25.1.2014

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- apparently, mastery badges won’t be rewarded with credits or XP (SerB: “Greed is bad”)
- SerB states that the German captured KV-1 was not equipped with an 88mm gun, but with the 75mm
- apparently, after the TD alpha nerf, their shell price will remain the same
- Q: “Did you ever consider making a “sandbox” game with “free world”?” A: “You see, we didn’t do it for students and schoolkids, who don’t do squat. We made the game for adult men, who are successful in real life and have time for only short game sessions. Students and schoolkids – go play Warcraft.”
- Q: “Why is there no US premium TD?” A: “And there has to be one according to User Agreement?”


- apparently (SS: if I understand this correctly), CW format is changing to be more casual friendly
- tier 8 premium German medium tank? “If there are any plans, I will tell”
- apparently, the T-54 remodelling concerns only the 120mm frontal armor hull – when the alternative 100mm hull is introduced, it will look like the “old” (8.10) T-54
- it’s possible T-44-85 will not appear at all: “It’s better to implement a normal tier 8 prem than this poor guy” – a candidate for that tier appeared
- it’s theoretically possible for the post-mission message (that appears in the garage) to appear on the map loading screen
- apparently, the Field of View changed in 8.11 (SS: weird, didn’t notice), before it was different for various resolutions, now it’s the same
- player asked Storm about the national battles, whether this is what the developers wanted. Storm: “Definitely. Almost an ideal setup.”
- roaming is “being worked on and polished”
- big maps (twice as big as the current ones) are being worked on
- Sturmtiger being worked on, no ETA
- there are plans for Chinese SPG’s and TD’s, no ETA
- Storm states that 8.11 shouldn’t run slower on weak computers – in fact, some weak computers will see FPS increase
- it’s now 100 percent sure that Wargaming will remove the class camo bonus when firing a gun for all the tank destroyers (SS: as in, tank destroyers will no longer be harder to spot when firing a gun of the same caliber than other classes)
- generally, in the future, all large caliber guns will make the vehicle easier to spot than it is now
- the two changes above will come either in 9.0 or 9.1, as it requires long testing

Overlord on national battles:

Vehicle balance has never been tailored to cater for national battles (same nation teams), so we might get some unexpected results which will require changing/fixing. This applies to particular vehicles and particular nation vs nation opposition.

This is interesting – from the Reddit QA (author – Deception_WG):

The developers are working on a different approach for clans but first we will get improvements on how the system works, which means better stability less technical problems. Currently we do no plan to increase the size of EU CW map.

On creating historically accurate tanks (author – Deception_WG)

Yes, we are in contact with many museums in the world, such as Bovington (England), Saumur (France), Munster (Germany) and many others especially in Russia of course. Then when we have the correct dimensions, plans and blueprints from them, the are taking the data to make the models and then re-checked by our historical experts to be as accurate as possible.

86 thoughts on “25.1.2014”

  2. Well, its good to see that WG at least has some intention on bringing Chinese tanks into Nation vs Nation battles [as implied by the future introduction of TD's and SPG's]…. regardless of how far off in the future this may actually be.

  3. - apparently, the T-54 remodelling concerns only the 120mm frontal armor hull – when the alternative 100mm hull is introduced, it will look like the “old” (8.10) T-54

    Does it means that t-54 with 120mm armor will get correct weight? Checking wiki I saw that t-54 weights 34tons while Type 59 which has 100mm armor weights 36 tons. I smell somekind of russian bs in that.

    • Chinese crew are fatasses and that’s where you get the extra weight. Russian crews are stronk men with 1.5m height who don’t eat food. Vodka provides them all the necessary resources to live.

        • Yup, combined crew weights, thats got to be why t54 is 2 tons lighter. No fatasses inside. I bet there was a sign on russian tanks: “if you weight more than 500kg you cant drive a tank” – clueless chinese (who are known to be huge fat fucks on their rice diet) didnt have this sign and voila, 2 tons gained in crew compartment. Thats gotta be it.

    • Russian had composite armor back then.

      (Yes this IS trolling, steel quality affecting tank weight shouldn’t be THAT prevalent)

    • Didn’t the Type have some crazy Chinese Chassis/Suspension/Tracks Modifications??? I thought the Chinese really liked to screw with those things on LL tanks.

  4. - generally, in the future, all large caliber guns will make the vehicle easier to spot than it is now
    ______________
    Like JgpzE100 was invisible after firing it’s gun anyway. Good thing is it won’t affect him at all.

