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Commanders!

In January 2022 we released a bunch of WoT-themed customizations for the Steam Points Shop. Since then, we’ve come across hundreds of Steam users with a World of Tanks animated frame, avatar, or profile background—and we’re happy to see them every single time! We were excited to receive lots of positive feedback from you, so adding more eye-catching items to the WoT Points Shop was only a matter of time. And the time has come!

We are adding nine brand-new animated customization elements for you to decorate your profiles with: three new avatars, two frames, two profile backgrounds, and two mini-profile backgrounds. All these items are divided into two sets, one of which is festive and snowy, imbued with the special atmosphere of the winter holidays, while the other is brutal and dusty, inspired by one of the coolest-looking maps in World of Tanks: Highway. Collect them all and mix them up as you like!

If you’re unfamiliar with the mechanics of Steam Points, click the expand button below for a quick overview.

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You can get Steam Points in the following two ways:

• By shopping on Steam: Every $1.00 you spend on any game, DLC, hardware, application, soundtrack, or in-game items gives you 100 Steam Points.
  
• By receiving awards from the Community: If your Steam activity (e.g. reviews, comments, screenshots, videos, guides, or Workshop items) gets awarded by other Steam users, you will receive a certain number of Steam Points for each award.
  

You can spend Steam Points in the following ways:

• By awarding another member of the Steam Community
  
• By purchasing items in the Steam Points Shop to customize your Steam presence (choose from a variety of emoticons, profile backgrounds, avatars, frames, and many other items)
  

Also, keep in mind that Steam Points don’t expire, and the Points Shop is always available for you to visit and grab something that catches your eye. If you still have questions and need more details, you can check out this page for more information.
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[h2]Special Giveaway: Guaranteed Reward in a Couple of Clicks![/h2]

To celebrate the new addition to the World of Tanks Points Shop, we are launching a giveaway where everyone who completes a few simple steps will get the prize! All you need to do is click the link below, like the post, and then comment with which Points Shop item you like the most or what you’d like to be added to the Points Shop in the future. We will collect all the entries when the giveaway ends and reward everyone who followed these simple rules!

[h3]How to Participate[/h3]

1. Click here.
   
2. Click the Like button.
   
3. Comment with which Points Shop item is your favorite or which one we should add next.
   

And you’re done! Now you’re taking part in our giveaway and will receive a guaranteed prize once the giveaway ends on December 30, 2022.

NOTE: Any comments that break the discussion rules may be deleted or excluded.

[h3] The Prize[/h3]

• x3 “Rule #1” inscriptions
  
  

NOTE: We will send the goodies to the World of Tanks account that’s associated with your Steam account.

Participate in our giveaway and decorate your Steam profile with new spectacular Points Shop items!

Commanders!

World of Tanks celebrated its 12th anniversary in 2022, and it was a compelling, eventful year for our game.

We added a new branch of Italian tank destroyers and launched Arcade Cabinet, a platform for experiments and weekend battles with non-standard rules. You had the opportunity to test yourself in Onslaught, explore new maps in Recon Mission, go on an adventure in Pumpkin Bash, and join Random Battles in the legendary Waffenträger auf E 100.

To improve your gameplay experience, we also introduced new matchmaking rules for wheeled vehicles and SPGs. Also, the Sixth Sense perk became a special feature for all vehicle commanders. All that and much more has been done together with you—many thanks to everyone for your support and feedback!

[h3]What's Next?[/h3]

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We have big plans. Ahead of us is the next stage of work on vehicle rebalancing and adding new vehicle branches to the game. In the Recon Mission mode, we'll continue to experiment with settings and maps, as well as introduce unusual rules. A new location will be added to the map list for Random Battles, while the existing maps will constantly be improved.

All the features you've enjoyed will be continued and enhanced. Spectacular game events await—including Onslaught, Frontline, and Steel Hunter—and will be launched several times a year.

Starting from February 2023, we'll be launching detailed content on upcoming features and game events. There really are a lot of plans, so stay tuned to find out all the details and share your feedback!

But for now, we hope you’re enjoying the cool rewards and festive atmosphere of Holiday Ops 2023. Together with our incredible celebrities, we plan to continue bringing you many more wonderful surprises and memorable moments!

The holidays always come to an end sooner or later, but World of Tanks stays with you all year round! Good luck in Holiday Ops, Commanders!

Don't miss your chance to replenish your stock of gold, days of WoT Premium Account, and other goodies through the current event—it’ll come in handy in the upcoming year!

Commanders!

What can be better than greetings from an epic host of Holiday Ops? Greetings from two epic hosts! Arnold and Milla would like to say a couple of words to you, Commanders. There's not much to add, so we join the congratulations!

