Developers posts on forum

GeneralDirection: We have no current plans of changing the top-down view for artillery.

GeneralDirection: What's wrong with that?

GeneralDirection: We're always looking at ways we can improve latency for players outside of the continental US. It's an ongoing process, and one we don't have an announcement on at this time. But it is something we're investigating.

GeneralDirection: Horns and tank decals have nothing to do with the speed of implementing multi-core support. It's not a situation where piling more programmers onto the task will speed up its development.

GeneralDirection: It's very unlikely we would do a stat reset, most importantly because there are a lot of players who are proud of the stats they've earned to this point. With the concerns of "getting better" not being reflected due to the game being out for closing in on a year, that's mostly only true at the lower tiers--simply because those are the tanks many players spent a lot of time in early on. At the later tiers that improvement in skill is more properly reflected in the stats.
That said, a "last two weeks" (or something similar) snapshot could be interesting.

GeneralDirection: It's unlikely that this would be considered, primarily because premium tanks have a monetary value, so taking that away from players unless they pay more money, is not something we would consider. If we were concerned about the overuse of a certain tank (standard or premium), we would look at its balance numbers first.
But at the end of the day, if players are simply playing a certain tank a lot because they enjoy playing that tank, that's not something that should call for a nerf.

GeneralDirection: The concept of rewarding something for earning medals is an interesting one. One could argue that the reward is the additional experience from the feats done to accomplish said medal, with the medal recognizing that.

GeneralDirection: We have no current plans to introduce upgrades like this that carry a gold cost.

GeneralDirection: Interesting idea. Would this be to "try out" premium tanks? Or would it be for standard tanks too?

Hypnotik: There are far more than 2-5 countries in NA.

http://en.wikipedia....rican_countries

You have no problem belittling "a bunch of little islands," yet you're offended by the US flag representing North America (even though it is the primary source of players)?

GeneralDirection: "MMO" comes from the concept of persistent progression, as well as the persistent global map. While it's still in beta, it is a feature that makes World of Tanks more of an MMO than some shooters.

GeneralDirection: Unless a good number of things change within the game, at least gameplay-wise, I don't see this suggestion happening. There isn't a whole lot of gameplay value that its development would add at the moment.

GeneralDirection: The promo ended on November 28th.

GeneralDirection: Not all tiers of shells will be 58% off, which is why we included the "up to" part.

Tanitha: Hello Maximo
I don't mind the questions of course, but it is in a "discussion" section, so you are opening it up for discussion, so I'll reply and then close the thread.
Most of the bans within World of Tanks, aren't really bans, they are mutes. You can still login, play, but as you said with some limitations. "Map pinging", "Function Keys", and all chat channels.
If for example, a player is banned for spamming or being abusive etc. Then sanctions are put in place to stop that person from continuing to offend. IE they are muted.
There isn't really much point muting someone from spamming garage chat, and then allowing them to continue to spam in game, or spam the Fkeys, or map pinging.
The bans placed, aren't "usually" game bans (except for TKing/friendly fire)
But they do restrict the player enough to prevent them from continuing to offend.
Regards
Tan.

Hypnotik: Please don't forget Kindergarten Cop. Plenty of gems in that movie.

Tanitha: It would depend on your virus scanner and its settings, virus scanners can often be set to be as sensitive as you want them to be.
Total my virus scanner just picked up that my ISP connection installation could be a virus. But it was just a matter of telling my virus scanner to ignore it and install it.
Regards
Tan.

Tanitha: Please provide any feedback or suggestions regarding the new 7.0 cap sirens within this thread.
Thanks
Tan.

GeneralDirection: Correct, you must survive the entire battle.

