So, World of Tanks, I play it, here's some criticism.

[Zdzisiu]

I play it too. After a month break. And I still love my Hellcat to death, even when the physics update made him a bit sluggish.

Gregz , the one with T21 etc? I was just considering starting it today, what is it like?

 

[Gregz]

I play it too. After a month break. And I still love my Hellcat to death, even when the physics update made him a bit sluggish.

Gregz , the one with T21 etc? I was just considering starting it today, what is it like?

Yeah, the T21 and then the T71, T69, T54E1. The latter three being great because they are mediums with auto-loaders, unpleasant grind from 4-6 though as they are scout tanks.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

The hilarious thing on the EU server is the "Siemka" (I.E polish players) being utter dogshit at the game. Playing on the test server it looks like the russians are total blob-rushers. I'd take them over the Siemka-bobs anyday though.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Polish players suck in every game.

 

[Ulminati]

I think "Siemka" roughly translates into "I will charge across the map in a straight line and explode"

 

[fizzelopeguss]

 

[Ulminati]

Who is Siema, and is he related to Siemka?

 

[Zdzisiu]

Siema is a level 2 Siemka, a terrible creature still.

Siemka is like some kind of a battle cry of a retarded brigade, they find each other thanks to it and proceed to attack enemy positions without any plan or sense.

And btw, the amount of retardation is not helped by the fact that a looooot of children are playing this game. I've met guys as young as 8-10 years old.

 

[Hellraiser]

Polish players suck in every game.

The primary reason why I almost never type anything in Polish in every online game I ever played, I don't want to be associated with those retards. That and unless the whole team is a single nationality you shouldn't be typing shit in moonspeak, especially if you have no idea if there is somebody else from your godforsaken country on the team. Russians and Potatoes in particular fail to understand this.

I can tell you that as a matter of fact if it's a f2p game over half of them are teens or even barely teen kids, the potato equivalent of the xbox live generation. The rest are older and also retarded.

This country is fucked even if the Russians or Germans don't invade us again.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

I'm sure i saw a platoon of siemka's charge a maus with cavalry and sabre's.



I feel bad now, poor hellraiser is such a bro.

 

[Brayko]

PZIV sucks shit in this game. Got completely obliterated by a Sherman twice in a row.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

If you're getting obliterated they're probably firing gold derp ammo, you can do it yourself.

Either way i'd say stop being a dirty nazi fetishist.

 

[Brayko]

Nobody's being a nazi fetishist, it's just that I'm more familiar with German tanks and weapons of '38-'45 because I've been reading books about them.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

I'm shit stirring.

 

[good little toastboy]

PZIV sucks shit in this game. Got completely obliterated by a Sherman twice in a row.

It was my favourite non-TD tier5, when it still had the Schmalturm and the 7,5 cm KwK 44/1 L/70 gun. Of course it had to become a premium. Fucking money grabbers.

 

[Ulminati]

PZIV sucks shit in this game. Got completely obliterated by a Sherman twice in a row.

PzIV used to be one of the best all-round tier V mediums in the game. It was fairly mobile, a decent punch and was very accurate. Armor was ok as well, but it really excelled as a sniper.

But one of the russian devs has a vendetta against german tanks, as previously witnessed by their guns having way lover penetration compared to russian guns than their real-world counterparts, gear boxes being moved to the front of their tanks so they can catch fire from frontal shots and so on. So they went and removed the schmallturm from the PzIV and reduced the power of its main gun to ensure russian tanks could dominate again.



The real problem though is that german tanks mostly excel as snipers and the game is built around brawlers. The low maximum view range and small, cluttered maps means most engagements will happen in the 0-400m range and not the 800+ m range common in WW2 tank battles, where the precision of german guns would give them a distinct advantage.

That is, if they had historical armor penetration values instead of using german numbers vs high grade steel at a 45-degree slope and russian numbers vs scrap metal straight on. Granted, that's how the germans and russians performed their respective armor penetration tests for their weaponry in WW2. But that also means that when a german engineer said their gun had 130mm penetration, it would penetrate a great deal better than when a russian engineer claimed the same.

 

[ohWOW]

If you're getting obliterated they're probably firing gold derp ammo, you can do it yourself.

Either way i'd say stop being a dirty nazi fetishist.

You can buy better ammo for money?

 

[Gregz]

If you're getting obliterated they're probably firing gold derp ammo, you can do it yourself.

Either way i'd say stop being a dirty nazi fetishist.

You can buy better ammo for money?

Yeah, it's sad. You can use in-game money, but that doesn't really matter. Eventually you end up paying gold (real $$$) one way or another.

WG built a very addictive model, and it's a good game, but those who believe WoT isn't Pay2Win are deluding themselves.

 

[Brayko]

PZIV sucks shit in this game. Got completely obliterated by a Sherman twice in a row.

PzIV used to be one of the best all-round tier V mediums in the game. It was fairly mobile, a decent punch and was very accurate. Armor was ok as well, but it really excelled as a sniper.

But one of the russian devs has a vendetta against german tanks, as previously witnessed by their guns having way lover penetration compared to russian guns than their real-world counterparts, gear boxes being moved to the front of their tanks so they can catch fire from frontal shots and so on.

Another reason why I don't like playing war-type games that take place in the modern era because there's still loads of butthurt around recent historical conflict and the designers alter the games accordingly.

 

[ohWOW]

WG built a very addictive model, and it's a good game, but those who believe WoT isn't Pay2Win are deluding themselves.

