Hello everyone,
today’s article will be about certain Rheinmetall prototypes and their ability to actually make a minibranch. Is it even possible? Rheinmetall was not THAT active, when it comes to tank design, certainly not as much as Krupp, Henschel, Porsche or MAN, but early (before the war), they produced a number of interesting things. But first, a little history.
- there will be no Belarussian or Ukrainian language mutation (“for each extra language, a patch will come 1 day later”)
- it’s not yet decided, whether you will be able to “see” Havok events, that happen outside your field of view (SS: as in, for example, a tank gets shot and some box mounted on the outside flies off under client physics, it’s possible this information won’t be transferred if it happens outside of your field of view, so in your case, the tank will still have the box, despite on his computer, it got torn off)
- Israeli branch won’t come for now
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/wargaming-we-will-push-free-to-play-hard-6412756
Just a few tidbits. You can read the whole article, but from practical information point of view:
- Microsoft needed convincing about F2P principle for consoles
- he sees F2P on consoles as “the beginning of new era”
- XboX WoT won’t be totally F2P, as players have to pay Microsoft the Live Gold 5 USD per month subscription
- average player spends 3 hours per day in WoT
- global average monthly payment per user is 7 USD
- the Japanese players spend the most, followed USA and China
Source: Spiegel website
Hello everyone,
those of FTR readers, who hail from Germany will definitely know Der Spiegel – one of the major German newspapers/magazines. Well, it looks like this magazine noticed the Stalin issue on the forums. It’s take on the whole matter is a bit different. For those, who don’t speak German, the articles says (not a totally correct translation, Im bit in a hurry atm, feel free to correct me):
Hello everyone,
today, we have two very special displays, that will go straight to the Hall of Shame.
This guy Razvanro92 should seriously take a chill pill. All caps, broken English, yup – this goes beyond simple rage.
Okay, this was impressive. We have a winner so soon – to be quite honest, I did not expect it so fast :)
I recieved roughly 70 answers, most were “T-34-T” (which was incorrect). The correct answer was: PCHT-34 (chemical recon tank of the Czechoslovak army). This vehicle was misidentified as T-34-T by the Osprey Vanguard T-34/85 publication and from there, it has spread further.
The winner is: Mikhail800
Honestly, I am impressed. The article describing the error and the picture are not tied together. One more correct answer arrived till then.
Mikhail will be getting his prize soon…
but…
It will be harder next time :)
Edit: competition over, we have a winner!
Alright guys,
I’ve prepared a competition for you – I hope you like it :) It’s very, very simple. I will post a picture under this text and your task will be to identify this tank. The prize will be:
For EU server: Monthly Boost Package (3500 gold, 100k silver, 30 days premium)
For US server: 6500 gold
But…
The famous Tiger tank wasn’t created in a day.
Durchbruchswagen
Its roots can be traced back to January 1937, when Wa Pruef 6 asked Henschel to develop designs for a 30 ton tank armed with a 7,5cm cannon.
Hello everyone,
well, looks like I made a “slight” mistake in my VK3001P article. Basically what happened was: I took two sources, that are usually reliable (because they themselves use Jentz, Doyle and Spielberger) as reference: I.Pejčoch’s “Obrněná technika” series and www.valka.cz (which usually uses Pejčoch/Doyle/Spielberger for reference).
- there will be no compensation for Panther engines removed from the vehicles
- apparently, more players using the same nickname won’t be implemented (SS: as in, you won’t be able to choose a nickname that’s already in use)
- players dropping into 6 same maps for 2 days straight? “How terrible” (SS: maps are selected randomly, according to devs)
