I’ll be brief.

Just returned from meeting with Yuri Pasholok here in Prague. He is quite nice in real life and so are his colleagues. It was really interesting. Have to settle my thoughts and then think of whether to write anything or not.

Anyway… this one I can’t keep for myself anyway, plus several people got told already, so I might as well tell.

The potential (not completely agreed, but very likely) replacement for the WT E-100 is Waffenträger Panther with a MASSIVE 15cm gun (very long, L/64 or so). No autoloader, very thin armor. As for the shape, as far as I could see there were several variants, one of which is practically identical to the current ingame GW Panther. Just think GW Panther with longer gun, that’s a TD and not an artillery. The gameplay will be similiar to the WT PzIV.

The plans are historical, it’s not a fake – they were found in Bundesarchiv. Saw them, don’t have them and wouldn’t publish them even if I did (not my property).

Oh yea, and they want to replace the fake GW E-100 with GW Tiger (of sorts, the superstructure is different) with 305mm mortar (Czechoslovak Škoda B20 actually). Alpha ftw! :)

Source: zpravy.idnes.cz

Hello everyone,

it looks like vile islamist barbarians from the Boko Haram sect will have their lives get a bit harder soon. Czech company Excalibur Group, led by a former armorer Pavel Strnad, managed to acquire as many as 58 T-72 tanks (T-72M1 variant) from Hungary to sell them – with other heavy military equipment – to the army of Nigeria, locked in a savage conflict with the brutal sect.

16 vehicles in total get to be transported to Nigeria in the largest transport airplane currently in use, Antonov An-225. The estimated price of this part of the contract is somewhere around 197 mil. CZK (cca 8 mil.USD). Quite a bargain for such a firepower.

Nigerian army’s enemy, the Boko Haram islamic sect committed over 100 terrorist attack in 2014 alone, with the death toll of over 3000 people. During the last 5 years of the conflict, it is estimated that over 13000 people lost their lives and over 1,5 million people were forced from their homes and had to flee from the fighting.

Personally, I think it’s a good fate for these vehicles, to be used one last time by proper army.

Hello everyone,

here’s a rather nice video, showing the new HD models in 9.6 and comparing them to the old ones. Enjoy!

….enjoy :)

As you can see, Wargaming is working very hard on making the game better, using their time at work in most productive ways :)

An internal (unlisted) Wargaming video with WG staff singing “Happy” :) It’s quite funny actually (not sure why it was never shared). The staffmembers are recognized are Big Boss Kislyi, Ola, Asya, Evilly and Jabba the Hutt, the rest I have no idea who they are.

Hello everyone,

so, as I announced earlier, I was offered a chance to be amongst the first 500 in the first public (pre)alpha test of Armored Warfare, the upcoming tank game by Obsidian Entertainment. Naturally, I grabbed it, curious how this game would turn out.

A little explanation first however. Experienced game developers know that when you make a game, the first thing you can (and should) release is not even alpha – it’s the proof of concept of sorts, a minimalistic version of what you intend the game to be – and let people critisize it. It’s not closed beta, it’s not even real alpha, it’s just a small version of the world your game will bring to the PC screens, one day. As such, a lot of features are missing, as the client gets cut to its core, not to distract the testers by any immediately unnecessary features. This is called “minimum viable product” and you can see more about this concept in this video.

That’s exactly what this pre-alpha was and that’s how I approached it. There was a developer warning that some stuff will be bugged and testers are encouraged to report the issues. The test took place yesterday and took 4 hours.

As many of you know, Gaijin based its tank part of War Thunder on one point: “it’s different that World of Tanks” – and that was it. Same tanks, different methods – some like War Thunder tanks, I don’t, I think it’s a major clusterfuck and it sucks. Obsidian on the other hand went a different way. Their basic idea is that whatever we might think of Wargaming and World of Tanks issues (disappearing tanks, arty, RNG etc.), the game concept is actually very good (just look at the massive success of World of Tanks) – so why not use it, build upon it and improve it?

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Thanks to all you guys that sent me this :)

Apart from the “WW2″ tank, pretty funny :)

Enjoy!

Thanks to Buum99 for this video.

Hello everyone,

I am sure many of you have seen this in battle – people screwing the team for the sake of their individual missions. Usually, this sort of crap is not organized, but as everyone suspected, there are also cases of blatant IM rigging. Take this example:

A bunch of asshats from the -LCP- clan (yea, Czechoslovaks,making their community proud -.-) decided it would be a great idea to rig a random battle to help their teammate with the IM’s (presumably, HT-15). Watch the video, it’s pretty funny (and obvious).

This happened two days ago. Guess who didn’t get banned for it? Wargaming, as usual, is taking fair play “very seriously”.

How do you like the new Himmelsdorf? Half of the buildings are now missing the collision model…

And I would STILL like to know how this happens. Some guy comes and just deletes the collision models randomly? Why?