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Laviduce

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  1. 3 hours ago, Scav said:

    DM43 wasn't fielded, but it was adopted.
    This is likely a bit older information and estimates for the T-series.

    They seem to be advertised numbers, not normalised in tests.

    Yes, it seems to be the DM43 used on the Rh-120-44.

     

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    Is there a better copy of the full page of this document available ?

  2. "An attempt at straightening out, the all present and popular myth about the Challenger 2 MBT surviving 70 RPG hits, nothing more, nothing less. For some context, Challenger 2 is a British main battle tank developed in the 1990s that earned itself quite a legendary reputation for survivability, as mentioned above. But the reality of it is that while Challenger 2 performed well, it was nowhere near the level presented in the commonly told story. It also is worth to spread around that the operation to recover Challenger 2 from the video wasn't easy, and the guys from REME deserve recognition for what they did, which they sadly do not get in the famous retelling spread around the net, which basically disregards their involvement." - Volke

     

     

     

     

  3. On 8/6/2022 at 6:43 AM, Serge said:

    I did not know the K2 was inspired by the German Leopard 2 when it uses a flat turret design with an auto-loader (like the Leclerc), a hull with ISUs, driver on the left (Like the Leclerc), ERA modules on hull and turret,etc..

  4. 53 minutes ago, Lord_James said:


    You could have had a situation where you got banned because of “him to gud, must be cheatin” like @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks did in world of warplanes because he knew how to use a rudder in a turn (iirc, because I’m to lazy to go find the original post). Or maybe you “weren’t being a team player enough” like I sometimes get in world of warships because I’m off helping someone else and the person asking for help got butt hurt (more often then not, those games would turn out to be wins, too). 
     


    You’re respectful, so I respect you, and I’m ok with bending the rules of people I don’t respect. Also I didn’t spend any money on wart chunder, and my few premium vehicles I have (PaK puma and Ki-94-II, among others) didn’t cost me money, only some years off my life from the stress :lol: But they definitely do have the resources to police their cheating problems without shotgunning their player base, they just don’t have the willingness (or creativity) to do it. 

    I thought of a "performance ban" as well but then again I had kill streaks before over the years and nothing happened. Yes, certain people have said that I cheated over the years but nothing happened. I am a very defensive AB player and I usually like to keep my distance. Also in the weeks leading up to the ban, I was trying to grind my crew with my M-51 and the Merkava 2D , focusing on the M51 primarily.  Besides that I played low to mid tier (BR 3.7-6.0) primarily. Yes, I did get 0 to 5+ kills at times regularly but that does says more about the quality of the opponents I faced than me. It has also come to my attention that some people do not seem to use their minimap at all.  I almost look at my minimap all the time, especially in close quarter affairs.

     

    In the months leading up to the ban I also did not have any arguments with any moderators in the forum. I was too busy finishing up my Leclerc project and RL affairs to invest in destructive talk in the forum. But  I did submit a post concerning the protection of the Merkava 2D, 1-2 weeks prior to the ban. That was my last forum activity besides me asking in vain for people to review my replays (of me cheating).

     

    I did squad a lot with my clan and eastern European friends but since my ban I have not. Usually I am a team player in my squad.  I will not make another account if this mess does not get resolved. I basically consider myself defrauded by Gaijin and that was also the reason I got a lawyer involved in this s**t show.

     

    The lawyer just said that these companies focus their resources on the things that bring in the cash. Anti-cheat does not bring in the cash so these companies  might be cutting corners and getting sloppy here and there.  If they have 10k paying customers and screw over 200 of those, what difference do these wrongful bans make ?  They have no incentive or "motivation" to reform their system. As i pointed out before, even some people that got screwed over by Gaijin are flocking back to them (dafuq!?).  No lessons to be learned by Gaijin.

     

    In my paranoia I also checked if my bank account was somehow in the red and that that might be the reason for the ban but that turned out to be OK.

     

    As it stands now I have no idea why I was banned from WT.  Besides the copy and paste statement they send to everyone they ban, I have received no definite data that says anything detailed. According to them I just violated section 3.2 of the EULA (i.e. using a modification to gain an unfair advantage). At no point in time in my 8.5 years did ever use an overlay or modification (excluding WT.live sights) to gain an unfair advantage.  I do not even know  if this "cheating" was a one-time event or if it was ongoing affair according to Gaijin.

