Author: Sebastianul

Update 1.16: Join the Common Test! (+Patchnotes)

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The first Common Test of Update 1.16 has started, Commanders!

Join it to be among the first to try out the third (and final!) Season of Ranked Battles 2021–2022. You can also test various balance improvements on the Siegfried Line, Ghost Town, and Erlenberg maps, as well as the addition of the Assault mode to several Random Battles locales. Let’s take a closer look.

Map Balance Improvements

We improved three Random Battle maps to address several minor issues we’ve noticed with them. Check it out.

Siegfried Line

  • A position with a bunker for the lower team has been added, allowing you to control the field and the passage in the town as you would from the position of the upper team.

  • We’ve also improved the entrance to the town for the lower team, as well as for the attackers in Assault Battles.

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WoWS PT 0.11.1, Balance changes

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The changes will be applied to superships, German battleships, and other ships. We also will unify the speed-up characteristics of ships.

German superbattleship Hannover

  • Required number of successful salvos to activate Combat Instructions decreased from 16 to 12;
  • The timer to start resetting the progress of Combat Instructions if the ship is not firing changed from 45 to 50 s.

Japanese superbattleship Satsuma

  • Main Battery Reload Time increased from 30 to 33 s.

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Update 1.16: First Public Test

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You can update the 1.16 test server.

Size (SD): 1.19 GB
Installation size on computer (SD): 1.81 GB
Size (HD): 1.52 GB
Installation size on computer (HD): 2.42 GB

Installation via the Wargaming Game Center:

All games;
Install the game by ID;
ID: WOT.CT.PRODUCTION@https: //wgus-wotct.wargaming.net;
Install.

Prizee: The French Flash portal so big it had its own themed restaurant and then sank hard

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PS: Since today there are no news, I have decided to share an article about a lesser known F2P Flash games platform from the times before WoT, a place that I still miss to this day (including its spin-offs like Blobzone). You can find certain similarities with WG, such as „friendly” gambling. All in all an interesting read, I hope. You can also read our 5 year old article about Club Penguin’s death.

Source (Author:ToulouTouMou)

We cannot deny the link between the boom of free-to-play games and the democratization of Internet access. Since they were free content on the Internet, people tried to find ways to monetize them, and naturally this extended to videogames. Many companies attempted to make profits out of free games (see my article about Studio Tanuki), and often ended up going out of business without making any impact on the cultural landscape whatsoever.

But, in the pioneering years of the Internet, there were one website that managed to stay online for almost two decades, still is remembered to this day, and changed the Internet as a whole: Prizee

If you were a French-speaking teenager during the first half of the 2000s, you have certainly already heard of Prizee. It was the biggest free gaming website of its era, gathering an immense community of players around addictive Flash games, kid-friendly mascots and intricate monetization systems. Years before the debates about microtransactions and loot boxes, this website made literally millions of euros out of free-to-play games promising physical rewards to players.

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WoWS Closed test 0.11.0, changes to test ships.

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We adjusted the parameters of ships based on testing results. The changes will be applied to Sevastopol, Dido, Delny, Canarias, and Italian destroyers.

X Sevastopol:

  • Reduced dispersion of main battery guns. Now it is similar to that of Siegfried;
  • Amount of citadel damage restored by the Repair Party consumable increased from 33% to 50%.

VI Dido:

  • Base detectability range by sea increased from 9.54 to 10.54 km. Other detectability ranges increased accordingly, except detectability range by air, which is equal to the ship’s AA firing range.

X Delny:

  • Chance of HE shells causing a fire on target reduced from 10% to 8%.

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The Curious Ideas of Yoh – Part 2

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Source: EU Portal

Welcome back to our second and final part of this miniseries about the history behind the new American heavy tanks. Make sure to check out Part 1 for our first look at the curious designs and proposals by the H.L. Yoh company that inspired the new Tech Tree branch.

Part 2 will take us further along the sometimes bizarre ideas they proposed to the U.S. Army in the 1950s. Let’s explore the grand plans and wonders of Yoh, including the original concepts of reserve tracks, one of the few feasible ideas now in the game!

The Automatic Gun

A concept for a revolving magazine that housed various rounds of 105 mm ammunition. The commander or loader would rotate the magazine until the desired shell type was in line with the gun. A plunger housing the firing mechanism then moved the shell into the gun chamber and locked in place to provide obturation. As the projectile moved forward when fired, it passed a port permitting gas pressure to unlock a breech plunger. Some of the remaining gas pressure forced the empty casing back into the magazine with the breech plunger behind it. The gun would then be ready to receive the next round.

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