Hello,
Wargaming’s blog posted the following article:
“For update 9.15, we heavily interacted with our community to discover how to improve their gaming experience.
World of Tanks Update 9.14 brought with it some big changes, namely in the physics and sound department. A couple of months later, after speaking with the fans across social media, the forums, and speaking directly to opinion leaders in the community, we’re back with 9.15. Thanks to you all, we’ve been focusing on the areas that you all believe need the most attention. So, what can you expect in the latest update? More physics and sound enhancements, improved interface elements, and official mods.
We had a chat with Alexey Ilyin, Associate Global Publishing Producer for World of Tanks, about what you all can expect in the latest update. Read on to find out.
Alexey Ilyin, Associate Global Publishing Producer for World of Tanks
PHYSICS
After the community reacted so well to our physics improvements, we didn’t want to slow down, so we kept on building. You all told us about some critical issues that you wanted to fix and provided lots of feedback during testing.
The first point is that tanks will be harder to roll over. Obviously, it’s not like your tank will be glued to the ground; if you’re racing around in a light tank and make sharp turn—especially on decline—you’ll probably end up like a distressed turtle. Another important factor is tanks getting stuck on the environment. In the past, we’ve all been there—you get caught on a bit of terrain, you’re trying to sidescrape and then get jammed. It’s not great. Then, finally, we tweaked how much damage you take from falling. Again, it’s not as if you won’t get damaged if you decide to take a shortcut down a steep cliff face, but smaller drops will target the parts of the tank actually affected.
SOUNDS
Whereas graphics have slowly been improved over time, sound has taken somewhat of a backseat. It hasn’t significantly changed since 2010. One of the issues was the old sound engine. Implementing new SFX was a really time-consuming process. The best you could implement was a sub-par option, which we didn’t want to do. With 9.14, and the introduction of Audiokinetic Wwise, everything changed. Shell hits, enemy engines—there was a lot of great new features.
9.15 let us delve deeper into the gameplay aspects of sound design. You can now select sound presets, like “Acoustics 2.0/2.1” and “Headphones”. Now sound production is influenced by your soundcard and your chosen audio output.
MODS
Mods have been popular in the World of Tanks community for a while, but because the developers are rarely involved in their creation, their implementation within the game can be difficult. You have to go to third-party websites most of the time, and it’s a challenge for mods to be up to the standards that we have in the game. Now, though, a number of mods are available for you to officially run in the game.
This ties in with further interface improvements. One of the big requests was a way to view vehicle characteristics in a more dynamic format. Not only is this good to know what’s changing when you’re upgrading/switching modules, but it makes the game a lot more accessible for newer players. In addition, you can also check out tanks in your Garage before purchasing them. With this, you can see which path on the Tech Tree is the best to take and which vehicles have the parameters that you’re looking for.
So, now you’ll find it’s possible to extend Garage filters, view several previously hidden vehicle characteristics, which will change in real-time when certain upgrades are used, and more, in a safe and easy way.
LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD
One of the biggest missions that we have ahead of us is rebalancing all the tanks in the game. So far, we’ve already been working on a number of vehicles, especially Premium tanks, 10 of which you can discover in update 9.15. This is where the community played a big part because they let us know which vehicles needed the most attention.
As part of this rebalancing, we retired the legendary Waffenträger auf E 100. In its place is the Grille 15, which we’re sure you’ll have a lot of fun with. Let’s be hoenst, the Waffenträger auf E 100 was a little OP—it trounced a lot of similar vehicles, which took a lot of fun away from the game. It’s not great when you head into battle and you see a lot of the same vehicles and already believe you’re going to have a bad game because of it.
UNDER THE HOOD
One of the biggest changes in 9.15 was the transition to the new version of the client game engine. It means we can move from DirectX 9 to DirectX 11, which is setting us on the road for a lot of great future improvements. Elements like flora, water, sky, landscape and other in-game features. Moving to DirectX 11 has been a very important technical step towards the improvement of the graphics component of the game, so we hope you’ll enjoy what’s in store.
