Developers posts on forum

KRZYBooP:   If you start a new account Boot Camp is the first thing you have to do. It does go through how to use consumables, (by driving into the enemy that's fully camo'ed and being damaged.) how to train your crew is in there, and it recommends 6th sense, it shows you how to research, how to cap and defend a point, then allows them for a tier 6 tank of their choice. 

Einzelganger7: I usually use it as a sniper or mid range support, in my opinion the key is to use it as a fast shooting TD, of course the camo rating will not allow to shoot and stay hidden if the enemy has decent view range so careful with that (try to get sixth sense if your commander is still without it) but if you avoid getting much damage on the late game it can be more offensive and actually effective taking down enemies with low HP thanks to the good reload speed, mine with crew at 100% + rammer and vents has a reload of 3.3 seconds. Also have in mind that if you are top tier it can be fighting along heavies and by sidescraping you could bounce tier six and some seven so I'd say take the sniper role only when fighting against tier 8 and 9.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys!  We have done the Boot Camp or pressed Escape after the loading video and left it. Some things are done well for players like explaining the importance of flanking with UI queues and arrows dropped on the map. Then there are some things not covered very well like concealment, how to angle your armor, and some of the roles each tank is most likely to fill. Those are some of the things I noticed, but I might be missing some details that many of you could fill in.  Take yourself back to when you first started to play World of Tanks. What did you wish the tutorial explained a little better? If you haven't played in a while you can always access boot camp by pressing escape and entering boot camp again.  Thank you very much for any feedback provided, and I look forward to reading the responses. 

MA77: ¡Saludos, Comandantes!  ¿Qué les parecen los Planos y Recompensas por Mérito? ¡Mucha suerte en el campo de batalla!

MA77: Saudações!   A Atualização 1.4.1 está batendo na porta e com ela novidades serão adicionadas: Projetos, Recompensas por Mérito, Skins de Tripulantes e muito mais. Assista nosso vídeo e fique por dentro de tudo que está chegando:     Não deixe de comentar suas opiniões sobre o que está chegando nesta atualização.   Grande abraço!    

DomoSapien: Check out all the details for update 1.4.1, including Random Rewards and Blueprints

Felipe6666Original:   Corregido   ¡Saludos!

KRZYBooP: Domo Confirmed:    "Arty hits me I ded, but if Arty hits near me I loose all my wheels."    Start loving Arty everyone . 

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys!  Check out the newest addition to World of Tanks: Blueprints to unlock Tanks.   NOTE: The Blueprints concept is not final: It consists of several aspects and is under active development, so expect adjustments.    

Einzelganger7: The past month I reached Lv 19 during the free times I had and I never played again, the first time this mode got released it felt less like a chore of exp farming and more like a relaxing mode, of course the rewards were just tank styles but still I will not stop going to school and my job during each Frontline week just to farm for prestiges, it was good as an "out of routine" mode from the typical random battles but now it is a chore, is too late to recomend a decrease of exp needed to reach Lv 30 but at least I hope the next year it could be possible to achieve a decent reward for those who work and study, like in my case.

KRZYBooP:   Is this a German Friend? 

KRZYBooP:   Destroying Wheels does reduce the maneuverability of the Wheelie Tanks. You can tell when the wheels get Wobbly.    More information about Wheeled Vehicles can be found here:  

TragicLoss: We still have room for a few more lucky folk to join us! Please post your interest in attending

Felipe6666Original: ¡Buenas!   Vengo con algunas novedades respecto del nivel X, el UDES 15/16 dado que en base a los resultados que obtuvimos hasta ahora en el Supertest le ajustamos algunos parámetros. El estilo de juego de toda esta nueva rama se basa en la movilidad y el daño, y lo mantendremos en la nueva fase de pruebas. Estos son los cambios que efectuamos:   Reducimos algunos parámetros:   Daño alfa: de 460 a 440. Rango de visión: de 420 a 390.   Y mejoramos varios otros:   Velocidad máxima: de 45/20 a 50/24 km/h. Potencia del motor: de 480 a 570 CV. Cadencia de tiro: de 5,66 a 6,36. Tiempo de apuntamiento: de 2,4 a 2,2 segundos. Dispersión en movimiento: de 0,2 a 0,14. Blindaje del chasis (frontal superior y laterales): de 40 a 50 mm.   Como siempre, tengan en cuenta que todos estos valores pueden seguir cambiando de acuerdo a los resultados de las pruebas.   ¡Saludos!

