Hello everyone,

the developers of super-popular XVM mod made an interesting thing last night:

The blue-yellow test says “Slava Ukraini” – “glory to Ukraine”. According to a post (that was removed in the meanwhile), the text was added to XVM in last night’s build. It caused some butthurt in the Russian community…

Hello everyone,

just a quick update (thanks to some very decent people from WG RU for confirming this). The patchnotes for 9.0 – at least the Russian ones – are fucked up. What it says there:

Угол склонения орудия 10,5 cm Kw.K. L/28 уменьшен с 7 до 5°.
Угол склонения орудия 7,5 cm Kw.K. 40 L/43 уменьшен с 8 до 7°.
Угол склонения орудия 7,5 cm Kw.K. 40 L/48 уменьшен с 8 до 6°.

Translated:

Angle of depression of the gun 10,5 cm Kw.K. L/28 reduced from 7 to 5 degrees
Angle of depression of the gun 7,5 cm Kw.K. 40 L/43 reduced from 8 to 7 degrees
Angle of depression of the gun 7,5 cm Kw.K. 40 L/48 reduced from 8 to 6 degrees

This “common” depression applies only when the gun is aiming at the sides. It was reduced for the gun not to interfere with the Schurzen. The L/48 gun depression aiming forward is actually 10 degrees (in a 60 degree angle, eg. 30 degrees from the axis of the vehicle on each side), with 9 degrees when facing backwards.

For the L/43 it’s 10 degrees depression both facing forwards and backwards. For the 105mm howitzer, it’s 10 degrees forward and 8 backward.

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:

Ivan R. (Kazakhstan)
jrt5 (Czech Republic)
Byron G. (New Zealand) – thanks for the contribution of 0,01 Eur, appreciated :)
WinG_HU (Hungary) – he wanted to relay following message: “Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized tanks or 1 tank-sized duck? I’d like a proper answer publicly! Thanks, and keep up the good work!””)

I was recently made aware by several mails that I apparently don’t advertise the Patreon thingie enough, so here goes:

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!

Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/content/docs/release_notes/

Official translation will most likely come tomorrow, so just for your information, what will 9.0 bring:

- historical battles (Kursk, Balaton, Ardennes)
- HD models (T-34/85, T-54, Maus, Tiger I, Panther, Sherman, Hellcat, M103, Centurion 7/1, Tortoise)
- changed the maps Malinovka, Serene Coast, Steppes, Redshire, Mountain Pass, Severogorsk, Pearl River
- changed the regular and premium hangars
- fixed the FPS drop on Widepark map
- added new graphic settings window
- reworked the graphic setting automatic mechanism
- added the “dynamic resolution” option
- added the FOV setting
- added the option to regulate the intensity of color filters
- added the option to set the screen frequency
- added the possibility of the turret flying off after ammo rack explosion
- added the new fullscreen sniper mode (can be disabled in settings)

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Source: http://top.rbc.ru/economics/11/04/2014/917322.shtml

Hello everyone,

so, I guess you have seen the statistic post “Third year in numbers” – yep, those numbers are interesting (150 mil battles, nice!) – but what about other numbers? Let’s have a look at some more data, as written in the abovelinked news article.

- in 2013, World of Tanks users paid 475 million USD for the game services (from March 2013 to March 2014)
- that officially means 4,51 USD per player, a number unheard of in F2P
- interestingly enough, if both numbers are at least roughly correct, that puts the number of WoT players at over 100 million
- worldwide, World of Tanks Xbox version number of users is more than 2 million players (only cca 100k of which are Russians)
- an estimate on WoT Xbox revenue is 9,5 mil USD

Thanks to MisterPatriot (US server) for this one.

Hello everyone,

as you probably know, the British FV215b (120) tier 10 British heavy is a fake. There never was a 120mm gun planned for the FV215b vehicle, Wargaming made it up and there is a high chance it will get replaced by something else (by what, I am sure most of you can guess). That however doesn’t prevent various kit companies from using WG stuff to produce models and further promoting World of Tanks fakes as existing vehicles.

Check this out:

OKB Grigorov is a small Bulgarian model-making company, producing various kits. You will be able to get your fake FV215b tank soon as a resin kit, according to their FB pages. Enjoy!

Hello everyone,

the following press conference (with Sergei “SerB” Burkatovsky and Anton “Evilly” Pankov) happened during the weekend Kubinka event. For those who don’t know: a special event for RU players was organized by Wargaming at the Kubinka museum. There were competitions, talks of historical tech and meeting with developers. Probably some other cool stuff as well. Thanks to LJ user “world_of_cactus” for posting it.

Now, I hope I understood the stuff correctly, because somehow, it’s kinda difficult to understand SerB (in this case I fully admit I could be totally off, it’s hard to understand over the noise)

Inside:

- WG 80 million users worldwide
- patch 9.0 lays down the ground for future updates (by introducing the HD standard)
- connection of WG to museums and such, because “we remember our history and are proud of it”

At this point SerB starts to talk about the past of WoT, how they started, improved graphics over time etc.

- this year, they want to introduce two new modes, one is historical battles and the other is the “fortifications mode”
- “fortifications” mode is not meant for only hardcore players like CW (SerB described how CW is hardcore)

(from another video)

- not all tanks will have viable (equally worth) alternative hulls

There was something about Havok as well. Can’t understand it.