Thanks to Anthony for this one.
So, in 2015, we will get more French medium tanks, according to Tanatoy (French community manager) and his post on Facebook.
Is it true? Yes it is. There will be more French medium tanks, but somehow, I have this feeling that the French will be disappointed. Call it a hunch. After all, the plural word “tanks” might also refer to “two”…
Hello everyone,
I am sure that the Polish FTR readers known about Polish Dom1n’s blog – personally, I consider it one of two best non-Russian WoT blogs there are (the second would be Eikarramba’s http://wot-com.de/ in German).
Recently, Dom1n was successful in acquiring some QA answers from Obirian and Quasars, WG EU producers. Now… the latter name might be familiar to some of the older FTR readers. This guy did QA earlier on EU server (once per blue moon) and… it was not successful, to put it mildly. So, take any answers here with a grain of salt. Also, if I mistranslated something from Polish, please let me know, the original Polish source is here.
- in 9.3 ricochet system, you will not be punished for having your shell ricochet and damaging an ally
- ricocheting your shell into an enemy tank will count as your damage
- shells will not ricochet from house walls
(followed by explaining the ricochet mechanics, can be found here)
- new LT8 models have each over 40 thousand polygons
- water does not provide camouflage bonus
- shooting a tank that is under water does not make the shell lose penetration
- there are plans to rebalance LT’s further, the Chaffee rebalance and introducing new LT8′s are the first steps
Hello everyone,
since the pics in the old post were a bit hard to view, here are a few more, by Madestcat.
Panther:
Hello everyone,
while we are waiting for the 9.3 patch (not today), Russians already have it (be grateful, that also means the worst bugs that sometimes appear get to be fixed before the patch comes out). From the discussion:
- some mods again stopped working with 9.3, but other players reports their mods to be working
- the shots sound more muted when in sniper mode, Storm states this is intentional: “The price of realism” (later, he adds “try hitting a tank with a hammer with someone inside – he will barely hear it”, although he adds that he forgot the physics he learned, so there is no need to bash him on that if it’s not true)
- XP for “tanking” will definitely not come via a micropatch, Storm states that currently, they will fix the formula, then they will upload it to the server, they will collect statistics and only after that it will be applied – “when it’s done it’s done”
- Storm on new easy-to-obtain medals: “And I, as a noob, really like them”
- one of the T-54 turrets has its weight incorrectly displayed, this will be checked
- Storm states that there were various optimizations and fixes when it comes to graphics in 9.3, for some players, FPS grew
Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3509309.html
Hello everyone,
Maiorboltach from world-of-ru community extracted 9.3 hangars for us :) There are two. Notice one thing – the M4A3E8 “Fury” tank model plus the leaked “Fury” hangar are NOT present in 9.3 files. That means that around the end of October, there will be at least one special mini-patch with “Fury” content.
These hangars can be downloaded with their respective links and installed by copying the zip file content to res_mods\9.3 (or, 9.2, if you are feeling adventurous).
First is some sort of Asian Hangar (can be downloaded here) – the name of the file implies it’s intended for Chinese server to celebrate the Chinese national day (1st of October)
Second hangar is the Halloween hangar (can be downloaded here), this hangar will be active (on EU at least) from 31.10. to 3.11.
Hello everyone,
this month, Polish magazine CD Action was released with Wargaming invite codes (500 gold, 3 days premium). Here are two by Gulczas and MagicznyCyborg
DWRTG-4M5B8-Y7MN8-KEYMC-83TU2
DWRTZ-9CYAN-BVUNG-EVYNM-TMA8A
Sorry, I don’t have any more right now. So, dear Polish players, if you have any invite codes you don’t need and want them given away with your name on FTR, please send them to me on fortherecordwot@gmail.com – I will sort them out. Thank you.
Hello everyone,
an extremely interesting post by Tanitha appeared on ASIA forums about how the bots will be punished and detected… well, instead of talking about it, I’ll just repost it. Here it is.
