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Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Economic and financial security is a good thing to have and I think it is good that ZombieLenin has these things.

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Prav
Oct 29, 2011

Desuwa posted:

You need free exp for the caern and conq but in exchange you don't need to free exp the guns for the Cent and Cent 7, or the rest oft the mediums in general, when you later go down that line.

Well, you still need to research the L7. Having the 20 pdr B and the engines is nice though.

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.

mmkay posted:

Kill you are selves.

we're playing world of tanks and we're not playing for fun because that's such a rare decision playing for fun i mean who plays video games for fun anyway brb killing self

Truck Stop Daddy
Apr 17, 2013

A janitor cleans the bathroom

Muldoon

mmkay posted:

Kill you are selves.

Im killing me are self now

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Control Volume posted:

Economic and financial security is a good thing to have and I think it is good that ZombieLenin has these things.

Actually he is a burden of the state and gets a check in the mail from the government because he can't figure out pants. Or tanks for that matter.

Desuwa
Jun 2, 2011

I'm telling my mommy. That pubbie doesn't do video games right!

Prav posted:

Well, you still need to research the L7. Having the 20 pdr B and the engines is nice though.

20pdr is adequate on a tier 9 medium. One of the best gun grinds on a t9, probably the best.

AAAAA! Real Muenster
Jul 12, 2008

My QB is also named Bort

I am doing the British medium and heavy lines concurrently. Currently in the tier 6s - should I try to get ahead in one of them?

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Get ahead in the mediums so you have stuff unlocked for the heavies.

On the same subject, I just bought a Churchill I. So I guess I'm doing British heavies too. I never wanted it to be this way. The sale was just too enticing.

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

Desuwa posted:

You need free exp for the caern and conq but in exchange you don't need to free exp the guns for the Cent and Cent 7, or the rest oft the mediums in general, when you later go down that line.

The 20pdr on the cent7 is not a horrible grind. Decent pen and rof. I even got an ace tanker using it. Then I freexpd the L7 and regretted nothing.

Also just bought the conq and freexpd gun, turret and tracks since I am currently a welfare queen ( socialism rocks ). You need tracks in order to fit turret and gun, at least if you want rammer, optics and vstab. Feels rather comfortable sofar.

Notes.
Got into a tier10 game on lakeville north with my T34 with no arty. Since my team were not hideously red I went valley ( since once in a lifetime ) and promptly encountered a red e100 that kept showing me his lower front plate and promptly got splattered.

Been running the common test to check out the new t110e5 and the Japanese heavies. The cupola of the E5 seems to be buffed on test and the jap tier 10 is more comfortable to drive than a Maus. Heat shells go through the flat lower plate though.
Also, why is the fv4202 considered bad? I ran it on test and it is pretty comfortable with good gun, depression and rof.

frood
Aug 26, 2000
Nevermind.

Cardiac posted:

Also, why is the fv4202 considered bad? I ran it on test and it is pretty comfortable with good gun, depression and rof.

Because HESH is worthless as a gold round and it's weak spot is the spot it always needs to expose - it's turret.

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

frood posted:

Because HESH is worthless as a gold round and it's weak spot is the spot it always needs to expose - it's turret.

Eh, doesn't most Tier10 mediums use APCR most of the time anyways?
As for weak turret, with the exception of Russian mediums, aren't most turrets on tier10 mediums rather weak?
HESH was btw hilarious versus BatChats on test.

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo


In a game known for its awful crew names, this one stands out. Poor guy ain't a looker either.

Creamed Cormp
Jan 8, 2011

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Atal Vataman posted:

i guess witch shouldn't bother with mods then.

not like there's a mod that makes the 113 cool anyway
:^)

Truck Stop Daddy
Apr 17, 2013

A janitor cleans the bathroom

Muldoon

WitchFetish posted:

not like there's a mod that makes the 113 cool anyway
:^)

there is actually. its called brain damage. pwnd C|:^)

Desuwa
Jun 2, 2011

I'm telling my mommy. That pubbie doesn't do video games right!

Cardiac posted:

Eh, doesn't most Tier10 mediums use APCR most of the time anyways?
As for weak turret, with the exception of Russian mediums, aren't most turrets on tier10 mediums rather weak?
HESH was btw hilarious versus BatChats on test.

There's a difference between using apcr most of the time and not having the option of using heat when you need it. It does a lot of things right and it was buffed recently to give it D that isn't the worst in its tier anymore.

But it's slow, has pretty poor gun handling compared to other t10 meds, a lovely turret that's worse than the good but unreliable Cent turret, and the lack of a decent premium round is the biggest thing.

I really like playing it and I do well in it but it is not competitive.

