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May 9, 2013

9.5.2013

- SerB uses his own ideas to improve the game, not the community's: "90 percent of ideas from gaming community are stupid, 9 percent are not realizable and 0,99 percent from the remaining 1 percent are already planned"
- apparently the German "dunkelgelb" yellow color scheme won't be implemented as base color (SS: unclear whether it will be implemented at all)
- apparently the Jagdmaus is not planned for now (SS: I am not sure the player asking was referring to Jagdmaus, it's my guess)
- T-34 has two engines: 480 hp and 500 hp - the difference is 4,2 percent increase, but according to SerB this does not mean that when buying the new engine, the overall tank dynamics is increased by 4,2 percent - the difference is apparently more, because the hp-dynamics increase is nonlinear
- several tanks have more rangefinder modules that affect visibility (for example the Object 907, which actually has 4 crew periscopes) - hitting more than one doesn't however decrease the tank viewrange even more, for viewrange calculation they all count as one
- according to SerB, the Jagdmaus had the same armament variants as the Jpz E-100 - 150mm and 170mm
- more special T10 vehicles are not planned for now
- the special T10 vehicles will (according to SerB) be very difficult to get
- there were cases where other developers wanted to implement something and SerB said "no" (and personally blocked it), but also cases where other developers didn't want something, but SerB pushed it over disagreement personally - but he won't give any details
- Q: "Why do all trees make the same sound when they fall?" A: "Because the game is not called World of Falling Tree Sounds"
- IS-6 gun won't be buffed ("Don't play IS-6")

94 comments:

  1. Hmmmm, I wonder how hard "the special T10 vehicles will (according to SerB) be very difficult to get" will turn out to be. Silent Stalker if you can uncover from your sources in advance the exact or somewhat accurate speculated way they might distribute them that would be greatly appreciated.

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    1. If any player can get them and it not CW related count me excited!

      -kariverson

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    2. T10 ? I'm confused, is it just IS-8 or Tier X ?

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    3. Now i know why in game tiers are in roman numbers :3

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    4. awwww, and i thougt the T34 could be awesome ;)

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  2. Just found this while strolling around the (EU)forums:

    http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/244239-military-parade-special-nearly-the-same-everywhere/

    Will EU get a nearly exact special as them?

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    1. This is not a question for developers - but yes, it's likely

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  3. this rules:
    - Q: "Why do all trees make the same sound when they fall?" A: "Because the game is not called World of Falling Tree Sounds"

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    1. +1

      I laughed soo hard! ...

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    2. Sometimes I get the impression that forum users tend to sit there more often than play actual game...

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    3. Brilliant response, I love Serb's attitude towards idiocy.

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  4. "SerB uses his own ideas to improve the game, not the community's"

    "90 percent of ideas from gaming community are stupid"

    "Alaric Commemorative: 'Is given to player of winning team, who destroyed at least 2 enemy tanks and at least one monument'

    Lumberjack Commemorative: 'Is given to player of winning team, who destroyed at least 3 enemy tanks and pulled down at least 30 trees'"

    Some of SerB's are hardly MENSA qualifying...

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    1. U know not everything that gets implementet was/is SerBs idea (yeah the WG team consits of more then one person...)

      BTW. some players requestet a Lumberjack medal some time ago...

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    2. Let me guess:
      "Great" ideas come from SerB (even though he might seen it on suggestions,and claim as his own)
      Terrible ideas come from rest of the devs,and SerB was too busy/lazy/whatever to veto down those ideas.

      I`d like to see his IQ test results.
      Steiner011

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    3. > I`d like to see his IQ test results.

      Well, he is a nuclear physicist by his education and first profession.

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    4. Well, I think SerB can be a dick, but he's definitely not stupid. And let's face it, most of what comes from the "community" is utter garbage.

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    5. I USED to frequent the suggestion forum.

      Then every single one of my posts became a bitter and condescending tirade explaining how someone hadn't thouht anything through.

      Most of the playerbase's suggestions ARE retarded.

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    6. sure most suggestions are garbage but there are good legit suggestions such as limiting 3 arties per side, and making the game less RNG and more skill based. serb dont bs on ur vids saying ur working closely with the community when ur simply making all the game decision by urself.

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    7. Your legit suggestions looks retarded to me.

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    8. ^ lol u sucking serbs d*** these days?
      these suggestions come from the majority of the community.

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  5. - there were cases where other developers wanted to implement something and SerB said "no" (and personally blocked it), but also cases where other developers didn't want something, but SerB pushed it over disagreement personally...

