Hello everyone,
some info about an interesting situation came up. Basically, on SEA (ASIA) server, Vietnamese players have the option to pay in Vietnamese currency (VND) – and the following happened:
Someone responsible for the shop in Wargaming made a decimal point mistake and set the price of a Lowe to 10721 VND, which is like 0,37 EUR. This bug is for VN players only and current fix ETA is unknown. Other tier 8′s have their prices wrong too.
Hello everyone,
you might have noticed I stopped posting invite codes. That’s because some (not all, but some definitely) invite codes EXPIRE and I don’t exactly know when (I think it’s simply on 1.1.2014 00:01) – I am grateful to everyone who submitted the invite codes recently, but please do not send the codes to me anymore for now, enjoy the holidays, we will start with codes again next year (with fresh sources).
For those who do want invite codes, they can always use the Alienware offer.
So, the Russians have a special trailer for the Japanese tanks :) Yes, Japanese tanks fight monster and giant robots (there are even tentacles, all that’s missing are schoolgirls).
It’s a bit of an “eastern” thing, as one Russian player on US server recently mentioned – those of us, who were born in the Warsaw Pact countries might remember the pirated copies of American movies with impassive Russian (or in my case Czech) voiceover over the original sound, this sounds exactly like it – a blast from the past.
Linked by Yuri Pasholok’s blog
This is a video of a military event in Bastogne. You can see some classic American tech on the video, as well as some not as common vehicles. Can you name them?
Hello everyone,
this is just a line of thinking about why World of Tanks armor, War Thunder damage model and all the things that these games have in common and all the things they are different in. Please note that this is my personal opinion, that I am not only not forcing on you, I fully admit I could be wrong – up to you, whether you agree with me or not.
First and foremost, no matter how much ANY producer brags about realism or historicity (some stuff in War Thunder German tree still makes me chuckle, but then again, Waffenträger E-100 is a complete fake), both World of Tanks and War Thunder are arcade games. From that title alone it is relatively pointless to talk about some realism, when you watch the vehicles from 3rd person and have literally a sniper mode in both games. And that’s fine – they are games after all, meant for as wide audience as possible. This however means one thing: in this case, too much realism doesn’t help, it hurts.
As you might have noticed, War Thunder developer Gaijin recently released two posts about the War Thunder tanks armor model. The articles are available here (part 1) and here (part 2). The only notice I’d have here is this: the translation into English is shit and I had to switch to Russian two times to figure out what exactly is meant. Please, Gaijin, next time you publish stuff in English, don’t act like Wargaming EU and don’t use google translate.
Hello everyone,
it’s good day to have a Micromaus (Panzer H38) or its regular “brother”, the H35. Why? Well…
- all the servers altogether (RU, EU, ASIA, US) should be able to handle 1.500.000 players at the same time (Russian cluster only wouldn’t be able to handle such an amount)
- KwK 44/2 for Panther (Ausf.F) will not be implemented, as there are no significant differences in performance from the KwK 42
- it’s theoretically possible Panther Ausf.F hull will be the stock hull for Panther II
- there were no “secret” changes in camo and spotting mechanism in 0.8.10
- Japanese tanks are “not more stealthy than acceptable”
- when assigning camo factor to a tank, both the approach where it is assigned manually and the method where it is assigned automatically based on the vehicle size are used
- SerB doesn’t like the fact SU-76 and T-70 can’t meet Tigers in battle (to be historically appropriate), but says he can’t do anything about that
- vehicle reliability will not be introduced into WoT. SerB: “Masochists can migrate to other games”
- planned server-side replay will be one replay for all the battle members, eg. you’ll be able to see the entire battle from anyone’s POV
- Crusader arty (5.5in) is doing fine statistically
- players not understanding the exact mechanism of how much XP you gain for what? “How terrible…”
- the fact you can rightclick-look around in sniper mode in a tank and you can’t in a TD is due to the fact players got confused when the view resetted to the TD firing arc
- dust raised by gun blast wave and other such effects are already implemented into the gun firing camo loss
- Q: “Why does IS have -6 depression and KV-1S -8 depression for 122mm gun, when both turrets are practically identical?” A: “How terrible, we should change it to -3 for both”
- Q: “Do the developers know about the disconnects from server?” A: “*surprised* What? We have servers?! Use your brain a little. If you have one.”
As a result of the “8.10 MM feedback”, Storm states that everything is fine with 8.10 MM
Hello everyone,
just to let you know, I got banned for 30 days on forums on my Erenjager account, so I will continue to discuss stuff on forums using some other alt, or simply won’t. What is weird is the reason I recieved it for:
Basically, I said (regarding the WGNY2014): “Hmm, do you have warplanes? If yes and it gives something for WoWp, lots of players will be pissed off :)” – apparenty, “pissed off” is a terrible vulgar word worthy of 30 days of chatban.
And yes, I am sure there is one rule or another for this to be “legal”, I just think it is weird. It’s not a language thing either (the banning mod, Idahou, is Czech). However, it is not surprising that Idahou is the last of the “friends of Wargaming” from over a year ago…
How terrible :)
Hello everyone,
a 3 day premium bonus code:
WGNY2014
It works. If you redeemed it before and didn’t get anything, you’ll get it later (info courtesy of WG RU contact)
Hello and welcome to “Buff my tank!”
The “Buff my tank!” articles are meant as an historical way to look at some tanks considered underpowered in game and ways to improve their combat abilities discussed by the original German engineers.
Beware that while being sometimes ironic in tone, the article treats about both costs and benefits of every choice and it most likely will never be listened by WG as suggestion.
Often forgotten and underestimated in the shadow of its mightier successors, the humble Panzer I was mainly meant to be a training tank but ended up being a pretty important part of the early Polish and French blitzkrieg campaigns.
