Ugh, SerB is in fulltroll mode today.
- This applies only for RU for all I know: it's possible that e-sports and tournaments (including Clanwars) will get their own dedicated server with separate statistics
- Storm on the amount of rage the "First campaign" generated (specifically the fact the reward tanks will be available only for clanners and not good players in general, despite the fact some good clanless players already paid a lot of money for free XP and are loyal to the game): "Well, if you don't dare to enter a clan and prove you play better than others - we can't help you. Loyalty has something to do with it? What - was it necessery to give those vehicles to everyone for free?" and "If we made the vehicles available for all random players but with such difficult conditions that only a few thousand most skilled players would be able to get them, you would still whine because you still wouldn't be able to get those tanks (looking at your stats)."
- devs made the Campaign event so more players would enter clans and play the Clanwars
- devs consider the post-patch competitions ("Art of War") to be a random equivalent of the Campaign (SS: apparently, since the devs get allegedly thousands of questions "how do I get Type 59" every day, they consider it an equal prize to the new T10's)
- the new reward tanks won't be stronger than the regular T10 vehicles
- there won't be a public test of those new T10's, "they have already been tested"
- SerB (SS: as an answer to a particularily dumb physics question): "Hurry to school. Learn physics from like 6th grade. Or was it seventh? In other words: uninstall the tanks and learn, learn, learn. And then we wonder why our rockets are falling from the sky..." (SS: "Learn, learn, learn" is a known Russian V.I.Lenin quote)
- SerB doesn't consider it an archievement to unlock a whole branch (or tree) to elite status
- SerB to player complaining that there will be no random rewards: "And why should we indulge your whims?"
- while an engine (or transmission) can be set on fire by ANY hit (SS: this was limited for lowtier rapidfire autocannons to reduce the amount of lowtier fires), the vehicle catches on fire only from completely destroyed fuel tanks
- on the forum, according to SerB, Storm plays the "good cop" and SerB the "bad cop" - this is a tactic they developed based on experience with the community
- the T10 tanks won't be available for collectors, because "you can't get the full WoT tank collection anyway, because Panzer V/IV or KV-220 were available only as supertester rewards"
- SerB states that there were actually no developer actions, that wouldn't start a wave of forum whining
- the new T10 tanks won't count towards the expert medals
- SerB is not afraid that people with the special T10 tanks will be teamkilled more often out of envy: "We'll ban the retards and the game will be cleaner."
- the fact that the best players in the game are getting the new T10 tanks will be taken into account, when analyzing the stats of these tanks
- Storm states that in order to match the same level of difficulty when obtaining the new T10 tanks in random, the players would for example have to have an 85 percent winrate over 1000 battles
- regarding the 0.8.6 patch, the developers are happy with the new shell distribution and won't delay the patch any further
- 2nd German TD line will come this year, possibly in autumn, but Storm is not sure yet
- there will be a really small piece of info released today on 0.8.6
- ricochet check happens before normalisation is taken into account
- when making some calculations that work with gun caliber (SS: for example overmatch), the gun caliber and its shell caliber are always equal (SS: eg. subcaliber shells are not taken into account)
- test 0.8.6 won't start tomorrow
- no plans for Marder II new gun
- the new T10 tanks will be (just like premium tanks) usable with crews trained on another tanks from the same class (SS: eg. M48 crew will be usable in M60 etc.), they won't have increased income
- according to Storm, there is a patch plan for this year till 2014 and by now, it's being followed quite accurately.
"- 2nd German TD line will come this year, possibly in autumn, but Storm is not sure yet"
ReplyDeleteWhat could the 0.8.7 update bring us then? Will that only bring the new cw areas and tank rebalance?
ussr: we won't get any new russian vehicles this year (apart from premiums)
Deletefrench: secondary lines will come in 2014
japanese: end of this year or early next year
chinese: end of this year or early next year
This means, that we can expect to see the british artilleries or the new american mediums after the next patch.
Zee7
8.7 is supposed to bring "American rebalance" *shrugs*
DeleteI wonder if the American rebalance will include splitting up the T57 line into 2/3 separate lines, with addition of more lights and mediums?
