Hello everyone,
World of Tanks Facebook page (and it was reposted on the forums somewhere, CBA looking for it) revealed an unfinished map. Nothing more, nothing less, here’s what they are working on.
- doesn’t it look like some early Westfield prototype?
- am I the only one, to whom the two balls and the village resemble a…
You can leave feedback for Overlord under his blog post
- Storm definitely doesn’t want two variants of gun sounds (Hollywood/realistic)
- Storm will discuss the sounds feedback with WG colleagues on Monday
- regarding “action on maps” (NPC events such as bomber air raid, artillery fire, bridge breaking down, cliff collapse etc.) – “Action is good, but first we have to deal with general performance”
- Soviet premium medium tank? “When it’s done it’s done”
- E-25 nerf? “I can’t tell anything for now”
- AMX50B historically having better gun depression than in game (-14, in game -11)? “I will ask the balancing guys”
- Overlord does think it would be better to enable historical battles one by one (SS: and so do I)
Answers of Knopka (some Russian community manager or developer, she is rather infamous on RU forums, forgot why)
- Stronkholds and Havok need more testing, planned for future updates
- optimization is WG main goal
(stopped reading at this point, generic/boring stuff, will return to it later if there is no better info)
Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/293768.html
Hello everyone,
Storm is asking for your feedback on the 9.1 test, specifically:
- game performance and possible loss of FPS
- new map
- new gun sounds
- new turret and shell sounds, new sounds of Hellcat and Jackson
- and of course bugs
Here Storm states that the bug where the screen turns black in battle is known, it will be fixed.
Regarding the gun sounds, Storm writes that many are complaining about them and say that they are bad. Storm emphasizes that the gun sounds are in the test to gather playerbase feedback. The sounds are recorded in real life (some “sound photoshop” was used only for the shells of the largest calibers). The volume of the sounds as it is is on their limit – any louder and they will begin to distort. Storm states that according to player feedback, many don’t like it the way it is in the test and it’s possible it would be more correct to make unrealistic “Hollywood” sounds instead (SS: personally, I actually like the new sounds).
Hello everyone,
remember when I reported that in 9.0, Panzer 38t model is screwed up? To remind you – in 9.0, Panzer 38t model got fucked up thus:
You can clearly see the 0 armor holes in the collision model and to top it off, it has no bottom. Luckily, this was fixed in 9.0 (they screwed it up anyway I think, one part is 2mm thinner than it’s supposed to be but at least it’s not 0). By the way, you know what really made me giggle?
From the European patch notes:
- Fixed minor mistakes in the Valentine II and Pz. Kpfw 38 (t) models
Minor? A third of the fucking armor was missing! *sigh*
Thanks to Slakrrr/Vollketten for noticing, I sure as hell didn’t. Check this out. This appears for a split second at cca 0:46 in the KTTS 0.9.1 video.
Think that’s a Caernarvon? Look again. See the machinegun miniturret in the front? Nope, that’s not a Caernarvon, it’s the A45/FV201 universal tank.
Hello everyone,
credits for this go to player tambardo from EU server, who found it. There is apparently an easter egg on the Kharkov map. When you destroy one of the garages in the A3 sector, inside, you will find a strange vehicle.
This is the Chtz armored tractor (bronetraktor), built in Kharkov in some numbers as a stopgap measure in 1941, when the Soviets desperately tried to put guns on pretty much everything to stop the Germans. Its low quality model exists in the game for quite some time – for purposes unknown. It’s doubtful it will ever be introduced.
This vehicle appeared once already in March in the developer diary videos.
Hello everyone,
remember how I told you about the “soccer” event planned to run during the FIFA World Cup? Well, it looks like it’s all true. On one official picture at Wargaming site (original here), you can see the T-62A “Sport” amongst the tanks in the garage.
Thanks to Frosch1 for spotting it.
Hello everyone,
so, I installed the 9.1 test client after all (the test was expected today, but its confirmation came literally minutes before it went live, hence no early warning). Installation, as always, was uneventful and smooth.
