[MMO] World of Tanks

[Elcs]

Do not upgrade your hetzer at all! Do not waste any time or xp on that piece of crap. Just push right on through to stug3.

The 10.5cm gun is an extremely useful piece of kit and enables the Hetzer to damage Tier 8 tanks.

Any damage you do to enemy tanks is extremely beneficial when it comes to experience gain. 336 average experience gained with a max of 1,000 experience gained in one match... it's worth the diversion

It is also the gun you will use on your StuG III as soon as you purchase the suspension for it.

 

[Nik]

It's much easier to get xp in the Stug3 than the Hetzer. That's why wasting time earning a gun in the hetzer is pointless.

Who cares if you can damage tier 8's? It's not like the Hetzer is always dumped into a match with nothing but tier 8's...

All that xp you waste on the hetzer is just that many more battles in that giant piece of shit.

Can you tell that I hate playing the hetzer?

 

[Elcs]

It's much easier to get xp in the Stug3 than the Hetzer. That's why wasting time earning a gun in the hetzer is pointless.

Who cares if you can damage tier 8's? It's not like the Hetzer is always dumped into a match with nothing but tier 8's...

All that xp you waste on the hetzer is just that many more battles in that giant piece of shit.

Can you tell that I hate playing the hetzer?

Finding my StuG III to be hell fully upgraded.

I want my upgraded Hetzer back.

 

[videogames101]

Finding my StuG III to be hell fully upgraded.

I want my upgraded Hetzer back.

WHAT?


The StugIII is one of the best low tier tanks in the game while the Hezter is among the worst.


On a side note, 90k from my t-43 to the t-44, backing to farming with my S-51...

 

[Nik]

WHAT?


The StugIII is one of the best low tier tanks in the game while the Hezter is among the worst.


On a side note, 90k from my t-43 to the t-44, backing to farming with my S-51...

That's only 90-180 games. I think I have over a thousand games played total. :biggrin:

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Madness... the AT-1 is awful!

Gooooo your kid! (he's much better than me in an AT-1)

I quite liked the AT-1...

 

[PlasmaBomb]

That's only 90-180 games. I think I have over a thousand games played total. :biggrin:

Meh... I have played 639 games apparently

 

[lupi]

I've come to believe the short barreled 75 on the pz3 sucks donkey dong.

 

[Nox51]

Yay got my KV. Actually feel like a tank now, tho i really need to upgrade it, especially the gun.But wow does it turn soo slowly.

On a side note I'm interested in when do you guys use AP and HE shells. Usually i use HE when I get an spg in my sights but what about more armored targets. Say like kv range?

 

[Elcs]

Yay got my KV. Actually feel like a tank now, tho i really need to upgrade it, especially the gun.But wow does it turn soo slowly.

On a side note I'm interested in when do you guys use AP and HE shells. Usually i use HE when I get an spg in my sights but what about more armored targets. Say like kv range?

It depends on your gun and their tank.

If your gun is going to reliably penetrate their armour with AP, then use AP.

If you don't stand a cat in hells chance of penetrating their armour, use HE.

If your gun is so awesome that you could reliably penetrate their armour with HE, use HE.

 

[Skott]

Got my T28 fully upgraded now. With the 85mm gun its not such a pig of a tank as it was at the start. Its still squishy as all get out though. I get one shotted a lot. Playing against Tigers and IS is just frustrating. I've taken to sniping from heavy woods when I can find them. At least now I can do some damage to the big boys although its maybe 5-10 points or so depending on where I hit them. Still, I get one or two hits in and that gives me more experience than if I hit nothing at the end of the battle. Can't wait to graduate to the KV.

 

[Nox51]

you'll find that the started gun on the kv does less damage than the 85mm on t28 but you will survive more than 1 hit! and that you turn excruciatingly slow.

 

[DarkForceRising]

The KV and KV3 are far too slow to really be decent tanks, too. They're fun, in their own way, but once you hit the IS, the fun goes through the freaking roof. :biggrin:

Speaking of, I finally got my IS tonight, when I should have been doing work.

Yay got my KV. Actually feel like a tank now, tho i really need to upgrade it, especially the gun.But wow does it turn soo slowly.

Just wait till you get the upgraded (ha!) turret, which is required for the 107 (highly, highly, recommended). The turret loses about 10-12 degrees/sec of traverse speed.

 

[Elcs]

I am enjoying the 122mm on the KV. I also have access to the KV-2 Turret but not the 107mm yet. Might skip using the 107mm on the KV until I get my KV-3/KV-1S

 

[Nox51]

I saw the traverse on the turret. and with the shitty traverse on the tracks as well it's gonna be hell do make a three point turn in it and shoot something faster than me.