MA77: Saudações, comandantes. O segundo episódio do Linha de Frente está chegando ao fim, e nós queremos que você compartilhe conosco sua experiência e opiniões sobre o modo.
Grande abraço!

1984BigBrother: Tankers, Tonight (3/16/2019 8 PM EST/7 CST/5 PST), I will be participating in a Death Race with CLAWS as part of their Clan Spotlight: https://worldoftanks...ght-claws-2019/ The event will be steamed, check the comments for the list of CLAWS streamers. GL HF, Big

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TragicLoss:   I'd love to do a motorcycle ride! That'd be awesome

DomoSapien:   PSA: Each NA Community Contributor has 5 Codes to giveaway for 3-day HWK30 rentals, and 1 Permanent HWK30 to giveaway.

DomoSapien: Coming soon in 2020: World of Garage

DomoSapien: I would (respectfully, of course) disagree. None of the questions I submitted from this thread were particularly 'hard' or loaded questions, and they answered more difficult questions in the same Q&A. There's no conspiracy here.
lol you actually may have inspired some changes in the AMA format for the future because they made a genuine effort to try and answer as many of your questions as they could, which took up quite a bit of time. A bunch of comments on the reddit thread went unanswered, your megacomment may have made a contribution to that

 

DomoSapien:   I can definitely pass your questions on but if you're getting a LOT of ghost shells, there may be a packet loss issue with one of the hops between you and our servers. Ping and packet loss are two different phenomena (usually they go hand-in-hand but not always). I know contacting Customer Support generally isn't super fun, but they genuinely may be able to assist you with this, or at the very least pinpoint the malfunctioning hop.

DomoSapien:

DomoSapien: Updated values are in for the second round of Supertest for Swediums!

The Supertest for the new Swedish mediums is at its peak, and today we’re introducing changes to the stats of the UDES 15/16 (Tier X). As we stated before, the “high damage yield, average mobility medium” concept was chosen for all of these vehicles. Sticking with it, we enter the next testing iteration. The typical features are in place, and the changes are few.   Some parameters will decrease: • Alpha — from 460 to 440 points View range — from 420 to 390 meters   But many stats will improve: • Top speed (forward / in reverse) — from 45/20 to 50/24 km/h • Engine power — from 480 to 570 hp • Rate of fire — from 5.66 to 6.36 • Aiming time — from 2.4 to 2.2 seconds • Dispersion on the move — from 0.2 to 0.14 • Hull armor (the glacis plate and the sides) — from 40 to 50 mm Turret armor — up by 10–15 mm at the front, and up by 50 mm on the commander’s cupola (effective armor in both cases)

DomoSapien:   I feel this on a spiritual level. This describes my experience with the tank, word for word. I think part of it is me operating under the impression that I'm driving an invincible killing machine so I play way too aggressively. 

DomoSapien:
Right, which is why I've passed the feedback on to our competitive gaming guys so they can take it into consideration and do a full risk/benefit analysis.    It's a cool idea and I'm all for figuring out more ways to incentivize tournament participation for players who aren't quite on that hyper-competitive level, because the best thing we've sort of got right now is just throwing a bunch of boosters at them.

The_Chieftain: Find me one in good condition, if you can.

DomoSapien: It's a cool idea but it does have potential for abuse. I'll pass it on to the tournament guys and see what they think but we would have to be careful implementing something like this.

As much as I love our players... y'all are the reason we can't have nice things   What I mean by this: past experiences have shown that If you implement a feature to make a highly-competitive aspect of a game more accessible to players who aren't on that level, players who are on that level tend to figure out ways to game it, effectively barring the intended audience from participating in it. For example, if you restrict a tournament to players with a certain personal rating, there will be those who will intentionally tank their PR on alt accounts to be able to access the tournament.

Not writing it off, but it may be more difficult than it seems to implement.