Dear Players.
We currently have 3 systems for which bots are detected, Which currently generates ~15 bots a day being reliably detected. And about 25 a day which are probably bots but not sufficiently proven to be so..
With the bots being perma banned, and the probably bots given a warning.
We now have access to two additional systems which are more reliable than the above..
The two new systems are specifically targeted at smart bots, where our previous detection methods weren’t great on the reliability..
I’ve reviewed the two new systems now, which Ru are currently using.. And decided these will be switched on on Asia shortly..
I will not go into the mechanics of these systems.. suffice to say they will cover the gap in bot detection that was previously there.
Due to the accuracy and thoroughness of the new systems,, one would assume bans to be placed on mass, regularly..
Due to the likely high detection rate, we will be using the new detection system similar to Ru server, and using it as a prevention tool.
In other words, we will “likely” be reducing the sanctions down from permanent to 15 days for first offense, 45 for second, perma for 3rd.
In addition to the above. An update on the captcha system.
Its still in progress, however development had slowed on it.. its importance was escalated again today and is back in motion again.
Currently its scheduled for work shortly, for which I’ve been allocated to assist in its development personally. However its final completion ETA is still not in the short future.
In short, bots nuked on mass, soon, by two new detection systems, for 15 days initially,, sanctions to escalated sharply for repeat offenders.
+ continued detection with the 3 old systems, as per the past, also for 15 days initially, sanctions to escalated sharply for repeat offenders.
Bot detection will continue on the old systems, until the new systems are put in place shortly..
Regards
Tan
Is it true? Does it really work as well as Tanitha says?
Yes. Russian forums are full of whiny little bitches, who got banned for botting. Of course, everyone claims innocence, but then, there is an old saying: “prisons are full of ‘wrongly conficted’”. The captcha development is a nice touch.
And what about EU? Oh, that’s right, no plans to implement this system, as far as I know (and yes, I asked). We wouldn’t want them to start chasing bots now, would we. That would – heaven forbid – add some ACTUAL WORK to their schedule, which is unfortunately totally full.
It turns out that according to Ectar, the system is already running on EU. I apologize for the misinformation.
Hello everyone,
here’s another really small thing, that can have interesting consequences and came with 9.3. These screenies come from Edweird (US server). They come from test server, so we’ll have to see, how that works in live 9.3, but basically, it’s something that was never there before. It seems like on several tanks, stock and elite tracks have a different visual model. In this case, it’s connected with the “realistic track movement” (enabled/disabled) – check this out:
M4 Sherman – stock vs elite
Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/09/23/interview-victor-kislyi-on-wargaming-in-a-single-breath/
Thanks to Mesotronik for this one.
RPS (editor Graham Smith) released yet another interview with Wargaming CEO, Big Boss Kislyi. You can read the full version of his answers up there, but there is nothing really groundbreaking in that interview. Short version:
- Wargaming is 16 years old
- there are cca 90 million of installed copies of WoT worldwide
- the amount of WG games installed goes over 100 mil if you count WoWp and Blitz as well
- 16 offices all around the world, including Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, East Europe, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
- WG invests in the USA heavily, the offices include San Francisco publishing, Chicago, Seattle and Austin, Texas
- in February 2014, a record was broken – 1,1 million RU players played at the same time, which is like 2 percent of the entire Russian male population
- in six years, WG grew from 60-80 people to 3500
Hello everyone,
once again it’s the time to thank the contributors, it’s you who keep FTR running after all! This time, following people donated via Paypal:
Woddak (France)
Allan R. (New Zealand) – special thanks for repeated contribution – much appreciated!
Diego L. (France)
Maurice W. (Hong Kong) – thank you for large contribution mate!
Thank you, guys. I appreciate it, I really do. On today’s example, you can see I am not exactly 100 percent. Doing my best to keep up, but somehow it’s harder and harder. We’ll see how it goes, but thanks for all the words of encouragement you guys are sending as well, sometimes it helps a lot.
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!
