List of changes in version 0.8.5 compared to version 0.8.4
Дата: 17.04.2013 19:50:31
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Added new branch of German Medium and Light Tanks:
• VK 20.01 (D) (MT Tier IV)
• VK 30.02 (D) v1 (MT Tier VI)
• Aufklarerpanzer Panther (LT Tier VII)
• Indien Panzer (MT Tier VIII)
• Prototype der Arbeitsgruppe A (MT Tier IX)
• Leopard 1 (MT Tier X)
Added new branch of USSR Light Tanks:
• Т-60 (LT Tier II)
• Т-70 (LT Tier III)
• Т-80 (LT Tier IV)
For testing purposes only, added the following tanks:
• Premium British Tier V Heavy Tank ‘A33 Excelsior’
• Special USSR Tier X Medium Tank ‘Object 907’
• Special USA Tier X Medium Tank ‘М60’
• Special German Heavy Tank Tier 10 ‘VK7201’
- Added new map ‘Pearl river’
- Changes and improvements for after-battle stats screen
- Added notifications for automatic conversions after version releases (change of shells, modules, vehicles, etc.)
- Added new inscriptions for 5 nations (USSR, Germany, USA, France, Britain)
- Updated the description of the ‘Situational Awareness’ skill
- Added a display of team status as a list of vehicle types icons on the top of the screen
Gameplay and Game Mechanics
- Added gameplay and visual fixes for: ‘Redshire’, ‘El-Halluf’, ‘Karelia’, ‘Prohorovka’, ‘Sand River’
- Added improvements for "assault" mode for: ‘Malinovka’, ‘Karelia’, ‘Sand River’
- Changed mechanics of ‘Expert’ and ‘Expert per nation’ achievements work:
• Those, who received the medal earlier (and now medal is grey) - will get back the respective medal as active
• Neither ‘Expert’ nor ‘Expert per nation’ achievements will ‘fade’ after new vehicle introduction in new updates
• The rest will get the grey medal (‘Expert’ and ‘Expert by nation’) that on mouse-over will show, which tanks should be destroyed to obtain the medal
- Premium consumables (med kits, repair kits, etc.) are now available for credits (according to gold/credits exchange rate – similarly as premium shells)
- Creation of platoons for 3 players is now available for basic accounts
- Creation of tank companies is now available for basic accounts
- Added new Match Maker rule for balancing Light Tanks - all vehicles marked as ‘Scout’ will be balanced according to the SPG currently existing rule: balance weight of ‘Scouts’ in both teams won’t differ on more than +/-20 balance weight points
Following vehicles were marked as ‘Scouts’:USSR
T-50
T-50-2
Germany
Pz38nA
Luchs
VK 16.02
VK 28.01
Auf_Panther
USA
M24 Chaffee
T21
T71
France
ELC AMX
AMX 12t
AMX 13 75
AMX 13 90
China
M5A1 Stuart
59 16
WZ 131
WZ 132 - Reworked (reduced) credit cost for temporary camouflages, emblems and inscriptions
- Reduced terrain resistance when driving a tank on some destroyed objects
Graphics
- Improved visual models:IS-3, Valentine AT, Pz V Panther, Pz IV/V, Object 263, VK 3001H, Conqueror, IS-4М, Matilda Black Prince, IS-7, ARL-44, Black Prince
- Reworked graphics for following maps: ‘Siegfried Line ‘, ‘South Coast’, ‘Malinovka’
- Inscriptions resolution increased twice (for vehicles and places, where such change was possible)
- Optimized productivity for vehicle’s motion effects (dust and dirt from under the tracks)
- Reworked multiple objects destruction effects
Fixes
- Added fixes for collision models of tanks: PanzerJager I, JagdPz E-100
- Fixed minor errors in the names of vehicles and modules
- Fixed stuck of large sized vehicles under hanging elements of map objects (bridges and so on)
- Fixed rare bug when shell with ‘small damage to modules’ parameter disappears after it hits enemy gun of higher strength
- Fixed bug when HE shells not causes full HE damage to external module after penetration
- Fixed behavior of HE shell after hitting crew of destroyed tank with open-topped compartment
- Fixed bug of displaying shells explodes in the air
- Fixed missing of indication of damage to the fuel tank at its destruction in some rare cases
- Destroyed vehicles are no longer absorbing damage caused by HE shells. They are always exploding on the surface of these vehicles
- Fixed not causing damage to small and light-weighted vehicle if it is located at the top of big and heavy vehicle
- Partly fixed disappearing of emblems and inscriptions on vehicles after alt-TAB or adjusting AA settings
- Fixed work of memory leak warning message
- Fixed errors when creating a private chat channel: not displaying channel creator, freezes of chat window when attempting to close it
- Fixed presence of action/premium vehicles’ modules in game shop
- Fixed description of following achievements: ‘Raider‘, ‘Reaper’, ‘Dumitru’s Medal’, ‘de Langlade's Medal’, ‘Lion of Sinai’
- Fixed description of consumables ‘100-octane Gasoline’ and ‘105-octane Gasoline’
- Fixed minor bugs in the battle tutorial
- Fixed effect loss of camouflage net and binocular telescope when attempting to move vehicle with damaged track
- Fixed not working “Sixth sense” indicator after rapid re-spotting
- Fixed the display of lag indicator with green color when server operational load is close to 100%
- Fixed the display of the tank collision effect when tanks are in the common point but at different altitude
- Fixed some models of ambient objects
Added new branch of German Medium and Light Tanks:
• VK 20.01 (D) (MT Tier IV)
• VK 30.02 (D) v1 (MT Tier VI)
• Aufklarerpanzer Panther (LT Tier VII)
• Indien Panzer (MT Tier VIII)
• Prototype der Arbeitsgruppe A (MT Tier IX)
• Leopard 1 (MT Tier X)
Added new branch of USSR Light Tanks:
• Т-60 (LT Tier II)
• Т-70 (LT Tier III)
• Т-80 (LT Tier IV)
For testing purposes only, added the following tanks:
• Premium British Tier V Heavy Tank ‘A33 Excelsior’
• Special USSR Tier X Medium Tank ‘Object 907’
• Special USA Tier X Medium Tank ‘М60’
• Special German Heavy Tank Tier 10 ‘VK7201’
- Added new map ‘Pearl river’
- Changes and improvements for after-battle stats screen
- Added notifications for automatic conversions after version releases (change of shells, modules, vehicles, etc.)
