Wargaming funds new Seattle mobile-game studio

Source: venturebeat.com article

Earlier I wrote a post on how WG wants to acquire a new mobile game studio. Wargaming has apparently financed new stealth game studio on Seattle. The studio doesn’t have an official name yet, but David Bluhm has been designated as its chief. To quote the post above:

“We think mobile games is still a relatively new space with massive upside,” Bluhm told GamesBeat. “Mobile is ripe for innovative and new core game mechanics.”

The studio will be separate from Wargaming Seattle (earlier Gas Powered Games under Chris Taylor), developing Xbox WoT.

Ensign’s Q&A 18

Previous edition

Q: What kind of crew did the KV-85 have? I found a source that gives it as commander-loader, driver, mechanic, gunner. Is there something about the KV-85 that prevented the mechanic from loading?

A: That’s almost correct, you just need to swap some punctuation: commander, loader, driver-mechanic, gunner. Soviet tanks had no dedicated mechanic crewman, the driver performed those duties.

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9.11.2013

Hello everyone,

Overlord posted an interesting idea about MM rewards, go check it out :)

- SerB states that (regarding the WT Panzer IV) the Panzer IV chassis could carry a 128mm gun – he recommends to go and have a look at Waffenträger on 38(t) chassis in Kubinka, it also could hold the 128mm and 150mm gun
- angle of impact has no effect on track armor thickness (SS: in case you didn’t know, tracks do have an armor value, usually around 20mm)
- T14 appearing as the only tier 5 tank in tier 6 battles despite being too weak fort that? “How terrible…”

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8.9 Feedback – Pz.Sfl.IVc

Hello everyone,

today, we are going to have a look at the new tier 5 tank destroyer that came with 8.9 – the Pz.Sfl.IVc.

T51

Since 8.9 came out, this strange vehicle has earned several names: Flaktoaster, Bangbus, Flakbus or just “the Toaster”. Nevertheless, this vehicle continues this German TD line trend of very fragile yet open-topped vehicles. If you think about it, the trend is actually clear: T4 to T7 vehicle move from very comfortable to very uncomfortable traverse-wise (the higher the tier, the worse the traverse), this is changed only by the T8 vehicle, that has a turret.

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Winter Mod for 0.8.9

I usually don’t usually promote mods, but this is really nice. Remember the Winter mod that wrote about not so long ago? In short: a couple of Russian players along with Locastan reworked all the maps to resemble winter. Pretty neat, lots of work invested into it.

winter1

Well, it has entered the beta. Mod’s thread on EU forums is here, you can download the mod directly here – but beware, it’s huge (2,6 gigs).

Invite codes

Hello everyone,

a few invite codes from Crazytony0 and DominikoPL – thank you!

REVB23-TK7BSP
REVB23-VS2STT
REVB27-FT9TMR
REVB29-CM9MAU
PKR29T-53P3M4

As always, if you have invite codes you don’t need, feel free to submit them to fortherecordwot@gmail.com, they will be published!

Invite codes for EU server

Hello everyone,

need an invite code for EU server? Here’s how you can get it. According to this post, Czech community coordinator Karlie is giving them away for free!

invitecodes

“Invite codes sent to the requests in this thread. If anyone needs a code for someone you know, you can try me”

So, either (if you are Czech) you can post your request into this thread (only in Czech), or you can write her a PM in English, she speaks English very well :)

Edit (Friday): Apparently no more codes left. Looks like WG needs to restock. You can try her later, but for now they are out. Closing comments.