     

    If I was the cheater why did I just not make a new email and WT account?  This should have not taken me longer than an hour to setup. Yet according to Gaijin (and/or EAC) I just happen to cheat after 8.5 years with basically fully trained crews and researched trees (excluding Israel, Sweden and Italy). As a hacking "cheater" I was also dumb enough to just send them my DxDiag file too. On top of that I , the alleged cheater,  am stupid enough to get a lawyer involved. I am delusional at times but I doubt I am that delusional to cheat and behave like this. Overall, this and other odd cases tell me that Gaijin does not take a look at who they ban, unless you are a prominent WT youtuber/twitch streamer. 

     

    On a side note,  I do have a VPN. And no, my VPN was not active during the period (February?) of the alleged cheating. My VPN usually degrades my connection even more when I use my local powerlan network.

     

    As far as I could gather, IMHO, these "odd" bans pretty much come down to internal failure, sloppiness and carelessness on part of Gaijin and/or EAC.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  5. 30 minutes ago, Alzoc said:

     

    Did you check your account security?

    I had once somebody just casually playing on my account for I don't know how long, despite securing it with two different email adress and a phone number.  I only noticed because he changed my default line-up on the US tree. Guy didn't even bothered trying to change my password to lock me out.

    Managed to get him kicked out and had to add another layer of security on my account. Whole thing ended up being rather benign but it shouldn't have happened anyway.

    Gajin account security is quite frankly utter shite.

     

    My ban was on March 13/14th. I checked "recent" online acitivity but thanks to the way the "online login activity" is registered I can not go back far enough. But IMHO, i seriously doubt it was an account (or PC) hijack. I had changed my password last fall/winter so I doubt my account was hijacked by someone. Also if my PC was hijacked then why is only conveniently WT affected ?

     

    I also thought about potential trojans or viruses but there again this malware also conveniently only affects WT. So i doubt that that was the reason either.

     

    I did have custom WT.live sights installed but I have not touched those since fall,  prior to the motherboard implosion. The only user mission I have installed is from WT.live as well and I have not updated since last year. The user skins I got from the Gaijin market place. So these IMHO, can not be the culprits for this ban.

     

    I did had to have my motherboard replaced 6 weeks before the ban. I had to have windows "fix" itself. I lost all major desktop shortcuts and certain programs stopped working. I had to create new shortcuts for some (including WT). I did not reinstall WT but i think i did a file check and it worked again.

     

    According to some internal sources there was a change in the hash number in my gaijin aces.exe 4 weeks before my ban. Then my source said that this was about 2 weeks before my ban. Frankly I am not sure how accurate these statements are. To calm myself down I did check my download history and I could not find any weird or unrecognizable .exe. file, .dll. or folder in that history log.

     

    Around February 28th (2 weeks before my ban) I did install Core Temp to monitor the temperature of my CPU after a burned smell had emanated from my PC. All temps turned out to be OK and I never found out what had caused that smell. I do think I let WT run while I checked the temperatures.  According to my insider source the change in the aces.exe was potentially inserted while WT was running. But that is only his opinion. Gaijin is not saying anything besides copy and paste statements.

     

    Since I currently work from home and my USB sticks/data carriers have not left my sight. At this point in time , I seriously doubt that this mystery software (or whatever it is) is even on my PC.  I was thinking of pulling my ISP traffic data. I doubt I got this "cheat routine" of of Amazon.

     

     

    To add insult to injury , I got myself two no so cheap premium vehicles after I allegedly "cheated".

     

    22 minutes ago, Lord_James said:


    Oh? You can get someone to play that frustrating and grindy game for you? For free? No way! 
     

    Just kidding, sorry to hear that. 
     

     

    I would offer you my account, which I haven’t played at all in 3+ years: I don’t have any vehicles over 6.7, and no aircraft over 5.3 (unless some BRs have changed), but that would also be a tos problem. 
     

    I have A LOT to say about WT, even after all this time, but it would be very rant-y and probably some of my points would be out of date or the situation would have changed (for the worse, because that is the trend). 

