Developers posts on forum

LiannaSilverwind: My company would like to thank every player and company we have played against. Battles were always intense and exciting, some clans definitely made us play to the best we could.
Our score was 9:2 and both losses were properly deserved. Still I'm proud that our team that was made 20 minutes before the event was able to cooperate in a manner that enabled us to gain such a score.
Best regards from Lia!

LiannaSilverwind: That's part of Gameplay Discussion, not Suggestions for the developers, I see major difference. Besides, it was my April joke as well.

LiannaSilverwind: Nice April joke, WhiteHyena, but you forgot one important detail:
US players do not have any Improving German vehicles thread on their forum, because they know they are balanced.
I still admit - I went into newsletter with Wide Eyes

OldFox: Uzmanibu visiem! ZeScout avatara un profila bija redzama nacistu simbolika. Tas nozime ka vins ne tikai pievienojas "nepareizajam" klanam, bet ari parkapis Speles un Foruma noteikumus. Es tacu visus sava pirmaja posta bridinaju: izlasiet Noteikumus uzmanigi! No sakuma ZeScout`am uzlikts bans uz 30 dienam.
Aicinu visus tomer iepazistinaties ar Noteikumiem. Ari iesaku saprast, ka Eiropa sava atteiksme pret nacional-socializmu balstas uz Nirnberga procesa lemumiem, nevis uz moderno vesturnieku teorijam.

Vallter: It will be for splitting between members. In the released version there will be no improvements for provinces, as well as Tier limits. But we will add it later.

Overlord: It will remain at tier 7, it's a decent tank for its tier.

Cheeka: Gamer’s Guide section of the official website is becoming even more useful owing to players who have created an extensive encyclopedia about World of Tanks – wiki (http://wiki.worldoftanks.com/Main_Page)
Read full text here

Cheeka: no way! everybody is alive and back to work

Overlord: Regarding IS-7's hit-box, lower side of the turret armor and upper side of the hull armor are going to be adjusted, which is likely to lead to a minor performance boost.
Since it currently doesn't require one, we will have to find a way to compensate this.

Overlord: Yes, it will be deployed prior to the release.

Overlord: No, they are planned for v.0.6.4.

Overlord: These are not history forums but World of Tanks official forums dedicated to the project. It's the wrong place to argue about history, better concentrate on the game and armored vehicles.

Overlord: 1. Most likely it will have standard tier spread for tier 5 medium.
2. M6A2E1 is on the exception list already. Haven't decided on Lowe yet.
3. It will be medium.
4. The list of available guns hasn't been finalized yet.

Overlord: Muzzle velocity values are not planned to be added.

Overlord: 1. Don't know, looks fine in my opinion. Do you have any evidence that the size of Schmalturm is incorrect for 3002 DB, Panther.
2. Currently they both have 80mm hull. No changes in terms of armor are planned for Jagdpanther. As for Pz. III/IV, it will be rebalanced. There will be armor reduction from 80mm to 60mm and the respective increase of speed and mobility.
3. For balance purposes. JP is tier 7 TD, Panther is tier 8 MT. Compare SU-152 and T-44.

Overlord: 1. The current situation will be improved by means of adjusting match-making values. Noticeable changes are supposed to arrive in one of the upcoming patches. Quite possibly, in 0.6.4.
2. This is not planned to be changed. 2 GW-Tigers can be balanced with 2 M40/43s. Don't see a problem here.

Overlord: The current performance of all tier 9 mediums is considered to be satisfactory. There might be changes, but nothing crucial.

Overlord: These are battle tier you are talking about, their are not vehicle-dependant. This means M6 and KT can fight shoulder to shoulder in tier 8, 9, and 10 battles. M6A2E1 can't join tier 11 or 12 battles, if not platooned.
Tier 11 and 12 vehicles are not planned. At least currently.

Overlord: Battles can still be balanced with 7-8 TDs on one side and 1-2 of them on the other, again this is the matter of having match-making values adjusted.
Currently all tier 9 MTs, tier 8 and tier 9 TDs seem to be a bit overpowered because they enjoy low MM values. On the other hand, tier 9 HTs have to suffer because of their high MM-values. This discrepancy is being worked on at this time.

