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mlmp08 posted:Spit XVI is awesome. But it's at a tier where every awesome plane has to watch the gently caress out because the other teams also all have awesome planes. Nickiepoo posted:Good to hear. The toughest fight was against Russians who had some Spit 9s along with their native planes so I felt like I couldn't run or turn. I need to get better at utilising planes with high roll-rates because it's not something I consciously do often. ya, clipped wing spits are amazing because one of the few weaknesses of spitfires is rollrate which is something germans tend to specialize in when it comes to spitfire vs spitfire though, unless one player gets the jump on the other its going to come down to summadat serious pilot poo poo to shake one off the other.
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Thief posted:ya, clipped wing spits are amazing because one of the few weaknesses of spitfires is rollrate which is something germans tend to specialize in Flying a Spit against premium Spits always reminds me of getting into a mixed game as mid-tier Japan and suddenly having to fly against planes and teams that can actually match you.
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Alkydere posted:To be quite honest, the entire British tree is let down by their reverse gear. The fastest reversing tanks in that tree are the Shermans at 6 KPH. Then the Aussie Thunderbolt at 4 KPH and finally everyone else at the lightning fast 2 KPH. Yeah, ducking behind cover is a pussy move guys. Real men keep a stiff upper lip and let incoming fire The postwar tanks all have good reverses. I think the caern goes back about fast as it goes forward.
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roll rate is almost always superior to turn fighting ability imo. I almost always beat turn fighting players with scissors and vertical moves, because turn fighting requires both people to agree to let the spit/jap kill you
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British reverse speed is pretty bad, but on the other hand they all have excellent agility otherwise. You just have to get used to turning your tank around ahead of time—it's not like your front armor is any better than the sides and rear on most of these tanks.
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Gonna re-do the OP once Italians are released by the way. Anything that you want in/axed? Should I keep it barebones since no one reads OPs anyways?
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please create a repository of useful reaction gifs
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BBJoey posted:please create a repository of useful reaction gifs
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Azran posted:Gonna re-do the OP once Italians are released by the way. Anything that you want in/axed? Where to aim when fighting Kv-1s
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MrLonghair posted:Where to aim when fighting Kv-1s aim for the return the hangar button
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MrLonghair posted:Where to aim when fighting Kv-1s Aim for a tank with a bigger gun. Or, surprisingly, Pz. III APCR. Sure it's just APCR but the KV line has flat as gently caress armor which is exactly what APCR shines at penetrating. You won't do much damage once you pen, but it's better than doing literally nothing.
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Azran posted:Gonna re-do the OP once Italians are released by the way. Anything that you want in/axed? Should I keep it barebones since no one reads OPs anyways? A paragraph or two explaining how BRs work is the only critical thing missing, plus botes I guess.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:plus botes I guess.
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Azran posted:Gonna re-do the OP once Italians are released by the way. Anything that you want in/axed? Should I keep it barebones since no one reads OPs anyways?  tia
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I was looking around and it seems people found unused data for French planes? Namely, these: quote:MS 406 C1 (data finds)
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Azran posted:Gonna re-do the OP once Italians are released by the way. Anything that you want in/axed? Should I keep it barebones since no one reads OPs anyways? As a new player, I'd say some words about Crew (which I'm finally getting the hang of with a little help from a friendly goon) such as: * a Crew is required to use a vehicle, and you should have a minimum of 3 crewed vehicles in each class (Army and Aviation) but it's not necessary to go above that * a Crew gains XP from battles, which can be distributed to various stats to make them better * a single Crew can be trained to operate multiple vehicles, and the XP they gained applies across the board for the most part (i.e. they don't lose it when switching back and forth between different vehicles) * to 'Send on Holiday' simply means to remove a Crew from the current vehicle they occupy and put them back into the available pool * one of the easier way to assign Crew to a vehicle you own is from the vehicle research screen (note: this is different to the modifications research screen)
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Exioce posted:As a new player, I'd say some words about Crew (which I'm finally getting the hang of with a little help from a friendly goon) such as: Some clarifications and to expand on this: You can have up to 5 crews per nation without spending golden eagles (premium currency). How you assign those crew depends on the mode you're playing, but in general you'll want two tank crew, one fighter crew, one bomber crew, and the fifth can be whatever (I think most players opt to use this crew for self-propelled anti-aircraft guns or heavy fighters). In arcade battles, you get several spawns of the type of vehicle assigned to that mode. In realistic air battles, you only get one vehicle to use in the match. In realistic tank battles, you start out with a tank and can earn points in the match to spend on respawns in other tanks or in aircraft; the spawn cost of a vehicle goes up if you've previously spawned in a vehicle of its class (fighter, bomber, heavy tank, light/medium tank, tank destroyer, SPAA). In sim tank battles, you can spawn in one tank and one plane, and