World of Tanks

Through a meme dankly it treads.

Second shot I took it erased 1500 hp from an IS-7. Instant teleport back to the garage.

Event done. Finally tally: T57, IS-7, Progetto 65, FV 4005, Jagdpanzer E 100, Charioteer. AMD 178B. Those 150k credit games will be missed.

I had a game the other day in my FV4005; I was spotted and wiped out by a TVP 50/51 in the first 3 minutes. Such is the life of the Dankmobile driver. It's HUGE, has NO camo and NO armor.

The very next match, I went down the medium line in search of dankness. I found it. - 1 TVP 50/51



I was always reluctant to get the IS-7 but got it last month. It's waaaay better than the stats let on, and it can be fucking hard as hell to dig out if driven by a smart player. It is faster than a lot of TX mediums, has fast reload, and somewhat reliable armor. And...the gun. It's shit on paper, but in practice is amazing. The last game of tonight, I took ten shots. All but two were snap shots, and they hit. 80% hit rate on snap shots. This is common.

It is fast, so I roll up first to most engagement points. Fast travel, fast reload, good damage = solid early game damage. I had almost 2k damage before our mediums even started jerking off.

I hit the cupola of a hull down T30 and sent him back to the garage. This is a hard ask in a lot of my TD's but the IS-7 hits shots like this without trying hard.

It's fun to meet STRV 103B drivers who don't know about overmatch mechanics. The IS-7 has 130MM gun, so it will pen and hit for full damage all the time.



It easily stacks up damage. It is a WN8 padder for sure. This is an average match in it:



Fight #25,000. Me in my Super Hellcat. Mostly even fight on MM and player skill. At one point we were 6-11 and a loss was certain. I had a great arty and I would spot and whistle away. Not an amazing fight on my part, but we came back from a loss and I completed my 25,000th fight with a win.



It's still a fun game. Here's a screenshot of a Ukranian airliner flying into our zone:

$82 is nuts for that tank.

This letting idiots borrow tier 10 tanks has utterly fucked up playing at that level. There are people that aren't cut out playing at tier 4 running around in t10 tanks. I have to question why every decision WG makes is a bad decision. I have to work on fixing t10 win rates after this event ends.

Hover med

So general invites for alpha 2 of the new Project CW (cold war). It's not realistic, it's a very uhh retrofuturism 80s tech in an alt history?

However, it's a big focus on 'heroes'. Diverse characters, but there's no story or anything so it's just a complete cluster of random DEI characters. Each has a few different tanks with special abilities tied to both character and tank. Unlike WOT you level your character and the tank, so not tiers. Combat is slightly modernized WOT style with FPS maps, reminds me of battlefield capture the zones on the map (domination?). Unlike WOT there's pretty opaque stats and the UI is confusing. Not sure what armor values anything has or penetration values on rounds.

Anyway, it seems like a complete mess. It gives of serious Concord vibes, random shit cobbled together based on a checklist of features from other successful live service games in the west. Super disappointed, because I would have liked a better PC version of the WOT modern combat. The concept of the cold war never ended and all these crazy weapons projects keep getting developed is really cool, too.

I gave up on WoT long ago. War Thunder is far superior and much less of a cash grab. Combined arms battles are so much more fun.

Bald Brah said:

I gave up on WoT long ago. War Thunder is far superior and much less of a cash grab. Combined arms battles are so much more fun.

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From everything I've seen WT is a much larger cash grab, but WoT has a higher whale ceiling in some cases. Either way, I gave up on WoT as well, despite having tons of rare/old shit and all tech trees researched. The actual gameplay just started getting stale and grinding for nothing isn't entertaining.

I still play World of Warships occasionally because I just like ship combat. I wish someone would release a mainstream/successful mech or spaceship style game like this. I think it was dreadnaught that was the closest but it seemed to die before getting anywhere.

