Hello everyone,
two days ago, I recieved an e-mail by a player with the nickname of super_de_boer, who lives in Ghent (Belgium) and claimed that some of the buildings on the Windstorm map were inspired by his home city. I was a bit skeptical at first (since it was earlier uncovered there might be an inspiration by Trondheim and the map is supposed to be in the north), but… well, you be the judge.
This is a building in Windstorm….
Source: http://www.3dnews.ru/798648 (via world_of_cactus’ post on LJ)
Hello everyone,
Wargaming recently released an information that the Xbox beta servers for World of Tanks will go offline on January 29th in order to prepare for final release, that is apparently scheduled within few days from this event. There is no definitive date yet, but it most likely will happen in the beginning of February.
Hello everyone,
Giganaut made two more renders of the TVP tank, check this out! You can also visit him in his thread on US forums to say hi :) It has more interesting renders of various tanks.
Hey guys, check out Listy’s article about one special German pilot!
You can also check The_Chieftain’s “Hatch” on Firefly real life tests…
- for now it is not planned to change vehicle characteristics between random battles and upcoming historical battles (SS: as in, if you have a Panzer IV in certain setup, its characteristics will be the same in both modes, if you use the same modules)
- the recent interface upgrades were not done earlier, because “other interface works had to be completed before”
- the probability of causing minimum and maximum damage is not linear – there is a lower chance to cause extreme end damage and higher chance to cause average damage.
- regarding one nation being better than other in “national battles”: “A nation as a whole isn’t worse, actual tanks are. These tanks will be fixed, if necessery”
- (SS: in 8.11, the teamkill and teamdamage bans will be much harsher) – regarding the fear of unjust bans for random hits, SerB states: “We will not ban for random hits on allies”
- Storm states regarding the differences between gaps between roadwheels on T-54, Type 59 and WZ-120 in 8.11 that they are different hulls, these gaps don’t have to be the same
- Storm states there will be no compensations for Type 59 changes
- Type 59 was changed “so that the tanks based on T-54 were done correctly”
- the T-54 in the game from 8.11 will be “early hull variant”
- IS-3 mantlet was not changed (SS: some player was complaining it is now too easy to penetrate)
Funnily enough, a player submitted his “M6A2E1 sucks” whine in verses. SerB’s only answer was “Not a Pushkin”
Hello everyone,
remember the TVP article I posted earlier? Giganaut was kind enough to actually create a render of the most advanced vehicle stage (T-50/51). Thanks a lot, mate! It does look kinda badass, doesn’t it?
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
J.K. (Ireland)
S.D. (Belgium)
Richmi (Czech Republic)
Webium s.r.o. (http://www.mywotmods.com/) (Czech Republic)
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) :)
Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2672642.html
Yuri Pasholok recently posted a really interesting article about the restoration of the Russian museum Panzer II Ausf.F (from Kubinka). I was wondering whether to repost it, but in the end, it would be a damn shame if us westerners didn’t have a look too. It’s not a Hugo Boss uniform, but it will have to do :)
He states that this vehicle is quite rare in museums. This is the way it looks now:
Hello everyone,
long time ago, I wrote a post about the Czechoslovak T-34/100 project (that could theoretically fit the tier 7 in the Czechoslovak branch).
Hello everyone,
as you probably know, the EU servers lagged like hell this weekend (to the point I actually didn’t play during the event, although I really wanted to) and according to some player accounts (bit busy to try myself), they continue to do so.
The good thing about the situation is that unlike the usual “talk to your ISP” attitude, Wargaming EU acknowledged the issue and they are working on it.
iScending (EU staff) has created a thread, where he posted regular updates yesterday. Today nothing so far, but if you want to know as fast as possible about this issue, you can follow it here:
http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/348737-high-latency-slow-forums-stuck-servers-260113/
I will follow it myself and will let you know when there are any news about this issue.
Source: VK Wotleaks community
Hello everyone,
so, we got some nice leaks here from the VK community… a new upcoming vehicle: Panzer IV Ausf.A – tier 3 medium tank. Since it is a regular tank and there is no real reason to just add a historical variant to the already existing Panzer IV that actually covers it (gun-wise), I think we can safely speculate that Panzer IV is getting split into more tanks. When? Most likely for historical battles and since they told us they are coming “soon” (9.0?), it’s likely to assume this will be a part of the patch…
