Hello everyone,
as promised, here is the overview of this week’s FTR contributors. I value all your help equally, no matter how small, so I just want to thank you all once again.
Contributors
C.T. (New Zealand)
A.A. (Finland)
Panzer_Fenris (Norway)
F.K. (Germany)
Gnomefather (Norway)
R.S. (Austria)
C.L. (Finland)
Please note that if you want your full real name or nickname listed, you have to write me your nickname (or your consent for full name publication) :)
Thanks for linking to Opferlamm113
Theirs is the Glory (1946)
This movie is actually a half-document about the Operation Market Garden and British troops fighting in it. It’s very interesting in one aspect: its creators used real life German vehicles and weapons during the production, so we can see Panthers rolling around, not something you will see in modern movies. Well, maybe except for the upcoming Fury.
- apparently the 8.11 patch server engine upgrade has nothing to do with lags and their reduction
- “teleporting” tanks mean “transfer of the client on another platform” (SS: hell if I know what that means), SerB adds “Are you sure this has anything to do with server overload?” (SS: a player was complaining about teleporting tanks he believes are caused by server overload)
- Q: “Will the engine upgrade fix the “mythical” shell-eating issue – shells being eaten by tracks are other modules?” A: “Judging from the parentheses, you have exposed our CONSPIRACY!!!”
- Tier 8 waiting times too long? “How terrible!!!”
- it’s possible that the T95 medium tank will appear as a regular vehicle in US medium branch, SerB states there are like 6 possible modifications
- T-34-3 is doing fine statistically
- new branches in 2014? “The branches that will be implemented will not be the ones that are most ready by now, but the ones that are most popular”
Source: RU forums (LJ post)
Hello everyone,
Russian server reached an important milestone. One million players online at the same time.
Speaking of EU server, what’s our max, 200k or so?
Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog
Hello everyone,
as I wrote before, Yuri Pasholok, regardless of what we might think of him, posts pretty interesting stuff on his blog. This time, it’s something “special” – a Czech proposal actually, to make the T-34 amphibious. As some of you know, Czechoslovak units were fighting on the eastern front against the Germans under the command of the Red Army. Formed in 1942, Czechoslovak units participated in the 1943 Battle of Kharkov and proved their worth during the Liberation of Kiev, in which several Czechoslovak soldiers (tankers actually, I will write about this once I collect enough sources on the battle) recieved the Hero of the USSR high award.
Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2964837.html
Hello everyone,
World of Warships is not exactly within the portfolio of this blog and I must admit I don’t follow its development, but several leaks appeared on Russian forums from the alpha testing.
Map – Solomon Islands
Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2963933.html
Hello everyone,
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.
Hello everyone,
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)
Thanks to Beerstein for this info.
Hello everyone,
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!
Source: VK Wot_Leaks community
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.”
