[MMO] World of Tanks

[stag3]

yea i don't enjoy the waffle either, i wasted a lot of free xp to get it during the on track ugh

 

[datalink7]

Yeah me too. Played it for about 100 games and now rarely touch it. Sure, it can be devastating, but not my thing.

 

[datalink7]

So, now that I just got the soon to be nerfed 183, I have to decide what to go after next. I'm thinking another heavy tank since I have two tier x mediums, four tier x tds, but only one tier x heavy (E100). Probably thinking Russian on this one, so, IS7 or IS4?

 

[stag3]

if the choice is only between those 2, IS7

personally i'd go for the T57 heavy or get all 3 russian meds

 

[PowerYoga]

Is7. IS4 has a better gun but the frontal armor isn't too great. It's much better at side scraping than the Is7 though and is a better brawler overall imo.

I'd get the T110E5 if you want a traditional heavy tank. All of the american heavies after the M6 are great tanks, so it makes the grind less of a pain.

 

[datalink7]

In terms of where I am at, I have the KV-1 and T150.

I am at the Tiger P if I wanted to do the Maus.

I have pretty much nothing for Americans (or French, Japanese or Chinese).

If I wanted to go for the other Russian Meds, I am 50 percent done towards the T54. But I'm not sure how much different they'd be from the OBJ430?

I'm probably leaning towards the IS7 since the E100 is already a sidescraper/brawler. I hadn't considered the Americans though. I had thought I'd heard the E5 wasn't very good. Is this not the case?

 

[PowerYoga]

its been through a few rounds of nerfs already so its not "as good" as it used to be. But it has a good mix of speed, firepower, fire rate and gun depression. The armor isn't reliable enough but it's bouncy to tier 8-9 guns. It's definitely a good tank but don't expect to bounce too many shots.

Also it's a great hull down tank despite the tumor on the top. The tumor's actually fairly bouncy because of the weird shape, and only the top part of the tumor is weak. (bottom is around 220mm's worth of curvy armor if I remember correctly)

 

[stag3]

ob430 is the worst of the 3
they play the same so excellent

 

[microAmp]

Just got the 2500 gold and the T28 Prototype. That thing is insanely slow. The T25/2 TD, which comes after Hellcat, was okay once the engine got upgraded. Hope for something a bit better with the T28 Prototype. I free XP about 12k to 105mm gun, hope that helps a bit.

 

[datalink7]

Decided on T57 Heavy since I can also work on the Chaffee with that line, which I also want. Probably IS7 after that.

 

[biostud]

Just saw the worst IS3 player ever today.

He had full health vs a T26E4 with 287HP, next to each other open area, face to face and loose.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I once lost with a full E50m against a 300 HP IS7. Due to lag. I was raging so much at that one.

 

[biostud]

While the conqueror can be fun to play, I seem to play way too aggressive, and get beaten up. I also seem to get a lot of matches with mostly tier X tanks. :/

 

[PowerYoga]

Just got the 2500 gold and the T28 Prototype. That thing is insanely slow. The T25/2 TD, which comes after Hellcat, was okay once the engine got upgraded. Hope for something a bit better with the T28 Prototype. I free XP about 12k to 105mm gun, hope that helps a bit.

heh, without the engine I was crawling along at 8 km/h on any sort of incline. I could barely move away from the spawn. But still a decently fun tank to play, the armor is pretty unreliable though.

Had decent games this weekend. I regret buying the AT8 though. I should've just stopped at the AT2, the at8 just can't hold its own. it's still too slow and the gun isn't intimidating, being a rapid fire pea shooter. It bounces same tier guns and that's about it, tier 6-7s go right through it and the giant tumor is always being smashed.

 

[stag3]

yea it's like that all the way thru til the end.
everyone can pen you, tortoise armor means shit when everyone knows to pen the drivers hatch..

 

[Possessed Freak]

yea it's like that all the way thru til the end.
everyone can pen you, tortoise armor means shit when everyone knows to pen the drivers hatch..

But that DPM...

 

[biostud]

Anyone have some experience with the 215b Heavy?

 

[stag3]

unless you can have a buddy nearby all the time, you're pretty much toast. for me at least since i play mediums mostly, i'll just eat that first shot and sidehug the tort until it's dead.
i was underwhelmed with it. however i do prefer faster tanks so this may fit your playstyle a lot better than it did for me?

 

[PowerYoga]

tortoise is dangerous when left alone, one at the top of the hill or with a good vantage point/firirng arc can rip apart a horde of tanks. I've seen tortoises destroy entire flanks just because someone was spotting for them. That DPM is insane.

That being said, side hugging ANY TD with a TD will kill it, not just the tortoise. An unsupported TD is a dead TD.

