Hi Tankers,

You guys might have heard of the recent rumors of Wargaming’s attempt of banning mods in version 4.4, I have been working on to trying to get my hands on information regarding to this, and at this point I can only say that All Mods That Are Legal at present are not likely to be banned. The Anti-cheat system present in 4.4 should be only covering the properties of the “Visual” illegal mods I am going to mention below.

I will be keeping you guys updated when Wargaming released an official statement regarding this matter.

You might be there and wondering: Why would wargaming do something like this all of a sudden?

This brings the discussion into Illegal mods. But before I start talking about it, I must stress that all illegal mods are not meant to be made nor used, and whoever made it or used it should be heavily critizied, and given ban from Wargaming Immediately. All pictures and Videos related to illegal mods on this post are from public materials that have been made available by illegal mod users or makers.

As you may have noticed, there have been some members of ForBlitz (a Russian Modding group, known for selling mods and their HD tank mods), making Illegal mods and attempts to sell them to users. This is not the first time they have done that, in fact, they have previously released hit-skin mods, which are illegal on most servers, but only legal on Russian to a certain extent. Below is a example of the “Allowed” Hitskin mod on RU server, but Banned on all other servers.

And it seems it’s pretty popular on RU server to a point that took ForBlitz making illegal mods to the next level. This is what they have been making recently (probably around 2-3 weeks ago.)

Above is a screenshot from a Illegal Modder belonging to ForBlitz, which they have made the buildings in map transparent, so it gives you an advantage of you knowing where the enemy is pointing their guns at, while the enemies can’t do the same. It also remove trees and bushes so you can easily see through them. (although they didn’t mess with the spotting system, the server will still put a bush there, just that the client is not showing the bush.) Below is a few screenshots extracted from a YouTube video uploaded by a Illegal mod user/maker. (as the youtube video can be taken down anytime soon, screenshots come in handy in catching illegal mod video contents)

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You’d think you’ve seen enough Illegal mods for one day? Think again. Remember the hitskin mod that I have told you about at the start? ForBlitz member made a advanced “3D hitskins”, which shows the modules of a tank, in a 3D way.

in the above screenshot, it shows a tank with transparent white skin, also a few “red-box”es inside the tank itself. this is visualizing the exact module location in a 3D manner, which is one of the illegal mods across all WoT and WoTB servers since long time ago.

After these two PAID illegal mods have been made available (Yes they are Paid Mods), Wargaming have taken measures (at least some sources of mine tells me that they are taking measures) to make sure these mods don’t stay in the game, which lead to this 4.4 Anti-Cheat rumor spreading. And to make matters even worse, ForBlitz member have been spreading irresponsible rumors of telling everyone to uninstall all mods, regardless they are legal or not.

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Because at this point, there is no evidence that Wargaming wants to Ban all mods from Blitz, and if they do, there is probably a few thousand players waiting to leave the game, due to Wargaming’s incompetence of making the in-game elements better.

And a final thing. Due to ForBlitz’s record of making illegal mods and spreading them, In an attempt to break the game balance and ruin the reputation of the modding community, I hereby urge everyone who is reading this post right now, Uninstall all mods from ForBlitz Immediately, and leave their community, to keep this modding community clean of illegal mod makers, and also to prevent yourself from getting banned, in-case they have mixed illegal mods into your game client.

Also, to ensure everyone’s faith on this site, I hereby declare that I never had made any AND will never be making any mods that violate the EULA and rules of any server, and I will be using my own mods in the future as well, so If i ever happened to get banned due to my own mods, you guys are the first ones to be acknowledged.

Thanks for reading, and make sure to share this post, so more and more people are aware of the situation the modding community is in right now, and realise that illegal mods are not a rumor of the past anymore.

have fun doing whatever you are doing!