From reading the comments on FTR and WoT forums, it seems that some people define propaganda as anything that they disagree with. Maybe they have never seen any propaganda. To familiarize them with some, here’s a propaganda poster.
Yearly Archives: 2013
20.8.2013
- account to account gold transfer (SS: apart from the gift shop) won’t be implemented, as it holds no advantage for WG
- SerB on tanks without healthbars (SS: as in, any hit could potentially kill a tank): “This variant has been tested and scrapped a long time ago. It was tried like that during one part of the alpha test. The gameplay was worse than it is now, the influence of skill was even smaller and the influence of luck was greater. It won’t be implemented. As an example of this, I suggest reading the mass whining of War Thunder players about their planes incomprehensibly ‘eating’ damage.”
- in 0.8.8, 112 and T-34-3 tanks will not be available via the ingame shop, only via gift shop (SS: the question is related to RU server, but it’s likely this will happen everywhere) temporarily, because the developers want to “control the amount of these vehicles in game and taking them down from the shop is easier, removing them out of the ingame shop requires a micropatch”.
Wargaming company video
Hello everyone,
most of you have probably already seen (or at least heard of) the Wargaming 15 year anniverary company history video. If there’s someone who has not, here it is in English:
So, I’ve seen it and…
Japanese Marder – Type 5 Ho-Ru
Hello everyone,
yesterday, while listing thru a book, I ran into this interesting little project of a vehicle, that might eventually appear in the Japanese tech tree. Meet the Ho-Ru, Japanese Marder.
Hall of Shame is back
Hello everyone,
today, we have to new “inductees” into the Hall of Shame, that took the rage to another level.
First is Cantak – apparently, he has some deeply buried strange sexual desires, since he feels like it’s appropriate to threaten someone’s mother with rape… ugh.
19.8.2013
Again, not much info today.
- Q: “Severogorsk is tiny and should drop only for lowtier tanks” A: “Your opinion is very important to us” (SS: eg. it won’t be changed)
- Swedish Rikstanken (based on the L-120) apparently won’t be implemented, as it is armed with a 7,92mm machinegun (SerB: “And who do you want to knock out with such a caliber?”) (SS: the fact something is equipped with a 7,92mm MG does NOT mean it can be implemented, regular 7,92mm AP shells have less than 10mm of penetrating power, the Panzer I Ausf.C gun is very, very specific in this)
- if you start teamdamaging SerB in random battle, you will get a temporary ban
- SerB on alleged leak of T57 HT nerf: “We don’t comment leaks” (SS: there is news about a possible T57 nerf, I confirmed it with WG RU, T57 won’t be touched for now, so it’s just a hoax)
- if you sell the Superpershing for gold, there will be no compensation for gold camo or inscriptions
- on Live Oaks map (and some others), there are some very tricky steep shores, if you drive on them, you will slide into water without the possibility to do anything. This won’t be changed.
- official XP formula won’t be disclosed
Americans in Wartime museum pictures
Hello everyone,
player Lorenzo_Ruiz from SEA server decided to share a bunch of interesting vehicle photos with us. They come from a private tank museum in Virginia USA, that was opened for public only recently. Some of the pics are really cool, enjoy.
M36 Jackson – notice the interesting story
Stalin’s Balls of Steel
Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog
Original author: Yuri Pasholok
Hello everyone,
today, we’re going to have a look at one of the craziest Soviet Union ideas of WW2: the ball tanks. I sort of “borrowed” the name of this article from Yuri Pasholok, who writes a book of the same name on these strange vehicles. Some of you might remember the 1st of April, when a “ball tank” branch appeared as a part of the Soviet tree – well, the branch was a joke, but the projects were actually seriously made. This is one of the biggest of them all, the “Protivotank” (“Counter-Tank”).
Panzer Questions
As my usual style of technical article sometimes turns too time consuming to read for some, I’ve decided to try a new format.
This time, I will collect any kind of technical question about german tanks and answer in the next article in order to provide proper feedback.
Some simple pointers:
- All questions should be sent to zarax999@gmail.com
- I will answer only on technical data abut german tank projects as battlefield performance and reports are not my field and tends to cause controversy
- I will try my best to provide an accurate source to all my answers so if you’re interested you can get books yourself
- I have a job and my free time is not unlimited, I will try my best to answer everything but some material requires a lot more searching than it appears.
Looking forward to your questions!
8.8 test to start on Thursday
Hello everyone
related to the Chinese server info from the last post:
8.8 test server is supposed to start on 22.8.2013 (eg. on Thursday).
Two rounds of test are planned for now (22.8. and 29.8.)
The 8.8 is to go live on Russian server either on 8.9. or 9.9., on EU/NA/SEA it’s supposed to be between 10.9. and 12.9., for Korea it’s 17.9. – how much is this info reliable, I don’t know. But the test start is like 80 percent sure.