- Storm admits there are issues with the positioning of the destroyed tank sound
- Storm now posts more rarely because he’s swamped in work
- new sounds are being worked on, apparently they will be cool
- new info about patch 9.1 will come any day now, 9.1 supertest (!) will start soon (SS: common test usually follows two weeks after the supertest starts)
- multiturret mechanism will definitely not arrive this year

A quick announcement: tomorrow, I will not be posting any articles, as I am gone whole day. I’ll post the translations when I get back (no idea when, probably very late – if there is anything to translate that is)

- Storm confirms that Tiger 1 will definitely be nerfed
- the 9.0 tank size changes (SS: HD Panther got kinda bigger) did not influence their camo factor
- Storm confirms that tanks will definitely have a special set of “historical” characteristics for historical battles only
- Storm states that the armor of the commander’s copula of Tiger II is correct because there are conflicting sources about this
- Svirin’s data on 85mm Ferdinand superstructure side armor thickness are incorrect (SS: it’s 80mm)
- the split of various vehicles (SS: as in Panzer IV, StuG) was needed for historical battles, it does not mean that “less historical” tanks will be removed

Unfortunately, very little info today again. Overlord announced the launch of WoT: Blitz in several countries (Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland).

- WoT Blitz will be available worldwide “soon”
- there will be a beta stage reward (two things)
- there will not going to be any wipes from now on
- Android release? “We are working on this”

Again, nothing much today (devs on vacation). Still, you can have a look at Listy’s take on the Ronson topic. No connection to the recent Chieftain’s Hatch, just a coincidence.

- British LL line models (SS: IIRC Sentinel and some others) were actually already made some time ago (please note that this has nothing to do with Firefly)

Hmmm… I really should write my impressions about the Firefly line… will do actually.

Check out Chieftain’s Hatch on the topic of burning Shermans and “Ronson” lighters – quite interesting.

- developers are now aware of the “screwed Panzer 38(t) armor” issue

Not much new today again. Russians confirm the T26E4 event (you’ll be able to get Super Pershing for free – or a gold equivalent of it if you have it – plus 14 days of premium account), if

- you make 75k XP on every nation
- you can make it only with a tier 4 to tier 8 tank (not tier 9 and 10)
- you have to be in top 10 XP-wise in order for the XP to count
- on Russian server, XP earned on premium tanks, will NOT count towards this event

It’s quite likely the EU event will be the same. American requirement for the T34 seems to be 100k, not 75k though.

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Overlord on amounts of people online:

It’s true that internet/game usage is affected by seasonal fluctuations. Usually it starts declining in May and lasts until late August-early September. Moreover there are other cycles – e.g. weekly. Yesterday EU had 205+k

Otherwise, no new info, IIRC the developers actually took a vacation this week.

I think the developers are on vacation, so let’s see the rest of that Raptr QA. The answers are by Jbots (some PR girl) and Major_Rampage (that name I know).

- WG stopping adding new tanks to WoT? “There is no plan on when to stop at this point. We will keep introducing as many new tanks as long as it makes sense for the game.” (SS: you wish…)
- 2014 is “the year of graphic updates”
- new “fun modes” are being worked on for WoT
- “We may implement more anti cheat functionality into the game, however we will not discuss how we will do this, as it would help people look for work arounds.” (SS: ah, so there is none after all, thought so)

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Check Listy’s “Trench Crocodile” article, rather interesting.

Unfortunately, there is actually nothing new today, so at least have some invite codes for EU server by widmodxxx, 1000g + 3 day prem or so

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- the vision and spotting points on a turret are identical (SS: as in, the points that get checked for spotting and the points, that spot on turrets are located on identical places)

Otherwise nothing much today… ah well, it’s Sunday anyway.