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    battlelines: another FTP tank game

    If you are looking for another ftp tank game to get your tank fix, come try out battlelines: Steel Warfare. Its not a first person view like WoT, and its definitely a lot less frustrating that WoT, especially since you respawn and such. Its free on steam, and just launched a few days ago...
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    War Thunder - F2P Combat Flight MMO

    Mouse controls do make things easy. But then again its needed since alot of people don't own a joystick. Also if you advance to full real battles, you pretty much have to use a joystick. By the way, I play almost all arcade battles. I tried historical, and while I found it fun, the time it...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Well the results from the light tank marathon are out, and I did indeed win me a type59 with my spectacular t21 game. Now I just have to wait for delivery. I guess I'll have to set war thunder down for a bit once it arrives and take it out for a spin.
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    well I think I won me a type 59
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Frontal Shots: The two most common places to shoot a tank that will almost always pen is either the commanders cupola (part sticking out of the top of most turrets), or the lower glacias. Machine gun ports are also usually weakspots. The more important thing to learn though is, is it even...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I went passed that next .5 percentage cutoff to make 64% over the weekend. If I can keep up my usual w/r of 75%, the number of games it'll take me to improve to the next % start to become staggering. I'll need ~1600 games to get to 65%, and then ~1900 to get to 66%. Oh how I wish I could just...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Since its 15v15, a match can start to snowball into an avalache quite quickly with just a few kills. Sometimes good players can stop the inevitable, but usually once its started, its hard to put a stop to. In some games the enemy falls so quickly that it just becomes a competition against...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I think it could all just bad RNG (although I don't discount a conspiracy theory). Most modern software random number generators create blocks of random numbers (b/c its faster and easier to generate a block of numbers at a time, give them to a client, and then verify the clients results). So...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Two good communities that have socials clans and channels are ARS (arstechnica.com) and reddit (reddit.com/r/worldoftanks). Pretty much anyone can join thier social clans and they both have a Team Speak server so that its easy to find some decent platoon mates. Of course once you platoon...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    The E-50, alot like the T-54, is one of those tanks that greatly benifits from the use of premium. You go from 220pen to 270pen, and its APCR and not HEAT so don't have to worry about "bouncing" if you hit the tracks. 220 pen just doesn't really cut it when playing against tier 10s and can be...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    If you have good stats, the best way to improve your W/R is to platoon with other good people (most important part: OTHER GOOD PEOPLE). One or two extra good people on your team instead of a 46%er can make a world of difference. On another note, I'm convinced 95% of players play fully...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    The retards were out in full force this weekend, and they were all on my team. That and I think they finally implemented that patented code into MM. My platoon ended up bottom tier in at least 75% of our games over the weekend. It was rough. Hell we even had a game where it was my tier 6 platoon...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Quite a few of my crews have 3 skills, and I think I'm up to 5 crews that have 4 skills (T34, IS-3/6 268, vk3601, and E-100 minus that damn 2nd loader). Most of my 4 skilled crews are probably in the 60-70% range on thier 4th skill, while I do believe my best crew (T-34) is sitting close to...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I would assume it would end up being x6 xp and not x9. Although win the last mission (top gun most likely) and it happen to be your double for the day and have crew xp turned on and one lucky crew member is gonna get a shitton of xp. I can see me maybe finally rounding out some of those few...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    They apparently forgot to change the ammo price on the T54 in 8.6, so they snuck it into 8.7. Due to this, they sold all your current T54 ammo. I ended up getting almost 8M back for my stockpile of T54 ammo. Now I have another issue, since they sold off all my ammo stockpiles, I'm sitting on...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I hated playing the 1946. The damn thing never bounces a single shot, and its just a lackluster tier 7. At least the 1948 has enough frontal armor to bounce shots and it has a gun worth a damn. The weekend was ok. I didn't really try for x3 on all my tanks as I just dont find it worth it...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    You sure it was you and not just bad luck and shitty teams?
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Damn, I go off and buy skyrim on a steam sale and get busy at work and I miss alot of fun debate in here. So... lets start with the comments about half the people being worse than a certain %. In that regard I think the word you are looking for is "Median" and not "Average". Sure the Average...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    2% or less of the player base is probably about right, maybe less, assuming your talking about all active accounts (probably about 200k+) for NA. Most 57%+ w/r players could probably swing a 60% solo streak. On good days I can easily swing that, but I can still get a bad streak, where its...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I play to win, and that is what is fun for me. Its never that much fun if I'm losing. We post win rates because we are proud of them and our achievements. We may seem "elitist" sometimes, but all of the good players that post in this thread didn't start out good at this game. We were all...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Solo it is quite hard to make up for a bad team, but your actions can still turn the tide more than you think in those games. Thats why platoons are really where its at. Three good people can make all the difference in matches. There are lots of pubbies out there that owe me and my platoon...