Hello everyone,

ever wondered, how the World of Tanks trees started? As you probably know, the oldest trees in WoT by far are the Soviet and the German tree. The Soviet one probably came first. This was one of the first tree proposals from December 2008 by Pytr Bityukov, one of the “founding fathers” of World of Tanks – Slava Makarov (another “founder”) published it in July 2012 for the players to see. P.Bityukov sent this to S.Makarov on 18.12.2008.

By now I hope everyone can figure out that CY is “SU” and such.

As you can see, the tree proposal lacks tiers (that system was not yet developed back then!), it was made in “Navyfield” spirit. A lot of the vehicles you know, but some earlier proposed vehicles were pretty interesting. For one, you have T-26 “twin-turret” on lower tiers – that thing actually had machineguns only! The tree is also very much focusing on historical progress (that’s why you have T-34/85 above T-43).

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Source: VK Wotleaks community

Hello everyone,

9.1 will bring one more medal I forgot to mention earlier, its name is “Monolith”

Monolith

Conditions: In a SPG, survive the enemy tank ramming attempt, fatal for him. The speed of your SPG at that point must not be higher than 10 km/h. Destroying your teammates is not allowed. Awarded only in random battles.

Part 1 – LP and Halftracks
Part 2 – T-34 with 57mm R10

Hello everyone,

this part will be more like an addendum to the entire series. Last time we left the Czechoslovak AA autocannons, it was with an unsuccessful one-barrel LP-157, an R10 autocannon, based on the T-34/85 hull from 1955. A mock-up of the autocannon was made (the photos can be viewed in Part 2).

LP-157

Here is the upgraded version with the R12 autocannon mockup

The fate of this version was already described in part 2, I will only add that the full-scale mockup was indeed produced in June 1955. The designation LP-157 means basically “an AA gun, model 1, 57mm”. Two variants were considered actually – one with a classic “magazine”, another for continuous fire with an open “funnel”, where the ammunition could be continuously fed.

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Source: http://it.tut.by/401423 (via Yozas_Gubka, world-of-ru)

Hello everyone,

Wargaming Minsk is building a new office for themselves and the tut.by portal got an exclusive first glimpse of how it looks. And it’s… well, you be the judge. It’s a 16-floor business center on the outskirts of Minsk. The distance from the Minsk underground train is not a problem, Minsk is paying for a minibus to constantly drive from the building to the underground station and back.

The building has a very… special decoration as well

Yea, that’s a MS-1. And the lobby:

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Second part of Rita’s Overloon video (first one can be found here)

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3321182.html

Hello everyone,

remember that post about the developed small (400 x 400) WoT map “The Pit” for tiers 1,2 and 3? Three more pictures appeared Sorry for the idiotic water mark, wasn’t me. Also, it’s not the infamous “penis” map I think, it’s something else.

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/294676.html

Hello everyone,

in his post, Storm confirms that in the recent driver version by Nvidia (337.88 from 26.5.2014), the bug, where the performance of WoT dropped significantly when playing with SLI enabled, was fixed.

He implores you to download the newest drivers, you can do that here.

Hello everyone,

since “there are very few bots in the game” and all that, Wargaming is somewhat lax in chasing the bots down. Today, I want to show you something – a new bot, that is practically unrecognizable from a regular player, even to trained eyes. It’s still developed, so it has glitches, but those will be ironed fairly soon. Thanks to Stormshadow for the info on this.

Check this video out:

 

Honestly, watching stuff like this just makes me wonder how Wargaming gets away with it. Last month I was talking to a buddy in Greece who works on the marketing side of the gambling industry — his whole job is fighting for traffic on terms like “ολα τα online casino” — and he was shaking his head at how slow game publishers are with this stuff. In his world, a real-money operator that let an obvious bot farm accounts for even a few days would be facing a regulator. In ours, a tank that drives in circles for a month is still grinding XP. Different incentives, sure. But it’s frustrating to see how solved this problem is everywhere else, and how unsolved it stays in WoT.

Now, disregard the fact it’s a bot – would you recognize it’s a bot and not a bad player? This bot is called “Cyber Tank” – and it can be unfortunately downloaded for free for now. You need some sort of key to access it (I didn’t really look into details), which is given out.

And you know what’s sad?

The site of the Cyber Tank bot recently collapsed under the traffic of people, who wanted their own key and bot…