3.3.2014

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- more detailed voiceover system regarding hits (helping players to figure out what happened) will be introduced relatively soon
- it’s not yet 100 percent decided that the national battles (confrontation mode) will be removed
- there are no plans to introduce new functions (SS: to buff) premium account
- there are no plans to change the Ruinberg map
- no special development is running regarding the loss of synchronisation between server and client, Storm states these issues are not caused by Wargaming, but by ISP’s
- for now, the exact list of tanks for various historical battles won’t be disclosed
- no exact details for “clan bases” will be disclosed yet
- Storm doesn’t know exactly, when (if) the arty aim circle gets fixed
- in 8.11, module crit chance did not change
- no plans to buff IS-6 penetration


- in 2014 there will be no researchable (regular) US medium tanks implemented
- for now, there are no plans for Super Pershing changes
- KV-5 will not be buffed (apparently it’s performing even better than is the average)
- MBT-70 will not be introduced
- SU-122-44 will not be buffer (if I understood it correctly, Storm wrote that if anything, it actually needs a nerf)
- KV-1S split: when it’s done it’s done (SS: 9.1 or 9.2 was it? something like that)
- regarding ingame sounds, Storm stated that current task of WG developers is to introduce new (“normal”) sounds of tracks, engine, shooting and hits, in far future, there might be dynamic sounds such as branches of trees hitting a tank when it is passing through it

And now, some answers by Evilly, courtesy of Maiorboltach (I kinda summed it up, as usual)

- Diaries of the Developers will show detail plans for this year apparently
- Havok will run on a separate core (SS: if I understand it correctly)
- while WG will try not to force players with very bad computers to have to buy new ones, Evilly states that progress doesn’t stand on one place, new hardware is being developed, developers will try to make the game comfortably playable for both those who have bad computers and those who have good ones
- developers are looking into an option to have the HD textures download optional
- one of the priorities this year is the “gameplay atmosphere”, including the locations (maps)
- Evilly confirms Kharkov, Stalingrad, Konigsberg and Minsk maps
- maps will furthermore be improved atmospherically, for example by adding weather
- Ruinberg on Fire and winter Himmelsdorf were very well accepted by the public apparently
- Evilly confirms for 2014 tier 8 Japanese premium medium, Soviet tier 8 premium medium (“light T-54″) and states that the German premium “early version of Panther” will appear (SS: almost certainly not true), he states that “several branches of regular vehicles” will appear in second half of 2014 (SS: almost certainly not true)
- Evilly confirms that one of the regular branches in 2014 will be a British branch, but it’s all in flux
- Evilly states that some British tier 10 tanks (SS: notice the plural!) will be replaced by other candidates (SS: FV4202 – most likely for Vickers MBT, FV215b (120) is unhistorical as well and I bet it will be replaced by something else, most likely the early Chieftain P6 Xlucine was measuring)
- the FV4202 change will not come earlier than middle of the year apparently
- other vehicle priority is prolonging the Americans and German LT’s to tier 8, this will likely not happen in the first half of the year
- KV-1S will be split into two tanks (SS: apparently in 9.2), one will be tier 6, the other tier 7 (SS: one of the variants is current KV-1S will be moved to tier 7, it will be like a “lighter IS”)
- it’s not yet finally decided, but it’s possible that the minimap tank names will come
- there are no plans to ban XVM completely and punish its users

206 thoughts on “3.3.2014”

  1. - SU-122-44 will not be buffer (if I understood it correctly, Storm wrote that if anything, it actually needs a nerf)

    What the fuck, who would ask that…. The SU-122-44 is the most broken, overpowered piece of scrap metal in this game. I admit this, and I drive it all the time, just because of that 7-8 second 122mm reload at tier 7. (Also, you misspelt buffed)

    • It is only really broken at tier 7, when it pens about everything it hits and bounces all the time. Nonetheless It’s OP, and it really should have been a Tier8 with pref. MM.

      • The SU-122-44 should get a ROF nerf.

        I don’t like the idea of making it a tier 8 though. Even with pref-MM, the D-25T is an EXTREMELY weak gun for a tier 8 TD. The JT-88 with laugh at it.

        That weapon, in of itself, is actually rather weak for a tier 7 TD too [compared to the 105's on the Jagdpanther and T25], but it has had its ROF hideously over buffed to the point of obnoxiousness.

        • Has a bit better reload?…
          If SU-152 didn’t had the derp gun it would’ve been worse in all aspects than the 122-44…

    • so people ask for buffs where nerfs is needed?

      probably 1k battle players! i bet they started with t7-8 premium tanks :))

  2. - there are no plans to ban XVM completely and punish its users

    Do they mean those that abuse it on the forums for naming and shaming?

    Rather than just those that use it?

  3. - in 2014 there will be no researchable (regular) US medium tanks implemented
    - for now, there are no plans for Super Pershing changes

    *Sadface* :(

    • don’t ask to change T26E4 … last time they changed it … you know..
      Well but yeah, its still more agile than artillery with killed driver.. so Yes, I guess they should nerf that.
      After all its medium tank with the armor of LT. They should nerf the excellent mobility.
      /sarcasm off.

    • ATM T26E4 has 20% less dispersion when moving than before, is more agile than before, has its viewrange buffed to 390m, and is slightly more stealthy than the regular persing.

      Sure it lost the ~225 trollolo frontal armor, but now it can play vision games!

      • OH YEAHHHH!!!!! 20% less dispersion SO AWESOME. Especially useful since the tank is so fast, faster than every other medium tank in the game. The view range comes in handy too since the gun’s penetration without gold ammo is sooo goood that without aiming at weakspots u can penetrate everything from miles away. And than there is the super awesome camo rating that is better than any td’s so its practically invisible and cant be seen from afar. Why didn’t i think about it!!!

        /sarcasm off

        • ^^this.

          sure it does have some good stats, but these are useless for this type of tank.

