- apparently, it’s possible to get a teamdamage/teamkill punishment from the race mode (or rather to damage your allies at all). According to developers, this (the ability to teamdamage) is not intended, it’s possible this will be removed

- some mods interfere with the new racing mod. Specifically, older versions of Gnomefather’s sounds cause the game to crash

- locked equipment on your Chaffee Sport tank will be (when the Chaffee Sport is removed) automatically and for free (no gold will be charged) removed and put to your depot at the end of the event

- the 50k XP reward is not a “free XP” reward, it will be transferred to the T1

- the Chaffee race mode is checked for bots strictly (on RU server at least), inactive players and bots will be banned

- the fact that exploding barrels do not deal damage in the Chaffee race is intentional – developers tested it, it wasn’t good with damage

- the fact the crew gets moved to the barracks does NOT mean you will get extra free barracks slots, if your barracks are full, the crew will simply stay as “extra” and as soon as a space frees itself by moving the barracks crew to a tank for example, the crew will occupy it

And a couple of interesting points from today’s leak about skill MM (for those who did not read it):

- on RU server, only 7 percent of players has below 47 percent winrate, 77 percent of players has winrate between 48 and 52 percent

- the “do you want skill MM” poll was sent to 200k players in total, results will apparently be known in November

- Hidden Village is scheduled for a rework (SS: told you so)

- map Stalingrad is planned

- the Bigworld engine is in apparently for an overhaul (SS: they call it “engine upgrade”, it’s possible that the developers here refer to Havok or new motion physics, but maybe other graphic features as well)

- apparently, something called “Black Forest” is planned (likely a new map, sounds interesting)