WG EU Clanwars Stream Summary

Hello everyone,

Wargaming EU employees Obirian, Cmd_Latina and Deception1 recently made a stream, talking about CW stuff and all that. I wasn’t home, but WoT EU player Coolathlon was kind enough to make a stream write-up. Thank you, much appreciated!

 


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And here is the write-up of the stream:

World on Fire Live Stream information (Obirian and Cmd_Latina hosting, Decept1on playing some randoms)

- Tier 8 in CW event to get more people take part in the event.
- The_Challenger was climbing on TOG and other tanks–> vid on them will come
- Matchmaker for T23E3: special MM
– different ideas for T23E3 spreading to players. “Nothing written in stone.”, there will be other possibilities to get the tank. “Quite confident about it.”
- Type 59 will not be available again. “I play it everyday.”
(Obirian gone, Decept1on playing with Cmd_latina)
- WG team will have a tactic for taking part in World on Fire event. Last time they smashed TESLA.
- MM of T23 is same as Panther M10
– event simplier than campaign: e.g. less medals
- no missions to get fame points –> noone can lose 1000 places at once like in last campaign
– Decept1on uses rammer, optics and gun laying drive on T23E3; gold consumables (medpack, repair, extinguisher); ammo: half AP, half APCR
(- Decept1on has 25 k gold, 22.5 M creds, 1.15 M free XP)
- 2.85 secs rld (rammer, BiA)
- 22-30 frames on South Coast (PC is okayish), 40 fps on Polar Map, 40 on Redshire
(- Obirian died first in platoon)
- Decept1on usually uses mods, J1mb0 was named
- D.: “Turret speed is a bit meh.”
- Tier 8 games: 1; Tier 7 games: 3
– D.’s job is taking care of CW things, and reporting critical bugs to WG HQ
– D. on event expectations: RSOP might go for the attack tactics again. Polish clans: 1SBP not seen on map, nor 1PAD — there wer better times for polish clans. “Maybe SBP will win something.” Not much noticable on French clans.
- D. likes to play platoon with ppl with >60% WR
(commercial: GB-tanks introduction trailer)
(commercial: CN-tanks introduction trailer)
– Want T23E3 asap? Gain fame points in CW event!
- WG will be in Wrocław (PL) on Saturday and Sunday this week, Cmd_Latina will be there.

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Meanwhile at Lugansk…

Hello everyone,

Here’s a restored T-34 driving around at Lugansk (6.5.2014, video posted by Yuri Pasholok)

 

 

Apparently, it served as a monument in Lugansk and was restored to working condition. And two days later, it’s driving around the city center (thanks to Andrys9 for the link), likely for the preparation of 9th of May celebrations. The article connects the appearance of the tank to the pro-Russian rioters in Slavyansk and Lugansk, so it could also be the Russian armored support coming to help the separatists… :)

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Visiting the 73rd Tank Batallion, Přáslavice

Warning, this post is VERY picture heavy

Hello everyone,

this article will be from my personal experience with my own photos (so excuse their quality – did my best, but I just suck with a camera). Yesterday (7.5.2014), me, carramba66, CatfoodCZ, Clearevil and cNNk (two mods, OMG!) visited the 73rd Tank Batallion at Přáslavice. We were invited as VIP guests by the Československá Obec Legionářská (ČSLO) veteran organization as a reward for the charity for veterans we organized, which was recently concluded – it was supposed to be an “open day” at the unit (for public) and the some of the veterans themselves were to be present, when the unit formally thanks them for their service (since it was the day before the end of the war celebration here. Here is my account from the trip.

The unit is located at Přáslavice (Moravia, near Olomouc) and it was the same unit that Wargaming visited not that long time ago (easy, since it’s the only unit equipped with the T-72M4CZ) – I learned some very interesting info about Wargaming and especially Czech community management from the trip by the way, more on that later.

Anyway, the weather was nice (well, at the unit, everywhere else around the country it was raining, so good luck for me). We arrived at around 9AM (got up at 2AM, slept for two hours and the day before I had some others stuff to deal with, to say I was tired would be an understatement).

The unit entrance is “guarded” by a (post-war produced) T-34/85 tank, painted as one of the tanks that entered Prague in 1945 and took part in its liberation from nazi occupants.

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Earning “Free” Gold during the Super Pershing Event

Hello everyone,

a short info (thanks to DEXXXXXTER and Asmodeus for noticing this) – as you know, we have the “Military Parade” special, celebrating the end of the Second World War. As a part of it, you can buy tier 8 Super Pershing with a 15 percent discount.

If you do that (buy it with discount) AND you fulfill the Super Pershing mission after that, you will recieve the gold compensation of full Super Pershing price, eg. you will get 15 percent more gold, than you spent for the Superpershing.