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    The retards where out in full force over the holidays. I saw plenty of teams with not a single person over 50% w/r (excluding my platoon). I came close to rage selling the E5 over the weekend. I tried 4 times to get my x5 with it on Sunday without success. I can get over 2-3k damage with...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    8 shots at a minimum, but usually 10 shots in the 268 is all thats needed, sometimes more, depending on the number of low damage kill shots you take. I've had games where I single handedly killed E-100s, which takes a good 3 shots and 45 seconds. 8k definately isn't the norm, but its doable...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    When I started soloing, I didn't really see anyone on. Plus I was just waiting for my wife to get home and didn't know how long I would be on. Also when I solo, I'm more free to quit at anytime if things go to shit. Sometimes I only solo a game or two and if they are bad, I cut my losses, but...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I'm of the opinion now that with the accuracy buffs, a GLD and Vstab aren't nearly as neccessary as they used to be. I think during the next half off equipement sale I'll probably be replacing most of those with binocs on my tanks. I think being able to spot the enemy ends up being alot more...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I also had a great solo run yesterday. My platoon mates bailed early cause we were all playing pretty shitty (eventhough we weren't really losing games). I decided to stay and solo some tier 10s. Well I ended 12-2-1 for solo games on my E-100 and 268. With my platoon matches, for a 27 total...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    All the AT series TDs have a tumor on top which is usually easily pennable by most guns. With the accuracy buff, its a lot easier to hit now. As for a tiger vs a T29, all I can say is good luck if the t29 is hull down. If you can see his hull, then you have a chance of winning.
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I liked the tier 6. A good all around TD for its tier. The tier 7 in my opinion is horrible. dps, aim, reload, all horrible. Wont bounce many shots. The tier 8 is another all around good TD. good speed, good aim time, great pen, good damage, front is rather bouncy, even the hatch and...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Yeah, I dont blame you. My brother gave up the game right after that eventhough we won, we still played like shit. I continued on for some more games soloing my 268. I carried at least two of those solo games by ending with 6k and 8k damage. In both those battles though I at least had some...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    You left too early last night. Won the next 7 straight games, then went to bed. I even had an 8k damage game in my 268, which with the 3 kills grossed 120k and netted me 88k credits. This mission is making me good money. I netted a little less than 2M yesterday in only 32 games. I've got...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I just felt that the ARL was a good tier 6 TD and the 48 is a good tier 8 TD, but that the 46 is just a lackluster tier 7 TD. Maybe its just that I'm a little bit spoiled with the Su-122-44, and thats why I feel the 46 just underperforms at its tier. It doesn't help that 46 can be penned by...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    You need to get your premium back just to make that xp/game look much better. It looks like platooning with me and my brother Saturday helped boost your weekly stats. Now that they aren't nerfing my TD xp per game, I've seen my xp/game get a nice little boost. That coupled with the accuracy...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    The 46 is pretty bad. I rolled with the 90, the faster aim and reload times seemed to make all the difference. Although now that aiming isn't nearly as important, the 105 might be the better choice. I would also try to have 60k free xp laying around when you decided to get the 48. The good...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I carried garbad to a win yesterday. Was on steppes, only had 1 arty. The best part was I didn't have to worry about the arty shooting me, since I knew it was most likely going to shooting him.
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Skills are becoming even more important. With the accuracy changes, camo is by far the best skill to get on everything except maybe heavies. Your best defense is to never be spotted, now that you can't rely on armor to protect you, since weakspots can be shot at much greater ranges. In my...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I would love to find a way to hack my history on the xvm server. Would be funny to set my entire platoon to like 40% w/r and everyone think we are a cancer platoon, then go around owning up. People would think we are horrible and most likely completely underestimate us. Would be great...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I HATE the new sounds. They are horrible, I can't even tell if i'm getting shot at. Not to mention a .22 pistol makes more of a boom. I'll be getting the gun sound mod for 8.6 when I get home today. I didn't copy my 8.5 one over b/c I didn't think it would work. Speaking of which, anyone...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    No need to sacrafice vents for the GLD on the E-100. Especially not now with the accuracy buff. I think I haven't missed a shot in that tank since the patch, and a large portion have been snap shots. I've been playing like shit (or at least my teams have) in the last few days. I've been...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Yeah, the game I won in my E-100 yesterday was on Steppes and I went and played dick grab in the thunderdome (only person there), and I had a 183 that sat alot further back to "snipe". Well snipe he did, everytime I fired and a tank came after me, BLAMO!! 1K+ damage to the poor fucker. He got...
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    [MMO] World of Tanks

    I dont know why they didn't just add a little box in the garage that you could click on to change server clusters. Seriously, how hard would that be. That and it would ask, or automatically change you over when you joined a platoon. You would think in this day and age, this kind of stuff...