4.2.2014

- there is no set rule that certain damage in game has to correspond to certain caliber (SS: for example 150mm guns don’t have to deal 750 or 850 damage, the number can be completely different)
- DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it”
- British arty depression us a “balance parameter”
- the priority for HD tank models lies in mass-produced and “legendary” tanks
- for now, there will be no separate HD and regular clients, this might change later when the patches get big
- GPU multicore support will come at some point

And stuff regarding SerB’s post about RU audience. The discussion under the post is actually pretty cool and interesting, I wish I could translate it, but it would take too much time.

- on RU server, only like 15 percent of players are younger than 18 according to SerB
- average RU WoT player age is 32, Storms confirms by saying that this was found out via a paid survey and that real results will differ from this result only by like individual percents
- SerB points out that all the player proposals to “increase skill of the playerbase” usually boil down to “don’t let the idiots into my team”
- return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits
- on the contrary, there was no significant profit loss from EU server based on the affair
- “less than 10 thousand” free IS-6′s were given out during the Christmas event

78 thoughts on “4.2.2014

  1. - average RU WoT player age is 32, Storms confirms by saying that this was found out via a paid survey and that real results will differ from this result only by like individual percents

    Interesting.

    - return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits
    - on the contrary, there was no significant profit loss from EU server based on the affair
    - “less than 10 thousand” free IS-6′s were given out during the Christmas event

    Expected.

    • I worry about the stalin inscription’s.
      Makes me worry that there are more Stalinist’s out there than I thought…. The thought is rather scary.

      • I’m not worried. It’s basically a mixture of controversy and “yes he was a bloody dictator, but he’s OUR bloody dictator who did defeat the Nazis, so hands off!”.

      • Stalinists are coming to get you! They’re coming to get you, Barbara! They’re coming for you!

      • One thing doesn not have to follow the other.

        If I drive a german tank I want a swastika on the side, but I;m not a Nazi.
        If I drive a Russian tank I want a Stalin inscription on the side. But that doesn’t mean I’m pro Stalin.

        I’m pretty sure that for most people it’s just a ‘tool’ to get more immersed into the game. Thats all. A game.

      • Having stalin inscription on your pixel tanks is like having a swastika flag as a reenactor.

        It does not matter…and anyone who is anal about it is probably not worth speaking to.

  2. “- DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it””

    The only reason it doesn’t stand out being that there’s the Char B1 at that tier as well, and both suck.

    “- return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits”

    Largely because of players putting the inscription “Iosef Stalin” on their IS-series tanks (myself included, having that inscription on my IS-6).

    “- on the contrary, there was no significant profit loss from EU server based on the affair”

    The kurwas complained the most about it (or at least were the most vocal about it), so everyone else got the inscriptions just to troll them. XD

    • “- DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it””

      The only reason it doesn’t stand out being that there’s the Char B1 at that tier as well, and both suck.

      Correction it sucks more than char B1. Char B1 has armor DW2 doesnt even have that.

      • I never said they suck the same amount.

        Indeed, the DW2 IS worse, largely because whereas the Char B1′s armor has many weakspots in it, most tanks don’t have guns accurate enough to target those anywhere beyond point-blank range at tier 4 and below, or are driven by noobs. The DW2 doesn’t have the armor of the Char B1, but gets a 75 mm howitzer as an option for the gun…which is pointless, because whereas the Panzer III has better frontal armor and the mobility to get in to knife-fighting range to make sure the shots count while minimizing chances of retaliation, the DW2 doesn’t have that option, and even angled, the DW2 stands almost no chance of bouncing a shot unless it’s from a tier 3 light tank or something.

        The problem is that WG is just fine with tier 4 heavy tanks being worse all around than medium tanks of the same tier, even though from tiers 5 on up, heavies tend to completely destroy any medium tank that tries to take them on alone (unless the guy in the heavy is a complete moron and/or the medium driver knows what the hell he’s doing).

        • I actually found side scraping and hulldown with DW2 to be damn effective in tier 4 matches.
          I managed to bring down a matilda in a 1 vs 1 fight this way(I know, he was a noob but still… I had a 50% crew;)

          • Well you’re pretty damned lucky to keep running into these ‘noobs’. Even the worst noobs on the NA server have a knee-jerk reaction to switch to gold after they’ve bounced one or two shots with normal ammo.

            Then again, smaller server population means less noobs, which means a greater probability of encountering somebody who knows what he’s doing.

  3. “- return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits”

    Lol! Who would have expected that…

  4. “return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits”

    Lets not get too sentimental about the deaths of millions when there is money to be made. Sickening.

      • I dont mind even nazi inscirptions or symbols. Its a game, not a career path. I dont think having a few pixels on a virutal tank makes anyone more (or less) fashist or communist. But to think WG (or really any company) will turn down profits for ethical behavior is rather naive. The right action would be to either allow both or ban both.

    • How can you play a game where it’s all about the machines of death that caused so much death a decay in WW2?

