Falathi Q&A More Info and Errata

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Many thanks to Evanescence and BloodDodi for adding a few more tidbits of info from the interview with Falathi. Basically, here’s a refitted version of the Falathi Q&A. This should already be the final model.

- Currently, there is no plans to change any premium tanks
- The process of migrating the game to another engine (having in mind upcoming competition such as AW) is very unlikely because there is no certainty that it will be successful. BigWorld engine will be optimized constantly.
- It is debatable that a mod is a cheat if you can’t use the amount of information the mod gives you (e.g. if you don’t look at the minimap, you won’t use extended information on it)
- No plans to nerf IS-3, it’s a decent tank but it’s not OP.
- Enemy team HP bars and infinite zoom are considered cheats, especially in a situation when you zoom out and look over corner to see if the tank is looking at you.
- Global map is going to be expanded only if there are more clans participating
- WG cannot do anything in a situation when Clan Leader steals all gold from clan’s treasury, it is a matter of clan members who do they trust as a CL and they “can’t involve themselves”


- damage control about Panther 88 – basically when asked about morality of the marketing move with Panther 88, he refuted (derailed) it saying they could have done nothing about refunding it so players should be happy there is a refund … pretty much sounded like an answer taken straight from “SerB’s Guide to Answering Inconvenient Questions”
- ”WoT became less p2w than it was in the past”
- historical battles will return but changed form, no info about new scenarios, possibility of individual missions for historical battles
- Char 2C is in the same situation Firefly was … so stuck in the hold until someone decides what to do with it
- the most probable new tech tree to appear in the game is European tree (he was quite sure about it)
- the most probable new branch is for the French tree (he wasn’t so sure about it) (SS: but I am)
- big maybe on weather effects and different times of the day (even though it was in their Havok presentation)
- damage control about AW (he actually compared WoT to WoW and AW to “WoW killers”)
- WoWs MAYBE “next year” (SS: 2015)
- no news about alternative hulls or any changes to E50
- there is a chance for a Polish gift tank (no details)
- no chances for possibility to buy a premium tank for 24h to test it, you can test it on test servers, but if tank is not there … tough shit kid. More damage control about Panther 88 – “we wanted to surprise players that’s why it wasn’t on the test server”
- when asked about nerf of TDs he said about planned view range nerf … but he said that nerf is planned only for TDs and some Heavy Tanks. Also for 100% it wont happen in next patch.
- no info about any mission to get Type59. But he said it’s rather not probable
-again about arty nerf not being planned at the moment – they have been nerfed enough, less players play them now, nerfing them would cause TDs plague
-there is a possibility we will see T35 and SMK tanks in WoT (I have no idea where did that “in 2 years perspective” translation came from other than it might have been bad literal translation, if you aren’t talking about for example “pair of shoes” or other items that go in 2s by default, “pair” in Polish means few, so it may be 2 or 5 or 7)
-final individual missions will be similar to the ones on test server but with some changes, the general idea will be the same
-Fatton buff in future is very probable
-there are planned bigger maps as well as more specialized maps (only for low tiers, Team Battles etc.)
-it means both that maps currently in game like Ensk could be increased in size and new maps bigger than 1000×1000(m) will appear, but it will come along with Havok and “other” changes
-long part about some shady mods, which was mostly a personal opinion, but in parts about WG stance he says – WG is observing what is going on in game and their politics stays the same – if they don’t say something is not allowed, then it’s ok to use, but if they decide in future to change it, they will
-dude agrees that all the racism and extreme insults (concentration camps, cancer, death wishes) in chat should be treated more seriously and penalties should be much more severe but it’s not up to him
-question about why WG is so passive about people that steal clan’s gold, leave the clan and go completely unpunished when reported to WG – he answers that he agrees that shouldn’t be like that but WG decided they don’t have a reliable way to confirm the accusations in those cases
-no plans to buff or nerf premium tanks atm
-with Havok it will be possible to shoot through buildings
-it’s hard to say if it will be possible to shoot through buildings with high-caliber arty AP shells
-he confirms PvE Ensk mode
-increasing players number per clan probably wont happen
-that what’s-its-name-arty-cheat-view mod is legal
-report system works and there were a lot of people banned for botting on EU
-multiple turrets will come but it doesn’t have a high priority – soon TM
-no planned buffs for Japanese tanks tiers 1-7
-no planned credits earning buff for premium tanks
-”Why there’s no list of banned mods on EU?” – “Because it was decided that way”
-no need for new EU servers
-no info about any new types of ammo in the game
-8-bit mode will last more than a week
-no light tanks of tiers 9 and 10
-Japanese and Chinese TD question – he actually says there is a chance to see Japanese TDs “next year” and that Chinese TD line is problematic cause they started working on them when those kind of tanks became obsolete, so they would be mostly clones of Soviet tanks to fill the branch(I don’t know how is that different from current Chinese lines in the game but OK)
-if there are more Clan players then there will be more detailed or multiple (parallel) Campaign maps
-there is still no final decision about what will happen with FV4202 – as in giving it to players that already have it, getting it as a reward for a mission, simply replacing it with new tier 10 tank but not giving premium FV4202 to players for free or something else
-multicore support will come with Havok

