Hello everyone,

you better brace yourselves, because trolling is coming to World of Tanks portal and servers (I personally am not very fond of this “holiday”, because last year I posted a serious article and everyone thought I was trolling – I wasn’t :D). Apart from the data-mined new “game mode” (the Karl mortar plus the Battlecity map), Wargaming is going full-blown troll mode on RU portal today.

In a serious-looking post titled “Wargaming announces the “Avenging the Claw” project”, Wargaming “introduces” the “initiative RakoSchit” (“Crayfish shield”), a “charity organization, bent on saving and protecting the river crayfish”. They even made a really nice video:

Those of you, who read FTR often probably know, that “rak” (crayfish) is a Russian word for “noob”, so… yea :) Overall, very nicely done – EU server should have something like this for “tomatoes” :)

Another trollpost came from EU Polish community:

Introducing “World of Starships” :) Too bad it’s just trolling, something like that (if done correctly!) could actually be pretty cool.

By the way, although the Russian document, posted earlier today (by Yuri Pasholok) is authentic, I am not quite sure the Panzer III/IV with Schmalturm is (he is a known troll after all)…. :)

Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2924387.html

Hello everyone,

Yuri Pasholok published today a very interesting piece of document. It’s a captured (and translated) version of a memo for Adolf Hitler from 7.4.1944 (looking at the dating, it was in Soviet hands 10 days later – Soviet recon was quite competent), regarding the development of German armored vehicles.

The relevant parts:

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Hello everyone,

I don’t usually report on CW stuff, unless there is some massive screwup, but this is rather funny. Members of several prominent Finnish clans in World of Tanks managed to create the flag of Finland on the CW map.

Their proclamation:

There is this land in the far far north. Finland.

Throughout history, its people have been known for notoriously fierce fighters, high standards in cuisine (according to Mr. Berlusconi), high suicide rates, exceptional school system, race car drivers and weird sense of humor. This is a story of the first and the last of that list.

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Working as intended…

Thanks to Wuestenfoxx for the video…

Edit: To explain – this issue happens, when you move your turrets and fire. It’s caused by the fact that server reticle at that moment is much larger than the regular one and shells fire to the edges of the server reticle, not the client one. The problem is not the fact that something like that happens if it is intended (bad a mechanism as it is), but the fact that most players probably don’t even know about the serverside reticle and will get confused.

Hello everyone,

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“…but I have a Bat Chatillon 25t in my garage”

Thank you everyone for your Patreon pledges and Paypal contributions, it is much appreciated. I will make a separate post in the evening, but now, let’s get this show on the road :)

Hello everyone,

after numerous people wrote me about re-worked autoaim, I decided to investigate – and yes, this is a change that will make tomato, Red army, deer, crayfish and Alexei players very, very happy. Earlier, as is well known, autoaim aimed at the center of the tank, which often meant that when facing the tank forward, it aimed at the upper frontal plate. This has been changed. I am not sure, how exactly is the autoaim point defined now (center of the hull?), but the autoaim mechanism aims significantly lower.

On the picture above, I am standing on a small hill above the IS-3, you can however clearly see that with autoaim enabled, I am aiming at its hull. If I was on the same level, I would be aiming at the lower frontal plate. This is perhaps the biggest problem with the new autoaim, it will allow noobs to aim lower at the lower front plate, where usually a weakspot for most tanks is, allowing easier kills.

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3136620.html

Hello everyone,

if you dabble in reading various internal game files (models and such), you can imagine how useful a full game client can be. You can pull all sorts of things from it, including models, maps and a lot of other interesting stats. In any case, it is pretty undesireable for Wargaming to actually spread the client around.

Today, we’re going to look at how Russians “hacked” the World of Warships (not a hack really, just… well, you’ll see). This was posted by a LJ user the_komp (der_komp in the game).

First, he started thinking: all the Wargaming projects are started via a launcher, so there is no reason for WoWs to be any different. This launcher transmits a special xml file with the client version, checking against the server, whether the client needs an update. All you need to know is the address of the updating server. For WoT, it’s http://update.worldoftanks.ru, for WoWp, it’s http://update.worldofwarplanes.ru/, so for WoWs, it should be http://update.worldofwarships.ru? Not quite.

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Hello everyone,

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Thank you all – if anyone else has unredeemed codes, please, do send them over and I will publish them with your name.

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