M4A2E4 is going to be a gift tank for the participants of WOT closed beta.
M4A2E4 is a tier 5 US medium tank [premium].
The two M4A2s built by General Motors Corporation in 1943, both featured a wide track torsion bar suspension. The first tank was completed on 22 July and the second on 15 August.
Preliminary specs:
Hull: 64/38/38
Turret: 76/51/51
Gun: 75mm M3L/37
M4A2E4 is a tier 5 US medium tank [premium].
The two M4A2s built by General Motors Corporation in 1943, both featured a wide track torsion bar suspension. The first tank was completed on 22 July and the second on 15 August.
Preliminary specs:
Hull: 64/38/38
Turret: 76/51/51
Gun: 75mm M3L/37
Historical image
In-game model
Note! Gift tank will come along with extra garage slot.
Many thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteA good news when you can't buy packages for the moment.
Still love this game!
Cheers
Another US-tank like in the premium package and with no bonus-slot? Then it's more punisment like "thanks"...I'm not impressed. Why can't we choose one from each country available?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous,
ReplyDeletegift tank will come along with extra garage slot. Just like any pre-order tank.
Tanks a lot !
ReplyDeleteThis is very apreciated.....
Is it intended as a gift for ALL
closed Beta testers?
Excellent, great, cool :) I'm very happy you finally decided to give us the slot as well. Would love to see some small starting slots number increase btw - how about 6 instead of 5? :) Yes, yes I know - give them something and they'll cry for more... Would be great though :) Looking forward to the 0.6.4 patch - probably the biggest (in case of changes) there ever was. Cya on the battlefield!
ReplyDeletethis is Greentatertot saying thank you very much overlord for the work you put in to help us better understand the game and keeping us all up to date with things in WOT
ReplyDeleteIapprove this message
Hi
ReplyDeleteOverlord could you tell us to which registration date you consider people a closed beta testers?
Thanks
Hehe nice and thx
ReplyDeletebut when arrived this Tank the Game or in my Garage?
Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous,
ReplyDeletemust be till January 27 when open beta acutally began.
Thanks for the gift!
ReplyDeleteWhat are the stats on its gun? Will it be the same as the M4 Sherman's 75mm?
so it's an unupgradable stock M4 with only 13mm more frontal armor and wider tracks? this is a joke, right?
ReplyDeleteOverlord please tive at least better gun for that tank. He wont be better than any other but at lest not make it an waste of slot.
ReplyDeleteNice gift :D Thanks, WoT
ReplyDeletesweet TY!!!!
ReplyDeleteJoke? This tank will be far better than KV-220, I am glad.
ReplyDeleteo cool its a up armored sherman gains a extra 13mm of hull armor that's not to shabby
ReplyDeleteGetting a Gift in the first place is nice,there is no reason to do so thanks on that part.
ReplyDeleteBut i would suggest to give people a choice be its US,USSR,German tank as a gift.
But considered a little that it is 9 months people has been test/playing WoT in CBT in 9 months you have gotten a free workforce in order to find bugs in the game and make it better so people in the open could in enjoy a well made game in progress and we get a M4 upgrade that wont make much of thing in battle around tier 4-6 or higher.
its against T-34,M7,M4A1,Pz3/4,Pz4,that is just the medium tanks
WoT are screwing its CBT members over a little bit i would say.
Thanks for sharing Overlord,
ReplyDeletenote: we count the beans here (or rivets, in case of tanks), so let me underline your words:
"M4A2E4 is going to be A gift tank for the participants of WOT closed beta."
underlining "A gift tank", not "THE" gift tank... so there will be more as per grammar... right? (should not ask, grammar should be clear enough) :) ;)
This is a really cool jesture. Thanks
ReplyDeleteCaptKirk
I love u guys!!! And I love Shermans... I love u even more for giving this tank for free!!! Such a great look! :D
ReplyDeleteAwesome. Thanks, Overlord
ReplyDelete"must be till January 27 when open beta acutally began."
