Yearly Archives: 2013

Over 9000 Invite Codes from Alienware

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Thanks to CreOnix for letting me know!

Hello everyone,

Alienware is giving out invite codes (NOT for existing accounts, but for new accounts) for EU server. These codes contain:

• 500 Gold
• 7 Days of Premium
• 100,000 Credits

Currently, there are cca 9200 left. In order to claim one, go to this page:

http://eu.alienwarearena.com/giveaways/world-of-tanks-starter-pack-giveaway-for-new-players-2

You have to create an Alienware site account. If you have one, simply click on the GET KEY button on the right side, otherwise create an account on that page first. Enjoy!

Hungarian armor part 4 – Toldi II, Toldi IIA, Toldi III

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Part 1: Tas 44M
Part 2: Introduction and Straussler tanks
Part 3: Toldi

Last time we left the Toldi tank when first 80 pieces of Toldi I were manufactured. Toldi I was basically the original Toldi design, based on the Landsverk light tank, armed with a modified 20mm AT rifle. These 80 Toldi vehicles had serial numbers H301 to H380. After that, the type was redesigned to Toldi II.

Toldi II tanks were practically identical to the late Toldi I series. The main difference however was the fact that unlike Toldi I, Toldi II tanks were built from parts, manufactured exclusively in Hungary. That finally solved the issues with German supply chain to Hungarian army’s satisfaction. Another change was the upgrade of the radio from type R-5 to R-5a. These vehicles were manufactured partially in parallel to the older Toldi I model (using German parts) roughly from March 1941 to the end of 1941. 110 Toldi II tanks were manufactured, 68 of which were made by Ganz (H423-H490) and 42 by MÁVAG (H381-H422). By the end of 1941, the Hungarian army owned 190 Toldi I and Toldi II tanks in total – because of the continuous upgrades with locally-built parts, later on these tanks were practically identical (the only way how to distinguish them was the old frame antenna of the Toldi I tank and the new straight antenna of Toldi II, but both models were soon upgraded to the R-5a standard and this feature disappeared).

Here, a Toldi II (possibly in Russia):

toldi

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WG EU Fail? Your win!

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Thanks to Dreadsteel for noticing

Hello everyone,

weekend is here and with it the weekly WG EU screwup. We all know they can’t do things right, but this time, you can use it to your advantage. The event Keep Calm and Tank On formally offers 30 percent discount on TOG and AT-15A:

keepon

But in fact, in the game, TOG has a 50 percent discount.

keepon1

AT-15A still has only 30 percent.

8.10 ETA

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Source: http://www.inside-games.jp/article/2013/11/14/71982.html
Translation: Daigensui

Hello everyone,

according to the translation of recent Japanese interview with Viktor Kislyi, the ETA for patch 8.10 (that will bring the Japanese tanks) is mid December. That means the test server will start quite perhaps in a week or so.

More info from the interview:

- going to “invest” a lot in E-Sports due to the competitive nature of the Korean market
- Japanese Teams for WoT competitions are pretty strong, due to (1) competitive (2) military fans (3) G&P
- F2P is the way of the future, V.Kislyi doesn’t want pay to win
- WoT, WoT:B, WoT 360, WoTG, and WoWP will be released to the Japanese market, but not as a separate server, the Japanese will play on current ASIA (former SEA) server

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15.11.2013

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Just so you know, guys, I got told by WG RU that the annoying portal bug with switching languages will be fixed with the 8.10 patch, they developed the fix already but something (unspecified) prevents them from deploying it straight away.

- SerB will not publish how many players can RU server handle before it gets overloaded
- Hunnicutt archive digitization: “when it’s done it’s done”
- the devs haven’t found any new tech usable for WoT there for now
- price of the archive? “no comment”
- T110E1 and T110E2 are also mentioned in Hunnicutt’s “Firepower” book, but there’s not much on them there
- according to some player, the devs promised to remove the “shift” (SS: the term used is “rising”, sorry I don’t know what it could be) of the arty aim circle when the tank they are aiming at disappears. SerB states this won’t be changed and they promised no such thing
- apparently the suspension collision model will not be made more detailed in the future (SS: as in, currently the tracks are like one huge hitzone, they won’t be changed into segments), if I understand correctly

There was also (for a Japanese portal) an interview with V.Kislyi. Since I don’t speak Japanese and google translate produces… mixed results, I’ll ask a native speaker for further explanation. In the meanwhile, here’s what can be gleaned from it (via Russian source):

- WoWp will appear in Asia during next Fall. There will be a short beta.
- Japan and Korea both put main focus on cybersports in computer games
- V.Kislyi likes Girls und Panzer and there are plans for a long cooperation, there are apparently plans for several seasons
- V.Kislyi likes to watch anime, he watched many movies from Studio Ghibli production

According to the data of Slava Makarov, this morning (around 8 AM) there were already two players with tier 10 aircraft in WoWp, winning the Russian “get to tier 10 first” competition.

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CW battles staging now illegal

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Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/321864-clans-staging-battles/

Hello everyone,

on WG EU server a post has appeared, specifically declaring battle staging in order to farm fame points as illegal. Wargaming will apparently keep an eye on the proceedings and punish obvious rigging.

A step in the right direction I’d say.