Quest’oggi sono stati rilasciati i dettagli del nuovo update (8.2) di World of Tanks, titolo MMO sviluppato da Wargaming.net, il quale include nuovi carri armati e mappe aggiornate, compresi nuovi veicoli americani e Premium e quattro mappe aggiornate: per quanto riguarda i nuovi carri armati americani, la maggior parte di questi avrà un caricatore automatico che darà la possibilità di sparare una veloce salva di colpi prima di dover caricare.Il nuovo ramo aggiunto all’albero delle tecnologie USA inizierà al livello VI con il T21, seguito dal T71 al livello VII, che sono entrambi carri armati leggeri. Ai livelli VIII e XI sono stati aggiunti i carri armati medi T69 e T54E1 mentre al livello X si potrà trovare il T57 Heavy.I tank Premium, invece, saranno il TOG-II, al livello VI, un carro pesante, l’AT-15A, il primo British Tank Destroyer, il quale sarà disponibile al livello VII ed il carro armato pesante FCM 50(t) al livello VIII.Infine, le mappe Prokhorovka, Redshire, Erlenberg e Ruinberg avranno tutte degli effetti di terreno e sfondo decisamente migliorati con un rendering ottimizzato.Di seguito potrete trovare la lista completa degli aggiornamenti, Buona Visione!New Content:- New line of American tanks: light Т21, light Т71, medium Т69, medium Т54E1, heavy T57 (one can start researching this line from the medium М7 tank).- New premium tanks available for purchasing: British heavy tank TOG-2 (Tier VI), British TD АТ-15А (Tier VII), French heavy tank 1945 FCM 50t (Tier VIII).The following maps been reworked to take advantage of the new rendering system: Prokhorovka, Redshire, Erlenberg, Ruinberg- Added the “Patton Valley” achievement for the destruction of 100 M46 Pattons or M48A1 Patton IIIs. After the update’s release, all previously destroyed tanks (of this type) will be counted.- Added “Commemoratives” – achievements without a grade, which can be granted to a number of players, several times per battle:– ‘Lucky’ – Witness the destruction of an enemy vehicle by an enemy team player. You must be 10 meters or less from the enemy vehicle at the moment of its destruction.– ‘Cool-Headed’ – Survive at least 10 ricochets and non-penetrations in a row from enemy players.– ‘Spartan’ – Survive a ricochet or non-penetration from an enemy team player. Your vehicle must have less than 10% of its hit points left, and you have to survive in the battle.– ‘Ranger’ – Destroy all enemy light tanks (at least 3) in the course of one battle.- Included new sounds for when shells hit various landscape objects- Included new sounds for low-caliber guns.- Increased the radius at which guns can be heard.- Changed the characteristics of gun sounds at greater distances.- Noise of fans was removed from Premium Hangar.- Added Jordanian flag to emblems.- Reworked minimap for Dragon Ridge.Game Mechanic Changes:- Fallen trees are counted as masking cover (like bushes) for the visibility system (fallen trees were previously excluded from the calculation of visibility).- Reduced or completely removed tank vibration when travelling over ruins, rails, and small objects.- Decreased the time of tank stabilization on hillsides.- Patrol Duty achievement is counted in now counted in the Kay’s Medal achievement.- The Panther M10 added to the Hunter achievement.- Steel Wall medal is no longer granted after a death due to suicide.- Brothers-In-Arms perk now gives a bonus to Mentor perk.- You are no longer able to retrain crewmen to tanks which are researched but are not present in the Garage.Graphic and Technical Improvements:- Draw distance (settings/graphics/draw distance) increased for minimum graphics quality settings from 400 to 600 meters, and from 1000 to 1400 meters for maximum graphics quality.- Improved rendering performance of trees and vegetation – this should reduce loss of fps in sniper mode when one has a large amount of vegetation on the screen.