GeneralDirection: I wanted to give everyone a heads-up leading into the end of the November NA Challenge that we are going to delay any announcements regarding the December iteration of the Challenge tournament series.
As you've no doubt seen from following this forum, we need to make a few very important rule changes for the health of competition in these tournaments.
It starts with the "draws = disqualification" rule. Even before reviewing the poll feedback, I can say without a doubt that this rule will be going away for this tournament type, beginning with the next Challenge.
It's entirely possible we may cancel the December Challenges, depending on how the schedule would look. We don't want to schedule a tournament so that you have to compete around Christmas, and we also don't want to rush a tournament out before taking a hard look at November's tournaments and making important decisions on changes--many of which are direly needed.
Please use this opportunity to voice any feedback you have, both on the polls and in its thread.

GeneralDirection: You will receive either 2 points for a destroy, or 2 points for damage (you won't receive the 2 "damage" points if you also destroy that particular tank). As Lexx98 pointed out earlier in the thread, the technical limitation on the scoreboard at the moment prevents the "damaged" category from displaying tanks you've also destroyed.
So with that in mind, it'll be a bit easier to put together your points calculation.
Essentially, 2 points for every name in the "destroyed" list, 2 points for every name in the "damaged" list, 1 point for every name in the "spotted" list, etc.

GeneralDirection: Agreed, Gaea does a fantastic job with processing the quiz results. Nyx and The Chieftain help out a ton too to make these things go as smooth and accurate as possible.

Tanitha: There is much more in that file, than LC_messages. you should extract the whole file to the world of tanks directory like is detailed in the OP.

Tanitha: Winrar is not a commercial product, IE you do not have to pay for it.
Tan.

GeneralDirection: Each category of the All Star event will only include a single tank. MVP events, however, will revolve around a variety of tanks.

GeneralDirection: It's a double dose of awesome!

GeneralDirection: Good call, done.

GeneralDirection: Between 11:30 UTC on Sunday, December 4th and 11:00 UTC on Monday, December 12th, stock up on gear and ammo for superior fire power.
Read more!

GeneralDirection: Yep, Operation Winter Assault is a global special. I'll be posting the news soon.

Tanitha: Language packs are now located here.
http://forum.worldof...language-packs/

Tanitha: The language packs for 7.0 are below. Feel free to select and download the one for your language.
EN http://cdn1.worldoft...ontent_en.patch
ES http://cdn1.worldoft...ontent_es.patch
IT http://cdn1.worldoft...ontent_it.patch
PL http://cdn1.worldoft...ontent_pl.patch
DE http://cdn1.worldoft...ontent_de.patch
FR http://cdn1.worldoft...ontent_fr.patch
After downloading the below files they need to be uncompressed using a uncompressing program such as 7z or Winrar.
They will not open automatically with programs such as winrar, because they they are called .patch and not called .rar
You could either rename the file to end in .rar and then open it with winrar, Or run winrar select "File"/"open"/"all files" find the language patch, and then manually open it.
Once open the file is to be extracted to the world of tanks 7.0 directory that you installed the public test client to.
Regards
Tan.

Mad_Hatter: The third public test server of v.7.0 update is announced.
To run the test version, please download the specified third test update and install it over the test client and second test update. The third test of v.7.0 update will end on Monday-Tuesday, December 5th-6th
For safety's sake, the game client and updates must be downloaded from the special section on the official website of World of Tanks only. If you download World of Tanks from other sources, your computer may suffer from viruses and scumware. The development team does not bear responsibility for links, game clients and updates located on off-sites.
Attention! Please, install the test update and the test game client version to the folder, other than the current game client version! Also switch off the game client before installing the update. Only players who have registered prior to November 15th can access public test server.
To run the test, please do the following actions:
1. Download the first test game client version:
Download the update v.7.0 test game client here(2.49 GB)
Download the update v.7.0 test game client torrent file here
2. Download and install over the first test game client version the second test update:
Download the test2 update of 7.0 here(33 MB)
Download the test2 update of 7.0 torrent file here
3. Download and install over the second test update and client:
Download the test3 update of 7.0 here(172 MB)
Download the test3 update of 7.0 torrent file here
4. Afterwards select one of the test servers at the launch of the updated test game client version:
W.o.T Common Test I
W.o.T Common Test II
We draw your attention to the fact that the test server is subject to EULA and general rules of World of Tanks game server. The restrictions and punishments are the same as on the official game server of World of Tanks. The details of the public test server of v.7.0 update can be found in the special discussion thread. The discussion of failures and bugs of test update 7.0 is carried out in the special sub-forum only.
Please, mind the peculiarities of the public test server:
Progress received during the first test of 7.0 update won't be transferred to the second test server.
Payments are not accepted on the public test server.
Credit and experience rates for public test server are multiplied 10 times. All players are given 15k gold for testing purposes.
Progress won't be transferred to the main EU server.