      • Hmm, as the change promotes “shoot and scoot” (which isn’t bad by itself) I don’t see how that really changes gameplay for the “big russians” with their 750 dmg guns… If you can oneshot a lot of opponent’s you don’t really need to care if the dead guy can see you or you can relocate immedeately after shooting. On the other hand if I need at least five(7,5cm) or three(8,8cm) shots and 15+seconds of standing still for 750dmg in a JP IV I see how big that nerv really is.

        Don’t get me wrong, I am supporting more mobility and less “real” camping. (waiting in a bush staying invisble vs. sniping from third row into ongoing engagements. The latter is much more fun anyways). But then I feel especially in the medium Tiers (5-8) some TD trees are much more hampered by these changes then others. All in all an “all class” alpha, dpm, hp ‘rebalance’ could really tilt the scales towards more mobility again (because it allows players to take a calculated risk or make some small mistakes)… As I see it these changes only lead to more camping high Alpha TDs on the battlefield and even less incentive to be mobile, thanks to the increased one-shot risk.

    • keep your engagement beyond 445 meters and JPE will be invisible. 0.35 accuracy is plenty for sniping.

  5. - it’s possible T-44-85 will not appear at all: “It’s better to implement a normal tier 8 prem than this poor guy” – a candidate for that tier appeared
    ____
    Maybe T-54 Light version with 100mm D10T ?

  6. - player asked Storm about the national battles, whether this is what the developers wanted. Storm: “Definitely. Almost an ideal setup.”
    It’s good the player put that screenshot. Now I’ll know to disable nation battles from the beginning.

    • Obviously the fact that the screenshot was taken on the test server where everyone along with their grandmas and pretzels unlock and use whatever the hell they want or do not have, has absolutely nothing to do with how that match came up. wanker.

  7. Maybe its just me….but….i find it highly ironic that SerB responded to the mastery badges for XP/Credits with….’Greed is bad’.

    And 8.11 might actually see an FPS increase for older computers? Yay! My 4-year-old laptop will have an easier time xD

  8. - Q: “Did you ever consider making a “sandbox” game with “free world”?” A: “You see, we didn’t do it for students and schoolkids, who don’t do squat. We made the game for adult men, who are successful in real life and have time for only short game sessions. Students and schoolkids – go play Warcraft.”

    This guy really does talk such bullshit. If the game is for people who only have time for short game sessions, why do they keep putting missions, rewards etc to encourage players to play for long periods?

    • Because after few years of playing and some tens of thousands batlles it will get somewhat boring, stereotypical and they do not want to lose players, so they try to motivate them anyway they find appropriate.

    • It’s clear WG made WOT for kids and never intended it for adults, because
      1. They kept answering childish questions and disregard any useful suggestions from large portion of player community.
      2 They kept answering childish questions with even more childish answers hoping no one will ask them those questions any more. Very lovely tactic indeed.
      3. They don’t respect their customers, especially those who have played for longer and have paid WG money. We are all cash cow for WG.
      4. If this is a game for adults, why is WG constantly complaining about childish whining? We adults especially those “successful” ones who only play WOT as a small part of our daily entertainment really don’t give a shit about which tank WG nerf or buff.

      Personally, I played this game while I was a kid at school, now I’m out of school and making money on my own, yet I find nothing in this game attracts me to play any more. Better way to say this is, Playing this game makes me felt like a lower grade human being. I don’t intend to offend any player with my comment, this is just my personal reflection about this game after stop playing it after almost 10k games

      • I feel exactly the same way, 9mm. This game is absolute garbage, and a massive money grab at every turn, and it deserves to fail, and WG deserves to feel pain, and they will, in time. WoT will not be the only tank game forever, and there will be other games coming out that will greatly overshadow it (Star Citizen, Planetary Annihilation, etc).

  9. - it’s theoretically possible for the post-mission message (that appears in the garage) to appear on the map loading screen

    I’ve had this happen. It occurs if you view a battle result exactly as you load into a match. You get a weird “Cannot display results” window.

  10. “- apparently, the Field of View changed in 8.11 (SS: weird, didn’t notice), before it was different for various resolutions, now it’s the same”
    Well I did, and now i cant play 2 battles without having a headache, bad change imo.

    • I play with an eyefinity setup … guess what, all I can see on the test server, is the tank!

      What a stupid decision to change that!

  11. ”- player asked Storm about the national battles, whether this is what the developers wanted. Storm: “Definitely. Almost an ideal setup.”
    Just happened for me today.
    I played in test server today. Took Object 263 to battle.
    Well, first national battle. Westfield. My team had 2-3 IS-7s, same amount of IS-4s, several T-62As, Obj 140s and Obj 430s, few Obj 268s, me and 2 Obj 261s.
    What where against us? 13 FV 183s. 2 Conqueror GCs.
    Guess what. We lose. Great.
    Even better was when i took my 50b on battle, Winter Himmelsdorf (didnt know that its in 8.11 ALREADY)
    Frenchies VS. Russkies. 70% of my team Bats, 2 bat arties and few foches and 50b.
    Enemy Russkies got raped pretty fastly. We won. Great.
    This is indeed retarded battle mode, and there is 85% chance that i disable it on normal server.

