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World of Tanks Release Plan for 2011-2012!
The development team shares their plans for the game development!

12 September 2011, 13:48



Dear players,

World of Tanks team gives you the unique opportunity to see the general plan of game development in 2011-2012! Publishing of the release plan for a year is the rara avis in the world gaming industry, you will hardly find the year's development plan of a project. We are sure, that we will implement and set out all that we have planned, because each member of our Team is a skilled expert of what he or she does. 300 professionals of the development team work on the new gameplay modes, new tank models, new maps and visual effects, post the updates on the servers, operate them and do their best to entertain the players and make the game real fun! In other words, every dev loves his or her work and lays him or herself out to perfect the high quality of World of Tanks!

At this stage we introduce the General Release Plan of World of Tanks in 2011-2012. Please, pay attention to the fact that the list of upcoming features is not full and the dates are subject to change. Be sure to see many more specialties with every update!


Maps

    Each update will introduce 1-2 new maps.

    Maps featuring North American Landscapes are planned for release in Q4 2011, after that the following regions are going to be covered:

            Africa
            South America
            Australia
            China, Korea
            Japan

Maps featuring all regions above are currently in development. The details on maps will be announced upon the release of each particular update.


Tanks
American tanks

    medium tank M4A3E2, light tank M24 - Q3 2011;

    tank destroyers M8A1, T49, M18 Hellcat, T28 prototype - Q1 2012;

    heavy tanks M103, T110, tank destroyer T25-2 - Q1 2012.

Soviet tanks

    light tanks T-50, T-50-2 - Q3 2011;

    tank destroyer SU-85 (I) - Q4 2011;

    tank destroyers SU-100M-1, SU-101, SU-122-54 - Q4 2011;

    heavy tanks  KV-1, KV-2, KV-4, Т-150, ST I, Object 252 - Q1 2012.

German tanks

    medium tank PzKpfwIV Hydraulic - Q4 2011;

    tank destroyers Marder III, Dicker Max, Nashorn, Sturer Emil, Jagdpanther II, E-100 - Q4 2011;

    SPGs E-10, E-25, Jagdtiger Sd.Kfz. 185 (88/71) - Q2 2012.

French tanks

    light, medium, and heavy tanks Renault FT, Renault D1, Renault D2, Renault B1, ARL 44, AMX 50 100mm, AMX-50 120mm, Hotchkiss H35, AMX 38, AMX 40, AMX 13 75mm, AMX 13 90mm, Chatillon 25t, BDR G1B, AMX M4 (1945), AMX-50 B, AMX 12t , Lorraine 40t - Q4 2011;

    SPGs Renault BS, Lorraine 39 L AM, AMX 13 AM 105mm, AMX 13 F3 AM, Lorraine155 (50), Lorraine155 (51), Bаt.-Chatillon AM 155mm - Q1 2012;

    tank destroyers Pak40 FCM 36 (f), 10.5cm leFH18 B2 (f), Panzerjäger 35R - Q1 2012;

    tank destroyers Renault FT AC, Lorraine 37 L AC, Somua SAu 40, Somua S 35 CA, ARL V 39, AMX AC Mle.1946, AMX AC Mle.1948, AMX50 Foch - Q1 2012;

    medium tank Renault G1R, light tank АМХ 13 FL11 - Q1 2012.

British tanks - Q2 2012
Japanese tanks  - 2012


New Game Modes

    Company battle divisions: tier 10 max with no overall tier limitation, tiers 8, 6, and 4 max with the respective overall tier limitation - Q4 2011;

    Assault (one team attacks, the other one defends the base) and Encounter battle (two teams are to capture the base in the center of the map) - Q4 2011;

    Garage battle – players can use several tanks (one after another) in one battle (“limited respawn”)  - Q1 2012;

    Escort (only a few tanks from the team have the ability to capture enemy's base, the opposite team is to stop potential invaders) - Q1 2012;

    Historical battle - faction based battles with historically justified restrictions on vehicles and modules available - 2012.


Ultimate Conquest (Clan Wars)

    Fog of war in clan battles - Q4 2011;

    Cooldown period for destroyed vehicles - Q4 2011;

    Expansion of the global map. The following regions are going to be added in the prescribed order: North America, Africa, South America, Australia, Korea, China, Japan - 2012;

    Clan treasure transactions - 2012;

    Clan armoury, clan consumables and tanks - 2012.


Performance and Game Client

    Packed resources decreasing map loading time - Q4 2011;

    Pre-caching – optimized vehicle model loading for Low-end PCs - Q4 2011;

    New firing effects, explosions, and other visual effects will be added gradually - Starting Q4 2011.


New Features (Misc)

    Vehicle customization: camouflage and horn sounds - Q4 2011;

    Mini-map customization and new functionality - Q4 2011;

    Interface game tutorial - Q4 2011;

    Quick in-game violation report system - Q4 2011;

    New crew skills and perks - Starting Q4 2011;

    New aсhievements - Q1 2012;

    Expanded post-battle statistics, also accessible in garage menu - Q1 2012;

    Realistic vehicle physics - Q1 2012;

    Extended platoons for up to 5 players - Q1 2012;

    Improved match-making system - Q1 2012;

    National crew voices (crews of each nation speak their mother tongue) - 2012;

    Battle game tutorial - 2012;

    Commander’s chart - 2012;

    Improved chat functionality, official language-based chat subchannels - 2012.

