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Good day, dear tankers! Today I will describe the main controls of a tank in the game World of Tanks. The article will be useful reading for novice tank crews as an instruction manual for the operation of a combat vehicle.
Quite simple and intuitive, especially for people who have played computer games more than once. I will list the main keys in the game with default control settings.
Tank movement:
- W, S, A, D used to move the tank hull (forward, backward, turn the hull to the left, turn the hull to the right, respectively);Double key press R full forward - enables automatic movement of the tank in the forward direction, without the need to hold the button W, but with buttons A And D you can taxi; button press S stops the tank;
Double button press F full back - the button action is similar to R, only turns on the automatic movement of the tank backwards;
- R/F cruise control (when moving forward, backward);
- Space hold and stop the tank while moving to shoot, after releasing the button the tank continues moving;
X The handbrake is used when playing tank destroyers and self-propelled guns to fix the hull; disables body rotation when the sight reaches the horizontal aiming angle. Press again to turn off, or start driving.
Camera:
- Mouse movement/keyboard arrows movement of the sight, turret, aiming at the target;- Mouse movement when you hold down the right mouse button, view without rotating the turret or moving the sight;
- Mouse scroll wheel, keys PgUp, PgDn zoom zoom in/out of the camera/sight, switch to sniper/arcade mode;
- Ctrl+ click right click for self-propelled guns, turning on the art sight with aiming at the selected square of the minimap.
- Alt hold to enable an alternative mode for displaying tank icons.
Fire:
- Click left mouse button shot;Cry right mouse button by target, enable auto-guidance and auto-tracking of the selected target;
Cry right mouse button, E key off target, disabling auto-aim;
- Shift manual activation of the sniper/arcade mode of the sight;
- C reload key;
Keys 1, 2, 3 The keyboard selects the type of projectile to be used, one press of the button selects for the next shot, the dual loader immediately proceeds to replace the type of projectile with the selected one.
Keys 4, 5, 6 use of consumable equipment depending on the installation slot; after pressing, you must select the module to be repaired, or the crew member who needs to be cured
Battle chat:
- Enter turning on combat chat, opening the message editor line, sending a message after writing;- Tab switching between message recipients (own team, enemy team, message to your platoon/company); By default, messages are sent to your team;
- Esc when the battle chat is open or click left mouse button outside the chat window, exit the battle chat message editor;
Combat interface:
- Click left mouse button on the minimap while holding the button Ctrl showing the team a square on the minimap;Buttons + And - - respectively, increasing and decreasing the size of the minimap;
- M display/hide the minimap;
- Ctrl turning on the pointer;
- Ctrl+Tab changing the appearance of command lists (ears);
- V- display/hide the entire combat interface in battle;
- Z opening the general menu of orders after opening, you must select an order with the mouse pointer and confirm it by clicking left mouse button to send to the team;
Z when hovering over an ally/enemy, a menu of orders opens with a list applicable to that player. Also requires selecting an order with the mouse pointer and confirming its sending by clicking left mouse button.
Hotkeys:
- Button T when aiming at the enemy, a message to the team Support with fire at **, for self-propelled guns I'm attacking, where ** is the nickname of a player on the enemy team;- F3 message to the team Defend the base!
- F5 message to the team Exactly! - used as confirmation of an order, or confirmation of the completion of a combat mission, as well as a battle cry after a team wins a battle ☺;
- F6- message to the team No way! - refusal to carry out a combat mission, or disagreement with an order;
- F7- message to the team Help needed!
- F8- message to the command Still reloading (where - the number of seconds remaining until the end of reloading), or Ready to shoot!, if the projectile/cassette is already loaded.
