78 thoughts on “9.0 Patchnotes”

1. No more confrontation battle mode :(

   • And why??? Because some idiots haven’t yet learned that they can switch off game modes they don’t like in the settings…
     Alas…one more victory for the whiners army…

     • Because mode was imbalanced – liking mode has nothing to do whit this…

       • How was it imbalanced? I have lost many battles in a tank that was superior to another nation’s on paper.

         • i never saw a team of hellninjas lose or the army of t18.

           also wtfe100+leo+e100/maus really hard to beat…

         • Because Krupp steel was too stronk

           http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/02/21/national-battles-confrontation-winrate-by-nation/

       • blame it on the people that drove french tanks and suicided within 2 1 minute or the britidh people that dont kow how to angle their church to face a kv1….

         • I’m not sure why you would think the British don’t know how to angle, I’ve personally haven’t had an issue with my Churchill III taking out KV’s and that’s when it even had the derp cannon.

       • Ad-M – if so than f*** “Historical” BS “Battles” should be removed. They’re 5 times more unbalanced than Confrontation ever was.

         You heard the news? They plan to change the properties of tanks in this mode. So if you’ll have the same tank with same modules in random battles it will have different specification than the one in Historical Battles. Yes: It’s so very much fucked up game mode that they have to go down to this level of manipulation to make it work.

   • yup, i even bought back some tanks to play confrontation! and they wonder why i insult them so much!

2. The gun depression nerf for the Pz.IV is a bit sad, but the stock grind will be a bit easier
   and A LOT of bugfixing is always nice to have :3

   Still not sure about the Confrontation mode removed, i quite liked it :/

   - fixed the bug where artillery shells fell outside of aim circle
   - fixed the bug where artillery shells exploded in mid air

   I HOPE they fixed it…

   • 100% agree with you YEA FINALLY GOING TO HIT WHERE I AIM!!!

   • No its not sad, now I can finally tear those Panzer IV open with my HD shining Sherman.

   • RIP good pz4

3. Wonder how many GBs this will be?

4. - added new vehicles: Panzer IV Ausf.A (tier 3), Panzer IV Ausf.D (tier 4), StuG Ausf.B (tier 4)
   - added the SU-85I premium Soviet TD to the premium shop
   these are not HD? they said all new tanks will come in hd not? oh yes sure ctrl+c,ctrl+v

   • No, these tanks are the last one to come not in HD

     • SU-85I is not new. Its already ingame for almost 2 years

       • yep. it was previously in limbo as WG was not sure back then.

5. What the…?

   Panzer IV
   - added side armor screens -minor buff
   - repair costs reduced by 3 percent -minor buff
   - maximum speed nerfed from 48 to 40 km/h – NERF
   - depression for the 105mm nerfed from 7 to 5, for L/43 from 8 to 7 and for L/48 from 8 to 6 -NERF
   - hitpoints increased by 20 (460 to 480 elite) -Slight BUFF

   Why did they nerf the Pz 4? I don’t understand that.

   What is your opinion on that?

   • For the mighty rAssian tanks to be able to crush it easier.
     Understood, comrade? :D ;)

     • Remember my words: No german tank can be good. At he most mediocre,but nothing more,so our pro russian comrades can easily kill them with underpowered KV-1s and KV-1Ss…

       • remember also the m4 sherman nerf to armor turret…
         imho pz4 has always been underpowered because the shit of l/48 gun… but now also nerf the speed and the gun dep for the 105…. another tank to quit from garage

   • They nerfed the speed because the PzIV wasn’t as fast as the Sherman.

   • Speed Nerf: Historical, extra armor to the front and the schurzen weighed the tank down
     Depression Nerfs: Schurzen get in the way

     • seems legit. although the schurzen is practically sheet metal…shouldn’t have enough impact to slow down a Pz4

       • Later-model IVs had real issues from the front-heaviness caused by the added armour and new guns. By what I’ve read this resulted in the few first suspension units being permanently overstressed and completely fucked up the design’s weight distribution, with predictable effects on mobility especially over more difficult ground.

