Source: http://www.clantalk.net/t/very-interesting-interview-with-storm-about-wot-in-2014/16309

Hello everyone,

Clantalk portal translated some parts of the recent interview with Storm by Russian videomaker and streamer Jove. Special thanks to Daigensui for letting me know about it. Here it is.

Translation of video from discussion with Storm (by Jove) – (paraphrased from Russian by ClanTalk.net):



Q at 00:53. Patch 0.8.0 was really nice, why were the patches after that underwhelming.

A. There were a lot of work in progress about better graphics, and models, and this work isn’t fully finished thus cannot be rolled into the patches. Perhaps we should have been more active in communicating what we are working on for players.



Q at 1:45. Are you happy with the SPG nerf, did you achieve what you wanted?

A. We cannot look at emotions, we have to look at stats. At top tiers there are 2 SPG per game, which is appropriate. At lower levels there are less, so we will gradually buff mid- and low-tier SPGs until there are more.





Q at 02:45. Do you see a problem that considering the SPG nerf, TDs have become too OP and imbalanced? Thus too many play TDs and many maps become dead-locked?

A. We try to fully understand reasons for this. The opinion that SPG nerf is the reason is widely shared, but there are more reasons, such as increase in precision (TDs gained from being even more precise), and that many SPG players have now moved to TDs. Also, just because there are more TDs doesn’t mean there are too many. There are indeed more, but not more than HTs or MTs across all levels, so it is not a big problem. We will have to make a decision on this, but we haven’t decided yet.

Per request of the ClanTalk owner, I pulled the rest of the text down, you can find it here.