9.6 Test 3 Is Up

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Hello everyone,

9.6 test round 3 started. A list of changes:

- fixed the visual and collision models of HD E-100 and T95
- fixed a large number of issues with combat equipment (SS: stronghold consumables)
- improved the game performance when triggering combat equipment
- fixed the bug where the game froze when you tried to change camouflage or inscriptions on a tank, that didn’t have full crew
- fixed the descriptions of some IM’s
- fixed some issues with IM UI
- fixed some ingame and UI issues of Stronghold mode
- fixed some issues during the crew role change
- fixed some interface issues of the client, when using social networks

41 thoughts on “9.6 Test 3 Is Up”

  1. Is saying “I need bounces” at the start of the battle and getting help because of that also rigging? I would like to see some definition from WG.

    Also, do you have an estimated release date for 9.6?

    And fuck that Grille 30, i wanted an allrounder not a derp arty.

    GGWG

      • Exactly because to rig a game you need to “stage” people who are obviously going to help you in battle.

        Asking random people to help you has low chance of success, low enough for WG to not bother and besides, everyone cas ask for help while rigging is mostly done by clans thus giving them advantage over those who don’t have a clan.

        • So if some guy in random battle asks me to ram his IS-7 with my M41 because of ramming missions and I do so its not considered rigging ? We were going to lose anyway so why not help other finish their missions. Anyway I would not be so sure beacuse we are talking about Wargaming here.

    • doubt it since most people will want to hinder not help you , i for example would just try to kill you

      • Two days ago one good guy in enemy team with Grille decided to let me get top gun medal (he was the last one alive of enemy team and I had 5 kills), so I spotted him, he asked if I want the top gun and I said it would be nice so he shot into the ground and let me kill him :)

  3. Friend just told me – and i quote “Medkits and Repairboxes are broken on Test”

    I have no idea how you manage to break a mechanic, which wasn’t touched since wot alpha… or beta? xD

    • That is indeed the case (for me at least), but this bug will likely not appear on the live server. I suppose the repair/medkit buttons interfere with those stronkhold artillery/air strike support buttons.

    • I don’t have a beta account and I have no trouble logging in. Keep in mind that the password for your account is set to the timeframe that the test server was imaged. If it is different now than it was about two weeks ago, try the old one.

      Also, if you have accounts on different servers with the same email, but different passwords, you might try those. It may be trying to log you in under one of those accounts.

      • Indeed, any issues are not related to not being in beta. Works fine for me and I only joined in 2012.

    • Let me guess, you are getting “incorrect password” and some blabla about the account being banned due to your selection during the EU/NA split?

      In that case you have to file a ticket with the server that you do not normally play on (contact EU if you play on NA, contact NA if you play on EU) and ask for your account to be deleted on that cluster. Then you should be able to log in coming 9.7 Test.

  5. Don’t you tell me they even played one round on their own, before they uploaded it, because then they would See gamebreakers like this, fix those … and Than we could focus on the stuff test is there for (at least thats what THEY told us in the first place! “Test is serious”)

    “You have to tell US what wie are supposed to see” is quiet a efficient attitude… like blind painters.

    if I am at the work, I look at what I’ve done at least ONCE before I show it to some one else, because I don’t want to look like an complete idiot :) but hey.. Thats why I Am a multi Million Dollar dev and they ….. Uhhhmm wait a second :/

  8. i cant use repair kit and consumables on test3, when i press 4,5 or 6 key just nothing happens, seems legit, i use only servercross2 mod so i doubt that its that

      • No one has put a firm date on when it should come, but the last time dates were thrown about 9.6 was a possible, with early 2015 being the likely time..
        It is early 2015, and it is 9.6… So I am just curious if this change is likely to happen soon.

        • Maybe but most probably not in 9.7.
          I would put my money on 9.8 or 9.9.

          Now I have so many tanks to grind/buy and at least try out before they get replaced.
          So WG didn’t know, what is the name of year 2015 – I have that covered: 2015 – year of tank replacements.

          • While they have mentioned at least with WHAT it will be replaced but so far no screenshots, stats or supertest stuff… I wouldn’t cross my fingers for 9.7 or 9.8… MAYBE 9.9 but thats as far as I’d go.

            • But 9.9 won’t be “early 2015″. That patch will come mid summer if they maintain the current period of releasing patches.

              9.6 – early February
              9.7 – early April
              9.8 – May/June
              9.9 – July/August

              I think it will happen in 9.7

              • You can think what you want but it certainly won’t happen in 9.7.
                As said, there are no pictures, no stats, no supertest (they are supertesting changes for 9.7 already) so it is IMPOSSIBLE.
                They might have said months ago that it will come in “early 2015″ but you know WG, do you? I give them early summer if anything…

  11. They said in the forum or somewhere that they don’t know how to bring the amx 13/57 into the game. What does this mean? @Silentstalker
    And why is there a prem tier 8 med with tier 10 MM but a gun with 185mm pen! I always understood the tier 8 prems with ‘full’ MM like this: They are at least compatible to its own tier gun- (and armor-)wise like the t34 is. (Or now the is5 with 221pen) The Panther 88 gets at least the panther 2 gun. Why the sta2 doesnt get the top gun of the sta1? It would be balanced purely by the fact that is camo is not as good and it’s mobility. But no, let’s make the gun also shit and btw I looked at gun mantled of both the sta 1 and 2: the 1 has a weird cross coming from the gun which brings at the right zones an effective armor thickness of around 250mm (especially right above the gun). What do you think they did with the sta-2: they removed all the spaced armor so the turret will now bounce shit and only if you are lucky. 120-150mm on the mantled. And because version 2 is higher then sta1 -> goodbye good camo rating. That’s why I was looking forward to the 1357, but even that Wg doesn’t give us. #cryingariver ^^

      • Pershing loses pen for being better in most other places. Not to mention that nuke proof gun mantlet.

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  13. FYI, consumables are still bugged. Repair kits, med kits, and regular fire extinguishers do not work. Presumably any consumable that requires activation does not work (even if you Ctrl-click it on the HUD). There are a lot of reports confirming this on the forums. Might be worth noting in your post that this micropatch actually broke a mechanic.

  14. So, ETA for patch going live is ? I guess its this Friday or start of the next week, but you know, WG …

  15. Bad move of Wargaming. Nothing has changed on the proposed nerf in viewrange of the TD’s. Or the nerf in accuracy proposed for all tanks. This once great game will be reduced to a shit game, intended to play only by noob players with no skills what so ever and lots of luck. I see lots of frustration comming with the introduction of 0.9.6. and lots of deinstalled WOT software following.

    • I am not quite sure how did you mean your comment. I will suppose that you disagree with accuracy and viewrange nerf. Then you might want to get new glasses. If you actually played the test server the accuracy did not change that much and TDs nerf was necessary since they are not supposed to camp and see everything and yet remain invisible and my personal opinion is that they might nerf it even more. Especially E-25 but this OP shit will never get nerfed (Yea, I have one, still its OP shit unlike other tanks unavailable in the shop). Anyway, I tried several tanks and accuracy nerf did not fucked up anything, sometimes the shell flies somewhere you did not expect it but even T49 can still snipe from quite great distance and torch tanks without any problems.