Notice! Release plans stated above are subject to change.

The list of the specialties will extend with every update release! Stay tuned for more World of Tanks, that’s gonna be fun!

NOTE: Tech trees are subject to change. Tech trees in game do not fully reflect the planned full tech trees linked below.

France

Germany

USA

USSR

General Grievances

DemonicSpoon, on 15 January 2011 - 07:55 AM, said:

Currently the above is not planned, but it is possible especially in terms of guns.

direwo, on 05 October 2011 - 06:22 PM, said:

The majority of guns have 10+/-2 normalization based on shell type and caliber.

DemonicSpoon, on 15 January 2011 - 10:57 PM, said:

Penetration decreases linearly according to shell specs. See penetration tables http://forum.worldof...tration-values/
Roughly it's about 75-80% penetration at 500 meters.

Fimp3n, on 15 February 2011 - 09:17 PM, said:

Personally I don't have any problems with bling shooting and haven't heard of this issue. All hits are counted, even if you don't see the target.

RokRoland, on 11 February 2011 - 11:49 AM, said:

1-2. Shots are distributed according to normal (Gaussian) distribution.
3. No, it doesn't . It affects only aiming time.

DriveBy, on 11 February 2011 - 01:34 PM, said:

1. Shrinks the aiming circle.
2. No.
3. The same for all guns. Normal distribution.
4. The size of aiming circle. But if a tanks drives over roughnesses it affects the gun too.
5-6. Yes, roughly. All tanks have access to improved/top suspension apart from premium vehicles and tier X heavies.
7. Counter with constatly changing numbers would be inconvenient.

derito, on 14 February 2011 - 06:05 PM, said:

Yes, the same way. 25% spread.

Vendelin, on 14 February 2011 - 06:24 PM, said:

As a general pattern, critical hit causing 0 damage is quite possible. Regarding this example with IS-4, additional checking required. What ammo, what gun, where actually the shell hit etc.

Vendelin, on 14 February 2011 - 10:14 PM, said:

If the driver was knocked out and the observation device was destroyed, the whole situation looks quite probable. The shell itself might have not penetrated the armor, but some fragments did killing the crewman.
Bugs are possible.

Zuxx, on 16 September 2011 - 09:33 AM, said:

It requires much work related to the game mechanics including hit boxes onerhaul, we havent decided on yet.

Mecha_Lenin, on 10 October 2011 - 09:41 PM, said:

Yes, the higher total damage of the shell, the higher its module damage.

Wriothesley, on 07 October 2011 - 09:10 AM, said:

Yes, from the top to the bottom.

shugendo, on 09 February 2011 - 01:05 AM, said:

The increase of slots for equipment and consumables is not planned.

FrostDX, on 23 September 2011 - 09:11 AM, said:

There is no known issue with this achievement.

Wriothesley, on 27 September 2011 - 09:19 AM, said:

Sorry we don't offer such service at the moment.

Wriothesley, on 27 September 2011 - 01:09 PM, said:

Why not stop trolling here.
This experiment was needed to allow public transfers as soon as possible, not to waste our time on some side stuff. When the feature is ready, it will be available for all.

VK 3601(H)

Panther

Panther II

E-50

PzKpfw IV Hydro

Tiger

Tiger II

E-75

E-100

Neubaufahrzeug

Ferdinand

Sturmtiger mit 8.8cm L/71

T-54

KV-3

IS-3

KV-220

Object 212

M3 Lee

M7

Panther
Ersatz M10 GMC

M103

T28

105mm T5E1

Detonator, on 06 October 2011 - 10:05 AM, said:

We are thinking of giving one extra slot for your Renault FT.

yams42000, on 06 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

The exact amount has not been decided yet. Approx it will be equal to the amount for other tier 10 tanks.

yams42000, on 10 October 2011 - 12:13 PM, said:

It wont be that easy. Internal tests will show however.

Nisu, on 26 September 2011 - 11:27 AM, said:

It was a kind of experiment to find out our possibilities in this field. The work in progress.

Gigaton, on 09 October 2011 - 09:51 AM, said:

Unfortunately no. Somehow a ton of false info made to that article. Escort battles will come later this year.

XenomorphZeta, on 07 October 2011 - 02:45 PM, said:

1. Yes, all tanks.
2. Right. Upon the release of a new vehicle.

FrankyK, Wriothesley:
Asked for translation, here it is:

Storm said:

translates generally by native speaker as

Quote

Wriothesley, on 06 October 2011 - 07:35 AM, said:

445m - max spotting range, 25deg restriction was chosen for both security and gameplay purposes.

Panocek, on 25 September 2011 - 05:10 PM, said:

Yes, there will be certain rebalancing. Will share the info upon the beginning of public testing.

rafik1213, on 27 September 2011 - 01:03 PM, said:

1. It might help a bit, however your PC is borderline minimal system requirements.
2. Most likely - yes.
3. N/A.

Reavus, on 05 October 2011 - 04:45 PM, said:

Not planning any changes here.