    Hmm, has SerB so much influence at WG? Since this person has some kind of "strange" political attitudes (like his
    disparaging remarks about a Gulag book, which described the horror there), this is actually very questionable.

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    1. He's the chief developer. I think that only V.Kisly is above him.

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    2. Well he is the boss when it comes to game development..so the answer is : yesm he has influence..

      -EmperorSafirius

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    3. Lol, Frank ninja'd me xD

      -EmperorSafirius

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    4. Yes, I think Frank is right about it, there's only Kisly above SerB

      SerB despite his roughness seems to be pretty wise person as I look on how WoT changed since ver. 7.0 (I started playing WoT then) and I think SerB's autocratic rule isn't bad after all when you look at course of changes.

      More importantly, I'm happy that they disregard player opinions on forum concerning game development. It's better to say "You're dumb and your opinions are shit" and then proceed with their own ideas instead of saying "Yes, of course, you're right, yes! Our customers are most important!" and then either nothing happens or they make short-term additions to only please whiny forums...

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    5. SerB is also capable of being diplomatic when he wants:
      http://overlord-wot.blogspot.com/2012/08/wot-serbs-interview-to-serbs.html
      his usual style could just be an example of "cultural difference" or maybe all those silly questions end up pissing him off quite often.

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    6. Agreed, I think it all boils down to the fact that people just want to troll him to no end and he starts reacting that way...

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    7. Imho the changes are not bad, but the rate is slow.

      SerB could be less of a dick on some accasions, though. He's a grown up man.

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    8. >implying grown-up men aren't the primary global reservoir of complete assholes

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  6. - SerB uses his own ideas to improve the game, not the community's: "90 percent of ideas from gaming community are stupid, 9 percent are not realizable and 0,99 percent from the remaining 1 percent are already planned"


    He mas be the smartest man in the world ?

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  7. Its a miracle that SerB is still taken seriously by some members of the playerbase.

    He calls players stupid on every chance he gets.

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    1. "Nichts ist härter als die Wahrheit"
      -Bild

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    2. he doenst call players stupid, he calls stupid players that ask stupid questions stupid ;)

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    3. QUOTE: He calls players stupid on every chance he gets.

      Hearing truth is always hard ... ;)

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    4. It also helps that he's mostly right, at least if both 95% of forum content and pubbie randomz are to judge by.

      Incidentally, what was that proverb about hitting a nerve or somesuch...?

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    5. He is right though. ;)

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    6. Most of the player base sucks at the game, of course SerB discounts them.

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    7. While I'll fully agree that there are allot of stupid people out there; having a game developer judge everyone because of those (seemingly 95% according to you guys) people just seems rather foolish myself.

      Sure there's nothing much we can do save for stop playing the game - but do we really?

      We're basicly paying him his salary and being insulted to boot.
      That to me is a clear sign of a grade A prick.

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    8. serb can simply choose to ignore the q he doesnt like but instead he chooses to insult and troll the player. i think the rus player base is purposely putting up retarded q just to piss him off, essentially hes the one getting trolled.

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    9. >>We're basicly paying him his salary and being insulted to boot.
      That to me is a clear sign of a grade A prick.<<

      Are you saying SerB could be a great government/local official?

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    10. Everyone needs a hobby.

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  8. http://noobmeter.com/player/ru/serb

    Yea......Spot on average player balancing the game.

    'Arties are fine'
    'Tier 5 howitzers are fine'
    and the list goes on.

    And the spot on average player being the one balancing the game
    and a stubborn troll man-child, WG refuses to take any opinion/recommendation/complain about it from the best players of the game with more insight.

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    1. The "average" player is borderline retarded with no concept of team gameplay, map awareness, and disadvantages/advantages of even their own vehicle. They DO ruin the game and make it damn near impossible to add any more complicated gameplay than "capture flag" or "kill enemy". On things the "best players" have proposed its either stuff that has been considered and dropped for infeasibility at current time or were already in the works already.

      Also go read some of the questions he gets asked, it's literally the stupidest shit ever.

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    2. ^ its a f2p game, wat do u expect? also blame the devs for refusing to put in a skill based MM when every single other competitive game has it.

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  9. I think this SerB guy is actually kind of retarded. The community brings from time to time great ideas. He tells us that : "90 percent of ideas from gaming community are stupid" ? Well ,f*** him! Why doesn't he just add some tier 20 tanks that can have 2 guns and fire them both with nuclear shells?

    Gameplay is so poor these days,gold shells everywhere,arty nuking even behind cover...I think SerB has 200 eff with 40% WR and it's normal to consider unfair ranked battles. He won't get to ruin WR of good players anymore.

