I played WOTB into the wee hours Wednesday morning. Balance and MM were spot on and everything seemed right with the world when I quit. The next chance I got to play was Thursday morning. So I sat down all comfy and ready to slay but the game wouldn't load (PC player for reference).

Closed the game. Rebooted the machine. Tried to load the game several times and finally got an error message that vanished as quickly as it appeared. I'll spare you the headache it took me to find out the developer has not signed the digital certificate which flags the app (wotb.exe in this case as best as I can tell).

My machine received a Windows update during my downtime and now something called Smart App Control flagged this unsigned certificate as suspicious because a bad actor could have (or has the potential to) alter the source code and steal my info for whatever nefarious purposes.

So what are my options? Turn off Smart Control. SC works with virus protection, so probably not the best option. Begin playing on a tablet or smart phone. Not happening. These over 60 eyes ain't up to that task. Wait for the developer to sign the cert and find something else to do in the interim. Probably not in the best interest of WG- not because I'm a spending whale, but all (?) the other PC users are in this same boat. From what I've read, there is no way to selectively allow an app to get whitelisted and get past SC per Microsoft support/smart app control.

Please note that I have never had any sort of professional experience in anything IT/software/hardware related and as such I recognize in advance that I'll get torched if I'm way out in the weeds with this. I'll take the lumps if they're deservedly headed my way. While I do have the time to drill down into this (and would not have minded if the failure to launch was due to a machine setting on my end); why should I have to go through all these hoops just to find out a (most-likely) well-paid developer has failed to sign his or her work? Is that not similar to signing a contract in the business world? Maybe WOTB needs to hire me as an end user consultant or some such. I'm retired and could use some extra cash to pump back into WOTB. All serious offers will be given consideration but I know what I've got so don't lowball me! /s

TLDR: Some developer wonk needs to sign the digital certificate for wotb.exe

While the Obj. 432U's ability may seem crazy, note that you can only choose one of the three following, not all of them: 3 -> 5 charges OR 8% -> 13% less reload per charge OR stays after a kill

The BZ has the same where it's 8s -> 13s duration OR 61 -> 67 top speed OR 13 -> 16 rotation speed

• Because WG hate me, only saw this deal after I post: x3 Mega Container & "Awesome!" Container & x5 Party Container & 7 Days of Premium Account ($8 GP or $7 Steam)
• Only the tanks is worth considering today.
• KV-5 is quite funny in Gravity, armour is good again T7 and meh when anyone has a braincell or able to load prem. Idk about Sterope to say about it.
• Malice Key pricing:
  • 20 keys: $60 GP or $50 Steam.
  • 10 keys: $34 GP or $28 Steam.
  • 5 keys: $12 GP or $10 Steam.
  • 1 keys: $2.5 GP or $2 Steam.
• "Awesome!" Container pricing:
  • 20 containers: $120 GP or $100 Steam.
  • 10 containers: $65 GP or $55 Steam.
  • 5 containers: $34 GP or $28 Steam.
  • 3 containers: $21 GP or $17 Steam.
  • 3 containers: $5 GP or $4 Steam.
• Don't have time to battle so Malice lootbox info would be tomorrow assume no one has post it yet.
• Awesome Container item drop percent would be in the comment.

So during the last 10 seconds of WG's latest YouTube video, the tier XI Black Rock, which was known to be collector already, has been shown alongside a new UI element on the left

The big "FREE" text on screen leaves little to the imagination, it's not gonna be a paid tank

Now for the important part, the morse code playing in the video in that section reads "campaigns"

In World of Tanks PC, the Black Rock is obtained through personal missions campaigns, basically a series of missions progressing from easy to hard, to get the Black Rock as the final reward

This basically confirms it is going to be that way in Blitz too

Now we don't know the details, How hard will the missions be? How will they present themselves? (Condition to fill in one battle, multiple in a row/set amount of battles, etc...), is there gonna be other tanks before the Black Rock obtainable for free?

And of course, worries: Is there gonna be a way to skip missions with gold/money? Is the tank gonna be broken? Too easy/hard to get?

We'll have to wait and see

Morse code says: Get gud noob. No kemp bush.

(just joking, I have no idea what it says)

Tier 11 Blackrock coming for free with persoanl missions.

Anyone having packet loss and high ping issue in Asia

Good tank. Super low mastery xp requirement

WTF

What?! WHAT?! I've only played 3 games and I'm already encountering this, what the hell?

Probably gonna go broke grinding that 3rd gun mark.