Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3609418.html
Upcoming tier 7 British TD from 9.5, the mashup of Challenger and Avenger vehicles. The model is screwed up for unknown reasons (parts are missing as you can see) – either by the viewer or on WG side.
Statistics for 100 percent crew:
Hello everyone,
earlier I wanted to write a very long post about this and the future of FTR (my thoughts and stuff), but – I mean… it’s too early I guess and even I am really not sure what I am going to do about it and how to improve everything. One thing is sure though, for better and for worse, after Christmas, FTR will transform to its “final form”, that will stick until the days of FTR are over.
In the meanwhile, still working on content for the AW FTR, that will run on blogspot. Design looks like crap, but that’s not why you come here anyway, right? Anyway, back to the original purpose of this thread – it’s contributor recognition time!
This time, following people donated via Paypal:
Anton T. (Russia)
MaxMcMetal (Germany) – thanks for a VERY generous contribution mate, much appreciated :)
Eric B. (Michigan, USA)
Thank you guys, I really appreciate it, as always.
The best way to help me and FTR is via the Patreon service
http://www.patreon.com/silentstalker
This is the Patreon account of For the Record. In case you read this for the first time and feel like contributing, here is an explanation what it is, how it works and how to contribute. You can find a list of all those, who pledged and help to keep FTR running here.
Thank you all!
Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/450670-object-907-re-balance-for-95/
Hello everyone,
in 9.5, Object 907 (CW third campaign reward) will be buffed as such:
- penetration of credit shell buffed from 219 to 264
- reload time buffed from 7,1s to 6,5s
- dispersion on the move buffed from 0,12 to 0,1
- aimtime buffed from 2,3s to 2s
Thanks to Sycopanth for letting me know (why post this stuff in clan section? Wargaming… *sigh*)
Hello everyone,
something very strange happened recently. Ever heard of Jove? He’s basically a Russian version of Quickybaby – a Wargaming-friendly videomaker/streamer, who gets promoted and has access to exclusive stuff (testing various not-yet-released tanks and such).
Oddly enough, today, Jove got bitchslapped with a copyright claim from Wargaming for publishing content (making a video), that was leaked earlier on various Russian sites and communities (world-of-ru, Wotleaks, FTA and others) – specifically it was the part about the Individual Missions.
Not quite sure why they did that – I mean, the info was out there anyway and supertest leaks are actually tolerated simply because there’s no real way how to stop them without completely changing the system (which, in the middle of production, would likely not go well). A futile gesture, that will not stop the info from being spread, but will certainly annoy Jove (I know I was actually annoyed when they took down the WoWs leak on my channel, I had to watch this stupid anti-piracy video – how terrible, but serves me right (for failing to recognize WoWs leaks are not taken as lightly as WoT ones)). So, my sympathies, Jove.
So, what exactly does Wargaming not want you to see? You can read it here.
If WW1 history is your thing, check out this site. It’s interesting to put it mildly.
Also, wondering about the effects of gun-laying versus stabilizer? Which one is better? There’s an interesting summary on US forums – check it out.
- Maus in the game has the armor it had in real life (WG measured the real vehicle)
- apparently, IS-7 armor is historical (SS: some players claim otherwise, Storm disagrees)
- Storm states that the mod that displays what type of shell penetrated you and by whom will be dealt with by reducing the amount of data about the shot, that reaches the client
- yesterday, Storm stated that the new Bigworld version is the reason for the delay of render range being reworked to a circle. Now he adds that the new motion physics were reworked for the same reason – the first thing WG wants to do is to integrate new BW and after that comes everything else. Otherwise they’d be buried under an avalanche of bugs.
- developers are working on Havok, but Storm states that unfortunately, Havok is delayed by the performance drops it causes. They are working on it.
Hello everyone,
remember the “Nuts and Bolts” (or how is it called) series from the EU server, describing various parts of the vehicle? Well, Russian server has that too (translated into Russian of course), but they also have another series, called Evolution of Tanks. It is narrated by Dmitryi “Goblin” Puchkov, who is apparently a well-known person in Russia for his translations of movies to Russian.
It’s longer, more detailed and pretty interesting. And it has (at least this part does) English subtitles. So, you can have a look – don’t forget to turn the subtitles on.
Hello everyone,
you probably heard about the screwup with the SU-76I. It did put Wargaming into an uncomfortable situation – now that it’s out, they can’t nerf it (it’s a premium tank after all), all the while the vehicle in the game is clearly overpowered. And so, they will have to introduce another lowtier tank destroyer to replace it I guess. And what do you know – there are two perfect candidates for the role, the SU-74 and SU-57b (the third one would be OP I guess).
In the summer of 1943, the designers of the GAZ plant under the leadership of N.A.Astrov (famous Soviet vehicle designer, responsible for example for the T-60, T-70, T-80 or SU-76M) created two light tank destroyer projects and offered them to the national commissariat of tank industry under the designation of GAZ-74.
Enjoy!
Thanks to Nixxxie for this one.
Hello everyone,
not so long ago, finnish Panzer IV was up for sale by the Finnish military, but this time, an American company Northeast Military Vehicle Services LLC is selling something else: a restored M18 Hellcat!
It’s not cheap though, the current price is 275k USD, which is cca 221,7k EUR. The vehicle is completely restored and running. The owner states:
This tank was restored from a completely bare, empty hull. Motor was stripped apart, cleaned up, and put back together. Fully functional little joe generator. This tank needs nothing except for you to apply the stencils, and I have a full set from Rick Larson waiting to be applied. Turret hydraulics are fully functional, allowing manual or powered traverse.
So, who wants a Hellcat? 17 days left!
I haven’t linked Listy for a long time here – check out his article on his Shrivenham trip and about the Gloucestershire regiment.
- when testing the new viewrange system (with only LT’s having good viewrange), developers are aware of the potential situation where hightier LT’s just sit back and camp due to their very good viewrange and competitive guns
- apparently the T-34-3 buff went well
- gun damage does NOT have to correspond to the gun caliber, it’s a balance parameter
- Yurko2F (developer) explains how the M53/M55 model got screwed: “We are working on many tanks outside of what is interesting for players the most – game characteristics. Well and if something gets broken, we try to fix it quickly.”
- the “individual missions” will be the same for everybody (SS: so where’s the “individual” part? o.O)
- old LT8′s will be buffed “if necessery”
- IM conditions too tough? “Don’t worry, everything will be fine. Wait for the feature to come out.”
- Storm on supertesters: “Various players are recruited to supertest. Including those with poor skill. That’s done for the test statistics to be more representative. So it is more like random battles.”
Storm also made a post, where he is asking for a feedback on the role of armor in current WoT. Here are the answers from it:
