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Pennywise the Frown posted:^^^ top row on wotlabs? wotstats? you dont have to be a scientist to understand either of those sites tbh
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Szcwczuk posted:Is Russian bias a real thing or just some joke? I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to this game.
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Mr.48 posted:Its an excuse for bad pubbies to tell themselves that its not them that are bad, but those evil "Russian" developers who are keeping them down. Not to mention that the only good Soviet tanks at tier 10 are the mediums. The British and Americans dominate in the heavy tank, artillery, and tank destroyer categories. What? That isn't true - the American tier ten arti is the second worst just ahead of the Bat 155 58! I mean yeah the US tier nine arti is better than all the tier ten arti but that's still obviously russian bias.
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Russian bias may be some old joke from years ago, but I don't think anyone is going to argue with recommending the Russian heavy or medium lines.
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This weekend's event: 50% off garage slots.  Thanks for giving us a reason to play WarGaming!
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McGavin posted:
WG has been giving you reasons to quit for more than five years now. Save your sanity bro
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Truck Stop Daddy posted:top row on wotlabs? wotstats? you dont have to be a scientist to understand either of those sites tbh Neat. Never used those before. Thx. cool, it even shows clan stats.
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Jul 8, 2016 19:51
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Meanwhile World of Warships is just giving free premiums to people and pouring delicious premium consumables down their throats. Low-tier premiums, yes, but still. Ones not in the shop anymore either.
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Redeye Flight posted:Meanwhile World of Warships is just giving free premiums to people and pouring delicious premium consumables down their throats. And when it comes to consumables, these free premium repair parties are nice. Granted, you can get them with credits too, but nice to cut the bill (every ship should be running the premium repair party because of the reduced cooldown time).
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Redeye Flight posted:Meanwhile World of Warships is just giving free premiums to people and pouring delicious premium consumables down their throats. WoT gives away premiums not in the shop all the time! Those premiums are just the T1E6 and not in the shop because it's trash.
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Ensign Expendable posted:WoT gives away premiums not in the shop all the time! Those premiums are just the T1E6 and not in the shop because it's trash. Or rentals. They give away rentals.
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Which premium are they giving out and do I have to do something to get it? I don't care if it's trash, I just want more shiny botes
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Nordick posted:Which premium are they giving out and do I have to do something to get it? I don't care if it's trash, I just want more shiny botes The mikasa, you have till august 8th to get like 120 kills. Tier 4+ ships only iirc. FYI, the mikasa pretty much sucks. The only thing it holds in unique is that it is a tier 2 battleship (battleships are tier 3+ otherwise).
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The Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought, so compared to pretty much every other battleship that isn't named Kawachi it's greatly outclassed. However, it shows up BEFORE any other battleship, meaning that its competition is all the pre-split cruisers in T2 and T3, and the occasional very early battleship. So compared to those it has exceptional armor and health. It's honestly kind of more of a prestige ship to have, because the Mikasa is on par with the Yamato for fame in terms of Japanese warships, but it's goddamn pretty and it's not resoundingly worthless, either.
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Add me so we can do tank stuff but nothing gay. We can ride around and rub our barrels together. IGN: snozzlebert
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If only clan avatars were allowed to be animated, so we could make ours just straight up 
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Well, the current pink Iron cross/artist formerly known as Prince symbol is pretty badass.
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NDP's crying Lenin is still the best. I tell anyone who asks that it's Jack Layton though. 
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So along with sandbox mode, it would seem that WG is testing poo poo another place as well...namely the console versions. They added a new gamemode, Team Destruction, in October 2015 apparently. What is it? Well, teams generally start in the same places as during a Standard Battle, but there are no cap circles. Basically whichever team kills off the enemy team wins. If the time runs out (15min) before a team is killed off, then whoever has the most tanks left alive wins. If both teams have the same amount of tanks left alive, then whichever team did the most damage wins. gently caress all other modes I say, unfortunately you can't choose to only play Team Destruction. Oh well. In other news, in the patch a week ago, they added two new maps: Steppes - Sandstorm, and Erlenberg - Blizzard. As implied by the names, they feature sight-reducing weather, that actually does reduce the spotting range of tanks. You have to get a lot closer and it's frigging weird to not be able to see more than a few hundred meters into that crap. Recorded a sandstorm battle for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVUYv0UqqCk (Please ignore how I gently caress up and bumble about in my stock Ru 251 and somehow get top exp on team anyway.)
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Valle posted:So along with sandbox mode, it would seem that WG is testing poo poo another place as well...namely the console versions. They added a new gamemode, Team Destruction, in October 2015 apparently. What is it? Well, teams generally start in the same places as during a Standard Battle, but there are no cap circles. Basically whichever team kills off the enemy team wins. If the time runs out (15min) before a team is killed off, then whoever has the most tanks left alive wins. If both teams have the same amount of tanks left alive, then whichever team did the most damage wins. gently caress all other modes I say, unfortunately you can't choose to only play Team Destruction. Oh well. Hah, wow. Tanks is getting what tier 7+ already experience in WoWS. In WoWS, it is a typhoon. It does nasty stuff since visibility drops to 8km. This wouldn't be bad, but outside some destroyers, everyone is going to spot each other at the same time.