Orree, on 05 October 2011 - 11:23 PM, said:

General matchmaking overhaul is planned for Q1 2012, however certain improvements are likely to come this year. Posdible SPG per team limitation is a part of major revision.

Niegan, on 19 September 2011 - 02:34 PM, said:

Yes, it is in the works.

NEMESIS, on 05 February 2011 - 05:35 PM, said:

1. No wipes at all after release. Invested time and/or money are not to be reset.
2. No deletion of inactive player accounts.
3. Currently this is not planned.
4. Unmark "Enable post-effect in Postmortem" in game settings.
5. About 2-3 maps a month. They are being worked on for clan wars purposes. Currently no ETA.
6. Not with, but against. Only on global map after clan wars release. Not in standard battles.  
7. 200mm is the correct value for front hull.
8. Can't you take a screenshot by pressing Print Screen button only?
9. This is being worked on. Sorry, no ETA.
10. Some tier X vehicles will be upgradable.
11. No other option other than transferring into free experience for gold is planned at this time.
12. Normal priority. E-series is likely to come along with several new vehicles from revised tech trees. Currently no ETA.
13. If the distance between the vehicles is less than 50m, they see one another under any conditions. This is not subject to change due to some limitations of the game engine.
14. Yes, this will be introduced.
15. This is being worked on. Sorry, no ETA.

General

Command Tank

Air Strike

Weather

Superplatoons

Kazomir, on 04 February 2011 - 10:24 PM, said:

This feature can be added in future.

Raptor_Fulcrum, on 05 February 2011 - 09:11 PM, said:

It is possible. As usual, no ETA on this.

General Questions

European Tech Tree

Italian Tech Tree

Additional Armor

Pernumbra, on 07 October 2011 - 01:38 AM, said:

1. Yes, it's true. The details will be published on EU community website soon.

2. CD and promo card (some gold, credits, bonus tank, and active premium account for some time)

3. Most likely - no.

4. Yes.

5. Not now, later.

6. Most likely - no.

MadDogSh, on 10 October 2011 - 02:19 PM, said:

1. No, they are not available currently.

2. Yes, there is such chance, however the content of such packages can be different of course.

Convi, on 27 September 2011 - 06:02 AM, said:

Sure thing it is possible, however from point of view it is reasonable to support mid-tiers mostly.

SlicerDicer, on 24 September 2011 - 02:25 PM, said:

Unlikely Im afraid, however will see.

VonOtto, on 22 September 2011 - 07:34 PM, said:

No, I think. Sorry.

NoMoreChillies, on 15 January 2011 - 06:09 AM, said:

Such checkboxes are not planned. Some let's say unpopular maps are likely to be switched to decreased rotation.

TheRaggedMan, on 09 October 2011 - 02:44 PM, said:

There is a thought that the performance can differ to some extent depending on the map. Need to investigate this further.

Location


Connection

Lag

Restarts

Crashes

Costarring, on 01 February 2011 - 02:05 PM, said:

You can get a detailed answer from suport.worldoftanks.eu.
General rules for nicknames apply to clans as well.

incurably_myself, on 17 February 2011 - 01:35 PM, said:

Tank skins featuring weak spots of vehicles are officially allowed. The main requirement is that they (skins) shouldn't contain any other prohibited content.

feersum, on 17 February 2011 - 02:21 PM, said:

We can't track down all skins players use, thise with prohibited content (Nazi symbols, pornography) shouldn't appear on the forums for public use.

Convi, on 04 February 2011 - 11:33 PM, said:

Active playing with the help of balance methods. However not going to do away with camping completely.

DKWK, on 07 February 2011 - 05:53 PM, said:

User groups were covered above.

Plasma_Fire, on 09 October 2011 - 11:40 PM, said:

No, not all are professional writers. I do see some negative connotation in the question above.

yams42000, on 06 October 2011 - 12:18 PM, said:

Who? Me? I'm one of the employees actually

Wriothesley, on 05 October 2011 - 07:00 PM, said:

Thank you!
Moderators are volunteers of forum administration. Recruited from forum members, the moderators are responsible for maintenance of forum rules. Moderators however are not official employee's of Wargaming.net and recruited from the player base. They have no special abilities in game to give them any advantage, other than the ability to issue chat bans within the game.
Content and happy community is our best reward.

Celestial, on 05 October 2011 - 10:10 PM, said:

Once again - just my own personal opinion.
1) New game modes as absolute priority to make the game more diverse.
2) Historical battles!
3) Reduced matchmaking spread - plus-minus one tier for most non-scout tanks should be enough.
4) Changes to balance weight of particular tanks: matchmaker should take into consideration amount of premium tanks in both teams for example, tank's general equipment (stock tank vs. fully-equipped tank) as well.
5) Artillery rework - reducing amount of artillery hp so that artillery can be destroyed with one shot of the tank of its own level. Balance changes so that both team with artillery have light and medium tanks. Tracers for artillery in order to demand higher skill for individual artillery players like it was in Beta.
6) Actual tank's stats in garage - ie. responding to current equipment, crew skill level etc.
7) Ability to check one map per tank as non-favourite in order to lower the chance to get it.
8) More hull options for historical vehicles - many of them like Pz. IV, Stug III, T-28, IS, BT had different armor models while ingame they are represented as single vehicle.

