- multicore support – WG is working on it, but it will only increase FPS by 10-30 percent (depending on the PC)
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- a lot of work is being done on sounds, many are being recorded, the sound feedback was positive, devs want to release sounds of many tanks at once, explosions and shots are being recorded as well in real life, devs are also experimenting with it (volume etc.)
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- graphic effects – more impovement in the future (destruction of objects and such)
- dynamic armor destruction is very expensive PC-resource-wise, it was tested
- ripping off various junk that is hanging on the tank by shots/explosions will come in the future
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- perks/skills rework and new perks: WG is working on that (reworking old and introducing new) in order to make some currently useless old perks more interesting
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- Sixth sense – there is a plan to make it a radioman feature
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- retraining crew to different role (radioman to loader for example) will come, any role will be switchable to any role, it will come in one of upcoming patches
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9.5 will be big (no info for now)
- devs don’t want to have more fake vehicles
- FV4202 – will be transferred to premium, because the current tier 10 is unhistorical (IRL it had different gun, engine, much thinner armor), it will be replaced by Action X Centurion (it’s a Centurion variant, with a tough turret, 200+ mm, 150mm on sloped surfaces, L7 gun 105mm)
- it’s still possible everyone will get FV4202 for free as a premium á la T34 – or not, or there might be a mission with FV4202 as a reward, it’s not decided yet, but these three are the options. It will come in one of the upcoming patches.
- FV215b will be switched to Chieftain Mk.2 because it’s a fake (it was made because there was no other candidate for tier 10 at that point), one of the factors is also that players don’t like rear-turret ones
- Chieftain Mk.2 will come apparently in the same patch as the FV4202 switch, it’s “Conqueror on steroids”, very good gun, not very tough armor, FV215b (120) will likely disappear from the game
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- new French HT branch was scrapped due to lack of info, some tanks in the old branch were fake etc.
- French MT branch will come, but there is not enough stuff for full branch – there is nothing for tier 6-8.
- more British TD’s will come very soon (likely this year) in a British branch. Half of branch is MT’s (lend-lease – Stuart, Grant, Firefly) and TD (Archer, Achilles, Challenger, Charioteer, Conway) – there was a variant to make FV4005 Stage 2 on tier 10, but it was scrapped due to the fact it has a 183mm gun and devs don’t want to make more of those, so the branch will end with tier 9 and merge with old branch (FV215b 183)
- the closest premium tier 8 tank is the Panther 88mm and the M56 Scorpion, both will come soon, there will be some more premium vehicles (tier 8) as well (to those nations and classes that are missing yet)
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- tank motion physics – will be more realistic (taking intertia and others into account), tanks will have more inertia, will stop slower. Storm confirms the “handbrake” option to make sharp turns.
- tanks will lose much less speed when going over small obstacles
- apparently, “hard” surfaces will be easier to drift one