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PUBG New State released

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PUBG New State released

11th of November is not only Polish Independence day or Global Shopping Festival on Aliexpress. On November 11th 2021 new and improved PUBG was released for iOS and Android.

The main difference can be seen right from the menu: it’s the improved graphics. Unreal Engine makes sure that PUBG New State graphics quality will be close to last-gen console levels. Items are now dressed in PBR textures (so metals will shine, rubber will look dull, and so will plastics). Global illumination was also introduced to improve the quality of lighting even further. PUBG New State looks much more like the original PC counterpart (although it will look this way only on really high-end devices like iPhone 13, Samsung S21 or dedicated gaming phones the sort of Xiaomi Black Shark or REDMAGIC 6S).

There is another difference: while the PC version of PUBG was developed by PUBG Studio, the original PUBG Mobile was outsourced to Tencent. However PUBG New State was co-developed by PUBG Studio (so the same company as PC) and Krafton.

Controls in PUBG New State are very similat to PUBG Mobile, most likely to make the transition easy for existing players.

There are new weapon customization options similar to Call of Duty Mobile, which was missing in PUBG Mobile, so you can now customize your favourite weapons.

A daily login campaign with unique “New State” clothing is also running. Just log in daily and complete a set for your character. You can get a cool futuristic set as well if you take part in the monthly Premium Pass.

The game is available globally on Google Play and Apple App Store.

Coming soon in WoT Blitz 8.5

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Coming soon in WoT Blitz 8.5

World of Tanks Blitz 8.4 was just deployed last week, but news about 8.5 already started to appear in social media.

  • European tank commanders will be giving orders in their native languages starting from the next update. In 8.5, the “National Crew Voice” option the crew of european tanks will be communicating in Italian, Czech, Polish, and Finnish. The same will apply to “Girls und Panzer” vehicles: Hetzer Kame SP, Tiger Kuromorimine SP, Firefly Saunders SP, and IS-2 Pravda SP—similarly to the Pz. IV Ankou SP—their crews will speak Japanese.

WARGAMING is also working on unifying credit earnings between tanks. This is why in update 8.5 we’re going to:

  • All researchable tanks will have their credit coefficient equalized. It means some of the researchable tanks will earn more or less credits than before. Therefore, overall vehicles’ profitability for each tier will become more flat. These changes won’t affect premium tanks.
  • Repair cost and AP shells will be free for all tanks (researchable, premium and collector). To keep the overall profitability the same, credit ratios for those tanks will be adjusted. As a result, credit farm pace won’t change.
  • Starting from 8.5, Ace Tanker, Top Gun and Kolobanov’s Medal will grant players extra credits when playing on tier VI+ tanks. The rewards are cumulative, so earning two medals will pay even more credits. Scoring all three medals at Tier X will net 250.000 credits!

Premium tank earnings will not to be reduced
WARGAMING promised not to reduce the actual credit ratio for premium tanks. But with free repairs and ammo it means Premium vehicles will have their credit ratio adjusted. Premium tanks won’t earn less credits in update 8.5.

Still can’t update World of Tanks Blitz to 8.4 on Android?

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Still can’t update World of Tanks Blitz to 8.4 on Android?

I have some good news for you: if you have Huawei or Samsung phone, you can install WoT Blitz 8.4 on your Android phone right away.

All you need to do is uninstall the Google Play version and use Galaxy Store on Samsung or AppGallery on Huawei. Both stores have the game updated to 8.4 and you can easily download it.

The donwside is that you will have to redownload all game content again. But that is still better than waiting for Google Play to approve Blitz 8.4, right?

