Developers posts on forum

Ectar:     I'm curious to know what the fast firing medium that's not flanking, does against a non turreted TD? You can't trade shots in a medium frontally with a heavy or TD, no matter what gun you have. You still need to think about terrain and you still need to protect your tank and use cover.   If you want to win games the biggest thing people need to learn is map awareness followed by knowing how to deal with the various enemy tanks and where to shoot them. If you're relying on gold ammo it's only going to get you so far.  

Ectar: Thanks guys.    At least I can see where all the luck went as it wasn't with me these past days! I took an absolute pummeling when I tried to play.

Ectar:     Because idiots like me struggle to hit the correct button in time and end up dying to a fire they had all the time in the world to extinguish if they just didn't panic.   you'll find that many people who you believe to have automated fire extinguishers are actually just really quick at reacting. Many players for example change the keybind to spacebar as it's easier to hit in the heat of battle. (pun intended)

Ectar: Welcome to the team!    I've been making sure Grimbru is getting up to speed as quickly as possible. We should still have another Coordinator joining the team to get us back to full strength. 

Ectar:     Nope, this video is specifically for EU players to submit their replays to feature in the video series.  We want to show EU clans for this new video show for EU players.

Ectar:   Easy mistake to make I guess      The Challenger & The Chieftain

Ectar:   I'll get this checked out today for you.

Ectar:   I can't.     It was my understanding that all "Top of the Tree" discounts were going to be 15% moving forward. I'll get this checked out.

Ectar: Please note this thread will cleaned out next month to allow all the existing recommend channels/streams/websites to be reviewed. If a channel/stream hasn't been active for about 2 months or more it will be removed.  Inactive or outdated websites/guides will also be removed.

Ectar:   Discounts don't stack. 30% is greater than 15% so you get the 30% discount, they don't add up to a 45% discount.  

Ectar:   I guess this answer may get lost in the forums but hopefully people will reference it.   For a little while now there has been a bit of a credit saturation/flood. It's been easier more than ever for players to generate income. High tier tanks especially were becoming credit farming machines and if you were savvy, it was possible for premium tanks to earn even more credits.  At the time no one really complained about this because well, it was a massive return for little effort and players benefited from it.  Everyone did kinda know/accept however it was a bit broken and not how we really wanted the progression system/credit generation system to work. The mission system was new however and we wanted everyone to see how awesome this new feature was.   To give a perfect example of how crazy it could be, in July last year It was possible to have up to 60% credit increase on tier VIII to X tanks from a certain tree by combining weekly/monthly events. 30% increased credits for Big & Heavy - Fv4202 line (event lasted for 2 weeks) 30% increased credits for being in the top 3 damage dealers. (This was either a monthly mission or a weekly mission)   2/7/2013 - 105,788 credits earned  Tank used - FV4202 2/7/2013 - 104,614 credits earned Tank used - FV4202 6/7/2013 - 125,793 credits earned Tank used - FV4202 8/7/2013 - 91,499 credits earned Tank used - FV4202   These matches are not made up. As you can see these examples are clickable links to my own replays. Now I consider myself a decent player but not great and these replays were a snapshot of the kind of credits I was pulling in. An average game rewarded me with about 70,000 to 80,000 credits. I was walked away with about 50k profit after repairs etc.   To cut a long story short, for a little while now it's been too easy to make extra credits on top of how the game was designed with regards to advancement. High tier tanks especially are not intended to give returns better or similar to premium tanks.  High tier tanks are also priced in such a way so that they take longer to get. As there isn't much in the way of credit sinks in the game, the only alternative option *for now* is to tone down the amount of extra credits players can earn on top of normal game play. This credit earning downturn is effect across all regions.   It's likely that credit missions for things like being the top 3 damage will return, but we have to make sure it's not possible to combine them with other missions and again we don't want a scenario where the missions basically circumvent the progression gates we have.           

