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KurdtLives posted:Also, I feel like they shouldn't let you buy a tier 8 premium until you have earned a tank in that tier or at least somewhere close, so you don't have retarded super rookie Lowe's or T34's blowing matches. But how would WarGaming make any money? I broke down and bought a Tier 8 premium (IS 6); mostly because I eschewed getting a new to me motorcycle and wanted a consolation prize. As a sub 700 game player, it's easy to make stupid mistakes and, to me, a lot of tanks play really differently, so switching around will tend to hurt my performance.
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nutranurse posted:I've yet to get a single kill and I'm 20 battles in. I feel ya, I think my WN8 is in the 200s. But I'm learning, so there's that. McGavin, I've downloaded your mod pack and fonts and everything looks great except the minimap has black blobs instead of icons the player names and mini tank silhouettes don't show up. The icons at the top are just white versus red and green and there's no icon above any tank that spotted in the game. I've just dropped your modpack into the 9.5 mod_res folder in WOT. Any hints on how to fix? I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.
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I was putting it in C:\Games\World_of_Tanks\res_mods. It looks good now. Holy crap this is awesome. Now I just have to figure out to use it best. Thanks a lot McGavin.  .Not so stealthy edit No. 2: I can't believe I haven't downloaded this until now. Moral_Hazard fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jan 11, 2015 |
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I've been trying to find a key to the XVM stats shown in game and I can't. So what do the magic numbers mean? I'm gathering by my red text that I suck. Also, are there chatlogs for raging pubbies or does one just have to screenshot it? I told some raging pub that nerd rage causes cancer and he lost it even more.
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Atomizer posted:Reading XVM is quite simple with a little practice. In this case, that screenshot tells me that literally everyone on your team needs to uninstall, kill their families to protect the rest of our population's gene pool, and then kill themselves. Sorry to break it to you that way. Thanks for the tips on reading the stats. Only after posting did I realize how red my team was. We got unbelievably trounced in that match. For getting gud, is it smarter to stick with, say one Tier V or Tier VI tank, or perhaps play only one type of tank like mediums? I tended to jump from heavy to TD to light kind of as I felt like it, but playing a map in a TD or in a medium could be very different. Right now I'm doing just one class of tank in an evening so yesterday it was all mediums.
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For the new missions, does one have to do all of them to get the ~free~ tank will just completing lights or mediums or whatever suffice? Also, is it a good assumption that this guy is a reroll? One type and one country his whole career? He was giving me crap for ramming my Luchs into an arty with both of us dying in the process. (I got the eye for eye award for it too). Although I'm not even over 1000 battles and I suck, I tend to like the T-34-85. I seem to be able to pen well, even shooting regular AP and it's not too uncommon for me to break 1000 in damage with it. It seems to have the right balance of mobility, pen, and dpm. Armor and gun depression isn't great, but the turret will bounce some stuff, and I'm still learning the maps anyhow. One thing I've been doing is just waiting for a couple of minutes to see where people go and how the match develops.
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Tias posted:This game looks amazing, yet confusing. Should I just jump in, or is the learning curve steep? Go for it. Someone said easy floor, tough ceiling and that's true. As a new player w/ less than a 1000 games, here's some things I've learned through trial and error: - Don't rush in. I did that a poo poo ton in my first games. Rush like mad, get one or two shots off and then die. Wait and watch, look at the mini-map and make it bigger ("+" key). See where the other players go, where the enemies pop up and then make a decision. - Stay under cover (rocks, terrain, non-destructible buildings). Some maps have destructible buildings others don't. - Don't effing stop out in the open so you can take a potshot at someone and then get raped by five opposing players. I pulled that stupid stunt more times than I can count. Don't be out in the open, unless it's the end of a match and your side is winning; move from cover to cover. - Try your best not to tunnel vision. Keep glancing at the minimap to see if you're getting flanked. Also, I have to get on goon TS. I'm a pubbie clan that a good RL friend is in. The other pubbies are okay, but there's very little teaching or guiding of newer players which is a bit frustrating.
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Aww, botes beta is closed. I signed up for the newsletter; hopefully I'll get in on the next one.
