Developers posts on forum

Jeremy Taylor: Yes, the premium crew will be available for purchasing the same as the premium tanks.

Jeremy Taylor: This is only Russian-language closed beta version of World of Tanks. We are still working on the system of prices and upgrading rates. Many things will change by the moment of the open beta and release versions. Beta testers are helping us reveal drawbacks and improve the balance. That is why testing versions are launched.

Jeremy Taylor: This is one of our most beloved historic events. The map for it is already completed

Jeremy Taylor: The server is overloaded. We are working on solving the problem.

Jeremy Taylor: There is the time limit of 15 minutes for each round.

Jeremy Taylor: Such a balance is impossible in World of Tanks battles.

Jeremy Taylor: The advantage in light tanks may lead to easy victory if used wisely. The balance in World of Tanks plays an extremely important role, true. But in the end the result of each battle depends entirely on the following factors just exactly in that order:
- Team cooperation
- Individual skills
- The types of vehicles

Jeremy Taylor: Only high-explosive shells may cause some insignificant damage in case of rebound.

Jeremy Taylor: We have introduced relatively high costs for some shells of some specific fighting vehicles due to balance concerns. You can use more "money-saving" vehicles regularly to save enough money for purchasing shells for your beloved Tiger or IS-3 (let me repeat myself: there are 5 slots at your hangar, not one only). We don't want World of Tanks battlefields to be overcrowded with heavy tanks. Moreover, we are still working on the credit strategy in our game so prices may be reduced later on.

Jeremy Taylor: The team with IS3 and KV1 had probably the advantage in middle tanks.

Jeremy Taylor: The error has been fixed. Please report it if the same problem happens again.

Jeremy Taylor: Find the way to translate it. The lack of knowledge doesn't mean that you're not responsible for your acts

Jeremy Taylor: The balance system is based on the vehicles’ characteristics, not the players' rating. We have a very precise balance parameter that takes into account the vehicles’ type, specifications and level of upgrading.

Jeremy Taylor: The only difference between IS-1 and IS-2 is the 122mm barrel installed on IS-2. As the player may easily upgrade his IS-1 with the 122mm barrel we saw no need to single out IS-2. KV-2 represents the KV-1 original model with the turret of bigger diameter and 152mm gun. Thus, you may easily turn your KV-1 into KV-2 model through corresponding upgrades.

Jeremy Taylor: Random fights will stay random as they prevent players from cheating. Your team cooperation skills may be trained during clan wars. Moreover, we will introduce the special team mode where friends or clan mates will fight together. This mode will be launched closer to the release date or earlier. I didn't want to reveal the information about the team mode but Mr. m4rek's curiosity has forced me to

Jeremy Taylor: This is true. If the enemy is not reflected on your mini map or you cannot see it at the specific area (just because your radio hasn't captured the enemy at this location yet) it doesn't mean that the enemy is not really there. Knowing the map in details, which is inevitable through regular game practicing, gives you the information about the enemy's most favorite ambush locations. Hitting such places from to time may give results.
Very often the foe is spotted by the arty radio at the specific spot but moving a few meters aside it becomes invisible. Aiming at the possible enemy further coordinates from the place where it was initially spotted and putting a shell there is very often efficient. So this is not simply a blind guess shooting. This skill of predicting the enemy upcoming movements may be extremely helpful when playing the self-propelled howitzers.

Jeremy Taylor: We do really appreciate some of our "guerillas" who managed to deal with the Russian interface and joined the Russian language beta testing (somebody are soooo impatient waiting for the US/EU beta version ), but I would not like to turn this thread into the discussion of the Russian cbt. Initially this thread has been used to ask question about the upcoming US/EU beta, so if you would like to share your ideas-thoughts-emotions about the ongoing Russian closed beta testing - please start the individual topic for that purpose. Otherwise, I’m afraid some of your statements may lead to the misunderstandings for the newcomers.

Jeremy Taylor: All new crew members have the same starting characteristics and abilities. The rest will depend on how wisely you upgrade them.

Jeremy Taylor: Each map in World of Tanks weights really much (you will understand why when join the game). Maps created by users would mean loads of additional information (you should agree that additional content is not always equal to high quality content) that will exceed the client weight and cause problems to the server functioning.

Jeremy Taylor: Totally agree with you. I just meant that this feature is also awesome from some esthetic point of view especially if synchronized with free camera. Replay feature and movie making option (in that order) will be added into the game just after the release or during the open beta version development.

Jeremy Taylor: There is no replay possibility at this development stage (the game is only in its beta version). But we consider that feature a must-have as battles in World of Tanks look epic and very exciting from movie making point of view. This replay option will be added into the game just after the release or during the open beta version development.

Jeremy Taylor: q.1 We are still working on that concept and can't tell for the moment whether the possibility of hiding GUI and its components will be available.
q.2 The main mode is the third person view with four scales of remoteness from your tank and possibility to freely rotate the camera around the vehicle. You are able to zoom in to get the camera mounted at the end of your vehicle barrel when other vehicle's parts are not visible.
q.3,4,5 We are working on a very long-playing project. For the moment we are completely focused on core gameplay but after the release we will be adding multiple great features. Film-making features will definitely be introduced. SDK is a bit more controversial subject but it is being examined thoroughly.
q.6 We will definitely introduce modes that will be played for fun or training (I've already hinted at Survival mode).
q.7 There will be a “following camera” mode where you can stick to your teammate tanks that are still in battle. "Free" camera mode introducing is not out of the question and will be added after the release.

