- apparently, the EU TD competition results are coming out today
- it has not been decided yet, how will the players get the T7 Combat Car and Mk.VIc LT, leaked from supertest
- apparently, the leakers will not be punished, because “they do a good job, bringing the light of knowledge to the people” (SS: of course, EU supertesters doing the same thing had to be sacked)
- there will be no separate Italian tree, Italians might appear in the EU tree (SS: “might” here means “they will”, no worries)

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- looks like the US premium TD will possibly be only low-tier. To quote The_Chieftain: “The 122-44 is at a higher tier, where there are few US options. I would not expect a high-tier US premium TD.”
- the ST-I hull rear armor has a bug, where the collision model doesn’t correspond to the visual one (there’s more slope than there should be), it will be fixed
- Storm on removing the machínegun weakspot on the Tiger II armor model: “According to the words of Hilary Doyle, German machinegun gun shields provided roughly the same level of protection as the main armor. So that’s how we’re going to slowly do it” (SS: in such a case, we can expect the removal of the other German tanks’ bow MG weakspots)
- the way the 6 perks/skills display (5x + 6th perk/skill) on WoT crews won’t be changed, because “there’s not enough room”

There might be more in the evening.

- according to The_Chieftain, the US rebalance has been postponed from 8.9 till later
- the Object 268 supposed “nerf leak” is still circulating RU forums, so once again, it’s garbage
- Q: “Why do you troll some questions and answers others correctly, it’s not fair!” A: “Want justice? Go to Hague tribunal.”
- M6A2E1 HT underperforming in regular MM spread? “How terrible…”
- the current A-44 turret is the original project turret (SS: there were other variants too, with additional armor for example)

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Today was a bit technical, so I hope I got everything right

- SerB is not afraid of WoWp stealing players from WoT, he thinks the migration will be normal
- SerB describing the difference between US and Soviet penetration methodology: “The difference is in the amount of shell fragments, that make it past the armor. In the common American and German system it is based on “primary penetration” (20 percent of fragments make it behind the armor), while the Soviet data are based on the “guaranteed penetration” (80 percent). We compared the data of German and American 75mm guns tested in USSR and with German 50mm, 88mm and British 57mm. There is a 1,17 times difference on average”

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Check out Listy’s article on the famous Finnish BT-42 SPG, pretty interesting stuff

- as was mentioned before, currently, WoWp average battle time is roughly 4 minutes (which is about half of that of WoT). SerB states that the XP income will be set so that tier 10 can be reached roughly within the same amount of battles as in WoT

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- when the turret of the IS-7 rotates sideways from the hull and its silhouette overlaps the hull itself, it’s actually possible to shoot the bottom of the turret, if your tank is significantly lower than the IS-7 itself. The bottom of the turret is 20mm thick
- there are plans for more crew perks – it will happen in WoWp much sooner than in WoT
- SerB on linear XP requirement for crew skills in WoWp: “Linear system was implemented as an experiment. It is easier to understand than the exponential one, despite the average effective skill when levelling up being 75 percent (compared to exponential system’s 87 percent). The total XP cost of levelling the crew skills up is the same as in the exponential system” Continue reading →

- for now, no tier 8 premium French medium tank has been found
- maximum speed buff for JT88? “We’ll see. We are very careful when taking decisions on premium tanks”
- unified chat and friend contacts are planned for WoT and WoWp
- if you gather 240 WoWp tokens every day between 1st and 26th September in WoWp, you will be able to buy 2 months of premium (common to both WoWp and WoT) for your account for them
- new alternative ways of gaining free XP? “No comment for now, the final concept for that is not ready yet”

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Just a quick update: today, I wrote in the Q&A session that M48 might get a buff. I was wrong, I misread one of the questions/answers. At this moment, no M48 buff is planned.

Sorry for that.

Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/237594.html

For 8.8

- Superpershing: the strip of improved upper hull armor was made two times wider (in accordance with the visual model)
- E-75 bad and medium terrain passability was significantly improved
- the ammo sliders were returned to the way they were before for now, the new variant will be implemented later with other fixes (most likely with the possibility to lock the respective types of shells)
- there will be a surprise concerning the global rating, a special article on that will be prepared
- the British blue stripe camo will return to the way it was before

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- when balancing new vehicles, their use in e-sports is not specifically taken into account
- complete re-work of the camo system (especially to include partial cover) is planned, but it will take long time
- Storm: “We continue to give out tanks with garage slots in case of tank switches” and – when asked – specifically on the VK3001H situation, he replied “as always” (SS: other sources also confirmed that yes, you will get free VK3002M, if you have the VK3001H in your garage)

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