you can start in the plane if you want to; the airplane can only be used once, but the tanks will usually have two spawns unless they're considered a heavy, and only get one. Because of how expensive crew training gets for the higher levels of stats, it's best to plan ahead how you're going to use each crew. Your fighter crew can focus on fighter skills while your bomber crew can do gunner skills. Your main tank crew might prioritize repair speed while your secondary tank crew prioritizes spotting distance, or an SPAA crew that needs to get the gunner and radio operator trained faster than the other positions. Sending a crew on holiday doesn't remove the crew from the slot, only the vehicle from the crew; crew 1 will always be in slot 1. There is no need to specialize forever, though; a single crew can eventually reach full capability with every skill for every class of vehicle, but this will take a very long time. As far as I know, you get triple crew XP in arcade mode compared to realistic and sim because Gaijin made a weird decision about average earnings in arcade a long time ago and has not yet reversed it. One of the fastest ways to gain experience points is to get a light bomber that can stay above the melee in arcade, and just bomb every base into dust. While tank skills only work in tanks and airplane skills only work in airplanes, unspent experience points can be used for either type—so the points you earn in air battles can be used to train up tank skills. Skills are leveled up by half points, from 0 to 5, but 5 is only halfway finished. You can use silver lions (regular freely earned currency) to give a specific crew "expert" training with a specific vehicle, which adds +3 to all skills while using that vehicle, bringing the total to 8 if you have the skills at a base of 5. You can get a further +2 from "ace" training, which can be bought with GE or by using a vehicle with that crewa lot. The crew will slowly earn points towards free ace training for that vehicle, equal to the spendable XP they earn, which builds to a 50% GE discount off ace training, then 75% off, then 100% for free ace status. Also note, to even get expert and ace training with a vehicle, the crew must be a certain level overall for that type of vehicle (plane, tank, boat); this level required goes up with tier, so a tier 1 tank can be experted and aced by a fairly low-level crew, but something at tier 3 might need a level 60 crew to be aced. Aircraft training caps at level 75, while tanks cap at 150—and it will take much, much longer to get a crew up to 150 for tanks than it will take to reach 75 with air skills, but a tank crew is fairly capable around level 70, so don't stress over it too much. It's usually easiest to assign a vehicle to a crew from the research screen, but you can also speed up the process by using the filters next to the list shown when you press the two-arrow button at the bottom of the crew slot. You can filter by aviation or army, whether a crew is trained for a vehicle, whether the crew has expert (and/or ace) training, vehicle tier, and (most useful by far) if the vehicle is allowed in the mode you currently have selected. If you're trying to join an event battle with a limited list of available vehicles, you can use the filter to only show those. 
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Still dreaming they'll give us respecs of every crew slot we've got when naval comes, because the trinity will be complete by then and infantry is confirmed to be for another game and they have changed how poo poo works so many times. Guess I'll throw them a suggestion. Again.
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MrLonghair posted:Still dreaming they'll give us respecs of every crew slot we've got when naval comes, because the trinity will be complete by then and infantry is confirmed to be for another game and they have changed how poo poo works so many times. Guess I'll throw them a suggestion. Again. EL OH EL Let's see, they can either: 1 - make you grind out or pay for fresh 0 level crews like they are going to do for the Italians, and like they have done for tanks, nabbing the lazy or greedy who will pay them in premium currency/real monies; or 2 - give you something for free or reduced incentive to play and probably not spend real monies. They are going 1. That's how games like this get paid and how new players can get in at a even level (or sorta) with the wallets and/or autists that play games like these a lot. Jack Forge fucked around with this message at 17:30 on May 11, 2017 |
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Jack Forge posted:EL To be fair though what they should do is make like World of Tanks and give you a fraction of convertible experience as truly free to make paying to convert more tempting. I have to imagine idiots would be more willing to pay to convert a couple hundred extra experience for something they can almost get with free stuff than to just convert thousands at a time. Ninja: though if they ever did this I have no doubt they wouldn't make it retroactive because really they should continue to punish people for having played before a change for consistency. What's that, you've already killed 7000 people in your (vehicle)? How unfortunate, but this skin WebDO fucked around with this message at 18:04 on May 11, 2017 |
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WebDO posted:What's that, you've already killed 7000 people in your (vehicle)? How unfortunate, but this skin Just like my PS4 account, riddled with camos I've got decorated in all four slots, locked away. gently caress 'em for that.
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sup dudes....haven't played this game in like three and a half years. Do we still have a presence? I'm thinking about giving Overwatch a serious break and really liked this game before they came out with tanks. e: seeing some of the old Dust crew, plus Thief and Muhlump...sup peeps 
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nippythefish posted:sup dudes....haven't played this game in like three and a half years. Do we still have a presence? I'm thinking about giving Overwatch a serious break and really liked this game before they came out with tanks. A presence? Goons are probably the only reason that several American fighters haven't been even further downtiered to hilariously OP levels. Pubbies just cannot fight in them.