DeleteDerpA
If indeed arty will become less and less often in battles, US HT will for sure need rebalance :)
Delete2nd German TD line will come this year, possibly in autumn,
Deletewhile 8.7 still about Spring or Summer Time so they will not released on 8.7..
Well, 0.8.7 with only rebalance and no new tanks? I still hope that WG surprises us and gives us German TD's with 0.8.7 or 0.8.8 in July.
DeleteI've got 20.000.000 Credits and 600.000 XP for this line "on storage". Hopefully, I can spend them soon.
I believe 0.8.7 will come in August (personally I hope to see M24 line extendion with M41 and M551), and 0.8.8 in October with German TDs.
Delete-2nd German TD line will come this year, possibly in autumn, but Storm is not sure yet
ReplyDeletePlease can you use 1,2,3 or 4 quarters of the year? I don't know where you live so I can't calculate the date (it's autumn where I live). Thank you and good work as always :)
september - november
Delete"- SerB states that there were actually no developer actions, that wouldn't start a wave of forum whining"
ReplyDeletequoted for truth
"2nd German TD line will come this year, possibly in autumn, but Storm is not sure yet"
ReplyDeletePfff in autumn. In autumn I will be rolling on WT battlefields.
german tds will be: big as hell, soft, big slow gun but a t50-2 can bounce your shot (the shell may be bigget than the tank, but that doesnt matter to WG)
Deletea 2000+mm gun sounds awesome :P
DeleteBtw: WT will be a fail ;) After all its Gaijin (And i dont know how to say this, but normaly they are even worse then Wg... but lets see what the first Tanktest will bring us ;) )
Yup, company is a company always pure evil to drain your pocket but so far Gaijin made better game in terms of mechanics, graphics and steering, if they apply mechanics from planes to tanks hardcore players at last could have their golden graal of 'almost realistic MMO tank game'(oh that fest of unpenetrating shots from 2 kms :D)
DeleteWT is better than WoWp in almost everything(flight and destruction model,graphics) except absolutly horrible balance of planes. Our whines about op tanks are nothing comparing to WT situation. So i think it will be big challenge for them to present something playable without so many years of development as WoT had.
DeleteAnyway if i wanted realism i would play ARMA...:)
DeleteIf you want WWII realism you should play RO2.
DeleteIf you want realism - join the army.
DeleteWT tanks will come this year, and honestly it can't be worse than Wot. Bigger maps, no made up tanks, no gold ammo. Man I can't wait.
DeleteWT will probably have a better tank game than WOT. With that being said I will probably play WOT over WT. I've invested over 18K battles in WOT, and don't really want to start from scratch on a new game. I suspect this will be the case for many of the long time WOT players.
DeleteWT will have better realistic control and mechanism, but balance will be shit.
DeleteAnd if you hate WoT's Russian bias, than WT will fuck you even harder, especially if you love US or UK aircrafts.
WT also did get their engine almost completely from other gaijin games like birds of steel or IL-2 sturmovik but they got no experience with ground combat. Well at least it seem it will be quite different game with anti tank guns and armored cars but i hardly see it as competitive game...
DeleteSerB is a pity clown. Shitfaced with a bad haircut wearing clother from the cold war time. Looking like a drunken homeless.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless we have to live with it. He must be doing something right - he is still in charge ;)
Deletehe makes ppl like the first anonymous cry, so he must speak the truth most of the time.
DeleteAnd you must be some kind of Brad Pitt + The Rock + Giorgio Armani.
DeleteThe guy is doing a great job, being the lead dev, and imagine - he makes LOADS OF MONEY!!! which u probably never ever make, so enjoy your life and stop complaining about other ppl's appearance.
Plus: since he makes loads of money, the looks doesn't really matter,isnt it? babes dig money,not looks;)
@Anon 1
DeleteHes Russian, wtf did you expect xD
The last Anon speaks truth.
DeletePlus, why should any player care about the looks of a developer? If you need to mess with his looks, you're assuming he doesn't have any RELEVANT flaw.
Still, you play SerB's game, instead of vice-versa, so who's really the clown here?
DeleteThe guy who didn't learn in school why he's army lost 10 times more man then their enemy.
Deletethe statistik will show if serb neds clothe buff!
