Just General Chat About WoT

Nody

LIGHTNING wrote: »

I have stopped playing WOT myself as it was just becoming less and less fun. I have started playing War Thunder but its got the same annoying issues (i.e everything Russian is much better)

You know how games tell you should take regular breaks? Well WoT (both versions) has the built in mechanism to ensure you take 'em :pac:

ShadowHearth

Well, this was unexpected... for the first time in my life I enjoyed a game in T28. thats to say that for the first time in my life T28 armour actually worked! :pac:
I think I finished full HP and and only got my tracks bucked. I did got shot 10 times and 2660hp blocked my armour.

Canis Lupus

copeyhagen wrote: »

was away for 2.5 weeks, came home tuesday evening played few games, won nearly all of them and enjoyed it a lot after the break. got ace tanker badge in tiger i for a loss!

Sometimes it helps to take a break alright.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

What a day.... Started off in my T34, which was instapoped by enemy arty at very start of the match.
Then a mix of okay games and **** games.
And a pinnacle of today was when I played T28 and tried to hold my position, but my own team T34 just blocked me in from behind so he would hide his hull and I would get all the shots. After few firefights I told him to feck off and give me some space, but instead he called me noob and just started to push me out in front of enemy fire from a cover. I killed enemy tank, did some damage and survived that with 9hp. I called him an asshole, so he just turned to me and killed me.... Called me a noob and idiot few times, rolled to his death and then called all our team noobs and ******s.
We lost and I just jumped in to other tank to play on. When I came back I sow that he went in to private chat with me and gave me **** that my score was lower then his and that I am a complete noob. ( I did played T28 with only Second gun, but I still managed to kill 2 tanks and do 1600 damage ) He added me in to ignore list too so I could not say a thing to him...
Right after that I played ARL 44 and got one shoted by G.W.Tiger as soon as I got in to position. I did not even see who scouted me out.

This game can just make you lose faith in humanity and make you want to purge some of the human kind scum population.

Yeah I've had a dude do that to me before. Convos, messages about the size of his XVM stat penis and then put me on ignore. Can only imagine it's a child.

ShadowHearth

Me and my buddies went crazy and did T34 3 player platoon lol. Matchmaking was fantastic for us and we played mainly in tier 8 and a few non crazy tier 9 games.

We had a lot of fun and managed to print good few credits each. 3 T34 in right position can be such a bitch!

Drweavil

Ooo my first one of these

ShadowHearth

You need like 100 games for it, right? Its cool and something I would love to have, but are those permanent? Any screen shots how it looks on your tank m8?


Question from about T54 lads. What gun to go for? So far I am leaning towards the one with more pen and the one that goes to T62A. I am not decided on which tier X to go, but I have enough time to decide.

Drweavil

ShadowHearth wrote: »

You need like 100 games for it, right? Its cool and something I would love to have, but are those permanent? Any screen shots how it looks on your tank m8?


Question from about T54 lads. What gun to go for? So far I am leaning towards the one with more pen and the one that goes to T62A. I am not decided on which tier X to go, but I have enough time to decide.

No you've got to be better than 65% of the entire player group on that tank, it's a rolling total so you've got to be consistently good and you can lose it too (or I think that's the case).

Here's a pic of it... pretty crappy if you ask me.

Canis Lupus

I've seen it on a Russian tank and it was close to the mantlet. Looked nice I thought. Bit weird on the T49 whacking it in the middle of the gun. Still though. Fair play.

Canis Lupus

First round with top gun on the IS3. It's freaking mental. Really changes the tank.

ShadowHearth

Canis Lupus wrote: »

First round with top gun on the IS3. It's freaking mental. Really changes the tank.

Is-3 is just great tank all together. I got Tiger II now and I just dream of it to be at least half as good. That gun is just amazin.

On different note. In my opinion Wot has the worst community in video games. I played 20 years games and wot takes the cherry.
You know how at the beginning of each match there is a cluster **** of people driving everywhere. So while I was driving up my way, IS-3 gave me command to Halt, so he could drive pass in front of me. Its the first time happened to me and it was sort of funny. So I stoped ( he did had good speed already, so it would be better off let him pass anyway )and wrote "Lol" in chat. his response was priceless: "**** YOU". :rolleyes:
I asked him why? Its not like I insulted him, to which he said "**** YOU! I wIll **** you mother!"...
Okay...

