Russian CC Q&A with S_O

[wilkatis_LV]

Yesterday morning a Russian CC by the name of "TVgetfun World of WarShips" had a Q&A stream with S_O

It's 1h 40min long and in Russian but if neither of those is a problem for you - you can watch it here (it's on YouTube):

Spoiler

 

 

Anyway, since most of you probably don't speak Russian (my clanmates sure as hell don't) I "translated" it while watching the recording

 

It's not quite a 1:1 translation, pretty much everything is "translated and paraphrased" as it's much easier that way, and the points mentioned don't get lost in translation

Skipped the parts where they were talking about the match currently playing, when S_O was repeating himself due to question already being previously answered or re-emphasizing some point, when they were just making jokes and when S_O got a bit salty bcuz someone asked when WoWS will finally get rid of cheaters

 

Oh, and as the stream itself was a long one, the translation isn't short either. Stuff in small italics is my comment in cases where something maybe wasn't completely clear

Spoiler

Too early to say if this Ranked season is successful or no. When season ends, then they'll look into it. Currently there's more than enough other stuff to analyze
As always, at the end of the season there will be the typical survey about the season. They gather info on the seasons success in 2 ways - this survey for generalized community feedback, and then there are [random? it really sounded like selection for this is random :D] people from the WG team to whom rank goals are given (as in "you have to reach at least rank 5") to get internal feedback for how playable and enjoyable [hahaha] ranked is overall
Even if MM like 1 BB 5 DDs is highly annoying for the BB (or any similar situation like 5 BB 1 CA for the CA) there are no plans to change this kind of MM by limiting the classes per team more than they currently are

 

At least till version 0.8.1 there will be large changes to everything CV / AA related. After that there probably will be smaller individual changes, but general gameplay should be finalized

 

0.8.1 comes with 1st wave of port optimization (UI improvements?). Should significantly reduce lagging in port

 

Current 3 CV max per team is there to deal with the "new toys" peak interest, to reduce the chance of CVs sitting in queue for over 5min which leads to weird MM like 1v1s and similar. Over a few patches as the hype dies down it will be lowered to 2, and then - at least for t10 - to 1 CV per team
Chance of rolling back to old CVs practically doesn't exist. The point where that could have happened was within the first few days of 0.8.0, and that time is already gone. New concept's working very well, just balance issues left for tuning. AA, spotting, things alike that

 

Balancing proves to be very hard because as players on both sides - attacking and receiving - are learning and adapting performance and results change quite a lot daily, or even faster than that. Main problem right now is t8...10 AA DPS

 

Currently economics are not fully working. Shooting down planes / doing damage to them does not award any credits / xp. That could be introduced in the future, but only when meta has stabilized and better balance is achieved. No plans currently, WG will be talking about it later.

 

Global map for CB - nothing in the works for it right now, nothing planned for the near future. Popular idea which many like and want to develop, and there are some basic designs for it.

 

Work on Classic Launcher has completely stopped. It still works for updating & launching the game, but only WGC receives upgrades for the launcher itself

 

T8 ships globally are facing t10 far too much (yay, they finally admitted it). Nothing new to say about it as that really hasn't changed. A possible fix is in development, but it's not ready enough to be talked about / shown. "Problem" is known, its mainly due to economics being too soft making t10 the most played tier in the game, but WG doesn't want to make economics worse as players really like it.
T8 premiums won't get any special treatment or unique balance changes due to MM. Their "fix / improvement" will come with the MM fix which means it will be the same as for non-premium t8 ships

 

Alaska will come whenever she's ready. She's still in development, even if last stages of it. Should be released soon, but there will be no promises.

 

Decision to nerf GC or no has not been finalized. It will be tested in 0.8.1, and then time will tell. If they go through with it - GC's not the only OP premium in the game, so it wouldn't be the last one.
One such "accident" isn't too impactful, a few aren't either. But as more "accidents" happen with ships turning out to be OP after their release that could really hurt the game in the long run. WG hasn't been shy with buffing premium ships to make them balanced, similarly they should be able to nerf them for the same reason.
Even if GCs proposed changes are cancelled, that doesn't immediately mean it's case closed. They may test a similar balancing idea with other OP premiums before going thorough with it.

 

S_Os personal opinion - these "no longer for sale" premiums being sold in New Years lootboxes wasn't good. WG's overall standpoint? Well, they haven't done it since, have they? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
It can be seen as a bad experiment / mistake. Keep in mid game's still continuing to develop, and not every step can be correct. Mistakes will happen. Everyone knows and understands that, and - if nothing else - they can at least learn from them. Goal still remains the same - game is alive, and it should stay that way

 

Sharing / gifting credits / xp between accounts will not happen. Too easily abuseable and monetizeable in "black market".
People being paid to boost accounts, farm xp / credits and play ranked for the high tier rewards is already problem enough, even if it can't be effectively stopped.

