14 DAY TRIAL // World of Tanks has just put a little more shine on the combat vehicles with Update 9.3, adding even more battle monsters for wargame enthusiasts to pilot and instituting some long-awaited fixes, including solving user bugs, such as a lack of sportsmanship.
World of Tanks has players take control of a single armored vehicle out of an extensive roster of available tanks, and heading into battle on random maps, having to coordinate with team members in order to take out the opposing team or satisfy various game objectives.
The free-to-play game has millions of fan all around the world, and is available on PC for a few years, with an Xbox 360 port also available.
The latest major content patch added Historical Battles to the game, enabling users to take part in various battles that occurred during World War II, with the number of players fighting for each country being modeled based on real-life data, and various ammunition and modules being designed closely to how things were in real life.
World of Tank currently offers over 240 tanks from the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain, China, Japan and France, from various periods in history, and provides an in-depth physics simulation that factors in armor and cover.
What's new in Update 9.3
The latest update from Wargaming brings six brand new light tanks to the game, expands Strongholds functionality and rebalances some of the vehicles that players can step behind the wheel of, in addition to reworking the Murovanka map.
Two new tanks were added to the Soviet lineup of battle vehicles, the LTTB (similar to the T-50-2) and the T-54 Lightweight version. The USA received three new light tank, the T-37, the M41 Walker Bulldog and the T49, while the German side got the brand new RU 251 light tank.
The newly implemented Strongholds mode will enable players to employ Legionnaires, which are players that are currently unaffiliated with a clan, as well as to construct a War Department, a building that offers clan members random quests.
Another notable fix is a new feature which seeks to address "unsportsmanlike" conduct from players, such as AFKing and desertion, through an in-game penalty and fining system. Read the full details on the penalty system; it essentially boils down to receiving currency of experience fines of an equal value to the match you abandoned or AFKed in.
In addition to this, the update also crams in more high-definition models for vehicles, as well as several balance tweaks to some of the tanks. If you're interested in getting the full scoop on Update 9.3, complete with in-game footage, you can check out the video below.
