Source: This Is Game portal
Thanks to Herman the German for this one
Hello everyone,
recently, at G-Star Expo 2013 in Busan (Korea), World of Tanks Blitz was presented to public. Well, if one picture says thousand words, then one video says a million, so here it is, courtesy of Dom1n (thank you):
A few pictures for now:
Light, Medium, and Heavy tanks are all done with, so let’s move on to the rest of the tech tree. I will be combining the two branches into one article, since the potential for extra hulls is a bit lacking on the SPG side.
Tier 2 does not give us very much. The AT-1 was released in a very limited production run (10 units), and it is unclear how far the SU-18 made it off paper. The tier 3 SPG SU-26 also does not have much in the way of alternate hulls. Since these vehicles were improvised in Leningrad during the blockade, the hulls are likely to vary visually, but nothing that would have any effect on the gameplay.
The SU-76 on the other hand is where we hit the jackpot. Aside from the experimental SU-16 (one drive wheel shorter), there was a variant of the SU-12 (SU-76′s initial index) with a 6 mm roof. My personal favourite would be this variant of the SU-76M, with a fully enclosed crew compartment.
Hello everyone,
I rarely write about certain clans – there’s usually no need to. Some clans have idiots in them, but usually it’s not an issue of the entire clan.
But EXN0M from EU is a very special case. It seems to me they are chock full of the worst kind of retards. Not only they have the worst kind of ragers (cancer wishers, anti-semites):
(“Cancer Jew” and “I hope you die on tumor”)
and they also had their own issue of Hall of Shame, but what NabukadnezarII sent me today oversteps all bounds.
Meet Martiener1 – EXN0M member. This vile piece of disgusting shit is a statpadder, that plays like a pussy. When hit, he moans like a little bitch (very entertaining replay) :) But that’s not all. He’s also an anti-semite and wishes everyone cancer. Don’t worry though – he’s not alone. His pal HODOR is just as wicked.
Check out this replay. This is hands down one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen on WoT – I mean: everyone rages from time to time, even me. But this disgusting moron takes it to next level – everything’s there: cancer, Jews, insults against Polish, everything. Wargaming should permaban this asshole once for all. Noone will miss him. I certainly won’t.
Update: Based on this incident, EXN0M kicked the asshole out. Wise thing to do, shows there is some decency too.
Hello everyone,
Storm lately said that in 2014, there will be only 2-3 branches and that he faces hard choices about what to pick. So, let’s help him a bit :) On the right side there is a new poll, incorporaing the possibilities. This time, you can pick THREE of what you would like to see in 2014.
Current options are:
German third TD line (Sturmtiger)
British mediums (Vickers MBT)
British heavies (Chieftain prototype)
British turretted tank destroyers (possibly the Conway, FV4005)
French mediums (AMX-30)
French heavies (without autoloader, havily armored turret)
European Tree
Japanese TDs
Japanese heavies
American mediums (T95 MT)
All these branches were hinted at one way or another as options that might appear in 2014. Which three would you pick? Please note that the Chinese TDs and Chinese arty have been confirmed not to appear in 2014.
- there are many more tier 10 candidates for various nations
- there are more paper plans for “supertanks” like Maus available
- according to SerB, trees (SS: coniferous) and bushes provide the same camo bonus
- WT E-100 has worse camo than Maus and E-100? “How terrible”
- the top of the upcoming British medium branch will be a British medium tier 10 tank (SS: while this might sound like a case for Captain Obvious, it is not, as a lot of people expected the Chieftain to appear there)
- apparently, the car models (destructable objects) in game do not necesserily correspond to real vehicles, it’s possible we will see more truck object models in the future
- Q: “I’d like the tiers of vehicles in both teams to mirror one another” A: “This thread is not called ‘my wishes’”
- it’s possible Vickers MBT (Vijayanta) will appear in the upcoming British medium branch
- optional hulls will mean also different internal layout of modules for each hull (SS: for example later Panzer IV’s had more internal fuel tanks, so the – as an example – late Panzer IV hull will have more fuel tanks inside)
- if you take a regular tank (not arty) and shoot in the sky straight up, sooner or later the shell will fall down again
- tanks with M-65 gun (such as Object 770) will likely not appear in the game
- it’s possible IT-45 and IT-76 Soviet tank destroyers will appear in the game (SS: in case you don’t know, it was Basically a Soviet attempt to build a Hetzer – a cheap low turretless tank destroyer)
- pre-production T-54 (1945-1946 pattern) doesn’t fit tier 8, it’s too strong for it
- it usually doesn’t make sense to actually report a teamkiller for teamdamage too, but in some special cases (undefined by what) additional reports are taken into account
- HEAT principle in game (mechanism) won’t be reworked
- Object 705A will not appear in the game, because if it was implemented, high tier battles would consist of 12 vs 12 these tanks (plus a few arties)
- it’s however possible that Object 705 (rear turret IS variant with 122mm BL-13) will appear
- according to SerB, WoWp start was “normal” (SS: as in “fine”), apparently, Soviet planes are not underpowered
And a few more answers from Storm:
- Redshire and Highway won’t be removed from the game before they are reworked
- anti-tank obstacles and more cover from debris will not return to Himmelsdorf
- lately, average shooting distance in the game has increased
- the Hunnicutt Archive purchase was apparently mediated by Nicholas “Chieftain” Moran
Hello everyone,
I know it’s probably a LOT to ask, but could we please have the portal in language we choose? Guess who’s back:
That’s right, the bug that got reported weeks ago. I know WG EU staffmembers can’t into space are very busy making dumb videos bringing us the lastest news from Wargaming, but surely some time could be spared to fix this?
