Hello everyone,
since the ASAP is out already, I think everyone figured by now that the 8.11 test server will start next Thursday – 23.1.2013
Yearly Archives: 2014
QA with Rita, me and Chieftain
Hello everyone,
here is the yesterday’s stream with Rita and me… and, unexpectedly, The_Chieftain (so by watching it, you might actually find out new info straight from Wargaming :) ) – I had really great fun, apart from the part where Chieftain called Hilary Doyle and I was trying to find exactly one article with him on the line and answering questions. That was a bit stressing. Huge thanks to both Rita and Chieftain for making this possible. It’s also somewhat shorter, “only” 3 hours :)
Enjoy :)
8.11 ASAP
Hello everyone,
the 8.11 ASAP video is out. What will it feature?
For those, who don’t feel like watching it all:
- new game mode in random battles: national battles (teams composed entirely of tanks of one nation) (what a waste of resources), it will appear in random battles
- Windstorm map (screenies were already leaked)
- Erlenberg, Highway, Redshire will get a rework (again, Erlenberg and Redshire changes were already somewhat leaked)
- no new regular tanks (only a bunch of ones for supertesting)
- tier 10 TD rebalance (alpha nerf from 850 to 750, DPM will mostly remain the same, a few will get a DPM nerf, 130mm and 170mm guns won’t be rebalanced, Foch is getting an engine nerf (1200 to 1000hp), Object 268 gold pen will be reduced)
- ingame battle chat: you will be able to switch it off or look through its history
- you will be able to store camo patterns and use them repeatedly
- you will be able to switch off the camera showing the tank that destroyed you
- tank on fire message will become more obvious
- one-click crew management
- 9.0 will come after 8.11
QA Stream
….starting in few minutes :)
WoWp Community Management employee tests
Source: http://war-tundra.livejournal.com/2049275.html
Hello everyone,
so, would you like to be a community manager for World of Warplanes? Then you should know how to recognize Gaijin saboteurs, how to sabotage Gaijin forums and how to pretend you’re a regular player :)
Check this out. This is the official set of questions (in Russian) that the future community management employees get asked (notice it is saved on worldofwarplanes server, so it’s legit). In case it gets deleted, here’s a backup.
Page 2, block 2:
“Расскажите, для чего КМ-у нужно работать на конкурентных ресурсах?”
Write down, why does the Community Manager need to work with the resources of our competition? (SS: lit. “tell us”)
“Как вы думаете, каких принципов следует придерживаться КМу в ходе работы на конкурентных ресурсах?”
What do you think, what principles should the Community Manager follow, when working with competition resources?
“По каким признакам можно выявить сотрудников КМ-ов конкурирующих проектов на ваших ресурсах?”
15.1.2014
It is the week of flames it seems – check out Listy’s two fire-themed articles: Crocodile in action and Burning down the house on EU portal
- Q: “Did you take into account that in historical battles of Tigers vs T-34, everyone will want to play the Tigers? I will play only Tigers, because playing T-34 would lower my player statistics (less kills and more deaths).” A (SerB): “Of course we did – such smart players will wait until the end of time :) And by that you won’t improve your statistics, eh? :)” (SS: what SerB probably means is that the “Tiger” queue will be very, very long)
- regarding the question above, when asked, whether this will not reduce the popularity of historical battles: “Some battles, yes. We do not care.”
Airborne tanks in World of Tanks?
Hello everyone,
one reader recently wrote me an interesting e-mail, asking whether I think amphibious and airborne tanks would work in World of Tanks. Well, at first, I was like “obviously”, since we actually have two airborne models in the game already (the Locust and the Tetrarch). As regular tanks of course – and that’s how the amphibians would have to work too. But… could they work with some sort of airborne/amphibious advantage? Well, let’s have a look.
A bit of history
The concept of an airborne assault vehicle, although explored even before the war, emerged fully during the early- and mid-war years. The goal was of course to produce an armored vehicle, that would be transported by a plane, glider or other flying means (we’ll get to that) in order to reach the combat zone along with glider troops or paratroopers and to provide fire support to otherwise lightly armed paratroop infantry. It was viewed as one means of increasing the paratrooper firepower (others were light AT-guns, light manpack howitzers and oversized AT rifles) and pretty much every major WW2 nation had a research dedicated to creating this kind of armored vehicle.
Contributors, be recognized!
Hello everyone,
so, the other day I was checking out Rita’s stream page and one noticed one thing: she has a list of all the contributors (who donated or otherwise contributed to her and the stream) under her stream, nice and visible. And I was like “Why don’t I have such a thing?” See? Good influence.
Last year, a lot of you guys helped me out and I am really grateful for that. In order to recognize you, contributors, I decided to have something like this too this year. And so, I created a page of contributors, because your continuous support is very important to me. You will find it on the menu below the logo too – and I will be doing a public update every week or two.
Thank you all
Silentstalker
Storm on Supertest icon leaks
Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2952050.html
Hello everyone,
about the leaks posted earlier, Storm reacted in Livejournal blog comments and I have some bad news for those, who liked them:
“They pulled out some sort of old garbage, that was made and was forgotten or was never implemented in branches for various reasons”
I guess we won’t see these vehicles anytime soon. Pity. And what else Storm says?
- the icon above belongs to the Agrimotor, Storm states it was a test vehicle, it’s already 4 years old
- E-10 will not be implemented with variable clearance
- the variable clearance mechanism was not tested on E-25 either
Silenstalker and Rita QA 2
Hello everyone,
just a quick heads up. Recently I was watching the QA stream with Rita stream that got saved on twitch and I noticed that a lot of interesting questions did not get answered (Rita has this neat app where the chat gets saved to the stream too). Therefore, I will appear on today’s Rita stream at 8 PM CET to answer more stuff. After that, we won’t be doing this for a while (if at all, depends on Rita, popularity and all the other factors), so if you feel like asking anything or just to listen me rant about tanks and WoT, drop by to say hi :)
There will be following changes to the stream however:
- it will definitely be shorter, 6 hours is meh
- we won’t be playing, we will only be talking, showing pictures if needed and such stuff (that way, more questions get answered and neither me nor Rita will be distracted)
- the sound will be better (no game sounds, higher volume for my mic than last time)
- I will also be reading the chat, but it will be Rita who picks the questions
I hope to see you there at 8 PM CET then :)