 

*didn't quite understand this part, so I might be very wrong with my translation*
Even tho they are stopping support of 32bit systems game will still be playable like that (???) as there will be 2 - 32bit and 64bit - clients.
The improved 64bit build should make the "browser" things (like arsenal and clan base) work much better than currently

 

A checkbox or anything alike that to avoid weather effects / certain battle types is not planned and is very unlikely to appear. WG doesn't want to introduce anything like that

 

0 damage pens - currently work in progress. Thanks to players (you're welcome) doing a lot of testing there is a lot of information now figured out regarding this problem. Fix definitely won't come in 0.8.1, but should appear within the next few patches

 

Patch Notes are already quite in-depth info wise. There is no plan to expand the information available in them even more

 

When ranked stars bug will be fixed (should be next patch) all the incorrectly earned stars, and with them incorrectly earned emblems, will be taken away. This is fair as you haven't actually earned those false stars

 

Historically incorrect planes on CVs - gameplay purposes. The way plane HP and similar things are calculated Stukas proved to be ridiculously squishy for t8, so newer, more advanced planes replaced them.
If German tech-tree ever gets lower tier CVs it's quite likely Stukas will make their return on them

 

When are new maps coming? In 2019 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Currently there are new (not just reworked) maps that are work in progress, but nothing can be said about them. Developing maps takes a lot of time, even just gameplay development before textures are applied.

 

The new Warships Premium has been received very well by the playerbase. Interesting side effect of it is that other WG titles gifting premium time for their events now has significantly lower negative impact on warships economy and vice versa

 

With CV rework "behind" us, next step - submarines! There surely will be many adventures with that development

 

WoWS card version actually existed. One dev made some WoWS cards, printed them out, they had some fun playing it in the office and... that's where it ended. Even if there were some plans for it (or an online version of it) S_O couldn't tell anything because of NDAs ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) *meant as a joke*

 

Anti-ping-spam system is in development. Currently - while it's not implemented - spamming pings and / or minimap can and will result in bans, you just need to report it through support

 

They want to improve the Karma system and make it actually mean something. However currently nothing is being developed in this regard. Very low priority for such change

 

Oh, and I probably should mention - if someone from WG reads this (especially S_O) and something there ^ is wrong, either tag me here (with the correction) or PM me and I'll correct it in this post as soon as I can

[The_Finnster]

Thanks for this.

[loppantorkel]

Submarines!!! aka the dd of yesteryear

[Allied_Winter]

Translation from reddit:

 

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RU players are toxic

 

S_O thought that EU and NA players are good, but they are even more toxic =)

 

[Miragetank90]

Thanks for this, friend 

 

 

 

[wilkatis_LV]

13 minutes ago, Allied_Winter said:

Translation from reddit:

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RU players are toxic

 

S_O thought that EU and NA players are good, but they are even more toxic =)

Well, S_O said his favorite moment in this Ranked season was his very 1st game when immediately his teammate recognized him & immediately started harassing him for it

 

Also I was surprised to see how much more relaxed they are about their "blin"s and "blyat"s

[ImperialAdmiral]

Nothing about Italian line ;_;

 

Still some nice chunk of info though. Thank you.

[NoirLotus]

Ty for the translation !!

 

As a French, I feel pity for Russians if the only ones to take inspiration from the yellow jackets are WoWS players.

 

As a WoWS player, I have the impression that if the Ru players are yellow jackets, Sub_Octavian is giving the mthe same bullsh*t than Macron to french gilets jaunes ...

[Tyrendian89]

1 hour ago, wilkatis_LV said:

With CV rework "behind" us, next step - submarines! There surely will be many adventures with that development

oh for the love of...

[Takru]

1 minute ago, Tyrendian89 said:

oh for the love of...

It would be funny....

 

if it was a joke...

 

but since the concept has been tested already...

 

[Armorin]

1 minute ago, Takru said:

but since the concept has been tested already...

 

Against bots. It will need fine tuning on the live server.

[Takru]

3 minutes ago, Armorin said:

 

Against bots. It will need fine tuning on the live server.

....

[Exocet6951]

1 hour ago, wilkatis_LV said:

S_Os personal opinion - these "no longer for sale" premiums being sold in New Years lootboxes wasn't good. WG's overall standpoint? Well, they haven't done it since, have they? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

This is the type of answer that confirms the fact that I absolutely detest SO.

"They weren't very good, but hey, we haven't done it since!"
Except that you did it last year too, you absolutely incredulous, disingenuous &@!%# 

 

 

And using "they" instead of "we" when speaking as an employee of a company, on behalf of the company during a company sanctionned community event is the best way to look like the corporate "nice guys^tm" trying to make you think that he's on your side, despite him being the one spewing out the most garbage, like the one cited above.

[Tyrendian89]

1 minute ago, Exocet6951 said:

 

This is the type of answer that confirms the fact that I absolutely detest SO.