- Low performance fixed for some configurations (mainly for Radeon VGAs) for the following maps: Steppes, South Coast, Highway, Mines, Widepark, Abbey.- Reworked and optimized some destruction effects for buildings and objects.- Added shadows for vehiclies while in the garage.- Decreased brightness and density of emblems and inscriptions while in post-mortem mode.User Interface:- Module icons will now have an animated repair progress indicator while in battle.- The tank tech tree will be condensed to better fit on the screen.- On the tank tech tree, a flag icon will allow you to return to the nation specific tree from the tank specific tree (replacing the ‘back to tech tree’ link).- On the tech tree, the research and credit/gold cost of tanks and their modules will be displayed regardless of whether they’ve been purchased.- On the tech tree, If there is a shortage of resources or experience, the pop up will show how much experience or credits is still necessary.- On the tech tree, vehicle specific experience has been made more prominent.- Changed armor display interface (without displaying the armoring itself) of the SU-5, T-46, КV-13, SU-85B, SU-101, Object 268, KV-2, KV-3, IS-3, KV-4, IS-8, IS-7, ISU-152, VK 4502 A, PzV Panther, Centurion, Centurion Mk3, FV4202, Covenanter, Cruiser MkI, Valentine, Caernarvon, Centurion, M6.- Restructured the visualization of British tank names.- Fully reworked the design of the tank selling window.- Removed display of damage to allies from after-battle statistics.- For post-mortem mode:- Fixed drowning indicator display.- Added the display for an ‘empty ammorack’.- Added the a display for status of tank modules and crew members.- The login message ‘Cannot connect. Connection is blocked by firewall’ has been changed to ‘Unable to connect to the server. Either the server is down for maintenance, or a connection settings check is required’.- The old message received when attempting to login with an older version of the client has been changed from “The login packet sent to the server was malformed” to “Error in authorization for game server. Your game client version may be outdated or damaged’.- The ’0′ character has been removed from the kill counter displayed on the battle HUD, instead a blank space will appear when a player has no kills.Vehicle Rebalancing and Changes:- Fixed small error in armoring (mainly observation devices and settings of TDs and SPGs open turrets/hulls) of the following vehicles:- France: AMX 38, AMX 40, ARL 44, D1, Hotchkiss H35, RenaultFT, Lorraine 39 L AM, Lorraine 40t, AMX 13F3AM, AMX 105AM, AMX 13-75- Germany: PzKpfw B2 740 (f), E-100, PzKpfw 38H735 (f), Löwe, Leichttraktor,Panther-M10, PzKpfw 38 nA, PzKpfw 38 (t), PzKpfw III/IV, PzKpfw V-IV,PzKpfw VI Tiger, T-15б T-25, VK 1602 Leopard, VK 2801, VK 3001 (H),VK 3001 (P), VK 3002 (DB), VK 3601 (H), Wespe, Gw Panther, Grille- USA: M18 Hellcat, M36 Jackson, M46 Patton, M48A1 Patton, M5 Stuart, M6A2E1, M26 Pershing, Ram II, M4A3E2, T25/2, T49, T92- USSR: А-32, М3 Light, IS-6, SU-85I, Т-50-2, Т-34-85, Tetrarch, Object 212, Object 704, S-51- The following tanks have been moved to a 16 groups of armor system: PzKpfw 35 (t), PzKpfw II, PzKpfw III Ausf. A- Renamed the M36 Slugger to M36 Jackson.- Renamed the Churchill premium tank to Churchill III.- Reduced the research cost of the 2x Leyland E164 engine for Matilda tank to 310 experience points.- Increased the research cost of the Churchill tank after the Matilda tank to 11500 experience points.- The Lowe has been rescaled according to historical references: height increased by 21cm and gun barrel length increased by 10cm.- Load capacity of FV221A suspension of Caernarvon tank changed from 62000kg to 63000kg.- Armor penetration of British APDS Mk. 1T shell of OQF 77mm Gun Mk. II decreased from 226mm to 208mm.- HE Mk. 10T shell added as compatible with Matilda Black Prince tank gun.- The price of M103 tank Continental AV-1790-5B engine chang