Nothing much today either. Well, actually, two things.

First, Crytek denied financial issues (and, hence, being taken over by Wargaming). Too bad for us I guess.

Second, ASIA forum now has a “developer Q&A”. Well, sort of. It’s led by Tanitha, who is an ASIA server producer. The section can be found here, but if you don’t want to read it, you don’t have to, I’ll be including it in daily QA.

From the answers today:

- Havoc is not scheduled for 9.2
- Havoc was originally scheduled for 9.0, keeps getting postponed
- currently Havoc ETA is not known (“Exactly what update it will arrive in depends on how quickly the final pieces get put together”)

If you have an account on ASIA server, you can post your questions there as well.

According to Overlord, a major patch 1.3 for WoT Blitz is coming. Read more here.

- Storm (still in vacation) on his earlier denial of moving corpses bug existence: “You have to read exactly what I’ve written” (SS: basically, he wrote earlier that the bug was not confirmed yet, now it apparently was and hence it was fixed)
- Storm states that the moving corpses reports from the common test were isolated and non-systematic. When the patch was released, the numbers of reports increased and hence the bug was fixed
- apparently, the bug where a tank can suddenly make a 360 degrees turn will be fixed in new motion physics
- Storm states that his vacation will last for long time yet (SS: two more weeks)
- developers decided not to implement temporary break in premium account (SS: as in, a player goes for a vacation and stops temporarily his premium account from running), because it’s very unconvenient (SS: unprofitable) for them
- preparation of WoT:Blitz for Android will “take a few months”

Hello everyone,

today, yet another day without significant QA (Storm is on his well-deserved three week vacation). However:

- the micropatch “UI issues” that are going to be fixed tomorrow – it’s the issue where you see your friends in friend list as offline even though they are online and can’t invite them to platoon

Nothing much today, Storm is apparently still on vacation. You can however check Listy’s post on wartime propaganda.

A word of warning: an alleged set of future changes of German tanks appeared on RU forums (claiming that VK6501 will be a premium, Maus will get a longer 128mm gun, some changes to VK4501 etc.) – it’s a fake and some of the alleged changes are so outrageous it should be evident at first glance, but just to be sure, I am posting this warning here in case it makes its way to our forums.

In the meanwhile, here’s some QA about the upcoming Stronkhold mode.

- the map during Stronkhold mode raids will be chosen randomly, will not contain assaults or encounter
- clan deputy commander in Stronkhold will be able to do the same things as the clan commander, aside from actually creating the stronkhold
- Stronkhold bonus (“reserve”) will combine with any event bonuses
- Stronkhold buildings that would allow you to get any tanks are not planned
- there will be two stages of Stronkhold implementation, one with the raids and maximum stronkhold tier of 4, the second with clan vs clan battles and maximum tier of 10
- there will be no “neighboring bases” in Stronkhold mode, in order to attack clan, you simply pick the enemy clan you will want to attack. Also, you will choose, in which time (timeframe) can your stronkhold be attacked (SS: eg. “defender chooses the time”)
- it’s theoretically possible the number of players doing Stronkhold raids will be reduced from 15 to 10, but this will be decided only after testing

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- the KV-1S info about the split into tier 6 and 7 was apparently not correct, it’s possible the split will be into tier 5 and 6 (SS: at this point, we have two sources of high reliability contradicting one another, the 5-6 version however seems more likely)
- apparently, some players are still complaining about Maus mantlet – Storm said he can’t confirm it is shaped wrongly (SS: I investigated a bit and it should be correct – in one position, it leaves a “gap” at one part of the mantlet, it actually was like that historically)
- confirmed that some tier 10′s will recieve minor buffs in 9.2, the exact nature of these buffs is not determined yet, they will appear on the test

- Tier 8 premium German medium – Panther with L/71? Evilly: “You almost guessed right!”
- Leopard 1, AMX50B and FV4202 will get small buffs
- switching FV4202 for another tank? “Wait for the news around the end of the year”
- the “atmospheric Prokhorovka” mentioned as coming in 9.2 – Storm adds that the map will remain the same, but there will be more traces of combat (SS: wrecks, destroyed guns etc.) – in case you are wondering how it will look like, here’s a leak
- Storm confirms that small names of tanks on the minimap will come
- few new HD tanks coming in 9.2 – because plans changed, the models were simply not made on time

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3349620.html

Hello everyone,

last night there was a stream on the RU server – WG developers and producers Alexei “Inaki” Ilyin, Anton “Evilly” Pankov and Yuri “Hukogum” Kuryavyj and the chief of map design department Vladislav “_p0zzy_” Markov – they were playing the football mode and answering some player questions, Maiorboltach was kind enough to provide a transcription. Thank you!

- at first, they tried out the football mode with AMX ELC. It took two months to develop. On RU server, roughly 2 million people played this mode.
- there will be no Katyusha rocket launchers in the game, but there will be an “artillery barrage” (SS: Stronkhold consumable IIRC)
- WG knows that historical battles need serious rework and in patch 9.2, the entire mode will be temporarily removed from the game for rework. Developers are working on “a completely new CW concept with new features”, developers are also considering special PVE mode for historical battles. After the HB’s are reworked, there will be a special test only for them, like the stronkhold has now in order to gather detailed feedback
- it’s possible that in the Stronkhold mode, there will be an option to hire non-clan players (“mercenaries”), apparently when Stronkhold gets active (?? – literally “but during this period”), companies will be closed (!) and won’t be reworked

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As you already know, the Stronkhold mode was started today. In the meanwhile, the suspicious lack of new info has been explained: Storm has vacation.

- recent changes in the “light T-54″ also showed that the frontal turret armor was reduced from 180mm to 160mm. Storm states that the 180mm most likely stays at the front where the turret armor is practically unsloped, 160mm will be the sloped part
- stronkholds not for players who don’t want to be in a clan? “Don’t want to be in a clan? Then don’t be. In random battles, there will be many events, missions etc.”
- Finding 20 decent people for stronkhold too difficult? “Strange how other players do find others and create clans? What makes them different from you?”
- stronkholds will apparently be useful even for smaller clans, that won’t have to wait for events and the bonuses will help them grind
- the raids (SS: what is the official English term? Forgot…) in Stronkhold mode are analogical to companies, but there will be no encounter or assault in them, the same analogy applies for the map choices (just like in companies)
- stronkhold consumables will come later – “follow the news”
- stronkhold resources will be awarded for defeats as well, but less
- stronkhold statistics will be kept separate, just like with team battles stats
- a clan cannot lose its stronkhold completely
- attacking and defending of stronkholds between clans will come later

A small erratum first – in the WT E-100 nerf post, there was a part where I wrote the accuracy on the move would actually be buffed. It was a mistake of the leaker – he later corrected it in a second mail, WT E-100 accuracy on the move will be nerfed. Already corrected the original post.

Otherwise, there is very little new (I suppose they are saving it for the test 9.2?)

- regarding that KV-1, fished from water (see earlier FTR today), Evilly states that it can be renovated from this state, it happened before
- Q: “It would be better that instead of WT E-100, they nerfed FV 215b (183), but nooo, we’ll have to wait three more years” A: “It will happen much faster :)”

Unfortunately nothing new today. But you can check the new Chieftain’s Hatch, so you’ve got that going for you, which is not exactly nice, but it’s the best I can offer.

Oh yea, remember that weird “Tank you very much” video series? That got cancelled. How terrible.