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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

[NA, EU] World of Warplanes Soars into Open Beta and 0.5 Update Notes




Wargaming announced today announced that the free-to-play flight combat game World of Warplanes has officially gone into open beta testing. Open beta goes live today in Russia and North America, and July 4th in Europe. In total, the closed beta saw more than 2.7 million applications from 194 different countries.

Featuring planes from the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany and Japan, players will be able to combat in 15 vs. 15 PvP matches.

later in the Open Beta, World of Warplanes will see the official launch of the Unified Premium Account system, thats allows players of World of Tanks or World of Warplanes to purchase a premium account and have its benefits extend to both games.

Players who took part in the closed beta testing phase will also receive special prizes.

After hitting Open Beta, everyone can get into the game
NA players register new account here (If you already have World of Tanks account you can use it to log into the game)

EU players register new account here starting 4th of July (If you already have World of Tanks account you can use it to log into the game)


0.5.0 Update Notes


Open Beta Test Stage

World of Warplanes enters Open Beta stage (OBT)

All accounts are wiped:

Reset: Hangar (all planes are removed), Depot, Gold, Credits, Free Experience, Regular Experience, and Account Statistics

Saved: Killmarks that indicate number of destroyed planes and ground targets will remain viewable on each aircraft

Wiped: Player statistics, including number of enemy planes destroyed

Tokens will be credited proportionally to the amount of accumulated total experience the player gained

During the first stage of OBT all players will get a free Premium account automatically; for WoWP only

Open Beta information will be displayed when players log in for the first time
Economics

Multipliers for Experience and Credits have been set to x1

Experience and Credits profitability have changed for all planes
Repair cost has changed for all planes

Gold has been replaced by Tokens during the OBT stage; a temporary OBT currency.

Tokens can't be purchased; they will be given for victories within the OBT stage period

Full update notes here  

[ASIA] [Results] [AU] 29th June Cybercafe FREE PLAY & Challenge

Congratulations to the following winners!

1st place — Jecklen_Hyde —Reward: 5,000+ 800 gold

2nd place — wobbly_penguin —Reward: 3,000+ 800 gold

3rd place — betterhalf2 —Reward: 2,000+ 800 gold


These players have accumulated 4 kills in the Cybercafe Challenge with Tier 4 tanks and above and will be rewarded with 800 gold

Saminskip
eggsbaker
TwistedOne
SINN14
Tahl
gniff34
armor_girl
stasis
nobody813
pnutz


source: http://worldoftanks.asia/en/news/23/results-au-29th-jun-cybercafe-free-play-challenge-2013/

Fan-video contest «Vive la Liberté!» is running!

War Thunder in partnership with MSI present fan-video contest: «Vive la Liberté!» dedicated to the liberation of France! Make an unique War Thunder fan-video, that would reflect the essence of WWII air combat over France, struggling for freedom and glorious victory over tyranny. Create your video and share it with other players! The best of the best, most talented and creative movie directors amongst our pilots will be choosen, and given truly amazing prizes provided by MSI! 

Creating your video, you may use any planes that took part in battles at the Western Front and any maps that will reflect the essence of the aerial battles over Europe. For example you may like to use newest Tempest skin of Pierre Henri Clostermann. 

Discuss the contest on the Official War Thunder Forum.


source: http://warthunder.com/en/news/192/current/ 

New aircraft data sheets

Official War Thunder forums now have a section devoted to Aircraft Data Sheets, which will be updated with performance figures and graphs based on the actual WWII aircraft documents. You will find parameters such as climb rates, speed to altitude rates, and others. You could also find the exact sources we used to create War Thunder combat aircraft.

