This is how badges will look like for the third season of Ranked Battles. It’s coming really soon from the looks of it.

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PS: I know, some answers might be repeated, but I believe it’s better this way. This is the complete Q&A, not the summary posted some days ago.

On the 9th of September, the Russians and Belarussians celebrated the Tanker’s Day. The event which WG organized was located in Minsk. The complete transcript of the Q&A with the devs is as follows:

Balance

– Our balance team is now most satisfied with the Obj. 705A. We’re planning a revision of all high tier tanks in about 6-8 months. If we decide to change any parameters, it will happen then.

– We have a certain cycle when we rebalance a tank. It has to do with the fact that we gather a lot of data. We try to not include bad players, because they can make a lot of noise in the data with their (lack of) skills. Because of that the time we will need to rebalance the high tiers is as stated before 6-8 months. Around that time we will rebalance and/or swap the IS-4.

– We will look at the mid tier tanks soon (tiers V-VII). We will ascertain what work they need done on them and do it.

– Yes, the KV-4 will be looked upon too, although there’s a certain quirk to it. We can’t overdo it. It has to get a few buffs and nerfs in the same moment, because it’s a nasty tank for the lower tier enemies. The changes will be complex, but they’ll happen.

– HE shells don’t need a nerf. They need to be changed completely! Removing them would be wrong, since they bring diversity to the gameplay. HE maining tanks will also remain in the game, because if we decide on some changes, they will be complex.

– The TOG II* is a curious tank – more a trophy tank than a playable one. It’s hard to do anything with it.

– Regarding the T67: We will soon fix V-VII tier tanks, the tanks in question getting thorough changes. However, the moment we decide to touch that tank, someone will cry we’re nerfing their favorite tank.

– Regarding pref MM premiums: For the tanks that are ‘unrebalanceable’, we might provide a gold compensation. Of course we don’t want this situation to happen, but the case of the Super Pershing might repeat itself.

– We plan to swap some tanks, like we did for the Foch 155 for example. Which? Of course we can’t tell now, but the same rules will apply.

Continue reading “Q&A – 14th September 2018” →

Main Changes

1. Changes to Personal Missions

• The third operation (Object 279 (e)) of the new campaign becomes available:
• added a new type of missions that should be completed within a certain number of battles. Otherwise, the progress is reset and the mission should be started anew. Three mission types are available in the operation:

1. Accumulative (require achieving a certain value by a specified parameter). The mission lasts until the player fulfills the set condition or runs out of attempts.
2. Series (require completing the set condition within several battles; at the same time the number of attempts is bigger than the number of required completions).
3. Continuous (require fulfilling the set condition in every battle of the series). A failed attempt interrupts the series.

• The Pause button becomes available in the mission profiles of the operation. It allows pausing a mission: the progress will be suspended until the player continues it. Players can take some rest and be not afraid of losing progress.
• Improvements to the reward screens:
  1. Display of accumulative conditions in the operation profile according to the common interface of such missions.
  2. Proper display of missions that have interchangeable conditions “OR”.
• Improvement to the mission profile: the Cancel button is removed.

Maps

Maps that have been reworked in HD:

• Empire’s Border
• Widepark
• Highway

Balance changes have been added on the following maps:

• Ruinberg
• Overlord
• Redshire
• Sand River
• Paris

Also: bots introduced for lower tier battles on the LATAM cluster.

If you have collected 70 tokens from the “T 25 Sprint” mission, but have not completed the task until this morning, you have nothing to worry about – WG will give you the right rewards by the beginning of next week.

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