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Botes are fun. Time to type sea shanties in team chat.Overwined posted:SH:GW represent. I bought SH5 on release and I was really disappointed as I'm sure just about everyone was. I wonder if there's any way to fix that shitheap. Man, Ubi is great at making GBS threads out a game then simply abandoning it because its first 3 months on the market didn't go well (because it is a poo poo game). SH5 had potential There are a lot of mods out there on the subsim forums, but it takes a lot of work to make it a decent game.
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I don't know what's more fun in botes. Watching pubbies run aground or torpedoing enemy ships.
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I only skimmed the NDA, so I don't know if I can post screenshots, but just downed two battleships in my Smith Class. One BS was solo'd, torpedo after torpedo into the guy. Better than I ever got in tanks.
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Only two things I have to say about botes before returning to our regularly tankled programming is that I had a lot of fun playing them and I hope they group the WWI era and 1930s - WWII era ships apart. It was weird seeing a casemate St. Louis getting pummeled by WWII era planes. I think it would be fun to have no aircraft Battle of Jutland type games.
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Thank you for whomever suggested typing, "Rommel was a war criminal" in chat. It's like magic.
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Tank question: Anyone else get blanks where the gold, silver, and free xp are supposed to go?
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Infected posted:You played Wintermode and didn't update your mods, now they hosed up your interface. How do I update mods? I'm using McGavin's modpack. Yes, I'm  Also, grinding the Russian medium line, I kept my T-34, should I side-grade to the SU-85? And from the T-34-85, I was thinking of going the T-44 route. Is that good, bad, or not matter? Magres posted:I've taken to spamming about how great Sherman was and how he didn't go far enough any time I see idiots in the clans that have a confederate flag for their symbol. Trolling neoconfederates is always fun I have to do that as well. Though cross-server roaming and trolling the EU server would be fun as well. "The British had almost no contribution to WWII." or "The British Empire was almost as bad as the Nazis." Moral_Hazard fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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Cippalippus posted:You guys have no clue about how the eu server works if you think that you can troll it in English. No one will even understand a word of it. The new Xvm feature that shows the client language revealed that only a fraction of the players use the English client. Yay 'murica. rockopete posted:Yes, the Soviet TD line is both solid and fun. After the SU-100, you can either choose the sluggish, stealthy, high (152mm!) alpha branch or the fast, stealthy, high DPM branch. Personally I chose the alpha line, and it has been both profitable and loads of fun. Okay, I was thinking about grinding the Russian heavies (although I went American to start), but that suggestion might make more sense. Moral_Hazard fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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Just had my best game in the IS-6 and probably ever.  Not sucking is fun.
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maev posted:The tier iv luchs is one of the best tanks in the game for its tier I sold my Luchs when I moved up to the Leopard and I kind of regret it.
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Also, in botes, cruisers make outstanding escorts for BBs, especially against torpedo bombers. OP, thanks so much for those translated history posts about the tanks. It's been fun reading. I laughed my rear end off at how the Tiger family needed to remove the turret to get at the gearbox. The Germans don't change. My BMW motorcycle requires me to remove the gas tank to get at the battery.
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sauer kraut posted:Ok, so are there ships that specialize in AA? Cruisers. And if a fast cruiser gets behind the lines, it can make mincemeat of both the carrier and her aircraft. One interesting thing for me playing tanks is learning how the German tanks weren't really that great. They had their strengths, but so many glaring weaknesses as well.
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Cleveland was my goal ship for the weekend, and sweet Allah it ripped through planes. Keksen posted:I mean you're right, but I wouldn't go around drawing conclusions about real tanks from playing an arcade game that happens to use 3D models of those tanks. I don't draw conclusions from the game, just reading the real-world history of the tanks in the game.
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Jack_tripper posted:
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Rorac posted:At least the heroic resistance means you did something significant. The latter one generally isn't worth the pixels used to display it. For new players like me, it's a decent benchmark of, "You didn't suck too badly." Double hitpoints and I know I did decent. I also love getting the "spotter" award in a heavy. Last game was 1369 in spotting damage.
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Animal posted:I really wish pubbies in NA behaved like Russian pubbies. At least if your team sucks you would still be guaranteed a rocking battle. Every moment I watched in that guy's stream was full of action that would make your average NA pubbie poo poo his pants, turn tail, and find the furthest building to hide behind. I played a match, Redshire Assult, south spawn, and two retard top tier heavies just camped the J line. They kept sitting there even when the enemy team started capping. They weren't disconnected because they were talking in chat. 
