Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3396963.html
Hello everyone,
recently, there was yet another stream with Aleksei “Inaki” Ilyin, the chief Russian community manager (his answers are not as reliable as Storm’s of course, but reliable enough). As usual, Maiorboltach from the world-of-ru community was kind enough to provide a transcription. Here’s what Inaki said.
- according to Inaki, the fact that developers are not playing their game is a lie, the map makers and other developers are constantly playing
- according to Inaki, Twitch is slowly dying. This is caused by a range of issues (he explains at length how the quality of some stream channels dropped to the point of being unwatchable, causing the streamers to move to other platforms, such as cybergame, causing the total amount of Twitch viewers to drop). Inaki also adds that there are games now that allow the “streaming” to happen within the game (for example Dota), mainstream games are starting to organize streaming themselves (Dota TI2014)
- the way World of Tanks handles streams will be changed, (on RU server) the streams will appear in the launcher as “stream of the day”, there will also be a special ASAP magazine about streaming
- developers already tested the ingame stream function, it works according to all expectations, it is very simple to use (“press one button to stream”). Near Autumn, there will be a WoT patch, that will allow the players to set their scenes etc., the ingame streaming will be very simple to understand for anyone who wants to stream
- the chance of roaming ever being implemented is low
- in 9.3, new premium tanks will come
- developers are working on complete overhaul of how premium tanks work
- it’s very likely that the requirements for the gun barrel “rings” (for damage done) will be lowered in 9.3 in relation to the amount of battles required, so you get more or less stable results. 9.2 will bring “dynamic changes of percentage in the kill mark statistics” (SS: whatever that is)
- Mountain Pass will be reworked in 9.3 (the statistical difference between bases winrate is 2 percent), the center of the map will be changed and (SS: if I understand it correctly) the bush from which you can spot everything will be removed, this is done upon the request of company mode players and the community
- RU251 will either come in 9.4 or 9.5 (SS: other WG employees were not aware of this info, so it’s possible this is wrong, other – reliable – WG source states it is still planned for 0.9.3)
- 80 percent of players uses some mod
- Clanwars 2.0 will come soon
- the playerbase of WoT is still growing, but it’s less than it was last year
- soon, there will be another “fun mode” á la “soccer mode” (Inaki hints at “Tank Biathlon”)
I dare you Wargaming, if you don’t give me Ru251 in 9.3, I will find you and I will ______ .
GIve you a cookie?
Thats a flatline – guess what that means :D
Firatstyler died D:
RIP Firastyler. I will send my condolences to your kangaroo wife.
I want my RU251 already :(
And I will steal all Serb’s burgers
You mean all his vodka bottles.
Why not both?
“Developers are working on complete overhaul of how premium tanks work”
I would love to read a more elaborate explanation of this :)
“80 percent of players uses some mod”
I strongly doubt.
“Developers are working on complete overhaul of how premium tanks work”
I would love to read a more elaborate explanation of this :)
They will earn the the same as the tier above them and you have to rent them every month XD
““80 percent of players uses some mod”
I strongly doubt.”
How so? I think that’s just about right.
Assuming they include visual or audio mods.
New premiums!
SU76i? ;)
T54 thingie.
Finaly they are reworking mountain pass…in low tier that map is not that of a problem, but in tier VIII and higher its totally unfair for the south base. one competent scout in that bush and you cant cross that kill zone without being murdered.
@SS, what premium tanks will come in 9.3? maybe T8 soviet medium tank and T8 german medium tank?
I think that part is wrong.
Instead of removing more scouting spots from the already zombiefriendly maps they should balance it by adding a scouting spot on the other side. IDK what they want to do in 9.3 that is supposed to help LTs but LTs would be fine with their vehicle stats as they are now because what makes and breakes them is map design. And most changes I see are making mobility and viewrange less useful. They need to buff arty so somebody shoots the TDs that block your progress by sitting in one spot for entire game and spotting them is usually impossible without trading your HP but somebody has to do it… aand nobody shoots them :) Bigger maps with accessible terrain without hundred of valleys and magical stronk tank-no-go-hier-texture hills.
Or… they need to rework spotting and camo mechanics. Bushes and concealment may be better fixed by not making it a flat bonus but dependent upon the tanks camo coefficient itself.
The promised changes with barrel sticking out of the bush being a spotting-checkpoint too would be nice but more needs to be done. Despite being “camo abuser” myself as a LT player, I think the 15m bush rule and being able to spot through bushes around you is a bit ridiculous. I know many people swear by it and consider abusing it some pinnacle of skill (probably because it is the only one they have) but its just weird. But its been here so long that changing it without making most people rage their asses of is going to be near impossible.. well lets see what WG comes up with.
Free anniversary premium tank might come with this patch. Te-Ke maybe?
complete overhaul of prem tanks?
can someone try and dig up some info?
Overhaul by buffing KV-5 pen and ridiculous R2D2.
Buffing KV-5s both pen and R2D2 weakspot would turn it into seroius OP tank, so nope.
