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[MMO] World of Tanks

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I have been pretty lucky. The rubber banding has been pretty minimal for me. I just cant for the life of me understand why it is such a low performer. It seems to really get sluggish when turning the tank. Moving forward or turning the turret it is ok. But hitting the turn keys brings the game to its knees.
 
Genx87 said:
I have been pretty lucky. The rubber banding has been pretty minimal for me. I just cant for the life of me understand why it is such a low performer. It seems to really get sluggish when turning the tank. Moving forward or turning the turret it is ok. But hitting the turn keys brings the game to its knees.
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Turret, aiming, and firing are controlled by the client. That's why the server can lock up and you can still look around.

If someone ever develops hacks for this game, that's what it'll be. Aimbot.
 
The rubberbanding is a bit annoying, but it is nothing compared to how WWIIonline had it. When the game first came out, tanks that were going up little hills would take off into the air to other players. It was pretty interesting to see.
 
Nik said:
Good to see you in the match, DFR 🙂

LURK MOAR, NOOB

😛

Sorry I didn't get to wtfpwn you, your arty was busy shooting me through the rocks :awe:
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Noob? I've been here longer than you have. 😛

And to be fair, your arty also shot me through the rocks. We died within 20 seconds of eachother, I think.

Also, has anyone set up an in-game chatroom for this?
 
I'm not sure you can do that. I think you dump all chat channels when you exit the game.

Oh, and I've been playing this game since, like, july 😛
 
I've been stuck in a Hetz For so long! Hetzers gonna Hetz!

Seriously though. Compared to tanks. Tank destroyer's suck.
 
Best game I've had individually was in a pzjg1. Was on the map with half city, half rail depot. Me and a couple other guys spent the match out between the rail tracks. Near end of the game it was still about 60% of them left up and 3 of us. One of their guys finally went to cap out flag, but most of the group came at us as stragglers from around the map. The other guys with me went down pretty quick, but I managed to plunk down 4 more before they capped my flag getting a kill count of 6.

Being in a place that restricts mobility against yourself as a TD is a necessity, and in such a position you can rack up the damage.
 
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Best fun I had was in a Tier 2 Russian Artillery.

Scored myself 7 kills AND ran across the map to cap their flag, earning me the Invader achievement too.

Adrenaline rush when there's two of them, two of you and you're in an Arty with no ammo left and you're trying to get to the enemy base and cap it.
 
Nik said:
I'm not sure you can do that. I think you dump all chat channels when you exit the game.

Oh, and I've been playing this game since, like, july 😛
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Chat channels? You (I think) dump friend-to-friend chats when you exit, but you don't with actual channels. For instance, I've been sitting in one channel for over a month now, and it'll only disappear when I actually close it. It makes it a bit easier to coordinate a group when you can log on, see who's in (for instance) the Anandtech chatroom.

So have I (well, my invite came in early July. I don't remember if I loaded it up immediately). I thought you were referring to the Anandtech forums (based on your lurking comment). 😛

PlasmaBomb said:
Why did it take you so long to post this thread?
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Me? I've got the 5th post on the first page.
 
lupi said:
Best game I've had individually was in a pzjg1. Was on the map with half city, half rail depot. My and a couple other guys spent the much out between the rail tracks. Near end of the game it was still about 60% of them left up and 3 of us. One of their guys finally went to cap out flag, but most of the group came at us as stragglers from around the map. The other guys with me went down pretty quick, but I managed to plunk down 4 more before they capped my flag getting a kill count of 6.

Being in a place that restricts mobility against yourself as a TD is a necessity, and in such a position you can rack up the damage.
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There are two opinions on TD's:

1. People don't know how to use them and cry about getting owned.

2. People that look at the stats and know that something isn't quite right.

I fall into the latter category. Compared to tanks TD's have the same if not weaker guns, weaker armor, less mobility, more restricted view ranges, and are hideously expensive(esp the Ruskies) compared to the equivalent level of tank.

The very slight accuracy bonus just doesn't cut it against the major negatives, which almost seem to get worse as you get up the tree.

Yes you can do well, on certain maps and certain makeups, but if you deviate from that you're going to have a tough time. Especially in T3/4, you can't do any serious damage to anyone but light tanks and will get SPG'd if you reveal. Some of the maps just don't have a lot of good spots. Plus most of the tanks you will encounter can out range you.
 
ayabe said:
There are two opinions on TD's:

1. People don't know how to use them and cry about getting owned.

2. People that look at the stats and know that something isn't quite right.

I fall into the latter category. Compared to tanks TD's have the same if not weaker guns, weaker armor, less mobility, more restricted view ranges, and are hideously expensive(esp the Ruskies) compared to the equivalent level of tank.

The very slight accuracy bonus just doesn't cut it against the major negatives, which almost seem to get worse as you get up the tree.

Yes you can do well, on certain maps and certain makeups, but if you deviate from that you're going to have a tough time. Especially in T3/4, you can't do any serious damage to anyone but light tanks and will get SPG'd if you reveal. Some of the maps just don't have a lot of good spots. Plus most of the tanks you will encounter can out range you.
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Sounds like they need a significant buff to guns, view range, accuracy and camo bonus to me. Really they need all those things to be superior to the tanks to actually fulfill their role. And shouldn't they actually have stronger frontal armor at least (maybe not)?
 
Elcs said:
Site & forums = Down (Planned Maintenance)

Game = up
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Launcher is looking for updates for me and failing to launch...

14/09/2010 23:15:24 ERROR: http request error: verb="POST" url="http://update.worldoftanks.com/" error="12029" status_code="200"

weird since it just updated earlier today...
 
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GoodRevrnd said:
Sounds like they need a significant buff to guns, view range, accuracy and camo bonus to me. Really they need all those things to be superior to the tanks to actually fulfill their role. And shouldn't they actually have stronger frontal armor at least (maybe not)?
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TDs should have zero armor on the sides and rear, but formidable armor out front. It's that way to some degree, but not nearly enough.
 
PlasmaBomb said:
Launcher is looking for updates for me and failing to launch...

14/09/2010 23:15:24 ERROR: http request error: verb="POST" url="http://update.worldoftanks.com/" error="12029" status_code="200"

weird since it just updated earlier today...
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Ditto. Game is down for me as is the website.
 
in game i don't disagree with you, but in real life you could make like 3 stugs to a panther (as the stug was largely still a 1940/41 era vehicle).

back to the game, another reason I'd like to see a bit more map size allowing for more terrain types where a TD ambush could be a viable strategy.
 
The BT7 makes me cry. Especially when I get thrown in with Tigers and IS-3's. It really isn't fast enough to dodge their laser beam turrets. If I had known I would have been bumped up so far in the tiers with it I would have kept my BT-2 to make money. =/

Edit: Although, miraculously I still scored 11k creds despite getting instagibbed by accidentally running into a hidden clutch of heavies. Someone must have knocked them all out while my scout assist was still valid.
 
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