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Alkydere posted:A presence? Goons are probably the only reason that several American fighters haven't been even further downtiered to hilariously OP levels. Pubbies just cannot fight in them. I mean do GO and GI still exist
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LAME is where it's at now for Losing And Making Excuses. GO is an ancient and crumbling order whose hearthfires are carefully attended by the ancient skynight, AhrimanPK, lonely in his keep of squadron solitude. GI might exist I dunno.
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Ahriman Ah, well...glad I came back, Going to take a while to get used to the controls again. Everybody still avoid arcade like the plague? I liked playing realistic until tanks showed up and hosed up my controls scheme.
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Azran posted:Gonna re-do the OP once Italians are released by the way. Anything that you want in/axed? Should I keep it barebones since no one reads OPs anyways? If you're going to update the squad info STUG is mostly dead. I think Sard and I are the only active members and we don't accept applications unless we recognize the username.
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An F8F-1 and F8F-1B descending in formation during practice (1946, colorized) A Tempest Mk.V Vickers P being terribly rude to a Bf 109 F4 Tropical https://gfycat.com/GlossyConventionalArcticseal Ghosts n Gopniks fucked around with this message at 02:00 on May 14, 2017 |
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Is there any good reason why a player shouldn't just stick to playing with tier 1 vehicles while he researches his way up all the way up the tree? Do higher tier battles give more RP and Lions?
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Exioce posted:Is there any good reason why a player shouldn't just stick to playing with tier 1 vehicles while he researches his way up all the way up the tree? Do higher tier battles give more RP and Lions? You get a penalty researching anything more than a tier away from what you're piloting/driving. Tier one is fine through tier two, tier two is fine through tier three, ect. You don't lose much though since most of the most fun vehicles are tier 2. Edit: Actually most of my favorites are Tier 3 but still just fly whatever you enjoy most and don't worry about the grind or you'll burn yourself out way too drat fast. ArchRanger fucked around with this message at 21:38 on May 14, 2017 |
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ArchRanger posted:You get a penalty researching anything more than a tier away from what you're piloting/driving. Tier one is fine through tier two, tier two is fine through tier three, ect. You don't lose much though since most of the most fun vehicles are tier 2. This is true in Tanks as well. A lot of fun poo poo is in tiers 1-3 and once you reach tier 4 the grind can suck a lot of fun out of stuff. There's no shame in playing tier 1 games just so you can rocket around the map in your BT-5/7 (or RBT) pretending you're playing Mario Kart. Heck, those can be surprisingly useful later on in RB if you use it to dash for the point right off the bat. Tier 3 has so many heavy tanks that you'll have the point captured and the enemy team suffering ticket bleed before the other team's fat Tigers are halfway to the combat zone.
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nippythefish posted:sup dudes....haven't played this game in like three and a half years. Do we still have a presence? I'm thinking about giving Overwatch a serious break and really liked this game before they came out with tanks.  a lot of good free stuff has been added to the game every nation has rad planes, even japan got fully fleshed out with some legit amazing stuff they're actually adding  forreal soon, like next patch or whatever also some boat stuff but i think its pay to play right now?also, also arcade is fun but i think most ppl play RB tanks when solo because the planes don't have markers but you don't need a joystick
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Alkydere posted:This is true in Tanks as well. A lot of fun poo poo is in tiers 1-3 and once you reach tier 4 the grind can suck a lot of fun out of stuff. No joke grinding through Tier 4 American and Soviet tanks nearly killed my desire to ever play War Thunder again and that was at the point American tanks were just starting to get comparatively good again. Tier-4 tanks is absolutely dreadful and god help me I've been trying to get there on the Brits now because the pain wasn't bad enough the two times around. I swear it feels like I finished the entire American jet lineup in the time in the amount of games it took me to get the M46 and M56. How good are the two Chronicles Premium tanks? God help me I'm considering just buying all the Chronicles ground rewards now that the event is over. ArchRanger fucked around with this message at 22:11 on May 14, 2017 |
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ArchRanger posted:How good are the two Chronicles Premium tanks? God help me I'm considering just buying all the Chronicles ground rewards now that the event is over. Quoting what I posted on them several pages back, quote:Russian Matilda loving owns. It goes slow, it has -2 gun depression but it's a killdozer at its tier. Hold W, one-shot every idiot that gets in your way, and look cool doing it. To go further on this, they are sweet as heck but you'll only enjoy the Excelsior if you already enjoy Cromwells and Churchills since it's basically a fusion of the two. The BR has been dropped to 4.0 since I posted that, so it sees fewer T-34-85s now and is thus even more enjoyable, but the gun is really really inconsistent. A super important detail, maybe even the most important detail, is that the tank is covered in clean flat space for placing decals and decorations. The Matilda is still really great if you don't mind having no speed or gun depression. It's got 50% more armor than most of its peers at BR 3.3 and a lot more firepower with the BR-350B (MD-8 fuse) shell. Sard fucked around with this message at 22:57 on May 14, 2017 |
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. But it goes 40 km/h and turns like a Cromwell and has 114 mm of front armor at BR 4.3, so it can get to good spots and make great use of them. Don't try reversing.
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