          It used to be sluggish but well armored… now its sluggish, crap armor but good viewrange.. so that you can see that tier 7 penetrating your frontal armor.
          Dont be fool, you cannot run and hide. But at least you can look him in the eyes while dying…
          Its medium tank, with the armor and viewrange of LT and mobility of HT with dead driver.

          Whenever I start the engine of this thing, I’m like what the hell am i supposed to do?
          I cannot scout nor flank, its dead snail. I cannot snipe with that “gun”, and I cannot push with other heavies… This tank is basically bad at everything.

          • …and imagine that the SP gun was supposed to match the Tiger II gun. now that would be the SP i’d drive with pleasure. but 170 mm of penetration makes me chew on my keyboard..

            • Gold ammo does, but as far as i know, the gold ammo on the sp was the main ammo type used, tho not 100%. If they made the gold ammo cost the same as the current base ammo and removed the normal ap ammo it’d be great.

  5. >- SU-122-44 will not be buffed (if I understood it correctly, Storm wrote that if anything, it actually needs a nerf)
    Yep. They should buff AT 15A instead. Or let her fighting only tiers 7-8.

    • Buff HP to ~1300 and it’s all set. Better than 17pdr AT7, but worse than 20pdr AT7.

      • >Buff HP to ~1300 and it’s all set.
        Exactly. Current AT 15A does not have a characteristical property of British TD line – increased number of hitpoints (in comparison with TDs from other nations).
        For this slowpoke (without any decent alpha) her measly 850hp is not enough. At all.

  6. Could anyone enlighten me on the “loss of synchronization” issue? Is that the general and persistent lag problems, or is it login problems?

    • - no special development is running regarding the loss of synchronisation between server and client, Storm states these issues are not caused by Wargaming, but by ISP’s

      they aren’t even blaming the Winter Olympics anymore for this…..

      Maybe they didn’t have time to blame it on what is happening in the Crimea yet?

      Maybe it’s the ISPs fault for trying to connect to the WoT servers?

        • If it was my ISP, WoT wouldn’t be the only game lagging and suffering from packet loss. I mean, WT plays fluently at 25 on EU server, even WT RU and NA servers have better ping that WoT.

          L4D2 gets a third of the ping WoT gets

          WoW 35, up to 60 at spikes

          Napoleon Total War with full battle raging with thousands of units stays below 100

          Battlefield 4 averages about 120 at it’s worst

          where else could it be then? I mean, really .. before 8.11 there was lag, sure, but not this much and nowhere near this much packet loss

          • I got no issues playing any other game. Even WOWP.
            But the past 14 days WOT has been fine all day long. And today the packet loss was back. 50%+ and 300 ping on both servers. Pingplotter says everything all the way down to the WG server is fine. And that EU3-slave.worldoftanks.eu server got massive packet loss.

            It was horrid at the launch of 8.11. Then 14 days ago they fixed it and now its back to horrid again. And I’ve spoken to 7 people on the forum all form my region with different ISP’s that had the same issue today. And even Gnomefather that is from my region complained about it on his FB page. I doubt its our ISP. But WG’s servers. Sine all the pingplotter screens I’ve seen today are all fine until EU3 slave server that is a WG server.

  7. Perhaps all the tank lines are coming in the second half.
    That would mean that there are several lines in the second half of the year.

  9. - KV-1S will be split into two tanks (SS: apparently in 9.2), one will be tier 6, the other tier 7 (SS: one of the variants is current KV-1S will be moved to tier 7, it will be like a “lighter IS”)

    Woah…

  10. - KV-1S will be split into two tanks (SS: apparently in 9.2), one will be tier 6, the other tier 7 (SS: one of the variants is current KV-1S will be moved to tier 7, it will be like a “lighter IS”)

    As far as I know, the original plan was to move the KV-1S without the 122mm to tier 5 and rebalance the KV-122 with the 122 mm gun at tier 6. Did they change this plan?

    • Probably, hopefully.

      I was honestly hoping that the KV-122 would stay at tier 6, but they’d leave it with -2 gun depression so I could LOL, but this works just as well.

      It depends what they do with the tier 6 model. If they give it the 100mm gun, you’d probably end up with a clumsy, M6 wannabe. Anything weaker though, and you’re just left with a bad medium.

      The KV-122 should be easy to balance at tier 7 though. Make it fast and you’re golden.

      • I thought that the KV1-S was staying at tier 6 and loosing the 122. And then the KV-122 would come in at tier 7 equipping the 122 but with worse performance. (Sluggish e.t.c.)

  12. “Evilly confirms that one of the regular branches in 2014 will be a British branch”

    So Medium’s (Firefly branch) or TD’s (Achilles, Charioteer etc)?

    • Sure, why not? I mean, I totally want to play an M3 Lee clone just to unlock one “special” tank, the Firefly. Especially when there are so many British tanks/vehicles not in the game.

  13. - Storm doesn’t know exactly, when (if) the arty aim circle gets fixed

    maybe it is only me, but i feel that this annoying bug happens more and more often :/

    • Nope its not just you, it’s kept happening to me more and more often too. At first I didn’t realize it because after I fire, I immediately come out of sniper mode and relocate to avoid counter-arty. Soon enough after I noticed it, I thought it was a small bug that only happened to me so I didn’t bother with it. But after I learnt that this is occurring to other people too , I stopped grinding my tier IX British arty. Like it’s not enough that arty grind is terrible in general, this just makes it worse. Hope this issue gets resolved soon.

      • I’d prefer to hope they return the arty to what it was back then : deadly, accurate, and makes noobs piss their baby pants.

        A moment of silence to TD mode

        • Yes, arty coming in flocks of 5 and making anyone scared of moving is very desirable. Arty being nerfed had it coming to it for years.

