World of Tanks News

Warhammer Skulls 2023 is here, Commanders!

From May 25, 2023, through June 1, 2023, Steam holds the Warhammer Skulls Festival: a massive gaming event dedicated to the exciting worlds and universes of the Warhammer franchise. World of Tanks joins the fun, bringing you a bunch of time-limited offers with Warhammer themed content, including a free one!

Check out all the special deals we’ve prepared for the Skulls Festival and don’t miss the opportunity to get your hands on some exclusive Warhammer content!

Unfortunately, players who have their Steam Store country set as Russia or Belarus will not be able to claim or purchase these DLCs.

[h3]1. NEW! Boon of Sanguinius Pack – Free![/h3]

Grab this free pack to get one day of WoT Premium Account, a handful of Personal Reserves and a special battle mission for a spectacular “Hues of Sanguine” 2D style, which is a Steam-exclusive piece of customization! The style lets you decorate one of your American vehicles in the colors of the Blood Angels: one of the 20 First Founding Legions of the Space Marines, renowned across the galaxy for their fervor in battle against the enemies of the Emperor.

To finish the battle mission and get this exceptional 2D style, you just need to play 10 battles in any vehicle and be among the top-10 players of your team by the XP earned! Keep in mind that you can complete the mission only until June 1st, 2023.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2392650/World_of_Tanks__Boon_of_Sanguinius_Pack/

[h3]2. Warhammer 40,000 Themed Pack – 60% Off![/h3]

This DLC includes the hard-hitting steel monster KV-2 (R) with a special 3D style “Valhallan Ragnarok”, inspired by one of the toughest regiments of the Imperial Guard from Warhammer 40,000 universe: the brave and tenacious Valhallan Ice Warriors. Rip the enemy tanks to pieces with your powerful shots and prove that nobody should cross their path with the formidable KV-2 (R).

Apart from this mighty heavy with a 100% crew and a Garage slot, the DLC includes 7 days of WoT Premium Account, The Mordian style set for the BDR G1 B and 30 tokens with x5 XP for KV-2(R).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647970/World_of_Tanks__Warhammer_40000_Themed_Pack/

[h3]3. NEW! Seal of Chaos Pack[/h3]

This macabre bundle includes one Chaos Undivided 2D style, six Seal of Chaos decals and a unique crew member Fecrustus Spute with Brothers in Arms as zero perk and enough XP for two extra perks.

Show your devotion to Chaos powers by decorating your vehicle in thematic customization elements and let Fecrustus Spute bring destruction to your opponents!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2392680/World_of_Tanks__Seal_of_Chaos_Pack/

[h3]4. NEW! Imperial Aquila Pack[/h3]

Crush the foes of the Emperor with style! This bundle includes one Emperor’s Wrath 2D style, six Imperial Aquila decals and two unique tankers with Brothers in Arms as zero perk and enough XP for two extra perks: Commander Goran and Commander Vitarian.

Let the enemies tremble at the sight of your tank!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2392700/World_of_Tanks__Imperial_Aquila_Pack/

[h3]5. NEW! Hand of Vengeance Pack[/h3]

This DLC includes a striking Ignis Purgatio 3D style, a unique crew member Natalestra Aspais with Brothers in Arms as zero perk and enough XP for two extra perks and a bunch of other customization elements.

The contents of the bundle are inspired by Adepta Sororitas, an all-female order of fierce warriors who ruthlessly destroy the enemies of the Imperium and protect the humanity against heresy and chaos. Show your opponents that they will get no mercy from you and your allies!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2392720/World_of_Tanks__Hand_of_Vengeance_Pack/

Warhammer Skulls Festival is a perfect time for Warhammer fans to enjoy heaps of thematic gaming content, and we are proud to be a part of this amazing event. Grab the free DLCs, treat yourselves to the exclusive deals and stay safe: Chaos never sleeps!

Roll Out!

