Developers posts on forum

LiannaSilverwind: If you ever wanted to be The Scout, here comes the story of Infamous Hero of Many Battles, Pete the Scout. I hope you will enjoy it. In case you do, grant it your Plus (+), thank you! Attached File(s)  Scout B.jpg (656.41K)
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LiannaSilverwind: Можно права на Ingame ReadOnly для тех, кто материт нон-стоп после первого русского слова? По-венгерски, по-чешски, по-полски, по-испански никому не мешает, но посмей сказать слово по-русски и тут же узнаешь много новых интересных английских слов. Спасибо.

LiannaSilverwind: Do you really think SPG is OP? Watch this!
http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

LiannaSilverwind: Out of head: 1956 - five divisions of Soviet forces are on a "friendly socialistic help mission" in Budapest, Hungary.
Working on WW2 examples.
Most authors either mentioned "saw combat during Spring 1945" or "was used as top secret training machine and was not permitted to enter combat". All of them mention that production was started at Autumn 1944, therefore T-44 fully pass as WoT tank as a tank of 1920-1950 years.

LiannaSilverwind: T-44 was produced since Autumn 1944 and saw combat during WW2. More than 900 vehicles were made.

LiannaSilverwind: Interesting this is that American and German veterans, writers and memoirists still speak about T-34 and KV drives/transmissions as being extremely difficult to operate well, that Soviet drivers were meant to be well trained/talented or would probably lose their vehicle during the very first combat. Considering common knowledge that Soviet tankists received much shorter training periods than their German/American counterparts, and adding the fact that both Tiger and Panther were considered by Germans as being more easily operated than captured T-34 tanks, we can come to conclusion, that no, in fact Soviet tanks were very difficult to drive and operate, compared to their German counterparts.
Add to this problems with radiocommunication, very poor optics, especially during the first years of Eastern Front, and you can see the reason why so many Soviet tanks were lost. Like early war Soviet aircrafts they were very good machines in hands of experienced crews, but many crews never got time to learn how to use their vehicles to the full potential. Add to this superior German doctrines of the early period of war, lack of air support on Soviet side due to horrendous losses of RKVVA, and you will come to conclusion how "easy" it was for "everyone" to drive Soviet vehicle.
With best regards.

LiannaSilverwind: 1) Return of Himmelsdorf and Ensk maps that appear once a day now.
2) Redesigning Hills/Pagorki north base. Redesigning Malinovka.
3) Changes to Balancer: one team should not have more than 1 artillery above the amount of artillery of second team, ie. 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4, not 1 vs 4.
4) Historical mode battles for different time periods.

LiannaSilverwind: Не можно, а нужно!

LiannaSilverwind: Considering so many of us use historical details during the discussion, what about ability to mass product and replace losses? Many people claim Tigers and especially Tigers II were virtually indestructible. At the same time they required much more time to produce than Soviet counterparts that were optimized for fast production.
So for example T-34 model 1943 required 3 000 humanhours, Panther required... 55 000 humanhours. Not comparing ability to product tanks at certain periods, shall we compensate every Panther with 18 T-34s? Now check how difficult was Tiger II to made...

LiannaSilverwind: I agree with OP. Panzer IV that all people use is top-upgraded Panther-turreted one, whilst there were very many different interesting versions of Panzer IV.

LiannaSilverwind: If you want to continue, then remember that this game is not about WW2 period, but about years of 1920-1950.
IS-3 tanks were closing the parade in Berlin as a final Warning for the Western Allies.
Tanks that never saw combat include all VK prototypes, Maus, Leopard. This list is not final. Will game be better without them? I hope we'll know when Historical mode will be available. For now I enjoy playing with them and against them.

LiannaSilverwind: King Tiger absolutely
Panther probably

LiannaSilverwind: Ingame facts about "everyone playing Soviet tanks" from Overlord - check my signature.
Hard reality, sorry.

LiannaSilverwind: Where is German glory, we ask you, evil developers?! Where is it?
http://forum.worldof...post__p__129160
Zomg...

LiannaSilverwind: I recommend reading German memoirs from 1941-1942 how did German Panzers III and IV felt when meeting T-34s and KVs. And no, they did not feel it was a joke.
During the Eastern Front conflict we can find several periods:
1941-1942 when Germans faced T-34 and KV and did not like them at all.
1942-1943 when Germans got Tigers and Panthers.
1944-1945 when German Panzerwaffe spine was definitely broken, reserves flushed away after Kursk summer, panzers constantly under threat of bombardment of Allied and Soviet planes.
In this game everyone uses top-upgraded tanks and forget about poor Pz.Kpfw.IIIE or Pz.Kpfw.IVD, their armour and cannon qualities, and what they could do vs KV outside of calling for immediate Luftwaffe help or bringing up 88 mm flaks. This game also does not provide us a chance to play romanticized version of "I'm powerful Tiger II commander, I will hold this bridge against 30 T-34". If it will, people would lose their illusions.
And yes, ingame KTs are also upgraded to the top so their terrain speed and bridge-holding capabilities are unreal.
Enjoy the game!

