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NTRabbit posted:The British tree really needs a heavy crew trainer premium, so they've given us exactly what we need Just when I thought I'd never reach 15 skills on my IS7 crew... Seriously though, might as well just release a new soviet heavy tank line, I'm sure there are another 7 billion Objekts # to stuff in there.
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sauer kraut posted:Ya the only thing that makes German tanks playable is going full fantasy 1944 blueprints, then add another 50% of armor all round for good measure and slap on battlecruiser guns. Well, not to go full wehraboo, but that's only fair when some nations get tanks that were prototyped in the late 60s. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing WG has to do to keep german tanks fun for everyone is to keep them balanced. I don't mind if something like the E50M exists, because it's legit fun to play and actually well balanced, but stuff like the WTE100 shouldn't have ever been put in the game.
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I'd think more HP, better mobity, more view range, better accuracy and aiming speed, as well as improved reload speed, shell speed and penetration would make grinding a T9 heavy tank more enjoyable, but eh, your choice, gotta get that tier 10.
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Simple, open the tech tree of the Challenger. See that the next tank in the tree? Click "research". It might ask you to spend free XP, but say yes anyway. There you go, you know how to play the Challenger. Seriously though, do anything you can to not have to grind what is essentially a TOG that sees tier 9, and has less hp
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Nidhg00670000 posted:And now, an announcement from Germany: For the record, the Aufklärungsmaus is something the 2PAC High council discovered in their secret archives while looking for futa porn. Basically it's a Maus with a PzIc turret so it's not hindered by a long gun when scouting through forrest. 4 were made and issued to the 420th SS "Lexington Steel" and were subsequently lost in the defense of Wupperthal (their commanders foolishly tried to have their tanks ride the schwebebahn). I can not, nor do I wish to explain anything else.
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Gervasius posted:"Just bought all this gold from a credit card my 14-year old brother nicked and gave to me. That's the best thing about us Romani, we always get help from our own family". Would work if at least half of the EU WoT player base knew at least decent english. Seeing as "stop speaking like nazis you loving krauts", "why are french people even playing this game, shouldn't you frogs be playing world of surrenders instead?" or "ok, so who else thinks that Putin should annex Poland?" barely get an answer, trolling with words is basically useless on EU.
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nutranurse posted:Should I be gunning straight for higher tiers, or should I faff around within each tier before moving up? Or is it something best left to my discretion. Once you get to like tier 5 (6 for some lines, I guess) you will pretty much only be playing tanks that actually have a fighting chance, provided you do your job, and you won't be feeling as powerless as you would have while playing some legit poo poo tier 3 and 4. Thing is, you have to understand what is the *quirk* of those tanks and use it to your advantage : don't bring a squishy hill fighter to a close range city fight, don't bring a low alpha sniper to a knife fight, don't drive a slow but tough heavy tank in the middle of a field and so on... Use that grind to learn how to play each tank to its best, how to use the terrain to your advantage, where you can kind of reliably expect to pen enemy tanks of you tier and above, what tanks should you kill quickly when they show up (protip : if you can get your team rid of a dangerous tank quickly, they are that much more likely to win. At least statistically)... Also there's absolutely no shame in not immediately buying the tank you just unlocked and selling the current one, if there's a tank you enjoy playing, keep it, worst case scenario you're having fun while training your crew. I think the mistake a lot of bad player make is rushing to tier 10 and wondering why they still can't play for poo poo. Tiers 1 and 2 are here so you learn simple stuff like how to drive and shoot tanks, 3 and 4 so you understand slightly more advanced stuff like gun depression and armor; 5, 6, 7 and 8 are here to basically be the advanced level class about hard to get stuff like armor angling, flanking tactics or camo/spotting mechanics. 9 and 10 are the endgame content where you have to constantly put to work what you learned before, and you WILL suffer if you get there too fast.
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Jack_tripper posted:since they're making light tanks the designated spotters now (as if 90% of people in light tanks give a poo poo about spotting but whatever), how about nerfing some of those light tanks' guns When you compare those stats with the stats of tier 9 medium tanks, they don't look so hot anymore, because holy poo poo are the various L7 good guns. T8 lights are fine.
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I made about 2.5 millions rotating between my Luchs, M8A1 and KV1 while fullfilling those retardedly easy mission, maybe you should get on [2PAC]'s level I guess I should buy that T54E1 now.