- Esc opening the main game menu. Attention! Do not leave the battle until it is over, unless your tank is destroyed and you are capable of any action to the detriment of the enemy! Provided
#faq - Go to the forum topic "FAQ"
#rules - Go to the forum in the topic "Rules"
#plans - "Tasks and plans of developers"
#ranks - Go to the forum topic "Ranks"
#clans - Go to the forum in the "Clans" section
#forum - Go to the forum main page
#updates - Go to the forum in the "Updates" section
#theft - Go to the forum in the topic "What to do if your account is stolen/hacked"
#nick - Go to Home page - Help - I want to change my nickname
#news - Go to "News"
#teams - Go to the forum in the "Teams" section
re: - the nickname of the player who last wrote to you will be inserted into the typing line.
How to add a user to the blacklist?
/block name -- block receiving messages from the player (valid everywhere). To do this, there are the following commands that must be entered into the chat:
/unblock name -- resume receiving messages from the player (valid everywhere).
/blocklist -- display a list of blocked players (only valid in general chat).
/unblockall -- clear the list of blocked players (only valid in general chat).
How to write a message in battle only to the players of your team?
Ctrl+Enter or button T. (English)
How to report a violator in a battle?
All you need to do is simply enter the command in the battle chat:
/vote NICK OF THE VIOLATOR and press Enter.
What happens next? Nothing yet. For anything to happen, 25% of the battle participants must complain about the offender. If this happens, then for the moderators the offender’s nickname will turn black, and the battle in which he is located will be highlighted in the list of battles, which will be an excellent signal to attract the attention of the moderator.
P.S. Sometimes, when there is nothing to do, I direct violators to the forum so that they can read the rules of the game again, newbies always ask are you an admin #haha# Don’t abuse this #haha#
In WoT battles, you can often see phrases in the chat like “Gentlemen, it’s time to take the enemy’s base” or “Don’t prop up” or something like “Are you transparent? Step aside, I'll hit you right through" is nothing more than a mod for the game. This mod is called “Custom Combat Menu”. What is a custom combat menu or, as it is often called, a daisy of commands for the online game World Of Tanks and how to configure it, read in this article.
Customizable combat menu
...and what they eat it with...
First, where to download?
Well, there is no definite answer, everyone downloads it to their own taste, either a mod pack that includes this mod, or a separate “Custom Menu” mod and installs it according to the instructions.
The name of this mod speaks for itself, but why doesn’t anyone configure it hmm..?! Maybe deer?? Or crayfish??? Yeah nooo…. they just don't know how
Well, let's learn...
We need a file RadialMenu.xml. You can find it along the path: your computer:\your disk\WorldOfTanks\res_mods\current version of the client\scripts\client\gui\scaleform\ or somewhere deeper, depending on whether you installed a mod pack or a separate mod. (in my case, it was a mod pack and the RadialMenu.xml file was located deeper). If you cannot find this file, then use the standard Windows search.
Next, open it with our favorite notepad Notepad++. It is with this program that it is advisable to open all mod files, because... it does not change the file encoding. If you don’t have it installed, then download it, for example from here or from the official website, or from a Yandex disk and install.
Opening the file RadialMenu.xml we see a lot of obscure text...hmm...but we want to learn how to edit a custom combat menu, so let's figure it out further. Let's take these lines as an example:
Aha... something is already emerging...
The tags contain the team name.
In the tag - there is an icon displayed with the command rose.
I hope you don’t need to explain the tags?
Command (macro) %(randpart)s don’t touch it, this is a command (macro) of the great Chinese random 😉 which outputs a random command enclosed in tags.
But you can change everything that is written between the tags to your taste.
Tags - display mode or write to the command Team or everyone All.
Valid icon names:
[‘Attack’, ‘Yes’, ‘Helpme’, ‘Backtobase’, ‘No’, ‘Reload’,
‘Followme’, ‘Turnback’, ‘Helpmeex’, ‘Stop’, ‘Support’, ‘AttackSPG’ ]
Valid command names:
[ 'ATTACK', 'ATTACKENEMY', 'BACKTOBASE', 'FOLLOWME', 'HELPME', 'HELPMEEX',
‘NEGATIVE’, ‘POSITIVE’, ‘RELOADINGGUN’ ‘STOP’, ‘SUPPORTMEWITHFIRE’, ‘TURNBACK’]
Macros supported in the message text:
%(name)s — name of the player whose tank is aimed at
%(vehicle)s — name of the vehicle type
%(clan)s — clan name
%(viewPos)s - the square where the camera is pointed
%(ownPos)s - the square in which your tank is located
%(randpart)s - random string from the list in the tag
%(reload)s — remaining weapon reload time, in seconds
%(ammo)s — number of unspent shells in the drum
For example, how one of my commands was modified:
Do you know that...