Palum said:

From everything I've seen WT is a much larger cash grab, but WoT has a higher whale ceiling in some cases. Either way, I gave up on WoT as well, despite having tons of rare/old shit and all tech trees researched. The actual gameplay just started getting stale and grinding for nothing isn't entertaining.

I still play World of Warships occasionally because I just like ship combat. I wish someone would release a mainstream/successful mech or spaceship style game like this. I think it was dreadnaught that was the closest but it seemed to die before getting anywhere.

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WT doesn't have gold rounds or all the gold crew and tank gear stuff. The stock grinds are pretty easy as most tanks come with decent penetration stock, only a couple need upgraded ammunition.

They do have a cash marketplace with expensive rare tanks but none of them are really any better than the normal tech tree tanks. Nothing like the gold chinese tank in WoT. There are easily completed missions where you earn free tier 6-7 premium tanks every month. Tier 2-3 premiums are given out like candy.

You can also get free tokens pretty easily that allow you to mark tech tree tanks as premiums and get the upgraded money and experience per battle.

It does take a lot longer to do the planes and tanks tech trees if you want to play realistic battles, but arcade battles are fine for grinding, and the planes are free there if you are doing arcade ground battles.

If you want to give it a try the israeli tech tree has a mid tier tank you can jump right into and play fun battles. No grind at all.

I quit WoT like 3 years ago.

Way too much DPM floating around, and nearly every new tank was an autoloader of some kind. This had the knock on effect of driving people from the game, so blowouts became the norm. All was left were the top .1% of players and the very bottom. Average and above average players simply quit playing. Also not uncommon for me to do more or equal damage than the rest of the team. Not good.

And to make matters worse, they added equipment with high grinds so that only the top players had them, which made the gulf between the best and the worst even wider, and stupid things like allowing heavy tanks being able to be made to be faster than fast medium tanks.

I'm surprised they are still in business because I'm sure their playerbase is pretty much gone.

I used to play WoT a lot. I quit about the time they introduced bond items and the no lifers would grind out the stuff needed for them.

BrotherWu said:

I still play some WoWs. Unless you're super autist that can carry or grouping with decent players, your random match experience is going to kind of suck because there are a shitload of retards playing the game. I play with a clan that focused on competitive, without being too sweaty about it. That's fun because, when you lose, at least you know you were beaten fair and square and your team was executing to a reasonable plan.

I've played with guys who have dumped thousands and thousands of dollars into the game, which is crazy. I don't mind throwing a little money their way every now and then if a pass looks good or whatever, but I ain't paying hundreds of bucks for a pixel boat.

Project CW looks like a mess. Hard pass. I'd rather see them do something more like WT with combined arms and improved engine and UI.

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I have some good ships still

Now I have to give War Thunder a try since we all know what an unmitigated shit show WarGaming is.

BrotherWu said:

I don't play battleships much. I prefer destroyers. My winrate is shit but I have learned a lot in the last year and am slowly clawing back in Gearing and Yueyang. I am jealous of your Smaland.

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Yea I've been focusing on CA/CL/BB for the most part. Destroyers are in a bad spot because of subs/carrier spotting. I used to play them a lot more. I just picked up the Hull because lol 203s but we'll see.

I plyed WoWs for a while, back then the Celeveland was pretty OP so I played that and then stopped.

But as far as actual WoW the more the game got populated with made up or "could have been" shit I got less and less desire to play it. Rockets to propel tanks.

Kaines said:

Now I have to give War Thunder a try since we all know what an unmitigated shit show WarGaming is.

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The biggest difference is tanks don't have hit points. You have to knock out modules or crew. People who know where to shoot will kill you fast. Taking out a tanks gun is a huge problem. It takes a long time to repair and you are a sitting duck.

It does lead to absurd situations though where a truck mounted tank destroyer or anti aircraft is immune to tank shells since they don't have any structure to hit and explode. You have to machine gun down the crew to kill them quickly.