28.12.2013

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- Q: “How the hell are the guns of tier 8 and 9 German Waffenträgers balanced” (SS: as in, physically – so the vehicle doesn’t tip over when firing) A: “You’d have to ask engineer Hans”
- Q: “So, if the guns aren’t balanced, how the hell do you aim that thing when the hull is even a bit tilted?” A: “You’d have to ask gunner Fritz”
- historically, Chi-Ri had four types of suspensions planned: two models of Hara suspension, the Bugatti suspension and something called “blocked torsion bar” suspension. Two of those will be implemented on various hulls and we’ll think about the other two too
- various O-I models will be used as much as possible in the Japanese heavy line
- apparently, Italians will be the a separate (possibly next) nation to be implemented, they will apparently (not confirmed!) have a separate tank tree, but not very soon (SS: if that happens, I’ll get really pissed – Italians have less vehicles available than Czechoslovaks and most of the hightiers are just American copies (M47 with 105mm) or various fantasy crap, there is nothing Italian above tier 7)

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  2. – apparently, Italians will be the next nation to be implemented, they will apparently (not confirmed!) have a separate tank tree, but not very soon (SS: if that happens, I’ll get really pissed – Italians have less vehicles available than Czechoslovaks and most of the hightiers are just American copies (M47 with 105mm) or various fantasy crap, there is nothing Italian above tier 7)

    “how terrible”?. Maybe Italians will get their own tree for historical publicity reasons? I mean people are more likely to go after the Italian tank than a Czech tank for the same reason someone will go after a German tank more than a Chinese tank (before looking at playstyle, i have the Tiger and King Tiger for iconic reasons)

    • Italian tanks and iconic are not words I ever imagined together….
      I dont even know any italian tanks… meanwhile the Pz35 and 38 are very iconic and effective vehicles of WW2, and there is also the Jagdpanzer 38t

          • The carro armato P26/40 is fairly famous
            Italian tech tree would be annoying. Especially considering that Czechoslovakia had way more tank designs and tanks.
            After tier 7 which will probably be the carro armato P26/43 bis what else can they put in? I can also imagine a SPG line but i doubt it could go that far either.

  3. No need to be pissed SS, if the italians get a separate tree, then the czech will do so aswell. You can pull a Daigensui and feed them materials for a czech tree, providing they like you. (they probably dont)

  4. SS, I have a question for you. Long time ago, you linked some article (or forum post, I don’t remember anymore) about spanish tech tree and spanish tanks, and if I remember correctly it even had some interesting vehicles and did it even have top tiers in it… I’m sorry that I don’t remember better, but I would want to check that link again.

  5. Hoho, SS is butthurt over Italians :D
    You have Czech made tanks in game, you should be happy.

  7. Lets hope this is a way to faster push new tanks out in separate trees, as a Swede I of course wouldn´t wanna wait longer time because some European nations branch isn’t complete while my nations tree is complete since long time ago.

    But being a Swede longing for the famous Strv 103, I guess it is the Italians and Czech players that don’t need to wait for new suspension-programming that is needed for the iconic Strv 103 and what would a Swedish tree be without it…

  8. We had to put out that the creators of the tank, the british, had their tree after the chinese, which do not have a single original tank. The order that the tank trees appear is just as unfair as it comes, I’ve learned to accept it.

  9. i don’t understand you people.

    I don’t understand why people wants so badly to have their tanks implemented.
    I just enjoy having different kind of tanks that probably require different playstyles.

    Being italian myself, i am not happy nor pissed about italian tanks being implemented. If they are worth being implemented, they will. If they are not, life goes on.

      • While WG EU staff might be stupid, so far implemented trees worked out just fine.

        I am confident that if WG actually decide to implement it, it means they think there is something worth being implemented.

        I also found you making jokes about italian military stupid, but we all have freedom of speech i guess.

  10. Italian tank? Yes! Not in the EU tree? WTF.
    Italian tank was somewhat funny and nice, but as SS said hight tier aren’t really Italian. And… well,
    >Italian military

  12. The tier 8/9 WT’s are “balanced” due to rear mounted guns. The weight of the gun is distributed nicely enough throughout the entire length of the tank that it won’t tip over. HOWEVER, it is quite the physics problem when the WT’s turn their turret 180 degrees around, so that the gun is facing backwards. That shouldn’t be possible.

    • Lots of things shouldn’t be possible in WoT, but who cares. It’s a game after all and everything imo should be done for the sake of balance and not realism or historical accuracy. Good gameplay>anything else

    • I assume you’ve done the related calculations and are willing to present them here since you’ve called it “quite the physics problem”?

  14. I would prefer to see Swedish and Czech tanks before an Italian tech tree but well the most famous of czech tanks are already in the German tank line and by some crazy logic WG probably thought that doing an Italian tank line would be more popular. God knows. I would be really pissed if they don’t expand on the British and French tank tree though.
    This has gotten me thinking. I am interested in what the Italian tank tree may present and I will consider making a fantasy tank tree of it. Insofar I can imagine a light, SPG and medium to heavy tank line and possibly a TD tank line. Would be rather interesting to see what will happen.

  15. Am i the only one here who doesn’t care what branch will be next one and just wants the game to improve in other aspects as much as possible before implementing new tanks?!

    • Except neither the art team nor the archives guys can be handed bug crunching or engine development, so you’re stuck enjoying their work as well.

  16. WG needs to add french HTs and MTs before they add even more shitty nations nobody gives a damn about.

    Yes I’m looking at you China, you ruined my dream!

  17. I thought we won’t have a new nation until 2015, so hold your horses everyone, you’ll get your tanks, but not before 4 more copies of T-62A and 3 more soviet and german branches :P

    • I sincerely doubt that.
      I wouldn’t be surprised if they did after making 2-3 more tank lines.

  19. Err, seriously Silent, what do you have against the Italian tree? I know you’d like to see a Czech tree first (and I’d like to see that too one day as lots of interesting stuff is there) but I don’t think it’s a good reason to moan against other nations.

    There are 100% Italian designs going up to tier VII, one hole in tier VIII that could be filled by an italianized Panther and Italians had local design modifications for Pattons (and M60!) plus who knows what might pop up from the Europanzer competition archives in France and Germany…

    They might be lacking in high tier heavy designs but they have lots of interesting low tiers with pretty nasty guns.

    • Nothing, I was just pissed at that moment, but I cooled off a bit already. I just have a problem with the fact there are other nations who have larger playerbase and more tanks, but they don’t apparently get an independent tree.

      • That’s quite understandable, hopefully those nations will end up with an independent tree in time if the respective communities will work hard enough to prove WG that it’s possible.

        As for the Italian player base, I might help expanding if I get the right WG contact.

    • They modified the M60s too? I thought they only produced them under license. And considering just how extensive the M47s were modified, I’d call them more Italian than almost anything in the Chinese tree is Chinese.

  20. lol italian country is more big than cech..more player..more money..more..tank…and we have our tank in the ww2

  23. - Q: “So, if the guns aren’t balanced, how the hell do you aim that thing when the hull is even a bit tilted?” A: “You’d have to ask gunner Fritz”

    Actually, considering the French reports on the Panther, it’s likely that doing so actually wouldn’t have been possible.