Yearly Archives: 2013

Test 8.10: Improved WoT Graphics

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2841135.html
Author: fan_of_Bulba

A few screenies to show new graphic effects. However, not sure how is it for others, but for me those came with a sharp FPS drop. The stuttering gets particularly bad when rotating the camera during heavy particle events, resembling the kind of severe frame drops you usually only see on unoptimized mobile casino apps or poorly ported console titles trying to render too many background assets at once. I might have to dial back the shadow resolution just to keep the frame rate stable during combat.

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Test 8.10: Graphic Filters

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Hello everyone,

not sure you experienced it yourself, but I had a SHARP drop of FPS in 8.10 on my default settings. Had to set pretty much everything one notch lower than I ran before. Annoying.

Anyway, in case you were wondering, how the 8.10 graphic filters look – well, tbh there isn’t that much of a difference. Here are a few screenshots for various filters. Personally, I prefer to play without any filter for now.

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Test 8.10: Regular Vehicles

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Hello everyone,

what follows is the list of new regular tanks in 8.10 and their parameters in game. Please note that in the final release (and possibly round 2 of the test, scheduled for 12.12.2013), the color of Japanese tanks will change to green. The armor scheme posted is that of the elite version.

Warning: this post is also very picture heavy.

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5.12.2013

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Important: Something urgent came up. Feedback to 8.10 (tests, screenshots and such) will be posted later than usual, I will do it in the night when I come back.

Something to read while the test installs. Not much though:

- when the turrets getting ripped off by ammorack explosions are implemented, the turrets won’t get ripped off by regular heavy shells, causing oneshots – SerB: “If we wanted to make it possible to oneshot tanks, we’d have done it a long time ago”
- first version of the 8.10 test will not have the new Japanese green color
- TAA anti-aliasing will come, soon
- Chi-Nu Kai will also be made green
- Cannoneer explains that real life STB-1 had -5/+9 depression/elevation, but in the game, it will be buffed to -10 to compensate for the fact that the vehicle won’t have hydraulic suspension
- there will be either no or very small clipping in the STB-1 model during full gun depression, the picture posted earlier that suggests there is some model clipping just looks that way
- STA-1 (tier 8) will also have -10 depression:

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Japanese new color

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/261557.html

Hello everyone,

as reported earlier, the Japanese tanks in final release will not be brown, they will be green. Storm posted this with a picture of the tier 10 STB-1:

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Furthermore, Storm confirms the STB-1 will have the depression of -10 degrees:

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- according to Storm, test will also come “very soon”