ReplyDeletesince I only joined the game on january 30, I guess I have nothing to thank you for, Overlord, sir.
Still, I thank you for the free game and for the gift to my future opponenents. much appreciated.
i also thank you for the delicious forum this game has, and - last, but not least- especially for the fact that you took the time to answer my personal messages. That was, indeed, very kind (although, the replies were not what I expected, but that's life :) ).
Ariobarzanes
@ Kieme
ReplyDeleteDon't get too caught up in little semantic detail. Plenty of native English speakers would make that error. Overlord is balancing how many fluencies?
@ Overlord
Cool! Thanks for letting us know what we're getting, and nice to get something.
@ Jiri Starrider
ReplyDeleteIf you carefully read my post you'll understand it was a joke.
I know Overlord from other matters and I know he knows.
Kieme,
ReplyDelete"a" was intentional there. Who knows, perhaps there will be more than one gift tank. :)
Ariobarzanes,
ReplyDeletethanks for the support. :)
Jiri Starrider,
ReplyDeleteintentional "a" that time, tho my English is not great. :)
I would like to keep 1 or 2 tanks which I have now. It was a real long story to get it. That would be nice. No other gift tanks needed.
ReplyDeleteyours
xc0re
The gun on the tank -is- the m4 sherman's starter gun. But no matter, premium tanks are a credit maker, and i'm glad to hear the news that this is a gift tank to us. :3
ReplyDeleteMany thanks!!! Beaware loltractors - betatesters approaching :D
ReplyDeletecheErs
Thank You for the gift Overlord.
ReplyDeleteMuch better than an "I was a Beta tester" T-shirt.
Isengard
now i cant wait for release
ReplyDeleteso basically only close beta user will have this tank no one in the future will?
And when are in game these tanks?
ReplyDeletehey thanks a lot for it..just one question do we need to buy premium to have this tank or will it just come to our garage?? also i read on forums that the CBT can get the panzer IV/V if they buy 1 year premium.. will the 1 year premium be a bit cheap then?? can you confirm it
ReplyDeletethanks..
bilal,
ReplyDeleteyou don't have to buy premium to get a gift tank.
Pz. V/IV is available only in pre-order here:
http://game.worldoftanks.com/account/pre-order/ or here http://game.worldoftanks.eu/account/pre-order/
@Overlord... thank you very much...
ReplyDeleteWell, actually an "I was a beta tester" t-shirt would be cool too :D
ReplyDeleteSo no chance open beta testers will get any rewards? Not even an option to pay some money to get the same benifits?
ReplyDeleteIronic on!!!
ReplyDeleteNo i will rewards for any player
Ironic off!!!^^
Sry but CBT Tester a most of them testing this game from july 2010
I believe I did read on the forums, that some OBT also will get the same rewards as the CBT, but they haven't decided what the requirement for this would be... But I haven't seen any update on this statement?
ReplyDeleteOMG
ReplyDeleteIt just keeps getting worse here
To the people complaining about the free gift:
ReplyDeleteNo one put a gun to your head to force you play this game. You play this by your own choice. Anything CBT received is just the icing on the cake. Instead of complaining I would rather you say "thank you" and move on.
This is why we can't have nice thing.
This is a gift we get for free or is this the tank in the HEAVY package?
ReplyDeleteAnd if it is free when will we get this?
ReplyDeleteNot wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, thanks WoT team. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the gift. By tyhe way I've read many of your posts and don't find much wrong with your English. I think you are ambiguous exactly when you want to be. :)
ReplyDeleteSincerely trickster
overlord is there any way to get the gift on an account if u have 2 acc the other one is open betan and the other one is closed beta the closed beta is deleted but stil lwant ot get hte gift for playing from december
ReplyDeletetrickster,
ReplyDeletethanks. :)
battlelion109,
ReplyDeletethis tank will be available for CBT-accounts. No change it could be assigned to open beta account.
@Benjamin
ReplyDeleteThe heavy package tank is a M4A6E2 Sherman with a 105mm gun.