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      • So I guess “if you can do it better, feel free to do it yourself” is an acceptable explanation next time WG EU publishes a similar clusterfuck of a translation? ;) “Publishes” being the operative word here.

        • he means the fatton, just like people call the tier-7-german-light-with-a-fuck-a-long-name the awfulpanzer.
          The Fatton is the tier 10 patton, and it’s built to reflect its nation :D (no offense)

          • Can’t wait for it to be buffed. I got tier 9 patton right after they buffed it, and I’m not sure why they didn’t do both at once.

            Until they do, im not buying fatton.

            • Tier 10 is better than the 9 since you get APCR as your standard round and the gun is slightly more accurate. A slight RoF buff would be nice but otherwise it’s a great tank.

    • You are acting like it’s his bloody job, as if it would be the very only thing he does. Try running a site like FTR first before talking such a bullcr*p.

    • He did give a disclaimer first. Getting info ASAP, with an acknowledgement that it may be incorrect but will be corrected later, is a reasonable thing to do in a blog like this. It isn’t the New York Times after all

    • It’s not really SS’ fault, he didn’t translate it. I wasn’t gonna do translation of it, I didn’t even watch all 3 vids at first, but after seeing post with “corrected” version that had even more mistakes and straight up made up stuff I decided to watch (listen to) the whole thing, noted the important questions (right after they were answered to not make any mistakes) and translated them.

    • As well as “screw NA” . I’m pretty sure people from South America play the NA server as well and we need like NA Central(for Central America) and NA South(for South America

      • Yeah because NA totally needs more servers for the like 40-50k players on at prime time, yeah we totes need more servers with like 15k players at peek. That will solve the NA ghost town problem real fast.

        Good idea *slow clap*

        • Did you even looked at the map to see the distance of South America from North Muricah? The normal ping is between 150 to 210, its far more accurate to use auto-aim than manual.

          • It’s to the point where if I see a BR clan tag I assume they can’t hit me on the move. I feel bad for you guys, hope you get your server.

    • To be fair number of players in EU cluster is relatively stable for quite some time now. It’s very rare to see more than 200K combined unless there’s something new (tanks, fun mode etc) and everyone rushes to test it. I don’t remember last time there was 3K+ players in queue either. If this number is dispersed to three servers it will most likely only increase queue times and chances for batsh*t-crazy-asymmetric team setups.

    • one server for ~100k players online.
      EU does not keep stable over 200k, when will be – we will get 3rd server :P

      And RU has those >800k online.

      • as far as i remember and understood the stream, Falathi spoken about the M46 Patton buff not the M48, Hallack (streamer) got it wrong (Falathi got kinda terrible microphone) and stated the Patton 48 can be buffed. Falathi compared Patton to the “for example E50″ without the M on the end.
        Note also that Falathi did not said that it is the M48 Patton, he spoke generally about the Patton and it was only a guess from the Hallack.

