Yearly Archives: 2014

29.1.2014

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- you will get the same punishment for teamdamage no matter how well you perform in battle (SS: as in, you will get punished the same way even if you did 12k damage)
- it’s possible premium tanks, such as Dicker Max and Churchill III will appear in historical battles
- Wargaming doesn’t know anything about Japanese post-war light tanks
- Storm confirms the British voiceover, it will be pointed out in final patchnotes
- regarding the FOV change in 8.11

“It was an experimental setting, that changes FOV depending on the level of camera zoom. On maximum zoom, the FOV was reduced by 25 percent. We decided not to do it and forgot to remove it on the test client.”

- no T34 premium buff is planned
- apparently, the game has a problem with oveclocked PC’s and crashes on them since 8.10, this problem will not be fixed in 8.11
- FV4202 model not fixed while T-54 gets changed? “How terrible” (SS: yet another hint that FV4202 might be replaced by something)
- apparently, lower frontal plate angle of Type 59 might be changed
- new HESH mechanics are not being worked on yet, but changes are planned
- new Japanese and Chinese tanks are definitely not planned in 2014
- “light T-54″ Soviet premium will come this year
- for now, no changes in Team battles are planned, developers are working on selecting your team according to what map you are getting
- apparently, SU-76I will not be a regular premium tank, but an award/event tank
- M46 Patton will not lose its unhistorical top gun
- no plans to change the Soviet D-54 gun
- there will be no compensation for Type 59 changes
- Storm states that he considers the way Wargaming did camouflage in World of Tanks correct (SS: as in, it won’t be made like in War Thunder, where you can literally make pink tanks with pictures etc.)
- the customization of tanks, mentioned earlier by developers could be for example additional tool boxes, track links and extra roadwheels on places where they could have been in real life, it’s not yet decided whether this additional stuff will be purely visual, or (SS: for example track links) will give any bonus to armor
- in historical battles, Storm confirms that the gold ammo will be limited, mechanism of the battle will be the same as in current random (SS: no “hardcore mode”)

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Tanks, that never made it…

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Hello everyone,

sometimes, players ask the developer a question: “Are there any tanks that were almost done or seriously considered, but never made it?” Well, the answer is “yes” of course, in fact, there were (are) quite a few such tanks. Let’s have a look at some of the most common “vaporware” out there, but also at tanks, that were never implemented in the end.

The Frencch second heavy line is probably the ultimate World of Tanks vaporware (as WarriorOsprey pointed out yesterday). The problem with French heavies is that although they have a fanbase, French tanks as a whole are definitely one of the least popular branches, along with the Chinese. The models for this branch were ready a long time ago (and I am talking years), but somehow, the branch was postponed and postponed again. Check this out, this is likely the AMX M4 (1949), as it appeared in Wargaming materials (or on some promo video, I am not sure).

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Australian Archives I

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Hello everyone,

today, we have something special for you. Stuff you haven’t seen (and couldn’t have seen) before. Vollketten from US forums has been in touch with a professional researcher, who lives in Melbourne and specialises in military history. This researcher has agreed to take photos of documents (tank-related stuff) from Australian National Archives.

With Vollketten’s permission (he paid for this operation, all the credit goes to him), I am reposting some of the “good stuff”.

Let’s start with something light – some of the stuff in these archives is pure comedy gold. This tank proposal was submitted by Mr.Wentworth. The curious thing about it is that at that time, Mr.Wentworth was in jail for 12 counts of larceny and fraud. After reading the documents, I am sure you’ll understand what was the sole purpose of this “proposal”…

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28.1.2014

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Just a quick update: this post will appear on FTR Facebook page with delay, as I got a 12 hour ban for that “well-wisher” post, apparently someone reported it :)

- Q: “How come you reduced the alpha to 750 when the Soviets have 750 alpha on tier 8 already?” A: “Suffer, sovietophobe!”
- national battles were implemented because “Storm wanted it”
- Q: “National battles were proposed in 2011, but back then, you said no. What changed?” A: “I got promoted”
- if the national battles prove to be imbalanced, they will be fixed
- WoWs has its own version of the engine
- WoT will be re-worked to run with WoWp render apparently
- if you get teamkilled by an ally, you won’t recieve the bonus XP for surviving battle
- apparently, the national battles were not developed for a long time, it’s an “experiment” (SS: spur of the moment so to say) – later, when the player asks whether it was a sarcasm, Storm answers that no, not really, it was not much work – just one change in the MM mechanism and a few interface changes
- the tankist-sniper medal (for dealing damage at over 300 meters of distance) will be changed to require at least 8 shots (SS: a player on RU forum demonstrated, how he got it for two shots with FV215b 183)
- the “High caliber” medal 20 percent HP requirement won’t be lowered
- Storm states that the old render will not be supported, it will die out over the years
- if I understand it correctly, the manual vertical aim will be implemented the way it is in Battlefield tank battles now (SS: sorry, never played BF3 or BF4) – not now, but by the end of the year most likely. It will be optional.

