Author: Sebastianul

WoT Egor Rodionov Stream Q&A – 28th April 2020

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Explanations from Egor Rodionov (head of the game design department). Very interesting artillery rework proposal.

  • How the first iteration of Steel Hunter came to be – this is generally a very interesting story. We have programmers – for the server, client – at one time, as fans of games, and games who were popular at that time, gathered and decided to make such a “hackathon” – for some short time to make a Battle Royale prototype for World of Tanks; it turned out pretty well, but nevertheless there was still a lot to do.
    Right now, Steel Hunter 2020 is in active development, there will be changes, it will be interesting. The only thing that was very embarrassing was, of course, the number of additional buttons. Not all players liked this. It adds a lot of diversity, but also overcomplicates things. You need to find the balance of the right combination amount of abilities that each tank has access to.
    In general, we want to launch it more than once a year. What will happen to SH in 2021, we’ll see.

  • Right now with the release of 1.9 wheeled tanks got a bug (Fixed already – Seb). The bug is a side effect of some of the physics corrections we made for wheeled vehicles. Unfortunately, it hit the release, in the next micropatch we’ll fix it. BUT this does NOT mean that we will not touch the problems associated with wheel hitbox. Those elements that are associated with mobility will be subject to certain changes.
    The bug with the wheels themselves concerns physics in general – this actually isn’t exclusive to wheeled tanks, but due to what role they fulfill, it is more noticeable. That is, in fact, the question here, is how much it influenced precisely the characteristics of specific vehicles. This is a special case.
    This is not an attempt to rebalance something hidden, it is a physics bug.

  • Yes, after 1.9 FOV received a slight change. The situation is similar too. Due to the fact that we corrected certain client behavior on widescreen monitors. It is not very large, you can correct it yourself. But another interesting point is that this is a rollback to the patch 1.7.1. If we take the whole range of monitors on which the game starts, we get that the current state is more correct, because there was a problem with distortion of objects at the edges of large-format and large monitors. The request is to adapt a little, maybe adjust the settings a little for yourself, because now the behavior is more correct.

[Tank rental].
Recently, there was a QnA with Andrei Beletsky about this. We already have a similar thing in the Frontline, where you can rent equipment. The only thing, we are not entirely sure which tanks to implement this for – fully upgraded tanks, prems, promotional. Well, in general, we are now considering this option as an addition to the game so that actual tanks could be tested. There are some nuances here. Random things are not constant with us, it depends on many factors. Here we are a little worried that some (even good) tanks could have a streak of bad luck in games, because of which a person will have a distorted perception. Plus, the first battles should not go to statistics. This is necessary to correct, and this feature is in the primary stages of development.

ST-II: It performs quite adequately. It is in the middle of the list among all tier 10s. For example, in terms of average damage, it overtakes half of tier 10 vehicles. For winrate it overtakes, for example, Kranvagn. According to the number of battles, it is also located in the middle. Continue reading “WoT Egor Rodionov Stream Q&A – 28th April 2020” →

WoWS: Results of Submarines event on Public test

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Source – WoWS Devblog

First of all, we would like to thank all Public test participants. Your interest, activity, and readiness to help are the best rewards for our hard work. Help is always appreciated, no matter what form it takes.

Some players completed an especially high number of battles on the test, so thank you for your high activity!

Thanks to those with huge number of Submarine Battles!

MollyGodiva, AugustusC, MaZaXaKeP, Co503, Zagtot, eugene55, Dunstmunk, XROSOMAKX

Others focused their efforts on providing their opinion and presented very detailed, well-structured, and rational feedback. We’ve carefully read hundreds of posts and replies on various platforms and are very grateful to those who dedicated their time to provide feedback – it is of crucial importance at this stage.

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WoT EU: May Specials

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The most joyous of all months will spoil you with plenty of things to do and lots of great rewards. Take a quick sneak peek of what you can expect and don’t forget that the countdown to our 10th Anniversary is still going strong.

May Specials

  • International Workers’ Day

1–5 May: Let’s start the last full month of spring with a boost for the hard-working men and women inside your beloved machines. “Crew is Crucial” will have you collect extra Crew XP and grant you nice discounts for your crew.

x2 Crew Experience

  • Top of the Tree

5–20 May & 20 May – 5 June: After some major Tech Tree reshuffling and moving tanks around, our special to get you to the top is back on track. May will have you seeing red with mighty Soviet tank destroyers up to the Object 268, and the T-100 LT line, which is full of sneaky Soviet light tanks.

