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Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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marko4231, on 30 January 2012 - 09:55 AM, said: Any news when 7.2 test server will go live?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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ZeZergling, on 30 January 2012 - 09:28 AM, said: Overlord, does the Type 59 have some sort of hidden armor bonus for the front upper hull?
'cause the number of bounces I get when fighting Type 59 with guns that should penetrate doesn't make sense, even when calculating for slope and normalisation.
Type 59 front upper hull: 100mm angled at 60 degrees from vertical
Line of sight thickness = 200mm
with 8 degrees normalisation = 162.4mm
with 6 degrees normalisation = 170.1mm
I get a 50/50 penetration/bounce rate when I fight Type 59s at 100 meter (or less) ranges in my Panther II with its 203mm pen 88mm L/71... even when the target is completely unangled and facing me directly.
Hell, I get frequent bounces even when I'm shooting downwards into the upper hull at close range.
Either the Type 59 has a 10% or 20% bonus to its armor, or there is something seriously wrong with the penetration on the 88mm L/71.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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EickhardtSr, on 30 January 2012 - 09:24 AM, said: It is a reply, if I understand you right... And my understanding of your reply is, I can't get a 460 meter view range and you will change the specifications listed in game, wich by the way sounds great...
Q.: Do I unsderstand you reply correct...?
Suggestions:
Make all listed specifications in the game be divided in two. One showing the maximum value without any consumables and modules, and one showing the current value with everything taken into consideration, crew%, consumables and modules... IMO this would remove a lot of confusion among players and you will get rid of my persistent quistions...

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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dzudzubajac, on 30 January 2012 - 09:07 AM, said: Isn't it more logical to display true specs - depending on crew on tank and mounted modules?

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neitmehr, on 30 January 2012 - 08:46 AM, said: Dear Overlord,
how are the odds that the exchange of T34 and T30 is dropped in favor of a release of 0.7.2 end of February?
Edit:
Thx for the neg rep. But look up the thread, you'll find no answer.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Trent, on 30 January 2012 - 03:01 AM, said: I've heard a strange rumor about the upcoming crew skills:
Players will be able to train qualification-specific secondary skills (for example, loader skills) only for the crew members which have that qualification as primary.
In other words: a commander in MS-1 won't be able train secondary skills for his other qualifications (he's also gunner, radioman, loader).
Q1: Is it true?
...and assuming it is...
Q2: I understand it might be done for "compatibility reasons" when transferring the crew. But then wouldn't it be better to simply allow training of such secondary skills and make "incompatible" skills turn off when crew member is transferred to another tank?
Players would need to do a "gold reset" of skills to make any use of the XP accumulated in the "incompatible" ones. Another incentive for players to use gold, so it will be advantageous for WG!
It would definitely be better than "banning", for example, loader skills from the tank, only because it doesn't have a separate loader.
Thanks

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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vlajko, on 30 January 2012 - 02:01 AM, said: Ok, I have two.
Is developer team aware of a very annouying bug which causes client to crash to desktop when starting a match and are they working on fixing it? It's been quite a while that bug is there. It doesn't happen too often, but it's really annoying and causes frustration.
Why was 5 man platoon idea abandoned? With certain limitations to tank types, it could be quite fun.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Szturmi, on 30 January 2012 - 12:38 AM, said: I have seen new unofficial statistics from RU server. It seems that French tanks are quite well balanced (usually slightly better win ratios in top tiers with exception for Lorraine and BatChat which have win ratio better by a few percents) so there should be no strong nerfes. Does your data shows similar pattern?
Edit 1
Some data from RU for comparision with published by Snib (TY ) two posts lower partiall EU statistics
AMX 50 100 50.51
AMX 50 120 50.67
AMX 50B 49.9
AMX 12t 49.84
AMX 13 75 52.32
AMX 13 90 52.74
Lorraine 56.27
Bat Chat 53.77

