Wargaming.net has taken the time to answer 30 or so questions from their community regarding their upcoming BigWorld-powered title World of Warplanes.

The full Q&A is here, but here are a few excerpts…

Mid Air Collision? Are we having them? Or are the Planes Ghost Planes and can fly through Each other?

Mid Air Collision will surely be implemented. It will reduce aircraft HP depending aircraft speed, weight, damaged module etc. as in WoT. If you are an experienced and lucky player you will be able to perform deliberate ram attacks, chopping off enemy’s aircraft tail with an airscrew.

Will the fight start with the planes in the air or will we have to take off from a runway, if we do have to take off from a runway will we are able to land again? either to get repairs or ammo ? WWII planes i believe never really had that much ammo on them

Aircraft will be spawned in the air at the beginning of the battle. As an option, you will be able to land the aircraft at the end of the battle and successful landing will give you additional experience. Unsuccessful landing will break the plane and will cost repairing.

Will WOWP have muti-core support?

It already has it.

Night missions – will they be implemented and if so, will there be tracer rounds available for purchase?

We are discussing such night battle modes

Wargaming.net is inviting players of World of Tanks to join them in their test of changes being made to the tank company feature… all in anticipation of the 7.0 update, which will feature:

• Tank camo
• Tank horns
• ‘Swamps’ & ‘Fjords’ maps
• Birds added to some maps
• Reworked collision models for tanks
• Doubled penalty for friendly fire
• Improved minimap
• A slew of other features

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Wargaming.net is continuing their global tank parade at this week’s G-Star in Busan, Korea.

The company, best known for its immensely successful BigWorld-powered title, World of Tanks, arrives at Korea with both a website and a language pack in Korean.

The company is showing off World of Tanks at booth M06, and this time around have two tanks stationed around the conference center: The Pz. Kpfw. III Ausf. E and the M48A3 Patton.

“We’ve created a truly high-quality AAA title with World of Tanks already wildly successful in Russia and in the West,” said Wargaming.net CEO Victor Kislyi. “Now we are looking forward to promoting our product on the mature and competitive Korean market.”

New York Times writer Seth Schiesel admits to his World of Tanks addiction, and contributes his $0.02 to the world of World of Tanks reviews.

…the game is a must. And if you’re tiring of elves, demons and aliens, you may find the experience of watching your enemies scatter or be blown to shards by the rumbling might of your Tiger tank just a bit more visceral.

Suddenly my fellow pilots in Eve Online, the sprawling science-fiction universe, were debating whether the Soviet IS-4 could stand up against the German Ferdinand and whether the American Pattoncould deal with the game version of the Soviet T-54.

Giving richer players an advantage would usually be a huge turnoff, but it succeeds in World of Tanks because teamwork and skill are much more important than a little bit more firepower.

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BigWorld-powered World of Tanks is available on retail shelves across North America: Gamestop, Amazon, Walmart, New Egg, Best Buy, Frys, and others.

The box is $19.99, and includes 1 T2 Light Tanks, 1 week premium account, ~1 million credits, and 1,800 gold.

Games marketing Guru Frazer Nash recently joined the Wargaming.net ranks full-time. TenTonHammer sat down with him and talked recently-announced, BigWorld-powered World of Battleships.

Some quick takeaways…

• No submarines, to mitigate the griefer in us all
• Formation important
• AI planes launchable from carriers

Nash utilizes the game’s published concept art as a means to explain the fundamentals of the game…

“This is your game, this is your view,” he began, gesturing at the image above. “The destroyers are in completely the wrong place. Those two should be screening the battleship, protecting it from aircraft. Off in the distance you see an aircraft carrier… it’s dead. It may be floating now, but trust me, it’s dead. It should be on the complete inside of the formation… alone it’s extremely vulnerable.”

Carriers take the place of SPGs, battleships take the place of heavy tanks, and then cruisers, frigates, destroyers, PT boats, and the like will fill out the skirmish, scout, and anti-aircraft roles.

A brief bit on World of Warplanes tells us that: players will start in the air, a new aiming reticle will provide realtime damage information to attackers, and that the game puts players in the “sexy period of combat aviation, before guided weapons, stealth, and so on,” quoth the Frazer.

FULL INTERVIEW at TenTonHammer. Go Read.

Our whirlwind tour of Gamescom 2011 is officially over. We came, we boothed, we conquered.

Wargaming.net welcomed throngs of visitors and competitors to their World of Tanks pavilion, showed of recently announced World of Warplanes, and announced World of Battleships, all built on BigWorld Technology. This makes us a proud group of tools developers.

A couple videos that haven’t yet been shared…

Wargaming.net TV report on Gamescom, World of Tanks’ European Games Award, World of Warplanes, Battleships, and so forth…

Destructoid interview with Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net…

Post-Gamescom Summary Video + Tank Party

Wargaming.net, developer of BigWorld-Powered World of Tanks, has quite a bit to celebrate on its one-year birthday. Their free-to-play tank combat MMO has passed its 5 million player mark.

