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NTRabbit posted:Worth mentioning that Botes has a massive memory leak issue right now, I'm lasting maybe 5 battles between client restarts Strangely no issues with this. Weird. For the AP vs HE it comes down to range and size of guns. With the BBs landing a salvo of HE on something small is basically the end of their world. In addition setting CVs on fire with them is really awesome. For Cruisers and DDs I'm a big fan of using AP while closing from extreme range HE in the middle range and then back to AP within 5k. Last night I was able to deal 3 to 1 damage with 2 St. Louis in the Sampson because they are very large and just dropping shells right in their armored middle. Playing cruisers for right now and they are so smooth and buttery it's really nice. The DD everything is OH GOD INCOMING *cringe turn pray you don't die* but the cruiser can shrug enough damage off that you can get close enough to BBs that then dump a nice hot load of torpedoes into them.
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I don't get destroyers, I get snowed under by the AI way before I can get within 5km
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Jan 24, 2015 17:24
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NTRabbit posted:Worth mentioning that Botes has a massive memory leak issue right now, I'm lasting maybe 5 battles between client restarts Really? I went a good 10 or 12 last night, and the only thing that went wrong was my internet shitted out and I couldn't load back into game.
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Jan 24, 2015 17:25
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Asproigerosis posted:I don't get destroyers, I get snowed under by the AI way before I can get within 5km DDs are easier against live people than bots. The bots are actually decently accurate as opposed to pubs which...usually not so much. Be sneaky and use the islands to sneak up on things.
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Jan 24, 2015 17:28
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Asproigerosis posted:I don't get destroyers, I get snowed under by the AI way before I can get within 5km Use cruisers, Islands and you smoke screen to get in close.
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Strobe posted:Really? I went a good 10 or 12 last night, and the only thing that went wrong was my internet shitted out and I couldn't load back into game. As the battles go on, it locks up briefly during fights and in port more and more until the client locks up completely and I have to close it in task manager, where it's out to about 1.2gb of memory
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Jan 24, 2015 17:38
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Did you not get the memo that wargaming engine shares the same specs as witcher 3?
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NTRabbit posted:As the battles go on, it locks up briefly during fights and in port more and more until the client locks up completely and I have to close it in task manager, where it's out to about 1.2gb of memory Weird, mine is holding a steady 850mb.
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My only problem which may be a memory leak issue was that after awhile, the voices for my squadrons stopped working. Music stopped too I think. SFX was still going though, so it was an interesting play at that point. Also, strobe, dive bombers get better once you upgrade away from the crappy biplanes. They probably only used 100lb bombs which is why they seemed to hit for so little to you. JuffoWup fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Jan 24, 2015 17:43
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Botes is pretty fun, even if I'm spending more time on fire and at the bottom than sailing. 
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Finally spent the time in MM to float around in the Langley. Thanks for the tip Juffo. First round kept the fighters nearby the BBs and then jumped their torp bombers. Shot the whole wing down. Brought them back....did it again. 8 air kills then a DD and a BB. Hilarious watching those biplanes nuke things.
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rex rabidorum vires posted:Finally spent the time in MM to float around in the Langley. Thanks for the tip Juffo. First round kept the fighters nearby the BBs and then jumped their torp bombers. Shot the whole wing down. Brought them back....did it again. 8 air kills then a DD and a BB. Hilarious watching those biplanes nuke things. Yeah, a properly played carrier is amazing and very rewarding. However, the amount of multitasking it requires is going to gently caress a lot of teams when the retard squad starts playing.
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Jan 24, 2015 18:04
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The St. Louis is basically the discerning sea captain's choice of gunboat, big wins with top xp two battles in a row while clobbering Fusos and Kongos who had poor target priority, and kicking in destroyers with 2 HE salvos I turned audio and graphics from high down to medium, seems to be holding, might turn the graphics up again in a little while to see if it really is an audio thing because medium graphics sure makes the game ugly
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JuffoWup posted:Yeah, a properly played carrier is amazing and very rewarding. However, the amount of multitasking it requires is going to gently caress a lot of teams when the retard squad starts playing. So far I've just been setting the fighters to escort BBs that are going to the middle of the map and then moving them as needed. The Torp planes I've been a bit more meticulous with to create some really nice side on shots.
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Jan 24, 2015 18:13
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In tank news, Otto Carius passed away today.
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The tier 3 Japanese battleship is basically a free lunch for torpedo planes, can't dodge them and it has 0 AA guns stock, only 2 AA guns elite
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Jan 24, 2015 18:25
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Hey is the personal missions thing in tanks going to last forever or is it ending at some point?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Hey is the personal missions thing in tanks going to last forever or is it ending at some point? Supposedly forever, definitely at least 6 months, and it's called "campaign 1" implying more of them in the future
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Jan 24, 2015 18:31
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NTRabbit posted:Supposedly forever, definitely at least 6 months, and it's called "campaign 1" implying more of them in the future Ugh, three arty every match blows. Raskolnikov38 fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Jan 24, 2015 18:32
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btw for you carrier pilots. Make sure the mash the w key a few times at the start of the match along with changing course. The autopilot only boats at half speed. And yes, you can recover and launch your planes at full speed while turning for whoever asked. I never noticed this before, but realized it near the end of the t6 grind. The autopilot will still operate btw, just now you will be going full speed to better keep up with your team instead of being left on the other side of the map from them.