  14. (SS: FV4202 – most likely for Vickers MBT, FV215b (120) is unhistorical as well and I bet it will be replaced by something else, most likely the early Chieftain P6 Xlucine was measuring)

    Could you please bring a explanation why you think think this Vickers MBT is the replacement? If seen many people complaining about the armour and that the speed isn’t going to be great.(They say its even worse then current FV4202) I really would like to know that or the other options.

    This kind of opinions can cause some confusion.

    • Well, SS did post a few details about it over here :
      http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/01/11/historical-candidates-for-fv4202-replacement/

      And, here’s the wiki page for it :
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_MBT

      Well in my view, I see most of the people complaining about it’s speed and unhistorical gun. The Vicker’s MBT solves this as it is historically fit with a 105mm L7A1 gun and it’s top speed is 50 kmph with a power/weight ratio of 18. Although these might be adjusted by WG for “balance purposes”, what we’re looking at here is a compromise in reduction of hull armor from 120 to 80 and power/weight ratio of 20 to 18 for an extension of 10 kmph speed limit. According to me, this isn’t really an advantageous trade off. I would agree with many people saying that it fits into tier 9, but I guess WG will find a way to “balance” it to Tier X. I personally don’t own the FV202 and have only driven it out on the test server. But, I’m pretty sure there are some experienced drivers who are bound to comment some time or the other.

      • Power to Weight was only 13.4. The 720 hp engine was ever on the Vickers MBT Mk I or the Vijayanta. It wasn’t introduced until the Mk III (1975). Read the wiki article again.

      • It would be a bad trade, imo. The Vickers MBT isn’t really anything else than a Centurion 7/1 with less armor, less flexible positioning-options (gun depression) but better mobility. I’d take the FV4202′s improved camo and size any time over a T10 Vickers MBT.
        The FV4202 mainly suffers from two easily changable facts: It needs better top speed or better RoF.

        Same goes for the FV215b. Not historical my ass. As long as a VK72 is in game, WG can go screw themselves. Plus the FV215b is fine in it’s own right. Does essentially the same as the Conqueror, but with considerably improved toughness (armor), mobilty and a rear-turret placement. It combines good durability, good mobility and ices this with a really nasty gun.

        • I agree with you on the fv42o2 just aced mine i love it. The vickers would be a downgrade.
          My opinion is basically like this people complain about the fv42 because they have no idea how to use it. I once saw a fv42 leading a attack and he was complaining about me sniping on the high ground in my leopard 1 he said im a noob and i should come down and run into enemy fire and get killed like he did.

          This is why WG has considered this option i have a leo 1 fv42 cen mk7 cent mk1 cromwell comet t44 soon to be t54 then 14o and i am going up the batchat line. So not to be big headed or anything but i pretty much know a lot about mediums. Besides that i do a lot of research. There are two options i see as answers to this problem. 1 buff the fv42 speed to 48 or 5o buff the turret armor and make the commanders cupola smaller like the way it is in real life. The 2nd option is the centurion mk ten or the action x problem with that is i bet specifications are hard to find on that tank.

          Now as for you comment on the fv215b which i am also grinding for { just sold my caern and should be getting the conq} i also have many clan mates who have this tank yes its good if you know how to handle it. But! and this is a big BUT! it is unhistorical and all though there are many unhistorical tanks in the game for a start the fv42 never had the l7 gun and many more. The chieftain is better in every way i do not know why you do not want the chieftain maybe because of ignorance. i am British and know the doctrine after the conq and cents came the chieftain a tanks so crazy even anti tank millan missiles could not pen its turret 3oomm plus frontal turret armor and and gun so crazy it was used on the challenger one then upgraded for the challenger 2 it could also do 48kph. So i have no clue or understanding why you would prefer the fv215 over that.

    • The thing I’ve been wondering about the 4202 replacement is whether WG will do what they did to the T34 when it was removed from tier 9. If the 4202′s speed and gun were made historical (and armour, if it’s currently not historical), could it be moved into place as a tier 8 premium? Would those who already have one keep it when it gets moved, have their tank and crew switched for Vickers MBT, or both (which is what happened in the T34/T30 shift-around)?

      • All in all im not looking forward to the vickers mbt. Yes it is unhistorical it was only meant to be test bed for chieftain since after the cents and conq came the chieftain. In real life it never had the l7 and its armor was even more weaker. So no if it was made a premium i would not bother.

        • …But it would also be dropped by two tiers. Furthermore, if need be, it can have limited MM.

          I just want a frickin’ premium British medium that isn’t the freaking Matilda Black Prince and is high tier.

  15. - regarding ingame sounds, Storm stated that current task of WG developers is to introduce new (“normal”) sounds of tracks, engine, shooting and hits, in far future, there might be dynamic sounds such as branches of trees hitting a tank when it is passing through it

    Just pay GnomeFather for use of thier soundpack…….

  16. Good call on changing out the British tier X’s. Anyways, still no love for the long existing ( and I mean loooooooooooooooooooooooooong existing ) American TD branches ( note the plural ). I mean not even, get this, a damn Tier 3 Premium TD. Of course, according to WG, the majority of players own STB-1′s and would love to buy a tier 8 Japanese premium tank ( which is certainly going to be advertised like the T-34-3 ) to train their pro crews in right ? I mean, I’ve read about the M56 Scorpion being a good candidate for the branch ( I agree ) , and I can clearly see the results of the poll on the FTR home page. But haven’t heard anything about it since, so has anyone got any news about it ?

    • No, not a good call. WG is totally screwing anyone who plays Brit tanks. The Chieftain P6 will be good, but it should have it’s own dedicated line leading to it.

      As for the Vickers MBT. LOOK AT IT. Seriously, it’s not a “Leopard Clone”. It is a Tier 9 (as it is inferior to the fully upgraded Centurion 7/1 in every way, but is slightly faster) or a Tier 8 premium (good gun, meh mobility, Armor Tier 6s can pen, no gun depression).

      • Agreed with the MBT, I don’t personally own the med or heavy so I’m just speculating. Guess we’ll have to just wait and see.

