Hello everyone,

this is not THAT important, just a bit funny. Do you know the site Vkontakte? It’s basically a Russian Facebook – the most important Russian social network (in fact, it’s more important than Facebook in Russia, from what I could gather).

In any case, World of Tanks: Blitz VK page was suspended “due to suspicious competitions or actions.”

I really wonder what kind of competitions were they running there…

Hello everyone,

WoT Blitz (and the entire mobile gaming) is not something I am very interested in, but occasionally, an interesting piece of information pops up.

Recently, I’ve read several threads about the fear of players, that the new Android Blitz will work on Android emulators, allowing the players to use keyboard and mouse for total pwneage. One unnamed player (better that way, since he was attempting something not exactly kosher) tested this theory with the popular Bluestacks emulator.

It is not working. According to the player, it crashes and freezes on launch. It’s actually possible to make the game run, but the textures are missing (pink and white checkers) and it suffers from impossible lags. So, no keyboard + mouse pwnage for you!

Unless you find out how to fix it.

In which case I would be very interested.

Hello everyone,

by now, you already probably know about the screwed model of the M53/M55. Thanks to Russian player Torsys_sd, you can see how it looks in praxis. Notice how the shells are flying through the model and how they actually hit, when you aim ABOVE the artillery, because the turret is shifted upwards.

Oh and that song is amazing, I’ll have to translate that (it’s a modified Soviet air force march with WoT-related text) :)

Many thanks to Applesaucebandit for this one (and for the other people, who did let me know)

There’s a funny bug in the XP conversion screen – basically, when you run your mouse over the list of tanks, the names will start…. shrinking. It happens to a client even without mods, tested it myself. Nothing gamebreaking of course, just another of the many little bugs in 9.4.

Source: FTA VK community

Just a couple more pics of the FV4005 Stage II model.

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Hello everyone,

when we say World War 2, most people, including probably most of us, imagine the classic stuff: the horrors of war, tanks rolling in, planes flying overhead, concentration camps and all the other awful stuff that happened. Few people are however interested in another part of the war – economics. Wartime economics are a complicated topic, that would fill several book volumes (it does in fact), so today, I’d like to write about one certain aspect of the war – the price of the Czechoslovak resistance in gold.

After the Munich betrayal, many politicians (including president Beneš) foresaw the need to assemble sufficient resources to finance the exile movement in case Czechoslovakia was ever occupied (despite the “guarantees” of the British and the French, only very few people trusted their word – after all, once a betrayer, always a betrayer). Surely enough, the worst happened and Czechoslovakia got occupied by nazi armies in March 1939, forcing many officers and representatives to leave Czechoslovakia to seek exile in other countries. Thus, as predicted, the need to finance the entire exile movement arose.

In the first phase, the exile (not yet an official army) was supported by the finances of the Czechoslovak offices (embassies) abroad, that did not accept the destruction of Czechoslovakia and represented its unbroken continuity until the war was over. Especially the ambassador in Britain (J.Masaryk, son of the legendary president T.G.Masaryk) and in France (Š.Osuský) recieved during 1938 large sums of money for “special purposes”. The president in exile, E.Beneš, also donated his professor’s salary and the money he recieved for giving lectures. Third large source early on was the money, collected by Czechoslovaks living in the USA.

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Hello everyone,

in patch 9.4, one German camo was changed – it became… lighter. Didn’t see a mention of that in patchnotes, guess it’s not that important. Just interesting.

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Hello everyone,

so, had enough bugs in 9.4 yet? No? Good, here’s another one and it’s pretty nasty. I discovered this after recieving an e-mail from a player, who complained about “ghost shells” when firing at enemy M53/M55 artillery. On a hunch, I checked the model of the vehicle and… this is the visual model:

And this is the collision model, that “should” correspond the visual one:

As you can see, it’s completely fucked. There’s a huge gap between the superstructure and the hull and when you fire at it, the vehicle will not get damaged, the shells will fly right through it. How the HELL does this shit happen? Do WG developers just randomly open models and fuck with them, guessing whether players will notice or not? Incredible.