19.1.2014

- apparently the 8.11 patch server engine upgrade has nothing to do with lags and their reduction
- “teleporting” tanks mean “transfer of the client on another platform” (SS: hell if I know what that means), SerB adds “Are you sure this has anything to do with server overload?” (SS: a player was complaining about teleporting tanks he believes are caused by server overload)
- Q: “Will the engine upgrade fix the “mythical” shell-eating issue – shells being eaten by tracks are other modules?” A: “Judging from the parentheses, you have exposed our CONSPIRACY!!!”
- Tier 8 waiting times too long? “How terrible!!!”
- it’s possible that the T95 medium tank will appear as a regular vehicle in US medium branch, SerB states there are like 6 possible modifications
- T-34-3 is doing fine statistically
- new branches in 2014? “The branches that will be implemented will not be the ones that are most ready by now, but the ones that are most popular”

87 thoughts on “19.1.2014

  1. If they are taking a popularity vote, unless we do something this means that we are going to get another 4 soviet lines.

    Can I have any volunteers for a trip to Belarus to paint a large Chieftain and Firefly on the building opposite the WG offices?

  2. - new branches in 2014? “The branches that will be implemented will not be the ones that are most ready by now, but the ones that are most popular

    another clear hint for the firefly and posebly the sturmtiger if they can figure it out. But i wonder, wich other 2 could we expect then?

      • As nothing Soviet, French or Chinese, i would guess those three:
        British 2nd MT line
        Sturmtiger line
        Japanese HTs

        And not sure about Sturmtiger, doesnt they still have problems to balance it?
        Either not sure about Japan HTs though, its said many times that info about them is lacking (but they said on ASAP that they wants to add them in 2014, so im confused now, lol)

        • They will have balance problems all the time! Sturmtiger was meant to pick on fortifications and not tanks! I just wish they avoid KV-1S effect. That is, very popular tank with inadequate high damage for its tier.

          inb4 WTE100

          No, this thing is paper, screwed by arty all the time , gun damaged 24/7 and no camo. There is a way around it while SturmTiger has some armor at least. I wish they add it as short range Arty to counter the immense interest in it….

          • how terrible

            Like i said, Sturmtiger will hard to balance.
            And im still hoping for Japanese HTs…
            i hope that what they said in ASAP is true ;_;

            • Supepr easy solution to strumtiger ballance! Give him static gun, So you must aim with the tank!

          • I think Sturmtiger might suffer the same fate the Sturer Emil did. The one most hyped in a line will be the most unplayable in the said line.

            • @Infernal969@ Exactly what i wanted to say. From most desired/expected tank to most shittiest tank in the line.

            • The Sturer Emil was probably one of my favorites when going down that line, loved the tank even more when I got steel wall in it.

        • I believe they said that the Japanese heavy line is basely done but are searching for tanks to fill in tiers 4, 5, and 6 (that is if i remember correctly anyways).

  3. new branches in 2014? “The branches that will be implemented will not be the ones that are most ready by now, but the ones that are most popular”

    Oh great, so we’re going to get even more German and Russian tanks? While the French tree will go untouched for at least 2 years, and the Japanese/Chinese won’t be allowed in nation vs nation battles for at least the next year.

    I suspect that the USA won’t get any new tech tree branches for that time too.

    • I’d argue about T95 med. Aside from reward tank, devs are talking a little bit too much about it. I think there’s something going on.

      I wish they add at least one new french branch… It’s almost two years since the added any branch and now even brits have more tanks than them… such a pity…..

      • Think WG don’t like something, like Germans ? Lol. WG just hate the French. Constantly overnerfed tanks (AMX-40 is slower than every cavalry tanks which it was supposed to have, 47mm don’t have it’s true penetration, only the Germans have the S35, ARL44 should be tier 7, etc), no promotion of tanks (look at all the artwork, there is only two french tanks, the FT-17 and a destroyed one), and now no new branch. WG love the Germans compared to the way they treat the French.

        • “The branches that will be implemented will not be the ones that are most ready by now, but the ones that are most popular”

          So basically that states that the chinese and british line are even more popular than the french line? Hard to believe to be honest. Sadly we dont have their numbers.
          but to shout out loud: I love french tanks!

          :-)

  4. - Q: “Will the engine upgrade fix the “mythical” shell-eating issue – shells being eaten by tracks are other modules?

    There is nothing mythical in NOT HITTING THE TANK HULL.

