Hello everyone,
as you know, Russian supertesters can be sometimes encountered lately on EU server, testing the roaming feature. They usually use more exotic vehicles: we’ve seen the T95E6, Grosstraktor and now the SU-76I as well. Thanks to EiKarramba (who sent me the pictures) and Opop7 (who made them), much appreciated.
Again, not much today, however you can read Chieftain’s article about desert Sherman’s conversions
- Storm doesn’t know whether the constant refreshing of the garage (SS: the short “synchronizing” every few secs) will be fixed, but states that it’s not critical
- Storm is absolutely sure that there haven’t been any gun accuracy changes after 8.6
- confirmed: artillery bugs are already fixed in the supertest 9.0 build
Hello everyone,
so, I was playing World of Tanks bit more this weekend after some (usually I just log in for Clanwars to see whether I am needed or not) and I decided to run the missions, specifically, you know, the one where you gotta win 15 times to get some consumables or something. Did it on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was fine, but Sunday… it was like “I really don’t feel like doing it, but I am at 11/15, so I better finish it”. I am sure most of you had that feeling at one point or another. This feeling of frustration (doing something you don’t actually want to in order to accomplish something) only leads to bad gameplay (“let this battle be over with fast so I can have this done”).
Now, older players might remember time when there actually were no missions – compared to that, the current system definitely is a step in the right direction both for players (who get extra rewards) and for developers, because as you can see, missions under some circumstances keep players playing even if they don’t want to – and in some cases, the “only a few left to go” is transformed into more spending (“fuck it, I’m going to shoot gold for the rest of the mission”), which in turn obviously leads to increased profit for Wargaming (in some cases directly, in some indirectly via “aw shit I spent 500k on premium rounds, better buy premium account once my salary arrives”).
Hello everyone,
if you are interested in tank history on a bit deeper level, you might have noticed that every nation had its share of really weird tank projects – things that, although probably started in good faith or with a reasonable idea in mind, turned out to be quite different from what their creators intended. Czechoslovakia was no different and in this case, the “honors” belong to the company called Tatra.
Pre-war Czechoslovak military industry was basically dominated by two competing companies: Škoda and ČKD (Praga). Tatra was always the “odd man out”. Famous for its trucks, its military division created armored cars mostly and only twice did Tatra venture into the tank territory. The first attempt to create a sort-of heavy tank (Tatra T-III – more like a breakthrough tank than heavy, weight-wise it was pretty much a medium) ended in a complete disaster and even the procurement staff, usually ignoring all sorts of flaws in vehicles, complained that this is too much.
Another attempt however was a more interesting (in a wacky way).
Hello everyone,
as promised, here is the overview of this week’s FTR contributors. I value all your help equally, no matter how small, so I just want to thank you all once again.
Contributors
*nobody this week*
Please note that if you want your full real name or nickname listed, you have to write me your nickname (or your consent for full name publication) :)
You can also leave a message you want published.
Note: empty contributor review post is here just for the reference that I didn’t forget anyone or to post it
Today, again, nothing unfortunately. I even checked the “lesser developers answering” section on RU forums (which is basically equal to EU/US regular questions thread) and the questions from there are so dumb that I just facepalmed and closed it for the sake of my sanity. The only “interesting” piece of info is that no matter how hard you beg (and some begged quite a lot), developers won’t tell you when the 3rd campaign begins.
What you can do is check the newest list of bots, the red ones on it were banned already. The fun part is: you might see the player “gritzy” on the list. He got banned and here, he moans like a bitch on the bot owner’s forums :)
Also, you might remember my post about Centurion AVRE and M728 CEV. Listy had some comments to add and posted a reaction on Overlord’s blog. It’s well worth reading.
Source: wot-news.com
Hello everyone,
here are the tier 10 RU server statistics from wot-news for last 4 weeks. I am posting this, because some are quite surprising (Maus, Leopard, STB-1). Check this out:
Pretty much nothing today. The only thing that was going on a while ago (and I forgot to post it) was the supertest of the possibility to stream (via Twitch) directly from the client. I guess that’s good news for all the streamers out there.
Oh yea, and as for mobile gaming, current minimum requirements for WoT: Blitz are (according to Overlord) following chips:
Tegra 3
Mali-400MP
Adreno 225
PowerVR SGX544MP2
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/
After it became clear that Sweden would not be interested in buying more of the L-10 or L-30 tanks, Landsverk people started to consider exporting their designs. Most would be unsuccessful, but they are interesting nonetheless, so let’s take a look at some of them.
Landsverk L-100
Landsverk had been working on several designs in late 20′s and early 30′s. One of these designs was a light tank, similiar to the German Panzer I. This was the L-100 light tank. It was first designed in 1930 alongside the L-10 and L-30. The vehicle was a 4,5 ton light tank, armed with either two machineguns or the 20mm Madsen autocannon and it had 9mm of armor. The first prototype was allegedly produced around 1934 and was essentially a thinned down version of the L-60 tank, that was currently under development. It seems likely that this first prototype was produced to test the new torsion bar suspension, planned to replace the earlier suspension used on Landsverk designs, such as the L-10.
Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2858031.html
Hello everyone,
Yuri Pasholok posted a nice summary of the Panzer III Ausf.J, standing in Kubinka. Let’s have a look at it.
It’s one of the most mass-produced models of Panzer III, the Ausf.J with 50mm L/60 gun. In Spring 1942, this version was renamed to Ausf.L. These vehicles formed the backbone of the German armored units in 1942 and it was this tank, that fought against Soviet KV’s and T-34′s. This took a heavy toll on them and to this day, only one Ausf.J with L/60 50mm survived, this one – and only because it was captured by the Soviets at some point in 1942.