Jeremy Taylor: We will definitely introduce the scenarios like ones you've mentioned (I've already hinted at Survival mode). The further details will be revealed a bit later on. We are inclined to create such modes for fun or training and they will probably not influence your ingame statistics.

Jeremy Taylor: Please use this thread for reporting errors experienced on the World of Tanks forums.

Jeremy Taylor: The Char B1 bis would contribute immensely to your collection

Jeremy Taylor: The crew upgrading system is very simple: the Russian crew corresponds to the Russian fighting vehicles, German crew corresponds to the German fighting vehicles and so on. You will not be able to mix crews and fighting vehicles of different nations. The way crews will differ from each other concerning pros and cons will depend on the way you upgrade them. Every member of a crew will have their own qualities that will influence tank characteristics. The number of crew members will change depending on a chosen tank and will coincide with real data. The tankers will learn their skills relatively fast, and by the time you climb up the top of the development tree, you’ll have several fully experienced tank crews. For example, with a veteran gunner aboard, a tank will be more accurate in shooting and will deliver a larger number of critical hits.
No chance for waffen-ss to appear in World of Tanks .

Jeremy Taylor: The Best Tank Motto contest is finished.
Best Motto Contest Winners Announced
Take a look at some of our winners' epic works. I love them and I mean it

Jeremy Taylor: High Explosive shells cause the splash damage to the enemy vehicle.

Jeremy Taylor: I think he is more of a guerilla type at the Russian rear

Jeremy Taylor: We have a special audio feature that corresponds to the voice of your gun layer. That feature allows knowing whether your shot was successful, rebounded or caused no damage to the enemy's armor.

Jeremy Taylor: Tank auto identification is a great means of WWII fighting vehicles history popularization. It gives the visual perception of tank building history. Moreover, I can bet that this feature will not annoy you THAT much as you will be focused more on the warfare itself. And let me ask you a question: do you really want the community of World of Tanks to consist ONLY of tank building history buffs?

Jeremy Taylor: The best option I see in this situation is waiting for a European/US audience beta version . No problems with language barrier, no lags and errors and many cool features that Russian beta testers don’t even know about .

Jeremy Taylor: One of our members has sent me the request for the official World of Tanks signatures and banners. To tell the truth we haven't had enough time to optimize such kind of art for you, dear community, that is why I asked the member to wait for a while till we make WoT signatures and banners available. Another dedicated member of our forum ( Axelius, that's you many thanks) submitted his own version of unofficial (that is how he called it ) WoT signature. I must admit that it looks awesome:

As we haven't published the World of Tanks fan kit yet I will submit here three types of the World of Tanks logo you may use at your art works:

Jeremy Taylor: Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all those who took part. All of your mottos were awesome and it was a real joy to read them.

Jeremy Taylor: Couldn't be more agree with you. That is why we will publish the "Tank Encyclopedia" on our website with detailed description of each fighting vehicle model. Moreover, regular gaming in World of Tanks will give a very clear understanding of the battle tactics concerning this of that type of a vehicle.

Jeremy Taylor: - Yes if your GPU can handle this
- We think dual monitors support for World of Tanks is unnecessary
- For that moment 1 CPU core is ok but we are examining the chance of dual core support implementing
- Yes it will

Jeremy Taylor: Please refer to http://forum.worldof.../topic/92-beta/

Jeremy Taylor: Hi there, buddies . I've got news for you concerning this extremely interesting topic though some of you will not be happy with it in the beginning: we will introduce the auto identification system of fighting vehicles during the battles. Let me take in our arguments (I hope it will cease your anger a bit ):
- Vehicle identification is very important component of World of Tanks gameplay. The trained tank man is able to identify the aim in front of him at the distance of 200m. We are very proud of our mature tank experts but the good game must be comprehensible for everyone. That is why we want the newcomers in game and freshmen in tank building history to be capable of identifying their enemies at distance. We think that it is very fair to give such players a hint.
- Moreover, at the distance of 500m even the experienced World of Tanks player will hardly be able to differ, say, T-34 from T-44, though the difference in their characteristics is significant.
- Then, just imagine this moment of glory when all your team mates would see that your, say, middle tank could annihilate the Tiger itself (!), not a simple grey tank they have not any idea about.
- Finally, the goal of World of Tanks is not only to give you the most intense online warfare experience ever, but also to draw people’s attention to the tank building history, including those ones who want to play the wargame like World of Tanks but know little about tanks in general. And tank identification serves that purpose greatly.

Jeremy Taylor: We can't tell you the exact number of ranks available to be arranged within your clan for that moment. However, we will definitely introduce this kind of limitation.

Jeremy Taylor: The section on the mini map you cursor is outlined as reported location only for a few seconds.