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Storm posts about 8.11

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/273818.html

Hello everyone,

this Thursday, there will be the second round of the test and Storm is posting a bit more about 8.11:

- Waffenträger E-100 will be nerfed by 200 hitpoints, otherwise everything will stay the way it is in round 1 of the test
- developers are working on various 8.11 issues, such as client crashes and interface bugs, practically every problem reported will be fixed, how exactly and what exactly – Storm will tell that later
- T-54 model in test 1 was apparently unfinished: it will get the same height as Type 59

From discussion:

- Storm states that the new Soviet premium medium tank will most likely be the “light” T-54 with 80mm frontal hull and 180mm turret, but it’s not yet entirely sure, the developers haven’t started working on it yet
- the log on T-54 was moved to the side, because that’s where it was on the 120mm frontal armor T-54 model
- T-54 model change is finally “historical” after 3 years, Storm states it’s not in order to prepare for HD client, it’s just a fix
- apparently the gold camo on test server (SS: the announced change with gold camo staying “saved” even if you sell the tank) is working correctly
- Storm states that it’s not like WTE-100 allows 40 percent WR tomatoes to deal 5k damage, he adds that there is a difference between WT E-100 and other TDs in damage, but much smaller

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Richard Tesařík – Czechoslovak tanker and a Hero of the USSR

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Hello everyone,

today, we are going to talk about Richard Tesařík – possibly the best (and certainly best known) Czech tank commander of all times. As one of few Czechoslovaks, for his heroic exploits during the liberation of Kiev, he was awarded the title of the Hero of the USSR and with the Soviet order of Lenin.

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Richard Tesařík was born on 3.12.1915 in Prague. His father was a small businessman, his mother was an opera singer. From 1921, his family lived in Příbram in central Bohemia, where Richard Tesařík went to the elementary school and high school, later he studied arrangment in Prague. Later on he worked as an arranger (advertiser) in Příbram, Milovice, Velvary and Pardubice.

Richard Tesařík enlisted (or rather, was conscripted) in October 1937 in Beroun, from where he moved to the NCO school in Kladno. After successfully finishing it, he was sent back to Beroun with the rank of a corporal. During the 1938 mobilization, he was moved to Postoloprty u Žatce, where he led a guard squad. After the Munich treason, he was once again transferred to a batallion of rangers to Carpathian Ruthenia, where he fought the Hungarian fascists during the clash near the Domaninsk bridge. Shortly after he was transferred again (this time to Pardubice), but seening what was happening to Czechoslovakia, he decided to join the anti-nazi foreign resistance. Shortly before the outbreak of the war, he left Czechoslovakia and went to Poland, where he wanted to join the Czechoslovak Legion in Krakow. As a part of it, he fought the Germans during the Polish blitzkrieg as an anti-aircraft machinegunner.

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So, who wants to own a tank museum?

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Source: Armchair General website (thanks to Listy for sending me a link)

Hello everyone,

now, this is an interesting (and a bit sad) piece of news. To quote from the article

William Gasser, a semi-retired businessman who often call himself “a former millionaire,” is seriously searching for an individual or organization that would be interested in receiving a tax free donation of his huge Tank Museum located currently in south central Virginia in the town of Danville. This museum is situated on an 89 acre site that includes a 330,000 square foot building which houses 118 armored and artillery vehicles, 160 mid-size weapons (Bazookas, Flame Throwers, Recoilless Rifles), 60 rifles (some rare, others current), an International Hall of 340 Generals in uniform, and a unique 1/16 scale 6000 square foot indoor battlefield for radio controlled tanks. The collection also includes International Tank & Cavalry artifacts from many time periods, plus support facilities that serve as a gift shop, classrooms, research library, cafeteria, and workshops to maintain the artifacts.

So yes, basically Mr.Gassner is looking for someone, who would carry on his legacy, since he opened the museum more than 30 years ago, in 1981. The vehicles are allegedly 30 mil USD worth in total according to Mr.Gassner’s wife, who is the museum’s director and the collection includes 40 vehicles loaned from the US Department of Defense. For more details, please read the original article.

So, what do you say, Mr.Kislyi – do you REALLY need that one more building on Cyprus? :)