WoWS TAP Q&A

[Sonic_157]

These are from the blog "The Armored Patrol".
Very interesting stuff! Link.

 

 

 

1) Which branch will come as first in the British tech tree?

1) Cruiser branch;

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2) When we can expect the WoT/WoWs accounts unification?
2) In 2016, most likely in the first half;

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3) What are the chances for some spanish premium vessels like the dreadnoughts of the España-Class from 1913, the heavy Cruiser Canarias or Baleares from 1936/37 or the Aircraft Carrier Dédalo from 1922?
3) Content/ships are not my responsibility, so I can’t say;

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4) Can you modify the post battle score screen? putting things in like a total damage, damage to each ship, damage of each ship to your ship, a real balance of credits..
4) It is continuously fixed and improved, which is done by the User Experience/interface department;

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5) Will you add some pve content soon? Independently of random or inside random battles?
5) PvE content is currently in active testing, which is handled by the map development department;

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6) We’ve seen reports of armed forts being included in the game, is this planned for 2016?
6) Yes;

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7) I have seen an airstrip on an island in Land of Fire, is this decorative, or are land-based aircraft being developed?
7) Decorative at the moment;

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8) On the forums you guys were discussing a new class, light crusiers like at the Cleveland it spilts between the Pensacola and a light crusier line. Is it planned?
8) Don’t know, not my responsibility;

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9) When clans will come?
9) In 2016;

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10) When will we be able to sell the ton of upgrades (not modules) some players have sitting in the invisible depot? Do you plan to implement one depot feature?

10) As soon as the depot ideology will be changed; the problem is being discussed;

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11) Will the forward hull of the Admiral Hipper change to reflect the refit it had undergone in real life?

11) Unknown at the moment;

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12) Will we hear other voice actresses for the Arpeggio content?

12) Somewhere in the spring;

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13) Will there be a skill/option to see which modules on a ship are damaged, like the eagle eye skill in World of Tanks?

13) I think so, the skills are being continuously improved and new ones are added;

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14) I’ve heard rumours that there will be a 2nd japanese battleship line? is this true because i’ve also heard there will be a 2nd line of aircraft carriers too featuring the yamato hull aircraft carrier.

14) I can’t say anything on this content;

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15) will new lines be introduced into the game be preceded by a premium ship being introduced a couple of patches before hand?

15) No info yet;

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16) are there plans to streamline the data being transferred from client to server and vice versa to decrease lag?

16) Yes, we are working on optimization;

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17)  are there any ships or classes that are under or over performing currently at their given tiers? and if so how do you plan to fix them?

17) There are no huge imbalances, but we are working on balancing;

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18) are there plans for additional captain skills? Or working on redesigning the captain skill tree?

18) Captain skills will be worked on;

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 19) Will we get a new branch in Q1 2016?

19) The first British branch will come in Q1 or Q2;

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20) Can German WWI ships be given the Imperial German naval ensign instead of that fake kriegsmarine one similarly to how the Imperator Nikolay has an Imperial Russian flag instead if the Soviet one?

20) A swastika flag will never appear in the game;

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21) Will the Kolberg be given the torpedoes it historically carried?

21) Most likely not;

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22) Will you allow Low(er) Tier battles to be part of ranked seasons? By introducing T3-4 league you may entice more players to participate in ranked.

22) Yes, such kind of proposal did appear already; a “mini-season” on weekends only is possible.

 

 

 

[D7v]

Looks like 2016 will be full of surprises and improvements for the game

[Kazomir]

A bit outdated, and not really informative. This guy is like "Not my job, don't care"

[OttoKretschmer]

answer 20 is completely out of subject

[SomeoneYouKnow2]

So RN cruisers no later than 2016 Q2? YAY!!

[Takru]

Unified accounts? YAY!

Clans? YAY!

British cruiser line? YAY!

Potential PvE content? YAY!

Sealclubber Low tier ranked season? YAY!
 

Dunno about you guys, I see lots of great things.

[HatsuzukiKaiNi]

Blast, I do really want Royal Navy cruisers and there are several notable ships I want but I was sort of hoping the Battleship line would be first. Oh well, decent answers other than the random unrelated answer to question #20.

[Kazomir]

Blast, I do really want Royal Navy cruisers and there are several notable ships I want but I was sort of hoping the Battleship line would be first. Oh well, decent answers other than the random unrelated answer to question #20.

 

They need some time making up the tier 9 and 10.

[Kais_S012]

answer 20 is completely out of subject

 

it sounds like more of a mis-understanding. the interviewee probably didnt know his/her navy ensigns and assumed the interviewer meant that swastika adorned Kriegsmarine Ensign not the Imperial navy Ensign

 

while welcome news you'll have to forgive me for not believing it until I start seeing RN development news. we heard this before in the closed to open beta phases...

 

I would have liked to know more of their plans for the carriers.

[Trainspite]

 

They need some time making up the tier 9 and 10.

 

No need, Britain can have 4 or more Tier 10 cruisers (2 Light, 2+ Heavy). All are paper designs, but the paper designs are authentic.

[Kazomir]

 

No need, Britain can have 4 or more Tier 10 cruisers (2 Light, 2+ Heavy). All are paper designs, but the paper designs are authentic.

 

No I was meaning the tier 9 and 10 BBs.

 

By the way, can you please name these designs? Im interested.

[von_Boeg]

If this is true the game will be so much better!

[Trainspite]

 

No I was meaning the tier 9 and 10 BBs.

 

By the way, can you please name these designs? Im interested.

 

Well, I was planning on putting this in the thread that I created back in June for my Royal navy Tech tree proposals, but there is no harm in putting it here.

 

As for Battleships, I have 3 tier 10s listed;

L3 Design leading the Slow BB line, N3 taking the tier 9 slot.