They're morons who use their parents cash.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

PZIV sucks shit in this game. Got completely obliterated by a Sherman twice in a row.

PzIV used to be one of the best all-round tier V mediums in the game. It was fairly mobile, a decent punch and was very accurate. Armor was ok as well, but it really excelled as a sniper.

But one of the russian devs has a vendetta against german tanks, as previously witnessed by their guns having way lover penetration compared to russian guns than their real-world counterparts, gear boxes being moved to the front of their tanks so they can catch fire from frontal shots and so on. So they went and removed the schmallturm from the PzIV and reduced the power of its main gun to ensure russian tanks could dominate again.



The real problem though is that german tanks mostly excel as snipers and the game is built around brawlers. The low maximum view range and small, cluttered maps means most engagements will happen in the 0-400m range and not the 800+ m range common in WW2 tank battles, where the precision of german guns would give them a distinct advantage.

That is, if they had historical armor penetration values instead of using german numbers vs high grade steel at a 45-degree slope and russian numbers vs scrap metal straight on. Granted, that's how the germans and russians performed their respective armor penetration tests for their weaponry in WW2. But that also means that when a german engineer said their gun had 130mm penetration, it would penetrate a great deal better than when a russian engineer claimed the same.

let's be fair, the PZIV schmalturm before the change was a disgusting franken-monster of a tank, and had no business being the only PZIV in the game. As it is now the PZIV a decent enough medium on par with the sherman and t-34...each vehicle having it's own quirks and peculiarities.

i find the Krauts unplayable because of all the retarded looking turrets and prototype vehicles, a lot of it is junk left over from when the game launched 2 years ago.

 

[Gregz]

WG built a very addictive model, and it's a good game, but those who believe WoT isn't Pay2Win are deluding themselves.

They're morons who use their parents cash.

Actually, sadly, this is probably the minority. Most of the kids I know can barely afford premium on their allowance.

The guys in my clan are in their late 20s to late 40s. They have good jobs, and don't think twice about dropping $100 here and there. One guy in my clan openly admitted to spending $2,000 (KWA Pesos) on WoT. I've heard other guys admit to spending nearly 5k, and rumors of guys who have spent as much as 10k.

 

[ohWOW]

spending $2,000 (KWA Pesos) on WoT. I've heard other guys admit to spending nearly 5k, and rumors of guys who have spent as much as 10k.

THE FUCK?

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

spending $2,000 (KWA Pesos) on WoT. I've heard other guys admit to spending nearly 5k, and rumors of guys who have spent as much as 10k.

THE FUCK?

First world. /Giorgio Tsoukalos

 

[fizzelopeguss]

How is it different from any other hobby?

Those plastic tank models from dragon cost about 40-50 ZOGbux each.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Apparently there's some butthurt going around on the EU forums, WG EU employee fixing competitions or some shit.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?zn2jfznivjjn42i

 

[Angthoron]

Apparently there's some butthurt going around on the EU forums, WG EU employee fixing competitions or some shit.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?zn2jfznivjjn42i

Link is dead.

Edit: Found a live one:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?z5nrzu5cijxdpc1

 

[Bony]

How is WoT today? Last time I played it in beta like 2 years ago.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Apparently there's some butthurt going around on the EU forums, WG EU employee fixing competitions or some shit.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?zn2jfznivjjn42i

Link is dead.

Edit: Found a live one:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?z5nrzu5cijxdpc1

Bloke's being a faggot, presumably because he's scuppered all hope of being employed by WG.

But here's the fallout from it.

http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index....nity-contests/page__pid__3655529#entry3655529

 

[Ulminati]

So I recently picked this up again.


Last patch changed the aiming and completely fucked over arty players. They got bigger reticules, longer reload times and (probably worst of all) way longer shell travel times. It also buffed inaccurate guns quite a bit by reducing the amount of edge shots from ~20% to ~5%.

If anyone is up for platoons, I always prefer tanking with BROs over going solo. I'm on WoT EU2. I mostly drive german, but I have a smattering of kwan and brit tanks as well. I got at least one tank on every tier from 2 to 7, but most of them are tiers 5-6.






Also, if someone just wants to derp around and have fun, I heartily recommend the kwan T18 tier 2tank destroyer.
It turns slowly, but it as fairly good forward acceleration and top speed. The frontal armor is strong enough to bounce most tier 2 and a lot of tier 3 tanks shots. But most important of all, the 75mm howitzer M1A1 with HE shells will one-shot all tier 2's and many tier 3's on a direct hit. It's, frankly, terrifying. And the aiming changes (less edge hits) have greatly buffed DERP guns.

I'll let my recent matches with it speak for themselves:

Spoiler

 

[eklektyk]

stopped playing after firs arty nerf ...but whiners kept going and this recent one is just a nail in a coffin ... shame really coz even before this atrocious "patch" playing arty was a big effin RNG extravaganza
and german tanks are a joke ... now thers talk of nerfing both panters taking from them highest engine ..like their speed was only reedeming feature ...
mehh

 

[Ulminati]

Russian devs hate german tanks. It is known.

Either be better than 90% of the players, or drive an impervious one-shotting fortress of DERP clad in Sovietanium™.

But when your german tank kills an IS or a KV it feels good. It feels right.

 

[eklektyk]

after this recent acc buff i need to find will to take my kv2 for a spinn to troll ppl hard
but they fucked wuth my ammo too so who knows whats with that ...

 

[Ulminati]

You on the EU server? I'll hide behind your impenetrable sovietanium fortress and perforate things with my nazi peashooter