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Refried Noodle posted:That is ridiculously fast, holy poo poo. I was expecting a couple weeks or something. Eh, I'm actually surprised some poopsockers didn't manage to get it on the first day, l33tc4k3, Margaret_Thatcher_Futa (previously known as Chumbly) and I are already at like at least mission 12 for most branches, without particularly trying too hard (because we suck and we bring l33tc4k3 down, according to him).
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That's why I personally believe that WG should split the "first" german tank destroyer line in two : one "big tough TDs that don't need no man" and one "fast, low/mid alpha TDs that support medium pushes" Big tough TDs that don't need no man : move the Ferdinand to tier 7, while removing it's 12,8 gun and taking away some of it's mobility. It gets to keep a 8,8 L71 with good rate of fire, and it's armor is now worth something at tier. Tier 8 is a now nerfed JTiger that "only" gets the shorter 12,8 and, once again, nerfed mobility; however it's now actually decent at keeping a lane closed down thanks to it's armor, gun and good DPM and it can still snipe with some degree of efficiency when it lands in a tier 10 game, but it will get mercilessly wrecked by mediums engaging it at close range because it's traverse will be garbage. Tier 9 is now a JPE75 (such originality), and I don't think there's a need to exactly explain how this would work, gets the long 12,8, good armor, gets recked at close range yadda yadda. Tier 10 is still our good buddy the JPE100. "Mobile" TD, Begins at tier 4 with a turreted rear end in a top hat : the Pz.Sfl.Ic, basically a PzII ausf.G with an open turret mounting the PaK 50L60, so an extremely mobile, high camo, low alpha, good RoF light TD that kinda mimics the M8A1, and apparently 2 prototypes were built, so it's relatively historically accurate. Tier 5 is mostly a matter of convenience and getting something cool : E10, that one german TD that WG already has a model for that had hydraulic supsension or some poo poo, looks rad, moves fast, no armor, 7,5 PaK L48 (maybe also a 10.5?) with good soft stats. About as historical as the rest of the Entwicklung family. Tier 6 would be the Stug. Auf Leopard, which as the name implies would be an assault gun/TD based on the VK1602 Leopard Chassis, armed with a 7.5 L70 and is kinda historical, as in "plans were drawn, wooden mockups were made, Hitler cancelled the project to give the Maus more fundings or some poo poo". Tier 7 is a basically unchanged JPanther that we all know and love, kinda historical except for the 105mm gun, but who cares. Same for tier 8, except I'd be tempted to have it get a TD version of the E50's top 105. Tier 9 is a JPE50, so basically an E50 mounting the 12,8 that we all know and love, historicity is uh... "yeah this was planned, kinda, sure". Tier 10 would be a JPE50-M and I don't think I have to explain what it would exactly entails, aside from the fact it would basically get an improved 12,8 main gun firing all APCR or some poo poo, or maybe a 15cm shooting low velocity HEAT. Anyway, something entirely unhistorical, but it's not like the WTE100 doesn't exist anyway. At least that's what I would do if I was WG, but I admit I haven't done enough research on the topic yet (and that I'd rather see another medium or heavy line for the americans first).
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I other news :  This is all
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NTRabbit posted:Goons are terrible at reading jokes, news at 11 Well then try to play while taking into account that your hull armor is unreliable, I guess? What do you want us to tell you? That you're a very good player unfortunately held down by some sort of shadowy WG conspiracy?
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The Lord of Hats posted:Now, I am admittedly Extremely Bad At Tanks, but am I right in thinking the VK 16.02 Leopard is a pile of garbage that exists to be blown up? I started going down that line because gotta go fast, but I can't find any redeeming qualities, and it is always, always at the absolute bottom of the list. Well, it IS a light tank, so it will pretty much always be at the bottom of the list, but as far as I remember the Leo was a pretty fun tank, even if it did take much more finesse than the Luchs. Now, I don't want to sound like a jerk, but you're using the 3cm gun, right? The 5cm is kind of a trap that limits you more than anything, the Leo is meant to be driven close to any distracted enemy so you can unload 12 rounds in a second into their soft, flabby rear, damaging the engine and possibly setting them on fire. Also getting marks of excellence is hilarious on such a tiny gun. But yeah, German light tanks tend to be slightly harder to use than let's say american or chinese all-rounders light tanks because they always feel much more specialized. Leo isn't really good at passive spotting, VK2801 needs to shoot 105 HEAT like it's going out of fashion to survive instead of getting a reliable 75/76mm gun like its counterparts, Awful Panther had NO camo and feels like playing the regular Panther on suicide mode. Actually only the RU251 feels like an actually well thought out and reliable light tank, with a great gun, decent camo and good mobility. Try to watch some good replays, maybe that will help to understand what the Leo is supposed to do.