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    1. "Why doesn't he just add some tier 20 tanks that can have 2 guns and fire them both with nuclear shells?"

      because stuff like this is usually coming from the community.
      just look at the forums. questions like "when do we get T-72, Leo 2 etc" come up maybe once a week. of course his answer is typically serb style, but in general he is absolutely right not to listen to the players

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    2. gold shells for credits was one of the few ideas that came from the community and they are the reason why i understand that WG should never ever again listen to those whining babys on the forum.

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    3. He has a 54% solo account AFAIK.
      Also a lot of the worst ideas have been from community pressure and expediting fixes in lieu of final balancing.

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    4. "because stuff like this is usually coming from the community."

      +1

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  10. Here is an awesome suggestion Serb!
    Give us a JagdPanzer E-100 with a 128mmL66/L71 that is either like a JagdTiger or a JagdPanther. No 150mm or 170mm. Ultimate Sniper!
    Give us a JagdMaus with either 150mm or 170mm gun. Problems solveD!

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    1. Apart from being completely unhistorical, such a vehicle would also be useless: what is the point of having superheavy armor tank destroyer with E-100 mobility that can't even hide between shots and has to stay uncovered in order to get some decent DPM?

      In order to be a "sniper" you also have to have decent camouflage...

      Plus, what the hell is 128mm L/71? That didn't exist.

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    2. jgpz E-100 have much worse mobility than E-100... I think that 17 cm just need accuracy or RoF buff to be ok

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    3. I am at the point in which historical accuracy doesnt matter(after Failowe). Besides, a 128mm L66 would weigh less, and if WG finally decides to buff that E-100 Ausf.B engine to 1300 horse power (in order to be better than the Ausf A for the E-75). Some more tweaks for the vehicle to be faster and more maneuverable and 600 dmg on an otherwise excellent gun, -8 gun depression due to jagdtiger placement... and we get a bigger better JagdTiger. Makes sense gameplay-wise, would keep the previous styles learned on previous german TDs. Jtiger does not have great camo, it is still awesome... a tier 10 one would be even more.

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    4. How about no?

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    5. Of coarse it wont happen. It makes too much sense :P .

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    6. I'm sorry, I haven't smoked enough crack and sucked enough dick for said crack for that to make sense.

      The problem with the JPE-100 is the E-100 chassis.
      Not only that you jumped to the worst of the possible options instead of going for a more balance 15cm.

      I guess this is an example of "awesome community idears!"

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    7. E-100 chassis isnt that bad... E-100 turns much faster than JPE because it has 2 degrees better traverse and it has lower terrain resistence. Making stats of JPE-100 suspension same as have E-100 would help it a lot.

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    8. I have to agree. E-100 is not a bad chassis, it just needs soft stat buffs. Also what is so bad in an accurate, fast firing, decent damage, high penetration gun? The Jtiger gun is still one of the finest in the game, even post Tier 10 TD launch. Surely one that is like it but better is a good idea. And for people that like boom-sticks we have a JagdMaus. Those that were grinding accurate, fast firing hull down TDs are getting one.

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  11. I'm more for a 150mm on Jagdpanzer E100 and 170mm on JagdMaus

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  12. I hope I can get the top tier special tanks..since you know I'm not one to be good at this game I would like to get one of my fave med tanks.. also He chooses weather to implement or say no to everything? kinda dictatorship wannabe.

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  13. - SerB uses his own ideas to improve the game, not the community's: "90 percent of ideas from gaming community are stupid, 9 percent are not realizable and 0,99 percent from the remaining 1 percent are already planned"

    Than why is the Player Suggestions topic on forum?

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    1. For PR duties.

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    2. It's also a nice sink for "awesome" players ideas, while the devs can focuse on doing their job.

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  14. >T-34 has two engines: 480 hp and 500 hp - the difference is 4,2 percent increase, but according to SerB this does not mean that when buying the new engine, the overall tank dynamics is increased by 4,2 percent - the difference is apparently more, because the hp-dynamics increase is nonlinear

    aha another important piece of information on how the game works, and man i really hate how much hidden factors are in this game. Its unbelievable, we basically play a black box game, where all the values you see in game are irrelevant and not comparable with each other because of all the the hidden values.

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    1. What do you need to know?! You need top engine, top gun... crew whit 100 % skill and equipment.
      Rest is on you to be usefull with a tank.

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    2. I tend to agree with pnegro. It's not like tanks can have alternative builds engine-wise, the top engine is always better (even though sometimes only barely, like making one of the Chinese top engines only 20kg lighter or something).

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    3. There is no alternative build for tanks mostly (there used to be for example T29 two builds... not anymore) - but there are alternative "invention paths" - you have to decide what you need to invent in tank firs.