Ectar: Enjoy the weekend guys!  We hope you all get as many wins as possible and are able to pick up the new tanks that you want!

Ectar:   Trying not to point out the obvious here, but if we release an update globally and the update has an issue, then everyone is unable to play or everyone has the issue and that is a not a good situation.  If the game is currently playable now and the update is not essential, then delaying the update to fix an issue is much better than deploying an update with a known issue.   Updates will always be rolled out regionally, sometimes EU is 2nd, sometimes we're third, sometimes we're even first.   The benefit of getting to do this means that if anyone issues are spotted on the first region, that feature can be pulled from updates on other regions or the update can be delayed until the issue is fixed.   As I told Golem501 on our twitter - We release the patch when it's ready and we're sure it's ok. We'll never be pressurised into releasing something early.    

Ectar:   It's agility, traverse and acceleration allows it to quickly pop out and snap shot or circle someone.  Granted it's not going to cover open ground quickly, but if you're coming up in support and then flanking you're going to have some fun. It's quite handy in town fights and now I've got my best crew in it:   Brothers in arms Rammer Vents Tea & Pudding   = 6.80 reload. That's putting out quite a bit of pain at tier 10  It was already a favourite tank of mine and has now jumped ahead of the Cent 7/1 as my "go to" tank.

Ectar:   The reload time for the E100 Waffle is the same as it last was on the test server. 58 seconds.  I'd advise you to please mind your language as there is no need to be so confrontational.

Ectar:   I've been farming damage and exp in it today so I have to disagree with your there. The RoF buff with an already excellent agility and gun depression makes it a pretty sweet support tank.  Sure it doesn't have the speed of other mediums and it may not have the armour (only the E50-M has decent enough armour), but it can lay out quite a serious amount of damage now. It's almost a full second quicker at shooting.

Ectar:     Glad to see you've read the patch notes....   6 Soviet tanks buffed 8 non Soviet tanks buffed   3 German TD's nerfed 1 British TD nerfed   The nerfs were all done on TD's that are known for being rather strong due to their damage output in comparison to their fellow tanks/class at their tier.  

Ectar: If you are experiencing problems launching the new Stronghold mode, please make sure you have disabled/uninstalled any mods

Ectar:     I'll check to see if it was disabled or not.

Ectar: It's a drop down like "Platoon, Team Battle Historical Battle" etc etc

Ectar:     Yeah I played a few in the Leo 1 and Fv4202 and it was a nice experience. Running pudding & tea now in the FV4202 to take as much advantage as possible for the reload time.

Ectar: For all feedback related to 9.2 now that's it's live, please use this section - http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/forum/2272-update-92-feedback/

Ectar: Please reply here with any feedback on the new Stronghold mode

Ectar: Minor bugs in damage boxes for T32, IS, T54E1, M8A1 and Object 430 fixed. Minor bugs and defects in visual models fixed for the following vehicles: T-34-85, Pz.Kpfw. III, Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. A, ISU-152, SU-122A, M18 Hellcat, M3 Lee, M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo, Tortoise, Black Prince, Conqueror Gun Carriage, Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. D, Sturmpanzer I Bison, Pz.Kpfw. B2 740 (f), Tiger I and Type 4 Chi-To. Fixed rare cases of the client hanging-up when loading a battle. Some errors in autodetecting graphics settings fixed. Issue with Auto-Aim targeting too low, below the underbelly of a vehicle, fixed. Bugs in the order of switching between allies in the Postmortem mode fixed. Minor interface bugs fixed. Certain bugs with application failures and crashes fixed. Fixed the bugs with blown-off tank turrets disappearing underground. Certain issues with the lack of synchronisation of the vehicle position on the server and the player’s client fixed. Certain bugs related to memory leaks when joining/leaving a battle fixed. Certain bugs that occurred during battle playback fixed. Fixed the issue with the doubling of the trajectory of friendly artillery shots in some conditions. Fixed the glitch that caused all enemy vehicles to appear on the map at the end of a battle. Occasional false notifications of setting enemy vehicles on fire fixed. Certain bugs that occurred during battle playback fixed. Fixed the issue with the doubling of the trajectory of friendly artillery shots in some conditions. Fixed the glitch that caused all enemy vehicles to appear on the map at the end of a battle. Occasional false notifications of setting enemy vehicles on fire fixed. Red lines at the junction points of landscape textures, that appeared when using the old renderer with antialiasing on, fixed.

