Q & A 27. 5. 2016

• Q. The new technical display is slightly irritating. Subjectively – it takes up too much space on the right and the colours of icons I am unaccustomed to distract me.
  A. In the settings you can return to the old form of technical display.
• Q. Missions no longer disappear automatically. What’s with it?
  A. Nothing. I’ll check it out.
• Q. I am curious about that green vertical strip in the upper left corner.A. It’s your ping in hangar.
• Q. Can the old carousel be returned to the hangar?
  A. Carousel did not change, only the filter. What should return?
• Q. What does a bright blue plus sign with number below the nickname mean? What is that?
  A. Personal reserves.
• Q. Tell us about a new spotting system, is it postponed? Or will it roll out soon? ASAP?
  A. There won’t be a new one. We will revise the old one.
• Q. On the minimap, there’s a tank displayed as alive – there is an ELC being shown, even though it’s dead.A. Indeed. Now I understand. Thank you.
• Q. Landslide wins and defeats! I want to hear the developer’s reply, whether some work is being done, at least not to correct it, but what about the analysis? Where did it come from, why does it happen, how to fight it?
  A. I especially ordered the statistics on the average time of the battle, the lifetime of the players and amount of the tanks remaining at the end of the battle for the last 4 years. The theory that there “have been less landslide losses in the past” failed miserably. The statistics don’t show this in any way. The situation has been the same for 4 years now. You may consider this an official response.
• Q. Different, unrelated to each other, players write about landslide losses.
  A. But for example, different, unrelated to each other, players write to me that IS-6 after the HD remake is shit now. However, this is not supported by a careful analysis. What to do?
• Q. Well, it’s similar to the reversed situation: people write that it got significantly worse – but the statistics don’t confirm it, numbers, here they are,everything fine as far as you can see. But players always whine.
  A. Players always whine. That’s true. Without any jokes. And to distinguish whine from the real issues – that’s a difficult, tedious and long task, unfortunately.
• Q. Most likely, the number of increased landslide losses is on Erlenberg and similar maps.
  A. We included individual maps in the analysis.
• Q. You checked the average time of the fight, not landslide losses. People don’t write you about the total time of the fight. You’ve looked at the wrong sample.
  A. And here you can see what I wrote about above.
• Q. “… statistics on the average time of the battle, the lifetime of the players and amount of the tanks remaining at the end of the battle for the last 4 years…” There is nothing like that.
  A. The teams with fast battle duration (2, 3, 4, 5 minutes) – they are very similar.
• Q. Storm, you need statistics on the number of fights in which 10+ players of one team died after 2 – 4 minutes, when the number of living players of the other team at the moment was 13+. This is called landslide loss.
  A. It’s “The teams with fast battle duration (2, 3, 4, 5 minutes).”
• Q. There are personal missions to kill tanks two tiers higher. And now you introduced fines for difference in the platoon tiers. This is genius!
  A. Haven’t you heard about +/- 2 MM?
• Q. The problem with lighting contour of an enemy tank won’t go away: the rendering disappears, then it appears again in a loop.
  A. The bug has been confirmed by other information sources.
• Q. I am sad there are no session statistics – the total number of wins / fights per day, earned silver / experience per day.
  O. Despite the apparent usefulness and necessity, this is one of the biggest demotivators in the game with lots of losses. We decided on not implementing it to the client because of that.
• Q. And when long series of victories happen, on the contrary, you just want to play and play, this is a good motivation to continue when you don’t have time. Here, too, you have a coin with two sides.
  A. A long series of victories gives you adrenaline to continue even without statistics. But loss streaks are better not shown to losing players.
• Q. Thank you for the arty. Now if you have the reticle completely aimed it almost never flies in the center. Always on the edge.
  A. This is a standard whine.
• Q. In 9.15 in the client -14. Bug or unannounced nerf of premium tanks?
  A. Different rounding of fractions.
• Q. -15 ° – is the historical value. It is stated as such in publicly available documents. Where did you get the fractions?
  A. I will check for this.
• Q. On the sand maps (Sandy River and Airfield), the client hangs at the last % of battle loading bar. From mods I have only XVM and reticle and today I downloaded nightly build of XVM – still crashing and only on these cards.
  A. 99 % problems with running maps is caused by mods. Try launching without them.

