Source: wot-news.com

Some things that were missing in the 8.8 patchnotes:

- reworked the way determining the ramming culprit (initiator) works: now the one, whose tank is moving faster will be considered the culprit (SS: this is mostly for determining team damage from rams)
- added automatic relogin to another server, if platoon/company invite came from it
- added the possibility of removing or moving the crew to or from a destroyed tank
- added the option to enable inverse turning directions, when going backwards (reverse), you can enable it to move the tank the opposite way when going backwards
- spall liner now reduces the chance of crewmen getting killed: light by 20 percent, medium by 25 percent, heavy by 30 percent, superheavy by 50 percent
- added the possibility to shoot automatically if you keep the fire button pressed (“autofire”)
- a warning window in the loging screen about entering the password with wrong keyboard setting or wrong letters

I’ve already received quite a few questions, so now I will try my best to reply to all of them.
Some of your questions (like for example one regarding the AMX30) were quite a bit away from my field of expertise so I’m afraid I couldn’t cover all of them.

Here’s an excerpt of the most interesting questions:

Q: Why did Ferdinand have two loaders?

A: This was done mostly because they could afford the space in the big case-mate. Two loaders could be also faster in accessing ammo stored further away from the gun and this was probably done also because there were some plans to install a 22cm captured french howitzer, which meant some very heavy ammunition.

Spielberger’s “Special Panzer Variants”, “Tiger & its variants” and “Heavy jagdpanzer” covers the subject on different aspects pretty well.

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Hello everyone!

Tired of looking what missions are active today for Gamescom special on EU server? Here’s what’s active today:

- 2x Crew XP (whole day)
- Making a Difference: be in team top 3 in damage dealt, earn 30 extra income
- Around the World: kill one vehicle of each country once per day, get 6 premium consumables
- Trigger Happy: get Confederate medal + kill two tanks, get twice as much XP per battle

plus

- kill 30 tanks, get 300k creds each day
- get 50k XP in a day, get 1 day premium
- get Yoshio’s, Nicol’s,Lehväslaiho’s or Radley-Walter’s medal, get x5 crew XP

Hello everyone,

for some strange reason (not sure what triggered it), yesterday I recieved 5 e-mails about the same thing: allegedly “leaked” Japanese tank tree, that looks like this:

Long story short: it’s a fake. It originally comes from an April thread by a Chinese player and it’s a fan creation. Amongst other things, it contains a number of fake tanks and various strange contraptions, so don’t be fooled by it.

Source: Q&A – SerB

Hello everyone,

I reported this before (a day or two ago), but just to make sure everyone’s ready: World of Tanks are transferring to the new ActionScript 3 system. That means the great majority of mods (if not all of them) will cease to function in 8.8 and it will probably take time to rewrite them for the new system (more time than usual, that is).

…the Warsaw Pact armies invaded Czechoslovakia, ending the slow but steady Czechoslovak return from failed communism attempt that ended in one party dictatorship to normal society. Half a million Soviet, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian soldiers participated in the “operation Danube”. Sporadic resistance from the people of Czechoslovakia led so some dramatic events and roughly a hundred dead on both sides (most invader casualities came from accidents).

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2427880.html

Some supertest vehicles….

Marder 3 (tier 4)

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From reading the comments on FTR and WoT forums, it seems that some people define propaganda as anything that they disagree with. Maybe they have never seen any propaganda. To familiarize them with some, here’s a propaganda poster.

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