Ectar: Map changes: Improvements and corrections introduced to the following maps: Sacred Valley, Cliff, Sand River, Hidden Village, Erlenberg (in the Assault battle type only), El Halluf, Airfield and Komarin. Some visual defects and errors fixed for the following maps: Kharkov, Winter Himmelsdorf, Karelia, Abbey and Windstorm. The map Prokhorovka reworked and renamed to Fiery Salient. Reworked the snowstorm effect on the Kharkov map. Fixed the glitch when vehicles could be launched into the air upon contact with certain structures on the Pearl River map. Winter Himmelsdorf map removed from low-tier battles. Komarin map removed from high-tier battles (now available for Tiers I–VIII only). Performance on the Komarin map improved. Ruinberg on Fire map made unavailable for Team Battles.

Ectar: AMX 50 B Aiming time for 120 mm SA46 gun for AMX 50 B turret changed from 3s to 2.5s.

Ectar: Aufklärungspanzer Panther: Reload time for 7.5/5.5 cm Waffe 0725 gun for VK 28.01 Ausf. C turret changed from 4s to 3.4s. Indien-Panzer: Aiming time for 9 cm Bordkanone gun for Indien-Panzer turret changed from 2.9s to 2.7s. Reload time for 9 cm Bordkanone gun for Indien-Panzer turret changed from 7.5s to 7.2s. Leopard 1: Reload time for 10.5 cm Bordkanone L7A3 gun for Leopard 1 turret changed from 9s to 8.7s. Leopard Prototyp A: Reload time for 10.5 cm L7A1 gun for Leopard Prototyp A2 turret changed from 14s to 13s. Aiming time for 9 cm Bordkanone gun for Leopard Prototyp A2 turret changed from 2.9 s to 2.5 s. Reload time for 10.5 cm L7A1 gun for Porsche Standardpanzer turret changed from 12 s to 11.1 s. Rhm.-Borsig Waffenträger: Reload time for 12.8 cm Kanone 44 L/55 gun changed from 10.9s to 11.5s. Waffenträger auf E 100: Dispersion on the move for Waffenträger auf E 100 suspension increased by 25%. Dispersion on hull traverse for Waffenträger auf E 100 suspension increased by 25%. Reload time for 12.8 cm Kanone L/61 gun for Waffenträger auf E 100 turret changed from 60s to 58s. Quantity of shells in the magazine for 12.8 cm Kanone L/61 gun for Waffenträger auf E 100 turret changed from 6 to 5. Waffenträger auf Pz. IV: Reload time for 12.8 cm Kanone L/61 gun changed from 10.9s to 11.6s. Reload time for 12.8 cm Kanone 44 L/55 gun changed from 10s to 10.6s. Reload time for 15 cm Pak L/29.5 gun changed from 16s to 17s. Reload time for 15 cm Pak L/38 gun changed from 16s to 17s. VK 45.02 (P) Ausf. B: Armour of upper glacis plate changed from 170mm to 200mm. Armour of lower glacis plate changed from 150mm to 200mm. Armour of the frontal section of the roof for VK 45.02 (P) Ausf. B Schwerer Turm changed from 40mm to 60mm. Armour of the frontal section of the roof of the second turret for VK 45.02 (P) Ausf. B increased from 40mm to 60mm. StuG III Ausf. G: Load capacity for StuG III Ausf. F suspension changed from 19,800kg to 22,940kg. Load capacity for StuG III Ausf. G suspension changed from 22,400kg to 25,690kg. Hull weight changed from 12,000kg to 15,140kg. Armour arrangement of StuG III Ausf. G brought in line with armour arrangement of real vehicles.

