1.1.2014

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Welcome to the new year :)

- regarding the New Years Eve, SerB wrote: “By the way, I really don’t recommend skiing downhill with bengal fire in each hand – you can’t see shit beyond the circle of light (5 meters). It’s scary.”
- SerB, regarding the hydraulic suspension in WoT: “That’s a pretty rough and complex rework of game mechanics (that doesn’t concern only clearance), so for now no comment” (SS: earlier, Storm confirmed the variable suspension for E-10 will come)
- apparently SerB will keep answering questions in the RU topic as much as he can
- apparently the STB-1 height in the game is correct
- premium Sexton better than the regular one? The difference between them is “a complex of characteristics”


- there will be no balance problem with the independent suspension mechanism, as the smoothness of tank ride was taken into account when balancing ever since the beginning of WoT
- the machineguns in WoWp are working fine, even on planes with many of them, like TSh-3
- current game camera field of view in WoT is considered optimal
- SerB won’t tell now which branches exactly will come in 2014
- SerB still thinks that WG should have worked more on historical battles instead of cybersports, but the mission system he considers to be positive
- it’s possible more complicated suspension models (like the interwoven wheel suspension of German tank) will be modelled in some simplified fashion to reduce the requirements of the client (when introducing the independent suspension), this will apply to tanks with many roadwheels like the Churchill or Vickers
- players will not be able to add their own camo to the tank in future (“we don’t need pink tanks with flowers”)
- voice activation (control) in WoT? “Principially yes, but there are issues with background noise”
- more detailed info on clanwars improvement will come later
- Havoc will use an available processor core (if available anyway), it will not use graphic card computing (as far as SerB knows)
- 9.0 will bring some serious graphics improvement, the patch might bring more breaking news than just graphics
- apparently (SS: if I understand this correctly), ALL the textures of vehicles will be reworked to the new HD model (eg. there won’t be two sets of textures – those there are now and those HD ones), lowering the graphic settings will also load the HD textures, but they will be automatically resized by the graphic card to lower quality (Storm states that this process costs no extra resources, a card does it anyway)
- it seems that the chat will be “read only” when roaming (no spamming for you, trolls :))
- it will be possible to crush smaller houses by driving into them
- regarding how many tanks will be reworked into HD graphics, Storm states that WG would like to rework ALL the tanks in 2014

45 thoughts on “1.1.2014”

  1. about Havok – so now after i hit some big house (or tower whatever) with T92 it can fall into tank and destroy it? (like in bf3/4)

      • well currently dead tanks on alive ones deal damage… If your turret falls on a light it may aswell kill him.

        • He was asking about houses. It has been confirmed that a turret will be equal to a tank of the same weight in terms of damage. So if KV-4′s 20 ton turret falls onto ELC he’s pretty much screwed

          • Bricks and stones has too less penetration to harm a steel tank. Would it be realistic for a tank to die from that?

  2. “- SerB still thinks that WG should have worked more on historical battles instead of cybersports, but the mission system he considers to be positive”

    SerB and I are agreeing on something…
    2014… you’re starting off as the year of miracles.

    • I’m not even sure what they did for “cybersports” apart from community and event organisation. There was team battles and…? As far as their dev team was concerned not much input was there for them, it was all their PR and community teams.

  3. I love this “HD graphics” thing.
    Yeah, it will look cool, but this is barely “SD” in the next gen era (WT too), just compare it to the new Killzone…

    • Graphics itself can’t make a game good. Just look at Crysis 1. It was boring, and the only new mechanism was the suit in it.

          • By saying it was boring. “It was boring,” past sense of “it is boring,” which implies that “it” is boring by fact.

            • Why the hell should I write “in my opinion” after every goddamn sentence I write on the internet? Is it so hard to realise I’m just writing down my opinion?

    • On consoles, the obsession for graphics has given us the most boring and repetitive console generation. AAA games are now overproduced, over-expensive messes, where Capcom can sell 5 million copies of Resident Evil 6 and still not recoup the loss of the homogenized, offensively dumbed down session of graphical wanking it is.

      As for K:SF, it is a linear story-driven shooter. Not an MMO that must maintain thousand of simultaneous battles in different environments and calculate the change in hundred of parameters produced by every individual action.

  4. ” – players will not be able to add their own camo to the tank in future (“we don’t need pink tanks with flowers”) ”

    M3 Pink GuP don’t like this :D

  7. >> – it seems that the chat will be “read only” when roaming (no spamming for you, trolls :))

    Shame, it was fully working during that short period when roaming was available for everyone ;) . The Russians i stumbled upon were very polite, even when they recognized me being from EU.

    BTW, what’s up with multiregion login mod? After update it seems not working, can’t log on NA (with NA account of course) from my EU client :( .

  9. - regarding the New Years Eve, SerB wrote: “By the way, I really don’t recommend skiing downhill with bengal fire in each hand – you can’t see shit beyond the circle of light (5 meters). It’s scary.”

    Was that a slight jab at Michael Schumacher?

    - SerB, regarding the hydraulic suspension in WoT: “That’s a pretty rough and complex rework of game mechanics (that doesn’t concern only clearance), so for now no comment” (SS: earlier, Storm confirmed the variable suspension for E-10 will come)

    Make it so when you push the button to lock the TD into place (i thing it was X) the vehicle also lowers itself down? that would be an easy if temporary solution.

    - SerB still thinks that WG should have worked more on historical battles instead of cybersports, but the mission system he considers to be positive

    Damn straight, only minor part of WoT plays cybersports, while historical battles can be player by everyone.

    - 9.0 will bring some serious graphics improvement, the patch might bring more breaking news than just graphics

    Interesting, I’m waiting.

      • they can, but in order to win you have to have a team, which means you have to cooperate in the said team, and cooperation is something quite rare in WoT

      • Unless you’re in an active clan, Team Battles become an a whole ordeal. If you can’t field a team yourself or with friends, then that means you’re joining up with another team. And a solid team would require comms and yada yada yada. I’m fine with that, but it’s not as accessible to the general public as historical battles would be.

        I imagine historical battles would be quite similar to how random battles work, you click battle and then the client just handles everything else.

  10. quote: “Havoc will use an available processor core (if available anyway), it will not use graphic card computing (as far as SerB knows)”

    they can use OpenCL, and both ATi and nVidia GPUs can run it

  11. Only two questions:
    “E-10 will come” When? If it will be as awesome as the E-25 it will have a slot in my garage.
    “- 9.0 will bring some serious graphics improvement, the patch might bring more breaking news than just graphics” What could they be, and of course when? In february?

    • Well, Serb stated in the ASAP video that he just gave away the patch numbers(8.11 and 9.0).
      So, if there will be anything in february, it’ll be the 8.11 patch.

  12. - regarding how many tanks will be reworked into HD graphics, Storm states that WG would like to rework ALL the tanks in 2014

    Oh shit, that’s a lot of reworking

  13. SerB won’t tell now which branches exactly will come in 2014

    inb4 Sturmtiger vaporware of 2014.

    • SturmTiger will probably have something like 2.8k dmg per shot, 200m shell range and 1m20s reload time and 0.95 accuracy
      (these figures are just my guess….probably i’m way wrong but assume it will be something along those lines due to derpy sized 380mm shells)

  15. “- players will not be able to add their own camo to the tank in future (“we don’t need pink tanks with flowers”)”
    aaand that’s when i will stop playing this game and possibly sell my account.
    it’s one fo the most retarded things ever and the playerbase will not let it pass

  17. so, after having this new system, the WG will not have to upgrade the servers to keep up with the requisites of the game??

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