- there will be new historical battles and balance changes in HB in 9.1,
definitely at least one new historical battle
9.1 会有新的史实战斗舞台（至少一个），以及史实战斗专用的平衡参数
- current maps are made by the same people like the earlier maps, only the
map department leadership changed
现在的地图制作团队和之前的是同一批人，地图部门只有换领导而已
- developers are considering nerfing FV304
开发人员正考虑砍 FV304
- Q: “Why do you always nerf the vehicle, that is the favourite one of a lot
of players?” A: “‘Favourite’ vehicle always means an imbalanced vehicle.
Proven numerous times.”
Q:“为啥你们老是砍一些广受欢迎的车？”A:“‘受欢迎’通常就代表这台车IMBA，屡试
不爽。”
- the idea to have garage battles and alternative hulls was not scrapped
未废弃‘车库战’和‘可选车体’的构想
On the topic of historical battles:
史实战斗相关（以下史实战斗简称HB）
- Q: “Change historical battles not by removing hitpoints, but only stop
displaying them” A: “Why, so the player doesn’t know what’s going on?”
Q:“让HB保留血量机制但不要显示出来。”A:“为啥？让玩家更搞不清楚状况吗？”
- apparently some historical battles will be changed, some will stay
有些HB舞台会被换掉，有些会保留
- the removed historical battles might return
被移除的HB舞台可能会回归
- special tank stats for historical battles are supposed to solve HB balance
issues
HB专用的战车数据应该能解决平衡问题
- Storm confirms that each tank will have two sets of stats, one for random,
one for HB
Storm 证实车辆会有两套数据，一套是HB专用，另一套是一般用
- Storm admits that the lack of people playing HB is a real problem
Storm 承认太少人玩HB是个大问题。
- special maps for HB? Storm: “To make special maps only for several percent
of players is not very profitable”
HB 专用地图？Storm：“为少数玩家玩的模式出专用地图不合成本。”
- regarding the argument that only a few percent of players can play on
maximum graphics, yet these are made anyway: “Graphics sell the game”
但是，很少玩家开最高画质在玩，你们还不是做了？“卖相很重要”
- developers scrapped the idea of having historical battles with pre-set
setups (for example 1 Tiger, 1 Ferdinand etc.) because the waiting times
would be even worse than it is now
HB固定分房组成的构想已进垃圾桶，因为这样的等待时间会比现行的更久
- fixing historical battles by having the players choose only battle and
nation (not the tank, that would be assigned randomly) is also not an option,
players would not be happy playing the worst tank on the battlefield
将HB改成只能选舞台以及国籍（车种随机分配组成）也不可行，被分到弱车的玩家会不
开心。（译者：烂主意，开场小车全部跳光…）
- methods that worked during late WoT beta/early WoT release do not work now,
as the percentage of tank fans amongst the players was significantly higher
than it is now
WoT 初期的可用的方法现在不再可行了；当初玩家中的战车爱好者比例远高于现况。
- developers did not expect more than 3-4 percent of players to play
historical battles, Storm states that this was always a goal, making the mode
for a few percent of players
开发者预计只有 3～4% 的玩家玩HB，Storm 表示本来的目标就是做出几趴玩家在玩的模式
- MM filling the HB teams “from bottom up” (lowtier tanks first) would not
solve balancing issues, because there are no lowtier tanks in the queue anyway
“建房时让MM娘从低阶车开始抓人”无法解决HB平衡问题：储列里根本没低阶车。
- developers didn’t try to crossbreed team battles and historical battles
团队战斗和HB不会混在一起
- Q: “Why don’t you add special missions with a special tank reward to
historical battles?” A: “That’s an one-time incentive, you do it once and
you forget.”
Q:“为啥不出HB专用、限定车辆的奖励活动？”A:“这种一次性奖励玩过就忘了。”
（译注：治标不治本）
- assault mode is played by several millions of players
突击模式有数百万玩家
- hardcore historical battle simulator – noone would play that
不会有人想玩全拟真HB
http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/18/18-5-2014/
- Storm admits that even “real” tank characteristics in random battles
aren’t always historical
Storm 承认车辆系数，即使有实车也一样，不一定是史实的。
（译者：“平衡”这两个字真好用啊……(#‵′)凸）
- Storm states that there are almost no bad maps in the game anymore, all of
them were fixed so they are playable
Storm 表示现在游戏里已几乎没有烂地图了，都已修改到可玩的程度。
- Storm confirms the premium Valentine changes leaked earlier today – the
armor will be nerfed to 8.11 level because in 9.0 someone overbuffed it
Storm 证实 ValentineⅡ（USSR T4 LT(P)）会被砍回 8.11 版的状态
（译注：修改车体侧面后部的倾斜装甲厚度）
- roaming has been postponed for now
漫游系统目前搁置中
- tank descriptions on minimap will come “it’s done when it’s done”
小地图上显示车名？“WIDID”
- the mod that exists and does the tank descriptions on minimap is “terrible
unoptimized – we have to start from scratch”
现有的在小地图上显示车名的模组“完全没最佳化，我们得从头重写。”
- dynamic tank characteristics in hangar (based on what modules you have
installed) will come this year
车库中动态车辆数据显示（数据依你的装备而定），会在今年实装。
- test 9.1 will be in May (SS: possibly this week)
9.1 测试服会在五月上线（SS: 可能是本周）
http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/19/19-5-2014/