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It's like I forgot how to play this game. My WN8 for the past 24 hours is....55. My last game in the M103 about sums it up. Every single shot I got hit with penned, I fired 6 shots, no penetrations. Dead with 0 damage done. 
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That sandstorm mode looks cool. I notice there were no view/draw range circles on the mini-map. I wonder if those would be adjusted for weather.
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I think I am going to need a tier 10 heavy other than the T57 If I am going to complete the missions where I need to block double my hp in damage. I have both the IS-7 and T110E5 unlocked. Which should I get for HT-12 and HT-15? I'm on the T28 campaign. Or, I could get the Jg Pz E 100 to help me finish TD-15, but I kind of think I should be able to do that one in the Jagtiger. Seems pretty hosed up that HT-15 requires 8000 damage and TD-15 only requires 4000 damage. I guess TD-15 has the added requirement of 2 kills, but still seems lopsided.
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NotWearingPants posted:I think I am going to need a tier 10 heavy other than the T57 If I am going to complete the missions where I need to block double my hp in damage. I have both the IS-7 and T110E5 unlocked. Which should I get for HT-12 and HT-15? I'm on the T28 campaign. Get a VK4502B.
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Hellsau posted:What? That isn't true - the American tier ten arti is the second worst just ahead of the Bat 155 58! I mean yeah the US tier nine arti is better than all the tier ten arti but that's still obviously russian bias. Thats the point, the Americans get the best tier 10 arty at tier 9.
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Please and thank you. The IS-3 articles were rather interesting.
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Gervasius posted:Get a VK4502B. Is that less horrible to play now? I certainly never played it one someone else's account years ago, but if I had it would have been one of the most unbearable pieces of poo poo in the game.
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Mr.48 posted:Thats the point, the Americans get the best tier 10 arty at tier 9. And yet that won't help you on the Sandbox, which is only tier 10s, or if you wanted to get module kills while rigging in Steel Hunt Rampage mode, since it only allowed tier 10s. I mean, I assume, we definitely never rigged Rampage mode. Definitely helps get more XP though, which is sweet if you want to win a fancy tanks during a contest. I mean I know Exia loves his 59-Patton that he got for free by getting a high XP game in the M53/M55, it's one of his favorite premium tanks. 22 Eargesplitten posted:Is that less horrible to play now? I certainly never played it one someone else's account years ago, but if I had it would have been one of the most unbearable pieces of poo poo in the game. Sharing accounts is openly allowed by WGA, sharing them in tournaments and clan league is frowned upon but unpunished, doing it while on a WGLNA team will cause a poo poo show. Same with owning multiple accounts - if it becomes a problem, you'll be banned, but as long as you're not spamming scam gold websites or evading a ban on a separate account, WGA doesn't care. Get yourself a T95E2. They buffed the T95E2 in the last patch, right? Is it still unplayably bad?
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Man, tiers 3-4 are absolute poo poo on NA, even more so than years ago. The player population is low, even during weekend afternoons so you're always bottom tier, especially with 3s where you're frequently the only tier 3 in a tier 5 match. It's pretty obvious that this game will die at this state since new players will not survive that stupid grind to tier 5. And even tier 5s kind of sucks right now since there's no one playing tier 4 so you can never really be top tier anymore. Low tiers really have to be made more relevant or just rebalance them so tier 4s can put up a good fight against 5s and then put tiers 1-3 in some special playpen where only new players can access and just let older players skip those tiers when a new line appears.