Nody

ShadowHearth wrote: »

On different note. In my opinion Wot has the worst community in video games. I played 20 years games and wot takes the cherry.
You know how at the beginning of each match there is a cluster **** of people driving everywhere. So while I was driving up my way, IS-3 gave me command to Halt, so he could drive pass in front of me. Its the first time happened to me and it was sort of funny. So I stoped ( he did had good speed already, so it would be better off let him pass anyway )and wrote "Lol" in chat. his response was priceless: "**** YOU". :rolleyes:
I asked him why? Its not like I insulted him, to which he said "**** YOU! I wIll **** you mother!"...
Okay...

Nah; Eve got it beat by horse lengths. Between the scamming, the real life hacking of TS servers, hacking of accounts to disband corps, stealing of literally thousands of $ of stuff in game to original Goons etc. it got it beat by a mile. Then again in many ways the style was on a different level rather then the angsty teen style and it's much more down to petty individuals then on a much larger scale.

ShadowHearth

Nody wrote: »

Nah; Eve got it beat by horse lengths. Between the scamming, the real life hacking of TS servers, hacking of accounts to disband corps, stealing of literally thousands of $ of stuff in game to original Goons etc. it got it beat by a mile. Then again in many ways the style was on a different level rather then the angsty teen style and it's much more down to petty individuals then on a much larger scale.

Well, in EVE online to be a Prick is LEGAL! Game like that I cant even put in to Bad or Good community bracket. Part of being asshole is the point of EVE. Even so, there are tons of very helpful and nice people.

Wish I would have enough time to play EVE.

ShadowHearth

God, I love T54. I only have tracks for it, but even at stock it can be such a little bastard! Just had a nice game where I still managed to do over 2500 damage, armour tanked 3500 damage!!!
I can only imagine how huge of a bastard T54 will be when fully upgraded. I am still not decided on gun though.

copeyhagen

i have it stock too and absolutly hate it stock! its like a go kart once upgraded but my god, so bad stock.

im gonna free xp all modules. personally, the t62a is the better t10 imo with the stronger turret, so thats the gun im going for.

Nody

ShadowHearth wrote: »

God, I love T54. I only have tracks for it, but even at stock it can be such a little bastard! Just had a nice game where I still managed to do over 2500 damage, armour tanked 3500 damage!!!
I can only imagine how huge of a bastard T54 will be when fully upgraded. I am still not decided on gun though.

You'll need both guns anyway (why not unlock two Tier Xs with one tank?) so you can simply start with the T62A gun and then once you unlock the second gun use it for another 50k exp and make a final call

ShadowHearth

Nody wrote: »

You'll need both guns anyway (why not unlock two Tier Xs with one tank?) so you can simply start with the T62A gun and then once you unlock the second gun use it for another 50k exp and make a final call

Aye, that's the plan. T54 is going to something that I will keep for long time. Both object and t62a are great tanks and we'll worth owning.

Yes, stock it is rubbish, but there are stock rubbish tanks where you.are just a whipping boy and there are t54 stock rubbish, where you can still hold your ground and be very dangerous. I am going to get turret and then convert xp for gun. It's well worth it as t54 us a cracker of a tank.

Spear

http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/07/21/straight-outta-supertest-kv-1s-nerf-kv-85/

Looks like the first details of the KV-1S getting the pummeling with the nerf bat that it deserved.

I was a bit worried when it came out the 122mm was staying, but it seems it's being reduced to a different roll of something more akin to the FV215(183) style big but slow hits. Hopefully this will lead to people using 85 or 100mm guns on it instead.

ShadowHearth

Holy crap, its not a Nerf, its turning a tank in to bicycle lol. Well deserved though. I hated meeting KV1s even when I drove tier 8 tanks.

Canis Lupus

Spear wrote: »

http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/07/21/straight-outta-supertest-kv-1s-nerf-kv-85/

Looks like the first details of the KV-1S getting the pummeling with the nerf bat that it deserved.

I was a bit worried when it came out the 122mm was staying, but it seems it's being reduced to a different roll of something more akin to the FV215(183) style big but slow hits. Hopefully this will lead to people using 85 or 100mm guns on it instead.

Awh nooooooooo.

Canis Lupus

It isn't often I get a proper lol out of WoT but I just had my first match in my new ARl 44 with its stock turret. It's like I have a tank on a tank it's so big.