Source: http://blog.worldofwarships.ru/start-zakry-togo-al-fa-testirovaniya/
Hello everyone,
just so you know, WoWs entered its alpha stage officially today (14.11.2013) – it’s still a long way to go, but it looks promising.
Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/257546.html
Hello everyone,
Storm posted another “microdigest” post about what’s going on in the development department. Here’s what Storm writes:
We are preparing everything slowly.
Not so long ago an interesting thing happened: we bought Hunnicutt’s personal archive: 800 microfilms, 24000 photos. Now we are digitizing it. We are expecting some news on the star-and-stripes armored tech.
It’s also worth noting that all those polls about maps we made are starting to bear fruit. In the next patch, there will be gameplay corrections on some maps players keep crying about. I will say straight away that those fixes will not concern the most “painful” maps like Redshire and Highway (that will happen in the patch after this one), but they will concern those maps where it is possible to make fixes quickly:
Karelia – the map is more levelled and more similiar to the old version
Airfield – fixed the (winrate) imbalance between respawns (bases)
Steppes – fixed the (winrate) imbalance between respawns (bases) that was more than 10 percent
El Halluf – we attempted to reduce camping
Mines – fixed the imbalance between respawns
Either way, all that is planned. It’s possible not everything will make it to the patch. Tests will show.
Source: wotinfo.net site
Hello everyone,
the abovementioned site (Wotinfo) released measured camo values for the new German tank destroyers. These numbers do not represent the camo factor value in the game, but rather a number serving only to compare the vehicles between one another. More on how they reached those numbers here.
Now, I can’t guarantee these numbers weren’t pulled out of their ass (no offense, but I’ve seen a few such “tests”) – in general however it looks roughly legit. What it means is:
- Marder 38T has excellent camo, roughly matching the one StuG III, which is something I can confirm
- Panzer Sfl.IVc experiences a sharp camo value drop: I can confirm that too, its camo is 40 or so percent worse than the one of Marder 38T and more than 50 percent worse than the one of Jpz IV
- strangely enough according to the test, Nashorn camo is even worse than the one of Pz.Sfl.IVc (I cannot confirm that)
- Sturer Emil has pretty bad camo and only a bit worse than the Nashorn (this also I cannot confirm – I mean, it has bad camo, but Nashorn seemed much better in this respect)
- RhB WT has double the camo of Sturer Emil, yes, I suppose this is possible, the vehicle is very stealthy
- WT auf Pz.IV has the best camo of all German T8+ tank destroyers (better than Nashorn, Jagdpanther or PzSflIVc)
- WT auf E-100 has no camo whatsoever
Not much today. As you might have already guessed (since it’s Wednesday and since I posted on the FTR FB about it earlier), there is a problem with the FTR QA. It’s almost certainly cancelled. The reasons for it have nothing to do with me or FTR, it’s an internal WG RU thing (yes, I know the real reason – I got told, but I will post it only if it becomes public knowledge, as it is internal WG info and I promised discretion).
Right now, I am waiting (and hoping) we get to recieve the answers at least for FTR QA3, but it’s out of my hands. Just to be clear, I am grateful to all the WG staff for answering the previous questions, I know this stuff takes time and effort. I am also grateful for your patience, dear readers. Thank you all, it was fun while it lasted.
I have a contingency plan, but I am going to need a few days to figure the stuff out. For now, let’s wait and hope we get the last batch.
Regular QA from Russian thread and developer blog:
- SerB confirms that the AP and APCR (subcaliber) shells will soon penetrate destructable objects and will fly further with some loss of penetration
- multigun mechanism and multiturret mechanism both have been shelved for very far future, because there is little need for them
- apparently (SS: if I understand this correctly), making tank corpses (wrecks) penetrable (SS: as in, you hide your hull behind a corpse and a powerfull shell can – if the corpse is for example a light tank – penetrate it and hit you standing behind it) was scrapped
- tier 7 and 9 tanks in CW’s or companies are not planned for now
- no British rebalance is coming anytime soon
- you will be able to add camouflage to roadwheels too in the HD client
