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DecoNoir With the introduction of the Sherman Grizzly (which WarGaming went to length to make a point that they personally researched and modeled from the ground up rather than port over from PC) can we finally begin to see some true console exclusive lines, such as the many that have been brought up on the forum by many players who have gone through the trouble of laying out entire tech trees, and accompanying premiums. PC doesn't have the Grizzly that's why we had to make it from scratch. We do have plans to make more console original tanks in the future.

BrogueOne Will we see implementation of Personal Missions or other long-term Operations that would allow skilled players to earn exclusive premiums that can never be purchased?



When will we get another dual/multination training premium tank? Is a Universal trainer a possibility?



Are there any plans to expand the tech trees of smaller nations(Japan, China, Czech) to generate more interest in playing them? If yes, which ones and when?



Can we get a Development Calendar where you can share some of the future plans for the game? We have been doing some longer Ops that give you a whole month to earn a tank. No plans to make tanks exclusively for Ops though as I wouldn't want to prevent someone from owning a tank simply because they can't play often enough to earn it. A universal trainer is probably unlikely but feel free to suggest what you'd like to see from a future dual nation trainer. We currently expand tech trees when we move up server versions and there's new tanks available from the PC team. I'm probably already too open about development plans when ask. Announcing new features and content is a marketing function so I can't just post up our schedule. That prevents them from building promotions and getting coverage and exclusives.

Smaugone1 What about the bounties, where we get to hunt down WG employees for gold? Is that ancient history? Nope, not gone, just a bit hard to arrange as it takes a lot of employees to be online for a weekend to do this.

RAGE4BACON WGA offer community positions to everyday players for their efforts in creating digital content that is widely enjoyed, why is there not a similar system for trialling tanks or changes on top or alongside the supertester program? I've offered to allow them to use the supertest version of the game for exactly that and think that is being added to the program in the near future.

SteampunkPagan Why was the removal of maps not in the patch notes for 3.8 or 3.9 and when will they be back? We frequently rotate out maps for various reasons and just simply didn't think it was a big deal to note with 80 maps in the live game now. They'll go through their art updates or balance or performance pass and get rotated back in as they get slotted into production along with new maps. We'll try not to miss those in the notes going forward.

Oo MVG oO Can we get tank crews that speak english with other nations accents? It would be awesome I'll pay gold for it haha. Also if you charge gold you need to add Australian and Canadian!!!! That's certainly a possibility and something we'd like to do. First things we are tackling is adding the Czech language and more picture options.

Soundwave098 How can we have better relations and transparency with the developers? Many have concerns about balancing at the end-game and it "appears" feedback gets ignored with generalized statements. We've done many deep dive studies on balance and published data when asked in the past. Haven't done that lately though, sounds like its time to do another and make it more noticeable, maybe a video and support article. Developers do spend a lot of time answering player questions though. Maybe we need a better format for it.

Valto AG What is taking you guys and ESL so long to get tournaments up and running? Could we get some sort of update on it? Mashed - Any idea when the Tournaments will start on XB1? Software development ran late in different areas at first. Then we got them working and in a small preview group in the live game and were not happy with the player experience and kind of reset things. We're about to start testing in the live game again with preview dash users. Its already a much better experience and we're ready to shake out the bugs that only larger scale testing can accomplish. I can't announce the planned launch date but I can say its not too much further off.

Grimace151 What are you plans (how often, what question,will veterans players votes count for more) as far as the new polling system that you used to find out people, views on weather maps I personally believe this is the most positive thing we have seen in a while Working on that with the community team in publishing now. First off to make sure we reach players in all regions next time. I'm not sure how often yet as we're working across a number of groups to get the first one off the ground.

Shark413 Will we see any buffs to the Type 4/5 Japanese heavies and/or German Maus soon? Maybe not to the same degree as the PC went (OP?) but they need some love for sure. I'll ask Raibot to file that request so it can get looked at. We've be buffing various tanks as we get to them lately.

