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Overlord: EU server DL links
Full client
http://cdn1.worldoft...11_eu_setup.exe (1.75 gb)
http://cdn1.worldoft...tup.exe.torrent
Patch
http://cdn1.worldoft...11_eu_patch.exe (30.1 Mb)
http://cdn1.worldoft...tch.exe.torrent

Vallter: It's almost done. Please, wait a bit more.

Overlord: Yes, it's 100% safe. You can activate it right after the moment when the game is up.

Vallter: The wipe was performed. Soon we will update the current status of the release maintenance.

Overlord: World of Tanks v.0.6.3.10 - v.0.6.3.11 patch notes:
- Added user guide (World of Tanks Game Manual.pdf)
- Added link to WoT-wiki
- Fixed a couple of bugs in translations

Overlord: The wipe on EU server has been performed. Assigning gift and premium tanks according to CBT-keys (M3 Stuarts and Valentines).

Vallter: We have announced, that server downtime is up to 18 hours, please, be patient and wait

LiannaSilverwind: My garage:
H38, Luchs, Leopard, VK 3601H, Panther II, A-20, IS-7, S-51, AT-1, ISU-152, Object 704, Matilda, T1, T2 Light, M2 Light
Favourite tanks:
H38, AT-1, T2 Light, VK 3601H, S-51 before the SPG nerf
Final stats:
1 965 battles, 69% win ratio, 28% defeats
4 268 kills, 12 kills with VK 3601 H


Favourite awards:
89 Top Guns
18 Wittman's
2 Oskin's
2 Billotte's
Most memorable battle :
Entered Komarin in VK 3601 H alone. My team lost 14 tanks for the price of 6 (3 of them were my kills). I was left alone vs 9 enemies, including KT, IS-3 and Grille. I killed them all.
Got the following...

Then I realized I cannot keep hold on mouse, my arm was shaking. I went to drink some wine.

Overlord: I will ensure it stays open then.

Overlord: Update maintenance is somewhat different. Release requires much work to be done almost simultaneously, moreover we are working on 2 servers, which doubles the amount of things to perform.

Vallter: Within this forum thread only collages (or links on them) for the participation in the ‘Tanks in Space’ Contest will be permitted.
Off-topic, spamming, questions, comments and other text posts are not allowed here!
Anything other than images entered to the contest will be deleted and sanctions placed in accordance with the forum rules.
Important requirements for your works are:
-one player – one image;
-collage (or link to it) has to be posted in this topic;
-collage should not violate morale, ethic, laws, in-game rules and EULA;
-collage should not violate any of the existing forum rules, Such as no swearing or abbreviated swearing;
-in-game tanks should be a part of the image;
-the space should be present in any of its display (galaxies, planets, stars etc.)
-battle actions mean space combats, planet assault, landing on the planet, engagements in the open space;
-humor is welcome.
The contest will end at 8,00 AM UTC on the April 15
The discussion about the contest is here.

Vallter: The World of Tanks team is happy to celebrate the 50 year anniversary of Juriy Gagarin becoming the first man to have entered space.
The contest made for this great day is here.