Some details on changes to take place within World of Tanks with the v.7.0 update release:
The Personal File of a crew member will not show battle statistics, but a new section “Experience required for the skill growth” will be added, that will denote the amount of experience remaining to the full percent of a promoted skill. Below that, the average experience per battle and an estimated number of battles remaining before you get that percentage.
Few procedures with the tank crew (in crew's management) will change: left-click on a tanker’s icon will allow only recruiting of a new crew member. For Personal File view, dismissing or sending to barracks a crew member, right-click on the tanker’s icon and choose the required action (desired option).
New modes of “team ears” switching. We remind you that “team ears” is an in-battle menu which depicts the lists of the friendly and enemy teams. With the 7.0 update, there will be four different modes for the “ears” menu view, and it will be easier to switch the “ears” mode (by clicking simply on Tab, instead of the previous combination Ctrl + Tab).
Minimap. One of the main upcoming minimap innovations is the option of its transparency change (Menu => Settings => Game => Transparency of the minimap) and sizing. You can set the hotkeys for the sizing in the settings (Menu => Settings => Controls => Minimap).
The option of the battle record and replay. The v.7.0 update will give you the opportunity to watch your battles for the detailed analysis or just for fun. To activate the option, go to Menu => Settings => Game and put a mark in the “Record the battle for replay” field. After that, all your battles will be recorded and saved to the folder “replays” the game directory of World of Tanks. The video will be replayed after a double click on it.
The list of major changes between test2 and test3 of 7.0 update:
- Fixed PzVI Tiger crash model bug
- Slightly reduced the absorption of HE damage by armour for non-penetrating HE hits
- Fixed a number of chat bugs
- Blocked the horn functionality
- Added base spots to the minimap Arctic Region.
- Fixed the work of suspension for PzVIB Tiger II tank
- Added tank company tier filter
- Fixed system message bugs when medals are received
- Fixed rare bug with game client closure while in the tank company interface
- Reordered game menu buttons
- Fixed bugs of turret camouflage in M6A2E1.
- Fixed IS-4 hitbox
- Team kill and team damage penalty rates set to as for v.6.7
- Reduced T40 tank destroyer repair cost
- Reduced price for APCR 105mm shell T5E1M2
- Fixed bug with invitations to clan battles
- Fixed bug with cursor disappearance
- Changed the voice notification for spotting enemy, penetrating and non-penetrating hits
- Removed the alarm sound for enemy base capture. Reduced the volume of alarm sound for own base capture
- Fixed the performance drop for some configurations
- Fixed the bug with tank company interface being blocked
- Fixed several spots where vehicles get stuck on Marsh map
- Fixed bug of the Ready! button in the tank company interface
- Fixed bug of sound failure in Garage after leaving a battle
- Fixed bug with 'objects in the air' on Prokhorovka map
- Removed equipment Improved Ventilation from Gw-Panther SPG
- Fixed bug with unnecessary tool tip display
- Reordered the location of some objects on Fjords map
- Fixed bug with 'objects in the air' on Steppes map
- Fixed bug with timer performance when playing recorded battle
- Increased performance of shot effects
- Fixed bugs with display of clan logo
- Fixed bug with tracer effects disappearance when 'advanced shadows' option is enabled
- Fixed bugs with team lists: the transparency of the list, saving position on the list at the battle start, etc.
- Fixed SU-76 tank destroyer hitbox
- Fixed bugs with display of certain shot effects
- Fixed bugs with display of special effects on AMD Radeon video cards
- Fixed bug when creating invitation list
- Fixed bug with client failure when selling tanks
- Fixed textures on Arctic Region map
- Fixed bug with display of incorrect tier for light tanks in the tank company interface.
- Fixed bug when LMB click when playing recorded battle
- Fixed several spots where vehicles get stuck on Fisherman's Bay map
- Fixed bug with unsynchronized position of tank turret and shooting direction when playing recorded battle
- Fixed incorrect display of armor thickness for Т29, Т34, T30, VK3601H, KV-3, KV-220, Т-34 and some other vehicles.
- Fixed bug when unable to purchase modules in some cases
- Fixed bug with the game doesn't remember sound settings
- Fixed effects for 90mm AT Gun M3.
- Fixed the absence of clan logo for VK 3002 (DB) tank
- Fixed texture bugs for M4 Sherman turret
- Fixed conflict between tank model of PzKpfw II Ausf. J and its hitbox
- Fixed game client failure when battle chat window is active

