What the title says – WG fixed it already. Unusual, considering it’s Sunday. Good.

Source: FTA VK community

Hello everyone,

M56 Scorpion got rebalanced on supertest to tier 7. With that, its characteristics got changed – as such (for 100 percent crew):

Tier: 7 US TD
Hitpoints: 820 (earlier 1050)
Weight: 7,144 tons (same)
Engine power: 200 hp (same)
Power-to-weight: 28 hp/t (same)
Maximum speed: 45/12 km/h (same)
Terrain resistance: 1,055/1,247/1,726 (same)
Hull traverse: 40 (buffed from earlier 34 deg/s)
Viewrange: 380 (nerfed from 400)
Radiorange: ?

Armor: 1/1/1

Gun: 90mm
Penetration: 219
Damage: 240
DPM: 1925,3 (buffed from 1854)
Reload time: 7,479 (buffed from 7,767s)
ROF: 8,022 (buffed from 7,725)
Accuracy: 0,326 (nerfed from 0,288)
Aimtime: 1,92 (buffed from 2,01s)
Depression: -10 (same)
Gun traverse angle: 60 degrees

So, it was basically buffed AND its tier reduced by one? Me gusta!

Hello everyone,

a preview with some pictures of the Christmas mode.

Inside:

- the mode is called “New Year Mode” in Russian
- it’s similiar to the earlier “8-bit” mode with Karl
- there will be three tanks (one is “Mammoth” – boxy T110E5, second is “Raider” – in English it’s called “Arctic Fox” for some reason and it’s based on T-50-2, third is “Berserker” – in English “Polar Bear” and it’s based on Foch 155)
- the tanks are roughly similiar in sizes and guns, but the Mammoth has huge amount of hitpoints (5000)
- Arctic Fox (T-50-2) has few hitpoints, but 20 tons with 1200hp engine and 70 km/h maximum speed with 65 deg/s hull traverse
- platoons will be possible
- amount of players per team is not published yet
- you’ll get a medal for participating
- the gameplay will resemble the Karl mode, with one exception – healing shells: if you shoot your allies with them, you’ll heal their hitpoints

Hello everyone,

here’s a Russian video (with English subtitles) with Ola and Asya offering you to buy more WG junk. WG marketing sure is in overdrive mode this Christmas, isn’t it. The offer’s valid for RU server and this has to be the most awkward video with Ola I’ve ever seen. Have a look at it. Have some alcohol nearby though, just in case.

It’s like fucking teleshopping… at several moments I can almost hear the girls thinking “oh god, why…” and “killlll meeeeeee….”

Hello everyone,

today’s advent offer for EU server includes:

- BT-SV + slot
- 27500 gold
- 30 days of premium

Price: 122,70 USD (99,99 EUR)

Seriously, how many fucking times will we get this BT-SV shit? It’s like Wargaming shoving it down our throats over and over again. What are we, geese?

Hello everyone,

we all know WG EU tends to fail (sometimes in spectacular ways). I am sure you are asking: “what did they do THIS time?” – well, the smart boys and gals from WG EU disabled ALL the missions and discounts during server restart. Bravo!

As for fixing the issue – currently (9:26 CET), there’s no word yet.

Patch 9.5 will be released on 22.12.2014 on EU server as well according to official WG post. Thanks to Madestcat for noticing.

Hello everyone,

a 9.5 review video by Wargaming appeared on their Youtube channel. Unfortunately, without subtitles:

Inside:

- Firefly and TD branch (review – a few words about each vehicle, like Archer going backwards faster than forwards and 17pdr guns, that have low alpha, but good accuracy and rate of fire)
- Panther 88 (goes to the premium shop in 9.5)
- two new map – one for team battles and one for low tiers
- Severogorsk and Ruinberg on Fire removed, Winterberg added instead
- Personal missions (former Individual missions) with girl crewmembers as rewards. Here’s an example how you can select the nation, class and vehicle of one such crewmember (yes, the picture belongs to Ola). Notice the T-35 in the choices:

Unfortunately this picture does not mean T-35 will be introduced anytime soon, it’s just WG teasing with old junk again (T-35 model was made like two years ago).

- reworked shell hit effects (you can see that at cca 3:32)
- bonus XP for scout tanks for spotting damage (10 percent for each tier the vehicle you spotted is above you, 30 percent max)
- added minimap functions

Silentstalker: First a little announcement. After seeing the comments under part 1, following measures will be taken not to repeat the same situation. It’s okay not to like artillery, but a) spamming b) cancer stuff, death wishes etc. c) rude comments without any merit will be deleted and their posters will be banned (the worst cases, like Woel aka CosmicSquirrel here will be added to my shitlist and treated as HoS members). Sorry, sick of the arty hate shit. Got nothing constructive to add? Then stay silent. Thanks for understanding.

Edit: as expected, turned out to be a bunch of moaning. Comments locked, some offenders banned.

Author: Tyraforce

First, thanks for all the feedback and suggestions concerning part 1 of this guide. I was shocked how much flame the guide started. I understand getting artied makes people angry in the game (almost as much as premium ammo) but I really didn’t expect such whining at FTR.

This TK happened just a few hours after the guide went life and it was some funny reading indeed. Big thanks to those special folks for following FTR and reading the guide. I can’t really respond to all the 328 comments you posted but I feel one controversial topic needs to be addressed in more detail,

ARTY and CAMPING

The most common argument why arty encourages camping was “When there are many SPGs on each team, people camp harder.” This was really not my point. The question all the arty-haters should ask is this: “How would WoT change if arty got removed?”
For one thing, E3, 261, IS7 and similar tanks would become very popular. Right now, they can only camp in arty-safe positions whereas without arty, any hulldown position would become a bunker full of these tanks. This would create huge kill-zones which would be painful to conquer without superb coordination. You know how painful it is now to break through certain camps. This would become much worse and would happen on more maps. Remember the arty-safe bridge camp on Pearl River where teams sat for 10min doing nothing? Would they sit there while getting artied? Can you even imagine CW? Right now every second team camps the southern base on Mountain Pass, which they consider reasonably arty-safe. Now, imagine what would happen if all the bases were arty-safe.

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