For the New Year 2012, it was added to the game. Moreover, it was created two years earlier (in 2010). After the map was released to the main servers, a bug was noticed: the prop of the tower from the inside was easily shot through by the Shaft cannon. Two days after the map was opened, measures were taken, and the use of this bug became punishable, and a week later the bug was completely fixed.
In 2009-2010, there was a party called “KPTO” (“Communist Party of Tanks Online”). This party was developing various programs for maintenance.
In 2011, the developers decided to organize a competition-race in which they had to constantly turn the tower. For this purpose, a map called . It was carried out by a special association of players - “KPTO” (“Communist Party of Tanks Online”). It was assumed that it would not be possible to use supplies on the map (either purchased or falling from the sky). The party collapsed and the card was never released. It is worth noting that the map was developed by the legendary cartographer Figishe.
The Ricochet gun project appeared back in 2009. they planned to call it "Vulcan". The cannon shots were originally not supposed to bounce off surfaces and were blue in color. At that time, the Vulcan/Ricochet was a machine gun, but at the testing stage the idea of bouncing balls arose, which later developed into a full-fledged gun, now known as Ricochet.
When they first started testing the Hornet hull, it consisted of: a central part and four side parts, each of which was located lower in level to the central block, and on each side block there were tracks. The Hornet was then modified to its current state due to its too futuristic design and difficulties with gravity and traction.
The appearance of the Shaft cannon in June 2011 caused a real sensation among tankers. After the release, Shaft was purchased at a rate of 3 pieces. per second! Later its characteristics were edited and resists were introduced. But a day later it was confiscated, the crystals were returned, and the description was changed. On the first day of the test on the test server, the maximum damage of Shaft in aimed mode was 150 - 175 - 200 - 250 units (for M0 - M1 - M2 - M3, respectively), on the second day - 200 - 225 - ~275 - 300.
The first film about Tanki Online appeared together with the Fairy Tale Adaptation competition in 2011. It used organized materials from the game and had its own plot. Short films may have existed before this point, but they were not as well known. Player FAK19 created the most popular film series - "B-mashina". A total of four films were made. Subsequently, FAK19 decided to make a remake of “B-mashina” under the name “New Evil”. FAK19 movies are filled with a lot of special effects. Editing was carried out in the 3D Studio Max program. YouTube channel: MrFAK12
The first gold in Tanki Online was worth 1000 crystals. Initially, no one knew where and when this bonus fell. The first gold fell on the Kungur map, with a fund of 700 crystals, it was taken by a tanker with the nickname Noosya. Later, gold boxes began to drop on almost all cards, but their value was reduced to 100 crystals. Now there are gold box drop points on all maps.
In 2010, a special modification of Smokey's weakest gun was introduced, called Smokey XT. This modification cost 3,950 crystals. It was available for purchase for exactly a week. The Smokey XT was better in every way than the regular Smokey M3. It was assumed that a good player would be able to recoup the cost of Smokey XT.
In 2009, the developers decided to create a gun that could inflict damage on opponents and at the same time heal tankers from their team. This is how the Isis gun appeared. The first concept of Isis only treated and looked like a model from the game “Half-Life”. Later it was converted into a two-pronged turret for a tank. Isis also allowed him to heal himself when shooting into the void. This ability was too strong and was removed. In November 2014, the visual effect of the shot was redesigned, and on February 16, 2017, the gun lost its vampirism.
