World of Tanks

So yeah, I've made an guide pointing out how easy these missions are and managed to piss them off for stating the obvious

So French Tier X TD or HT in terms of firepower?

edited 2nd Feb '15 5:47:09 PM by RabidTanker

You're a terrible troll. But also funny.

My screencap of the week.◊

edited 6th Feb '15 10:51:51 AM by RabidTanker

If any of you are planning to play some WOT this weekend, I'd advise ponying up for the 3-day premium and grinding with your best tanks like mad. Why? Because for this weekend only, if you manage to get 125,000 exp total before monday you'll be able to choose one out of five premiums being offered as a reward. The list includes the American T14 and Locust, the French FCM Pak40 tank destroyer, the British Sexton II SPG, and the Soviet Matilda IV. Sure, it's not anything fancy like the Super Pershing or Type 59 but hey, it's a premium tank with a fairly easy to reach goal for once!

Or you could be applying for the warships Beta.

Since I'm officially off the NDA hook, I can say that I just had a match where...

Took down two Kawachii (Tier 3 BB), a Wickes (Tier 3 DD), and a Saint Louis (Tier 3 armored cruiser) in the same match with a Sampson (Tier 2 DD), and lived to tell. 2406 XP on a non-boosted match. Situational awareness people, or you're going to see a lot of this.

edited 12th Mar '15 10:40:39 PM by Night

I wonder...if I'm going to start playing, which region should I play in? (I'm in SE Asia)

Wo T-ASIA obviously lol. I guess if ping is tolerable enough for you you can try Wo T-NA...lol

Or, you could try the Russian servers out like I have done. (It's still the same compared to North America, but the players are supposedly better.)

P.S. Does someone knows an decent English to Russian translation program? Google Translate butchers their language by replacing random words in Cryllic, and they can barely understand Slovak.

edited 22nd Mar '15 10:27:56 PM by RabidTanker

The best advice I can give is... not play. :P

Seriously, it's best if you bail before you get into the game too deeply.

@entropy: it's just that I'm kind of concerned about things like player count and quality...heard is not that well in Asian server...

Or maybe I should wait until World of Warships and Armored Warfare get into open beta...dunno.

edited 23rd Mar '15 7:24:17 AM by onyhow

The server still averages in the high thousands, peaks at 11k sometimes. And SERIOUSLY, "player quality issues" is present in ALL SERVERS.

Man, the Pershing is a profoundly weird tank. It's an agile, brawly front-liner, but in a typical match, I do more damage by spotting with it than with its gun.

I'm a fan of my Pershing; it's got good enough front armor that it actually gets pretty reliably bouncy when top-tier and agile enough to make up for it when bottom-tier. Its gun is not fantastically good, but has no huge weaknesses either. You're right about the spotting damage, but that's less a deficiency of the gun and more a result of the tank's astonishingly good view range.

Let's see

• What's wrong with the NA servers
  • #Remove_Arty_From_Game rants
  • Zerg rushes
  • Nerf X.

• What's wrong with the European servers...

  • I haven't rerolled there yet so I can't give an opinion

• Problems with Russia...
  • The community

Asian servers are plagued with bots judging from what I've heard from wotlabs.

So yeah, this is my Russian reroll in case if anyone cares.

edited 26th Mar '15 10:19:19 PM by RabidTanker

Pershing's one of my favorite tanks. Possibly my favorite period, but there's a few I want to unlock to try out.

When it comes to servers, You're probably best off with whatever server's closest to you. Or least ping, which isn't always the same one.

edited 24th Mar '15 12:38:07 PM by Joesolo

What I recall hearing from For the Record was the EU servers have a really wretched playerbase. Mix different nationalities together with GIFT and you've got fucking bile up the Wazoo. Like every try-hard kid is a wannabe Nazi kinda shit.

NA servers are no better. All of South America's on them too, and the occasional Russian. GIFT is in similar effect.

Actually got an English player in my clan though, I believe he's said he likes out playerbase better.

I actually wonder if fail teams like this old replay that I have are the norm across all of the servers...

Yes. Yes they are.

The giveaway/gift from Wargaming finally arrived LOL. It's a big black tote bag and a ballpen. Declared value is around $4.50. LOL

Wargaming has decided to remove some more premium tanks from the in-game tech tree and their storepage... again. I can understand why the E-25 was removed; that thing was a menace due to it's speed, optics, rapid fire cannon, and special matchmaking. Same with the infamous Type 59; aside from it's turret being one gigantic ammo rack it didn't have many weaknesses. But now their decision includes the removal of the British TOG II, the American T14 heavy, the German Panther/M10, and the French FCM Pak40. None of those tanks were particularly overpowered except perhaps the FCM Pak40, so this decision doesn't make much sense. Unless their under-powered nature IS the reason for their removal, but then why not give a buff if that's the case?

Because WG wants to stop selling tanks with preferential matchmaking.

I get the feeling it's a cash grab. E 25 sales likely skyrocketed when they announced it getting pulled so now they're pulling it with other tanks.

And I'm probably gonna grab a TOG two ...

TOG platoons break the game something fierce.

Well, got 2 crazy game in a row...first was on Province, I was in H35, and late game move into the enemy south base...I think there was a...Cruiser III? Move down quickly and take a shot at me with his autocannon...and get behind me...ALL shots just bounce before my teammate on the right cliff kills him...the stat says I end up taking total of 68 shot...with 1 penetrating.

2nd game on Malinovka, I'm on Pz. II, got down to 1 hp dealing with a Cruiser I I think near the church...then I went around in the back of the north base...and shoot up a Chi-Ni. The guy start shooting and chasing me while I backpedal the hell out of there...and he just can't actually kill me. Shots either bounce or hit my track, until we were near the church where I shot him up a bit and my team wreck him later.

Still, not sure which path to progress next...

edited 29th Mar '15 10:41:52 AM by onyhow