26.10.2014

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- apparently, the feature where top three players of losing team get extra credits will not be implemented
- Chi-Ri had several variants of suspension, it’s possible that one of the heavier ones with 88mm will be added to the heavy Japanese tank branch (SS: SerB is mistaken here. The 88mm Chi-Ri is a fake, started by American engineers exploring the Japanese vehicle plans after the war)
- Chinese-used Chi-Ha did not have any special Chinese designation
- apparently, SerB is participating in alphatesting of WoWs, but he’s hiding
- when removing interface in battle (pressing V), FPS goes up a lot? “Most likely your card doesn’t do well with Scaleform – that’s a Flash-like engine, widely used for interface creation. Please note that we are not responsible for Scaleform-based mod optimization.”
- Storm realizes that STA-2 (upcoming Japanese premium) is worse than STA-1, but “unfortunately, we haven’t simply found any other candidate”


- Evilly states that in 9.5 or 9.6, premium vehicle profitability will be further buffed (“indirectly”)
- it’s possible that the AFK punishment system will be changed to take game crashes into account
- Storm states that the difference between FV215b (183) and FV4005 Stage 2 will be: “One will be armored and slow, the other unrarmored and relatively fast.”
- Storm himself is bothered by the modellers always saying “sorry, we don’t have any new HD models for this patch”, but he can’t do anything about it
- there will be third test of 9.4
- Storm states that the situation where on GTX550Ti enabling shadows causes you to lose 20 FPS is normal

60 thoughts on “26.10.2014

  1. - apparently, the feature where top three players of losing team get extra credits will not be implemented

    This is exactly the reason why this game is worse and worse every day. They keep luring new players who keeps screwing up games but you don’t get anything from trying to carry the game. Time for Artillery only.

    • This game has been getting worse LITERALLY EVERY DAY for the past two years I’ve been playing it? Damn, I never noticed.

      It’s almost like that is entirely your opinion and is not supported by any facts at all.
      oh wait.

    • Do not be a crybaby. Become a battle hero, you will receive +50% of credits and XP (score High Calibre, or few other rewards).

    • So, what if it’s a 15-1 stomp? Do those top 3 really deserve extra? Not always, no.

    • You already get it for battle hero, they just are not expanding it to include the least bad of your supposed fail team.

    • I’m happy to see that only the victors regularly get the spoils. It is how it should be.

  2. Hey, have you seen the finnish Pz4, it’s at 100k euros now, not really a worthless wreck apparently :P

  3. - Evilly states that in 9.5 or 9.6, premium vehicle profitability will be further buffed (“indirectly”)

    How? How?:p

      • Are you a tard, or what? They are NEVER ging to add a bonus for free XP, even after the last buff the addidional XP on premium vehicles is in a separate category (mission completed).
        What will happen is the lower repair cost.

        • You never now what will happen. Of course they don’t give +50% on free XP, but an additional bonus of +15% on free XP is possible.

          Another option is that premiums always start with x3 for a win.

  4. “- it’s possible that the AFK punishment system will be changed to take game crashes into account”

    FINALLY! Had that last week, while loading into match, Alt-Tab’ed for a second to desktop, when I wanted to go back – game crashed. OFC got AFK warning, cause when finally logged back, my tank was already destroyed…

    • This shit happens all the time, there are hundreds of causes so it’s a bit tricky to blame anyone.

      Good thing they make AFK system take game crashes in to account

    • NO. This is a bad idea. Why? Because most crashes is because of mods – something ,that WG can not control (and lazy dumbasses that are not updating their mods, just copying the folder…). If the game will be not punishing AFKers whose game crashed, then this will be abused by boters.

  5. Storm states that the situation where on GTX550Ti enabling shadows causes you to lose 20 FPS is normal

    How is this normal?? The game is crappy optimized

    • It is not a very powerful GPU and shadows will require some computing power which results in lower performance, no matter what the degree of optimisation is.

    • Manufacturer design fault, this happens periodically in GPU’s. Sometimes an entire series of cards can have some handicaps. Just like this one with shadows.

      So yeah, WoT may not be optimized but it’s not always their fault, really.

      • It’s pretty old now, isn’t it. Like 3 or 4 years? Not exactly state of the art any more…

        *looks sadly at my own 660Ti*

  6. - Storm realizes that STA-2 (upcoming Japanese premium) is worse than STA-1, but “unfortunately, we haven’t simply found any other candidate”

    what did I say! who would pay for this junk?

  7. “- Chi-Ri had several variants of suspension, it’s possible that one of the heavier ones with 88mm will be added to the heavy Japanese tank branch (SS: SerB is mistaken here. The 88mm Chi-Ri is a fake, started by American engineers exploring the Japanese vehicle plans after the war)”

    Because fake tanks is completely uncharted territory for WG…

    • Now, would this mean that the 88mm Chi-Ri would be at tier 6 in that line? If I remember correctly the O-I super heavy tank would at tiers 7 (100 ton version) and 8 (120 ton).

      • Last time I’ve heard O-I is tier 8 in it’s fully historical parameters…. about which we don’t know much anyway.

        There were also rumors about some moving Pillbox tank for Japanese army in Manchuria that could take the spot at highier tier.

        but I could be wrong.

        • But, if I remember correctly, from one of Dai’s post on this subject, a year ago,I’m pretty sure she posted it being at tier 7 also (of course it could also mean my memory is failing me). Oh well, I’m just happy about having at least some news related to the heavy line.

    • Well, SerB is not a tank specialist so he could go wrong with that, we can only hope that Pasholok will correct him soon enough.

    • One is large turreted TD and the other a small SPG. I can’t see them being that similar. When they say it will be faster they compared to the 183.

    • Imagine FV 183 with no chance of bouncing and being faster. I wouldn’t comapre it with FV304 which is an SPG and has satellite view which gives it a tremendous orientation for a such fast tank.

  8. - Storm states that the difference between FV215b (183) and FV4005 Stage 2 will be: “One will be armored and slow, the other unrarmored and relatively fast.”

    Kinda confirms my theory from yesterday about giving it the Centurion 7′s engine. Gun handling will probably be slightly better to compensate for increased bloom upon moving due to better mobility.

    • That was the name given to a single tank modified with a 47mm gun. Not a complete series of tanks.

      • but the PLA captured are all chi-ha kais, which has 47mm as standard. And isnt just one chi ha kai is locally modify, all PLA chi has are

  9. - apparently, the feature where top three players of losing team get extra credits will not be implemented

    I’d be more surprised if they did implement it…

  10. - when removing interface in battle (pressing V), FPS goes up a lot? “Most likely your card doesn’t do well with Scaleform – that’s a Flash-like engine, widely used for interface creation. Please note that we are not responsible for Scaleform-based mod optimization.”
    Oh look, a fucking 780 ti doesn’t do well with your trash software, it’s obviously the GPU fault!

  11. “apparently, the feature where top three players of losing team get extra credits will not be implemented”
    too bad, i’d get money on most losses then..

  12. - Storm states that the situation where on GTX550Ti enabling shadows causes you to lose 20 FPS is normal
    ______________
    Any fps loss in WoT is normal, any fps increase is miracle :D

  13. The top three on the losing side was the only reason I was going to keep playing on the fail retarded asian server, it’s just full of retards.

  14. - Storm himself is bothered by the modellers always saying “sorry, we don’t have any new HD models for this patch”, but he can’t do anything about it.

    How about not paying them any money or hiring ones that can deliver?