68 thoughts on “9.1 Map Kharkov

    • The looks of it make me depressed as hell, makes me want to siucide. But i think this is the reason why this map is so beautiful

      Oh, yeah, and gameplay and such. gj.

      • I see another Widepark? Just little bit turned maybe mixed with Ruinberg?

    • Looks lovely, and gameplay wise seems interesting, maybe a bit like a mix between Windstorm and Ruinberg, seems like a heaven for Heavies and mediums, though not too sure if arty and TD’s will like it. Also it looks massive, for 1000metres, can’t wait to try this out.

    • Yea, this looks the best map in a long time. Maybe we can get Dragon Ridge Re worked, less view range, more jungle. I’d rather have Pearl River then Komarin now. Komarin was fun, but its time for its update again, lol.

    • But will be difficult I mean…
      Ruinberg has three or four main ways of attack. Here will be eight, ten, maybe twelve, maybe more…

      • That is why its awesome. You don’t have everyone group up on 2 or 3 groups and fire at enemies with only the first person to each flank getting a good spot the rest having to move out into the open to fire. Instead you don’t get a good spot on one flank you move to another flank.

        • Yes, but only in the first case you can see who is a good player and who is not. Only in the heavy fights you will see who know how to aim, to shoot more accurate, to deal damage.

      • Don’t worry, most players don’t know how to play on oldest maps, so they wont learn on the new ones either!

    • Yes. It will take many battles to get used to this map. But it really looks great.

    • The streets look nice and wide, so this could be one of the only city maps that will be Arty-friendly.

  1. I know that some people dream about night maps but I don’t realy like this idea. I don’t like playing on Runiberg on Fire as it’s too dark for me. Kharkov map seems to be very dark too.

  2. Looks brilliant. I like the industrial city feel. We lacked this.

    I hope Stalinegrad will have the same feel.

  3. That must definetly be the most beautiful map every made :O
    I am a big fan of anything Japanese, so of course Hidden Village is beautiful too, and the China exclusive Great Wall one, that one looked great too.
    But this one? Damn but I would have no problems playing that map ALL day just to explore it :) I mean, the broken half-tracks, barricades, buildings… BEAUTIFUL!

  4. Same as Himmelsdorf in one thing:

    Horrible for arties (british ones will be the only ones to have fun on this map, with their gun elevation).

    For these two maps, I hope wargaming will do something for arties, because this is just impossible to have good game with.

    Anyway, the map looks awesome, and there is a lot of attacking ways. It will take time for players to get a tactic they will keep forever, so unpredictable gameplay :)

      • Learn to absorb shots as well

        -not every arty is capable of TD mode in a city other than as a last resort. Some of the large slow German and Russian TDs are so slow turning (even with clutch braking) and have such a limited gun traverse that by the time you poke around a corner you’re dead.

      • yes, with one of these heavy, slow-turning artys without gun traverse :P
        But my AMX 13 F3 won’t care, it’s sometimes even more fun to play td with this arty…

  5. well beautiful doesnt equal fun – sure it looks pretty spectacular, but since i see the trend in new introduced map in last couple of patches which are, without any exception utter shit gameplay-wise, i fear this will be the same case. If only they returned to simple mirrored maps like they did before. Cliff, Prokhorovka, Abbey, Himmelsdorf. Lets face it, those maps are all still fun and whats more important, balanced. I really hope im wrong here, but im afraid this will be as bad gameplay-wise, as it is beautiful.

      • first, i dont KNOW it will suck, i said “im afraid” it will. And lets face it, all the maps added in last half a year just SUCK. I dont care if they look pretty or not, if the gameplay on them is not fun, it doesnt matter in the end. I havent seen the video, but my guess is that it will be big as fuck with too many ways of approach and therefore chaotic and confusing. Again, I hope I am wrong here.

        • “too many ways of approach and therefore chaotic and confusing” – that’s how a war is supposed to be.
          and even if the gameplay is not fun, it looks just so damn good i couldn’t care less

          • please dont tell me you actually tried to compare a warfare with a pc game that couldnt be more arcade. Thats just shitty argument, sorry. And you would be thrilled about the look for like first 10 times you play the map, then you start to care about how is it played.

            For example Tundra is certainly awesome map by how it looks, but who cares if its played like dogshit?

  6. Wow this looks amazing! I love the atmosphere of it and it’s always nice to have another good city map.

  7. this map is pure Russian depression map, why doom and gloom?
    little butterflies, little sun, something else, you know how is to loose in this map? people will commit suicide.

    • I believe there were butterflies on steppes and malinovka before i had to switch back to standard renderer that is less ugly without shadows and all that nice mid details i was used to.

  8. What`s the point of making good looking maps, when ingame they drop FPS to 5-10 and everyone, including people with not bad machines need to reduce all settings and game looks bad anyway???
    I mean .. GF 770 , i5 and 8 GRAM is not a bad PC wtf

  9. will be awesome running around its huge streets in my elc, or vk leopard…or chaffee, t71, 68kph vk2801, amx1390, etc
    lights can be fun as well

    • These Russians don’t understand snow all the time makes people depressed. Don’t get me wrong I love when they put in new maps but how about some more summer, spring, or even fall maps, or desert maps like El Alamein. Also a map with hedgerows would be cool as they were considered a handicap against tanks, would be cool if when crossing hedgerows it slowed the tanks down allowing you to shoot them and it would also act as camouflage concealment if you hid on the other sides of them.

      • Snow and sun is still better than central european november with mist, drizzling and dull sky without texture or sun for weeks. But we have three desert maps and seeing halluf or sand river is quite uncommon and airfield is boring. Agree that more african / near-east maps would be nice. Disagree on autumn – there are plenty and i’m surprised that there is no 4th autumn camo already.

  10. I thing that circular area at the bottom right looks like a bulls-eye for a reason.

  11. Wish there were some better looking maps in World of Tanks… @@ All of them look so depressing. :(
    Widepark ain’t bad though.

  12. I think all will rush at the center and the center would be one bid dog fight with opportunistic meds and lights trying to flank around, plus that arch(?) looks sweet, don’t why it reminds me of the world trade center.

  13. Hey, whats on square A1? It’s lighter than the rest of the lot.

    Also, it sure is interesting, though also kinda the same as ruinberg (as others pointed out).
    But the more maps they make, the less differences
    and more mixed maps :)

  14. Can someone tell me what those kind of clouds are? their art designers are on crack my guess is. Seriously wtf is that sky? those are not storm clouds. It looks more like that nuclear fallout from the Matrix covering the machines field.

    Actually it perfectly looks like a level from Metro Last Light lol!

  15. And the endless crying about very low FPS in this map may begin.
    If you had lags in Windstorm, then this looks 2x times more video card stressing :)

    Apart from that, map looks just bloody awesome, maybe too dark, but definitely beautiful.

    But I somehow have doubts about 1x1km city maps, especially when only few survived tanks will be left..

    • i hate rberof it too. what did you edit to make the lighthing better?

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  17. Looks like a map that is made up of entirely urban portions, just like Himmelsdorf. Looks like my Hummel wont really like it, neither would my lights ><