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Arcsquad12 posted:The p-40n is a superb little plane at 2.7 When did they add the P-40N? I thought the latest one they added was the P-40F.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:When did they add the P-40N? I thought the latest one they added was the P-40F. Oh sorry, I meant the F variant with the Merlin. The N is the "light" Warhawk and it isn't in the game yet.
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Solumin posted:If you see his turret turning towards you, it means his gunner is alive again and you should shoot him in the turret. You could also try to take out the barrel or the breech so he can't fire at all. If you're close enough you can aim at specific components, you're too close.
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Madurai posted:If you're close enough you can aim at specific components, you're too close. If I don't aim at specific parts of the tank, my shots will bounce. I unlocked the Lorraine 40t! I love the gun, though the auto loader takes some getting used to. 90% of the matches so far have been up tiers to 7.7 though. The Lorraine really suffers at that tier, at least when I drive it.
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Jul 9, 2018 16:14
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Then you switch nations and your 6.7 lineup faces a bunch of 5.7s. Always.
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Madurai posted:If you're close enough you can aim at specific components, you're too close. You should realistically be aiming at specific components at any range so there aren’t many situations this is true. About the only time is across the map 3km luck shots. There are like 1-3 guns in the game that have any meaningful shell deviation (one being the 105mm L7 of all things  ) and with everything else you can place shots pretty much exactly where you want so long as you have a good feel for shell drop over distance.
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bacon flaps posted:Then you switch nations and your 6.7 lineup faces a bunch of 5.7s. Always. That's what's been happening to me. In 4.7 I would be uptiered on the German team and rarely downtiered on the allies. I took the 5.7 ARL out for a spin and got uptiered. And now in my 6.7 I'm getting uptiered. It's frustrating!
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Madurai posted:If you're close enough you can aim at specific components, you're too close. I only play arcade so I can drift around corners popping folks at close range.
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Madurai posted:If you're close enough you can aim at specific components, you're too close. So within like 2km, if you are good? The only time its hard is if the tank is gunning it
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Jul 9, 2018 20:59
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I only feel alive when I'm close enough to touch the enemy tank with my barrel.
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Solumin posted:I only feel alive when I'm close enough to touch the enemy tank with my barrel. It's not gay unless the barrels touch
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Solumin posted:I only feel alive when I'm close enough to touch the enemy tank with my barrel. The M22 approach
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So the grind is still not bad in this game (at least relatively). I was able to get the M36 in about a dozen battles and I already almost have the M41. One thing I especially like is that MM tries to throw similar teams together, so I often end up with a squad of other M18s and we go on big flanking adventures around the map.
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The MM only cares about nation restrictions, not team composition. (Except in air RB.) You're seeing teams full of M36/M18 because those tanks are very, very popular. The grind is going to start getting worse. Even with premium, a tier 6 tank can take 200 matches to unlock and infinitely more to spade. But that's not bad, as long as you enjoy the journey to unlock the next tank.
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I don't mind the grind. The gameplay is fun enough to where I try to focus on doing well during the fight instead of thinking of how many thousands of points of research I need to get my next tank. Question: I prefer arcade battles to real but there seem to be lots of bots in these matches. Is it because of low player base (there's 48,000 people on average playing according to the counter so that can't be it...can it?) or because of some weird matchmaking where I'm placed with coms to ease me into PvP? I only have 2 tanks above 2.0 BR I believe. Am I stuck in the lowbie circle until I level or have people abandoned AB tanks, which I like better than WoT so please don't die on me  .
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Jul 10, 2018 20:28
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As far as I know, arcade always has more players than realistic. Or at least the queues are faster. You're stuck with bots until you unlock your first Rank 2 tank, I believe. Not BR 2.0, but rank 2. You might need to unlock two of them? Not sure And yeah the grind isn't bad as long as you're having fun. I'm just not good enough to have fun at the higher tiers.
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Jul 10, 2018 20:34
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Coming from WoT where it took like 100 premium wins just to get a decent gun on the tank, this game is a much better grind by miles. I can get a full match in AB or RB in just a few seconds, but I also have all server regions turned on. I'd kind of prefer to get bots once in a while though.
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Dishwasher posted:I don't mind the grind. The gameplay is fun enough to where I try to focus on doing well during the fight instead of thinking of how many thousands of points of research I need to get my next tank. Don't worry, the game is plenty healthy and even at higher ranks queue times for arcade tanks are always low.
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Jul 10, 2018 21:13
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smdh if you have jets and haven't tried them in arcade yet
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Anything era 4 and up is excruciating in arcade enough to make it pretty clear taking jets to arcade is a loving awful idea indeed
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Is expert qualification a must-have? Getting to where it's 100k silver ducats so quite the investment on my freemo account. Also is there a BR that's like the "fun one"? Or like before you "need" premium.