WoT Blitz 8.4 news

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WoT Blitz 8.4 news
New event From October 22 till November 1, explore the Titan lab and take control of the secret prototypes—medium Tier V Titan Mk and heavy Tier VII Titan H-N. To explore the lab and go through the event, you’ll need the Activator. There will be victories Activator and mastery badges one, for confident tankers. Want to discover even more mysteries? Super Activator is your choice! WARGAMING will share more the details before the event starts.
Alternative Game modes marathon This October, tankers will be having fun in Mad Games, Uprising and Burning Games. One of the game modes will run twice. Players will be able to vote for their favorite mode and WARGAMING will run it TWICE 🙂
Polish HTs
New PBR textures
  • T57
  • Emil 1951
  • M2 Light
WARGAMING keeps improving the economy of the game. Currently, the amount of battles required to accumulate credits for purchasing a certain tier tank can vary for different tech trees. In order to make the research speed more consistent and predictable, in update 8.4 the devs will equalize credit ratio for tier I-VI researchable tanks. It means some of researchable tanks will farm more or less credits than before. Therefore, overall vehicles’ profitability for each tier will become more uniform. These changes won’t affect premium tanks.

New consumables Polish heavies comprise all the characteristic traits of their type: good armor, high damage per shot, moderate speed. They are pretty straightforward and suitable for everyone. WG decided to diversify that basic gameplay for each of these Polish tanks, so let’s meet and greet the brand new consumables and provisions:
Crew mastery provisions, Tier VI–X: the unique Polish meals will be available for each HT: Żurek with +10% and Faworki with +3%.
Consumables, Tier VII–X: Tungsten Shells will improve the damage variation from regular 75%-125% range to 105-125% for 20 seconds. The cooldown time is 90 sec (without any equipment or boosters applied).
Provisions, Tier VII–X: Improved Gunpowder will increase the shell velocity up to 35% during the battle.
Provisions, Tier VII–X: Gear Oil and Improved Gear Oil will enhance the engine power (+3% and +6% respectively) and increase the max forward/backward speed (+2 km/h and +4 km/h respectively).
The collector 50TP prototyp from the clan challenge will also receive these new consumables and provisions in Update 8.4.
New Legendary camos
Three tanks will be getting new Legendary camos:
  • Corsica for the AMX 30 B
  • Piranha for the T95E6
  • Unity for the M4 Sherman
Blitz Cup event As usual, November becomes and esports month. The clash for $200k will be held all over the world just like last year. Everyone can dive into the main tournament of 2021! Collect your rewards from esports-themed operation during the month. And complete the event with Tier VIII premium vehicle to choose as a main reward—Caernarvon Action X, Centurion Mk. 5/1 or Progetto 46. Win the battles, watch Blitz Cup streams with us and you’ll be happy during this esports November.

WoT Blitz 8.3 news and new PBR tanks – coming soon!

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WoT Blitz 8.3 news and new PBR tanks – coming soon!

No doubt players would love to see all their tank models updated at once, but reality is that it’s a huge undertaking and it takes a lot of time. WARGAMING chose iterative approach and currently we have three branches of tanks updated to PBR:

  • American ‘Yoh’ heavies
  • British light tanks
  • European swedish heavies

In 8.3 update another batch of tanks will be updated to new PBR models

WARGAMING has upgraded the appearance of both the tanks themselves and their legendary camos. The stars and the Soviet Guard sign look more prominent on the “Battle-hardened” camo for the IS-7, and the “Stalwart” for the E 100 now features the Balkenkreuz insignias—emblems of the Wehrmacht. Along with PBR, HD textures, and environmental effects, the IS-7 and the E 100 have received completely redesigned 3D models with improved detail and the corresponding collision (server) models. The overall armor profile of both vehicles remained the same.

One premium tank will also receive the PBR treatment – the american heavy VIII T54E2.

Withdrawing premium vehicles from the tech tree

In Update 8.3, WARGAMING will remove the majority of premium tank offers from the tech tree UI—except for the Dicker Max, IS-6, and T23E3. There has been no demand for the other vehicles according to WG stats, so they decided there’s no more need to keep them in the tech tree.

Those tanks had been added to the tech tree long ago, when the in-game store lacked diversity of offers for those who wanted to get a premium vehicle. Now, the ingame store provides great variety of bundles which are more beneficial than just buying tanks via tech tree, and some deals are even better than the ones on the tech tree.

