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Overlord: Portuguese BR, Serbian, Latvian, and Hungarian versions are coming.

LiannaSilverwind: You can try a test:
1) Move WoT into different folder. Run it. If it does work, go to 2)
2) Save WoT to USB disk. Uninstall it. Copy it back to different folder. If it does work, go to 3)
3) Format your disk. Follow my instructions. Pray.

Overlord: Additional languages have been added.

Overlord: All current language packages will be updated, including German. Read the news carefully please.

Overlord: Possibly. Players from Sweden & Finland outnumber players from Denmark & Norway three to one.

Overlord: None of the above is currently in development, but very likely that they will be added as well. At least some of them.

Overlord: This time it's going to be EU-Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese will be added a bit later.

Overlord: French, Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish language packages for v.0.6.2.8 game client will be added tomorrow, January 6.
UPD Additional language packages have been added.
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Tanitha: No, imo the costs are fine.
I make more "profit" with the T54 than i used to with the T44 , i think..
But the ammo is
250
250
1250
So i use the middle stuff.
If they ever balanced the ammo out a bit more. things might be different, 1250 a shot would eat the profit margin up in a lot of games.
Especially with 20 shots fired, that's 20k difference.

LiannaSilverwind: Zero, not a single one is available, even for testing purposes, sadly enough.
We had two before the wipe and their drivers loved them (both state that properly driven VK4502 is better than IS-4), but after the wipe they chose different paths - one went to German SPGs, second went to Soviet mediums AFAIK.

Tanitha: Yep you are spot on, and i did state also that the fixing of the warping was 1/2 the problem for the lower tanks especially lights, the problem has been recognized, and they have stated they need to do something for the lights, like something in the way of buffs.
And i agree, one of my most played tanks, (even though i have top T10 heavies and T9 mediums) still is a T4 light leo. 727 games.
Fun? yeah... big earner? yeah.. survivability? i was / am on a 5% survivability on my leo : ) survived 42 out of 727 ..
Its not that i was bad playing it, I wrote guides on how to play it. that were well received.
(one complaint from the op was a survivability of 13%.)
As for the exp, comparison (on todays servers with no warping) i was going to buy one, and play a few games, but they were about 180k, and then i decided, well i cant really afford 180k just to play a couple of games for testing and then dump again : )
I have a T2 light, I get 600k+ a game today with that, + double for one game a day. Its not much of a comparison though its a premium tank.
Ahh dammit I'll pay the 180k for the PZIII
Heres some stats from a couple of games, not many games, im busy, but it shows clearly it can earn more than 150 a game with no problems.

GAME 1





No scouting done, .. just killing the few tanks that were around my level.
1434 EXP, with premium and the double bonus for the first game of the game.

9k credits earned profit after repairs and ammo. Todays date stamp.

2nd game


No kills this time, but earned more exp this game, 870. from the assists and spotting.
I shot a lot, lol 42 shells fired.

Another 9k profit, and todays date stamp.


So my stats.
2 games played, 100% win rate, 50% survive rate, 3 kills from the 2 games.
Average exp 794... (doesn't include the double gained in the double exp game)
6 master gunner medals earned from the 2 games.
As I said, 150 exp earned per game, is way too low.
The tank isnt bad.
The tank isnt bad today, even with warping fixed.
Yes in the one game I died, i was pretty much one shotted by a trolling KV with a boomstick. but who cares. Onto the next game..
Serves me right for trying to 1v1 him with a PZIII..
i would have a earned a lot more with a decent crew, 15 hits from 42 shots was mostly? from a bad 50% newbie gunner.
After all it is a low tier tank, and the player playing it has only played for 3 days. what does he want in 3 days? a IS7?
These things are earned. Or everyone would have one.
Sure, if i kept playing there is a rare chance id have a bad game I have a bad game every 1000 games. /jokes.
But i'm not playing 100 games to spit out some more accurate stats for you.
The tank can earn as shown above, so practice! If you want to be a ace tanker in a is7 in 3 days, it ain't going to happen..
As you can also see from the photos above, the tank I used isn't a top "decked out" tank, the crew is the starting basic 50% crew. That missed a lot which I was shooting.
There is no equipment on the tank except a never used repair kit. The tank had some standard upgrades like engine etc..
Nothing unusual.....
Please stop blaming the tank, and the game, and every other excuse under the sun. ~800 exp average games on a low level PZIII is more than enough.
Even if it was 400 exp, which mine probably ould be if i kept playing and had some bad games and losses etc.. Thats still decent for a tank of that level.
Its only 13.5k exp to get to the next tank. Its not that hard or that long if you have the credits. Premium helps too of course.

Overlord: Initially it was 35%, then we switched to 30%, now it's 25%. The trend is obvious.

Overlord: Seems like all inclusive.
One more example:
Take "beloved" IS-4 and 10.5 cm L/68 gun for KT. (distance - 100m, AP shells, shooting from the front)
1) front hull armor of IS-4: 160mm@60deg
2) 10.5 cm L/68 gun - 225mm penetration, with 25% random it makes - from 169,75mm to 281.25mm
3) take account of normalization effect of the shell, for 10.5 cm L/68 it is 10deg, so the armor slope of IS-4 with normlization is 60-10=50deg
4) IS-4 effective armor: 160 * (1/cos(50)) = 249mm. approx 5/6 of shots won't penetrate (normal distribution)

Overlord: Before penetration the shell sort of "screws" into the armor towards normal line, decreasing actual slope.
This affect varies according to shell type, basically it's about -10deg.

LiannaSilverwind: If there is anything, it definitely did not say anything about being missed.
But we definitely need to have DirectX, MS Visual C Redistributables and actual .NET Framework installed. Game may not start without them at all or closeup with Critical Error message.

Overlord: 25% spread.

