Hello everyone,

Storm confirmed in the comments under his post the following thing:

Havok will NOT come anytime soon, its ETA was switched to “far future” (in WoT terms, cca 8-9 months to over a year). The reason for this change is the performance loss, caused by Havok. Storm comments:

“Far future. We have to completely rework everything because of the unsatisfactory performance.”

Source: wot-news.com

I’ll just leave this here – new upcoming map Smolensk.

Loading screen:

Bases and spawns (ignore the coloured zones) – wow, another map with bases next to one another, this is going to work so well.

Source: http://wg-news.com/wot-pc-zeitpunkt-der-rueckerstattung-fuer-den-wz-111/

Thanks to Eikarrramba for this one.

Just a quick update from the EU server. There are people, who bought the WZ-111 mission tokens, but they then played and finished the missions by themselves. Please be aware that if that happened, you will get 2500 gold as a compensation for each such token. These will be awarded – according to the WG EU staff, cited in the post above – early next week (eg. cca 26.1.-27.1.)

Author: Zarax, Silentstalker

Hello everyone,

I am sure all of you noticed the removal of the E-25 from the shop. Of course, that leaves a gap in the tree of sorts – what of the players, who want to buy a lightweight but rapid fire tank destroyers? Well, fear not, for there are candidates, that could potentially replace the E-25 as the light tank destroyers. Enter the world of the “mad genius” of WW2, Dr.Ferdinand Porsche and his light tank/TD series. Let’s have a look at them in an article by Zarax:

As World War II progressed, resources dwindled and the coming of Speer marked the end of serious support for super-heavy and technically complex designs, Ferdinand Porsche found the need for a radical change of design philosophy.

His advanced petro-electric powered designs were found too demanding in resources and maintenance, with the Porsche Tiger chassis becoming the simplified Elefant and the Maus, his masterpiece, reduced to a production of a few prototypes, constantly tweaked but with no future.

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Author: Zarax

Hello everyone, this is a very simple guide how to make your PC run faster and how to clean it of unwanted crap. It is not aimed at advanced users – if you know all that is written here, it’s not a guide for you, simple as that. But there are a lot of guys out there who don’t and maybe it will help a tiny bit. -SS

WOT is a peculiar game, in some ways optimized to run on low spec PCs that tends to hamper performance for better machines.
Upgrading hardware is of course the best way to improve performance but that doesn’t mean you cannot improve your PC experience without spending money. For this tutorial, I’m going to assume you know at least your PC specs and the basics into using Windows. If not, please ask for help from someone more skilled as while the advice here is as safe as possible, improper use of some steps may still cause some damage.

WOT uses your CPU, RAM, Video Card and Hard Disk, so we will use some simple tricks and a few programs to help your PC squeeze as many resources as possible for the game, with advice valid for all Windows OS. Please note this article aims for simplicity so I advise technically versed readers to bear with some simplification and captain obvious-styled advice.

Part I: Easy Steps

I will not cover connectivity as it would require another article but remember that connecting via cable is better than using wi-fi and using 3G connections leads to a bad experience as latency is usually bery high.

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Hello everyone,

Russian Wotfan channel published a video with a preview of the upcoming premium vehicles. Check it out.

- ISU-130 is a special vehicle for moderators. It’s not very fast and agile and the armor is meh, but the gun is okay.
- AMX-13/57 is tier 7 premium French light tank with super-rapid fire autoloader (57mm with 143/195mm penetration, magazine reloads for 15 seconds). The tank is fast, but NOT very nimble though.
- STA-2 is much like STA-1, but it’s slower and not very agile and has poor armor. Penetration of the 90mm is 185mm, but it has 275mm HEAT rounds.
- AMX CDC has a good gun and insane agility and speed, but no armor whatsoever. Gold rounds have interesting 259mm penetration. The vehicle is a second-line support tank thanks to its lack of armor.

Neither CDC nor STA-2 have limited MM.

Hello everyone,

you can’t have them, but now you can at least look at them :) Wargaming prepared two special wallpapers of the top two Individual Mission vehicles, the Object 260 and T-55A. Have a look! Downloads for various resolutions below the line.

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…that’s right, not a branch, a tree. Here’s the link to source message.

Me: *related rant* According to this logic, we should have a Czech tree.
Storm: And who said there won’t be a Czech tree?

*evil smile* (tm Daigensui)

So yea, there will be one. Today, the two gentlemen that made the Swedish tree proposal (Sp15 and Renhaxue) met with WG representatives in Stockholm to discuss the Swedish branch (amongst other things). WG is actively working on what was previously an EU tree, but apparently decided to split the major nations (Czechoslovaks, Swedish, Italians) into separate trees. As far as I know, at this moment, according to WG representatives, the Czechoslovak branch is scheduled first, with the Swedish one (medium/heavy mix, sorry, no S-Tank) as a backup in the event of some major problem with the Czechoslovaks, which frankly is not expected (although there are some things that need to be cleared out).

To that end, me and two Czech historians, V.Francev and J.Tintěra, are meeting again the WG representatives in Prague at the end of the month. I think the final verdict will be known after that, but it’s looking good. Personally, I believe we have found a sure way to bypass the tier 9 issue without sacrificing the premium TVP (earlier “TVP model 1945″, now “TVP Concept”), even though WG doesn’t necesserily agree with me, but well – that’s what the meeting is about.