Elite Corsair Have you guys ever thought about creating a 5th 'premium all weather' camo slot that can be assigned to a select tank only? Ex: Bogatyr camo only available to Kv-220-2 tanks. They could also only be sold for gold instead of the current silver/gold option. This could help bring down the prices of 'named' tanks if people don't want the special camo for whatever reasons and opens a way for people to get special camo on their tech tree tanks that may be their favorites. Camos are repeating texture in a pattern on a different layer. Tanks like the Bogatyr are a custom base texture with all normal map detail baked in so its not just a skin that can be swapped.

Pawel Broda 73 Can I ask ? We would like improvments for emblems and inscriptions. Aditional valuve for flags and words. I mean something like extra bonus to crew traninig or crew skill level ( for example like a Brothers in Arms or improvment vents) This will be helpful and usefull for yours customers and generate aditional income for Wargaming. What do think, could be "to do" ? Sure Didn't PC try that and it largely unpopular?

sulla1111 First, have you looked at the new pc matchmaking? I feel it would reduce the amount of non-games where the result is obvious before the match starts. Second, would it be feasible to do monthly specials on tech tree lines to help players grind? I really enjoy these more than the free premium tanks. Yes we've studied the new PC matchmaking code and are closely watching the results. We will have to upgrade to that version of the server to get it. We've been doing a lot more On Track events and tech tree discounts lately. What line are you currently grinding?

Nicholas Sapien Will you guys sell the first swedish premium as a flag tank? Very likely.

Panzerfahrer1976 can we buy the Centennial T95 Chieftain in the next Future ? On sale right now

Soundwave098 How are you assessing the success and problems with the weather maps? Are you considering changes to the those map variants e.g., changing draw distances or camo values to reduce camping? Any idea if you will introduce positive weather map variants that improve performance rather than hinder some a stat? Example, sunny and partly cloudy increase crew stats vs the current decrease spotting range. Might be interesting to play around with changes other than the spotting distance. We're getting the ability to change view and radar range per map so we can make changes that make light tanks more valuable for spotting. That's a really interesting suggestion that hasn't come up before. Thanks.

IceBlaze9999 Any development plans made for an Italy line yet? The PC historians did research and couldn't come up with enough to make a new line. At least that's what I've been told.

PeppermintShore When tier 10 lights arrive on console and the light tanks match making is removed, will the light tanks be rebalanced the same as the PC version or will the be balanced differently for console? i'm hoping for the latter. We generally look at all balance changes with each new PC server version and make adjustments based on how they are performing on PC and Supertest feedback. So they'll be re balanced but likely with differences from PC

sgtK80 clan competitions and clan features? Clans will be able to compete using the new Tournaments feature. How exactly that will be organized for official tournaments is still being worked out. Players will have the option to create their own Clan Tournaments with this feature as well. What other features would you like to see for Clans?

GameWinner_001 Any news on gifting? Would make sense to implement this with tournaments together. Players could create incentives for participants on their own. Step one will be getting gifting working on the portal store. That work is going on now.

barudrow Will we ever be able to get the IS-2 Berlin, Cromwell Berlin and the Sherman Thunderbolt? Thanks for any reply. Thunderbolt we don't have yet. I'll ask Raibot to file a ticket to track down the Cromwell which we should have somewhere. IS-2 was released already on console https://console.worldoftanks.com/en/encyclopedia/vehicles/ussr/R71_IS_2B/

Haukkis When we see new city maps, Berlin, Stalingrad or some others? Yep.

Rarefication I want to see these maps added to Proving Grounds Is that City maps for Proving grounds? We haven't' done much of that yet as pathfinding for AI in cities is difficult. We're improving the pathfinding now though so it should be possible.