  • Military Parade

8–12 May: We are going to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Victory in Europe with a military parade that will not only have a lot of discounts but also a x5 first victory bonus and a better XP to Free XP conversion rate.

Double XP for every win

  • Choose Your Difficulty

16–19 May: We hope you didn’t skip leg day, or you might not be able to get the most out of this special. Show us how hard you can go and earn extra XP.

Extra XP for your gains!

  • XP Fever

23–26 May: It’s a classic and will be back this month to make your Premium tanks sweat and prepare you for a hot summer.

An XP frenzy

  • Play Your Class Right!

30 May – 2 June: Everyone has a favorite tank class and we know some of you will say SPGs, but unfortunately, this special isn’t for you. Maybe show your second favorite some love, because we are going to finish May with some high-class missions. Show us that you know the intricacies of every tank class to collect great XP rewards, consumables, and more.

Plenty of Personal Reserves

PSA: Donating Crypto

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I know this article is not WoT-related, sorry for that, will make up for it in the following days.

If any of you have any spare BTC/BAT cryptocurrency and want to help TAP out in these low ad revenue times, you can donate Bitcoin to this address:

3DqNzSZhHKqeyyWZXrUPaWfd3caVc1o39i

If you wish to invest in a BTC hedge fund before the hyped halving of miner output that will arrive in 2 weeks, you can also use my refferal link here: https://emberfund.app.link/Vocyd4xOU5

For BAT, donating is available through the Brave browser.

-Seb

PS: Having more great articles for the coming days. Stay safe. So far, thanks to the quarantine I presume, the hosting didn’t give out 500 internal server errors yet. Will still change it hopefully at the end of the year.

WoT Jusha Q&A – 27th April 2020 with Creative Director Andrey Beletsky

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Interview between CIS popular player Jusha and Creative Director Andrey Beletsky. A lot of topics were discussed, such as the matchmaker, artillery, ± 1 tier MM of battles, game servers and more. It’s from 16 April.

Source: https://youtu.be/KoGWUGH6kXo

The matchmaker remembers the tiers you played in recently, but does not remember the tank or your account in general. And it makes sure that you have the best possible distribution by tier.

As of yesterday morning, the queue structure in tanks was as follows (RU):
• 17% of people in the queue went to tier 10
• 17% of people in the queue went to tier 9
• 27% of people in queue to tier 8
• 12.5% ​​of people in queue to tier 7
• 12.5% ​​of people in queue to tier 6
Then comes a strong fall, and then the matchmaker begins to cope with justice.
• 6% of people in the line went to tier 5
• 3% of people in the line went to tier 4
• 3% of people in line went to tier 3
• 1.5% of people in line went to tier 2
• 1.5% of people in the line went to tier 1

  • The day of the week / weather on the street / holidays and all other moments greatly affect the queue. Remember that.

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WoT: Take the Frontline Test (free 5 battle tank rental code)

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UPDATED with list of bonus codes. Note: you can pick only one. Check below:

Source: EU Portal

The 30v30 battles of Frontline are back and calling for you! With special abilities, offensive and defensive gameplay, and massive maps, Frontline can certainly prove challenging, which means you need to get yourself prepared before battles.

The first question you have to ask yourself is: “Which tank should I roll out in?”.

Well, we’re offering you a helping hand. By taking this tank personality test and selecting the four words that best describe you, we’ll tell you which vehicle is your perfect match.

Don’t believe us? Well, we’ll also give you a 5-battle rental of the vehicle so that you can try it for yourself and see whether we were right or not!

TAKE THE TEST (EU LINK)
TAKE THE TEST (ASIA LINK)

Codes:

IAMM41902020 – LEKPZ M 41 90 MM
IAMTS52020 – TS-5
IAMSTRVS12020 – STRV. S1
IAMLOWE2020 – LÖWE
IAMM4492020 – AMX M4 MLE. 49
IAMT92LT2020 – T92 LT
IAMLT4322020 – LT-432
IAMMAUERBRECHER2020 – MAUERBRECHER
IAMSOMUA2020 – SOMUA SM
IAMKJP1052020 – KANONENJAGDPANZER 105
IAMELCEVEN2020 – ELC EVEN 90
IAMSKORPION2020 – RHM SKORPION G
IAMPROGETTO2020 – PROGETTO M35 MOD 46
IAM50TP2020 – 50TP PR
IAMTURTLE2020 – TURTLE MK. I
IAMT26E52020 – T26E5