8.10 preliminary patch notes

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/259514.html

Storm posted preliminary patchnotes. Test will be almost certainly next week.

8.10 changes:

- added Japanese branch (as per this tree)

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- added Soviet tier 9 medium Object 430V2 (to be researched from Object 416) and tier 10 medium Object 430
- Japanese premium Chi Nu Kai will be available from ingame shop for gold
- for supertesters, two new vehicles: SU-76i (tier 3 Soviet TD), Type 98 Ke-Ni Otsu (tier 3 Japanese light tank)

- added new Japanese-themed map “Hidden Village” for testing (1000×1000, spring, village in mountain valley)
- following maps have been fixed and reworked for better gameplay: Karelia, Mines, El-Halluf, Airport, Steppes

Graphic improvements:

- reworked lighting on all maps: reworked the brightnest, contrast, color intensity, lighting sources were properly placed
- fog has been completely reworked
- added moving shadows from clouds
- added the option in graphic settings to select one of several presets for color, brightness and contrast settings
- completely reworked the bloom effect
- added the effects of sun rays (“God Rays”) and lens flare when looking at the sun
- added motion blur effect

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US server: Monday – “Secret” Tank in Gift Shop

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Hello everyone,

as the American readers probably already noticed (this might be interesting also for us Europeans, since WG EU claims the events to be the same), as a part of the Thanksgiving weekend (next weekend), there will be a special “Cyber Monday” gift shop offer of an undisclosed tank:

Cyber Monday Premium Shop Bundles – December 2-3

We’ve still got something special to end the holiday weekend as we offer a host of bundles featuring a certain tank with its own mythological reputation.

Mythological reputation? What could it be? Some speculate (thanks to Chris9000 for the link) that it might be the Type 59. Somehow, I really doubt it. My GUESS? KV-5. Anyway, I like the fact they present it this way, should be a very nice surprise for the American players.

Invite codes

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Hello everyone,

a few invite codes from Wuestenfoxx

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PH7TYS-W9WN6C
PH7TYM-C5VU2B
PH7TYA-P2PK6Y
PH7TYF-X9GB4W

Alienware added more codes to their give away, there are currently 9777 left – plenty for all. You can get them here.

Next weekend bonuses

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Source: http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/22/tanksgiving-2013/

Hello everyone,

the American server has announced the “epic” event for next weekend. Us Europeans might not get exactly the same thing, but it gives us an idea.

(by the way, you know how WG EU fails on weekend events, despite their claims otherwise? Those claims are false – I specifically checked with American staff and did let them know about that post and the bullshit WG EU is spreading)

So here goes:

- 3x crew XP
- 50 percent credit discount on tier 2-5 tanks, 30 percent on tier 6-7 tanks, 15 percent on tier 8 tanks
- 50 percent gold discount on tier 2-4 premium tanks, 30 percent on tier 5-7 premium tanks
- 50 percent discount on crew training and skill resets
- 50 percent discount on consumables
- 50 percent discount on barracks slots

Missions:

- kill at least 3 tanks and do 1800 damage in one battle, recieve 40k credits

And finally, everyone gets one day premium account for free. Not bad.

26.11.2013

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- mods such as XVM or noobmeter have no influence on tank MM (SS: yes, someone really asked that)
- a player asked whether it was possible to make a U-turn with a tank (like drifting) – SerB said sure, to try it with MT-25
- Russian wikipedia mentions a plan to install a 152mm BR-2 gun on SMK chassis under the name of IS 1940, SerB states that this is why he doesn’t like wikipedia, the tank is clearly a fake and the gun is way too big and its recoil too strong for such a chassis
- SerB states he doesn’t know of any more German tanks with 300mm+ armor, that could be introduced in WoT
- the optional hulls will not only reworked visual models, but also different properties, for example the 100mm armor T-54 hull had better lower front plate armor, there apparently will also be the IS-2 hull with “straight” frontal plate
- the calculation of tank mobility and acceleration properties is quite complicated according to SerB, the exact formula won’t be published
- wounded gunner influencing the aim circle incorrectly? “How terrible” (SS: a Russian player presented some sort of idiotic theory how to improve it – nothing important, basically it works just fine)
- turret rotation will make a sound in the future, “it’s done when it’s done”
- bots are not tracked based on the Hall of Fame data

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Japanese tanks will have different color

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Source: RU forums via Ridethehorseman

Hello everyone,

well, this is surprising. According to Storm’s post on Russian forums:

forum

the color of Japanese tanks will be reworked. They will not be brown (although it’s possible they will appear brown on the Common Test), they will in the end be green like this:

green

Daigensui comments on this color:

“This is the Southern Army alternative color, willow green, used to replace the olive green for the Northern Army camouflage. Due to its coloring over most of the parched grass primer base, it is considered the base color for IJA tanks in the Pacific, according to some superficial people.”