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Season XI of Battle Pass will be a hot topic this entire summer from May 31 through September 6. There are new Core Vehicles, each with a flashy progressive style, as well as new heroes whose adventures take them to historical lands by a big warm sea. The loot list has been improved (see the full guide below), with Experimental Equipment among the Base Rewards, gold in the Improved Rewards, and adjusted bond yields. Also, the Collection is available from the start of the Season. Finally, expect a series of Challenges that offer extra prizes, along with an additional time-limited Chapter (coming around mid-Season) that includes a Premium tank among its rewards!

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[h2]Complete Chapters in Any Order[/h2]


The mechanics of progressing through Season XI are well known to those who played in the previous Season. Activate any Chapter, switch to another if you want, and come back later to continue from where you stopped. Try to finish every Chapter to max out the progressive styles, unlock the experienced crew members, and turn your hard-earned Battle Pass Points into additional goodies. You can earn Battle Pass Points in Random Battles (playing in Tier VI–X vehicles), as well as in Onslaught, Frontline, and Steel Hunter: Reborn.

DETAILS

[h2]Obtain Unique Progressive Styles[/h2]



HANMĀ FOR THE TYPE 5 HEAVY

"Hello, Dad. I hope you and Mom are doing well and don't miss me much. Things are looking up for me! I think I'll be promoted for the success of Operation Husky, just like you wanted. You should see the beast I command: a captured Japanese tank, as huge and reliable as a sledgehammer. Before our landing, our engineers reworked it so well, even you'd be surprised.

We're on the mainland now, moving north—though not too fast. But we'll get through it! We have no other choice. I've also made two friends: a bold French girl named Colette and a guy with a complicated fate named Stefan. They're great guys, but you might not say so at first glance.
In all other respects, things are the same. As they say, a front line is a front line.
Sincerely, your son Ian.

P.S. When we're done here, I'll bring you a captured Parabellum."



ÉGLANTIER FOR THE AMX 50 FOCH B

"You probably think I became a commander while drinking coffee with croissants? You two have fewer combat missions under your belts than I do. Here, you know-it-all—take a closer look at this tank destroyer. You think I got this war trophy for my 'beaux yeux?' Yes, it looks very much like the French one, but it's a German design! Like the flamethrowers, which, you can be sure, will bring the heat during the first breakthrough. When you understand what makes the compressors work, then you'll be able to call yourself a tankman. But for now, don't take too much on yourselves, guys, and don't tell me who, when, and from where to attack. Je me casse."



SWORN BROTHER FOR THE T57 HEAVY TANK

"Do you remember, Yanka, how we volunteered for the Army? You signed up as Andrzej and didn't respond to this name for the first couple of days. I didn't think we'd be sent to the South—it's too far from home. Well, Africa's no resort, but we're not timid—we did it!

Looks to me we'll have a hard time in Italy, too, but who's going to ask us?

My only dream is to come back to my homeland and build a house when this is all over. A small one by the river. To live a normal life—although it seems it'll never be normal again… All right, everything will be fine. We'll take a steam bath, and that grandma will treat us to smalec. Be careful and come back soon, and I'll take care of that famed Duplex Drive system. The landing is serious business, so I'll be working here 'til morning."

[h2]Gather the Collection and Experience the Story[/h2]

With the Collection available from the start, get into the thick of the highly atmospheric plot of Season XI straight away. Unlock its Elements by reaching certain Stage thresholds and get to know the heroes better. In addition to some juicy details, completing the Collection will grant you three extra Tokens and a special decal.


[h2]Receive Base and Improved Rewards[/h2]

The places our heroes are heading to are famous for their riches. Check out the Season XI loot!

Base Rewards



Improved Rewards



[h2]Earn Experimental Equipment[/h2]

By finishing the Chapters of Season XI, you not only finalize their respective progressive styles and acquire unique and experienced crew members, but you also expand your stock of Experimental Equipment. You can earn four of each of the types: Fire-Control System, Mobility Improvement System, and Survival Improvement Suite.