  17. So the current KV-1S will be tier 7 and the tier 6 one will be a nerfed version without the 122? Last time I heard there was only going to be a mobility nerf on the current KV-1S.

  18. - Evilly states that some British tier 10 tanks (SS: notice the plural!) will be replaced by other candidates (SS: FV4202 – most likely for Vickers MBT, FV215b (120) is unhistorical as well and I bet it will be replaced by something else, most likely the early Chieftain P6 Xlucine was measuring)

    The Vickers MBT is a Tier 9 or maybe even a Tier 8 Premium. It really has nothing going for it. It would be like a Tier 10 Comet the sized of a Centurion with less turret armor and less gun depression, but the 105mm gun.

    50-51 kmh = second slowest Tier 10 Medium (only after the M48 and only after the FV4202 is removed). For that it gets armor as bad as the Leopard 1, without the ability to fire on the move, 7 degrees of gun depression, is a larger target then the Leopard.

    Leopard = Front-Line MBT, Vickers MBT = Cheap export tank

    At Tier 10 it will be garbage with nothing going for it. It will be like a FV4202 with a “historic hull” (ie, no armor), turret armor of a Tier 6 Medium, gun depression as bad as the Cromwell. What is it supposed to do? Be a target?

      • When it was built it was a frontline MBT. In the game, not so much. Though think of that, if the Leopard 1 struggles in a lot of situations, how worse will the Vickers MBT be as it has all the Leo’s weaknesses, without it’s strengths. People will beg for the unhistorical FV4202 to be back.

        • your forgetting that these ‘mediums’ are becoming the MBTs, tanks that are designed to take on a multitude of roles, fighting other vehicles isn’t a high priority. Anything is better than the FV4202

          • BUT IT’S NOT BETTER!!!

            How many times does it have to be spelled out in crayon. Yes, it’s not the FV4202. What the Vickers MBT is…

            It’s the Centurion Mk 7/1 with a speed buff to 50 kmh, with the same gun. For that you lose….gun depression (down to 7 degrees), hull armor (worse then the Centurion I), Turret Armor (equal to that of the Cromwell).

            Serious, if you took the Centurion I hull, put a Cromwell Turret (same armor and bad gun depression), made it Centurion-sized, fit the 105mm gun and gave it the “mobility” of the Comet, you would end up with the Vickers MBT.

            What’s even worse? The tank could go 56 kmh with the Mk II suspension, only ever tested on a prototype. The engine is often stated as a 720 hp. It’s not. That’s the Mk III engine (1975). The engine, as built was a 535 HP engine. We are talking 13.4 HP/T. Or the worst Power to weigh of any Tier 10 Medium. So it would actually be more sluggish then the Comet.

            What don’t you people get about this?

        • It was never frontline MBT, not with that armor (and ammorack next to the driver), what was outclassed even by earlier soviet designs, not to mention T-64.
          Don’t get me wrong, I like Leopard 1 series, but early one, what is in game, had a high chances of being penetrated by 85mm BR-365P rounds, which were far worst than 100mm, 115mm and 125mm rounds of that era.
          They suppose to use ridges and prepared position and ambush advancing soviet tanks.
          Game is not realistic, but how would you use tank with bad armor, good speed and great gun, in reality?
          I would use hit and run tactics and shooting over ridges.

          About FV4202.. as I read, it’s armor is buffed to unhistorical level, WG could buff armor of Vickers MBT, just to match current FV status, just due to “balance”… same can be done with other stats, anyway.

          • The Leo 1 and AMX-30 were explicitly designed as “jeune école” hit-and-run fighters you know, as at that time you basically couldn’t meanigfully protect a tank without making the plating so heavy as to render it virtually immobile.
            As was amply enough demonstrated in the Arab-Israeli wars; from what I’ve read whenever the diverse tanks involved could actually draw a bead on each other they tended not have any problems at all achieving penetrations, and these were *not* designs of the contemporary Franco-German “speed is armour” school.

            BTW ammo stowage by the driver was perfectly normal for period tank designs, and AFAIK rarely found to be a problem (the Israelis thouhgt it a *good* thing the Centurion had no ammo stored above the turret ring actually). I know at least the Soviets liked to put a fuel tank in the same spot and the rack *inside* that creating a kind of highly space-efficient wet stowage system – diesel fuel being rather less flammable than propellant.

            • It is good storage, a long as you don’t have to expose your hull front, what is pretty thin, and you can imagine what would front hull penetration cause.

              Soviet idea of ammunition storage similar to this was abandoned after T-62, T-64 and T-72 have much better solution for the period (even if western authors and “experts” have tendency to bash it, it was still better than storage of their tanks of same generation).

              • Pretty sure the stowage arrangements of the post T-62 designs were dictated by the type of autoloader employed, though.

  19. Don’t take out confrontation mode please, I’ve been waiting for it forever…

    • I agree and I like it I think they should take the data from them and rebalance some tanks that were simply over powered in the 1st place.

      • I take “rebalance” as in “Make some sort of a waiting room so we can jump out when enemy team has more E75s than *insert paper high tier* “. Now I get why they disagreed with this idea in the first place. WG should totally remove it and raise the map chance for Winterdolf =d

  20. - KV-5 will not be buffed (apparently it’s performing even better than is the average)

    This is cause KV-5 is goddamn great and everyone who says otherwise is a dumbass that cant hide the weakspots.

    • Agreed. Great tank, love it to death, even though I haven’t quite figured out how to make it work on the more open maps (then again I’m used to German Heavies, which while all having the infamous frontal transmission weakspot are fairly easy to use in a way that mitigates that issue if you know what you’re doing)

  21. - one of the priorities this year is the “gameplay atmosphere”, including the locations (maps)

    I could swear it was suppose to be “year of balancing”

  22. - KV-5 will not be buffed (apparently it’s performing even better than is the average)

    Well, then I’m a retard in playing it.