Deletehe would make a good -getting bitches laid- statistiks!
i think he is not cheating his wife - no sarcasm i realy think that!
but hey guys its cool that a self made milioner dont take over and run in boss und armani cloths and akt like the world is his owen - like "nowiruskis" new russian milioners do!
Yet they beated the nazis, didn't they? ;P
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Delete@Anon 11:06:00
DeleteYes, but they lost so many man they couldn't match the americans on the long run during the cold war (they would have lost an all-out full scale war).
@Anon 1:46
DeleteDon't worry about Russia. Ever since IX century everyone predicts it to fail, yet after all the foreign invaders (Mongols, Teutons, Poles, Napoleon and finally Hitler) it still stands strong.
And regarding WW2 - Germans lost ~5M soldiers, Soviets ~12M. Where's the 10x difference?
Of course, if you add civilian population the picture is a bit different (~6M Germans vs ~27M Soviets), but it only shows the scale of German war crimes, not their skill on battlefield.
Germany should have been used for A-bomb tests instead of Japan, it would be more fair.
I wasn't talking about the russian losses only, but the whole world against the Axis thing.
DeleteRussia might still be there but it has no power like it would have with the descendants of all those the war killed.
Well, guess what - if you violate your own pacts (Germany against USSR) and/or international laws (Germany against Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, Japan against China) you have an advantage over the unprepared enemy.
DeleteAlso, the bulk of Soviet losses happened in captivity (there were like 5M of Soviet POWs during 1941-1942), because they were mistreated by Nazis. Certainly it takes great skill it to starve prisoners of war to death, that's really admirable.
Japanese did the same to Chinese.
Really the Germans deserved the A-Bomb over Japan. No one desevers to have a nuke used on them. As to the issue of atrocities and war crimes, you need to educate your self on the war in the Pacific and Japanese occupation of Mainland China and other nations that "joined" the Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Due to very poor governments and poor record keeping the world will never have a semi-accurate estimate of the number of people that died during the war in the pacific. Also after the war was over a Nuremberg style Military War Crimes Tribunal was held in the pacific where dozens of people were convicted and hung for crimes against humanity.
Delete"Also, the bulk of Soviet losses happened in captivity (there were like 5M of Soviet POWs during 1941-1942), because they were mistreated by Nazis. Certainly it takes great skill it to starve prisoners of war to death, that's really admirable."
DeleteWell, Russians behaved like Huns once they put a foot in Germany and most of the German (well, many of them weren't actually German)PoW in USSR never came back.
@Anon May 23, 2013, 12:43
DeleteIt's not like the soviets weren't preparing an attack on Europe(that's why the german Army Group South made such a slow progress during the early phase of Barbarossa) and of course they always keep to their word. And you know in order to take someone prisoner, you have to force them to surrender, also known as defeat them. And how do you propose to feed prisoners in such great numbers, when they couldn't even feed their own soldiers properly?
Storm is the only who gives at least some useful info, SerB is pathetic troll
ReplyDelete- SerB is not afraid that people with the special T10 tanks will be teamkilled more often out of envy: "We'll ban the retards and the game will be cleaner."
ReplyDeleteWow really? why would i risk my account for a shitty inferior T10 tank? russians are that stupid?
If it had tripled earnings and some OP stats maybe, but have you seen M60 stats? it's just an M48 copy.
I think he means that ppl will teamkill the guys playing with the tier 10s in randoom (because they are little crykids)
DeleteJust take a look on the forum, there are allready idiots crying and saying, they will teamkill everyone playing M60, because they themselves are to bad for a clan :P
I think he's reffering to the bs happening on china WoT with the type59 gold.It can't be played on randoms...everybody tk-es it.
DeleteBut with the m60, since it's a m48 cyclop, tk-ing it will make the owner's life easier...why should I kill it?...
If those new T10 have stats that leaked some time ago or are only lightly modified, i don't see much threat from them. The M60 looks like a slightly weaker M48, the object isn't much w/o it's gold nugget ammo and the child between E-100 and Lowe will only make their attackers have a nice day.
DeleteThis whole T10 "reward" tanks thing is leaving a bit of a sour taste.