Anyway, after running the test client, you will not notice anything really new, everything is kinda “same old”, but the important features of this patch are
- optimization
- new gun sounds
- new engine sounds for Hellcat and Jackson
- historical battles
So I decided to check the first three by loading up my Jackson and giving it a spin. Pressing battle aaaand… the map loads really fast. Surprising. Not sure what, but in like 9.0.4 hotfix, Wargaming did “something” that fixed the terrible loading times (that started in 9.0) for me.
Anyway, battle loaded aaaaaaaaand…. it’s perfect. No microlags. FPS is smooth, 40-50, I’d say 5-10 FPS increase (I had 40 in “free” areas and 30-35 in “crowded” ones, now it’s 40 in crowded and 60 or so in “free” areas). This is actually really really great :) Also, the bug with the explosion sounds not pre-loading (first explosion lags the game) that re-appeared after one of the hotfixes was fixed again, so that’s good. The game now runs smoothly. Not as smoothly as pre-9.0, but it’s good.
Graphically, one more thing is different, the exhaust smoke and explosions. Both now sort of look more pronounced – hard to describe, but the exhaust smoke looks more like in War Thunder, but in War Thunder, the smoke actually looks like if it’s vapour leaking from a hole in a boiler, here it looks more… I don’t know. Realistic. I like it. The explosions are MUCH more pronounced now – when your tank explodes, you will FEEL it. They are huge. Not sure if it’s realistic (tanks look like they have a crate of TNT inside them), but it sure looks nice.
Okay, gun sounds. The gun now sounds very realistic. That’s a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is the obvious realism. The bad thing is that from Hollywood movies etc., people expect even 76mm-90mm guns to go BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, while in real life, the gun sounds more like “pooof” – it’s an unusual sound and you will not feel like shooting a mighty gun (even the big caliber sound is quite muffled). The reload sound was added and it’s roughly the way Gnomefather has it. Personally, I think WG could go for more “Hollywood” sound, but it’s okay.
I mentioned that two vehicles (Hellcat and Jackson) do have a new soundset and let me tell you now, it’s BRILLIANT. I LOVE the Jackson engine sound, FINALLY something that sounds like a tank, nothing beats that deep roar of the engine, very, very nicely done. I really like it. Combine it with the good performance of the test client and I think this is going to be just great :) Enjoying it a lot. Please, Wargaming, don’t fuck it up.
Anyway, historical battles, another feature:
Balaton stays, Ardennes and Kursk got removed. Okay. Two new historical battles are Tobruk and Bryansk. I haven’t actually played them (noone seems to play them, I will post separate feedback on them tomorrow if I get to try them), but at first glance, both setups look totally fucked up.
Tobruk:
Bryansk:
I won’t pass any judgements in advance – I will try the battles first, but if you look at the Tobruk setup, the Germans have practically nothing to destroy the Matilda with (that StuG has L/24, the Panzer IV I am not sure about, but I think it has L/24 as well). The Russian scenario on the other hand has the KV-1 and against it, the Panzer IV with the L/43 gun. What could possibly go wrong…
As I said, we’ll see what happens, I’ll post my HB impressions later on.
Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/1/9_1_mark/
Hello everyone,
here is the EU post for the “Marks of Excellence” – basically, kill rings. Since I don’t see it in the EU post, I will add the conditions required for them from the Russian one.
Basically, it is explained on the Russian site that tank kills aren’t always an objective measure of players quality and that in order to judge the quality, other indicators have to be considered: average XP per battle and average damage per battle. XP is already counted within the mastery badges and so the devs have chosen to use the average damage.
Kill marks are recieved for doing more average damage per battle on that respective vehicle than other players:
- 1 mark: more than 65 percent of players
- 2 marks: more than 75 percent of players
- 3 marks: more than 95 percent of players
Light tanks can achieve them as well, as for the purposes of marks, damage done by other tanks from your scouting counts towards this damage as well. The battles count only from patch 9.1 onwards (won’t be awarded retroactively). The statistics are collected on daily basis. The battles taken into account are the last player session and not from ALL the battles since 9.1.
Marks are awarded only in random battles and only for tier 5 and higher vehicles. Furthermore, the players will be able to see their standings in the Achievement window. If your statistics drop, the kill marks will not be removed (just like a mastery badge). These marks can be disabled in settings.
