As mentioned on RU server, the patch is coming tomorrow. Also, check out the stronghold consumable post on official forum.

- Object 244 will not be a tank for free sale, but a special/event tank
- the landscape quality setting in WoT is the same for old and new render when it comes to geometry, with one exception – minimal settings. Minimal settings for old render reduce the landscape quality more than minimal settings on improved render
- Japanese tanks as a whole are doing fine statistically
- “wet ammo stowage” perk introduction (SS: VERY long time ago) was not a reaction and an attempt to fix too often ammo rack explosions in the game
- Q: “Why does adding new perks take so long?” A: “Because it takes long” (SS: yea…. no shit)

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- it’s quite likely that compared to the first version on supertest, the Mäuschen will be nerfed
- splitting patch 0.9.7 into 0.9.7.0 with the French and other features and 0.9.7.1 with HD models (to reduce the individual patch sizes) is not an option
- the act alone of entering a battletogether with a friend by coordinating pressing the battle button by a countdown and pressing it at the same time is not against the game rules
- WG is allegedly capable of finding game riggers from ingame logs without having to see replays
- Individual missions are fine, but they will be polished more in the future
- Evilly states that if you encounter players rigging battles, you should write a support ticket (SS: on EU this is not working apparetly)

You might have seen it on forums earlier, but it’s confirmed: the “Sisterhood of Steel” of girl crewmembers is compatible (activates) with BIA (basically, if you replace one crewmember in a BIA crew with a girl with SOS, BIA will activate). It is however possible this will be removed, as it was not intentional.

Update: Confirmed, it’s a visual bug of the client, that displays incorrect boost, that’s not there in reality

- Storm will investigate whether the Maus mantlet looks correctly in the game
- it’s not possible to say, how many HD models will appear in 9.7, as a few days ago, they removed some of the HD models from the build, because the patch was too big
- Storm confirms that developers are working on a completely new mode
- T54E2 and AMX 65T in the game? Storm: “I cannot say. Anything can happen :)”
- for now, the E50M will not be replaced (even though it’s a fake), because there are no suitable candidates for replacement
- E-25 to be made bigger (to its historical dimensions) when it gets reworked to HD? “Unfortunately, I cannot tell you anything.” (SS: from “inside sources”, this is actually a very radioactive topic, as it would be a defacto nerf of a very popular premium vehicle)
- T-54 armor change when it was reworked to HD did not reduce its popularity, it was actually increased (related to the pretty new HD model)
- Storm confirms that the Havok situation is complicated, when it comes to destructable buildings. They’ll work on it nonetheless.
- Char 2C model was made in 2012
- alternative hulls will come in distant future

Source: VK Express community

Hello everyone, another “Developer Time” show took place on the Wargaming radio (RU only), here’s a transcript. Today’s topic was “graphics”. Answering were two guys – one a video-making derpartment developer (derpveloper?) and the other guy is from the game engine derpartment and deals with graphics.

- the derpartment of the graphics engine development consists of 15 people, but not all deal with the development directly. This is the “skeleton crew”.
- at first, the developer video about how to improve FPS was 30 minute long, but they had to cut it down to 15 minutes (SS: the video can be found here along with some translations, it was never made in English)
- in the future (summer of 2015), WG is planning series of videos, the topic of which will be “how to improve your FPS”
- there will also be an independent video (not tied to WoT), where various aspects of your computer will be explained: how to optimize its running, how to set the graphics, how to clean it, how to update your drivers etc.

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- Storm confirms that the Mäuschen vehicle is historical, it was made based on this drawing
- the replacement of VK4502B with Mauschen will come “soon”
- VK4502 Ausf.B will not be made premium, it will be removed from the game, just like the FV215b (120)
- for now, there are no other replacement plans for the Maus branch
- for now, there are no plans to give Maus an alternative 150mm gun
- accuracy nerf being really bad for inaccurate fast tanks like the T49? “Wait for the aim circle to aim fully and you’ll be fine”
- the only accuracy change was the distribution of shells inside the center of the aim circle, the sigmas were not touched: it does NOT mean the shells will fall to the edges of the circle more often
- the accuracy nerf in 9.6 applies to both arty and premium vehicles
- Q: “The accuracy nerf is really bad for artillery!” A: “Do you often fire snap shots with arties? :)”

Nothing much today.

