- these factors are taken into account when rebalancing a vehicle, according to Storm: “winrate, popularity on its tier, skill of players playing it (its distribution), average XP, average damage, average damage stopped by armor – many various indicators” – later, Storm however adds that a vehicle won’t be nerfed based solely on the fact that it is very popular (SS: earlier, Storm stated however that a very popular vehicle is practically always an indicator of that vehicle being imbalanced)
- it’s possible the Ardennes HB that is getting removed in 9.1 will return, but “no promises”
- how the accuracy will be nerfed is not decided yet, developers are running experiments
- T-44-85 has been “postponed for a long time”
- tank models will be reworked also in standard client, not just in HD content, the “HD” concerns only texture resolution
- Havok will work in both SD and HD clients
Chieftain’s Hatch – “Snapshots” M60A2 Patton
9.1 – One More Medal “Monolith”
Source: VK Wotleaks community
Hello everyone,
9.1 will bring one more medal I forgot to mention earlier, its name is “Monolith”
Monolith
Conditions: In a SPG, survive the enemy tank ramming attempt, fatal for him. The speed of your SPG at that point must not be higher than 10 km/h. Destroying your teammates is not allowed. Awarded only in random battles.
Czechoslovak Post-War AA Gun Tank Projects – Part 3
Part 1 – LP and Halftracks
Part 2 – T-34 with 57mm R10
Hello everyone,
this part will be more like an addendum to the entire series. Last time we left the Czechoslovak AA autocannons, it was with an unsuccessful one-barrel LP-157, an R10 autocannon, based on the T-34/85 hull from 1955. A mock-up of the autocannon was made (the photos can be viewed in Part 2).
LP-157
Here is the upgraded version with the R12 autocannon mockup
The fate of this version was already described in part 2, I will only add that the full-scale mockup was indeed produced in June 1955. The designation LP-157 means basically “an AA gun, model 1, 57mm”. Two variants were considered actually – one with a classic “magazine”, another for continuous fire with an open “funnel”, where the ammunition could be continuously fed.
New Wargaming Minsk Office
Source: http://it.tut.by/401423 (via Yozas_Gubka, world-of-ru)
Hello everyone,
Wargaming Minsk is building a new office for themselves and the tut.by portal got an exclusive first glimpse of how it looks. And it’s… well, you be the judge. It’s a 16-floor business center on the outskirts of Minsk. The distance from the Minsk underground train is not a problem, Minsk is paying for a minibus to constantly drive from the building to the underground station and back.
The building has a very… special decoration as well
Yea, that’s a MS-1. And the lobby:
Overloon Militracks with Rita – Part II
Second part of Rita’s Overloon video (first one can be found here)
Weekly FTR Contributor Review
Hello everyone,
today marks the third time the Patreon subscription got successfully used, thank you all!
Out of the 548,5 USD pledged at that point:
- 526,5 USD came in successfully (the rest didn’t go through for some reason on the contributor side, insufficient funds on account etc.)
- out of 526,5 USD:
46,65 USD went to credit card fees
26,36 USD went to Patreon (service fee)
leaving 453,49 USD for FTR – much appreciated! The list of contributors can be viewed here.
And once again it’s the time to thank also the contributors, who donated via Paypal:
John L. (Norway)
Bhaarlem (Netherlands)
Aleš Š. (Czech Republic)
Brenthos (Israel) – thank you for the contribution as well as the nice message mate :)
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Thank you all!
2.6.2014
- Storm states that the new Nvidia drivers provide boost specifically for SLI in WoT
- in 9.0, earlier SLI support got broken
- regarding the issue that a configuration with SLI setup did not gain any FPS from the newest patch, Storm states they made several tests with SLI, everywhere there was a FPS increase
- apparently, this is actually intentional according to Storm
- Storm confirms RU251 will come this year (SS: 9.3 most likely)
- lighting in the new hangar will be fixed a bit later
- 9.1 live patch? “when it’s done it’s done”
- the fact that you will be able to select whether you want to download HD content or not is confirmed
Straight Outta Supertest: “The Pit” – New Pics
Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3321182.html
Hello everyone,
remember that post about the developed small (400 x 400) WoT map “The Pit” for tiers 1,2 and 3? Three more pictures appeared Sorry for the idiotic water mark, wasn’t me. Also, it’s not the infamous “penis” map I think, it’s something else.
SLI Bug Fixed
Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/294676.html
Hello everyone,
in his post, Storm confirms that in the recent driver version by Nvidia (337.88 from 26.5.2014), the bug, where the performance of WoT dropped significantly when playing with SLI enabled, was fixed.
He implores you to download the newest drivers, you can do that here.