17.7.2014

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So, hmmm, well, FTR now has a Vkontakte page. In Russian. I do not run it and I have no influence on its content, it’s a couple of guys from Russia or Ukraine who do that. Not sure what good will it do as FTR is aimed specifically on EU, US and ASIA server audience, but… good luck I guess.

Anyway, because there are never enough answers of the game development…

- Storm states that unfortunately, the developers didn’t manage to make the HD camouflage cover the wheels
- according to Storm, in order to be implemented, roaming needs “various things – no comment”
- World of Tanks art is actively outsourced
- the combat gameplay as a whole will definitely not be completely reworked, as it is one of the pillars of the game
- the problem of T-44-85 is that WG needs a tier 8 premium tank, not tier 7
- the T-54 Model 1945 (Soviet prem MT8) will not “be a 100 percent Super Pershing copy”
- Object 906 is too modern for World of Tanks, “it’s not worth it torturing ourselves with nerfing it to WoT levels”
- the skill of players who play the vehicle in question is taken into account when looking at the balancing of the said vehicle


- Garage battles? “No comments for now”
- Chinese tank destroyers and arty are unlikely to come before 2015
- IS-4 with D-25T: “IS-4 in real life had ONLY the D-25T, it is not possible to make it without it”
- M6A2E1 “Alien” will be buffed soon
- there will likely not be a premium medium French tank connected with the AMX-30 branch
- Storm: the armored cars and halftracks are considered, but the biggest fear is that noone would play them
- Storm adds that it’s possible the FV215b (120) will not be completely scrapped (as in, it might return in some form later), but he adds he can’t say exactly for now
- it’s possible the developers will rebalance skills and perks
- no buff for Super Pershing is planned
- soon, AFKers and leavers from battle will be punished
- Jagdpanzer E-100 Krokodil will not be implemented: “rear casemate version is more logical” (SS: yes, even this ancient stuff starts to crawl out of woodwork once again)
- PvE in WoT: “We are thinking how to do it properly. For now we haven’t thought of anything yet.”
- US T54 (without autoloader) and T95 Medium Tank in WoT? “I cannot say exactly when”
- it’s possible Havok will bring more tank customization
- Sturmtiger and RBT-5: “Both are unfortunately impossible to balance”, but it’s possible they might appear as PvE vehicles (bots)
- developers haven’t discussed an option where premium tanks would get “unlocked” for gold and from that point on, they could be bought or sold for credits, they will look at it and analyze it for potential issues
- new Soviet voiceover might come this year
- patch 9.3 will be “pretty large”
- alternative vertical research tree will not be implemented
- Havok ETA? “No promises for now, so I don’t spoil it”
- tank customization will not come with Havok, but later
- for now, the WG personal rating is finalized
- HD IS-3 will come in 9.4
- there is no place for ASU-57 and ASU-85
- more tier 10 buffs? “no promises”
- gold ammo will not be removed
- special server for bad players will not be created
- lowtier arty buff is not planned for now
- punishments for AFK players are planned
- 9.3 will bring some positive stuff for light tanks
- premium tank for Japan is planned
- developers decided not to nerf (or do anything with) gold shells
- multiturret and multigun mechanism: “The problem is, these influence only a very small amount of tanks. That’s why we aren’t doing them for now”
- developers are planning to add the function where you will see which of your friends are currently in combat
- more post-war camouflages will not be added
- retraining crewmembers to different role (SS: radioman to driver for example): medium future
- no special mod profiles are planned (SS: as in, players being able to switch all mods on or off within the client)
- Q: “Why doesn’t WG use sound mods, for example by Gnomefather?” A: “Because we are trying to make the new sounds in good quality and not download crap from youtube”
- more measures to lessen the load on processor and shift it to GPU will be taken
- fixing the “disappearing decals” bug has low priority
- M48A1 will not be buffed
- top players of losing team will get no extra special rewards (apart from the “courageous resistance”)
- Chieftain will be a heavy tank
- there are plans to rework the Sixth Sense

102 thoughts on “17.7.2014”

  1. - Q: “Why doesn’t WG use sound mods, for example by Gnomefather?” A: “Because we are trying to make the new sounds in good quality and not download crap from youtube”

    Lol, Gnomefather’s mods are way better than anything WG came up with so far.

    • lol sure… keep flaming WG. while i respect gnomefathers work, but WG sounds (music, gun, sheels sound) are much better than his sounds. but still…calling his work “crap from youtube” its not nice..

      • I respect Gnomefathers work too too, but the reason why I don’t use the mods, is because the stuff is literally crap from YouTube, they have very bad quality.