 

Perpetuum Online Is Now Free-To-Play On Steam

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Perpetuum Online Is Now Free-To-Play On Steam

In early 2018, a sci-fi MMORPG with mechanics very similar to EVE Online, was officially shut down. But the developers at Avatar Creations did not abandon their community: Perpetuum Online server code has become open source and a community server was spun up at https://openperpetuum.com/ . The client was made available cheaply on Steam, and sold for a mere $9.99.

On August 5th 2021 the devs finally made the game completely free to play. Just head over to Steam and you can download the client for free. Game Server can also be downloaded as an optional tool for the game. You will need MS SQL Server Express installed prior to installing the server. If you just want to play the game and are not interested in running your own server, just connect to the community one running at openperpetuum.com

For those unfamiliar with the game, Perpetuum Online offers a persistent sandbox experience where players take control of huge mechs on an alien planet Nia with a complex industrial system, player-driven economy, and player-built settlements and infrastructure. The game was heavily inspired by EVE Online, and at some point in the past, in 2012 part of the EVE community, during a backlash over Incarna update, has joined Perpetuum Online.

“Perpetuum is a persistent, sandbox, single server, massively multiplayer sci-fi rpg (MMORPG). Control huge robots and mechs to gain access to an alien planet’s resources and knowledge, amass huge wealth, or even claim part of the world for yourself using terraforming and complex infrastructure.”

Gamer played on an integrated GPU for 4 years

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Gamer played on an integrated GPU for 4 years

Some Reddit user has just recently realized he’s been gaming on an integrated GPU instead of his nVidia GTX 1050 Ti.

Integrated GPUs, while not nearly as robust as dedicated cards, are getting increasingly more powerful. Alternative_Essay880 only realized he’s been using iGPU because he read about a similar issue on Reddit. So just in case he has checked behind his PC, and voila! He found out that his HDMI cable has been plugged into motherboard instead of his nVidia GPU.

How come he did not realized he’s been playing on iGPU all along? Well, most likely due to his budget setup:

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
  • Integrated GPU Radeon RX Vega 11 Graphics
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
  • 16 GB of RAM

While GTX 1050 Ti is way faster than RX Vega 11, the gamer did not know what exactly to expect from his nVidia card, so he’s been blaming poor performance on his budget GPU. He even added more RAM and replaced his HDD with a SSD.

The unlucky gamer played many games like Call of Duty: Warzone, GTA V, DOTA 2 or Civilization 6. And to be really honest, the performance was not so bad for an iGPU. On low and medium settings he often got up to 100 FPS. After connecting his Display connector to the proper card, his PC has gained a second life. Free upgrade? 😉

World of Tanks Blitz Upgrade 8.1 preview

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World of Tanks Blitz Upgrade 8.1 preview

Many seasoned veterans of World of Tanks Blitz well know a tool created by lltwox, which displays more information than WARGAMING’s own API: the Blitz Hangar.

The tool is based on the game’s own internal XML files, rather than the open API that WG offers to 3rd party developers. This gives it one advantage: it can show the differences between the current version of the game client and the upcoming one (from Opentest). You should also know that game files are now compressed with a WG proprietary algorithm (based on LZMA), and it isn’t so easy to access them without some additional hacking.

Based on the 8.1 preview changelog on Blitz Hangar, the new update 8.1 of World of Tanks Blitz will bring a huge wave of balance changes.

 

WoT Blitz: Coming Soon! New Polish Tanks and a New Map

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WoT Blitz: Coming Soon! New Polish Tanks and a New Map

Yesterday WARGAMING has posted a new video with ‘leaks’ which shows what to expect from World of Tanks Blitz in the coming months.

Let’s have a look at the folders presented in the video:

  • 1_T110E3_Stream
  • 2_New_Event
  • 3_New_Models_Quality
  • 4_Battle_Pass
  • 5_New_Map
  • 6_Lorraine_Fearless_4rating
  • 7_New_Tree_60TP

T110E3 “Worthy” Legendary Camo

First thing we can see on the video is T110E3 with a Legendary Camo. The new paintjob is typically american, with a very light olive hue and a white star, along with the “Worthy” name painted on the side of the upper hull.