Vallter: Please, post your links for videos here. They will stay hidden, untill the end of the Ural Steel championship, to prevent people from learning your tactics. When the championship has ended, we will enable the links for viewing.

Vallter: Unfortunately, this won't be implemented. But we will make some events.

Vallter: We are currently reworking the chat. But we can't indicate any terms for now.

Vallter: If it is done, it will be implemented in this way.So there is no pint to change the current system, IMHO.

Vallter: 'King of the Mountain' and 'Assault' game mods will be added in June-July

LiannaSilverwind: IS-7 frontal armor is very poor as was proved many times at Russian forum, including videos and tests of penetration via different amount of cannon at different range. In fact many players consider IS-7 being heavy medium tank, not heavy tank, due to its poor frontal armor. As was mentioned above, IS-7 frontal armor has one big weakspot, properly used by every opponent, if IS-7 driver is unable to fight hulldown.
Ural Steel championship proves that Maus tank are far from being extinct, because most teams use them, the same with IS-7 and T30. Same was proved in league before.

Vallter: Yes, it is hard.

Vallter: We have players on Russian servers, that play with Tier 10 tanks without spending a cent in our game. They reached Tier 10 in 1.5 month.

Vallter: If you know that, we will have to kill you!

OldFox: Ar ko sastopas speletaji krievu serveri: "casualus" klana nedrikst turet kopa ar kiber-spotistiem.
(Kazuals ir speletajs, kurs grib atpusties saja spele, spelejot 2-3 stundas un ne katru dienu. Kiber-sportisti - tas ir cilveki, kuri ir gatavi teret 4-5 stundas katru dienu un sasniegt saja spele vislabakos rezultatus).
Galvenais ir uzreiz, no pasas speles sakuma saprast, ko tu gribi no sajas speles, un izveidot vai pievienoties speletaju grupai ar atbilstosiem interesiem. Jo kazuali loti atri nolaiz sportistus lidz savam limenim. Piemeram, viens cilveks ir atbildigs, vins grib pilnveidot savas prasmes, grib spelet un vinnet. Vins ir gatavs teret tam laiku un naudu. Izveidojas komanda, kura kopa ar vinu spele kazuals. Viena diena viss ir kartiba, bet otraja diena kazuals neierodas spele. Un viss - trenins ir pagalam, un sportista laiks ir izterets pa velti. Ja ta turpinasies kadu laiku, tad sportists sak domat: "A nafig man tas vajag? Es te mocos, tereju laiku un nervus, bet visiem parejiem uzplaut uz to! Ne, es ari spelesu ka citi - neregulari un islaicigi".
Un viss - no si briza klans ir beigts! Jo tas ir kodolreakcija - viens sak ta rikoties, pec tam otrs.. Un klans zaude savu kaujas gatavibu.
Latviesu (lietuviesu, igaunu, polu, krievu utt.) speletaji nevares sasniegt neko ipasu Globalaja Karte, ja viniem nebus stiprs sportistu klans. Tas nozime 5 rotas pa 20 cilvekiem ar ikdienas onlainu ap 80% un ne mazak par 4 stundam.
Es esmu baigais klanu izveidosanas teoretikis Man ir sava vizija, kadam jabut stipram klanam. Varu padalities ar to.

LiannaSilverwind: I beg my pardon, but properly driven Pershing should penetrate T-54 every time, and considering its DPM vs T-54's DPM, will destroy it.

