Hello everyone,

now, those of you, who read FTR for a while know I generally try to stay out of ESL and CW stuff. I don’t follow ESL, I don’t play Clanwars (hmmm – maybe I should, that invitation by KAZNA still valid? :D) and even though there is a lot of fail in Clanwars (last campaign there was a lot of issues), I try not to report things I don’t understand.

This nasty thing with the ESL finals was sent to me several times, but until now, I didn’t see any “whole” account, just some tidbits of information (mostly from Czech ESL players, who have insight) and I didn’t dare write anything about it without some sort of “official” post – or at least some proper summary by someone involved. That summary is now available. DeNova player Artur “Ronnie” Ulyanicki issued a statement on DeNova pages. Here is the original statement in voice.

Unfortunately, it’s in Russian, so I will just translate what is in there. Please keep in mind that I do not know much about ESL and might mistranslate technical (or commonly used) terms. Please note that this issue is not just “some guys playing games got mad” – ESL finals are about money – and not a little.

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Thanks to leshakartoshkin for this one :)

Source: http://war-tundra.livejournal.com/2086064.html

Hello everyone,

apparently, the Russians have a lot of snow problems this year. It went so far that on the road M23 between Rostov and Tarangor, they use a WW2 German Panzer III to pull out vehicles from snow.

According to the post, the situation with the snow is so bad that the employees of Don Military History Museum decided to help the authorities with the issue and to help pull cars stuck deep in snow out with the captured German Panzer III. They even managed to pull out a heavy Gazprom truck. Before that, it was a truck with a trailer and the director of the Museum, Ivan Strelyaev, said they would go and pull out a stuck snow plough next. The Panzer III is used only for the worst cases.

Source: 2p.com website

Hello everyone,

in the article linked above, WoT Blitz producer Roman Bui talks about the game.

Main features:

- 7 vs 7 battle mode
- battles are faster than WoT’s 7 minutes
- release will include 8 maps and over 100 tanks

And as for release time:

The iOS version of World of Tanks Blitz Mobilize is scheduled to be launched in the first half of 2014 with the Android version coming soon in the next few months, but the Windows Phone version is not in the plan yet.

This is how the interface will look:

Once again, all credits go to Vollketten

A proposal of an amphibean tank from 1941

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Source: http://shushpanzer-ru.livejournal.com/ LJ page

Hello everyone,

I usually try not to copy stuff one to one, but this is just freaking badass. Check this out:

This is the Vulcan Wheeled Carrier from like mid 80′s (the picture is dated 1985) by Standard Manufacturing. According to tank-net forums, this vehicle is described in the “Modern U.S. Military Vehicles” publication as follows:

The Standard Manufacturing Company of Dallas, Texas, used their practical little 8×8 Trailing Arm Drive chassis as the mount for the Gatling Gun, using hydrostatic drive and braking and a GVW of 16,000 pounds. Ground clearance varied from 10 to 22 inches, and the top speed was 45 miles per hour using a Detroit Diesel 6.2 liter V-8 135 horsepower.

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Hello everyone,

regarding the disappearance of clan logos, according to Wargaming, it’s a bug and it will be fixed (apparently with server reset).

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Hello everyone,

well, some models got changed. Again. Let’s start with everyone’s favourite, T-54. The turret got actually higher by quite a bit:

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Hello everyone,

Test round 2 is here. Patchnotes (changes compared to round 1):

- improved the performance (FPS) on Hidden Village and Windstorm
- finished screwing up reworking T-54 and Type 59
- fixed client crashes when using magazine and depot
- fixed some errors on various maps
- fixed visual errors and visual/damage model inconsistencies of several objects
- fixed the track effect flickering on winter maps
- fixed visual model errors of T-54, WZ-120, KV-1S, Type 3 Chi-Nu, Type 59
- fixed camo errors of WZ-120
- fixed gun models on M48A1 Patton and Conqueror
- WT E-100 nerfed by 200 hitpoints
- changed the FOV during various zoom levels in arcade mode
- fixed the saving of the camera zoom after battle
- fixed some errors of replay saving
- fixed a large number of bugs in the Missions window
- fixed some render bugs, that appear when the user switches to another window and then to the game again
- fixed some errors in logic of retraining the tankers to another tank
- reworked the ricochet effects
- reworked the sounds of falling trees
- the cursor in text window bug was fixed
- Naydin medal now counts towards “courageous resistance”
- fixed some errors, appearing when you change graphic settings
- fixed the bold font in the tank destruction window

(a number of small UI and graphic bugs was also fixed)

- the “Tanker – Sniper” medal now requires 8 hits or more
- fixed the error where you bought the gold camo and it got “forgotten” in 8.11

Furthermore, following points were forgotten in the round 1 of the test patchnotes:

- British national voiceover is now available
- new teamkiller/teamdamage punishment and compensation system

Hello everyone,

at this point, we can safely assume that the tier 10 tank discounts will no longer unified, because there are some notable differences. From 1.2.2014 to 15.2.2014, Russian server will have the FV215b (183) on discount. SEA server on the other hand will have it from 7.2. to 21.2. (same vehicle, after which comes IS-4 and after IS-4 comes E-50 Ausf.M). US Server has tier 10 discount on Jagdpanzer E-100 until 3.2.

There are currently no news about the tier 10 EU server discount, but it’s still possible we might get one…

Edit: according to the EU February 2014 calendar, tier 10 discounts are returning