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[eekeeboo]

Greetings Tankers! 

 

We have a Reddit AMA going live VERY soon, I'm here to announce and share the opportunity you have to ask the developers questions and have them answered live, please check out the current Questions and Answers we've put up on Reddit to see if your questions are already answered  

 

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Update: here follows the list of questions that were answered during the Reddit AMA complete with the answers from the devs and Community Team.

 

1) Could we have a setting to toggle personal reserves between time-based and number of battles? For example, when activating a 1-hour reserve, we could get the option to start it for 1 hour or for 8 battles.

Very seriously considering this one. PRs are an ancient piece of code though; the team has to clean up the schedule before cleaning up that code. Pending.

 

2) Why were the changes for 30B scrapped and can we ever expect a buff for it? The long-awaited buff for the statistically worst T10 medium has disappeared without a trace and WG is strangely silent about it. Obviously, the 430-line changes needed to be postponed, and I can't complain that you take your time with them, but 30B was uncalled for at best.

 We decided to go with a different plan for 30B after reviewing initial tests outcomes. It is a bit early to give you guys any details on it though, sorry.

 

3)Are there plans to undo the additional pen drop off for T10 lights? I asked this last Q&A and your guys weren't aware of this mechanic...

 We checked it in the game code, and we are still not aware

 

4) Any plans for RHM Panzerwagen?

 Nothing in particular at the moment. All plans are on hold until we will figure out the fate of the grand rebalance, AKA shells rebalance that we are toying with right now.

 

5) List of long questions regarding the Japanese tech tree (open to read):

1. Are you happy with the way the Type 4/5 Heavies (tier 9 and 10 Japanese heavies) got changed in patch 1.5? How are they performing now and in general, are you satisfied with their current performance?
2. You already mentioned the situation of the Japanese TDs (as someone who has wanted them for 6 years now, I am so excited!), but any idea when we might be able to see a Japanese TD branch in the game? And will the branch feature Ho-Ri’s (Chi-Ri based TDs with 10.5 cm guns) or some kind of fictional super-heavy based TDs?
3. Have you ever considered the inclusion of the 10.5 cm medium tank Chi-Se? There's extremely limited information of it, but a vehicle loosely based on this obscure project could work as a tier VIII heavy Premium (something Japan doesn't have yet).
4. Have you considered other possible Japanese branches or Premium vehicles, such as a LT branch?

 

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1. We are pretty much ok with it so far. We are carefully watching their performance both with derp and AP guns.

2. No details on the release dates. Please forgive us for that, but we had already plenty of bad experience announcing release dates in the past.

3. To be honest, both of us here are not 100% sure about that. We'll check it back with an owner of JP tree. Thanks.

4. Not yet, one branch at a time! =))

 

6)Will we see the option of buying "tokens" for non-Premium tanks to turn them into "reward tanks". Like in the sense that they do not make more money, but you can put in whatever crew in there without any penalties?

 We think about this, but no details just yet...

 

7) Is it still planned to have a rework of the crew skill/system? I really hope to have a new one, with deeper customization.

 Yes, it is in progress.

 

8) With the New British lights being added, how many crew members will be needed for the Tier X British light?

The Manticore will have a crew of 2:

- Commander (Gunner Radioman)

- Driver (Loader)

 

9) E-100, Chieftain and Ranked Battles related question (open to read):

 What is the ETA and approach of the E-100 (line?) rework? What is being done to compensate Ranked battles and their rewards on the North American server? Are there plans to bring the reward Chieftain in line with tech tree Tier X’s? Or make the Chieftain available in-game? Currently it is far superior to even the strongest Tier X tanks as seen in Ranked EU/RU and CW where if someone has it, they're using it and eventually facing nothing besides that.
 

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As for the E-100 line and Chieftain questions, both are on hold until we have tested the new approach to balance on multiple iterations of Sandboxes. If it proves to be the right way and community appreciates that, we would do significant changes to all the tiers and lines that need it. If we’ll see that it is not the way to go, we will go back to incremental changes.
As for the RB in NA (and Asia as well), we are thinking about the compensations and preparing the following season to be on those regions as well.