Overlord: World of Tanks v.0.6.3.10. - v.0.6.4 expanded patch notes:
Vehicles/balance:
- Added new vehicles: premium heavy Lowe and KV-5, intermediate KV-13 and Pz38NA, tier 8 SPGs: Object 261, GW-E serie, T-92.
- Redesign hit-box for Maus on the basis of new "skirt" type of armor.
- Fixed hit boxes for IS-7, JagdPanther, Tiger, VK4502, Ferdinand, JagdTiger, M41.
- Fuxed minor inaccuracies in hit boxes for several tanks.
- Fixed inaccuracies in visual models and textures for the majority of vehicles.
- Add new visual gun models for VK4502, Ferdinand, Tiger II.
- Rebalanced specifications for all SPGs.
- Readjusted camouflage values while movement and at rest.
- Readjusted camouflage values while firing for all guns.
- Readjusted shell velocity for all guns.
- Readjusted maximum firing range for the majority of guns.
- T-54: top engine substituted for 700 hp V-14, weight for top turret increased by 500kg.
- Fixed bug with the gun mantlet armor for Object 212
- Multiple balance adjustments for the majority of vehicles.
Battle mechanics:
- Added extra checkpoints on tank models for more accurate visibility checks.
- Readjusted visibility calculation for multiple bushes if they are within 15m range away from the vehicle.
- Engine now catches fire, if is has received certain fixed amount of damage, which is the same for all vehicles. The purpose is to reduce the ability of low-tier automatic guns to cause engine fire.
- Changed fuel tanks fire mechanics. It catches fire when it is destroyed now.
- Changed mechanics of "Fill tanks with CO2" equipment, now it increases durability of fuel tank.
- Changed firefighting mechanic: fire strength decreases with each second. The exact value differs from vehicle to vehicle and is multiplied by average crew firefighting skill. As soon as fire strength reaches zero (and the vehicle is not destroyed), the fire is put out.
- Changed effect for credits and gold first aid kits, repair kits and fire extinguishers:
Credits repair kit fixes 1 chosen damaged module until the end of battle. Gold repair kit - all currently damaged modules until the end of battle.
You can put both repair kits on the same tank together.
First aid kit works the same way.
Credits fire extinguisher extinguishes fire immediately after you manually activate it – by pressing its button in-game.
Gold fire extinguisher automatically extinguishes fire 0.5 seconds after tank catches fire and will reduce chance of catching fire by 10%.
- "Extra combat rations", "Case of cola", "Chocolate" consumables are now automatically activated at the beginning of the battle.
- "Removed speed governor" equipment now damages the engine 50% faster.
- 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.
- Reworked vehicle movement system – stucking at vertical surfaces and map borders is nearly completely eliminated. Reduced chance of getting stuck in terrain objects.
- Added first version of moving wrecks of destroyed vehicles.
- Fixed miscrashing of hit-box objects that stick out from the rear hull (rear hull of Gw-Tiger, etc).
- Fixed crash models for server open top SPGs being damaged by other tanks when contacted slightly.
- Fixed the condition of getting “Defender” medal. Now it meets the description requirements.
- Fixed the condition of getting “Reaper” achievement, which wasn’t granted when the tank was destroyed by splash wave or fire.
- Fixed the condition of getting Fadin's Medal which wasn’t granted when the tank was destroyed by splash wave or fire.
- Fixed the discrepancy between arcade and sniper reticle, when the tank is positioned on a slope.
Non-combat mechanics:
- Added the possibility of dismounting nondemountable equipment ("Rammer", "Coated Optics" and other) for 10 gold. To dismount it, click the module and choose “dismount equipment” option at the end of the dropdown list.
- Added the possibility to transfer in-game gold to another player. A special financial password is used for additional transaction control.
- Now when leveling the crew (on an elite tank with marked “Rapid crew training”) – bonus experience received for the crew is given to the least experienced crew member. The estimation is based on the general experience (not on the basis of skills percentage); if several crew members have equal values, the first one is chosen.
- Added the automated ban system for teamkillers.
Content:
- Added new maps: “Mountain Pass” and “Prairies”.
- Visually redesigned “Hills” map.
- “Komarin” map redesigned from the point of view of gameplay: the amount of bushes is reduced, buildings for cover added to the central island.
- Corrected a lot of mistakes connected with objects’ disposition, passing ability, getting stuck on most of the maps.
- Corrected borders and skyboxes’ junctions on some maps.
- For most of the maps the red line marking the edges of the map removed from those places where vehicle is unable to go through (mountains, cliffs, water etc.)
- Reworked base capture circles. Now they reflect the capture radius precisely.
- Fixed/redesigned hit boxes for a large number of small objects.
- Optimized texture sizes for some objects and buildings.
- Added some new pieces to the current track list.
- Fixed some sounds effects for objects.
- Fixed some sounds effects for shots and explosions.