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  15. So what could be the requirements for the new special T10's?

    Completing the entire techtree of the specific nation of the tank? Getting into the top 200 of the leaderboards? Being in a clan that has held territory for a certain ammount of time/has a certain daily income? Maybe it costs 200 USD? ALL OF THE ABOVE?

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    1. I just hope its something that doesnt require beeing in a proclan and playing cw 24/7, so other (above average) ppl will also be able to get them

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  16. - there were cases where other developers wanted to implement something and SerB said "no" (and personally blocked it), but also cases where other developers didn't want something, but SerB pushed it over disagreement personally - but he won't give any details

    i think there is even a psychological terms for that kind of behavior. Im missing it right now. Anyone knows?

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    1. It's called "being the Chief Game Designer".

      It's his job to do that, but I know how hard it is for many people to understand what a "job" is.

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    2. And who is there to watch Serb? To push an (godd to great) idea when Serb tries to block it and wo block an shit idea when Serb tries to push it?

      I guess Victor could do it, but i pretty sure he has no time for that. Why? It's not his Job.

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    3. Doesn't Vic play the game himself too? Plus I'd be sinceresly surprised if he wasn't fairly interested in what his underlings are doing with his main source of income...

      Anyways, I seriously doubt their dev branch operates that autocratically; it's just that when there are disputes whoever's in charge eventually has to decide one way or another so that the job actually gets done instead of getting mired in creative differences. As in any organisation.

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  17. "Don't play IS-6"

    I wish Serb made a list with all the tanks I shouldn't play. It sucks when you pick a tank only to find out later it was not intended by the developers to be played.

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    1. Actually all the SerB is telling you to do with the IS-6 is play it with Gold Rounds.. >.>

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    2. I like how you conveniently miss that the question was yet another of the dozens of "I suk in x tank, BUFF NAO!" posts that pop up.

      Also IS-6 is fine, it is balanced by having a harder to use gun. With gold it is a stat padding workhorse.

      Maybe it is just you?

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    3. The last I checked "Don't play X" was SerB's standard snark to "buff X cuz I suck playing it" whines...

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  18. As if Is6 ever needs a buff, lol.

    But i should be thankful, the ignorant masses from the RU server is dedicating their life everyday to keep this beast's WR down.

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  19. Whats the reason for not implementing "dunkelgelb"??? Germany misses a proper desert camo, when the entire tank was painted in that desert type of yellow...why? -.-'

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    1. It's possible it will come as one of the camo colours, but not as "basic" colour, which is grey, despite the fact that historically some vehicles had factory dunkelgelb coating and the post-war vehicles such as the Leopard were olive-drab (I think)

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    2. Ah ok, thanks :)

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  20. - there were cases where other developers wanted to implement something and SerB said "no" (and personally blocked it), but also cases where other developers didn't want something, but SerB pushed it over disagreement personally - but he won't give any details
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    Sweet old dictatorship communism...ok i do agree that he doesn't need to listen to community since most of the ideas are really stupid, but why the hell is he fighting with his co-working developers about it...are they also equally stupid as most of the ideas that came from community?

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    1. It's called "being in charge". If you think creative disagreements in-house and the people higher up the totem pole "pulling rank" over the rest if it comes down to that is something unusual and noteworthy I'm hazarding a guess you have no first- or second-hand experience of working in any kind of organisation whatsoever...

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  21. Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but who is SerB?

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    1. Its Stalin's retarded grandson :D

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    2. SerB is one arrogant and ugly b***h and a reason for canceling premium account. Idiots like him gets rich by players. And this fag uses every chance to bash these players...

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    3. Its the "lead guy" in development for WOT.

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  22. thats funny shit, because 90 pct of Serbs ideas are russian bias and just flat out wrong.....

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    1. Superior American comfort laughs at your whiny bullshit.

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  23. - apparently the German "dunkelgelb" yellow color scheme won't be implemented as base color (SS: unclear whether it will be implemented at all)

    Damn it -.-

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    1. If Dunkelgelb is *anything* like the yellow base paint in some of the camo schemes, thank God for that. Ten out of seven dentists agree; the stuff causes eye cancer.

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  24. Problem is, 90% of SerB's ideas are stupid too.

    Oh well, at least now I know I shouldn't be directing my anger for all the stupid game-breaking shit in WoT at the devs in general, just that useless asshole SerB.

    Sorry if this breaks any blog rules I am not aware of. Feel free to censor it if it does.

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  25. Serb is like a cop he just keeps things moving smoothly. I think Storm is more the brains behind the development.

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