I am always reluctant to post this kind of info, because by now you must have figured out that this is not an “oversight”, but completely intentional move by Wargaming EU to make you actually buy that thing AND to make you play the (rather difficult) mission (eg. play as much as possible, perhaps spend gold during your play etc.) – up to you, whether you take the deal or not of course, but… well, I won’t.

Wargaming to Start its own Radio

Source: http://wargaming.com/en/careers/vacancy/810/

Hello everyone,

it seems that Wargaming is going to start their own radio in near future. In Russian of course – they are (for their branch in Minsk) looking for a content manager for this project.

Jobs content:

- Participate in WG Radio media plans development.
- Prepare scripts for various activities and participate in their discussion.
- Write text materials for the air.
- Develop content for WG Radio editorial staff.
- Negotiate with Wargaming representatives and prepare them for going on the air.
- Monitor WG Radio content.

Basically, they want something like me, only for a radio. And Russian language only. So, anyone interested?

Personally, I don’t think game radio is a good idea in general. I mean – who has time to listen to this? When you are playing, do you really want a radio stream eating up your bandwidth in the background? Podcast, on the other hand, would make much more sense. I mean… imagine something like Mingles with Jingles, but with WG staff and without the “generic gameplay footage” video background. That’s something I would enjoy immensely. In English that is. I wish I had Jingles’ voice and accent, I sound terrible on the mic.

History of Great Victory, Part 6

Sixth part of the Wargaming series with Russian veteran memories about the Second World War. This time with Major-General Vladimir Konstantinovich Polupanov, who – a common combat engineer in 1945 – remembers capturing Fort No.5, one of the toughest fortifications in Königsberg, that posed a direct threat to the movement of the units of the 43rd Soviet Army.

English subtitles are available.

 

 

Major-General Vladimir Konstantinovich Polupanov was a squad leader in the 175th Independent Engineer Battalion of 126th Rifle Division of 3rd Belarus Front. He fought at the 1st Baltic, 3rd Belarus and 2nd Belarus Fronts. He helped to liberate Belarus and Lithuania. By an order of the Supreme Soviet of the USSSR presidium from 19.4.1945, for his heroism during the Königsberg fighting and for conquering the fortification, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, with an Order of Lenin medal and the Order of the Golden Star medal.

Please be civil in comments, I am watching them. I don’t want to see any BS there.

Swedish Tanks – Part VIII: Pvkv m/43

Author: sp15 (US server)

Part I: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/07/swedish-tanks-part-i-strv-m21-29/
Part II: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/12/swedish-tanks-part-ii-strv-m31-strv-fm31/
Part III: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/15/swedish-tanks-part-iii-landsverk-l-100-and-l-120/
Part IV: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/21/swedish-tanks-part-iv-landsverk-l-60/
Part V: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/27/swedish-tanks-part-v-strv-m37-and-strv-m41/
Part VI: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/04/08/swedish-tanks-part-vi-sav-m43/
Part VII: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/04/18/swedish-tanks-part-vii-strv-m42/

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During the first years of WW2, the Swedish army had seen the success of German assault guns and tank destroyers – it was decided that these types of vehicles were to be introduced to the Swedish armed forces as well. TNew tank destroyers would be under direct command of the brigade commander and were meant to support tank companies with mobile and powerful anti-tank guns

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7.5.2014

- Storm admits there are issues with the positioning of the destroyed tank sound
- Storm now posts more rarely because he’s swamped in work
- new sounds are being worked on, apparently they will be cool
- new info about patch 9.1 will come any day now, 9.1 supertest (!) will start soon (SS: common test usually follows two weeks after the supertest starts)
- multiturret mechanism will definitely not arrive this year

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Minipatch Patch 9.0.3 coming to ASIA and RU servers

Hello everyone,

tomorrow, 8.5.2014, a minipatch 9.0.3 will be activated on EU, RU and ASIA servers. This patch will “bring a series of changes in the mechanics of discounts and missions”.

Edit: Official info from WG support page

This patch is made to help those who are facing issues with game performance due to inappropriate graphical settings in the client.
The goal of this patch is to detect players who are experiencing low FPS (less than 20) and propose them to adjust their graphical settings

6.5.2014

A quick announcement: tomorrow, I will not be posting any articles, as I am gone whole day. I’ll post the translations when I get back (no idea when, probably very late – if there is anything to translate that is)

- Storm confirms that Tiger 1 will definitely be nerfed
- the 9.0 tank size changes (SS: HD Panther got kinda bigger) did not influence their camo factor
- Storm confirms that tanks will definitely have a special set of “historical” characteristics for historical battles only
- Storm states that the armor of the commander’s copula of Tiger II is correct because there are conflicting sources about this
- Svirin’s data on 85mm Ferdinand superstructure side armor thickness are incorrect (SS: it’s 80mm)
- the split of various vehicles (SS: as in Panzer IV, StuG) was needed for historical battles, it does not mean that “less historical” tanks will be removed

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