    - KV-1S will be split into two tanks (SS: apparently in 9.2), one will be tier 6, the other tier 7 (SS: one of the variants is current KV-1S will be moved to tier 7, it will be like a “lighter IS”)

    Compensation?

    • Compensation? This split WILL be a compensation, not for the KV-1S owners but for those who’ve been annoyed by this fanboy-tank. :D

      • Well, even more tier 7 tenks with 390 alpha then….which will affect both tier 5 and tier 8 tenk specially. Kv1s should be removed perios, we dont need more powercreep.

        • Oh shaddap and stop being bad with your damn GERMAN BAWKSES, D-25 has been a fixture of T7 since forever. How the Hell could it even theoretically be “powercreep” for another tank of the tier to roll with it?

        • At tier 7 it’ll be no different than fighting an IS, only easier to penetrate and perhaps slightly more mobile. I have no trouble with the IS and IS-2 as it is in my Tiger I, which by comparison is a tank that is often claimed to be UNDERpowered for its tier (I actually find it well-balanced, since with the mobility buffs it recieved a few patches ago it plays almost like a medium tank, so the mobility’s a nice bonus).

  23. - Ruinberg on Fire and winter Himmelsdorf were very well accepted by the public apparently

    It happed to me a few times that eg. I played Ruinberg on Fire and after that on regular Ruinberg… Twice in a row on the same map :(

    • Ruinberg on fire is just a lazy created map. They broke 1 building, added 3 fires and smoke trails. Added a darker sky and added rain effects. They should really set it more on fire and make the sky more red and amp up the rain effect. Then we are talking.

      Himlesdorf was actually a nice change. Tho they did alter some of the buildings to. Like the buildings around the center area that was torn down and could be used as a short cut. They are now fine again and you can’t drive over em anymore. But then again, other buildings are more affected.

      I would not mind more maps with seasonal changes tbh.

      • And more fires too; if they’re gonna bother making a map of a city on fire, I want the fire to be brought up to “Dante’s Inferno” levels of burning, the kind of thing that makes the fires that razed Tokyo to the ground in 1945 look like a campfire by comparison.

  24. When is DX11 and a 64-bit client planned? A lot of free to play games have already adopted both.

      • It would be an option just like in any other game, but developers really can’t stick with deprecated stuff which isn’t support by any manufacturers (DX9 cards were all discontinued). After all, DX11 is nearly 5 years old and it’s a shame that WG still neglects it and all the improvements it brings.

  25. - Storm doesn’t know exactly, when (if) the arty aim circle gets fixed
    - no special development is running regarding the loss of synchronisation between server and client, Storm states these issues are not caused by Wargaming, but by ISP’s

    lol, just lol

    dont fix the bugs, just make more tanks (preferably copies of t-62) and some great new maps (whatever is the name of that new japanese shit map) and new mods (confrontation ftw, didnt play 1 battle in it)

    • I dunno whether he really believes what he says or is just a harping monkey. Either way, both pints are stupid as fuck and deserves to get a boot up his arse.

  26. let the FV4202 as it. it’s totally fine, the problem comes from the players….

    • The players will only understand this when they get the Vickers MBT, which will be worse in so many ways.

      I want wait to hear the ranging. It will either be “gimme my FV4202 back” or “WG screwed up, the Vickers MBT was supposed to be a Leo clone! #RooshanByass”.

    • It’s gold rounds need to be heat, and they need to remove the unhistorical speed govonor. Seriously, the stb-1 uses literally the exact same gun (the L7 royal ordnance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_74_Nana-yon) and the STB-1 gets heat ammo. Fix those two things and it’s a competitive tank again.

      • It’s just a bad idea to replace premium HESH rounds. Why on earth would you want HEATs instead of HESH rounds? I honestly think that prem HESH rounds have more benefits and oppurtinites than HEATs. By removing the HESH rounds you would also remove the 480 alpha on prem shells, and to be honest, that’s more of a nerf than a buff… The regular rounds’ penetration is more than enough for better players to deal with the majority of the tanks.
        As for the removal of speed governor, I agree, they should increase the FV4202′s speed a little bit, indeed.

          • Cry more. I’ll give you a free 100mm HEAT shell when I met you in game. Besides, you say I should not be using tier 10 mediums (standard = apcr)

            • For him only crap/underpowered tanks aren’t OP.

              So far from my knowledge about his belief:All autoloaders are OP, all t10 meds and t10 TDes are OP(because they have more pen than heavies), all hulldown tanks are OP and all new tanks since the brits are OP.

              • Well, just look at the stats to see what tanks are OP, or the new OP charts that was introduced here on ftr a while ago.

              • Yeah yeah, we know you hate it when your METAL BAWKSES aren’t invulnerable. And your stance totally isn’t affected by your faves *coincidentially* sporting some of the best default penes of their tier right?

                Put a sock in it already.

                • I agree with you on the fv42o2 just aced mine i love it. The vickers would be a downgrade.
                  My opinion is basically like this people complain about the fv42 because they have no idea how to use it. I once saw a fv42 leading a attack and he was complaining about me sniping on the high ground in my leopard 1 he said im a noob and i should come down and run into enemy fire and get killed like he did.

                  This is why WG has considered this option i have a leo 1 fv42 cen mk7 cent mk1 cromwell comet t44 soon to be t54 then 14o and i am going up the batchat line. So not to be big headed or anything but i pretty much know a lot about mediums. Besides that i do a lot of research. There are two options i see as answers to this problem. 1 buff the fv42 speed to 48 or 5o buff the turret armor and make the commanders cupola smaller like the way it is in real life. The 2nd option is the centurion mk ten or the action x problem with that is i bet specifications are hard to find on that tank.

                  TT3az You sir are very ignorant do you think that tanks in real life only fired ap rounds? you think gold rounds are a menace? What do you think would happen if the British tanks got there sabo rounds? that would be something to complain about. As tank design and development went on apcr became pretty much the standard round . Basically you are complaining because you are in mature ignorant and have completely no idea of tank design. You must pretty noob as well complaining about something like that which is perfectly normal. Go smoke some more crack

              • Jelly?

