According to the Insider, some developers in Wargaming felt like the modern tanks April 1st joke backfired on Wargaming, as it gave indirectly free press to Armored Warfare and some developers raged about that in internal communication. Sources from Armored Warfare confirm hightened interest in their site.
- 9.8 will not bring LT buff;
- Storm does not play WoWs;
- HD IS-3 in 9.8 will be the regular one, not the leaked one with the autoloader;
- Individual mission tanks do not count as premium tanks for the purpose of buffs and nerfs, they can be buffed and nerfed;
- The state of random battles after the IM introduction is generally satisfactory for the developers;
- In 9.8, more than one third of individual missions will be changed (RG: So excited for this);
- Storm does not know whether CW mechanics will be changed in next two years;
- Developers are planning female crewmember voiceover (RG: No more tanker Conchitas boys!
- It's completely possible that tracks hanging on the hull will be used as a balance parameter to change armor. For example, if developers think that a vehicle should have more armor than it is its historical, they will model tracks hanging on the hull in HD and make the zones with the tracks thicker, like they did with the IS-4;
- Developers will not remove a whole bunch of maps from the game at once, they will do it slowly one at a time. Developers also considered the solution of reducing the probability to appear of maps that are not liked by players but they are afraid that when some players end up playing the "bad" maps multiple times in a row (the probability of which is non-zero), they'll come whining;
- It's possible that some tanks that are very uncomfortable to play will be rebalanced to make their gameplay more comfortable;
- The accuracy nerf in 9.6 turned out to be very justified according to Storm, no arty accuracy buffs are planned;
- In last two years, the fines for teamkill and teamdamage became two times stricter;
- There is a server "quota" of battles set aside for the purposes of assault and encounter modes (basically, the number of battles that have to be played in assault or encounter is hard-code reserved);
- No plans to create separate leagues in random battles;
- Developers are planning to have a look on some higher tier vehicles soon and decide whether to buff them or not;
- SU-76I will not return to shops;
- There are no plans to "reduce the suffering" of tier 4-8 tanks in hightier battles (as in, no MM reduction is planned);
- Multiturret mechanism and T-35 will come in very, very distant future;
- The three caliber rule will not be removed;
- Wargaming considers their HD tanks to be better looking than the ones in War Thunder (RG: Our own kids always look better than the others);
- The only way skill MM is coming is in cybersports in 9.7;
- Developers are working on multicore support;
- 9.7 will bring dynamic interface resize.
"According to the Insider, some developers in Wargaming felt like the modern tanks April 1st joke backfired on Wargaming, as it gave indirectly free press to Armored Warfare and some developers raged about that in internal communication."
ReplyDeletetrolololol
On a serious note though, what were they thinking? "Lets put some modern tanks in our game, a thing that will never happen. U jelly yet?" That was pure AW advertising...
Well, it's a tough thing to make up a joke every year, especially if you have to do it for about 5-6 games (WoT, WoWs, WoWp, WoT360, possibly Generals,...), all the good ideas get explored eventually.
DeleteBut yeah, couldn't help but to remember AW as well, WG might regret it a bit.
What 1st of Aprill modern tanks joke? I didnt see it ;_;
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jGFaf1eKtg
DeleteThx, tbh the SD models looks like crap. Seeing the modern tanks,even on the video was really nice.
DeleteI thought the April fools joke was real and a great idea by WG to add modern tanks in higher tiers.
DeleteI just LOVE the boycott of AW they are doing, instead of focusing on flaws of WoT.
DeleteIt's soviet nature in the end, we cannot do this, so we can at least ban it.
If WG kept their promise and improved the game, there is no way I'd even try AW. But now ? We got half-HD half-SD tanks in the game, no physics, whatever sounds great is scrapped or too difficult to implement. One thing why AW might be success is, that it's not trying to optimize the game for 20 years old PCs. It will not only have modern tanks, but modern engine and graphics as well.
But yeah, its easier to punish everyone who likes different game, than making their own game better so we will want to play it anyway.
well, you know, AW is pretty much rip-off and it's easy to take prototype of game and polish it by community feedback and start development from scrap, just sayin...
Deletei still hope that AW will be good and WG will have some good competetion and they wake up and i want to play modern tanks as well
YEP, the AW fanboys on here (for a game not even in open BETA) forget that AW is a complete and utter ripoff of WOT's, DUH. AW has basically copies WOT's, but for modern tanks because AW knew they could not compete headtohead against WOT's with similar tanks.
DeleteYes, AW is developed off the experience of WoT. That said, it appears that they understand the concept of customer service at a fundamental level, and are willing to react to customers. I love WoT, but will probably play AW, and may migrate entirely to AW if AW can create a more relaxed and sportsmanlike atmosphere than WoT.
Delete"Wargaming considers their HD tanks to be better looking than the ones in War Thunder (RG: Our own kids always look better than the others)"
ReplyDeleteWell, I can join them here. Sure, the initial HD models weren't optimal (wonder whether they'll get redone eventually?), but the current ones are great and for me they are better than WT's. Oh, also skinnable freely.
Also, the fact you have to buy premium in WT to remove the rust is just a big no-no for me. It's something else to make your model average and make you pay to beautify it (Maplestory, TF2, etc.), and something different making your model ugly and forcing you to pay to make it average looking.
Agreed.
DeleteWG's recent HD models look....good.
At the very least as good as WT's tanks.
The rest of the environment is an other story, along with damage made to a tank (skirts torn off, barrels burst, etc...). WT wins that round hands down.
I have no reason to play WT since it sucks, but from UTUBE replays WOTs looks visually better than WT and AW. I play WOTs on max settings and it looks amazing. If the max settings hurt my gameplay and WN8, who the fuck cares!!!!
Delete@mark west, you are by far the most annoying fanboy on here. go tell WG to send you the soviet ass-licker-medal for devotion.
DeleteI like WoT graphics more than WT also, it's more sterile and cold, it's like you compare CoD as WT and CS as WoT, i don't like lightning, bright colours and high contrast, too much special (particle?) effects in WT, it's MY opinion so calm down :) i'm not either WoT fanboy or WT hater, i just play game which is fun for me
Delete"I like WoT graphics more than WT also, it's more sterile and cold,"
DeleteWell you can have WoT like graphics in WT if you turn everything to "Ultra-fucking-mega-LOW-deluxe" - apart from textures, textures are much better in WoT.
"WG's recent HD models look....good."
Yeah, look at Tiger P's cupola :D no vision ports :D it looks like a can of tuna.
WT tanks sucks both in gameplay and looks, duh. Is that even open to any debate? NOT!!!! Even Jingles HATES the game and his job is to love every game.
DeleteWOT's has by far the best looking tanks, HD or non-HD, of any tank game in the WORLD, period. Sorry AW fanboys, it's not even in open BETA yet so it doesn't count.
DeleteSo we'll never see SU-76i.. Or perhaps in a 100 Euros bundle?
ReplyDeleteGood fail, WG balance team.
Acutaly if you ask some players from super-test team (well smart ones to be correct), you will hear that they have tested SU-76i for a long time and the very fact that this TD os OP was pretty obvious for them, but WG just dont care about their opinions and put it to the shop...
Delete@Yecowa
Deletewe know this. Actually it was marketing/sales department who decided. Competent people were at gamescon or whatever it was, when they returned on Monday, Serb was furious for the fact they put that shit in shop.
I actually regret I cannot get it. It's not for its stats, its for the price it cost and the fact its a soviet/german td based on StuG hull. I really like StuG so this would be nice addition to collection.
Yep WG is really worried about AW...
ReplyDeleteCue mark west calling you a liar. "WG, stronkest pixle generator financially since ever"
DeleteThat's the only reason i posted that xD baiting WG fans
DeleteYeah I hear you are a real master at baiting...but pretty crap at trolling.
DeleteWell you did bother to reply
DeleteAny company is worried about any new competitor, but is BMW/Mercedes worried about Tesla?, NOT. WOTs is number one for a reason and WT failed to even be a flea bite and I expect AW wont be more than a fly.
Deleteeasily swatted.
DeleteWG is more like LADA
DeleteMy friends, there is no way WG tanks could look better than WT's. just check the details of tiger and you will see.
