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I'd say the balance issue is arguably true for all heavy tanks but I can see why the Maus is exponentially worse than all the others. When I ever (rarely) play it, it's mostly for the funny APHEDS round. If I wanna bounce shots, I play a T-34-57 
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maus hunting is fun because they can't resist crawling around out in the open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjYEOeu3Bw
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Re: Maus hunting, gonna repost this https://giant.gfycat.com/CrazySatisfiedGreendarnerdragonfly.mp4
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Nfcknblvbl posted:Re: Maus hunting, gonna repost this holy poo poo nice I brought 5 of those soccer balls and got garbage. Are they worth buying or nah?
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CODChimera posted:holy poo poo nice Thanks! I think they are if you have too many Silver Lions.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:38
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MrYenko posted:The Panther II fixes that, if you’re one of the übermensch that unlocked it before they removed it from the tech tree. I am and it still sucks!
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i miss when tiny tims were just regular gigantic rockets, and when hvars and rp3s were nearly guaranteed single shot kills
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Madurai posted:You may ask, "Why are Rank and BR two different things?" but down that path lies madness. Rank controls research and progression, BR controls matchmaking DarkDobe posted:Do they ever do discounts on Research Conversion? Indirectly they get a sale in the form of research costs themselves being discounted. Still wouldn't particularly recommend it unless you have way more money than sense. BMan posted:That's not a thing It used to be! You can also sort of get discounted GE through discounted packs but that only half counts. mlmp08 posted:Hell yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii3t-8HWFrk BadOptics posted:I am and it still sucks! Skill Issue. (it's not nearly as good as it used to be, still solid though)
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Shanakin posted:Rank controls research and progression, BR controls matchmaking Is that confirmed, I always get stressed about match making when there’s a rank 3 4.7 vehicle in the same lineup as a rank 2 4.7 vehicle - the player count waiting thing shows it by rank.
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Shanakin posted:Rank controls research and progression, BR controls matchmaking That doesn't make their current system any less unintuitive. The issue is that the two have very little relation to one another. A more intuitive and easy to understand BR system would use ranks as a divider. For instance new BRs could be a three digit format to 1 digit preceding the decimal point and two following. Rank I vehicles would be 1.xx, Rank II would be 2.xx. It wouldn't even have to change much from the current system otherwise, but it'd sure cut down on new player confusion. Among other possible benefits.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:Is that confirmed, I always get stressed about match making when there’s a rank 3 4.7 vehicle in the same lineup as a rank 2 4.7 vehicle - the player count waiting thing shows it by rank. You're going to get uptiered every single match anyway. Q_res posted:That doesn't make their current system any less unintuitive. The issue is that the two have very little relation to one another. A more intuitive and easy to understand BR system would use ranks as a divider. For instance new BRs could be a three digit format to 1 digit preceding the decimal point and two following. Rank I vehicles would be 1.xx, Rank II would be 2.xx. It wouldn't even have to change much from the current system otherwise, but it'd sure cut down on new player confusion. Among other possible benefits. That sounds even more confusing than the current system of ignoring rank for everything but events and research. What does it mean when your vehicle is 2.43 but mine is 3.27?
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which minor nation should I grind out to 6.7 tanks next - I've done USSR, Germany, France and Italy now. China seems to be mostly US or russian stuff under 6.7, so I'm trying to pick between Japan and Sweden. I like fast shooty vehicles which would suggest Japan, but the Swedish tree seems to be full of bonkers fun vehicles?
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:which minor nation should I grind out to 6.7 tanks next - I've done USSR, Germany, France and Italy now. China seems to be mostly US or russian stuff under 6.7, so I'm trying to pick between Japan and Sweden. I like fast shooty vehicles which would suggest Japan, but the Swedish tree seems to be full of bonkers fun vehicles? Sweden does have some really fun gimmick vehicles, but it used to be that you had to grind through some pretty poo poo tank destroyers to get at them. But now that they get a few solid Russian and German tanks by way of the Norwegian tree, that should be much less of an issue. Some fun vehicles that stood out to me: - Spj fm/43-44: Possibly the bloopiest bloop gun I ever played, especially at this low a rank. It's 1.7, but it comfortably carried me well into Rank 2 and even 3 - Strv m/42 DT: Has a pretty serviceable 75mm with an insanely quick semi-auto reload. Absolutely devastating if you can get into a nice flanking position - L-62 ANTI II: One of those SPAAGs that's kinda poo poo at anti-air but quite serviceable against ground targets. Pretty fun to zoom around and put 40mm into people's side armour in. - Bkan 1C: One of my favourite vehicles in the entire game period. Has an HE powerful enough to kill just about anything even frontally with careful shot placement, and more importantly also has proximity fuses excellent for bullying aircraft and light tanks. One time I even managed to kill a king tiger by cheekily airbursting one of them right above its turret. Also weirdly resilient despite its size. In contrast, the various tank destroyers (Pvkv) usually ranged from barely serviceable to outright poo poo, and can probably be skipped. The main exceptions are the Sav m/43 (1964) and Ikv 103, which are at least occasionally funny due to having a nice big 105mm.