During beta testing (May 2009), Tanki Online received an award at the Game Developers Conference (KRI 2009) in the category “Best Game Without a Publisher.” This suggests that already in the testing phase the game has earned recognition in the gaming industry.
In November 2009, Tanki Online made it to the finals of the popular vote “Runet Award” and took 17th place in it. This is despite the fact that the game was only six months old.
In the summer of 2012, an event was held at Tanki dedicated to the European Football Championship. During this promotion, the denomination of gold boxes increased several times, and in the end it was estimated that in just under a month, players caught gold worth 90 million crystals - in the current economy, this is almost a billion crystals!
On September 27, 2012, an unusual battle called “Kasim vs Sun” took place, in which community manager Maxim Khusainov and technical support specialist Ksenia Ignatieva fought against each other on “vasposmoks”. Maxim won with a score of 22:19. Players could support Maxim or Ksenia by purchasing special paint worth 100 crystals in the garage. 47,341 paints were purchased for Kasim, 18,004 for Sun, 4,844 for both players at once, each person who bought paint for Maxim gained 59 crystals.
Every year on October 31, Tanks celebrate Halloween. In 2012, during the promotion, the special card was created 59,597 times, and the special gold box was dropped 12,008 times. There were some interesting coincidences: on October 30, 2012, tanker number 16,666,666 registered in the game, and the tweet about the holiday special edition of the video blog became the 666th. In 2014, there were 45 ghosts on the special Halloween map. And in 2015, on October 31, tankers spent a total of 196 years in the game and caught 440,000 gold, and the Halloween map was created 184,652 times. The winner of the competition for the best gold catcher - a player with the nickname Ti-To - caught 195 boxes and received VikoGrom XT as a reward.
The first mention of the mysterious player Godmode_ON can be seen in Vlog Issue #61. The second time he appeared in video blog No. 64, and in video blog No. 80 he even ended up in the “Question of the Week” section. To destroy Godmode_ON it then took 59 shots from Smokey, of which 5 were critical. Thus, taking into account the current parameters of Smokey and Mammoth at the time of the release of the video blog, protection from Smokey in Godmode_ON paint was about 85% at a minimum. In Vlog Issue #103, a mysterious man appeared who "collected all the mines on Silence" - perhaps it was Godmode_ON? In question of the week No. 118, Godmode_ON drove along a path of mines and was blown up only on the 41st - taking into account the current parameters of the Mammoth at the time of the release of the video blog, the protection against a mine in the Godmode_ON paint was at least about 95%. In video blog No. 130, Godmode_ON caught a gold box worth 5001 crystals, although the maximum denomination of the April Fool's gold was 5000 crystals. Godmode_ON's next appearance was in question of the week #133, where he was shot at by six tanks at once. And in Question of the Week #146, Godmode_ON used Hornet rather than Mammoth for the first time. Who is this mysterious player? An indirect answer to this question can be found in video blog No. 145, where Nikolai Kolotov’s profile says “Not Godmode_ON.” A hint to the contrary or just a joke? Looks like we'll never know the truth...
It took four and a half months to create the first test version of Tanks. The first player registered in Tanki who is not a developer is GlebNikitin. And the very first to register in the game was Alternativa server programmer Alexey Quiring (arts80). The first map in “Tanks” was the prototype of Tribute.
By mid-2010, the game had approximately 200,000 registered players. On December 19, 2010, the one million registration mark was reached. June 6, 2011 - registration number 3 million (player with the nickname katyana). January 4, 2012 - seven millionth registration (player with the nickname stepan1234567891). March 25, 2012 - the milestone of 10 million registrations was crossed (player with the nickname lYonsl). On Tankman Day 2012, an account was registered under number 15,000,000 (player with the nickname adilov.amir). February 5, 2013 - twenty millionth registration (player with the nickname tolik755). End of July 2013 - thirty millionth registration (player with the nickname nadja8201).