      • Kriegstreiber Engine/Gun Sounds are way better than WG’s or Gnomfather..
        Have a look ;)

    • Gnomefathers mod sounds are decent, but irritating to use. allot of the sound volumes are unequal; some sounds on some tanks are ridiculously loud while others are really quiet. Its a good effort, but as has been said before… it is literally just crap taken from youtube, the official WOT sounds might not be as in-depth, but they are of a much higher standard quality and are professionally implemented.

      • Gnomefather, I really love your gun and engine sounds and I know you don’t record them from real tanks as WG does. But you did a really great job on creating a mod with such good gun and engine sounds.

        WG shouldn’t be so harsh about your sound mods, they should show some more respect.

    • Finally, Were gonna get a forward castemate Jerman TD. Ty Serb.

      Oh, and ther already is a server for bad players, its called WEST coast server, lol.

  2. - Storm: the armored cars and halftracks are considered, but the biggest fear is that noone would play them
    Maybe in HB PVE such vehicles would be useful (or controlled by bots)

    - it’s possible the developers will rebalance skills and perks
    Skills/perks need a HUGE rebalance, because most of them have little use or useless (take a look here about my crew skill ideas : http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/410058-crew-skillsperks-suggestion/)

      • Sure, vehicles like SdKfz 252 or M3 Halftrack wouldn’t of much use in wot, but what I can think people really want to see (myself included) is SdKfz 234 Puma.
        In all practical purposes is it a crossbreed between a car and Pz IV A through G

  3. more measures to lessen the load on processor and shift it to GPU will be taken

    no need to lessen the load on the processor, make it fucking multi-processing compatible, then you don’t need to fuck with the gpu

    • Yea, this will ruin my day.
      Quad core laptop CPU sitting Idle half the time, Poor piddly GPU doing all the work already.

    • Multicore rendering is not the magic bullet to help with perf. Multicore rendering with d3d9 is very complicated and might result in a performance loss, because of the synchronization issues imposed by d3d9. Even d3d10/11 with multicore rendering in mind, the perf gain is at best minimal.

      Optimisation is a good thing, there is a saying in computer science, “the fastest code is the code that never runs”, and wot has plenty of opportunities to optimize der rendering code.

      • It’s not the rendering that we want on the CPU as multi-core, it is everything else.
        At the moment, this is all done on one core.
        Which a) leaves 3 cores in a quad core system idle (only background and OS tasks) so available power is not utilised,
        but b) makes it incredibly susceptible to blocking. (All those micro-lags when resources are loaded? It’s because the IO blocks the game. While you’re at it WG, please enable use of more RAM.)

        • What makes you think that rest of the players play with quad core? :) hard to break it for you but you are not the targeting player for WG

  4. - Q: “Why doesn’t WG use sound mods, for example by Gnomefather?” A: “Because we are trying to make the new sounds in good quality and not download crap from youtube”

    Copy Right *Kuch Kuch*

    A modder generally doesn’t have to deal with as much Legal Issues as a Company like WG has to when implementing stuff in their content.

    Since World of Tanks is A Commercial product and Gnome-Father’s sound pack is not.

    And because of This, Gnome Father can never ask money to people directly to buy his pack.

  5. “plans to rework sixth sense”…… oh boy… :/

    “9.3 will bring some positive stuff for light tanks” cant wait for that :D

      • If you had paid attention you would have known that they said tanks will keep camo while moving regardless if they are stopped or moving while in the open.

        Light tanks have the same camo while moving that they have stopped. this is a light tank buff.

  7. - Storm: the armored cars and halftracks are considered, but the biggest fear is that noone would play them
    Since gold ammo everywhere and WTF100 line – armor is not that important. PEW PEW PEW!

  8. - Sturmtiger and RBT-5: “Both are unfortunately impossible to balance”, but it’s possible they might appear as PvE vehicles (bots)

    Indeed. First shot will end anyone. IF its lucky to reload – then it will end anyone in blast radius again.

  9. Seems like WG is making more excuses and less room for more tanks.

    SturmTiger will effectively be the Vaporware champion of all-time.

    • SturmTiger would be the most OP tank ever devised if it was put into the game.

  11. FTR Vkontakte page is ruled by the guy, who was admin in Wotleaks VK page, but was ‘fired’ for doing nothing and sometimes posting fake news

  13. - Storm: the armored cars and halftracks are considered, but the biggest fear is that noone would play them

    I would play if the armored cars are fast and can penetrate like a light tank, and as for halftracks with howitzer or anti-tank gun, for example M3 Gun Motor Carriage.

