[MMO] World of Tanks

[datalink7]

Also, if you don't want to worry about buying Premium, just get the KV-2. Never have to buy Premium in that vehicle. In fact, it is worse if you do

 

[stag3]

Got a Tortoise today, my first tier IX tank. Now I just need to grind to the 120mm gun.

Do you guys play with premium or just buy it occasionally?

i free xp'd the tracks and gun. it's pretty sad running the stock gun @ tier 9

 

[biostud]

i free xp'd the tracks and gun. it's pretty sad running the stock gun @ tier 9

I just found out :/

I wish I had enough free XP. I only have 45K free XP.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Yeah, I don't even bother with tier 8+ tanks until I have enough free exp to get them in or very close to a good pen gun. The tanks are worthless if you don't have a gun that can pen a tier 10 tank's armor.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Not much more I could do... Best part was a bunch of the people on the team yapping away most of the match complaining that I wasn't doing anything. Yeah, nothing but all the damage....

 

[MongGrel]

Yeesh have a tier 9 I haven't even played in a year.

Had a T10 Russian big boy bomber in WoWP's and havent even played that in months .

Might do something again someday but haven't been gaming much.

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=730109&page=3

 

[MongGrel]

Might dig my E-75 out to mess with, just haven't been playing games much lately and World of Warships seems on permanent stall atm.

That or the Crommie or some kinda of artillery, they've been just sitting there a year or so I guess.

 

[microAmp]

Been playing this for about 2 weeks now. Only had one tank that wasn't fun at all, pure grind, hated it, burn it, etc. Pz 38 nA; Tier 4 light tank. While it goes on to a medium tank in tier 5, they consider it a scout, cannon fodder, and I got to play with Tier 7's. I could never punch through the 7's and 6's armor. I had no desire to be a scout, not for me.

Now the Pz IV, having a blast with it, I'm going to keep it for sure. I also, have KV1 and KV1s; got that one today. Tried out AT tanks and they're not my cup of tea, I will stick with medium and heavy tanks.

 

[MongGrel]

Yeah, the NA it's a scout, you'll get thrown into higher tiers just using it.

If you don't know how to drive a scout you'll get splatted easy.

 

[MongGrel]

Haven't even played the game in almost a year, a good KV-1 or Crommie at level 5 always fun.

But obviously I don't have a valid opinion these days.

 

[biostud]

Been playing this for about 2 weeks now. Only had one tank that wasn't fun at all, pure grind, hated it, burn it, etc. Pz 38 nA; Tier 4 light tank. While it goes on to a medium tank in tier 5, they consider it a scout, cannon fodder, and I got to play with Tier 7's. I could never punch through the 7's and 6's armor. I had no desire to be a scout, not for me.

Now the Pz IV, having a blast with it, I'm going to keep it for sure. I also, have KV1 and KV1s; got that one today. Tried out AT tanks and they're not my cup of tea, I will stick with medium and heavy tanks.

DW2 (tier IV) is the worst to grind

Scouts have primarily 3 roles:
1.Scout the enemy (preferably without dying). If you're passive you find a bush to hide in with good view range. If you're active you race around and try not to get hit. Optimally you wait until your team is ready to shoot at the enemies revealed.
2.Kill enemy scouts
3.Kill artillery, also wait until the enemy tanks have moved away from starting position and then make a run for possible artillery positions, revealing enemy positions on the way towards the artillery.

The tank destroyer lines play very differently. I'm on tier IX in British and tier 1-4 are fast glass canons, tier 5-9 are slow high armor/hit point with fast precision cannons, and tier 10 is a slow doom canon.

I've played mostly British, and their tanks fit well to my play style. What I find amazing is how different the tanks feel even though they're all just tanks.

 

[microAmp]

DW2 (tier IV) is the worst to grind

Scouts have primarily 3 roles:
1.Scout the enemy (preferably without dying). If you're passive you find a bush to hide in with good view range. If you're active you race around and try not to get hit. Optimally you wait until your team is ready to shoot at the enemies revealed.
2.Kill enemy scouts
3.Kill artillery, also wait until the enemy tanks have moved away from starting position and then make a run for possible artillery positions, revealing enemy positions on the way towards the artillery.

The tank destroyer lines play very differently. I'm on tier IX in British and tier 1-4 are fast glass canons, tier 5-9 are slow high armor/hit point with fast precision cannons, and tier 10 is a slow doom canon.

I've played mostly British, and their tanks fit well to my play style. What I find amazing is how different the tanks feel even though they're all just tanks.

Ack! Don't tell me that about DW2. I'm heading right towards it, eventual path to Panther. On the Research Panel it shows it being a heavy tank though. Well, hopefully it fits my play style or just minor adaptions. Just acquired it at this time.