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/198012/38026/3/otvety-razrabotchikov-27052016

Q & A 26. 5. 2016

• There won’t be healing shells.
• All planned balance changes won’t happen immediately, they will happen on the Sandbox test server, about which the developers have already spoken. Developers don’t want large and abrupt changes on the live server, and will have a plan “B” – if something big and negative happens, it will get fixed right away, to avoid negative feedback. Most likely there will be a place on official forums and Storm’s Livejournal for rebalance opinions, where players will be able to express their views on various aspects of early rebalance, to avoid the initial hate even before the launch of Sandbox.
• Premium artilleries of tiers 6 – 8 won’t come.
• As a part of the rebalance of artilleries, some of the achievements will become unobtainable.
• +/- 1 MM is not planned. Instead, it is planned to get more tanks that are able to fight in a certain battle to the same battle. It is necessary to experiment in this regard. A sort of system 3-5-7, which will be built on the principle of 3-5-7 – 3 tanks of top tier for this fight, 5 mid-tier tanks and 7 tanks from the low tier.
  +/- 1 MM contradicts WG policy with respect to monetization and stimulating the players to reach top tiers.
• Tanks should have separate roles. Scouts, breakthrough tanks, the second line tanks, the support, some tanks may have several roles. Balance should try to equal the symmetry in tank roles as well.
• To the players who played an important part in the battle, depending on the type of tank; there is a plan to make a system, where performing right in its role should get you bigger profit in terms of experience and silver. This will be created and monitored carefully.
• Polishing maps will continue, but it is not a priority. An old worker who created the older and ancient maps (Ensk, Mines, etc.) has returned and is now involved closely in work on all the maps in the game. As a result virtually all the cards are waiting for change. Some big ones, some purely cosmetic.
• Historical battles, if they come, will come only with bots, bots in this case will be much more intelligent than bots from training, but it is a distant plan.
• There will be improvements in the training for beginners. Storm hopes so.
• Murazor is a quite intelligent person who knows how to constructively talk when he wants to. There were fears that cooperation with him won’t be very good, but they turned out to be exaggerated. In 9.15 his work was related to the change in the display of the performance characteristics of tanks.
• There is thinking over adding fortified areas to company mode. How it will be done – that is not clear. But company mode revival will be tried.
• New music in the battle – don’t wait for it. Of course, it’s in the plans, but in a very distant future.
• Sandbox feedbacks will be considered by specialists in the field and the whole balancing department will play, Storm says.
• Instead of FV215b there likely won’t be Chieftain, but the already mentioned SuperKonqueror – almost the same as 215b, only with the turret in the front. The turret, according to Storm, is very good, Especially from the front.
• The Chieftain, if it gets implemented, then only as a side branch. Wargaming asks for time to search the archives. If something is found, there will come estimates of how and when will things happen.
• Asya has not disappeared anywhere, everything works well in Wargaming. She got promoted.
• The next event on teh global maps will be in August.
• Bug when the training mode against bots statistics get added to the overall statistics is known about. Unknown when it’ll get fixed, but it’s on the list of fixes.

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/197929/38023/3/otvety-shtorma-so-vstrechi-v-minske-26052016

Q & A 26. 5. 2016

• Q. Will artilleries have TD mode removed?
  A. No, won’t be removed.
• Q. Why did you add invisible walls in 9.15 in the places where according to the developers you shouldn’t get to? The player should have a slope in front of him to make it clear that it is impossible to climb it, and not stop against an invisible wall.
  A. There are no invisible walls.
• Q. Here’s the video.

  A. Seems it’s there. Crudely made…

• Q. “The invisible wall” needs to get removed, replaced by the terrain topology. Will it be removed?
  A. Not in 9.15.
• Q. When will switching tanks when dead be fixed?
  A. Not a priority.
• Q. What about the hangar freezes after Alt + F4, will there be some kind of explanation, or is it the way it should be? And increasing the minimap to the side panels, too, is it not a priority, or something prevents you from doing it?
  A. “Stuck” hangar was reported by two people only. One with a very old computer, the second provided no further data, so the issue is unresolved.
  What is wrong with the minimap?
• Q. Minimap without mods can be increased only to a certain point, on small screens it is very inconvenient.
  A. “On small screens” – is for example how big? 1366×768?
• Q. See example, the first is maximum minimap without mods.
  A. There is some room left intentionally for alerts about destroyed tanks.