THE DESTRUCTOR6 When we get a new sound for guns ( like WoT pc ) Szympus1194 - I want new gun sounds and right after i fire i want to hear a shell sound. Now that we have the new sound system we'll be overhauling all the of the SFX

hmsmystic Aside from Swedish tanks, can you give us any details about any new tank designs we will see in 2017? Any plans to improve new player experience and curb seal clubbing? -Not at this time. The only thing that we can share is that one of the tanks will be a first of its kind in the World of Tanks realm. -Improving experience for new players is a great point of focus as retention is essential for the game to work and maintain server populated. We are would to work on adding guides both in back and the console portal to provide as much information as needed.

Pawel Broda 73 When we can see Polish tanks in the game ? After the creation of the Grizzly tank, anything is possible. You will have to wait and see what other new tanks we create for our players.

Knot3D - the battle loading screen will not always show the spawn point on the preview map, so this feature seems to work only randomly. Any word on this WG? - speaking of spawn points; certain maps tend to give me the same spawn point over and over. Westfield for example, will give me south spawn mostly. I would like to see north spawn more This is an open task under the design team. Unfortunately, with gamescom around the corner, some tasks are in the back burner but dont worry, we are going to fix this as soon as we can. We are going to do an evaluation about spawn-points rotation and take it from there.

Metalrodent Can we have unique voicelines for national crews please? On PC the different nations have different sayings, yet here they all just repeat the exact same lines as the default voice. We have a ticket in file for this. Thanks!

DerailedWingnut What is the status of the replay system? Can developer Q&A's become more frequent than once every several months? The battle heroes articles only answer 5 or so questions, and don't ever go into any true depth on most answers. -It is currently in testing. You will hear more about the replay system in the next coming weeks. -We will try to have more frequent communication with our community as time permits.

Debrutaliseur When will be your next blog post? Last one was about the Faterland op and it was very good to read. Similar answer as stated above. We will try to have more frequent communication with our community as time permits.

JAG THE GEMINI Why keep broken 5 man platoons and not 3 man like on PC!? The larger platoons are very popular with console players. Improving matchmaker is our plans for addressing this.

Klaus Schall FACEBOOK Given physical limitations I can only really play artillery, is there any hope of a new arty line being added within the next 2 years? We are going to add more tanks for all classes. If you have artillery ideas, please send them our way!

Alexander Natareno FACEBOOK Will there be new skills or perks availbale for sale or to earn? We don't have any current plans having skills and perks available for purchase. We are constantly looking for new skills or perks to introduce so send us your ideas.

Matt Firestone FACEBOOK Tired of the two tier deference. Should only be within 1 tier of other tanks. Lowering the tier difference will also mean the amount of earnings in battle will lower. Having the tier different will allow low tier tanks to earn good rewards. It would also make matchmaking work much harder to make balanced matches.

Louie Tejeda FACEBOOK Not sure if I will make the stream, but I'd like to know if you will ever put an option in game to allow you to select to only play with tanks that are the same tier as you are That option would isolate the tiers from matchmaking, lowering the population and variety for other matches, so that would be a no. We are hosting regular ranked battle weekends that are single tier.

Richard Chamberlin FACEBOOK Can we start earning gold? This is currently not allowed for contractual reasons with our partners.

Daniel Pedersen FACEBOOK Would it be possible to see all the tanks in the game. Kinda like the teck tree but includes all premiums even if not available at the time? We have a ticket for this. Thanks!

Lonnie Rowe FACEBOOK Would it be possible to get an Ace Tanker Badge emblem to put on our mastered tanks? We have a ticket that was updated with your information. Thank you.

Larry Brown FACEBOOK Why was the console app dropped, and why can we not have it back? After checking the console app data it turns out players looked at the web portal on their phones more than used the app.. We decided to stop working on the console app in order to allocate those resources

Joshua Hardman FACEBOOK Can we get couch co-op in multiplayer? That would make this the only game I'd play! The game as it is now is not design for single screen co-op. With 30 tanks a match performance and graphics would suffer. This is why we decided to implement PvE co-op and allow friends to play with each other.

