Nothing really interesting today, just posting this so nobody waits for the translations or anything. Orthodox Christmas and all that – hopefully peaceful enough :) But, if you are interested, you can read about the incident where RAF Tempests got into a fight with Israeli Air Force by Listy.
here’s an interview with Sergei “SerB” Burkatovsky on Russian “Zvezda” TV.
Notice his title: “President of the Wargaming company”. Here’s what he said.
- the popularity of World of Tanks is a complex issue. One of the elements is that the game is online and people are interested in playing with other people, not with NPC’s. Second is the free to play model, the game is free, you don’t have to pay. Third element are tanks: “In Russia, tanks are iconic” because of WW2, T-34 is a “symbol of victory”.
- another element of the popularity is that the game is simple and correctly put together
- European market and Chinese market (game market) are fully comparable to the one of the former USSR, US server has fewer players because for the Americans, WW2 was fought using ships, not mainly tanks
- SerB considers WoT one of his main successes, he is still both developing and playing, he is returning to his childhood dreams, he sees the mankind’s future in space and states that “if it’s possible to make even a small step in that direction, we have to do it”
- the reasons above are why he is investing into space industry, he states that the rockets he is investing it are made for small minisatellites, for example for student research. He then explains the plans with the rockets (3 launches per year, he believes it will be profitable, he invested 5 mil rubles, he has the option for another 5 mil)
today, I am starting… well, maybe series, we’ll see how it goes and what the feedback is. The goal is to introduce new and/or interesting mods. Let’s start with this one – many thanks to PlazmaKeks for recommending it.
This mod from MaverickBlue from the Roughnecks XVM modder page (if you have a bit of time, check that site out, they have some interesting mods out there – you need to register to see the content, but that’s not that big of a deal).
Basically, what this mod does is allow your clan to post clan messages to be read by everyone in the clan, a useful function known from many other MMO’s.
Official description:
Tired of chasing after clanmates to let them know about meetings, clan wars, tournaments, etc? Can’t get your members to sign into a clan forum? Do your members skip over teamspeak host messages out of habit, or just plain forget to pass messages on to others? Even if you answered no to all of the above you may still find this mod makes things conveniently simpler, because now you can send notifications directly through the game upon startup.
What it does:
When signing into the game, at the top of the notification center(the menu that opens when you click the little button in the bottom right corner), a list appears of all the messages you want your clan to see. Optional fields are MOTD, clan meetings, tournaments, and clan wars. Any and all fields can be disabled, and if you’d like optional secondary tournament and clan wars messages can be enabled if you want to segregate control without giving access to higher ranking clan messages(everbody has been in that one clan with more drama than a woman’s soap opera…).
today, we are starting another guide series by Tyraforce, aimed at artillery. This series will help you play better on specific maps. First to go is the Swamp. Enjoy!
- SS
Author: Tyraforce
Welcome to part one of the Artillery Map Guide, which is an expansion to the general Artillery Guide, which can now be found at the forums. The plan is to go through most WoT maps and show you some suggested initial locations, relocation possibilities, conditions and focus zones. We will focus on typical scenerios for high tier battles so if you already are an experienced arty player who relocates intuitively, this guide will be of little interest to you. As for the creation process, we are currently a team of 6 arty players pooling our experience in hope of making this guide as complete as possible. Should you be interested in helping us with the next parts, feel free to contact me.
Summary: this 9.5 video shows this player’s ghost shell going straight through the T37 light tank. Notice how the lag indicator doesn’t blink red, indicating a stable connection, so it’s not some sort of lag it seems. It takes place in 9.5 (notice the presence of the Firefly), so it’s not a botched replay either.
Actually, I personally have seen two ghost shells since Christmas. Each time, I convinced myself that the shot probably went wide and I looked at it wrong, but seeing this video, you know, I think it’s completely possible a ghost shell at least in one case cost me my battle, because at that particular case I fired at a Borsig and it went through – the shot would have killed him. A second later, he fired back and killed me.
Also, it’s worth noting that this is not the first case in last I recieved on e-mail. Perhaps this is a bit my fault, I should have investigated this sooner, I should have known WG would fuck something up.
But remember, WG has the best QA department in business! ;)
Not much today. Storm is asking for feedback on the issue of how dynamic and fun the game is. It’s sort of hard to translate, because Russian has a term for it (BTR – bodroye tankovoye rubilovo), but you get what I mean, right?
- a player proposed that hitting “weird” places (like rangefinder, the E-100 roof, hatches etc.) should not cause damage to tanks, Storm states that this is a bad idea, as it would only cause more gold ammo to be used, which is not something WG wants
- Storm is not connected with the 8-bit mode development
- regarding SerB’s idea to have arty heal allies with shots even on April 1st, Evilly states that it’s too much to release it on live server, even for a day (SS: Evilly probably has not played World of Warcraft during the zombie invasion, best online event ever)
- apparently, WG is working on a concept of multiple support classes for the PvE mode, one of which is a healer (SS: and the other might be something replenishing ammunition). It’s not sure (decided) if this will appear on regular servers, another variant is some sort of base, where you could repair and replenish ammo
- WG is working on improving the bot AI as well
supertesters got their hands on the reworked Sand River, that was modified thus:
1) the mountain was made easily accessible to ensure comfortable gameplay for the upper base team
2) reduced the slope of this region to fix this OP erea in assault mode
3) reduced the height of this area, which makes the lower base harder to defend in standard mode
4) this area was changed by blocking the shots into the right base, which allowed the attackers to crack the base defense too easily
5) the height of the dune was reduced, a fix of an OP place abused by lower base players
6) the two areas were reworked to become a regular terrain, so they can be now used to attack. The amount of access points to these areas was increased.