                Because you can’t afford using premium shells with credits? Which you plan to top up the gold but your momma and dadda doesnt allow you to use their credit cards?

                Play harder.

                • If he can’t afford Prem rounds with all these stupidly easy 500k credit missions then he must be shit.

                  Call me “gold noob”, and I just reply “what’s up peasant?”

                • Funny idiots. First I dont care about real life, this is a arcade game and hence premium ammo destroys the alreaddy fucked balance. Second, I can more then well afford premium ammo because i onloy play few tanks with premium account = I earn money even on loss. But I dont want to use prem ammo because its stupid. Theres no need to use premium ammo in the game, because all tanks specially at tier 8-10 can pen eachother pretty much. Maybe not frontalt, but 80% of the tanks can pen all others fropntally while hitting weakspots. At tier 10 theres no nned to use gold ammo at all since medums have higher pen than heavys anyways. If I manage to pen tier 9 and 10 frontally wioth my tigre II which has 225mm, tier 9-10 mediums and others should be able to with easy.

                  And no im not a “noob” neither am I “shit”. I just feel premium ammo is idiot proof and makes aiming for weakspot or actually bounce tanks ur suppose to bounce totaly insignificant. To me its totally retarded that medium tanks pen the upper plate on a angled KT because that makes armor useless.

                • Short form: you don’t want smaller tenks to be able to fight back as effectively against your GREY METAL BAWKSES because that kind of thing keeps your from pwning like is your due privilege. Gotcha.

    • Its pretty much the worst performing tier 10 med so its hardly “fine”. Stats don’t lie.

  27. - no special development is running regarding the loss of synchronisation between server and client, Storm states these issues are not caused by Wargaming, but by ISP’s

    Because alot of different ISP’s services in NA/EU and RU fucking up after the last update is just a coincidence and everyone who doesn’t believe us is a fascist pig. gg

  28. “…and states that the German premium “early version of Panther” will appear…”

    What, a VK 3002 DB or Panther Ausf. D on tier VIII?

  29. Omfg now tier 7 will be infested with kv1s with increased HP and other buffs. Good one WG. As if kv1s isnr enough OP in a tier 8 game alreaddy.

    • Dude, T7 already has the first ISes and KV-3. (And the T29, which is damned near the OPest thing thereabouts.) KV-122 isn’t exactly going to be standing out in the company.

      …and how the *actual fuck* is the KVass supposed to be “OP in a tier 8 game already”? o.O
      Seriously, drugs are bad mmmmmmmkay?

              • Dont autoaim, but still bouncy armor is baounce and OP1s should be nerfed cuz OP. Look OP cgart for evidence.

                • I’m aware of the KV-1S OPness; it has little to nothing to do with the armour though. I can get pretty reliable penetrations on the things from the front with the less than worldshakingly fearsome gun of the T-25 – all it takes is avoiding the well-known autobounce spots. Which are largely the same across the whole KV lineage and IS-1/2 so you’d better learn them anyway.

                  The problem with the thing is the gun plus mobility *at its tier*, which kicking it up by a step ought to solve pretty well. Against +2 tier stuff it’s as hapless as anything else.
                  Well.
                  Unless that T8 somethingorother is driven by a T3Azz apparently. :P

        • As far as any T8 worth mentioning is concerned the KV-1S has *no* armour, only the usual lucky angles Everyone & Dog, Inc. gets. And mobility? Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
          175mm pene, 390 alpha and shitty softstats are crud in a T8 context; there’s a *reason* IS-3 and KV-4 trade up from the D-25 at first opportunity you know.

          How about you just stop using the term “OP” since you demonstrably haven’t the slightest idea about what it actually *means*?

            • You’re talking about the T6 KV-1S being “OP” in a Tier *Eight* match, dumbass. Which sure as FUCK isn’t where it’s statistical OP factor comes from.

            • I can lit KV1S’ s on fire with concentrating fire from APCR loaded Luch’s MK103 Machinecannone.

              Even its APCR bounced off my hulldowned T29.

              I can even brawl with it with my ELC AMX by sidehugging right under its gun.

              So… it still OP to ya T3az?

              • My T49 rapes KV1s’ and they are supposed to be able to 1 shot me…

                They are so easy to counter, if you can’t cope with a KV1S, how are you going to cope with anything else?

                ..am I allowed to mention Tetris on here?

                :trollface:

                • Well, its not about coping, its about the fact that a fucking tier 6 autopens the tiger II turret side and top due to overmatch and also takes off like 400-450 HP from you. I can live with is3 doing that but no possible way a fuking tier 6 and 7 tank should do that. Sure they have lower HP, but that doesnt matter. The alpha is the problem also the gun caliber. I can live with 240 damage that you take from the tiger 1 at tier 7 or 130 or 240 damage from the vk at tier 6. But NOT 390 (400-450 dmg) from fucking tier 6 and 7 kv1s and IS. There are simply too much alpha thats why I think that making the kv1s with its current gun a tier 7 tank, it will be one more tier 7 with such high alpha, which is bullshit.

                  I dont have problem with alpha as long as artys and TD have them, but no fucking tank should have 390 alpha at tier 6 and tier 7. Nerf the alpha to 300 and increase rof, aimtime, accuracy and even pen. But nerf the caliber so it overmatch less.

                  And yes, both the kv1s and IS has enough armor and mopbilty to expose themselves more, if you compare it to the tiger II at tier 8.

                • Or maybe you’re just bad @ Tiger 2.

                  Anyways, you sure as *fuck* aren’t going to be seeing the D-25 disappear from Tier 7, ever, so suck it up and stop whining.