Wriothesley, on 11 October 2011 - 09:29 AM, said:

This feature is being worked on by BW team. C++ and Python.

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Fimp3n, on 22 February 2011 - 07:58 PM, said:

Nothing of the listed above is planned.

waylander1, on 23 February 2011 - 01:51 PM, said:

Yes, correct.

RokRoland, on 24 February 2011 - 11:36 AM, said:

1. Just checked it crew gets doubled experience of the first victory as well. It should be noted that the bonus provided "accelerated crew training" is not that much, all in all about 20-25% if all the crewmen survived.

2. Not a typo. Initially only premium shells were planned for this gun, then we added regular ones as well. Due to its unique construction this gun was able to produce increased pressure giving shells extra power, both damage and penetration. As far as I know this gun didn't manage to go through testing.

fabse, on 24 February 2011 - 12:54 PM, said:

Gravity is taken into account in-game but you don't need to need to make any adjustments manually, your gunner does them on his own.

If I do remember right, 2.5-sigma interval is in use.

Vendelin, on 24 February 2011 - 03:34 PM, said:

1. Covered by the previous poster. My only correction would be that if one of the two loaders was knocked out, loading speed decreases by 33%.

2. No, it's not. Each crewmember gets the same amount of experience as the vehicle itself (assuming he surived the battle).

Vendelin, on 24 February 2011 - 12:09 PM, said:

1. Actually this was under consideration, but due to some technical restrictions we had to give up the idea.

2. It should apply to its height in general, you will be able to assess it on your own next week.

Vendelin, on 25 February 2011 - 11:43 AM, said:

Average loading skill per crew is taken into account.
Two loaders with 116% skill work with the same effectiveness as one loader with 116% skill (assuming there is one loader in crew).
 
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Vendelin, on 25 February 2011 - 01:46 PM, said:

Vehicle specs in hangar given as per ~133% crew skill. 100% basic crew crew, 10% commander's bouns, ventilation, rammer, chocolate/cola/additional ration. Kind of ideal model.

Crew skill increases the performance linearly.

Chaos123, on 26 February 2011 - 08:02 PM, said:

T-54 model of 1946 indeed had 120mm front armor, version with 100mm might be added in future, but as a separate vehicle.

CerVus, on 27 February 2011 - 04:28 PM, said:

Our history experts say that the weight is ok, especially taking into account that the turret itself is almost fictional.

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Fimp3n, on 28 February 2011 - 03:30 PM, said:

It is the engine that was improved in 1983. U means - improved/modernized.

Indeed this engine was mounted on T-54 in 1983. See the pic below:


Theoretically some other even more powerful engines could have been mounted on T-54 as well, e.g. the series based on V-12:

1. 1944 - V-14 (800 hp), V-12U (700 and 750 hp)
2. 1945 - V-16F (700 hp), V-16 FN (800 hp)

These engines suit T-54s layout but were not mounted due to some other, non-technical reasons. Guess, not many would like them to be mounted on T-54 in-game.

As a side example, Maybach HL 234 P 50 (980 hp) wasn't mounted on Panther II. Maybach HL 234 (800 hp) was the last one in the series.

RAZORLIGHT, on 28 February 2011 - 09:15 PM, said:

5%.

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Sturmtiger_304, on 28 February 2011 - 10:42 PM, said:

Conquered province brings 1/24 of the designated gold amount each hour.

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fabse, on 03 March 2011 - 06:20 PM, said:

If HE shell didn't manage to penetrate or exploded near the tank (eg SPG shot).

- If the explosion took place directly on the armor the damage is reduced by 50%, if the explosion took place near the tank the damage is reduced by 50% plus it gets some extra reduction depending on distance to vehicle.

- Heat wave of HE shell "seeks for" soft spot on the armor, where it is possible to penetrate. Heat wave makes cone-shaped aperture in the armor with approx 45 deg cone angle.

- Vehicle's armor partly absorbs heat damage (each tanks has its own value), including installed spall liner.

- Heat wave damages crew and decreases vehicle's hit points. Modules are not damaged.

Note 25% damage and penetration spread that is counted for each shot.

RAZORLIGHT, on 04 March 2011 - 12:04 AM, said:

It decreases HE damage taken by 15%.

Haineko, on 04 March 2011 - 10:09 AM, said:

If HE shell managed to penetrate the armor.

- Similar to AP shell, it goes inside the vehicle and explodes there.

- Full damage according to the specs is inflicted, plus HE deals additional damage to internal modules and/or crew. Apart from its basic damage value, each shell has additional value that determines possible damage to crew/internal modules if penetration was successful.

derito, on 04 March 2011 - 10:13 AM, said:

Most likely it's not a bug. HE shell can do zero damage, if:

1) eternal module took all the damage (e.g. tracks)
2) armor absorbed all the damage

Raketensegler, on 04 March 2011 - 11:41 AM, said:

Correct. The higher standard HE damage, the higher possible extra damage to internal modules.
 
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posthumecaver, on 04 March 2011 - 01:57 PM, said:

"One-shot effect" happens when:

- ammo rack explodes;
- shell damage exceeds vehicle's hit points (after 25% random is taken into account).