    • It would also be extremely good for the French tech tree, since the French put a major emphasis on armored cars and other wheeled vehicles as compared to other nations – and very heavily armored ones to boot. Getting the Panhard 178 with with its 47mm portee tank destroyer variant, or the 75mm armed unit would be very fun for lower tiers in 3-5. Although given that the SA 37 which historically equipped the tank destroyers has a majorly nerfed ~65mm of penetration as compared to its historical 106mm@100 meters(And the wehraboos complain about their German guns ha!), it would be far less capable than otherwise. A similar problem befalls the Laffley 15, which has the same armament and wouldn’t be as capable as it was historically. The gun can’t be buffed that easily since it would upset the balance for other vehicles. Still, maybe Wargaming could pretend its a fantasy gun variant on that tank and give it the historical penetration. And post war of course you have the Panhard EBR with its long 75mm and in the second variants the long 90mm, and with the Panhard AML with its own long 90mm.

      My personal favorite is the Panhard AM 40 P which has a 37mm or 47mm gun and 60mm of armor, since I find an armored car with armor equivalent to the Char B1 extremely amusing.

  14. - Garage battles? “No comments for now”
    That’s probably the endgame content for solo players Storm mentioned earlier today…

    - Chinese tank destroyers and arty are unlikely to come before 2015
    I have a feeling they won’t be copy-pasting the Soviet TDs and especially not arty. But we’ll see, any new tanks are welcome :)

    - Sturmtiger and RBT-5: “Both are unfortunately impossible to balance”, but it’s possible they might appear as PvE vehicles (bots)
    If they could balance that Star Destroyer-like abomination on tier 10 they damn sure can balance a couple of derpies.

    - Havok ETA? “No promises for now, so I don’t spoil it”
    Probably planned for 9.4, but he won’t promise anything because it will get delayed as usual…

    - M48A1 will not be buffed
    But…but…..why???
    The buffs to Leopard 1 and FV4202 in 9.2 will render this tank completely useless (along with M60). FV has a lower profile, will have better DPM, has better accuracy and gun handling and it can passive scout even better due to better camo (spotting range is maxed out at 545m or so , it can easily be achieved on both tanks with optics). Leopard also has a lower profile, it can spot better as well, will have better DPM as well, and I won’t even talk about its mobility….
    I can as well keep the M46 :/

    - Chieftain will be a heavy tank
    D’uh…..

  15. “- the problem of T-44-85 is that WG needs a tier 8 premium tank, not tier 7″

    Well, that makes a lot of sense. “We can’t add a tier 7 premium tank because we need tier 8″. Fucking whoopityhoo! Kinda having mind blown moment here.

    • Well, fucking idiots killed off many, like T-34-100 and Sturmtiger… So why not T-44-85? ;D

    • T-44-122? Dunno.

      Excusing that you can’t add a T7 prem due to the need of a T8 prem is pathetic.

  16. - the T-54 Model 1945 (Soviet prem MT8) will not “be a 100 percent Super Pershing copy”
    No shit, that would be idiotic. doing a 100% copy of something means copying EVERYTHING. So literally a superpershing as the tier VIII premium medium tank for Russia.

    - lowtier arty buff is not planned for now
    NNNNOOOOOOO! Why is this even getting asked, it may give the developers bad ideas D:
    I have lost count of how many times I have been one-shot by tier II artillery in my VAE type B.
    And I’m only playing that to train a crew for the light tanks, so it’s completely OK. I’m not in any way seal-clubbing.

  17. - Object 906 is too modern for World of Tanks, “it’s not worth it torturing ourselves with nerfing it to WoT levels”

    But Chieftain (a tank from the same era with the best firepower and armor for it’s time), we will happily nerf for wot levels because you know. Russian.
    Ruzzian Tonks r bess tonks. We don’t wanna offend any Russians by over nerfing a tank which is too modern for the game, but we will happily do it to a better tank from a different country.

  18. - Sturmtiger and RBT-5: “Both are unfortunately impossible to balance”, but it’s possible they might appear as PvE vehicles (bots)

    So no Sturmtiger as normal vehicle confirmed?

      • Shitty E5, sure…more HP, better mobility, stronk turret without a “X SHOOT HERE” copula and… i know its personal and sentimental, but… It was my first tier 10 tank ;(

  20. - the T-54 Model 1945 (Soviet prem MT8) will not “be a 100 percent Super Pershing copy”

    Of course it won’t be. It’ll be more mobile with a better gun and more reliable armor…

    Why would we expect them to ‘copy’ a vehicle that’s so bad they offered gold refunds for it?

    - Storm: the armored cars and halftracks are considered, but the biggest fear is that noone would play them

    I’m sorry, but Storm;

    I would play the EVERLIVING FUCK out of an M8 Greyhound.

