World of Warships – Gamescom 2017 Dev Q&A Digest
2 min readDuring Gamescom 2017, Wargaming did several World of Warships live panels and in the last one there was a Q&A with what is coming up in 2017 or near future, with Artur Plociennik and Marek Tucan. I’ve done a small digest with what I consider the most important information.
Source: Gamescom 2017: World of Warships Live #3
- Pan-Asia ships was an attempt to create a branch specifically for the Chinese/Asian region.
- Pan-Asia Destroyers are more gun oriented than other nations.
- Pan-Asia Destroyers torpedoes should be usable, similar to USN Destroyers.
- Pan-Asia Destroyers will have deep water torpedoes, if tests are successful.
- Replay system is coming when it’s done. It’s not considered a priority at the moment, but will become more of a focus as soon as Clan functions are released. Wargaming hopes to release a replay system by the end of 2017.
- Training room falls into the same “box” as Replays, it will come when it’s done, as Wargaming is trying de develop and bring all the functions the player base requested.
- Wargaming considers there is a over-population of battleships, but statistically is OK. Players want to play more battleships, than any other class in general. Wargaming is taking a certain steps to control the battleship populations, deep water torpedoes for example.
- Wargaming admits in terms of Class balance, the game is still not in a perfect place.
- Competitive meta is something Wargaming is looking now, reason why some mechanics are being changed.
- Wargaming reckons it’s a controversial topic, due to players having to change their gameplay, but overall Wargaming believes it’s necessary in order to refresh the gameplay and for game balance purposes.
- Developer Blog on Facebook is an attempt to improve communication. Wargaming wants to give a better inside on why some changes are being tested. Players shouldn’t expect it to be a discussion area, but only has place to get more specific information.
- Wargaming doesn’t know when British Battleships will be ready for release.
- Italian Battleship Roma has been confirmed to come as a Premium some time in 2017.
- Pan-Asia Premium Cruiser is coming in 2017. Details should be know this week.
- There will more than one German Premium Destroyer.
- Wargaming wants to introduce at least one Premium for each branch.
- There will be a German port introduced to the game, there are two potential choices, at the moment Hamburg might be the one selected.
- Wargaming prefers to allow players to customize their accounts, instead of their ships. Ship customization is lost because of the engagement ranges.
“Wargaming prefers to allow players to customize their accounts, instead of their ships. Ship customization is lost because of the engagement ranges.”
I can say this disappoints me :/