”
Is it first of april again already Oo
At first that WT news and now this.
Huh… i guess the end is near.
If you need me, im making out with that married neighboor of mine!
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I eagerly wait for 9.15.. Yep, wait, because in SEA server we’re still trudging our tracks in 9.14 soil..
the moment i saw the headline i went to check the calender if its the April’s fool time
0 fps gain from DX11 nice meme
Tried turning off the vsync? My game jumped from stable 80 to 120 fps
Mine is like from 30-40 to 80-140 , but that’s maybe because I am using AMD FX-4170(bad single-core perf, but 4.2GHz core speed on 4 cores……)
Might be. I’m using Gtx 780. 16GB ram and i7 2600k 3.80 ghz. Not new at all, but this game and most others run smoothly on most games maxed.
To be honest, I used to use my FX-4100 AMD QuadCore with a GTX 660 and I got 30 FPS max. I now use an Intel Core i5 4460 and a GTX 970 and I get 60-90 FPS. It’s a really good improvement, I have to see with this update though.
Yes but before 9.15 i had massive drops from 120fps (client max) to 40fps, now drops are gone and im almost allways at 120fps, never going below 100fps. Game is alot more smooth. Its with gtx 980ti, 2560×1440 resolution and gaming monitor
Yea it’s very great the game now crashes my VLC player everytime i tab into the game, so I’m done with WoT until that is fixed!
Let me guess, Windows 10?
“Thanks to you all, we’ve been focusing on the areas that you all believe need the most attention”
Oh WG you so funny. Why not save this statement until you do things that the community actually believes need the most attention like…arty….maps…mm…prem ammo…
Look, arties will once again have changes soon. Matchmaker is drunk sometimes, but generally OK, just very luck- and RNG-based. Some maps are annoying, I get it. This is also slowly worked on. Premium ammo too, is not much of a problem. The use spam of it on test servers might be, but tactical use is not. Sometimes you need that pen, but it’ll cost ya.
Wow Alex, the first Russian guy I have ever seen with decent hair, I like this dude.
I hope this is a joke? You don’t like the other people because of their hair? From Jersey Shore or something?
We need to Chieftain Mk. 6 !! WG Russian bias
AW and TW : we have released Chieftain Mk 6
SEA : always the last update Fuck WG
Lmao. ..come on with the lies….either that or it’s a very long running joke that isn’t funny at all.
Stuff that matters? How about fixing the game before adding fancy sparkly shit.
Do you guys on EU have the same game bug as NA, where you can sell your rentals for there full normal selling price, even though the selling price only shows the selling value of the ammo in the rental tank?
WG Belarus Create !! WG privately indeed patriotism into the game Various Russian bias
Yet again this seems like more walking around the elephant while monologuing over eye candy & ear candy.
Under the hood should pertain to all components “Under the hood” functioning properly in an effort not to hinder the drivers performance.
This washing, waxing and adding dual exhaust is not going to win you any races, it is a façade.
The new sounds are getting very immersive. I am enjoying them greatly. The extra zoom is also nice. It does not make the gun more accurate, but at least now you can try to hit weak spots.
I toggled it on for a gun with 0.42 accuracy.
FML
Toggled it off after a few battles it was so disgusting to have a reticle the size of the screen at 25x zoom.
I was thinking someone had screwed with my accuracy the reticle was gigantic in zoom mode.
If their leveling the playing field, when will they kill off the E-25??
They wont shit on any premium tanks because they made a stupid rule they premium tanks will never be nerfed. This was shortly after some nerfs happened to premium tanks a long while back and butthurt was spammed on forums.
It took them 7 years to find about DirectX 11!! Awesome progress right there
Listened to the feedback… riiiiiight. Must have been all the feedback done in cyrillic because many of us on the NA server have done countless *series* of suggestive fixes that have done by the way side (though one or two eventually made it almost 3 years after posting about it).