- the camo/visibility/spotting system was developed from the beginning of World of Tank development (SS: eg. it wasn’t introduced later)
- HD model of the T34 (premium heavy) gun will have gas ejector (SS: only visual change, no change in game)
- there is an internal counter in World of Tanks about how many trees you brought down – this was implemented a long time ago, when there was a developer idea to implement a special “medal” for bringing the trees down. In the end, they decided not to implement it, but the counter stayed.
- there was some confusion about the “raw XP” counter in World of Tanks. Apparently, from 0.8.8 patch onwards, there are “additional data” available for each vehicle (via API interface), such as “raw XP” (XP without premium account). These statistics are not in the client, they have to be enabled by using XVM and some Russian players were confused, because they didn’t know about it. Developers stated that this has been around for a while and that it’s a thing they don’t consider very important. Apparently, this won’t be implemented into the regular (non-modded) game.
Yearly Archives: 2014
A Couple of Pics from the USA
Hello everyone,
Matthew Vargyas was kind enough to send me a couple of pictures he made of American vehicles. Check this out:
These are from US Army Basic Combat Training Museum, Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Entrance
EU Server: Upcoming Anniversary Missions
Thanks to Glitch for letting me know about this.
Hello everyone,
I usually don’t post upcoming missions, but the missions, that are coming, are very, very interesting.
These missions will be active from Saturday morning (12.4.2014) to Tuesday morning (15.4.2014). These missions are:
- get 10k XP total (while being in top 10 of the team), get 30g
- win 5 random battles while being in top 5 XP-wise, get 30g
- cause 7000 damage in platoon, get 3x gold repair kit
All these missions are apparently repeatable!
and
- complete all of the above at least once, get 3 days of premium account
Not bad!
Karl Mode: Active until 9.0
Hello everyone,
according to the info from Czech section (and probably elsewhere as well), Karl won’t disappear from the hangar until 9.0 hits the live server and will be playable as well (the 8bit mode, disabled previously, will return)
Swedish Tanks – Part VI: Sav 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/
With the start of World War Two, Sweden had seen success of the German and Russian assault guns, especially vehicles like the Stug 3. And so, in September 1941, a decision was taken that assault guns should be introduced to the Swedish army. The role of these assault guns would be to support infantry with mobile direct or indirect artillery fire, as well as to provide some anti-tank capability.
Test 3 of patch 9.0 started
Hello everyone,
despite the fact the last round of testing of 9.0 was supposed to be the last one, some serious issues and bugs came up and today, another round of the test was started (the patch has 261,78 MB). List of changes is not yet available.
SS
Weekly FTR contributor review
Hello everyone,
today’s review will be a bit special, since it’s the first time (first month) the Patreon system was in use. I am actually quite surprised it worked exactly as well as was advertised – there is usually some sort of catch involved, but not this time.
To sum it up:
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.
On April 1st, Patreon billed those, who pledged. Out of 566 USD pledged, 526 USD went through successfully (the rest either didn’t allow the payment, cancelled it or encountered some other issue). Out of those 526 USD, 46,03 USD went to credit card fees, 26,34 USD went to Patreon as a fee for running the service, leaving 453,63 USD for FTR – thank you all, who managed to make this possible!
Of course, some people contributed via Paypal “Donate” button as well, these are:
the_viking (Germany)
T-28 (Austria)
MKW (Hong Kong)
Tom K. (Germany)
maho325 (Czech Republic)
Dan S.H. (Romania)
Aurelien M. (France)
Thanks to all of you guys :) Very much appreciated.
Special thanks to Cyrkon for saving me a Chi-Nu Kai code from WGL Finals!
7.4.2014
Not much today
- the autoaim was reworked in 9.0, because on some vehicles, the old one was aiming in the air
- apparently, the Tiger I HD model might be to high? Not sure, basically, a player posted this picture of the HD model and then this photo along with a few others, Storm only said that they checked, nothing else
100g Bonus Code
ER7VX36GD4
Edit: Apparently, expired
Tiger Tales: The VK 45.02 P1 and P2 – the engines
By CaptianNemo
Zarax covered the tank itself in the previous article – let’s look at the engines…
There are several engines proposed for the Type 180/181(P1/P2). The Type 180 is the design with the forward turret and the Type 181 is the design with the rear mounted turret. The following 4 engines in 5 designs were proposed for the VK 45.02 P1 and P2 designs.
Proposed for VK 45.02 (P1) Type 180A (2x engines)
Type 101/3 Simmering-Graz-Pauker (115mm x145mm) 15.06L(Sometimes labeled 101/3A)
V-10 300hp@2000 rpm
V-10 350hp@3200 rpm
Air cooled Gasoline
72 degree V-10.
Gasoline-Electric
600mm wide tracks.(Other books say they were 640mm)
Proposed for VK 45.02 (P1) Type 180B (2x engines)
Type 101/4 Porsche (115mm x145mm) 15.06L
V-10 300hp@2000 rpm
V-10 350hp@3200 rpm
Yet 670hp total hp is listed for the combined hp in Special Panzers.
Air cooled Gasoline
72 degree V-10. 6.4 to 1 compression.
Gasoline-Electric
600mm wide tracks.(Other books say they were 640mm)