- there is no set rule that certain damage in game has to correspond to certain caliber (SS: for example 150mm guns don’t have to deal 750 or 850 damage, the number can be completely different)
- DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it”
- British arty depression us a “balance parameter”
- the priority for HD tank models lies in mass-produced and “legendary” tanks
- for now, there will be no separate HD and regular clients, this might change later when the patches get big
- GPU multicore support will come at some point
And stuff regarding SerB’s post about RU audience. The discussion under the post is actually pretty cool and interesting, I wish I could translate it, but it would take too much time.
- on RU server, only like 15 percent of players are younger than 18 according to SerB
- average RU WoT player age is 32, Storms confirms by saying that this was found out via a paid survey and that real results will differ from this result only by like individual percents
- SerB points out that all the player proposals to “increase skill of the playerbase” usually boil down to “don’t let the idiots into my team”
- return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits
- on the contrary, there was no significant profit loss from EU server based on the affair
- “less than 10 thousand” free IS-6′s were given out during the Christmas event
- average RU WoT player age is 32, Storms confirms by saying that this was found out via a paid survey and that real results will differ from this result only by like individual percents
Interesting.
- return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits
- on the contrary, there was no significant profit loss from EU server based on the affair
- “less than 10 thousand” free IS-6′s were given out during the Christmas event
Expected.
I worry about the stalin inscription’s.
Makes me worry that there are more Stalinist’s out there than I thought…. The thought is rather scary.
I’m not worried. It’s basically a mixture of controversy and “yes he was a bloody dictator, but he’s OUR bloody dictator who did defeat the Nazis, so hands off!”.
Stalinists are coming to get you! They’re coming to get you, Barbara! They’re coming for you!
One thing doesn not have to follow the other.
If I drive a german tank I want a swastika on the side, but I;m not a Nazi.
If I drive a Russian tank I want a Stalin inscription on the side. But that doesn’t mean I’m pro Stalin.
I’m pretty sure that for most people it’s just a ‘tool’ to get more immersed into the game. Thats all. A game.
But Swastika is banned by international laws and Stalin is not.
Because international law is dictated by the winners.
+1
И +1 од мене!
International? Try to say it in India :)
countries like poland could ban the stalinism apology, since they suffered it.
that could force wg to remove these inscriptions in europe.
Having stalin inscription on your pixel tanks is like having a swastika flag as a reenactor.
It does not matter…and anyone who is anal about it is probably not worth speaking to.
Don’t worry. EU is save. Barroso is maoist.
Good to see you are still around Daigensui :) :)
“- DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it””
The only reason it doesn’t stand out being that there’s the Char B1 at that tier as well, and both suck.
“- return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits”
Largely because of players putting the inscription “Iosef Stalin” on their IS-series tanks (myself included, having that inscription on my IS-6).
“- on the contrary, there was no significant profit loss from EU server based on the affair”
The kurwas complained the most about it (or at least were the most vocal about it), so everyone else got the inscriptions just to troll them. XD
“- DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it””
The only reason it doesn’t stand out being that there’s the Char B1 at that tier as well, and both suck.
Correction it sucks more than char B1. Char B1 has armor DW2 doesnt even have that.
I never said they suck the same amount.
Indeed, the DW2 IS worse, largely because whereas the Char B1′s armor has many weakspots in it, most tanks don’t have guns accurate enough to target those anywhere beyond point-blank range at tier 4 and below, or are driven by noobs. The DW2 doesn’t have the armor of the Char B1, but gets a 75 mm howitzer as an option for the gun…which is pointless, because whereas the Panzer III has better frontal armor and the mobility to get in to knife-fighting range to make sure the shots count while minimizing chances of retaliation, the DW2 doesn’t have that option, and even angled, the DW2 stands almost no chance of bouncing a shot unless it’s from a tier 3 light tank or something.
The problem is that WG is just fine with tier 4 heavy tanks being worse all around than medium tanks of the same tier, even though from tiers 5 on up, heavies tend to completely destroy any medium tank that tries to take them on alone (unless the guy in the heavy is a complete moron and/or the medium driver knows what the hell he’s doing).
I actually found side scraping and hulldown with DW2 to be damn effective in tier 4 matches.
