Hello everyone,
here’s a really nicely done Russian frag video with… you guessed it, artillery! The real unicum nightmare begins, as multiple hightier tanks get oneshotted by the massive T92 and other artillery vehicles. Enjoy!
Oh and thanks to Nekojima from US server for linking it.
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/
Okay, so in the previous articles, some commenters complained that things were absurd enough. Now, we have to look at the United States with its history of producing rather banal but effective tanks. With a reputation for good reliability and sound engineering, the USA can’t possibly have any dark secrets? Think again…
Hello everyone – check this interesting article about the birth of the M48, especially the video at the end.
- aimtime in the game represents “the comfort, with which the gun was aimed”, this parameter “quite adequately” represents reality
- Q: “Gun stabilization parameter confuses people!” (SS: gun stabilization in this case is a general term for a set of parameters, that determine how much the aim circle will get bigger when the tank moves its hull, turret etc.). A (SerB): “Your opinion is, as usual, very important to us.”
- theoretically the D-10-85 gun could fit the KV-13 turret, but since it was not proposed for it in real life, it was not implemented as an option for it. If WG added it, the vehicle would be “significantly better than other tanks of its tier”
- Q: “SerB, do you deny that various tanks have various chance of hitting the center of the circle?” A: “Yes, we deny. Because it’s a CONSPIRACY!!! And what kind of CONSPIRACY!!! would it be, if it wasn’t denied.”
- Q: “When will your nerf gold ammo for credits, whenever I drive E-75, I immediately get shot at by gold” A (Storm): “Statistically, the amount of gold shells hitting the E-75 is less than 20 percent of all shells”
- Q: “When will you fix disconnections?” A: “Never. Unfortunately, we can’t cure your connection.”
- there was a rumor going around that E25 DPM will be nerfed from 2700 to 2350 DPM. It is not true.
Hello everyone,
tomorrow, RU server is going to get another hotfix, the 0.9.4.2. ETA on other servers is not known. This hotfix will contain following changes:
- fixed the M53/M55 collision model
- fixed the incorrect display of regular XP recieved in the post-battle debriefing window (SS: that’s the “got wrong XP” bug)
- returned the sound of tracks when the tank is moving
- fixed the constant display of tutorial window bug
Hello everyone,
this will be almost certainly the last of the game-related articles about the Czechoslovak tanks – the ingame summary of the vehicles to appear in the first branch. I have never really made a summary, how would they behave in the game. Inspired by Karika and his Hungarian tank post, here’s how the main Czechoslovak branch would look.
After this post (resp. its second part), I will most likely stick to historical articles, unless something new/interesting comes along, that would fit the game nicely.
Now, here’s my (latest/final) proposal for the Czechoslovak branch:
The “main” branch would be the blue one, with TVP as the tier 10 medium tank. After all, medium tanks always come first, when a new branch/tree is implemented by Wargaming. So, let’s have a look at them, strictly from the game perspective. Historical articles on those respective vehicles can always be found in the history section.
Numbers in brackets mean elite setup. Naturally, the soft and ingame stats are my pure guesswork.
Hello everyone,
so, uh, now that Fury’s out in cinemas with all its “realism”, how about something, that doesn’t make any such claims and instead looks like to be some outrageously unrealistic fun? With a tank, of course.
It’s October 1944 and a crew of German Tiger II tank comes across a village in Russia, whose Jewish inhabitants were massacred by Germans and summoned a badass Golem spirit to take revenge for their lives. That sounds fun :) Anyway, this is the basic story of an upcoming movie in 2015 from the co-writer of Hellboy. Damn, a King Tiger fighting a golem – that I am looking forward to :)
PANZER 88 (Preview Video) from Carnaby Films on Vimeo.
Hello everyone,
we all knew that the E-50M is a Wargaming-invented fake, but now, we have a legal document to prove it! :) Many thanks to Alpha_Dude for finding this info.
On 24.7.2012, Wargaming filed a patent application (no. 29/427,959) to protect the E-50M design. The proceedings took more than two years and on 9.9.2014, the patent protection of the E-50M design was approved. It’s now protected for 14 years.
Funnily enough, the “inventor” of the patented vehicle is noone else than Sergei Burkatovskyi (aka SerB). There you have it, SerB is officially the inventor of the E-50M :)
The legal document follows:
Hello everyone,
those, who follow this kind of thing on forums might have noticed that last week or two, WG staff on EU and ASIA (in this case, I am talking specifically about Tanitha, but there were several threads on EU, including the Czech section) are actively asking players, which maps do they dislike the most.
Based on that very feedback, developers are deciding what to do with the current maps. Now, the fact the developers are unhappy with some of the maps is well-known and the first result of this initiative seems to be the fact that Severogorsk and Ruinberg on Fire are getting removed in 9.5 (apparently completely removed, not just pulled back for overhaul).
Hello everyone,
I am sure all of you are aware of the Ukraine crisis and the sanctions the western world has imposed upon Russia as a result. This is where it gets a bit complicated, but basically – based on this sanctions, combined with questionable Russian monetary policy, the exchange rate of Russian ruble dropped drastically. As a result, for Russian players of both War Thunder and World of Tanks, the prices actually seriously increased, as both companies have the prices tied to US Dollar.
Unlike Wargaming, that was smart enough not announce this stuff publicly on the portal and simply showed the prices on RU server with the fluctuations in mind, Gaijin (War Thunder producer) announced price increases all across the board publicly yesterday.
The price increases in rubles are significant and that’s putting it mildly. For example, the prices of “golden eagles” (equivalent of WG gold):
150 GE from 29,92 to 44,99
500 GE from 99,03 to 129
1000 GE from 179,1 to 259
2500 GE from 440,05 to 599
5000 GE from 799 to 1099
10000 GE from 1549,04 to 2099
15000 GE from 2199,4 to 3049
20000 GE from 2900,2 to 3999
25000 Ge from 3499,03 to 4899
Etc. (full list in the link).
Naturally, a huge shitstorm arose on Gaijin forums, with players pledging never to buy anything ever again, saying that it’s too expensive etc. I can only imagine the amount of rage such a post would cause on RU forums…
Hello everyone,
here is the list of missions and discounts, that awaits us, courtesy of the Insider.
First and foremost: there are NO specific tier 10 discounts (“Top of the Tree”) for December and for January, as all tier 10′s will be on discount.
1.12.-1.1.: Monthly Missions
- win 3 battles while driving a tier 5+ tank once per day (must be in top 10 in XP), get 75k credits
- complete the mission above 15 times, get 700 gold
6.12.-9.12.: “Winter Wolfpack”
- x3 XP for first victory
- 30 percent discount on tier 6-7 regular medium tanks
- 50 percent discount on tier 5 regular medium tanks
- 30 percent discount on Panzer IV Schmalturm and M10 Panther
- deal at least 1000 damage in battle while surviving in a tier 4+ medium tank, get 50 percent crew XP bonus
- destroy at least 1 medium tank in battle in a tier 4+ vehicle, get 50 percent crew XP bonus
- destroy 50 medium tanks (repeatable) in a tier 4+ vehicle, get 10 gold repair kits, 10 gold medkits, 10 gold extinguishers