LiannaSilverwind: Pershing is excellent dogfighter, outDPSing and tearing apart any tank it can encounter, including overestimated T-54. It will definitely be my first MT 9 in release.
Panther II is excellent sniper and support tank, but lacks speed and dogfight abilities of Pershing.

admin: Day 5:
"As I started to play WoT quite recently and still have no idea about some tricks (I’m still a noob) my colleagues decided to pull me up a little bit. They created a platoon and called me to join them. Specially for this occasion I bought a new tank with a beautiful name Matilda. Before starting my first battle as a part of the platoon I decided to research the tank. Finally they will see me in action (I shouldn’t let them down)!
We pressed the button ‘Battle’ simultaneously and found ourselves in the same battle:

Let’s go guys! Let’s show them how to fight! I mean WAIT FOR ME!!! Now I should get my composure and try to keep together with my platoon.
I want to thank my colleague-tankmen for not leaving me along during the whole battle. They were protecting my tank from enemy’s shells, waiting for me on every crossroad.
In such a way we took part in several battles rushing through plains, lakes and hills of Prokhorovka and Lassville, sticking in sends of Sand River and fighting on the streets of Himmelsdorf and Ensk.
Unfortunately we need to come back to work. We had a wonderful time and I even managed to stay alive for more than 3 minutes. I hope it wasn’t our last battle."
Day 6:
"In the afternoon we will be moving from one room to another. We’re not living our favorite 9th floor. We just need more space for our new colleagues. They’re starting on Monday.
The removal is appointed at 3 p.m. So, for several hours we will turn into movers and start to carry our things to the new room. We’ve decided to take everything – computers (it goes without saying), tables, favorite chairs, partitions and beanbag chair in military style colors (the fetish of our Department).

***
The whole corridor was literally filled with our stuff. Dying of laughter we were creeping under the tables, trying to connect our computers or find outlets.
Discussing the layout we were “fighting” for the best places to sit.

Margaret and I (there are only two girls in this department) were in charge of tidying up our new room and of keeping up eagle spirit of sweating colleagues. Time has passed quickly.

By the way, I assured myself once again that moving is very useful. You have a unique chance to find things you’ve considered to be lost forever."
Day 7:
"Finally, I found my ideal tank (more precisely, it has found me as the magic wand has found Harry Potter). Today I have changed "Tractor" (МС-1) for "SPG T-57". After a short research and few training battles it became easy enough not to get destroyed pretty fast. But, frankly speaking, it’s not actually important any more. I have decided to change fighting strategy and to transform the new tank into "hiding-in-bushes-SPG".

And I really found it very comfortable. You just sit in bushes, crashing almost half of your rivals (so far I didn’t manage to kill more than 3 enemies for a battle)."
Day 8
"I can’t stand it any more. It’s impossible to live normal life any longer. I don't know what to do. I simply can't drive the car along the evening streets of Minsk. I was lucky to pass my practice near my father’s office, so he drives me home after work. But recently it has become impossible for him to stay in the car with me. We leave for home when it’s already dark outside and the back lights of the cars (they have red color – color of rivals in WoT) are well visible. As soon as a car suddenly appears on a crossroads I give a cry: «Here it is! Aim! Destroy it! What are you waiting for, it will crush my tank!!!» (Maybe it’s time for me to get a treatment?)
I’ve never thought that there was a game to capture my mind in the way WoT did it.
Just five minutes ago I got amazing news. On Wednesday Wargaming .net arranges ice-skating party for all its workers. I’m totally mesmerized by this idea. I’ll tell you more about it in the next edition of the Diaries."

Vallter: It took place on the Russian server. But we will do something similar on the European server as well

Vallter: The user M_Vittmann has been permanently suspended, for continous and systematic insults of players based on their country of origin, starting conflicts based on nationalism and violating the EULA.
Please, remember that a polite behaviour when chatting is preferable in our game.

Overlord: It's not on the exception list, so has standard tier spread for tier 6 MT.

Overlord: Will be published in one of the upcoming Newsletters or/and on the blog.

Overlord: We might impose some restrictions on the number of battles played so as not ruin the balance and match-making in the first days after the release giving out a ton of tier 5 tanks.

Overlord: 1. Engine specs state the chance of fire when the engine is actually damaged/is hit, which is the same.
2. Once fuel tank hit point go down to zero, it catches fire.

Overlord: Lend-lease oil or smth similar is unlikely to be avialble for non-Soviet vehicles, though we are planning to add analogues for Removed Speed Governor.

Overlord: Hasn't decided on the exact figure yet. It shouldn't be too much, taking into account you have 4k+ battles.

Overlord: Will publish them a bit later this week, when they are finalized.

Overlord: Yes, definitely. It's the day WOT went open beta.

Overlord: No extra tanks are planned for the release version apart from M4A2E4 (gift tank), there will be some changes to full tank trees after the release.

Overlord: The 0.6.4 update needs polishing, it is a major patch (up to 1Gb) that needs additional testing, both internal and supertest. The release date has been fixed and we can't push it anymore.

Overlord: This video is credible, but only to some extent. And this is cheating indeed.
One can disable "shaking" effect and modify tracer options which are client side. These issues will be addressed in v.0.6.4.
• Added protection from client-side change of color, brightness and display time for tracer effects diplay.
• Added an option to turn-off tank shaking during shooting/moving/stopping/being hit in sniper mode. Default setting is shaking on.
Regarding reduced/modified aiming circle, it's 100% fake, since reticle position and aiming circle are controlled server-side.

Overlord: 1) Mercenaries are likely to be substituted for volunteers. Players who are not in clans will be able to mark the respective checkbox thus allowing invites from any clans needing side help.
Volunteer services are to be paid with gold.
2) Gold from the clan that used volunteer services.

Overlord: KV-5 is going to be tier 7.

Vallter: It is very small for our game-)

admin: CEO Wargaming.net Victor Kislyi in his latest interview to Markee Dragon reveals the story of WOT’s development and explains why tanks have been chosen the central idea of the project:
“There would be grand strategy that started in the kitchen”, - the Man Behind World of Tanks tells his interlocutor the story of his childhood passions that led to the creation of one of the greatest MMO projects ever.
Victor Kislyi calls WOT a combination and synergy of everything he and his team had been doing before. “World of Tanks is very close to being perfect”, - he says. What makes the game even more admirable is the fact that its creation started long time ago in the imagination of a little boy. “I am kinda game-designer since my school years”, - confides Victor. – “First time I saw a computer in 1987 or 1988, I played all the games and then I realized that I’d love myself to be connected with this”.
Once he even created a game (although it wasn’t a computer one but still it contained maps, vehicles, so one can easily trace the link to World of Tanks) and when he saw the game in a shop he said it was his idea and the answer of the sales-assistant was that the game had been created by somebody else before the boy was even born. In the interview the WOT developer shares some other personal remembrances too. “I was born in Soviet Union where we had a militaristic type of society. We were peaceful people but we were always preparing for war in case capitalists attack us”, - narrates Victor and Markee’s recollections of those times are also quite fascinating. “We also practiced getting under a desk covering our heads in case of a mushroom”, - replies the interview. “Oh, yes, that too. But you know, in case of a mushroom the desk doesn’t help”, - was Victor’s reaction.
To find out more and get the answer to the question why tanks are everywhere check out the video!
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=qqL30tkewu4

Vallter: They will be added in the first middle of May, if nothing bad happens.
The June (July) I will name not new mods, but upgrades for the current. Their current names are 'Assault' and 'Thee King of the Mountain'. Special maps are being designed for them. In fall we will try to add battles versus NPC ('Survival') And no further comments -)

Vallter: Yes, we are working on the game engine and our data servers. As well as on Matchmaking system. This occupies almost all our forces and that is why new game mods are so postponed. We want to fix current problems with balancer, before adding new ones -))
Premium account has enough bonuses and we won't add new ones in foreseeable future.
Yes, you can be surprised, but we don't read all threads. We can't do it, because we are Homo Sapience, just like you, and need to sleep and eat too. But we are trying to answer on the major part.

Vallter: I will pass this suggestion to the game designers.

Vallter: Really?

Vallter: v0.6.4 Patch will contain a huge amount of rebalance.

Vallter: View range will be mended in the fall, when large maps, battles 30vs30 and 45vs45 will be introduced.

