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Hello, tankers!

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The last episode of July is here!

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It is time to tell you about every single piece of news of this week.

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Listen carefully and don’t forget to be active in the comments section.

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Let’s go!

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Question marks

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In this release, we added special icons for some secret game content!

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We decided to bring a bit of mystery and insidious intrigue to the game screens.

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This is especially interesting for the Garages of new players.

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When they start playing the game, they will only have 3 turrets and 3 hulls, thus their Garages will look empty.

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The new icons will show these players that there are many more items in the game, but they are not yet available for them.

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If they click on any of these question marks, a short description of the item will appear.

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We will first add this feature only for turrets and hulls.

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Sometimes we prepare skins and augments and add them to the game in advance, before a public announcement of any event or update.

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These icons will help us keep these items a secret until it is time to reveal them.

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What an interesting little update!

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Daily and Weekly missions

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In one of the previous episodes of the V-LOG, we announced the upcoming changes to the mission system.

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In the past three weeks, we have reworked, complemented, and prepared it for release.

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Here’s how daily and weekly missions will work starting from the next release:

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Every day, you get 9 basic missions and 1 supermission.

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If you complete them all, you get access to the additional set of 7 basic missions and a supermission.

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Weekly missions work the same way.

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This additional set is a bonus for those players who are ready to spend more time and get more rewards.

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You already get the same number of rewards as earlier for completing the main set of missions.

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Once they are in the game, and you complete the new missions, don’t forget to give us your feedback.

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We look forward to learning how much time it takes for you to complete them.

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Good luck!

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Bots were broken, Bots are fixed

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Last week, artificial intelligence around the world began to score lower results in IQ tests.

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Following the GPT-4 trends, our bots also had the same problems.

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They were no longer moving stably across the map, sometimes they were just getting frozen in place.

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Some even started moving backwards, stopped shooting or rotating their turrets.

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Thus, in their current form they can’t be relied upon to teach newcomers how to play the game.

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That’s why we are working on a fix for this problem.

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We will return the artificial intelligence to the bots after fixing all the malfunctions.

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Faith in humanity will be restored!

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Stages of creating a skin

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Gauss HD turned out to be magnificent.

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We decided to tell you how skins usually get made and what rules we follow to make sure the end result is well-liked by all tankers.

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Here’s our Head of Art department Pavel to tell you more about this process

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Basis of a future skin 
The foundation of all the ideas that we use when developing HD skins was laid back in 2012, when we remastered all the graphics.

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It means, we have replaced those old Legacy skins, and added this new, already updated line of M0, M1, M2, and M3 skins.

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All the main ideas of equipment design were laid down in 2012,

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and what we do now when creating HD skins is just further development of those old ideas.

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Concept arts
Usually we work on one concept and its development.

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We do not create several concepts and choose from several options.

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Stages of creating a skin
It starts with a sketch or a rough model.

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This concept is gradually being developed into the final form.

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The second stage is a complete concept art.

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It differs from a sketch in its depth.

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The tank has already been drawn, all the details have been properly elaborated, and they have their final look.

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The next step is creating projections - pictures of the tank from different views: side view, front view, top view, and back view.

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Then we create a highly polygonal model based on these projections.

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This is a technical stage, so we often outsource it, delegate it to external contractors.

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After that, we create a game asset based on a high-polygonal model.

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It differs from the high-polygonal model with a more optimized geometry that our game engine can use.

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Once a game model is finished, we use previous developments to create its final look and a clean texture, which is drawn by an artist’s hand.

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The final stage is preparing a model to be added to the game.

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We insert a skeleton into it and set it to work the way it’s supposed to.

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Time
It usually takes about a month and a half to create a skin.

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It is a little more complicated to make turrets.

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Because you need to create its animation and logic of work.

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Making hulls is much easier and a little faster.

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Even though they are bigger.

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Unpublished variants
Usually, if a skin is not good enough to appear in the game, it stays in the form of a sketch.

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Over the years, we’ve got all these weird designs that you can see now.

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If we do not like a concept for some reason, we do not bring it to the stage of modeling.

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It remains in the form of a drawing.

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P.S.
Gauss is an absolutely energetic turret.

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And energy produces a lot of heat, so it needs to cool down.

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The projecting steam is demonstrating that the turret is cooling down now and you should wait a bit.

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Actually, Gauss is my favorite turret and I often play with it.

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YouTubers

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Healing teammates, choosing a drone, and having fun with Juggernauts: YouTuber digest is back!

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Six of our YouTubers got Juggernauts and had some fun with their fans.

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If you missed the party, check out Winter’s video

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In some games, there is a special character role - Healer.

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Do you know that you can also be a healer of your team in Tanki Online?

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You just need to get these augments from the Mr.Yakov’s video

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Not long ago, we removed more than a half of the drones from the game.

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However, it is still a question which drone is the best to use.

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Watch Taspen’s review to find out!

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Question of the Week

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Last time, you had to guess which line the green Titan would reach.

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The correct answer is: C

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Congratulations to the winners!

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And here is the next question:

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Which Gauss will destroy the most amount of tanks in a minute?

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That was all the news for this week.

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The only remaining announcement is that we won’t have an episode next week.

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Rescue a cat, help an elderly woman cross the street, have some rest, and don’t forget to play Tanki.

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Bye![]