World of Tanks Console - all about the Mercenaries update. World of Tanks Console - all about the Mercenaries Tanks console version update

I haven't been here for a long time! And there is so much I want to tell you. After all, every month we add new content, come up with bright game events and organize competitions in which you can get not only in-game gifts, but also branded PlayStation 4 consoles (by the way, very soon there will be another drawing for the coolest “curling iron” - follow the news in our official group).

But now I would like to draw your attention to something else. Today is a special day for World of Tanks Console: We've released our biggest expansion yet, one that will seriously change the game.
We're talking about update 4.5 "Mercenaries" - absolutely new era in the development of the game within alternative history. There are no more rules or restrictions, and this gives players huge opportunities. In a world where states are weakened endless wars, and all alliances have collapsed, where everyone is for himself, we invite our tankers to become heroes on their own terms and plunge into chaos.

Mercenaries are not only new story, but also a new “nation” in the research tree. There are currently five vehicles available, but the mercenary tree will expand in the coming weeks and months. The new tanks are different from everything that was done in other tank projects. This is an absolute exclusive for console players. Mercenary tanks consist of parts taken from different vehicles, and together they form truly unique pieces of equipment.

All mercenaries from the research branch are available in network game. Some of them can be obtained for free by completing stage-by-stage contracts in random battles combat missions. If you can’t cope with some contract, you can skip it and immediately get the prize equipment by spending in-game gold on it.

Along with new cars, new cards appeared in the game. In them, players will recognize their favorite locations, changed by time and the reigning chaos.

By the way, the mercenaries themselves are not just commanders of unique tanks. These are the heroes of the game. Each mercenary has his own style, character and history. I think you will be interested to know that they are all copied from real employees console command(there's even me!). Moreover, we organized a special competition for players, the reward of which will be the opportunity to join a team of mercenaries: we will add the winner’s photo to the game as one of the commanders.

In honor of the release of mercenaries, a separate campaign “Uranium Enrichment” has appeared in the PvE mode “War Chronicles”. This is a tense story about espionage and the nuclear threat. Players will have to confront troops from both the US and the USSR - this task risks becoming one of the most dangerous in World of Tanks on PlayStation 4.

With version 4.5, other pleasant changes also appeared: an updated Hangar with dynamic elements, a more convenient and modern launcher, a redesigned interface and new atmospheric music. Experience it all for yourself - go into battle in

"World of Tanks: Mercenaries" is the first massively multiplayer free online game about tank battles for game consoles. The version of World of Tanks for personal computers was released in 2010, gained enormous popularity among players from all over the world and won many awards.

World of Tanks for consoles features more than 680 unique armored vehicles and millions of allies and enemies from all over the world. These are more than 100 maps that will allow you to find yourself in different parts of the globe and fight in dynamic battles in the harshest weather conditions. Feel the intensity of tank battles while controlling a multi-ton steel monster! Play for free on consoles!

Superb graphics

World of Tanks Console takes advantage of all the features of the latest generation of consoles. The game produces a beautiful picture: amazing detail of equipment and the game environment, various weather effects and time of day, stunning effects from shots and explosions.

Large-scale team battles

Up to 30 players can be in the battle at the same time, divided into two opposing teams. Each class of tank has its own tasks on the battlefield, so coordination with allies is crucial. Go to tank battle together with your friends and defeat the enemy!

Upgrading and improving tanks

Start the game on a small tank of the first level and work your way up to the most powerful combat vehicles. Upgrade your tank's guns, turrets, engines and other modules to increase its combat effectiveness. In total, the game features 5 classes of vehicles: light tanks, medium tanks, heavy tanks, tank destroyers and self-propelled guns. They all have their own characteristics and provide for a certain style of play.

A unique nation

Along with update 4.5, a unique nation of mercenaries appeared in the game - vehicles that are assembled from parts of other tanks that were destroyed or abandoned on the battlefield. They combine strengths tank building schools of different nations - and the result was truly impressive. To get these unique powerful machines for free, activate special contracts and fulfill their conditions.

Story campaigns

In August 2017 in World of Tanks on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox 360, a new PvE mode “War Chronicles” has appeared. This story campaigns, which allow you to upgrade your combat skills in exciting episodes, relive famous historical battles and even rewrite history. You can experience this mode alone or in the company of a friend, completing various missions and going against bot enemies.

