Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/274359.html

Hello everyone,

Storm recently made a post about the 8.11 FOV, asking players, how do they like it on test 2. I took two screenies to compare (although on my resolution – 1440 * 990 – it is not that much noticeable, you can see the FOV got a bit limited).

Live server:

Test server:

As far as I can tell, the camera was moved a bit to the front and the field of view is narrower. From the discussion:

- new 8.11 FOV is 90 degrees
- the old 8.11 FOV was actually different for each resolution
- during this week it will be decided whether 9.0 will bring TD camo nerf (SS: or rather, loss of camo bonus when shooting a gun) or not
- Storm states it’s normal for you to wait in a queue despite the queue being full of vehicles of your tier, according to MM rules you are supposed to end up in some cases on the bottom of the team, so for example if you wait in a tier 8 tank for a long time despite the queue being full of other tier 8′s, it’s because you are waiting for tier 9 and 10′s too
- apparently, the feedback towards the new T-54 and the new FOV was overwhelmingly negative on RU server
- +/-1 MM will definitely not come, “the game would become not interesting”

- all shell types of the same gun do the same module damage (SS: I checked at gamemodels3d, HE shells do NOT do more module damage than AP shells)
- engine can be set on fire by ANY damage (SS: even that, which doesn’t turn it yellow), while fuel tanks start burning only when their HP reaches 0
- the non-penetration HE damage formula is still DAM = damage/2-armorthickness*1,3*1,X (1,X is the spall liner coefficient)
- there will be three German HD models in 9.0 (Tiger I, Panther I and – strangely enough – Maus)
- there is some internal talk at WG about re-opening the European supertest…

Regarding the recent discussion on WG EU forums about WG tracking down bots, Decept1on on Reddit forums:

AFKs and Bots are being actively tracked down and if you see one, be sure to report it as it helps us finding them even faster.

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3003146.html

Hello everyone,

just like last year, Maiorboltach from Russian LJ community makes yet another transcription of Russian stream with community managers (never heard the nicknames before, so I’ll just take his word on that – their names are Alexei “Inaki” Ilyin, Alexei “Orc” Protnikov and Alexander “Twitch79″ Safronov). Here’s how he summarized it:

- apparently, the Wargaming signed contract  with Twitch and it will be possible in the future to stream directly from the game
- in 9.0, there will be 12 HD models and a part of Havok engine
- in 9.0, there will be some unannounced features for garage and crew
- there is a high probability HESH shells mechanism will not be reworked (SS: *sigh*)
- 9.0 will bring ammo rack explosions and turrets flying off, but Maus turret will not fly off, it will just fall on the side of the tank, it’s possible other components (hatches, handles etc.) will fly off too during the explosion

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Not much today

- quality of armor is not taken into account in World of Tanks
- recently, one of the “lesser” developers posted on RU forums that “higher caliber guns have bigger chance of damaging modules” – Yurko2F explains how this really works: it has nothing to do with the chance to avoid module saving throw, but ever shell has a separate stat for module damage, that depends on the caliber of the gun and thus bigger guns have bigger chance of causing enough damage for a module to become yellow (or red)
- Storm confirms that the 8.11 version of T-54 is final, after that it will be the HD version
- Storm states that it’s not true that the later a tank came out (SS: in WoT), the later it will be remodelled to HD