  5. -it’s possible that the T95 medium tank will appear as a regular vehicle in US medium branch, SerB states there are like 6 possible modifications

    I thought there was 8 :D

      • Going by Wikipedia there are 4 variants that don’t have a smoothbore gun (and excluding variants that are simply an engine change or swap between rifled guns, which aren’t considered different tanks in WoT):

        - E2: M48A2 turret, 90 mm gun (or 105 mm from E5 variant)
        - E3: T54E2 turret, 105 mm gun
        - E6: T96 turret, 120 mm gun
        - E7: Original T95E1 turret, 105 mm gun

        • The E5 and E7 use the L7 (aka T254 before it was standardized as M68).
          If WG decides that they want to implement one of the studies then we might have an interesting tank on our hands, if not then we have yet another tank with the L7.
          I do hope we don’t get the E5, that would be horrible.

  6. - Tier 8 waiting times too long? “How terrible!!!”

    I’ve been noticing that as well when playing with the Rhm Borsig. Anyone knows why?

      • My money’s on that. Team battles finally become more popular and everybody uses tier 8′s for them, maybe MM has problems in composing teams because there’s not enough tanks on that particular tier?

        • That and how tier 10s leech tier 9s and 8s could definitely explain it. There could be plenty of people saying ” Why play randoms when you get guaranteed you’re top tier?”

    • My Indien got it worse, dood. fvcking long queue, and when finally battle, BAMMM!!! team full of tomatoes….

      • Waiting time for my teir 8s is around 30 sec-1.30 now. were everything else is around 1-30 secs anyone else have waiting times that high?

  7. so … all that i have to do is to wait for test server :D
    Sometime.. next week?
    23 or 24.01…

      • I’m seeing more and more good players on this tank I think it’s because it’s not bad at all (type is better but what can we do, you can’t buy it)

        • Must’ve not seen me drive it. I’m not amazing, but i usually pull 1750-3k damage per game.

  8. - “teleporting” tanks mean “transfer of the client on another platform” (SS: hell if I know what that means), SerB adds “Are you sure this has anything to do with server overload?” (SS: a player was complaining about teleporting tanks he believes are caused by server overload)

    I don’t have in depth knowledge of their specific server infrastructure, but I do know about this in general and I’m almost certain it will be something like this:

    When you are logged into the game and join a match you are connected to one of many actual servers that host the WoT matches. People talk about the gameserver as if it is one, but actually there is just one logical server, which is the EU cluster, which consists of several physical servers. Nothing new here until now, but now we get to the point being made in this Q&A entry:

    The client on you local computer receives the data from a specific server within this cluster to stay synchronized with the actual battle action, i.e. tank movement. Your client also sends data to this server which gets then spreaded to all other players within the match so they can stay in sync with what you are doing. For some reason this server might not be able to process the requests of your client anymore. This is not that unsual within a cluster, basically this is one of the reasons why you have a cluster in the first place. The reason why this server can’t handle your requests anymore might be a hardware or software failure, planned maintenance and so on. Heavy load could be, but is unlikely since they will be running a proper load balancing for sure.

    Now, instead of you being dropped out of the match you will be transfered to another server that then starts to send you all the required data instead of the one that has just failed and your client sends the required data to the new server as well. This will take some time though and will not happen instantly. We are not talking about milliseconds. It will be more like several seconds. Within that time you are not in sync with the other players and as soon as you are in sync again you will be “teleported” to your actual position. At least this is how the other players will experience this. The one affected player might have this effect as well with 29 tanks :)

    • Not sure if “general knowledge” includes knowing what porting is, but if it does, you should easily recognize what actually was asked and why Serb answered what he answered. You even don’t have to understand Russian for that.

      • RIght now I don’t have a clue what you are on about. SS told us already that “a player was complaining about teleporting tanks he believes are caused by server overload”
        SerB said ““teleporting” tanks mean “transfer of the client on another platform”” which, as far as I understand it, might be the result of a tricky translation of the russian word for “platform” because this statement, literally, makes no sense in this context.

        Maybe I got it wrong, don’t know. I don’t think so though.

  9. so which branches are confirmed currently?
    2nd british Mediums?
    Strum tiger?
    Jap Heavies?
    Something French….those poor french tankers no love for you
    another T-62a clone?
    any idea what is confirmed?

