Thanks to “Personne” for this one.
Hello everyone,
allegedly after 6 years, the Saumur King Tiger is moving again. On 7.6.2014, it was shown to public. The engine sound is fantastic… I wish WG recorded this.
E3 Stream Update
I gave up.
The event is nice enough I guess but the amount of WG PR stuff… nah, not worth it. The spam in the chat is terrible and the new “reward system” (instead of codes, WG staff on the chat randomly says a codeword and if you write it you have a chance to win a prize) practically forces you to watch the chat instead of the stream, which is stupid (but then, 99 percent of people seem to have come in to beg for Type 59 instead of watching the stream).
In other words, don’t expect any codes to appear here.
There was some sort of quasi QA with some guys I hever heard about, from which I could gather the following info:
Warplanes
- WoWp will be in CW (unknown ETA)
- cockpit mode – “I doubt it”
- future: new modes (“creative awesome game modes”), tons of new aircraft
Tanks
- PC: weather effects? bla bla bla maybe in the future
- WGL Warsaw brought more support to e-sports
- Stronghold “in next two patches or something”
- premium tanks are not OP, they are balanced at middle level of their tier
- more historical battles are coming
- couple of more tank content updates, independent suspension, Havok
As you can see, practically nothing new. If you are going to watch from now on – good luck and stronk nerves, you’re gonna need them. Personally, I don’t think even Type 59 is worth watching that chat spam.
WoT Blitz to be released on June 26th
What the title says. Minimal configuration: Iphone 4S and Ipad 2.
Weekly FTR contributor review
Hello everyone,
once again it’s the time to thank the contributors, it’s you who keep FTR running after all! This time, following people donated via Paypal:
Ronineter (Netherlands)
MrTipplesWorth (United Kingdom) – special thanks to you for a very generous donation, mate!
Spasmus (Germany)
Thanks a lot, all of you!
The best way to help me and FTR is via the Patreon service
http://www.patreon.com/silentstalker
This is the Patreon account of For the Record. In case you read this for the first time and feel like contributing, here is an explanation what it is, how it works and how to contribute. You can find a list of all those, who pledged and help to keep FTR running here.
Thank you all!
10.6.2014
- Storm confirms that the Balaton HB was removed in 9.1 after all
- Panzer IV Ausf.H – this vehicle was being manufactured from 1943, yet it appears in 1942 historical battle Bryansk – Storm states this is because Ausf.D would be too weak and there is no separate Ausf.G in the game.
- Storm states that alternative hulls are necessary (SS: because of HB so there is an Ausf.G hull)
- apparently, 9.1 has some issues with quitting the battle to the hangar, the game gets somehow stuck – Storm states that this is connected to the high traffic, where the game sends a large packet of data with game results and the packet sometimes doesn’t get through properly
- apparently the bug with ultra-long map load times appeared again. Storm: “We didn’t do anything with map loading”
- Storm states that the situation with “moving corpses” is very complicated, the bug was not fixed in 100 percent of cases
- disabling the UI in battle improves FPS by a lot and removes some lags? Storm: “I wrote this before. There can’t be a non-resource-requiring interface. For its drawing and calculations there will always be resources needed.”
9.1 Test 1 Gun Sounds Mod
Hello everyone,
Russian player (LJ user) crack_usaf was kind enough to save the Test 1 (new) gun sounds for us. Sadly, the Hellcat/Jackson engine sound is not available. You can get the gun sounds here.
Installation is rather problematic – I tried to simply use them as a mod (add them to the res_mods/0.9.0/audio folder), which kinda deleted pretty much all the old sounds (I heard only gunfire). I don’t think that’s right and I am not sure they work in the 0.9.0, better to wait for 0.9.1 with their installation I think.
9.1 Patch Video Overview
For now, only in Russian
Inside:
- Kharkov map (“first historically correct map”, the city looks like in 1943), it has open spaces and tall buildings, many covers
- apparently there will be official video introducing the history of Kharkov
- map rework (see video, comparisons are shown nicely)
- historical battles: Tobruk and Bryansk 1942 (notice that the Balaton operation got removed as well)
- TD camo after shot nerf (excluding premium TDs)
- LT buff
- new marks of excellence on barrels
- reworked the tank ammo rack explosion effect
- turrets no longer stick to the hulls of other tanks
- football mode footage
9.1 Live RU Feedback – Changes
In patch 9.1, Russian players report following issues:
- clan chat and ingame channels are not working
- friends don’t see one another as online, even if they are playing on the same server
- the Balaton historical battle was ALSO removed, this is intentional
Bryansk historical battle setup looks like this:
E3 Stream: So Type 59, Very codes, wow!
From the Wargaming newsletter (thanks to Jalt):
Well… the way I see it, you can either watch the stream tonight… or you can watch FTR, because if the codes are in any postable formate (not that “valid for 2 minutes” shit), I will be posting them here. Let’s hope they learned from the WGL code fiasco…
Tank turrets as Bunkers – Wargaming fantasy?
Hello everyone,
recently, it was announced – or rather leaked – that the Stronkhold mode will – with one of its iterations – bring defensive turrets, controlled by bots. These turrets are made of tank turrets on concrete rectangle and look something like this:
Some players started claiming that such a setup is nonsense, because it’s Wargaming fantasy. Well, is it?