Actually killed a T95 from full health yesterday using my caern by eating his first shot. His buddies came after I blew him up, and I used his corpse as cover for a good minute and half against a 110E4, IS-3, T71 and some medium tank (forgot which one). Held them off long enough for our 2 remaining heavies (E100, T57) to come back and finish them off without letting the enemy team regroup. I died of course... T-71 ended up flanking me and pelting me to death from on top of a hill, but I bounced a 110E4 and 2 IS-3 shots so that was kinda nice.

 

[stag3]

hahaha t71, speaking of which, elc amx's have been owning the shit out of me lately. it seems like they're hiding and waiting until you either clip or are low health and then finish you off nowadays. instead of scouting like they're supposed to.

 

[PowerYoga]

I do the same thing in my T-71, its nice because the tank has a 600~ damage burst which is nothing to scoff at (although 1-2 generally bounce).

It's one of my favorite tanks.

 

[stag3]

i gave up trying to scout in my t71 and wz-132. i get to a forward bush, everything is lit, but my team never attacks....i drive around killing things now. i had an 18.2k WN8 game with ~4500 dmg in my wz-132 the other night. so fun.

 

[Keeper]

I must be a very LOW minority.
I play this game. And lets be clear........ I suck at it. I'm old.... And my reflexes AINT what they used to be. But I took a chance.

Loving the game. So much so I made a "Micro transaction". YES I DID.

Not to buy a tank... No... To buy garage space and retrain my crews. HINDSIGHT..... WASTED 10 bucks LOL. Playing something of EVERY country is NO way to grind. But I digress.

Nerf this..... Nerf that.... PFFFFFT... Deal... Or walk away. Sure this past weekend (Event weekend) SUCKS cause every school kid home is shooting gold. But I play, learn and try and adapt. Most times...... No so well LOL.
Now, there were SOME games, where we were schooled by players who KNEW what they were doing.
Everything from a ZERG Base RUSH (that was AWESOME to watch) to a lesson in platooning that was also AWESOME to watch.

My point? Play... Have fun. Remember. ITS A GAME. Don't like it?

WALK away. HELL; with NO 50 dollar upfront outlay it should be EASY to walk.

They are trying as BEST that they can to make this game FUN.
Does SHEET happen? SURE. But its not LIFE altering. Yes, you have dedicated a LOT of time to it. I get that. HELL, I cant even get looked at by a clan cause I have less than 1000 games, but try, just try and have fun.
Hell, I apparently have ZERO idea on how to play a Tank Destroyer.
Does it suck? Sure; blew a LOT of XP and coin to get it... Thinking I would OWN. Then, reality kicked in.



We NOW return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

[datalink7]

heh, without the engine I was crawling along at 8 km/h on any sort of incline. I could barely move away from the spawn. But still a decently fun tank to play, the armor is pretty unreliable though.

Had decent games this weekend. I regret buying the AT8 though. I should've just stopped at the AT2, the at8 just can't hold its own. it's still too slow and the gun isn't intimidating, being a rapid fire pea shooter. It bounces same tier guns and that's about it, tier 6-7s go right through it and the giant tumor is always being smashed.

For the British TD line, it goes every other tank is good, every other one sucks for a while.

AT2 - Great. Sweet armor that if you get in a Tier V match will be hard for opponents to pen.

AT8 - Sucks. Armor, while on paper is the same as the AT2, has a lot more weak spots plus your opponents guns are better.

AT7 - Great. However, you have to use it to its strengths. The armor isn't very good except right around the gun. The good thing is, the gun has great gun traverse and sits on the extreme right edge of the tank. So you want to angle your tank so just the gun barely pokes out around the corner. This makes it difficult for tanks to pen you, and you have great DPM. I've had a lot of devastating games in my AT7. Enough so that I actually kept it even though I went all the way to the 183.

AT15 - Sucks. Armor doesn't cut it, and it can't poke around the corner like the AT7 could. Gun isn't as good as it was with the previous tank.

Tortoise - Great. One of the highest DPM's in the game for any faction. Armor is sub par, but can still be utilized to great affect against lower tiers. That gun is amazing though. If you are in the back field so that other tanks aren't firing at you, it is easy to get a 4k+ damage game.

183 - Great for now, but they must have realized they were breaking the "bad - good - bad - good" trend and so a nerf is incoming.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Broke down and played 3 games last night. Done again for a while.

It is absolutely amazing how much rage I get playing this game compared to others.

First game, in my ST-I and I was premium ammoed to death.

Second game, I bounced my only shot with my WZ-120 before being artied (ON DORF!).

Third game, ran out of ammo in my batshit as my team around me died. The enemy had 2 E100's left and at that point we had 4 mediums... did the mediums group up? Nah, attacked one at a time.

Putting that game away again, I don't rage when I play robocraft... it is just too hysterical.