The game "Tanks Online" is most popular in its homeland - in Russia. This is followed by Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Germany, Moldova, Georgia, the USA and Saudi Arabia.
The official Tanki Online VKontakte group appeared in January 2011. One day, community manager Maxim Khusainov promised to swim in an ice hole if the number of subscribers in the group exceeded 500,000. On September 27, 2014, this mark was passed, and on New Year’s Day Maxim fulfilled his promise - he started his first video blog of 2015 from an ice hole.
The most spacious map is Dusseldorf (40 players), Berlin can accommodate 36 players at the same time, Temple and Madness - 32 each. In turn, Temple is the most spacious map, Berlin is just a little behind, and Dusseldorf closes the top three. The smallest maps are Island, Hill and Ping Pong.
In the summer of 2014, the FIFA World Cup was held in Brazil, and “Tanks” could not stay away from this event. In the “Football Fever” promotion, players were offered to purchase one of 32 colors that symbolized the countries participating in the championship. Those who bought paint for a country that was among the top three winners received back up to 50% of the crystals spent on purchases during the promotion period. A total of 555,502 paints were purchased, of which 111 thousand were purchased for Russia (the most popular paint), for Germany, which became the champion, 38,007, for Argentina - 17,641, for the Netherlands - 15,819, and the most rarely purchased paint was Cot-D “Ivoire - only about 1000 pieces. About 887 million crystals were distributed as prize money for the promotion.
A little about the names of items: a long time ago, the Rail was called Fear Machine, Ricochet could be called Vulcan, Hornet - Raptor, Viking - Centurion, and Hammer - Magnum. As for Vulcan, game designer Semyon Strizhak (known as Orek) jokingly promised that “the machine gun will never be called Vulcan, otherwise I will grow two extra fingers on my hand.” By the way, the artillery cannon was eventually named Magnum.
The observer mode (spectator) in the game did not exist from the very beginning. And the first fight broadcast with the help of a spectator was the quarterfinal of the upper bracket of TOF Dream Team III between the International and “Heavy and Difficult” teams.
In the summer of 2014, the Tanki Online team visited the gaming exhibition gamescom in the German city of Cologne. In honor of this event, the “Cologne” card was briefly introduced into the game, on which golds with a double denomination fell. During the promotion period, 191 million crystals dropped in gold boxes, and about a million players visited the map.
The video blog is usually filmed on Wednesday, although plot preparation begins much earlier. Thursday and Friday are spent on video editing.
The birthday of Tanki Online is June 4, 2009 - the start date of open beta testing. The first player to reach the maximum rank (at that time it was Marshal) was the legendary T7000. In April 2010, the Chinese server began operating. And on April 16, 2014, Tanki Online was launched in Brazil. The first Generalissimo in the Brazilian locale is a player with the nickname limadj2, he reached the 1,400,000 experience mark on September 2, 2014, spending about four and a half months on leveling up. As a reward for his speedy completion, limadj2 received a fully upgraded Viking M3, Ricochet M3 and Zeus paint.
Sometimes, in honor of certain holidays, the funds in the game increase. The largest funds in the game were on August 2, 2015 - five times.
On May 9, 2015, you could purchase a subscription for endless supplies for just 70 crystals, which was valid until the restart on May 10. On that day, it was almost impossible to find a player in the game who would ride without a “garland” - except perhaps for those who played in PRO battles with supplies turned off.
The first players to see and try out the early demo of “Tanks on Unity” were German players at a tank meeting in the town of Wildflecken, which took place in early July 2014. In June 2015, players from five Russian cities played a demo version of the new game as part of the “TO Motor Rally” event. And in October 2015, DJAGERnout228, a well-known video blogger among players, visited the office of Alternative, who not only played the beta version of the game, which had already received the final name Tanki X, but also talked about his impressions in a video blog.
During the 2014-2015 New Year holidays, a login to Tanki Online was registered from North Korea, a country where Internet access is strictly limited. Who could it be?..