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Happy Holidays, everyone!

Commanders!

There is so much going on in World of Tanks Steam right now: festive activities, holiday gifts, impressive discounts on our DLCs, tons of various rewards and more! Even though we’d already posted an article with a quick glimpse at all the fun stuff going on in the game earlier this month, we decided that it would be a good idea to make one more updated overview of everything that’s happening. So read on and make sure not to miss anything!

[h3]Don’t Miss the Steam Winter Sale Bargains in World of Tanks![/h3]

From December 22, 2022 through January 5, 2022, four of our DLCs will receive great discounts of up to 90%. Each of these DLCs includes a Premium vehicle to add to your Garage, as well as a certain number of WoT Premium account days. Apart from that, the bundles “Elusive Menace Pack” and “Nimble Sharpshooter Pack” each contain a bunch of holiday-themed customization elements, some credits, and two unique crew members with Brothers in Arms as a zero perk and enough XP for one extra skill!

Check out the detailed information on the discounted DLCs below:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1737351/World_of_Tanks__Blistering_Firebrand_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1811790/World_of_Tanks__Elusive_Menace_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1811800/World_of_Tanks__Nimble_Sharpshooter_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1737350/World_of_Tanks__Rugged_Mountaineer_Pack/
[h3]Meet the New Additions to the World of Tanks Points Shop![/h3]

A total of 9 new eye-catching customization elements for your Steam profile will soon be added to the World of Tanks Points Shop. Prepare to use your Steam Points to get new cool items and decorate your profiles in a true tanker fashion!

[h3]Enjoy Holiday Ops 2023![/h3]

During Holiday Ops 2023, you have a wide range of various activities available in the game. Decorate and upgrade your Village to boost the Festive Atmosphere level and visit your friends’ Villages to see how their celebration is going. Complete Assignments from our world-famous guests to get economic bonuses to credits and XP that will help you progress in the game even faster. Earn Tokens and use them to receive useful rewards from the Gift Terminal – including a brand-new Tier IX Special Soviet Object 283 medium tank! And even that is not all you can do during Holiday Ops 2023, so go ahead and click on the article below if you wish to learn all the details!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1407200/view/3497637038442165170
[h3]Grab the Free DLC![/h3]

Remember that until January 9, 2023, all Steam players can get an exclusive DLC completely for free! It contains 50 pieces of each Holiday Ops resource and a special mission with a Tier VI Premium British Sherman VC Firefly medium tank as a reward. In order to park this dangerous British medium in your Garage, you just need to add the DLC to your Steam account, log in to the game, and then finish the mission before January 21, 2023, at 09:00 UTC!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2224810/World_of_Tanks__Holiday_Gift_Pack/
[h3]Check Out the Large Boxes![/h3]

Large Boxes contain lots of valuable rewards, including guaranteed 250 gold and 200 Holiday Ops resources and a surprise gift from the following goodies: new Premium tanks, eye-catching 3D styles, and an additional Holiday Ops character named Redshire Cat. You can find all four types of Large Boxes in the in-game Store. Get yourself something nice for the holidays!

If you want to learn more about Large Boxes, take a look at the article below.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1407200/view/3497637038445578100
Launch the Game Now and Enjoy the Holidays Together with World of Tanks!

Greetings, Commanders!

The winter holidays are here, and Arcade Cabinet returns with a couple of very fitting and suitably chill activities: Snowballs and Ice Age. Both sets of rules change the game’s physics for the sake of sheer light-hearted fun. The battles take place on six snow-covered maps in Tier VIII or Tier X vehicles.

In the Snowballs mode, your shells turn into lumps of snow, flying by ballistic trajectories and leaving snowy splashes on enemy vehicles—that is, if you score a hit! The Ice Age mode is all slippery: Your mammoth machine has much less traction than usual and can be easily sent drifting—with style and some consequences, including smashing into an unlucky opponent‘s ride. Ouch!

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[h2]Mode Availability[/h2]

The snowy and icy fun modes will be available on a special schedule. First, Snowballs will pop up on December 23 and stay until December 25, followed by Ice Age from December 30 through January 1. Both modes will make a double comeback on January 6 and will be available simultaneously until January 8.