Answered in that topic.
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arkhell, on 05 March 2011 - 06:24 PM, said:

They will get the guns that were designated for them (the ones you listed). Can't give any details on these vehicles, since we haven't got tech de​sc​ri​ptions for them yet.

B051LjKo, on 06 March 2011 - 03:40 PM, said:

It's a bug we decided to turn into a feature actually.

Because of some game engine limitations currently it is impossible to make crews qualified to drive several tanks. This might be changed in future, but currently is not being worked on.

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RAZORLIGHT, on 07 March 2011 - 12:19 AM, said:

This is unlikely to happen, current version of Stug is quite competitive. It is balanced with SU-85 accurate within 0.5% in terms of experience and win ratio.

Nikola_Bathory, on 08 March 2011 - 08:51 AM, said:

No, that's not true. Those are passive skills that have their effect once learnt. The efficiency of skill increases linearly, 100% skill provides double bonus, e.g. 100% camo skill gives -50% repair time.

Fimp3n, on 08 March 2011 - 11:25 AM, said:

1. No, they are active in spite of the fact primary skills are below 100%.

2. After retraining primary skills grow two times slower, it was made on purpose.
Edited after the check-up, March 9. There is no 2X reduction.
 
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RokRoland, on 09 March 2011 - 11:06 AM, said:

1. They are equally effective.

2.1 No.

2.2 No.

2.3 No. Retraining DOES NOT affect skill progress (both primary and secondary) in any way.

Haineko, on 09 March 2011 - 01:57 PM, said:

For game purposes AP and APCR shells are used:

- AP is a regular armor-piercing/solid shot shell meant to penetrate enemy's armor and damage the vehicle and/or crew by internal fragmentation/ricochet.

- APCR is somewhat lighter than regular AP shell (up to half the weight of a standard AP shot of the same calibre). Its higher velocity and tungsten carbide cap allowed APCR shells to penetrate thicker armor. Most APCR shells are shaped like the standard APCBC shot.

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Haineko, on 09 March 2011 - 06:21 PM, said:

Basically, yes.

Improved physics is unlikely to affect shell physics, mostly movement and ability to fall down cliffs.

RokRoland, on 11 March 2011 - 12:11 PM, said:

1. Vehicles without available ventilations are not disadvantaged. Their specs are given taking into account that ventilation is not available for them.

2. It breaks neither.

3. Fashion is changeable, it should not affect balancing.
Seriously: all stat samples are representative enough to base judgement on.

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Kazomir, on 11 March 2011 - 05:22 PM, said:

1. I think it's possible, but we are focused on camo kits at the moment.

Paaranoja, on 14 March 2011 - 10:13 AM, said:

Yes, but in order to get this cumulative bonus the hull of your tank should be stationary.
 
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ZorinWarfield, on 13 March 2011 - 10:29 PM, said:

Training battles are meant for training mostly. There will be seprate battle modes, completely independent.

Kaap, on 15 March 2011 - 12:26 PM, said:

Not going deeply into discussion, building local communities is also rather important. My personal feeling, we should provide a great number of language packages so as to give players an opportunity to play WOT in their mother tongue. Currently we have WOT translated into 15 languages, including Russian and Chinese. 6 more language packs are in progress, 2 more are in plans (Korean and Japanese).

Regarding local forums, partially I agree on it, splitting the existing forums into multiple national subforums is debatable. On the other hand it's a form of support the language pack itself, means of gathering feeback.

arkhell, on 15 March 2011 - 03:18 PM, said:

Will do our best so as to minimize the incluence of language packages on our patching schedule.

Nikola_Bathory, on 15 March 2011 - 03:21 PM, said:

Yes, but this functionality will be added later.

It will work this way.

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Fimp3n, on 16 March 2011 - 01:12 AM, said:

The rules define this pretty clearly

"... are allowed only one account registered per server."

Sturmtiger_304, on 16 March 2011 - 08:04 AM, said:

Of course, no. Moreover the majority of developers don't have any in-game powers at all.

Moderators can issue chat bans.

Administrators can issue chat and game bans.

That's it.

Stubentiger, on 16 March 2011 - 11:00 AM, said:

Please bring this issue to Support Service.

dnarag1m, on 16 March 2011 - 11:55 AM, said:

Mostly because twink accounts are regularly misused (bots, ckickers, excessive TKs). The rate of EULA/other rules breaches is normally higher for such accounts.

Personally I don't have anything against users having multiple accounts as long as there is no violations from their side.

Fimp3n, on 16 March 2011 - 11:31 PM, said:

Game Rules:  
2.21. The use of copyrighted, trademarked, patented, classified, or restricted material or information and the violation of any rights of any party, including rights of privacy or publicity is prohibited.

Though it's better to review this case by case via support service.

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KrautPanzer, on 17 March 2011 - 06:03 PM, said:

Additional armor plates will include "schürzen", but won't be limited to them.

