this is info for those of you, who are working on getting that Super Pershing of yours through the mission. Currently, the hangar mission window is bugged. When you finish one of the partial nation missions (for example gain 75k XP for Americans), the mission counter resets and the mission will start “anew” (picture courtesy of e4gl3m4n):
Please note that according to WG EU info, this is just an interface bug. You won’t be rewarded for fulfilling the nation mission twice (gaining 150k XP for a single nation won’t get you ANOTHER 2 days of prem), nor will it count towards the Super Pershing goal twice (you cannot for example get the XP require for Americans twice and skipping for example Japan completely, you really do have to get 75k XP on each).
Seventh part of the Wargaming series with Russian veteran memories about the Second World War. This time with Pyotr Alexeyevich Filonenko tells how he, then a 13-year old “son of the regiment”, covered the embrasure of a German bunker with his body and survived.
English subtitles are available.
Pyotr Alexeyevich Filonenko is a retired colonel of the Soviet Milicija. He participated in WW2 ever since he was 11 years old as a member of a tank brigade. In June 1944, during the fighting for the Gomel-Bobruisk trail, when he was 13 years old, he repeated the feat of Alexander Mastorov: he charged the enemy machinegun position, allowing his company to go on offensive. He was wounded 12 times, but he survived. After healing in a hospital, he returned to the front and made it to Berlin.
one last interview with Viktor Kislyi from WGL finals in Warsaw, this time with English subtitles (just turn them on). He talks about e-sports, Warsaw and such.
today (from 8:00 CEST) is (in Russia) the celebration of the Russian victory in WW2 and they have a military parade going on in Moscow – this time streamed on Youtube. Chances are we will see some tanks, so that might be interesting for some.
By the way, if you want to share your feelings about Russia, Stalin, Crimea, Putin and that sort of stuff, this is not the… nah, screw it, who am I kidding. Go nuts.
Today’s QA will be mostly about patch 9.1 – you probably already saw the preliminary patch notes. You know what really bothers me about them? Where the hell is the low FPS in cities fix? Currently, that’s one of the most annoying issues for me.
- Tiger P nerfed too much? “How terrible”
- Storm adds that following LT buff will be on common test:
for tier 4 light tanks – minimal battletier 4, maximum battletier 7
for tier 5 light tanks – minimal battletier 6, maximum battletier 8
for tier 6 light tanks – minimal battletier 7, maximum battletier 9
for tier 7 light tanks – minimal battletier 8, maximum battletier 10
Chaffee will keep its special MM however
- Storm doesn’t know whether IS-3 will get its historical speed of 40 km/h (currently 38 km/h), but states it’s possible different sources say different numbers and the difference is small
- tanks had their bottom reworked, this is connected to the future implementation of tanks turning on their roof (SS: and I still think it’s a retarded idea)
- for now, nothing can be said about the new tank movement model, but next week first working version will be ready
Preliminary patchnotes, they are NOT final, Storm states there will be some fixed and additions.
- added new map “Kharkov”
- fixes and improvements on maps Arctic, Tundra, Komarin, Windstorm, North-West
- removed the Assault mode on Sand River
- improved performance on the map Hidden Village
- fixed small visual issues with textures and models for a large number of tanks
- fixed small visual issues with textures and models for some map objects
- reworked exhaust smoke effect for all tanks
- reworked tank explosion effect
- added visual markers on barrels for damage made in battle
- added the mechanism where a turret, ripped off by ammo rack explosion “slides off”
- type of surface now influences the behavior of a turret ripped off
Russian server also had a “Clanwars stream” and Maiorboltach from the world-of-ru LJ community was kind enough to write a summary of what was said in the stream with Alexei “Orc” Plotnikov. There is some interesting new info, worth checking out. Some points I left out due to them being relevant only for RU server.
- only 15k T23E3 tanks will be handed out on RU server (because “World on Fire” is a short event)
- T23E3 has a premium tank status. According to orc, it has really good rate of fire and not bad penetration, T-34-85 gets killed really fast, it’s something like E-25
- T23E3 will be obtainable for non-CW players, it will be either sold, or will be a reward for some event
- there was an idea that top 30k (on RU server) players, who don’t recieve the T23E3 would recieve credits equal to their fame points count, but it was decided not to do it
- Chat 2.0 is still being worked on, the option to read whispers/chat with friends inside battle will come in very distant future
- WG now has a system, that automatically detects rigged fights
- there is no ETA on future game events (SS: as in the Super Pershing one probably), but they are in plans already
Wargaming EU employees Obirian, Cmd_Latina and Deception1 recently made a stream, talking about CW stuff and all that. I wasn’t home, but WoT EU player Coolathlon was kind enough to make a stream write-up. Thank you, much appreciated!
World on Fire Live Stream information (Obirian and Cmd_Latina hosting, Decept1on playing some randoms)
- Tier 8 in CW event to get more people take part in the event.
- The_Challenger was climbing on TOG and other tanks–> vid on them will come
- Matchmaker for T23E3: special MM – different ideas for T23E3 spreading to players. “Nothing written in stone.”, there will be other possibilities to get the tank. “Quite confident about it.”
- Type 59 will not be available again. “I play it everyday.” (Obirian gone, Decept1on playing with Cmd_latina)
- WG team will have a tactic for taking part in World on Fire event. Last time they smashed TESLA.
- MM of T23 is same as Panther M10 – event simplier than campaign: e.g. less medals
- no missions to get fame points –> noone can lose 1000 places at once like in last campaign – Decept1on uses rammer, optics and gun laying drive on T23E3; gold consumables (medpack, repair, extinguisher); ammo: half AP, half APCR
(- Decept1on has 25 k gold, 22.5 M creds, 1.15 M free XP)
- 2.85 secs rld (rammer, BiA)
- 22-30 frames on South Coast (PC is okayish), 40 fps on Polar Map, 40 on Redshire (- Obirian died first in platoon)
- Decept1on usually uses mods, J1mb0 was named
- D.: “Turret speed is a bit meh.”
- Tier 8 games: 1; Tier 7 games: 3 – D.’s job is taking care of CW things, and reporting critical bugs to WG HQ – D. on event expectations: RSOP might go for the attack tactics again. Polish clans: 1SBP not seen on map, nor 1PAD — there wer better times for polish clans. “Maybe SBP will win something.” Not much noticable on French clans.
- D. likes to play platoon with ppl with >60% WR
(commercial: GB-tanks introduction trailer)
(commercial: CN-tanks introduction trailer) – Want T23E3 asap? Gain fame points in CW event!
- WG will be in Wrocław (PL) on Saturday and Sunday this week, Cmd_Latina will be there.
Here’s a restored T-34 driving around at Lugansk (6.5.2014, video posted by Yuri Pasholok)
Apparently, it served as a monument in Lugansk and was restored to working condition. And two days later, it’s driving around the city center (thanks to Andrys9 for the link), likely for the preparation of 9th of May celebrations. The article connects the appearance of the tank to the pro-Russian rioters in Slavyansk and Lugansk, so it could also be the Russian armored support coming to help the separatists… :)
