Thanks to iBeNoob for this one!
Hello everyone,
a column of historical vehicles passed through the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma in Russia. I think most need no introduction. Enjoy!
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William Foster’s Italian Tank
by Vollketten
So, for those who don’t know, the firm of William Fosters and Co. Ltd. was based in Lincoln, England and was the home of the first British tanks – and, later on in the next war the great and glorious TOG vehicles. For some time, I have been trying to track down a rumour of a tank designed for the Kingdom of Italy sometimes in the 1930′s and after much searching, I feel it’s finally possibly to say with some certainly what that tank was and what it looked like.
11.7.2014
- Havok is planned for this year
- multicore support is apparently being gradually worked on
- why is there no Steam support? “Something on the top level didn’t work out with Steam” and “No comment”
- Storm confirms again the fact that Soviet LT7 will be the LTTB and LT8 will be the “Light T-54″
- Veider confirms that the improved VK4502B turret, mentioned in patchnotes (roof thickness buffed) didn’t get to the first test round, it will appear however in the next one
- 9.3 will bring cca 18 new HD tanks
New Ranzar Video
9.2 – Official Model Changes
Hello everyone,
if you’ve seen the 9.2 test server patch notes, you know that several tanks’ models are listed as “improved” – until there is an unofficial full list of changes, this is the list we know about. The English patchnotes say the following:
- Visual models of the following tank models improved: ISU-152, SU-122?, M18 Hellcat, M3 Lee, M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo, Tortoise, Black Prince, Conqueror Gun Carriage, Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. D, Sturmpanzer I Bison, Pz.Kpfw. B2 740 (f) and Type 4 Chi-To.
If you are wondering what “SU-122?” is, it’s SU-122A – the reason the question mark is there is that they copied the text from Russian forums and probably filtered it through some editor, that doesn’t display cyrillic letters properly and turns azbuka into questionmarks.
I went through the models displayed and here’s what I found – a part of the models listed above (specifically, ISU-152, SU-122A, M3 Lee, Sturmpanzer I Bison, B2 740(f) and Chi-To) have had no changes whatsoever – or rather, it’s possible a pixel was changed here or there, but I haven’t been able to find them.
M18 Hellcat was lowered a tiny bit and the texture now displays more “wear and tear”, so it doesn’t look that much plastic.
“How Wargaming Works” Video
Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/1/wargaming_in_working/
An interesting video appared on Russian portal, explaining “how Wargaming works” (there are English subtitles). I mean, I guess it’s okay… I just wonder whether the artist who made this took some LSD before he started working…
9.2 – General Feedback
Hello everyone,
well, the patch 9.2 is here and it’s time to gather some feedback. The thing is… there is not a whole lot going on with this patch. Not from the things that can be thoroughly tested anyway. There is the Stronkhold mode, but last night and today morning there was noone from my clan to play it and even if there was, there is not much to say about it that wasn’t already said.
Some vehicles got buffed and nerfed and some had their armor changed, which can be seen here (not a complete list, I will gather the other changes when the data is available). Then there are the new maps, including the reworked Prokhorovka – they warrant a separate post and I’ll get to it (although some the main changes were leaked already – Sacrad Valley, Cliff, Hidden Village).
9.2 – New Prokhorovka
Thanks to Vangelis for the screenies.
Hello everyone,
as you probably know, the Prokhorovka map was reworked and now is in the game (god knows why) under the name of Fire Arc. Earlier (very long time ago) it was said that this map would appear along with the old Prokhorovka – at this moment it’s unclear whether both maps will be in the map pool at the same time.
Either way, the map now looks somewhat different, as I am about to show you. First the minimap:
9.2 – Partial Armor Changes
Hello everyone,
this post is not the final and extensive list of armor changes, only the vehicles listed in the patchnotes appear here. Well, let’s have a look at what was changed. The English patchnotes can be found here, but strangely enough, there are some differences between the RU and US version, so I am going to use the Russian one.
VK4502 Ausf.B
This tank recieved a buff. The entire frontal plate (lower and upper) was changed to 200mm, the machinegun nest weakspot disappeared. The roof of the elite turret recieved a buff and it looks like this:
Funnily enough, it seems like despite what was written in the patchnotes, they forgot to up the roof like they stated. Oh well.
Storm Confirms: “Light T-54″ will be Soviet LT8
Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3383957.html
Hello everyone,
so, the info, leaked earlier, is true.
Storm confirmed that the LTTB will be Soviet tier 7 light tank (funnily enough, the Russians, including Storm, call it LGBT), because on tier 8 it would be completely unhistorically stretched. And so, the tier 8 Soviet light tank will indeed be the “light T-54″.
Tier 8 Soviet premium medium tank will according to Storm be a “T-54 prototype”.
T-54′s for the T-54 god!