Hello everyone,

another article about (weird) early Russian armor development appeared on the Russian server. It’s called Land Ironclad (as in, land battleship) and yes, it’s just as stupid a project as it looks.

In a way, this project came to be the same way as the first British tanks, that were considered to be land ships (and were developed by a group called Landships Committee). Meanwhile, thousands of kilometers away, Karl Ivanovich Pakkul from Riga had basically the same idea, calling his project “land ironclad” (or “land battleship”). His project was to have many, many wheels and was to carry a sloped (streamlined) very thick armor. So, how did he imagine it would work?

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Hello everyone,

today’s advent offer is the following bundle:

- Lowe + garage slot
- Improved ventilation class 3
- Enhanced gun-laying drive
- Large caliber gun rammer

Price: 54,74 USD (43,95 EUR)
Regular Lowe price: 53,89 USD (43,27 EUR)

Meanwhile on Russian server, the bonus of the day is discount on XP transfer (35 XP for one gold instead of the old 25).

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3623553.html

Hello everyone,

remember the Winter Mod? No? Let me refresh your memory then. Winter Mod is according to its authors the largest rework of the entire game. Basically, it turns all the maps and objects into their winter versions. The amount of work put into this mod is truly colossal and this year, it’s coming back for the holiday season with an updated version. Known RU modmaker, Torsus_SD is working on it. First builds are apparently available only to limited audience for now.

Announcing trailer (very pretty, IMHO):

Check this out – it has a beautiful winter hangar. This hangar was made from scratch by Torsus.

The hangar is built on a 2×2 km map with lots of lights. Yes, that’s an important part – this mod does NOT do well on weak computers, it requires significant resources to run, so you need a solid PC to enjoy it unfortunately.

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Hello everyone,

after yesterday’s Hall of Shame, I recieved an e-mail from the Insider. Apparently, he was quite amused, but had something to add. I’ll leave his e-mail here (slightly redacted – removed some personal info – and with typos fixed). Here goes:

Minsk does read the Hall of Shame from time to time and knows well about certain clans with racism mottos, in fact they have handed a couple death threats to police already and the amount of bans has increased since last year. However, they hand the info to the Paris office, what they do with it… who knows, however it’s most likely shit clans like UNICA and EFE will never appear in an official WG article or contest due their behavior. Garbad from US cluster, his absolute douchebagginess towards a certain sector of the playerbase got him a forum ban, directly ordered by the RU office.

The Insider adds that the Russian server has different issues, specifically clans supporting the Russian occupation of Ukraine (founded for political purposes) – in such cases (as well as clans supporting fascist figures in Ukraine), the entire clan gets booted. Regarding what Wargamer or can/cannot do about nazis in the game:

Alternatively, WG could also be pressured to act, however it’s kinda tricky, basically you need a player to actually go to the police and hand the “death threaths”, especially in those countries, where the sole mention of nazism and its offsprings are legally forbidden, but make sure the offender is actually in one of the countries where this is enforced, that’s the tricky part, they put attention to especially nasty folks who stalk in places like Facebook, are ill minded and even generally open about it.

Think it’s a joke? Nope, a guy in the USA is facing jail for handing death threats on Facebook after losing a game of League of Legends and other law enforcement states in the USA are opting for an attitude of similar ways. The police can actually pressure Wargaming into forcing to either give the information about the offender, or force them to ban the player, or face legal charges and fines for “protecting violent behavior”. All it takes, is one person to be willing to spend an evening on the police to do it.

To close this matter, as far as I know, there are around 7 cases with open investigation for such, 2 of them in Germany, 1 in France, the rest in Belgium or the Czech Republic, and the mentioned accounts have a permanent suspension currently.

Hello everyone,

so, the referral program is now active on EU server. The guide how exactly to do it can be found here.

So, anyone interested in “earning” in my favour? :) A recruiter can have 50 recruits in total after all! It’s not clear whether you can actually invite your own alt (or a reroll), but I don’t think there’s any real problem with that – WG doesn’t care whether you are a totally new player or not, as long as you actually play actively.

Enjoy!

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest Hall of Shame!

You waited for it, you asked for it and here it is. But not just that. This time, it’s different. This time, we’ll be actually DOING something about that. What exactly? That will be revealed in the next (separate) post, but I think you’ll like it. Plus, there will be bonus codes in it for you, so stay tuned – and for now, enjoy the gallery of WoT filth, knowing that soon, those HoS members from CW campaign participating clans will be specifically targetted first since the campaign is time-limited and we wouldn’t want them to make too many fame points now, would we? The Great Crusade (hehe) starts soon and you are all cordially invited :)

PS: don’t forget that WoT is a perfect family game :)

Let’s start with something light, as always. This guy got shot by an arty and sure got angry.

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Hello everyone,

so, you know my opinion on the Fure movie already. That however does not mean I cannot appreciate a well-made video from a World of Tanks player. Anders M. recreated the Tiger battle partially in World of Tanks and blended the game footage with the movie and I think it went wonderfully. Check this out!

Hello everyone,

remember how we talked about BT-SV some time ago and how I predicted it would be available for 100 EUR with a heap of gold? Well, it’s here!

Today, as a part of the advent calendar, following package available. WG sure wants to harpoon those whales!

Price: 99 EUR
Concent: BT-SV, garage slot, 27500 gold, 30 days of premium

So, if you want to spend 100 EUR for a tier 3 tank – go ahead :) Just so there is no mistake though: unlike the Panzer II Ausf.J (which would be actually worth the price, as it is the most OP vehicle in the game currently), BT-SV is crap. Don’t bother.

One more thing though: usually, with this kind of posts, there are people who come and say “SS Y U SO UNGRATEFUL”. Please, let me make one thing absolutely clear. Every discount, every event, every bundle in this game – they are all have one purpose. To make Wargaming more money. Not to please the players (or at least not primarily), not to make you happy but to make money. And that’s absolutely fine, Wargaming is no charity. You however have to treat (especially) every discount not as a favour for you (as some players sadly do), but as a business deal.

The FV4202 – because you can’t have the premium one, that’s why.

All the resolutions – in the post:

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Bad news, everyone!

About that 9.5 vehicle post….

Yup, you guessed it, pretty much everything in there is a placeholder, not just some models, especially the guns are not balanced yet. The only vehicles that are not placeholders are the Grant, the FV4005 and the Conway – and the Conway is outdated (developers decided to remove the 105mm L7 altogether, so now it has just one turret and one gun).

Basically, what happened was that Gamemodels3D site managed to get their hands on the early 9.5 ST version and used it to extract the characteristics, while for some reason, Wargaming used outdated models/characteristics in the early 9.5 ST iteration. It’s just one giant clusterfuck, so for proper values we have to wait for a later iteration.

The premiums are on the other hand already balanced.