Official Q&A Thread: 7.5 Era

SHISHKABOB, on Sep 08 2012 - 10:06, said: Hi Vallter, in this post: http://forum.worldof...40#entry1341808
you answer a question about "module saving throws", which are referenced by the wiki. http://wiki.worldoft...cs#Saving_Throw
I know that this question was from a long time ago, but did you ever happen to get more information on the subject?


bat21zing, on Sep 08 2012 - 13:50, said: I don't understand why the hiding of the enemy teams tanks hasn't been implemented in all battle modes. It's been very successful in clan wars. Requiring teams to scout to determine the composition of the enemy side. By added this feature to all other battle modes it would increase the value of light/med tanks in pub matches. It would teach players to slow down a bit to gather intelligence on the enemy before rushing in. It would also devalue XVM, at least, until the enemy team has been scouted. Adding a layer of interest and enhanced game play to pub matches. An added side effect would be that players wouldn't feel like giving up before the battle has even started. It's really time to add this feature to all existing battle modes! So are there plans to add this very excellent feature to other modes of play?


KaiserWilhelmShatner, on Sep 09 2012 - 07:56, said: Q1) After the British tank tree introduced, what nation will be introduced after that?  The rumor is Japan but can you give us an official confirmation?
Q2) Can we get special matches that are based off of WWI tanks and maps?


thundersaver, on Sep 09 2012 - 09:57, said: I shall ask some questions which i haven't received a reply from the sea server
In-game tanks:
1.)The addition of SPGs to compensate the SPG tree, thus allowing for Tier X SPG, would the overall exp be reduced to level of those such as heavy or medium tech tree lines? Or would it follow that of the tank destroyer line? or would it be kept the same?
2.) Is there going to be the addition of more than 16 group hit boxes in the game, or is 16 the most that will ever be placed on a tank?
3.) Would all tech-trees have the same number of tank lines? example the RU and GER have two heavy tech trees, two TD trees and a foreseeable two Med trees, would the American and French have similar number of tech lines?
4.) With the Tier 11 and 12 match-maker, would it expand to over tier 15 with the addition of modern to cold-war era tanks, since MM reduces game-play to tanks two tiers above and below it, with end tier tanks going no less than one tier below itself?
5.) Would the AMX 30 be a prototype version or production variant that is going to be placed in-game?
6.) What would be the Tier X British medium in this game? Just want to confirm.
7.) With the addition of a second med line for the soviets, what is their tier X counter-part?
8.) Would all future tier X mediums use APCR for their main gun or would some of the future Tier X mediums use HEAT rounds instead?
9.) Since the Tier X meds are able to use APCR as primary ammunition for combat, would the tier X heavies ever be given a similar opportunity, or would they stick to their AP rounds ?
10.) Since the M68 105mm rifled gun is in-game would it rival the British Royal L7 105mm rifled gun in different stats, or would it similar in every way except for name?
11.) Is the 105mm caliber the highest any med will have in this game(including future mediums) as end tier tank guns?
12.) When the 183mm gun gets added, would it have above 300mm penetration and gun damage of about 1100? Or would all High velocity Anti Tank guns not have damage beyond 1100?
13.) As of now the T28 TD has almost no worth for it's armor. It is understandable that the lower front hull weak spot was added because tanks previously have difficulties fighting the T28 TD, but as of now the armor is still very crummy. You may have the statistics to prove the tank is performing on par, but it is because there are many irregularities such as stats padding and etc. So my question would be would this tank ever be given a buff? The larger question would be would the American Turretless TD ever be given a buff? As of now its "305mm" armor is actually no more than "295mm" and there are tanks with slope armor up to "295mm" or more. So how does this tank even benefit from it's armor? It's armor isn't even that sloped, and doesn't bring bounces or dings against gold rounds (especially from the test server) compared to those who have sloped armor which help those tanks tremendously. As of now the American Turretless TDs would have nothing to their name after the release of the 8.0 Russian TDs, so can anything be done about this? Even the reduction of normalization doesn't help these tanks in any ways as their armor is sloped in less than 10 degrees. Thank you.
14.) The German Turretless TDs are also suffering from this as of now. Would they be given any benefit as they are all very large and their accuracy doesn't help them out much. In Statistics wise the German TDs do well as only a small number decide really to play them past a certain tier. This is not useful as data collection. So thus would the German TDs receive any forseeable change?
In-game audio:Was the idea of separate nation tank crew voices dropped? or is it being re-developed.
When would the WG get sounds samples for actually tank fire?
Would the Idea of having separate sound atmospheres be adopted? for example: in the outside environment you would hear a more lively atmosphere, while inside the tank during scoping it would sound very mechanical? In-game graphics:would tank shell graphics be worked upon in the near future any further?
In view of the purchase of BigWorld Engine, would the Devs seek to improve graphics as a main priority now since they have appropriate tools at hand?
Is there any attempts to develop historically accurate sights in-game or is the standard green reticule the finalized idea? Mechanics:Are any additional perks or skills being considered to be added into the game, or all perks and skills?
With the new physics engine, would outside factor affect in-game tank shot in anyway?
With the new physics engine, would there be an implementation of AP/HE concussion effects on tanks as a separate mechanism as well as visually?
With the new BigWorld Engine, would there be an expected increase of top speed beyond 72km/h that a vehicle engine can produce, or would it still be stuck at 72km/h?
Is there going to be any attempts to allow spotting mechanics to continue functioning beyond 445 meters?
Would the Spaced armor mechanic be re-worked, to something like normalization for the first set of armor and normalization for the second set of armor, and not normalization being multiplied twice one the first layer of armor and no additional normalization on the second set of armor? Collection of DATA
1.) Would the collection of Data still be based on the Russian Data Base always?
2.) Would the Collection of Data actually for once be outside of the Russian Player base? Here is a suggestion, get the tank nation played least in each server and use them as the Data for re balancing. Performing this suggestion is to help to spread the player base to all possible tanks as much as possible so that the play gap in each tank of each nation would be reduced tremendously and thus help the overall in game balancing. The main idea is to draw players away from the most played lines so that the there is reduced tank player gap.
3.) How long is data collection performed before determining of each buff and nerf?
4.) Does the nerfs and buffs follow what the tank is doing best/worst in? Or does it follow other statistics such as how much damage they deal, hit ratio, penetrating to non-penetrating hit ratios? Or maybe average battle survived ratios or how long a tank survive ratios?
5.) Are Tanks given an even chance on the battlefield and given that there are 4 nations, assuming one tank of each nation is available in the battlefield, all in separate teams, do they all have a 1/4 possibility of winning the game?
6.) When tanks are designated for a given role, why are there certain variations of play style difference (such as the T25 AT having no co-relation to the tanks after? Or the Pz 4 now losing it's sniping ability how would it gear players for the tiger tank?) If Data is collected on these tanks which show vast majority doing well in these tanks and having a drop in win/loss ratios or fall in possibly the good ratios in the preceding tanks, would there be an expected change to these tanks and their trees?
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That should be all for now, stay tune to more questions.
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