Straight outta Supertest: new 8.11 winter map

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Source: http://blogwotlirt.blogspot.ru/2014/01/map-811.html

Hello everyone,

as recently announced by Storm, 8.11 will bring a Norway-Sweden themed half-city half-suburbs map. Here’s how it will look.

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Personal note though: I am a bit concerned about the amount of leaks these few days. You might say that further insight into World of Tanks plans is good. It’s completely legal for me to report it – as long as there is someone else leaking, not me, it’s fine – such is the deal.

But with this amount of info leaked, it’s only a matter of time before Wargaming purges ALL the supertesters, unless they can find the leaker quickly. That would hurt not only Wargaming, but also us, because then a new system of testing would have to be developed (or at least a new bunch of supertesters hired, trained etc.) and everything gets delayed.

Some of you might remember the massive amount of leaks in 8.5 (via FTR) – there is a REASON they stopped. I won’t deprive you, dear readers, of leaked info – I will keep reporting it, but I just want to let you know where this is going. It’s also completely possible that the leaker was already caught and the guy is just releasing info he managed to get in one batch. In such case my worries would be pointless.

63 thoughts on “Straight outta Supertest: new 8.11 winter map”

  1. ohhh, the drama….
    WG loves the leaks, we love the leaks it’s win-win.
    this kind of info is useless for competition…

      • Of course they are pissed for the sake of being pissed.
        But looking from their side – wtf so mega-secret has been leaked? Minimaps of new maps, couple of new tank pictures?
        So what? Does it somehow influence their development? Does it somehow hurt to the game?
        It doesn’t of course, it only helps to grow the interest in game with all the hype and stuff.

          • If anything they can get some feedback from the community about the new maps(even if it’s only a minimap) and make some changes in time if there are any needed changes.

  3. Cyberzbiry has that info ealier, who is the winner !!!!11111oneoneone. nah im just kidding :) They are posting as they source some random russian blog, with even doesent exist :/

      • Radek, they r sourcing the same forum FTR does… only it seems they did manual input on this specific article about the maps and not copy paste cause they got it backwards, wotbloglirt instead of blogwotlirt. Thats why their link does not work :-)

      • That, and the part where you say “nobody goes here” will be the flank where skilled players pick off the stronk campertenks one by one :)

      • I hope they put enough small hills and other cover like this on north, otherwise it’s gonna be very bad…

    • Yap, and those “most tenks” will make so huge choke point camping, that only Sturmtigers could prevent ;)
      But the general development of winter maps is good, as those rarely used winter camo patterns on tanks will start to pay off.

      • There is something new about this map, in the middle of city there are bridges and it will be first map where ht will have to fight for a bridge because it’s between buildings arty or td want be able to help

    • If there are enough hills on the north side it might give a choice to meds and hull-downers(yeah…it’s in the open…but there aren’t so many arties anymore).

      • Arties are coming back m8. I start to see more and more 3/4 arts on both sides. Think they are players who joined after that patch and where not put off by the nerf that adds to the pool of ppl simply doing their doubles on them.

        • If it is so there must be another cattegory of players…masochists…
          Maybe they don’t know how arties used to be pre 8.6 patch but still…arties are RNG based, frustrating, super-patience requiring and team dependant.
          How can someone enjoy them nowadays?(few arties that are playable do an exception)

    • Yes, it does look familiar.
      Unfortunatly I can’t make out the outlines of the Nidaros cathedral on the WOT map, so it might just be loosely inspired, or be based on another town entirely.

      • Ha, had to flip around the wot map to inspect. Seems very close, the bridges are roughly at the same places, the river has roughly the same bend. Could be it is a Trondheim inspired map.

  8. In fact WG could gain a lot more if they would give more info about development, and even about half-developed and dropped ideas.

    But it would be sooo not soviet like, exactly as any kind of peer (player) review, when WG comes to conclusions that are give on a dish (forum) by players months earlier.

    • In fact WG is already giving out a huge amount of info. Which other game you know does this? I know only a few indie ones (for example Minecraft comes to mind) and none of them are this huge with such fierce competition (many clones, WT).

      Releasing some info as soon as you have it is bad, however you look at it. It makes for more whining – you just can’t explain some players that testing proved that the map was found unbalanced/unplayable during testing. They’ll still whine for its release and blame WG.

  9. They could always ask us EU S-testers back?

    They did send me emails months ago about some specific single test they wanted doing, but I never heard anything back after saying yes…

  10. Companies like google leak on purpose for marketing. If WG bother fire all tester, add new system, they may as well just put time and money into profitable stuff.

  13. Hello!
    I am the author http://www.blogwotlirt.blogspot.ru, which, as I understand it, you’re all here bothered.
    I want to tell you that all the plums with supertest not mine, and are in the company and internete Wargaming should better monitor their supertesterami. All information that was previously published in the fight was not a single blog, and come from different places.

    • You could have written in Russian, mate :) Just a little explanation – “plums” in Russian is “slivy” – the same word also means “leaks”. I understand you are not the source, no worries.

      I just think they should get rid of the leaker quickly, because there is a lot of really cool stuff ahead and it would be a damn shame if it got leaked.

      • because there is a lot of really cool stuff ahead and it would be a damn shame if it got leaked.

        Why, you know stuff we dont know that you got to know OTF instead of FTR and signed a document with your blood that you would not reveal. Right? :-)

  14. All RU supertesters getting expelled? Impossible!

    Only EU capitalist pigs get expelled.

    Yes, I’m still pissed about it.

    “Oh guys, guys, that Russian email that wasn’t intended for you and thus wasn’t translated suddenly is intended for you as well, you have 2 days to get the same amount of points the Russians had 2 weeks to get…”

    Also, it’s known what the USA premium TD will be. Search and thou might find!

      • i so few Supertesters on test servers most of them have 42-44% win rate …. what you expect of them . Some 20% of them are good for developing the game but rest .. well . I still think that WG is leaking this things but who knows

        • Without leaking anything I’ll just say that supertest battles have nothing in common with randoms, they are a much more controlled environment where individual skill matters little.

        • I guess that supertesting has quite different goals than winrate value. And I suppose that when you perform some tests during battle, the result is not a all important. It would be pretty sad if supertesters played for wins. They probably do, but on their regular, personal account.

          • When supertesting tanks, we play for wins.

            No point in not trying to win. If you’re not playing to win, you’re not trying to get the best out of the tank.

  16. Finally, this map could be funny for medium/light tanks. It depends on actual size of the map

  17. I hope it’s as big as it looks. I’m tired of 600m city maps where everyone can see everyone.

    In regards to previous QA, Serb how are people supposed to get exp for scouting when your system relies on the shooter not seeing your scouted target himself? fuk ya.

    • Scouts is not needed as a class nowdays, its many times pointless to play with them, espacialy scouts tier 4-5. WG need to rethink about role of scouts or rebalance them.

    • I dare disagree – imho scouts are valid members of a team and many of my battles were saved by a smart scout able to spot enemy and disapear. And the bigger the tanks, the more important scouts are. In tier VI battle, scouts are less useful than in tier X battle with all those slow moving behemoths.

      And, to be clear, I can’t play scouts, I’m hopeless with them. But there are players that can deadly even in Chaffee or AMX.

  18. I wonder how much thought goes into playability rather then looking good.

    2-3 choke points and make it look pretty seems to be there formula. Which tbh pisses me off to no end.