- Storm states that multicore support will not strongly influence game performance
- Storm states that the supertest patchnotes are not final: “there is a long way to go till the patch goes live”
- regarding the “hidden Sherman nerf” in 9.0, it was intended, but Storm states that the fact it did not appear in patchnotes first was a mistake of the program, that generates the list of tank changes for the patchnotes. They fixed it and Storm hopes it won’t repeat itself.
- a player asked that there are rumors about a mod, that actually makes the game display tank silhouette even beyond the official render range, Storm replies that that would be possible only if the mod actually takes the tank position beyond the render range from the minimap, eg. such mod won’t display tank and turret orientation
- regarding sharp FPS drops with the shadows enabled: “Shadows eat resources and that’s something we can’t do anything about”

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/291512.html

Hello everyone,

apparently, the 9.1 changes caused quite a shitstorm under Storm’s posts. People started being rude as hell, some were banned, comments were blocked and such. Storm was actually quite annoyed about that, making a post, where he asked people to be civilized. The buffs and nerfs of vehicles will be discussed on Monday.

Anyway, here’s more info gleaned from the discussion:

- apparently, unlike EU and US, RU server doesn’t have the “restore sold premium tanks” mechanism, it’s still being tested there
- low performance of Hidden Village map is connected to the existence of tons of small objects on the map
- developers are putting the “HD conveyor” (mass production of HD tank models) in motion currently
- developers are working on both CPU and GPU (render) multicore support
- Storm admits that patch 9.0 was very complicated and after its release and that only a little was added to the patch of what was promised (in general)
- developers are working on general fixes for tank color
- “Xbox-like” weather effects did not get introduced to the PC version yet, because “there are completely different issues on PC and we have to deal with them first and then we do weather”

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Have questions about WoT Blitz? Overlord is collecting feedback.

- some exceptions from the 9.1 LT matchmaking: A-20 will be like T-80 (battletier 4-6), SU-26 and T-127 battletiers 3-4
- WoT Blitz betatesters will get a reward tank – Russians a Russian one, Europeans an European one and Americans an American one (all tier 5)
- in North America, WoT Blitz might launch in a few weeks, depending on the softlaunch results
- Mad Catz C.T.R.L. controller for WoT Blitz? “We have done some basic support, but it’s not yet polished.”
- Chieftain on Maus restoration:

“Near as I can tell, the goal is to get the thing to clank along using whatever motor and transmission they can find. The mantlet will certainly have to be secured.”

- Chieftain on multiturret mechanism:

“My guess is that the programmers who would be working on the multi-gun support code can also be working on other things, and they only have so many hours in the day. Compared to whatever else they’re working on, is Multi-Gun really such a priority?”