Author: Sebastianul

WoWS – Update 0.9.2.1 April Fools’ Day

~ Sebastianul

Source: EU Portal

Captains! Due to the installation of the Update, the server will be unavailable:

From: Tue. 31 Mar. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2) / your local time: Tue. 31 Mar. 08:00
Until: Tue. 31 Mar. 09:00 CEST (UTC+2) / your local time: Tue. 31 Mar. 10:00

Update size: 231 MB

April Fools’ Battles

Start: Tue. 31 Mar. 09:00 CEST (UTC+2) / your local time: Tue. 31 Mar. 10:00
Finish: Thu. 02 Apr. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2) / your local time: Thu. 02 Apr. 08:00

Captains! Wanna try something new? Welcome to a new round of Tier X Random Battles that offer chances to be matched in a battle that will unfold under unconventional (special) rules!

We won’t unveil all the surprises that await you at this point. Set sail in Random Battles—see it all with your own eyes!

Clan Brawl: April Fools’ Day

Dates: 01.04.2020 — 02.04.2020

Prime Times:

  • CIS 15:00 — 20:00 UTC
  • EU 17:00 — 22:00 UTC
  • ASIA 11:00 — 16:00 UTC
  • NA 0:00 — 05:00 UTC (the following day)

You can take part in this Clan Brawl only during the prime time of your server.

Format: Tier X ships in a 5 vs. 5 format

Restrictions: one aircraft carrier, one battleship, two cruisers, and one destroyer per team

Rewards: &$, $4%?9 48-“. ((!:@%1> @> @@85=:!+5=”+$5

Maps:

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Features of this Clan Brawl

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Other Changes and Improvements

  • Fixed an issue which caused Visby’s single-barrel guns to reload faster than her twin guns. The reload time of all her guns is now 7.5 seconds.
  • Fixed an issue which caused memory leaks when accessing the built-in browser in the game client.

But wait! That’s not all yet! Tomorrow, we’ll share the details of yet another surprise that’s coming your way!

WoT EU – April Specials

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Source: EU Portal

  • Extra Crew Experience!

4–7 April: Let’s start April off by getting your crew in the right shape for all the specials yet to come.

x2 Crew Experience

  • Top of the Tree

5–20 April: The Polish heavy tank line, up to the 60TP Lewandowskiego, is going to be the focus of this month. This Tech Tree branch is packed with DPM machines that will take out the red team in no time.

  • Happy Tuesday!

07–08 April, 14–15 April, 21–22 April & 28–29 April: Thank God it’s… Tuesday? That’s right! Starting this month, we declare Tuesdays to be happy days and are making them extra special with a big chunk of XP.

A big smile and a bigger pile of XP

  • EU Birthday Special

11–14 April: Happy Birthday to us! The EU server celebrates another year around the sun, and you get the gifts. Five times XP for the first win and plenty of discounts will make it quite the party.

x5 XP for the first win

  • Xtra Progress

18–21 April: Keep climbing the Tech Trees with missions for every tier from II to X.

  • XP Fever

25–28 April: Let’s finish the month the usual way, with a classic XP frenzy. Take your Premium to battle and pile up that XP.

XP for you and you and you

WoT Anniversary Event

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https://anniversary.worldoftanks.eu/en/

https://anniversary.worldoftanks.com/en/

https://anniversary.worldoftanks.asia/en/

We are celebrating the anniversary of the EU Server! Come and join us!

When: 3 April at 08:00 CEST until 15 April at 08:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Where: EU1 and EU2

What: Special Daily Missions

Dress code (optional): A unique crew skin!

Sign up for the party from 30 March at 08:00 CEST to 15 April at 08:00 CEST (UTC+2) via the links above.

Event End Rewards

Small Cake
(1-4 Daily Missions Achieved)

  • 1 Day of World of Tanks Premium Account Time

Medium Cake
(5-9 Daily Missions Achieved)

  • 2 Days of World of Tanks Premium Account Time
  • 10 x5 XP Victory Bonus (for any vehicles)

Large Cake
(Above 10 Daily Missions Achieved)

  • 3 Days of World of Tanks Premium Account Time
  • 250,000 XP Universal Crew Book

Golden Donut premium shop offer: https://eu.wargaming.net/shop/wot/specials/18277/

Source: EU Portal

Supertest: Strv K Changes

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Reload time: 10,6 10,55 s
Accuracy at 100 m: 0,34 0,32
Aiming time: 1,73 1,92 s
Turret turning speed: 41,72 37,55°/s
Max speed / Min speed: +40 +55 /-18 -15 km/h
Engine power: 670 665 hp
Power-to-weight: 16,37 16,25
Hull turning speed: 46,94 31,29°/s
HP: 1.850 1.750
View range: 400 410 m
Rate of fire: 5,9 5,69 rounds/minute
Damage per minute: 2.302 2.219

Wargaming.net files lawsuit against group of former employees

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UPDATE: Wargaming won the lawsuit. Blitz Team will have to cease using WG intellectual propriety.

Wargaming.net has filed a lawsuit against Blitz Team, a Belarus mobile company founded by a former management at the World of Tanks developer.

Submitted to the US District Court in Los Angeles, California, the lawsuit seeks cancellation of Blitz Team’s trademark applications.

“Wargaming contends that defendants’ selection of the name Blitz was made deliberately, in bad faith, and for the sole purpose of taking unfair advantage of the reputation and goodwill of Wargaming’s well-known Blitz trademarks,” said the company in a statement.

Blitz Team was founded in April 2018 by a former Wargaming management team. Before that, they led the World of Tanks Blitz product group and were known internally as the “Blitz Team.”

According to Wargaming, the former management team received over $10 million in additional payments, which included a share of WOTB’s net revenue. The terms of their agreement stated that they were not to compete with Wargaming or solicit Wargaming employees for an set period of time after leaving the company,

The former management team left Wargaming in April 2018 after a year-long period of failed contract negotiations and founded Blitz Team, allegedly taking 30 employees with them.

“After the departures, Wargaming learned that the former management team had made plans to leave Wargaming and form a new video game company, before negotiations were completed, by no later than February 2018,” said the company’s legal counsel.

“Wargaming has also uncovered evidence that members of the Former Management Team began soliciting Wargaming’s employees to join the new video game company that became Blitz Team LLC while they were still employed by Wargaming.”

This is not the first time Wargaming has initiated legal proceedings against Blitz Team in December 2019. According to a blog post from Blitz Team, the World of Tanks developer attempted to sue its former employees for around $1,690,000, alleging they had unlawfully uploaded proprietary software — DAVA Framework — to open source software platform GitHub.

Source

Mistakes were made

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Ever wonder why those annoying 500 internal server errors happen? It’s because I did a major mistake at the beginning of the year without realizing. I picked the wrong hosting provider. Do not use Bluehost no matter what. I’ll fix the situation by changing to a way better host as soon as enough ad revenue arrives. That might be, at best, a few months. Please bear with it. I am very annoyed too because of this. Sorry for that.