Hello everyone,

remember how we talked about BT-SV some time ago and how I predicted it would be available for 100 EUR with a heap of gold? Well, it’s here!

Today, as a part of the advent calendar, following package available. WG sure wants to harpoon those whales!

Price: 99 EUR
Concent: BT-SV, garage slot, 27500 gold, 30 days of premium

So, if you want to spend 100 EUR for a tier 3 tank – go ahead :) Just so there is no mistake though: unlike the Panzer II Ausf.J (which would be actually worth the price, as it is the most OP vehicle in the game currently), BT-SV is crap. Don’t bother.

One more thing though: usually, with this kind of posts, there are people who come and say “SS Y U SO UNGRATEFUL”. Please, let me make one thing absolutely clear. Every discount, every event, every bundle in this game – they are all have one purpose. To make Wargaming more money. Not to please the players (or at least not primarily), not to make you happy but to make money. And that’s absolutely fine, Wargaming is no charity. You however have to treat (especially) every discount not as a favour for you (as some players sadly do), but as a business deal.

The FV4202 – because you can’t have the premium one, that’s why.

All the resolutions – in the post:

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Bad news, everyone!

About that 9.5 vehicle post….

Yup, you guessed it, pretty much everything in there is a placeholder, not just some models, especially the guns are not balanced yet. The only vehicles that are not placeholders are the Grant, the FV4005 and the Conway – and the Conway is outdated (developers decided to remove the 105mm L7 altogether, so now it has just one turret and one gun).

Basically, what happened was that Gamemodels3D site managed to get their hands on the early 9.5 ST version and used it to extract the characteristics, while for some reason, Wargaming used outdated models/characteristics in the early 9.5 ST iteration. It’s just one giant clusterfuck, so for proper values we have to wait for a later iteration.

The premiums are on the other hand already balanced.

Hello everyone,

time for another weekly contributor review!

This time, without further ado – following people donated via Paypal:

Mark P. (United Kingdom) – thank you for a substantial contribution, mate!
Roman B. (Russia)

Thank you guys, I really appreciate it, as always.

The best way to help me and FTR is via the Patreon service

http://www.patreon.com/silentstalker

This is the Patreon account of For the Record. In case you read this for the first time and feel like contributing, here is an explanation what it is, how it works and how to contribute. You can find a list of all those, who pledged and help to keep FTR running here.

Thank you all!

Current iteration of the 9.5 supertest also contains the premium vehicles. I will only add those that are relevant to us (it’s not like you are going to get the ISU-130 for example). Also skipped the IM reward tanks, everyone knows about them anyway. Will return to them once the patch reaches the CT stage.

AMX Chasseur de Chars

Model:

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Hello everyone,

the US server now has a 300 gold password change event (that wasn’t announced on the portal). So – change those passwords :)

Hello everyone,

the following changes are being tested on 9.5 supertest. Please note that this is NOT a full log most likely, that will come later:

- StuG III Ausf.G got a buff of hull traverse (37 to 39 stock, 44 to 47 elite), but at the expense of gun traverse, which was nerfed for 75mm L/43 and L/48 from -15/+15 to -10/+10
- T37 Light Tank got a small depression nerf – 75mm M6 from -9 to -8,7 and 76mm T94 from -9 to -8

And of course, Object 907 got its buff:

- penetration of credit shell buffed from 219 to 264
- reload time buffed from 7,1s to 6,5s
- dispersion on the move buffed from 0,12 to 0,1
- aimtime buffed from 2,3s to 2s

Hello everyone,

Gamemodels3D has published the 9.5 stats from supertest. Some of the values are placeholders (specifically: M2A4, Stuart I, Sherman III and Firefly and some gun values, their models and armor are okay though – I think), but whatever, let’s have a look at them anyway and we can get the real vehicle info later on.

The statistics are “nominal”, as seen in the garage. The elite value is in brackets.

Tier 2: M2A4

For some reason, the 3D model is not working on this tank. Here’s how it looks:

Stock armor:

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Thanks to Daigensui for this one :) Made me laugh.