Apr 8, 2013
8.4.2013
- second round of 8.5 test will start on 11.4.2013 apparently (changes are not available yet)
- there aren't so many city maps, because they stress the server more than "regular" maps
- Asian maps (Dragon's Ridge, Pearl River) were introduced in order to satisfy the Asian audience
- maps with rain/snowing effects won't come this year
- the problem with night maps is the implementation of dynamic lighting, dynamic lighting is planned for very distant future
- the 10 second drown time is not planned to be increased
- old render will not be optimized (improved) anymore, only the new one will
- the game will undergo a color-rebalance (SS: filters were mentioned earlier)
- currently, the skill of the drivers is not taken into account when balancing vehicles
- installing high-res skins and other addons can theoretically lower the game performance
- WG doesn't have enough data to buff/nerf British TD yet
- tank balancing is not done automatically, but manually and individually
- the fact HE explosions have little effect on the light tank vehicle movement is intentional
- exhaust vapours will not be made thicker (as they were before)
- T-80 MM spread is not yet decided apparently ("wait for the patch")
- developers are working on improving the account security (maybe including the possibility of "restoring" sold crews after the account was hacked) because there have been more cases of account stealing lately
- 3 arty per team hardcap will not come
- for now, no high-octane diesel fuel consumable is planned (for German diesel tanks)
- open-topped vehicles will not get a buff (SS: connected to the question how some open-topped vehicles were dealt with after they had the "improved ventilation" removed)
- no plans for tier 10 LT's
- SU-100Y is doing normally statistics-wise
- no (torque) difference will be implemented between the diesel and gasoline engines
- post-0.7.0, the armor system has not changed: 16 armor groups for turret, 16 for hull
- ST-I armor angles are historical
- devs have so far not thought about introducing Soviet lend-lease vehicles into the historical battles concept
- if you destroy a low HP enemy by ramming, you will get back the same damage as if the enemy had full HP
- Storm on patch 0.8.6: "Get ready. The patch will be nuclear. A lot of rebalancing. Will tell more in about a month." It will contain tier 10 arty, amongst other things.
- Poole medal was not rewarded retroactively, because it was harder to implement than for example the Lion of Sinai medal.
- tier 10 alternative German TD will be a "German nightmare and horror" and "something special".
- Q: "Will it be a nightmare and horror for its owners?" A: "For whiners - definitely" and "only for German-lovers"
- generally, the state of module unlock has no effect on that vehicle's MM spread
- second full branch of Soviet medium tanks - "distant future"
- Soviet premium T7 med is not yet modelled
- there are many Soviet archives not yet uncovered
- US premium TD will come next year
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"Storm on patch 0.8.6: "Get ready. The patch will be nuclear. A lot of rebalancing. Will tell more in about a month."
ReplyDeleteBeen thinking for a while that WG should do a patch with a focus on rebalancing existing tanks instead of adding new content.
"Storm on patch 0.8.6: "Get ready. The patch will be nuclear. A lot of rebalancing. Will tell more in about a month."
ReplyDeleteSo, Russian buff and German nerf?
Overlord has hinted they will do a rebalance somewath due to the derp heat tanks at mid tiers. It could be an overhaul of the penetration mechanics, reducing the effectivenes of heat shells maybe? They would have to do a lot of rebalancing on most tanks i would guess.
Delete0.8.6 sounds interesting. Now I'm just curious whether or not it will be good.
ReplyDeleteFrank, is there any word about crew role retrains?
ReplyDeleteno
DeleteHmm... this rebalancing patch could mean that the VK 36.01(H) will finally become a heavy tank?
ReplyDeleteSo the patch 8.6 will come mid may or june??
ReplyDeleteThe later the better!
0.8.6 apparently comes early fall, so definately not during summer.
Delete~Sixstreem
Hoping for some British top tier heavies buff or replacement.
ReplyDelete-kariverson
"there are many Soviet archives not yet uncovered" Russian bias working as intended
ReplyDeletewtf is biased about saying there are archives that werent yet uncovered?
Delete*Facepalm*
Delete@angrybanana:
Deletethose crazy cry kids just love to say "russian bias". They don't need something logical for it, just a dev saying soviet/russia/germany
>- tier 10 alternative German TD will be a "German nightmare and
ReplyDelete>horror" and "something special".
>- Q: "Will it be a nightmare and horror for its owners?" A: "For
>whiners - definitely" and "only for German-lovers"
Haha, can't wiat for that, WGs "how to troll germans" chest sure has a infinity supply.
My guess is ultimate camo and 2250 alpha damage and a minute reload. No armor at all and low HP pool. xD That would be a nightmare to both the operators and the opponents. haha
Delete-kariverson
My guess is a BIIIIIIIIIG hulking E-100 based Steel-block
Deletewithout armor and an useless over-alpha gun ... like the 183 without HESH Ammo.
So you think it would be another JpzE100? Lol.
Delete- tier 10 alternative German TD will be a "German nightmare and horror" and "something special".
ReplyDelete- Q: "Will it be a nightmare and horror for its owners?" A: "For whiners - definitely" and "only for German-lovers"
Great, another useless German tank?