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The swedish tree is fun as hell, you get APDS on the first tanks in the line-up once you get some research done, or you can just grab the 250ge tank, it's a really under-tiered little fucker despite it's 1.0BR, I've accidentally brought it into Tier 3 fights and managed well (as long as I don't get spotted).Perestroika posted:In contrast, the various tank destroyers (Pvkv) usually ranged from barely serviceable to outright poo poo, and can probably be skipped. The main exceptions are the Sav m/43 (1964) and Ikv 103, which are at least occasionally funny due to having a nice big 105mm. I love the Pvkv II, though. Little wobble-head 75mm trundling along and poking up hills to lob pain at things.
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Yeah, the low-tier Swedish tanks with APDS will serve a surprisingly long time- certainly I was killing KV-1s with them before removing them from my lineup.
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Perestroika posted:But now that they get a few solid Russian and German tanks by way of the Norwegian tree… The ghost of Simo Häyhä is going to haunt your rear end. 
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MrYenko posted:The ghost of Simo Häyhä is going to haunt your rear end. Ah hell, I figured there's no need to look it up since it's a 50/50 and of course I picked the wrong one. 
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Also, it's already been mentioned but: the 3.5s reload on the m/42-DT is a wonder to behold, at a 5.0 rating you can get away with some real poo poo coupled with nearly 150mm penning APCBC filled with 110g of TNT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxL-EzgIaXA edit: It also treats destructible terrain as suggestions, nothing slows it down except actual buildings. Keru fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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After that APDS change it's been constant shell shattering and nonpens in my British 7.3 matches today.
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Farecoal posted:Has there been an actual change or is it just bugged? A couple of weeks ago they changed penetration values while adding a "slope effect" for some APDS guns: https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/576042-update-of-the-apds-penetration-values/
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Playing the later American heavies like the T32 are almost making me feel like I was too mean about the IS2/3. Almost I do like having actual gun depression.
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Those US heavies are actually quite a bit better in the incredibly rare event you get a downtier or midtier match. The issue is that US ground gets nearly constant full-uptiers basically from 5.7 to 8.0 or so. Playing the M103 is cool and good. But you won’t be playing against other 7.7s. Instead, you’ll be playing the M103 against Leopard 1A1s with stabilizers and APFSDS, T-62M-1s with APFSDS and ATGMS, and BMP3s with ATGMS that posses over twice as much penetration as your mantlet. poo poo that literally just invalidates your armor. That said, rolling into a 6.7-7.7 the one or two times it actually happens in an M103 is absolutely loving awesome. Just painting the map with dead King Tigers.
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Sometimes you just get a *chef's kiss* shot. It doesn't really make up for getting CAS'ed by Germans all game every game by 262's that just sit in the air completely untouchable 2 minutes into a game. https://streamable.com/1ywqbn But of course when you try to CAS as any nation except germany or russia then you get uptiered every game and now your barely post ww2 prop plane is being shot at by gepards why would I be bitter about that loving aboslute HORSESHIT.
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How close should I be hugging the ground to fool 7Fs and 27ERs? I've been trying to hug about 50m off the ground, or tree top level, but I'm not sure if that's over kill or I'm not doing it close enough. Also, tomorrow's gotta be the day they start talking about the April Fools/Crafting event right? I wonder what they're going to be doing and testing this year.
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When fighting SARH missiles like AIM-7s and radar AA-10s, you're not trying to defeat the missile, you're trying to defeat the fire control radar on the airplane that fired the missile at you. Getting down on the deck is only going to help against relatively old radars that lack a pulse doppler mode, or have a finicky one. Newer radars such as on the F-16, MiG-29, or F-4EJ Kai will laugh at you and continue to paint even if you're dragging rear end through the bushes. You have to notch those radars to defeat them.
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Wrong, in war thunder going down to the deck magically makes all radar missiles miss
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Going on the deck if nothing else increases your options for putting geography physically between you and the radar that picked you up. Doesn't work on every map but most have at least some amount of hilly or mountainous terrain you can use. Hell even trees will do the job if they are dense enough.
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Using the P.108A in AB is hysterical. So many little biplanes and early monoplanes and you just lumber across the battlefield in a 4-engine bomber. It sucks at actually shooting anything but using the turrets and being a gunship can sometimes work out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYOKC3KrsY April Fools! The fooling is in making you think it's April 1st already
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Did I miss news on the crafting event? Isn't the whole value/time proposition for the april fools event, that while you don't get any SL or RP, you can grind the crafting event without risking repair costs.
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GrossMurpel posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYOKC3KrsY lmao that owns
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so the rewards you need 40k points in two days and you gotta do that 8 times? lmfao thank god i don't really want of of it i guess I did kinda want that Italian plane skin but again a 2 day time limit
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The event is fun and all, but I'm note sure what their thought process was when making the mobile infantry classes. You've got one class that can trivially one-hit-kill just about everything on the field with its fuckoff 30mm cannon, and then a bunch with shitass machine guns and a few awkward missiles. 
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That event sucks rear end both from the expected time sink and from whatever those classes are. Back to my french planes
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If I wanted to play infantry I wouldn't be playing war thunder.
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ZeusCannon posted:Back to my french planes    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOZcID1rXLA&t=146s
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Had a bit of a brown trousers moment in a big cat the other day. https://i.imgur.com/fXIyWFM.mp4
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Today I learned something new. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIYBmnEtVoQ The J21's can kill their own engine by dropping a bomb and leveling out too quickly.
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Huh, I didn't know bombs had collision models with planes. I remember trying to take out PBYs with 10kg bombs ages ago, and they would pass through. Maybe it's possible now
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