Hello everyone,

Overlord posted an interesting idea about MM rewards, go check it out :)

- SerB states that (regarding the WT Panzer IV) the Panzer IV chassis could carry a 128mm gun – he recommends to go and have a look at Waffenträger on 38(t) chassis in Kubinka, it also could hold the 128mm and 150mm gun
- angle of impact has no effect on track armor thickness (SS: in case you didn’t know, tracks do have an armor value, usually around 20mm)
- T14 appearing as the only tier 5 tank in tier 6 battles despite being too weak fort that? “How terrible…”

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Source: http://www.clantalk.net/t/very-interesting-interview-with-storm-about-wot-in-2014/16309

Hello everyone,

Clantalk portal translated some parts of the recent interview with Storm by Russian videomaker and streamer Jove. Special thanks to Daigensui for letting me know about it. Here it is.

Translation of video from discussion with Storm (by Jove) – (paraphrased from Russian by ClanTalk.net):

Q at 00:53. Patch 0.8.0 was really nice, why were the patches after that underwhelming.

A. There were a lot of work in progress about better graphics, and models, and this work isn’t fully finished thus cannot be rolled into the patches. Perhaps we should have been more active in communicating what we are working on for players.

Q at 1:45. Are you happy with the SPG nerf, did you achieve what you wanted?

A. We cannot look at emotions, we have to look at stats. At top tiers there are 2 SPG per game, which is appropriate. At lower levels there are less, so we will gradually buff mid- and low-tier SPGs until there are more.

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- SerB is not active on WoWp forums – he has no time for 2 forums – but in time he might move there
- captured Soviet Panzer IV (T-4) will most likely have the L/48 gun
- in time the same clans that exist in WoT will be enabled (ported into) WoWp
- clans will be unified in all 3 WG games
- Rheinmetall Waffenträger drowning too easily? “How terrible…”
- (connected with the WoWp and WoT clans unification), maxmimum amount of people in clans will be increased, but the amount of tokens for CWs will remain the same – this increase is to allow clans to recruit WoWp players
- Captured tanks will not work as premium tanks: theoretically, a captured tank could be equal to a regular elite tank of its tier in quality (doesn’t have to be weaker like a premium tank), but in case of T-4, it will most likely not have Panzer IV’s top engine

There is a MM rule: “Vehicles are put into teams based on collected team statistics in last half hour” – a developer explains what it means – basically, MM works so that it watches “typical” setups in last half an hour (for example, that there are usually 3 heavies in almost every fight) and when there is such a trend, MM will “prepare in advance” 3 heavy tank slots and fill them outside of the queue, which improves the MM speed.

This mechanism is used during arty hardcaps calculations: when using the “5 arty” hardcap (if there are enough arties, there used to be plenty before), extra arty is moved into the secondary queue, where it can stay for a long time. This happened when there were too man arties, now it is not actual anymore.

- SerB states that the S-70 gun could fit into IS-4 turret, but was not mounted in it in real life
- the IS-4 on tier 9 had the S-70 gun earlier (SS: as far as I remember, it was removed when IS-4 became tier 10), despite not being historical, it was there because “it was necessery”
- Chinese 59-16 light tank in game was based not only on drawings, there is allegedly a mock-up photo too
- WZ-131 85mm gun with “funny” muzzle brake: according to SerB this design was borrowed from the Americans

This is how it looks:

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Two important things first:

- as you might noticed, FTR experienced some trouble for last few days, resulting in almost not being available yesterday and earlier today for some players. Edrard investigated and the culprit has been identified as the Hupso share buttons plugin. Edrard disabled it and now everything works fine. However, in order to fix other things, Edrard will be doing deep maintenace in the night. So, from like midnight till early tomorrow (no exact ETA, depends on Edrard), the server will be taken offline and will have its bugs fixed. So don’t panic if you won’t ba able to log on, FTR will be back tomorrow afternoon.

- because there is a prolonged weekend in Minsk (from tomorrow till Sunday), Cannoneer wrote me that people won’t be working since tomorrow and the FTR QA answers will be delayed. I will submit them later today, but the answers will not be available sooner than on Monday.