I managed to bring down a matilda in a 1 vs 1 fight this way(I know, he was a noob but still… I had a 50% crew;)
Well you’re pretty damned lucky to keep running into these ‘noobs’. Even the worst noobs on the NA server have a knee-jerk reaction to switch to gold after they’ve bounced one or two shots with normal ammo.
Then again, smaller server population means less noobs, which means a greater probability of encountering somebody who knows what he’s doing.
“- return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits”
Lol! Who would have expected that…
“return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits”
Lets not get too sentimental about the deaths of millions when there is money to be made. Sickening.
A week after the patch with it came, everybody forgot about it. Same as with the SuperPershing nerf… its how the community works,
I dont mind even nazi inscirptions or symbols. Its a game, not a career path. I dont think having a few pixels on a virutal tank makes anyone more (or less) fashist or communist. But to think WG (or really any company) will turn down profits for ethical behavior is rather naive. The right action would be to either allow both or ban both.
They can’t allow both. German goverment itself has banned nazi symbols, but not stalin. Germany has many, rich players. Therefor WG has to oblige
Agreed. Nazis stole their symbols from norse mythology
Hindu and Tibetan maybe, that’s where swastika comes from.
How can you play a game where it’s all about the machines of death that caused so much death a decay in WW2?
Inscriptions are bad but the tanks themselves are fine?
Your logic just doesn’t make sense to me…
I will enjoy when all the Tanks, in World of Tanks get HD models but I’ll say that will probably take awhile since there’s like 320 Tanks right now in the game. So 15 Models each patch will get HDified. So that’s like 21 patches plus…
I’m already imagining the amount of incoming question on their Q&A regarding the HDifing of the models.
Countless questions like:”When my X tank will get it’s HD model?!
Yeah, and SerB trolling them and possibly banning them for being an idiot. lol
- “less than 10 thousand” free IS-6′s
were given out during the Christmas
event
In RU or overall?
If overall – damn small number.
In RU, and that is still a small number considering how many people are in RU.
RU
That is an pretty low number, is that like 1% or lower? In the RU Server.
Considering the initial screenshots of the RU server had significantly higher Tier 6 play, I’m surprised by the low number. They had over 900K on at a time. One would think more than one percent of that population would have finished the mission. It wasn’t that difficult.
not that difficult? no it just took a hell of a lot time
also, you have to have quite an advanced account. i have 7k battles but im far away of having a t6 of every nation (because nobody sets it as a goal)
i expected a low number like that, otherwise they wouldnt do such an event ofc
Plenty of ppl did that mission for gold. They are not accounted in those 10k.
- DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it”
Who the hell thinks that shit is OP it should get some armor buff in order to be useful.
true :D
that tank is prety easy to kill …
i cant understand why the fuck they dig out tanks that are
1st low tier and can be passed by
2nd DW2 sucks hard…..
3rd they are maaaany other tanks to whine about rather then these little things sitting at low tiers(T18′s and stuf…..)
o well as jingles says
O you World of Tanks community you so silly……
I’d be fine with the armor as it is if the guns weren’t so shitty.
Seriously, just give it the 75 mm L/43 and it’ll be good enough. I can put up with less-than-effective armor if the gun’s good enough to compensate for it.
“average RU WoT player age is 32″ and still not a d*mn person knows english.
How many people on NA know russian?
Is russian a world language? Or by any means extremely important to know/speak for a normal person (personal interest / business relation excluded)
Actually, yes, Russian is considered by quite many as a world language (the opinions vary, but it is at least considered quite important)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_language#Living_world_languages
That doesnt mean that the average person will bother to learn it.
Better question:
How many people outside of Russia and former Soviet satellite countries speak Russian?
I’ll follow that up with another question:
How many people speak English outside of the US, UK and former British colonies?
(And before you say that by that logic we should all speak Mandarin Chinese, the number of people who speak it are inflated solely because China has such a massive population – a very tiny fraction of the people who know it live outside of China, whereas English has been standardized as a second language in many countries, particularly those involved in NATO and SEATO)
Russians know russian, thats all they need (at least i have that feeling from them)
And why would they learn it? Percentage of those who need it for “business relations” is quite low. Besides, they have more trade with Germany than with all English-speaking countries combined. Hell, they trade with Poland more than with USA. And all the technical documentation on imported devices on the market must be translated, this is law. It’s easy to live a life in Russia without ever touching “extremely important” “world language”.
