[MMO] World of Tanks

[Craig234]

About to get the gw Tiger... I notice it's 1200 gold (over $5 buying the small amount) for 100%, or a 75% crew takes well over 100 battles to get to 100%...

Neither option attractive.

Instead of moving the almost 2 skill gw panther crew, leaning towards leaving that crew with gwp - maybe move it with typ e.

 

[Harabec]

Just had a funny game in the Panther
North spawn on Komarin, I went to the bridge to protect the flag and accidently blocked it. Did not notice (was in sniper mode) til after about 2 minutes as I was quite busy getting a T29 and a tiger to a quarter of their hp, plus a VK3001P and some other random meds. Dead team members started talking about how it cost them the game (the blocked bridge) even though we easily won it, I got 30k credits, sniper and confederate out of it.

 

[Genx87]

damn haven't touched tanks all weekend due to the d3 open beta hahaha
need to get my daily double at least on the tanks i'm grinding now...

god fail teams again, it continues to amaze me how i can get 3-4 kills per match yet our team gets blown out
it's almost like i'm on a team with all my guys being loltraktors

Played 5 games all weekend, went 1-4. Tribes has my attention and money. WoT lost some of its luster in the last month. I planned to take a break at the end of my premium. I have a couple days left and probably wont even bother doing my dailies. Especially since the MM is killing me for the past 10 days. Cant get dailies done anyways.

 

[Fire&Blood]

Well the Panther with the loooooooooooooong 75 fits my style. Got a class I mastery on it on himmelsdorf, of all places...it is like a turreted TD that can move pretty well. Being able to put a round after round in a 1 meter wide space between a building and some random car from 250m is amazing.

It is silly that WoT had to invent a gun because the 75/70 doesn't cut it against late 40's heavy armor but it works well.

According to a wiki entry, the L100 was indeed a last minute scrapped option. When the devs were asked about the gun, they responded that Hitler actually insisted to have the Panther outfitted with the L100 so the gun is on par with many other paper vehicles/modules "reality factor".

I wish I had 6th sense on the Panther already, and I might drop the toolbox for camo on it as well.

I have had streaks where I can fire 2-3 rounds in a tier 8-9 heavy before he even triangulates on my position. Low damage hurts you when distance decreases though, fail teams will get you killed very early.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I had an epic last man stand defeat in my KV5 yesterday. My platoon mate and I were the last on our team on Ensk. He was in his T34. We were the ONLY tanks to cover the forest, even our mediums went to town... How we lost town is still a mystery. My friend went down from a very unlucky Derp blast. I finished off a 43, a 44 (repeatedly hit the front cog from under the train). The enemy was down to 2 Lowes, an IS, and the derp. I ate the derp to the face (thank goodness he missed the R2) and destroyed the KV. I set one Lowe on fire and while he retreated, I killed the other Lowe. The IS was penning me from the side every third shot or so, so I kept on the Lowe. Eventually I went down, but I had a 100k credit loss in my KV-5... not bad!

One of the best matches I had last night was in my hated E-100. It was on murovanka and we spawned in the southwest. I went to the south east as it is my philosophy that this tank excels in beating the snot out of mediums and crappier heavies whereas the other tier 9's and 10's can take on the enemy heavies. Basically the E-100 is just a big bully. I virtually annihilated a T29 then started rolling into the magic forest. Caught two 44's not looking at me and repeatedly tracked one. The other was plinking off my armor. My arty asked me permission to smack the 44 (which my turret could never rotate to hit) and I easily agreed. After the 44 was double tracked, I finished it off. I have been continually pummeled by crap arty so I was basically permatracked. As I was sitting there, I realized I could snipe to the top left ridge and support those guys. So my big ole gun was sniping across the map and pegging guys for 700-800 damage. I eventually was able to roll forward, where I found both arty. I 0% crit one, and then they both died. I ended up with steel wall and confederate. Not bad!

 

[Harabec]

Another great game in the Panther. Sniped 5 tanks, killed 3 and hurt the other two. Towards the end of the match the enemy team had only a T95 but that's still a T95 so we proceeded with caution (we had like 5 tanks alive including low level arty so it is not always a sure win). Happened to run straight into him in the middle of the map (Fishermans Bay, central row), he hit me three or four times, one hit, 2 track absorbs and then he died from team fire. Spectators told me I should buy a lottery ticket lol, I had 2 HP. All of this was with a damaged gun...a lucky Hummel shot damaged it in the first minute of the match.

 

[Tequila]

damn haven't touched tanks all weekend due to the d3 open beta hahaha
need to get my daily double at least on the tanks i'm grinding now...

god fail teams again, it continues to amaze me how i can get 3-4 kills per match yet our team gets blown out
it's almost like i'm on a team with all my guys being loltraktors

Yea it gets really streaky some days. As a non clan pubber I continuously bounce around 48-51% win ratio. A week ago I was 7 games above 50% then I sank to 15 below, then 25 below and on saturdayI was 36 games below 50% getting really depressed. Then it suddenly turned around and I have barely lost and I got 5 games above 50% briefly then lost 7 in a row tonight lol. It's just crazy.

