Maiorboltach from the RU community posted about this nice little thing – in recent “Poka vse v tanke” video (sort of like videoblog with another popular Russian girl moderator), an interesting thing was shown: Historical battle mode interface prototype. Don’t be freaked out by the vehicles, it’s just a prototype with placeholders.
The first picture shows the historical battle ammo loadout screen, looks like the gold ammo will really be limited and the ammo setup is actually pre-set, you buy this preset in its entirety.
no, this post will not be about Greek players in World of Tanks, the title of the post is an English proverb, that came originally from the Aeneid. It will be about yet another way how to screw someone in World of Tanks, a way that has been in existence practically since the beginning, yet still happens from time to time. For a lot of you it might be an old and known issue, but it is still actual, so it is better to repeat something, that was said a thousand times rather than to have someone fall for it.
Three days ago, I was contacted by a player, who wants obviously to remain anonymous. That player (or his friend, without names it hardly matters) was just a regular player, until this Christmas, when he recieved a gift from the premium shop, the E-25 tank, from an unknown donor. Considering it a Christmas present from his friend, he accepted it and everything went smooth until recently, when his account was banned out of the blue. Not understanding the situation, he wrote a support ticket, asking what the hell is going on. The reply of Wargaming support staff member was as follows:
We would like to inform you that you have initiated a chargeback process with our company, a gift that you have accepted has been charged back. This chargeback is a result of withdrawing the money the person who gave you the gift used to purchase goods on our website. Therefore; if you want to remove the chargeback form your account you will need to buy an amount of at least 6700 Gold, form our website (the price of the gift received) that will be removed and your account unlocked. When your transaction is successfully completed please notify us and we will then reactivate your account after a successfull proof of payment validation (attach one after the payment)
just a quick announcement: up till recently, US server was pretty much the only server allowing the use of the “defoliant” mod (flora remover – that removed all the bush and tree leaves in the game to help you cheat “increase your FPS”) – well until November 2013 (for those interested, here is a ticket history of Beerstein, it’s mentioned in the text).
However, this has changed around December and now the mod is considered illegal:
So, to all of you, mod users out there, don’t tell anyone don’t use cheat mods!
A long time ago (well, not too long), I received a question that was very long and very thorough. It could be split up into two questions:
1) Were specific Soviet tanks designed to withstand specific German guns?
2) What was the quality of steel used by the Soviets?
The questions were asked about specific vehicles, but I thought it would be more interesting to spread out the scope of it, partially because this is an interesting topic, and partially because I didn’t have (and still don’t have) all of the information that was requested.
The first part of the question is easy: yes, but not only German. Resistance to certain guns from a certain distance is a common requirement. For example, the KV-3 was designed to resist the German 88 mm AA gun, and the KV-4 went one step higher, resisting the 105 mm AA gun. The Shashmurin IS-2 was designed to meet the requirement of resisting the Panther, Tiger, and Ferdinand guns at any range from the front and at 500 meters from the side. The meek MS-1 also had a similar requirement: resistance to .30 caliber AP bullets at 25 paces. That requirement migrated to subsequent T-26 and T-37 tanks, so I see no reason to doubt that the above requirements of resisting German cats were not applied to other tank designs of the era.
Some projects also come with hard armour requirements (ie. 180 mm instead of “impenetrable to 88L/71 gun at 500 meters”), but it is very likely that these figures were taken from the penetrations of real guns.
Hello everyone, here’s what awaits us award-wise in 8.11
For random battles
Main Caliber
Storm:
“This award will be given to the player, that dealt the most damage of all the players in the battle. The player must deal damage that equals no less than 20 percent of the sum of the entire enemy team hitpoints and no less than 1000 damage. If more players meet the requirements, the award will be given to the player with most raw XP in the battle.”
