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 A few randoms from World of Tanks...

Patch 1.12 is live

The 1.12 update is live now on NA and there are a couple of notable things:

From add-on to built-in

There are several game elements that were formerly available only as mods but now they're just built into the game. These include:

• The indicator that a player is, or has been, spotted during the battle. You'll see it on the tank roster, next to the icon. Very handy tool during the battle. Wondering what enemies might be hiding in front of you? See who hasn't been spotted yet for a clue.
• Total HP - at the top of the battle screen you'll see colored bars to indicate the total, remaining, HP pool of each team.
• If you die in a battle, go back to the garage, get in a different tank, and enter another battle before the first one ends...if that first battle ends while you're in the second battle, you'll get a little pop-up on the left side when the first battle ends, notifying you of the results. Win/lose, and how much XP/credits you earned (or lost).

I uesd to get all of those from Aslain's, now I don't have to!

Vehicle buffs

The T-34-3, STA-2, SuperPershing, and STG/Guard all got buffed a bit. I have all four of those and look forward to trying them out with the new characteristics.

Still snowballing, of course

If you were hoping 1.12 would help make the battles more even I'm afraid you're in for a disappointment. My first three games on 1.12 were 3-15, 15-2, 5-15. Had a couple of closer ones later, but the game balance is, unsurprisingly, unaffected as far as I can tell.

Send UDES!

The UDES 15/16 goes On Track in NA on March 5th, so I'm grinding the Tier IX UDES 16 right now. I'll have a Tech Tree Showcase in the next week or two for the whole line.

The UDES 16 is pretty good, has the fancy hydropneumatic suspension that gives you super gun depression when you're stopped or moving very slowly. The gun is good, accuracy is ok. Mobility is pretty good. 

The armor stats aren't impressive but...because it's VERY sloped if you can get just a bit hull-down, use your gun depression just a bit, you can bounce a surprising number of shots.

I like the UDES 16 quite a bit, but I'm still getting used to it and the teams I've had to work with haven't been very good so far. I've only played about three dozen battles but my win rate in the UDES is something like 38%...much worse than my usual 52%ish.

Return of General Ping

In a recent episode of "Don't Be That Guy" I introduced you to "General Ping", so named because he spent the whole battle pinging the map and barking orders to his random team.

This morning I had a battle with his brother, I guess. Lakeville, south spawn, he's in his IS-6 and during the countdown he orders everybody to go valley. We all ignore him, or decline, of course, and he starts into a toxic rant about how we're all losers (he's a 47% player with ~5K total battles, of course) and then starts spewing profanities. 

At one point he announces he's done, parks his IS-6 behind a rock and just sits there for probably 45 seconds or so. Eventually he got back into the game, and did do a few shots of damage. We lost the battle anyhow...and I'm sure the fact that the team spent half the battle arguing with Ping in chat didn't help.

Don't be that guy.

Coming Soon: Tank Review of the VK 75.01K

VK 75.01K is supposed to be in the premium store in a few days so I'll be posting a tank review of it. 

Got a tank you want me to do a review of? Let me know in the comments below, or on Twitter (@wot_guy).

GLHF!