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This weekend I bought a tog so I could tog platoon with my buddy and brother. Im still new and not very good, but togs are hilarious. One match was down to me and an arty and four tanks and an arty on the red team. I killed the four tanks (two of them because they rammed me) but their arty got me. Our arty killed theirs so we won. People first laugh at tog and then cry about tog.
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WayAbvPar posted:Holy loving poo poo, pubbies are just unbelievably stupid. My newbie opinion is that
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NotWearingPants posted:The thing that annoys me most about the campaign missions is you need to do them in every type of tank. You can only skip a type of tank if you do the secondary conditions for every single mission for the other four types. I think I've given up on missions for that reason. I really don't like playing arty and grinding the secondary conditions for every other tank class isn't worth the free premiums. On the receiving side, I don't get too worked up. I try not to be spotted or stick to cover. Still, on maps like el Harruf when a well placed arty round takes out two tanks and damages a third it's a kick in the nuts. I'm still new, but it seems like certain maps become campfests more than others, arty or no. I had a really fun game the day before yesterday, a real rarity where a pub team was quite good and played as a team. Nobody camped or just hung out at the spawn. We were outnumbered in heavies 8-5 and held the hill on Fiery Salient long enough for our mediums and td's to overrun their mediums and td's and sweep around to pick off the two wounded heavies we didn't manage to kill. I was so surprised and the game was very fun. Also TOG II is a hilariously fun tank. I love end game HP trading with a KV-1 or AT-8 or whatever. If any goon wants to TOG platoon, hit me up in TS.
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NotWearingPants posted:In case you missed it, others corrected me: you only need the secondary conditions on the final mission. That's what they meant. I was confused by the other post, so thanks for clarifying.  I just unlocked my Chaffee and looking forward to playing it. Are there any in-depth guides online to getting better? My 30 day WN8 is now up to 600, but I want to be a solidly green player. I don't really care about stat padding. NTRabbit posted:I've been reading about, drawing, and playing games with warships and naval combat since I was 4, why the gently caress can't I get into the alpha? Tell me about it; even joined the Navy for real (Don't worry Captain, I've had the characteristics of this ship memorized since I was 12). I even designed a card game with warships when I was a kid and had my ship drawing taken away in grammar school. What's hilarious is I took Naval Architecture in college so I had to draw ships for class. I know once botes open Beta gets released, I probably won't play much tonks even though it's quite a fun game.
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Thanks for the replies on getting better. So far, I've been doing a lot of reading (all my bathroom reading) on the wiki and other guides. I've also been watching reviews by the Mighty Jingles. I have been learning weakspots, but still mostly clueless on the options for a tank's gun when they're on an enemy's tank. I do use consumables, and thankfully keep them bound to the same keys on every tank. I think where I'm failing is jumping from tank to tank when I play. I have a bunch of different trees open and rush from tank to tank trying to get the x2 daily bonus on them all. I should really be focusing on one or two tanks in an evening. I'm also going to stop heading back to the garage when I die unless it's a team of complete shitters.
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Animal posted:Trip report with the Ru251: almost Ace Tanker on the very first match with the crew at 90%. Everyone focuses on the American light line but this tank is a Very Good Tank, and might be the best light tank in the game depending on how you feel about the 13 90. Is it the Awful Panther still terrible? I'm on the Tier V Leopard right now and have heard bad things.
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WayAbvPar posted:You guys need to STFU about the new AMX or I am going to buy when when I get logged in Yeah, same here.  Except for the fact that I wouldn't have any idea how to play a Tier VIII medium with the armor of a Tier IV medium.
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McGavin posted:
Thanks for updating this so quickly. I'm in the middle of downloading Aslain's mods before I noticed you updated so quickly. Odin, there's a lot of options for Aslain. Edit: stopped Aslain's and updated McGavin's. Three hour install? No, thanks. Though it's probably everyone installing at once that's doing it. Moral_Hazard fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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NTRabbit posted:wn8 padder Is Grosstraktor platoon as fun as TOG platoon? Love the new additions to McGavin's modpack, too. Hellsau posted:Bonus screenshot of last night's PolarCap harassment. Is PolarCap a regular pubbie mastermind? He almost called you a little kid after threatening to beat you up which opens up the, "Wait, you want to beat up little kids? What kind of sick monster are you?" line.
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