Overlord: Hm, likely that for the purposes of this particular achievement each HP decrease means penetration. Will check it, thanks.

vuque: Let me ask you sth when i catch you around...
Could you tell sth about that post?

vuque:

Overlord: Assuming that the angles are both correct (70deg lateral slope, 20deg vertical slope) and all shots hit the side of the turret armor (80mm), your calculation seems to be ok.
80mm at approx 18.7° or 71.3° slope give about 250mm armor.
Game engine accounts for shell normalization effect as well, for 90mm Gun M3 it's about 10°. It decreases actual slope to 28.7° or 61.3°.
Consequently overall effective armor: 80mm*cos(61.3°)=169mm.
90mm Gun M3 penetration spread: 120-200mm.

Overlord:

Overlord: Cruel of you to shoot holiday trees. It was a shell, not vehicle's run over.

Tanitha: Give me a break and stop twisting what I wrote. I said 1/2 of it was a learn to play problem. And do you really expect much else from a player who's only played 3 days or less?
Its pretty clear from his stats "156 average exp" that hes not playing as well as other players are.
So then, i spend ages doing up a huge post offing a ton of suggestions to help him get his game up to the same level as the other players.
After all the problem seems to be, hes not enjoying the game because hes not doing well, increasing his level up to everyone else, will probably help him have more fun.
280 seems to be about a average exp per game for a T28.
And the PZIII

Tanitha: So again 150 average over all per game. just isn't in the same ballpark.

Overlord: That's the question of game engine performance mostly. Yes, we are considering increase to 30 vehicles per side.

LiannaSilverwind: I nearly posted it already, but then I realized that every girl should retain her secrets. We experiment with setups a lot in company battles as well, so you can meet us there and see some.
My favourite is just one of them. I will just say that I try to utilize 4 classes of 5 present with at least 8 different tanks total.

Overlord: Great job. But we do believe that we can designate full Italian tech tree up to tier 10. The work in progress.

Overlord: You don't have to ask for my permission.

Tanitha: As above, did you / your team, win?

Tanitha: Yeah i understand, and thanks for your understanding, and for not shooting the messenger

Tanitha: Yes, that's right.
Can I take it from the lol that you are at least smiling about the bad luck and timing?
The oversight could also cause other issues as well, like someone who hasn't logged in for 4 days...
Instead of getting 500+500+500+150 for the days, they (more than likely) would get 4x the current daily rate of 150 = 600..
I don't think much planning went into the xmas gifts (free gold), It was probably just a spur of the moment, lets give them some gold, and a Xmas tree and some snow. Giving them a present of 7k+ gold over 14 days, what can go wrong?
Sorry, its the same oversight, error that was there at the start... But in reverse this time, on the way out...

Tanitha: I *think* it was/is something like this..
Day ticks over, people who are online, get the rate of 500 gold.
People who log in on the new day, get 500 gold.
6 hours later? (I dont know the times exactly sorry.) the server goes down for maintenance, at the scheduled time, and the gold "rate" is adjusted to 150 gold like scheduled.
So people that log in now after maintenance, who haven't already collected their daily gold, get their daily gold, at a daily rate of 150.. which it was set to on the server maintenance.
Its pretty much the same oversight/system that they had at the start and still have.
If you wanted the 500 gold, you could have logged in to get the gold at the day tick-over, or before it was reduced in the maintenance.
But hindsight, is easy..
It was originally scheduled for 14 days, 7k gold, I think it ended up being 16 days.. The extra two days were probably because of the oversight in their system/planning.

Tanitha: Ahh, no i didnt mean you to read it that way, i said, or wanted to mean, "no wipes for them" as in no wipes for them in the future, they have released, they cant wipe them.....
I didn't say they never had a wipe in beta, i have no idea what they did while they were in beta...

Overlord: Unfortunately the above is unlikely to be implemented. The game client is overloaded with graphic effects at the moment. Need to improve overall optimization first.

Tanitha: You don't have to wait for a softwipe to get the tanks you had or similar tanks back. You could just play the game...
As for the 50% for sales, thats the base sales system, but there will also be trade installed into the game sooner or later, so you can sell your tanks privately for more than 1/2.
1/2 way between 50% and 100% is 75%,, so id guess you would get more like 75% for a tank privately.
There is also meant to be auctions coming. So you can sell your tanks that way too.
Id guess the above could also include selling tanks, with 100% crews too.
Just wait for the game to be finished please. Its nowhere near complete yet. Lots more to come...

Overlord: Most probably sound messages are messed up. They obviously need to be reworked.

Tanitha: Scout
Detect more enemy tanks and self-propelled guns than anyone else on your team (at least 9). If two or more players have detected an equal number of enemy units, the achievement is granted to the player who has earned more experience.
+ from the patch notes, the player must be on the winning side, at the moment (current rules)..
If you have a game where you have 9 or more and won, and didn't get a medal, and someone on the other team didnt get a medal either.
Grab a screenshot, and I'll look into it. Without the screenshots is hard to look at anything.

Overlord: This was announced at the very beginning. Everyone will start from scratch.

Overlord: This time servers first, money afterwards.
EU and NA servers will be able to hold up to 95k and 75k users online at once respectively.

Tanitha: I dont think thats much of a point though.
Ive made tanks elite completely, and never earned 1 exp on the tank, using free exp.
Its no different to spending 39k earned exp, and 6k free exp to spend 45k upgrading a tank
Or 39k earned exp + 6k bonus exp to spend 45k upgrading a tank.
Base exp's are recorded in the stats.

Overlord: Very soon. Should be this month under any circumstances.

Overlord: RU server has reached 70.000+ users at once recently.

Overlord: We are planning to introduce something similar to the above, especially unique secondary skills (perks) for each crewman.