Monthly Archives: April 2014

Italian “Tank” Discovered

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Source: http://uncleas.livejournal.com/88068.html

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Hello everyone,

apparently, Italian separatists from the Veneto region (Venice) built a “tank”, which they intended to use during demonstrations for territory independence. The demonstration was supposed to take place on the famous San Marco square in Venice. Unfortunately (for them), the separatists haven’t had time to deploy this contraption, as they were arrested on the charges of terrorism, attempts to threaten democratic order and illegal building of weapons. In total, Italian police special operations unit arrested 16 people and conducted 33 searches, during which, the “tank” was discovered.

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“Karl mode” (8bit Map) not loading? Here’s a fix.

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Hello everyone,

in report sections of the EU (but also RU) forums, people complain about one specific issue: whenever they try to enter the “Karl mode” and play with boxy Karl, the game just freezes and the map doesn’t load. Here’s a solution how to fix it, as submitted by “plkJaqenHghar”, a Czech player.

Basically, what happened: in most cases, it’s because of the obsolete “paths.xml” file in the main WoT folder (needs to be updated), but if you use the Wot Tweaker software, then for some reason, two files “disappear” (or don’t get updated) from the latest micropatch (the one that fucked up all mods). Fixing it is easy:

- download the files from here
- unpack the archive
- copy the files to “res_mods\0.8.11\particles” folder

It should work.

Invite Codes

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Hello everyone,

a couple more invite codes (7 day prem + 1000g) by Sandi, BoskoSLO and the RCDA clan (thanks all of you, guys!)

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2.4.2014

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Check out Chieftain’s article about T28 deployment in Korea!

- in test 3, HD Centurion 7/1 should appear
- gun damage (alpha) is an arbitrary number, two guns of the same caliber do not have to have the same alpha
- the same gun can have different rates of fire in different vehicles, the difference lies in “setup of the combat compartment”
- in current round of 9.0 test, there is a bug where users of AMD processor PC’s suffer from disconnects, this will be fixed in next round of test
- Storm is aware that the weakspot of current WoT graphics is the grass and trees/bushes, he mentioned increasing the radius of grass render and the multi-layer grass
- when considering squeezebore weapons, the number, used for the purposes of overmatch and other calculations where caliber is required is the nominal gun caliber, not the shell caliber (in case of Waffe 0725, that number is 75mm)
- apparently, the developers dealt with the bug (appearing on current live server), where due to strong unsynchronization between server and client reticle (aim circle), shots were flying wildly out of the client circle

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9.0: HD Tiger Suspension

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/282290.html

Hello everyone,

Storm posted the new look of Tiger I suspension for 9.0, which was apparently changed from the test iteration and I have absolutely no idea, what they changed. Apparently, players whined about some element of it (something with the roadwheels and them lacking “plasticity” if I understand correctly, as in – the screws and bolts were not visible enough)

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From the discussion:

- it’s possible that the other type of Tiger suspension (roadwheels with rubber bands) will come as an alternative hull
- this will appear apparently in next round of test
- next round will come this week
- Storm admits that when they made the M6A2E1 model the first time, they collected wrong references, it will be corrected, when it’s remade to HD (SS: I have no idea why they actually bring this tank up all the time)
- M6A2E1 “is premium and hightier, this sharply increases his chances” (to be reworked sooner)
- Storm confirms that the entire TD class will lose its class bonus to camo after firing a gun
- developers are working on improved track movement physics, it will come later (this year)
- after T34 (US prem heavy) is reworked, it will recieve the later 120mm gun barrel model
- dirt (tracks and roadwheels getting dirty) will come as a dynamic option, depending on the ground type (snow, field etc.), this does not depend on Havok introduction
- Havok will come earlier than in 9.6
- new grass and tree render will come this year
- apparently, noone really remembered to add spotting damage to player statistics, so it wasn’t done
- M103 roadwheels have fewer polygons than other roadwheels simply because there are too many (and noone will zoom closely on them in the game anyway)
- Storm reacting on players complaining about FPS loss in 9.0: “Reduce graphic settings” (and “on minimal settings there will be no FPS drop”)

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Invite Codes

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A few more invite codes, if anyone needs (7 day prem, 1000g) from ABC_Joni, PandaDethDealer, Sumtoy2535

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Keep Karl in World of Tanks?

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Hello everyone,

there has been an initiative (and I am not sure, whether it comes from US or EU server) to actually keep the Karl (plus the labyrinth map minigame) in World of Tanks after the three day period it was programmed to appear in.

A petition can be found here, to this date, it reached 822 signatures

http://www.change.org/petitions/wargaming-net-keep-karl-in-world-of-tanks

Just thought you might want know about it, you know, if you are a fan of the thing. Personally, while it’s fun once or twice, watching two Karls chasing one another for 3 minutes around one block of bricks kinda “cured” me of this mode, but maybe it’s the fact I didn’t play this Battlecity game as a child :)

Hungarian Toldi II LT with 44M. Buzogányvető anti-tank rocket launcher

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Author: Károlyi “Karika” Németh

Hello everyone,

in this post, I’m going to present you a not quite known, yet innovative World War II tank development project, the Hungarian 44M Buzogányvető rocket laucher, mounted on a Toldi light tank.

First of all, I think I should write a quick summary about the 44M. Buzogányvető itself (pronunce: buzoga:ɲvetø, literally it can be translated “mace-thrower” or something like that, because it was named after the mace-shaped rocket it fired):

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Above: The 44M. Buzogányvető

In 1942, to counteract the appearance of Soviet heavy tanks and the overall Soviet armor dominance, the Hungarian Institute of Military Science (HTI) started their own anti-tank rocket development. The other reason was, just like in some other cases, that the Germans were unwilling to share their top secret military technology with their not-too-reliable allies, such as the Hungarians. So the Hungarians were on their own with this problem.

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