Players Questions and Developers Answers

FaustianQ, on Jan 23 2012 - 19:17, said: Vallter, is there a reason you never answer my questions? You make me feel unloved
To bring them up again
1. Why haven't the devs used this as the base for the T110E5, from Hunnicutt's "Patton".

Is there some source that contradicts this? What is the more authoritative source?
2. Is the soon to be Chinese WZ-111 the same as the Type 122? They both use the same tank as a base (the IS-2/IS-3), but the WZ-111 seems to explicitly stated as a heavy tank, while the Type 122 was a medium tank. If different, is there plans to bring both into the game?


Drakenred, on Jan 23 2012 - 22:25, said: ok how are you going to handle the "oddball tanks" when it comes to crew skills
for example the T1 and M6 has 2 guners, M2 has 2 radio operators, many french tanks dont have loaders, and others(batchat) only have 3 crew


lostwingman, on Jan 23 2012 - 22:26, said: Well, first I'm going to disagree and say that the Chaffee and VK2801 weren't really designed for scouting, they are more damaging harassment tanks that have a limited ability to scout. Whether by the Chaffee's better ability to passive scout and the VK28s ability to rush scout in mid game. Kind of like the Patton and T-54 in CW, TC, and very high level pubs.
Anyway, that's just a pet peeve for me. What I want to ask is, what is this "In game novice training" in the 7.2 development notes? I have not heard about this before and I get the feeling that even after public test and the patch is implemented, it might be awhile before we understand that well.


joel9507, on Jan 24 2012 - 00:54, said: I am sorry if I just failed search 101, but I cannot find anything authoritative (i.e from actual WoT staffers) on how the painted camo schemes function (or don't) in 7.1.
The specific questions:
1) do the painted camos affect when your tank gets 'lit up', or are they just visual and make it possibly harder for the opponents to clearly see you when targeting?
2) if the painted camo schemes do affect when/whether your tank gets 'lit up', does the match between the camo and the cover have any effect? (i. e. , compared to an unpainted tank, would a 'winter camo' scheme in Swamp get you lit up from farther away, help hide you anyway, or have no effect?)


Drakenred, on Jan 24 2012 - 01:23, said: they have been kind of mentioning it on the RU forums. thats why it was in my spoiler.other than that I dont know myself.
speaking of that I need to update it
before I delete that line and replace it with the link to the feature list my old spoiler had
7.2: clan logos, basic tutorial, new crew skills, M103, T110, secondary US TD line, probably some premiums (?JT 88mm?) 1 map


VirgilHilts, on Jan 24 2012 - 18:06, said: On the subject of "average damage" we've been told that the actual damage done, outside of ammo rack explosions, will be the average damage, +/- 25%. So, for example, a weapon with 400 average damage should do no more than 500, no less than 300, again, outside of ammo rack explosions and vehicles with less than the minimum amount of damage in hit points left.
However, after being knocked out last night in battle, I watch two IS-4 tanks duke it out, by themselves. I saw one tank hit the other 4 times in a row, and no shot did more than 200 damage, two shots did less than 100 damage. These were all hits, with AP. I'm using the over target markers mod, so I have begun to pay attention to these things, as it appears to be a constant thing, not a rare thing, and often determines the outcome of not only individual fights, but entire battles.
So, is it true, that all weapons are supposed to do their average damage, +/- 25%, on any penetrating AP shot, or not?


Eliminateur, on Jan 24 2012 - 20:18, said: Also, Vallter
a question a little for the future about the soviet tree rework about the is4 to tier 10 change:
this leaves 2 empty tier 9 positions:
IS3 ---> ??? --->IS7
KV4 ---> ¿IS10? ---> IS4
i've watched the full tree but since it was mentioned that some tanks where shuffled and that the IS6(o252 IIRC) was premium, they're no longer valid...
so, ¿what tank replaced the IS4 on the 3 to 7 line?
or i mixed the paths and IS10 goes in that path.
is the ST-1 then the tier9 tank for the is4?


Whyan, on Jan 25 2012 - 03:34, said: We don't. It's a chinese server only thing.
Q. When is the JT 88 slated to be released? From what i know the model looks like it has been completed a few months back, so what's the hold up on it?


Noble, on Jan 25 2012 - 10:40, said: With patch 7.2 coming out within the next month and rumors of the US TD's completed. Is there anyway we can see any screenies of them? Most of us are quite curious on the T25-2 and T28 P. As well as what has happened to our beloved Hellcat.