DomoSapien: So, I did post all of your questions but I think the red "Wargaming Employee" tags next to my name may have tripped up everybody doing the AMA and tricked them into glossing over my comment, since the questions weren't answered   I'll see if I can follow up on these personally.

TragicLoss:   Invites are going out today. CHECK YOUR FORUM PMs   This is first come first serve, please RSVP for you and anyone you're bringing along, it is a limited space event.   EDIT: Reminder ------ Posting here is NOT your RSVP. Please use the link in the PM to reserve your ticket. You WILL get an email confirmation

DomoSapien: It's a quality-of-life issue that's a biproduct of our dated forum software.

Try clicking 'view all messages' when you pop open the messages dropdown, that should get rid of them.

Felipe6666Original:   Es que, en cierta forma, como yo me encargo de revisar todo el apartado técnico luego de que se crean los torneos, algunas cosas (como el display del horario en el preview) pueden que estén mal hasta que las corrija, pero como estoy de vacaciones...   ¡Saludos!

DomoSapien: Will post questions 1 and 2!

As for personal questions 1 through 3:
1) Star Wars
3) Favorite original: Hard to choose. Jedi had the best lightsaber duel, Empire had the best storyline and pacing. Least favorite character from the originals: Wedge - him and Luke are childhood friends but all their dialogue is extremely surface-level. Like, he's not the least bit surprised that a kid he was shooting womprats with is a Jedi, which would come as a shock to most considering all the jedi are supposedly dead. 
least favorite from the prequels is Anakin. Hayden Christensen has the emotional range of a piece of driftwood.
least favorite from the Disney films: the entire main cast of Rogue One, except the robot. Actual spoilers below: It's problematic when the saddest part of what's supposed to be a relatively sad film is when the robot dies.
I was actually looking forward to everyone dying at the end.
On a side note it always bothers me how the epic fanservice payoff scene at the end with Darth Vader slaughtering everyone on that ship completely shattered the continuity of why the lightsaber duels in the original trilogy are so stiff compared to the crazy acrobatics etc in the prequels. I always figured Vader was stiff because he was restricted by the suit and damage to his body (and Obi Wan's old age was catching up to him), but somehow in the short time between Rogue One and A New Hope he somehow COMPLETELY forgets how to fight with a lightsaber because Vader was spinning that saber around doing all kinds of crazy moves at the end of RO then moves like a robot in ANH.
As for the latest films, generally I feel that they are entertaining enough, and very visually pleasing but the writing is complete and utter nonsense. The Last Jedi is absolutely riddled with gaping plot holes, and the whole 'anybody can be a jedi, new franchise, new rules' theme that it hammered home towards the end really struck me as almost a "sucks for you, Star Wars Fans! We Disney now"   At the same time, I actually enjoyed TLJ the most out of the recent films, followed by Solo, TFA, and RO.

Whew! Wasn't expecting to write that much but as you can see I'm quite passionate about the subject.   As for question 4) No, sorry, gotta treat all our players equally, but I will give you this tip: every time we release a new vehicle, each of our Community Contributors gets 1 to giveaway on their channels. With that in mind, you might want to subscribe to some of our smaller CC's like AirG, Guido1212, Goshism, OminousFyxen - if there are less people in chat that means less people to compete with for giveaways!
 

DomoSapien:
Actually you can check out the first wave of proposed Kranvagn changes here: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/599245-st-emil-i-emil-ii-kranvagn-rebalance/ The general jist of what the current, initial plans for Swedish heavies is to reduce number of shells in clip but also reduce reload time accordingly and buff the DPM overall.

DomoSapien:   I'm going to be honest with you here, I'm not sure what in my reply warranted this quote/response (unless it sounds cheeky, because I was going for more of a confused/disheartened tone than a cheeky one - I can see how that could be interpreted both ways, though) I would be genuinely interested in seeing that correspondence in its original context.
Not trying to get anyone in trouble but if said situation transpired, verbatim, as you described, the staff member in question may benefit from some refresher training on etiquette. Can you send me a PM with more details so I can follow up on this?   Our community, like any community, has some bad apples and generally is far from sainthood (the game is about tanks and blowing stuff up some obviously it attracts some people who are rough around the edges), but as someone who's been gaming virtually his entire life I've seen plenty worse. I've had allies spend literally their entire battle trying to right my flipped tank, which is pretty darn far from selfish.

