Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/1/fair_play_wot/

Hello everyone,

Russian Wargaming, having learned from its mistakes and started publishing the names of offenders and ban statistics. In the post above, we can read that in the first half of October alone:

- 8191 players were punished based on the reports from the ingame complaint system
- 2592 players were banned for games rigging (influencing the battle result by having an agreement with the opposing team) random and company games
- 1868 botters were banned in last two weeks only

WG even made this beautiful picture :)

Well, that’s all nice, but I have two things I would like to add to this.

First – remember how they told us that there are no bots or that the issue is marginal? Well, 2k banned players in two weeks alone doesn’t seem marginal to me – and that’s just the RU server. EU server decided not to publish any names and such (voluntary decision as Ectar confirmed, not one forced by law), so heaven knows how many botters they ban (if any).

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Hello everyone,

here are the new vehicle statistics for EU server for last 4 weeks, courtesy of Edrard.

And for comparison, these are the statistics for RU server.

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3552084.html

Hello everyone,

Wargaming decided to switch the game sound engine to Audiokinetic Wwise, first in World of Warplanes (current 1.6 test), then in World of Tanks. The reason for this change is to allegedly introduce more stable and effective sound engine. That however means one thing: from that point onwards, all sound mods (engines, gun shots, music etc.) will stop functioning.

It is unclear whether the mods will be possible to rework under the new system, it allegeldy has nothing in common with the original FMOD. Freeware version of the engine is apparently quite limited and the full one starts at 150 USD, so it’s possible the mod makers (even if they can do it) will find it too much of a hassle.

Hello everyone,

finalized stats (when it comes to supertest anyway) of the reward vehicles made it to the supertest. These vehicles will apparently be the rewards for individual missions, that are coming in 9.5 and will be obtainable by anyone, not just clan players. The changes were as follows:

T28 Concept

- side armor rounded up from 101 to 102mm
- hitpoints nerfed from 900 to 880
- aimtime nerfed from 2,1s to 2,3s
- ROF nerfed from 6,74 to 6,45

Tier 7 premium TD
Hitpoints: 880
Engine: 960 hp
Weight: 70 tons
Power-to-weight: 13,71 hp/t
Maximum speed: 29 km/h
Hull traverse: 18 deg/s
Armor: 203/102/50
Gun: 105mm T5
Damage: 320/320/420
Penetration: 181/224/53
ROF: 6,45
Accuracy: 0,4
Aimtime: 2,3s
Viewrange: 370
Radiorange: 570

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3553269.html

Hello everyone,

here’s the summary of upcoming tier 8 Soviet premium/reward tank destroyer, ISU-130. Basically, it’s ISU-152 with SU-100Y’s gun.

Description:

Heavy SPG based on ISU-122S. It was developed in 1944 and a prototype was built in October of the same year. It was created by installing a 130mm S-26 gun, which was developed from the naval B-13 gun on the ISU-122S platform. Driving and shooting trials were conducted until June 1945. Because of the end of WW2 and the fact that the gun was inferior in penetration to 122 guns, ISU-130 was not accepted in service.

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Hello everyone,

once again it’s the time to thank the contributors, it’s you who keep FTR running after all! Sorry for the delay by the way, I was just handling an issue with my Paypal page (IRS: “Are you an American?!” Me: “No” IRS: “PROVE IT!!!!” – because apparently, scans of your ID, passport and driver license (all of them at the same time) are not enough).

This time, following people donated via Paypal:

Carl M. (United States)
Michael G. (United States)

Thank you, guys, I really appreciate it, as always. A note – I’ll handle the Panther competition this weekend (gotta buy packages and all that).

The best way to help me and FTR is via the Patreon service

http://www.patreon.com/silentstalker

This is the Patreon account of For the Record. In case you read this for the first time and feel like contributing, here is an explanation what it is, how it works and how to contribute. You can find a list of all those, who pledged and help to keep FTR running here.

Thank you all!

Hello everyone,

as you probably know by now, there’s a Sherman Fury in the game (a tier 6 premium medium tank). It’s being sold on ASIA server (not sure about the US, it’s not on EU yet however).

It is no secret that the Fury E8 has quite different armor layout than the regular Sherman E8 (we are talking about the elite turret now). Let’s make a quick comparison. This is the regular E8 (in Fury-corresponding configuration):

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Hello everyone,

as you know, I am not exactly a fan of War Thunder and as such, I do not follow their video channel unless someone sends me an e-mail (thanks, Ed Francis) with “you gotta see this, this is cool”. And, as such, I missed this amazing video ad as well and it’s a damn shame, because if there’s one thing Gaijin is really, really good at, it’s making these videos.

THIS is how you make ads, Wargaming. Not the retarded IS-6 video.

Hello everyone,

a lot of people are waiting for the multicore support for World of Tanks. Whether that wait is worth it is a good question, but one thing is for sure: World of Warships has it. Check this out:

This is the game working on multiple cores on the PC of one of the testers. How is that related to World of Tanks? To be quite honest, I have no idea, because WoWs is running on a very different engine from the original WoT one (it’s still based on Bigworld, but from what I heard, it has pretty much nothing in common with the old WoT version anymore). Still, it’s good news for the future WoWs players I suppose.

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/13/bandai-namco-reveals-battleline-steel-warfare-for-pc

Hello everyone,

these days, armored warfare (without capitals) is the “hot stuff” of gaming – well, at least for a certain group of players. It was of course World of Tanks that made tanks really mainstream and popular, but that was years ago. More and more companies are attracted to that particular genre of gaming and Bandai Namco is one of them with its newly revealed game – Battleline: Steel Warfare.

As you can see, it’s some sort of strategy game with tanks. Allegedly, it will take place in a time frame from WW1 to modern era – if you go to cca 0:39 and pause the video, you’ll see that it’s actually true, they are planning to introduce all sorts of vehicles, including King Tiger and Maus, so if you are looking for historically realistic and accurate games, this is probably not the place to look.

Personally, I think the trailer looks kinda cheap and the game seems not to make much sense. I mean… it’s like Dawn of War, but with tanks? Hm. I guess I haven’t played enough of this type of games to make an educated guess, but at first sight, I do not like it:

- the models look kinda lowres
- the CGI looks really outdated
- too much crap flying all over the screen
- the explosions look really cheap

I assume it will also have destructible environment, but still, this is not a game I am going to hold my breath for.