Confirmed: free VK3002M for VK3001H owners

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kW6SgUgzuc

Murazor is well known and popular Russian blogger with very good info access. In his latest video, he confirmed, what you might have read earlier here:

If you have VK3001H in garage the moment 8.8 goes live, you will get your VK3001H tier 5 heavy tank with your original crew and you will get for free a VK3002M tier 6 medium tank with a free garage slot and a 100 percent crew.
概要肉翻: 如果8.8上线前,你车库有 VK3001H的话, 你将会在8.8上线后, 得到带着旧vk3001h车组的新5级重坦 VK3001H, 以及免费得到新的带着100%熟练度的6级 中坦 VK3002M

Which one is better, Object 140 or T-62A?

Source: wot-news.com

Hello everyone,

as some of you know, I am not exactly fond of Soviet tanks (I levelled up the T-54, but that’s about it), so I can’t really evaluate the Object 140′s performance, compared to the T-62. That’s why I am taking Edrard’sassessment and translating it to English. Edrard is the owner of wot-news and generally a good player, so I think his opinion counts in this. First, let’s have a look at Object 140′s armor and size, compared to the T-62A:

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8.8 E-100 model change

Source:

A lot of people asked what the 8.8 model change of the E-100 is. Well, here’s a comparison, courtesy of Orkel

– the hull becomes a bit longer
– tracks are slightly moved (up and forward)

Minor changes that make no real difference, including
-tracks moved forward, protecting the LFP/side armor weak spot a bit better
-very slightly lower
-upper section of UFP is better angled now (?)

In the end, still no real difference, should play as usual.

T-34-3 and 112 now available on 8.8 test server

Hello everyone,
嗨,大家好

as many of you (judging from the queues) probably noticed, both the 112 and the T-34-3 are available on the test server now. The developers used a strange way to add them: since they weren’t added to the test shop, they added them as special mission reward:
想必你们之中很多人已经注意到了(通过战斗中车辆列表判断),测试服上的 112 和 T-34-3 都开放可用了。开发小组用了个另类的方式将他们加入游戏:这两辆车并没有加入到游戏商城中,而是放到了特殊任务奖励中:

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8.8 Tiger II loses weakspot

来源: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/08/25/8-8-tiger-ii-loses-weakspot/

So, you think the Königstiger got nerfed? Check this out, another info from Orkel.
也许你认为虎王被砍了?看下这个,由Orkel发现另一个小改动

Basically, the commander’s copula was removed as an easily penetrabe weakspot. Earlier:
大致就是,车长观察窗不再是一个容易击穿的弱点了。之前的样子:

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【Developer Q&A 】2013/08/25

Source: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/08/25/25-8-2013/

– it looks like no matter what happens with the KV-1S 122mm gun, the 100mm S-34 will be added either way
– 好像无论 KV-1S 的 122mm 炮如何变动,100mm S-34 都会加入

– the reason for KV-1S balance is that it stands out in the statistics. Not terribly, but it does. So in any case it is necessery to somehow nerf the 122mm KV-1S, but what exactly is still being discussed
– 平衡 KV-1S 的原因是它的战绩太突出了。尽管不是特别严重,但它的确是过强了。所以无论怎样,122mm KV-1S 必须要某种程度上的削弱才行,但是具体如何实施还在讨论中

– the German unhistorical engines removal was the balance team’s idea, not SerB’s.
– 移除德系不符合历史的发动机,这个主意是平衡小组想的,不是Serb

– Q: “Why remove unhistorical German engines when most of the players don’t care about their historicity anyway, but it did cost a lot of XP to level them up and it causes distrust between players and WG?” A: “We don’t care about distrust, conspiracy theorists would make up a conspiracy theory anyway”
– Q:“绝大部分玩家并不在乎那些德系被移除的发动机是否符合历史,既然如此为何还要这么做,我们可是花了一大堆经验去研发它们的,你们不怕这么做会造成玩家和WG之间互相不信任吗?”A:”我们不在乎猜疑,阴谋论者总有办法编出阴谋论”
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8.8 VK3601H and Tiger mantlet changes —— 8.8 VK3601H和虎式炮盾变动

Source: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/08/25/8-8-vk3601h-and-tiger-mantlet-changes/

Thanks to Orkel for this!
感谢Orkel做的这些!

VK3601H 88mm gun mantlet got thicker in 8.8. This is how it looks:
VK3601H 88mm炮 的炮盾比8.8更厚了。这是它的样子:

In 8.7, it was 40-80-100, in 8.8 it is 50-100-135. Be advised that the Konisch uses a different mantlet, that is 100mm all across the space.
在8.7中,他是40-80-100,8.8中变成了50-100-135.提醒下与SB炮的炮盾不相同,SB的整个覆盖范围都是100
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