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The problem is that at BR 6.3 up everyone is loaded with high velocity guns and can shoot everyone else the moment they come into line of sight and get a hit (if not a pen or kill at certain angles). Everything is also starting to become an MBT. 3.0-5.0 is a wonderful realm (in hindsight) of asymmetry; boxy German tanks with big guns but no slopes, speedy Brit tanks with no APHE but rapid firing APCR, US tanks that can reverse, and a million variations of T34.
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The deal with Brits is to be very, very patient and accept that despite your speed you exist to snipe at extreme ranges.
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Oct 18, 2017 18:05
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Corky Romanovsky posted:Check the OP for discord information. When you are playing, get into a voice channel on discord. There may be people playing already, jump in their channel if so, else chat with people playing other games or move to an unoccupied channel. Echoing this. If you just sit in a voice channel most evenings someone will pop in to see what you are up to. Lots of people will only play if someone else is playing so there's a bit of a collective action problem to get over.
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Nov 15, 2017 13:07
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mlmp08 posted:Playing some low tier tanks with goons yesterday reminded me of something: Playing a lineup of baby US planes and Stuart tanks is really loving fun. I'd smashed by face into high-tier tanks so long that I'd forgotten how rockin' it is to dart around in Stuarts Low tier tanks are just a lot of fun. There's nothing between 1.0 and 3.0 that's unfair or unfun to fight.
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Nov 17, 2017 15:35
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There is also no armour.
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I'm genuinely happy not having the blast of my engine drown out all other noise.
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Jan 29, 2018 14:39
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For tanks everyone has their high and low points. Except the Russians, they just have their high and average points. Discord has been quiet lately (I've been contributing to that as well), but get in the tanks channel and ping people and they'll show up and shoot tanks with you. One of the best things about War Thunder is that it's fun at all tiers so people won't hesitate to load up a deck at whatever BR you are at.
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Jun 17, 2018 14:15
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There is no way that crew rangefinding will help you if you are trying to sight in on a spotted enemy, you just have to eyeball it and adjust. Rangefinding is great if you are doing the overwatch sniping thing where you set yourself up and then check the range to all the spots where you expect the enemy to appear.
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Jun 29, 2018 13:04
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WarpedNaba posted:Arty's a bit weird - I can phone it in and see it drop instantly. Thought you had to wait according to your radio guy's level. It starts spotting instantly but the time between spotting and battery is effected by your crew skill. If it actually works.
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Jul 2, 2018 11:27
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Rules for buying premium vehicles: 1) Does it have a ridiculous gun for the BR? 2) Does it have ridiculous armour for the BR? If either answer is yes, buy.
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Jul 4, 2018 14:58
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My main point is that while some premium planes are fun, lots are much of a muchness or just don't offer something that you can't just get to as a regular vehicle. On the other hand there are quite a few premium vehicles that are crazy fun because they either do something extremely different or push the speed>armour>firepower triangle alllll the way out in one direction (ie. the T-35, SU-100Y, Super Hellcat).
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Jul 4, 2018 17:32
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NickBlasta posted:Tanks with good (or highly angled) armor, high caliber, medium reload guns are generally good brawlers. The Russian heavy line (KV thru IS4), Jumbos, T29/T34 etc, are great. I like the Tiger II for it but you have to be really quick with your snap reflexes because it's a lot less resistant to being shot first. Other Criteria for brawling: fast turret rotation and good after-pen ammo effect. Those are the two reasons why US and Russians are the kings of brawling, whereas Germans are slow snipers and UK is all about dashing about from one unexpected sniping location to the next.
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Aug 1, 2018 13:14
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Okay but if your tank was made after 1945 there's a 90% chance it can brawl well.
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Dr.Radical posted:Did they nerf bombs and rockets in arcade? I’m doing one of those ground attack wagers and I recall it being a lot easier to kill multiple targets with a 1000lbs bomb and rockets. Depends from when you mean. All bombs have a... 5 second? timer now so there's actually a reasonable chance to drive off.
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Nuramor posted:The best way to shoot down a plane in RB is to shoot roughly in its direction, then stop. The pubbie will unfailingly go "An unaware AA!", turn in on you and fly straight at you. Then you shoot him. I'm known for being good at AA but honestly it's just a mix of this and practice. It's just like leading a plane in Air RB, except you are static and can afford to blaze ammo while he can't. Also the more rapid fire the platform the better: Wirblewinds>Ostwinds.
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I hate the Tiger because sometimes I shoot it square centre on the upper hull and it explodes and sometimes I bounce and do nothing, and honest to god I can't work out what changes.
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Aug 16, 2018 17:32
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Time travelling French railguns are indeed problematic for balance.
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Aug 16, 2018 18:05
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I'm going 4.0 German CARB in the evenings right now to grind my golden wagers out. Someone come join me and play Russians so we get the dream guaranteed win team.
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Aug 27, 2018 11:23
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People do disgusting things with the Yak 9K.