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How about they loving move to +1/-1 or +-0 matchmaking already so they can loving balance the tanks against each other, rather than a competent player in a Matilda in a tier 4 match or a KV-1S/T67 in a tier 5 match dealing 80% of their team's damage and easily winning the game because those tanks are substantially better than everything everyone else is grinding through? Also people would be able to enjoy themselves instead of spending 30 minutes dying to tanks two tiers higher than themselves. Seriously, I'm pretty goddamn good and I platoon with good players, and it's such a loving slog trying to kill tier 10s with your tier 8s in a coordinated group with smart play. If you're bad, or just learning, how the gently caress are you supposed to do loving anything against tanks that will demolish you? What the hell is an M3 Lee supposed to do against a tier 6 that can't be penned by the Lee, can't really miss the Lee, and kills the Lee in 1.2 shots? Would anyone be against +1/-1 matchmaking? Would anyone be against +-0 matchmaking, assuming the playerbase is large enough to handle it and the tanks were balanced within their tiers? Does anyone prefer the lottery where you win 5% of the time and absolutely smash your opposition because you were the one tier nine in an E75, your opposing tier 9 was a bot, and there's 26 tier 7s in the match, but if you lose the lottery 50% of the time you get to play keepaway from the tanks that will crush you, and 45% of the time you can't do anything unless you're a miracle worker? I sure as gently caress don't. I don't enjoy the games where I smash the enemy. I don't enjoy the games where my team gets smashed and there's nothing I can do. That's not fun for me. Anyway there are many ways to fix the game, such as making tanks closer in power level to each other, or increasing maximum match size above 30, but making matchmaker prefer to combine 30ish of the same tier into the same match if that works for it, but everything is hosed. The Sandbox is a disaster which cannot work as it's currently done, and even if they overhaul it it'll still take half a year just to balance the tier 10s alone (seriously an iteration every 1.5 to 2 weeks is unacceptable) so enjoy the game if you enjoy it, and don't ever believe Wargaming when they say they're improving the game. They're making it worse because they don't understand how to make an enjoyable game, and as far as I can tell pubbies would rather suffer and Wargaming are correctly targeting those players to extract as much money from them as possible. Let's increase the cost of gold ammo and then reduce accuracy! Trust us, that'll hurt the good players much more than you bad players! gently caress
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Hellsau posted:Would anyone be against +1/-1 matchmaking? Would anyone be against +-0 matchmaking, assuming the playerbase is large enough to handle it and the tanks were balanced within their tiers? Saw a thread about this very thing on the console forums. There were actually several people in favour of keeping +2/-2 because they "liked the challenge". I looked them up and the best of them were slightly above average. It makes no loving sense because you'd think these people are challenged enough by just playing the game and not driving off cliffs and poo poo. But no, they "like the challenge" of being bottom tier. Where they do even worse than when they're top tiered. I don't loving get it. Hellsau posted:and don't ever believe Wargaming when they say they're improving the game. They're making it worse because they don't understand how to make an enjoyable game, and as far as I can tell pubbies would rather suffer and Wargaming are correctly targeting those players to extract as much money from them as possible. Let's increase the cost of gold ammo and then reduce accuracy! Trust us, that'll hurt the good players much more than you bad players! You have to remember that the huge majority of the playerbase are pretty loving bad. Any decision made to "improve" the game will be made with these people in mind, because...well, they're the loving majority, aren't they?
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If wargaming knew how to make a good game they wouldn't have made WoWP as it was. They got really lucky with WoT, so lucky that the other two tanks games killed themselves even without WoT improving at all. Seriously, the beginning of 2014 through to the end of 2015 saw no real substantial changes to WoT and comparatively few new trees - and half the trees that were added were terrible ideas. Also like 2/3 of the maps from that time period were just removed with the ones that remain still being awful. We had a 2+ year slowdown on new content for HD models and physics, both of which were late by over a year and neither of which had any impact on the gameplay until handbrake turns were implemented, and even that is pretty minor. We had historical battles, which were completely predictably dead in a week. Strongholds were the best new thing, I guess, but that didn't impact the majority of the players and didn't change the gameplay in any way. They killed clan wars completely. Hellsau posted:How about they loving move to +1/-1 or +-0 matchmaking already so they can loving balance the tanks against each other It's not loving possible for them to balance the game with +-2 MM. It's just not. Armour vs speed/guns/anything else just scales too differently. If a Cromwell and a Churchill VII are balanced at t6 then in t8 matches the Churchill VII will be far worse off than the Cromwell. Armour is made completely irrelevant by matchmaking but tanks with good mobility, camo, or guns are punished much less. Also another point they'll never budge on that makes balancing impossible: premium rounds. Once again "armour tanks" get poo poo on because premium rounds nullify the advantage of tanks with armour but do nothing against tanks with speed/guns/etc. The sandbox is looking to balance tanks in-tier without premium rounds, which is utter loving nonsense.
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Desuwa posted:Seriously, the beginning of 2014 through to the end of 2015 saw no real substantial changes to WoT and comparatively few new trees - and half the trees that were added were terrible ideas. Didn't they start 2014 by telling us that this year we'd get very few new tanks, as this would be the year of rebalance? And then they pretty much didn't rebalance poo poo the entire year. Desuwa posted:The sandbox is looking to balance tanks in-tier without premium rounds, which is utter loving nonsense. Unless they're looking to remove premium rounds, which is what they SHOULD have done back when they made them available for credits.
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+1/-1 MM would be such a drastic improvement to this game it's pretty shocking they haven't instituted it. It certainly wouldn't fix everything but it would go a very long way.
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Axetrain posted:+1/-1 MM would be such a drastic improvement to this game it's pretty shocking they haven't instituted it. It certainly wouldn't fix everything but it would go a very long way. It would stop people buying gold because good luck penning an E5 with any T8 from the front.
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