9.16 Public Test - Test Drive New Features!

Iteration 2

Technical Improvements

• Fixes:
  • Duplicate messages about overturned ally vehicles in battle
  • "Location" button still shown in Barracks filter after selling all vehicles of a nation
  • Simultaneous sounds of the "Sixth Sense" Perk when sequentially triggered
  • Improperly displayed lag indicator at normal latency
  • Missing progress in ranks for Crew members with "Brothers in Arms" Perk granted via invoice
  • Locking on targets after using radial menu commands
  • Innovation indicators on tabs of the Settings window
  • Battle Results in the Notification Center
• Changed the track when loading the battle training map
• Implemented changes that ensure more precise positioning and eliminate "jerky" vehicles visible from long distances

Tanks

• Fixed improperly displayed Emblems on the following vehicles' turrets:
  • Pz. III/IV
  • T 45

Maps

• Fixed mismatched maps and minimaps:
  • Siegfried Line
  • Abbey
  • Live Oaks
  • Winterberg
  • Ruinberg
  • Steppes
  • Highway
  • Serene Coast
  • Mittengard
  • Ghost Town
  • Fjords
  • Mines
  • Himmelsdorf
  • Redshire
  • Airfield

Iteration 1

Game Features

• Improved mission UI:
  • Reset the entry point for missions and Personal Missions
  • Reworked the "Awards" window by adding an award selector and a window with more information about Personal Missions
  • Added a dropdown for groups of missions for a selected vehicle or type
• Added a two-row vehicle selector in the Garage (can be disabled under the "General" tab of the Settings window)
• Battle improvements:
  • Cross-team battle chat disabled for all game modes except in Training Rooms
  • Hover over the battle chat to freeze messages, scroll through messages and open the context menu with a right-click
  • Hover or right-click to restrict messages (chat and voice chat) from particular players for the duration of battle in all modes except Training Rooms
  • Messages received before blacklisting a player or restricting their messages in battle are hidden
  • Players can complain about the same player only once per battle
  • Inappropriate behavior in chat constitutes four complaint reasons: insults and provocation; spam; out-of-game threats; fraud
  • Can disable/enable chat with allies in Settings menu (Random battles only)
• New player performance notifications on the battle interface:
  • Damage panel with total damage caused, total damage blocked by armor, total damage caused with player's assistance
  • More informative and extended battle performance badges: damage caused (amount); damage type (penetration, ignition, or ramming); type of assistance damage (destroying a track; spotting); number of detected vehicles or base capture/defense points
  • More informative fire direction indicators: amount of received/blocked damage, enemy vehicle that fired the shot, marker and name of the vehicle (if spotted). Also, an option that informs players of the amount of received/blocked damage for a specific shot: the wider the fire marker background, the more damage a player's vehicle received/blocked
  • New fire direction indicator: Critical hits are shown in brown, and if one module or Crew member is damaged/injured, the indicator displays a corresponding icon.
  • "Battle Results" window provides quick access to battle performance summaries
  • New functionality given its own tab in the Settings window
• Improved Notification Center functionality:
  • Changed the design of the Notification Center with three groups: informational, social (invitations to Platoons or friend requests), and personal
  • Fixed the issue of too-frequent button blinking
  • Added more conspicuous notifications about important events
• Reduced the visibility system delay -- enemy vehicles appear sooner after leaving cover
• Reduced the visibility delay when spotting and in artillery aim view
• Displayed how the Camouflage Net changes values on Technical Characteristics
• Added option to visit the Premium Shop from the Garage
• Improved Clan-related functionality:
  • When selecting legionnaires for Skirmishes, both Clan and non-Clan legionnaires can be added
  • The first half of any Industrial Resources earned by legionnaires goes to the player with the highest Experience in the battle (Skirmish), and the other half is reset to zero
  • The matchmaker does not create teams that include players belonging to the same Clan
  • Restricted the ability to schedule attacks on a Clan with a Stronghold at a level that differs by more than one (i.e., a Clan that has a level 7 Stronghold can only attack Clans that have Strongholds at levels 6, 7, and 8)
• Added the ability to compare vehicles in the Garage:
  • Separate window displaying rows of Technical Characteristics and columns representing the vehicles selected
  • Can add at least one vehicle to vehicle comparisons (if only one vehicle is chosen, players see how selected modules and Crew members affect its technical characteristics)
  • Vehicles for comparison can be added from various places, including unresearched vehicles and vehicles unavailable in the Tech Tree (e.g., Type 59). Vehicles received from events can't be compared
• Added ability to restore vehicles and Crew members from the game client (restoration will be available upon release of Update 9.16)

Sound

• Extended the caliber range: Gunfire sounds now comes in five different calibers (instead of three) in tier VIII-X battles
• New sound for cartridge reloading. This can provide information about the number of shells in the cartridge, when the last shell in the cartridge remains, and a notification when the last shell is fired (i.e., no more ammo)
• Clearer, more distinctive sounds for when damage is received (0-17%, 18-35%, 35%+)
• Added sound of a damaged (not destroyed) engine -- knocking, clanking, etc.
• Added a notification sound when gun is destroyed and unable to fire
• Added individual sounds for damage to each module
• Improved vehicle driving feedback with sounds of switching gears, acceleration and other maneuvering
• Increased visibility of sound settings
• Added option to choose between two sounds for the "Sixth Sense" Perk, including selecting your own MP3 file
• New sounds that warn that the battle has ended due to last enemy destroyed or base captured
• Divided interface/notification sliders into interface and voice messages
• Divided music sliders into in-battle music and in-Garage music
• New "endless" and nonrecurrent music for the Premium Garage
• Reworked the "low quality" sound preset. Now available to all players and sounds better than before

Technical Improvements

• Improved the algorithm of camera movement and its interaction with objects of different sizes
• Updated Scaleform SDK to version 4.5.31 with the following improvements:
  • GUI supports multithreaded rendering
  • Reduced memory consumption for visual effects
  • Implemented Wwise audio support
• Improved content scaling
• Brought back the possibility of displaying several windows with different content
• Solved issue of shifting pages when scrolling or refreshing the content

Tanks

• The following vehicles now have HD-quality models: 
  • T2 Light Tank
  • FCM 36 Pak 40AMX 50 Foch
  • 112
  • Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. E
  • Leichttraktor
  • Pz.Kpfw. III/IV
  • Pz.Kpfw. V/IV
  • Pz.Kpfw. V/IV Alpha
  • Pz.Kpfw. B2 740 (f)
  • Pz.Kpfw. I Ausf. C
  • Durchbruchswagen 2
  • VK 30.02 (M)
  • Crusader 5.5-in. SP
  • Type 5 Chi-Ri
  • Т-26
  • C-51
  • Matilda IV
  • KV-220-2 Beta Test
  • A-43
  • M4A2E4 Sherman

See the In Development section for screenshots!

Maps

• Added the Paris map for Random battles mode
• Improved the visual quality of minimaps to be more informative:
  • Better display of terrain
  • Better visibility of unpassable map areas/slopes
  • Structures and cover points are divided and displayed as destructible (white) and non-destructible (black)
  • Slanting lines are used to display water where one can drown, and otherwise unreachable/impassable areas