Source: Wotleaks VK

Hello everyone,

in one of the upcoming patches, completely unhistorically buffed tier 9 VK4502 Ausf.B (the rear turret variant) will be replaced by a Maus prototype. The vehicle is already modelled, according to supertesters. An info from supertest (from Wotleaks) states that the vehicle’s name is “Typ 205/1″ – I am not quite sure that is necesserialy true (the name, anyway), but whatever. The vehicle looks roughly like this:

Yes, that is a (rather short) 15cm gun on tier 9. And no, if you are wondering whether that cupola on the top is a major weakspot – it’s actually 200mm thick, so probably not that major. The frontal plate is (as far as I remember) as thick as the Maus one. Model leak is possible to appear very soon.

If you are wondering, what’s going to happen with the VK4502 – as far as I know, it’s going to be removed (for now), it’s possible it might appear later as an alternative hull to VK4502 Ausf.A – or as a premium tank (definitely no “free premium” though).

Source: http://news.tut.by/society/433652.html

Hello everyone,

an interesting article appeared on the tut.by Belarusian portal about the benefits the Wargaming employees are getting. You wanted to know why retraining a crewmember role costs 500 gold and not 200 gold or even silver? Let’s find out.

This is Igor Khrol and he works as a gruppenführer group leader of some web thingie derpartment in Wargaming. He states that the company always had a good employee benefit program – it even has its own labour benefit department of three people, taking care of just that. He considers the best part of his job the trips abroad (for example to India and Cyprus, all expenses paid) – to game development conferences, usually 2-3 times a year (“within reasonable limits”).

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Hue.

Hue hue hue…

Ehm…. okay. Thanks to Theextr3megamer for this one. Basically, yesterday, World of Tanks youtube channel admins uploaded a Brazilian trailer for World of Tanks, that starts with the words “a batalha chega ao Brasil” – “to battle in Brasil” in Portuguese. The trailer itself is called WOT Trailer BR 30 and it is unlisted. Of course, they probably forgot that people are getting notifications of the channel uploads and so, the trailer was leaked.

Does it mean that there will be a separate Brazilian server? Well, who knows, but looks like it.

Hello everyone,

another part of the RU serer video series about tanks with well-known Russian personality, Dmitryi Puchkov. This time, it’s about tank classes. There are English subtitles, so you can watch it as well.

Source: http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/pc-browser/17/forum-survey/

Hello everyone,

an interesting survey popped up on the US server. WG NA is asking the US server players, what do they think about Wargaming and World of Tanks. Several players will be (I assume) randomly drawn and will win a KV-5, KV-220 or E-25, so go and tell them straight what you think :)

http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/pc-browser/17/forum-survey/

The poll is US server only (no winnings for you, EU!), but anyone can answer really, so if you feel like sharing your opinion whereever you are, go right ahead. The questions are (my answer in brackets):

- rate current World of Tanks from 1 to 10 (4-5)
- how likely is it that you would recommend the World of Tanks forums to a friend or colleague? from 1 to 10 (0, no reason to, whatever questions a friend would have, I could answer, so why send him there?)
- how often do you visit the World of Tanks forums currently? (daily, but that comes with making FTR)
- what is the first place you visit on the forums? (general section)
- do you check the Wargaming staff posts? (WG EU? almost never, they rarely know something I don’t, WG NA – Chieftain only, WG RU – quite a lot)
- how comfortable are you posting on the forums? From 1 to 10 (3, used to be 6-7 – IMO the EU forum section degraded a lot into a lot of bickering, NA is odd lately, RU is fine)
- what concerns, if any, do you have about posting? (???)
- what can we do to improve your experience on the forums? (start banning some specific people that make the community toxic)
- is there anything else you would like to tell us? (nothing that’s not 21+)

Part 1: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2015/01/30/occulus-rift-mod-for-world-of-tanks-part-1-with-download/

Check this out – you can download the mod here:

English instructions
The mod itself

General UI issues

In our game – just like many others – practically the UI (both in combat and in the garage) is stretched towards the edges of the screen. If you use it without any modifications, you get the following issue: due to the design specifics of Occulus Rift, the only area that is in your field of view is the central area of the image – and UI, as it is, does not fit into that area (or does only partially):

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So, following a short absence I realised that I need to put a few more Patent vehicle out there. The usual batch of the silly, dangerous, badly thought-out and impractical along with some decent ideas mixed together. So yes; some absurd, some not so much. You choose.

Deciding that after the war, France really needed an 80cm high armoured coffin in January 1955, Victor Bouffort, along with hundreds before and since, thought of the individual armoured machine involving lying prone, protected by flimsy armour. At least for once, the hapless driver gets company in a two man machine, as well as a very funky helmet. So; could be worse I suppose.

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