                  On another note the long 88 seems to go through the IS-3 front pike head on like nobody’s business and I know for a fact the US 105 mm certainly has little trouble with that feat, but strangely enough peeps aren’t crying bloody murder about that the way you do about your precioussssss Kingtiger. (And don’t get me started on that autopen ramp above the gun the IS-3 ‘enjoys’…)
                  Just sayin’.

              • It is OP as fuck according to stats and OP charts, just like the hellcat. Just because you can take one OP tank out doesnt mean its UP. A example, I have 52% wr and 55% wr in tiger II which i considered as the lowest WR tier 8 heavy. Does that mean the tank is OP? Well no it doesnt because most of the players according to stats have lower wr in that specifik tank than their generall wr. With kv1s is different, most players have higher wr in the tenk than their overall wr on their account = OP.

                Just because Kv1s can be taken out “easily”, doesnt mean its no OP. In the process it has punished and 1 shot far to many people with its 390 alpha and 175mm pen, which is bad enough to beginn with.

  30. - in 2014 there will be no researchable (regular) US medium tanks implemented

    Well there went me playing much this year figures they would ruin this

    • They’re going to be adding the light tanks first, THEN they might find some more mediums to add.

  31. the super pershing really could use a buff, becouse lets admit it its worse in every imanginable way then the t32 is frontal hull armor is weaker with way more weakspots the speed and manouverabillity is worse then a t32 with a dead driver the gun is worse and lets not even begin about the turret. admitted the turret is strong but not strong like the t32 that makes even a tier 10 td go shit when hull down at 300 meter.
    and while premium tanks are supposed to be worse than a fully upgraded tank of the same tier this thing is worse then a t29 with the stock turret and the 90mm gun.

    so what buff should it get …….. if it ever gets one

  33. I say put the kv1s in tier 6 and nerf the fuking gun, we dont need another 175mm pen, 390 alpha idiot tenk in tier 7. I dint it toally idiotic that a 175mm pen gun autopens the tiger II turret top and uppper glacis angled due to overmatch. Fuck it. Yes overmatch dies affect regular armor. The higher caliber = better pen in all cases. Thats why the is3 pen the tiger II upper glacis frontally, while the tiger II cant pen its upper glacis despite the same penenetration (225mm).

    • Stop being bad.

      Actually, it’s be better if you just stopped posting because not only do you mostly produce chronic whine, it’s *fukken retarded* whine to boot. At least 175mm pen is pretty much par for the course for any T7 heavy and has been since forever.
      Hell.
      The high alpha is pretty much the sole redeeming feature of the D-25 in the company, and I for one tended to prefer the handier ID10T.

      • Its the gun caliber that matters alot also, 122 will overmatch much more than for example the german 105mm ones which is a big fucking problem.

        • 105/3 = 35
          122/3 = ~41
          >much more
          lel.
          (Even the overmatch normalisation effect still requires caliber twice that of plate thickness, ie. irrelevant here; 61 mm would be autopene anyway without autobounce angles which are only negated by the 3-to-1 overmatch above.)

          …and similarly German 88 mm overmatches ‘much’ more than Brit 17-pounder (76 mm), and German and Murrican 105 mm’s overmatch more than 88 and 90 mm guns.
          Your point?
          Especially considering the Long 88 already beats the Soviet 100 and 122 mm guns by a whopping 28 mm’s of average penetration, and the bigger guns tend to have proportionally worse fire rates.
          So what-fucking-ever. You have no argument.

            • You certainly aren’t showing me any actual *arguments* now.
              I take it you’re already at the “roll and shout” stage of failing at debating?

              • Tell me your name in wot, and I will se how impressed I get. Unless your a coward little fuck who likes boys.

                • Foster’s Wehraboo-English Dictionary tells me that translates as “all my ill-thought arguments have been obliterated and I am hence obliged to resort to puerile and wholly irrelevant personal attacks, woe is me”.

                • I’m surprised you’re still tolerated on here.

                  You have very little knowledge, but a loud and nasty voice…

                  ah.. I see.. you play exclusively German tanks?
                  … That explains a lot….

                • @ dingishere
                  Yes I play germans, only because I have enough time and money invested in crew skills, which unlike you I dont need to use cheater elements to be competitive.

                • @tteaz

                  (in wrong place cos the Reply isnt working well)…

                  “Cheater elements”..???

                  You are a typical whiner, with little knowledge or intelligence to carry a discussion/argument without resorting to mudslinging.

                  ROFL… GTFO.. L2P… TETRIS!!!!!!

  34. Plz, not another ” No Damage Pantha”

    I don’t care what Dev or WG Tester tells us that its fine, and balanced, the pubic gaming room is NoT Fine.

    Look at the usage of the Erstaz and Panther Lines now. You never see them. EVER.

    You made the Panther II unplayable, at least for fun any ways, and the Panther at tier 7 has to be the softest tank at its tier. No one likes shooting for 135 damage.

    Its just pathetic that a tank that had one proto type built and was decided that it wasn’t even feasible, (kv1s), and the most advanced Medium tank (Panther Auf G) in WWII are portrayed this way.

    Gee, why does everyone claim Russian bias? Its such BS right.

    135 damage vs. 390. Hmmmmm, what do you think the average gamer is gonna pick? WoW, this is tuff?

    HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

    Im sure if I had a pro Dev team, we could roll over a pub team just as well. The problem is much like the realistic scenario of Russian tanks not having radios. I cant make 6 other guys focus fire in a pub, or make them hold their cammo values.

    Just give us a Panther F w/ the 88/L71 plz. Paint it Factory Yellow, you will make a fine profit and give War Gaming some much needed German equality.

    Thank you for a wonderful product. Plz don’t ban me.

      • That’s ur reply. lol. Yea, you make so much more sense. If its bullshit, how come we never see Panthers being played?

        • *I* see them often enough. Perhaps more to the point, I found the 30.02 “Dragonball” a perfectly fine little tank and *that* one has to make do with the plain-vanilla 75L/70 which is inferior to the Panther’s L/100 “Pinocchio gun” in almost every respect.
          My brother did hate the Panther though; conversely he found the PII to be a pretty cool tenk that doesn’t afraid of anything. (He has traded up to the E-50 now.)

