Hello everyone,

an odd thing happened. Russian and EU info do not fit one another. Either way, according to this link from the German community (thanks to Phobos86 for the info), it is confirmed that the hotfix micropatch will come on Friday, 25.4.2014 – from 6 AM, the server will not be available for cca 45 minutes.

The micropatch will bring the following:

- fixed several bugs, that caused the client to crash
- fixed the bug, where the player got “stuck” on “Updating tankers” screen in the hangar, that happened when a player accepts platoon invitation, requiring him to relog to another server and certain other circumstances
- fixed the bug (or rather, significantly mitigated) where the game “freezes” for a short time after the destruction of enemy tank
- the turret being ripped off by ammo rack explosion effect got strongly optimized
- fixed the bug, where IS-3 destroyed model had red (“texture missing”) texture on its gun
- fixed the rare bug, where sometimes, when buying temporary camo and decals, some gold was removed from the account

Why am I saying it’s odd? Because this morning, Storm wrote in his post that even he is not sure when the hotfix is ready. Apparently, the EU section is of different opinion.

Hello everyone,

recently (a week or so ago), there was a big meeting between players and developers in Kubinka. Here is a video from it (you can turn on English subtitles). By the way, the first guy talking is Evilly (the one who answered yesterday during the Reddit QA).

Last part (I swear!) :) Part 1 is here, part 2 is here.

Once again, thanks to Gabo from US server :)

ZSU-57-2

These were bought by Egypt in the early 60′s from the USSR and used against Israel in the Six Day War and Yom Kippur War. They did not do very well and several were captured.

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Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/352479-901-update-coming/

Brace yourselves, 9.0.1 hotfix is coming. Preliminary ETA is this Friday.

I want to update the community on the status up the next patch for World of Tanks. As you all know 9.0 is an update sets the stage for all the updates for the rest of the year. There were major functional changes that had to occur in this update to make that possible. This unfortunately led to some of the instability in form of game crashes and issues with framerate.

We have already identified some of the issues and currently have a patch in QA testing. It will address many of the game crashes and some of the framerate issues. We want to get this patch out as soon as possible without introducing new problems.

The current ESTIMATED timeframe for this patch is this Friday. It is subject to change depending on what is found by QA, but I wanted to make sure you are as informed as possible. If this estimate changes I will make another update. I will also update you if a second patch is required. We apologize for the disruption this update may have caused you, however we look forward to the advances that this patch will allow.

Thank you all for your patience,

Joshua Morris
World of Tanks Producer – North America

Hello everyone,

once again it’s the time to thank the contributors, it’s you who keep FTR running after all! This time, following people donated via Paypal:

David R. (United Kingdom)
Kvasnikov (Finland) – he wanted the following message posted:

“I recently passed 30 000 battles milestone in WoT and I wanted to thank also FTR for providing lot of useful information during my career. Check out my short story here: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/383466-kvasnis-memory-corner/”

Grimdorf (United Kingdom) – large contriution, much appreciated mate!
Artur S. (United Kingdom)
Alexander F. (Netherlands) and the entire 11RHS clan
Daniel Š. (Slovakia)

The best way to help me and FTR is via the Patreon service

http://www.patreon.com/silentstalker

This is the Patreon account of For the Record. In case you read this for the first time and feel like contributing, here is an explanation what it is, how it works and how to contribute. You can find a list of all those, who pledged and help to keep FTR running here.

Thank you all!

Hello everyone,

in 30 minutes (18:00 CEST), an “ask me anything” session should commence on Reddit. You will be able to ask WG staff questions about the game. I will later make a summary of what was answered there.

This time, it’s however interesting, since one of the people answering will be Anton “Evilly” Pankov, the Chief of RU community. The thread is not yet open, it will appear apparently only after the session starts.

Hello everyone,

annoyed by the new 9.0 hangar and the fact that it puts more strain on the graphic card than the battle itself in some cases? Well, fear not, a solution exists:

Old garage mod. The lighting is a bit off (kinda ugly), but there is a significant decrease in load and increase in FPS. Thanks to Saša Dordevski for linking it to me.

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Disclaimer: Obviously, this post is not about tanks, feel free to ignore it, if you aren’t interested in this sorta thing

Hello everyone,

as you have probably heard, Elder Scrolls Online (furthermore referred to as ESO) is a new MMO, based on the massive Elder Scrolls world, which is one of the most developed and largest fantasy franchises out there, with very deep lore and rich content. The best known part of the Elder Scrolls series is the legendary game Skyrim, widely considered to be one of the best games ever made.

As I wrote several times, I am a World of Warcraft veteran and am familiar with the MMORPG concepts (phasing, aggro etc. – more on that later) – I am saying this so you understand, how I approached this game, because most people seem to approach it wrong. I didn’t specifically follow the game development and only got interested after the game was released and Rita started streaming it once or twice. That caught my attention, so I bought it and installed it.

Considering today’s game prices, the game doesn’t come cheap: 50 Euro (70 for special edition) and then you have to pay subscription (cca 10 Euro per month). That is a mixed blessing – of course, you have to pay, the game is not F2P. But on the other hand, this system acts as a “natural barrier” to keep the worst pubbies, noobs and idiots out and prevents the infestation of stupidity, so present in World of Tanks. I actually prefer it this way and the players I met in the game proved me right.

After smooth purchase of the game online and a 20GB download (not as bad as I thought), I installed it and ran it. Well… this is the part where I need to say something a lot of people writing reviews on this game seem not to understand.

ESO is NOT Skyrim

I think that I don’t have to tell anyone that single-player and multi-player requirements are (still) on a completely different level. For one, ESO is missing most of the really pretty physics, that made Skyrim great – no archery physics for example. In fact, mechanics and gameplay-wise, ESO is actually closer to World of Warcraft than Skyrim and it uses a LOT of WoW mechanics. WoW players will feel quite at home after a while, although there are definitely some improvements as well.

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3218595.html

Hello everyone,

apparently, patch 9.0 brought also some nice new hangars. Thanks to Russian LJ user Awasaky, we can have a look at them (…because one hangar heating up your GPU is not enough).

26th of April Hangar (2 years of SEA server?), it can be downloaded here

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This is part 2, the first post is here.

Cromwell

I am not sure about this, but if I recall correctly, Cromwells of various types, originally from the British forces in Africa, were captured by the Israelis from the Egyptians, who used them.

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