A long time ago, the game had a so-called “Hall of Fame” - an in-game window that displayed the statistics of all players: experience points earned, the number of tanks destroyed and their own deaths, wealth and rating - a conditional number calculated based on a complex formula. The higher the rating, the higher the tanker was in the Hall of Fame. At the same time, one of the components of the rating formula was the number of crystals purchased for real money, so the top positions in the “Hall of Fame” were occupied by donors who specifically invested considerable sums in order to get ahead of their rivals. Hall of Fame was later removed from the game due to technical issues.
For Halloween 2011, there was a Pumpkin Tank Hunt contest. It was necessary to find three different players in the game with special pumpkin guns (they were given to administration assistants) and post screenshots of them in a special topic. And for the New Year 2011-2012, a “New Year’s Card” competition was held, the winners of which received a unique snowman cannon for several days. Both the pumpkin cannon and the snowman cannon were essentially Smokey M3s with a unique texture.
The maximum number of tanks that can be destroyed with one shot is 39. To do this, you need a fully micro-pumped M3 Rail and 39 players who will line up on the Dusseldorf map in mode.
In ancient times, it was impossible to have more than 32,766 units of each consumable. This was due to the insufficient dimension of the data type of the variable in which the number of consumables was stored. This bug has now been corrected.
In Tanki Online there are maps whose names repeat the names of real geographical objects. In particular, many of them are named after objects in Perm or cities in the Perm region (the office of AlternativaPlatform, the developer of Tanki Online, is located in Perm).
- Aleksandrovsk is a city in the Perm region;
- Barda is a village in the Perm region;
- Gubakha is a city in the Perm region;
- Kungur is a city in the Perm region;
- Molotov is the former name of Perm;
- Osa is a city in the Perm region;
- Solikamsk is a city in the Perm region;
- Esplanade is a square in Perm.
Nauru, Kiribati and Guinea-Bissau are the most “tankless” states in the world. Only one Tanki Online player lives in each of them.
The most popular task in the game is to take first place in the battle. In second place is to collect N repair kits, in third place is to collect N accelerations.
Right now, open testing of the game's HTML5 client is underway on the main servers. Currently, only a small number of new users are being directed to the new version, but as development progresses, more and more players will gain access. If you have opened the HTML5 version of the game, but want to return to the stable Flash version, follow the link.
From time to time, the game hosts a promotion called “Crazy Weekend”, the essence of which is to score frags. For destroying a certain number of tanks in standard battles, participants are given valuable prizes.
From November 16 to November 23, 2017, the game hosted a real battle between the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. To participate in it, you had to buy paint for one of the social networks in the Garage for 1000 crystals, install it on your tank and go into battle to destroy enemy tanks wearing paint for the opposing side. 122,000 paints were purchased for VKontakte, 39,000 for Odnoklassniki. The VKontakte faction won the event with a score of 52.54%. At the end of the promotion, the paints remained with their owners forever.
In the fall of 2017, Tanki Online held a video competition “#IWANTTO,” the participants of which had to tell why developers should invite them to the TO office. The winner was the tanker Sochi-Areda, his competition work can be viewed at link. Video report about the trip: part 1
Part 2 .
On November 24, 2017, on Black Friday, containers appeared in the game - boxes with previously unknown contents. They were sold in the Store and also dropped in battles instead of regular gold boxes. Containers were removed from the game on November 28, and on December 24, during the New Year holidays, they returned on a permanent basis. Now they can be purchased in the Store, caught in battles, or received as rewards for chains of daily quests.
The “Assault” mode was introduced into the game on December 13, 2017, although it appeared in the game earlier - during the New Year celebrations of 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. The essence of the mode is this: one team defends, and the other attacks. The blue team needs to defend their base, which is designated as a point in mode, and the red team needs to deliver flags to the blue base. It's simple, and most importantly - a lot of fun! The highlight of the mode is that the red team has several flags at its disposal, which means the blue team needs to repel attacks from several sides simultaneously.
