Alicatt Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 (edited) Just seen an advert for a program at 17:00 cet Friday 22th November on the Dutch National Geographic channel about the making of World of Tanks, it goes into how they examined, measured and recorded the actual vehicles to put into the game.Date and time has been updated Edited November 13, 2013 by Alicatt Update to the time of the broadcast 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkcav39 Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Just seen an advert for a program at 21:00 cet Friday 15th November on the Dutch National Geographic channel about the making of World of Tanks, it goes into how they examined, measured and recorded the actual vehicles to put into the game.I'm guessing they bought some 72nd scale plastic model kits, visited a couple of museums with a tape measure and used wikipedia as an official reference source. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 I'm guessing they bought some 72nd scale plastic model kits, visited a couple of museums with a tape measure and used wikipedia as an official reference source. In the advert you see them out recording the tank driving and the sound recordist chasing it - Should be good for that 3rd person view 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjay Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 In the advert you see them out recording the tank driving and the sound recordist chasing it - Should be good for that 3rd person view Yep - I'm always amazed at the amount of (apparently accurate) technical detail available to players in what is nothing more than a glorified arcade game for kids really. But their financial results prove that they got their market research dead right. Several of my friends, highly knowlegeable flight sim fanatics who abandoned that genre when CloD went Tango Uniform, are in there and loving every minute. Can I get them to join SB? No way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Just seen an advert for a program at 21:00 cet Friday 15th November on the Dutch National Geographic channel about the making of World of Tanks, it goes into how they examined, measured and recorded the actual vehicles to put into the game.So making a computer game (that I don't think is even a boxed retail product) requires a "megafactory"?Perhaps its footage of a server farm? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithcorp Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Megafactory = Mum's garage 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 What they showed in the advert was a few people sitting in an office with a graphics program putting together the art work, then it switched to a few people looking at a T34 style tank and slapping it's sides, then it switched to the sound recordist with a boom mike chasing a tank through a gate and down a slope. Then it switched to an internet café type room with around 20 people playing World of Tanks. I never caught the start or what they said as I was not watching the TV, it was the art work of the tank on the screen that I caught in the corner of my eye, they were modelling the Tiger 1 and putting it in a kind of garage, then the scene of the T34 in the garage and slapping the sides.I'll record the show but I have no way of getting it from the digibox to the PC.Edit: Searching on Youtube shows that they have done similar things with other software companies. Like EA's Fifa Soccer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted November 13, 2013 Author Share Posted November 13, 2013 On searching through the broadcast guide I think I must of miss read the advert date and time, it is now on Friday 22nd N0v at 17:00 (GMT +1) In the blurb it says that there are 40 million players of WoT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpabrams Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Interesting 40 million players? I think that many people have herpes in the US. It's OK to thumb our noses at these cretins. They are the same people who eat hydrocodone, watch the Kardasian's and think WWF is real. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Interesting 40 million players? I think that many people have herpes in the US. It's OK to thumb our noses at these cretins. They are the same people who eat hydrocodone, watch the Kardasian's and think WWF is real.You mean wwf isnt real?????? man you just shattered my image of wwf :c: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 What they showed in the advert was a few people sitting in an office with a graphics program putting together the art work, then it switched to a few people looking at a T34 style tank and slapping it's sides, then it switched to the sound recordist with a boom mike chasing a tank through a gate and down a slope. Then it switched to an internet café type room with around 20 people playing World of Tanks. I never caught the start or what they said as I was not watching the TV, it was the art work of the tank on the screen that I caught in the corner of my eye, they were modelling the Tiger 1 and putting it in a kind of garage, then the scene of the T34 in the garage and slapping the sides.I'll record the show but I have no way of getting it from the digibox to the PC.Edit: Searching on Youtube shows that they have done similar things with other software companies. Like EA's Fifa SoccerWOT are running full TV Adverts on some stations in my neck of the woods.I Think there worried Air thunder which is also going to include playable WW2 tanksAre going to bite in to there revenue.I considered downloading WOT but the whole the more you spend the better chance you Have of winning to be distasteful.Also the pretense that you are playing accurately modeled tanksSome of which never left the prototype stage in Reality a bit of a joke.But you have to give credit to there PR/Advertising staff and appreciate the amount of money they spent on same.I would never of thought a Tank game could generate such a huge following. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLabor Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 At the same time the major point is that it is a brainless fun game. It fits the kind of audience we encounter today. A friend of mine showed me this : Typically the kind of actions that makes Battlefield and Call of duty THE best sellers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dejawolf Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 showed some guy at a game convention a video of one of the best SB games i've played, and he almost fell asleep watching it. you just can't replicate the 45 minutes of planning, the anticipation of wondering whether the plan is going to work or fail, the tension of never knowing exactly where your enemy is.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted November 13, 2013 Author Share Posted November 13, 2013 We get the adverts here too, they are so good I cannot even remember the link but it does not reference World of Tanks at all, it is only when you look at the small print you see that it is actually WOT. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader ZIM Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Yea, the ads are here in the U.S. too.Looking at that link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVvJDDqRYg&list=PLYgipOCaRI034tH_5LvnL2crptt-fG6I1&index=1Apparently more kills are made with Tank ramp jumps onto other vehicles, or shoving them into ponds of water.... Or just ramming over and over.I tried WoT, once I put my gun on an enemy tank and it highlighted and outlined the shape of the tank, I was outta there lol.Guys, we have to accept that we're wired for the kind of slower paced combat we see in Steel Beasts, and are the vast minority, for we have attention spans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3instein Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 War Thunder seems to be trying to get into tank gaming as well, Not sure when it is to be released,or if you play as a tank while the air war is going on overhead or not. Looks a little better than WOT,but basically the same I think. Mick. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted November 13, 2013 Author Share Posted November 13, 2013 In the adverts here it is called tankist.nl and it takes you straight to world of tanks.I did try War Thunder about a year ago, but thought it was meh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithcorp Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 the tension of never knowing exactly where your enemy is..This is what is lacking (or not valued) in most modern shooters and things like WoT (not played it, doesn't appeal). The modern gamer audience doesn't seem to want to wait for anything. Action must be immediate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLabor Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 It's kinda the story structure of nowadays video games : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPyujUVtNPs&list=SPEF4E87DC6576B9FBTechnically every body want to jump into the action as quick as possible.A big thank you to outonthetop for making me discover this channel full of brain food! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt DeFault Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 you just can't replicate the [...] planning, the anticipation [...] the tension Definitely. I guess it's one of those "You had to be there!" things. I've had the same experience. Matches that made my palms sweat would barely hold my friends' attention. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Sadly, World of Tanks and it's ilk are the future of PC gaming. I think the offline single player campaign will be a thing of the past, at least the PC specific developed ones. Market forces like micro-transactions, pirating, etc., are pushing PC game makers in that direction. Another bad thing is that a given game genre is usually dominated by a 1 or 2 titles which no one else can compete against, so our choices will even more limited. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 It is one thing I'm looking forward to in the forth coming Star Citizen is the expanded single player campaign. Erin Roberts is heading up the team that is building it in the UK.It is also one of the things I love about SB is that I can be offline and do my own thing with it, I could not put together the time to dedicate to a VU, home life and such means that I cannot sit around for hours at a stretch, which is not fair to a team if I cannot guarantee I will be there. The drop in and out available with WoT is appealing but the game play does nothing for me at all, it is the same with CoD or BF3, I've watched my son play them and it really puts me off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I wonder what the average age for a SB PE user is.Well in UK Armour we have three members under 30, one under twenty With the vast majority of us in are forty's. and one over sixty. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicatt Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 I'm closer to the upper limit there being 57 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I wonder what the average age for a SB PE user is.Well in UK Armour we have three members under 30, one under twenty With the vast majority of us in are forty's. and one over sixty. Hoggy's over 30. (He's past it and over the hill ) I'm coming up to 30. Arrrrrrgh! Mid Life Crisis!!! Killjoy's not a teenager anymore. (He'll be off chasing girls soon, the first flush of youth. :biggrin: ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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