15.3.2014

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Pretty much nothing today. The only thing that was going on a while ago (and I forgot to post it) was the supertest of the possibility to stream (via Twitch) directly from the client. I guess that’s good news for all the streamers out there.

Oh yea, and as for mobile gaming, current minimum requirements for WoT: Blitz are (according to Overlord) following chips:

Tegra 3
Mali-400MP
Adreno 225
PowerVR SGX544MP2

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Swedish Tanks – Part III: Landsverk L-100 and L-120

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Author: sp15 (US server)

Part I: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/07/swedish-tanks-part-i-strv-m21-29/
Part II: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/12/swedish-tanks-part-ii-strv-m31-strv-fm31/

After it became clear that Sweden would not be interested in buying more of the L-10 or L-30 tanks, Landsverk people started to consider exporting their designs. Most would be unsuccessful, but they are interesting nonetheless, so let’s take a look at some of them.

Landsverk L-100

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Landsverk had been working on several designs in late 20′s and early 30′s. One of these designs was a light tank, similiar to the German Panzer I. This was the L-100 light tank. It was first designed in 1930 alongside the L-10 and L-30. The vehicle was a 4,5 ton light tank, armed with either two machineguns or the 20mm Madsen autocannon and it had 9mm of armor. The first prototype was allegedly produced around 1934 and was essentially a thinned down version of the L-60 tank, that was currently under development. It seems likely that this first prototype was produced to test the new torsion bar suspension, planned to replace the earlier suspension used on Landsverk designs, such as the L-10.

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Rare Panzer III Ausf.J in Kubinka

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Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2858031.html

Hello everyone,

Yuri Pasholok posted a nice summary of the Panzer III Ausf.J, standing in Kubinka. Let’s have a look at it.

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It’s one of the most mass-produced models of Panzer III, the Ausf.J with 50mm L/60 gun. In Spring 1942, this version was renamed to Ausf.L. These vehicles formed the backbone of the German armored units in 1942 and it was this tank, that fought against Soviet KV’s and T-34′s. This took a heavy toll on them and to this day, only one Ausf.J with L/60 50mm survived, this one – and only because it was captured by the Soviets at some point in 1942.

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Russian Wikipedia Bug

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Hello everyone,

just quick heads-up. Yep, Wargaming screwed something once again. When you go on the EU portal (worldoftanks.eu) and press “Wiki” on the top bar, you will get to…

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…Russian wikipedia. Now, since you are here, reading this English blog, I am going to assume most of you don’t speak Russian. I am sure Vladimir Putin would like to change that (one peninsula at a time), but before he manages to do that, we’ll stick to English. Now, if you try to go to RU wiki and manually try to set the language to en (http://wiki.wargaming.net/ru/ to http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/), you will get an error. That’s due to the fact English wiki is not ready yet (because, you know, copying the new template and filling the text from the old wikipedia is very, very hard and takes half a year), you can use the OLD English wikipedia, that still works:

http://wiki.worldoftanks.com/Main_Page

I hope that explains the issue. English official Wargaming wiki should appear soon(TM).

14.3.2014

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- according to the developers, 8.11 TD nerf caused the decrease of amount of TD’s in hightier battles
- according to the developers, the TD situation is like this: in the beginning, TD’s were actually quite unpopular despite their alpha and camo advantage and that changed only with the big arty nerf, where a certain number of artillery players transferred to TD’s
- one of the reasons the potential damage stat got renamed is the fact the developers are preparing to implement rewards for soaking up damage (SS: “tanking” in Warcraft terms)
- apparently, animated tank effects, such as automatic shell ejectors, are planned for “medium” future (as in, not far from now, but not soon)
- after 8.6, there were no changes in accuracy and shell spread within aim circle
- in 9.0, new premium and non-premium hangars will come, it will be “very cool”
- independent suspension will appear on reworked models only
- ASAP for 9.0 will come within next few days
- at some point in the future, there will be massive vehicle rebalances
- T-54 HD model will have the log on the back
- concrete-piercing shells will not be introduced to WoT
- arty shells exploding in mid-air and arty shells flying outside of the aim circle were caused by some bug in server connection between nodes during certain distribution setups
- 122mm IS not having historical gold shells in historical battles? “How terrible”
- tank names on minimap: when it’s done it’s done
- apparently, the “potential damage” will be renamed to “damage, reflected by armor” or something like that
- historical battles will have separate stats, like team battles
- according to Storm, confrontation has to be switched off, not just switched off by default, because those few people, who would switch it on, would constantly suffer from long queues and problems with MM and there would be a lot of whining
- in 9.0, the bug where missions don’t display the counter properly on the mission screen tab, will be fixed
- according to Overlord, World of Tanks: Blitz is practically ready for beta

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