Ectar: Churchill I: Armour arrangement adjusted to be more accurate (minor changes). FV215b (183): Penetration of HESH Mk.1 shell for 183 mm L4 gun changed from 275mm to 230mm. FV4202: Reload time for 105 mm Royal Ordnance L7A1 gun for FV4202 turret changed from 9.3s to 8.6s.

Ectar: M46 Patton: Dispersion on the move for M46T80E1 suspension decreased by 7%. Dispersion on hull traverse for M46T80E1 suspension decreased by 7%. Dispersion on the move for M46T81 suspension decreased by 8%. Dispersion on hull traverse for M46T81 suspension decreased by 8%. Dispersion for 105 mm Gun T5E1M2 on turret traverse decreased by 14%. Dispersion for 105 mm Gun T5E1M2 changed from 0.42m to 0.4m. Dispersion for 105 mm Gun T5E1M2 on turret traverse decreased by 17%. Dispersion for 105 mm Gun T5E1M2 changed from 0.42m to 0.4m. M8A1: Armour arrangement adjusted to be more accurate (minor changes).

Ectar: .IS: Armour arrangement adjusted to be more accurate (minor changes). Object 263: Reload time for 130 mm S-70A gun changed from 11s to 10.7s. SU-100M1: Reload time for 100 mm LB-1C gun changed from 6.9s to 5.9s. SU-101: Reload time for 100 mm D-54S gun changed from 7.1 s to 6.7 s. Dispersion for 100 mm D-54S gun changed from 0.36 m to 0.35 m. SU-122-54: Reload time for 100 mm D-54S gun changed from 6.8s to 6.5s. Dispersion for 100 mm D-54S gun changed from 0.36 m to 0.35 m. Reload time for 122 mm M62-C2 gun changed from 10s to 9.2s. Dispersion for 122 mm M62-C2 gun changed from 0.36m to 0.35m. T-44: Reload time for 100 mm LB-1 for T-44-100 turret changed from 8.6s to 8.1s.

Ectar: Models and textures of all vehicles in high-definition quality (HD vehicles) reworked for better display when graphics settings are set to medium or low. Items of the context menu of the tank carousel in the Garage changed to be consistent. Effect of vehicle’s ammunition burnout added. Changes to the effect of ammo rack explosion made. Some effects of shells hitting various surfaces reworked. Display of HD vehicle models changed. From now on, only the player’s vehicle will be displayed in maximum HD quality. Levels of detail for various display distances reworked for vehicles in HD quality. Improved the textures of certain vehicles. Green/red line in Artillery mode reworked. Now, when a vehicle crosses the intended shell flight path, the line turns red. Fixed the issue with vehicles twitching when turning on inclined surfaces. New option in settings to disable foliage transparency between the camera and the player’s vehicle is now available (to improve performance of low configurations). Vehicle explosion sounds reworked depending on weight differences. Average damage percentage for the Marks of Excellence that are displayed in the tooltip have been changed from maximum to current. Volume of gunshot sounds reworked depending on shooting distance. For certain vehicles, turret traverse sounds that were recorded incorrectly were reworked. Damage with HVAP M93 premium shell fired from 76 mm Gun M1A1 and 76 mm Gun M1A2 set equal to the damage with standard shell for these guns (from 110 to 115). Previously the premium shell dealt 5 points of damage less than the standard shell. Removed all scenarios of historical battles from the game. Tank destroyer SU-85i added to the in-game shop. Any progress toward unearned medals is removed. Received medals will remain and will be normally displayed to players.

Ectar:   To echo what Brynd is saying we plan to promote a lot more players and their content in the very near future and also add a lot more players as contributors.  Sadly right now our team which should be 5 people is only 2 due to promotions and vacations.