But at least i can survive on average 3 hits now. Just don't make me go to the other side of the map. It hurts.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

I saw the traverse on the turret. and with the shitty traverse on the tracks as well it's gonna be hell do make a three point turn in it and shoot something faster than me.

But at least i can survive on average 3 hits now. Just don't make me go to the other side of the map. It hurts.

how about turning while climbing up even a small hill? yeah, good times

 

[Maximilian]

Will i be able to drive a king tiger in this?

 

[DarkForceRising]

Will i be able to drive a king tiger in this?

If you have the patience to grind through all the lower tier German tanks, yes.

At least, that's what everyone refers to the Tiger II as. I know nothing about WW2 tanks except what I've learned here, so...

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Will i be able to drive a king tiger in this?

yes, it has the king tiger / tiger II. no, you won't get it in a hurry.

there's a ton of tanks (ussr and germany for now) in the game, many of which existed only on paper or as prototypes.

 

[Maximilian]

oo cool, just finished downloading the beta, hope theres the 188 ton german maus tank in there king tiger was something like 70 tons for scale.

edit: aw balls it costs 6 million silver coins

 

[Markbnj]

I've played in maybe fifteen or twenty battles at this point. Enough to get a feel for it, and I don't think this game is going to hold me. The tank battles are fun enough, but I'm a fan of the genre since M1 Tank Platoon, and I'll give any armor sim a try. They do need to fix the issues with opponents glitching around and appearing/disappearing. Probably this is all lag-related, and it's a beta after all.

Less easy to tweak is the overall game design, and I just don't think there's enough there. You can play around in the garage and spawn for battle, and that's about it. If you get taken out early then apparently you can't drop and enter another battle, so in some cases if you're unlucky you spend five or six minutes doing nothing, maybe more. It feels a little like Battlefield for tanks without the respawn.

The way I would put it is they either bit off too much, or not enough, depending on how you look at it. The action is too slow for an armor-oriented shooter, and there isn't enough there to really think of it as a persistent world game. I think they could make it work as a "persistent shooter" if they upped the game dynamics a little, maybe add some form of respawn, more bases to cap, etc. As it is now the game is sort of like flank steak: somewhere between ground beef and NY strip.

 

[Skott]

I've played in maybe fifteen or twenty battles at this point. Enough to get a feel for it, and I don't think this game is going to hold me. The tank battles are fun enough, but I'm a fan of the genre since M1 Tank Platoon, and I'll give any armor sim a try. They do need to fix the issues with opponents glitching around and appearing/disappearing. Probably this is all lag-related, and it's a beta after all.

Less easy to tweak is the overall game design, and I just don't think there's enough there. You can play around in the garage and spawn for battle, and that's about it. If you get taken out early then apparently you can't drop and enter another battle, so in some cases if you're unlucky you spend five or six minutes doing nothing, maybe more. It feels a little like Battlefield for tanks without the respawn.

The way I would put it is they either bit off too much, or not enough, depending on how you look at it. The action is too slow for an armor-oriented shooter, and there isn't enough there to really think of it as a persistent world game. I think they could make it work as a "persistent shooter" if they upped the game dynamics a little, maybe add some form of respawn, more bases to cap, etc. As it is now the game is sort of like flank steak: somewhere between ground beef and NY strip.

You can drop out of battle after getting killed and then start a new battle with another tank. Granted you can't use the same tank but you can do it. Dropping out of battle and jumping into another with a different tank can also speed up the exp gain if you constantly keep doing it. Just keep switching back and forth. Also they bill it as a MMO but I think its more like a MP game. Like all games this one will appeal to some but not others.

 

[Nik]

I am enjoying the 122mm on the KV. I also have access to the KV-2 Turret but not the 107mm yet. Might skip using the 107mm on the KV until I get my KV-3/KV-1S

You won't use the 107 on the IS. You can use the 122 on the IS, but there is a second 122 you can unlock for 19k xp that's the exact same 122 you're already using but with faster refire. That's the gun you'll use on the IS.

 

[Nik]

I saw the traverse on the turret. and with the shitty traverse on the tracks as well it's gonna be hell do make a three point turn in it and shoot something faster than me.

But at least i can survive on average 3 hits now. Just don't make me go to the other side of the map. It hurts.

KV and KV3 are tanks that should either be camping or sniping. Being right in the middle of a fight is a no-no for KV/3.

 

[Markbnj]

You can drop out of battle after getting killed and then start a new battle with another tank. Granted you can't use the same tank but you can do it. Dropping out of battle and jumping into another with a different tank can also speed up the exp gain if you constantly keep doing it. Just keep switching back and forth. Also they bill it as a MMO but I think its more like a MP game. Like all games this one will appeal to some but not others.

I agree with that last statement for sure. I'll keep it installed and have a look as they update the client. If they can get rid of the glitching issues I've been seeing then it might be a fun diversion.