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       1.4 Steel Rain August 12th!
   DIR By: jarhead2097
       Date: August 11, 2014, 5:28 am
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       1.4 Red Steel Rain
       Red Steel Rain arrives in World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition on
       August 12! This newest content update brings two new maps into
       the rotation, and a total of 15 new vehicles, including the
       Soviet Artillery line! We are also introducing a new feature to
       the game: Platoon Battles. Check out the update overview below,
       or if you'd prefer to see all of the detailed changes, see the
       full update notes.
       
       New Maps
       
       Find yourself in new territory with Red Steel Rain, as two new
       maps are added to the mix. Battles on the urban Port map may
       even occur on a snowy night. Whereas the new Live Oaks map is
       rainy.
       
       Port
       Live Oaks
       New Vehicles
       
       In Red Steel Rain, the Soviet tech tree branches off into a line
       of artillery vehicles, plus the KV-2 heavy tank. Additionally,
       you'll find four new light tanks added to the German tech tree.
       Check out the list and gallery below!
       
       U.S.S.R.
       Heavy Tank
       KV-2 (tier VI)
       
       Artillery
       SU-18 (tier II)
       SU-26 (tier III)
       SU-5 (tier IV)
       
       Artillery
       SU-122A (tier V)
       SU-8 (tier VI)
       S-51 (tier VII)
       SU-14-1 (tier VII)
       SU-14-2 (tier VIII)
       212A (tier IX)
       Object 261 (tier X)
       
       Germany
       Light Tanks
       Pz.Kpfw. I (tier II)
       Pz.Kpfw. I Ausf. C (tier III)
       VK 28.01 (tier VI)
       Aufklärungspanzer
       Panther (tier VII)
       
       Platoon Battles
       
       The new Platoon Battle system is meant to encourage and allow
       for more team play without splitting up players into different
       modes, which can make matchmaking more challenging.  With that
       in mind, we are allowing all Platoons to match with each other
       in matched pairs.
       
       Some example configurations:
       
       7 vs 7
       (7+7) vs (7+7)
       (7+4+4) vs (7+4+4)
       (7+5+3) vs (7+5+3)
       
       Currently, a configuration like (7+5) vs (7+3+2) is not allowed.
       
       Other details:
       Platoons can contain up to 7 Platoon mates
       Platoon sizes of 4-7 will match in pairs in Platoon Battle
       matchmaking only
       Platoon sizes of 2-3 will match to fill out Platoon Battles in
       pairs if available, and match with individual players when
       Platoon Battles are unavailable
       Tier restrictions and team makeups are unchanged from Update
       1.3
       
       We will be data mining every Platoon match to see the popularity
       of Platoon size, average Platoon make-up and if wacky Platoons
       become an issue (for example, all artillery vehicles). Those
       teams may be fun to try, but will always lose to a balanced team
       of any sort.  We'll also be looking to your feedback on how we
       shape this feature going forward!
       #Post#: 5041--------------------------------------------------
       1.4 update
   DIR By: Tinkabeast
       Date: August 11, 2014, 5:31 am
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  HTML http://worldoftanksxbox360edition.com/en/news/news/red-steel-rain/
       Finally some good news.. time for some real teamwork and
       tactics.
       #Post#: 5042--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 1.4 Steel Rain August 12th!
   DIR By: Shard77
       Date: August 11, 2014, 5:35 am
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       Yay....hopefully this will put a severe crimp in the fail team
       syndrome.
       #Post#: 5043--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 1.4 update
   DIR By: Chris713
       Date: August 11, 2014, 6:11 am
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       Well let's hope it works better than it didn't in the supertest.
       :thumb:
       #Post#: 5044--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 1.4 Steel Rain August 12th!
   DIR By: warsteiner89
       Date: August 11, 2014, 6:12 am
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       Saw the post on WoT portal as i was brushing my teeth this
       morning... nice way to start a monday !!
       and now... we have the King of Derp ....KV-2 !!!!!
       #Post#: 5045--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 1.4 Steel Rain August 12th!
   DIR By: Chris713
       Date: August 11, 2014, 6:14 am
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       Hopefully it works better than it did in the supertest. 7 man
       platoons didn't work that good hopefully with more players on
       the live servers they will work better.
       #Post#: 5047--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 1.4 Steel Rain August 12th!
   DIR By: guest45
       Date: August 11, 2014, 6:40 am
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       Nice. Platoons,new tanks and new maps, one of which I don't see
       on the Knowledge Base app(Port, so totally new?).
       #Post#: 5048--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 1.4 Steel Rain August 12th!
   DIR By: AntacidObject66
       Date: August 11, 2014, 6:54 am
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       Looking forward to the update! And Port is a very interesting
       map. I will see if we can get it posted later today.
       7 v 7 is a welcome addition, and all the new Arty should make a
       lot of people happy. I might actually go down the Russian Arty
       line myself!
       #Post#: 5052--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 1.4 Steel Rain August 12th!
   DIR By: Corbantis
       Date: August 11, 2014, 7:24 am
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       --- Quote from: Chris713 link ---
       >
       > Hopefully it works better than it did in the supertest. 7 man
       platoons didn't work that good hopefully with more players on
       the live servers they will work better.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       I agree Chris. We really did not have a chance to test this as
       much as I would have liked.   Here's hopin we won't have too
       many issues!
       #Post#: 5054--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 1.4 Steel Rain August 12th!
   DIR By: guest45
       Date: August 11, 2014, 7:26 am
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       Sweet I tend to like the urban maps, Himmelsdorf is probably one
       of my favs, in a light especially. New arty is nice but I've
       given up on it as a whole for now, but that new new line in the
       germans......(great just what I need another line to grind lol)
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