Ectar:   Yes I do, however for this article we were specifically looking for content relevant to update 9.2  It's the information in the video that's more the focus here. 

Ectar:   As I've told players multiple times, until something is on a test server it's subject to change and sometimes at very short notice.  Even making it to a test server is a not a guide to new content featuring in the following update. Conflicting information like this comes from a development cycle where lots of things are still in flux.  This is why you'll pretty much never have Community Team members comment on future content, will rarely have Producers comment on future content, and will generally only see Developers comment on future content because the developers are the guys who decide what the content is or not and when it comes!    Even then the developers could change their minds a week later or even days later.   Again it's not that we don't know what's coming, it's that so many things are subject to change that saying something on the forums is likely outdated by next week and players are no closer to knowing what's going on.

Ectar:   For the simple reason that the patch release date hasn't been confirmed yet. do we seriously have to go through this conversation with players every update? It's not like anything has changed. We will never announce a patch date in advance because if for any reason there is a delay, the community get very very upset as they take any estimated day as "set in stone".     Already as you can see in this thread some of you are getting upset as if to say we had already said in advance the update was coming today.  We've never said that, It's an expectation you've set yourself.    Please be patient, update 9.2 will be released for the EU server exactly when it's ready and everything has been signed off. Until that time comes we have no further info to give.  

Ectar: When the time comes this comment will likely be forgotten/buried in the forums.   All I can say about August is that I doubt many players will have much to complain about, especially with what's coming on the first weekend.  Take a deep breath when the monthly missions are announced along with the weekend special, chill out, relax and take note of all the stuff that's available. Then you can hit me with what you don't like and what we could have done differently.  I'm really looking forward to seeing people's reaction for what is planned for the whole month and I'm sure you'll see why there has been a bit of a slow down recently with what's been on offer. Right now it's very much the calm before a major storm!

Ectar:   Patch 9.2 release

Ectar: I think this thread has ran it's course. Many of the personal comments are totally uncalled for and I expect better from regular members of the forum.   Account wipes due to bot reports are not an automated process. There has to be evidence to back up any bot reports and we check this internally (which won't be shared with players because we don't want to tell naughty botters what to avoid).  In this situation Maverick59 needs to contact our customer support team who are the only people who can assist in this matter.  It's not something that will result in a different resolution from the forums.   - Ectar    

Ectar:   If you contact our support team they will likely be able to give you more details regarding why you were suspended. Please understand however that being suspended is a punishment. It's not something where we contact a player and *ask* for their ok to ban them or ask when there is a time more suitable for you (like after the next 3 battles or something).

Ectar:   I find it funny to see players accused of defending something they enjoy and always being called "fanboys" etc.  It's especially funny when I see certain players do nothing but post negative comments in every thread they post.  (please understand I'm not accusing you here Hungarian_Patriot) Does that mean the negative posting players are paid too?   If so I want to know who's paying them!    Maybe these players just have a different opinion or perhaps they know/accept that all the RNG conspiracy theory threads are unfounded nonsense?  Every week there is a new theory as to why someone loses matches. I admit claiming people less that 50% win ratio have better aim time and accuracy is a new one, but normally it's that our MM is rigged and it's supposed to keep people at a certain win ratio (this ratio always changes based around the thread creators win ration).  When people are forum regulars and read the same topics over and over with no new evidence I'm not surprized they may poke fun at those threads.  It's far more easy to blame something that you can just make up out of thin air, than accept a reasonable answer/valid point.

Ectar:   1 simple reason - Hardware.   Every Xbox 360 console is the exact same with regards to the hardware and software on board.  Developers don't have to worry about lower spec systems when making features in a console based version of the game. World of Tanks wasn't simply ported over, they created a lot of stuff from the ground up. This is why features like weather can be added in advance of the PC system because you don't have to worry about doing something which may make the game unplayable for a certain percentage of your playerbase.