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Listy, on 30 January 2012 - 12:31 AM, said: So the Royal navy outnumbering the Germans between 10-1 and 100-1 (depending on ship classes) had nothing to do with it? And that's only in home waters too

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Nathaniak, on 29 January 2012 - 11:59 PM, said: The only reason that the Allies could open the second front was that the RAF had held out in the Battle of Britian. It was the survival of the RAF that led Hitler to cancel Operation Sealion (the invasion of the UK). If Britian had fallen, then Hitler could have turned his full force towards the USSR, and might not have failed to defeat them. The US could not ship an entire invasion force across the Atlantic onto hostile territory.
Remember, the US only joined the war against Germany in '41 because Hitler actually declared war on them.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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carvillan, on 29 January 2012 - 10:48 PM, said: With all due respect Overlord, your talking out your A*** with that statement about the RAF in the 30s and 50s. Rory has hit the nail on the head with some of his statements but he also forgot the fact that the British aviation industry at that time had made some landmark discoveries, a British engineer (Sir Frank Whittle) actually invented the jet engine.
Oh and let's not forget that the P51 Mustang was pretty limited until they put the Rolls Royce Merlin engine in it.
And a question, in the future would it be possible to show what HP% you took off each killed/damaged vehicle rather than just syaing who you killed/damaged?

Subject: International Forums\Baltic Forums\Latviešu\Spēles apspriešana\Vispārējas diskusijas\Speles bagi
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Rkrustnesis, on 30 January 2012 - 11:43 AM, said: Cool story bro
WOT ir čempions bagu un lagu daudzumā . Pat Black Ops savā laikā tiko izejot nesagādāja tik daudz nepatīkamus mirkļus kā WOT .Vienīgais reālais konkurents ir Stalker Clear Sky tikai tur bija vairāk bāgu kā te
Bet ko var grībēt no spēles kur tiek izmantots grafiskais dzinējos ko citi spēļu ražotāji būtu jau 5 - 6 gadus atpakaļ norakstījuši
P.S. Ja WG būtu gudri , nopirktu Unreal Engine 3 .....

Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Клановый раздел\[BTC] Baltic Storm
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NikLemos, on 29 January 2012 - 09:03 PM, said: Добрый день, бойцы, командиры Балтийского Шторма!
Прошу принять меры в отношении члена вашего клана:


Я всё понимаю, но это все рамки переходит. Оскорбление женщины, разжигание национальной розни..

Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Турниры и конкурсы\Викторины и конкурсы\Турнир «Январский взводный марафон»
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Subject: Les musiques dans le domaine du jeu vidéo.
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Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Snib, on 29 January 2012 - 09:11 PM, said: Well, twice on the outer spaced armor, not at all on the underlying hull armor.
Good stuff, but it just makes no sense that you would finally be redesigning it but still not display the actual effective stats (taking into account crew skills and equipment). Why? In particular with the new perks coming up it becomes exceedingly difficult for players to keep track of their tank's actual performance. I just today rewrote the wiki section on tank stats and added some examples. As you can see, there's a lot of math involved, why force players to do this?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Tupinambis, on 29 January 2012 - 09:02 PM, said: Hey OL, another quick question[s].
1. Has modeling work begun for the E-10 and E-25 TD's?
2. When the 2nd German TD line is released, can we expect the E-10 and E-25 as premiums? Or is the Jagdtiger 88mm L/71 the big premie planned for that patch update?
3. I know this has been asked before, but I'm having a strangely hard time finding the question. Are new game modes planned to launch along side the USSR heavy tree revision? Or in one of the following patches [i.e. along side the French or German TD's?]
Thank you!
EDIT: Oh yeah, 2 more question about premiums
4. I'm impatient to try Japanese tanks. Do you expect work for the premium Type 95 and TYpe 97 in the US tree to begin any time soon?
5. In both the French and "prototype" British tree, there are captured Italian tanks listed. Is the M/13 and P.40 going to appear as both a French and British premium?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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CosMoe, on 29 January 2012 - 07:40 PM, said: Hello Overlord,
what are the chances (%) of getting the lowest amount of damage after successful penetration?
Because as of now the 8.8cm KwK43 L71 of my Tiger P deals exactly 180 damage (the lowest amount possible) about every 15th shot and very rarely does more than the (stated) average 240 damage.
In my ~150 matches with the Tiger P I have dealt 300 damage (the highest amount possible) once!
(I know that for a fact because I use the OverTargetMarkers Mod and look for the extreme low and extreme high damage shots.)
Can you confirm that this is either very bad luck or somehow "working as intended"?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Detonator, on 29 January 2012 - 04:31 PM, said: Hi what was on the small patch that I got yesterday? it was about 3.6mb and put a "b" next to the version number.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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EickhardtSr, on 29 January 2012 - 04:21 PM, said: Greetings Overlord
On my T30 is says that I got a view range at 460 meters and if I mount optics and binos, I will get a maximum view range 500 meters (That's what it says when you mount optics or binos)
Q1: How do I achieve my 460 meters view range...?
I suspect that I can't and if my suspicion is correct:
Q2: Why do you then tell players that they can get a view range at 460 meters...?
Q3. and how many of the shown specifications in the game, is then misleading as well...?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Laughter, on 29 January 2012 - 06:54 PM, said: Will the clan wars maps still be merged (EU, RU and NA)?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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bgabor911, on 28 January 2012 - 11:03 PM, said: Nothing will happen to them. Premium tanks cannot be removed from the game, because a lot of people paid money for them.
And I dont even understand you logics. Why would WG remove those tanks at all? They are not affecting each other!
Plus, there are already some tanks in the game that have premium and non premium versions. Just think about the M3 Stuart or the Char B1/B2.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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bgabor911, on 28 January 2012 - 09:37 PM, said: Q: Overlord, could you dev guys implement some sort of player status indicator to the game?
I mean if I want a private chat with someone, I cant tell he is available, or he is in battle at the moment.
We could also use that kind of indicator on the 'friends' panel, chat panels, and one on the player statistics screen.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Sirianstar, on 28 January 2012 - 06:44 PM, said: Question 1: Spaced Armor hits gets normalized 2 times, once on each layer of armor?
Question 2: I worked hard for my US heavy crew, training it from T1 heavy to T34. As stated before T34 premium will receive the original crew and the M103 will receive the 100% crew. Can you do the opposite so i can avoid endind with 2 90% crews (for the double retraining?). I think it's more useful for the community to keep your worked hard crew on the US main line, not on the premium tank.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Orkel2, on 28 January 2012 - 05:17 PM, said: What's wrong with the servers? Constant lagspikes and lag, I just lost my Slugger daily doubles because my ping went to 999, was unable to control my tank and they killed me while it was frozen. And our team lost because of it.


Listy, on 28 January 2012 - 05:26 PM, said: Aye, effecting us as well. During peak times I was getting lag spikes of 190+. Normally I'm on under 40.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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fragit, on 28 January 2012 - 05:14 PM, said: Tiger Starting up
Are WG still working on new engine sounds.
Tiger starting up. wouldnt it be cool to have this sound at the start of battle.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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ZabojczyKartofel, on 28 January 2012 - 04:47 PM, said: One more question: if i have T30 researched, but not in garage, i would keep tier X HT researched (T110) and T30 (as a TD) or only T110 researched?