They might be introduced as a separate module or equipment. Or even in another way. Haven't decided yet.

arkhell, on 18 March 2011 - 03:28 PM, said:

1. M26 Pershing / Object 212 / Pz. 38H735 (f)
2. T54 (especially with 203mm B-4)/ KV (don't know why)
3. T30 / Object 704
 
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TitanExtremer, on 19 March 2011 - 04:39 AM, said:

1. Visible crews for open top vehicles are not planned currently. Supposing they are modelled, what would happen to them, when the vehicle is destroyed.

2. We were considering this for some time, but haven't come up to the final decision. Infantry might be added in the long-run.

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ian666, on 21 March 2011 - 07:47 PM, said:

1. 5%, just like regular tanks.

2. Some premium tanks won't be purchasable for gold in-game, e.g. pre-order tanks, gift tanks, tanks for box version.

3. This gun should be compared to L-10 available for T-28 instead. It has got better accuracy and aiming time.

4. In terms of performace of this tank is somewhat similar to A-20 since they both were T-34 prototypes.

5. No, it has already been finalized.

6. 300 gold per slot is the designated price. There was a long-lasting discount. Maximum number of slots is limited of course, but this number is much higher than the number of tanks in-game.

7. No. This is not planned.

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arkhell, on 22 March 2011 - 05:04 PM, said:

First sergeant is the highest currently. 1000 posts to reach it. Just don't spam much.

RAZORLIGHT, on 22 March 2011 - 08:28 PM, said:

The amount of module damage will be decreased substantially. Apart from that it's a decent tank comparable to the other 2 tier 7 heavies (tho T29 still needs some adjustments).

Each tank has its own ones: Maus - armor, Leopard - speed, GW-Tiger - gun's power. Don't want to generalize.

RAZORLIGHT, on 22 March 2011 - 09:30 PM, said:

MS-1 can penetrate IS if you know where to shoot and aim accurately.

Armor is fine, once the amount of module damage is decreased Tiger's performance will see some boost.

Each tank should have its own weak and strong points that's the aim of balancing. I won't claim for the whole nation. None of the three.

RAZORLIGHT, on 22 March 2011 - 10:04 PM, said:

From a player's standpoint, though I don't play hevies much, Tiger should take advantage of its accuracy, low aiming time and good sight range (perhaps mount binoculars and optics). Moreover it's quite possible to deflect shots using your good side armor and timely traverse. Requires practice. I do bounce shots in T20, so should not be too difficult in Tiger.

Each nation has its own legends and heroes (M4 Sherman, T-34), moreover public belief may not always be credible.

RAZORLIGHT, on 22 March 2011 - 10:21 PM, said:

It's pretty well-known that Tiger could cope rather easily with a bunch of T-34s or Shermans, even 4 or 5 of them. But we are developing the game not reviving the historical truth or staging some famous battles. The game has got plenty of conditionalities and damage would be the first and most important one.

Each tank requires certain skill and practice, you can't, excuse me, "own" others just because you are driving Tiger, IS-7, T32, or whatever. Learn, adjust and get fun would be my advice.

incurably_myself, on 23 March 2011 - 05:42 PM, said:

This is correct.
 
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Kazomir, on 24 March 2011 - 11:05 AM, said:

1. No.

2. Will work hard and hope for the best.

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Hamynelypham, on 25 March 2011 - 04:28 PM, said:

Maximum damage cannot exceed 125% of the shell damage value, barring ammor rack explosion and fire.

Critical damage means that crew member(s) got knocked out or module(s) got damaged (at least 50% HP loss).

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Haineko, on 27 March 2011 - 04:10 PM, said:

The statement is incorrect. We haven't started the work on British tanks yet.

Kazomir, on 27 March 2011 - 05:05 PM, said:

For educational purposes. Not a bug.

LiannaSilverwind, on 27 March 2011 - 09:53 PM, said:

Currently not planned to be added. Possibly later.

Grimmblut, on 28 March 2011 - 12:04 PM, said:

View range is manually limited to 500m in all directions because of the technical limitation on max draw distance which varies from 500m to 707m.
 
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fabse, on 28 March 2011 - 05:48 PM, said:

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.

Jamezdin, on 31 March 2011 - 01:24 PM, said:

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.

Zinn, on 31 March 2011 - 05:16 PM, said:

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.
 
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Xivilai, on 01 April 2011 - 09:13 AM, said:

Somewhere in between but more like arcade, from my point of view.

Fimp3n, on 02 April 2011 - 04:11 PM, said:

Reverse and forward speeds are not directly related, both are assigned for balance purposes.

E.g. reverse speeds are give here.

Max speed limit (km/h) (forward/reverse) = Максимальная скорость (км/ч) [вперед/назад]

ArmorShark7, on 02 April 2011 - 06:25 PM, said:

There are both scheduled test sessions according to desiganted rules and free tests.

Testers participate in either scheduled events with developers and supertest leads and submit their results (e.g. series of tests Lowe team vs KT team). Plus they report bugs of the new version.

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Squadman45, on 07 April 2011 - 07:52 PM, said:

It's working as intended.

2x Porsche Typ 100/3 engine can be mounted on VK 3001 (P), VK 4502 (P) Ausf. B, and Ferdinand.

 
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lipsztyk, on 11 April 2011 - 10:27 AM, said:

1) Gearbox and engine are considered to be one single module in-game. Consequently the chance of fire is the same for both.

