Hello everyone,

okay, something lighter for now. There’s a corporate article on Wargaming website, describing how Wargaming America works internally. Well, describing… it’s mostly just a list of departments. Some things made me giggle a bit though, like this picture of Wargaming NA “business development” derpartment:

Check the sitting guy in the middle, he’s throwing a Latin Kings gang sign :) Makes me wonder, how EXACTLY are they developing their business :D

Russian server has this meme about black helicopters coming for anyone, who “displeased” SerB – maybe not that far from the truth, eh, Don Burkatovsky? :)

Hello everyone,

patch 9.6 introduced two premium tanks to World of Tanks: AMX CDC and STA-2. Wargaming (RU) made an introductory post to both – the CDC was posted previously (translated by FTR) and here’s the second one, based on the article on Russian portal.

The characteristics of the vehicle in the article are presented as such:

Hitpoints: 1420
Maximum load: 37 tons
Hull traverse: 44 deg/s
Maximum speed: 45 km/h
Engine: 500 hp
Engine fire chance: 15 percent
Power-to-weight: 14,7 hp/t
Hull armor: 45/35/25
Turret armor: 70/60/35

DPM: 2028
Gun: 90mm Rifled Gun
ROF: 8,45 RPM
Penetration: 185/275/45
Damage: 240/240/320
Accuracy: 0,37
Aimtime: 2,2s
Elevation: -10/+13

Turret traverse: 44 deg/s
Viewrange: 380 meters
Radio range: 720 meters

Armor:

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Hello everyone,

today, a micropatch was released on EU server (and RU as well). For those interested, it contains the following changes:

- fixed the Tiger P bugged model
- fixed the display of player status in new reworked contacts list
- fixed the display (working) of promo screens (SS: “grats for your victory here’s a girl tanker” and such)

Thanks to Trixie for helping with the last :)

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/02/18/world-of-tanks-announced-for-xbox-one

Hello everyone,

Wargaming announced the Xbox One version of World of Tanks for 2015. Accounts and progress will be carried over from Xbox360 version.

Notice the seriously improved graphics (especially the flames look very good), but also there are some things apparently missing (compared to PC version), like the realistic track movement.

Hello everyone,

lately, a lot of people have been nostalgic, longing for the “good old days” of how World of Tanks used to be. Personally, I think it’s just the usual effect of our brains deleting the bad memories, leaving only the good ones for us to remember – because the game sure did have some serious issues back then. A few screenshots from really old times, courtesy of Russian community.

Notice the amazing graphics.

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Hello everyone,

on supertest client, Somua S35 (leaked here) was changed a bit. First, a description was added to the model:

“Thanks to its high firepower, protection and mobility, the S35 was the most successful French tank and one of the best tanks in the world of its period. Due to the use of one-man turret, the commander was forced to look for targets, aim, reload and coordinate the crew actions at the same time. This reduced the ability of the crew to instantly react to changing conditions of battle and reduced the tank firepower. By the time France capitulated on 22.6.1940, 427 S35 tanks were built in total.”

What changed:

- DPM nerfed from 1532,1 to 1248,4
- reload nerfed from 2,154s to 2,643s
- ROF nerfed from 27,857 to 22,698
- aimtime nerfed from 1,4 to 1,5s
- accuracy loss from turning the turret nerfed by 25 percent

Characteristics now (elite setup, top gun, 100 percent crew):

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Hello everyone,

apparently, currently, there’s a bug (exploit) in team battles, allowing you to roll out with a 7/55 team instead of 7/54:

Replay is here: http://wotreplays.com/site/1621699#team

Now, I don’t play team battles, nor do I care about them too much (as in, at all), so I have no idea how this exploit works. According to some people I asked, this is not the first time such bug appeared in them (something about Maus?). I was just wondering about its principles – does one of the tanks count for one point less than it should?

In any case, it’s a really stupid way to cheat, because you will obviously be reported by the enemy team (unlike random battles, TB players actually care about their team’s results). No idea what the punishment is though, heard it’s a 3 day ban somewhere, but who knows. And of course, the *golfclap* of the day goes to Wargaming for leaving exploits in team battles. At least the competitive part of WoT and stuff connected to it should be exploit free.

Enjoy your WGL hangar.

Hello everyone,

just a little bit of info from the Insider – apparently,the HD version of M6A2E1 “Alien” is coming soon. What is also coming is a special Xbox-only bundle with the M6A2E1 – again, this is for WoT Xbox, not PC:

- USA Tier VIII M6A2E1 Heavy Tank
- 100% Crew
- Vertical Stabilizer Mk 2
- Improved Ventilation Class 3
- Large-caliber Tank Gun Rammer
- 60 AP T32 Shells
- 12 APCR T29E3 Shells
- 1 Garage Slot
- 7 Days of Premium Account

Also, World of Warships beta will come “very soon”, but I guess everyone knew that.

Hello everyone,

are you not interested in e-sports? Tired of WG trying to stuff their “WGL” crap everywhere? Do you consider the WGL hangar vile? Here are two easy ways how to get rid of it.

First:

- go to your game folder
- go to /res/packages/ sub folder
- copy the file “hangar_premium_v2.pkg” to “hangar_wgl_5s.pkg” (when it asks you, whether you wish to overwrite the existing file, say “yes”)

And it’s gone.

Second:

- go to your game folder (root, for example c:\Games\World_of_Tanks)
- make a backup of the “paths.xml” file somewhere
- open the file “paths.xml” in the root folder
- find the line, that says “/res/packages/hangar_WGL_5S.pkg” and delete it.

Works as well.

Hello everyone,

as it was announced earlier, the biggest feature 9.7 will bring are a bunch of French vehicles – not only the hightier AMX-30 prototype and AMX-30B, but also some lowtier vehicles. Today, we are starting with their leaks – first to come is Somua S35, tier 3 French medium tank. And yes, the German Somua S35 will likely be pulled from the store in 9.7.

Characteristics (elite setup, top gun, 100 percent crew):

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