Gift tank is a M4A2E4 with a 75 mm gun.
@Overlord.
Thx for a great game, dispite the bugs. I will preorder within the next days.
dam mistake made
ReplyDelete@Benjamin
Heavy tank package is a M6A2E1, sorry my bad^^
thx for slot but WHY IT HAVE tO BE AMERCIAN?! ;/
ReplyDeleteKV 220 and PzKpfw V-IV were hell better than this
ReplyDeleteeven if PZ 4/5 is only preorder (which i prefer to change) than even kv 220 ll be good as gift
i understand that u dont have to give anything to beta testers but for all non US maniacs it ll be just an addictional slot (which is good also) but after so many threads i really would like to see or choose for us between few tanks from different nations or this KV220 (coz pz 4/5 is only pre order)
PLS consider this chers
after 2 posts ive realized that this tank is for closed beta testers ;] so iam curuious what or if we ll get anything as open beta testers
ReplyDeletei hope it ll be kv220
sry for rumor but iam excited this game, despite tanks cannot fall in to the water up side down, or going downhill and crash etc, or jump ;]
Yeah m8
ReplyDeleteCBTs becomes the sherman and OBTs the KV lol
the i have 2 tanks in my garage^^
'm Sure the players get all the tanks ^ ^
OMG what nerds
overlord my account that is clsoed beta is deleted so and i have played a while on it and this acc the closed beta acc is clsoed so i wonder if i stil lget the gift for i started as an closed beta
ReplyDeleteI sure hope there are other gift tanks to choose from, because a permanently stock sherman is garbage pure and simple. 13mm extra frontal armor? Wooohooo, so it's still worse than a ram 2. At least they could have given us something a LITTLE better than a stock sherman
ReplyDeleteI want to thank you for a wonderful game. I joined on 11/12/10 and it's been a Great Ride! I chose the $90.00/25,000 Gold along with the M6 Heavy package. I'm a Russian line tanker and have never tried American Armor. Thank you for the opportunity. I may keep it or possibly sell it for Russian steel after I test it out. Now I learn I have another Sherman on the way, both with their own slots. As a Mercenary this expands my business options by no less than two. I like that kind of flexibility.
ReplyDeleteSalute!
battlelion109,
ReplyDeletegift tanks will be available only for CBT accounts.
Then I for sure won't put any money at all in the game. If we did get gift tanks, I would have bought all three preorder packages, but if I can't get a complete collectors garage, I can't see why I should get any at all... Am I the only one there feel like that?
ReplyDeleteCouldn't be giving out a better tank. Not super-powered, but it's an honestly decent tank.
ReplyDeletePersonally the slot doesn't effect me, my average ammount of tanks in the beta was about 1-3. Currently all I have is a T-34.
Decent tank? It's a stock sherman with 13mm more frontal armor. Same gun, looks to be the same engine, slightly improved suspesion. If it at least had the 76mm from the sherman it would be "decent" but that stock 75 is going to be retardedly bad from day 1. Why? Because pretty much every other gold tank (which this tank will be fighting) is actually better than it, and anything tier 3 or better will split you open like a watermelon
ReplyDeleteKV-220 gun is worse. Slower reload and smaller pen.
ReplyDeletebt kv have a lot more armor
ReplyDeleteOverlord I saw the criteria and I have a question.
ReplyDelete( We might impose some restrictions on the number of battles played )
-how many battles are needed?
I hope my 4354 battle is enough :)
greetings !
ReplyDeletesince i am thinking of changing my game name, i would like to know if the cbt-gift-tank will arrive in the form of a promotion code ? or straight into the garage of my cbt registered character ?
thanks :)
Balázs,
ReplyDelete4354 battles is more than enough. :)
Anonymous,
ReplyDeletename change won't affect it in any way.
