Thanks to WARLOCK360100 for sending me this. This text was originally published on another site and I am not its writer (the author of the text was one of the few lucky ones who apparently saw the E3 playable WoWs demo). However, given the fact that the aforementioned site copypastes FTR stuff without so much as asking on regular basis, I do not feel in any way obliged to post the original source here.

World of Warships was one of the most impressive demos we saw at E3 2014. While Wargaming.net first showed a recording of pre-alpha footage in a theater presentation during last year’s show, this year the company demonstrated real-time gameplay against AI opponents in the current alpha build. What we witnessed makes us fear for our free time: World of Warships is likely to devour our lives when it releases, much like World of Tanks first did.

The premise of WoWS is similar to both World of Tanks and World of Warplanes; if you have played one of these Wargaming.net titles, you will instantly feel at home. There is the familiar out-of-battle interface, tech trees with up to ten tiers for a number of nationalities, instant-action PvP, and maps with base capture mechanics. Ship classes include destroyers, cruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers.

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Hello everyone,

an interesting thing happened – a post about how the matchmaking mechanism works was removed from the World of Tanks portal. The original address of the post no longer works, it displays 404 page missing error. It is quite unusual for a post to be purged this way, although the discussions actually remain.

The google cache version however remains and so we can see, what was inside. At first glance, I can’t see anything really wrong with the picture. Sure, it doesn’t explain the process thoroughly and there are some ambiguous statements (the “extreme situations” happen during very low online number hours, like around 4-5AM, when the MM, having trouble setting battles up, can throw some of the rules out of the window), but overall there are no obvious mistakes I think.

Thanks to Mesotronik for this one.

Hello everyone,

an article appeared on DSOGaming portal about the bad prognosis for the developer of Cryengine, Crytek. Apparently, Crytek is in deep trouble, with its latest game (Ryse – console exclusive) not doing as well as they hoped and with the danger of bankrupcy looming over the developer, the proverbial sharks smelled blood in the water and are starting to close in, expecting to get intellectual property and manpower out of the failing studio soon. Allegedly the studio is already in the stage of paying some of the salaries late and with employees senting applications to other companies.

The article has one very interesting part for us though:

For what is worth, Wargaming is listed as a possible buyer of Crytek. If Wargaming does buys Crytek, we can kiss goodbye to all of the studio’s single-player games (as Wargaming is best known for its Free-To-Play games). In short, this may be the end of the Crytek we knew.

Hmmm, Wargaming buying Cryengine? That would be actually cool for World of Tanks 2.0, wouldn’t it…

Hello everyone,

as you might have noticed, Wargaming EU took some steps in the right direction this week. First, what I really like is the Operation Bagration special – historical specials are a good thing :)

Another good thing are the Bovington packages. There are three and they are not cheap (two 50 EUR ones and one 35 EUR), but the good thing is, the entire proceeds go for the Bovington museum tank restoration and that’s a worthy thing. If you feel like buying some gold anyway, might do it as well now.

There are three things I would like to point out about.

First: the LeFH artillery is – as far as arties go – quite overpowered, because it was the ONLY artillery (well, maybe along with the premium Sexton, but there I am not sure) not to be influenced by the massive artillery nerf from last year and as such, it is currently pretty overpowered (statistics and characteristics can be viewed here):

If you are thinking of buying it, yea, it’s a good purchase.

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Hello everyone,

thanks to Otakubouzu and Tanitha for this one. You might have noticed that there is quite a number of AFKers in the T-62A soccer mode, farming XP. Tanitha from ASIA server confirmed, that there will be changes to remedy the situation:

This change will also be implemented on other servers.

Enjoy!

Not hundred percent confirmed, but reliable source.

- for quite some time, the developers have been testing Ensk with explosive objects (railway wagons, “red barrels”)
- developers have been also reworking Malinovka, they are not satisfied about it
- Malinovka will be changed within a patch or two

Hello everyone,

just talked to Lonigus, who explained a few things to me, since I got really confused about the entire thing with streamers and in this case, I do feel an apology is in order.

I would like to apologize to player Embrionicjourney aka VirginSlayr of, well, mistaking him for someone else (apparently, he uses the nick QQBaby, which I mistook for Quickybaby). Earlier today, I made a post about his Virginslayr account, that is… peculiar in a way (it has one single tier 10 tank in open stats) and my post might have been interpreted as an accusation of the said player not getting his stats legitimately. Here, you can see how the stats look on his account:

Lonigus corrected me in this – this alt is absolutely legit, he gained the free XP for this tank by playing team battles. It is a Wargaming issue that public profiles do not show the statistics gained in team battles. I made a mistake and I am sorry for it. In the future, I will be aware of this matter.

And now, moving on…

Edit: closed comments, no need to fan more flames, this issue is closed.