24.5.2014

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A small mistake correction, yesterday I didn’t pay attention and mistook AMX50B elevation for depression. Elevation – +11 degrees in game, +14 in real life, Storm said he’d mention it to balance guys.

- Storm confirms that pre-9.1 average damage done won’t count towards the kill marks introduced in 9.1
- you’ll have to play at least 100+ battles to get a kill mark
- Storm doesn’t like comic book movies, he only liked Nolan’s Batman
- T40 camo factor after shooting was seriously overbuffed (in 9.0, it could be detected at 350 meters, in 9.1, it will be detected at 378m when shooting. To compare – Borsig in 9.0 – 354m, in 9.1 – 364m)
- Storm confirms there will not be an option to pick two gun soundset (the game client would get too big and too much testing would be required)


- Storm states that in the future, various sounds for various guns will be implemented, current test serves to confirm the general direction the sounds are taking (Overlord confirms this: “They are using what we’ve recorded so far. In future there can be a mixture of recorded and created/tuned sounds. Checking the feedback for now.”)
- Storm states that a lot of time is spent on testing the bug fixes for all the regions (currently, six regions)
- Wargaming apparently started a new department: “optimization department”, work on optimizing the game will not stop
- Storm confirms that he and SerB don’t have enough time to answer the developer questions in the “classic” thread on RU forums anymore, that’s why there are so few
- crew role change (SS: radioman to driver for example) will come (when it’s done it’s done)
- more game stability enhancers will be introduced in the future

Overlord on 9.1 sound: “You are right saying that new sounds are to be appreciated on a decent audio system. That’s how our audio engineers tune it. Unfortunately the scalability is not really good here. ”

Overlord on gold ammo: “There are a few ideas regarding prem ammo – both limitation and rebalancing. Will see if and when they are introduced.”

61 thoughts on “24.5.2014”

  2. - crew role change (SS: radioman to driver for example) will come (when it’s done it’s done)

    yeah, finally ! I have 6 USSR Radioman with 4 skills in Barack :/

  4. >Storm doesn’t like comic book movies, he only liked Nolan’s Batman
    My favorite was with CIA and Masketta Man.

  5. - Wargaming apparently started a new department: “optimization department”, work on optimizing the game will not stop

    they should start a new Division…

  6. - Storm doesn’t like comic book movies, he only liked Nolan’s Batman

    What in the world does comic movies have to do with WoT????

    • Well, the sentence should probably read “Storm doesn’t like superhero movies” anyway, since no one in their right mind would say they don’t like History of Violence, 300, Oldboy, The Crow, Snowpiercer or Blue Is the Warmest Colour for the sole reason they’re based on comic books – that’s like stating one doesn’t like movies based on stage plays.

  7. I wondered when the female crew members would come to world of tanks I remembered they mentioned it in one of the ASAP videos like two years ago, when is this going to be implemented ?

  8. - you’ll have to play at least 100+ battles to get a kill mark

    does that mean, you will have to play 100+ battles on 1 specific tank? isnt that to much? who drives 100 battles in tier1-6 tanks? perhaps you might do that on your premium or favourite (read statspadder / sealclubber) tanks but anything else? highly doubtfull… so only a few guys will see / have those on their tanks :(

    • Well, it is planned they will only show after Tier 5., and…. i have driven my T5 ELC for thousands of battles.

      What would be the meaning of having a killmarks that are a brag factor on tanks that you do not drive for more then a 100 battles?

      • imho 50 battles would be fine. you get the “feeling” for that special tank and you know most of its pros and cons. 100 battles feels like overkill / heavy grind to me. that s all. i think it s just a cool new feature and i would like to see it on as many tanks a possible

        btw i dont think good players need the extra “brag factor” :) – if you want to brag just press “tab” and check stats with xvm…

    • *Looks at his over 600 battles in StuG 3, 400 in Pz III/IV and over 400 in Pz IV*.. Well.. yeah…

  9. - you’ll have to play at least 100+ battles to get a kill mark
    pff thats bad, not only previous stats doesnt count, but 100 battle in a single tank to get some stripe on it? :/

  10. So they try to introduce more realism into the game via the gun sounds and tank driving sounds (to me it seems like these are new too, but they should be louder when you are in sniper view) and players complain that they want their fake sounds back. Way to go wot-ters, keep voting to keep this game even more fake and arcadey.

  12. - Wargaming apparently started a new department: “optimization department”, work on optimizing the game will not stop.

    Wow,after 4 years finally they get it.
    Its kinda funny/sad to see that they needed the wake up call from WT and Armored Warfare.
    Hopefully we as the players will profit.

    - Storm confirms there will not be an option to pick two gun soundset (the game client would get too big and too much testing would be required)

    Yeah if we only could make a client where the players could choose what they like…..
    Ok…so you can select Hd or not Hd but not 2 diffrent sets of Sounds?
    You guys at WG are just to fucking lazy thats all. But yeah sounds are coverd by modders.

    • Armored Warfare seems to be at least fantasy level when it comes to classified parameters of tanks.
      And yeah, wakey wakey WG – WT rolling very shiny.

      • AW is giving AT LEAST something BF fanboys loved; modern tank warfare. Guess what? Even T-55 can kill M1 Abrams with the “Bastion” missile.

        • Yeah, pure speculation since, well, the only time Russian tanks and Western tanks fought is in the middle east, where crap versions of crap export models were used as live target practice.

          We have strictly no idea would would win in tank warfare currently.
          Everyone is waving his dick around, back turned to the others, claiming he has the biggest. But no one knows who really has the biggest.

        • …calmly skipping over the fact that from about ~90k T-55s build, only parts of them, made for the soviet army, were outfitted with them (and it’s not like the Bastion is performing as good as a Svir for example.).
          But given good enough circumstances, the 100mm would be enough (if it’s ambushing the M1 from behind for example).

  13. so wait TDs camo factor got buffed not nerfed did i miss something??

  14. —- T40 camo factor after shooting was seriously overbuffed (in 9.0, it could be detected at 350 meters, in 9.1, it will be detected at 378m when shooting. To compare – Borsig in 9.0 – 354m, in 9.1 – 364m)

    ROTFLMFAO

    All this bellyaching about the OP Borsig and its ability to stay invisible after a shot….. .and it’s only going to lose 10m of camo???

    Wonder what changes will come to the Hellcat?

    • Well, the devs have said that they’re going to look into that tank, and the Waffle, for balance again. So in the near-ish future it could lose much more than that.

      And people want their OP toys to stay OP, so they don’t have to learn to play well. :P

  15. I thought the AMX 50B was unhistorical.
    From my understanding, the design with that name had a regular turret instead of an oscillating one, so why would that turret’s elevation be “historical” if there never was a “historical”?