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JuffoWup posted:Yeah, a properly played carrier is amazing and very rewarding. However, the amount of multitasking it requires is going to gently caress a lot of teams when the retard squad starts playing. That feeling when you have 2 squads of torp bombers execute a perfect attack from 2 different sides is great. Usually the pubbie just locks up and eats every single torpedo.
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Dodging them in a big fat ship is pretty awesome too.
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Artless Meat posted:That feeling when you have 2 squads of torp bombers execute a perfect attack from 2 different sides is great. Usually the pubbie just locks up and eats every single torpedo. I've pulled a perfect yamato attack a few times. Dive bombers in first followed by a prong attack of torps. It was amazing to watch.
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For AP vs. HE hits, every ship has a hitbox where all shells that penetrate will do more damage. They correspond to stuff like ammo stores or engines or whatever. Most ships stack a ton of armour on these hitboxes so you need AP to penetrate the armor for full damage. The armour is usually in the shape of a rectangular box, so angles do matter. You can orient your ship in just like in tanks to increase your effective thickness. Range matters as well, because long-range shells tend to plunge downwards, close-range shots go straight, and mid-range shells hit the armoured box at some angle. Most importantly, your shells need to actually strike the hitbox to do damage. If you shoot AP at the front of a carrier, you're hitting nothing and you'll do piddly damage. I know the Langley has an engine hitbox at the bottom stern, but I don't know about the other ones. Destroyers are so small that you can't expect to actually hit them where it matters, until they're well within torpedo distance. HE just has a narrower range of possible damage, but if you have very large or a lot of guns, it quickly adds up.
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I think I hate playing BBs. They are just too slow to react. Granted I'm only on the tier 4 but man it is just so ponderous. Edit: I also hate the loving pubs that are in them that can't hit the broadside of a barn that sit 3/4 of the away across the map contributing nothing before being torp bombed. rex rabidorum vires fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Gervasius posted:In tank news, Otto Carius passed away today. Why didn't they use a first aid kit?
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Yeah ships deffo has a mem leak. Noticed it was up around 1.3GB after bout 4 hours of play. Started seeing some weird graphic glitches. Restarted the game and it's running around .762 GB
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How long is it from invite code entry -> download for the botes client? I get access denied even though I got the welcome email. edit: yay ship spergin. notwithoutmyanus fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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I only skimmed the NDA, so I don't know if I can post screenshots, but just downed two battleships in my Smith Class. One BS was solo'd, torpedo after torpedo into the guy. Better than I ever got in tanks. 
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Just found out that in WoWS you can follow your shots in the air by pressing Z after firing. Pretty neat imo.
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Oh mannnnn tanks has rubbed off on me more than I thought. Just TK'ed a pub trying to cap out so I could grind out more damage against the remaining CVs. Hilariously the team thanked me. Lets see how the system handles TKs 
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Viperidae posted:Just found out that in WoWS you can follow your shots in the air by pressing Z after firing. Pretty neat imo. Middle mouse does this too. There's also a way to lock your guns where they're pointing but I forgot the key command for that.
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Artless Meat posted:Middle mouse does this too. There's also a way to lock your guns where they're pointing but I forgot the key command for that. Hold right click like in tanks
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Someone in a destroyer casually drove straight across the map and unloaded a large torpedo barrage into my carrier at about 50m away. Being unable to defend yourself or even maneuver is a bit annoying sometimes. Torpedo bombers are not good against destroyers at all and dive bombers are too slow to reload to be of much use. At some point the queue screen was replaced with a completely black screen, plus mouse cursor. Why? Who knows. But the game went into matches as if it worked properly. 
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xthetenth posted:Try shift and ctrl-x as well. This was it, thanks. Right click just locks them there until you release rightclick. This one makes them always point whichever way you had them. Artless Meat fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Artless Meat posted:This was it, thanks. Right click just locks them there until you release rightclick. This one makes them always point whichever way you had them. That's a new one. Have to remember that. I don't lock turrets like that because I'm usually using the free camera view while holding right click to take in the things around me. Granted I am full cruiser/destroyer player so that works best for me.
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Artless Meat posted:This was it, thanks. Right click just locks them there until you release rightclick. This one makes them always point whichever way you had them. rex rabidorum vires posted:That's a new one. Have to remember that. I don't lock turrets like that because I'm usually using the free camera view while holding right click to take in the things around me. Granted I am full cruiser/destroyer player so that works best for me. There's two options - one locks the guns on their current bearing, the other locks the guns on a specific point so that they turn to point at it as your ship turns, but I forget which button does what
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NTRabbit posted:There's two options - one locks the guns on their current bearing, the other locks the guns on a specific point so that they turn to point at it as your ship turns, but I forget which button does what Right click locks to a point where your turrets will continue to turn. Just noticed that. Edit: So many carriers. Just had a game where MM decided that the other team getting 3 top tier carriers to our 1 was fair. Shot down 35 planes with the Cleveland. Still ate a torp broad :/ rex rabidorum vires fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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How to make light tank drivers cry, a tutorial by rossmum and the FV304: This will go on YT eventually but the replay's there for those of you who do bother watching them.
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