Lion as designed in 1939 is at tier 9 followed by the 1944 Design of Lion at tier 10.

The K3 Design is the tier 10 for the fast BB/Battlecruiser line, with G3 at tier 9.

 

I can provide more details on any of these if you so wish.

 

Also, explanations: Leander can be swapped out for Ceylon for the tier 6, since Cleveland is still tier 6 not 8, Nurnberg 6 instead of 7, and Aoba has a buffed RoF. Armoured Cruisers are tricky to balance, and therefore are not included in the tech tree, otherwise I would have put them in the Heavy Cruiser line.

 

This is because of the mess Cleveland creates. Cleveland as we should all know belongs at tier 8 in a US Light Cruiser line (coming soonTM). To compete with Cleveland, still essentially a nerfed tier 8, Aoba was buffed to have a better RoF than she should otherwise have. (5.5 instead of 4 RPM). This also means that Nurnberg, has to compete, so Nurnberg was chosen over slightly worse sister, Leipzig for tier 6. Nurnberg, give her 12rpm and sitting lower in the water to avoid some of the citadels that happen so often, and voila, you have a perfectly capable tier 7 Light Cruiser. The problem is with Nurnberg and Cleveland staying at tier 6, is that it compresses tiers 5,6 and 7 unnaturally close. Ships that ideally should be apart are together and displaced.

 

Cruisers Main Tech Tree:

 

 

Premium Candidates:

Edit: Add Manxman at tier 4, I might have forgotten...

 

 

 

[Takeda92]

I wonder about the source of these questions. Some seem like old ones (like the one about the depot) while others seem recent.

 

 

[havaduck]

 

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17)  are there any ships or classes that are under or over performing currently at their given tiers? and if so how do you plan to fix them?

17) There are no huge imbalances, but we are working on balancing;

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Take two heartly extended finger from a cruiser player then, but I shouldnt be surprised ... look a little bit below:

 

 

 

20) Can German WWI ships be given the Imperial German naval ensign instead of that fake kriegsmarine one similarly to how the Imperator Nikolay has an Imperial Russian flag instead if the Soviet one?

20) A swastika flag will never appear in the game;

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really?

REALLY?

 

To put it so even this WG one understands: OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!

 

 

 

 

€: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiserliche_Marine

 

same amount of swastika as on all the imperial russian and sovjet flags ..... now where can I report those WG devs for offending me with idolising Fascism on russian and soviet  ships?

[Sonic_157]

I wonder about the source of these questions. Some seem like old ones (like the one about the depot) while others seem recent.

 

 

 

 

From what i know, the questions are gathered from suggestions that the blog readers make.

Then the blog chooses some and sends them to their WG source.

There will be a third round of Q&A like this next week i think.

[RoyalColor]

 6) We’ve seen reports of armed forts being included in the game, is this planned for 2016?
6) Yes;

 

Reports of armed forts? I have never seen any mention on it before... Could someone post a link?

 

[MrFingers]

http://thearmoredpatrol.com/2015/12/13/wows-leaked-fort-model/

[C4PT41N_0BV10US]

British cruisers. Hype is real.

gibe nao.

[Sebastianul]

http://thearmoredpatrol.com/2015/12/13/wows-leaked-fort-model/

 

 

Thanks guys Hope to see your questions in the next WoWS Q&A that will be organized later today.

[havaduck]

British cruisers. Hype is real.

 

gibe nao.

 

good  question, now I have to ask: hows the bias of WG towards or against british ..... tanks for example?

 

 

Well its not russian/eastern so I can think of that those as british cruiser line traits:

 

Magazined like Königsbergx2 until after 1935 design ships are reached.

Turret rotation lvl Yorck ... unbuffed.

Quick firing, and usually lots or large (or having them earlier Furu style) guns.

Good AP rounds but crappy bounce-angles on them until late in the tree. USN lvl HE.

Strong AA, that still isnt going to save you from a CV attack.

[C4PT41N_0BV10US]

Don't really know. I think they should be very durable. One of the toughest SoBs of the WWII, so I would expect them to be especially tough to sink. They also were very good seaboats, so I would expect good mobility. In terms of firepower I don't really have the idea. Great damage, but crappy ballsitics? Magazines? Don't know. But I'm so hyped that I might be playing them in just few months it's unbearable. All those beauties, County, Colony, Exeter, Ajax - my body is ready.

[ilhilh]

Take two heartly extended finger from a cruiser player then, but I shouldnt be surprised ... look a little bit below:

 

That is class balance as opposed to individual ship balance.

 

I also kind of hoped RN BBs would come first... but I am happy to have any RN ships - I hope it is Q1 instead of Q2!

[Takeda92]

 

 

From what i know, the questions are gathered from suggestions that the blog readers make.

Then the blog chooses some and sends them to their WG source.

There will be a third round of Q&A like this next week i think.

 

Thanks for the info.

[havaduck]

 

That is class balance as opposed to individual ship balance.

 

 

 

And? I am not talking about HMS Cruiser, but cruisers in general and those high tier ones with emphasis. Therefore if thats what they think, they get two of my 10 fingers pointed ...

 

btw: the question was "Are there any ships or classes ..." but I guess everyone reads what he would like to see ....

 

 

 

All those beauties, County, Colony, Exeter, Ajax - my body is ready.

 

Yep the real torture is not knowing what classes they are going to choose. Another thing is that, while there are so much classes to pick from, heavy cruiser building in UK ceased by the early 1930ies. I also dont see late CLs like the Minotaur class as high tier material. Sso the thought of paper in the tree of the Navy with so much ships and classes also is a thorn in the side ......

 

 

On the premium side: HMAS Canberra that stubborn brick that refused to sink.