Chat device
Lobby chat
Lobby chat is available when the player is not in battle (in the game lobby). It is divided into several thematic channels. Messages in chat channels are visible to all players in those channels. However, each language version of the game has its own separate set of chat channels.
Messages sent to the lobby chat can be addressed to a specific player. Such messages are still visible to everyone, but they are additionally highlighted for the recipient. To write a message addressed to a specific player in a channel, you need to left-click on his nickname (for example, in a chat) and select the “Write in general chat” option, or hold down the Ctrl key and left-click on the nickname.
If the player's nickname is not in the chat, you can copy it from somewhere in any way, paste it into the chat (however, you can type the nickname in the line yourself), put a semicolon after the nickname ;
Battle chat
Battle chat is available while the player is in battle. It is activated by the Enter button. Accordingly, messages from it are seen by everyone who is in the battle. If the player is in a battle with team mode, then he has the opportunity to write to both all participants in the battle and allies. To switch between general and team chat, you need to press the Tab key while typing a message. You will see all messages, but those written in team chat will be highlighted in your team's color. It is impossible to write personal messages while in combat.
Chat channel "Violations"
This channel operates in “write only” mode and is intended only for complaints about violations in chat and battles. Players see in this channel only their messages and addressed messages with replies from moderators. This allows you to avoid flooding in the channel, maintains the privacy of complaints and speeds up the analysis of complaints by moderators. If you constantly ignore the rules, you may be banned for flooding.
- violations in the battle: link to the battle/nickname of the violator/type of violation;
- chat violations: chat channel/nickname of the offender/type of violation.
Private messages
Private messages are the ability to send personal messages to other players that are visible only to the recipient. In this case, the recipient must be online, and in which chat channel and in which language locale it does not matter.
To write to a player private message, you need to click on his nickname in the chat and select the “Write personally” option or hold down the Ctrl + Shift key combination and left-click on the nickname.
If the player's nickname is not in the chat, you can copy it from somewhere in any way, paste it into the chat (however, you can type the nickname in the line yourself), put a colon after the nickname : and a space, and then write the text of the message.
Private messages cannot be sent if the recipient is offline. In this case, the sender will see the warning “ This player is offline ” instead of your message. If a player receives messages only from friends (the “PM only from friends” option is enabled in the settings menu, disabled by default) and the sender is not a friend, then the sender sees the warning “ This player only accepts messages from friends ” instead of your message. If the player is in battle, the sender sees the warning “ This player is in combat and cannot read your message ” instead of your message. Messages from an ignored player are not displayed in chat.
Chat availability
Anti-flood system
There is an “anti-flood system” in general and private chats. It has two parameters: the “price” of sending a message and the “price” of one character - this cost is measured in milliseconds. This means that the limitation applies not only to the number of messages, but also to the number of characters per unit of time. This format allows you not to ban the user, but to block the ability to send a message for a few seconds. The limit may not be exceeded by your entire message, but only by a part of it, a few characters. Extra characters are highlighted in red, and instead of the “send” button, a timer appears indicating when it will be possible to send a message of that length. You can simply make the text shorter and send it immediately, or wait until the entire message becomes available to send.
Key Features:
- The maximum length of one chat message is 299 characters.
- The “cost” of a symbol when communicating in lobby chat depends on the chat speed.
- Nick falls under the system, i.e. You will also have to “pay” for your interlocutor’s nickname.
- The same link can be sent to the lobby chat once every 60 messages. Otherwise, you will see the message “The published link is already in the chat.” The rule does not apply to references to battles.
- There is no anti-flood system in clan chat.