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The RU251 is also tied for best tier 8 light tank, but the grind to it can be somewhat annoying, especially the Aufkl. Panther. I will still defend the VK1602 and 2801 as excellent light tanks though.
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Atal Vataman posted:luchs, leo, vk and afk panther are all workable. And if i were to rate them, they would be in the same order. luchs is op as gently caress, did 65% or something in mine when it still saw 8s and have around 600-700 games in it. Afk panther is weird but you can make it work. the problem is of course that the bulldog, 131, lttb all completely outclass it at actually doing light tank stuff... Afkl. Panther is one of those tanks that I thought were terrible for the first battles, turned out to be challenging but fun once I got the gist of it, and then got completely ruined by virtue of me constantly getting the worst MM possible for the last 30 battles of the grind. I will still be sad to see it gone, it was an interesting tank, kinda like a mentally slow kid that knows how to paint very well, beautiful and precious yet unfit for this cruel world. RIP in peace sweet prince. Anyway, lemme post a boss T67 replay, where I demonstrate that running out of ammo isn't the end of the world.
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Zanziabar posted:These missions are totally not broken at all. I didn't think a Hellcat counted as a SPG It's more of a mistranslation than anything, really.
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Atal Vataman posted:I seriously dont understand why they are touching shot dispersion. Surely there are better ways of countering snapshots... This sounds dumb as gently caress They discovered that one of the things that could potentially not make the IS7 the most annoying tank to fight in the game was that it was actually sometimes possible to hit some mythical "weak spots" at range greater than 5 meters, so accuracy is getting nerfed. Nevermind that for a lot of tanks, being somewhat accurate is the only thing they can fight with.
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Infected posted:For the nice price of 600 gold, no silver option. HA HA HA loving bullshit. I mean I will still retrain like 14 radiomans into actually useful crews when it goes on sale, but it's really one of the most blatant cashgrabs they have done in quite some time. Combine that with some obviously retarded game design decisions like the accuracy nerf or the nerf on T10 medium pen (because E100s and IS7s are totally fun to fight and not just a huge PITA), or converting T8 prem into full MM tanks (wonder what they will do to my poor little Spershing), extremely badly designed Individual Missions and only finally understanding that bowl-maps are horrible, and I'm actually starting to wonder if WG actually even knows what it's doing with the game. Otoh they are loving over WTE100 owners so I could almost forgive them.
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Gervasius posted:In tank news, Otto Carius passed away today. Why didn't they use a first aid kit?
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Guys, I have nothing against boats, but could you like maybe make a thread? Otherwise I swear to god, I'm going to install WoWP and just constantly post about it in the tank thread, even if it's garbage.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:There's a button at the top of the forums you click. It says "clicking here will make all your dreams come true!" on some versions, and others it says "Log Out". Wow I'm sorry for suggesting you guys talk about tanks in the tanks thread.
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Dunno-Lars posted:Where do you shoot this thing from various angles? What are the weakspot and how much pen do you need for them? gently caress if I know, I only played one battle in it yet, and I even forgot to bring gold ammo and consumables. I'm not a smart person. Seriously though, I think getting those missions is less a matter of being extremely good and poopsocking and more a matter of planning carefully, bringing the best tank possible for the mission and getting lucky (good map/team that isn't too poo poo or too good). I mean, I managed to get HT15, TD15 and LT15 with honor (all of them) on the same day by playing the VK4502B (10 tries, maybe?) T30 (about 8 tries to get 5k damage) and WZ132 (that one was a real pain tho). Having a platoon of competent people to help you with some objectives is also a godsend (repping my good buddies GiantHurtBall and l33tc4k3). Also don't hesitate to be smart and exploit the wording of the missions : doing 3 times your hp in damage as a JPE100 is going to be much harder than doing about 1000 hp in a decent T67 game. Killing 5 tanks of 3 different types is going to be much easier and relaxing in a churchill III (it moves forward and shoots fast) platoon than in a E100 (it moves forward but doesn't really shoot fast) platoon. Then of course you have the total rear end in a top hat missions like "set an enemy on fire", "capture the base", "do damage while unspotted" that only exist to be as annoying and luck-based as humanly possible.
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Animal posted:
HP is low, turret has like 80mm of armor, good luck having a good french medium crew for tier 10, it's french. Also Dalael, buddy, I know you love your arty, but gently caress your opinions.
