World of Tanks Update 1.6 is here, with shiny new patch notes.
Personal Missions are seeing several changes:-
Rebalanced the Personal Missions within the Object 279 (e) operation.
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Conditions of 22 missions have been adjusted.
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Two (2) missions have been changed while keeping the player's progress within them (with the 1 to 1 conversion).
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Rebalanced a number of missions for SPGs (within both campaigns).
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Twelve (12) missions for SPGs have been changed within The Long-Awaited Backup campaign.
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Five (5) missions for SPGs have been changed within the Second Front campaign.
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The team also shared some information on disabling friendly fire/damage
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We disabled team damage and team kills caused by friendly fire and ramming in all Random Battles (Standard, Encounter, Assault and Grand Battles).
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Reworked the sounds and effects of direct hits received from allies.
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Revised the system of penalties for causing damage and stunning allies.
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Reworked the mechanics of interaction between the HE shells of SPGs and guns of the allied vehicles
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The corresponding changes will be made to the Game Rules, which will take effect after the release of the update.
Maps received some balance changes, specifically a spotting position on the Malinovka map saw trees removed which prevent the northern team from spotting enemy vehicles.
A host of fixed issues and improvements were listed as well-
Fixed the issue, when the marker "Aiming at !" was displayed in white on the terrain.
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Fixed the issue, when a Personal Reserve in Depot was displayed with the text "Activated".
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Fixed the issue, when the name and icon of the vehicle offered for purchasing in the Garage fell through the terrain or was shifted to a side.
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Added information in Depot stating that crew books cannot be sold.
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Improved the description of the experience for assistance (base defense) in the Ranked Battles.
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The statistics of the Ranked Battles now shows the record values correctly.
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Added the information about stunning to the Average Assistance infotip.
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Fixed the issue, when the functionality of disabling the team chat did not work in the Frontline mode.
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When extending the rental period of a vehicle, a 50% crew is no longer added.
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Fixed the issue when a player did not receive a rank in a Frontline battle, if their vehicle was destroyed but the required experience was earned post factum (e.g., for the assistance damage).
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Fixed the issue in the Frontline mode when an explosion effect was displayed at the center of the map after the player's vehicle was destroyed.
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Added a pop-up hint for the Session Statistics button.
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Fixed the issue, when a player on the Blacklist was removed from it in some cases.
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Now the reticles of the Magnetic Autoaiming and the standard aiming match.
