as you can only tell the difference from like half a meter
- the full HD texture resolution for other tank than yours will not return, not even as an option
Hello everyone,
in 9.3 supertest (that is running now, public test likely next Thursday), the parameters of the abovementioned vehicles were changed as such:
Chaffee
This tank was reworked to the standard tier 5 light tank (original value in brackets, values for 100 percent crew)
Health: 440 (580)
Viewrange: 390 (400)
Radio: 776,9 m (same)
Armor was reworked of course (resembles current stock Chaffee now, can be seen here)
Weight: 18,392 tons (19,701)
Engine: 460hp (500hp)
Power-to-weight: 25,01 (25,38)
Hull traverse: 42 (46)
Maximum speed: 77,2/21 km/h (56/21)
Ground resistance: 0,767/0,959/1,63 (0,863/0,959/1,63)
Source: Wotleaks RU community
Hello everyone,
the following has been apparently posted on RU supertester forums. Storm mentions here the multicore support and its effect and… well, I’ll just translate it.
Storm: “Multicore support – that’s wishful thinking and a myth about great ingame performance, spread by players. God willing, we’ll get 20-30 percent increase out of it. It was not done earlier because it requires an overhaul of practically the entire engine.
Hello everyone,
as you already know from yesterday’s patchnotes, in 9.3, we will get new (simplified) hangar interface (specifically the upper part). Here’s how it’s going to look. Note the reworked upper bar.
Hello everyone,
you might have seen the video with RU251 yesterday. There is one interesting part in it however, apart from the tank itself. Check this out:
The text below says “Module (right track) damaged by the shot of Bot 06″
Apparently, this is the first glimpse of Wargaming testing bots in the game. These could be useful for some things like tutorials or PvE mode, let’s just hope we won’t see them in the game instead of real players, we have enough of our own bots already…
Interesting though.
This post had to be taken down yesterday to alleviate for excessive traffic on FTR. Reposting it today, with part 2 to follow later on.
Hello everyone,
about a month ago, a great tank presentation took place at Saumur and Rastaknight was kind enough to provide us with pictures. There are MANY pictures – too many to fit in one article, so I’ll split it into parts. First is the dynamic presentation – I am sure that I don’t have to introduce most of these vehicles.