Meet the legendary IL-2 and P-47 Thunderbolt, check their actual historically accurate characteristics by clicking the link below.

http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/forum/312-aircraft-data-sheets/


source: http://warthunder.com/en/news/191/current/

Summer in War Thunder: Day Two

Day 2 — July 2nd from July 2nd 6 am GMT (July 1st 11 pm PDT) till July 3rd 6 am GMT (July 2nd 11 pm PDT)


Achievement 1: 40 ground kills (10 000 Lions)
Achievement 2: 150 ground kills (20 000 Lions)
Achievement 3: 400 ground kills (40 000 Lions)


Check your daily progress in the Logbook: «Achievements» — «Miscellaneous»


For the Day 2 special discounts will help you to unlock achievements:

50% discount on I-16 type 28.
+30% XP boost for Ki-49IIa, B-25J-20, Pe-2-21, IL-2M, Ju-88A-4, P-47D, F6F, Bf.109F-4, Yak-1B, LaGG-3-66 and A6M2


source:  http://warthunder.com/en/news/190/current/

[EU] Mid-week Medal Hunt: Defender

Weekly Medal Hunt returns this time goal is base defense. 

Don’t let anyone capture your base. If you manage to reduce the amount of enemy capture points on a friendly base by 70 or more you will receive the Defender medal, and an additional 1,250 extra experience.

This additional experience will be automatically credited to your account when you receive the medal. There is no need to register or take any special action to take part in the event.
This event takes place from Wednesday 03rd July at 07:10 CEST (+2 GMT) until 04th July at 07:00 CEST (+2 GMT).


source: http://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/44/mid-week-medal-hunt-defender-en-repeat-2/ 

Monday, July 1, 2013

Summer in War Thunder!

War Thunder announces Summer Week! Special events, contest and amazing prizes every day!

«Screenshot of the Week: Sunshine!» — traditional weekly contest goes special this time!

Prizes:

1st Place: 5 000 Golden Eagles + A26 Invader + P-39N-0 Airacobra (SU)
2nd Place: 3 000 Golden Eagles + P-39N-0 Airacobra (SU)
3rd Place: 2 000 Golden Eagles

Global achievements contest:

Everyday from 6am GMT (11pm PDT) till 6am GMT (11pm PDT) next day TWO achievements are added  in War Thunder.

Every player, who unlocks first achievement immediately gets 10 000 Silver Lions.
Second achievement grants you 20 000 Silver Lions.

When unlocking the achievement your gaming account could also win in special lottery.
Special daily lottery has 10 winners every day to win premium set of planes: A-26 Invader, P-39N-0 Airacobra (SU) and 3 000 Golden Eagles!

Unlocking both achievements in one day DOUBLES your chances to win!

In the end of our special Summer Week every unlocked achievement could grant you even more: one year Premium and dozens of thousands of Golden Eagles!

Check your daily progress in the Logbook: «Achievements» — «Miscellaneous»

Day 1 — July 1st:
Achievement 1: 30 airkills
Achievement 2: 100 airkills

For the Day 1 special discounts will help you to unlock achievements:
50% discount on Hellcat FMK.I
+30% XP boost for P-39N, La-5FN and Spitfire Mk.Vb


Day 2 — July 2nd from July 2nd 6 am GMT (July 1st 11 pm PDT) till July 3rd 6 am GMT (July 2nd 11 pm PDT)

Achievement 1: 40 ground kills (10 000 Lions)
Achievement 2: 150 ground kills (20 000 Lions)
Achievement 3: 400 ground kills (40 000 Lions)


Check your daily progress in the Logbook: «Achievements» — «Miscellaneous»

For the Day 2 special discounts will help you to unlock achievements:
50% discount on I-16 type 28.
+30% XP boost for Ki-49IIa, B-25J-20, Pe-2-21, IL-2M, Ju-88A-4, P-47D, F6F, Bf.109F-4, Yak-1B, LaGG-3-66 and A6M2


Winners of the day 1:

UndeadBiscuits
OHM_CZ
LunatiK
Michi88
CSCobra
chin1942
Goplan
Higara
buckdanny1995
thaodean


Discuss the news on the Official War Thunder Forum. http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/45905-summer-in-war-thunder/