Andy Villagomez FACEBOOK Bring the Patriot Tank !!! d ammit Working on it. We have a design task ticket on file. ETA? Not anytime soon.

Joey Wilson Twitter Allowing us to sell off extra garage slots for silver? Thanks to your suggestion, we have a ticket in place to have this one in the future.

When can we expect another Balance Pass to happen? We haven't had one for several updates. This is a current task that wont have any results for a couple months.

Ranked Battles - Any plans on changing how players earn points? Changes were made in the past RB season. Team and personal points were simplified and adjusted as well as lowering tank tiers and limiting the mode to all tanks with the exception of artillery.

RuefulCenturion I like these ops where you can choose the tank you want to earn, any plans to include just premium time for those why may not be interested or own the tanks already? That is a fair request that we will consider in a future event.

Grimace151 What improvements do you have planed for the HUD Nothing major other than dynamic changes to convey Ops and other information much better than we currently have.

swamp_fox_009 Any plans for a premium tank trade in to use towards purchase or discount of a new premium tank? When? No current plans.

Spiker73 Chinese light tank Type-62. Tier 7. Premium. WHEN? No plans on making any announcements for those tanks at this time.

Sgt Becket FEAR Aw, I meant to ask about the possibility for the T-VI-100 to be introduced! Any tank suggestion is welcomed and taken in to consideration.

Cruiser Abukuma clan emblems and clan camo.. when? Need to get that on the to do list.

Pawel Broda 73 Many players have long been asked to look at old premium vehicles like americans: T26E4 SuperPershing, T34, german Löwe and JagdTiger 88, chinese T-34-3 and 113 or russian Matilda IV, KV-5, IS-6. It would be very helpful if the developers were able to look closely at premium vehicles from the beginning of the game. This is part of the balancing task we are currently working on.

Mashed Garage Stats - will we ever get the complete stats for our tanks including fitted equipment, crew skills and consumables? We have a ticket on file. Thanks!

Mashed While i'm here, any chance we could get two rows of tanks to scroll through, rather than one? It would be handy for people with a lot of tanks. This will certainly overload the garage UI. There is already too much on screen at this time. We would have to think of a different alternative.

ForzaFerrari7 if we already own a Free OP Tanks, can we get a gold equivalent or premium time? instead of silver The suggestion of premium time already in the hands of the event's team.

Grimace151 How does WarGaming plan incorporating polls like the did to find out about weather variants (frequency and what question will be asked) We want to continue to get feedback from all players around the globe via surveys sent to them by email.

HFG Mash Any plans to be able to sell premium/normal consumables? No plans at this time.

Sgt Becket FEAR Can we get functioning lights on our tanks? This is part of a tank feature we have plans on implementing in the future along with wiggly bits.

Sgt Becket FEAR Would you consider introducing the Russian captured Tiger modification T-VI-100 as a premium tank? Sure,why not.

General Parrish Can we get comic book mode graphics as an in game option. It was takin out before some of us got to play it. While not everyone enjoys it others do. As an option everyone would be happy. This is certainly a possibility.

General Parrish Can we have our TOGBoats back for a weekend? The event's team know of the TogBoat game mode request and players will certainly see a comeback in the future.

Morpheus XC Will we see the arty change PC got and rechargeable consumables? We are evaluating artillery along with the balance changes. As for the rechargeable consumables, not at this time.

Ok so my question is an idea. A big one. My idea is to take all the tanks from Italy, Poland, Hungary, and even tanks from existing nations that don't have a place in standard lines, and put them into one giant Europe Tech Tree. This way, we can have tanks that would be standalone for one nation be part of a standard line for the Europe Tree. So for example, the Hungarian Turan III wouldn't be a German tank. It would be a "European" tier 4 tank that could lead to the Italian P40 at tier 5. This could be done with all tank classes and tiers. We discussed the idea to introduce new tanks that don't belong to any of the tech trees in game. Anything is possible. If you have any ideas, please send them to RaiBot01

Can we get adjustable zoom when in sniper mode and barrel view? The right bumper isn't used in these views and could be used to toggle a 1x and 2x view in barrel and 2x and 4x in sniper. Interesting suggestions that we can certainly entertain.

