Hello everyone,
you better brace yourselves, because trolling is coming to World of Tanks portal and servers (I personally am not very fond of this “holiday”, because last year I posted a serious article and everyone thought I was trolling – I wasn’t :D). Apart from the data-mined new “game mode” (the Karl mortar plus the Battlecity map), Wargaming is going full-blown troll mode on RU portal today.
In a serious-looking post titled “Wargaming announces the “Avenging the Claw” project”, Wargaming “introduces” the “initiative RakoSchit” (“Crayfish shield”), a “charity organization, bent on saving and protecting the river crayfish”. They even made a really nice video:
Those of you, who read FTR often probably know, that “rak” (crayfish) is a Russian word for “noob”, so… yea :) Overall, very nicely done – EU server should have something like this for “tomatoes” :)
Another trollpost came from EU Polish community:
Introducing “World of Starships” :) Too bad it’s just trolling, something like that (if done correctly!) could actually be pretty cool.
By the way, although the Russian document, posted earlier today (by Yuri Pasholok) is authentic, I am not quite sure the Panzer III/IV with Schmalturm is (he is a known troll after all)…. :)
Newsflash: Joking is trolling!
This is why we can’t have nice things
I don’t mean it negatively, I think the crayfish video is funny as hell :)
He has a point though, SS. Trolling is, by definition, saying something to make somebody angry. This here is just good old April fools’ joking.
Hmm, some trolling is good once a year. I don’t know about the crayfish thing… I know WG RU is Belarussian and not russian but still, russians are known for massive fishing which made alot of sea life endangered because of them, so I don’t think that one is done in the right context :P
Then only troll thing is my computer. It suck more ass then ..ass sucking things. Hey SS if you managed to buy a new computer, can you send me your old one? And if there is naughty movies in it, dont remove them, I want to se them first.
By the time I manage to get new computer, we’ll be flying in spaceships or something :)
GTX 760 OC
i5 4470/ AMD 6 or 8 core (dont know em :( )
8 GB of RAM
SHOuld not be too expensive :P
on a CZ/SK website that sells pc components, GIGABYTE N760OC-2GD, i5-4670, 8 GB RAM Kingston = 486€
with a average salary job, couple of the new subscribtions, it should be possible in a month or two if I guessed the upkeep cost of FTR and the ammount of people willing to pay monthly about right.
Not trying to sound like I’m pushing you into it though, I understand that there are lots of things IRL that need attention much more than upgrading a pc
I’d give someone elses left kidney to see World of Starships made.
I know, right? With proper customization though.
Tier 10 – Death Star again?
Death Star is a Space Station not a Starship.
Actually, it’s more of a space artillery piece… A la the Ratte: a giant movable platform for a giant weapon.
Space stations tend not be very good at moving around under their own power. They’re called *stations* for a reason.
I believe the class the Emperor himself uses is “Fully Operational Battlestation.”
Wit
h all due respect. But you should not unveil the trolling before the actual troll day is over. That is the sole point of the troll.
That is definitely what we need. Not to solve known problems but produce funny-like videos like that.
#facepalm
Yep, because developers need to get so frustrated that they drop out instead of having some fun every now and then.
I take it you had fun once and found it awful?
World Of Starships? That could be serious competition to Gaijin’s Star Conflict ;)
That video just kills. Actually, a very nice example how to troll :D
Hue, just a sneak peek :P
http://imgur.com/JFbv1eg
I wanna keel you so badly :<
Article about World of Starships and Retia in one place remind me about Daiteikoku. If only it has a polished gameplay ;____;
Firstly i need access for Youtube to watching the video but i live in Turkey and we have “great!” and “pretty!!!” censor about Youtube!!!
We cannot watch anything on Youtube because of “National Security!!!”
I’m understanding the North Korean people now…And i like the dictatorship so much!!! You must try it noob capitalists! :)
Hey Korean guys i love you and im just like you (if you are permitted to see this post i will be very happy :))
It’s the same in China. We couldn’t access websites like Youtube and Facebook. However, we do have websites with the same functions, with the addition of censors.
Someone will come up with a plan to smuggle in kitten videos!
But seriously I know the situation with censorship and control of the media is pretty nasty there at the moment. I hope things improve you you at some point.
But April 1st is tomorrow…
@SS : You know the biggest joke about the “Avenging the Claw” ?
The topic is extremely serious !
The European crayfishes are endangered by the crayfish plague imported by invasive American crayfishes in Europe. The American species are immuned to the crayfish plague, but not the European species.
–> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070157
See also this excellent review:
A review of the ever increasing threat to European crayfish from non-indigenous crayfish species
http://www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kmae/abs/2009/03/kmae09055/kmae09055.html
So todays “trolling” equals “being a jerk”? I like the good ol’ imageboard trolling when you make yourself seem like a fool to make them seem stupid to troll them.
Also funny little things like this are cool IMO.
Check out https://robertsspaceindustries.com/ for world of starships xD
Hmm World of Starships… yep it would be fun to command an Executor class star destroyer and crush noobs flying X-wings or some of those idiotic looking Nebulon-B frigates.
LONG LIVE THE EMPEROR!!!
Your shield generators are stupid and you should feel stupid.
I remember times when joking, kidding, pranking etc were not all refereed as trolling all the time.. I’m slowly getting sick of that word…
Hmm……WOSS? This game maybe much funny :)
for more “World of Starships” check out Star Citizen:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/
It is a single most successful Kickstarter project ever. I am already $600 in (and going to Boston meeting next Thursday; planning to spend some more) and all ive been shown is pretty imagery and a hanger i can walk around in.
Chris Roberts (lead designer/CEO) confirmd that Alpha module will be similar to World of Tanks, but with spaceships, specifically. But there is a lot more to the game ! (I wish i could do smuggling runs in my T-54 !)
there is a new mini game from wargaming :) http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/april1-game/ (I hope i am not reposting anything)