Source: VK Wotleaks community
Hello everyone,
in future patches (possibly 9.4), the Swamp map will be reworked as such:
Unfortunately we have no proper screenies at this time. The blue spots represent “new hills added” zones (so there will be more cover). The yellow lines in the north represent “more cover added” (likely buildings, stones or a ditch).
Source: VK Wotleaks community
Hello everyone,
as you probably know from the patchnotes, patch 9.3 is introducing new explosions to various objects, including gas tanks, wagons and some cars (not all, strangely enough). Here’s how it now looks:
Source: http://scalemodels.ru/news/7976-soglashenie-WargamingTamiya.html
Hello everyone,
it seems Italeri is not the only kit company Wargaming is teaming up with. Recently, it was reported that Korean branch of Tamiya signed a contract with Wargaming as well.
As a part of this agreement, marketing data will be shared and the game will be promoted by Tamiya. Plastic Tamiya kits will also have various coupons and “World of Tanks” stickers, the game will also be promoted using posters and videos on the Tamiya website. Tamiya will also become one of then main sponsors of cybersports events.
Hello everyone,
wanted to try the famous “jumping”? Here’s how you can do it, video courtesy of Marten724. Kharkov map has one bugged spot, which allows players to get launched into the sky. Well, actually there are more bugged spots like this, but this is the one that is most interesting.
Hello everyone,
a rather quick “Test 3″ iteration was applied to the 9.3 test server. This iteration includes the following changes:
- Players who researched the M24 Chaffee received 43,340 experience points for this vehicle (SS: this is a compensation for the Chaffee XP price, this is NOT free XP, it is simply the XP difference between old and new Chaffee research cost)
- Display of current server name added to the top panel in the Garage
- Low performance when entering/exiting the Artillery mode fixed (was not included in iteration 1)
- Issues with visual models fixed for the following vehicles: KV-85, T-34, and M3 Lee
- Turret damage boxes for the T67 tank destroyer fixed
- Some crashes and hang-ups of the game client fixed
- Some issues with the Strongholds mode fixed
Hello everyone,
some kids take World of Tanks too seriously. Check this out – this russian kid got angry that he got killed in his Hellcat by a 46 percent winrate KV-1S driver and goes mental. Important Russian words for the video:
“blya” – fuck
“yebat” – fuck (verb)
“yebanutyj/yebanutovo” – fucking (adj.)
“suka” – bitch/whore
“nyeprabil” – didn’t penetrate the armor
“kvas” – Russian drink, also a Russian nickname for the KV-1S
“pizdyec” – fuck (yes, Russian language is very creative when it comes to insults)
“Kak suka neprabil yevo” – how the fuck didn’t I penetrate his armor
“Nyeprabil kvasa yebanutovo” – didn’t penetrate the armor of that fucking KV-1S
This is how I always imagine the “OMG GAS CHAMBER JEW POLAK SHIT FFS” Hall of Shame members :) (And then they blame me for not taking them seriously… would you? :D)
Hello everyone,
player CptCav recently visited the Sakhalin island on his cruise from Hokkaido. There, in the Sakhalin regional museum in the port of Korsakov (Russia), stands a Type 95 Ha-Go, not exactly a common museum piece. He took a couple of photos of this vehicle, enjoy!
The museum description of this vehicle says:
This tank was used by the commander of the 4th Light Tank Company, a part of the 11th Tank Regiment, located on the Shumshu island. The tank was knocked out by Soviet anti-tank rifle fire during the Kurile Landing Operation on 18th of August, 1945. It was moved from the battlefield and burned by its crew. The tank was moved from the Shumshu island to the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk by LLC “Kurilian Fisheries Company”, with is restoration made by JSC “Aurora” of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. It was installed in the museum yard on 1.9.2010.
Hello everyone,
Test 2 of 9.3 brought allegedly some model fixes. Let’s have a look at them.
Generally speaking, it’s pretty much always some small thing. I was not able to notice most of them. The IS-7 model got fixed (here, the bug where the barrel is displayed in low quality in the game was not fixed, they only fixed the muzzle brake, which seems to be the change the patch mentions), ISU-152 as well (same issue, gun was in low res, was fixed).
I did not notice any changes on Jagdpanther, LTTB, Hellcat (here, the track bug was probably fixed), Chaffee, Walker Bulldog, T-34, T-34/85M – these changes probably involve something really tiny, or stuff invisible with viewers, such as track display.
As a part of the fighting against the bots on RU server, Wargaming permanently banned only today more than 1500 accounts of botters, who used bots despite previous 45 day ban warning. Now I wish EU server did the same thing…
- 9.3 will be released “later” than Tuesday (SS: Thursday I think)
- T49 will not have another 90mm gun
- T67 turret armor will be fixed in the final 9.3 version
- Storm states that the HD IS-7 armor was not nerfed, everything is roughly the way it was (there are differences like 1-2 degrees of angle etc.), the side of the turret is even stronger than before
- XP bonus for “tanking” (blocking shells with armor) and the punishments for suiciders will definitely not appear in the final 9.3 release version, it does however not mean the features were scrapped
Storm explains why it was removed:
“Without doublechecking by collecting the stats, we can’t release such changes. Accordingly, the formula has to be changed, released to live server (in such a way that the XP bonus was not issued, only written in statistics), the statistics have to be collected and only then it is decided whether such a thing can be released or not. The “tanking bonus” stats are collected and analysed since Spring. There were several iterations. Current fail is connected to the fact that in the previous iteration, the stats were not collected and processed correctly.”