2) These are draft changes.

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RAZORLIGHT, on 13 April 2011 - 02:28 AM, said:

Pz III has other advantages: far better armor, better mobility.

Ilici_Man, on 14 April 2011 - 11:29 AM, said:

0.6.3.11 actually. We don't care much about the indices. The next patch will be v.0.6.4, then comes v.0.7. A long way to go till 1.0.
 
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RokRoland, on 14 April 2011 - 02:27 PM, said:

1) 8-10 degrees.

2) What patch notes exactly?

han_solo_79, on 15 April 2011 - 02:19 PM, said:

forwarded to game designers.thx

RokRoland, on 15 April 2011 - 12:05 PM, said:

There is an inaccuracy in the notes.

Should be read as follows:

Increased normalization effect when shell penetration value is thrice as much as armor thickness value or more.

In this case normalization sees 3-fold increase. And the bigger the gap, the bigger normalization.

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RokRoland, on 15 April 2011 - 05:05 PM, said:

1. Normalization is calculated after deciding whether to bounce or not. To be more precise, it is counted when there is no ricochet.

2. Yes, correct.

Thanks.

MonsterTank97, on 15 April 2011 - 09:26 PM, said:

Bots are likely to be used for tutorial purposes and in CW in some distant future (less likely).

DriveBy, on 16 April 2011 - 03:04 PM, said:

We will consider adding these values into tankopedia.

Virtus, on 16 April 2011 - 11:12 PM, said:

Only those in tech trees.
 
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caprera, on 18 April 2011 - 09:41 PM, said:

Nope, not true. If your vehicle is done, there is no need to stay till the end of the battle.
 
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dnarag1m, on 19 April 2011 - 10:33 AM, said:

Clan leader should remove all other members first. Then he can leave, the clan will be disbanded.

isard, on 19 April 2011 - 11:48 AM, said:

There is no mistake in the hitbox. M6 track goes around a part of the hull. In another words part of the hull is inside the tracks.

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derito, on 20 April 2011 - 05:37 AM, said:

Yes, this feature is in development.

ramuunas, on 19 April 2011 - 06:25 PM, said:

You can create password protected chat channel. This covers most of the needs.
We are reconsidering chat channels now. There are gonna be some surprises.

Keulz, on 20 April 2011 - 02:05 PM, said:

1. Crew that is trained for other vehicle gets less XP and is less efficient.
2. Crew that is trained for other vehicle but of the same class (LT, MT, HT, SPG, AT-SPG) gets normal XP on a premium tank.

Example:
Crew trained for Sherman gets maluses if put in a T20.
Crew trained for Sherman gets bigger maluses if put in a T29.
Crew trained for Sherman doesn't get maluses if put in a Ram-II.

natural_killer_cell, on 21 April 2011 - 11:53 AM, said:

Without taking into consideration armor slope.

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Falen, on 22 April 2011 - 05:48 PM, said:

Grind and suffer until you get 120mm. Severe reality.

willTell, on 22 April 2011 - 09:15 PM, said:

1. Our game designers decided not to disclosure such information. All I can say is: accuracy is multiplied by some factor which depends on vehicle, turret, vehicle speed, vehicle rotation speed and gunner skill.
2. There is no difference.

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typhaon, on 23 April 2011 - 01:00 PM, said:

It considers 2 things: tier and class.

han_solo_79, on 23 April 2011 - 12:09 PM, said:

We have plans to change ingame statistics (spotted vehicles will be included for sure).

Virtus, on 24 April 2011 - 03:53 PM, said:

There is a limit: 2^64 or 18446744073709551616 slots. =)

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typhaon, on 25 April 2011 - 05:30 PM, said:

25% randomization based on gaussian distribution.

blilov, on 25 April 2011 - 04:02 PM, said:

It doesn't matter whether vehicle is stock or top. You get same amount of experience. But you'll get more experience for damaging (you don't have to kill to get bonuses) vehicle with higher level (tier).

Keulz, on 26 April 2011 - 10:57 AM, said:

1. No, they don't.

2. They can't. The absence of crater near the tank implies direct hit. Hummel's 150 mm howitzer doesn't have a large splash radius.

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Zoijar, on 26 April 2011 - 01:08 PM, said:

Not planning to review it in the near future.

ukmj, on 27 April 2011 - 10:53 AM, said:

When you replace turret or gun current ammo is put into depot (inventory). It doesn't disappear. If you have enough shells in the depot (inventory) default ammo layout (or previously installed ammo layout) is installed.

caprera, on 26 April 2011 - 10:40 PM, said:

KV's front hull armor works as intended, being in battle it is rather difficult to determine where you actually hit the target.

HexenNOR, on 27 April 2011 - 04:32 PM, said:

We are planning to implement these statuses in 7.0. No dates.
 
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Stormscion, on 27 April 2011 - 05:59 PM, said:

* AP shell penetration drop per distance depends on a gun. Cannot give you example right now. Don't have numbers by the side.
* Two reasons:
- balance issues,
- long distance shell projectiles are not free (they consume some hardware resources) and we don't want them to exist for a longer period, small range (<400 m) shells are almost free.
* I'm not sure if I can disclose vehicle statistics.

