Hello everyone,

against my better judgement, I actually turned on the E3 stream for second time in the second day. Today (in the evening in Europe) is the last day of the show. So, the good news for codemongers is that the code/reward system in the stream got pretty much polished. You don’t have to repeat pointless phrases anymore, the questions are well announced, there is more time to do everything a lot of it is just automated, so that’s good. I actually like this code system, I am glad that WG guys learned. Bonus points for some genuinely funny comments from WG staff when releasing the rewards (“wow so reward very victory wow”) :)

The stream content… well, let’s start with the good stuff. I caught one plugin from The_Chieftain, American military historian, who actually has been acting as an advisor to the creators of the upcoming war movie Fury. Here’s basically what he said:

- movie is going to be no politics “5 guys in a tank trying to get through the war home”
- real life – tanks were supporting element, that’s how the movie depicts it
- movie will be realistic, so will be the tank issues in it
- uniforms are very realistic
- M4A2HVSS 76mm in the movie from Bovington (represents an M4A3 with 76mm) (standard post war tank of the US army, best of US Shermans, served in Korea)
- there might be an event with a “Fury” M4 tank in the game

The exclusive Fury footage can be found here.

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3338685.html

Hello everyone,

Russian LJ user Tikhonovetskiy compiled the changes in tank destroyer camouflage after shooting. Now, to make sense of the numbers – they are based on the data, gathered (via trials) by Russian players. How exactly it works is explained in this older post on FTR (I suggest you check it out), but basically, the percentage value displays the percentage, by which the spotting distance of a tank is reduced when compared to ideal case (as in, for example if the number is 10 percent and you have a tank that would ideally spot everything at 1000 meters, it gets spotted at 1000 – (10 percent, eg. 1000) = 900 meters instead).

The table is unfortunately in Russian, but here is what the numbers mean:

First number after the name of the vehicle is camo reduction when the vehicle is standing
Second number is camo reduction when the vehicle is moving
Third number is camo reduction when the vehicle shoots
Fourth number (next to the gun name) is camo reduction when the vehicle shoots, how it was in 9.0

Obviously these values are for the gun, written in the last column.

So for example the first case, AT-1 – in 9.0, the shooting camo reduction was 7,70 percent, in 9.1 it is 5,05 percent (which means a reduction to two thirds of the original value). Also, as you can see, prems weren’t touched. Oddly enough, WT E-100 got actually its shooting camo buffed if I see it correctly.

Soviets

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Hello everyone,

today, we are going to have a look at the new Historical Battle, Tobruk. You probably already noticed that unlike the Russian server, which has two historical battles (Tobruk and Bryansk 1942), the EU server gets only one battle, Tobruk (with Bryansk possibly coming later). The reason for that (according to an official post by Tuccy) is that given the extremely low interest in historical battles, there was a concern that (just like in 9.0) very few people would be playing it and these few people would further split into two historical battles (both with German involvement).

Anyway, back to Tobruk. There is a nice historical post about that battle (Russians had it for two days already, I was just about to translate it today, but for once, WG EU did their job). This post however has one small problem. Actually, the entire battle does. The battle itself ommits the obvious role of Italian forces, since, quite obviously, there are no Italian tanks in the game. Remember, how the developers said we can’t have Israeli-Arab conflicts due to the lack of those parties’ crews? Well, on the other hand, we apparently can have “historical” battles without actual historical Italian involvement. Also…

That’s not a British Valentine crew, is it? Just saying, could have been mentioned.

Anyway, to the historical battle.

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Source: http://www.develop-online.net/analysis/pc-free-to-play-s-billions/0192597

2013 data, worldwide. Pretty interesting…

….and it’s a growing trend.

Hello everyone,

Martintramvajak recently visited the well-known Czech army event at the military museum at Lešany. I wasn’t there, so I couldn’t take any photos, but luckily, he did. Here they are. This time, I think it’s not needed to add any descriptions – see how many vehicles will you guess :) There will also be a second part (with description) of some other goodies, that can be found over there…

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Gonna be interesting :)

Hello everyone,

Life is made good by the little things, that make you smile. This is one of them. So, today, I posted the news about the Wargaming EU moving to the different office. In the end, I had a little childish jab at WG EU once again – you know me. But one of the first comments made me pause:

Wow. Such hostility. Chill, man! Since such people are not TOO common in FTR comments, I was wondering whether it’s some hater returning to haunt this blog, maybe I know him from before. Decided to look at this commenter closer.

Alright, someone new then. And logged with his gmail no less, which means that is his e-mail (you have to have access to it to use it to log in to FTR). The IP leads to France – at this point it started getting interesting. On a hunch, I googled the gmail address “Vojta.ov@gmail.com” and…

Hi, Ellendway (EU Czech community organizer!)

Second result:

http://ellendway.eu/?page_id=172

A bit of advice: if you want to troll, don’t use your personal gmail address to log in.

Busted. So, this is what WG EU staff does in their spare time (I hope…)? Spam FTR?

Source: http://www.develop-online.net/news/wargaming-opens-new-paris-office/0193886

This is WG EU’s new building for 171 employees. The original building at first had cca 50 people, but their count has tripled ever since.

“We built this family as closely as we could. We like to work with each other and we’re convinced that liking the people you work with is key to the future the company and for the motivation of everybody in the long term,” said Wargaming director of EMEA and NA Frédéric Menou. “We believe that being on the same floor and seeing each other every day, and having a mingling area where people can talk to each other and play pool helps a lot. And the door to my office is always open.”

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Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/10/fury-first-footage-at-world-of-tanks-e3-panel

Hello everyone,

at the E3 expo, new footage of the upcoming movie “Fury” was shown at the Wargaming stand. It was also announced that World of Tanks would feature special content, tied to the movie’s release.

About the movie (from IGN):

In Fury, it is April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

According to American Wargaming military specialist, The_Chieftain, the movie looks very, very promising, because it features grit and historical realism on a scale, unusual for Hollywood. If I recall correctly, he provided some of the historical information on the movie as well, so it might be actually a pretty good movie.