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DonkeyHotay
Jun 6, 2005

JohnGalt posted:

Endo has a swastika tattoo on his neck and "666" on his forehead. Pics incoming.

lmfao hell yes

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Atomizer
Jun 24, 2007



DonkeyHotay posted:

lmfao hell yes

He already posted this, you missed it:

JohnGalt posted:



Remember that this manchild is in his late 20s. Also is "one of the best tankers in the history of WoT".



I am pretty sure the teardrop is for a sick tourney murder he did. Also, if his sick WoT obsession didnt spell "unemployable", thats what the "666" is for.



Someone give me the rundown of what happened in WoT in the last 18 months. Is CW even more poo poo? On a scale of 1 to the F-35, how real is power creep? How terrible are goon tank clans? If I just got laid off and have 12 months severance, and refuse to work until i go to grad school next fall, should I play tanks again?

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Hrrrrnnnn...

CompeAnansi
Feb 1, 2011

I respectfully decline
the invitation to join
your hallucination

DonkeyHotay posted:

lmfao hell yes

Play more tanks scrub

DonkeyHotay
Jun 6, 2005

CompeAnansi posted:

Play more tanks scrub

I just reinstalled it today for the first time in (???) months. Apparently mods dont work now?

NotWearingPants
Jan 3, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo
Nap Ghost

DonkeyHotay posted:

I just reinstalled it today for the first time in (???) months. Apparently mods dont work now?

mine do

Atomizer
Jun 24, 2007



DonkeyHotay posted:

I just reinstalled it today for the first time in (???) months. Apparently mods dont work now?

Some are still not updated, but most things available in OMC ModPack should be fine.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

I will probably post my modpack after work today so you guys can see the horror that modding has become in a post-9/15 world.

M.C. McMic
Nov 8, 2008

The Weight room
Is your friend
I think someone mentioned this a page or two back, but you really only need one mod for normal gameplay now: the auto-aim assistant.

If you're playing artillery, you need Battle Assistant.

Other than those two, I use a XVM for stats, damage panel, and some icon mods, but they're not necessary.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

There's still a bunch of other quality of life poo poo that broke with 9.15, specifically multi-lined tank carousel, garage filtering, and XVM map mods, that Wargaming either hasn't replaced or has replaced with shittier versions.

XVM has fixed the carousel and filtering, but map stuff remains broken.

BadLlama
Jan 13, 2006

112

130mm covers less of turret side (-30mm)
Side hull slope to hull floor is 49° (-6°)

Armor behind mantlet is 240mm (+90mm)
Flat parts are turret front are thicker (+60mm, +35mm)
Mantlet is 250mm (+10mm)
Flat bits above and below mantlet removed
Turret roof is 55mm (+30mm)
Upper section of turret rear is 100mm (+40mm)
:gizz:LFP is 140mm (+60mm) :gizz:
Upper hull side is 120mm (+40mm)
Hull side behind spaced armor and tracks is 100mm (+20mm)
Shape of hull behind spaced side armor matches 113 (Not IS-3 BS)
Front hull shoulder behind spaced armor is 230mm
Side hull slope to hull floor is 60mm (+10mm)
Cupola slope increased by 5°-10°

DonkeyHotay
Jun 6, 2005

BadLlama posted:

112

130mm covers less of turret side (-30mm)
Side hull slope to hull floor is 49° (-6°)

Armor behind mantlet is 240mm (+90mm)
Flat parts are turret front are thicker (+60mm, +35mm)
Mantlet is 250mm (+10mm)
Flat bits above and below mantlet removed
Turret roof is 55mm (+30mm)
Upper section of turret rear is 100mm (+40mm)
:gizz:LFP is 140mm (+60mm) :gizz:
Upper hull side is 120mm (+40mm)
Hull side behind spaced armor and tracks is 100mm (+20mm)
Shape of hull behind spaced side armor matches 113 (Not IS-3 BS)
Front hull shoulder behind spaced armor is 230mm
Side hull slope to hull floor is 60mm (+10mm)
Cupola slope increased by 5°-10°
:jackbud:

Blindeye
Sep 22, 2006

I can't believe I kissed you!
I had the worst time stock grinding the Panther (making me all the more flummoxed that anyone would pay for a Panther/M10).

Now I have the pencil dick gun, first game was great, got lots of sniping in, good clean fun.

This game wasn't nearly as good damage wise and a lost viewport boned me hard on Sand River so I couldn't see anyone shooting me toward the second half of the match.

However, I've learned the secret to the Panther. The gun is trollish because it's fantastic sitting still but not as good moving, and I missed a few fairly reasonable shots.

But...none of that matters if you ram light tanks and medium tanks to death. Two ram kills making up almost half my damage:

http://wotreplays.com/site/2955682?secret=a0bc01affbe3526160d6fda0aa903110

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.

