Project Cobra – Part 3: Weapons and WoT

Author: Vollketten

Part 1: here
Part 2: here

We will conclude the Project Cobra here with the armament and WoT considerations for the Cobra variants and other vehicles. So, if you have been keeping up, you may have noticed that the Cobra series of vehicles all specify one or more recoilless rifles. The choice is fairly obvious really; a lot of firepower for little weight.

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Straight Outta Supertest: 9.5 Medal Requirements and Tank Pictures

Source: VK Wotleaks community

First, the pictures – WG already has its art ready for the new tanks:

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Also, the medals coming in 9.5 are – as announced earlier – tied to 9.5 individual missions. Their names are:

Exemplary performance: this medal gets awarded for each class in 4 degrees (corresponding to the number of missions completed). Specifically, you get one for completing every “step” – fulfilling 15,30,45 and 60 for each respective class.

From all weapons: you get this medal in 4 degrees for completing the 15 mission steps for every class (eg. for completing all 5 branches for that respective tank)

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29.11.2014

Forgot to put that in the earlier post – the EU mission change post was reported to me by Mork (EU) – and I forgot to put it in the post. Sorry for that and thanks :) I always appreciate when someone sends me a piece of info.

Meanwhile on CW server – first CW-rigging clans got caught and punished.

- Storm confirms that the new minimap in 9.5 will display places where enemy tanks were spotted last time
- apparently, the faces of the female crew include Ola, Asya (another WoT “celebrity”), Knopka (infamous RU developer, can’t remember why people hated her) and some developer from WoWp

Posted in Q&A

Official Ola Voiceover

Hello everyone,

for some strange reason (possibly to bait Russian fanboys), Wargaming made a voiceover mod with three Russian Wargaming “celebrities” – Asya, Ola and Kyril Oreshkin. Well, Ola you know, Asya is running this… I don’t know, videoblog? Not sure how to call it, but its name is “Poka vse v tanke”. And the guy runs some WG streams and makes RNG videos I think.

Anyway, here’s a video about how they made it:

 

 

And if for some reason you feel like downloading it, you can do that here on the page (site, direct downoad link is here, it has 78 megs).

Straight Outta Supertest: New Map Descriptions

Source: VK Wotleaks Community

As the title suggests – new descriptions of the three maps currently on supertest.

Mittengard (lowtier map):

A small town on the bottom of a ravine became an arena for heated battles of steel machines, movingst amongst the remnants of broken houses, trying to hide from enemy artillery fire while fighting their way to victory.

Winterberg (winter Ruinberg, the description is the same as current Ruinberg):

Concentric city streets, along with dense forests and bushes in the overgrown park allow for hidden maneuvers and redeployment of your troops. Although artillery fire is of limited use in the city, the debris provides effective cover for your troops.

Ghost Town (team battle exclusive):

The sea is long gone from the outskirts of this perished settlement. But rear warriors never retreat!

Straight Outta Supertest: 9.5 Girl Crews

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3617848.html

Right-click and select “view image” for full resolution.

Upper row: France, China, Germany, Japan
Lower row: Britain, USA, USSR

According to the Wotleaks community, the pictures are based on WG staff. I am sure you recognize the last face of second Russian row.

No Type 59 For SEA

Thanks to “Lovejoy-Fedora” and trankie00 for the piece of info :)

Hello everyone,

all plans change apparently – even the good ones :) Some time ago (roughly a month back or so), it was stated by Tanitha that there’s a possibility of Type 59 appearing for one time only special sale event on the ASIA server, along with other exclusive tank – BT-SV. While BT-SV was indeed sold, Type 59 was not. Now, Tanitha confirms that the thought was indeed scrapped:

The type 59 isn’t planned for sale. I just replied to a player’s question about rare tanks, that we are currently considering the type 59, so it was currently unknown. The type 59 however will continue in the same format as it has been for the past ~2 years..

“Currently not available for sale, unlikely to be sold again, no planned/intended sales, will continue to have limited availability as competition prizes”

We have some competitions coming up over the festive period where players have the chance to win one. So keep an eye out for those.

Invite Codes

Hello everyone,

there won’t be much posted today (got some things I really need to take care of), just some leaks, gimme a few mins to upload them :) In the meanwhile, there are some invite codes for you, courtesy of Feep (US server) and EnslavedAtals

MK8TC-Y9DH3-GH8FZ-99WR2-MF256
MK8TC-NGCYX-EMN73-S6W9T-EUGMX
MK8TF-XKWKK-G3MDX-UEPPE-32H6X
MK8TG-8RUTV-WMV6D-7XF9V-XH2NU
MK8TS-NAAE3-4UC26-BWRGT-XB46E
MK8TR-2KE5A-3E9G8-VKB7Z-4VDDH
MK8TE-8E7T9-R8GY7-ERBX2-YBKXZ
MK8TF-N659N-EPGXM-PU6NP-7DE55
MK8T6-WAVZS-N9N6A-4TNW9-PYURG

Also: American server invite code giveaway – US server only. Thanks to Siemka_PL for this one :)

Update on the Gold Policy

Hello everyone,

regarding the post today about the premium tank compensation – the “credits instead of gold”, according to the explanations of developers on Russian forums, this applies ONLY for bonus codes (as in, if you buy a premium tank in the shop and you already have it, you get gold, not credits).

The reason for this is to limit the amount of bonus code scams – this issue seems to be mostly limited to RU server: either people hoarding bonus codes and selling them for cheap, or simply stealing them (they “guess” the code based on several samples, it actually works very well). WG has been steadily removing various scam sites (these are common to Vkontakte and Livejournal), connected to this issue as well.

Anyway, that’s that.