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/197605/37974/3/mini-dajjdzhest-otvetov-razrabotchikov-24052016

Q & A 22. 5. 2016

Transcript with Publishing Producer Konstantin Soldatov on Wargaming.FM program “In zemlyanka”

• “Sandbox” will arrive in June
• 9.15 will be released on Tuesday, May 24 (TL note: This is for RU, EU day later)
• The fact that on the test everyone shoots gold is not good, maybe there will be some changes
• The Waffentrager auf E-100 replacement is the last branch change before the global rebalance
• Football this summer?
  I do not know, stay tuned!
• The Domination replacement won’t happen in the near future
• the second season of personal missions is planned, but hard to tell when. In it we will try to avoid all the mistakes we made in the first season
• Identification of the mods (certification) – it’s one of the possible implementations to combat illicit modifications, we are working on it this year
• Marathon won’t happen
• Bonus for “tanking” has been postponed
• Bonuses for medals – there are talks, but nothing more. Generally the award is a memorabilia
• Bug with clan cammo will come, but not in 9.15, there’s no time
• Return of Waffentrager E-100 is not planned, not even reworked
• No buff for Löwe is planned
• There is a solution to Mortar mod, in 9.15 there’s no time for it, but it will get fixed later
• Wheeled vehicles are not planned
• FV215b was planned to be replaced by the Chieftain, but hasn’t happened yet

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/197241/37900/3/stenogramma-c-wargamingfm-programma-v-zemljanke

Q & A 18. 5. 2016

• one of the first steps to combat illegal mods is the identification of mods, individual access keys, we’ll see how this works out
• bots will also fall under this system
• we’re continuing development on DX11, the optimization factor in 9.15 is good, about 30 %
• haven’t heard of any plans to change the damage compensation from allies
• forget about WoT 2.0 for now, it will come in due time
• hidden statistics – some will come very soon
• moving trains will not come, would eat up too much resources
• 2nd season of personal missions won’t come soon, it isn’t even planned yet
• even if there are to be limits for gold ammo loadout, those would come in global rebalance, but they are unlikely

Storm answers on livejournal:

• I don’t quite understand why there is sometimes no difference in terrain passability between hard and medium terrain, but a difference between medium and soft? Type 5 is too fast on soft terrain, but Type 4 is too slow, while having a difference of 0,5hp/t? can you elaborate?
  Ican’t, this is not my work
• T54 ltwt nerf is really scrapped?
  Yes, really
• When is 9.15 planned to release?
  When everything’s ready
• (about Grille15 crew retrain) why can’t players choose to retrain or recieve compensation?
  Nothing like this was done before, we’re doing it as always
• Is it so hard to just drop the perks?
  No comments
• Will gold for WTE100 camo be returned?
  Camo will be transferred to Grille
• What is the reason for STA-2 DPM nerf?
  The buff to other stats
• Sniper view x16 and x25 will be implemented, but what if some players find x25 to be too big? can he choose between x16 and x25?
  We’re discussing it
• 112 price is being lowered, any compensation?
  No, compensations are not being applied here

Murazor answers:

• Is the question about 112 stats somehow inconvenient? Or you just don’t know? You answer a load of questions about the Pershing gun, but not about the 112?
  You know what’s happening with the 112, such a decision was made internally, maybe something will change in the future

Source: https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2016/05/18/qa-18-05-2016/comment-page-1/#comment-21767

Q & A 12. 5. 2016

More catching up

• Q. What time frame can we expect for the new sandbox server?
  A. I can’t name any dates, but the details about it should come pretty soon, I think.
• Q. Vladimir Pankov said “sandbox” – it’s a rebalance, is it for low tier tanks or how should I understand it?
  A. Sandbox is the test server.
• Q. Why does KV-2 have higher pen than O-I and O-Ho, it’s not fair.
  A. Because the Japanese have armor, while the KV-2 doesn’t.
• Q. Is there a plan during rebalance to change the maximum of the random gameplay, or vice versa, to make the game for more luck-dependent? I know it’s mentioned often, but is it possible you’ll remove the +- 25% of alpha, and unpredictable penetration? Can the normal ammo be no longer eaten by tracks? And can they not fly under the tank.
  A. Randomness is good. The problem of the game is not the + -25% range.
• Q. With the balance 2.0 coming, will T32 stop suffering from low penetration?
  A. He is not suffering.
• Q. What about this
  
