WG EU fail: Hall of Fame? More like Hall of Bots…

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Hello everyone,

so, today, WG EU released the new Hall of Fame. Now, only the VERY BEST players can achieve the eternal glory and be listed there amongst the greatest heroes of World of Tanks!

Or not.

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Why the hell is there a bot on second place? Or at least a really bad player. Check out his stats. Colinbrett666 has 45 percent winrate, but 76 THOUSAND battles. If that’s not a bot, then I don’t know. The account was started 938 days ago. That means this guy plays 81,35 battles EVERY day. With average battle duration of 7 minutes, that’s 9,5 hours every day. For last 2,5 years. Right…

Even IF it wasn’t a bot, what’s a guy with 45,34 percent winrate doing there?

Clearly, WG Hall of Bots and/or WG rating are working as intended…

WG EU fail: after a week, portal bug is alive and well

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Hello everyone,

remember that portal bug I reported about – the one that displays foreign languages on portal despite the fact you select “English” for example? It was supposed to be fixed by clearing your cache, according to a WG representative. Well, guess what. Today I cleared my cache and…

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Language selected: English. Language displayed: Czech. Well, that’s not really a problem for me, as I am Czech and can read it (I prefer English though). The Gift Shop for Czech players however is slightly more problematic:

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Is that Turkish? Seriously, WG, a week?! I mean, I know it takes time to identify bugs, but what the hell…

WG director on Cyprus resigns

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Source 1: http://oam.cse.com.cy/Announcement/announcementvariation/8504
Source 2: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2783109.html

On November the 4th, Mr.Nicos Michailas submitted his resignation to Wargaming Public Company Ltd.’s board of directors. Hmm, I wonder what led to that…

Hungarian armor part 3 – Toldi

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Part 1: Tas 44M
Part 2: Introduction and Straussler tanks

Hello everyone,

today, we are going to have a look at the main light tank and first modern armored vehicle of the Hungarian army: Toldi light tank.

Hungary 1921-1938

First, let’s have a look at the background, that led to the purchase and manufacture of this light tank. For the whole duration of its inter-war existence, Hungary faced issues tied to the rise of extremism. This happened pretty much everywhere in Europe: communist activists on one side (lobbying for close relationships with the Soviet Union), fascist nad nazi sympathizer on the other, pushing for close relationship with Germany and Italy. The latter gained the upper hand in early 30′s, as in 1932, Gyula Gömbös (one of the prominent fascist sympathizers) became the prime minister of Hungary. Gömbös tried to bring Hungary closer to Nazi Germany, seeing it as an opportunity to get rid of the hated Trianon treaty and to gain some power at the same time. This was the beginning of the Germany-Hungary cooperation, that would end only when Hungary was effectively defeated by the Soviets. Gömbös died in 1936 and was replaced by more pragmatic politicians, but the course was set and there was no turning back.

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8.9 Feedback – Marder 38T

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Hello everyone,

this post contains my take on the new 8.9 tank destroyers, from tier 4 to tier 7 and my experience with them. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Obviously, the post is written from my point of view and it’s subjective. I like German tanks, I love tank destroyers and I think I am reasonably good with them, so I guess I know what I am saying in this case. I was running the tank destroyers with following equipment: camo net, binoculars, rammer – and with a 3-perk crew (with full camouflage skill). Let’s get to it.

Marder 38T

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Marder 38T (I somehow always refer to it as Marder III) is the new tier 4 tank destroyer. You can find the data on it anywhere, so I won’t get into hard data much and will focus on how much fun I had playing with it. Players actually sometimes complain about it – they cite its poor armor and “bad” gun as its main drawbacks, but I think that’s crap. This vehicle is possibly the best tank destroyer on tier 4 and certainly the one I ever had most fun with.

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A stream with Veider – summary

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2782099.html
Author: Magnus_25

Hello everyone,

today, developer Veider was playing 7/42 battles live on a stream and he was answering questions. Here’s a summary of what he said:

- 7/42 (team) battles will recieve many more new features that are being developed
- 7/42 teams will see the map for next battle in advance, so they can pick their tanks accordingly
- next patch will bring more maps for 7/42 battles, such as the Siegfried Line
- there will be special achievements (medals) for 7/42 battles
- Sturmtiger will definitely appear in 2014

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5.11.2013

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Currently there are fewer answers because the developer thread has sort of new, VERY tough moderation (14 day ban for everything). SerB states that before, whiners, trolls and spammers were complaining that SerB is trolling them. SerB stopped trolling – and that worked for like two weeks, before whiners started whining even more, trolls trolled and spammers spammed, which pissed especially Storm off. So SerB started trolling again and the whiners, spammers and trolls started whining again about trolling. So, as a necessery solution, SerB asked mods to be much more tough on moderation.

- the developers are satisfied with the current concept of premium account (+50 percent creds and XP)
- premium account won’t be reworked, but there will be some PA features added (when it’s done it’s done)
- mass selling (selling in bulk in the depot and not by one item) and other UI features from WoWp might be transferred to WoT too
- Sturer Emil doesn’t have gold ammo on the 128mm gun, because it would be OP with it
- it’s possible other tanks will be released without gold ammo: “if necessery”
- unhistorical gold ammo will be removed from already existing tanks “if necessery”
- a player on losing team will (if he gets an achievement such as Top Gun) recieve the “courageous resistance” bonus (he will get the same amount of creds and XP as if he won) – this is calculated after the awards are assigned: if tank A gets 6 kills, earns 700XP and wins a battle and tank B on the other hand gets 6 kills, earns 500 XP (750 with resistance bonus), tank A will get the Top Gun (even though tank B got more XP with the CR bonus)

Also, an interesting fact: it’s possible the RU251 as a tier 8 German light tank will be scrapped (WG didn’t manage to find relevant info), as replacements are considered (and discussed). There is a possible candidate, but no info on whether WG will go for it or not yet.

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