      Inscriptions are bad but the tanks themselves are fine?

      Your logic just doesn’t make sense to me…

  5. I will enjoy when all the Tanks, in World of Tanks get HD models but I’ll say that will probably take awhile since there’s like 320 Tanks right now in the game. So 15 Models each patch will get HDified. So that’s like 21 patches plus…

    • I’m already imagining the amount of incoming question on their Q&A regarding the HDifing of the models.
      Countless questions like:”When my X tank will get it’s HD model?!

  6. - “less than 10 thousand” free IS-6′s
    were given out during the Christmas
    event

    In RU or overall?
    If overall – damn small number.

      • Considering the initial screenshots of the RU server had significantly higher Tier 6 play, I’m surprised by the low number. They had over 900K on at a time. One would think more than one percent of that population would have finished the mission. It wasn’t that difficult.

        • not that difficult? no it just took a hell of a lot time
          also, you have to have quite an advanced account. i have 7k battles but im far away of having a t6 of every nation (because nobody sets it as a goal)

          i expected a low number like that, otherwise they wouldnt do such an event ofc

  7. - DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it”
    Who the hell thinks that shit is OP it should get some armor buff in order to be useful.

    • i cant understand why the fuck they dig out tanks that are
      1st low tier and can be passed by
      2nd DW2 sucks hard…..
      3rd they are maaaany other tanks to whine about rather then these little things sitting at low tiers(T18′s and stuf…..)
      o well as jingles says
      O you World of Tanks community you so silly……

    • I’d be fine with the armor as it is if the guns weren’t so shitty.

      Seriously, just give it the 75 mm L/43 and it’ll be good enough. I can put up with less-than-effective armor if the gun’s good enough to compensate for it.

      • Is russian a world language? Or by any means extremely important to know/speak for a normal person (personal interest / business relation excluded)

      • Better question:

        How many people outside of Russia and former Soviet satellite countries speak Russian?

        I’ll follow that up with another question:

        How many people speak English outside of the US, UK and former British colonies?

        (And before you say that by that logic we should all speak Mandarin Chinese, the number of people who speak it are inflated solely because China has such a massive population – a very tiny fraction of the people who know it live outside of China, whereas English has been standardized as a second language in many countries, particularly those involved in NATO and SEATO)

    • And why would they learn it? Percentage of those who need it for “business relations” is quite low. Besides, they have more trade with Germany than with all English-speaking countries combined. Hell, they trade with Poland more than with USA. And all the technical documentation on imported devices on the market must be translated, this is law. It’s easy to live a life in Russia without ever touching “extremely important” “world language”.

  8. - GPU multicore support will come at
    some point

    This dont make sense. Dont GPU have many many cores (or it was procesors)?

  9. - GPU multicore support will come at some point
    Yeah Serb’s grand grandchildren will implement it.

    - on RU server, only like 15 percent of players are younger than 18 according to SerB
    Yeah sure.

    - average RU WoT player age is 32, Storms confirms by saying that this was found out via a paid survey and that real results will differ from this result only by like individual percents
    Yeah sure.

  10. - the priority for HD tank models lies in mass-produced and “legendary” tanks

    And the is4 for some reason.

  11. SS, could you tell us little bit about discussion under Serbs post ? Just something interesting

  12. Russia still loves USSR. So why they didn’t fucking defend Gorbachev and his reformist plans?!

    • Because Gorbachev didn’t resist even a bit. How can you defend leader who runs away to sea resort and cuts off the phone when his country falls apart?
      Yeah. And they totally didn’t defend Supreme Soviet (that one actually offered resistance) in 1993. Those tanks and machineguns firing on Moscow streets were imaginary. Their victims too.

  13. Ehm..
    “- GPU multicore support will come at some point”

    I think that this must be a mistranslation of some sort..
    A GeForce 680 has 1536 cores and I dont think that it would work that well without multicore support…

  14. Buff that DouchbagWagen 2 already, good thing that i don’t have to grinds that tanks when i grinding E50M line.

    And i think he said about multi-gpu support since a single GPU already have many core.

  15. - average RU WoT player age is 32, Storms confirms by saying that this was found out via a paid survey and that real results will differ from this result only by like individual percents.

    HMMMM, well in a world where the only question to watch a adult web page if you age is 18 + , ejem ejem.

    What did they do? Identification number card and check this one with the police hmmm I don’t believe :) :)

    Sorry but I don’t believe on on-line surveys to easy to tell I born in the Death Star :) :) and my name is Luke Sky Walker.

  16. - the priority for HD tank models lies in mass-produced and “legendary” tanks

    Lmao! Soviet stronk tenks all legendary!

  17. ”- DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it””
    That thing sucks balls hardly.
    Even SAu-40 and AMX 40 ”le duck” are blast to play when compared to it.
    No armor, no gun, no mobility. Should it get buff?
    Simply, worst tank in the game. The WORST.

  18. “return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits”
    wut, how