World Of Tanks Common Test, 9.21 Server EXTENDED

Time to make use of all these remaining materials...

Back from yesterday, and today's post will be about the World Of Tanks Common Test Server. The second iteration was up during that time and I took that opportunity to get some extra screenshots of the new things added.

Not much, but there's a new overhauled customization system which is rather impressive. I have several screenshots set aside for this as just explaining the whole shebang through a wall of text can get very... difficult.

Now, first things first; the new customization system changes the current camouflages to two different categories: Multicolor and Non-Multicolor. Multicolor camos get additional color patterns, usually an extra two while the others remained the same. You can also change the camo pattern sizes to Small, Medium and Large to suit your own tastes.

But here's where things get interesting; you can now select different parts of the tank to apply camo onto, shown below.

Right here we have the gun area...

And here's the turret area...

And finally, the tank hull area.

Pretty sweet, ain't it? The multicolored camos are now gonna be people choice just because of the extra colors.

Overall, it's pretty good... but NOT YET! There's still more...

...because now, you can even paint your own tanks. That's right, PAINT your own tanks.

There's these nation-specific paints for different climates that you can use, and they look great.

But paints have more 'sections' than camos; 5 compared to 3. The areas are the Gun, Gun Manlet, Turret, Hull and Tracks. Some vehicles will have more sections than others, and it also goes for the camos... like vehicles without a turret will obviously not have the 'turret' area.

And now, some screenshots of these 'nation specific paints'...

And as you might notice, there's a bunch of other colors as well. Those are the base color of other nations, so if you feel like painting a French Tank grey for that "captured vehicles" feel, you can do that... or maybe you just prefer the China's shade of green rather than Swedish ones... up to you.

Here's a couple of screenshots of me painting the Super Conqueror in different nation colors...

China's base paint for the "Forest" camo slot...

...and France's base paint for the "Winter" camo slot.

You might also notice that there's the "non-historical" paint at the far corner... well, those are obviously the goofy looking ones or colors that were never used in war that make your tank stand out more than the rest, if you are into that.

heh, inb4 pink tanks and "power ranger" combos...

Heck, you can even mix and match them to make a bizarre looking monstrosity...

...like this. And this is just me going easy by using only 2 colors...

These paints actually remind me of Armored Warfare's customization system, actually... except more in-depth.

And you though that was all? No... there's still one more to talk about...

The paint and camo actually don't overlap one another, so that means you can stack them... also similar to Armored Warfare.

With normal camouflage, you can barely see the difference as the order goes by camo first, then the paint. Areas like the tracks and edges of the tank gun can be seen when paint has been applied, though.

Thankfully, there's a specific type of camouflage that makes use of this; as they are semi-transparent. They don't have a separate group, so you'll have to find them yourselves by trying each one of them out. The transparent ones have 'grey on dark grey checkerboxes' which indicates transparency; or 'no color zone'.

Here's a few pictures of me combining both the semi-transparent camos with different paint schemes.

German camo without any paint.

German forest camo with German 'forest-specific' paint.

German winter camo with French paint.

Oh, there's actually a few other things... but they are just pre-made sets that you can use if you are too lazy and also tank 'presets' that change the vehicle to have worn paint or something like that.

There's nothing much to talk about those two as they weren't really that important... plus it's not really more fleshed out than the paint and camo systems, as they only have about 1 or 2 compared to the many others the camo and paint systems had.

There's also talk that the ability to add 3D non-interactive customizations as well, like adding sandbags and tracks. They won't add armor or anything, just to make things more cool.

...people will still abuse them by spamming them over weakspots, though.

And that's all there is for today's post. All the important posts are done, and all that's left are the bunch of replays left to record, edit and upload... and I gotta get 'em done before the next patch hits, as I want to play the new French Heavy Tanks when they arrive ASAP.

Speaking of which...

Almost forgotten to put that video in this post.... finally had the replays working, but only those from the second iteration of the 9.21 Common Test Server.

And NOW then it's truly everything. Gotta go now as it's already 2AM here, gonna get some shut-eye and continue with some shizz tomorrow... so see y'all till then.

-Panzer Fist-