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The excellent and free World of Tanks is one today, coincidentally, the 5-years to the day since I left the Army…

It seems like World of Tanks updates are like buses. None for ages then a bunch of them…

Coming soon and looking good…

Tomorrow sees new tanks, a new map and rather surprisingly the time line for releases 1-year out, which is unusual to say the least…

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Several changes, the most significant being:

• Redshire and Arctic Region maps;
• American TDs Т18, Т82, Т40, M10, M36, T25, T28, T95;
• American premium light tank M22 Locust;
• Soviet premium light tank Т-127;
• Tier 9 American medium tank M26 Pershing will be replaced for M46 Patton.

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A little Rainmeter skin I knocked up which delivers your current awesomeness to your desktop…

Download & Instructions

This is a pretty substantial update to the game with the highlights listed below and the whole list shown here.

• Added new vehicles: premium heavy Lowe and KV-5, KV-13 and Pz38NA, tier 8 SPGs: Object 261, GW-E serie, T-92.
• Readjusted visibility parameters of all vehicles while standing still and on the move.
• Introduced detailed damage mechanics for tracks. Reworked durability of tracks and repair time for all vehicles.
• Increased match-making value for tier 9 medium tanks.
• Reworked vehicle movement system – sticking at vertical surfaces and map borders is nearly eliminated. Reduced chance of getting stuck in terrain objects.
• Changed damage mechanics for tracks. You can damage tracks if you hit the leading or the rearmost wheel of the tank. It will be much more difficult to detrack it by hitting middle part of the tank.
• Added the possibility of dismounting non-demountable equipment (Rammer, Coated Optics and other) for 10 gold.
• Added the automated ban system for teamkillers.
• Added new maps: Mountain Pass and Prairies.
• Corrected a lot of mistakes connected with objects’ disposition, passing ability, getting stuck on most of the maps.
• Fixed a lot of rendering errors, increased the efficiency of advanced dynamic shadows.

Well, now that I have pimped T-54, Panther II, Aus B, Maus & Jagtiger it is time to say goodbye to them as the game (detailed here) gets wiped and replaced today with the full release.  This is still in progress at the time of writing…

Anyway, this should bring more maps/tanks/fixes/gameplay modes to the table.  It’s free to play, though you can buy in-game gold to pimp your tanks, speed crew training and so on if you feel the need.  More details at the World of Tanks website.

Mods:

There are all sorts of Mods, none of which I have bothered with apart from the following:

I’m colour blind & I cannot see red enemy makers on the green backgrounds for tanks or the dots on the mini map (now if they could make that bigger).

There is a Colour Blind mod which has a red HUD which is almost invisible to me, however the minimap dots are Green/Puprle and bigger & I can see them ok. Bryzdal’s Crosshairs mod gives a blue/yellow HUD which I can see but does not affect the mini-map.

The fix for me is to install Colour Blind first, then Bryzdal’s. This results in minimap with dots I can see, enemy tank icons in game I can see and aiming reticule I can see.

No idea what the new version today will do to these essential changes for me…

Hitler finds out the cost of Gold in the World of Tanks release scheduled for later this month…

Big update with lots of fixes, in particular my beloved Panther II gets a buff…

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