ReplyDeleteYes way.
DeleteTexture resolution and poly count don't lie.
Look at the new HD models in WoT.
WOTs is superior to WT in all aspects except realism, but since these are arcade games WOTs is superior there too. When I watch Jingles play WT have the time I can see what hes shooting at. If u want realism, join the army.
DeletePoly count and texture size can lie... the quality of the model does not necessarily depends on these two
Deleteactually the models in WT are crap.
Deletelow res textures, most details covered by mud and rust and all of the models look wet. Like if you spill water on them. Shadin and materials are really fucked up.
I can't believe people on here would even suggest WT looks better than WOT's, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteIt's possible that some tanks that are very uncomfortable to play will be rebalanced to make their gameplay more comfortable;
ReplyDeleteI'm looking at you, Duck!
And they were talking about VK 3002D a few weeks ago. I have hope.
DeleteI'm thinking of some of their gift tanks, particularily the last one. Hoboy, that one was a joke, not their "let's sell PzIIj" April Fools thing.
Delete1. It's worse in every single way than the machinegun combat cars (unless you use gold, in which case it's worse in almost every way and "eh" in one).
2. It actually gets harsher mm than them.
Seriously, WG. Seriously.
I carry gold in all my tier 3 tanks just for pziijs and they go through the armor like butter.
DeleteLol, my fcm pak 40 say hi to you all....
DeleteSwiss cheese, with 76mm shells from 400+ meters!
DeleteThat PzJ gun shells cant even reach that far! Bwahaha!
"I'm thinking of some of their gift tanks, particularily the last one. Hoboy, that one was a joke, not their "let's sell PzIIj" April Fools thing."
DeleteYou mean Pz II D ?
Yeah I kept that thing in my garage.
Whenever Im grinding something terrible (churchill gc, Lee, 3001p, ) and I feel frustrated, I look at my Pz II D and I feel so relieved... "'it could have been worse.. i could have driven that thing."
"You mean Pz II D ?"
DeleteThat's the one. And I've kept it too. It's so terrible I'm hoping it'll appear as a super-easy-to-win thing in a future mission and earn me gold that way.
Preeeeeeeetty much the only thing it's good for, sitting in the garage, and reminding you how much worse things could be.
Churchill GC...
ReplyDeletea tank thatb needs tracks oput all over it is the amx m4 45 because they refuise to buff the speed so add about 50mm of armour to the sides in the form of tracks and it might be playable also they shoud do this with the american tank destryoyers
ReplyDeleteAMX M4 1945 was as bad as pre-nerf Tiger H, but now it is probaly THE worst tiers 7 HT. Bad armor stats (even top turret suck), poor viewrange, low HP pool, HUGE silhouette, slow(poke) aim, meh DPM/RoF, damage per shell and gun overall minus penetration but 212mm of average pen not that big PLUS to compensate all of tank drawbacks.
DeleteI may be the monority in this, but I liked AMX M4. Even more than Tiger post buff (I am playing them together). While Tiger is an easy mode HPgodzilla - DPM beast,, I ended up preferring AMX due to good mobility and -10 Depression. I use it like I use my japs meds, only with high alpha (100 mm). I rarely even use gold ammo on it and it's enough to pen almost everything from the sides/weakspots. If you are rich, great gold ammo with DPM boost is also an option.
DeleteJust don't use the 88, it will only make it as a poor man tiger. It should not be used as one.
The joke concerning the 1st of April really was on WG. It wasn't funny. The thoughts about the MM and the guided missiles were valid. I personally would just scrap guided missiles and introduce those tanks. The last part concerning the futuristic tanks was just idiotic. I don't know if they wanted to ridicule Obsidian but in the end WG was the greater fool.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you guys but I would like to see modern Tanks in World of Tanks.
I would like to see modern World of Tanks. :D
DeleteWhy? Modern tanks are just boring, they have so many technological benefits the skill of the crew hardly matters. It's more like driving a computer with a laser guided super accurate gun, rather than a piece of metal with a gun bolted on top of it.
