24.6.2014

According to Overlord, a major patch 1.3 for WoT Blitz is coming. Read more here.

- Storm (still in vacation) on his earlier denial of moving corpses bug existence: “You have to read exactly what I’ve written” (SS: basically, he wrote earlier that the bug was not confirmed yet, now it apparently was and hence it was fixed)
- Storm states that the moving corpses reports from the common test were isolated and non-systematic. When the patch was released, the numbers of reports increased and hence the bug was fixed
- apparently, the bug where a tank can suddenly make a 360 degrees turn will be fixed in new motion physics
- Storm states that his vacation will last for long time yet (SS: two more weeks)
- developers decided not to implement temporary break in premium account (SS: as in, a player goes for a vacation and stops temporarily his premium account from running), because it’s very unconvenient (SS: unprofitable) for them
- preparation of WoT:Blitz for Android will “take a few months”

44 thoughts on “24.6.2014

  1. - apparently, the bug where a tank can
    suddenly make a 360 degrees turn will
    be fixed in new motion physics
    I wonder when it will be.
    And who needs 360 spin, when you could do barrel rolls? :D

    • If they fix 360 like they fixed moving corpses the first time (9.1 major patch), then your tank will be a helicopter for the next 2 patches…

      • We all know it will bring a 100 and one new bugs, big and small. skidding, slipping, terrain clipping and whatnot… :(

          • Buddy, remember me to send you a replay of mine.That 360°bug got me few days ago…not that hard like the RamII clip, but it made my Bchat take few bullets in the ass.

          • @Nya-chan: This makes me always so angry to read.

            I’m a serious, professional software developer with more than 20 years experience in business.
            It’s just not true what you are writing, WG developers are just crap, monitored from crappy management and they have obviously no clue about requirements analysis, design, architecture, testing and so on…..
            The whole PLC of those guys is just shit.
            Let’s take as example the the moving wrecks and what the debile Storm says: “Storm states that the moving corpses reports from the common test were isolated and non-systematic.”. They knew about the bug, but obviously it was not reproducible in that moment. Well that is a problem, but somebody has then decided not to do further investigations. This is a decisions against customer satisfaction and against the reputation of the company. We all can agree, that only morons do such decisions. Well, it’s only a game and no important software like banking software, healthcare or whatever – but it’s still the decision of an idiot.

            And now the 100 buck questions: Do a moron in management position hire staff smarter than him? No!

            And that result is the mess we see at WG.

            So please stop to say, all companies produce the same shit as WG does!

            Sure, there is no flawless software, but if you run your business as it’s state of the art, you won’t have the troubles WG always has.

    • “do a barrel roll!” RNG replays arrive in your mailbox few days after havoc physics are implemented ;)

  2. Where is the Havok ç_ç I want the Havok!

    They illuded me with the MAJESTIC 9.0 and now I’m still waiting :(

      • Yeah.. And they all have one thing in common; Skiddind, sliding and overall horrid driving feeling. :P I am looking at you SaintsRow2&3, JustCause2, Sleeping doges and Watch_Doge.. :[

  3. I like the “feature” … it is not the worst defect around …. instead they should fix when a tank gets stuck when coming down a steep down hill, that is so annoying

  4. Ya, I don’t buy premium cause I have a job that requires me to be in the real world 5 days a week. If they offered 1 or 2 days of prem at the yearly rate (67 gold/day), I would probably buy it every weekend. But I will be damned if I am gonna pay 250 gold, almost FOUR FUCKING TIMES as much.
    And there is no fucking reason for them not to, whether I spend the gold 1 day, 1 month, or 1 year at a time, there is no additional transaction fee for them. I already bought the gold at whatever rate I chose.

    The ONLY reason they don’t is because they are assholes. As a result, I actually use far LESS gold than I would of they treated weekend players fairly.

    Their loss, fuck ‘em.

      • Yep, I spend my gold on Prem tanks instead. I love my premmies :) Got 27 so far. They are like Pokemon, gotta get em all!

    • I, on the other hand, have a plenty of premium account time already bought and I would like a feature of freezing it every once in a while, because I’m going on vacation and I will lose two weeks of prem time. Ofc once frozen, it would thaw once you log in, so you can’t play on standard account during that time.

    • Interesting…WG should offer a Weekend Warrior Premium Package that is only 25% more expensive than the daily rate for the monthly package, but has a requirement to pay a year in advance…

    • Damn, you guys are so pathetic, it is 2500 gold to purchase the premium for a month, if you buy $100 (25,000 gold) at a time, it is only $10 dollars a month, $2.50 a week, even if you break it down to two days that you play a week (weekend warrior), it is a $1.25 per day (just counting weekends) or about $0.34 a day if you count 30 days in a month. If you are going on vacation, then either don’t renew for the month, or buy a week at a time and suffer the additional costs, either way you are bitching about such a small amount of money that it is hardly worth it.

      Hell, it is even hard to purchase a cup of good coffee for less than a $1.25.

  5. “- Storm (still in vacation) on his earlier denial of moving corpses bug existence: “You have to read exactly what I’ve written” (SS: basically, he wrote earlier that the bug was not confirmed yet, now it apparently was and hence it was fixed)”

    You kill a tank, it moves about 10 feet backwards and turns a bit like there is a mismatch between the server and the client. Happens all the time. Nothing but denial – game politics. Lol

    • Yeah but when they “fixed” that movement, some tanks now go into zombie mod and corpses drive all around the map. Another problem is that the hitbox stays where it was, but now you can’t see it as the visual model took a trip.

      • Just dug through the replays to find a match I knew this happened in. The replay shows the corpse right where it was killed, but I remember it moving three tank lengths down the road. I shot four rounds dead center of mass on a 10% tank with no hits only to have him kill me. Didn’t realize at the time what had happened. In the live match he was sitting in the open and an easy shot.

    • Yup same here. I keep thinking that there was an unspotted enemy and shot empty space multiple times :D

      • I did once shoot a fully exposed is 3 for about 10 times in a row , nothing happened (thought that Ghost shell was back) :now i undestand why

        • Kept shooting T34 UFP – then I saw how my shots went out of aim circle and kept hitting corpse.
          Visual bug FTW.

          • Yeah, and I kept shooting a JpanzerE100′s LFP with my E100 several times just to see in the replay that I was shooting an E50M’s corpse.

            Edit:It was the first time when I thought that there are h4x in game.

  6. - apparently, the bug where a tank can suddenly make a 360 degrees turn will be fixed in new motion physics

    I guess they are talking about the HAVOK motion physics right? i cant freaking till we get the REAL physics. So annoying right now to see my tanks getting stopped by small rocks, walls, etc. when they should easily ride over them.

  7. Moving corpses fixed ? Lol no. They did not fixed it and the problem still occurs…destroyed Caern riding through the field, T30 corpse moved to the left from its point of destruction (and thanks to this all my shots passes through the enemy tank…yea, he was hidden behind T30 than was misplaced for me and in fact I was shooting T30 corpse…). Even two or three days ago – Tiger wreck riding like crazy on Kharkov.

    So to sum up – bullshit. They did nothing to fix this bug

    • I confirm this. Was in a battle with my PTA and our friendly JPE100 destroyed a T57 HT I was spotting and after his death his wreck started to slide the hill like a roller coaster.

      So not fixed and still happening. Don’t know if they semi-fixed it, but at least it’s still happening.