  A. Photoshop.
• Q. A question about 8.8 L/56, you said that APCR will get 191 penetration and it’s not in 9.15. In the test the L/56 has 200 penetration.
  A. It’s there – the Czechoslovak one has 200 penetration, the rest 171.
• Q. How is the department in which you work? Questions will be more substantive.
  A. You just do not give it anything, I work in R & D, the position of Special Projects Expert.
• Q. Equipment, BiA, ventilation, does it buff the guny accuracy directly? That is, can we assume that a weapon with an accuracy of 0.35 with the use of all of the above will be around 0.33? Or does only stabilization and reduction get buffed?
  A. All is improved.
• Q. Can there be 4 – 5 men platoons? I just have a lot of friends and all want to play.
  A. There will be no such platoons, 5 can play CBs.
• Q. A long time ago we had some fun tank models , such as T-35, Neubaufahrzeug, FCM 2C, FCM F1, etc. The internet was full of their screenshots. But in the game, they never appeared. Why? Is it the multiple turrets or can’t you balance them or don’t know where to put them?
  A. Stem engines are not needed.
• Q. Yesterday there came the portal news about the imminent start of “the balance of the test 2.0.” The test will be on request. Do you know what criteria will be used? Do I have a chance with my 29k and 56% (21 top) to get to the test or will you recruit 45% tomatoes?
  A. The selection criteria are not known to me. But logically there should be representatives of all categories of players.
• Q. There are some useless achievements, some of which are hard and some are very hard, but there are no rewards for them. Are there any plans to give some kind of reward (tanks / customization / premium) for achievements such as “Expert” / “Senior Mechanical Engineer,” etc? You could give “T-22 Str” for them.
  A. There are some ideas about rewards for such achievements.
• Q. Regarding artilleries, will it get completely changed in the concept of the game? And will it get rebalanced along with the other classes or separately?
  A. It will get changed towards lower toxicity and greater predictability, global rebalance will happen along.
• Q. Which is the better tank on tier 6 KV-2 or O-I?
  O. O-I.

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/196196/37725/3/otvety-murazora-12052016

Q & A 11. 5. 2016

Late QA. Still have 12. 5. and 18. 5. to come later, hopefully this weekend.

• Q. Do you know the prices of premium tanks will get decreased?
  A. Revision of price policy is certainly not up to me. Perhaps the reduction in prices of the not really popular prem tanks, as was done with the 112, there the initiative was mine.
• Q. Do you communicate with map creators?
  A. Regarding maps, one of the old-timers who did the first map in the game returner, there will eventually be progress.
• Q. Why are there no plans heard about marathon for some tanks, will there be some this year?
  A. Don’t ask me about marathons, I don’t have to do anything about them, haven’t heard anything about any plans for marathons.
• Q. Another question about FV4202, a question about the price of the shell. It is very expensive, even in a good fight with 3k damage you won’t break 40k profit for a victory without a premium. The reward for penetrating doesn’t fit, even with little damage. Will you change this? Tank is good, but the loss is killing it.
  A. Regarding the price of the projectile, I agree, but the plans to replace it aren’t in short term plans.
• Q. Did you do something with IS-6 in the HD rework or before/after? Because I took a ride after a month break and got beat almost every fight, sometimes from every little thing such as 13 75 or even MT-25.
  A. After the HD remake, IS-6 became a better tank.
• Q. Is a review of Panther’s DPM planned?
  A. Once again, resources is now aimed at the global rebalance, not to repair concrete tanks. We fix only those that are suffering.
• Q. Will there be a feature like in ships with reloading first aid kits and othre consumables in 3 – 4 minutes?
  A. There are all sorts of thoughts regarding this topic.
• Q. A question about AMX M4 49. Will it be introduced as a premium or will it replace AMX M4 45?
• A. Definitely not a replacement.
• Q. Why not improve the track textures behind the tanks, would look more realistic, I think.
  A. The tracks will get improved when the game is improved enough, not for now.
• Q. Where is my 100 ton FV100 or at least SuperConqueror?
  A. FV 100 is on the index of light tanks.
• Q. Why is there a difference between armour of T110E4 and E3 on the copula, was it there in real life? I am tired of constantly critically hit commander. Why does one have more critical hits?
  A. There is no difference, both tanks are made based on blueprints and/or fantasy.
• Q. Will there be “cool” tanks like Waffenträger auf E 100 in the future?
  A.
  
