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Hello tankers!

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In today’s V-LOG,

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we’ll be talking about the problems

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we experienced this week with game servers.

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We’ll also be telling you more about

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the separation of paints from resistances,

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and announcing some unique shop content.

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Monday sure was a crazy day.

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As many of you already know, last Monday,
11th of July,

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our servers were down for about 13 hours.

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Let’s talk about this unfortunate event,

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and what triggered it.

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What’s worse than a timebomb?

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Two timebombs!

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Last Monday will go down in history as “Tankopocalypse”.

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Game servers were offline from 5am till 6pm UTC.

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We believe that as a result of an old release

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dating back to 2012,

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a small piece of code managed to sneak

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into the main code of the game.

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This turned into a timebomb threatening to explode.

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And that’s exactly what happened.

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On the morning of July 11th,

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that timebomb initiated its final countdown.

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A handful of players accessing the 1st and
2nd Russian servers,

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unknowingly triggered the error,

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which ended up affecting PRO Battle Passes,

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Premium Accounts, and “Double Crystal” cards

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all across the European cluster.

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And to fix this issue, our programmers

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were forced to stop the game servers.

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Hundreds of updates

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have been implemented over the past 7 years,

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and this buggy piece of code

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could have sneaked in with any of them.

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It took us 13 long hours to find it, fix it,

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extract a list of affected players,

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refund their lost bonuses, and relaunch game servers.

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Unfortunately, since the servers were down,

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many players were unable
to keep their mission chains going,

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so their progress was rolled back by several days,

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even up to an entire week.

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This is why we launched

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the compensation sale event on Tuesday

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Double Crystal cards until the end of the week

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and 4 days of premium for everyone,

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plus 36 hours of double funds.

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We want everyone to have a good time

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playing during the weekend.

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Last Tuesday, we handed out

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the prizes for the Football Paints event.

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Now, for the results.

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Not everybody got it right.

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For example, Kasim and Dmitry

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the Russian Community Manager

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bought the paint for Wales.

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Our editor Nik bought the paint for Germany.

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Cedric, who isn’t much of a football fan…

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didn’t buy any paints

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because he barely knew which teams were playing.

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Can you guess which paint Amanda

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our Brazilian Community Manager bought?

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What about you?

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Anyway, with France being one of the clear favorites,

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we’re pretty sure many of you

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got some nice prizes from the event!

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The separation of paints from resistances

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is finally in the game.

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If you’d like to know more about it,

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we’re about to give you the details.

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This update required an extended server downtime.

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The system needed to go through the accounts database

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and split every paint into two separate items

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a Paint Element, and a Protection Module.

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As a result, we now have 71 Paint Elements,

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69 Protection Modules

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corresponding to the resistance combinations

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from the old paints,

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and 70 brand new Protection Modules.

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The main feature of these
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is that each module’s resistances

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are set to the same percentage.

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Now, tankers can choose

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whichever Paint Element they like,

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while also equipping the set of protections

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that best suits their needs in battle.

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Don’t forget that together with this update,

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we have also introduced a new feature.

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If you press and hold the “R” key,

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a window will pop up,

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showing you all the information

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about the turrets and hulls
of other tanks in the battle,

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their upgrade level, and Protection Module.

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More good news with a long-awaited

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but unexpected announcement.

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Curious?

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Keep watching!

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With the implementation of the paint separation feature,

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we got the green light for the next update,

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which is the shop upgrade

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we mentioned in our last V-LOG.

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If you recall, we had also mentioned

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something about new, unique content

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being added to the upgraded Tanki Online shop.

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That’s happening too,

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and the first item to be added is… a new supply!

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When pressing the 6 key,

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a gold box will drop on the map

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under the usual conditions, that is,

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the siren will sound,

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and the gold box will drop after 30 seconds.

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This new supply can be obtained in several ways.

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You’ll be able to buy it from the shop,

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win it in a contest,

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or receive it as a reward from a daily quest.

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There are many ways you can use it.

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You can present it to a friend as a gift during a battle,

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or shoot cool video compilations of the best
Gold captures.

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Also, Save the Gold events,

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will be a lot easier to organize.

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You can also use the gold box

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with the intention of demoralizing your opponents,

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and turn the tides of the battle.

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Of course, the Gold box supply

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cannot be used in battles
where Gold Boxes are disabled.

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The option is enabled by default,

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but as always, if you’d rather play
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just turn the option off.

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Dear friends!

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You only have one week left

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to submit your video entry

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for the “Welcome Tanki” contest.

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Hurry up! In the meantime,

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the Russian community have already received

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some quality videos,

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and one of them really stands out!

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There’s a good number of tankers in it,

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and the filming is pretty good too.

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Remember, the Russian Community

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and the International Community

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are getting separate contests,

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so we need awesome entries for both.

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That means you guys need to roll up your sleeves

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and get to work right now!

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Don’t forget there will be

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an iPad up for grabs at the meeting!

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Do you want it?

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Then do something about it!

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Video of the week.

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Last week, we asked you to record

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something cool on a “Night” map.

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Let’s watch the best video.

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For next week’s video,

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we’d like you to send us a recording

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on a less-known map, such as Skylark.

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Use the standard green paint for this one.

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Remember, with the new update,

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you can use it with any set of protections.

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As we told you in the last V-LOG,

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we have decided to rework

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the “Question of the week” section.

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From this episode,

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this section will once again be
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rather than a separate video.

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It will be featured at the end of each episode,

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in the same format,

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where we announce the winners,

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and ask the next question.

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We’re also changing the way you submit your answers.

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There will be a special form

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where you will need to fill in your nickname,

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and the answer that you think is correct.

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Every week, we’ll randomly pick TWO people…

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actually, no,

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make that FIVE people

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who answered the question correctly,

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and award them with 20 000 crystals each.

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By the way,

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make sure you don’t make any mistakes

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when submitting your answers.

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If you post multiple entries,

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only the first one will be considered valid.

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And in case you’re wondering,

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no, you won’t have to write your answers
in the comment section anymore,

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and you won’t have to work hard to get the most likes.

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That’s it everyone!

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Remember that this weekend

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you can play with double funds and premium,

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so have fun!

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Good Bye!

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Last week we asked you to guess

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how many times the Ricochet projectile

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would bounce before hitting the Wasp.

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The right answer is

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5 times

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Let’s meet our winners and watch the next question.[]