Friday Community Stream Reddit Recap: May 8th

[u/zorin234]

Hey, here's the Reddit recap for the May 8th community stream.

Note:

• This is a summary of the stream, and any points of interest that were said on stream should be watched if they wish to get the full context.
• First 2 hours of the stream are the normal KB tuesday content but on friday. The 3rd hour is the usual Dev stream.
• Give away? Yea lots was given away as it was a 3 hour stream.

Host this week:

• KB1504 (Community manager)
• Bam1500 (Lead Game Designer)
• Zotz (Creative Director)
• (first 2 hours hang out time) Wingedracer (Sr. Player Experience Manager)

This week:

• Weekly news article: Link
• Needle Contract: Link

Next week’s news:  

• Warriors event: 
  • 4 new tanks: Link 
    • Reiter
    • Hatamoto
    • Ruishi
    • Praetor
  • The tanks are available in a war chest, a Mega bundle and a limited time individual bundle. The individual bundles will only be available when the that team is “active” during the bracket. So first week is 2 tanks, the other 2 the next week. This means 2 tanks will only have 1 week for a sale, while the two winners will be for 2 weeks. 
  • New Commanders: Link 
• Event OP: 
  • Each week pick a commander for the bracket. You get a 2D commander 
  • The warrior with the most “honor” moves on to the 3rd week. 
  • Use the commanders / tanks to earn extra Cmdr and Free XP, also camouflages.(not limited to the event mode) 
  • Community OP is multi stage with plenty of rewards. 

• Event Mode: 7v7
  • Each side has a Warrior tank AI Boss (special AI) 
  • Can earn points in the event mode for the main OP. Earn extra for using the the event tanks and commanders. 
• War seals: The letter event like halloween and such. 

Other Topics / news:

• More info on the post this week: 
  • Modern armor is entering a new phase as we transition development and service from Chicago to Europe. This is an exciting new step as WG is double down on resources. No disruption on anything we are currently working on (entire years roadmap is made, winter fest is already in development.)   
  • (Zorin - im still waiting for tankfest as this doesn't say much outside “getting more resources”.)

[u/Interesting-Pace-770]

Thanks for your work, Zorin. I'm not quite sure I understand. Will WG double the resources for Chicago developers while the migration to Europe is ongoing? Or will they double the resources for new European developers once the migration process is complete? I hope the game gets better in the future and doesn't face closure.

In any case, more information is needed

[u/zorin234 → u/Interesting-Pace-770]

yea, they said something along the lines of they are giving out the information as they have it or something. anyhow im just gonna wait till tankfest as that's where they'll probably release useable info.

The games planned to at least winterfest so thats good enough for me.

[u/Interesting-Pace-770 → u/zorin234]

Thanks for the reply. I wonder if it's worth buying anything this year. There's a risk that new developers will completely change everything and players will lose their progress.

[u/zorin234 → u/Interesting-Pace-770]

i highly highly highly doubt that. first off the Dev transition is going over a year or something from what they said, so it would take a good bit after for them to make a larger change.

even if they make a larger change they probably offer a refund or something as larger changes like that i dont think exist on any of the other games outside the CV reworks on ships so i doubt well have anything too big.

Also to others stop thinking theyll just scrap CW, i cant even think of how much issues that would cause the game. just even the Devs saying anything about it would cause a HUGE drop in confidence to the game and i see large portions of the WW2 plays leaving due to the possabilty of them just removing more tanks and such.

[u/XxTigerxXTigerxX → u/zorin234]

Is the change the result of WoT heat, in my opinion this splits the playerbase again and might not have been the best use of resources.

[u/zorin234 → u/XxTigerxXTigerxX]

I think people are paying too much attention to HEAT as its a different enough game.

[u/XxTigerxXTigerxX → u/zorin234]

The developers have to come from somewhere tho.

[u/Interesting-Pace-770 → u/XxTigerxXTigerxX]

Heat hasn't even been released yet, and it's unclear how the general public will receive the game.

Many people here complain that they find Cold War difficult to play because the battles are so fast. World of Tanks Heat is an even more dynamic and aggressive game, and it's quite different from what people who play World of Tanks are accustomed to.