• Q. Global rebalance will bring us back to the good old times where everything was fine?
  A. That’s the idea.
• Q. What are your plans regarding Waffle? Global rebalance and release in premiums at tier 8?
  A. The one that’s based on the E 100 chassis? Of course, it will become tier 8 premium, with the current performance characteristics, for 10,000 USD
• Q. When is the Frenchman with armour of 250 mm and weighing 70 tonnes going to appear?
  A. Wait for it.
• Q. Will STA-2 get its projectile speed buffed? The penetration is very good, but not enough ballistics.
  A. No, projectile speed is not touched.
• Q. What about SuperPershing? Its 170 mm penetration is not enough at tier 8, FCM 50t is just better, because it has 212 mm of penetration. SP has to be buffed to at least 175 mm of penetration. The gold is good, but it has to make profit, too.
  A. The SP question for buff appears every 20 question… The answer is: The problem is not in the Super Pershing itself, gameplay at the moment just is broken, you could play SP normally in the past. Same story with KV-5. They will have to get fixed at some point to get them back to players’ interest. In my opinion, these tanks will be played again after the global rebalance.
• Q. Will you buff tier 5 Chi-Nu Kai?
  A. I do not really like it, but generally it’s more than ok.
• Q. The balance 2.0  is only “tightening performance characteristics”?
  A. Not only that.
• Q. When will you buff 113 armour? It’s bad, in any direction. And you can improve the armour, as it’s a blueprint tank. And while at it, will you buff the UFP?
  A. Maybe that will happen during the HD rework.
• Q. The people asked to get experience for tanking, and you introduced experience for playing in platoon…
  A. Two very different topics. My personal opinion is that the extra experience for platoons is too much.
• Q. When will the female voice appear? New audio engine allows for it. What’s so complicated?
  A. In fact, the woman’s voice acting is in a very comical situation, but I can not talk about it.
• Q. On wotleaks there was news that you will be the head of game design in Minsk – fake?
  A. Fake.
• Q. Is there any chance the T-50-2 will appear again in the PC version, at least in the form of premium?
  A. I think there’s no chance for that.
• Q. What do you think about unique perks for the nations? It would be interesting if every nation had special perks. And some general perks, there are no limits on this. Recycling perks – a distant ASAP?
  A. Unique perks except for classes according to nat. the basis of their do not make sense.
• Q. Anton Pankov said “On May 10 there will be news about the balance of 2.0”. Where are the news or did you change your mind?
  A. Maybe later, will have to ask Anton.
• Q. Will we have a chance to see Kanonenjagdpanzer here? (TL note: Since it’s already in game, I suppose the player is asking about real life Kanonenjagdpanzer which is in a few museums)
  A. Very unlikely.
• Q. What can you say about Panther 2? It should get more durability, every battle you get destroyed by every hit.
  A. There is not more HP, because Panther 2 is fairly small, and its size is historical.
• Q. Why are Object 416 shells so expensive? You sometimes end in a loss even with premium.
  A. The price for the gun from the tier 9.
• Q. What’s wrong with Panther 8.8? It’s a normal tank, even better than the regular version.
  A. Elevation in the front is very bad.
• Q. Will there be a version of IS3 with M3 gun with a drum, like in Blitz?
  A. This is not currently considered.
• Q. What’s the plan with Japanese tier 9/10 heavies? Will the get a buff or should I wait for global rebalance?
  A. Wait for the second 9.15 test.
• Q. If the cause of Storm’s answers was the blunt questions and NDA, why are your answers so different when compared to Storm? And why could SerB afford to respond more openly? Was there a different NDA? Or less stupid questions?
  A. I answer as openly as possible to those questions which I can answer, and don’t try to make fun of questions. I disliked not Storm, but rather the fact that the users did not have any dialogue, and because the only one who provided at least some answers was Storm, all the stones were flying at him, many do not deserved. With regard to SerB, without a comment.
• Q. Why don’t we hear anything about Havok? Has it been completely abandoned?
  A. Regarding Havok I can’t say anything new for now.
• Q. I remember about a year ago, there was news of a new resource – steel – and unique tanks that you can buy for it. Is the idea in development or canceled? if in development, is there some info?
  A. No comments yet.
• Q. Are you in the same place as Vader?
  A. No, I work in a different department, but in close collaboration with the game balance dpt.
• Q. 140 rework soon?
  A. Plans for HD reworkare not in yet.
• Q. Once upon a time I read on the forum about a TD based on Mouse, it was said that it was not introduced because of its similarity with JgPz E-100. Are there plans for this tank?
  A. There are no plans for it, not even sure that such a project existed.
• Q. + -1 MM will happen? It will be better for everyone.
  A. + -1 will not happen, but there will be something else.
• Q. I would like to see the old maps, I really miss them, and not just me. Will this happen?
  A: You may see a remake of some maps.
• Q. Rheinmetal Scorpion will appear in store this year?
  A. Possibly.
• Q. Will there soon be a premium heavy of tier 8 for UK?
  A. I don’t know about about such plans.
• Q. You yourself many times said in videos that captured tanks will be introduced, will they or not?
  A. In the future, perhaps.
• Q. What are your plans for the YouTube channel? Will you publish at least one video per week?
  A. I think it’ll be more.
• Q. Are you going to decrease the view range of tier 9 – 10 MTs? It’s not as it should be when they have more view range than tier 8 LTs.
  A. We will solve all this during global rebalance.
• Q. Do you plan to revise the gold shell cost? For some of the tanks it is overpriced (WZ-111’s 5600 for a shell), for some it’s too low (IS-6 one shell for 4800).
  A. The cost initially depended on the effectiveness of the projectile.
• Q. Will 430 get buffed?
  A. No buff, unless it gets changed.
• Q. Any news about Province? The map was okay.
  A. It wasn’t okay.
• Q. +-1 MM to tier 5 is not planned? I have a lot of fun fighting tier 5s with tier 3
  A. It is not planned.
