Stanislav “Veider” Kargin made one of his weekly streams yet again and Maiorboltach from RU LJ forums was kind enough to re-write the answers into text. Here’s a summary of what Veider said:
- M26E4 Super Pershing will be buffed, but not in the next patch
- Top tier TD’s will be rebalanced very soon, but how exactly is secret for now. It’s possible all top tier vehicles will be reviewed and rebalanced
- in 9.0 there will be no new tanks whatsoever, apart from possibly one premium tank (which one is secret for now)
apparently, a problem came up with 8.10 MM, because Storm is asking, whether the Russian players had some bad MM setups lately (he mentions cases where one side for example has 3 tier 10 heavies and the other has 6). The newer the better and the more disbalance gets reported, the faster a solution will be found. This applies ONLY for patch 8.10.
From the discussion:
- the fact tier 10 arty sometimes gets balanced against tier 10 heavies is considered normal according to Storm
- developers do like patch 8.10
- there have been no (SS: intended) changes in MM in patch 8.10
And what about you? Have you run into weird MM cases in 8.10? Post them, including a screenshot (please, ONE link (any link) per comment, posts with more than one link get withheld in the spam queue and I won’t approve until I see it there, which might sometimes be with significant delay).
this is something that came up in connection with looking for the upcoming tier 8 of the Sturmtiger branch. Walter Spielberger in his book “Tiger und seine Abarten” (Tiger and its variants) mentions two interesting projects: the 305mm and 420mm GW Tiger (page 177 of the German issue, in case you are interested). Both were supposed to be built on a chassis, using the Tiger tank elements and utilizing 305mm and 420mm Škoda mortars. Not sure why the 305mm project was not selected over the (fake) GW-E100, perhaps it was the fear of power creep? Anyway…
Czechoslovak Škoda was before the war known as the producer of possibly the best artillery in the world and this role has not changed during the war under German occupation. Several projects were prepared in Škoda (including a native-built 128mm cannon, of which little is known IIRC), including two superheavy mortar projects, the 420mm Mörser and the 305mm B20. The B-series designation of the 420mm project is not known (B series weapons was a product line of Škoda of heavy mortars), German designation was Gerät 3-4203.
today, on 11:00 CET, the Tank Inspector is officially launched. Here’s a message for you from its creators, the Smellyriver studio (China):
Hi,
This is Smellyriver studio. One month ago, we announced the project we had been working on for several months: the Tank Inspector. This is a utility program for World of Tanks, which literally allows you to inspect tank models and stats in this popular online game.
During the past month, we gave out totally 1,000 invite codes to people who is interested in our project, 746 of them had participated in our beta-test. Many helps – bug reports, advices, propagations and even donations are kindly provided by these testers. With all their support, we had most known bugs fixed and all the major functionalities improved, as well as our service stability tested and overall details enriched. Along with that, we have even more supporters who did not received an invite code, however still encouraging us to keep running towards our goal.
Our sincere appreciations to all of you. And a special thank to SS and FTR for introducing it to everyone.
Today, we are delighted to announce that we are bringing a quality release to share with everyone – it’s free with no invite code required. Here are the primary features of it:
We have ensured this release is virus clean before shipping. Also, Tank Inspector won’t require an administrator privilege to run, so be at ease to use it.
I’m going to be brief. I know that every nation has it different, but since we Czechs celebrate the Christmas eve today, let me wish you all, dear readers, merry Christmas and all the best in the upcoming year, lots of kills, few losses and as few tomatoes in battles as possible.
And as for you, Wargaming, I wish you as few fails as possible and many more new players (so SerB can finally get rid of his Moskvich, Storm can get more new sweaters and Big Boss Kislyi… well, a few new buildings on Cyprus or something). You made an excellent game. Thank you.
Just in case you didn’t notice, the EU mission for 2x crew XP works normally now, took only half a day to fix :)
RIP Michail Kalashnikov
- Q: “Why is the way radio works in game unrealistic?” A: “Because burning gasoline is not gushing from your screen either”
- the way radios work won’t be changed
- RhB WT rear turret armor is zero – a player was complaining about some low damage hit, SerB: “How terrible”
- the fact Intuition perk can be triggered by switching shell types before the battle begins is fine: “It doesn’t hurt anyone”
- Q: “Why can’t I get more ignore list slots for 100 idiots?” A (SerB): “Tell me, who are those 99 idiots (apart from you of course) you are talking about?”
Please note that this list only uses data from players, who created their account either in 2012 or 2013. Data from ALL the accounts (very long span, including for example such old things as a pre-nerf IS-7) can be found here:
some of you might have already noticed this (thanks to those who did let me know). From today to 26.12., we are supposed to get 2x crew XP bonus. It however is not working.
I tested it myself. My Japanese commader did require 878 XP to level up (sadly I did not take a screenshot) of that. And when I played a battle:
A 207 point victory (I got oneshotted in the beginning) and 671 XP required. No double bonus.
