Not enjoyed the patch so far.
My Panther with 94% camo crew, 500m view range and behind a bush (albeit firing) was spotted by a KV at 283m away who was in plain sight (long strip road on Ensk, he was poking out of a side street) and I could not see him unless he fired.
Pershing was shot through a hill on the new Mountain Pass map which looks seriously beautiful.
Pershing was hit on the turret by artillery... despite the shell tracer missing my tank.
Panther was demolished on The Mines (Pagorki, face lift is amazing) in two shots. DB penetrated me and smacked my Ammo Rack, Panther hit a similar spot and exploded my ammo rack.
Compound that with idiot teams/teammates, broken game causing me to reinstall the full client and a crippling drop in frames per second despite 'ATI performance optimisations' being added to the game, I was close to just canning the game there and then. (bad day in general for various reason but these issues just took the cake)
Any ideas for me to improve performance that don't involve overclocking my processor? (Though that is a nice idea). Might I be running out of VRAM at 1920x1080? Has my overexuberance at picking up a very early HD4870 cost me dearly?
The 2 easiest things that I usually do to improve performance is to reduce AA and if need be reduce resolution. Also play full screen if your not already, as almost all games take a hit in fps if played in windowed mode. The game does seem to suffer from fps stutters for no reasons sometimes. I'll be getting 60+ fps and every once in awhile it will drop to around 7 for a quick moment. The game also suffers from some memory leaks If I play long enough it will tell me its running out of memory and reduce my map textures automatically, to the point where I have to restart the game after a few hours of play.
The lag yesterday was getting pretty horrible, but hopefully today things will have cleared up with everyone having d/led the patch. I hope it was just patch d/ling clogging up thier servers that was causing the lag and not something introduced in this patch.
I seemed to have bounced alot more shots off a KV-3 with my VK3601 yesterday, I just hope thats coincidence and not part of a patch change.
I finally powered through the A-20. I found I would get more xp just flying to the enemies base, spotting everyone and subsequently dying than actually trying to hit anyone. Just spotting everyone and not firing a shot would net me 500+ xp and 8-10k credits. Thats not so bad for 30 seconds of waiting and 20 seconds of driving.
I'm now less than 10k xp away from my tiger and jagpnzer and I unlocked the KV-1 yesterday (already unlocked the KV-3, just have to buy the stupid thing). Now I'll just need another 3M+ credits and some extra garage slots to buy all the new tanks I want. I guess things would be easier if I wasn't trying to advance down 4 seperate paths.