 

10) STB-1 Hydropneumatic suspension and Aufkl. Panther related questions (open to read):

The hydropneumatic suspension on the STB-1 is a feature many people have asked for and I am thankful that you implemented it. However currently the STB-1 in game can only tilt to the front and back, while the real-life counterpart can tilt sideways as well.

Has it not been considered implementing the STB-1 with the ability to tilt sideways? Or did this functionality just turn out to be too difficult to implement?

For pictures of it tilting sideways see here: http://forum.worldof...4#entry16900634

Bonus Question: will the Aufkl.Panther be available in the future? Yes, No, Maybe, I don't know?

 

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- It leads to lots of weird behaviours with auto suspension; on the other hand, using a manual ON/OFF switch like in SW TDs was, well, turning a tank into a TD, so we cast this idea away.
- Maybe.

 

11) Additional artillery nerfs when? 

The mechanic is still broken and overpowered, especially at lower tiers.
How is a new player supposed to deal with a LEFH or M44 stat padder at tier 4/5/6 etc?
I'm pretty sure M44 has the highest win rate of any tier 6 tech tree tank, AND highest DPG... and it does it from across the map, and did I mention it stuns???
 

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Yes, we want to rebalance low levels. As the rest of the levels =) At the moment a series of Sandbox tests are running, where we are checking a different take on balance in the game. If that happens to be a good idea and community likes that, we will definitely make huge changes on low-mid-high levels. That will touch many aspects of the game if it proves to be the right way.

 

12) Long question concerning upcoming British LT branch (open to read):

As we know, the current branch was announced from Tier VII to Tier X. I know that modelling a tank is expensive, it takes time and there is a saying that the branches start at Tier V+ since many players just skip the lower tier tanks but the Brits could easily make a full branch of light tanks from Tier 2 to Tier 10.

The branch would be more historical than some of the Italian or Polish tanks and it would also solve the issue that some of the most iconic and somewhat mass produced light tanks are missing from the branch. My branch suggestion would be the following:

• Tier 2: Vickers M1937
• Tier 3: Light Tank Mk.VII Tetrarch
• Tier 4: Light Tank Mk.VIII Harry Hopkins
• Tier 5: A46 LT
• Tier 6: FV301
• Tier7: GSR 3301 Setter
• Tier 8: LHMTV
• Tier 9: GSOR3301 AVR FS
• Tier 10: Manticore

Is there any chance of WG considering the aforementioned problems before releasing the light line? They would fit the theme of the line as well with their small dimensions, good view ranges and outstanding guns.

I’m afraid that, once the original line from Tier VII is released, the chance of the Tetrarch or Harry Hopkins appearing in the game as researchable British tanks would be pretty much zero, since there would be minimal incentive to research them if players already have the higher tier lights and considering how iconic they are, it would be a shame.

I know the Tetrarch is already in the game as a Soviet gift tank, but it’s like if the T-34-85 would be missing from the Soviet tech tree and it would only be a Chinese Premium tank in the game. In the end the name of the game is World of Tanks, not World of Some Tanks.

 

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Thanks for your thoughts on this line. Honestly speaking, we will unlikely change it now, it's too late. However, we have a plan in our sleeves how to give you guys access to some vehicles that didn't made it into the regular trees, for all nations not only UK. We are supposed to announce it soon, and hope military history / armour fans like you will like our idea as much as we do.

 

13) When is the next tank marathon going to be?

 The game is taking a rest after so many marathons it has run already. Also, we wish to offer you something entirely different for the back to school period. Marathons are supposed to return right after.

 

14) Any hints (or a range) on how much tanks in the bonds shop will probably cost?

 Vehicles we considering for the bonds shop at the moment are priced up to 20k. However, this is a subject to change closer to release. Thanks for the question!

 

15) Why can some of the older maps not be re-introduced into the current version of the game?

