Update 9.19.1 Release

Update 9.19.1 is dropping 20 July, releasing a fresh-baked batch of new features and improvements, many of them fuelled by your feedback after 9.18. Over the past few weeks, we’ve explained matchmaker tweaks and detailed changes coming to Personal Missions. How about a quick refresher course and explore what’s in the update once again, right before it deploys?

DOWNTIME

World of Tanks servers will be down 20 July from 03:00 to 08:30 (UTC+8) to get everything in order. 

PREMIUM ACCOUNTS & PAYMENTS

Current Premium players will be credited an additional 24 hours of Premium account time to make up for the maintenance period. If you’d like to make any in-game purchases, please wait until the servers are up and running again.


Click the images below to check out some of the deeper details on each feature.

What’s new

Matchmaker

Two months into the 9.18 release, the game receives the first pack of refinements to the matchmaker, stemming from your input and the game data we collected. We saw a lot of confusion after stopping SPGs from entering and forming Platoons, and in hindsight, we could have explained the reasoning behind this decision a bit better. This restriction was designed as a temporary measure to help us assess the effects that the comprehensive SPG changes had on the overall experience. Having analysed the data, we are returning SPGs to Platoons with a limit of one per Platoon.

Update 9.19.1 also streamlines team lists representation and improves the balance by vehicle types. The matchmaker now balances team makeups by TDs, LTs, arty and Platoons within a tier, and tries to mirror these when assembling an opposing team.

There’re more improvements waiting to be made as we continue fine-tuning the matchmaking.

Personal Missions

The difficulty level of a few Personal Missions skyrocketed after the introduction of the improved matchmaker and SPG revision. The team went over your feedback and adjusted mission conditions to better reflect the current state of the game. Thanks for bringing the issue up and helping us fix it!
 

The work on the matchmaking system is far from finished and there’s more in store for the onboarding experience. Get a taste of 9.19.1 and head to the forums to share your thoughts and suggestions with us. Your input is crucial as we continue working on improving your gaming experience!

Update 9.19.1 Patch Notes

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