Armored Warfare: World of Tanks formerly from Obsidian

[Name]

Trying too hard

 

[Duraframe300]

Trying too hard

?

 

[anus_pounder]

moar liek obSHITian, m i rite?

 

[Name]

Trying too hard

?

Obsidian trying to imitate wargaming.net

 

[Haba]

That's not Obsidian, it is their Russian sugar daddy.

 

[Duraframe300]

New info has been confirmed for E3.

 

[Duraframe300]

 

[Duraframe300]

New Trailer

 

[J_C]

Have to say this looks pretty good. The physics engine works quite well.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Challenger is in.

 

[Duraframe300]

Anthony Davis Will you be at E3 too?

 

[Anthony Davis]

Anthony Davis Will you be at E3 too?

Last I heard, yes.

 

[anus_pounder]

Is there any list of confirmed tanks yet?

 

[Anthony Davis]

The list has been confirmed, but I don't think we can announce it yet.

Hang tight, as soon as we can, I will tell you.

 

[Name]

Is there going to be any moral choice&consequence like, destroy the church or not?

 

[Duraframe300]

 

[Echo Mirage]

Artillery? Obsidian my want to rethink that. Artillery is the most complained about aspect of world of tanks to the point that no amount of nerfs, and reload times is enough to silence the butthurt it brings to the game.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Even Obsidian's akshun games are more exciting and deep than Bioware's "Role-Playing Games".

 

[Duraframe300]

Some preview stuff

There’s going to be a backstory about modern struggles for limited resources and terrorism. And players will be able to queue up to take on this progressive storyline in 3+ tank missions complete with voice acted objectives and secondary objectives. Completion of these missions is just as valid of a progression method as PvP, and can net the player experience points for upgrading their crewmembers as well as unlocking or upgrading tanks in their garage. A nice little addition is the challenge missions that let you truly show your mastery of a PvE mission by letting you do something epic on the battlefield. Thankfully these challenges aren’t randomly assigned and actually based on the type of tank you’re driving, so you won’t have to worry about ramming through the enemy’s front barricade with artillery.

In terms of tank types, they offer a simplified but rather effective three category system. You’ll either be riding in a full-fledged tank, a supportive artillery, or a fast and stealthy recon.

And while the developers were extremely pensive about mentioning anything about the crews, the early stages of the UI made it clear that they will gain experience over time and that there likely will be four members of your crew.

Though the economy system was hardly in place, there was a clear distinction between gold, silver, and reputation on the rewards screen after matches. When asked, the representative shared that gold would be the cash shop currency, silver the in-game currency for purchasing tank upgrades, and reputation a currency for advancing one’s tech tree to acquire new and more powerful tiers of tanks. I have to applaud the stat keeping after the matches as well since you are clearly shown how much each member of your team contributed. Points are appropriated and bonus currency offered based on how active you were in taking objectives, how many kills you scored, as well as assists, damage dealt, number of tanks spotted, and points accrued from base captures.

Even though the demo didn't let me customize my tank, the option to visually change so much-- from camo to personal satellite defense systems-- made me feel like my tank could be mine, as long as I made it play as its class role. That may sound restricting, but as someone new to the genre, I wanted something I could understand, and as a modern MMO player, I understand classes. It certainly made it easier for me to figure out what to do during the battle, as did the objectives list that I got specifically for my role. An artillery satellite view made things feel almost like an RTS, but in a good way. Other players spotted for me, and I blasted from afar.

 

[Anthony Davis]

This is a pretty accurate write up. A few notes.

The backstory for the PvE scenarios is sort of a near future world where resources are fought over by hired Private Military Corporations.

When we demoed the game, we explained how there are roles for the vehicles. We explained three roles for this demo, Tank, Artillery, and Recon.

Tanks:
Challenger 2
Leopard 2a5

Artillery:
M109a6 Paladin

Recon:
M1128 MGS - 'Stryker'
Wiesel 1

Crew sizes depend on the vehicle. The Wiesel has two, the Paladin has six.

Like he stated, we haven't demoed vehicle upgrading or customization yet.

 

[Duraframe300]

Fallout: Resource Wars

 

[Mortmal]

This is a pretty accurate write up. A few notes.

The backstory for the PvE scenarios is sort of a near future world where resources are fought over by hired Private Military Corporations.

When we demoed the game, we explained how there are roles for the vehicles. We explained three roles for this demo, Tank, Artillery, and Recon.

Tanks:
Challenger 2
Leopard 2a5

Artillery:
M109a6 Paladin

Recon:
M1128 MGS - 'Stryker'
Wiesel 1

Crew sizes depend on the vehicle. The Wiesel has two, the Paladin has six.

Like he stated, we haven't demoed vehicle upgrading or customization yet.

Hope theres a lot of variety in tank choices, i want to be able to buy old russian tanks like T72 and customize them .Challenger 2 and leopard thats high tier tanks i suppose ? I cant find an accurate list of vehicules they will implement.Barely a few wild guess on forums. Now if an obsidian developper could enlighten us....

 

[Echo Mirage]

One thing I would like to know is how Obsidian plans to balance the Artillery. Wargaming has been trying to do it since its introduction and has failed to the point that, It doesn't matter how good a player and tanker you are, It doesn't matter if you hold the corner or not. As long as Artillery is on the field victory or defeat boils down to how well some guy sitting at spawn clicking on a minimap plays.

 

[Anthony Davis]

This is a pretty accurate write up. A few notes.

The backstory for the PvE scenarios is sort of a near future world where resources are fought over by hired Private Military Corporations.

When we demoed the game, we explained how there are roles for the vehicles. We explained three roles for this demo, Tank, Artillery, and Recon.

Tanks:
Challenger 2
Leopard 2a5

Artillery:
M109a6 Paladin

Recon:
M1128 MGS - 'Stryker'
Wiesel 1

Crew sizes depend on the vehicle. The Wiesel has two, the Paladin has six.

Like he stated, we haven't demoed vehicle upgrading or customization yet.

Hope theres a lot of variety in tank choices, i want to be able to buy old russian tanks like T72 and customize them .Challenger 2 and leopard thats high tier tanks i suppose ? I cant find an accurate list of vehicules they will implement.Barely a few wild guess on forums. Now if an obsidian developper could enlighten us....

Obviously I cannot talk about the vehicle list in detail, but believe me, we have HUNDREDS of Janes and other military books, schematics, etc, and we have a very talented vehicle creation team. That's all I can really say.

 

[Mortmal]

This is a pretty accurate write up. A few notes.

The backstory for the PvE scenarios is sort of a near future world where resources are fought over by hired Private Military Corporations.

When we demoed the game, we explained how there are roles for the vehicles. We explained three roles for this demo, Tank, Artillery, and Recon.

Tanks:
Challenger 2
Leopard 2a5

Artillery:
M109a6 Paladin

Recon:
M1128 MGS - 'Stryker'
Wiesel 1

Crew sizes depend on the vehicle. The Wiesel has two, the Paladin has six.

Like he stated, we haven't demoed vehicle upgrading or customization yet.

Hope theres a lot of variety in tank choices, i want to be able to buy old russian tanks like T72 and customize them .Challenger 2 and leopard thats high tier tanks i suppose ? I cant find an accurate list of vehicules they will implement.Barely a few wild guess on forums. Now if an obsidian developper could enlighten us....

Obviously I cannot talk about the vehicle list in detail, but believe me, we have HUNDREDS of Janes and other military books, schematics, etc, and we have a very talented vehicle creation team. That's all I can really say.

I understand you cant tell us, to avoid drama if one promisedvehicle is not in the game at launch. However can you tell us a bit more about the business system? Premium tanks, skins and cosmetics to buy ok, i can see that. But i hope there wont be any kind of premium ammunition piercing best armors in frontal , removing all need of skills like in WOT .

 

[Duraframe300]

Theres no gold ammo. Already confirmed.