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America 6.3 is amazing right now. I can't recall the last time I lost a game. e: War Thunder 1.81 posted:In RB ground battles, the cost of respawning ground vehicles has been reduced by half, and for reserve vehicles, has been removed altogether. I'm also really digging this change. You are still rewarded for doing well, but CARB games no longer mostly involve one team disintegrating at first contact and then getting spawn camped in. There's always at least a second wave of actual tanks to feed into the fight. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Sep 23, 2018 |
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Sep 23, 2018 18:25
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The hilarious counter to the massive BMP-2 usage right now is hilarous numbers of M2A4s running around blapping them because they are tiny and fast and cheap as chips and their gun works just fine. e: also german teams have a terrible time now because while before the SP changes they could wait for the enemy team to advance from the cap points, blap them all, then roll forward, now if they try that there's always a second or even third wave of Allied tanks coming up against them and German teams can't deal with that.
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Oct 11, 2018 19:56
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Tomorrow I'm going to smash out some golden wagers and would like buddies. You need a 3.0 arcade air lineup - the best is to go US and get all the P47s and things with guns and bombs. You dump bombs on things, head on to get your kills, then come back again and repeat until the match is won.
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Oct 27, 2018 20:06
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If you are getting spawn camped in Air- Arcade then the solution is to immediately dive right for the deck. If the spawn camper has to choose between following you all the way down and losing his advantage, or picking off the next three people one after the other then he'll pick the second. efb
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Nov 9, 2018 10:31
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Exioce posted:Logistics skills are more noticeable higher up the tree, but even t2 botes can take next to a full day to repair. It's a nice thing to have for the last game of the day where you can log off without paying the SL repair cost and come back to a repaired bote What is this post
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Dec 6, 2018 19:57
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If anyone else is doing Christmas toys for Tankers I've settled on Arcade Tigers and Panthers as the optimal way of doing it. You get your captures, the other side will obligingly throw Shermans at you to rack up the kills, and wins are easy. All you need to do is adjust the fact that everything is a drag racer and hiding is not a thing and the shame is forever.
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Dec 27, 2018 17:46
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Just to chime in with what everyone else said, War Thunder is not World of Tanks, there is no endgame you are unlocking by getting to higher tiers. I pay for premium every year at sale time because it reduces the grind and means I literally never have to worry about 'repair costs' or 'cheap ammo' or other horrifying things you sometimes see the peasantry raving about. Also because I get many hours of enjoyment out of this game and so have very little resistance to bunging Gaijin some cash every now and again. I am also firmly on team 'tier 1 is the most fun (if not the most interesting)'.
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Azran posted:We have a Discord, in case you don't mind Discord For the avoidance of doubt, you often won't see people playing, but set yourself up in a channel and people will often start to appear.
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Dec 30, 2018 14:24
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Go back in time and play the T34 back when the most dangerous thing it could face was a PZIVe or Stug III.
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Good speed, turret traverse speed, and you can walk your shots onto weak spots rather than be forced to wait after your first shell falls short/bounces. Oh and all that is emphasised by having an experienced crew.
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Balance is pretty good until you get till about 7.0 now. There are no more devastating periods to be in unless your nation's tanks are fundamentally flawed (ie. the UK early-mid tiers).
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Everything up to 6.0 is fun and relatively even these days. From that point on you swing first into the Russian bias bullshit zone before emerging into the historically-accurate-but-that's-unfortunate US Freedom own zone.
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Jan 10, 2019 16:48
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I would also like this but I suspect that there's modelling that the extra wait time that constricting matchups this way causes player populations to nosedive. Maybe.
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ArchRanger posted:I don't want all versus all but I do think they should remove the restrictions on who can team up with who. It's silly that France can never be on the same team as Japan or that the US can never fight against the UK. Gimme a UK/Russia/Germany versus France/US/Japan and other weird matchups like that. Might also force them to balance the vehicles that are over/underperforming thanks to who they get matched with and against. Yeah this. Now that we're deep into cold/contemporary territory lining up nations by WW2 alliance doesn't make sense anyway.
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Shanakin posted:Honestly a 75mm jumbo just doesn't have the firepower to do much in a frontal engagement, regardless of the ammo. Even with APCR, if the tiger 500m down the street is like 15° offset then there isn't much you can do. Damaging the gun is a good choice if you can for obvious reasons. You can also try for a maillot shot but it's just as likely to gently caress you as it is to go through (but at least it might go through). At any kind of range head on then you can only really attempt to disable or distract/smoke them so you can get close enough or flank enough to actually kill them. Yeah the purpose of the 75mm jumbo is to go medium hunting. Stay away from heavy tanks.
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BBJoey posted:Plane review: Plane review: - 0mm steel plate armour on most models - most models have only 20mm cannon - optimal range for engagement often less than 200m - no reverse gear
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mmkay posted:Sometimes my boats have negative climbrate, please advise. It depends. Are they good at preserving energy while diving?
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Madurai posted:Not mentioned: how radar for naval units will be kind of a big deal. Not really. The world isn't curved and naval units are not operating at ranges where radar would matter. Also War Thunder night is not dark like real night.
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The answer is that you were bad before and not-bad now. Congratulations.
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I am glad that active people are consolidating into LAME because that is the option that involves least effort for me.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:How do we actually use LAME. Like what's it do. When then next patch drops there will be three vehicles that in some way I don't quite understand you research via a new thing called 'squadron rp'. Ie. there's going to be a specific in game reward for being in LAME there wasn't before.
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