Spear

I'm not sure if that victory is a good thing or not: 10 kills, yet a 22k credit loss...

But it shows off the contradiction of the 2Js armour versus its tier 1 gun.

copeyhagen

just watched jingles video he uploaded there, the good the bad and the ugly, 3 of them in the same battle!! even with the apcr they fail to do any real damage to each other.. funny stuff

Spear

The trick is the upper front plate, it's only 20mm. Apparently none of them seemed to know that.

ShadowHearth

My buddy bought that German tank bundle. Its only 60£ for them.... 100eu for us.... Bull****.

Canis Lupus

Just had a fantastic round in an IS in Kharkov. Found the sweet spot for a sidescrape. 37 hits received, 19 pen 18 non pen. Armor blocked 7,120 dmg. Total troll moment it was and despite being tracked for most of the round I still came out second highest dmg dealer.

However the enemy was a bit ****. We didn't lose anyone and a large chunk of the enemy distracted themselves with shooting off my tracks for the entire round

Tom75

Hi,
Is it any thread with player's names or company names using in WOT?

Canis Lupus

HERE

and

HERE

Can't guarantee anything in regards to accuracy. I'm Pew_Pew but I play on the SEA server as I live in Australia.

Tenger

Spear wrote: »

http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/07/21/straight-outta-supertest-kv-1s-nerf-kv-85/

Looks like the first details of the KV-1S getting the pummeling with the nerf bat that it deserved......

Just in time!
I unlocked the -1S 3 days ago. Bugger

ShadowHearth

I watch a Russian youtuber of Wot and he is pretty good. Russian slang in Wot is just plain stupidly funny, its a shame it does not translate in to english porpelry.

Kv-1s = Kv-1Sport.

Tom75

So what now? ARL44 or M6?

ShadowHearth

Tom75 wrote: »

So what now? ARL44 or M6?

Both meh, but both lines are pretty good. Very different though, ARL line after tier 7 goes in to pure autoloaders and M6 goes in to a very solid all around Heavy tank line.

Just decide what you want in the future: Autoloaders or non-autoloaders.

Tom75

I'm on 8T on French line and 9 on USA line, with 2900 battles on Kv1Sport so far.
Just looking for someone with more battles on different then kv1s tank (from6T), with some advice - what will be good enough for fun on 6T.
For now have in garage ARL44, Hellcat, T34-85, AT8.
Looks like now game will be more balanced.

Aenaes

KV-2 for fun, use 152mm cannon with HE shells. T-150 or M6 will probably become the heavy tank of choice for tier VI companies and tournaments.

I have twenty tier VI vehicles in my garage including one premium vehicle. I personally like playing the Germans, VK 36.01(H), VK 30.02(M) and VK 30.01(P). Nashorn is vulnerable but has a great gun for it's tier.

Cromwell is considered a good tank, with great manouverability. It's also vulnerable so you have to avoid taking hits and constantly be flanking.

The two Shermans on tier VI are also pretty decent. The E8 for a fast-firing accurate cannon and the E2 for derping people with the 105mm.

AMX 12 t is a joy to play when played correctly.

Tom75

Do you know any Irish (or from Ireland) clan on WOT?

Aenaes

No true Irish clan but Boards.ie members created their own clan called....Boards.ie, which was international anyway. This later merged with another clan to form Cry Havoc which has the most Irish players of any clan. They have different divisions, Cry Havoc, Cry Havoc II, Cry Havoc 3 and Cry Havoc Aux to suit almost any kind of player/playstyle.

Here's a link to the first clan:http://worldoftanks.eu/community/clans/500001916-CRY/#

and a link to the forum recruitment thread: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/349282-clan-cry-havoc-recruitment-reopened/

ShadowHearth

Well, that was an interesting MM and it was a lot fun too.



It ended up like this. the most I ever made credits on T34 profit (110k) considering I did not got hit even once lol.

Tom75

What MOD do you use? (circles on the mini map)

Nody

Tom75 wrote: »

What MOD do you use? (circles on the mini map)

XVM Map mod if I don't mistake; the circles are the vision ranges.

Tom75

Works fine :-)

Tenger

Well I just had a match where my team had a 9% win chance.......strangely no-one was whining after we spawned. I did a suicide scout in my Pz. I.C and managed to spot 6 of them. Final score was 15-9 against us. Not bad for 9% to be fair.