    ”- there are plans for Chinese SPG’s and TD’s, no ETA”
    So far i know something about Chinese TDs (thanks for the post from long time ago)
    but i know almost nothing about Chinese arties. What arties they could have?
    So far i heard about Wolverine with 105mm was actually Chinese artillery vehicle.

    ”- Sturmtiger being worked on, no ETA”
    In 2014?
    Arty? TD (hopefully not)? Assault gun?

    And still hoping for Japanese heavies that they come in 2014., even though its hopeless to hope that.
    And i actually LOL:ed for Daigensui’s reaction to my thread about Japanese HTs xd

  12. - it’s now 100 percent sure that Wargaming will remove the class camo bonus when firing a gun for all the tank destroyers

    No more magical invisible Hellcats, Nashorns and Borsigs? Is this a dream I am experiencing?

      • Because they have ridiculous camo. I had too many times fights where a single Hellcat would wreck my tank before I finally got to see him.
        Do you have anything else “smart” left to say or are we done?

        • If the game is made for a mature audience, why do we get nerfs to suit children? The game is on a path towards a sick joke of skinned clones with no real advantages or disadvantages to love or hate them for…to make them unique and give an individual sense of achievement for mastering each tank.

          Can you please nerf the AMX40 armour, buff the gun to perform like a russian 57mm, and boost the engine HP by 33% Tada, another vanilla boring shitbox with superficial identity for the kiddies to enjoy.

          If I could subscribe to a server that only allowed credit card holding players to access I would join it. You just have to allow easy purchases of premium ammo and most kids that do end up there would not be there for long.

          I long for the WoT Of 8.5.

          • You know, it is hard to make everything unique when there are often around 10 vehicles of same class on each tier … take tier 8 mediums: Type59, T34-2, T34-3, Obj416, T44, M26, T26E4, T69, Centurion I, Panter II, IndPz, Japan something; you got 12 vehicles, now balance them out with basicaly these 3 parameters: armor, firepower, mobility. You can alter them, combine them, but overall there are not that many possibilities since they must more or less fall in medium class and tier 8 overall strength and must perform about the same to be balanced against each another.

          • I have no idea what are you blabbering about, but I concur on one thing.
            You and the rest of wallet warriors go to your own server where you can spam gold in your bushwanking premium TDs all day long and normal players can finally enjoy the game. Deal?

    • I haven’t even grinded enough XP for sixth sense in my E-25 and here comes the bad news. /*sigh*/

      Seriously, E-25 deserves to stay rather hard to spot after-shot with that small gun. Without the feature how do we play it? Suicide scout like an A-20, while your opponents are more experenced and accurate? So every time you end up in a tier 8 battle, your team automatically loses a tier 7 TD? Or anybody telling me that he likes to shoot(once)-and-scoot with that 75mm on a tier 7 TD?

  14. > kids go play warcraft

    Kinda funny considering most of the wow players in eu/us are adults

    Unlike wot flooded with polish kids

  15. ‘ Yes, we are in contact with many
    museums in the world, such as
    Bovington (England), Saumur (France),
    Munster (Germany) and many others
    especially in Russia of course. Then
    when we have the correct dimensions,
    plans and blueprints from them, the are
    taking the data to make the models and
    then re-checked by our historical
    experts to be as accurate as possible.’

    And somehow WTF100 was born.
    Clearly, they BS us.

  16. (SerB: “Greed is bad”)

    Does no one else find this to be hilariously ironic?
    _____________________________________________
    - Q: “Did you ever consider making a “sandbox” game with “free world”?” A: “You see, we didn’t do it for students and schoolkids, who don’t do squat. We made the game for adult men, who are successful in real life and have time for only short game sessions. Students and schoolkids – go play Warcraft.”

    Too bad WoT is literally flooded with kids who have no idea how to play, and spam their parents credit cards in a desperate attempt to become good.

    • but not in 2014 ;(
      i hope from my heart that there will be TD based on 113
      then my dream would come true

  19. - apparently, the Field of View changed in 8.11 (SS: weird, didn’t notice), before it was different for various resolutions, now it’s the same

    I noticed it and I hate it.