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no. just pick a vehicle you like and play it. even most bad vehicles are generally viable enough to make some sort of profit. it's one of the major strengths of this game. the end-game meta is putting little  's on every vehicle by maxing out their unlocksit isn't unusual to see expert players that have hundreds of hours in the game playing reserve tier because its fun it also ins't unusual to see poo poo rear end bad players with 1:50 K:Ds at higher ranks Teal posted:Anything era 4 and up is excruciating in arcade enough to make it pretty clear taking jets to arcade is a loving awful idea indeed you're just mad you can't see the little aiming helper icon when blacked out pulling 20Gs for the entire match with infinite Komet fuel
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Jul 10, 2018 22:37
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The new BF-110s seem pretty fun!
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Jul 10, 2018 22:47
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Oh hey an enemy. *misfire* *misfire* *misfire*
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Is expert qualification a must-have? Getting to where it's 100k silver ducats so quite the investment on my freemo account. For planes, experting crews is entirely optional and represents 30% of the bonus you can get from crews. It's most notably helpful for reducing g-lock in jets and such. Experting tanks is a significantly more noticeable improvement (ie that 1s faster reload might save you) but still largely optional. Generally late tier 3/t4 tends to be where grind curve really starts to ramp up. And late t4 and beyond will some times see bad players start being unable to afford the silver cost without premium. That being said by no means do you need premium to get to or to profit from top tiers.
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Experting a tank of worth it if you think you'll be using it for a long time, or even if you just like it a bunch. One you gave an expert crew, you can start working towards getting a free ace crew, too. One of the important things about this game is you don't have to play top tier vehicles if you don't want to. It's not like an MMO where low tier stuff is "stale" and no one plays it! My favorite BR is 4.7, but that might be because my favorite nations are at their strongest in that meta. Britain gets the 17 lbder, and France has the excellent FL 10 and SA 50.
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Personally I'd say the best the game has to offer in both planes and tanks can be found between BR3.0 and 7.0 - it covers all the iconic stuff and more, and the game is at its best balance. Every nation has several highpoints in that range and no one stands out as straight up terrible. The vehicles are affordable, upgrades come quickly and research doesn't take all that long. All the skills and tricks you learn playing the game are relevant and you don't need to learn how to play a whole different way like you do for all the stuff from about 1950 onwards. (or after getting out of the weird creations from before '36ish where people start getting competent Shanakin fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Jul 11, 2018 |
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I've had the most fun in the highest tiers with tanks. Everyone is dangerous, it's a much more mobile/aggressive game, AAA is useful, and you get situationally useful tools like ATGMs and smoke grenades. But it takes forever to grind the vehicles.
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5.7 does not exist for ground vehicles, you cannot convince me otherwise, and if it did exist I would firmly tell you it's the worst tier and should not be played. Everything jumps from 4.7 to 6.3, no tanks exist in between those two. Tigers? No such thing.
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my most played tanks are early russians because you can just zip around and gently caress people up while they struggle to even face in your general direction but for planes it's gotta be japan. at every BR they have something amazing, quirky and fun
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I forgot how much I hate getting up-tiered constantly. Nothing like zipping around in a Chafee and run into loving Dicker Max
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best sim plane brs are between 2.3 and 6.3 but jets are still good assuming anyone is playing, and reserve tier stuff is fun in a full room. although if all you care about is speed like i do, biplanes can be sometimes not so fresh https://giant.gfycat.com/IdioticGiantAzurewingedmagpie.webm https://giant.gfycat.com/ColossalUnfoldedHermitcrab.webm they need to update the p-51d cockpit, it look like a dishrag compared to the H.
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I really hate fighting the A7M
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don't worry they apparently only made like 10 irl and this game would certainly respect that via matchmakingquote:In June 1945, ace pilot Saburō Sakai was ordered to Nagoya to test the airplane. He declared it to be the fastest fighter he had ever seen, able to surpass anything on the air, Japanese or American. He claimed it could fly in circles, while ascending, around a Hellcat or a Mustang, and that engineers stated it could fight at up to 12,000 meters. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7VzVv0J0eA
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Arcsquad12 posted:I really hate fighting the A7M Quit hating them and fly them instead.
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Thief posted:
That icon never seems to help me. Am I doing something wrong
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It's only accurate at the exact distance your guns are sighted at so while I find it helpful to tell what vector an enemy plane is at, having a feel for your guns muzzle velocity is a lot more important To practice I recommend teamkilling the guy in a p-51 or bf 110 slowly orbiting the enemy spawn point at 8km
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Oh that explains everything
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