I don't mind losing close ones but some of these teams are insanely retarded. Nothing like watching:

1. scouts who suicide 10sec into the game.Then they complain that our arty didn't hit anything.. yea duh because they were still repositioning. Smart scouts are those that stay alive and keep the enemy spotted throughout the game so arty can rain down the pain.
2. lower tier giving up and also suiciding so they can play their other vehicles. Hey dummies there are lower tier on the other team too.. go kill them. Also gives you chance to hang around high tier to see what they are doing assuming they are good high tier.
3. high tier dumbasses who don't know where to go on a map.
4. several high tier tanks who sit at base.
5. afkers and tkers. thankfully I don't see it often.
6. Never fails that when I do play my arty I get overrun. I had 5 games in a row in my Wespe where scouts came straight up the middle in the first 1-2 minutes of the game and killed me and other arty. Unbelievable.

In my JagdPanther which I love more than any other tank at least I can make an impact no matter how many t9 and t10 are in the game. That 105L52 puts holes in anything from crazy ranges and I love blowing up the high tier tanks from the side and rear. My hetzer had a 60% win ratio until I got tired of it and my jagdpanther hovers from 52-55%. Some tanks however I just get frustrated with and don't do well and I can tell it impacts the team.

 

[eLiu]

When going KT -> E75, did anyone here keep their KT? Or did it become pretty redundant (w/the E75 being superior in every way...)

I don't need to keep tier 8s around as I have IS-3 & T34 as permanent stable members. I just find it hard to part w/tanks with "Tiger" in the name; so much epic mythos.

 

[Merad]

The KT is generally considered the best T8 heavy. I plan to keep it once I get the E75.

 

[stag3]

if you don't need the slot keep it.

i wanted to keep it due to how awesome it looks, but the e75 looks exactly the same to me so i sold mine.

 

[LurkerPrime]

I still have my KT, although I never play it. I still have an IS-3 and I have my T34 for tier 8s. Although my IS-3 crew (almost 2 full skills) is going to be moved to my IS-4 (not even 1 full skill) when it becomes a tier 10. I usually only play my T34 when I need money.

I'll probably end up selling both my KT and my IS-3, as I prefer to play my arty, E-75, and IS-7 more than anything else.

I wish I could buy gold rounds for 5-10x the cost of a normal round using silver. Sure 10 rounds would cost over 100k for a tier 10 gun, but it would be nice to have for my doubles.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I did not keep my KT during my grind to the E100. With 7.3 giving me 3 more slots, I plan to rebuy the E75 but not the KT. I have tier 8 covered with my KV-5 and Type 59.

My T1 HT is looking like another blessed tank like my T20 was. I dunno how, but this tank freaking wins. Die in 2 minutes, whatever... it's going to be a win. Up against KV's, doesn't matter we somehow annihilate them.

 

[PowerYoga]

When going KT -> E75, did anyone here keep their KT? Or did it become pretty redundant (w/the E75 being superior in every way...)

I don't need to keep tier 8s around as I have IS-3 & T34 as permanent stable members. I just find it hard to part w/tanks with "Tiger" in the name; so much epic mythos.

Kept mine for a long long time but never had the time to retrain my crew (they went into the E-75). It's sad, but the E-75 is beastly in its tier and looks almost the same as the tiger 2.

The KT's the best tier 8 but it can't make any money because of how much the 105 costs. Sad when I sold it.

 

[stag3]

i'm ~25k away from the object 261 now. can't wait

 

[LurkerPrime]

i'm ~25k away from the object 261 now. can't wait

You will love it once you get the engines and tracks. Its almost like driving a medium tank. You will miss the damage on the HE, and the splash radius. Putting AP rounds through a tank for over 1000hp is nice though. It also makes a great TD, as only a few tanks can 1 shot you, so you have plenty of time to aim in that 1000+hp shot and with 360 pen it'll go through any tank.

I"m only 5% away from maxing my second skill. Once I do that, I'm switching my gunners skill over to deadeye since I use AP alot.

 

[stag3]

damn should i save up enough free xp to get the engine and tracks before buying the 261?

 

[Ns1]

I was having a great night in my KV until I got 1 shotted by an obj 704...goddamn, real ultimate power.

 

[mclee025]

I got my IS-3 last week, researched and mounted the BL-9 gun (a great suggestion by lurkerprime to make the IS-3 playable for me) and grinded out the 165K of XP's to research the IS-4. That felt good to achieve. Now I need to earn the 3.5 million credits to buy the IS-4 before the 7.3 patch hits.

Since I don't net much money (I often lose money) playing most my high tiered tanks, I'm back to playing my money makers the KV and M4. I've also resorted to playing the Panzer 4 since sometimes the KV and M4 get tied into quick battles. After all those high tiered round, I've discovered the Panzer 4 to be a really refreshing and fun tank to play.