  20. - Q: “Did you ever consider making a “sandbox” game with “free world”?” A: “You see, we didn’t do it for students and schoolkids, who don’t do squat. We made the game for adult men, who are successful in real life and have time for only short game sessions. Students and schoolkids – go play Warcraft.”

    So that’s why WoT has no multi-core support, cuz REAL men build their computers from wood on their own!
    Seriously, way too cocky for company which made ONLY 1 real game…

    • World of Tanks is hardly their first game. You think they survived 15 years doing nothing?

      before World of Tanks they made the Massive Assault series and Order of War (iirc). They started out as a strategy game company, specifically turn-based strategy. World of Tanks was just their first “big hit” after the prior games were “Popular but not huge.”

  21. I wish they would do something about match making that takes into accout not overall efficiency but players’ efficiency on every single tank… MM just sucks, it doesnt take into account player level, crew levels, if the tank is stock or not, equipment… and it is not a rocket science to implement it to MM.

    I see so many battles where for example – in tier 8 battle – top tier tanks are noobs that bought premium tanks and have no idea how to play them… They drive into the middle of the map and think they are invicible o_O
    It would be ok if other team had the same situation, but usualli it is not – they are not (according to xvm stats).

    Or in lower tier games you see very good players in their maxed up T18s killing everybody… New guys to the game have no chance to learn the game because they die all the time, and because they can’t learn on lower tiers the go up and up and still suck… or just play as AFK to go a tier higher.

    Some people don’t care about their stats – but I do – and after loosing 5-10 games in a row, where I try to do my best and the team dies like flies, I don’t feel like playing this game anymore… :/

  23. Any news on when the Captured German KV-1 will come to the game? There has been mention of it in quite a few of your posts but no ETA.

  24. “big maps (twice as big as the current ones) are being worked on”

    Twice the side or twice the area?

  25. - Storm states that 8.11 shouldn’t run slower on weak computers – in fact, some weak computers will see FPS increase

    from test server this is true for me!

    it’s now 100 percent sure that Wargaming will remove the class camo bonus when firing a gun for all the tank destroyers

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand TD’s are getting nerfed to the ground!

    • hey that’s wasnt that happened on artys too???
      and heavys prior???
      exect to this to move over meds after 2 mounths propably where the whinners will start bitching about how op the medi’s are and bla bla bla
      never ending circlee
      the thing is once they done with the nerfs on all classes what they will nerf??

  26. - Q: “Did you ever consider making a “sandbox” game with “free world”?” A: “You see, we didn’t do it for students and schoolkids, who don’t do squat. We made the game for adult men, who are successful in real life and have time for only short game sessions. Students and schoolkids – go play Warcraft.”

    and the user rating is so low then…..because why?

  27. - Q: “Did you ever consider making a “sandbox” game with “free world”?” A: “You see, we didn’t do it for students and schoolkids, who don’t do squat. We made the game for adult men, who are successful in real life and have time for only short game sessions. Students and schoolkids – go play Warcraft.”

    That such bullshit. The ARMA series is a massive sandbox that is played mainly by adults.
    Also, short game sessions lead to more casual players joining.

    Also on the holidays WoTs is a nightmare on school holidays because of school kids playing. I don’t mind kids playing as long as they have a slight idea of the game.

  28. Hmm, as the TD change should promote “shoot and scoot” (which isn’t bad by itself) I don’t see how that really changes gameplay for the “big russians” with their 750 dmg guns… If you can oneshot a lot of opponent’s you don’t really need to care if the dead guy can see you or you can relocate immedeately after shooting. On the other hand if I need at least five(7,5cm) or three(8,8cm) shots and 15+seconds of standing still for 750dmg in a JP IV I see how big that nerv really is.

    Don’t get me wrong, I am supporting more mobility and less “real” camping. (waiting in a bush staying invisble vs. sniping from third row into ongoing engagements. The latter is much more fun anyways). But then I feel especially in the medium Tiers (5-8) some TD trees are much more hampered by these changes then others. All in all an “all class” alpha, dpm, hp ‘rebalance’ could really tilt the scales towards more mobility again (because it allows players to take a calculated risk or make some small mistakes)… As I see it these changes only lead to more camping high Alpha TDs on the battlefield and even less incentive to be mobile, thanks to the increased one-shot risk.

  29. - SerB states that the German captured KV-1 was not equipped with an 88mm gun, but with the 75mm

    I have to wonder how many idiots tried to claim that it had the 88 mm gun? It’s those idiots that are likely the reason why they’re so reluctant to add it, even though it’s the only real candidate for a tier 5 premium Heavy on the German tree (because WG for some reason decided to make all of the other candidates into regular vehicles, and they all sucked).

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