I understand that a lot of them need HD upgrading, but it seems like a waste of resources to try and re-invent content you already have. A lot of us longer term players would love to see the older maps brought back, balanced or not. The meta has changed a lot in the past 5-6 years, the maps that were pulled for one reason or another would probably play way differently now.
 

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Doing that albeit slower than it could be expected. Hopefully in the next few months you guys will see what our LD/Level Art teams were busy with.

More answers from the Q&A: "Right now, we are looking at what maps should be next, Pearl River is one of the candidates."

 

16) What has been your greatest achievement/ contribution to the development of the game in the last 12 months and why? (Live or forthcoming.)

 A.B.: Saving Christmas in CIS. Day 1 of the Holidays Ops the whole infrastructure went down under the load in roughly 20 minutes after the event's started. Was working with the team for around 40 hours straight to find and implement the solution, that included some out of the box designs combined with techno-magic. In 24 hours everything was live again, 16 more hours later we were sure it was all good for the moment, went home on auto

 

MC: I'm not a developer myself and do not code. But I’m quite proud of some projects my team worked hard lately. To name few of those: Twitch package which all players can enjoy at the moment and Black Market feature that was live not long ago. It was definitely built by our Dev team, however the design originated from the Publisher. So it’s a good #oneteam example =)

 

17) Ammo rebalance question (open to read):

With the new Ammo rebalance on Sandbox server I have noted that, sadly, the variety of shells is still rather small. Will there be a test where, for example, a Leopard 1 would have APCR, HEATS and AP's? Where, for example, HEAT shell would do the lowest dmg but would have the least RNG in penetration and damage, APCRs still being speedy but having more RNG and more dmg while AP would be doing the most dmg but also have the most RNG in DMG and Penetration?
It could even be implemented with national traits, where like the 121's AP’s would be dealing more damage than 430U ones.

 

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This is a conception test iteration 2. What this means is that nothing there except the idea itself is in its final form.
A.B.: To the best of my knowledge we'll need at least 2 more shots to prove the concept (one for HE in general, one for SPG) before we will actually get to real numbers

 

18) Balance and statistics question (open to read):

Does the WG development team reference non-Premium tank usage statistics when considering buff/nerf/balancing? For instance, the massive spike in players using the Obj 468 v4 was indicative of the obvious overpowered nature of that tank at the time. So, when WG sees tanks that are rarely fielded, does this draw attention to those tanks for balance reconsideration OR is WG okay with some tanks being relegated to moth-ball status?

 

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We do. At the same time, many of those poor beasts more often than not are victims of the bad (or good) perception rather than poor balance if one were to believe math.

 

19) The ST-II with two guns has recently been teased. Can you give us any other hints on some other new gameplay mechanics that are being considered in the future?

Not yet, we are thoroughly researching different nations' tech trees to find something cool to build up next. Stay tuned

 

20) With Ranked battles being not great because of the new system of multiple 15 rank divisions and the time required, could we have more player involvement in larger scale game events? Because sometimes the event just starts with rules being released just days before, with no time to change anything that might be broken/no-fun for the event.

Well, just like it happened with the latest instance of RB, some designs look much better on paper or during simulation than when they are going live. So instead of discussing things that do not exist, we think it might be much more beneficial to talk about something real that we developers and you players have experienced together.
Community feedback on RB this spring was clear, we are making changes now for the next season to make everything slick.

 

21) Will you start selling more skins for popular tanks and decals/camos?

Yes, definitely. Not only selling but giveaways as well.

 

22) Any news on 3D customization? (not the 3D skins like from Christmas boxes, but the option of adding sandbags, etc to your tank).

As you've mentioned, we are working towards 3D skins now. Full 3D customization functionality turned out to be quite a heavy load on performance for the most of our players' specs.

 

23) When are WG going to start listening to the better players and understand what buffs/nerfs tanks need to balance them? Why do they think that no nerfs are needed to the 430U? And that is one example.