Stormscion, on 27 April 2011 - 05:59 PM, said:

1. It varies from gun to gun, mostly on the basis for RL data (see penetration tables).

2. Many gun suffer from this currently, there will be some improvements in v.0.6.4.

3. The figures for EU and US severs are not representative because of the release. In general 3001P performs slightly worse than other tier 6 mediums. It will benefit from L/56 adjustment to some extent.

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PanzerIVH, on 28 April 2011 - 09:05 PM, said:

Rebounds are not random. 70 degrees is not enough to be certain of rebound because there is such thing as normalization. Also large shells penetrate thin armor with no chance of rebound. Cannot give you numbers (not sure if I can disclosure this).

PanzerIVH, on 28 April 2011 - 09:05 PM, said:

Sure, you can. One can greatly benefit from that timely traversing your hull and/or turret. That will help you to bounce more shells.

Might be difficult to master, but very effective in battle.

Orkel2, on 29 April 2011 - 12:02 PM, said:

Normalization is shell-dependent, not faction-dependent.

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ghoty, on 30 April 2011 - 07:12 PM, said:

Short answer is: NO, we don't.

Thor_Hammerschlag, on 01 May 2011 - 10:15 AM, said:

It will be added later.

ArmorShark7, on 01 May 2011 - 10:44 AM, said:

1. It is based on E50's chassis.
2,3,8 The exact module setups are unknown yet.
4. Most likely - no.
5.  Yes.
6. T28 prototype is probably the weakest part of the US tech tree from the point of historical accuracy, it is 90% our invention.
7. Most likely it will get an improved 122mm.
 
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Gaz550, on 01 May 2011 - 06:40 PM, said:

All I can say is that BW engine itself still does not have multi-thread support. Unfortunately.

MrCaffeLatte, on 01 May 2011 - 08:16 PM, said:

This is pretty much pings/lag dependent. High pings mean bigger delay in data transmission, ie larger discrepancy between client-side and server-side reticles, thus your shell can actually go not where you were aiming in the first place.

No limitations are planned. This applies to all classes.

Terminator210, on 30 April 2011 - 06:02 PM, said:

Most likely the first one.

150mm KwK is more credible.

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Chaos123, on 02 May 2011 - 10:46 PM, said:

Each one will have 2 turrets to choose from: welded and cast models.

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Gaz550, on 05 May 2011 - 10:29 AM, said:

Mediums and heavies are not equal, that's why they are not plainly balanced with each other.

Terrorsatan, on 06 May 2011 - 10:09 AM, said:

That's a good question actually, this is a fan-driven Russian newsletter, though partially it's our fault that we don't such information on EU and US sides.

chromedome, on 06 May 2011 - 11:34 AM, said:

There is no vehicle vs vehicle balancing, the whole teams are balanced. So in practice tier x medium is not balanced with tier x heavy even if they are opposite of one another in team lists.

And yes, heavies and mediums have different roles in battle.

CerVus, on 06 May 2011 - 11:44 AM, said:

1. Mounting mechanism for turret on Pz. IV is not symmetrical, it is shifted to the left side a bit.

2. Singificant improvement will come along with adjusted match making values in 0.6.4.

3. Closer to arcade.
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Jamezdin, on 06 May 2011 - 03:31 PM, said:

You can access several accounts from one PC.

Fimp3n, on 06 May 2011 - 11:37 AM, said:

Just checked. Gun accuracy doesn't depend on turret (when fully aimed). Dispersion factor applied when turret is rotating could be different. But all factors are the same for both T29 turrets.

Rutger_NL, on 04 May 2011 - 01:27 AM, said:

I'll try to answer. Let's say X is a tank's invisibility with no crew skills and without camouflage net. X * 1.25 is invisibility with cam. net. X * (1 + 'skill' * 0.0075) is  invisibility with crew members having average camouflage skill at 'skill' percent. 100% skill and cam. net will give you X * 1.25 * 1.75 invisibility. You invisibility behind the bush is X + Y. Y is an invisibility increment of the bush. Bushes 15 m around you doesn't affect the enemies invisibility.

ian666, on 06 May 2011 - 07:40 PM, said:

1. Pershing (Patton?). It's versatile. Also like SU-26 and Object 212.

2. Not much really, too early to announce anything. We are planning to add a fair number of new skills that will depend on the vehicle class and crewmember primary specialization. This is going to bring more diversity.  

3. Not in plans currently, however does make some sense.

4. Yes, it will. That's the main purpose of the replacement.  

5. Looks fine in my opinion. Need clarification from our UI staff.

6. There will be more city maps, though historical maps are delayed. Unfortunately.

7. Yes, we are growing together with the project. The team doubled, it seems.

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Keulz, on 07 May 2011 - 12:10 PM, said:

1. X * 1.25 * 1.75 + Y
2. Correct. X * 1.375
3. spotting_distance = spotting_range - (spotting_range - 50) * enemy_invisibility.
   In your example:
     300m = 500m - 450m * X.
     distance = 500m - 450m * X * (1.25 * 1.75).

PanzerIVH, on 07 May 2011 - 01:08 PM, said:

1. X * 1.25 * 1.1
2. Turret or gun rotation doesn't change vehicle state to "moving".