eLiu to fix your dead IS4 driver problem, you should be angling your tank about 25-40ish degrees. At that angle they can't hit your drivers hatch and your only weakspot is the front "shoulder", which isn't a guarenteed pen if your moving. Other shots should bounce off your sides, or just track you, but deal no damage. Fighting head on with the IS-4 is never a good idea.
Oh I know it's a weakspot. I played the old IS-4 for a few hundred games w/like 58% win rate; I loved that tank. So being pen'd in my driver's hatch & having him die is no new experience. But I've just never had it happen this frequently (=twice every game?!). Usually the first driver death would be from some invisible tank, at which point I'd heal him & turn. Then he'd die again anyway. :/ In the tier9 IS-4, I know I've been pen'd in the hatch w/o losing my driver... I don't think that's happened yet in the tier10 version. So I was wondering if there was also some kind of driver hitbox change or if I've just been getting unlucky.
Good players can make their team win. Sure there are games where a bad team just melts away and there is nothing you can do. But the difference between having a 40~% win rate and a mid 50% win rate is how often you can push your team over the top when it's close. :awe:
Agreed. There are some people in my clan that I really "click" with. When we play together, we win like >80% of our games (tiers 8-10). It's amazing. And yeah, I challenge you to find a player with a 47% win rate on a high tier heavy (9,10) who does more dmg than he has HP each game, on average.
as of last night i've never seen so many is-4's that did not have the BL-9, it's like wtf have you been doing, this patch has been in the works for a year and you still couldn't grind for the BL-9 or S70? never mind all the stock turreted is-4's i saw also.
The tier10 IS-4 cannot mount the BL-9, surprisingly and annoyingly enough. But yes, players who intentionally bring an IS-4 with the stock gun to battle need to uninstall. It completely cripples your team when you have a tier10 that cannot do *anything*. And these assholes aren't even willing to lead attacks and let others use their tanks as shields--it's the ONLY useful purpose they can even serve and they'd rather camp!!!
I don't know whether to be angry at these specific players or to be angry with WG for giving a tier10 such a ridiculous stock gun. They're punishing players everywhere, not just people who tried to free xp to the old IS-4.
For the E-75, I've mentioned this before... there's 2 pieces that make it "fun" to drive, missing either one makes the tank completely unbearable. The 128 and the final engine. With the final engine, the E-75 feels like a KT again. Prior to that it's just bloody slow. I played 2 games in the 1st engine before dashing out the free exp to get the 2nd one.
And a funny thing happened yesterday... a Lorraine was sidehugging my obj 704 and for some reason both of our tanks FLIPPED OUT. I saw the opportunity and shot him in the side (killing him), but the event let me confused...
Well I'm getting the engine today. Hopefully I'll <3 the thing afterwards! Or I'll probably go insane...
As for the "FLIPPED OUT" thing, this bug is known (and hilarious):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIMp806gbog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sbVgl7iqzs
I've had a match where I side-hugged a JT... a few insane spins later, his gun was facing into my ass. Fuck.
So I go to the official forums, where I have posted several times in the past. Now it says I do not have the ability to start a new topic, and every post I open says it is locked.
THey recently changed the forums so that you have to have 20 games played in order to post (except in a few sections). They said that this might cause people w/enough games ot be unable to post, but logout/log back in will fix you right up.
Rather than screw with my teams by taking a horribly gimped IS4 or IS8 into battle, I've repurchased my IS to grind out the good engine (skipped that too) and will have to then buy an IS-3 just so I can grind out a BL-9. Then, with the BL-9, I can M62-T2 on the IS-8. Only then will I play the IS-4. Otherwise, I'm just being a dick.
THANK YOU. SO MUCH, omg. I wish other players were as thoughtful as you are being.