Answers from Q&A session with players at Grand Finals

• “We keep eye on Type 59 characteristics. In plans we want some of them to make better” – Murazor;
• “There is no plans for awards for logging-in into game daily. However there will be similar specials and activiies” – Anton “Evilly” Pankov;
• “In update 9.19 there will be fixes for some server issues. Update will come out after Grand Finals” – A.Pankov;
• “There are no plans for changing tanks with prefferential matchmaking. Their battle tiers won’t change” -V. Makarov;
• “WGFest will happen! We will pick place and time. When everything will be done, we will inform you” – A. Pankov;
• “There are some questions about mid-tier tanks’ economics. We will investigate and we will fix them” -A. Pankov;
• “We will soon take Erlenberg out from battles completely. We know about problems of that map” – A. Pankov;
• “We want to give STB-1 an air suspension. There is such a plan” – V. Makarov;
• “With introduction of new graphics, we want to optimize it so that FPS would remain same as it was with old graphcis” – A. Pankov;
• “There wont be additional equipment slots. There will be only one additional slot for ranked battles” – A. Pankov;
• “We don’t plan to change mechanics of gold ammunition and make a restriction of amount of premium shells in ammunition storage” – A. Pankov;
• “In 9.19 the perk “Brothers in Arms” (BiA) will work together with perk “Sisterhood of Steel” when in the same crew of a tank” – A. Pankov;

Source: https://vk.com/wall-9159189_11540901

Answers from developers at Grand Finals

• “Defender” will not appear on sale soon;
• There is anti-cheating solution currently in development, which will allow to identify mods. Somewhere around autumn we will begin public tests. We have already launched AT version of site for mods. And in the end we will close /resmods, so it could only be accessed through “approval” ;
• Trade-in in CIS (RU) is already on its way;
• With new maps, the development situation is bad. In general, there are new maps currently in development, but the whole developer team is now concentrated on  turning maps to HD. Makarov: I would have introduced another 10 decent maps, but they won’t give me means;
• We have made new camouflage system and varied it by class.  Now, for at least half a year we will be completing interface. There will be lots of variety with it. No estimation of time;
• Line of ‘Foch’ and top of its tree rework is already in progress. Everything there is wrong starting with tier 8;
• The number of arties in games has reduced;
• There is completely no plans for T-22 sr.;
• The Chinese server exclusively will receive a unique crew, “Beijing Opera”. Official announcement – next week;

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/239437/44877/3/otvety-razrabotchikov-s-grand-finala

Matchmaker and battle tiers

Battle tiers in 9.18

уровень танка – tank tier; тип танка – tank category; уровень боя – battle tier.
лёгкие – lights; средние -mediums; тяжёлые – heavies;  ПТ-САУ – Tank Destroyers; Арт_САУ – artillery.

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/239369/44854/3/balansirovshhik-i-urovni-bojov

Open alpha test of website Wgmods.net

On the 23rd of May the open alpha test of portal for mods Wgmods.net begun.

It is not the official release, site was launched with minimum of necessary functionality, so it could run properly. For now it is only Russian site, but there are plans to make English version aswell. Site has mechanism to check mods, which consists of two stages: Pre-moderation and Quality Assurance testing.

• Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/239273/44818/3/otkrytyjj-alafa-test-portala-wgmodsnet

New Tier 8 premium French tank destroyer

AMX Canon d’assaut de 105

TD AMX Canon d’assaut de 105 was a 1958 year project of fighting vehicle by company AMX. According to archives, tank should have high mobility and maneuverability, a good protection (up to 100 mm of armor in front) and powerful 105 mm gun. However, project was cancelled and remained only on papers.

Technical characteristics: 

Firepower:
– Penetration – 260;
– Damage – 390;
– DPM – 1952.2;
– Damage to modules – 150;
– Reload time – 11.986 sec.;
– RPM – 5,006;
– Shell velocity – 1525 m/s;