Hi Overlord, can you give a specification and price of premium tank Lowe?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous,
ReplyDeletegoing to post the specs later this week.
go and search on my other account dragon19966 u se that i am an closed beta
ReplyDeleteI wonder if 100+ battles would be enough, since my son played mostly on my account and he also wished so much to have that sherman... :) Pls, Overlord, if you can - confirm 100+ will be enough, or I have to tell him to play more on his account till 12.04. Thanks in advance
ReplyDeletesry, off thread...
ReplyDeletemaybe noob question but, reading above: how DO you change your game name on existing account ??
dont you have to register new, i.e. loose the cbt-account ?
thank you for clarification
or how much battles do u need to play to count as an cbt
ReplyDeleteWhy not give this to any participant in Beta? When I open the application it says "World of Tanks Closed Beta" but I don't think I'm going to get the Free tank :(
ReplyDeletePlayers who hve registered before January 27th are close beta testers,and I haven't heard anything about a minimal numbers of battles needed to be a closed beta tester
ReplyDeleteDear overlord,
ReplyDeleteI just noticed that right now without gold, we can't convert the exp we get for using premium tanks. Will that be the case for this one too? Or will that be different?
If it is, I'm sad :(. Maybe will just sell it to get the free slot.
Thanks,
in reality i dont care about the cbt gift i buyed the light package in pre order and im ognna sight ob getting the t-34 and jagdpanzer 4
ReplyDeleteMetalheart,
ReplyDeleteto be totally sure, it'd be better to play more until the release. :) Just in case.
Overlord, I've readed elsewhere that you are going to give this gift tank to CBT users ONLY under certains conditions.....
ReplyDelete(AKA not all of the CBT testers will receive the tank)
May you please explain a little bit more these condition ?
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteyes, only CBT players will receive this tank, those who registered before January 2011.
We might introduce restriction on the minimum number of battles played, so as not to give out a ton of tier 5 tanks.
But! Excuse me, you introduced no restriction for Russian Closed Beta Testers.....
ReplyDeleteAll of them has got the gift tank!
And then, which kind of restriction?
Do you think about the number of battles played?
If yes, how many battles?
It will happens for sure that a lot of people loose the gift tank for missing few battles.
If we know in advance our target, we cant react
Will 1350 battles played be enough to meet the requirements?
ReplyDeleteWhat for requirements?? Have you fight in the CBT?? No then you nothing became a CBT Tank!!!
ReplyDeleteMy Good this begging here :-(
LOL thanks for nothing I guess.
ReplyDeleteRestriction now for getting a free tank as a CBT, hmm what a joke.
All CBT that have been playing upto the last days before wipe should have it, and not about the amount of played games, as some have Jobs, School or even real life kids.
So Not all CBT's can sit there all the time to play 1xxx battles a week lol
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteon RU side we had 20k CBT members, on EU and US combined we have some 250k CBT members. That's why. That many tanks will definitely ruin the balance and gameplay in the first days after the release.
lol I dont agree on that, I play on them all 3 and there are less on the EU+US server at primetime then on the Russian server.
ReplyDeleteBut Hey, dont mind just give me a CBT pin/medal and keep the tank then, as alot joined in January 2011 and we are some old ones from before that time.
Well I just play as normal, and what happens I live with :-)
Long live the new CBT's that joined just before it went OBT, and also the unemployed people that have all day to spend on the WoT, now use the free tank with care and LOL at us old and real CBT's.
But sorry forgot, it was invented in Russia.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many people, You are right not many beta testers then (Wonder why it then weny online so fast).
I was a beta tester there, and did not get a KV-220 lol, so its just the same song over again, lets give it to the most time spend players ;-)
Shame on them that wasted their time in the forrum to help on bugs and other stuff, they should have played every minut of the their computer time ha ha
Lets get it live so, we get on in the game with what matters.
Sounds like they had second thoughts on compensating every CBT and now want to nickle and dime their way out of rewarding. At the very least if they screw some cbt's they need to give them a higher starting credits or a little gold, otherwise your just thumbing your nose at your player base.
