Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3723077.html

Hello everyone,

to be brief: player Skyfoks actually tested, what Windows 10 will do with the same map (replay) on his laptop. The configuration is: i5-3210M, GT650M and 8GB RAM.

His settings (maximum texture quality and render distance, low landscape quality, high tree quality, everything else on minimum):

Average FPS: Win8.1 – 71,66667, Win10 – 74,69697

Naturally, the results depend on your PC configuration, but apprently there’s no reason to be scared of allegedly abysmal performance of WoT under Windows 10.

Source: Express community

Apart from these two, Karelia will be overhauled as well. But for now, no specific info.

Westfield:

1) the town was extended, allowing to take cover from flanking fire on the plateau
2) the hill was reworked to be more symmetrical not to give any side timing advantage
3) the landscape on the respawns was raised for players not to lose so much time trying to climb the hills
4) reworked the zone landscape, now it is safer to move through it
5) added cover to these spots, allowing you to safely approach on this flank
6) this zone became accessible to tanks, symmetrically to the southern base

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Hello everyone,

just quick heads up. 9.6 Test 2 will likely start today. There were some rumors that there wouldn’t be one and that the patch would actually be released tomorrow, but it’s not true – Storm confirmed that there are ALWAYS two rounds of testing, the third one is optional.

List of changes is not available yet, I will post it when it will.

Weather, exclusive maps… why does the Xbox version get all the cool stuff? :)

WoT Xbox developers introduced recently a new map, called “Pacific Island” (remember? it was mentioned by the Insider about a week ago) and let me tell you, it actually looks pretty cool.

In a rather long developer diary type post, they explained how they actually created the map (based on Corregidor island no less) and I really suggest you read it, it’s interesting. Check this out, this is how the map evolved.

Now, tank battles on an island aren’t as outlandish as you might think at first – in fact, they did happen, although they were mostly one-sided, as the Japanese operated tiny tankettes or light tanks and best, while the Americans were using the Shermans, that completely outclassed them.

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Continuing from part 1.

The winter of 1941-1942 was marked by a lot of hunger – the rations of bread per day consisted of 125-250 grams. The people were trying to get food by any means possible, exchanging their things and valuables for it.

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Hello everyone,

Storm published first pictures of the IS-3 tank in HD. For some reason, the IS-3 is possibly the most requested HD tank on RU forums, that’s why it’s sort of “big news” for them. It still has no textures, it’s just the first model version.

The vehicle model was made using special method called “photogrammetry”, where the vehicle is photographed from all sides and then, using special software, these photographs are assembled and turned into a 3D model. These photos were taken in the Stalin line museum in Belarus, there are several IS-3 tanks in various state of disrepair.

Source: http://siliconrus.com/2015/01/2014-stats/

Hello everyone,

here’s a random piece of information, but it illustrates well the popularity of World of Tanks in Russia. In Russia, two Wargaming sites (worldoftanks.ru and wargaming.net) made it to the top 100 visited sites in Russia in 2014.

They are on 54th and 87th place. The most popular Russian site is – unsurprisingly – Vkontakte social network (aka “Russian facebook”).