Common Test Review: Update 1.9

Update 1.9 is on route to the live server and will see some interesting changes to vehicles from Tier I to Tier IV, the introduction of collector’s vehicles and some tech tree changes.


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What are you looking forward to the most?

[Jockey_Ewing]

Churchill Game Carrier highlighted! <3 Reeee

[thinhle]

Low tier vehicles are getting their hp increased so they can survive longer in battlefields
Me: *laughing in my kv2 with 152mm of pure communism

[yellowstonethepony]

I'll miss the old tech tree. Though I can understand why you guys did it.
Good bye old tech tree. you served us well!

[chrisrarc]

Developers: Hit points are an important criteria for vehicle survivability.
Me: OH REALLY! Never would've guessed

[rutgerjager]

In my opinion, the tech tree change is entirely uncalled for and unnecessary. The current tech trees are not "confusing" as long as the person looking at them can follow a line. One of my favorite parts of World of Tanks is looking at the tech tree and the sheer number of vehicles there are to research, and the different shapes and paths between the trees. I love the variety in the game caused by it. To me, picking a new tank I want to work towards and then starting that grind in a new tier 2 tank is incredibly exciting. By the time I get there, I really feel as if I've earned it and experienced the history of that vehicle's development. I have been playing World of Tanks for nearly 7 years on the US server and 6 months on the EU server, and have absolutely loved watching the tech tree grow and expand over time. After all these years, I would hate to see it shrink now for no reason.

[olmocap]

The 92 vehicles receive an honourable status, more like "useless" status

[danielszekeres]

There should be a separate tech tree style page for the collectors' vehicles with the ones available for purchase highlighted. They should be joined by the fv215b, foch 155 and other replaced vehicles, you could even re-add the su-122-54

[Morgan-werx]

Still I don't see the point of the thec tree change. Navigating in the old tech was never hard, you only needed to follow arrows for crying out loud. There were not many, but some way to go from one branch to another. If I saw it correctly, now there's none. Why?
The tech tree was originally constructed in a way - at least I saw it this way - that it would be historically acurate...ish. I mean after Tiger P you had Ferdinand. It was cool, you could even call easter egg. Now you can only research Ferdinand from JPanther? And not JPanther II?
The idea of seperating the premium tank is cool though, I don't know why it wasn't that way in the first place. Separating them already makes the tech tree simpler, if that's the aim here.
The main problem here I think are tech tree vehicles becoming collectors vehicles. Why? I can only speak for myself, but when I reach tier X with a tank, I often play with it a little, then head onto the next branch. Unlocking a whole branch, craving for the tier X and then finally grinding it out gives me much more satisfaction, than actually playing it.

In the end, I don't think this is a good change, but is it a bad one? Hell if I know. Part of me speaking must be that it's new, and in time, I might grow to live with it, or even like it. Until then, I won't feel comfortable in my garage for a long time.


The other changes are good.

[marcelkubara]

I really don't like this update. Don't get me wrong but these 92 vehicles are the big part of the game. However, the increased amounts of HP aren't bad. They'll really give some chance for inexperienced players to learn the game.

[zenn]

So do we get blueprints for the collector vehicles? like amx 30 and amx 30 b or t62a?

[chrisjay]

What’s the logic behind removing the vehicles and making it easier to get to the X’s? People are going to finish faster and lose interest. The only way this makes business sense is if they know they are trending toward releasing more and more premium tanks. In a few years, the power creep will have rendered the entire tree obsolete.

[vicolechocobo]

Why we can't move our crews in collectors tanks like premiums ? I think it's idiot (we don't need to have a bonus of exp) because i would like to earn the amx30 prototype but i will not if i need to train a new crew because my crew is on the 30b. Pls wargaming do something about that, it's useless to add collections tanks if it's like normal tanks.

[Bad_Company]

Wait, no Tier X Russian Heavy Tank with 3 guns and a 4 shot clip? Oh OK, that's in Update

[akoskocsis]

I do not like the way cross braches were removed. Like the KV2 to artillery, or the Tiger P to Ferdinand. These gave you a decision to make. Now you are forced to grind though one set of tanks.

[matthijsvanduin]

@World of Tanks Europe why not make up another line where the french lower tier meds connect with the french higher tier non autoloader meds with new mid tiers. I would see rather that than the AMX-30 (B) ending up in the collectors shop.

[alighera]

WG: tier X vehicles Are Now easy to get for new players
Me in my death star platoon: alow us to introduce ourselves

[temtale]

Wait if the Vk 30.01 P is going to be a HT does that mean its gonna get armor buffed? as well as the other tanks switching class?

[Palontras]

What happens to the blueprints which we had for these collector tanks? Will they just vanish?

[dkfyrvrkeri]

Damn... I grinded all the tier 6-10 just in order to keep then with the "premium status" without credit boost just like the FV's and foch 155... what a bummer and lots of wasted money.