UPDATE: Wargaming said on Twitter this camo will be coming to the game in patch 8.1

New event Enigma

The next is a new event with the top prize being a german VK168.01 Premium Heavy tank. The theme of the event strongly suggests to be related to Enigma – german mechanical encryption machine used during WWII.

New Models Quality

WG has recently introduced new PBR textures in World of Tanks Blitz 8.0. Initially only the new American Heavy line and the Kunze Panzer had the new textures. In this “Coming soon” video WG promises more tanks with the new textures coming to the game. However, some of the tanks presented are totally new premium tanks rather than any of the existing ones.

New Battle Pass

Battle Passes are here to stay (in so many games now), because they offer a multitude of rewards for a really modest price. So here’s a glimpse of the upcoming one. Looks like we will be getting a VK 30.01 (D) based submarine tank.

However this time completing the Battle Pass will grant a special container, which may contain a very unusual american heavy – the Tier IX AE Phase 1, which sports four tracks instead of two.

New Industry Map

This summer will also bring a new map to Blitz, one set in an industrial area. There is little details regarding the new map, but Blitz veterans will quickly notice it bears some resemblence to Falls Creek, Faust and Yukon.

Lorraine Fearless for Rating

One of the rewards for Rating Battles in summer will be Lorraine Fearless, which is very much similar to Lorraine 40t (so at this point it’s hard to tell if this is a whole new tank or just Legendary camo for existing one). What we know for sure however is that it’s really beautiful, and of course has the new PBR textures:

Last but not least – polish Heavy Tank line

Update 8.0 has brought new “Yoh” american Heavy line. We can expect another heavy line in the nearest future – the polish line. These tanks are based on blueprints developed in cold war Poland. WG has presented the Tier X 60TP Lewandowskiego, which will be waiting at the top of the tree.

World of Tanks Blitz 7th Anniversary

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World of Tanks Blitz 7th Anniversary

On 25th of June, 2014 WARGAMING has released its blockbuster tank battler on iOS and Android: World of Tanks: Blitz.

World of Tanks: Blitz started small, with only 3 playable nations, only one game mode (Random) and only two supported platforms. But over the years a lot of content was added, and the most recent version 8.0 of Blitz has introduced a new line of American heavy tanks, Physical Based Rendering for tanks (with mud, water and snow which can cover the tank), realistically animated tank suspensions and many UI improvmenets. Plus there is currently 454 playable tanks across 9 nations, which you can play on iOS, Android, PC, Mac and Nintendo Switch (and you can use controllers!).

WARGAMING says thank you to it’s playerbase every year by giving away lots of goodies in the game.

And as usual, the longer you’ve played, the more gifts you will get:

One year or less

  • 3 Days of premium account
  • 100 Gold
  • 10,000 Free Exp
  • One year anniversary avatar

1 – 2 years

  • 5 Days of premium account
  • 200 Gold
  • 20,000 Free Exp
  • Two year anniversary avatar

2 – 3 years

  • 7 Days of premium account
  • 300 Gold
  • 30,000 Free Exp
  • Three year anniversary avatar

3 – 4 years

  • 10 Days of premium account
  • 400 Gold
  • 40,000 Free Exp
  • Four year anniversary avatar
  • Rising Fury Rare camo for all of your vehicles

4 – 5 years

  • 14 Days of premium account
  • 500 Gold
  • 50,000 Free Exp
  • Five year anniversary avatar
  • Stellar Shine Rare camo for all of your vehicles

5 – 6 years

  • 30 Days of premium account
  • 600 Gold
  • 60,000 Free Exp
  • Six year anniversary avatar
  • Venomous Shock Rare camo for all of your vehicles

6 – 7 years

  • 30 Days of premium account
  • 700 Gold
  • 70,000 Free Exp
  • Three year anniversary avatar
  • Stained Glass Epic anicamo for 10 tank

If your account was registered before June 25, 2016 will receive A Lucky V Container with guaranteed premium or collector tank drop. If it drops a tank you already have, it will drop A Lucky VI Container.

If your account was registered before June 25, 2015, you’ll receive A Lucky VII Container with guaranteed premium or collector tank drop. If it drops a tank you already have, it will drop 2500 gold.