Friday Community Stream Reddit Recap: October 10th

Hey, here's the Reddit recap for the October 10rd community stream.

Note:

• This is a summary of the stream, and any points of interest that were said on stream should be watched if they wish to get the full context.
• Give away was one Nightstalker, one Monsterjager + the respective commander to them

Host this week:

• Bam1500 (Lead Game Designer)
• Wingedracer (Sr. Player Experience Manager)

This week:

• Weekly news article: Link
• New Season: Dark Realm Article: Link
  • Update notes: Link

Halloween info: 

• Store Article: Link
• Timeline: 
  • 14-03: Monster hunter earn challenge
  • 21-03: 
    • 2 new commanders and tanks. 
    • Monster made game mode
  • 23-03: Trick or treat online event
  • 28-03: Halloween game board
• Monster hunter event: Article
  • You can earn TWO tanks this year. 
  • BUT, you can pick 2 tanks if they are from 2023 and before. If you pick one of the two from 2024 (Nightstalker and Monsterjager) you can only pick ONE.The Op doesn't end when you pick the tank, there is a second part where you can earn more. 
  • How to earn points? 
    • Destroy a tank in battle = 1 point per battle
    • Earn 1,250xp in any battles: = 1 point
    • Available in Co-op, multiplayer and monster mash
    • Deal 1k damage in non awakened monster tank = 1 point
  • Point requirements; 
    • Bunch of smaller stuff below along the way
    • 100p - Kaiju and Revenant
    • 125p - 1 halloween warchest
    • 250p - The creature and Bog Horror
    • 300p - Another chest
    • 375p - Roswell and Arachnid
    • 550p - Monsterjager and Night stalker
  • Monster unleashed OP: 
    • Earn a bunch of XP to get goodies. At 50,000xp you can earn another Halloween war chest. 
• New map: 
  • Fractured lands. 
  • Based on the cliff map. 
  • All 3 halloween maps will be in normal multiplayer map rotation. 
• New commanders: 
  • Baba Yaga
  • Warlin the Wiaard
• New tanks: 
  • Grimroot: 
    • Tier 8 Soviet medium tank
    • 15cm gun with 600 alpha damage. 
    • Good mobility and small size. 
    • Awakened power: 
    • Replaces consumables 
    • Magic potions to boost power
  • Arcane Cannon
    • CW Era 2 Western TD: 
    • Quick firing and accurate main gun. 
    • Access to magic missile with 900 damage and 800mm of pen. (secondary?) 
    • Low armor, but good top speed and acceleration. 
    • Awakened power: 
    • Power of lighting and ice. Faster firing lightning or freezing secondary shot.
    • Secondary weapon: the power of fire. With a big fireball. 

Other Topics / news:

• Loudout rework: 
  • (bit of a medium length talk, nothing specific said, but talked a bit about why and how) 
  • Will monitor feedback. Mentioned talk about camo. 
•  T31 Demolition: 
  • Unique mechanic 
  • Cost: 30k
  • Reminder this is coming later this season. 
• MAPS: 
  • Last update removed some maps from the CW rotation. 
  • Removed due to try to provide a rotation of maps best suited to CW gameplay. 
  • A couple years back the ability to provide quality large maps in CW was iffy. We made a decision to pool some WW2 maps that were a bit smaller into CW to meet the healthy quantity of maps, which is 31 and above.
  • Now to the present, we removed some maps for CW. This happened for a few reasons. Player sentiment, as they were not as enjoyable. Match duration. Map size.  
  • We did receive feedback about why some maps were removed, we can still bring back some maps if desired. 
• Big wall of red on edge of maps: 
  • The team is looking into making that an on/off option. 
• Auto aim test update: 
  • Article: https://modernarmor.worldoftanks.com/en/cms/news/general-auto-aim-test 
  • We are talking about what steps to proceed. We are planning another one or two test in the future. 
  • We hear feedback on there was less snap shooting, but also about auto aim being an accessibility issue. 
• +1 -1 test: 
  • Not much to share at this time. 
  • We did see a small uptime in wait times, but not the amount we expected. 
  • Also saw an uptick in the amount of bots in matches. 
  • Still plenty to look at such as the server load and if there was any lag. 

QNA**:**

• Lock tanks so they can't be sold? - maybe, possibly adding a tag to favorites so they can't be sold at all. 

Giveaway: 

• Bog Horror with #Horror
• Season pass for those who have not bough it with #Dark
  • No new reddit accounts. 
  • Will need you to message me your GT and console if I contact you primarily via Reddit DM’s. 
  • If you have not responded by the 15th i will redraw the winner.  
  • Will be picking the winners sometime Monday. 
  • Note: I do not know when giveaways will be credited.