Hello everyone,

quick news – it’s been confirmed by the “Insider” that we have a new competition incoming, tied to the movie “Fury” – there will be a “Fury” Sherman in the game (I assume as a part of some special mode á la “White Tiger”, perhaps this is the “special mode coming soon” Inaki mentioned yesterday?) and you will have to do… well, that is not yet known. But there will be a competition.

Anyway, more changes coming to the competitions – this internal WG mail is roughly week and something old:

A recent policy changed is to be disclosed in future competitions (if applicable). Prizes go to the tank commanders who deal out the highest amount of damage in a single battle during the competition period for XBOX. For PC clients, Base XP will count instead. To ensure fairness, two new requirements will be in place for competitions.

• Only battles that a tier XYZ would normally be in will be counted. Players are welcome to platoon with friends, but if they pull COMPETITOR into a higher-tiered match, that the COMPETITOR would naturally NOT have access to, that battle will not count as a valid entry.

• For XBOX: Only full battles will be counted. This will alleviate any issues with players getting into small matches with only their friends, and potentially manipulating the outcome.

For PC: Enemy platoons will be checked, whereas are from the same clan or perform abnormal behaviour that would manipulate the outcome

As with other competitions, COMPETITOR only needs to play the game! All of the battles and stats will be tracked on our end. For XBOX: A leaderboard will be available on the forums and in the launch daily. Chicago Servers will handle it.

No more trollplatoons in competitions :)

Kinda interesting I would say :)

Source: VK Wotleaks community

One more picture of the untextured Chaffee – and armor. Only one thing left to leak – the T49. Unfortunately, it’s not being supertested yet. But as they say… “saved the best best for last”.

Source: Wotleaks VK community

Hello everyone,

currently, the supertesters got their hands on the new, reworked Chaffee (in HD, for now without texture), that’s going to appear in 9.3. One thing is clear: the Chaffee will recieve the same type of nerfs the VK2801 did for example, along with reduced MM spread. The only nerf currently known is that the elite Chaffee will have 420HP instead of current 580, but this is of course only the supertest version and likely will change.

Honestly, it always surprised me how people expected the vehicle NOT to be nerfed when it gets reduced MM.

Oh yea, RU251 will appear in 9.3 – more on that in today’s QA.

Author: Buck_Rogers

Hello everyone,

today, we have another guest article, this time about a very interesting research the author conducted into the M29C Weasel armed with a 37mm gun. Enjoy!

- SS

The T32 Weasel

The T32 Weasel was a light self propelled gun tested at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in July 1945. It featured a 37-mm gun T32 on a quadrupod mounted over the engine bay of an M29C Weasel. The gun itself featured a new top carriage, and the Weasel incorporated various detail changes such as the addition of 37mm shell racks against the back center bulkhead. Only one vehicle is known to have been tested. This vehicle also tested the 75mm T21 and 57mm T15E9 (later M18) recoilless rifles. The quadrupod could also mount the M2 .50-cal.

You may come across references to Weasels mounting various 37mm guns. These are all erroneous and are in fact referencing this vehicle. This confusion arises from the near total obscurity of the 37mm T32.

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by MrWanWan – enjoy :)

Hello everyone,

a couple of people sent me the links to this article yesterday, thank you for that – one Mr.Tiemo Jung made an analysis of the World of Tanks client on his website and it’s quite interesting. I have contacted him on EU forums and he gave me a permission to repost his analysis here, so here goes. The text is his, it is written from his perspective, I did not edit it apart from formatting it a bit (I did cut down the intro description a bit though). Enjoy.

Introduction

Finally i’ve got some time to work on a Project that i’ve wanted to do for quite some time, analyze the World of Tanks client, to find out how it ticks.

System Configuration:

Intel core i5 2400 (4 cores 3.1GHz)
16 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 660 Ti w/ 3 GB Ram
Samsung SSD 840 Series (240 GB): OS and Temp
Western Digital WD20EARX (2 TB): Game
Windows 8.1 Pro

And please excuse my not so perfect english, its not my native language, thanks.

Part 1 – Processes

The log that is used as base of this analysis can be downloaded here. If you want to see the log for your self, just get Process Explorer and open the WotLog.PML contained in the wotlog.7z with it.

This analysis is structured in multiple section, for each game state. First initialisation, this is from starting wot.exe until the login screen is displayed. Next is the login, this is from the display of the login screen until the the engine loads the hangar. Next parts are the hangar, match loading, the match it self and the hangar afterwards and the shutdown. There are also some sections covering some special behavior that are present during multiple phases, like shader loading, config storage and bugs.

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