        If u compare the Patton 48 to the other mediums like FV4202 or 121 he is really not that bad and thats another pro for M46 :P

    • Not a mistake. Like many pointed out before, it’s a nickname for M48 Patton. I’ve seen it used in main chat and few times by YT streamers so I expected it to be known commonly. Unlike some jokers in comments I don’t use is as an insulting stereotype to Americans but as a joke about tank size and it’s mobility in WoT.

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  5. - the most probable new tech tree to appear in the game is European tree (he was quite sure about it)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03C4tnCFEMQ

    -it’s hard to say if it will be possible to shoot through buildings with high-caliber arty AP shells

    I hope not, its BS, artys are already heavily RNG dependent, and it would cause even more rage when an RNG shot through a (otherwise indestructible) building oneshots a tier 8+ HT

    Personally, i would make buildings destructible with HE shells, but inpenetrable with AP

    • Arty AP is unreliable. You have to hit directly, and hen hope it doesn’t hit a weird angle and bounce.

      Personally I’ve only ever used it when shotgunning.

  6. Who the hell asked for a IS-3 nerf?, I love the IS-3 but is nowhere near broken as, say, autoloaders?, Tier 10 mediums?.

    Not-so-reliable turret with it’s roof that can be overmatched quite easily, the frontal hull armor sucks, the side armor is trollish but that’s it, the BL-9 is glorious yes. The ammorack is bigger than the tank itself.

    • how are autloaders op? some are , the waffle truck mainly but the rest aren’t too bad at all , the 57 heavy was bad but now i think it is fine.

      • They’re not OP, just sometimes frustrating to play against. When a full health 13 90 gets himself killed yoloing you, it was his mistake but you’re still dead.

  7. > WG decided they don’t have a reliable way to confirm the accusations in those cases

    Yeah, it’s so hard for them to look and see who withdrew all the clan’s gold and kept it for himself!

    • Most likely they can do that but if commander founded the clan and decided he is leaving the clan with gold can they blame for him?

      Also if new commander is put in charge have you seen any written paper about rights & conditions for commander? No? Then it is word against word and WG cannot do much about it

  10. Can’t wait for the FV4202 to be confirmed. Grinded along the Cent 7/1 to get it. Great first tier X in my opinion. Hope the mission for it (if there is one) is easy.

  11. “More damage control about Panther 88 – “we wanted to surprise players that’s why it wasn’t on the test server””
    All those lies…

    • So he is saying they wanted to surprise players by overpricing it drastically? Well played wg..well played.

      And why the hell would they want to surprise players anyway. Wg pr dept is a bunch of retards.

  12. Nerfing arty would not see a rise in TDs.. they don’t kill tds the most cause tds are camping the back of the map and un spotted. They kill med and heavy tanks who are fighting with other ht and meds and therefore spotted. More bs..

    • There wouldn’t be a rise in TDs,because players who switched from nerfed arty would first need to learn how to play this game and that would take a long time if ever.
      However, there would be a rise in special needs classes!

      • The problem is actually when arty gets nerfed, their players will instead start playing TDs because they can’t play real tanks… And they will choose the ones with most armor and biggest guns to compensate for lack of skills

  13. “you zoom out and look over corner to see if the tank is looking at you”
    lol without mod i can do it, so playing a game is cheat…

    • I see few youtubers using mode, that shows on minimap where enemy is looking (they use official WG forum to promote)… Still no ban for them…
      But yeah, spending time to zoomout to gues where is enemy looking is more cheat then instant info from minimap ;)

      • Since official responses from WG Employees on the MOD thread in the NA server say it’s legal, I’ll keep using it :)

  14. “Viewrange nerf only for TDs and heavies”
    So I guess it’s fine that some artillery have better view range than high tier lights.