Not sure where most people are getting the idea that the devs aren't planning on making changes to the 430/U. The changes were delayed due to negative feedback from players. They aren't cancelled.
Same goes for the AMX 30b.

 

24) With the addition of wheeled vehicles to the French light line, would you ever consider adding gunned half-tracked vehicles (most likely as a low-tier)?

Not in our plans so far.

 

25) Any chance we could see changes to the turreted US tank destroyers’ branch? (open to read more question)

The branch is a bit of a mess and not all that unique compared to the non-turreted branch. The idea is to make the theme of the branch more consistent and offer some more unique options. Emphasis is put on mobility and penetration.

• Tier 5: T50 GMC - A turreted tank destroyer that was an evolution of the T42 GMC, a predecessor to the M18 Hellcat. It carried the 3.7" gun, which would make for a fine top option. Comparable to the current T67, but with a more balanced gun.
• Tier 6: T67 GMC - The T67 bumped up a tier. It could get some mobility buffs so it could better utilize its 76 mm gun at the tier.
• Tier 7: M18 Hellcat - The M18 bumped up a tier. It could get some mobility buffs so it could better utilize its 90 mm gun at the tier.
• Tier 8: M41A1 105 - A 1952 proposal to fit an M41A1 with the 105 mm T140 in an external turret, and the entire crew in the hull. This could give WG the chance to experiment with crew-less turrets
• Tier 9: AGS M551 - In the early 1980s, the Army wanted a light tank with a powerful antitank armament. They developed the Armoured Gun System to develop this concept, culminating in the XM8. One of the earliest experiments put a 105 mm M68 into the turret of a Sheridan. Cadillac was also developing their own Stingray tank for export at the time and submitted their design to the program. They successfully tested a Stingray turret on the body of a Sheridan. This tank would be very mobile and carry a great gun but might have a long reload speed and aim time to compensate.
• Tier X: Stingray - Cadillac's light tank would ultimately not be accepted by the army. But it would see limited success in being sold to Taiwan. This vehicle is the culmination of the entire branch. Fast and mobile, and with a high penetration and accurate gun.

The Stingray, AGS M551, and M41A1 105 are light tanks. However, it should be noted that the M18 Hellcat and T67 were also trialed as light tanks before they became tank destroyers. General Motors also had a hand in developing all of these vehicles, with their Buick subsidiary handling the T67 and M18 Hellcat, and Cadillac with the M41A1, AGS M551, and Stingray. Not only are these vehicles linked thematically, but also historically. In addition, this would correct one of the more historically problematic branches in the game.

 

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AGS/Stingray look to us too modern from armament POV. Still, neither me nor Max are experts in this field of vehicles. We'll pass it down to professional military historians to check what they'd think. Thanks for heads up!

 

26)With the introduction of wheeled light tanks, can there be wheeled TD's? There are quite a few of them, and they would be an interesting addition to the game, without having the effect that wheeled lights had.

Won't happen soon, we still have to digest all the lessons on wheeled LTs first.

More answers from the Q&A: "We are carefully looking into the data and are happy with wheeled vehicles performance at the moment. It had some issues in Frontline mode and we are addressing those. As for the new wheeled trees, it is too early to say something. However, we do not see it necessary to create a new class, since wheeled tanks have same purpose on the battlefield as light tanks."

 

27) Why is Front-line a defend or attack only style map? Have other styles been considered? Will we see other Styles of maps?

Could it be possible to have teams start mid map and push and pull the flanks and each team have a side to defend or attack depending on how the game plays out? Like being able to fight back and reclaim a lost flank. For example, each side would have Turrets to defend. Also, wouldn't it be better to have each line suited for different play styles, so everyone can have fun? For example, a City Line for heavies, while another one more open, and another one being a mix. That way all tanks can be fun to play in this game mode, not just the faster ones.

 

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We tried a lot of the above while the team was working on Frontline. Doesn't mean that any new variations (symmetrical, different kind of asymmetry) will never appear in the game.

