Time to finally shine some light on one of the oldest and probably the last know mystery/easteregg ever – Tiger I “tiger skin” skin The attached screenshot of this style is literally THE ONLY one that has ever existed, as far as I know. Because of that, not only hardly anyone knows about its existence at all, but pretty much nobody knows what was it meant for.
it’s not a skin, but an alternative texture in game files
it was removed from the game after 0.4.5 (August 2010, during Open Beta)
it was in the game over a year before the introduction of any customization (camouflage and emblems), not even talking about 2D styles in like 2017-2018
And after 14 years, time to finally publish some more screenshots of it
As it can be seen, this style had the tank decorated with colorful lights all over, as well as trackwheels bolts being gold
However, after getting my hands on some very old game versions (major credit to Panzer4Terror), in the oldest one, version 0.4.5 (August 2010, 1st patch of Open Beta) I found the files for this style
The only time anyone ever mentioned this style and gave any sort of context to it was a polish news site in 2014, in an easteregg post – as on attached image