       • Well going from 48 to 40 seems extreme for 5mm of sheet metal on each side, one also has to consider that it’s top speed for all Panzer IV versions was in the range of 35-42(35 for A/B/C, 42 being for the D/E/F, 40 for F2/G, 38 for H/J according to Spielberger), also the weight of a larger gun tube, and uparmoring across the rest of the hull. Spielberger lists the difference in combat weight between an Ausf. F2 and an H as about 3 metric tons, for perspective the average weight of a car in 2004 was 1.85 metric tons.

6. - fixed the bug where artillery shells fell outside of aim circle
   - fixed the bug where artillery shells exploded in mid air

   FINNAALLYYYY!!!!!! YEA!!!!!

7. I thought the Pz4 got depression buff, not a nerf. all this for some 20 hitpoints and some millimeters of side armor, while losing top speed?

   • Yeah, wondering the same thing, IIRC, the patch notes for the test stated the depression was gonna be increased to 10 or something? Maybe it was too much like the American so they nerfed that.

   • Doesn’t matter i shall play with new Pz IV with new sidearmoring. I remember when it had schmallturm turret. And i had to buy Pz IVS to reimburse this horrible nerf they did to Pz. Now i can have new features :3

   • I think that only applies to the L/48

     • no all guns had their depression nerfed.

       • Ahh, I think I found out what’s going on.

         I think the gun depression for all guns gun nerfed when pointing to the sides.\

         If it is facing forward, the gun depression may either be the same or have gotten buffed.

         I might be wrong though.

         • Yea Its most likely only the side gun depression cause of the new skirts.

8. - added dynamic spotting point for the gunner (SS: not sure what that means)

   It’s another point to spot from. Right now there are 2, the one that was always there at the commanders spot and one added in 0.6.4 centered on where the gun came out of the turret. – http://wiki.worldoftanks.com/images/a/ad/View_range_ports.png

   Not sure how offset the gunners one would be from either of those. Maybe on some vehicles where the gunner sat should have had line of sight, but didn’t as it wasn’t inline with the gun or commander’s viewing spots.

   What they really need to do is add check points to the corners. Seen tanks coming around the corner remain invisible if they angle their nose so it is blocked by the tracks. Here are the current check points – http://wiki.worldoftanks.com/images/d/dd/Visibility_checkpoints.png

9. So we can finally buy the SU-85i? That took it’s sweet time.

   • An astute player on the WG NA Forums noticed that the RU patch notes list the SU-85i as a premium shop addition, but not the NA server patch notes. Coincidence? Or is the RU server going to be the only server with the SU-85i initially?

     • that’s a good point, these are Russian patch notes, not NA or EU so it may mean the SU-85i will only be on Russian servers which wouldn’t be that surprising. :(

10. I knew that my precious Combat Car will shine someday!.

11. Did they explain why they removed the table with “Tanks by Tier”. I remember that Storm said they had a reason and that they will tell it later, but that moment never came. :-|

    • Thats what i wann know too!! Any Info on that?

    • Because people were either manually, or with the help of macros jumping in and out of the queue until the tank comp favored them being top tier.

      Now that that information is no longer available it will be impossible to game the system in that manner.

    • IMO to hide the huge queue on tier 8 that their previous “solution” (removing BT 12) didn’t actually solve. You get your tier 8, you launch battle, you see 1500 tier 8s in queue and you get put in a battle with 6 tier 10, 7 tier 9 and 2 tier 8 of which one is you and the other AMX 13 90. You get mad because you don’t know that MM will sometimes put you on the bottom or you think that’s not true. So you scream “WTF WG SO MANY TIER 8 AND YOU PUT ME UP AGAINST TIER 10 WITH MY TIER 6 GUN!”.

      So they remove the queue by tier table so you don’t know that MM could have put you with other 29 tier 8s, but it didn’t because of reasons.

      • Same reason strippers wear makeup.

    • To remove the whining about how many tier 8 tanks are usually waiting in queue.

      :trollface:

12. “- HE shells do not explode anymore when hitting a tankist crew, that is “peeking” outside of the tank (open-topped vehicles)”

    What the hell? Something like that happened before? o.O

13. Server goes up on wednesday am I right?
    Due to that bloody counter.

14. who cares…

    what about Watchdogs? when can i preload it?

    • What is Watch Dogs?
      Some game :P ?