• Q. Will you buff 4202 to 40 km/h? It will be at least comparable to Centurion, not even mentioning the rest.
  A. Cannon and depression compensate for all its shortcomings.
• Q. IS-5 – is it not planned to buff the gun a little? Stabilization, for example. It has accuracy of 0.46, aim time of 3.2 s and stabilization of 13 90.
  A. IS-5 is OK.
• Q. I have a built-in video card, you can almost play, but only if you compress textures. Is it possible to compress the SD version, without spoiling the game files with WoT tweaker? Like some Ultra SD version or PC tweaker for weak setups?
  A. The game is not designed for built-in graphics card.
• Q. Do you plan to do something with CDC? For example, increase the alpha, increase the camo or make the armour at least not glass-like. I won’t talk about mobility nerf, because that will only make you mad.
  A. CDC is doing more than good.
• Q. Will you buff Caernarvon? Yes, it got a new turret, but it’s not very good, because it gets penetrated by the same tier easily.
  A. I played it, and the turret tanking was good.
• Q. Will you buff AMX 13 57 GF?
  A. In the future, anything is possible.
• Q: Why can’t you make the premium working in short amounts, by setting a small window, with a choice of time in minutes, and then when you go to bed, you don’t burn the premium in vain. I would like to set it for 30 minutes, play, go to sleep, in the morning before work play a bit as well.
  A. Won’t happen.
• Q. Do you have plans for Maus, I heard it’s overshadowed by E-100?
  A. Maus tanking is better about 2 times.
• Q. I would like to be able to sell premium technique for gold, at least in limited numbers. Then you can play premium tank, sell it for gold, then buy a new one and play that. It is worth implementing?
  A. It is not.
• Q. Why buff tier 8 Czech, when you compare it with the tier 7, do you buff by guessing? Tier 7 needs a buff, it has no DPM, no gameplay, no armour, only the gun, and you won’t win the battles with gun only. I think this tank is seriously problematic, not tier 8.
  A. Tier 7 Czech has unbalanced 250 gold penetration.
• Q. Will you buff tier 10 Foch?
  A. No such plans at the moment.
• Q. When will there be normal FPS? And no lag upon spotting?
  A. Buy SSD to faster load textures, FPS is irrelevant.
• Q. The Maus gun for E-75 and VK4502B will be? And Foch buff??
  A. Not right now for sure. 4502B is one of the best tier 9 HTs in many aspects.
• Q. It would be nice to add some penetration to M6A2E1?
  A. And armour and penetration, lots of wishes. In the future there will be a premium with almost the same armor, better wait for it.
• Q. What happened to arty? When will that rebalance happen?
  A. At the same time when the global rebalance comes.
• Q. Implement little men in open-topped tanks, the idea will probably be liked by everyone.
  A. There’s the problem with a rating of 12+, sadly.
• Q. In 9.15 –  for which we are waiting with held breath – there will be a buff of whole bunch of old premium tanks – and that’s as a balm for the soul. But the question is, in my hangar there is tier 4 Sentinel with 2 pounder gun (80 penetration, 45 damage) which has the aim time of 2.8 seconds.
  A. It’s bad, I know.
• Q. I will touch the topic of Type 59. Against the comparison of other tier 8 MTs he does not last for some time, especially gun. The aim time of 2.9, 0.39 accuracy, reload without BIA over 7.5 seconds (with 240 alpha). Do you plan to revise its gun stats?
  A. 59 is not OK, but if we buff it now, then later we will have to nerf.
• Q. What will happen with the game? Hard work on it? Weeding out the faults?
  A. That sounds right.
• Q. Have this serious question: the basic mechanics of the camo / view range / penetration / types of shells are subject to change? And if so, will it be “polishing” or complete overhaul? Specifically, the rule of three calibers, bushes and shrubs the size of Maus and so on.
  A. Currently there are no comments.
• Q. Will you buff 268? At least the gun traverse and a bit of other stuff and it will be fine.
  A. You got used to imbalance on LTs, stop that.
• Q. Will you promote referential system?
  A. When we remake it.
• Q. Will you buff UK tier 4 Matilda?
  A. It is already so imbalanced with a penetration bigger than many tier 5s, what do you want to buff.
• Q. Did you visit supertest? If so, how is it? Are they really bad?
  A. Didn’t check their stats, these people are as important as the public mass, skill is not critical.
• Q. Is WoT 2.0 being made in some of the offices of WG or is it like Master of Orion, which is being created by a different company under the flag of WG?
  A. A separate office, not in Minsk.
• Q. Are you going to do something with T110E4? Did you secretly nerf the ammorack durability? It gets ammoracked often, maybe if it was only my problem, but not, everyone who has this tank complains about frequent ammoracks.
  A. We didn’t touch it.
• Q. Which patch will bring good graphics and all sorts of graphic extras?
  A. Graphic depends on the content, not on the engine at the moment.
• Q: Why doesn’t FV201 (A45) in the game have a historical gun and UFP armour? There was a 20-pounder 20 and 130 mm UFP and we have 17-pounder and 76 UFP and that’s on a heavy!
  A. You’re confusing different tanks, there were several options including 17-pounder.
• Q. You’ve seen the video about USA HT, where it was said that the change from 30 mm was a mistake, and it is necessary to rollback. I beg you, roll it back to its previous state and return the variation of gameplay and an alternate top tank. What do you think?
  A. Currently it’s unrealistic.
• Q. Will there be a second part of the personal missions? I already completed the first set, I want more. Once there was a lot of info, but now there’s silence. Will tehre be part 2?
  A. Not soon.
• Q. Global rebalance will be at the same time as remaking perks? Or will they be divided into patches?
  A. It is not yet known.
• Q. Are there any plans for something like wheeled vehicles, of which you have spoken once on Igromir?
  A. There is nothing but talks.
• Q. Why nerf O-I?
  A. Because it’s imbalanced a lot.
• Q. Do you plan to buff M4A1 Revalorisé?
  A. It’s the top tier 8 MT in damage per battle, likely not.
• Q. What is the replacement of Lorraine 40t? One time there was a talk about BatChat tier 9, but now there’s silence.
  A. It’s in the future plans.
• Q. I have a question about the role rebalance that is planned this summe, will it affect LTs?
  A. It will affect everything.