 

28) Can we get a feature where crew member nationalities can be changed, for a gold cost, to assign them to tanks in different tech trees?

Nope. Not in the way you described it.

 

29) Are we going to be seeing any changes to the way technical victories / defeats are handled on the clan global map? Sure, the opposing clan would get a penalty and we would continue to the next round, but that clan's actions [or lack of] would just cost us potentially hundreds of fame points through no fault of our own...

AFAIK, yes.

 

30) Why, with recent patches, has frame rate been prioritized over ping? With the most recent patch I have gone from averaging 110 ping to 190....

Well, FPS is a function of the client part of the app and your PC computing power, while ping is essentially not. Just to be clear, it is impossible to prioritize one over the other while building the game. If something like that is happening to you, please double-check with your ISP, they are much more likely responsible for what's going on than we do. Peace

 

31) Would Wargaming ever consider implementing high tier auto-cannons, such as those that were in Armoured Warfare? There was a pretty interesting discussion in one of my servers in regard to this, and it sounds like a really interesting idea; it would pave the way for vehicles such as the FV721 Fox AFV, if there was interest in adding such machines.

Not at this point, there is some tech ceiling we are trying to keep so far, and this kind of weaponry is above it. Will we ever consider lifting it? Who knows, never say never.

 

32) Question about wheeled vehicles (open to read):

There seems to be no information on wheeled vehicles, yet the impact on clan wars and tier 8 Frontline cannot be discounted.

1. Will they continue as-is?

2. Will the current light tanks continue as-is, considering obvious role displacement caused by wheeled vehicles?

3. Will British Light Tanks have a meaningful impact on this? Clearly the state of the game strongly favours wheeled vehicles and Russian light tanks, with everything else performing much, much worse?

 

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1. Most people who play wheeled light tanks up to date are much more skilled than average still, so the data is somewhat distorted. Once or twice in the past we were provoked to react too early and ended up regretting that deeply afterwards. This time we prefer to wait for few more months. Anyway, wheeled light tanks are under 24h surveillance. If there will be the need to act, we will.

2. At least until we will make our minds on shells rebalance. If it will go live someday, the impact of it on all the aspects of the game including LT-WLT placement will be bigger than it looks like.
2a. One of the biggest reasons for us to even consider WLT was the previous state of the game when LT role started to drift much more towards MT than we believe was safe

3. British LT are a part of a different plan.

More answers from the Q&A: "We are carefully looking into the data and are happy with wheeled vehicles performance at the moment. It had some issues in Frontline mode and we are addressing those. As for the new wheeled trees, it is too early to say something. However, we do not see it necessary to create a new class, since wheeled tanks have the same purpose on the battlefield as light tanks."

 

 

 

Good Luck and Good Hunting! 

eek. 

Edited by Sael_, 12 July 2019 - 01:10 PM.

[eekeeboo]

I also advise you to check out the QnA session here. 

 

We will work on sharing these through content creators and when formatting is complete  

Edited by eekeeboo, 09 July 2019 - 04:42 PM.

[__Eric__]

Hmmm, is that link save to click on? 

[Sael_]

__Eric__, on 09 July 2019 - 03:08 PM, said:

Hmmm, is that link save to click on? 

 

We advise you strap-in before diving in the sea of questions.

[eekeeboo]

All finished for today thank-you all. We will be posting the answers and questions soon! 

[Jumping_Turtle]

I really have a hard time to understand your/WG view on the E25 and the clanreward tanks.

 

You know the E25 is a problem but you keep on selling them every other month. If you just would have stopped selling them when they were first recognized a problem you would hardly see any these days and it would not be a problem. You knew it was a problem but you kept on feeding the rpoiblem by selling them and giving them out as a Christmas present ....

