Possessed Freak
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- Nov 4, 1999
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Few thoughts about the new patch:
Arty: low/mid tiers, nerfed to crap. High tiers, still hitting like a ton of bricks.
East/West cluster: It's a cluster all right. At least chat/channels sort of works between servers (I say sort of works because the lag in communications is hysterical). I had a lower ping to the west coast server than the east coast but I am hoping that was because of the d/ling of the client from the masses. I was at 200ms on east coast and 120ms on west when I am normally at ~80ms before the mutli-cluster.
Fjords: Why the hell did they add a secondary ridge in Texas. Talk about a new grinder, it is just a narrow pass and a complete choke position. East can no longer even attempt to support from afar because of the new ridge while west can still put an arty in the north and rain down death. My E100 was a beast there though, just held that with an IS7 against a Maus, IS4, IS8, FV, and some 8's. Did nothing but sit there like a rock while the rest of our team died despite overwhelming numbers.
Lakeville Encounter: LOVE it. The forced action in the town is really nice.
E100: Complete beast with the new armor changes. Bounces shots it never did before. An S51 shooting AP/Heat bounced on my turret. Foch 155 bounced all three shots at me while he was invisible (I could not even angle properly).
KV4 (basically other high armor vehicles): More complete beasts. I shrugged off BL10, Ferdi shots, etc. I took a BL10 IN THE SIDE and it bounced.
Accuracy: While accuracy has improved across the board, it seems that you do have to aim at your targets or you will bounce/0% a lot of shots.
EXP improvements: I love that you get EXP for doing tracking hits and contributing to a kill. I had the pleasure of permatracking a Maus in Ruinburg in my KV-4. I caused him to go from full to 0% because of it (it is nice at least knowing you did something even if you couldn't hurt it).
Overall: I like it more than dislike it, but I feel they really messed up the "clustering" (it is not cluster technology, they are discrete game servers). I feel all they had to do was get from behind Telia. I have not played all the changed maps, but I really dislike Fjords now. There is NO reason to go to Texas as you will just be pinned there all match.
Arty: low/mid tiers, nerfed to crap. High tiers, still hitting like a ton of bricks.
East/West cluster: It's a cluster all right. At least chat/channels sort of works between servers (I say sort of works because the lag in communications is hysterical). I had a lower ping to the west coast server than the east coast but I am hoping that was because of the d/ling of the client from the masses. I was at 200ms on east coast and 120ms on west when I am normally at ~80ms before the mutli-cluster.
Fjords: Why the hell did they add a secondary ridge in Texas. Talk about a new grinder, it is just a narrow pass and a complete choke position. East can no longer even attempt to support from afar because of the new ridge while west can still put an arty in the north and rain down death. My E100 was a beast there though, just held that with an IS7 against a Maus, IS4, IS8, FV, and some 8's. Did nothing but sit there like a rock while the rest of our team died despite overwhelming numbers.
Lakeville Encounter: LOVE it. The forced action in the town is really nice.
E100: Complete beast with the new armor changes. Bounces shots it never did before. An S51 shooting AP/Heat bounced on my turret. Foch 155 bounced all three shots at me while he was invisible (I could not even angle properly).
KV4 (basically other high armor vehicles): More complete beasts. I shrugged off BL10, Ferdi shots, etc. I took a BL10 IN THE SIDE and it bounced.
Accuracy: While accuracy has improved across the board, it seems that you do have to aim at your targets or you will bounce/0% a lot of shots.
EXP improvements: I love that you get EXP for doing tracking hits and contributing to a kill. I had the pleasure of permatracking a Maus in Ruinburg in my KV-4. I caused him to go from full to 0% because of it (it is nice at least knowing you did something even if you couldn't hurt it).
Overall: I like it more than dislike it, but I feel they really messed up the "clustering" (it is not cluster technology, they are discrete game servers). I feel all they had to do was get from behind Telia. I have not played all the changed maps, but I really dislike Fjords now. There is NO reason to go to Texas as you will just be pinned there all match.