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/196004/37717/3/otvety-murazora-11052016

Q & A 10. 5. 2016

With Murazor:

• Are there plans for Panther 8.8? And for the rest of the “new” and old premiums, are there some buffs or nerfs planned for them?
  Panther 8.8 is in the plans.
• Will Confrontation not return?
  In the future, there’s a chance it will return when the balance gets changed.
• Can I ask about Type 59? Are there any plans?
  At the moment, no.
• Asking about the global rebalance, are there any times or stages of development you could announce?
  No dates yet.
• WG seems to work really slowly, then there’s the moving to Cyprus to add to it, or does it only seem that way from the outside?
  Many processes are extremely inefficient, it is a problem of management.
• What will be done with the KV-5? How exactly will it get buffed and when will that happen?
  Plans for KV-5 are not finalized yet, what will the plans be and how will they get executed, I can’t say.
• I have a question, why not pay attention to Chinese tanks? They’re all unusable except for WZ at tier 9? Why not buff top tiers? When will you buff the whole branch?!
  113 and 121 were buffed recently
• WG really does WoT 2? Why? They have enough to deal with 1…
  This involves a completely different team.
• Malinovka, Prokhorovka, Fiery Salient,Westfield, Redshire – when will they get removed?
  When we decide to remove them.
• Will the Czech get nerfed to the ground like T-22?
  For the Czechs there are no solutions yet, but my personal opinion is that they should be a bit nerfed when talking about the 9 – 10 tiers, and it is necessary to buff tier 8 a bit.
• Why can’t you give Löwe Tiger’s DPM, it still has no speed, gets penetrated easily and doesn’t do damage itself, at least respect the heavy German branch..
  Will be looked at during global rebalance.
• Will you buff 8.8/L56 APCR from 171 to 191?
  Not in 9.15
• Tell me what you think about Patton 59, but only after you look at the statistics!
  Why should I look at the stats, I can shoot. Given that tier 8 mediums are suffering on their tier already, Patton 59 seems to do okay.
• Do you plan to come to Russia in 2016 for Wargaming events (same with Igromir)?
  It is possible I will come to Igromir, but not sure.
• Murazor, did they trap you? When will you get back home?
  The next few years I will live on Cyprus.
• I want to know, can I sell my account through you? T-34, IS-7, IS-4, 10k battles, 52 % WR
  Tomorrow I’ll go ask Storm, maybe he’ll buy, no thanks.
• Murka, Bearded man (popular RU streamers’ names), what will happen next?
  We’re all going to die, but not right now.

