World of Tanks

ah, ok.

I got a premium code once. got about 2 games in, and my hard drive died that night.

I'm baaaaaaack

in my experience, it won't work. A friend of mine got me two codes for the same tank and some gold from the Penny Arcade Expo, and the second one didn't add any gold.

With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.

WOO! Pay2Win is going the way of the dodo in 0.8.1! They're making premium ammo available for credits (at the credit/gold conversion rate).

Totes gonna load some HEAT on my KV-2 and T82 for shits and giggles after 8.1 hits.

Also, is it just me, or are Russian guns really skinny compared to other nations' guns of the same or similar calibre?

edited 11th Oct '12 3:14:49 PM by Balmung

That's cool. I might save up to use them in clan wars once I get into that.

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Apparently, my Lowe's penetration is going to be upped to 294. ;)

Also, Pasholok posted another document from archives. 17 october 1944, letter arrived at Main Defence Committee from Lviv, written in polish. It proposed many things, among them was superheavy tank, around 220 ton, 152 or 155 mm main cannon, 2 AA cannons and 4 anti infantry ACs. Just another tank if not one thing: author, Stanisław Lem.

edited 12th Oct '12 9:54:51 AM by Andrey159

"See the goal, believe in yourself, ignore the obstacles" - Charodei

Is it just me, or did the cannon on the T-15 get nerfed all of a sudden? In the past it used to be capable of some doing some damage and had decent penetration, with the only big issue being it's REALLY slow shell velocity - it was so slow, you could even see it's ballistic arc and gradually lose it's angle past 150m. But now not only is it stuck with that slow velocity, but the shell can't seem to penetrate anything anymore, and the damage doesn't seem as good as it used to. I'm finding myself using explosive shells for it now, cause the normal AP rounds are now useless against a lot of targets.

Dunno. I never used the T-15.

It's not T-15 specifically, but with latest patch normalisation was lowered, which negatively affected penetration.

"See the goal, believe in yourself, ignore the obstacles" - Charodei

My brother doesn't believe me that my M7 priest 1-hit killed a B1 because it technically has 410 as the top end of it's damage, while the B1 has 420 health. isn't it still possible?

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410 is just the average. Maximum is 512 (or maybe 513 depending on how they round it) damage. Nevermind the possibility that you ammo racked him.

Exactly. I said the ammo rack possibility and he said "oh that doesnt instant kill you"

he's ridiculous some times.

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...He's an idiot. I've racked tanks before (and been on the receiving end). If he has a T-44 or Type 59 or T-54, I'd love to see what happens if he just lets any idiot shoot his sides.

And that's still ignoring the fact that a 105mm round can one-shot a B1 on a penetrating hit with a good roll.

edited 16th Oct '12 6:20:08 PM by Balmung

There's two types of getting racked. One type of racked instant kills you (it used to destroy all your ammo as well, but that was removed) and is exceptionally rare. The other is a broken ammo rack, which does 150% top damage and reduces load time, further hits will usually do almost maximum damage as well.

My brother once got racked from the front of his IS 7 from a T34 that he was having fun toying with.

Fight smart, not fair.

Don't know about the damage thing, but just damaging the ammo rack is not what people usually mean when they refer to ammo racking. When someone says they got 'racked, they usually mean that they got one-shotted via ammo rack.

Gonna try this out.

I'm reading this because it's interesting. I think. Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, over.

That's not types, but stages of damage.

??? Don't remember that at all. People asked will it be added, but devs were against it. In what patch it was?

?!?!?

Damage all depends on what more: rack health or shell damage vs. modules (damage against modules and health is different values).

Also, rack have biggest (73%) saving throw against shell.

"See the goal, believe in yourself, ignore the obstacles" - Charodei

all the same, I got a penetrating 120 mm shell through the top of the tank.

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I remember I once got penetrating 203 shell on JagdTiger's roof. Grey coffin became first casualty of first shot in lvl 9 battle. Itat is the times I love that I chose artillery.

BTW, anyone advises on Hummel? I find it horrible compared to SU-14, even with adjustments on level. >_<

"See the goal, believe in yourself, ignore the obstacles" - Charodei

Which gun do you have on your Hummel?

Top, naturally. Perhaps worse than non-existent damage and terrible accuracy is huge dispersion from even slightest move of the hull.

"See the goal, believe in yourself, ignore the obstacles" - Charodei

What equipment do you have for it?

Rammer, GLD and either net or toolbox, don't remember.

"See the goal, believe in yourself, ignore the obstacles" - Charodei

If you're complaining about that, just be glad you don't have the M41. It has something like the longest aim time in the game as well as all the downsides you're ascribing to the Hummel.

Okay, nothing wrong with your equipment then. Really, the main advantage of the Hummel over any of the other tier 5 arty is that it is surprisingly nimble. TD Mode is great when you end up on a map like Himmelsdorf or have to defend yourself, or you can just "shoot and scoot" to avoid detection. Really, other than that all that matters is the gun, which really isn't anything special. Most Hummel enthusiasts just like it for the speed and TD Mode.

What I fail to understand: SU-8 should be worse by stats. Then why I don't have memories of endless pain I suffer at Hummel? I think it have something to do with the fact that I played SU before HE nerf. Still...

TD mode is good for arty, but I have a subtle feeling that it isn't exactly what arty should do...

Also, TD mode on SU-14 - enemies fear to attack you. I once in company battle in Himmel burned 3 IS-3s, all in TD. It was rather pleasant, when none of them cried, like many would in random, bud congratulated with good shooting. And once I 2-shotted dumbest Type 59 I ever seen, who couldn't kill me, upper resp behind station, thanks to train cars. I really think Himmel isn't worst map for arty.

And last in that walloftext, funny fact: ru-speaking call Himmelsdorf "Hummelsdoch" - "Hummel died".

"See the goal, believe in yourself, ignore the obstacles" - Charodei