[h3]ARCADE CABINET: SNOWBALLS[/h3]
EU: December 23 at 10:00 CET (UTC+1) through December 25 at 23:59 CET (UTC+1)
NA: December 23 at 07:00 PT | 09:00 CT | 10:00 ET through December 25 at 21:59 PT | 23:59 CT | December 26 at 00:59 ET
ASIA: December 23 at 13:00 UTC+8 through December 26 at 03:59 UTC+8

[h3]ARCADE CABINET: ICE AGE[/h3]
EU: December 30 at 10:00 CET (UTC+1) through January 1 at 23:59 CET (UTC+1)
NA: December 30 at 07:00 PT | 09:00 CT | 10:00 ET through January 1 at 21:59 PT | 23:59 CT | January 2 at 00:59 ET
ASIA: December 30 at 13:00 UTC+8 through January 2 at 03:59 UTC+8

[h3]ARCADE CABINET: SNOWBALLS & ICE AGE[/h3]
EU: January 6 at 10:00 CET (UTC+1) through January 8 at 23:59 CET (UTC+1)
NA: January 6 at 07:00 PT | 09:00 CT | 10:00 ET through January 8 at 21:59 PT | 23:59 CT | January 9 at 00:59 ET
ASIA: January 6 at 13:00 UTC+8 through January 9 at 03:59 UTC+8

You can enter the Snowballs and Ice Age modes via the mode selector or via a special window in the lower-right corner of your Garage.



[h2]The Maps[/h2]

We mentioned above that all the snowy and icy frolicking will happen on SIX wintry maps. Sure, the basic game has three of these for 15v15 battles—Mannerheim Line, Erlenberg, and Glacier—but we have also given the winter treatment to three more locations: Karelia, Prokhorovka, and Malinovka. Have a look at these classic open-air maps covered in snow and ice!







[h2]Snowballs[/h2]

In this mode, your shots look like veritable snowballs instead of fireballs, and they even crash onto enemy armor plates like them! (As you know, ice will suffice for destruction just as well as fire.) Out of all the shell types, high explosive ones are the most like snowballs, so they are the most efficient in the mode. We also tweaked the way they travel to make you feel like you are lobbing these snowballs rather than shooting them. To recreate the brutal and unpredictable nature of snowball fights in the game, we shortened reload times and boosted engine power for every vehicle.

[h3]Battle Modifiers[/h3]

• Smooth Curves
  Shells follow curved trajectories.
  
• Ice Shrapnel
  The efficiency of all HE shells is increased. (This does not apply to arty HE shells.)
  
• Frozen Armor
  The armor penetration of all shells except HE ones is decreased by 25%.
  
• Comfy Config
  Reload time is decreased by 25%.
  
• Fuel Additives
  Engine power is increased by 50%.
  

[h2]Ice Age[/h2]

Sliding on slippery slopes is not all this mode is about! It's quite logical that while drifting, you need better aiming for the entire process to be fun. Therefore, while in this mode, you will get less dispersion from movement and traverse, and all rounds will fly faster. (There are a lot of action movies with precision shots taken while sliding, but none of them feature tanks.) Together with increased turret traverse, a higher top speed, and double the engine power, this produces some neo-tank (or matrix tank) effects—icy cool AND on ice!

[h3]Battle Modifiers[/h3]

• Ice Cow Citadel
  Vehicles are sliding as if they were on ice. Whee!
  
• Rev It Up
  The top forward speed is increased by 10 km/h.
  
• Winter Tracks
  The top reverse speed is increased by 30 km/h for all tracked vehicles.
  
• Winter Tires
  The top reverse speed is increased by 10 km/h for all wheeled vehicles.
  
• Rotation Mechanism Greasing
  The turret traverse speed is increased by 100%.
  
• Fuel Additives
  Engine power is increased by 50%.
  
• Steady Aim
  Dispersion during turret traverse and vehicle movement and traverse is decreased by 50%.
  
• Tailwind
  Shell velocity is increased by 50%.
  

[h2]The Rules[/h2]

Except for different physics, Snowballs and Ice Age have the same set of rules, as follows:

• Battles are all single-tiered, fought in either Tier VIII or Tier X vehicles.
  
• You receive XP and credits for battles, and you can use all types of regular reserves (Personal and Clan ones).
  
• XP multipliers for the first victory of the day work in the modes, and credits are put into the vault.
  
• Snowballs and Ice Age battles don‘t contribute to Daily Missions or Personal Missions, but they count towards the mode progression.
  
• Snowballs and Ice Age battles do not give you bonds, except for the event progression rewards—see below.
  
• Holiday Ops bonuses to XP and credits earned apply to Snowballs and Ice Age battles.
  
• You may play in Platoons if you wish (and are eligible for the bonuses if you do).
  

[h2]The Rewards[/h2]

For every launch of the modes, you can complete a short series of Battle Missions and earn some bonds.

The third “combined” launch of Snowballs and Ice Age counts as a single event, meaning the maximum total number of bonds you can get during all the three launches is 1,200.

Are you ready for cold weather fun? Put your warm padded helmet on, and prepare to shoot snowballs and drift on ice!