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/192926/37684/3/vnezapno-daniil-aka-quotmurazorquot-otvechaet-na-voprosy

Q & A 6. 5. 2016

• Q. In the nearest patch prize tank Chieftain/T95 will be assigned a premium status. Will T95E2 get the same treatment?
  A. It’s not considered.
• Q. Where to read about the concept and principles of + 2/-2 level MM?
  A. There is no detailed answer.
• Q. I understand that the test number two came out.
  A. The test number two is not yet out.
• Q. Let’s have a poll on the match maker? I think there is a lot more problems.
  A. It is now being remade completely. So there’s not much point in this survey.
• Q. Are there any prerequisites for revising 112? Not as much in the tank as in his “problems”, similar to 113 / 215b.
  A. It was just a bug fix. So far, no other plans.
• Q. DX11 delivered or not?
  A. Implemented.
• Q. I don’t see any version to switch (of DirectX). By the way, will version 9 be left with switching to 11?
  A. There is nothing to switch, the version changes automatically when it’s possible.
• Q. What about the excessive self-centering for TDs and ELC, there was a promise to reduce this effect. Nothing changed. The tank still clearly turns to the place where the gun points. Even standing still. And when you turn on track the first few seconds you just don’t know where you’re looking at all, we have to zoom out of the sniper mode, and then back. It’s particularly noticeable for ELC.
  A. My fault. I misinterpreted what guys working on physics showed. We won’t reduce this effect in 9.15.
• Q. Question about the German premium bulldog. Tank does not match the declared data. If there are mistakes, will they be corrected in the update? On the test server nothing changed.
  A. All is corresponding. Read carefully what is written.
• Q. I found a bug we talked about. Only in this case, the barrel does not move up, but falls instead.

  A. Nothing incorrect. Before entering the snipe mode, the camera and the sight look “into the ground” in front of the tank. Therefore, weapon moves down in an attempt to aim at this point.

• Q. There is more critical damage of modules now. Now I see my ammorack being damaged by the first shot every battle. That was not there before.
  A. We checked the statistics of critical hits. There is not more of them.

Source: http://wot-news.com/main/postmsg/190066/37619/3/mini-dajjdzhest-otvetov-razrabotchikov-06052016

Q & A 2. 5. 2016

Answered by Anton Pankov

• will arty be nerfed?
  no, it will be remade to be more team-oriented along with the global rebalance, an announcement will come during summer
• what happened to WoT:Generals?
  this was an attempt to provide a possibility to play in the browser, we cease development but will not completely shut down the game
• what about maps? new maps this year?
  first, we have to “repair” the old maps, also a new map is to be expected this year
• what about tier 10 LT, any plans there?
  no such plans yet
• will Italian tanks come?
  there will be a new nation this year, most likely at the end of it, the Italians however are planned for next year
• what about a multi-turret system?
  there is a raw prototype, but that’s not a priority, the first multi-turret tank will be the T-35
• will the WT E-100 remain in-game?
  it will be replaced by Grille 15
• what about “pendants” (russian nickname for tier 1 in higher platoons)?
  in 9.15, penalties for such platoons will come, and in one of the next patches, the possibility to take “pendants” into platoons will be removed
• will national specialities (German HP, Russian alpha etc.) be pronounced more after global rebalance?
  this will be realized by special perks
• will amphibious tanks come?
  no
• will a merge of the games come, like in War Thunder?
  no
• what about gold ammo problems?
  will be tackled during global rebalance
• what about different hulls on tanks?
  there aren’t that many different hulls available, won’t come this year for sure
• what about PvE?
  there is a general idea to make historical campaigns as PvE, but not this year
•  we’re thinking of the possibility to rent tanks for a short while, especially premium ones
• regarding Czechs: there are many questions, they will probably be balanced together with the upcoming global rebalance
• there will be a system of rewarding alpha and beta testers, even unique ones, but it will take a while
• everything regarding global rebalance will happen in the summer
• the M4A3E8 Fury was made together with Sony Pictures, who has the rights on it, so it won’t come again soon
• IS-5 will only be available for clan activities
• there are many ideas for artillery, including smokescreens

Source:
https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2016/05/02/qa-2nd-may-2016/
https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2016/05/02/qa-2-2nd-may-2016/