Another Amway interview.

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• China always gave us trouble. We try to treat each cluster equally. It’s not like Slava Makarov said, when he stated that we focus on one cluster, but we focus on the game itself
• The least active players are Americans
• The only thing we can do is not give up, and improve the game
• If the online player count drops, we know something went wrong. I’m at ease though, we’re in control. The only reaction to this, is figuring out why the players leave, and undertake appropriate measures to change it
• Slava Makarov is a solid person. He’s got good ideas and a broad experience.
• Yes, we have some secret projects on which we’re working, and which we still didn’t reveal. There are two, but I’d like it to be more.
• We’re working on one of the ‘fatter’ projects in Seattle. Sadly, the work is going long, as we first tried out one concept, then another, finally ditching it altogether for some time.
• All the ‘brains’ of WoT meet practically each day in one room and solve problems
• After the success of World of Tanks in 2010, we didn’t buy villas and yachts, we kept it real
• Making a hit game in a F2P way isn’t easy. Many things factor into it, like graphics, technology, income, progress, etc. Don’t forget that 75% of the players won’t spend a dime, but they’ll play for years
• Maybe it’s weird, but I’m happy for each success of a gaming company. I believe that games are a part of our DNA
• Caliber is our shooter, unlike Overwatch or CS:GO. It’s made for older players.

Some more answers from the devs.

• Work on the Grand Battle mode was long, the main problem being the optimalization
• There’s a possibility Grand Battles will be enabled for tiers lower than X
• In time, more Grand Battle exclusive maps will appear
• Nebelburg will also be HDified
• There’s the will to remove ‘unplayable’ guns from tanks
• New CN prems soon
• There are a few ideas on how to rebalance the KV-5
• There will be new visual Havok elements in the HD maps, but don’t expect crumbling buildings
• Track tracks (lol) won’t be one texture now, instead, they’ll be generated dynamically depending on the speed and angle
• The vegetation will react to gunfire
• Maps won’t be visually cut off after the red line. The fog will be removed and the horizon expanded to increase the realism
• Map borders will be masked with an invisible wall or some other elements
• Devs have the possibility of making night maps, but don’t see the sense of it
• After the release of HD maps, the BigWorld engine will be officially retired. Ready maps – Mountain Pass, Redshire, Himmelsdorf, Abbey, Mines, Prokhorovka, Malinovka, Murovanka, and Cliff
• It’s quite possible that a special ‘Ultra’ client may appear, with 8K textures, and with a whopping size of 100 GB
• Devs tried not to toy around with the gameplay when making HD maps
• The main task now is to optimize the graphics for medium and low range computers
• The music for the new maps will be re-recorded, and it will react to the gameplay
• This Fall, the HD map Sandbox will be opened up
• With the appearance of the new mod system, cheats will disappear, since running the client with unauthorized mods will be impossible