ReplyDeleteI started to play in september 2010, so I'm sure I'm a CBT. But is 1660 battles enough to get a gift tank?! I hope so ;)
ReplyDeleteOverlord,
ReplyDeleteI had around 200-300 (was up to tier 4 I believe) battles in the CBT, and now have over 600 (post CBT wipe). Will this qualify for the reward tank?
Thanks,
Zenith
interesting well i better get this tank as 2000+ battles before soft wipe and 3680 after
ReplyDeletei soooo hope this next patch fixes the spotting system
Wow. So i'm playing WoT since October 1st, but due to my work and family i only played 800+ battled. So i guess i can forget about gift tank. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm playing the game since July 2010 and is now that I am prevented otherwise shared or was not received CBT tanks?
ReplyDeleteWhat is that?
Man we getting worse with the Game
iam cbt player but i dont know if number of battles till january is enough to get gift tank, but maybe for those who dont have enough battle ll be free slot as gift?
ReplyDeletesound responsibility
Thanks Overlord ,, For those that have negative posted just accept it and be greatful !!!
ReplyDeleteI find it a nice gesure from the Dev's to do such a thing ,,whether the tank will be good or not ,is another thing ,, But after playing with both the Sherman types in game ( Beta) I found them useful,,,
"Every Tank in game has its good and bad points " !!!!
Filbee786,
ReplyDelete"Every Tank in game has its good and bad points " !!!!
This is so much true. I wish everybody understood. :)
What is the minimum amount of battles so that you can get this tank ?
ReplyDeleteI would love it if the min. was around 1300-1500 :D
Q: What is the minimum amount of battles so that you can get this tank ?
ReplyDeleteI would love it if the min. was around 1300-1500 :D
A: 1.000
Hmm guess I'm not gonna get one
ReplyDeleteRegistered last year - CBT
Only just started playing in anger last week - due to family/Real life commitments....
Have so many elite tier 1-3 vehicles so far - shame I'm gonna lose them...bet meh that beta...
HellsFire69
Hi Overlord!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all: Thanks for the great decision to give a gift to the CB community!
But something confused me...
You have been asked at least two times for the criteria that have to be met to get this gift.
One of your answers was:
"[registration] must be till January 27 when open beta acutally began."
(What would mean: Anybody who registered in CB would get it. Even if he registered at January 26th)
Another was:
"[...] only CBT players will receive this tank, those who registered before January 2011. "
(What would mean: Only the CBTs who joined the game until December 31st 2010 would get it.)
So now I am a little confused... What is the actual criteras one must fullfill to get the gift?
Thanks for your answere!
Thyrael,
ReplyDelete2 resctrictions:
- registration date prior to January 27, 2011.
- 1.000 or more battles played according to stats in profile.
This tank is a good match against the medium pre-order package. The PZ 5 is better head to head but becomes food the minute the gift tank outflanks it. So if your going to fight without a pre order pack and only the gift tank, make sure you hide n poke the krout.
ReplyDeleteSorry if this is aswered but...
ReplyDeleteThen Open Beta player can earn the gift if you have the 1.000 or more battles played?
Or if Open Beta players does not get the gift tank, we could get the extra slot??
I registed my cbt acc in january because I had to wait for eu key. Please tell me if I will be getting that gift tank. I think my 4k battles in closed beta deserves that reward. Thanks in advance
ReplyDeleteSorry I just saw overlords reply few posts above mine
ReplyDeleteI am getting my t5 med.
Ovi,
ReplyDeleteIs that a typo do you mean 1,000 battles not 1.000
I have a question. How long would one have to had played in order to receive the gift tank?
ReplyDeleteIn Russia they got russian tank and with this model for USA test server was hoping for german tank :(, but i guess its to late now
ReplyDeleteanyway TY the gift is nice you guys did great job:) the game is great and what is done for now is fantastic, have big hope for it in future and its progress
wish you big profits and media cover
thats pretty cool, and it's CBT or 1000 battles, so if you joined in open, and racked up 1000 conflicts good for you, you get one too.