- Added new inscriptions for 5 nations (USSR, Germany, USA, France, Britain)
- Updated the description of the ‘Situational Awareness’ skill
- Added a display of team status as a list of vehicle types icons on the top of the screen
Gameplay and Game Mechanics
- Added gameplay and visual fixes for: ‘Redshire’, ‘El-Halluf’, ‘Karelia’, ‘Prohorovka’, ‘Sand River’
- Added improvements for "assault" mode for: ‘Malinovka’, ‘Karelia’, ‘Sand River’
- Changed mechanics of ‘Expert’ and ‘Expert per nation’ achievements work:
• Those, who received the medal earlier (and now medal is grey) - will get back the respective medal as active
• Neither ‘Expert’ nor ‘Expert per nation’ achievements will ‘fade’ after new vehicle introduction in new updates
• The rest will get the grey medal (‘Expert’ and ‘Expert by nation’) that on mouse-over will show, which tanks should be destroyed to obtain the medal
- Premium consumables (med kits, repair kits, etc.) are now available for credits (according to gold/credits exchange rate – similarly as premium shells)
- Creation of platoons for 3 players is now available for basic accounts
- Creation of tank companies is now available for basic accounts
- Added new Match Maker rule for balancing Light Tanks - all vehicles marked as ‘Scout’ will be balanced according to the SPG currently existing rule: balance weight of ‘Scouts’ in both teams won’t differ on more than +/-20 balance weight points
Following vehicles were marked as ‘Scouts’:USSR
T-50
T-50-2
Germany
Pz38nA
Luchs
VK 16.02
VK 28.01
Auf_Panther
USA
M24 Chaffee
T21
T71
France
ELC AMX
AMX 12t
AMX 13 75
AMX 13 90
China
M5A1 Stuart
59 16
WZ 131
WZ 132 - Reworked (reduced) credit cost for temporary camouflages, emblems and inscriptions
- Reduced terrain resistance when driving a tank on some destroyed objects
Graphics
- Improved visual models:IS-3, Valentine AT, Pz V Panther, Pz IV/V, Object 263, VK 3001H, Conqueror, IS-4М, Matilda Black Prince, IS-7, ARL-44, Black Prince
- Reworked graphics for following maps: ‘Siegfried Line ‘, ‘South Coast’, ‘Malinovka’
- Inscriptions resolution increased twice (for vehicles and places, where such change was possible)
- Optimized productivity for vehicle’s motion effects (dust and dirt from under the tracks)
- Reworked multiple objects destruction effects
Fixes
- Added fixes for collision models of tanks: PanzerJager I, JagdPz E-100
- Fixed minor errors in the names of vehicles and modules
- Fixed stuck of large sized vehicles under hanging elements of map objects (bridges and so on)
- Fixed rare bug when shell with ‘small damage to modules’ parameter disappears after it hits enemy gun of higher strength
- Fixed bug when HE shells not causes full HE damage to external module after penetration
- Fixed behavior of HE shell after hitting crew of destroyed tank with open-topped compartment
- Fixed bug of displaying shells explodes in the air
- Fixed missing of indication of damage to the fuel tank at its destruction in some rare cases
- Destroyed vehicles are no longer absorbing damage caused by HE shells. They are always exploding on the surface of these vehicles
- Fixed not causing damage to small and light-weighted vehicle if it is located at the top of big and heavy vehicle
- Partly fixed disappearing of emblems and inscriptions on vehicles after alt-TAB or adjusting AA settings
- Fixed work of memory leak warning message
- Fixed errors when creating a private chat channel: not displaying channel creator, freezes of chat window when attempting to close it
- Fixed presence of action/premium vehicles’ modules in game shop
- Fixed description of following achievements: ‘Raider‘, ‘Reaper’, ‘Dumitru’s Medal’, ‘de Langlade's Medal’, ‘Lion of Sinai’
- Fixed description of consumables ‘100-octane Gasoline’ and ‘105-octane Gasoline’
- Fixed minor bugs in the battle tutorial
- Fixed effect loss of camouflage net and binocular telescope when attempting to move vehicle with damaged track
- Fixed not working “Sixth sense” indicator after rapid re-spotting
- Fixed the display of lag indicator with green color when server operational load is close to 100%
- Fixed the display of the tank collision effect when tanks are in the common point but at different altitude
- Fixed some models of ambient objects
List of changes in version 0.8.5 compared to version 0.8.4