DeleteWell, I guess it's personal preference anyway, but to me, modern tanks are just boring as shit.
why does everyone take this stupid f&%¤ing dickwaving competition seriously, why? WG, gaijin, obisidian...
ReplyDeleteLOOK SHINY NEW TANKS, NO LOOK HERE, LOTS OF SHINY NEW TANKS, NONO, LOOK HERE, WE HAVE A WORKING GAME, LOOK HERE WE HAVE BETTER GRAPHICS, NO, LOOK AT ME, OUR TANKS ARE MUCH COOLER, NO LOOK AT ME WE HAVE MDDY TANKS, NO LOOK HERE WE HAVE MUCH MORE TANKS, yada yada yada yada and so on, and so on and so on
why cant we all just get along? please?
Because competition is what keeps the genre alive. That's why.
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DeleteBecause there is money to be made and only so many people to pay money into the pot... So it is all up for grabs.
Delete"Because there is money to be made and only so many people to pay money into the pot... So it is all up for grabs."
DeleteSo I cannot play both ?
Wait! I play battlefield, and HotS, and Diablo, Path of Exile, and I often buy lots of singleplayer games.
Why WG doesnt boycott those games ?
I spent my money on different games as well.
With the current situation (shutting down fan-site for promoting AW) the only thing they will achieve is, I'll get disgust and stop playing WoT altogether.
Please don't tell me there are fucking moderators on this fucking website??? One of the very welcome things about FTY, even though SS was an asshole, was the lack of any moderation of the posts so you could say, basically, anything you wanted but one of my posts was removed because I called a moron an idiot.
DeleteWelcome to the fact that there are people who have different opinions then, Mark. Probably the admin even agreed with you, but your choice of words is utter crap sadly.
Delete"- In 9.8, more than one third of individual missions will be changed (RG: So excited for this);"
ReplyDeletePlease, let SPG-5 be one of them. And maybe LT-15 - the annoying thing about it is that it can only really be done on 2 maps of of 36... http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Maps
SPG-5 is bullshit, but it can be done through no-lifing FV304 - and at least you're doing something while attempting it. SPG-11 on the other hand, particularily in its further iterations... ohboy.
DeleteI still preferred SPG-11 - I found it even fun actually in GW Tiger P. I have done the mission for T55a - I think there is error in description there and you only need to destroy one and damage one other. I did that unless there was unspotted tank there as well but it seemed very unlikely. I try SPG-5 with FV304 but it is painful: shells fly very long, targets move, team mates ignore tracked tanks, shells fail to de-track tanks. It just barely can be done twice per game, but 3 times is just impossible
DeleteWargaming considers their HD tanks to be better looking than the ones in War Thunder (RG: Our own kids always look better than the others)
ReplyDeleteI actually agree with WG there, I like their HD models much more than the WT ones.
Oh God, another WG fanboy. This website is infested with them!
Deletewhat do you expect from a Status Blog that mostly has WG Content....and War Thunder Ground Forces looks nice...but a total different gameplay..i prefer WoT over WT and think AW will be more my cup of tea either....but if WG will hold his shares up...they have to introduce tier 11-12 sometime in the future... but only +/-1 MM ..
DeleteMark it's hard to take you seriously
Delete+/-1 MM would make this game so boring... I love trolling lower tiers AND I love trolling tier 8s with my Cromwell, Su-100 or Hellcat. I remember times of even larger spread than now and I liked it as well!
DeleteSo if I say I prefer the WG models I'm already a "fanboy"? Well, then you're a WT GF fanboy.
DeletePay attention to Mark, he's...special.
DeleteI prefer WG's tank models aswell. I love the look of WT's tanks in their render software but when i see them ingame they look worse then WG's. I do like that WT models the crew in open top tanks.
Deleteloner85 did not read my "sarcasm", LOL. I can't believe NOOBS on here are so jaded about WOT's because they suck at it that they would even suggest WT tanks looks better than WOT's, sad, really.
Deleteloner85 did not read my "sarcasm", LOL. I can't believe NOOBS on here are so jaded about WOT's because they suck at it that they would even suggest WT tanks looks better than WOT's, sad, really.