Ferrovanadium
Mar 22, 2013

APEX PREDATOR

-MOST AMMUNITION EXPENDED ON CIVILIANS 2015-PRESENT
-WORST KDR VS CIVILIANS 2015-PRESENT

I hate this game but am still probably going to get back into it when Japanese heavy tanks come out because I am addicted to 100+ ton superheavy tanks. :negative:

edit: On the bright side I can stop at tier 5 once I get the first O-I (or whichever one's the tier 5) and just play at Good Tiers as opposed to bashing my head in at tier 8, also I can use my lovely old sealclubbing alt so that I can pretend it's like a fresh start

Ferrovanadium fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Aug 28, 2015

Mesadoram
Nov 4, 2009

Serious Business

YellerBill posted:

I hate this game but am still probably going to get back into it when Japanese heavy tanks come out because I am addicted to 100+ ton superheavy tanks. :negative:

The glorious Nippon steel tanks were folded over 400 times.

You know they cannot be bad.

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

No, no, not folded. Riveted.

:negative:

AAAAA! Real Muenster
Jul 12, 2008

My QB is also named Bort

YellerBill posted:

I hate this game but am still probably going to get back into it when Japanese heavy tanks come out because I am addicted to 100+ ton superheavy tanks. :negative:
I just got back into it but am actually really enjoying it most of the time, somehow :shh:

YellerBill posted:

edit: On the bright side I can stop at tier 5 once I get the first O-I (or whichever one's the tier 5) and just play at Good Tiers as opposed to bashing my head in at tier 8, also I can use my lovely old sealclubbing alt so that I can pretend it's like a fresh start
I find myself enjoying Tier 7+ tanks way more than anything below. I dont know if it is because my crews all suck, the tanks I am driving/grinding at lower tiers are worse, or what, but I have the most fun in tier 8 and 9 tanks now that I started playing again.

frood
Aug 26, 2000
Nevermind.

Cardiac posted:

Eh, doesn't most Tier10 mediums use APCR most of the time anyways?
As for weak turret, with the exception of Russian mediums, aren't most turrets on tier10 mediums rather weak?
HESH was btw hilarious versus BatChats on test.

95% of the time yes, APCR is what you use. When you're shooting at big flat surfaces though, like german box tanks and soon the japanese, I like having the option of HEAT because you don't have to be as picky about waiting for the correct angling and stuff.

As far as the turret, the 4202 is the only tier 10 I go out of the way to shoot in the turret, because it'll pen every time.

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

Desuwa posted:

There's a difference between using apcr most of the time and not having the option of using heat when you need it. It does a lot of things right and it was buffed recently to give it D that isn't the worst in its tier anymore.
But it's slow, has pretty poor gun handling compared to other t10 meds, a lovely turret that's worse than the good but unreliable Cent turret, and the lack of a decent premium round is the biggest thing.
I really like playing it and I do well in it but it is not competitive.

I have it in garage and is currently grinding a crew in my Cromwell to get sixth sense before playing it. But I tried it on test, and it feels rather comfortable to drive. Being competitive is only interesting for CW ie I don't give a poo poo.

Also, I have found a way to distinguish pubbies that use the 9 XVM color scheme from Wotlabs. All of them fire gold at me, since I am blue in that color scheme and green in the more modest (less Dunning-Kruger) 6 color scheme.
The amount of gold shells my Sherman3, CDC, arties or ChiRi have eaten from 50-51% players is getting rather high.

Desuwa
Jun 2, 2011

I'm telling my mommy. That pubbie doesn't do video games right!
I mean competitive as in it can't keep up with the other mediums. It is inferior even if its strengths match up with the strengths I want from a medium. As an overall package it's just not as good as, say, the 50M.

I don't know much about the current Patton so I don't know how it stacks up against its most similar competition.

M.C. McMic
Nov 8, 2008

The Weight room
Is your friend
Does Jimbo's crosshair mod make use of the server side reticle if you have "enable server reticle" checked in your settings? Or do you have to use the default reticle(s) to make use of the server side crosshairs?

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

I'm reasonably certain that J1mb0's works like the default crosshairs in that it shows the server side reticle instead of the client side reticle if you have "enable server reticle" checked in your settings. It definitely does not show both the server and client side reticles at the same time. You need a different mod for that.

DonkeyHotay
Jun 6, 2005

ZombieLenin posted:

Plus, the reality is that the vast majority of the pubbies in random battles, which is all I play, have no mods at all installed. So it isn't the mods "holding me down."

This whole argument has been retarded but if you run xvm it will tell you who *else* is running xvm, and generally most people do.

DonkeyHotay
Jun 6, 2005

i broke my elbow and separated my shoulder so no more tanks for a couple months. Thank God.

Missing Name
Jan 5, 2013


DonkeyHotay posted:

i broke my elbow and separated my shoulder so no more tanks for a couple months. Thank God.