Vallter: Follow the news! We will publish something interesting regarding the matter soon.

Vallter: Follow the news! We will publish something interesting regarding the matter soon.

Vallter: Follow the news! We will publish something interesting regarding the matter soon.

Vallter: Sorry, my previous answer was wrong. In 7.0 the Mantlet will include all green area on your screenshot.

Vallter: We are planning to make a 'Europe' tree, which will include tanks from different nations, for example, Italian and Polish tanks.
For now we can't see any usage of machine-guns and this is a reason why they won't be developed.

Vallter: Seems, that this is a bug. We will investigate this issue.

Vallter: Nope, it does not affect the health points of modules. As well as the amount of rounds you take with you in battle.

Vallter: We've contacted the author and agreed on giving 10k gold for his work.
AFAIK, he is working on making an OTM version for 7.0.
In upcoming updates we plan to add something similar to the same client, but it will different from current OTM.
All news for now-)

Vallter: Please, help us to make the sounds better, if you consider all of them not worth to be implemented. Give your own samples of the Korean Voices you would like to hear in-game!
Each sample should contain only 1 voice.
Each sample should be an in-game voice example, so it means only voices used in games will be considered.
Please, also provide feedback on the current voice samples. Consider that we are either Americans or Russians, so need a clear explanation of what do you mean with this or that abbreviations.

Vallter: Please, help us to make the sounds better, if you consider all of them not worth to be implemented. Give your own samples of the Korean Voices you would like to hear in-game!
Each sample should contain only 1 voice.
Each sample should be an in-game voice example, so it means only voices used in games will be considered.
Please, also provide feedback on the current voice samples. Consider that we are either Americans or Russians, so need a clear explanation of what do you mean with this or that abbreviations.

Vallter: Please, help us to make the sounds better, if you consider all of them not worth to be implemented. Give your own samples of the Korean Voices you would like to hear in-game!
Each sample should contain only 1 voice.
Each sample should be an in-game voice example, so it means only voices used in games will be considered.
Please, also provide feedback on the current voice samples. Consider that we are either Americans or Russians, so need a clear explanation of what do you mean with this or that abbreviations.

Vallter: Please, help us to make the sounds better, if you consider all of them not worth to be implemented. Give your own samples of the Korean Voices you would like to hear in-game!
Each sample should contain only 1 voice.
Each sample should be an in-game voice example, so it means only voices used in games will be considered.
Please, also provide feedback on the current voice samples. Consider that we are either Americans or Russians, so need a clear explanation of what do you mean with this or that abbreviations.

Vallter: It's planned for the middle of December. The exact date depends a lot on test 7.0.3 results, so I don't want to give exact dates.

Vallter: The garage discounts will come sooner that you think

Vallter: I would not be so sure about the tenth. Everything depends on test results.
7.1 will come soon after the New Year, if 7.0 will be released after the 10th of December. Though 7.1 is almost ready, we still want to make a public test before implementing it. So the time of 7.1 release depends a lot on 7.0 tests.