Check out Chieftain’s article about T28 deployment in Korea!

- in test 3, HD Centurion 7/1 should appear
- gun damage (alpha) is an arbitrary number, two guns of the same caliber do not have to have the same alpha
- the same gun can have different rates of fire in different vehicles, the difference lies in “setup of the combat compartment”
- in current round of 9.0 test, there is a bug where users of AMD processor PC’s suffer from disconnects, this will be fixed in next round of test
- Storm is aware that the weakspot of current WoT graphics is the grass and trees/bushes, he mentioned increasing the radius of grass render and the multi-layer grass
- when considering squeezebore weapons, the number, used for the purposes of overmatch and other calculations where caliber is required is the nominal gun caliber, not the shell caliber (in case of Waffe 0725, that number is 75mm)
- apparently, the developers dealt with the bug (appearing on current live server), where due to strong unsynchronization between server and client reticle (aim circle), shots were flying wildly out of the client circle

Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/282290.html

Hello everyone,

Storm posted the new look of Tiger I suspension for 9.0, which was apparently changed from the test iteration and I have absolutely no idea, what they changed. Apparently, players whined about some element of it (something with the roadwheels and them lacking “plasticity” if I understand correctly, as in – the screws and bolts were not visible enough)

From the discussion:

- it’s possible that the other type of Tiger suspension (roadwheels with rubber bands) will come as an alternative hull
- this will appear apparently in next round of test
- next round will come this week
- Storm admits that when they made the M6A2E1 model the first time, they collected wrong references, it will be corrected, when it’s remade to HD (SS: I have no idea why they actually bring this tank up all the time)
- M6A2E1 “is premium and hightier, this sharply increases his chances” (to be reworked sooner)
- Storm confirms that the entire TD class will lose its class bonus to camo after firing a gun
- developers are working on improved track movement physics, it will come later (this year)
- after T34 (US prem heavy) is reworked, it will recieve the later 120mm gun barrel model
- dirt (tracks and roadwheels getting dirty) will come as a dynamic option, depending on the ground type (snow, field etc.), this does not depend on Havok introduction
- Havok will come earlier than in 9.6
- new grass and tree render will come this year
- apparently, noone really remembered to add spotting damage to player statistics, so it wasn’t done
- M103 roadwheels have fewer polygons than other roadwheels simply because there are too many (and noone will zoom closely on them in the game anyway)
- Storm reacting on players complaining about FPS loss in 9.0: “Reduce graphic settings” (and “on minimal settings there will be no FPS drop”)

As you can imagine, very little serious info came up today.

- apparently, if you can’t enter team battles properly (you see bugged windows etc.), it’s old version of XVM’s fault

Let’s just survive the rest of the day and get serious tomorrow :)

Hello everyone,

so, yesterday I posted some info that allegedly came from Ectar – and he was not happy about it apparently, since he got “misquoted”. So, where is the truth?

For starters, this is the original e-mail I got (unchanged, only removed one link ot the Utrecht post):

Dear SS, Today I’ve been to the Xbox360 Community Event in Utrecht. There I was able to speak with Ectar for quite a while. When asked the question about when the Third Campaign starts, he responded accordingly:

Q: So Ectar, tell us: When does the Third Campaign Start?
A: Well, I don’t know. I haven’t been in the office last week so when I get into the office on Tuesday then I will know. However, I did notice that time has been reserved in my work calendar to play with the WG-clan in the last week of April.

So yeah….. Also talked about Tier 8 USA en German Light tanks, about the USA LT he wasn’t allowed to comment, on the German LT they haven’t made a conclusive decision yet. Apparently 2 tanks were considered. Then we aswell talked a bit about World of Warships, the client is now in Closed Alpha. The group of alpha players (RU supertesters) will be expanded during the year. Closed Beta might come in the end of this year or beginning 2015.

They were still thinking about creating an EU supertester group for WoWs. However, he wasn’t very optimistic about the chances of this happening. Minks is apparently still very pissed about EU supertester stuff. Ectar’s favorite tanks are: E50M, Hellcat, Centurion Mk. 7/FV4202. Hope this is some interesting information. Please only publish my nickname ;) With kind regards, Amayii [WHY]

So, that’s that. With the earlier in mind and with Ectar writing he got misquoted, I started looking for the truth on my own, at least on the important matters. Two points I learned:

- the campaign info is probably wrong, because the the info I got is that new campaign is not planned for Spring 2014, but for later. HOWEVER take this “cum grano salis”, because although the source is very legitimate, it’s not the person organizing it himself and there could have been some misunderstanding.

- the German LT info is wrong. Only one German LT8 is considered (RU251). Here, either Ectar or Amayii mixed two things together – US and German LT8′s – there are two candidates for US LT8 (the T92 and the T49) and at one point, they were “competing” for the LT8 slot (with certain people at WG favouring the T92, others the T49). In the end, the T49 “won”, but T92 is still officially considered as a LT8 candidate and it is possible that Americans will (not immediately) get two LT8′s.

And one speculation:

- the WoWs stuff I don’t know about, but considering the fact that the alpha testers from EU are doing just fine, I’d say that the chance of having WoWs EU supertesters is not zero.