          Also, you fail tank history forever.

  35. OH, I just read ur points with Tazz. Im so sorry for arguing w/ a moron. Your Parents must be proud that you can type now,,,,,,,Yeah for you Tommy boy.

    Good Boy.

  36. - there are no plans to ban XVM completely and punish its users

    Silly casuals, Tanks are for people with brains.

    • Really? You call a 300 effer is3 player camping at A1 sniping, making 500 damage a player that has brain? Neverless a t54 moron with gold ammo autopenning everything without aiming?

  37. Why the hell would IS-6 need a penetration buff? All the IS-6 that I ran into never had any real issue with penetrating. My poor Lowe stands no chance vs. IS-6..

    • Yeah against tier 8 heavies I have no problem penetrating them. Actually a type 59 is the worst thing you could engage. Its LFP bounces too the IS6 gun.

      Only think is it’s armor. While super awesome at tier 7s at tier 8s everything above 200 pen will penetrate it easily.

    • I agree theres no need to buff the is6 penentration and that is because iof many reasons. First its a premium tenk and it also has good bouncy armor as well as better MM. Its just that löwe and t34 has too much pen for their tire, thats all. While löwe has bad frontal armor, in terms of lesser angles upper plate and lower glacis the turret is very good as well as sides comparesd to the tiger II which is a regular tanks also compared to the vk45.

      T34 is just broken really, with its massive alpha and penentration as well as good turret hull down armor. Sure it has weak frontal and side armor but so does the vk45 and tiger II MINUS the turret, and these are regular tank.

      If one think löwe dont stand a chance againt the is6, think what the is6 will do to the tiger II, pen lower glacis while angled and knock out engine and set u on fire, taking away 400+ hp from you as well as autopenning your turret rof and sides due to overmatch. Real fun for a gun that has 175mm pen, right? :)

      I dont complain, but the situation is as it is, and you judge if that is a “sane” or a “balanced” situation….

      Problem is noobs expect too much from premium tanks. If they want solid ones they can grind the regular tier 8 heavys which are “better”, or should be “better”.

  38. They should totally remove Noobshire and return an unchanged Dragon Ridge.

    oh and after seeing all the posts….
    *insert whine here*
    *insert counterwhine here*
    *insert namecalling (tears optional) here*
    *insert ALLCAPS here*
    *insert “announcement to move to Gaijin WT” here*

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  40. why are they so dumb, why don’t they just make KV-1s as a tier 5 tank which would be historically correct, KV1s with lighter armor than KV1, faster and with 76mm gun

    • Since when did “tiers” were used in real life? I say make the kv1s a tier 6 as it is, but with different gun. No more 390 alpha 175mm gun, thats about it. If these suckers wanna derp with that alpha they can play the IS. At tier 6 the only tank that sould have such alpha should be the su100 and that is a TD.

      I find ir really funny. people are complaining aboit huigh alpha artys and TDs, yet they dont wanna nerf the fuck out of the kv1s? Hypocracy.

      • As far as anything above T6 is concerned the KVass is but a (rather) weaker IS.
        Might of be relevant.

        …it’s “hypocrisy” btw. Classical Greek isn’t my thing but I think “hypocracy” would roughly mean “rule of the under” or thereabouts.

  41. Also if most of you don’t believe WG, but it is a possibility.

    Each ISP has different routing. You can also have different routing EVEN if you have the same ISP. depending on your adress (where you live, not the digital one) and contract you have with your ISP.

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    AT HOME:

    Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
    (c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

    C:\Users\ph0enX>tracert login.p1.worldoftanks.eu

    Routenverfolgung zu login.p1.worldoftanks.eu [185.12.241.53]
    über maximal 30 Hops:

    1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.0.0.138
    2 28 ms 18 ms 21 ms 188-23-239-254.adsl.highway.telekom.at [188.23.239.254]
    3 17 ms 16 ms 18 ms 195.3.77.13
    4 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms INX2-SAX1.highway.telekom.at [195.3.68.153]
    5 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 195.3.70.210
    6 41 ms 43 ms 40 ms 195.69.146.152
    7 38 ms 37 ms 38 ms eu4-slave-53.worldoftanks.eu [185.12.241.53]

    Ablaufverfolgung beendet.

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    AT WORK:

    Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
    (c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

    C:\Users\FID>tracert login.p1.worldoftanks.eu

    Routenverfolgung zu login.p1.worldoftanks.eu [185.12.241.23]
    über maximal 30 Hops:

    1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.250.254
    2 34 ms 35 ms 33 ms x3.vix2.mmc.at [212.108.35.155]
    3 121 ms 112 ms 99 ms r1v786.vix2.mmc.at [212.108.32.102]
    4 126 ms 104 ms 98 ms r1v801.vix1.mmc.at [212.108.32.19]
    5 69 ms 58 ms 46 ms ge-6-1-108.car2.vienna.level3.net [62.67.184.33]
    6 125 ms 144 ms 139 ms ae-7-7.ebr2.berlin1.level3.net [4.69.135.38]
    7 183 ms 198 ms 217 ms ae-26-26.ebr2.dusseldorf1.level3.net [4.69.200.165]
    8 116 ms 73 ms 74 ms ae-48-48.ebr1.amsterdam1.level3.net [4.69.143.209]
    9 77 ms 76 ms 75 ms ae-58-113.csw1.amsterdam1.level3.net [4.69.153.194]
    10 80 ms 141 ms 112 ms ae-116-3502.edge5.amsterdam1.level3.net [4.69.162.134]
    11 172 ms * 198 ms wargaming-i.edge5.amsterdam1.level3.net [212.72.41.246]
    12 157 ms 160 ms 176 ms eu4-slave-23.worldoftanks.eu [185.12.241.23]

    Ablaufverfolgung beendet.
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