A player proposed a special mode in random (just like assault and encounter), that would be available only to good players with 20 percent extra credit/XP profit. Storm states that this is not a good idea – increasing the profit by 20 percent would break the monetization.

Also, it’s confirmed that AMX CDC and STA-2 will appear in the premium shop in 9.6. Both tanks will have unlimited MM. Their prices will only be known after 9.6 is released.

- the bug where you could not activate the consumables on the test 3 was fixed already
- there will not be a HD E-100 in 9.6. In test 3, it was removed and switched back to SD version, as the developers will not be able to fix all the mistakes of the model until the release
- there is an issue in individual missions – if an IM requires you to capture base, you do but in the time between full capture and battle end, the last enemy vehicle gets destroyed, the battle will not count for the capture mission. This is apparently not a bug and it’s possible that “explaining text will be added” to the missions in the future
- Naydin medal is bugged atm, it will be fixed in 9.6
- according to the developers, the fact that FCM 36 with PAK 40 TD (also known as Marder I, German conversion) is in the French tree and not in the German one is historical: after the Normandy landings, captured obsolete French tanks converted by the Germans to TD’s were transferred to the Free French troops, who then used them in combat
- it’s possible that the game will offer the opportunity in the future to log into the game using your social network account. The security concerns of such a solution will however be addressed first.
- drowning yourself (suicide) before the battle is over is considered “unsportsmanlike behavior” and should be reported as such
- players complain about not completing individual missions even though they should have – many of those complaints are based on the fact that these players are using obsolete mods, that make the game show incorrect mission conditions, so be sure to check your mods, whether they are up to date – or remove them

Hello everyone,

a video with some answers from a developer Aleksander Ivanov appeared on one RU youtube channel. It’s mostly stuff we know, but Aleksander Ivanov, an “executive producer”, answered some questions as well (and those are new).

- there are no plans to replace the invite codes with a permanent bonus (gold, premium time) for newly made accounts – “if you want gold, participate in WG events and competitions”
- currently, there is still a 5 arty per team hardcap in existence, it will not be reduced to lower number, average number of arty per team is 1-2
- there are no plans to introduce hardcap on non-mobile (not as dynamic) classes (TD’s) in the game, simply because “some players are coming to the game to relax”
- there are however changes happening to remedy the “shooting bushes” (AKA “invisible TD”) issue, for example the TD viewrange nerf or changes to maps
- developers are (relatively soon, but it might be delayed) add a “clan window” to the client, in which the player will be able to see all the info about a clan (which players are in it, what’s its status in CW, stronghold)
- no plans to introduce one-man training rooms
- no plans for WoT for Linux (Ubuntu or any other)
- it’s possible WoT Blitz might come for Windows Phone, but not anytime soon
- T-50-2 will not return to WoT, in the game it was unhistorical
- developers are considering an absolutely new game mode, there are several prototypes

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

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- all shells of the same type have the same normalization (there is no individual normalization for specific shells)
- on test server, WZ-111 (the Christmas marathon premium) has a different icon, it’s possible this was changed due to the fact that there were some issues with the old one
- for now, chromatic aberration effect is not planned for WoT
- someone asked me about the (incorrect) Portugal flag in the game (according to this thread) – passed it on to Storm, his answer was that it will be investigated
- TD viewrange nerf will not be compensated by any buffs for now, WG will watch the statistics though
- equipment from the tanks with nerfed viewrange will not be removed for free
- T95 model in test 3 should be correct
- Storm confirms that WG is not considering banning (not allowing) trollplatoons
- spotting system overhaul will come in “medium future” (SS: usually 3-6 months)
- it’s not yet sure (decided) how will the FV4202 replacement differ gameplay-wise from current tier 10 FV4202
- regarding the concern that STA-2 premium tank will be unplayable with full MM: “we’ll watch the statistics” (SS: am I the only one who has a problem with this? So they will knowingly sell something where they are not sure of the quality of the product – in this case, whether it’s properly balanced – and then they will watch the statistics instead of making sure it IS balanced in the first place?)

Edit: please guys, don’t send me links to the “we all hate SS” Wotlabs thread, I already had a good laugh about it :) Glad to see there are some reasonable people on Wotlabs too though. Oh, that Patreon thing? Didn’t work… :)