Good day all,
Quick cover of the recently announced update for WoT Console, which is bringing a few redesigned and updated maps and a handful of balance tweaks. Lets see what we have in store:
Updated Maps
Starting off, a bit of good news regarding maps, no extreme weather variants!
Ardennes- Summer
And new variant of the previously winter only map inspired by the Battle of the Bulge
Redshire- Graphics Update
A graphical rework of Redshire. From the info available this is just making the map look a bit better, and not a full update to the the current Redshire on PC.
Northwest- Redesign
This will be a bit more interesting, a rework of the Northwest map. Overall the map seems to be flattened out a bit, with the north end of the map lowered and the southern portions of the map brought up. Should be interesting to see.
Platoon UI
A new platoon UI will be coming. While not really spectacular on its own, it is noted that this is laying the groundwork for future changes.
Full Notes
Download Sizes –
Xbox One: ~36GB / Xbox 360: ~102MB title update + 3.3GB patch download
PlayStation 4: ~36.4GB
Not a major update chock full of new content, but those don’t need to be very often. The graphical updates to Redshire as well as the new art assets noted in the full patch notes are welcome, as a game with no real foreseeable life cycle needs a few nips and tucks from time to time.
The balance updates are a bit of a mixed bag. The Lowe has long needed some attention, though the buffs to the Panther 8.8 and STA-2, which have preferential matchmaking on console even after receiving their respective PC buffs seems a bit strange.
That said, the audio engine updates are particularly exciting. As noted by TG Wagner (PAINGod) in previous Q&As (and this week’s Battle Heroes) that sound updates will now be easier to facilitate with the new upgrade. Fingers crossed we won’t be waiting too long. Though form the notes and download size, some things will be sounding different right out of the box.
“Mitigating performance hitches on all consoles”. Well lets hope everybody’s respective grievances are covered in that, be it ghost shells or lag spikes.
What about our Console readers? What are you guys looking forward to in this one? Or perhaps something you wish was added in but wasn’t? (Kicking the hornets nest with that one.)
Console still has Northwest? Holy crap… I wish PC still had that map… it was pretty interesting. Lots of verticality…
We have a lot of maps long since abandoned by PC. I’m usually quite critical of consoles direction in terms of content and balance, but I do give props to the maps department for trying to improve unpopular or unbalanced maps, instead of just scrapping them entirely.
Examples: Port now has buildings over a million railroad tracks, Dragon’s Ridge has been a bit lowered to facilitate heavy machines a bit more etc.
Seeing how the download size is about 36 gigs on both current gen consoles, I think they are hiding some fun stuff for later. I cant see some graphical updates to a couple maps taking that much space.
Its new sounds? They talked about it in weekly heroes post
3.3/34 GB for 3 “new” maps, new platoon interface and few stat changes……there must be something loocked behind thant downloand
Not played for over two months and nothing here makes me want to come back. The fact nothing has happened with the tier 10TD’s just shows WG don’t give a **** about real balance but will happily buff premiums to make more people buy them.
What are they doing about player numbers? They went down from 135k to 120k in one month (Xbox only)
LOWE buff hype!
I just saw their Facebook post, It is apparently a new launcher/client.
Hey Deconoir will you do an update about the new tanks coming to console this month it’s on there website
I’ll be doing an overview/opinion piece of some of the things in the June overview. Just not today, as we try to avoid pushing articles too far down the front page. Some good stuff our authors work on can get buried pretty easily here.
Which premium are you most looking forward too?
I’m mostly hoping this fixes the lag spikes. I’m with deco on the STA and 88 buffs. They weren’t needed but since I own both I won’t be complaining about it.