Garage Interface:
- Added the information about the player’s clan to player’s information window.
- Added the possibility to block voice messages from a player both while a battle and in garage.
- Added a filter for vehicle scrolling to reflect the tanks marked as primary.
- Added an option to disable vehicle shaking when shooting/starting/stopping/being hit in a sniper mode. The shaking is enabled on default.
- Added an option to switch off the display track prints.
- Added an option to switch off smoke and mud effects.
- Added advanced voice chat settings: the choice of audio device, connection test and other.
- Fixed the bug with client’s hangup when joining platoon or tank company when voice chat ports are blocked.
- Added the adjustable volume suppression of primary sound effects when using voice chat.
- Added “Clan” section with its members to the “Contacts” window.
- Corrected and updated tips displayed when map is loading.
- Corrected the message when changing the engine with installed consumable of a different type (e.g. diesel engine and “105 octane gasoline” consumable).
- Added visual display for “talking” players: training room, platoon and tank company windows, map loading screen.
- Corrected skybox rendering in garage when it takes long to download.
- Added possibility to close consequently opened interface windows by pressing "Esc" button.
- Added “asterix” mark for icons of those vehicles which haven’t received double experience for a day.
- Reworked old and added new por-up tips for interface elements in garage.
- Fixed vehicle overlapping by the elements of a premium hangar (balcony, ladder).
- Fixed bug with credits counter updating when vehicle comes after the battle.
- Adjusted the change of equipment weight after it has been mounted on a tank in some cases.
- Fixed the display of pre-battle waiting queue if the player has reclogged in.
- Fixed the discrepancy in crew family names in additional information window.
- Fixed the “compression” of crew personal data window in some cases.
- Added the display of researched modules for unresearched vehicle.
- Added the display of the additional statistics for “Mouse Trap” achievement.
- Fixed the display of counter for “Sharpshooter” achievement.
- Fixed the display of counter for “Invincible” achievement in the general statistics.
- Changed default display for tank company and platoon channels of the chat.
- Added new sound effects for some interface elements.
- Fixed a lot of minor interface errors.
- Removed duplicated family names from the respective list.
- Added pop-up hint for nondemountable modules.
Combat interface:
- Minimap reworked in flash, as well as the rest of the interface. Added the displau of platooned players by a different colour.
- The icon of the player’s tank who has killed several allies is coloured in blue.
- Added in-battle ignore feature. Press Ctrl and RMB click on the player’s nickname to add him to ignore list.
- Added the display of additional markings above the platooned tanks.
- Added option to change markings above the tanks: “show the tank’s icon”, “show the tank’s tier”.
- Added pop-up hint with possible actions when player’s vehicle is destroyed.
- Improved the battle statistics interface (press "Tab" button in battle).
- Improved the in-game help window. (press “F1” button in battle).
- Fixed bug with random appearance of "Panzerwaffe JagdPanther 26%" line in reticle.
- Improved full-screen stretching for battle chat when typing a lot of spaces in it.
- Adjusted sticking of the voice chat button during battle with simultaneously opening the chat window.
System/graphics:
- Fixed the use of graphics settings presets for some old graphic cards.
- Improved auto-detect feature for graphics settings.
- Fixed a lot of rendering errors, increased the efficiency of advanced dynamic shadows.
- Changed memory allocation for 64-bit operation systems, which should solve the problem of memory leak.
- Added the limitation for maximum texture quality for 32-bit configurations with 2GB or less of the address space available.
- Reworked post-effect displayed when player’s vehicle is destroyed.
- Adjusted the display of server reticle in SPG-mode, in some cases its size was displayed incorrectly.
- Adjusted the display of track wheels rotation for large distances and low graphic settings.
- Improved the dsiplay of the track prints for different types of terain the prints are different.
- Added the protection against client-side changing the colour, brightness and the time of tracer effects.
- Fixed missing engine and tracks sound effects.
- Adjusted microfreezes and FPS drops while rendering track prints.
- Fixed some cases with vehicle’s “weird” behavior (vehicle doesn’t move or moves with delays) when the ping is normal and there are no package losses.
- Saving screenshots is performed by means of a different application stream. It will fix hangups when taking screenshots.
- Fixed the display of the player’s vehicle when switching from arcade to sniper mode.
- Adjusted the effect of space “compression” when post-processing is switched on and the camera is rotating sharply.
- Changed the settings of objects’ rendering check-up.
ETA - to be announced.
Topic for discussion.