The gun is deadly accurate and the reload is so fast -- after me getting used to the 8+ second reload of the heavies. And the really nice thing is that the rounds are cheap. I don't have to worry about shooting away my profits (at 1K cost per shot in some of the high tiered guns), and I just shoot with abandon.

When there are targets, it almost like machine gun practice to me. Since the mid-tiered rounds have a lot of newbies who don't know about taking cover and like driving into shooting zones, there's often a lot of things to shoot up and just a shooting blast ... LOL!

Also, while grinding credits, I had a mid-range shot with my KV derp that knocked out a T28 that was at 68 percent and crawling across a bridge. The T28 driver wasn't very happy about getting knocked out by a tier 5 tank. Some of the joy of playing the lower/mid tiered tanks.

 

[Llwellyn]

Couldn't get on last night due to the silly "scheduled maintenance" bug, so I jumped on for a few this morning. I had a decent match on Province with my Hotchkiss. They finally got me by wounding both my crew, I had taken over 20 hits and still had 45hp left.

Had a decent game in the KV-3 on El Halluf of all places. I punched an AMX-40 who decided to run right down the middle and stop; I'm sure he was cursing that decision. I was headed up the west side (we started southerly) and saw an IS-3, two IS, and a tier V TD head over there, so I went to the the east a bit to try to get around them and get in behind them. Well, our tiger, IS-3, and another tier 8 heavy managed to put in some heavy damage and take out most of that contingent.

I had finally made it up the hill, to find a tier V TD and a wounded Leopard just sitting there. I had a clear shot at the leopard, so I took it and destroyed him, and that made the TD run away instead of taking a shot at me. By then, their two IS had scattered apart, one to my left and one to my right. The one to my right decides he's gonna peek-a-boo around the rock, so I crest the hill a bit while he's rolling out and introduce his weak spot to my 122. I took off a good 25%, and he was just exposed enough that our arty finished him off before he could roll back.

That got the attention of the other IS, who decided to come play with me instead of get obliterated by our three heavies who were hanging on. I roll back down the hill a bit, and he decides to come straight down at me. I wait for him to start rolling, and put in a shot to his underside. I took about 25% off of him, too, and then our Tiger finished him off.

I finally get up to the top of the hill, and our easterly contingent is finally capping the base. I see a KV off in the distance trying to harass the cappers, and I put a 122 into his backside, obliterating him as well.

Not an extreme match by any means, but it was really good for me, and it felt good to have the coordination and teamwork actually work for a change and keep most of us alive.

I think I need about 23K more... as long as they don't drop the patch before the end of the week, I might make it.

 

[LurkerPrime]

damn should i save up enough free xp to get the engine and tracks before buying the 261?

No, the stock 261 is still faster (turning and top speed/acceleration) than the 212. Save your free xp for something else. I would get the 2nd engine first before the tracks though. You go from 650hp to 900hp, which seemed to me alot more useful than a few extra degrees turning per second. It wont take you all that long to elite, as its just tracks, 2 engines and a radio (2 radios if you didnt' unlock the earlier one), which all total is maybe 80-90k.

You will find that xp is a little slow on the 261 though, as it seems to take around 4k damage to break 1k xp and thats with premium. I also hope you have a premium tank, as you'll be hard pressed to consistantly make a profit. On your good games, you'll make money, but on those games where a scout gets through and your dead in the first min of the game, yeah there goes 25k+. Good thing though is on wins, you usually live as arty (no repair cost), and the 261 is so accurate you rarely miss, so you usually easily cover the ammo costs plus some.

 

[stag3]

yea i got a type59 so i'm good there, and i'm sitting on 16mil right now, waiting to grind out the batchat and amx50b so i can buy them right away.

 

[Genx87]

Did they nerf Type59 income? Played a game last night, 8 of 8 shots landed, killed three tanks(IS3,Type59,Tiger). 26,673 credits wtf?

 

[Lonbjerg]

Few tanks annoy me like the Type59.
It has nothing to do with WWII tanks.
IMHO they should purge it from the game and give people a choice between a Löwe or a KV-5 as free replacement.

Whenever I spot a Type59, I want to kill it...even if it might kill my tank too...I don't care...dosn't belong.

 

[Nintendesert]

Did they nerf Type59 income? Played a game last night, 8 of 8 shots landed, killed three tanks(IS3,Type59,Tiger). 26,673 credits wtf?

That's weird, but I don't think they did. I just had a 95k game and a 20 for 20 game last night for 120k+

 

[Possessed Freak]

Did they nerf Type59 income? Played a game last night, 8 of 8 shots landed, killed three tanks(IS3,Type59,Tiger). 26,673 credits wtf?

Did you lose?

My 59 had a 110k game this past weekend. My KV5 had a 103k game. (premium)