World of Tanks – Anton Pankov Q&A Digest
2 min readHello everyone,
WOT Express had a Q&A session with Anton Pankov, I’ve gone through what I believe it’s the most important information and wrote a digest of it.
Source: WOT Express
- Wargaming created a new department called ‘Player Happiness” that monitors how and why problems happen;
- Trade-In was quite successful and will be introduced to the core game mechanics. Rental is mainly used in Asia and China, no other plans for now. (H: Rental is not the same one NA gets. Players can rent a premium to test);
- Audio Department is currently working on new soundtracks and other new things;
- Hangar interface is slowly being updated. Chat is a huge project itself, and will take some time. Bringing new emoji isn’t a priority;
- New Year Crates were very successful. No plans to implement them on a permanent basis. Part of the crates functionality will appear in Ranked Battles;
- Player numbers are seasonal, there was small loss of players but nothing Wargaming considers because of 9.18;
- There are some activities currently going to return players, but main activities are aimed at target audience: long-time players;
- New mobile functionalities, like chat and authentication are currently being tested;
- There are plans to implement some mods into the client, Battle Assistant was one of them but needs to be refined;
- Wargaming is currently working on Session Statistics;
- Wargaming is aware and analyses the accounts black market, but says it’s a small percentage. Still they are analysing it because it’s against EULA to trade accounts;
- Wargaming considers the Skorpion G to be performing normally and it will be back on sale;
- No new nations are planned for 2017;
- There are ideas to introduce Super-Heavy class and reclassify MAUS, Type 5 and other vehicles for balance proposes;
- No plans to introduce a limit to light tanks;
- Wargaming might introduce ‘Voice Activation’ for platoon communications if they have time to do it;
- Wargaming is planning to reward all ‘old players’, like Alpha and Beta Testers;
- Missions 2.0 is still under development and far from complete;
- There will be another ban wave very soon;
- There were no changes to physics recently.
new nations are planned for 2017, yet in the previus Qand A theyy said no plans for italians this year. Then what a full tree of polish tanks that never existed nto even in blueprints or a tibetian td line?
“No new nations are planned for 2017” – That’s what he said! Better yet, he said “Players shouldn’t expect new nations this year.” that’s what he said 😀
im interested to know what the alpha and beta rewards are gonna be, i played way, waaaay back in the day myself…..
I’m a Beta Tester, sold my F*cking Sherman and they won’t restore it 🙁
Another ban wave…. this should be a constant stream. Not a stupid wave.
Should be here soon, with new anti-cheat system. Mods most likely will be blocked to ones approved by WG.
LOL
“Wargaming created a new department called ‘Player Happiness” that monitors how and why problems happen;”
ROFL