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Yearly Archives: 2014
GameStar (Hungary) interview with Anton Sitnikau (WoWp)
Hello everyone,
Recently, there was an interview in Hungarian GameStar magazine with Anton Sitnikau, a World of Warplanes producer. Hungarian player Antee was nice enough to translate it for you. Here it is!
GameStar: In the middle of November World of Warplanes has been released. You took a deep breath, I think, and prepared for the worst. What was the players feedback after the release?
Anton Sitnikau: We had very positive criticism, practically the number of active players has been doubled since November 2013. It is an unbelievable feeling, that so many people encourages us. They are those kind of people who are so fanatical to play simulators like us, they value our work, so this adds some energy in hard times. We received lots of feedback on how to improve the game. For us, every comment is very important, and yes, they really have influence in development. They criticize, for example the wayhow AA-guns work, they complain, there are few maps, also lots of player don’t like the current situation of Clan Wars. Lots of other developers could have took these as personal offense, but we know, these are essential informations. We are collecting ideas and complaints form players, and we try to ugrade the game the best we can. Like in World of Tanks there will be several patches, and every patch will bring some new game-element to the game, which will worth a try.
Wargaming calendar 2014
Source: http://www.dom1n.com/newsy/kalendarz-rok-2014/
….and don’t drool on your keyboard!
January/February
Reddit “Ask Me Anything” summary
Hello everyone,
as promised, here’s the summary from WG’s latest “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit with Ectar, Quasar and Obirian. As expected, there’s not much new, but some things are interesting. Regarding the questions I “hinted” at to post, someone (Ectar I think) posted that they can’t answer them for now.
- multicore is being worked on (no ETA)
- there are “plans” for the Micromaus (38H)
- more French tanks are “very unlikely” to appear in 2014
- no plans to return Type 59 to the store
- no ETA for roaming, it’s still being discussed
- tier 10 discounts will return to EU in February
- no plans for skill MM for random battles
- patch 9.0 will come “sooner than you would expect” (SS: probably the most interesting answer, looks like historical battles will come in 9.0 too by the way)
- there are no plans for big (very expensive) bundles like there are on US server
- T-44-85? “Give us a bit more time, please”
- no plans to introduce “trial” tanks (SS: as in, free period for “trying it out”)
- historical battles will come “very soon”
- just like on SEA server now, you will be able to vote on next tier 10 discount on EU
- night maps will not appear at least in next two updates
- no plans to introduce flamethrower tanks
- MAC version of WoT will not come in near future, Linux version might
8.11 Review
Turn on the English subtitles, guys (yes, there are English subtitles)
23.1.2014
- historical battles will actually resemble portal events: there will be 2-3-4 available at the same time and over time, they will change (SerB later states that the battles will return again), they will also have their unique medals
- Q: “Will there be a gift for the 1,1 mil accounts active at the same time milestone?” A: “You can give one to us, we don’t mind”
- the MM mechanism will work in national battles the same way it does in other random modes
- currently, the StuG III is too light compared to how much it weighed in real life (SS: Ausf.G that is), SerB states that if the later modification becomes an alternative hull, it will be made heavier
Czechoslovak tank design legend – Alexej Surin
Hello everyone,
I was thinking about writing this article for quite some time, but there was never enough information on this man, strangely enough. It’s odd, because Alexej Surin was Czechoslovakia’s best and most famous tank designer probably of all times, yet noone seems to know too much about him and the information was gathered mostly from I.Pejčoch’s and V.Francev’s books. I did not gather them myself either, they come mostly from one post on one certain forum in Czech.
It’s a damn shame really, because this is a person more people should know about. Since the post is about a Czechoslovak person, I will be using Czech versions of names.
Alexej Michajlovič Surin was actually not a native Czechoslovak – he was born in the Russian Empire (nowadays Ukraine) in a village called Polichkovka in the Kharkov district on 10.2.1897. His father was a farmer (not a poor one) and that allowed him to recieve higher education at Kiev Polytechnic Institute – military artillery school. He graduated there with the rank of 2ndLt in the army. He begun his career as a soldier and fought in the second half of WW1 as an officer in the Tsarist Russia army. After the bolshevik coup in 1918, he fought against them with White Russians and after their loss, he decided to leave Russia for good.
Test 8.11 delayed until tomorrow
Hello everyone,
8.11 test, scheduled for today, has been delayed until tomorrow for technical reasons (no exact ETA from me, but EiKarramba from German community noted he heard it’s going to appear around noon).
Bob Semple tank video
Thanks to FryaDuck for posting this video in comments
Hello everyone,
no list of worst tanks ever would be complete without the infamous Bob Semple tank. Built on New Zealand during the time of Japanese Pacific campaign (mostly as a propaganda vehicle, but also with the intention to actually fight), Bob Semple tank was named after a minister of New Zealand government, Robert “Bob” Semple, who commissioned it. Needless to say, the result was less than spectacular, as you can see yourselves…
New server-exclusive tanks coming up?
Source: World of Tanks RU forum post by Knopka
Hello everyone,
this is a small piece of info I came upon when reading one Russian blog (blogwotlirt) – by the way, to its owner: dude, if you’re reading this, why the hell do you put your blog as a “watermark” even on forum screenshots? I mean, for exclusive content (if you have any) I get that, but forums? Noone does that I think.
Anyway, Knopka (WG RU staff – I have no idea what she does, but she’s marked as a “developer”) states the following:
Basically, a Russian player was complaining that some features of Chínese server are China-exclusive. Knopka responds:
“Every server has its own features. For RU-server, there are plans to introduce tanks with unique looks and unique characteristics in the future.”
Hmm, I wonder if we get such a thing for EU server too, or NA…