Zanziabar posted:

This is exactly my point. What kind of insane bullshit do you need to pull off to get a mastery in this tank?
On a slightly related note, I'm fairly certain I already have a mastery with the T-54 but outside of this tank, I can't think of any tanks outside the tier 9 & 10 Czech and the E5 (maybe?) that you wouldn't get a mastery with 5k damage.

Hellsau posted:

You probably deserved it for playing World of Tanks. I was just trying to warn you away.

Zanziabar posted:

This is exactly my point. What kind of insane bullshit do you need to pull off to get a mastery in this tank?
On a slightly related note, I'm fairly certain I already have a mastery with the T-54 but outside of this tank, I can't think of any tanks outside the tier 9 & 10 Czech and the E5 (maybe?) that you wouldn't get a mastery with 5k damage.

McGavin posted:

Anyone else get asked to complete the "World of Tanks visual style survey"?

The image below is one of the directions they're considering:

McGavin posted:

I am slightly horrified that at least one person at Wargaming is taking my TanKolle suggestion seriously.

subhelios posted:

Why on earth would you do that?

Also, can I get a link to your modpack? I looked for it but I must have missed it.

Prav posted:

oh and they added an in-game tank comparison tool but since several stats are still missing, most importantly passability and bloom, it's largely worthless.

McGavin posted:

BadLlama posted:

I don't understand this photo.

KaiserSchnitzel posted:

We should respond with tasteful images of engorged emormous phalluses mounted on chrome wheels.

BadLlama posted:

I don't understand this photo.

McGavin posted:

Anyone else get asked to complete the "World of Tanks visual style survey"?

The image below is one of the directions they're considering:

James Garfield posted:

Replace the tank with a Tiger and the anime girl with Michael Wittmann in the same outfit, and I would play the gently caress out of world of tanks (as a Sherman).

KaiserSchnitzel posted:

This was the first tank Hellsau ever TKed me in.

It's hard because it's huge; if it was a normal size tank it would be average with a decent gun for tier 4. The huge is a problem because it's also kind of fast, which means you get Hellcat syndrome while driving it. Your armor doesn't bounce poo poo, you can't turn for poo poo, and you're really not accurate enough to play as a retarded sniper. On top of that, tier 4 is terrible to play in unless you are in one of the OP tier 4 tanks.

So...don't feel too bad about it. It's like the M3 Lee in that some folks say "It's great if [X]," where [X] is something a new player wouldn't know crap about. The only advice I can give is a) don't go anywhere alone / don't make yourself a target; b) stay in low ground if possible; c) don't think that it's a heavy just because it looks like it should be; and d) never look back once you get the KV1, because at that point you are about to enter the "golden phase" about learning real things about World of Tanks that will actually help you play better and make perfect sense at the same time. Other than that just blow through that poo poo and come back to it in another 1,000 games and realize it was actually not such a bad tank.

Barry posted:

Cool, thanks for the advice. I bought the first 57mm yesterday (it was only like 550xp) and played way differently than normal - mobile back line sniper type. It felt a little bit better but I still want to get through it as quick as possible. Should probably just use 2k of free experience to get to the KV-1 and try and forget this tank ever happened.

McGavin posted:

Think about how many Wehraboos there are. It would be pretty much a license to print money.

Regarding the modpack, 9.15 broke everything enough for many of the people maintaining the individual mods to say "gently caress this noise, I'm out," (RIP J1mb0's and XVM map mods) so it was initially missing a large amount of functionality. People eventually started releasing updated mods, so I finally got it cobbled together enough to consider releasing it around last weekend, but I was busy moving and don't have internet at my new place yet. I probably won't be able to get anything done this weekend due to other commitments, but I might be able to get it done by the weekend after. Maybe XVM will have their map poo poo fixed by then (haha not likely).

Nordick posted:

On the other hand, in the next update WG are again introducing a bunch of previously mod features into the game: double row tank carousel, in-battle damage logs, and maybe there was something else too that I'm forgetting.

Valle posted:

Well, unless you really hate it, you shouldn't do that. Free exp should never be used to unlock the next tank, unless you REALLY loving hate the current tank (or you're richy mcmoneybags and you just blow oodles of cash on gold to get more free exp). When you get the next tank, it'll be stock. Stock tanks are mostly crap. Or at least pretty crap compared to fully upgraded. Blow the free exp on getting some upgrades instead, so you won't have to play a stock tank. A kinda sucky but fully upgraded tank may very well be better than the next tank in line when it's completely stock.

Hellsau posted:

Hopefully their previewed render changes will actually make it into the game, because if there was a mod that could actually let you do this it would be the most advantageous cheat I could imagine.

also please wargaming, put a goddamn checkbox to remove the stupid fog into the graphics settings.

Hellsau posted:

also please wargaming, put a goddamn checkbox to remove the stupid fog into the graphics settings.

McGavin posted:

Have you tried Max Farplane? I've heard it can drop your framerate, but I never noticed it when I used it.

JohnGalt posted:

Also, my stat padding account is priestofstats@gmail.com

Password: 0drowssap0

(I made it easy for you fuckers)

Johngalt cobra commander is

Elliotkim@vzw.blackberry.net

Password: 0FuckOff0

Get hosed pubbies. This game sucks and I came out net positive cash flow. My only regret is not min/maxing cash flow which is the only stat anyone should care about.

If kingpengiun doesn't give me my money back il post JT 88 codes here too.

subhelios posted:

I bought the T-54 since that line is the On-Track event, and I think I'm in love. It is just great.

Colon Semicolon posted:

I saw there's some Wotld of Tanks model kits that come with a ton of game bonuses, and i was wondering if the exclusive premium tanks are at all worth the price of the kits or not.

Colon Semicolon posted:

I saw there's some Wotld of Tanks model kits that come with a ton of game bonuses, and i was wondering if the exclusive premium tanks are at all worth the price of the kits or not.

Nordick posted:

On the other hand, in the next update WG are again introducing a bunch of previously mod features into the game: double row tank carousel, in-battle damage logs, and maybe there was something else too that I'm forgetting.

Blindeye posted:

Non-controversial opinion: the Tiger I is a ridiculously good tank and the wehraboos that can't be arsed to play it correctly have nothing to whine about.

Seriously I'm averaging 1300 damage a game and that's considering I did the stock grind of most of the modules. If I don't get say...full penned by an O-I snapshotting with AP or a tier 9 TD/arty dunking me Its a lost hard not to get 2k damage.

Desuwa posted:

I'm betting WG is doing this because players are leaving. They probably see some significant player attrition, especially amongst the more competent players, every time a patch comes out and they've probably, after many years, figured out slowly that their mods are breaking and they're just not bothering to come back. Sure most players don't use mods, but the flip side of this is the features that some players will not play without become standard and inexperienced players can use them and might stay longer.

This after years and years of "the game is fine, you don't need mods" and insulting people who complain when WG's random 1MB do-nothing patches break their mods. Also blaming mods for every single crash, even when users don't have mods.


Hell with the changes they've made recently the game is just barely playable without mods. The big one was finally adding a checkbox replacing the NoScroll mod completely, which was the most obvious and simple change that they had to have been avoiding purely out of spite towards their players.

e: The only two mods that make a difference to the gameplay (XVM still useful for stats and a carousel with more than two rows) are autoaim snapping and battle assistant. Those two should just be made part of the base game because right now they're too valuable to play without but they're also not banned. WG has come out and said they're both allowed, which is a bit weird because I think they're clearly the most advantageous mods that aren't banned like Tundra. At least with Tundra WG can say you're breaking the rules if you use it.