Welcome to sanity.

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.

DonkeyHotay posted:

i broke my elbow and separated my shoulder so no more tanks for a couple months. Thank God.

Please just imagine that I posted a video of the ending of the Futurama dog episode with the 113 crudely edited in over Seymour.

AAAAA! Real Muenster
Jul 12, 2008

My QB is also named Bort

Supposedly Wargaming posted a promo code for 3 days of premium on twitter - is anyone on twitter able to confirm and/or snag it?

rex rabidorum vires
Mar 26, 2007

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McGavin posted:

I'm reasonably certain that J1mb0's works like the default crosshairs in that it shows the server side reticle instead of the client side reticle if you have "enable server reticle" checked in your settings. It definitely does not show both the server and client side reticles at the same time. You need a different mod for that.

It is actually kinda sad/funny that I've been playing with the double reticle for so long that it bothers me to play without it

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Bort Bortles posted:

Supposedly Wargaming posted a promo code for 3 days of premium on twitter - is anyone on twitter able to confirm and/or snag it?

https://twitter.com/worldoftanks/status/637341906230378504
PXPRM07Q , the redeem servers imploded though so I can't confirm it.

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.

quote:

Russian portal published some info about the upcoming changes in 9.10 - here are some of the new features:

Maps depending on battle tiers

Not all maps will be available for all vehicles. In battles of various tiers, various sets of maps will now appear as such:

Tier 1-2: Mittengard, Mines
Tier 3: Ruinberg, Winter Himmesdorf, Mines
Tier 4: Winter Himmesdorf, Himmelsdorf, Mines, Ruinberg, Winterberg, Steppes, Widepark
Tier 5: Winter Himmesdorf, Himmelsdorf, Mines, Ruinberg, Winterberg, Steppes, Widepark, Tundra, Ensk, Malinovka, Karelia, Sand River
Tier 6: Winter Himmesdorf, Himmelsdorf, Mines, Ruinberg, Winterberg, Steppes, Widepark, Tundra, Ensk, Malinovka, Karelia, Sand River, Airfield, Westfield, Live Oaks, Lakesville, Abbey, Fiery Salient, Prokhorovka, Cliff, Highway
Tier 7: Winter Himmesdorf, Himmelsdorf, Mines, Ruinberg, Winterberg, Steppes, Widepark, Tundra, Ensk, Malinovka, Karelia, Sand River, Airfield, Westfield, Live Oaks, Lakesville, Abbey, Fiery Salient, Prokhorovka, Cliff, Highway, Windstorm, Arctic, Siegfried Line, Murovanka, Mountain Pass, Redshire, El Halluf,
Tier 8-10: All maps

Province was removed (as were the other maps announced for removal: Pearl River, Hidden Village)

So uh I hope you people like Himmels and Mines if you plan on starting new accounts.

AAAAA! Real Muenster
Jul 12, 2008

My QB is also named Bort

Control Volume posted:

https://twitter.com/worldoftanks/status/637341906230378504
PXPRM07Q , the redeem servers imploded though so I can't confirm it.
Thanks!

Saint Celestine
Dec 17, 2008

Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.

- Saint Sabbat, Lessons
Grimey Drawer

OH GODDAMN.

THAT IS A SEXY loving TANK.

Fat Jesus
Jul 13, 2011

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2023


Hellsau posted:

So uh I hope you people like Himmels and Mines if you plan on starting new accounts.

does this actually say high tiers will see mittengard?

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
The 3-day premium bonus code is out of uses as of 20 minutes ago.

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.
http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/pc-browser/22/tanks-thru-time0/

September grindfest event. Getting the E-25 while you already own one will give you 2.67 million credits, which is fine enough if the grind isn't ludicrous like the A45 one was.

I hope they give out the Minimaus as one of the ancient weapons. I'd be super disappointed if they just give away the T1E6/LTP/T7CC/VIC, AKA old holiday tanks, for the thousandth time.

Fat Jesus posted:

does this actually say high tiers will see mittengard?

Probably no because Wargaming hates fun. I'd much, MUCH rather play tier tens on Mittengard than on Hidden Village or Sacred Valley. Even artillery gets to be a big ol' TD.

Lovely Joe Stalin
Jun 12, 2007

Our Lovely Wang
I look forward to no such event on the EU server because gently caress us.

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.

Gapey Joe Stalin posted:

I look forward to no such event on the EU server because gently caress us.

Would you seriously have considered grinding 200 kills and 200k xp in the loving A45?

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rex rabidorum vires
Mar 26, 2007

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I would to thank that event for like half the xp on my 152...shooting them with HE or HEAT didn't really matter. Or all the JigTig 88 games of farming credits from them. Good times.

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