Maybe the 8.6 will include the announced BIG rebalance. |O_O|
ReplyDeleteoh, and I will go for the german TDs anyway, even if they are "nightmare and horror". ;)
IMHO Im hoping for better tank models, engine and gun sounds which should theoretically should not be fu**ing hard for WG to make or record :/
Delete@PanzerHAnz i was thinking about that too. And im not worried at all about other nations tanks, as much as i am about germany.
DeleteMeh, we already know the last two tiers are made-up.
ReplyDeleteSo if I have elited KT, but drive with 88mm gun, still get better MM like with stock tank?
ReplyDelete-generally, the state of module unlock has no effect on that vehicle's MM spread.
DeleteReally not, it means that, apart from the first 10 games grace period when you have just unlocked a tank, you won't get any special MM no matter how many modules you have unlocked/still to unlock.
No, read it again
DeleteWe are going to get epic T10 fail TDs. I know they like to troll. But so far the only thing heard has been "gigantic vehicles", "open top" and now "nightmare and horror for whiners and German lovers".
ReplyDeleteIt is going to be bad, very bad. We already have the worst T10 vehicle of all, the JPE. Now it will get competition for the herp derp special tank Olympics.
I think that, based on all the "german hatred" whine, they're just trolling because they know people will fall for it...
DeleteThe problem is WG research becoming lazier with time.
DeleteThere is enough material for 5 full TD lines (ok, two of them would start from tier 5 most likely but still better than making up tanks) but recycling models is much cheaper...
Are you going to write an article about it, Zarax? ;> Would be great,and awesome job on the arty article btw!
DeleteIsnt this test kinda short? i wont even be surprised, if they leave the two Leo's as they are. Leo PTA a pos with rof slower than heavy tanks and Leo 1 with no unique strenght at all as batchat,t62a.
ReplyDeleteBuff dat freaking ROF!!
> - tier 10 alternative German TD will be a "German nightmare and horror" and "something special".
ReplyDelete> - Q: "Will it be a nightmare and horror for its owners?" A: "For whiners - definitely" and "only for German-lovers"
Let me guess, supremely accuracy 17cm/21cm gun, "armored" hull but paper upper, bit more than no camo and low hp pool.
So they can say "you don't know how to hide your tank, get back to your loltractor." when anyone complaining about this thing can be spot at the beginning of the game.
Seriously, I don't care any E-100 base vehicles, but just please don't fkup the Waffentragers Panther...
- Asian maps (Dragon's Ridge, Pearl River) were introduced in order to satisfy the Asian audience
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So whole branch of made up copy/paste tanks were not enough to suck up in their tiny asian asses but they also make the maps for their taste.....and i can't wait to see how will they fuck up those german TDs....they'll be something like aufkl panther....light tank with mobilty and armor of a medium tank....without view range nor cammo for a light tank but with nonexisting gun depression and horrible gun choices and then they called it "scout" roflmao...
"yeah dont suck chinese dicks....
Deletesuck my german dick"
*facepalm*
Don't worry, the new german TDs will be great if you manage to ram the opponent first... And use gold ammo.
Delete"- open-topped vehicles will not get a buff (SS: connected to the question how some open-topped vehicles were dealt with after they had the "improved ventilation" removed)"
ReplyDeleteI wish people would remember that *not* having vents available is better than having them, because you effectively get them for free.
lol exactly
Deleteits easier to whine than read
Do you? There isn't the +5% bonus displayed in the effective crew skill level.
DeleteU r getting this wrong. By saying "8.6 will be nuclear" he means the IS7 will be rebalanced to fire nuclear warheads. The researchers found the blueprints in a previously undiscovered russian archive. They also discovered that russian post war testing has unveiled that the German tanks in the game are currently too small and will be resized to make even better targets ermh I mean be more historically accurate.
ReplyDeleteI think that's just a typo and "nuclear" was supposed to be "unclear", because they will introduce fog. *flies away*
Delete"Storm on patch 0.8.6: "Get ready. The patch will be nuclear. A lot of rebalancing. Will tell more in about a month." It will contain tier 10 arty, amongst other things."
ReplyDeleteSo they finally decided to put the Imperial Guard techtree into the game.
Was about damn time, now to choose... Sentinel light "tank" or Leman Russ "medium" tank...
Banblade or Stormblade...
Feth that, I'm going for the Warhound Titan.
DeleteArties firing nuclear bombs because arty is to inaccurate thus, give them an inaccurate weapon like a nuclear bomb so arty can destroy whole enemy team in one shot without worrying about accuracy. xD
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the "dmg after spotting" for the scout that lit up that enemy team before the nuke drops? :F
Deletewhen i hear it will be a "nuclear" patch i think M110 Howitzer as teir ten arty...
ReplyDeleteWait, if soviet premium isn't modeled yet, can it really be T-44A? Is WG dumb enough to model it once more?
ReplyDeleteone would think with all the money WG has made they would invest it into more and better servers...
ReplyDelete- Asian maps (Dragon's Ridge, Pearl River) were introduced in order to satisfy the Asian audience
ReplyDeleteOnce in a lifetime i want to read : xxx were introduced to satisfy EU audience....
german secound med branch anyone?
DeleteEverybody wanted that.
DeleteLower Penetration of Gold Shells. Decrease Normalisation by a degree.
ReplyDeletemagic armor is the least affected by gold pen rus tanks almost all have magic armor so in devs mind minor problem
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