Grimace151 Has WG have any plans to make the older consoles like the DLC so the newer consoles aren't held back because of their older counterparts where: Xbox One X isn't held back by the Xbox One and the Xbox One isn't held back by the Xbox360 PlayStation 4 Pro isn't held back by the PlayStation 4 We only have the intention on supporting all consoles at this time without making any exceptions.

R3Vid Will it be possible to use your own text for emblems some day? Content rules for platforms prevent that but you're welcome to make suggestions.

UncleRoy13 will crew xp conversion be remaining in game? We are working on this!

BlurCAPACITY what about fixing the delays on spotting tanks. PC fixed it almost over a year ago This requires a series of updates in which have a plan to do so in the following months.

DiamondK3d What about the friend list getting fixed again because its broken AGAIN. The live team is currently investigating your report.

Head_in_Jar Clear cammo for Fury so we can enjoy the base paint? Several requests were made for skinless tanks. We will certainly take them in to consideration. However, the Fury tank was a collaboration with Sony Pictures and therefore the changes of the tank might be difficult to implement and it would change the essence of the tank.

alphaxalexbox is there any plans to make like a sandbox or CTE (community test environment) server? We already have one for supertest. If you are refering to an open one, that is up for discussion.

PiCazzo5150 When are we going to get a feature to reduce foliage? Or see through it better like PC Not currently as not all the consoles can support it.

1sgtoddball Will we see Oddball and his tank from Kellys heroes? Same answer as current tanks being requested. Anything is possible. If you have tank suggestions, please send them to RaiBOT01. Dont forget that tanks from shows or movies take up licensing and time to execute.

AmuroDiaz Can we have adjustable map size ? Are you refering to adjusting the size of the mini map or the overview map?

SovietDeath Matchmaker changes from PC has now been in the wild for a long time with mostly positive reviews, why has Console not have given it a shot yet? (As it is one of the top complaints of the game) We are always observing and reviewing anything PC does in an effort to learn to consider improvements and changes on console. Changes to the Mm will not happen lightly.

Platoon Balance: I think its time to tighten the Noose on Platoons to within 1 tier of the Leader Only. Maybe even drop Platoons back to 3 players, Though I know that would be unpopular to many. Limiting tiers while in platoon will only affect the players in it by narrowing down their tank choices. - Note I actually want to make the tier change

Tank Matchmaking Balance: Simply Put would appreciate WG attempting to put more limits on tank type Balance between teams specially TDs and Heavies Doing so will limit matchmaking in battle queue for other players.

DecoNoir Exactly how long will it take for standard premiums to come to the store. By that, I mean premiums that aren't part of the "Hero/Heavy Metal/Flag" tanks. A fair number of people would like to purchase standard versions of these tanks without the permanent camo that WarGaming has chosen for them (either from taste, or because we know the price is inflated because of that camo). As requested by several players, we are going to bring unskinned versions tanks in the future.

How much influence do the console platform makers (Sony/Microsoft) have in the development process? With the announcement of National Crew Voices now being a feature you have to pay for, one of the reasons that this was defended was behind the "reasoning" that it was made under pressure from Sony/MS. Though nobody from WarGaming seemed to want to confirm or deny that rumor. None. Sony and Microsoft are our console partners but do take part on any aspect of the development process. The audio is limited to the console audio as it is in xbox and ps4.

What is going on with Tiger 131? After pointing out errors in the model as it was released, WarGaming addressed this, and fixed a few issues but attempted to "fix" inaccurate portions of the model with other inaccurate portions. We are looking in to it. Thanks.

thormanpro I asked if the special camo (stone wall) they had could be added but no answer... Send it over to RaiBOT to have it logged in our database. Thanks for the suggestion.