    I appreciate your offer Lord_James but I could never accept your offer even if it was not a TOS violation. This move by you and me accepting it would just throw good money after bad. Even if you or someone else paid me to do it , I could not do it. Why would anyone spent time, money and effort in an endeavor for fun, business or otherwise if you just got ripped off after 8,5 years and thousands of dollars spent ?

     

    What shocks and disappoints me the most is that a couple of other players that also got screwed over (potentially) said, that they would be willing to return to WT. How in the f***ing world can you go back to a company that screwed you over like that ?  I mean I like WT but a move like this crosses too many lines even for a WT crackhead like me.

     

    Anyway, since Gaijin refused to be constructive or cooperative I had seek legal counsel in the mean time to potentially "resolve" this matter. My legal counsel said that I (and others) were potentially "shot-gunned" to demonstrate that they, Gaijin,  are doing something against cheaters. He went on to say that these companies do not invest much in parts of their companies that do not directly make them money. So yeah, sometimes people get thrown under the bus and this time , after 8.5 years, my number came up. According to him and what I could hear from others,  this behavior is not limited to Gaijin. EA , Rockstar and others also seem to have been doing this in the past.  They just do not have the resources and willingness to tackle a problem like this individually. With hundreds and thousands of users and a company size of no more than 500, a lot of these processes have to be automated.

     

    This came from one WT forum administrator concerning my case that surprised and disappointed me:

     

    Spoiler

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    To be fair, WT forum administrators do not seem to have any inside knowledge of things such as this.

     

    A this point in time I am not even sure if I will return to WT even if my ban is lifted.

     

    There have been a couple of other odd bans in WT lately (and over the years):

     

     

  6. 12 minutes ago, Eliz said:

    Thats fault of russians, you open russian news website and what you see?! Putin is great, nato and western nations are gays, we have nukes, our army landed on the moon. 

    Even when they showd war scenes from donbass it felt so staged.

    You have to find better propaganda minister. Only one supporting russians nowbis my granny who is old russian and watches pervi kanal only, even russians i know dont support this invasion at all.

    Both sides do this but the US definitely has  significant  advantages over Russia in this field. I would rate US propaganda far ahead Russia's in terms of quality and general sophistication. The US is more or less in control of the largest "news" networks on earth directly and indirectly via its satellite states in Europe and elsewhere. It literally had 70 years time to perfect the art and science of propaganda, subterfuge and molding the minds of people around the world.  The Chinese are even worse than the Russians when it comes to propaganda.

     

     

  7. On 2/25/2022 at 11:33 PM, Pardus said:

    Hopefully Russias invasion bogs down, becomes extremely costly, and the troops slowly realize invading and waging an aggressive war against an indepedent nation in the 21st century is absolutely insane.

    I sincerely hope you said the same thing about the US, UK when they decided to invade  Iraq, bombed Syria, funded "moderate rebels" in Syria, toppled the government of Ukraine, destroyed Libya, etc. in the 21st century.

     

    Just a reminder,  foreign backed regime change coups are as legal as military invasions.  They are both illegal according to international law.  The hypocrisy and double standards are mind blowing. It highlights how  conditioned / brainwashed people have become. This is absolutely surreal.

     

    To be fair the US and the satellite states that participated in these actions should have been sanctioned, particularly after it was determined that they had lied to the world, repeatedly. For some "strange reason" this did not happen. Hundreds of thousands of deaths have accrued, millions of refugees and trillions of dollars in damages were generated in the past 20 years because of the actions of the US and its enablers.

     

    The 2003 Iraq war and the lack of response to aggression  was a watershed moment in World history. It demonstrated that might makes right and that "international law" including the UN are worthless / pointless in the grand scheme of things.

     

    The US should have been severely sanctioned  for what it did in Ukraine, let alone the other mentioned places. The regime change coup in Ukraine in 2014 was one US coup too far. If the shoe would have been on other foot, the US  would have not been thrilled if Russia or any other nation would have had the "brilliant" idea to send their version of Vicky Nuland Cookie Monster to Mexico or Canada to bring  about an Anti-US regime change right at the border of the US. If we use the Cuban/Turkey missile crisis as an example we all know what these actions could and would lead to. Neither Russia, China, or any other US rival was dumb enough to attempt this in the past 50+ years.

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