Hello everyone,

if you did read the earlier posts, you might have noticed that there are some changes that were missing. Some stuff was not available yet, some I forgot to add. Let’s have a look at the rest of the 8.9 changes.

Tiger mantlet

Tiger mantlet was changed once again (thanks to Orkel for reminding me), it now looks roughly like this:

Orkel on the topic:

The highlighted pink areas go from 150mm (8.8) to 90mm (8.9). Presumably so it’s not 250mm of combined armor (100mm turret behind it), so it’s going to a “reasonable” 190mm of effective armor instead. 00mm if we take into account the turret’s slight < shaped slope behind it. Rest of the turret is the same. Won’t make much of a difference in tier 7 battles, 190mm of armor is still a tough nut to crack (especially when it’s spaced and sloped, and fired at from 100+ metres when pen drop starts to take effect) but it suffers a little in random absorbtions from the highest tier guns.

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Author: FrankyK (German EU section)

Hello everyone,

FrankyK tried to test the camo factor of the new 8.9 tank destroyers on the test server. As a spotter, he had a Löwe with 100 percent crew and optics installed (so that the viewrange is beyond 400 maters). All the tested tank destroyers had camo net, 100 percent camo crew and visual camo.

Here’s what he found:

“Sichtbar Freies Feld” means “visible on open field”
“Sichtbar Busch” means “visible when hiding behind a bush”

Edit: I closed the comments because it’s just rage at this point. Please note that this is a blog. It represents my opinions, what I like and don’t like, not an universal “that’s good/bad” truth. You were right. I did not know exactly how War Thunder trees work. So I checked properly – and I still don’t like it (or rather, I like it even less). Not because I am a fanboy, not because I am a hater, I simply don’t like it. That’s all.

Hello everyone,

this will be the first and probably the last (at least on FTR) post on War Thunder I am going to make, comparing both games from “outside” point of view. I will not be commenting on War Thunder planes, as I didn’t play them nearly enough and I didn’t play World of Warplanes either at all. Just tanks.

Let’s roll back a week or so ago (or is it two weeks?) to the Igromir game expo (something like Russian Gamescom or E3), where Gaijin unveiled the tanks for War Thunder. I watched the stream and was like “holy shit, that looks like Skyrim with tanks!” – and it does, doesn’t it? I mean, the quality was beautiful. But even then, after the “preeeeeettyyyyyyyy” feeling wore off, I noticed some physics glitches, like StuG getting stuck on some stone or whatever, nothing serious, but enough to break the “this will be awesome” feeling.

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Warning, this post is very picture heavy

M5A1 Stuart

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Hello everyone,

having a problem with WoT Viewer crashing when trying to load the 8.9 test client? Here’s a fix by ghool. Tried it, it works.

“It works perfectly (atleast so far) if you only copy the customization.xml from 8.8 version’s res\scripts\item_defs\vehicles\ folder to 8.9 folders. shows all the new tanks etc.

Remember to make backups of the folders so you do not accidentally screw up the client for when you wish to actually play on test server.”

This account does not include model and armor changes, a post for that will come. And there were a LOT of them.

China

Vickers Mk.E

Stock suspension turnrate nerfed from 50 to 44 deg/s
Elite suspension turnrate nerfed from 52 to 48 deg/s
Stock turret rotation nerfed from 44 to 24
Elite turret rotation nerfed from 46 to 24

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Straight out of gamemodels3d, screens in elite configuration

Marder 38T

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Hello everyone,

this is part 2 of the 8.9 test impressions. As before: all tests took place with a 100 percent crew, camo net, binoculars and an optional third equipment piece. I used both silver and golden shells for comparison, standard silver consumables. I also used optical camo.

Waffenträger auf Panzer IV

Well, it’s not every day you get to play with something that has four guns, all of them tier 10.

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Source: Daigensui’s post on US server

The darker one is the old one, lighter is new (warning big pictures)

As you can see, the area around the driver’s hatch became bigger, easier to hit.

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