Bonus and invite codes

Hello everyone,

here are a few codes from Keeshan. All are from Alienware. The bonus codes work for ALL accounts, but only if you haven’t redeemed such a code yet.

Invite codes (500g + 7 day prem + 100k credits):

PH7TYC-Z9UA8A
PH7TYG-U7VE7M
PH7TYD-U7RF5G
PH7TYD-X9GD7Y
PH7TYD-F9TU9W

Bonus codes (300g + 1 day prem):

VRTR3K-23S4B9
VRTR3H-92F6F5
VRTR3T-53K2B2
VRTR3K-83Y9X8
VRTR3C-64Y5R7

There are also more than 2700 codes left by Alienware.

23.11.2013

So, according to info from iScendig (EU community organizer – thanks to EmperorSafirius for that, at least I hope it was you who told me that on FB), there will be some sort of new QA thread in English on EU forums. Well, a lot of things suddenly make even more sense, don’t they?

Since this was openly posted on US forums too, I think it’s no longer a secret: Pavel “Zlobny” Myreev, Wargaming’s chief of tank balance left Wargaming recently. I’d like to openly thank him this way for participating in FTR QA and being a very friendly and nice person overall and also for (whatever you might think of the game) doing a good job on balancing the ingame vehicles in the past.

- Havok will introduce the destructable houses option: some buildings will be made destructable. A player asked whether their debris will be material (eg. it will be possible to create your own barricade from debris) or immaterial. SerB states large debris will be material, smaller will be immaterial, as the server power is not sufficient to calculate everything
- SerB also states (to the issue above) that they will have to be very careful with selecting what to make destructable and what not, because developers don’t want such situations as blocking the entrance to the base with debris, making it unreachable
- ingame RhB WT 150mm gun does have a muzzle brake, it’s those slits at the end of the barrel
- cyclone filter does not increase engine fire chance
- there will apparently be no regular “cutter” (torpedo) boats in WoWs (devs are considering their use in “Port” battles)
- it’s possible Petlyakov Pe-2 (or some version thereof) will appear in WoWp
- there is a WG Moscow branch, but it’s not a development studio

Also, check out Overlord’s post on WoT:Blitz, apparently it got rewarded before it was even betatested.

“Wot 9.0 leak”? Fake!

I thought I wouldn’t have to post this, but after this shit appears over and over on US and EU forums and I recieved like 15 mails with this, I just want to make one thing clear:

This blog post:

http://www.worldoftanks-wot.com/updates/wot-9-0/

is full of FAIL, I don’t know who makes that blog, but it’s an idiot or a troll, it’s completely made up or mashed together from scraps from FTR. Especially the “Chinese leak” changes are complete crap (the “Chinese” part appeared – and was debunked – months ago).

Please stop reposting it.

Thank you.

Weekend EU event: Sturer Emil and Nashorn on discount

Thanks to Oxmaster for this one

Hello everyone,

what, you thought there would be a day without a Wargaming EU fail? Come on, you know better than that already. But this time yet again, Wargaming EU’s sheer incompetence benefits the players. Anyway, here’s what’s what.

The weekend event has a set of discounted vehicles:

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As you can see, no 8.9 German tank destroyers are amongst them. Yet, in the client, there are on discount (usual price: Nashorn – 905k, Sturer Emil – 1.3 mil):

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So buy them while they are hot! US server has this discount also.

But the real question here is…. why. Why can’t a company, that boasts millions of Euro in revenue have a single weekend event without a problem. I mean – sure, for us players it’s “don’t look gifted horse in its mouth”, but for people working there, it’s a JOB. They are paid to do the orders of their superiors right – and we all can see how well this is going…

Buff My Tank: BT-2/7

Disclaimer: the contents of these articles merely illustrate the resources available for a historically accurate buff. This article does not imply that these changes should happen or will happen, either in combination or individually. Please pay attention to this disclaimer before being butthurt in the comments, thanks in advance.  

I have covered the other Soviet tier 2 light tanks before (T-26 and T-60), so the turn of the BT has come! I will skip over uparmouring possibilities, as they were already covered in the alternate hulls article.

The speed of the BT tanks in-game is already pretty high. However, Tsyganov’s BT-2 project boasted a 104 kph top speed on tracks, but required radically altering the suspension, so an argument for that kind of buff really can’t be made.

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BT (D-38)

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Tame the Rhino – Victory!

Hello everyone,

sorry, gotta brag a bit. Yea, I won 3000g in the latest competition. First time I’ve ever won anything actually (when it comes to game-based stuff anyway). WG EU giving me free gold? I like that :P

ftrvic

Since it was a really good game for me, I actually not only saved the replay, but also made a screenshot of the scoreboard. Here it is:

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And in case you are interested, here’s the replay.

Monthly Mission bugged after all?

Hello everyone,

some of you who saw it might remember that there was a post about the monthly mission (7 survived battles, 24 kills) being bugged, awarding the 250k reward after all. I did remove the post, because a lot of player suggested this is not a bug, it is simply caused by the fact you fulfill the mission the day before without playing that one random mission – when you play that one last battle the following day, you do recieve the 250k award.

Well, that’s cool, but what about this (screen from ChinamanCZ):

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This picture was taken today in the afternoon. Here, you can see how the final mission got awarded: clearly the player did not fulfill its conditions and it definitely was not his first battle of the day (as he survived 5 battles and fulfilled the kill quota). Yet he got awarded the 250k – how?

Also, please note this is the THIRD such event only today that was e-mailed to me. Did all of them wait with that last mission until the next day? Hmm… somehow I don’t think so. Looks like a (nice) bug to me.