Hello everyone,

there is a lot of information going on around the forums about the EU server lag, but it’s scattered all over the place. I did a little investigation of my own, asked around in Russia – didn’t uncover much, but the following is known:

- it is now confirmed that the EU1 server was moved to Amsterdam
- this movement was not caused by the current issues! It was in the making for quite some time, as indicated by the fact it was done practically instantly, where the physical moving of the EU server would require days of downtime, while Wargaming simply switched to ID
- currently, EU1 is running on something that was previously “EU3″ and was prepared for this move, Russian sever RU3 is running on something that was unofficially designated EU4 (it was also moved from Munich)
- the reason both servers were moved from Munich to Amsterdam is unknown
- apparently, Wargaming servers are not the source of the lag issue, the routing is – a new route via Cogent (SS: whatever that is) was created and is in use. My contact’s words: “I suspect they’ve screwed up the BGP or the balancing on the new route” (I better quote it, I have no idea what that means)
- there is currently a massive DDOS attack going on, based on something called “NTP MONLIST”, Wargaming is not the target specifically, but this attack might be clogging the routes
- at this moment, WG RU in Minsk is directly involved in the situation, there is pretty much a gag order for the WG EU employees about it: even if they know, they aren’t allowed to tell you anything, that hasn’t been officially approved. Which takes time.

Hello everyone,

so, it’s been a few days since the 8.11 update, so let’s have a look at what it brought – I will be specifically referring to the EU servers, but from what I could gather, US servers seem to be plagued by the same issues as well. First, the positives:

- new maps: both Windstorm and Ruinberg on fire are visually beautiful. Windstorm gameplay… well, I actually didn’t get that map a single time on random, so I can’t judge, but from the test server it was nice. I like it.
- FPS increase: overall, my FPS increased – not by much, but every bit helps
- TD nerf… I guess… I mean, I never complained about TD’s being OP before (apart from the WT E-100, which is still pretty ridiculous) in the first place, can’t judge
- new UI features, which are nice, but old habits die hard, so I just retrained all the crews I needed manually, before I realized I can do it with one click only now – useful, but… yea, okay, I am conservative

And, negatives…

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Hello everyone,

you know how it is with Wargaming EU: not a weekend without fail! This Valentine weekend was especially ripe with it. Let’s start with the “1 day premium” account, that was awarded ever since Wednesday (before the missions were announced) and many people quite reasonably thought it’s some sort of compensation for the terrible lag fiasco of last weekend and this week. That was not the case, it was a Valentine gift for everyone – because, you know, it’s SO hard to set a mission to start during the actual event time.

Funnily enough, even WG support staff thought that it’s a compensation for the last weekend’s lag.

And the weekend event itself? Well…

Retraining 50 percent off? Cool, isn’t it? Yea well…

No discount for silver retraining. Which would be okay, if it was announced properly!

*sigh*

Russian players have this meme, that can be roughly translated as “Wargaming as usual” – maybe we should start such a meme here too. As usual.

New Ruinberg on Fire map – sector A2

Thanks to Massacre049 (US) for this :)

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Source: wotleaks.ru

You waited for it. You wanted it. Here it is :)

In 9.0, the tier 5 Panzer IV model will change into the Ausführung H – with side skirts (Schurzen). And no, this is NOT an alternative hull. This is how tier 5 Panzer IV will look like.

Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2753123.html and http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2753022.html

Hello everyone,

Yuri Pasholok (no matter what we might think of him personally) posts some pretty interesting stuff occasionally. This time, it’s a couple of photos of the Valentine tanks.

Here, a demonstration of first Valentine VI tanks, created by Canadian Pacific Railway, Angus Shop, Montreal, 17.8.1941

And these are the photos of the Kubinka Valentine II, located outside of the museum under the open sky – and apparently, it’s the only tank of this type, left in Russia. The vehicle is well preserved, including its serial number:

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Hello everyone,

because I recieved two e-mails about this, just to clarify to avoid confusion.

You might have noticed that Wargaming EU decided to give us a free day of premium account during the Valentine event. That’s cool and all that, but it wouldn’t be Wargaming, if they didn’t do it without a fail. You see, they activated the “mission” to get the free day early. All of us who logged in this week (specifically ever since Wednesday) recieved it already.

The thing is, most of the people thought it is a compensation for the disastrous last weekend server behavior. It is not. There has been no compensation for that (and as far as we know, there will not be any), this is the “Valentine Gift” for everyone. Instead of a day of premium, I’d rather hear:

- what went wrong
- how was it fixed
- that it won’t happen next weekend again

If WG staff argues this one day serves as a compensation – no, it isn’t, the Russians got a day of premium as well and they didn’t have server trouble like this.

Or did I miss a post explaining all this?

Hello everyone,

according to all the signs (pingplotters etc.), EU1 server was moved from Munich to Amsterdam. Apparently there is a problem with Munich as a whole, because RU3 server, that was situated in Munich, was ALSO moved to Amsterdam (you can imagine how “happy” the Russians with low RU3 ping are about it). The latter is officially confirmed, the EU1 move is not, but it’s almost certain it happened.

This explains by the way why many people wrote on forums and other places that they experienced ping changes on EU1 (including me – earlier, 40-50, now 70-90, not including the lags).