Overlord’s blog is three years old – nice :) If you feel like it, you can say “happy birthday” in this thread :)
- Storm: there will be a perk/skill rebalance, but not soon
- the 8.11 patchnotes info about “modifiers to appear in tanker’s personal info” means the bonuses for for example ventilation or BIA
- Storm confirms that there still will be the planned crewmember retraining from one role to another (SS: for example, radioman to driver), WG has not abandoned this idea – Storm later adds that when this happens, perks/skills will be also “resetted” and you will be able to pick new ones, it will however also cost credits or gold (free version being the worst) just like re-training
as continuation of the “chat” I referred to in the morning, Yuri Pasholok posted a comparison of the drawings of a Tiger II roadwheel, that are supposed to prove the inferiority of the German drawing school. Of course, he couldn’t have done it without insults (he does mention we (FTR readers) “masturbate to nazi Hugo Boss uniforms”), but that is his way I suppose. Sorry for having two posts on the same topic, but I generally use his stuff as “fluff” (when there is nothing more important to write about) and apart from the next Hall of Shame, I have nothing in the queue right now (still have to read a few mails though).
On the left side is the German drawing of the Tiger II roadwheel by Henschel (dated 2.7.1944), on the right side a part of a drawing of the same roadwheel by a Soviet engineer from February 1945 (he admits there are minor mistakes in the Soviet version, “unavoidable in the absence of factory plans”). Apparently this comparison proves the superiority of the Soviet drawing school.
in a recent post, a player (LJ user) gpuctb commented on the situation of tank destroyers and that they should get more nerfs basically. He cites good camo and accuracy as the worst problems. Storm made a comment under the post as follows:
Currently, following variants of TD nerf are considered:
- levelling the camo debuff after shooting the gun (as in, removing the TD advantage of having less camo debuff after shooting than other classes apparently, this is a special thing only TD’s have)
- it’s possible (but not sure) that the accuracy will be reduced (30 percent more towards the old accuracy, without removing the limitation of the amount of hits that fly towards the circle edge)
- higher penetration loss with distance for AP and APCR shells
you might have noticed the comments under the last post are locked, I did that last night in order to stop the arguing about German and Soviet tanks and whatnot – and then I went to sleep. Little did I know I would have an interesting conversation with Yuri Pasholok this morning.
It started with a nice greeting from Yuri Pasholok to you, dear readers :)
Crueldwarf: Your post caused quite a stir in the English part of the forum because it was reposted on FTR Yuri Pasholok: Yea, I’ve read it. I have a feeling that there are faggots sitting over there, for whom the Cold War is not over. I will have to write a post to piss them off even more.
Very classy, isn’t it? :) And this guy wants to be the next Hilary Doyle. Just for the record, “pidaras” (faggot) can also be translated like a “retard”, so noone bashes me about it again. Also, feel free to correct my translation, but I think I got it right. So, I told him to come comment on FTR, that it might be fun. Anyway, he replied with a longer post, the highlights of which are:
- we (FTR readers) are Russophobes
- they (Russians) know their history, we (apparently we all are Germanophiles) can’t even name the designers of the Panther
- we are all nationalists, while nations are dead, you can hang a Turkish flag over Germany and half of British colonies are living in Britain (and French in France) – “you deserve that, it is the fate of all empires” (he notes that the same thing happens in Moscow, but that Russia was a multi-national country even before)
think bad MM balance and leaving KV-1S OP is a sign of Russian bias in World of Tanks? Let me show you some real Russian bias.
Some of you, who read the historical articles and follow such stuff might are familiar with the name of Yuri Pasholok. He’s the main historical researcher for Wargaming (after you read what he wrote, you will probably be able to imagine where this is going). He recently wrote a post about Tiger II (resp. its prototype, VK4503(H)).
The post it titled “Engineer Hans really didn’t want to go fight on the eastern front” – yep, implying German tank designers were cowards is a good start for every post by a Soviet Russian historian. It gets better though. Here’s the translation.
I studied the Tiger II and VK4503(H) documents, thought about it a lot. The 105mm gun on KT can be explained simply – split ammunition. It’s possible the German lovers will suffer when they hear this. And in general, the German engineers, those were jokers. The VK4503(H) suspension that had on each bogey two DOUBLED roadwheels with rubber banding – that’s some sort of tank porn. 19.10.1942, the German genius was as gloomy as never before. And yes, studying German documents makes me proud about our tank engineering. I have a feeling that first grade university students were creating tanks in Germany, they were far behind our design school. Well, and technical approach of German engineers sometimes just delivers.
And this guy is responsible for WoT historical research…