 

DomoSapien:   Sure! are you specifically hoping to get a sneak peek at some potentially updated stats, or is your question more along the lines of 'what's going on with these tier X vehicles that were announced for rebalance at WG Fest?" Want to make sure I ask the right question

DomoSapien:   B-but literally everything you mentioned except Wheeled vehicles were already part of the first iteration of FL...

MA77: Saudações, comandantes.   Nós já fizemos nossa escolha de qual protótipo trabalhar para lançarmos em breve nos servidores. A versão escolhida é maior (1000x1000 metros) e tem sua área aberta significativamente retrabalhada. Não menos importante, o mapa foi rotacionado em 45º - comparado com sua variante anterior, tornando-se mais vertical do que diagonal. Isso cria mais oportunidades para os diferentes tipos de veículos.     Os blocos da cidade e a praça central: Nós tentamos mantê-los o mais intacto aqui para que você se familiarize rapidamente. Esta zona é destinada aos veículos bem blindados e também a região onde há sempre uma corrida para pegar as boas posições primeiro. Novos objectos também estão presentes: barricadas, "varandas” e mais.   A parte central do mapa é uma nova região: Ela contém um fosso para armas anti-tanque, crateras formadas por explosões e alguns espaços abertos. O fosso tem como objetivo inibir travessias rápidas desta região para a cidade. Você deverá usar este fosso como um dos caminhos de chegar sorrateiramente na base inimiga e fazer a festa detectando e danificando-os. Esta região é ideal para veículos rápidos e manobráveis.   A região oeste do mapa tem subidas: Veículos com boa mobilidade e com capacidade de disparar de longas distâncias poderão aproveitar-se desta região. O controle desta região significa controlar quase todo o mapa, com a opção de sorrateiramente pegar os inimigos por trás.   Durante o próximo Superteste, nós planejamos estimar como irá fluir a jogabilidade do mapa Kharkov e introduzir alguns equilíbrios, caso seja necessário. O próximo estágio será basicamente um polimento do mapa, nos permitindo deixá-lo em sua melhor configuração para que ele possa estar presente em nossos servidores o quanto antes.     Mais Imagens       Configuração do Mapa   Até o lançamento final do mapa, suas configurações e características podem mudar.   Diga para nós o que achou da nova versão de Kharkov!   Grande abraço. 

DomoSapien: No worries! I'll share your questions on Reddit when the AMA goes live! And thank you, I appreciate the kind words <3

DomoSapien:
1) Yes. huuuuuge nerd. I play tanks, watch anime & cartoons, love the MCU... the list goes on.
2) I believe "cabbagemechanic" was a term used in the military to refer to terrible cooks, what he does or doesn't do with cabbages in his spare time is something I would prefer to go on not knowing about.
3) You sure you didn't start lobbing shells at him first?

I'll post your question to the AMA when it goes live as well

DomoSapien: KrzyBoop is out today so unfortunately these don't come with gator-skin seat covers or fuzzy dice for your rearview mirror, but one of my favorite tier IV premiums of all time is currently on sale in a variety of bundles (the base bundle with 500 gold is priced pretty reasonably at ten bucks): The T-28 with F-30!
This thing is an absolute terror at tier IV - the gun handling is a bit rough, but that's to be expected when you take the gun from the tier VI T-34-85 and slap it on a T-28.
Do you enjoy seeing 3/4 of the enemy's HP go away with one click? This is the tank for you. Check out the article for all the details!

DomoSapien:
The last AMA we had in November with Andrey Bitletsky, Max Chuvalov, and Artem Safronov was a big hit and actually quite civil  

DomoSapien:   Definitely not working as intended, I've got consumables on all my tanks. PM me your ticket ID's please? <3

DomoSapien: I know I'm asking the obvious here, but: the consumables are loaded on all the appropriate tanks in your garage + auto resupply is enabled?

Suuuuper bizarre. Would you mind submitting a ticket to our Customer Support team so they can investigate? Maybe it's a bug that's affecting other players as well?