  16. Maybe nerf once Imba-Batchat25t? 4 Shells would be enough with its speed, low profile and camofactor…

    • But buff reload time and loading between the shells time. I think that Batman is ok as it is, fun tank on high tiers. Mobility is more than compensated by low HP and insane reloading time (both rel and shells) compared to other autoloaders.

  17. - when asked about nerf of TDs he said about planned view range nerf … but he said that nerf is planned only for TDs and some Heavy Tanks. Also for 100% it wont happen in next patch.

    So another TD nerf as if they are not $h!t enough already. Might as well remove them from the game. What I say is they need some buff in the cammo especially the paper TDs that have no chance of survival if they are spotted which is all the time.

  18. -Fatton buff in future is very probable

    IDK what they were waiting for the past year and a half. Sure, Fatton is an OK tank, but there’s really nothing special about it that would make it stand out from other t10 meds except the viewrange (but most other meds already have 410-ish vr)

  19. -long part about some shady mods, which was mostly a personal opinion, but in parts about WG stance he says – WG is observing what is going on in game and their politics stays the same – if they don’t say something is not allowed, then it’s ok to use, but if they decide in future to change it, they will

    Don’t you mean policy instead of politics?

  20. Big World is incredibly obsolete, they really should consider eliminating the usage of the legacy fixed function instruction pipeline and redesigning the whole thing from scratch. Right not the engine isn’t even taking advantage of the programmability of modern GPUs or unified shaders (aka DX10+ programmable pipeline) since it only targets the DirectX 9 API which is itself deprecated. Big World is effectively not using the geometry and tesselation shaders (introduced in D3D10 and 11 respectively) and instead does most of the computation on the processor which causes all sorts of performance issues

    WG developers are laughable, they only ‘just’ upgraded the engine to support DX9 Shader Model 3 (FL 9_3) a couple of patches ago; this just shows their total incompetence and lack of understanding of how modern GPUs work. If Big World was reworked with DX11/OpenGL 4.4 shaders in mind the developers wouldn’t even need to bother about ‘optimizing’ the engine since the core API would already give them so many possibilities and the ability to simply do things (like multithreading) that is impossible to natively implement in an outdated D3D9 renderer.

    On top of that they claim that modern GPU hardware isn’t ‘good enough’, this really tells that they’ve got no clue. How can they possibly explain that modern games achieve such high levels of complexity at 60fps on modern hardware while their shitty game barely delivers 30-40fps maxed out? How do other developers manage to have real high-polygon HD textures while not compromising so much space? Those delusional lazy WG developers are still using multiple 2D textures for a single HD model while the competition is using a few 3D textures and this saves a tons of space, not to mention the fact that everyone out there is using newer texture compression models (BC6H and BC7).

  21. - Enemy team HP bars and infinite zoom are considered cheats, especially in a situation when you zoom out and look over corner to see if the tank is looking at you.

    Umm…what ? Enemy HP bars are by default in game and I saw somewhere on the forums that zoom-out mod is not considered a cheat

    Either I have no idea what he is talking about or he has no idea what he is talking about…

    • Is HP bars in the enemy tank list (the one on the right, always active), not the HP over the tank themselves (only visible if you can see the enemy tank)

      • If they don’t want you displaying per-tank health info in XVM…. then STOP sending the info in the API!

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  25. “- Currently, there is no plans to change any premium tanks”

    So what happened to the T-34-3 buff that was on the supertest posted back in September?

  26. - M48 Fatton needs a little buff, i suggest in RoF – give it back the stolen .8
    - FV4202 will be a totally different tank, so just because T34 was given for free (replacing by M103) it just not necessarily means it will happen again. I would be fine if i get a decent replacement for it..

    • people found about t34 and ground it out before the switch for a freebie. they don’t want that to happen again

  27. “- No plans to nerf IS-3, it’s a decent tank but it’s not OP”

    Certainly. That’s why everyone uses it in TB and T8C, because it isn’t better than the rest of T8s.