      *Note dont take it as an insult… but WoT is quite a bit bigger then WD”

      • WoT maps are silly-tiny comparing to… pretty much everything. Sometimes Minesweeper feels bigger.

15. T7 Combat Car
    - penetration changed from 25mm to 27mm

    It is 22mm penetration currenly, not 25mm

    • Not sure where anyone got the idea that it was 22 OR 25. It’s currently 27 average ingame (yes, in 8.11), unless the UI is lying…which is admittedly possible, what with things like the Jackson’s mislabeled frontal armor.

      The NORMAL Browning .50 has 22 penetration. They’re named the same, but they’re two separate guns.

      • When they first announced the change there were people saying this, so I checked it twice in-game and asked other people to do so as well. The T7′s pen was 22mm, not 27mm. It was originally going to be 27mm when the T7 was being tested, but then changed to 22mm and that’s how the tank went live.

        And the Jackson isn’t mislabeled… the armour value refers to the strongest past of a tank, which in Jackson’s case is the LFP. Yes, it’s weird.

        • Then apparently, something is wrong with my client: http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa336/septfox/random%20mmos/Screenshot2930.jpg

          Picture left uncropped so as to display that yes, this is live on the US server.

          The Jackson is mislabeled, because generally tanks have their thickest *main armor* listed; that is, their upper front plate, not the transmission casing. Look at the Wolverine, for example; that thing has a surprising 114mm on its nose, but is properly labeled as 51mm for its comparatively crappy upper plate. Same with the T1, T14, M6, both tier 6 Shermans…

          I’m not saying it’s mislabeled because it’s wrong – technically, there is indeed 114mm of armor “on the front” – I’m saying it’s mislabeled because it’s misleading and inconsistent with other tanks of the same general design.

16. So. They nerfed PzIV again….i guess it really was OP.

17. If i have Stug III in garage will i get aufs. B or will only be researched in tech tree?

    • i think it will be researched only.. but who knows maybe you get a free slot :p

      • No free slots or tanks this time, tested that.

    • On the test server it was only fully researched never got anything for free.

18. Wait a minute? SU-85i gets into the game and we can’t even test it first? Now that’s nice… Do we even know the stats of it?

    • The english wiki has a page for it

19. Anyone know how much the Pz. IV Ausf. A is going to cost? I want to save up some xp on the pz IIII A in advance of the update.

    • 1250 xp, from the Pz3A’s engine line IIRC

    • On the test server i also got the pz4 A and pz4D already fully unlocked. So i imagine it’ll be similar to the stug 3 B case, just wasn’t written maybe.

20. -added the SU-85I premium Soviet TD to the premium shop

    For how long will it stay? Just spent my money on a KV-5 and I can’t afford to spend more money into WoT. My salary is nearly depleated already.. For fuck sake.

    • I think it’s a permanent addition. You probably wont be able to purchase it in gaqme until 9.1 but it’ll be available in the gift shop from Wednesday.

      • Thanks for the info :D At least I can wait until the end of the month to buy it and save this sexy captured beast.

21. They will change Redshire again? Isn’t it they just changed it this 8.11? Or they will just HD model of the map?

    • Only small changes i believe. I couldn’t even find the changes but only managed to get it a few times on test.

22. - amount of reports per day increased from 5 to 10

    Not bad, at least I can cover 1 battle now on EU :D

    • I wish they would change it so it was something like (5+(Number of battles played / 3)) per day with a maximum of 5 at any given time.

      I just played a match that had 6 idle/bots..
      It also seems odd that they added things like illegal gold selling. I know the Russians code scanners sell gold codes and premium tank codes, but I have never seen it advertised in game.

23. Arty fix is great. Hate when 8k shot disappears.. its so expensive to troll with arty so its nice to have even little fix here..

24. -added the SU-85I premium Soviet TD to the premium shop
    Am i dreaming? or dose that say what i think it says? lol WG you just hop up and throw a rare almost unseen prem into the game like it isn’t that big of a deal.

25. “amount of reports per day increased from 5 to 10″

    BEST CHANGE since 8.0!

26. I liked Confrontation. A great shame, I often did very well in it. Maybe one day they’ll reimplement it.

    In other news, I’ll have made another dent in my bank account soon, getting the SU-85I(!)

27. - removed the table with tank tiers in the battle queue

    what is the point of this?