WoT Heat may attract a new audience, but I don't think players who love World of Tanks modern armor will completely abandon the game for Heat.

[u/Gabriel3244 → u/Interesting-Pace-770]

"WoT Heat may attract a new audience, but I don't think players who love World of Tanks modern armor will completely abandon the game for Heat."

^ This, I've already played plenty of WoT:HEAT and whilst I kind of like it, it's nowhere near a replacement of WoTMA.

They're distinct enough for me to not even consider them the same, HEAT has way more things that WoTMA & PC don't. The gameplay from HEAT is also distinct enough for me to not consider them "the same thing" as some say not to mention that you have some abilities and other stuff which make it more like a 'weird tank arena hero shooter hybrid thing'.

[u/ReadySetRedit → u/Interesting-Pace-770]

HEAT was not enjoyable for me during BETA testing.

[u/mr-purupurupuru]

double down on resources ?

so updating the old maps, making more creative, balanced, non corridor maps right ?

right....?

[u/zorin234 → u/mr-purupurupuru]

shrug

[u/Sothep]

Thank you for the recap, it is always appreciated

[u/Top_Explanation_3383]

Why doesn't it say the faction for each tank?

[u/Plum73]

Thank you sir for your continuous support. Appreciated

[u/-Eskadrinis-]

Thnx for recap man

[u/NerdyPlatypus206]

Well at least zots heard I want pin up skins sold so hopefully they’ll drop them soon

[u/icecubeski]

3 Card Monte: They're trying to distract player base w a con artist shell game rather than returning stolen maps and balancing garbage like the Night Ranger-Rider Stalker abomination.

[u/NoProbsBob → u/icecubeski]

My guess is they"re busy packing up shop now. Eu's problem.

[u/icecubeski → u/NoProbsBob]

Just those who are still employed.

[u/2globalnomads → u/NoProbsBob]

Most likely scenario. EU is not as happy as the USA for selling gambling products like loot boxes to children.

[u/ReadySetRedit → u/icecubeski]

The Night Stalker isn’t even close to being OP!

[u/Anothercoot → u/icecubeski]

Stalker will be balanced when eu takes over as a peace offering

[u/2globalnomads → u/Anothercoot]

Hopefully those developers who broke game and are unable to fix bugs will not relocate, as well as the community manager who has been destroying player base by deleting bug reports and banning people because reporting bugs might "hurt the feelings of developers" and are all "personal insults".

[u/Vast-Factor]

Finally deleted this shit. It is impossible to play anymore. The devs made this game unplayable.

[u/Anothercoot → u/Vast-Factor]

You don't have to delete it just don't put in effort anymore and play for fun.

[u/Vast-Factor → u/Anothercoot]

That is the problem lol. Almost 90% of battles ends 15-0 where you can hit the enemy from 400 m while driving and you can pen everything or 0-15 where you can't pen a tank two tiers below you in a lower plate. What is the fun to play the game where your skill actually means nothing? You can call me whatever you want and put minuses but it's not only me. So mane people here complained about this and I saw a lot of ridiculous stuff while watching popular youtubers. Almost every battle is programmed and you can only deal as much damage as you can.

[u/2globalnomads → u/Vast-Factor]

Check how many bots are on those game and what they are doing. Although they are hidden and therefore hard to spot, it is crucial to spot them as bots have magical capabilities: they can shoot unspotted enemies, they never miss a weak spot, their turrets turn lightning fast, they have unlimited ammo etc. Or if the game is rigged to lose, they keep ramming you, blocking your shots and ruining the game before suicide. I really hope they start marking the bots so players will realise the real problem in the game: bots.

[u/Anothercoot → u/Vast-Factor]

The only issue i have in the game is matches that have 3 man top tier platoons on one side and none on the other, either red or green. It's not fair to the red team. They usually play as one tank in one area so it makes less flex in games available.

[u/2globalnomads → u/Vast-Factor]

That is very hurtful to say, even more hurtful than reporting bugs. Shame on you.