Fog of War Stream Q&A

Source: http://maiorboltach.livejournal.com/31767.html

Hello everyone,

yesterday in the evening, Russian Galaxy TV hosted a “Fog of War” show with Aleksei “Orc” Plotnikov (a WG developer, responsible for Clanwars) and Maiorboltach did make a summary again. Here’s what was said.

- develolopers are working on missions for Clanwars. There are two types: for beginner clans of the “get certain amount of XP during landings”, “get a province with income higher than X” or “hold province for X turns” and for strong clans, such as “capture province X in Y turns”. They will be rewarded either by gold or by “other stuff”
- developers are not planning for now to introduce assist damage for knocking out enemy player’s engine
- current 9.6 test round has a bug not allowing you to activate medkits or repair kits. It will be fixes (SS: it was hotfixed this morning)
- the clan portal is constantly being developed, for example recently they added the stronghold info


- the tanks, that are given to supertesters and developers for testing are removed from them after the testing is over (this rule is same for supertesters and devs), but the tanks stay in their statistics, simply for the collection of info purposes
- ISU-130 will be handed to “WoT activists”, it will be as unique as the supertester T-44-122 tank. A regular player cannot get this tank, apart from the cases where they “help” Wargaming in various things (like being a moderator) (SS: WG RU forums have a cadre of “helper” assistant players on forums, that answer newbie questions)
- new IM season will come “when it’s done”, initially it was said that it would take cca half a year
- for now, there are no plans to return SU-76I to the shop
- developers and supertesters will be able to test the tier 8 FV4202 as soon as 9.6 on live servers
- Chieftain switch: “when it’s done it’s done”
- currently, for Strongholds, developers are working on the air recon, smokescreen consumables, bunkers and minefields. The level of smokescreen will probably influence its area (size), its duration and possibly its density (how much it affects the viewrange). Minefield level will possibly influence density of mines, the area size as well as mine damage. Air recon will, depending on the level, probably have different duration, raidus of spotted area. Bunkers will have three variants: turrets of KV-2, E-100 and one more tank. All these features will come neither in 9.6 nor 9.7. And of course, everything can change, it’s being tested now.
- “sufficient” amount of stuff does not pass supertest based on supertester feedback
- “Ork” doesn’t like the Battle Assistant mod, he thinks it’s uncomfortable
- products with WoT brand are not released by Wargaming itself but by a producer after signing a contract with Wargaming.
- matchmaker 3.0 does NOT mean that balancing of teams by vehicle tiers will disappear, that was just some “rumor”. The only thing that we know is that the tanks will be balanced by their “role in combat”. This is however still “Work in Progress”.

27 thoughts on “Fog of War Stream Q&A

  1. E-100 turrets were made specifically so that players will blast them head on with HEAT, but without the trouble of tracking a moving E-100.

    Clever.

    • Them E100 turrets will be really nasty thou, i guarantee you that. Spamming 150mm HE will lead to some real fun detracks and wrecked modules.

      Thou what could be the 3rd turret ? Between KV2 and E100, what other derp gun tank is there ?

        • Other 15/15,2cm guns ?

          KV-2 (soviet)

          E-100 (german)

          T30 ? (American, other nation)

          Seems like the more logic option. But remember, “logic” is a forbidden word for WG.

          Or by following “becoming stronger” turret…

          KV-2 < E-100 < T30 ?
          Or KV-2 < E-100 < T110 ?

      • I suspect…they may have an alternate style, instead of the two derps. Maybe the more historical Pantherturm? Instead of Derps you have the L/70 shooting APCR, so 194 pen with 135 alpha. I’m not saying this would be great for strongholds…but it is an option.

  2. “- the clan portal is constantly being developed, for example recently they added the stronghold info”
    Wow, really~ Finally!

    “- ISU-130 will be handed to “WoT activists”, it will be as unique as the supertester T-44-122 tank. A regular player cannot get this tank, apart from the cases where they “help” Wargaming in various things (like being a moderator) (SS: WG RU forums have a cadre of “helper” assistant players on forums, that answer newbie questions)”
    Time to become more active? wwwww

    Also, kinda expected this article to be about actual fog of war tested on CT. Well, maybe some other time, misleading show name is misleading.

    • Only way I’d see Fog of War in random battles is with the comeback of confrontation mode. Or as a separate type of random battle…

      Add it before tier VIII and you’ll see newbs cry and battles go wtf

      • Well, I wasn’t talking about good or bad. It has pros, it has cons. I’d like to know WG’s reasons for testing it (yes, unlike many others I think they have reasons for doing about 90% of their stuff), or some early outcomes.

        • I kind of like the idea of FOW. Maybe implement it on a few maps, maybe 10 or 20% of games and see what shakes out. Couldn’t hurt… Would definitely be interesting.

  3. “- new IM season will come “when it’s done”, initially it was said that it would take cca half a year”

    Does this mean that the current “season” will get removed when the new one comes, or will the old one remain and the new one just be added?

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  5. - for now, there are no plans to return SU-76I to the shop

    Only 1000 people bought it but wg CAN’T rebalance it. Totally impossible.

    Players who want one are screwed. Again.