Hello everyone,

before we start, let me say something first. You know how come there are so many leaks? Why Wargaming people can’t keep a secret for long? Let me tell you. It’s disgruntled employees. It’s natural in a way, if you treat your people like shit, they’ll take the first chance they get to tell someone about it – people love to talk. And then, that “someone” tells me. This is not however such a case – this is something else, a classic disgruntled ex-employee. Thanks to the anonymous CZ player who sent me this :)

Remember Ellendway? Some of you might – especially the Czechoslovak community, he’s one part of the former community organizer duo Ellendway/Karlie. While Karlie moved on to e-sports, Ellendway either left the company or was fired, I don’t know (heard both versions). Now, you know what’s one of the rules on any job? “Don’t slander your ex-employer”. Unfortunately for him (and fortunately for us), Ellendway broke that rule, when he commented with his profile under a Czech portal article about World of Tanks: Generals. Czech readers can have a look at what he’s saying in original, but I’ll translate it for you. And of course a screenshot, just in case he decides to delete his comments (happened before).

What he says about WoT Generals:

“Last time I played it, it was when I was working at WG and the game was in early alpha testing phase. The game was slow, boring and practically impossible to understand. Compared to Heartstone, it was insane.”

He continues to comment about Wargaming EU salary policy (pay attention if you want to apply to WG) – he replies to a person, who said that it’s possible the game evolved in the meanwhile and he’d see that, if he continued to work there.:

“Thanks, but I’d rather do a solid job, where they give me more than a minimum wage and I can afford to live and not survive :)”

Interesting. I always thought WG pays well. When another commenter claimed it’s possible that WoT is no longer as profitable, he replied:

“Unfortunately, the tanks are more and more profitable. More and more people supports them and buy premium accounts.”

And when questioned about details, he adds:

“Well, since I worked for them for more than a year, unfortunately I have to say that the income gets higher and higher. Of course, it’s not as easy as just looking at the EU server and saying it’s losing profits. In Russia, there are still over 900k players online (or not?) and now the Xbox version and the mobile Blitz…
You have to understand that 99 percent of players do not complain in discussions, they are sitting and playing. And unfortunately also paying. That’s one of the reasons why I left. When the employer doesn’t care what’s going on with the game and the main thing that matters to him is that each month he gets gazillions of USD, it’s hard to do anything…”

Interesting, especially the last part. Of course, WG is no charity, we all know that. Makes me wonder how much exactly do they care about the game though.

Hello everyone,

another reworked Prokhorovka appeared on the superstest server. Check this out.

The green zone landscape was completely changed (mostly levelled from what I can tell). The circles represent new buildings added for cover and the purple zone had its environmental objects changed (some stones and such were added for cover).

Hello everyone,

23rd of February is the Defender of the Fatherland day in Russia. Originally, it was known as the “Day of the Soviet Army” (or Red Army) and it traces back to 1919, but it was renamed after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 to its current name and in 2002, Vladimir Putin made it a national holiday. Basically, it’s like Women’s Day, but in reverse – this time, it’s women, who give the men some presents. You might have noticed that yesterday, a rather large event from RU server was published on FTR – well, that’s that.

Wargaming made a special ad for this event too – and, well… see for yourself. Technically, there’s probably nothing really wrong with it, but the amount of WoT stuff in it is almost awkward. No Russian language, doesn’t need subtitles.

With that 70 Euro (or how much it costs) mouse though, somehow, I don’t think this picture represents the current Russian family very correctly. But I guess we all have different priorities.

Hello everyone,

check this Wargaming video about how to play with the FV4005 and the FV215b (183). It’s in Russian, but there are English subtitles (turn them on) :)

Hello everyone,

and here’s ANOTHER tier 2 light tank, Renault R35. That’s right: the upcoming French tier 2-5 minibranch will have two regular tier 2′s. It will look like this:

And the model of the vehicle:

Characteristics (elite setup, top gun, 100 percent crew):

Tier: 2
Hitpoints: 170 (155)
Engine: 82 (105) hp
Weight: 10,579 (12,334) tons
Power-to-weight: 7,75 (8,51) hp/t
Maximum speed: 23/12 (24/12) km/h
Hull traverse: 34 (34) deg/s
Terrain resistance: 1,151/1,247/2,397 (1,055/1,247/2,301)
Turret traverse: 24 (24) deg/s
Viewrange: 300 (280)
Radio range: 290 (300)

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Hello everyone,

continuing the Somua S35 minibranch leaks, this is the upcoming 9.7 regular tier 2 light tank, FCM 36.

Characteristics (elite setup, top gun, 100 percent crew):

Tier: 2
Hitpoints: 155
Engine: 105 hp
Weight: 12,334 tons
Power-to-weight: 8,51 hp/t
Maximum speed: 24/12 km/h
Hull traverse: 34 deg/s
Terrain resistance: 1,055/1,247/2,301
Turret traverse: 24 deg/s
Viewrange: 280
Radio range: 300

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Hello everyone,

here’s another version of reworked Karelia from supertest. Developers are clearly working with several variants, this is like third of fourth one already. Anyway, what’s wrong with current Karelia? I like the map as it is…

The red zone (1) is newly opened zone of attack (accessible to players). Yellow zones (2) were reworked (rebalanced, some cover changed etc.)

Hello everyone,

the Russians are celebrating the Defender of the Fatherland Day and to commemorate this event, apart from a video with girls in uniforms, Wargaming prepared a special mechanism – converting the free XP to crew XP!

Okay, the video first.

Basically, it’s really simple – you can convert your free XP to crew XP (to one specific crewmber) for free – using the ratio of 1 free XP point for 5 crew XP points. Every tanker’s profile has this one button, that serves this very purpose

And the EU/US server? Well… you know the answer to that, don’t you :P

Okay, to be completely honest: it would make no sense not to introduce this mechanism to EU and US as well, so we’ll prolly get it eventually too – I have little faith in WG EU, but these decisions are usually taken in Minsk. Other than that, the event is pretty awesome too (Russians are going all out this year with the 70th anniversary of the end of the war) – it includes:

- x5 for first victory
- x2 crew XP (for tier 4-10 vehicles)
- 15 percent discount on all tier 8-10
- 15 percent discount on tier 8 premium tanks, 30 percent on tier 6-7 and 50 percent on tier 2-5
- 50 percent discount on equipment
- 50 percent discount on premium shells
- 25 percent discount on consumables (50 percent for gold ones)
- 25 percent discount on crew retraining (50 percent if you use gold)
- 25 percent discount on skill reset (50 percent if you use gold)
- 90 percent discount on changing crewmember names and faces

Thanks to Zarrick for this one.

Looks like in 9.6, one of the buildings on the Swamp map is bugged. Check this video:

You can clearly see that the player is aiming and shooting through the wall of one of the buildings on the south side of the map. Oh well, as usual I guess.

For clear view switch to 1080p and run the video in new window.