Yearly Archives: 2014

Xbox WoT Stream QA

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3138922.html

Hello everyone,

recently, a stream with Aleksei “Inaki” Ilyin (WoT community manager) and Artyom Safronov (Xbox WoT producer) came up and Maiorboltach was kind enough to re-write, what was said in it.

Keep in mind that this concerns WoT Xbox, not WoT itself

- currently there are 10 maps in the game
- Soviet branch will come very soon
- WG hopes to introduce soon the following modes: companies, confrontation and team battles (currently, there are usually 150 people in the queue, who wait cca 10 seconds for a battle)
- there are no separate servers the way PC WoT has it – Russians are playing on EU servers with the French, Spanish etc.
- many players already have more than 600 battles
- most players play tier 6-8
- there are standard 3 man platoons in the game, they can be formed via the Xbox Live system

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Invite Codes

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Hello everyone,

a whole bunch of invite codes from the Razer event (1000g + 7 day prem) by Little_Red_Devil, Filip J., Lyman, K., Randall_PL, Neoros, Quadra1, Petronius, Elros, Sv_Ilija_Gromovnik, Iljuscha, SgtRoach, Toshiro_Umezawa, ShelbyGT500, 0romis, Xardas060, Tahtisilma, Nehalem, “oznaceny”, oduro, Ajsich, Atikabubu, EaglyFly_5, Kurtinovic, Oplan, Kapanga, Ionotzgogu, Aliaume, xLeRuffianx

Thank you all – if anyone else has unredeemed codes, please, do send them over and I will publish them with your name.

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28.3.2014

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- regarding the armor overhaul – when T-62A gets turned into HD, its armor will be reworked as well
- apparently there is no need to buff KV-5
- developers have not yet decided, what to do with the M6A2E1 (“Alien”), when it gets reworked to HD, they will collect all sources and will see what is to be done with it
- in the final version, T-54′s commander copula will be 130mm thick (SS: right now it is 160mm)
- the reason for HD armor rework is not as much increased amount of details, more like increased historical accuracy, based on sources
- Wargaming always tries to get the armor schematic as realistic as possible, regardless of balance: “Armor was never related to balancing, unless you mean the made-up vehicles, where we were free to put as much armor as we wanted”
- the size of the HD models is cca 60-100 megabytes per tank

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T-54 Turret Armor in 9.0

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/281337.html

Hello everyone,

in his post, Storm shows how the T-54 turret armor will change. Every model, that gets transferred to HD quality, will have its armor changed – some slightly, some significantly so. Most of the time it’s about the increase of number of armor zones. In connection with this, Storm admits that they made a mistake, when they made the 9.0 turret armor for the test. Check this out. This is how it looks now (8.11):

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Kubinka Museum to celebrate Patch 9.0

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Source: http://wot.igromania.ru/wot/detail/227097/Kubinka_vstrechaet_vyhod_obnovleniya_9_0.htm

Hello everyone,

an interesting piece of news from Russia. On 12.4.2014, an event will take place at the world-famous Kubinka tank museum, celebrating the release of Patch 9.0 (that gives us an idea for when the patch is planned, doesn’t it). For the event visitors, there will be contests, competitions and gifts, discussion with developers and of course, there will be the possibility to check out the tank exposition itself. World of Tanks: Rush card game will be sold there as well and so will the plastic kits of a company called “Zvezda”.

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The event is closed and there are only 1500 spots for the participants, who have to apply at World of Tanks site – first 1500 will get in.

Cool!

9.0 Test – Changed Historical Battles Feedback

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Hello everyone,

as you probably know from yesterday, in current round of the 9.0 test, there were some changes made to the Historical Battles mode. You can read about them in detail under the post. So, naturally, I wanted to try them out and here’s what I learned.

Overall, these chages were definitely positive. The increase of tanks per battle definitely had a positive effect on all three of them (I will write about that in a second). They changed the ammunition setups – that change seems a bit pointless though, because the amount of gold ammo generally wasn’t increased and I never reached a point, where I would be even close to running out of AP ammunition. Two things I however uncovered, that are not directly related to historical battles. First is the faulty Panzer III camo I didn’t notice before (I believe more models suffer from this effect) – in particular, the wheels are now covered by it, but in an incorrect way (no, this was not indended):

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It looks just weird. Second bug is that when you press “tab” to bring up the battle team roster screen, it will get stuck, until you press “escape” for the menu to appear and then “return to battle”. Anyway, back to HB’s – you know I am a fan of German tech in general, so I tested the battles with either Panzer IV or Panther. Panther in particular is insane fun in all three battles and I can wholeheartedly suggest it :)

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