ReplyDeleteis how it sounds to me
Overlord said:
ReplyDelete"2 resctrictions:
- registration date prior to January 27, 2011.
- 1.000 or more battles played according to stats in profile."
What reads as: "You have to meet BOTH restrictions to receive the gift"
Your registration date has to be prior to January 27, 2011 AND you have to have fought 1000 or more battles according to stats in profile.
If you joined Open Beta it doesn't matter how many battles you played. you do only meet one of the two prerequisites = You won't get the gift.
Thanks alot Overlord.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, i played over 1400 battles and i registered before january 27 ( i believe i joined somewhere in august). Do the battles i played have to be before January the 27th as well?
Just pre ordered the light package so this will go nicely with my light tank. 2 premiums to grind credits with :D.
Overlord, a question if you got time:
ReplyDeleteYou state that at least 1000 battles are needed, does that mean that if we reach this number before the 12th of april, we'll get the tank? (as long as we participated in closed beta as well)
Damn... I haven't played enough battles to get it :(
ReplyDeleteI think it is a shame that some of the CBT players wont receive the gift tank because of not playing 1000 battles. not all players can play all day. Bit harsh in my opinion. Registration date I agree with 100% but 1000 battles I don't.
ReplyDeletehey overlord?
ReplyDeletei have been a CBT since the start and i got over 600 battles before the softwipe and i got around 700 now. do they add up and make it 1300 battles?
if not, then a shame that the restrictions keep changing over and over again...
This entire idea is stupid and so is WoT. Lets reward our testers by giving them a crappy tank! Not premium or anything good whatsoever, not to mention everyone who wasted their time on this stupid games CBT NOT to be rewarded. WoT is a joke the devs are a joke and their support is a joke, keep your free to play game I'd rather play WoW than this crap.
ReplyDeleteHow unusual, a WoW player rage!!
ReplyDeleteNo class WoW guy. This blog is to help answer questions in WoT. If you want to Rage out, find a forum.
ReplyDeleteAs for us CBT's, I'm sure everyone knows WoT doesn't have to give us anything. We "Volunteered" meaning giving our time for free. I am also sure everyone who was part of CBT in WoT appreciates the Premium tank gift what ever it may be. Cause lets face it... WoT didn't have to.
sorry for my bad english.. overlord i started playing my acc inn 03.11.2010 and i have playd 1926 battles is that enough to get the gift ?
ReplyDeletewill i get this tank i got 2473 battle i started in alte august ?
ReplyDeleteHy overlord dude :-)
ReplyDeleteat first i dont understand why people give themselves POWERFUL names, such as overlord, titan, kolosos...its probably cos their d... are short or their self image weak so they need to compensate. I use my own name in game and in life.
Second thing, u said there might be other gift tanks....errr could i have harkonen devastator pls :-)
not enough battles and too late registrated :(:(
ReplyDeleteI hate it:( i was very active as WOT CBT!
Thx for the gift, I play WoT since Aug 2010. Played over 6.000 Battles since the softwipe was made. But it had been better, in my point of view, if it would have been possible to choose between a gift tank or month of premium for free.
ReplyDeleteAnyway you are doing a good job and i hope the development will go on. At last its my oppinion that the release is coming too early. Too many bugs and balancing problems are decreasing the game fun by now. But time will show. I would be very sad if this game would fail therefore.
Keep on developing and best wishes,
Panzerknacker666
Segítene valaki letöltöttem uj pacht t és eltűntek az eddigi tankjaim
ReplyDeleteHi Overlord,
ReplyDeletedo the beta testers that received this tank (ie qualified as true beta status) get to convert experience for free?
Find it funny that they complain they couldn't give away the CBT tank to everyone cause of 250k members, who does a closed beta with that many players. I'm not suprised the company said one thing and did another, they showed the same sorta of practice with Order of War which is still has a game breaking memory leak years after release. If the company wants to become credible in the highly competitive video game industry they should first and foremost treat all their volunteer testers with the same respect (eg EU players vs NA) and secondly not say one thing then come back and do another.
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