Yearly Archives: 2013

25.12.2013

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- all the servers altogether (RU, EU, ASIA, US) should be able to handle 1.500.000 players at the same time (Russian cluster only wouldn’t be able to handle such an amount)
- KwK 44/2 for Panther (Ausf.F) will not be implemented, as there are no significant differences in performance from the KwK 42
- it’s theoretically possible Panther Ausf.F hull will be the stock hull for Panther II
- there were no “secret” changes in camo and spotting mechanism in 0.8.10
- Japanese tanks are “not more stealthy than acceptable”
- when assigning camo factor to a tank, both the approach where it is assigned manually and the method where it is assigned automatically based on the vehicle size are used
- SerB doesn’t like the fact SU-76 and T-70 can’t meet Tigers in battle (to be historically appropriate), but says he can’t do anything about that
- vehicle reliability will not be introduced into WoT. SerB: “Masochists can migrate to other games”
- planned server-side replay will be one replay for all the battle members, eg. you’ll be able to see the entire battle from anyone’s POV
- Crusader arty (5.5in) is doing fine statistically
- players not understanding the exact mechanism of how much XP you gain for what? “How terrible…”
- the fact you can rightclick-look around in sniper mode in a tank and you can’t in a TD is due to the fact players got confused when the view resetted to the TD firing arc
- dust raised by gun blast wave and other such effects are already implemented into the gun firing camo loss
- Q: “Why does IS have -6 depression and KV-1S -8 depression for 122mm gun, when both turrets are practically identical?” A: “How terrible, we should change it to -3 for both”
- Q: “Do the developers know about the disconnects from server?” A: “*surprised* What? We have servers?! Use your brain a little. If you have one.”

As a result of the “8.10 MM feedback”, Storm states that everything is fine with 8.10 MM

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A Christmas Gift for Silentstalker

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Hello everyone,

just to let you know, I got banned for 30 days on forums on my Erenjager account, so I will continue to discuss stuff on forums using some other alt, or simply won’t. What is weird is the reason I recieved it for:

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Basically, I said (regarding the WGNY2014): “Hmm, do you have warplanes? If yes and it gives something for WoWp, lots of players will be pissed off :)” – apparenty, “pissed off” is a terrible vulgar word worthy of 30 days of chatban.

And yes, I am sure there is one rule or another for this to be “legal”, I just think it is weird. It’s not a language thing either (the banning mod, Idahou, is Czech). However, it is not surprising that Idahou is the last of the “friends of Wargaming” from over a year ago…

How terrible :)

“Buff my tank!” – Panzer I series

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Hello and welcome to “Buff my tank!”

The “Buff my tank!” articles are meant as an historical way to look at some tanks considered underpowered in game and ways to improve their combat abilities discussed by the original German engineers.
Beware that while being sometimes ironic in tone, the article treats about both costs and benefits of every choice and it most likely will never be listened by WG as suggestion.

Often forgotten and underestimated in the shadow of its mightier successors, the humble Panzer I was mainly meant to be a training tank but ended up being a pretty important part of the early Polish and French blitzkrieg campaigns.

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Stream with Veider

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2890521.html

Hello everyone,

Stanislav “Veider” Kargin made one of his weekly streams yet again and Maiorboltach from RU LJ forums was kind enough to re-write the answers into text. Here’s a summary of what Veider said:

- M26E4 Super Pershing will be buffed, but not in the next patch
- Top tier TD’s will be rebalanced very soon, but how exactly is secret for now. It’s possible all top tier vehicles will be reviewed and rebalanced
- in 9.0 there will be no new tanks whatsoever, apart from possibly one premium tank (which one is secret for now)

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Storm is asking about bad MM in 8.10

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/266990.html

Hello everyone,

apparently, a problem came up with 8.10 MM, because Storm is asking, whether the Russian players had some bad MM setups lately (he mentions cases where one side for example has 3 tier 10 heavies and the other has 6). The newer the better and the more disbalance gets reported, the faster a solution will be found. This applies ONLY for patch 8.10.

From the discussion:

- the fact tier 10 arty sometimes gets balanced against tier 10 heavies is considered normal according to Storm
- developers do like patch 8.10
- there have been no (SS: intended) changes in MM in patch 8.10

And what about you? Have you run into weird MM cases in 8.10? Post them, including a screenshot (please, ONE link (any link) per comment, posts with more than one link get withheld in the spam queue and I won’t approve until I see it there, which might sometimes be with significant delay).

GW Tiger with 305mm and 420mm mortar

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Hello everyone,

this is something that came up in connection with looking for the upcoming tier 8 of the Sturmtiger branch. Walter Spielberger in his book “Tiger und seine Abarten” (Tiger and its variants) mentions two interesting projects: the 305mm and 420mm GW Tiger (page 177 of the German issue, in case you are interested). Both were supposed to be built on a chassis, using the Tiger tank elements and utilizing 305mm and 420mm Škoda mortars. Not sure why the 305mm project was not selected over the (fake) GW-E100, perhaps it was the fear of power creep? Anyway…

Czechoslovak Škoda was before the war known as the producer of possibly the best artillery in the world and this role has not changed during the war under German occupation. Several projects were prepared in Škoda (including a native-built 128mm cannon, of which little is known IIRC), including two superheavy mortar projects, the 420mm Mörser and the 305mm B20. The B-series designation of the 420mm project is not known (B series weapons was a product line of Škoda of heavy mortars), German designation was Gerät 3-4203.

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Tank Inspector going live!

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Hello everyone,

today, on 11:00 CET, the Tank Inspector is officially launched. Here’s a message for you from its creators, the Smellyriver studio (China):

Hi,

This is Smellyriver studio. One month ago, we announced the project we had been working on for several months: the Tank Inspector. This is a utility program for World of Tanks, which literally allows you to inspect tank models and stats in this popular online game.

During the past month, we gave out totally 1,000 invite codes to people who is interested in our project, 746 of them had participated in our beta-test. Many helps – bug reports, advices, propagations and even donations are kindly provided by these testers. With all their support, we had most known bugs fixed and all the major functionalities improved, as well as our service stability tested and overall details enriched. Along with that, we have even more supporters who did not received an invite code, however still encouraging us to keep running towards our goal.

Our sincere appreciations to all of you. And a special thank to SS and FTR for introducing it to everyone.

Today, we are delighted to announce that we are bringing a quality release to share with everyone – it’s free with no invite code required. Here are the primary features of it:

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Here is our official download address:

http://tankinspector.sinaapp.com/download/

We have ensured this release is virus clean before shipping. Also, Tank Inspector won’t require an administrator privilege to run, so be at ease to use it.

Have fun!

Regards,
Smellyriver Studio

Merry Christmas!

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Hello everyone,

I’m going to be brief. I know that every nation has it different, but since we Czechs celebrate the Christmas eve today, let me wish you all, dear readers, merry Christmas and all the best in the upcoming year, lots of kills, few losses and as few tomatoes in battles as possible.

And as for you, Wargaming, I wish you as few fails as possible and many more new players (so SerB can finally get rid of his Moskvich, Storm can get more new sweaters and Big Boss Kislyi… well, a few new buildings on Cyprus or something). You made an excellent game. Thank you.

Silentstalker