EQUIPMENT GUIDE

[h2]Items for Tokens[/h2]

Tokens are a special reward currency exclusive to Battle Pass. They accumulate over the course of the year from all the Battle Pass Seasons you take part in throughout 2023. In Season XI, you can earn up to 21 Tokens as Progression rewards (12 as Base Rewards and nine as Improved Rewards), plus up to three additional Tokens for gathering Collection Elements. Spend Tokens in the Items for Tokens section of the in-game Store to redeem valuable goodies, such as Bounty Equipment and nine rare Tier IX vehicles. In Season XI, you can accumulate enough Tokens to grab the BZ-58-2 or—if you saved up at least three Tokens from Season X—the KPz 3 Projekt 07 HK.


[h2]Challenges[/h2]

During Season XI, Challenges will be available via the Tournaments game menu for those who play in Tier IX Battle Pass reward vehicles. That includes the newcomers to the roster: the BZ-58-2 and the KPz 3 Projekt 07 HK. Follow the news, sign up for Challenges, outperform the competition, and earn prizes!

[h2]Get Extra Rewards![/h2]

Once you complete all three main Chapters of Season XI, you'll have access to the Reward section of the in‑game Store. It's where you can spend Battle Pass Points on bonds and progressive styles, as well as crew members from previous Seasons.

The Reward section of the in-game Store will be available until September 6, 2023.

[h2]Get the Improved Pass[/h2]

You can obtain the Improved Pass for any Season XI Chapter for 2,500 gold on the Battle Pass screen in your Garage. The in-game Store has real-money offers of bundles that include the Improved Pass for all Chapters, as well as value bundles. On top of giving you the full Improved Pass, value bundles allow you to receive 250 gold daily for up to 30 days if you play a single Random Battle that day.

A new journey awaits, Commanders!

Commanders!

Do you think a "Collectathon" tag is right for World of Tanks? Are visual components, such as “Historical” or “Realistic,” important to you? Maybe you like the experience of tank driving or contests with worthy rivals? Tell us more by adding tags you think are a good fit for World of Tanks, and we'll grant you one Community Token that you can use to claim various rewards in-game!


[h3]How to Suggest Tags for World of Tanks[/h3]

1. Go to the Store page.
   
2. Find the "Popular user-defined tags for this product" section on the right-hand side of the Store page, and then click the "+" symbol.
   
3. Select tags from existing ones by clicking the "+" symbol next to the tag, or create your own tags.
   
4. Share your tags in the comments under this post.
   

NOTE: During this event, the reward will only be granted once, regardless of the number of tags suggested or added. It may take us a couple of days to collect and process all the participants, so don’t worry if you don’t get your Token immediately after the event ends.

[h3]Steam Community Shop and Community Tokens: How It Works[/h3]

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Community Tokens are a special currency that you earn by being an active member of the World of Tanks Steam Community and by participating in various events and activities.

You can spend your Tokens in the Steam Community Shop in-game to select the rewards you need (rather than a predetermined reward, as it used to be).

To find the Steam Community Shop, log in to the game, enter the Depot from your Garage and open the “Homefront Supplies” tab. There, you will find the Steam Community Shop with all available rewards and their cost in Community Tokens.
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Make tag suggestions, receive Tokens, and grab useful rewards from the Steam Community Shop—sounds like a good deal to us!

Commanders!

Map environment interaction has always been one of the cornerstones of World of Tanks gameplay. Felling trees allows you to hide better from opponents, while sliding down a steep hill slope can help you attack your foes from the rear, and so on. We have always worked hard to keep expanding the bag of environment-related tricks players can use in battle. With Update 9.13, it became possible to fight inside buildings where you were safe from arty shelling. Later, with Update 1.0, the first destructible objects were added to serve as disposable cover.