“We didn’t expect World of Tanks would become this popular,” said Wargaming.net CEO Victor Kislyi. “The game’s success has given us confidence we needed to continue our expansion into the world of online wargames.”

BigWorld will be powering their next title, recently-announced World of Warplanes. Come find us at Gamescom, where Wargaming.net will be showing off the title behind closed doors. BigWorld booth: Hall 4.2 Aisle J No. 017

Congratulations, Wargaming.net!

Wargaming.net has released patch 0.6.5 for its flagship game, World of Tanks.

Among the big changes is an entire U.S. Tank Destroyer line from tiers 1 through 9, two new maps and the introduction of the top-tier M46 Patton main battle tank.

Wargaming.net recently announced that World of Tanks has surpassed 3 million registered players!

2 million are now registered in Russia alone, while Europe and the US host over a million players and climbing fast. With the release last month in China, we’re certain that this is just the beginning of World of Tank’s meteoric rise.

“At the very beginning of development for World of Tanks, we were assuming that the maximum number would be around 600,000 players worldwide. Now, we have 2 million registrations in Russia alone, not to mention the Western audience and its immense growth,” said Wargaming.net CEO Victor Kislyi. “With the tremendous number we’ve reached in Russia as well as the dynamics of community growth in Europe and North America, we are looking forward to the many more milestones to come.”

The BigWorld-powered World of Tanks MMO has been receiving quite a bit of press attention recently, but this one surprised even us.

Behold the latest development in a long string of awesome emanating from Wargaming Studios in Minsk: La Gargantua.

The massive “treaded fortress” apparently sports a long-range impulse rail turret, mine-laying capabilities, and a host of other yet-to-be-revealed functions.

This news has the BigWorld team questioning a number of its assumptions about reality, but also whether or not this signals a new change in the theme of the until-now period-based tank warfare game. Should we be expecting even more futuristic tech appearing from vortices across the WoT world? Steampunk, anyone?…. anyone?…. Bueller?

Still, rumors suggest that this may be the work of an independent faction or individual using the BigWorld Indie development license.

At the very least, the WoT player community can’t complain any longer about Russian tanks being overpowered. This unprovenonced beast now takes the cake… and basically anything else it wants to take….

Yikes.

La Gargantua

Wargaming.net just announced an April 12 release date for it’s hit title World of Tanks.

“Our team has been working really hard to create a unique blend of action, strategy, simulation and RPG elements in World of Tanks, and now the moment all fans across the globe have been waiting for is right around the corner”, said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net. “We are delighted to be finally announcing the release date for this ground-breaking title and invite all veteran players and those new to the game to enjoy tense and uncompromising armored warfare on World of Tanks battlegrounds”.

You can sign up now for the North American open beta here, or the European open beta here.

Wargaming.net recently announced that it has set the new World Record for Most Players Online Simultaneously on One MMO Server. Guinness stated that the World of Tanks Russian server broke the previous record on January 23, 2011 with 91,311 players.

Victor Kisliy, Wargaming’s CEO says that since that date, World of Tanks has set new records in excess of 120,000 concurrent players.

To get in on this runaway success, you can join the EU or North American open betas and break some records yourself!

Wargaming.net just released a new trailer to celebrate the launch of World of Tank’s Open Beta!

Wargaming.net has entered Open Beta stage for the EU and North American World of Tanks server groups!

Open Beta will be certain to swell the ranks of this popular title that has already managed to gain over a million registered users and recently logged over 70,000 concurrent users on their Russian server alone.

Final release for both markets is expected in Q1 2011

To sign up for the EU Open beta register here

The U.S. Open beta can be found here

Wargaming.net has just announced that their MMO World of Tanks has surpassed 500,000 active players!

The incredibly popular title, still in beta, has drawn over 700,000 registrations and recently was able to boast of over 40,000 concurrent users on the Russian open beta.

For more information, a key to the English language closed beta and client download click here

Wargaming.net has added a truncated American tank and SPG tree along with two new maps in their latest patch to World of Tanks.

You can get a key for the closed beta and download the client here.

Wargaming.net has added two new battle maps to their English-language closed beta test, bringing the total up to 12. Komarin features a small rural village setting in Eastern Europe while Cliff (pictured below) resembles the coastline of Normandy.

You can register, apply for a beta key and download the client here.

Wargaming.net is giving away a free Valentine tank if you register for a beta key at Massively.com.

“This lovely Valentine tank will send your enemies’ hearts a-flutter with its dynamically balanced metal treads, sturdy metal armor, and amazing maneuverability. In all due seriousness, however, this tank is a real tank that was used in WWII during 1938 to 1940 by the Allies and Soviet army in a wide variety of war theaters. The Valentine was considered to be one of the best tanks of WWII, and it will serve you well in your online fights.”

Click HERE to get your very own Valentine courtesy of Wargaming.net and Massively.com!

World of Tanks from Wargaming.net launched their Open Beta today for Russian-speaking players. If you can read Russian, the beta can be downloaded here.

