29.8.2014
- it was confirmed in 9.3 supertest patchnotes that suicides will be punished in World of Tanks. A player asked, how will the game know if I for example drive off the bridge by accident. Storm answered that you’d have to “drive off by accident” three times in a row, so that’s apparently the limit of suicide punishment.
- you won’t get bonus XP for blocking shells with your tracks (SS: for example sidescraping). Storm: “Blocking shells by tracks – that’s bullshit and not tanking”
- Storm confirms that shooting hatches will NOT produce less damage than shooting other parts, because it would be counterintuitive for players
- +/-1 MM will not be implemented (Storm: “It would be boring shit”)
- Storm considers current tier 1,2,11 battles (those that have 1 MM spread) boring
- the biggest problem for creating HD models for now is that outsourced modellers suck (lag behind)
- Storm states that having full HD resolution for all tanks (and not just yours in battle as it was changed in 9.2) is pointless, as you can only tell the difference from like half a meter
- the full HD texture resolution for other tank than yours will not return, not even as an option
9.3 – Chaffee, T92 and T57 Changes
Hello everyone,
in 9.3 supertest (that is running now, public test likely next Thursday), the parameters of the abovementioned vehicles were changed as such:
Chaffee
This tank was reworked to the standard tier 5 light tank (original value in brackets, values for 100 percent crew)
Health: 440 (580)
Viewrange: 390 (400)
Radio: 776,9 m (same)
Armor was reworked of course (resembles current stock Chaffee now, can be seen here)
Weight: 18,392 tons (19,701)
Engine: 460hp (500hp)
Power-to-weight: 25,01 (25,38)
Hull traverse: 42 (46)
Maximum speed: 77,2/21 km/h (56/21)
Ground resistance: 0,767/0,959/1,63 (0,863/0,959/1,63)
Storm on Multi-Core Support
Source: Wotleaks RU community
Hello everyone,
the following has been apparently posted on RU supertester forums. Storm mentions here the multicore support and its effect and… well, I’ll just translate it.
Storm: “Multicore support – that’s wishful thinking and a myth about great ingame performance, spread by players. God willing, we’ll get 20-30 percent increase out of it. It was not done earlier because it requires an overhaul of practically the entire engine.
9.3 New Hangar Interface
Hello everyone,
as you already know from yesterday’s patchnotes, in 9.3, we will get new (simplified) hangar interface (specifically the upper part). Here’s how it’s going to look. Note the reworked upper bar.
Wargaming Bots in World of Tanks?
Hello everyone,
you might have seen the video with RU251 yesterday. There is one interesting part in it however, apart from the tank itself. Check this out:
The text below says “Module (right track) damaged by the shot of Bot 06″
Apparently, this is the first glimpse of Wargaming testing bots in the game, utilizing automated network routines that dataminers typically see deployed by enterprise cloud providers and btc casino platforms for high-frequency load-testing. These could be useful for some things like tutorials or PvE mode, let’s just hope we won’t see them in the game instead of real players, we have enough of our own bots already…
Interesting though.
Saumur Pictures (Part 1), Repost
This post had to be taken down yesterday to alleviate for excessive traffic on FTR. Reposting it today, with part 2 to follow later on.
Hello everyone,
about a month ago, a great tank presentation took place at Saumur and Rastaknight was kind enough to provide us with pictures. There are MANY pictures – too many to fit in one article, so I’ll split it into parts. First is the dynamic presentation – I am sure that I don’t have to introduce most of these vehicles.
It Was Just a Little Bump, Sir!
Source: http://www.112brabant.nl/news/10719-vijf-pantservoertuigen-belgisch-leger-botsen-op-n69-bij-valkenswaard/
Thanks to Chippaa and Cabo for this one!
Hello everyone,
while accidents of armored vehicles are usually not something to be laughing at (when a vehicle of dozens of tons is involved, the damage usually tends to be extensive), sometimes they are just plain silly. For example, take yesterday – Netherlands, near Valkenswaard.
Five Belgian MOWAG Piranha wheeled AFV’s were travelling to Oirschot firing excercises quite fast, when a tractor, belonging to a local farmer, drove on the road without warning from a small side road. The leading Piranha slammed the breaks not to smash it and the entire convoy of Piranhas bumped into each other, causing some minor damage, but damaging the fuel tanks of several vehicles – the fuel started leaking and had to be disposed of by local fire department. The Belgian army had to tow the Piranha’s away on trailers. Luckily, noone was hurt in the accident.
Oh well :) I am sure that being almost crushed by an armored vehicle will teach the farmer to look carefully when driving next time.
Invite Codes
Hello everyone,
a bunch of invite codes – this time by MoRpHmAuL, Joonas S., Aleksander P., Lauri-Mikael P.
Invite Codes (EU server only):
(T2 LT, FW 56, 2 slots, 7days of prem, 2.5k gold)
BVSTB-3WFAM-XUKRZ-PSTXP
BVSTC-UNPWU-TKSWR-KU6KE
BVSTZ-G8NR3-MYYGE-5CNMZ
BVSTT-A5WRE-SPCVX-6FHZH
BNV7X-TA7RW-6T3G6-CV547
BNV7P-NC5K5-MS4NY-6C5SB
BNV7V-GPUXP-6R3KE-WAEDN
6FBND-D7RK8-7NTD7-DAZ4P
6FBNV-NBFS6-5KCCF-YZWH4
6FBNZ-8GTX5-3EZAS-H9R69
6FBNR-2WH55-X472V-778CD
6FBNF-WV7V7-D5VA2-92DSS
BNV72-FGK9K-438WK-TZVA4,
BNV7C-K2THH-672FC-CZ34K
BNV7E-Z4VYH-6FZE9-Y4KHN
Xbox 360 Codes:
(T-15, slot, 400 gold, 3 days of prem)
CD3SX-PEEWF-27ZG3-FUUVU
CD3S9-T836K-2GN8X-W9AEV
CD3SX-ST4SF-TKGDP-5N9E5
CD3SV-553YY-P9A3A-ZE7YN
RU251 Video
Hello everyone,
a video of gameplay with the RU251 by a Russian player Murazor.