  21. - developers decided not to nerf (or do anything with) gold shells
    As a Heavy tank player such as myself , i find that really annoying it should be nerfed , reduced damage or something , as stated above i play heavy tanks most of the time , getting hit by gold ammo 5-8 shells each round and getting penetrated even when angled with the E100 and Maus.
    The heavy tanks lost their position since gold ammo became available for Credits.
    and please don’t say “it is a part of the game” come with a better freaking excuse.

    • Kinda’ makes you wonder why the heavy tank was pretty much obsolete before the war even ended, huh?

      Oh wait.

      • What war are you talking about ?
        by the way , at least make it like war thunder , firing APCR is not always the good option , sometimes i see people firing gold ammo even on french tanks.

        • Maybe the last war that prominently featured heavy tanks?

          Heavy tanks have always been a bad idea though, so…

          • Its funny that they are trying a rebalance of the tanks, without balancing the biggest unbalanced Feature in the game (Gold Ammo).

            I would say the balance is even more fucked up after this great rebalance…

    • My god, so many tears for golden ammo. Everybody acts like they never used it.
      Gold ammo is necessary for WoT economy, otherwise there would be nothing to sink the credits in.

      The other day I was called gold noob when I shot APCR from O140 (standard ammo) on FV183 that was shooting HESH the whole game. I mean WTF? Stop crying and deal with golden ammo. Nobody stops you from shooting it as well – everybody has the same conditions. Its not like you are nuked from orbit by arty which you often cant do anything about.

      And lets face it, Camped armored TDs need some golden love when there is no opportunity to flank them.

      • and why exactly they play with armored tds ? as a heavy tank player i gave away speed and mobility for better armor protection to only get what ? get my tank penetrated by some noob firing gold ammo ?
        by the way , it is the unicums who pisses me more often as they fire gold more than tomatos.

  22. - new Soviet voiceover might come this year
    Why? I grew quite fond of the current one. :( It sounds the most calm and soldier-like of them all.

    - alternative vertical research tree will not be implemented
    There are mods that can get you that. And they also make the whole tree look much better. :)

    • But according to Wargaming, mod authors are dumb. Doing something a mod lets you do is admitting that the mod author was doing something smart.

      • but but mods are the stuff that destroys your PC according to WG so mod authors are dumb
        and obvisously not there code where you have crap tone of extra unneeded .exe;s running or the shader system is ancient as hell :P

    • Yeah E.T I agree… boya shunitska .. lol

      Anyone got a link to what the Russian crews actually say? In a non-Cyrillic script, or something a stupid brit can understand??

  23. My guess would be a Japanese Heavy Premium for the upcoming heavy line. Looking forward to it :)

    • It’s a medium

      All the data on the heavies is currently being focused on building the heavy line

  24. - the skill of players who play the vehicle in question is taken into account when looking at the balancing of the said vehicle

    Interesting, please dig deeper with this line of inquery.

  25. Where’s the American Premium TD?????
    Been waiting on one for a long time.

    I saw a leak picture of one some time ago, need to find it.
    I will link it once I do……..

  26. Here are the two most important things for the light tank buff:
    *Buff to view range in comparison to the mediums and heavies that they fight with
    *greater hitpoints (can still be less than same-tier mediums)

    • View range is enough.
      Repair the camo values back to pre 8.6 levels. Then they can spot without getting spotted, and because they remain unseen, current hitpoints are enough.
      (See Chaffee in tier X games – stay hidden and it doesn’t matter that 90% or more of the tanks you face can one-hit you)

  27. “- Q: “Why doesn’t WG use sound mods, for example by Gnomefather?” A: “Because we are trying to make the new sounds in good quality and not download crap from youtube””

    Shots Fired

  28. - more post-war camouflages will not be added

    Ok fine, but what about the tons of different camo paint jobs that WERE used during the war that are STILL not in the game? Just put them in I mean most people pay for permanent camo with gold meaning real money it seems like you don’t want money. The more customization players have the happier they are. Just release 1 or 2 new camo options each patch or every 2 or 3 patches then 2-3 weeks later have a camo sale you get the money from the people that buy it as soon as you release it then you get more money during the sale….win win situation for everyone involved.

  29. Stupid Questions. Stupid Questions never change.
    Because reading the old answers is for idiots only lol.
    But considering they change their opinion on every aspect of the game as often as underwear…

  30. Im sure it’s been asked and answered many a time but why has WG still not implemented the standard tan desert camo for German tanks? Just seems a bit odd that it’s been so long and they’ve not done it. Not like it’s something new, seeing as the winter camos have the all white scheme, why not all tan :/