Hello everyone,
today’s advent offer for EU server continues in the whale hunt tradition again and includes:
- Chi-Nu Kai + slot
- 14500 gold
Price: 61,74 USD (49.99 EUR)
Meanwhile on Russian server, today’s offer is 50 percent discount on hangar slots. Seriously, what’s with the expensive packages, WG trying to milk as much as they can?
Yes, there was a captured KV-1 in the 9.5 ASAP video (visible at one point in the garage). No, it doesn’t mean it’s going to be implemented soon, or – ever. The captured vehicle models are very old – for years now they existed. AFAIK captured vehicles are not planned anytime soon.
- Storm confirms that render range will be reworked to a circle
- players will have to play even types of vehicles they dont like (4 out of 5 anyway) in the personal missions
- the map Ghost Town was made by the same people as the other (random battles) maps
- no final decision was made yet as to whether the Ghost Town map will appear in random battles or not
I will be gone most of the day (meeting Czech historians and WG people about the Czech tank branch, such consult, many secret, wow), so here’s some info for you guys. In advance. Next translations/articles – in the late afternoon.
- individual missions (I translated the name from Russian IBZ – individualnye boyevye zadachi) were official renamed to “personal missions”
- Q: “personal missions are there not for your fun, but to make you play it a longer!” A: “Yes, we’ll make you by force! By pointing submachine guns at you!”
- Storm explains the presence of platoon requirements in personal missions: “The name is personal missions, not individual. There are generally only a few missions with platoon requirement. Platoons = socializing. A player who is socializing plays significantly longer.”
- it’s apparently not possible to move the names of tanks on the improved minimap to the left from the icon, as it cause graphic glitches
- a render range rectangle was not implemented into the new map because it will change to a circle relatively soon
Hello everyone,
today’s advent offer for EU server continues in the whale hunt tradition and includes:
- BT-SV + slot
- 27500 gold
- 30 days of premium
Price: 123,35 USD (99.99 EUR)
Wait, wasn’t this stuff here like 5 days ago? So original. Meanwhile on Russian server, today’s offer is 30 percent discount on IS-6
Enjoy!
First row is for StuG, second for T28C, third for T55A, fourth for Object 260. Courtesy of Edrard, who exported it :)
Mission #1 At lower tiers, your light tank can easily neutralize every other type of vehicles.
Advise – Try to avoid head-on confrontations. Instead, try flanking your enemy or attack them from the rear. Observe carefully where the enemy vehicle’s gun is turned.
Apparently, Russians are reporting FPS losses in 9.5.
- SerB on “anti-bot” system: “The system takes into account that various things happen in life. You have to go to the toilet urgently, your mom called you to eat or your wife needed to turn your attention to her and not to pixel tanks. So if you don’t go AFK regularily (what does “regularily” mean I will not tell, sorry), then an AFKer can be forgiven.”
- SerB states that the radius of the render circle be cca 500 meters
- the fact that WoWp planes are displayed much further than tanks in WoT doesn’t mean much, as the scale is different for WoWp
- apparently, the “XP for tanking” was scrapped? (Q: “How is XP for tanking doing” A (SerB): “About the same as XP for looking badly at the enemy.”)
Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/1/female_crew_soon/
Hello everyone,
Wargaming RU made a post about the woman tankmembers. In it, the author mentions that it was an old idea, repeated many times on the forums and implemented by mods as well. They also mention that it’s historical, because USSR had these girl crews. For the portraits, they used some WG employees, like the “face” of WG, “Ola”, or some other girl working for WG:
So yea, now you can have girl crews, you get one for fulfilling each chain of individual missions (eg. 5 per IM tank) and they come with free BIA perk (well, SIA anyway). Behold, official WG art:
And yes, it was very hard for me to abstain from NSFW remarks.
Hello everyone,
this is how the individual missions on 9.5 test look like. These are the ones for StuG IV. For other tanks, the missions are supposed to be the same, only with increased difficult (requirements, for example 5000 damage instead of 3000). There are 15 missions for each class in order to get that tank.
All the missions have to be completed in tier 5 or higher vehicle (including light tanks), and you have to be in top 10 XP.
You need to get 20 tokes for a vehicle. For every final mission you get 4 tokens for primary and 1 token for secondary. So if you dont want to play arty, you need to complete the four other branches with secondary objectives. Also, for every final mission you get a female crewmember.
Light Tanks:
Hello everyone,
so, I had a quick look at the new maps in training room. Now, before we start – I am not a tactics expert, so I won’t tell you where to go or strategems or anything. Just some random thoughts about the maps – specifically about the Ghost Town and Mittengard. The Winterberg is just that – winter Ruinberg, not much else to see there.
Anyway, Mittengard. Mittengard is a lowtier map and it has two modes available, regular and encounter. Haven’t found an exact number for which tiers the map will be active, but it’s clear that on high tiers, it would be unplayable, as both teams start relatively close to one another.
So, I took my HIV Stuart for a spin with some Russian guy. There’s not much to it really. A town in the center and two teams fighting each other over it. I am not quite sure how this map will truly play out in standard randoms. Because almost nobody queues for low-tier battles on the test server, I actually spent about twenty minutes just sitting in the lobby—killing time by watching Twitch streams, messing around on some casino apps, and reading through the rest of the patch notes—before the matchmaker finally popped. When the round actually started, it became obvious that the only thing likely to happen is both teams just running into each other in melee. It’s not really possible to stay on the slopes, there’s no cover or anything (lesson learned from Province). So it’s just one giant clusterfuck in the middle. There are two more ares – NE and SE corner of the map, here I am looking into the NE one.
