World of Tanks will be seeing significant future updates, including a bump in visuals according to the second Dev Diary. Currently the tank models are comprised of 8000-16000 polygons. Now, Wargaming.net is building highly detailed models and using normal mapping to bring down the poly-count from in the millions to a range of 50,000-100,000. They’re also introducing texturing to provide realistic wear and tear on their hundreds of tank models.
While we’re not that superficial here, we certainly can appreciate the significant bump in visual fidelity – and any new-comer to World Of Tanks will get the feel of the game being modern rather than something that has been out for more than three years. If you haven’t given it a try, you can head over to their site and download the game for free. No word yet on whether these changes will be seen on the Xbox 360 version that was just launched this year.
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada, at a young age I was forced to decide whether the harsh northern winters were going to claim my fingers, or to turn to the safer pursuits of indoor activities. Little did I know that a little game called Ninja Gaiden would bring my digits more pain than frostbite ever could. Starting with Vectrex and C64 games and moving forward through the era of electronic entertainment, I sampled as much as I could in the different platforms, and began my interest in PC gaming from wrestling with DOS memory management.
While console games were a part of my earliest gaming memories and I certainly had played on most platforms including 3D0, all things Nintendo, PS1 and the like, truly the PC was my domain until the Xbox. As an old PC gamer, I ever chased the cutting edge technology. Eye of the beholder with CGA 4 colors was my first step down the the path of blowing thousands of dollars on PC upgrades over two decades. Ultima 7, with the Guardian talking to me through my monitor, still haunts my dreams and keeps me ever hoping for a decent Ultima 8 and 9. From the 3DFX SLI VooDoo2s and Aureal to today's GPU driven DirectX games, the new and shiny pictures seem to keep me going. My PC gaming has slowed down with the market shift though, and although I have choice games that will ever be on PC, I have found myself in console gaming with a bit of portable gaming in my life.
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