Source: wot-news.com

Hello everyone,

today, we have something interesting, an analysis of the new personal rating by Edrard. For those who do not know, Edrard is the creator of Efficiency Rating and the owner of wot-news.com – so he is highly competent to comment on this latest Wargaming feature.

Edrard:

And so it was that with the patch 8.8, Wargaming decided to join the list of player rankings with its new invention, called Personal Player Rating (furthermore as PR). This article will consist of a small analysis of this rating, will mention good and bad sides, but whether to use the PR or not, that’s up to you. So for starters, let’s have a look at the formula:

bc – amount of battles played (“battlecount”)
win – winrate (interval 0-1)
surv – survival rate (interval 0-1)
hit – hitrate (0-1)
xp – average XP per battle
dmg – average dmg dealt per battle

The formula seems complicated at first glance, but it is not – its parameters can be seen clearly, including the modifiers and their influence on other values. For this article, I will use a (random) player with following parameters:

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Source: http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/17/golden-joystick-2013/

Yes, it’s that time of the year again, the Golden Dildo Joystick is coming. Of course, a lot has happened since the last GJ award, so – the real question is: does WG deserve to win this year?

My point of view (as an European player) is: no. Not this time. Despite what WG EU might (and will) offer for victory, it’s not worth it.

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Source: Karlie, WG EU Czech CO

Notice that 112 and T-34-3 both have limited MM

Source: world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2498864.html

Next “top of the tree” is…

Maus

(thanks to a bug in RU mission interface, that displayed the bonus early)

Source: Tuccy (WG EU Czech community organizer)

The 8.8 teamdamage ban system (leading to bans for various minor offenses, such as the “pushing”) has been reverted to the 8.7 state.

Anyone, who was (in his opinion) unjustly punished should write a support ticket (describing the situation) and it will be remedied.

Edit: it was confirmed on RU portal, why doesn’t EU have this officially?

Hello everyone,

here are a bunch of issues I found on the 8.8 patch. Not sure you agree with me or not, but here’s how I see it.

- graphics: while for some reason (optimization?) the graphics now run much smoother, the game is now impossible to minimize and then maximize. If you do that, weird graphic artefacts will appear.

- LAG! I am not sure what happened in 8.8, but ever since it came live, I am having terrible lags on EU1, making the game quite hard to play. Here’s a replay from today to demonstrate:

http://wotreplays.com/site/337233#sacred_valley-silentstalker-vk_30_02_m

My ping went up too, before 8.8 it was 50-70 max, now it rarely goes below 70. I tried playing on EU2, where the ping was always a bit higher, now the pings on both servers are practically identical for me. EU2 has fewer lags, but there are still many more than I used to have. The computer is clean (no malware), nothing is running in the background and I don’t use any mods. I also don’t have any lag issues with other online games. Any suggestions are welcomed.

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Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.asia/index.php?/topic/25228-get-your-112s-while-they-are-hot-d/

I normally don’t post SEA news, but this is just brilliant :)

You know, how they introduced the 112 and T-34-3 in 8.8? Well, SEA server management decided it would be a brilliant idea to actually put the 112 and T-34-3 into the gift shop BEFORE the patch 8.8 – but wait, that can’t be right, that won’t work, right?

Well, it does work, because the model is already there. It’s just that the 112 doesn’t have the 8.8 stats, it has the 8.7 (supertester) stats, that are overpowered as hell (300 pen shells etc). And the result?

Well…

About an hour ago, the tanks were pulled back from sales, but not before whole bunch of folks bought them and started trolling the battlefields. Way to go :)

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2495768.html

First a little video from RU server:

This is a video from live 8.8 on RU server (you can see the VK3002M there). The guy was banned for “team damaging” (that was the popping up window) after some very slight (but repeated) damage.

In other words: be VERY careful who you ram/damage in 8.8.

This is a bit unusual post, because it’s not definitive. I basically will outline an idea here and if it is successful (as in: “readers like it”), I will work on developing it.

Hello, everyone

Today we are going to have a look at a little article I did put together. It’s going to be long, so if you are the “TLDR,LOL” type, feel free to skip it or something, in order to describe the line of thought behind this project we’ll have to dig a bit deeper than usual.

The Rise of the Tank Destroyer

Our story begins, as stories often do, with an idea. The first two years of what would become known as WW2 were marked with the incredible success of the Blitzkrieg. This was war like no other, with no clear lines being designated by series of trenches. This was something new. Under the might of the German Panzers, Poland crumbled and even the previously so praised French army couldn’t stop the armored tide. The golden age of armor has begun.

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