- GPU multicore support will come at
some point
This dont make sense. Dont GPU have many many cores (or it was procesors)?
I think he meant CPU. But…. i’m not sure.
If it had been CPU has a sense, but GPU is completely NO SENSE!
did he mean Multi-GPU support? (SLI and stuff)
They already support SLI
Bullshit! I get exactly same fps with two as with one GPU.
Same goes to my friend that has two GTX680s.
A GPU have a lot lot more core than a CPU.
But yeah, that make no sense ( or is it ? )
All unified shaders are used at the same time on a GPU, there is no such ‘GPU multicore’ thing. I think he meant multiple GPU support.
Maybe this: http://www.asus.com/News/NJaRsPgawpEBvr2r ?
Dual GPU cards work in the same way as single GPU variants except for the interconnect that bridges the two GPUs. There is no optimization/specialcoding needed on the game side to take advantage of those cards. It’s really multi-GPU support that they’re talking about.
- GPU multicore support will come at some point
Yeah Serb’s grand grandchildren will implement it.
- on RU server, only like 15 percent of players are younger than 18 according to SerB
Yeah sure.
- average RU WoT player age is 32, Storms confirms by saying that this was found out via a paid survey and that real results will differ from this result only by like individual percents
Yeah sure.
- the priority for HD tank models lies in mass-produced and “legendary” tanks
And the is4 for some reason.
Prepare on lot of russian “legendary” tanks. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ijk3nepXmM
My bet would be IS-7 or KV-5 those are pretty legendary.
safe money is on the IS-4
Well to be fair, when the West first found out about the IS-3 and IS-4, we thought they were “supertanks” of some sort, which led to some Western nations (or at least the US) to suddenly start accelerating development of our own tanks to match it. A similar phenomenon occurred about 20 years later when the T-64 first appeared.
SS, could you tell us little bit about discussion under Serbs post ? Just something interesting
Russia still loves USSR. So why they didn’t fucking defend Gorbachev and his reformist plans?!
Because Gorbachev didn’t resist even a bit. How can you defend leader who runs away to sea resort and cuts off the phone when his country falls apart?
Yeah. And they totally didn’t defend Supreme Soviet (that one actually offered resistance) in 1993. Those tanks and machineguns firing on Moscow streets were imaginary. Their victims too.
Nobody likes Gorbachev. He sold his country out. And where does he live now? That’s right, murica.
Ehm..
“- GPU multicore support will come at some point”
I think that this must be a mistranslation of some sort..
A GeForce 680 has 1536 cores and I dont think that it would work that well without multicore support…
Buff that DouchbagWagen 2 already, good thing that i don’t have to grinds that tanks when i grinding E50M line.
And i think he said about multi-gpu support since a single GPU already have many core.
- “Return of the Stalin”
Oh sh…
- average RU WoT player age is 32, Storms confirms by saying that this was found out via a paid survey and that real results will differ from this result only by like individual percents.
HMMMM, well in a world where the only question to watch a adult web page if you age is 18 + , ejem ejem.
What did they do? Identification number card and check this one with the police hmmm I don’t believe :) :)
Sorry but I don’t believe on on-line surveys to easy to tell I born in the Death Star :) :) and my name is Luke Sky Walker.
- the priority for HD tank models lies in mass-produced and “legendary” tanks
Lmao! Soviet stronk tenks all legendary!
Legendary? Maus, KT, Panther, T-34-85, Pz.IV etc.
Seriously – most legendary are german tonks :D
I think in the Soviet case its the most mass destroyed tanks ;)
”- DW2 OP or UP? “If the tank stats stand out, I will fix it””
That thing sucks balls hardly.
Even SAu-40 and AMX 40 ”le duck” are blast to play when compared to it.
No armor, no gun, no mobility. Should it get buff?
Simply, worst tank in the game. The WORST.
“return of the “Stalin” inscriptions in the game had very positive impact on company profits”
wut, how