 

And the clanrewards tanks is just as bad. Everyones sees, yes, even those great players you talk about, say that some of them (907, T95/FV4201) are clearly better (or overpowered) than the techtee tanks. Why do they need to be better? We had on the Russin tanks a pretty good mix, till wargaming decided to make all the tanks the same. 430 had dpm, 62a armor and the 140 was a middle mix. If you would have not buffed the 907 to overpowered levels, it would all have been fine. Just take a look at those better clans in clanwars. There is a reason why they all pick the 907 over the techtree ones, simply because it is better. Just as with the FV

[KanonenVogel19]

eekeeboo, on 09 July 2019 - 06:46 PM, said:

All finished for today thank-you all. We will be posting the answers and questions soon! 

 

Will all questions be answered or only some, i.e. is there any hope that my questions get answered? 

Edited by KanonenVogel19, 09 July 2019 - 06:54 PM.

[Awesome_Face]

Thank you very much for this Q&A and AMA. Thanks to those who answered the questions and of course thanks to those who organized this event and made it possible in the first place.

[Bordhaw]

eekeeboo, on 09 July 2019 - 02:43 PM, said:

Greetings Tankers! 

 

We have a Reddit AMA going live VERY soon, I'm here to announce and share the opportunity you have to ask the developers questions and have them answered live, please check out the current Questions and Answers we've put up on Reddit to see if your questions are already answered  

 

 

Good Luck and Good Hunting! 

eek. 

 

 

[wsatnutter]

this is a step forward lets see where it goes

[WindSplitter1]

LTs will continue being the abortion they were turned to back in 9.17 for plenty of months to come. And even then, there's no guarantee they'll ever shine again.

 

I really enjoyed being able to influence a match without firing a single shot. That little chess game both me and the enemy would play through, blindfolded we advance unto each other. Now it's a matter of who brings the most amount of Soviets and/or Heavy Tanks.

 

No reason for me to further invest here. Things have gone to such a deplorable state that the world reckons how biased the developers are in such fashion they seem to be living in an alternative reality.

 

Won't leave, but other titles have become more appealing and worthy of my time...

 

 

Edited by WindSplitter1, 10 July 2019 - 01:12 AM.

[eekeeboo]

KanonenVogel19, on 09 July 2019 - 05:53 PM, said:

 

Will all questions be answered or only some, i.e. is there any hope that my questions get answered? 

 

Hello, 

 

Most of the questions that had upvotes were answered and you can still check them out, but there was a lot of questions  

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Awesome_Face, on 09 July 2019 - 06:04 PM, said:

Thank you very much for this Q&A and AMA. Thanks to those who answered the questions and of course thanks to those who organized this event and made it possible in the first place.

 

You are most welcome and we hope to continue doing these in the future  

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wsatnutter, on 09 July 2019 - 07:13 PM, said:

this is a step forward lets see where it goes

 

press "R" three times! Let's go! 

[KanonenVogel19]

eekeeboo, on 10 July 2019 - 08:59 AM, said:

Most of the questions that had upvotes were answered and you can still check them out, but there was a lot of questions  

 

I see, but my questions about premium ammo and maps never got answered 

[Sael_]

KanonenVogel19, on 10 July 2019 - 10:55 AM, said:

 

I see, but my questions about premium ammo and maps never got answered 

 

AMA questions were added to eek's post. You will most likely find some interesting answers. Enjoy.

[KanonenVogel19]

Sael_, on 12 July 2019 - 01:07 PM, said:

AMA questions were added to eek's post. You will most likely find some interesting answers. Enjoy.

 

Thank you  Although I would really want my questions answered aswell 

 

Question: Why are you so stubborn to keep the premium ammo concept? One of the major problems with premium ammo is that it's so expensive that not all players feel that they can use it. This puts them into a situation where they have to play at an disadvantage if they want to be able to progress in the game and purchase tanks, modules, equipment etc. This is not good design, yet it appears that you refuse to drop this concept. Why are you simply not making all shells cost the same (or even remove the shell cost as was done in World of Warships), and then design the shells realistically and give them different strengths and mechanics (for example, overpenetration for APCR), rather than turning the entire game up-side-down and changing all tanks hitpoints and all shells damage values?