World of Tanks

Massively awarded Wargaming.net’s World of Tanks as Best New Concept in their Best of E3 2010 edition.

Late last week Wargaming.net also released a wrap-up of its closed Russian beta with some interesting stats. They received 40,000 applications, averaged about 12,000 active players per day, and hosted over 4000 players simultaneously.

They are currently planning on launching their Open Beta Test in Russia by the end of the month. with other territories to follow soon.

Check out their latest teaser video here.

GD: Which will take center stage realism of gameplay? Or are we looking at a blend? If so what sort of split should we expect, 50/50, 20/80?

A good balance between realism and captivating gameplay – that’s what we are looking for. However, it’s rather hard to tell the proportion of each component in the game. As I’ve already said we’re not going to create absolutely realistic gameplay or introduce realistic controls as it’s just impossible. Alternatively, we are focusing more on tactics and cooperation within a team. We already see our beta-testers setting up well-coordinated attacks or making ambushes according to military guidelines of the day with flanking maneuvers, encirclements of enemy groups and strict distribution of roles in a battle, even though Clan Wars have not yet been implemented. That’s where realism is preserved. Regarding combat characteristics of military hardware, they are close to those of real tanks, though not completely identical, because the tank is not just a combination of such features as speed, armor plating or rate of fire… It has an enormous number of parameters that can be hardly modeled or even estimated.  If we take a look at two T-34 tanks – one produced in 1942 and one in 1943 – we’ll see vehicles with different characteristics because they undergone changes almost every month.  So we use a generalized image (or a “legend”) of a tank and construct its digital prototype.

With thanks to Game Debate.

The 8th annual Russian Game Developer’s Conference (KRI) wrapped up on Sunday with their traditional awards show.

IT-Territory/Mail.ru’s Northern Blade took home the People’s Choice Award, which was based on open voting among the conference’s participants.

World of Tanks snagged the Best Client-based Online Award and it’s developer, Wargaming.net also received Best Developer the 2nd year in a row – a KRI first!

Northern Blade is in open beta in Russian speaking countries while World of Tanks is currently in closed beta.

The 8th Annual Russian Game Developers Conference (KRI) will be featuring two BigWorld-powered titles by IT-Territory and Wargaming.net.

Northern Blade and World of Tanks will both be on display at the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow starting Friday May 14 through Sunday the 16th.

Check this space next week for more information and updates on these two great MMO’s.

Massively recently sat down with Wargaming.net’s Mike Zhivets to discuss their upcoming MMO World of Tanks.

“When we thought of epic armor clashes with up to 60 vehicles unfolding on huge maps we just said bingo! – that’s what our next game’s gonna be about.”

You can catch the full interview HERE

More madness from Minsk, with the tongue in cheek debut trailer for Wargaming’s upcoming, BigWorld-powered title, World of Tanks.

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Wargaming.net recently announced their top-secret BigWorld-powered title – “World of Tanks”. Their early prototype, which was seen by a select few at Moscow’s recent Russian Game Developer’s Conference (KRI), featured heavy PvP arena-style action between Soviet and German forces along the Eastern Front in WWII.

The title is currently expected to go into beta in Russia and former Soviet countries later this year. We’ll keep you informed of their progress, but until then, you can find additional information at their (Russian) site, World of Tanks, and as always you can check out their main site Wargaming.net ]]> http://blog.bigworldtech.com/bwblog/2009/05/tanks-ftw/feed/ 0 http://blog.bigworldtech.com/bwblog/2008/11/wargaming-in-a-bigworld/ http://blog.bigworldtech.com/bwblog/2008/11/wargaming-in-a-bigworld/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:05:00 +0000 ronniec http://blog.bigworldtech.com/bwblog/?p=80 from the communism with a cappuccino dept.

The arms race for online gaming is heating up as Bigworld signs its second license in the former Soviet Union.

For Immediate Release

Wargaming.net chooses BigWorld Technology to develop their next title

(Moscow, Russia): BigWorld’s Business Development Manager Europe/Russia, Mike Allenson announces a new license with New Orleans-based Wargaming.net to create their upcoming massively multiplayer online game.

Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net, commented, “Having built many engines from the ground up, we were looking for a complete solution to develop our first MMO that will save us time and eliminate technical risks”. Victor added, “BigWorld’s Technology Suite, along with their world-class support, is key in allowing us to develop our title quickly, without sacrificing the quality and features we expect of a best-of-class middleware solution.”

“Working with Wargaming.net is truly a pleasure. They have extensive development experience and a long history of creating great games”, said Mike Allenson. “We’re excited to be partnering with this highly professional team, using our platform to expand and innovate in the MMO market both here in Eastern Europe as well as worldwide.”

About Wargaming.net

Founded in 1998, Wargaming.net is a premiere independent game developer with a focus on innovative strategy titles, including the highly acclaimed Massive Assault series. Headquartered in New Orleans, with development offices in Minsk, Belarus, Wargaming.net recently acquired Minsk-based developer Arise, making them one of the largest developers in Eastern Europe with over 80 employees. For more information you can visit www.wargaming.net.

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