    • Probably super MTB mediums from the early 80s, reactive armor, smoothbore guns, better mobilty and better camo rating, as well as much better pen and alpha compared to “older” tanks. Since so many people have complained about TDs and artys, WG will make all medium biased players happy.

    • Believe WG is doing it by which lines are more popular to the players. And base on the pole that was on this site a few weeks ago it was the strumtiger branch and cheiftan branch (of course that’s only if my memory serves me right).

  10. “The branches that will be implemented will not be the ones that are most ready by now, but the ones that are most popular”

    lmao, i bet frech heavy branche is ready since patch 7.0 (as we can see in the trailer)

  11. - it’s possible that the T95 medium tank will appear as a regular vehicle in US medium branch, SerB states there are like 6 possible modifications

    Well that’s nice and all but the only 120 version the only 120 is going to be giving to the good players it’s still total bullshit while I’m sure we get a fucking patton 105 look alike

  12. new branches in 2014? “The branches that will be implemented will not be the ones that are most ready by now, but the ones that are most popular”

    Q =To pay the bills I suppose is the tier x tank of the new line going to be OP for a year or so.
    Ans = Of course,its easier than printing money.

    They could release it under powered and then buff it that would make people who own the tank happy.
    Or would that not make them has much Dosh,
    loads of dosh cha.
    over powered it is then.

  13. All the retards who think T95E6 is the only one with 120 mm sickens me.

    If you’re going to damn complain, at least know what you’re talking about.

      • The only chance we have at getting a tank that isn’t armed with an L7 is if WG decide to implement one of the studies (A and B are very similar to the E6 so those are unlikely), with studies F and G using a 120mm gun (the L1A1). Study E might be a candidate (T95 turret + 105mm T140E4 – T54E1s gun without the autoloader more or less) but the gun would have to be buffed to be tier 10 material and the only basis would be that the gun used on the T54 is the E3 version.

        • T140E4 is light weight version of T140E3, isn’t it?

          I don’t want T95E3, ugly and worse protection than T95E6/E7.

          • I’d rather have the original T95 turret even if it means yet another L7 (i.e. T95E7).

            I bet we get yet another M48 turret AND L7. -_-

          • Yep it is, that’s why I said that the only logic behind buffing it would be that it’s not the same version as the one on the T54. TBH I wouldn’t mind them doing that since having yet another L7 is getting a bit boring.

    • It should be “sicken me”, as in: “dumb whores like Daigensui sicken me”.

  14. Here wrong translation goes again. Player asks about porting, not about teleporting. Obviously he used a wrong term and Serb happily trolled him.

  15. Just give me my fucking AMX M4 and AMX 30 lines, WG. I’ve waited long enough for you to twiddle your thumbs, since 7.0 infact. What could possibly be holding these long wanted and teased branches back? Oh, where’s my french S35, or any of my G1 prototypes other than the G1B? At least one of the G1 prototypes have been teased in a video. No, keep making T-54 clones, those are much better choices and cater to the masses.

  16. - new branches in 2014? “The branches that will be implemented will not be the ones that are most ready by now, but the ones that are most popular”

    So SturmTiger branch or a new French med or heavy branch?

  17. emm…im sorry but…how to submit my question to WG?we have a “efficiency 1800″ insisting that the BIA improves a gun’s penetration…an idiotic thought,isn’it?we need somebody OFFICIAL to refute since he has been misleading a lot(with his “1800+ efficiency”)…

  18. - new branches in 2014? “The branches that will be implemented will not be the ones that are most ready by now, but the ones that are most popular”

    Lost in translation. The original Serb’s quote is:
    “Будут вводиться не самые готовые, а самые востребованные. Следите за информацией”
    “востребованные” does not mean “popular”. It means “the most needed”. Try to guess which are the most needed branches now, bearing in mind the forthcoming “National Battles” (hint – japanese and chinese are excluded from “National Battles” since they lack artys and TDs)

    • That makes more sense, thanks. Pretty sure SerB rarely gives a shit what is ‘popular’, but rather what are the project objectives (and occasionally his pet interests… like a certain 122 mm armed vehicle at tier 6).

    • To make the Chinese and Japanese lines able to do National battles, will require a lot of work and maybe multiple patches to get them all in.
      both nations lack TDś and arty and the Japanese also lack a HT line, so that ‘s a lot of tanks to add.

      recent patches have mostly been single lines from a single nation, and some addittions to other lines, unless Wg pulls something out of the Hat. we could be waiting some time before China and Japan are in National battles.