Aenaes

The win chance percentage is really screwed on the lower tiers, probably because most new players have bad or almost non-existant stats. If one or two players with good stats are on one team then the win chance swings wildly their way.

Canis Lupus

Tenger wrote: »

Well I just had a match where my team had a 9% win chance.......strangely no-one was whining after we spawned. I did a suicide scout in my Pz. I.C and managed to spot 6 of them. Final score was 15-9 against us. Not bad for 9% to be fair.

Just turn it off I finally installed XVM for the map mod but didn't bother with the win chance. It just makes you bitter :P I did smile the other day, had a hellcat driver start whinging at how **** the team was before kick off. I told him to stop being an XVM whiner. He calls my stats **** and how I won't do any good and he dies in about 10 seconds and I turn out the top damage dealer even beating the top enemy for damage (who did win in the end as the hellcats flank fell almost straight away). At one stage I effectively took on and was beating 3 heavies solo till a friendly e25 zipped over to help.

Having said that even with the basic stats on you can get a good idea of the outcome. Reds do really tend to A: camp or B: run right at the enemy. Still, I try to ignore it as it does nothing for my mental well being

Tenger

Aenaes wrote: »

The win chance percentage is really screwed on the lower tiers, probably because most new players have bad or almost non-existant stats. If one or two players with good stats are on one team then the win chance swings wildly their way.

I agree. Especially when the winrate seems to be based on number of battles played as equally as % winrate and WN number.

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Just turn it off I finally installed XVM for the map mod but didn't bother with the win chance. It just makes you bitter :P ......

Well I use a pre-uploaded XVM package. (Never able to get my own custom one to work) But I don't bother with the % to win that much. It may affect whether how I play myself but I don't see it as a good rating. (And the fact that I am not a good player also means it bollix!!!)

VikingG

If I see that we have a low win % then I hold back more and play a bit more defensively.... ie just go third way into the map on one flank and try to hold that.

ShadowHearth

I have completely disabled XVM thing. I hate seeing my own stats every time and chance to win. When I don't see all that I play a lot more relaxed, efficient and actually having fun.

I had a good game last night with T28, but we still lost. I did 5000 damage and killed 3 ( or 5, cant remember) people. Tanked with my armour a ton of shots too. Still got sodomized something like 8 to 15. I though I will burst a testicle.

copeyhagen

i have stats on, but chance to win disabled.. gives a good diea of what to expect.

like you, i had a game in my t29 yesterday, done 4k damage and lost. next highest damage dealer on my team done 900... fookin joke.

had a game straight after in my 704, tier 9 game, my win8 of 3500 was highest on team, rest were red. i knew what was coming, other 14 players were dead within about 4 minutes leaving me. dead myself soon after.

wot can be so fooking annoying. a game thats so dependant on team ability, the mm needs a total overhaul imo.

every game should be no worse than a 45%

VikingG

In some ways I am not convinced that balancing MM using player skills is going to give better games..... maybe the variability you get at the moment is good and can you force you to have different play styles.....

sometimes having very matched teams can lead to a stalemate

ShadowHearth

VikingG wrote: »

In some ways I am not convinced that balancing MM using player skills is going to give better games..... maybe the variability you get at the moment is good and can you force you to have different play styles.....

sometimes having very matched teams can lead to a stalemate

Thing is that it will try to balance out machines, but you just need one good person in good tank and other team is in huge disadvantage right off. I had few games where tank wise we were balanced well, but got destroyed 2-15 etc.

There should be some sort of ladder or league system like in Starcraft. Putting everyone in to one pot maybe is fast for MM, but what's thevpoint being in that MM if you are surrounded by quickybabies.

Tenger

I would agree with the league idea. My winrate is currently 50%...so 1% above average. Does that me I'm better than average or is is that I'm getting matched on winning teams?

Lets say they introduced the idea that you would be teamed up with players no more than 5% above/below your %. (If game queue goes beyond 3-4 mins this could increase to 7-10%) That way at least you might get all 30 players at a similar skill level.

Spear

The upcoming anniversary rewards are curious:

http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/07/29/wargaming-anniversary-coming/

Most of it is the standard boring stuff (yay! more fire extinguishers), but one of the rewards is a most unusual one, it's 75k in crew XP. Not a percentage, a lump sum.