Vallter: About the game mods:
If we won't found out any significant bugs, two new game mods will be added in the end of June or the first half of July. For now

Vallter: After posting an answer in this topic, I received many more questions here and in PM's.
First one, which I've noticed was about French tanks. In this week, maybe even tomorrow, we will post an article about them, with screenshots of finished tank models.
Then I've read new posts in this topic carefully. The main questions are about new game mods, companies and cooperation between friends.
1) I will personally review the current stage of game mod development and post here information about them, and also (probably) the approximate term of their programming stage. Adding them we will struggle with camping and even try to implement NPC tanks in the game.
2) We are currently working on tank companies. And near the start of CW, we will try to add new types of them. But we cannot currently name the exact date, when this will be implemented.
3) I agree with statements posted in this topic, that we play in MMO to cooperate with our friends and comrades. Adding Clan Wars and developing tank companies is only the first step in improving the current situation. We have some plans, but until they will enter development stage, we won't give publicity to them.
Also I saw the question about server crossing. As it was answered, this system will give possibility to clans from different servers to challenge on the Global Map and either to conquer the world together or struggle with each other. For example, Russian players really want to conquer the Washington province. -)
Here are some details. For now each server has a separated data base and an account cannot be transfered between them. Also, to play on the certain server, you have to download and install the proper client. But the mentioned system will copy account related data from one server to another, and the player will only have to press 1-2 buttons to play a battle with Russian players, then struggle for Berlin and after that defend Arizona. First we will enable this feature for clans and later it will be available for every player.
Also, the Global Map will be divided into three parts, one part for one server. Battles for provinces will take place in three time periods, according to the prime-time of the certain game cluster. So if Pirates decide to rush on Moscow, they will have to get up pretty early. -)

Vallter: Well-thought out, emotional and great post. With your permission, I won't be so talkative. Unfortunately, I still need to, in order to nail the issues on the head. -)
People have the habit of changing between online games. Not every person becomes 'addicted' to WoT. But your order of questions make sense, let me answer your statements one-by-one:
1)Memory Leaks are fixed about 30% with the last patch. With the next, that will be added just before or just after the game release it will be fixed 80-85 %.
2)Our game is Free-to-Play. It will remain so after release. This means you have no need to pay even a cent to play and enjoy the game.
3)New maps. 2 of them will be included in the next patch. We haven't released them earlier, because we wanted to complete the designing of new tanks first. You don't need maps, if you have no tanks, right? -)
4)New game modes. We have always stated, that we won't make them fast, because we want to make them with new ideas and make them good. We want our players to enjoy the unique abilities and functions. In summer we will add two or three.
5)Clan registration was already added to the game. We are not starting Clan Wars on the European and American servers right now because of several reasons:
- we want to finish the global map, add Africa, North and South America, Siberia.
- we want a certain number of strong clans. And taking into account the coming hardwipe, this won't be possible in following month. This has it's reasons as well. First of all we don't want a clan with a lot of spare time dominating on the whole map, while others will still drive Tier 6-7 tanks. We want to give all clans a chance to struggle for gold.
- we want to finish at least 50% of work on the server crossing system.

And now we are going to answer the painful question. Why we have not added all this things? OK, I will answer. For example, we wanted to add French tanks in March. But, we postponed it. And this is because we want to mend our server part. We have split our servers and our programmers were occupied on adjusting the connection to our servers. We want our users to have the best Ping possible. Also we are now working on moving the Russian server from Germany to Moscow and relieve the European server. After that our programmers will be able to get back to work on updates and features. I think, you sill agree with me, that no content will make you happy if the server will go down every hour or two.
I understand, that you have waited for a long period of time already. But if all those, who had left, will return to the game in June, or, moreover, Setember - they won't recognize this game.

Vallter: This statement is true. But it won't be realized soon. So for now the platoon limits won't be increased.

Vallter: I have posted some information about our plans in that topic. If you wish, I can repost it here.

Vallter: We will recalculate them in upcoming patches. Do soon the information will be outdated.

Vallter: This won't be implemented. Playing in platoon\tank company will reduce this negative effect

Vallter: We will think about implementing this after engine improvement

Vallter: Artillery works as planned. No such changes nedeed

Vallter: It is possible

OldFox: Cik es saprotu, Dobermans ari dzivo Latvija. Tikai spele RU-serveri.