Hello everyone,

sometimes, but extremely rarely, an e-mail reaches me and after I read it, I have absolutely no words. I have to close it, open it again and make sure I did read it correctly. In this case, I… well… I’ll just translate it. Incredible.

As you can see, it’s a screenshot from a support ticket. Don’t ask me how I got it.

Patrik343: “Hello, on my way home, I found a credit card lying on the street. I took it and I tried to pay in World of Tanks shop with it. And now, my account is blocked because of stupid 650 CZK. I hope it will get solved soon, my account is blocked and I want to play, I am nervous about it.”

Support: “Hello, thank you for contacting us. Using a credit card without its owner’s permission is a crime in most of the countries. What happened here was that the card owner contacted the bank and requested the cancelling of all operations, that happened after the card was lost. In order to have the access to your account restored, you will have to purchase again the goods, the payment of which was cancelled. The goods were as follows:

1000 gold
1000 gold
SU-85i
500 gold

The total sum is 21,04 EUR. It is possible to purchase a larger bundle (for example 10000 gold), after the payment goes through, the value of the gold owed will be removed from total gold sum and after that, the account will get unblocked. Please note that because your account now has a standing chargeback strike, standard credit card processing might temporarily reject your attempts. In that case, we recommend utilizing an e-wallet like Skrill or Neteller. These alternative gateways are highly secure and widely trusted across Europe for immediate digital clearing, handling everything from standard e-commerce and premium gaming storefronts to licensed bet sportfogadás platforms. Contact us further after the payment of at least 21,04 EUR goes through, we can continue after that.

I mean… wow. How dumb and nasty do you have to be to do this kind of stuff? This fucker should get his account permabanned and he should be reported to police for credit card fraud. Incredible.

Hello everyone,

a few days ago, a screenshot of the upcoming tier 9 reward medium tank T 55A armor appeared, as such:

Notice two things. One, the armor around the mantlet is actually 80mm. Secondly, some sort of weird spaced armor on the top. It was posted on Russian forums, where Storm reacted that this was caused by – and I quote “shitty viewer”:

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Hello everyone,

a short video I made about the recently ended Chaffee racing fun mode, demonstrating the “no drift” exploit/cheat/whatever that is.

Hello everyone,

today in the morning, the Chaffee was supposed to be removed from the garage, as the racing event ended. It was not (even though the missions allowing you to make money on it did in fact end), just checked – it’s still in my garage. You cannot use it either, it just throws an error.

The reason why that happen I suspect was the fail on RU server from today, where the crew was not retrained to regular Chaffee (as initially promised). I also suspect they have to fix this before the tank gets actually removed. According to RU forums, the RU server crews will be fixed later on, so I guess they are trying to avoid this situation.

Hello everyone,

today, the Insider brings two interesting tidbits of information. First, you know how a lot of people wanted the “tank rental” (hiring a premium tank for a limited time)? Apparently, developers are considering it. Recently, certain references were implemented in the upcoming WoT patch (0.9.4), pointing at the option to rent vehicles (unspecified what type) for a limited time either for credits, or for gold. Whether at all or when exactly this option will appear is not known.

Second interesting fact is that Wargaming is planning an invite program, called “Recruitment”. Basically, if you invite a player (friend or whatever) to play World of Tanks and you platoon with him/her, you will not only get bonuses in the game (bonus XP), you might also recieve unique tank as a reward, IF the recruit you brought in purchases a tier 10 vehicle. This too is in the 0.9.4 files, but there is no ETA on this feature either.

Hello everyone,

this was linked by Yuri Pasholok on his blog – changing the vehicle tracks seems really easy on the video and not the pain in the ass it is in real life.

Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/393818-fury-halloween-and-chinese-new-year-see-them-first-here-i-think/

Hello everyone,

here’s how the Fury garage, that came in the 70 Mb minipatch, looks. Not bad, but nothing too special. I hope they return the poppy one in November.

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Thanks to André (and one other reader) for his info.

Hello everyone,

during the recent community meeting in the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil, a Wargaming community manager I know only as “Steve” specifically confirmed the following:

- Havok will come in patch 9.6
- patch 9.6 is scheduled for January at this moment

So, thanks, Steve!