Chat rules
Prohibited and may result in temporary or permanent chat blocking:
- insult other game users, be rude, publicly sort things out in an offensive manner, behave indecently;
- use swear words (everywhere, in any form);
- flood (send messages consisting of repeated characters, repeat one message several times in a row, repeat any identical punctuation marks, symbols or individual letters in the amount of more than 5 identical characters in a message in a row);
- write rude or provocative messages in the chat, interfere with communication conducted by other chat participants;
- engage in trolling, incite community members to actions that have adverse consequences for them, create nicknames and take any other steps that may cause conflicts or offend community members;
- place advertisements without the consent of the game administration;
- commit or incite third parties to commit actions prohibited by current legislation, including those related to illicit drug trafficking, terrorist activities, calls for the overthrow of the legally elected government, pornography, any forms of discrimination based on gender, age, religion or other grounds;
- conduct political campaigning, political advertising, election campaigning in any form in the game;
- disseminate information of an overtly sexual nature that is not intended for public access by persons under the age of majority (remember, children also play here).
The rules apply to both public and private chats, although moderators do not have the ability to read personal correspondence.
Special designations
In game chats you can meet players with the following icons next to their nicknames:
- community managers; - chat administrators; ; ; - candidates for competition organizers.Chat commands
How to add or remove another user from the blacklist?
To do this, there are the following commands that must be entered into the chat:
- /block NICK - hide receiving messages from the player (valid in general and battle chats);
- /unblock NICK - resume receiving messages from the player (valid in general and battle chats);
- /blocklist - display a list of blocked players (only valid in general chat);
- /unblockall - clear the list of blocked players (only valid in general chat);
- /vote NICK - complaint against a player (valid only in battle chat).;
- #theft - goes to the Encyclopedia page “What to do if your account is stolen/hacked”;
- #wiki - transition to ;
- #nick - goes to a page with instructions on changing your nickname;
- re: - the nickname of the player who last wrote to you will be inserted into the typing line.
There is no need to explain why well-coordinated team play is the key to success in battle. Invite your friends, team up with other players in platoons and work together to win brilliant victories!
Communication with the team
Battle chat
Use battle chat to coordinate actions with your allies. It is displayed above the vehicle status panel.
— activation of the battle chat. Now you can write a message.
Press Enter again to send a chat message to the entire team.
Quick commands
For instant messaging with allies, there is a quick command function.
Hold down the Z key to bring up the shortcut menu and move your mouse to select the command you need. Allies will see your message in the battle chat.
The shortcut menu can display three types of commands:
- Basic commands for all allies- for example, “Need help!”
- Commands for targeting an ally. You can ask a player on your team to follow you or retreat, for example.
- Commands for targeting the enemy. In addition to the standard set of commands, you can use the command “Support fire!” and inform your allies that you are attacking a specific vehicle and need help.
Chat rules
According to the Rules of the Game, it is unacceptable to use obscene language in the chat, bombard allies with uninformative messages or quick commands, or distract or insult players in any other way.
Messages in the game chat are monitored, and violation of the rules is punishable by blocking the chat or even the account. Remember, game chat is a tool for communicating with your team, not a battlefield. Respect each other!
Playing with friends
Contacts
Do your friends also play World of Tanks? Have you met strong players in battle and want to stay in touch with them? Add them to your contact list to know when your friends are in the game and communicate with them.
To find and add a player to your contacts list:
Playing in a platoon
A platoon is a formation of two or three players that always enters battle on the same team. Coordinated play in a platoon increases the overall chance of victory and allows platoon players to perform various combat missions.
You can assemble a platoon in the Hangar.
To invite players to a platoon:
- Click Create Platoon to the left of the Battle!
- In the window Invite to formation Select players from your contacts list and click Invite. If the player you want is not in your contacts list, click Search outside contacts.
- Click Ready! Wait until the player accepts your invitation and also confirms his readiness for battle.
- Click Fight! to go into battle with a platoon.
You can also team up with allies during battle. It is calleddynamic platoon.
To create a dynamic platoon:
If you decide to revoke the invitation, hold Ctrl and right-click on the player's name. Select Revoke invitation.
If you are invited to a platoon, you will receive a notification in the battle chat. An icon will appear on the team panel to the left of the name of the player who invited you. To accept an invitation, hold Ctrl and click on this icon. You are now in a platoon!