LiannaSilverwind: I suppose the reason is they start to detect approaching vehicle - change of pixel colours in surroundings, but do not take into account red/green tank marks above them, because we often see marks too far from ourselves, out of LoS, at the other edge of the map. Current bots probably try to simulate reaction to the vehicles near them.
I hope for a good bot-elimination solution, even as primitive as players voting. Too many votes per day, minimal credits gain, no or minimal hits/kills (constant autoshooting with most cheap cannon is already being used)? => Bot.
No hits, no kills, no scouting = 0 XP/Credits is also good idea. The only problem is with scouting part. Bot lonely sitting at our base will be counted as scout when enemy Leo comes to him and tears him to pieces. He "kinda" helped the team by seeing the Leo, but should we reward him for that "effort"? Tough choice.

transfero: Dear all, could you give more details on the problem?
The hot issues are:
1. When was the first time you spotted that the client did not load you in the battle?
2. Was it for the first time, actually?
3. Were there any changes applied to the system or computer (new hardware or software)?
4. Does the problem still persist?
Do the following steps:
- Try to defrag the disc, where the game is installed.
- Attach the python.log. This file can be found in the root folder, where the game is installed.
- Send us your dxdiag-file to get a clear picture of your computer characteristics.
(Click «Start». Select and press «Run». Type "dxdiag" and press "OK". In the appeared window choose "Save all information". After you've saved the file attach to the post.)

LiannaSilverwind: /Signed.

Jeremy Taylor: Nine new images of SPGs are now available in our Screenshots gallery
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LiannaSilverwind: I've never seen MMO bot that is able to do much outside the "Tab to target, 1-2-3, heal yourself if needed, repeat" sequence. You speak about the bot that is able to autotarget (move mouse cursor) in real time based on certain colours/patterns on the screen that are changing/moving at insane speed. There is difference between moving at certain pattern to the autospawned mobs in proper time intervals, but botting for PvP, well... never saw it.
Being database programmer for more than 15 years, therefore lacking in graphics experience, I'm very curious to see an example. In case you provide one, I will definitely change my opinion and vote against custom-made skins myself.
BTW Russian players already have release with customizable skins and I did not notice any votes or opinions about bots or specially modified skins usage. Considering most Russian players are very hardcore, I come to conclusion that such problem should already appear, if it really does exist. Am I wrong?

Jeremy Taylor: The trailer demonstrates a whole variety of SPGs’ tactics and highlights characteristics of the most prominent German and Soviet SPGs such as Hummel and SU-14.
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LiannaSilverwind: Interesting statistics from Overlord himself:
http://forum.worldof...post__p__125571

LiannaSilverwind: Picture analysis is very difficult problem for programming, analysing pictures changing 60+ times per second and trying to enforce program to point mouse at certain parts of moving targets based on colours... I would consider simply impossible, more difficult than NP-complete problem.

LiannaSilverwind: Тут все еще ЗБТ. Обещано, что:
1) будет какое-то количество американских танков перед релисом
2) будет Открытая Бета
3) будет релиса
4) все это будет "soon", т.е. скоро (кто знает, есть даже такая фирма - NcSoon, делает известные игры, но эту не делает точно)
Мы не спешим, нам и так нравится.

LiannaSilverwind: ...that every map at least half players in your team screamed out RUSH!!!1!1oneoneone and went forward in whatever tank they had. Opposite team did the same.
...that you thought arties are OP.

LiannaSilverwind: Agreeing definitely. Right now "Help!" without coordinates with other 10 people alive does not help much.

LiannaSilverwind: Leopard for me as well. Awesome, fun and extremely powerful.

LiannaSilverwind: На русском сервере уже релис, здесь пока все еще Бета, все получают бесплатное золото и минусуют тех, кто защищает доблестное наследие предков, поскольку "запад всех победил, а советы только числом воевали". Ну и другая атмосфера, другая тактика судя по форумам, другой говор и темперамент.

LiannaSilverwind: Наша точка будет поставлена великими деяниями.

LiannaSilverwind: I agree with author's experience. Here's your Plus.

LiannaSilverwind: Спасибо за комплимент, комиксы будут. Сейчас обустраиваю новый компьютер, ну и на работе делов не мало, но будут обязательно.
Вы к ним пока плюсики, плюсики поставьте, а то меня все время минусуют за правду-матку.

Jeremy Taylor: Please don't worry about your vids being accepted. It just takes a bit of time.

LiannaSilverwind: Attached File(s)  shot_212.jpg (412.65K)
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LiannaSilverwind: Смотрю, в голосовании прибывает голосов против, наверное наши западные друзья читать начали.

LiannaSilverwind: Maybe developers do not want all people to jump over tank models in order to get top tier shinies too quickly? Even with prices like 1 gold for 10 experience there would be people who want to get things quicker.

LiannaSilverwind: Why do you want to disparage reputation of Soviet tankists who operated in spartan vehicles under very strict engagement rules? Wittman was not the only tank ace during the WW2.

LiannaSilverwind: Заходите к нам в канал. Так и называется - Русский Канал. Пароль вам кто угодно из нас онлайн скажет.

LiannaSilverwind: I love when people quote Wikipedia, let's go there: http://ru.wikipedia..../%D0%98%D0%A1-7
Non-precise quote: 1945-1947, saw real production in very limited numbers.
Maus was made as 2 unfinished vehicles that never saw real combat. Now let's talk about E-series and what year they were planned for?
Besides, developers already stated that this game includes tanks up to 1953, so what is the problem with that?

Jeremy Taylor: Things you probably don’t know about World of Tanks have been revealed in the latest interview to Mmorpg-tactics.com
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Jeremy Taylor: One more thoughtful review is available for your consideration
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