Now the time has come for every player to try out two new map features first made available to the participants of the Update 1.20.1 Common Test: random events and dynamic cover. From May 15, play in the Recon Mission 2023 mode (accessible via the mode selector) and share your opinions with us in the updated questionnaires!

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The addition of random events and dynamic cover makes gameplay richer and more varied while staying true to its basics. Random events give you a fresh selection of interesting opportunities once they happen, each with the potential to tip the scales of battle, and dynamic cover (which can be moved around the battlefield) gives you an open invitation to improvise. With these new features, your tactical awareness and inventiveness are rewarded more than ever. What’s important is that the gameplay enhancements you can experience in Recon Mission 2023 are just what we are ready to release for testing—and it’s only the beginning!


[h2]Random Events: Part and Parcel of Maps[/h2]

A random event significantly impacts a large area of its map, creating new paths for vehicles and/or blocking existing ones, producing new cover and firing positions. One of the main goals of random events is shaking up the situation on the battlefield. Their locations (shown in the widget below) are most likely familiar to you as spots where fighting may come to a stalemate. Random events can break up deadlocks by offering both sides fresh tactical opportunities.

Random events are designed as integral parts of the locations in which they happen and are related to their setting. For example, Safe Haven features a seaport, and one of the random events there is a large cargo ship crashing into a dock. In Recon Mission 2023, random events are available on four maps: Himmelsdorf, Ruinberg, Prokhorovka, and Safe Haven.

Currently, we do not plan to introduce random events on every map, although the list of locations that do feature them may expand in the future. Also, we are currently prioritizing integrating random events into Random Battles because it is the core mode of the game. In the future, we may implement random events in other game modes.

[h2]Random Events: Current State and Mechanics[/h2]

While playing in the new Recon Mission 2023 mode, you won’t be able to miss random events. Before an event starts, you will hear a warning sound, at which point the event zone will be marked on the map and the minimap with a red border, and then a countdown will start. Before it reaches zero, it is advisable to drive your vehicle out of the event zone. The current penalty for not doing this in time is the vehicle’s destruction, but this may change in the future.

Recon Mission 2023 is just one of the stages of ongoing random events development. Moreover, certain features are for testing purposes only and will not carry over to the release. For example, every possible random event (two or three per map) will fire over the course of every battle, each within a designated narrow time frame. This most likely won’t be the case when random events hit Random Battles—they will occur at more random times (or sometimes not even happen at all) and will possibly be triggered by certain gameplay factors.

With random events being very important to their locations (as they change their topography drastically on the go), we will pay special attention to their impact on map balance. We will use the data and feedback from Recon Mission while fine-tuning the existing events and designing new ones.

Random events may be random in their timing, but when one starts, it unfolds according to its unique scenario. For each event, its sequence, the location and size of its danger zones, and the shape of new cover and passages will always be the same. Therefore, you can already learn how every event unfolds to use the tactical advantages it offers in the future.

In Recon Mission, the visual effects for random events are not final, their current quality being sufficient for a gameplay test. When random events become part of Random Battles on certain maps, explosions will be much more impressive, fires will burn brighter, etc.

We are aware that random events may be a strain on some lower-end systems. By the time they hit Random Battles, we will address this by optimizing their use of system resources on any hardware and adding their versions for lower-spec systems that will be less demanding on performance but the same in terms of gameplay.

[h2]Dynamic Cover[/h2]

Every Recon Mission location will also have dynamic cover: map objects that can be moved by your vehicle while giving it additional protection. You can use these objects in a broad variety of tactical situations, and it’s important to distinguish between the two types of dynamic cover: indestructible and destructible.

• Indestructible dynamic cover currently consists of railway carriages and wrecks of tanks (either with or without a turret). These objects may be hard to push around with your vehicle, but you don’t have to worry about them being dismantled by enemy shots.
  
  
  

  

  
• Destructible dynamic cover includes cargo containers as well as small and large concrete blocks. Each of these object types has an HP pool that can be depleted with several shots. The exact number of shots needed to destroy an opponent’s dynamic cover depends on its remaining HP count and the damage output of your gun.
  