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bgabor911, on 28 January 2012 - 01:29 PM, said: Q: Overlord, the TigerII and the VK4502 (P) Ausf. A uses exactly the same PzKpfw- VIB Henschel Turm. Can you dev guys make it cross-researchable?
(For some unknown reason, the two turrets are in different Tiers, one is Tier8, and the other is Tier9 turret)

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Trent, on 28 January 2012 - 09:17 AM, said: Just looking for clarification here:
Are we talking about...
1. wholly separate, new mode of 3 superplatoons vs. 3 superplatoons (each platoon with 5 tanks)...
- or just -
2. 5-tank platoons unleashed on standard random battles?
Your answer above wouldn't surprise me if we were talking about option 2 (it's obvious that a well-coordinated group of 5 tanks would tip a balance in random game), but I was under the impression that superplatoons were being developed as a wholly separate, new game mode - and the reason for that was precisely because it would be possible (thanks to some restrictions being put in place etc.) to ensure some kind of balance that way.
Thanks

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Snib, on 28 January 2012 - 07:08 AM, said: Epic medals are never listed in the post battle report. Only in your garage. Plus targets need to be tier 4+, so you possibly didn't get one anyway.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Plasma_Fire, on 28 January 2012 - 03:19 AM, said: Overlord would it be possible to setup a Q&A thread that allows us all to ask the developers and WG staff questions that are related to the game but not so much about game play.
To ask questions of the developers that are a little more relivant than those rather pointless 9 year old questions threads posted by LiannaSilverwind a few months back

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Plasma_Fire, on 28 January 2012 - 02:09 AM, said: So what nations will be in the game from the start if Great Britain is not there?
I wouldnt have thought it possible to make a war planes game without Great Britain in it.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Tank_Killer1, on 27 January 2012 - 11:09 PM, said: Overlord
Will the new KV-1/2 have a 85mm gun?

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FLOZi, on 27 January 2012 - 10:31 PM, said: Any idea how much xp will be required to research KV-4 from KV-3 in final soviet tree?
Will KV-4 be included in the same patch as KV-1/2 split and KV-3/T-150 change?

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Gaffield, on 27 January 2012 - 08:47 PM, said: I have read most of your answers and didnt see this asked or answered anywhere.
The T30 and T95 both use the T7 155, T95 version got the AT prefix, will having the T30 transfered to the TD tree then unluck the T7 for the T95 now that both are tankdestroyers?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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ZabojczyKartofel, on 27 January 2012 - 08:34 PM, said: 1.Public test - most likely - next week?
2.We will get our accounts status (on public test) from 15 November, last public test or there is new date with saves?

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Comrade_Rory, on 27 January 2012 - 07:08 PM, said: It makes me happy to see more of a focus on Britain in the areas that it did best in.
I wonder though, has it been hard to create a tree for Russia in WoB? I only ask because as far as i'm aware, most of it's navy didn't change from WWI through WWII, whereas every other power during the time was popping out different classes of ships every other month
And what made you decide to not release WoWP with Britain? Since the RAF was far more important during the interwar/WWII period than both the USAF and USSR airforce? (it's also the oldest independent air force in the world)

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Okeanos, on 27 January 2012 - 05:50 PM, said: Hi Overlord
Q1: why can i only report 3 retards pr. day? are there not more stupid people on the server than those 3?
Q2: why does my forum post disappearing without a trace? i'm not even getting RO any more when I act like a retard, my posts just disappear in the thin air. Wouldn't it be fair to notify me when you delete some of the things I have written in here?

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Gigaton, on 27 January 2012 - 05:08 PM, said: Incidentally, will USSR be a starter in WoB dispite their rather minor naval exploits (servicing WG's large Russian market is understandable, afterall)?
Or will we get USA, Brits and either Germany or Japan as starters?

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MobiusOne, on 27 January 2012 - 05:00 PM, said: Will all due respect to you Overlord (love your Q&A thread and loved your blog -hoping that someday you retake it!!!-):
Credit and respect is something that is earned, not given.
If WG announces that a new team will be taking over the EU community and the first thing they do is putting out the worst event i have ever seen, what they did exactly expect??? Love and a rain of flowers??
Normally when you are new to a place/job/relationship.... you try to give your best image, so I think everybody was waiting for a pretty neat special to boost the french tree and welcome the new EU team but instead we got a pretty neat fail that the only thing that's gonna achieve is make the EU customer base reluctant to this new WG team.