Various game modes

The World of Tanks Console features four main battle types: Standard Battle, Encounter Battle, Assault and Team Deathmatch. In a standard battle, each team seeks to capture the enemy base while protecting its own. In the “Encounter Battle” mode, there is only one neutral base on the map, the capture of which ensures victory. An assault is a fierce battle between the attacking and defending teams. But in team grip there are no bases and the team that destroys all opponents or deals more damage at the end of the battle wins.

Full integration with XboX and Playstation services

You can play on Playstation 4 absolutely free, with a subscription to Playstation Plus not required. But to play on Microsoft consoles you need a subscription Xbox Live Gold.

Perhaps the most successful game created on the territory former USSR, - was initially perceived exclusively as a PC exclusive. But today it exists quite successfully on consoles, in particular on the PlayStation 4. Yes, the dynamics here are somewhat different, which is due to the control features on the console, but in the World of Tanks Console you can’t fight, upgrade, unlock new tanks and win battles. it's that simple. The emphasis on scale and realism has not gone away, and success in battles here also depends primarily on the skill of the player himself, on his accuracy, ability to hit weak spots on enemy vehicles and position his tank so that it is difficult to hit.

Mercenaries against everyone, everyone, everyone The main feature of update 4.5 is the appearance, in fact, of mercenaries, who represent a completely new nation with their own branch of equipment. Both the tanks and the mercenaries themselves, of course, are a completely fictitious thing, but this fits well into the alternative history setting, which is actively promoted and developed within the World of Tanks Console.

Let me remind you that the game has a set of unique story mini-campaigns - “War Chronicles”, which can be played alone or together with friends. These are multi-mission scenarios set in an alternate universe where World War II lasted until 1948. With the release of “Mercenaries,” a new episode of “Military Chronicles” appeared, telling how several soldiers of fortune on tanks (among them there are comrades with the call signs Collector, Don Quixote and Borsch!) received from a secret agent the task of stealing nuclear materials from a secret Soviet American plant.

The episode consists of three parts, and in each of them you need to try very hard to win. Already in the first mission, where it is necessary to first weaken the security of the base by destroying the required number of tanks and turrets, and then cut off the railway connection and attack the enemy base, if possible eliminating the local captain, we are surrounded on all sides by superior enemy forces. And the whole episode threatens to become almost the most difficult in “Chronicles”, because here we are confronted by troops from both the USSR and the USA. You have to take advantageous positions and competently lead your allies so that they cover and help in time.

There are currently five new mercenary tanks available in the game, and five more will be added over the coming weeks and months.

“I molded it from what was” All the equipment of the Mercenaries are hybrid models assembled from parts and modules of other well-known tanks. This is explained by the fact that mercenary detachments, they say, are forced to provide themselves with everything they need, obtaining modules in battles and purchasing parts from companies specializing in buying surplus from armies different countries. As a result, we got truly unique armored vehicles.

Among them there is, for example, the Tier V light tank Stubbs, capable of overcoming even difficult terrain and delivering a surprise attack, medium tank Tier VII Bigtop, combining mobility and firepower. And the Tier VII heavy vehicle Slapjack can deceive the enemy with its small size and rain down a hail of shells on him.

All this equipment does not need to be researched, as is the case with other nations - in order to open it, you have to complete special contracts. For each car there is a separate contract, and it must be completed within a certain time. Moreover, this is not just something in the spirit of “kill five enemy tanks and get a reward” - each “challenge” takes place in several stages. But the reward is worth it: we get a new mercenary vehicle, a slot in the hangar, as well as a unique commander with already learned skills. Moreover, special attention is paid to the crew and their abilities - in fact, in “Mercenaries” the fighters are equated with heroes.

Edition expanded, corrected and improved. Battles in “World of Tanks Console: Mercenaries” take place on new maps, which are modified versions of already known locations. Based on surveys and research, the authors identified the most popular cards among players and adapted them to Mercenaries, giving them a look more appropriate for their era.

The console World of Tanks looks great.

For example, based on the “Quiet Coast” map, the “Kitimat” location was created, where, among the vast expanses of Canada, a joint Soviet-American enterprise operates, producing highly enriched uranium from radioactive ore. A famous map“Malinovka” has turned into a “Dump” - there is a warehouse of materials and equipment that supplies mercenary detachments with important spare parts.