ReplyDeleteI'm in a clan of... dads, hence being the dad clan name. We have some very good players, but we can't do clan wars as we have real life things like jobs, and children to do which stop us doing things like clan wars. So even those of us in clans we can't get them.
- while an engine (or transmission) can be set on fire by ANY hit (SS: this was limited for lowtier rapidfire autocannons to reduce the amount of lowtier fires), the vehicle catches on fire only from completely destroyed fuel tanks
ReplyDeleteAha, and why are some of my tank burning without any damaged modul?
is transmission a part of engine hitbox? (i mean, when you damage transmission, will get the engine icon yellow?)
DeleteRead the note SS add: this was limited for lowtier rapidfire autocannons to reduce the amount of lowtier fires.
DeleteBasically, for lower tier autocannons you need to have completely destroyed the fuel tanks to start fires.
Well, sorry then. I misunderstood that
DeleteYou can set the engine on fire by damaging it by 1hp, while to become yellow, the engine needs to lose like half of it's hp (or some other portion).
DeleteI don't know if you write it on purpose or not, I saw it several times on the blog..the word is not aRchievement, it's achievement :)
ReplyDeleteI also would like to be able to get the tanks solo - but all MMOs are often lacking such rewards for solo players (which is sad actually, since all this teamwork, joining clans, teams etc. is overrated). I'm not going to change over some stupid pixel tank.
ReplyDeleteDoing clan wars is not easy and it is good now that there are proper rewards. If you have any kind of job 1000 gold a week will never justify spending 10 hours or more doing cw when you can buy gold and just enjoy the game. Also you don't get the trophy when your team wins the championship if all you do is buy tickets. If you want the M60 get on the field. Clans are constantly recruiting because players constantly burn out it is very possible.
ReplyDelete"Storm states that in order to match the same level of difficulty when obtaining the new T10 tanks in random, the players would for example have to have an 85 percent winrate over 1000 battles"
ReplyDeleteShow me a profile with 85% purely in randoms. I have 56 and never done a company nor platoon battle but I've spent a fortune to get all tanks from one tree. With these tier X I'm pissed. Of course they can do what they want and good players deserve something but from the collectors view I'll stop grinding all new tanks from that tree. Since I have enough premium tanks I don't need a premium account so I'll do my monthly investment somewhere else.
- regarding the 0.8.6 patch, the developers are happy with the new shell distribution and won't delay the patch any further
ReplyDeletethey won't delay it.. so.. maybe it will be out in few days or so? :)
According to what Murazor (one of the Russian streamers) said no public test will be available before June.
Delete- Storm states that in order to match the same level of difficulty when obtaining the new T10 tanks in random, the players would for example have to have an 85 percent winrate over 1000 battles.
ReplyDeleteSo SerB, wheres my M60?
Bad troll is bad.
DeleteYea, about that. There was a 90% pub challenge on the Na server a while back. In case you were wondering a few players broke that over a thousand games.
Delete- devs consider the post-patch competitions ("Art of War") to be a random equivalent of the Campaign (SS: apparently, since the devs get allegedly thousands of questions "how do I get Type 59" every day, they consider it an equal prize to the new T10's)
ReplyDeleteFor once i agree with this. AoW rewards seem easier to win compared to the M60, unless ur an awesome player in a mighty clan.
the T10 tanks won't be available for collectors, because "you can't get the full WoT tank collection anyway, because Panzer V/IV or KV-220 were available only as supertester rewards"
ReplyDeleteFunny I've got a Panzer V/IV and never been a supertester!
They were an option in the release pre-buy package, like the US M6A2E1 and the USSR Light Tank A32 or such like!
Correction the Panzer V/IV was a release pre-buy package. The KV-220 may well have been a reward tank!
DeleteThe thing that annoys me is why do they have to do it with a real tank. It's fine doing it with prototypes and paper projects, but a tank that is iconic no. My dad served on M60s, as a kid my walls where cover with posters of M60s every open day I would be all over them.
ReplyDeleteWould they put the T-54 or T-34 into a position where a tiny minority could get them I don't think so. But I guess this is what we get for being in the thrall of ignorant, nationalist and corrupt former soviets.
at least i know that i can count on those tier 10 prem tanks, when doing a push or defend a flank,
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