BadLlama posted:

112

130mm covers less of turret side (-30mm)
Side hull slope to hull floor is 49° (-6°)

Armor behind mantlet is 240mm (+90mm)
Flat parts are turret front are thicker (+60mm, +35mm)
Mantlet is 250mm (+10mm)
Flat bits above and below mantlet removed
Turret roof is 55mm (+30mm)
Upper section of turret rear is 100mm (+40mm)
:gizz:LFP is 140mm (+60mm) :gizz:
Upper hull side is 120mm (+40mm)
Hull side behind spaced armor and tracks is 100mm (+20mm)
Shape of hull behind spaced side armor matches 113 (Not IS-3 BS)
Front hull shoulder behind spaced armor is 230mm
Side hull slope to hull floor is 60mm (+10mm)
Cupola slope increased by 5°-10°

Yeah this is an absurd, IS-6 style buff and I suppose I'll do some tournaments and buy a 112 if all these buffs end up going through.

e: from the ritastatusreport:

Hellsau fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Sep 14, 2016

Valle
Apr 16, 2004

Telling customers how to solve world problems since 2001

Blindeye posted:

This game wasn't nearly as good damage wise and a lost viewport boned me hard on Sand River so I couldn't see anyone shooting me toward the second half of the match.

A damaged (orange) viewport has no effect on spotting range. When it's red you're down to 50% though.

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.
I just timed out of the queue trying to play my PzB2. You can't loving tell me that I went 5 minutes without

and then we got a 7v7 where I carried easily by saying, in all chat, "Do not go south" on Live Oaks, then gave multiple reasons not to go south. Obviously my teammates blamed me for the loss, since I goaded the enemy into going to the south, and then ignored our southern flank. Spoiler alert, the enemy tried to go across that open field near our cap and lost easily!

Never go south on Live Oaks, you achieve nothing.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Hellsau posted:

Never go south on Live Oaks, you achieve nothing.

"Fuk u I wuz in this game ones were we wetn soth adn totes rekt poo poo u dont kno poo poo shuttup fag"

Anyway, after reading your post I'm feeling really good about having close to 5000 gold rounds for the PzB2 because I thought I could poo poo them out for free/convertible xp about two years ago. Evidently I waited too long.

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.
I won my first game, in the B2. I've since lost eight in a row trying to get a tier 9 or 7 or 8 win. Christ.

Blindeye
Sep 22, 2006

I can't believe I kissed you!

Valle posted:

A damaged (orange) viewport has no effect on spotting range. When it's red you're down to 50% though.

Really? Weird. I figured 380+m viewrange plus binos would let me see a Cromwell who wasn't in cover but sniping me with impunity.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Valle posted:

A damaged (orange) viewport has no effect on spotting range. When it's red you're down to 50% though.

Lol if your commander dies too.

Your commander, gunner, and loader all die in the same hit, who do you use the medkit on?

rex rabidorum vires
Mar 26, 2007

KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN
Trick question. You don't have one because those are expensive and lol if pubbies are going to pay for it.

Edit: or f that and engaging ramming speed.

BadLlama
Jan 13, 2006

The answer is loader so that your snapshot efficiency remains the same.

Valle
Apr 16, 2004

Telling customers how to solve world problems since 2001

McGavin posted:

Lol if your commander dies too.

Yeah...I remember having a dead commander on some low-viewrange tier 6 tank on Mountain Pass, was south side bowl and killed some tanks. Last remaining enemy tanks just killed the tanks on my team that were up on the glacier, and I assumed they were driving towards the glacier to get to our cap. So I dive into the bowl and go toward the bridge. Never saw a loving tank, but I sure felt all those shells slamming into me. I'd spent the kit on my gunner earlier. Couldn't believe how loving short my viewrange was.

McGavin posted:

Your commander, gunner, and loader all die in the same hit, who do you use the medkit on?

Depends on the tank and map I'd say. But usually gunner...because snapshot doesn't loving work for me I swear!

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

Lager beer is proof that god loves us
Pillbug

McGavin posted:

Lol if your commander dies too.

Your commander, gunner, and loader all die in the same hit, who do you use the medkit on?

Gold medkits work on all crew members though?

Gold tank, gold ammo, gold consumables, gold winrate.

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.

Ensign Expendable posted:

Gold medkits work on all crew members though?

Gold tank, gold ammo, gold consumables, gold winrate.

Gold player, reporting in.

Valle posted:

Depends on the tank and map I'd say. But usually gunner...because snapshot doesn't loving work for me I swear!

Huh, must be a console thing.

Valle
Apr 16, 2004

Telling customers how to solve world problems since 2001
Actually, on console it kinda works better, because of the snap-to autoaim. Which I believe is now a mod on pc? It's apparently been there since the start on console, because aiming with a gamepad is a lot loving harder than a mouse.

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





Atomizer posted:

Yeah, I think it ~tries~ to segregate us but fails due to the low population, so the end result is that the matches are the same but with an unnecessarily longer queue time. Wargaming!

So I obviously missed something in my years away from the game. What is this about seal-clubber segregation? Since they've introduced so many new lines since I've been gone, I'll need to start at tier 1 with lots of them, does that mean that my stats will toss (or try to from what I'm reading) me into segregated matches with seal-clubbers with 10k battles in their Loltracktor instead of normal games?