With the release of the update, many things in the game were added and improved. The interface has been updated - icons and images now have a worn effect. The hangar began to look like a mercenary camp, and on the loading screen it was possible to immediately go to the store, read the news, play a mini-game, or submit a bug report.

At the same time, new music created by a famous composer now plays in the hangar and on the loading screen Inon Zur(Inon Zur; he composed soundtracks for a bunch of games, including , and ) - it was recorded with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. And, by the way, now each map has its own musical theme.

New sounds were also recorded. External and internal equipment now produces rumbles and knocks, and track sounds are played based on travel speed, track speed differences, and other factors.

Finally, it is encouraging that the authors continue to catch errors and correct even the smallest of them - for example, correcting the color of the Mongolia flag. In general, the list of fixes is huge, and now the game, judging by it, should become even better, more beautiful and more realistic.

Allied bots can now execute the “Back” order from the radial menu.

"Mercenaries"- an excellent example of how you can and should stimulate interest in famous game, which seems to be no longer capable of surprising anything. And a new, even more serious challenge - as I already said, the episode of “War Chronicles” that debuted in the update turned out to be perhaps the most difficult of all.

Most recently, World of Tanks came out on PS4. And now that Wargaming’s most popular project is available on both main consoles of the current generation, we are ready to tell you how the console versions differ from the computer version.

The controls and interface take some getting used to

By bringing World of Tanks to PS4 and Xbox One (and don’t forget the “trial” version for Xbox 360, released in 2014), Wargaming put a lot of effort into making it as comfortable to play on a gamepad as on a keyboard and mouse. You don’t have to look far for examples of other successful adaptations - Diablo 3 and Divinity: Original Sin They feel great on consoles.

It turned out well, but not without compromises, especially if you are switching to the console version from a PC.

The first thing that catches your eye is that the developers, for obvious reasons, had to sacrifice text chat in favor of voice communication and an additional interface with quick commands.

As for the gameplay, the main shooter mechanics really fit organically into the classic gamepad layout, but movement tied to the left stick can be confusing at first: you can accidentally start turning the tank, throw off the aim and lose precious seconds on aiming.

You also need to get used to navigating on the map again: viewing sectors with a cursor is still much more convenient than with a stick. After Destiny, where the “computer” role-playing interface with a cursor was made exemplary, a return to cumbersome menus that have to be scrolled with buttons (if, say, you already have a decent collection of vehicles and camouflages in your hangar) is depressing, but not fatal.

It's not easy console version

Console control and interface, coupled with minor mechanical changes (Wargaming added a barely noticeable auto-adjustment of the sight and multi-colored marks showing the probability of causing damage) do not have a very noticeable effect on the overall dynamics.

The class system has not changed - “fireflies” quickly fly behind enemy lines, artillery covers, light, medium and heavy tanks they fight in positional battles of varying degrees of intensity, while self-propelled guns sit in the bushes and wait.

The set of maps is current, but in terms of variety of cars, console WoT is now at the level of its older brother from 2011: at the start, the game has only three classic branches, no French or Chinese yet. Presumably, other nations will soon add patches.

But visually the console version turned out to be much more lively thanks to the new engine. Here the developers also made technical concessions, limiting the frame rate to thirty FPS, but otherwise the console World of Tanks wins. The rendering distance is higher, the lighting is more natural, updated physics and destructibility are in place, and the tank models and environmental textures look no worse than in the PC version, although nominally fewer resources were spent on them due to technical limitations.

But the main thing is that the console versions have a full cycle of day and night and weather conditions. After five years, the usual maps in night and rainy scenery are perceived completely differently, and an ordinary battle on a mountain on the Himmelsdorf instantly adds drama when there is evening twilight all around, a thunderstorm is raging overhead, and raindrops are flowing down the hull of your hidden IS-7. This is the case when a fresh look at the visuals changes the feeling of the gameplay, and that’s great.

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It's a small matter. Wargaming just needs to fix little things in the interface and controls and make sure that console WoT versions received updates and additional content more often. Well, it would also be nice to introduce changes in weather and time of day into the PC version. Otherwise everything is fine.