you might have seen the video with RU251 yesterday. There is one interesting part in it however, apart from the tank itself. Check this out:
The text below says “Module (right track) damaged by the shot of Bot 06″
Apparently, this is the first glimpse of Wargaming testing bots in the game. These could be useful for some things like tutorials or PvE mode, let’s just hope we won’t see them in the game instead of real players, we have enough of our own bots already…
This post had to be taken down yesterday to alleviate for excessive traffic on FTR. Reposting it today, with part 2 to follow later on.
Hello everyone,
about a month ago, a great tank presentation took place at Saumur and Rastaknight was kind enough to provide us with pictures. There are MANY pictures – too many to fit in one article, so I’ll split it into parts. First is the dynamic presentation – I am sure that I don’t have to introduce most of these vehicles.
while accidents of armored vehicles are usually not something to be laughing at (when a vehicle of dozens of tons is involved, the damage usually tends to be extensive), sometimes they are just plain silly. For example, take yesterday – Netherlands, near Valkenswaard.
Five Belgian MOWAG Piranha wheeled AFV’s were travelling to Oirschot firing excercises quite fast, when a tractor, belonging to a local farmer, drove on the road without warning from a small side road. The leading Piranha slammed the breaks not to smash it and the entire convoy of Piranhas bumped into each other, causing some minor damage, but damaging the fuel tanks of several vehicles – the fuel started leaking and had to be disposed of by local fire department. The Belgian army had to tow the Piranha’s away on trailers. Luckily, noone was hurt in the accident.
Oh well :) I am sure that being almost crushed by an armored vehicle will teach the farmer to look carefully when driving next time.
one of the Russian players published two gameplay videos – of the light T-54 tier 8 tank and of the M41 Walker Bulldog (with autoloaded gun). He’s not saying anything that’s not totally obvious from the vehicle characteristics, so just have a look (you can even switch the sound off). He apparently likes both vehicles.
so, Tanitha posted that he’s not the author of the “9.3 Preview” text. Good, he’s a nice guy and I would hate to have to insult him. With that being said:
Whoever wrote this is a retard.
I was busy with other stuff so I did not even read the text properly, but here are a few points that are wrong with it.
- the “T49″ on the picture is actually the M41. T49 pics were posted here.
- “X-tier AT-SPG” – google transated Russian term “PT-SAU” – correct word is of course “tank destroyer”
- RU251 is NOT a Leopard predecessor, they just share visual similiarities
- “T49 Light Tank. This vessel was designed in USA during WWII” – vessel? T49 is not a ship. The word you are looking for is “platform”, which by the way is also crap, as the vehicle was designed in the 50′s. Didn’t know WW2 ended so late.
- T49 was not “one of the versions” of M41, it was simply an upgrade prototype. Also, T49 did NOT have the 152mm gun, that was again another testbed.
- what is “convergence speed” – you mean aim time?
- T-54 light has “playing comfort”? With that depression?
there were some strange translations in the 9.3 patch notes (not by me, it was translated by Wargaming), so here are a few fixes.
- “Characteristics of the following vehicles decreased: Hellcat, Т18, FV304, T57 Heavy” should be “rebalanced”, although that pretty much means a nerf, yea
- “Suspension durability for Tier V–VIII light tanks increased.” – this means that their hitpoints increased. Just in case it’s not clear.
- “which relays unique Special Instructions to clans.” – this should be “allows the clans to play special missions”
- “destruction of crew” – this should be more like “wounding the crew” or killing it
- “Information about quality of connection in the server selection menu added.” – “added to the menu” (terrible language)
- “online player count and the count of players in the Contact list.” – not count but “list”
- “- Each of values for obtaining Marks of Excellence reduced by 7 points (58% instead of 65% for obtaining one Mark of Excellence, etc.).” – values required
- “Tier VIII–X vehicles with transmission in front are no longer set on fire when a shell hits the suspension.” – not suspension, transmission