Not the mention new players who have never seen KV-5 in their lifes :D Oh how I like to punish them.
yes need to buff KV-5 because it is so weak..oh wait…
Tank Name Country Type Tier Battles Win Rate
KV-5 U.S.S.R. HT 8 102 73.53%
Buffing the KV-5? So it will be even easier to R+M1?!
“- in 9.3, new premium tanks will come”
Interesting. T-54 model 45? Would be some fast modeling work since AFAIK it looks a bit different from the normal T-54.
“- developers are working on complete overhaul of how premium tanks work”
Intriguing.
As in “ninja nerfing credit income more”.
Wouldn’t make sense, they buffed it recently.
Stream from Clan Wars, from enemy team – priceless.
With 5min delay or something – useless.
No big delay on twitch
Twitch is dying because people finally figured out that watching other people play games is incredibly boring.
its boring depending ion the game and what tactic they use; buts usually its good to learn how to play better.
Depends a lot who play. If some boring person – then no, thanks.
- Mountain Pass will be reworked in 9.3 (the statistical difference between bases winrate is 2 percent), the center of the map will be changed and (SS: if I understand it correctly) the bush from which you can spot everything will be removed, this is done upon the request of company mode players and the community
ALELUYA , finally they will balance that…now nerf a bit the 4 maus blocking + camper hard at the north base tactic to defend at CW
Maus OP.
I really hope RU251 is coming in 9.3, I’ve already started collecting XP on the crappy AFKPanther.
Would also be nice to know how much I roughly need, the research costs for current tier 8 lights differ a lot, so it’s hard to say
RU251 will be in 0.9.3. Storm wrote that in Live Journal today (18.07)
РУ251 будет в 0.9.3. Шторм сегодня подтвердил, что он успевает в 9.3
Uspevaet tak uspevaet, probably already on/will be soon on supertest.
“(his answers are not as reliable as Storm’s of course, but reliable enough).”
I call for oxymoron XD
Please tell that they will balance all premium tanks as equals to standard?
I have a few turds in the garage so I hope…. in vain no doubt.
http://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/pc-browser/esport/wg-stream-launch-soon/ – Interesting
Some kind of roaming is sure implemented already, I’ve seen RU players on EU servers sometimes. Latest one was RU player Ziggy_Stardust, I happened to be in the same match with him. This happens but is it Wargaming only allows it to few players?
http://www.noobmeter.com/player/ru/ziggy_stardust/928772/
http://aijaa.com/VPIP58
Also, on loading screen the name was like ziggy_stardust RU. For some reason the name wasn’t there when I checked it with tab:
http://aijaa.com/cP6wqV
Does anybody here know what these kind of players are? I would say WG comments are bullshit with “roaming is low priority” when it actually is working. Btw, I’ve never seen SEA or NA players in EU server, only RU players.
- according to Inaki, Twitch is slowly dying. This is caused by a range of issues (he explains at length how the quality of some stream channels dropped to the point of being unwatchable, causing the streamers to move to other platforms, such as cybergame, causing the total amount of Twitch viewers to drop). Inaki also adds that there are games now that allow the “streaming” to happen within the game (for example Dota), mainstream games are starting to organize streaming themselves (Dota TI2014)
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Twitch became so crap for me, the playback is awful. I have to use an extra program to run the stream on a selected quality through VLC in order to view it decently
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- 9.2 will bring “dynamic changes of percentage in the kill mark statistics” (SS: whatever that is)
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People believe there’s a “bug” where your mark of excellence progression percentage seems to stop moving. It appears as it’s currently enabled, it only displays best progress. Next patch it will adjust as you perform for better AND for worse.
“- 80 percent of players uses some mod”
it cant be possible. atleast on EU server
i dont use any mod lol
Not even server side reticle?
“developers are working on complete overhaul of how premium tanks work”
Any more info about this?
- it’s very likely that the requirements for the gun barrel “rings” (for damage done) will be lowered in 9.3 in relation to the amount of battles required, so you get more or less stable results. 9.2 will bring “dynamic changes of percentage in the kill mark statistics” (SS: whatever that is)
I dont understand how this works – no matter how much damage i do, the percentage does not increase o.O
- according to Inaki, Twitch is slowly dying
Clearly, Inaki have no idea what is talking about. In my opinion, Twitch is growing and growing.
Example: few day ago, i watched TotalBiscuit playing Heatstone …. he had around 20k watchers (that is huge, at that moment when he did live stream).
Another example: Sodapoppin, when i faved him (to know when he streams) he had around 6k watchers, now he have around 13k watchers (when he have live stream).
JUST SAYIN, INAKI
PS: for dumb ppl … k (aka kilo) by number means 1000, so 6k = 6000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-
Tank Biathlon? How about WoT Hockey which uses T-50-2′s on 3 v 3 (or 5 v 5 depending on map size). I mean they did use T-50-2 turrets for the soccer ball.. Means they still have the model around and in mind.
also complete premium tanks rework?
does it mean *it* might……….just might be rebalanced
Storm realiable? “E-25 is OP”, “E-25 is not OP”, “SP will get a buff”, “No buffs for SP”, “183 will not be nerfed”, “183 HESH shells nerfed” and so on…