"They weren't very good, but hey, we haven't done it since!"
Except that you did it last year too, you absolutely incredulous, disingenuous &@!%# 

 

 

And using "they" instead of "we" when speaking as an employee of a company, on behalf of the company during a company sanctionned community event is the best way to look like the corporate "nice guys^tm" trying to make you think that he's on your side, despite him being the one spewing out the most garbage, like the one cited above.

...and you really are stupid enough to go on that kind of a ragespree over wording in a bloody translation? seriously, go get some help mate...

[wilkatis_LV]

21 minutes ago, ImperialAdmiral said:

Nothing about Italian line ;_;

From what I remember for the leak mid last year they (cruisers) are the next line after Russian BBs. Since my old HDD died I don't have neither the link to it, nor the screenshots, so I can't link it to you, but basically they should come in autumn. Going by WGs current trends expect first teasing of them (ship models, names, maybe some basic stats previews) in summer.

 

12 minutes ago, Tyrendian89 said:

oh for the love of...

Yeah, when I heard it my first thought was "so they're going through with that after all"

 

3 minutes ago, Exocet6951 said:

And using "they" instead of "we" when speaking as an employee of a company, on behalf of the company during a company sanctionned community event

That easily may be my translation error, I'll re-check when I have a moment for that.

 

As I said, it's "translated and paraphrased" instead of a perfect 1:1 translation

[Exocet6951]

1 minute ago, Tyrendian89 said:

...and you really are stupid enough to go on that kind of a ragespree over wording in a bloody translation? seriously, go get some help mate...

 

No, it's not just that, it's also answering me directly in a Q&A that they don't like having premium sisterships....while introducing the Mushashi.

[Armorin]

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The new Warships Premium has been received very well by the playerbase. Interesting side effect of it is that other WG titles gifting premium time for their events now has significantly lower negative impact on warships economy and vice versa

 

I wonder how this one works. My normal premium time has now run out, but I have 2 weeks of WoWS premium gifted over the xmas events. If I buy 1 month of normal premium time now, is it effective for 1 month on other WG titles, and only 2 weeks for WoWS when the  WoWS premium runs out? I can only play one game at one time, so I'm not sure how this works out without getting double shafted. I don't play other WG titles as much as WoWS, but I can't see me needing WoWS premium forever.

[NothingButTheRain]

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Currently economics are not fully working. Shooting down planes / doing damage to them does not award any credits / xp. That could be introduced in the future, but only when meta has stabilized and better balance is achieved. No plans currently, WG will be talking about it later.

I'm not quick to call WG out on their mistakes or oversights when it comes to doing their stuff in a professional way...

 

But this is just ..... yeah, I mean isn't this kinda like leaving your house and slamming the door with the keys still inside or something?

 

A good start would've been to make this damage as important as spotting or potential damage and then go from there.

 

Did they not implement this on purpose? I'm actually surprised right now haha

[kingzy2013]

wait wait, so shooting planes down does not give exp or credits...WHai dafuk am i AA spec on wooster if it reaped no rewards lmao.

[Panocek]

21 minutes ago, Takru said:

....

Are you not having fun being conscripted beta tester?

[Humorpalanta]

Good interview. Thx for the translation.

 

I know now that there is no hope for me. Ain't gonna put any more money in it. And most probably game time either.

 

DDs are officially dead.

 

Anybody got a version of 0.5.0 and wanna play it?

[NothingButTheRain]

1 hour ago, Armorin said:

 

I wonder how this one works. My normal premium time has now run out, but I have 2 weeks of WoWS premium gifted over the xmas events. If I buy 1 month of normal premium time now, is it effective for 1 month on other WG titles, and only 2 weeks for WoWS when the  WoWS premium runs out? I can only play one game at one time, so I'm not sure how this works out without getting double shafted. I don't play other WG titles as much as WoWS, but I can't see me needing WoWS premium forever.

The gifted wows premium will not affect other wargaming games now. I suppose it's meant to reference this somewow.

[NothingButTheRain]

2 minutes ago, Humorpalanta said:

DDs are officially dead.

Speak for yourself.

[Miragetank90]

55 minutes ago, wilkatis_LV said:

Yeah, when I heard it my first thought was "so they're going through with that after all"

 

Of course.

With, or without us 

 

Joking aside, I know some of us are sceptical, but I'm looking forward to subs. 

I hereby selflessly volunteer my body for ''testing'' WG. 

Conscripted, I die...

FOR SCIENCE 

[NothingButTheRain]

1 hour ago, NoirLotus said:

Ty for the translation !!

 

As a French, I feel pity for Russians if the only ones to take inspiration from the yellow jackets are WoWS players.

 

As a WoWS player, I have the impression that if the Ru players are yellow jackets, Sub_Octavian is giving the mthe same bullsh*t than Macron to french gilets jaunes ...

what?..