Hello everyone,

just to make sure everyone got the situation with the E-25. It will be removed from the ingame shop before the global tier 7 premium discount takes place, yes. So if you wanted to buy it and saved gold for it, you’re fucked. But – the discount will apply also to the premium shop, so if you want to buy it for money, you will still be able to buy it from the premium shop with discount, only you have to use money instead of gold. WG is funny that way.

So, if you want to participate in this blatant money grab get this awesome machine with a discount, you better turn up with your credit card in hand :)

Hello everyone,

according to the post on Russian server, between 18.12. and 22.12., all the gold (following bundles: 500,1000,2500,5000,7500 and 25000) and all the premium account bundles (1,3,7,14,30,90,180,360 days) in the premium shop will be for half their usual price.

Now, 50 percent discount on gold like that, that’s something I can appreciate…

Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/1/FV4005_preview/

Hello everyone,

this article came up on Russian server portal and I think it’s kinda nice, so here’s a sum of what was in it. The FV4005 Stage 2 is the upcoming tier 10 tank destroyer. Here are its basic characteristics, which – since they appeared on the portal – are likely final:

- speed: 35 km/h
- hitpoints: 1850
- gun alpha: 1150

Wargaming characterizes the vehicle as such:

- gun: “183mm of total firepower. The large gun allows you to deal huge amount of alpha damage to practically any enemy”
- HESH-shells: “high amount penetration and awesome damage make this machine a formidable opponent, capable of single-handedly tipping the battle in your favour.”
- psychological factor: “even the peresence of this vehicle on certain maps can blunt your opponent’s initiative”
- good traverse: “even though the turret doesn’t traverse 360 degrees, the traverse angles are more than enough”

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Well, I guess we were right all along, weren’t we… :)

http://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/pc-browser/46/e25-withdrawal-sales/

TLDR: E-25 removed from Shop. Bla bla OP bla bla too many of them. Bla. Buy it in 100 EUR bundle after that. The vehicle will still be available

- until 22.12.2014 in the ingame shop
- until 15.1.2015 in the premium store

After that, it gets removed.

I mean… seriously? Announcing that you are removing a vehicle from sales because there are too many of them and then leave it in the sale for several more weeks, knowing that thousands more will buy it? Yea, that makes total sense. Is it just me, or is Wargaming lately really shifting towards more and more obvious moneygrabs?

Edit: oh, right, forgot. “Removed from the ingame shop” – 22.12., 30 percent discount on tier 7 TD’s starts on 24.12., we wouldn’t want you to get it for gold on discount now, would we…

Source: FTA VK community

Hello everyone,

Wargaming is apparently testing a new tier 10 mode on supertest, that resembles team battles, only with tier 10 vehicles and tier 8 lights. This mode has attack/defense mode. Currently nothing else is known, it could be some sort of preliminary test/experiment and there’s no guarantee this mode will appear in the game (although earlier, it was said by WG developers that Wargaming is working on something like that for high tiers).

Hello everyone,

according to the info from Russian leakers, the ETA for 9.5 is 23.12.2014 – for Russian server. Considering the fact that some countries have Christmas celebrations the day after, it’s likely EU and NA will get it on the same day.

Hello everyone,

today’s advent offer for EU server includes:

- T34 + slot
- enhanced gun-laying drive
- rammer
- stabilizer

Price: 54,03 USD (43,29 EUR)

Hello everyone,

it’s the weekly FTR technical post and contributor review, but first – a few things on my mind: a bunch of guys sent me some invite codes. I’ve been distributing them mostly on PM/mail basis, whoever asked. Currently, I have none (so no need to ask for them via e-mail) and the demand is always bigger than what I have. Sorry, doing my best. Thank you guys who sent me the invite codes – Sadomasticator, Koval85, Lazyjustice, Jasiek2112 and others.

I am sorry if I forgot someone, but I got buried under an avalanche of e-mails lately. With 60-70 emails per day, peaking at 200 (usually connected with some issues in the game – I mean, I do try to help you guys, but sometimes I do feel like WG official support service :), I am hopelessly behind and some mails I just can’t answer at all, there’s no time. Everything got also complicated by the end of the year as usual, I got so much things to finish that I kept postponing several things I was working on, specifically the AW FTR (yes, it’s still planned, but my priority in previous weeks was working on the Czech branch, now that there finally are some results to that). Same goes for various other emails, people sending me stuff to read, to watch and to post… sorry guys, really doing my best, but my day just has 24 hours like everyone else’s :(

Second thing – the comments. After seeing the amount of stupid and aggressive shit under the “artillery” article, I decided I’d be much stricter on rude comments. I am talking specifically to you, Medjed and a bunch of others – you’ve been around for a long time, enough NOT to go mental whenever arty is mentioned. The future of FTR for 2015 is not clear at this point – I am notoriously indecisive when it comes to this, because I am just SO tired of it sometimes, so it really can be anything between dropping it completely and going “professional” (whatever that means). One thing is for sure though – should FTR be extended (to AW for example, separate FTR AW is and always will be only a temporary solution), I will probably be forced to review the comments policy altogether. Dunno, we’ll see. I hate taking steps like that. The first one will be (or rather is) RO banning all the accounts, using all the “temporary” one minute emails for registration. Sorry, no sharklasers for you. After reviewing the history of comments coming from accounts registered with these mails – well, as you can imagine, most are trolls (strangely enough, there’s not a whole lot of them, maybe 300-400 accounts, including the double- and triple-alts of some people here). This change will be implemented on next FTR system update.

Well, that’s about it. See you next Sunday or so for the pre-Christmas review. In any case – to honor the contributors, who donated this week via Paypal:

Simon S. (Sweden) – large donation, much appreciated, mate
Radek M. (Czech Republic)
Marvin H. (Texas, United States) – thanks for repeated contributions, mate, much appreciated

Thank you all!