Sounds like the Obj. 704 was using HE and not HEAT or AP. HEAT has over 300 pen and 750 damage. So HE hitting you, minus armor and weak pen of HE gets a percentage of HE damage. It does splash, small amounts, he hurt himself too.
HE is only good for very low HP targets and need a quick kill without worry on bouncing or no penetrations. Oh, also good for resetting timer on being capped.
I just started playing a week ago. Finally got the camo net for my MS-1. I love that little tank.
Are any of the mods a must have?
I'm Gavriel_Loken I imagine my stats look pretty horrible, but I think i'm getting better
Sorry, yes, HE is what I meant at least for the first shot on me. I don't know about the others (I didn't think to screen cap in game). He had just killed our crappy scout (the M41 Bulldog, who wound up with pretty high score only because he FINALLY started scouting when it was just him, me and our arties left, and because of how bad he was, all our arties died because he stayed within about 200 meters of them so they couldn't get a shot off without getting light up). So, the 704 mostly likely used HE to 1 shot him (the scout had about 600-700hp left), and didn't reselect ammo for the first shot against me. But the second shot that killed him, didn't do ANY damage to me, other than a damaged (not destroyed) gun, and did 500+ damage to him (my 3 shots only did about 1100 damage as the one tracked him for no damage), and as I said, he was full health when I engaged him (thought I had my mouse over the damage to the 704 to show that in the screenshots I made...). There is no way a HE round would splash damage for the HP he had left, he got full penned by a bounce off my gun turret.
I recommend XVM. I use QuickyBaby's XVM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAjsVmu4Rw
The only reason I like it, map part.
1) Shows last known location of enemy
2) View ranges: Max 445m circle. Square is render range, 500mx500m. Then the inner circle is your own tanks view range. It does change with binoculars, optics, etc.
It does have other stuff, player stats, only useful if you are wondering who you're going up against, super elite player, average, etc. But I don't pay too much attention to that.
You have to go to XVM's website to 'activate' it every 14 days but that's just about it, no other mods I'm aware of that are very, very useful.
On a side note, the Auflarungspanzer Panther is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. 4 Master Ace Tanker on it, 2 of the back to back. Yeah, I sling APCR when in Tier 10 games but gotta be helpful some how.
Of course that is topped out everything, anything but, it's AwefulPanzer name works for it. I play it like a medium tank with no armor. Too big to hide in most bushes.
The M46 is pure mediocrity. it's bad at nothing, it's good at nothing. =) I have 50k to go to the M48. I hope it will get better.
what don't you like about the E4?
I've always liked mine. Its a good tank. Thing is as they keep adding new tanks to the game older tanks can have a difficult time performing against the newer ones. The game can and does change over time. As to the M48 model I have heard its good and I have also heard the M46 is better. I haven't played the M48 yet so can't say which is the truth.
So should I just keep grinding on my MS-1 to get the 500k silver for binocs and/or optics, or just spend that silver to move up? I have a M2 Light that i'm working on to get the crew to 100%. Basically what i'm asking is do you get more silver when you move up and cause more damage? I'm getting on average 4-5k per winning round.
Interesting, got a replay still of that in the replay folder?