Though right now, I love the speed of the Pz IIIA just not it's inaccurate gun or am I spoiled with the Pz IV. Or other TDs I've played.

Yeah, figured the scout is suppose to serve that kind of purpose but kinda annoying when you're heading towards medium tank tree, you get stuck play scout for many, many matches. Then not knowing at the time how to play as one, makes it way worse. Now that I have some idea, the Pz IIIA when I play against tier V, I try to spot within 25m or dash for arty.

 

[biostud]

I had to free XP through DW2. It has low armor and can't punch a hole in a pillow.

 

[stag3]

i picked up the wz-120 last night, this thing is fun, exactly the same as a T-54.
i free xp'd everything but the top gun (i know i know that's what makes it a wz-120) but i figured i'd try it with the top 100mm first basically makes it a t-54. played 1 battle, and i ended up fighting another wz-120 except he had the top gun, i won lmao, set him on fire twice and he flamed out. he low rolled on the kill shot so i lucked out. he was so pissed, 333 dmg on his last shot, if he rolled the normal 440 he would have beat me

 

[BoT]

that was me. not funny

 

[Ruptga]

I picked this up again, it must have been months since I last played regularly. I don't know how long it will last though. Despite a ton of new tanks I don't recognize it's still the exact same game with the exact same stupid problems, plus with the elimination of battle tier 12 my tier 8's are completely fucked. I sold my JP2 and rebought the Jagdpanther 1, at least that's still a pretty good TD.

 

[chimaxi83]

Stacked?

 

[stag3]

after a nice weekend mm is telling me to fuck myself.
what are the odds of losing 7 in a row all with 30% win chances
time to play something else, when mm is like this, i just give up and the game pisses me off

 

[Fallen Kell]

The odds of losing a game with 30% win chance is actually closer to 95%. Now to get 7 in a row, I found that is much more likely than getting 7 70% chance to win (or even just getting one 70% chance to win.... I am lucky to see one of those in a month of playing and I know it isn't because I completely suck either...)

 

[stag3]

yea i just stopped playing @ that point. my usual plan is if i lose 3 in a row, i go do something else and come back later and hope for the best. i just needed to try and get wins ONLY on the tanks i'm currently grinding. it's just frustrating to see blues and purples on the other side all the time and 1-2 greens on my side constantly.

the "hey guys we're completely fucked due to mm and need to completely yolo 1 side and try for a cap win" only works maybe 5-10% of the time in those situations. but when it does it's hilarious.

 

[datalink7]

Anyone have any opinions on the Jagdtiger? I just got my top gun on the Ferdinand and it is a lot of fun. Wondering what the next tier is like.

 

[Ruptga]

I would go for a JT if I could stomach the grind. I had been working my way there in the JP2 but I got fed up with the swarms of t10s and their rain of 1HKOs. Anyway, JT is pretty good all around. It's bouncy but not godlike, traverse speed is serviceable but not great, gun also seems to be a happy medium, and iirc its APCR had the highest pen in the game at one point.

 

[datalink7]

Yeah Tier X matches isn't very nice in the Ferdinand. But I still do pretty well with it. I don't have a JP2 though so I can't compare.

What's the next Tier X that I should go for? I have the E100 and the T110E3. I love the E3, not a big fan of the E100.

I'm on Tier VIII on the way to the JP E100, but I heard it wasn't that good.

I'm on Tier VII on the way to the WT auf E100. But OMG that vehicle (the Pz Sfl. V) is PAINFUL. I've only played a few games in it, but the base gun isn't very good and the top gun is 64k exp. It is also slow, no armor, horrible gun traverse. It does have good gun depression though so is nice if you find a hill. I have heard good things about the WT auf E100 though.

I just unlocked Tier VI on the way to the B-C 25t. I almost feel like I should go this way since most of my garage is filled with TD's or Heavy Tanks (mostly German).

I'm on Tier VI on the way to the IS-4 (T-150). Unlocked but haven't bought.

Rest is mostly low tier to go for anything else.

 

[Tequila]

Stacked?

44% chance isn't stacked. Back when I had XVM installed I saw enough losses with 60-70% chances and enough wins with 30-40% chance to just shut it off and not pay attention to it.

Now when you are the only green on a team with all tomatoes against several greens plus 1-2 purples especially a platoon from a good clan like -G-, Havoc, Viln then yea you are pretty much playing against a stacked team and gonna get owned hardcore.

 

[stag3]

i kept getting into matches last night against a relic platoon, 3 purples.
lost every single match, got so bad we decided to wait before clicking battle to try and avoid them, didn't work.....