Vallter: Maintenance works are scheduled for 4:00 AM UTC, April 12. The game will be unavailable for up to 18 hours.
Reason: Pre-Release Maintenance

Vallter: We are not planning to add Chinese tanks. But our game designers are currently discussing the possibility of adding Japanese tanks.

Vallter: Their total quantity is in 13 time less, than the number of all registered Close Beta Testers on the European server.
1000 battles is the minimum number you have to play before totally understand the game mechanics.

Vallter: We decided it is the best number. In this manner players that have given us enough feedback will be bonused and those, who not - won't receive it

Vallter: 'Moderator's nightmare' - check it out on the European WoT forums.

Vallter: I will miss my Pershing

Vallter: There will be many more interesting things to achieve

Vallter: I totally agree with you. We are going live today. This will be truly awesome.

Vallter: It is recalculated in 0.6.4 patch

Vallter: I will choose German tank branch. I love it's TD.

Vallter: No, unfortunately you don't

Overlord: It is a full reset, but not amnesty.

Overlord: Match-making on test server is not representative. It has never been.

Overlord: Patience, please. There have been no match-making adjustments yet.
As it was said earlier the list of changes was not full.

Overlord: You are understimating the amount of work. Release on Russian server took more than 20h. Here we are going to make it in 12 hours, leaving 6 more for emergency cases.

Overlord: No, all the bans will carry over to the release.
Behave, please.

Overlord: 1) Better backup them.
2) No, it won't.

Overlord: To encourage the use of 10.5 cm KwK45 L/52.

Overlord: This is under consideration currently.

Overlord: In v.0.6.4 chance of fire for all diesel engines will be set to 15%, for gasoline engines - to 20%.

Overlord: Currently no adjustments are planned for T34.

Overlord: It's a bit early to go deep into dicsussing Pattons.
M48 edition, if implemented, would be much more powerful than ANY of tier 9 mediums. It's somewhat similar to Soviet T-62.

Overlord: 1) Gearbox and engine are considered to be one single module in-game. Consequently the chance of fire is the same for both.
2) These are draft changes.

Overlord: These are draft notes. Wait for the official announcement.

Overlord: And once again for those who don't understand, these are draft patch notes. There will be more changes, moreover there will be rollbacks.

Overlord: Going to be tier 8.

Overlord: This engine is more historically correct, as opposite to V-55-U. Top turret is now heavier to make up for extra hp.

Overlord: KV-5 is likely to remain at tier 8. It has got 1200 hp engine.

Overlord: RoF decrease for VK4502 will be rolled back.

Tanitha: no..
It did for one clan back in the old russian beta days 6 months ago (before Eu beta). IE the first clan.
That was removed a long time ago..

transfero: Please watch the news on the game website.

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LiannaSilverwind: We'd like to thank every constructive participant of this thread. Your comments, ideas and proposals were read, heard and taken to the heart. You will notice some of ideas already being implemented in patch 0.6.4. More will come over time. Unfortunately we cannot make everything at once, nor can we implement every idea due to the game limitations/balance issues. Your cooperation and participation have helped the game evolve.
You have probably noticed that patch 0.6.4. is on Russian test server now. And you helped it being made!
We'd like to invite all of you who have time and wishing to help game development to join our EU & US Supertest servers that will be open soon. Supertesters help the game evolve, test balance of vehicles and maps, and are community's first line to communicate with developers. If you want to see what's being prepared, find bugs, test and comment new content, Supertest is the right way to go!
This thread will be closed now. Thank you for your time and help!

LiannaSilverwind: Достаточно CBT аккаунт с общей суммой 1000 боев.
Спасибо за поздравление!

Overlord: The will be a separate announcement on that. Most likely the maintenance will be held at night (EU time).

Overlord: Along with v.0.6.4 patch.

Overlord: 1. Not planned.
2. There should be many of them around. Some more will appear after Grand Finals in Moscow, I believe.

Overlord: Did we? Don't remember when, sorry.

Overlord: British tree of course.

Overlord: Monday-Tuesday night of course.

Overlord: 1. Most likely, there will be such change.
2. If 1. is correct, then yes, in 0.6.4.
3. Quite possible.

Overlord: There were no changes apart from those listed in the patch notes.

Overlord: This equipment is likely to be used for testing purposes mostly.
Visibility system is the same for all 3 servers.
Current maxiumum capacity of EU server is about 80-90k players online at once.

Overlord: 1. Draft patch-notes are available here. The rest is still in Russian.
2.

Overlord: The list of changes is far from being complete. v.0.6.4 patch will be the same for all 3 servers.