Gamescom Special missions: 21.8.2013

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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

21.8.2013

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- World of Warplanes will officially be released on September 26th in the USA and EU
- SerB states that Russian archives are such mess that you never know, what you will find. It’s possible to dig in them only in general direction (for example “self propelled guns”)
- no plans to add rotating ventilators on tank models: Storm states that the rotating blades wouldn’t be visible anyway over the grill cover. French tanks with clearly visible ventilators won’t have them rotating either (SS: if I understand this correctly)

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Beware: fake Japanese tree

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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:

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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.

Many mods will not function in 8.8

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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).

45 years ago, 21.8.1968…

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…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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20.8.2013

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- account to account gold transfer (SS: apart from the gift shop) won’t be implemented, as it holds no advantage for WG
- SerB on tanks without healthbars (SS: as in, any hit could potentially kill a tank): “This variant has been tested and scrapped a long time ago. It was tried like that during one part of the alpha test. The gameplay was worse than it is now, the influence of skill was even smaller and the influence of luck was greater. It won’t be implemented. As an example of this, I suggest reading the mass whining of War Thunder players about their planes incomprehensibly ‘eating’ damage.”
- in 0.8.8, 112 and T-34-3 tanks will not be available via the ingame shop, only via gift shop (SS: the question is related to RU server, but it’s likely this will happen everywhere) temporarily, because the developers want to “control the amount of these vehicles in game and taking them down from the shop is easier, removing them out of the ingame shop requires a micropatch”.

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