New Ruinberg on Fire map – sector A2
Thanks to Massacre049 (US) for this :)
14.2.2014
As you might have noticed, the next EU tier 10 on discount is the Jagdpanzer E-100, not the IS-4 (or E-50M), that was predicted earlier (based on the Russian/SEA pattern). That makes the next tier 10 on discount completely unpredictable from now on :(
- apparently, the RU servers are suffering from the same lag issues as the EU ones (SS: good, that means it’s not EU-specific)
- Panzer IV will be grey even after the HD remodelling
- Storm confirms the leaked Panzer IV model as valid, it’s still in the “old quality” as “the last of the Mohycans” (SS: from 9.0 on models will come in new quality only apparently)
- HD Panzer IV model will not appear in 9.0
- apparently, Wargaming HD models will have more polygons than War Thunder models
As for the lags… I have readers writing me every day to write something about them, but I have absolutely no idea, what to write. I have no idea what might be causing them, everyone keeps saying it’s something “along the way”. In Czech Republic, O2 (probably the biggest internet provider) seems to have issues with it – earlier (months ago), I was playing on the same connection at 20-30 ping. Then it jumped to 70-80 for no reason. Then random packet loss, but it wasn’t gamebreaking. Now, I am playing on both servers on 90-130 ping and tons of packet loss. Not much else I can say about it.
Straight outta Supertest: New tier 5 Panzer IV
Source: wotleaks.ru
You waited for it. You wanted it. Here it is :)
In 9.0, the tier 5 Panzer IV model will change into the Ausführung H – with side skirts (Schurzen). And no, this is NOT an alternative hull. This is how tier 5 Panzer IV will look like.
Dance of the Canadian Valentines
Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2753123.html and http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2753022.html
Hello everyone,
Yuri Pasholok (no matter what we might think of him personally) posts some pretty interesting stuff occasionally. This time, it’s a couple of photos of the Valentine tanks.
Here, a demonstration of first Valentine VI tanks, created by Canadian Pacific Railway, Angus Shop, Montreal, 17.8.1941
And these are the photos of the Kubinka Valentine II, located outside of the museum under the open sky – and apparently, it’s the only tank of this type, left in Russia. The vehicle is well preserved, including its serial number:
The premium account mess on EU
Hello everyone,
because I recieved two e-mails about this, just to clarify to avoid confusion.
You might have noticed that Wargaming EU decided to give us a free day of premium account during the Valentine event. That’s cool and all that, but it wouldn’t be Wargaming, if they didn’t do it without a fail. You see, they activated the “mission” to get the free day early. All of us who logged in this week (specifically ever since Wednesday) recieved it already.
The thing is, most of the people thought it is a compensation for the disastrous last weekend server behavior. It is not. There has been no compensation for that (and as far as we know, there will not be any), this is the “Valentine Gift” for everyone. Instead of a day of premium, I’d rather hear:
- what went wrong
- how was it fixed
- that it won’t happen next weekend again
If WG staff argues this one day serves as a compensation – no, it isn’t, the Russians got a day of premium as well and they didn’t have server trouble like this.
Or did I miss a post explaining all this?
WG EU 1 moved to Amsterdam
Hello everyone,
according to all the signs (pingplotters etc.), EU1 server was moved from Munich to Amsterdam. Apparently there is a problem with Munich as a whole, because RU3 server, that was situated in Munich, was ALSO moved to Amsterdam (you can imagine how “happy” the Russians with low RU3 ping are about it). The latter is officially confirmed, the EU1 move is not, but it’s almost certain it happened.
This explains by the way why many people wrote on forums and other places that they experienced ping changes on EU1 (including me – earlier, 40-50, now 70-90, not including the lags).
13.2.2014
Overlord is asking, what do you think of 8.11? You can leave your opinion here
- national battles as “assault” and “encounter” are not planned
- Storm on MM rules (why battletier 12 was removed): “MM tries to spread the tanks equally through their battletiers. That’s why tier 8′s are waiting in queue for tier 10′s in order to create battles of appropriate battletiers. More free tier 10 tanks means less waiting time for tier 8′s”
- machinegun sound in game will not be changed (SS: some player was complaining it sounds weird in 8.11)
- trollplatoons were not solved earlier, because they were not considered a problem
- when assigning a trollplatoon into the battle, MM tries to compensate it by giving the other team tanks with lower MM weight
- SerB states that the cases, where the MM weight of the team with a trollplatoon is lower than the MM weight of the team without it are rare
- SerB states that regarding the mapmaking department, the staff was supplemented by new people. Only one of the leaders of the department resigned. There were two more mapmakers in it, but not a single map from them made it into the game
- national battles MM rules will not be changed
- Storm states that the problems with uncomfortable camera height in 8.11 are apparently caused by bad mods
- WoT for Xbox passed the 60k player milestone according to Slava Makarov
- IS-3 will be remodelled to HD in 9.1
- no camo changes were made in 8.11 at all
- also, SerB published his new (or old, republished – didn’t check) sci-fi book apparently (yes, Sergei Burkatovsky is actually a well-known Russian sci-fi author for those, who didn’t know and no, his books are not in English unfortunately)
Storm: The British voiceover is a “British actor, who was picked by the people from WG Paris office.”
Storm asks about 8.11 microfreezes
Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/276778.html
Hello everyone,
Storm heard the reports that there are allegedly a lot microfreezes What he understands by that are short sharp drops in FPS and short lags in tank movement, shooting etc. in 8.11.
From the discussion:
- Veider personally states that he didn’t observe any such a thing
- Storm admits that updating the game to a new patch (client-side) can cause lags, because the amount of data transferred “clogs” the provider internet paths (SS: sorry, if there is any correct terminology, I don’t know it)
And what about you, seen microlags in 8.11? At least they are aware of the issue.
Belarus: a WoT tank thief criminally charged
Source: http://habrahabr.ru/post/212307/
Hello everyone,
apparently, in Belarus, WoT tank theft is taken very, very seriously. A criminal investigation was opened in the Belarus’ Brest region in a case of a World of Tanks account theft. WoT player, a 30 year old man from the town of Pruzhany contacted local police and said that his WoT account was stolen. He said to the police that his account contained an IS-8 tank and he spent like 1,2 mil BYR (cca 91 Euro) on that account.
After the report, the police contacted Wargaming, that helped them find the thief, because the account was continuously in use. The account was also blocked as a result. According to the police, the “hacker” managed to steal the account using the owner’s e-mail, because the password was really simple to guess.
Either way, according to the report, the “hacker” was charged with the crime of “illegal access to computer information”.
On outrageous Wargaming history posts
Hello everyone,
Wargaming usually presents us with articles, that are kinda nice. For example the history of the British flamethrower tanks (was it by Listy? I think so) – or Challenger’s historical posts. Every now and then however, they have what Rita would probably call a “brain fart” and just copy stuff from Russian portal.
Needless to say, that is not a good idea. For all their vaunted “remember history” campaigns, what Wargaming generally means is “remember Russian history”. SerB wrote it himself: if you want to do business in Russia, you have to be patriotic. No “we are all equal” – it’s more like “Russia stronk”. This of course comes with a “price” of having the historical post somewhat biased. I actually hate the word “biased”, but I guess it describes the situation best. This is not the first time Wargaming EU did this (some of you odlschool players might remember the Kliment Voroshilov weekend), but it’s not very common, thanks god.