 

Question: Why do you continue to design maps that focus so much on close quarters brawling? Realistically, tanks avoided urban environments because they're clumpsy in that type of environment, they can't manouver effectively, obstables in the way making gun rotation etc more cumbersome, and infantry that hides in buildings that can shoot them. Why is this not better reflected in your game about tanks? Why are you not creating more open maps that allows players to flank each other in order to break this very onesided head-on brawls? Here you can find a very good example of how a map should look like, is this type of map something that you could consider adding more of into the game in the future?

[eekeeboo]

KanonenVogel19, on 12 July 2019 - 12:57 PM, said:

 

Thank you  Although I would really want my questions answered aswell 

 

Question: Why are you so stubborn to keep the premium ammo concept? One of the major problems with premium ammo is that it's so expensive that not all players feel that they can use it. This puts them into a situation where they have to play at an disadvantage if they want to be able to progress in the game and purchase tanks, modules, equipment etc. This is not good design, yet it appears that you refuse to drop this concept. Why are you simply not making all shells cost the same (or even remove the shell cost as was done in World of Warships), and then design the shells realistically and give them different strengths and mechanics (for example, overpenetration for APCR), rather than turning the entire game up-side-down and changing all tanks hitpoints and all shells damage values?

 

Question: Why do you continue to design maps that focus so much on close quarters brawling? Realistically, tanks avoided urban environments because they're clumpsy in that type of environment, they can't manouver effectively, obstables in the way making gun rotation etc more cumbersome, and infantry that hides in buildings that can shoot them. Why is this not better reflected in your game about tanks? Why are you not creating more open maps that allows players to flank each other in order to break this very onesided head-on brawls? Here you can find a very good example of how a map should look like, is this type of map something that you could consider adding more of into the game in the future?

 

Hello! 

 

Be aware those questions with more than 1 upvote were answered, it was impossible to answer every single question. 

 

I can say for: 

1) The premium ammo concept is more difficult than making the ammo cheaper which will affect the economy and further increase the use of it over other rounds, meaning "normal" rounds would become utterly pointless as a choice as it stands. The Warships shells cost the same because they have very different functions and have different effects and desires from the ships you're firing from and at with caliber and target etc. Fundamentally different damage mechanics are involved. 

 

2) Map design is usually done in a way to provide an opportunity for each class to perform, you will find most maps do indeed have open spaces as well as close quarters spaces. Game design cannot always follow real-life principles without severely affecting your gameplay experience. Open maps are great for certain tank classes, but slow-moving heavies with artillery and sniping TD's are going to have a bad time if it's all just open with a nice big crossfire. That's why it's nice to have a mixture of maps that contain all elements as well as the big open maps and big urban maps. 

[____Green____]

Q: why there is no winter and summer (season) versions of maps for more variety?

We all remember Ruinbergs's winter version. 

[eekeeboo]

____Green____, on 15 July 2019 - 12:34 PM, said:

Q: why there is no winter and summer (season) versions of maps for more variety?

We all remember Ruinbergs's winter version. 

 

From what I understood this was asked so far is to try and ensure there's more map variety rather than the same but different colour. 

[VarzA]

Such a shame i missed it, too bad.

I wanted to know when you will revamp the whole chat system, user-generated channels, blacklist, contacts, all that stuff.

 

It needs some serious fixing, it's not right to work the way it does in a game that's supposed to be about social interaction.

Edited by VarzA, 16 July 2019 - 07:06 PM.

[eekeeboo]

VarzA, on 16 July 2019 - 06:05 PM, said:

Such a shame i missed it, too bad.

I wanted to know when you will revamp the whole chat system, user-generated channels, blacklist, contacts, all that stuff.

 

It needs some serious fixing, it's not right to work the way it does in a game that's supposed to be about social interaction.

 

Hello! 

 

Worry not, we're hoping to do these more regularly and keep an eye out for the next one coming soon-ish and I'm sure will be announced and shared. Best advice I can give is join the discord where I tend to spend most of my time these days and share up to date info more frequently!