- WoT for OS X to appear earlier then War Thunder for OS X? “Time will tell”
- WoT is not considered a “historical” game according to SerB
- Q: “Are you doing something to improve the quality of the game? How much do you respect the work of your team, when you treat the game like this?” A: “Everyone knows we found the game in a dumpster and now are just cashing in”
- Q: “Who is the game made for, developers of players?” A: “Not idiots, that’s for sure!”
- WoT won’t be converted to OpenGL anytime soon
- Hurricanes (as in the British planes) will appear in WoWp
- new city maps maps Minsk, Kharkov and Konigsberg will appear in random battles too
- WoT API works on OS X using emulators (SS: no idea what that means or whether it is important)
- KV-4 in game is based on N.Dukhov’s design. It was picked because it is “most distinctive”
- there might be optional hulls even for “paper” tanks: for example it’s possible the E-50M will become an optional hull for E-50 and both will move to tier 10, but “paper tanks will have unlockable hulls only when really necessery”
- Object 430 prototype: “When it’s done it’s done”
- plans to use PaK 36(r) from Marder on other vehicles? “If there are any, I will tell”
- in historical battles the T-34/76 won’t be buffed to compete with Tigers in 1943 battles: “Either flank, or use ISU-152″
- FCM36 Marder I gun module too heavy? “How terrible”
- apparently perks rework don’t have exactly high priority
- the “detrack” XP bonus (shared XP) doesn’t apply when you knock out opponent’s engine and not tracks
- Dicker Max and Sturer Emil have identical guns, but their weight is different. The reason for it are different gun mounts

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2782099.html
Author: Magnus_25

Hello everyone,

today, developer Veider was playing 7/42 battles live on a stream and he was answering questions. Here’s a summary of what he said:

- 7/42 (team) battles will recieve many more new features that are being developed
- 7/42 teams will see the map for next battle in advance, so they can pick their tanks accordingly
- next patch will bring more maps for 7/42 battles, such as the Siegfried Line
- there will be special achievements (medals) for 7/42 battles
- Sturmtiger will definitely appear in 2014

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Currently there are fewer answers because the developer thread has sort of new, VERY tough moderation (14 day ban for everything). SerB states that before, whiners, trolls and spammers were complaining that SerB is trolling them. SerB stopped trolling – and that worked for like two weeks, before whiners started whining even more, trolls trolled and spammers spammed, which pissed especially Storm off. So SerB started trolling again and the whiners, spammers and trolls started whining again about trolling. So, as a necessery solution, SerB asked mods to be much more tough on moderation.

- the developers are satisfied with the current concept of premium account (+50 percent creds and XP)
- premium account won’t be reworked, but there will be some PA features added (when it’s done it’s done)
- mass selling (selling in bulk in the depot and not by one item) and other UI features from WoWp might be transferred to WoT too
- Sturer Emil doesn’t have gold ammo on the 128mm gun, because it would be OP with it
- it’s possible other tanks will be released without gold ammo: “if necessery”
- unhistorical gold ammo will be removed from already existing tanks “if necessery”
- a player on losing team will (if he gets an achievement such as Top Gun) recieve the “courageous resistance” bonus (he will get the same amount of creds and XP as if he won) – this is calculated after the awards are assigned: if tank A gets 6 kills, earns 700XP and wins a battle and tank B on the other hand gets 6 kills, earns 500 XP (750 with resistance bonus), tank A will get the Top Gun (even though tank B got more XP with the CR bonus)

Also, an interesting fact: it’s possible the RU251 as a tier 8 German light tank will be scrapped (WG didn’t manage to find relevant info), as replacements are considered (and discussed). There is a possible candidate, but no info on whether WG will go for it or not yet.

Not much today

- according to SerB, XP gained does not corellate directly with damage done
- capture points are displayed in statistics even when the battle was not won by capture, as they count towards achievements either way, such as the Leclerc medal
- no comment on how (or whether) the premium account will be improved (to compensate for the fact platoons and companies are available to everyone now)
- the reason renaming the crewmembers costs gold is the fact it is a visual change and has no influence on gameplay (no pay to win), it’s a cosmetic change
- the reason for threadmarks (track marks) on the ground disappearing quickly is so they don’t occupy too much computer memory (optimization)

Check Listy’s post about the WW2 battle of Thermopylae reenactment (movie “300″ for those who don’t know)

Also, check out this Chieftain’s guide about tactics!

- apparently (if I understand it correctly), Yuri Pasholok is one of those people who helps restoring old German tanks in Kubinka
- French heavy branch: “when it’s done it’s done”
- when roaming is implemented, you will get bonuses from your native server’s events (Europeans will get EU server weekend bonuses for example even if they roam to Russian server) in order to prevent “event tourism”

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Not much today

- according to SerB, the problem with LL Matilda and LL Chruchill is that they are used as regular tanks in the British branch
- Object 430 will come out “it’s done when it’s done”
- A-43 and A-44 actually have the same turret, (“A-44″), but in the game this same turret is registered as two different turrets with the same name, as there are no shared turret modules in WoT
- if you sold your Superpershing for gold and want it back, you can simply buy it for the same price it was sold for in the ingame shop