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srb posted:Are you going to tell me that this isn't awesome? Would totally "World of Mechas". I will however let Soulfucker explain the concept of "World of Waifus", since he no doubt took notes of all the glorious ideas we had during the last nightshift.
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Ask me about having to spot 6 tanks without getting spotted at any time ever, minimum tier 6. F U N
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Atal Vataman posted:This wannabe, or if s ... No, that can completely spherical, will call me a racist. I Poles nedopslěý but I like boys, Ketra can not even play WOT - send play TETRIS - yes, TETRIS is moronic players, and is it does not matter if they are from the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Turkey and even from Ukraine, gentlemen excuse me, assholes are found among all nations. ... I just hate those who neunesoou truth and video setřihaj of your poo poo and nhrajou DM. And it does not matter if it's Poles, Czechs nšebo else, if he knows poo poo, Takata going to play tetris like this player, apparently it is already playing and it is better than the WOT. The healthcare of farts. siema pl :^)
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Wait, are there seriously people who think the T49 is overpowered? In a game where the AMX13-90 exists? loving lol
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Hellsau posted:If every shot goes perfectly into somewhere it'll pen, then a lot of tanks get better. The T49 has .6 accuracy and insane bloom, so that isn't very often. B-b-but I got one shot by one once because I wasn't paying attention, that means it's totally OP, right?
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NTRabbit posted:It's annoying in a similar way to the 183mm guns, stupid as gently caress and shouldn't be there. Good point, it should get the guided 152mm missile that could defeat around 350mm of RHA.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Russian server is pretty fun just for that. Those rushing tanks don't actually do much damage, but at least they're trying. That's why WG refuses to allow 5 tanks super platoon. A platoon of 5 dedicated, above average players who communicate with one another and want to actually fight and not sulk in the back waiting for one tank to wander in front of their guns will absolutely wreck any team of random, disorganized, low-morale, low motivation pubbies, and if the "skill level" of the game just ever so slightly rises, WG will see its profits diminish. Seriously, what would you rather have on your team, 1 or 2 2800 wn8 unicums that will farm wn8, or 5 green/teal players in one big platoon that will push a flank and never stop pushing?
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"I don't use gold ammo because actually being efficient and helping my team win would sully my honor and my wonderful 45% winrate. Furthermore, I also refuse to kick my opponent in fighting games, to strafe in FPS or to use the I shaped pieces in Tetris, because for some reason, my loving pubbie brain decided this wasn't fairplay, nevermind the fact everybody does it and it just makes me a loving hindrance for my team."
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Mesadoram posted:How much is the CDC? Two 152mm HEP to the face from 500m away. Oh you mean in gold? poo poo if I know.
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All of what he said is solid advice. Other stuff that really helps : - Platooning with someone good is like the best thing that can happen to you, because you learn faster, you can actually expect support from at least 1 player, and if you die you get to watch how a good player does it. - Learn tank weakspots, their gun stats (mostly the alpha, reload and overall accuracy) and how they tend to behave in battle (drive fast/tank shells/snipe from afar?). Ideally you don't need to know exactly if that part of the armor of a particular tank is 85 or 92 millimeters thick or if the top speed is 34 or 38kph, just if you can reliably expect to penetrate it with the tanks you have or if you can reliably run away if you can't. - Always have a plan, and be ready to quickly adjust your plan as the battle unfolds. If that plan fails, be ready to sell your life dearly, might win your team a few extra seconds. - Make the best of your tank. That means using the best modules, getting camo when useful, using the best equipment you can afford and shooting gold when you have to. It's better to spend 4k creds on a shell and win thanks to that than only shoot 720 creds worth of standard ammo and lose. Also, get consummables, next time I see a full health Tiger burn to death because fire extinguishers are too expensive, I swear to god I will find where that rear end in a top hat lives and skullfuck him to death. - If your odds are good, go for kills instead of damage (within reason, don't waste a 152mm shell on a 35hp target if you have friendly tanks near you that can take care of it), it's always good to remove one enemy gun from the battlefield. - If there's a tank you don't like and do terrible in, grind it out then sell it and never touch it again. Don't force yourself to play tanks you can't play well in, no point in that.
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Dalael posted:All of these stupid mods are ruining the game for people like me who plays 100% vanilla. I've got a winrate of 57%, a WN8 of over 2050, yet I play on the shittiest computer on this planet (integrated GPU, Windows XP, constant crashes) and I run with absolutely 0 mods. git gud scrubs
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