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

The Locator posted:

So I obviously missed something in my years away from the game. What is this about seal-clubber segregation? Since they've introduced so many new lines since I've been gone, I'll need to start at tier 1 with lots of them, does that mean that my stats will toss (or try to from what I'm reading) me into segregated matches with seal-clubbers with 10k battles in their Loltracktor instead of normal games?
Well yes AND no.

Good luck getting a match on your tier one or two tank. Oh and when (if) you do, hope you are on the side that has the most seal clubbers. I queued for half an hour last night on a tier two light got into two matches that lasted less than five minutes and was brutally clubbed twice. Yay! For the first line you want to pursue you get enough xp and credits from the training missions to jump straight into tier three but that will mean starting a new account for each line :suicide:

-/-

This Auto aim mod is it this one? If so please explain why it is essential when normal auto aim seems to do almost exactly what this does. Inform me for I am a terrible player. My only solace being that I am hard to pick out from the seemingly endless ocean of likewise hopeless pubbies.

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





Thanks, but I guess my question is... what did they 'try' to implement as far as segregating 'seal clubbers' from newbies? Is there some sort of system that looks at games played in specific tanks, or is it based on winrate or what?

Chillyrabbit
Oct 24, 2012

The only sword wielding rabbit on the internet



Ultra Carp

Cartoon posted:


This Auto aim mod is it this one? If so please explain why it is essential when normal auto aim seems to do almost exactly what this does. Inform me for I am a terrible player. My only solace being that I am hard to pick out from the seemingly endless ocean of likewise hopeless pubbies.

Not sure, but the auto aim we're talking about makes it so it snaps to the nearest tank so you don't have to physically put the reticule on the tank first to set autoaim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgeMRzOFHMQ

Zettace
Nov 30, 2009

The Locator posted:

Thanks, but I guess my question is... what did they 'try' to implement as far as segregating 'seal clubbers' from newbies? Is there some sort of system that looks at games played in specific tanks, or is it based on winrate or what?
iirc, if you have 1k+ games overall, the mm system tries to segregate you from new players.

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

Zettace posted:

iirc, if you have 1k+ games overall, the mm system tries to segregate you from new players.
My experience as a second fresh account player is that this either isn't working or, as suggested by others, the population at low tiers is so direly low that they switched it off. I was checking the player records in the results the other day and there were lots of players with 30k + games rolling around in PzIIs etc.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Zettace posted:

iirc, if you have 1k+ games overall, the mm system tries to segregate you from new players.

Cartoon posted:

My experience as a second fresh account player is that this either isn't working or, as suggested by others, the population at low tiers is so direly low that they switched it off. I was checking the player records in the results the other day and there were lots of players with 30k + games rolling around in PzIIs etc.

These are both true. If you have more than 1k games the game tries to put you in a match with other experienced players, but there are so few players at low tiers that eventually you get thrown in with the baby seals.

Squish
Nov 22, 2007

Unrelenting.
Lipstick Apathy

McGavin posted:

I will probably post my modpack after work today so you guys can see the horror that modding has become in a post-9/15 world.

9/15: Never forget :911:

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop
Latest patch has broken game. o7

Squish
Nov 22, 2007

Unrelenting.
Lipstick Apathy
^yeah same for me - launcer says "up to date" and when logging in it says "Please update".
E: ok it's working now.

Cartoon posted:

This Auto aim mod is it this one? If so please explain why it is essential when normal auto aim seems to do almost exactly what this does. Inform me for I am a terrible player. My only solace being that I am hard to pick out from the seemingly endless ocean of likewise hopeless pubbies.

This one lets you hit right click and autoaim without having the tank exactly under your recticle. Ie if they're covered by an obstruction or if you're in a fast paced circling dash - you can right click and it will lock to the nearest tank. It can be a pain when there's a few in relatively close proximity but overall it's a fantastic mod because you're not having to near pixel hunt in a time critical scenario.

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop
I installed it and it does seem nice. I like the titling of the targeted tank too.

No when I said broken I meant gameplay wise. Once you get in a game you randomly can't move /teleport about.

I'll put a replay up.

http://wotreplays.com/site/2958511?secret=b8c9f84cd79e00586d1d38380085798f

Squish
Nov 22, 2007

Unrelenting.
Lipstick Apathy
AWWW. WG you are so cruel.

I had a map start on Lakeville, but everyone was stuck at spawn on both sides, EXCEPT ME.

I was rolling over to the enemy spawn to :black101: and max damage but then the server stopped.

NotWearingPants
Jan 3, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo
Nap Ghost

Squish posted:

This one lets you hit right click and autoaim without having the tank exactly under your recticle. Ie if they're covered by an obstruction or if you're in a fast paced circling dash - you can right click and it will lock to the nearest tank. It can be a pain when there's a few in relatively close proximity but overall it's a fantastic mod because you're not having to near pixel hunt in a time critical scenario.

Yeah this ^ .

I just wanted to emphasize it because the auto-aim mod is awesome.

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Q_res
Oct 29, 2005

We're fucking built for this shit!
http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/pc-browser/17/convoy-mode-release/

The new special gameplay mode until Oct. 5th. You're in an Armored car either escorting or attempting to stop a Mark I tank. Sounds kind of interesting.

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