  
  

  

  

We plan to add more dynamic cover objects in the future. Currently, there is a limited number of them because we are testing the mechanics and want to make it easier for you to identify the objects that can be moved and destroyed.

[h2]Recon Mission 2023: The Progression[/h2]

Getting into the top 12 by base XP (in your team) in Recon Mission battles contributes to your progression bar. To complete the event Progression, you need to meet these conditions in 50 battles. Among the rewards you receive for reaching certain Progression thresholds are days of WoT Premium Account, Personal Reserves, directives, medals, and a special 2D style!


The Progression will be reset after the first week of Recon Mission (on May 22 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)), so you can complete it twice—and get double the rewards!


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[h2]The Questionnaire[/h2]

You can fill in the general questionnaire after having played 20 Recon Mission battles in which you were among the top 12 players on your team by base XP earned. There are also four map-specific questionnaires that unlock after you play eight battles on the given map (while also being among the top 12 on your team by base XP).

The set of questions you can answer has been reworked and expanded compared to the previous Recon Mission. In these, you are encouraged to give your opinions not only on the implementation of random events and dynamic cover on the available maps but also on the gameplay mechanics of these features, such as their randomness, timing, triggers, penalties for vehicles that fail to leave danger zones in time, and much more.

Play Recon Mission 2023, fill in the questionnaires, and help define the future of the game, Commanders!

Commanders!

World of Tanks is always rich in events and activities, but some months are even busier than others. There is so much happening in World of Tanks this May that we decided to create this special digest so that you don’t miss anything!

This article will be updated during the month with more information about the ongoing and upcoming events.

[h2]Experience unusual combat on the Red Planet in the Call to Mars event![/h2]

This event has already ended, but there’s always something to do in World of Tanks!

Starting May 11, 2023, and running through May 21, 2023, all players can try out thrilling out-of-this-world clashes in the Call to Mars event. Fight on strange terrain with omnipresent red dust, complex rock formations, and pools of highly corrosive acid. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Take remote control of your Mars Rover, compete for Points with other operators, and remember: In this mode, everyone is on their own!

Besides breathtaking views and exciting combat, the event also offers lots of rewards, including Martian Containers with valuable contents. Learn more about the event mechanics, Progression, and rewards by clicking this article:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1407200/view/3717202192680773633

[h2]Celebrate our Second Anniversary on Steam![/h2]

This event has already ended, but there’s always something to do in World of Tanks!

World of Tanks Steam is celebrating its second birthday and giving away gifts to everyone! From May 11, 2023, through May 21, 2023, you can treat yourself to a free DLC and a special gift bundle in the in-game Store. What’s more, check out a new unique DLC with a bunch of missions for ×10 credits and Combat XP, stock up on WoT Premium Account days, or expand your tank collection at bargain prices.

We have prepared a lot of pleasant surprises for you—read all the details in the dedicated article below!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1407200/view/3729585915968984350

[h2]Earn Community Tokens and Pick Your Rewards![/h2]

On May 5, 2023, we reopened the Steam Community Shop with slightly refreshed rewards and more opportunities to earn Tokens. The current Community Shop Stage will be available until June 30, so you have plenty of time to earn Tokens in various Community activities and exchange them for something useful.

If you wish to learn more about the Steam Community Shop, head to this article:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1407200/view/6869720192208885061

[h2]Complete Battle Pass![/h2]

Battle Pass Season X continues until May 31, 2023, so you still have time to complete unfinished Chapters and earn nice rewards. And don’t forget about the recently added Collections mechanic, which lets you earn additional Battle Pass Tokens and helps you immerse yourself further into the atmosphere and lore of Season X.

To learn more about Battle Pass and Collections, read the articles below:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1407200/view/3664278558790396480

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1407200/view/3729585915972056642

Stay tuned for more news, and May the fun be with you!