DeleteDon't try to excuse your ignorance with "sarcasm". This is not 9GAG, kid.
DeleteI would like the idea of modern (balanced) tanks in higher battle tiers (and many other players can imagine smth. like that). No need of narrow minded WG to make a quite idiotic joke about it. Jokes for 1st of April are shocking or quite obvious....this was just an epic fail WG. GG well done
ReplyDeleteNo arty accuracy buff; well, f..ck you WG!!
ReplyDeleteWhat would you want ? Ion cannons ? o.O If you keep playing skypigs, then they are not that bad obviously....
Delete- The accuracy nerf in 9.6 turned out to be very justified according to Storm, no arty accuracy buffs are planned;
ReplyDeleteArty accuracy needs to be nerf'd. Period.
No it's already awful, barely moving is enough to ruin arty precision
DeleteArty needs to be reworked as class...
DeleteAfter the 9.6 nerf my winrate with arty dropped 3-5 %....
ReplyDeleteHow terrible.
DeleteI just wish I could get a legit "scouting map" to show up 3 times in a row, not freaking himmelsdorf.. and they realllllllllllllllllly need to fix light tanks.. getting tired of apotting crap, but get no credit because 50 meters behind me is a medium that negates any and all spotting damage..
ReplyDeletethen on top of that, they nerfed the TD view ranges, so now if you go out and spot tanks, the TD's cant even see what your spotting to shoot.. along with all these stupid nerfs, they need to adjust the personal missions to reflect the changes, and how those nerfs actually are screwed the people who didn't spend 24/7 when they first appeared, or do mass count in's to exploit the missions. good culprits are member of TUF, they do mass count in's. so you have 6-7 of the same clan on both teams, and they sit around letting their teammates just shoot them, their scouts get spotted, they wont soot the scout, they just let him sit there and soak of spotting damage against their own team.. plain stupid.. already sent in 2 replays of their BS antics
Deletesigh.....view range is the distance you can spot..you are thinking of render range which is 500 meters
Delete- It's possible that some tanks that are very uncomfortable to play will be rebalanced to make their gameplay more comfortable;
ReplyDeleteWhy not just DO it, not "possible that..." blah-blah, it's some not so small issue of game...
And overall, classic wg answers.
- It's possible that some tanks that are very uncomfortable to play will be rebalanced to make their gameplay more comfortable;
ReplyDeletechuchill GC. I love how retarded the tank looks, but yeah, that gun traverse is just pain. 50m far from IS and you cannot aim front and rear wheel without moving the hull.
"- Developers are working on multicore support;"
ReplyDeleteno shit!
Read this about 3 years ago.
next time there will be something like "- developers are working on World of Tanks game"
I love how the arty players claim the accuracy is sooooo bad, and any time I take my tier 9 shitclicks out (for the missions) they very rarely ever miss.. The splash damage alone can wreck a tank. I do feel like a dirty pervert though. Death to clickers!!
ReplyDeletethats because you see only that one shot that didnt miss.
DeleteYou dont see the previous 7 shots that landed on different server.
Ive tried arty once - the one you unlock from kv-2. I swear the god I almost killed Uriel on Unreal Tournament server.
- The only way skill MM is coming is in cybersports in 9.7;
ReplyDeleteReality: The only way skill MM is coming is when AW implements it successfully!
- It's completely possible that tracks hanging on the hull will be used as a balance parameter to change armor. For example, if developers think that a vehicle should have more armor than it is its historical, they will model tracks hanging on the hull in HD and make the zones with the tracks thicker, like they did with the IS-4;
ReplyDelete____________________-
Let's wait how long until whole stronk IS line is covered in tracks.
"- It's possible that some tanks that are very uncomfortable to play will be rebalanced to make their gameplay more comfortable;"
ReplyDeleteSo, artys will be finally rebalanced?
A third of individual missions?
ReplyDeleteWould that be THE third that is the bullshit compulsory platoon missions?
- Wargaming considers their HD tanks to be better looking than the ones in War Thunder (
ReplyDeleteApril 2nd joke?
WOT's tanks are better than WT. Try getting a new computer and turning up the graphics. WOT's looks way, WAY, better than WT.
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