9.5 CT Placeholder Warning

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Hello everyone,

just a warning to you. If you want to try out the new British vehicles in 9.5 test, be aware that the final experience might be very different from what you see in the test, because some tanks are loaded with placeholders. Let me explain how it works: before a vehicle is put even on supertest (a term for internal WG testing, pre-CT stage), developers balance the statistics based on the historical values the vehicle had.

But BEFORE they even do that, during the stage the model is ready to be balanced for initial testing (pre-supertest), the modules have placeholder values. Basically it’s just a bunch of random numbers. And yes, it’s this pre-testing stage that the devs threw on the common test. So we get stuff like this:

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Two guns, same values and BOTH are placeholders. What I noticed so far (but I had just a quick look):

- Charioteer L7 stats are a placeholder
- some 17pdrs are placeholders (you can tell by the 0,4 accuracy value and the ROF), including the Firefly guns
- some 6pdrs are placeholders as you can see

Can’t tell for the rest, but I literally just quickly ran through it. So, again, keep your anger (or hope) leashed until at least second CT iteration and wait for real (at least initial testing) values.

9.5 Common Test Patchnotes

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Official WG English version will probably come soon, so here’s a quick rundown of things

- added the Firefly line (it’s incomplete in the patchnotes, some vehicles still missing from the supertest)
- added several vehicles for supertesters (AMX CdC, AMX-13/57, STA-2, ISU-130)
- fixed some visual issues with the models of Maus, Fury, Jagdpanther (fixed the gun sizes), KV-1S, Centurion Mk.7/1
- fixed the armor bugs in following models: SU-14 (note that earlier, there was Hetzer and WT PzIV here as well, that’s gone)

- added new maps: Winter Ruinberg, Mittengard (for lowtier battles), Ghost City (for team battles)
- removed Severogorsk and Ruinberg on Fire from the game
- fixed some landscape irregularities on the maps Moutain Pass, Fisherman Village and Windstorm
- fixed the entries to non-game areas on Windstorm and Stalingrad
- fixed some visual issues on Windstorm map
- fixed some game issues on the map Stalingrad
- fixed some visual model issues of certain environmental objects

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4.12.2014

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About the 9.5 test server – maybe later today, I don’t have exact ETA right now.

- twin gun mechanism is still planned, SerB wants a twin gun tank like the ST-II (SS: ST-II is ST-I with two 122mm D-25T guns)
- if you apply the CW campaign reward camo to a tank that will later on be replaced by something else, then the camouflage will most likely be transferred to the replacing tank
- B1 Bis not having the 75mm gun active in the game? “If you don’t like it, don’t play it, we do not mind.”
- the game engine allows the bushes to be destructable objects (by shelling them, or driving over them with tanks), but the developers decided not to implement this

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British Tank Driver Talks About Challenger 2

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Hello everyone,

this concerns modern tanks – but I think it’s interesting nonetheless. Thanks to kitch347 for this one. Description under the video.

Post by British Army.

Patently Absurd – Part V: Germany Reloaded

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Author: Vollketten

Part I – France: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/11/05/pate … -i-france/
Part II – UK: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/11/07/pate … d-kingdom/
Part III – Germany: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/11/14/pate … i-germany/
Part IV – USA: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/11/20/patently-absurd-part-iv-usa/

So, the first part of Germany had some rather nice tanks, but perhaps they are the cream of the crop of the designs, which didn’t make it. If we delve further into the barrel, there are some more designs of interest. In this edition, we shall concentrate on the Nazi era of 1933-1945. This is not all the nazi Germany has to offer, but just the 8 for now.

Tank with Trench Digging Device

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Okay, so it’s not a grave digging device like the google suggested, but google translate can produce some amusing results. It’s actually an idea from the pen of Freidrich Wiele in May 1937 that there is enough spare capacity on a tank that it has time to run not one but two trench diggers separately, driven by the tracks to provide cover for the following infantry. Small problem to me would appear to be the extremely shallow nature of the ‘trench’, which is little more than a shallow ditch and doesn’t even look wide enough for a soldier to lie in. Perhaps ‘shallow grave digging’ tank is accurate afterall.

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