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I would have guessed you would be mad because you got stuck with a heavy German tank that wasn't the panther

I laughed.

Kanako is the best goddess before suwako

By the way, what game is that? Looks interesting in a german kind of way.

>>6414162
>Thinks panther was heavy tank.

>MEDIUM

>>6414169
It's World of Tanks.

It blows games like cosmic break and other games away.

It's really fun.

>>6414184
>World of tanks
>good

derp.

>>6414186
Better than shitty Corean MMOs and that other shit.

>>6414193
>cosmic break
>corean

I don't even know why you are comparing such games in that post. Do you feel frustrated after seeing a thread about them?

>>6414193
uh oh you did not go there

I enjoy my SDGO very much

>>6414184

>go to world of tanks website
>closed beta

DAMN, ONLY SECONDS TOO LATE!

Oh well. Guess I'm skipping that one.

>>6414197
Doesn't matter, let's forget about them and just post some Kanako.

>>6414205
Anyone can get a key. I'll link you to a site to get a key if you want.

>>6414213

Yes please.
Also, Kanako as soku playable character where

>>6414207
Oh, that was unexpected. You went higher in my scale.

I'll have a tough time looking for a Kanako alone picture, so have this instead.

>>6414217
http://www.gamespot.com/event/codes/world-of-tanks/

Just sign up or sign in and there you go.

>>6414218
I leveled up!

>He STILL doesn't have the maus!
Goddamn, grind harder.

If /jp/ gets into this game it would be the happiest day of my life.

Just a bunch of bros rolling into battle.

>>6414227
I'M ONLY LIKE 9 GAMES FROM MAUS

>go to gamespot, sign in

Oh man, an MMO about freaking tanks? Sign me i-

>look at message

What a kick in the balls.

>>6414231
What happened?

To those who want to try it...

http://www.freemmogamer.com/2010/09/world-of-tanks-closed-beta-test-key.html

Free premium tank included.

>Premium account (days 28)

So basically, its pay to play.. Unless you love not leveling at all? Now having bad memories of Navyfield. Yeesh...

Anyway, have some Kanako.

>>6414235

Urk, this. Internet's kinda slow today...

World of tanks is a remake of a shitty korean mmo, though.

>>6414249
No. It's not pay to play.

You get free gold everyday and when you get enough you can redeem it for premium account. Premium is just 50% more xp and credits.

>>6414253
Use boof's website

>>6414249
You get 150 gold a day.

gold can be used for special ammo, tanks or converted to money.

A premium account gives you +50% exp and cash per battle and costs ~250gold per day, 1250 per week or 3000 per month.

You cannot buy gold with real cash, the whole game is free

>>6414265
it's 2500 a month.

It's best to get it a month, because it only takes 16 days to get the gold required for a month of premium, so that means you can basically have unlimited premium.

>>6414162
Panther is the end of the medium tank line for the german beta tree. (Full version, it's gonna be the Panther II or the E-50, the game covers prototypes and tanks up to the Korean War.)

>>6414249
During the beta, you don't buy gold for real cash, you just get a small sum every day. 17 days get you neough gold to buy premium for a month.

It's not funny anymore, guys.

>>6414281
Just go to the games site. I did and got a key that way.

Can't wait for the full game, they are adding the T-28 as a tier 8 American TD and a small version of the Schwerer Gustav as a tier 10 german SPG

Goddamn, that thing recoiled 10 miles after each shot.

what the fuck is all this shit about going to gamespot and other crap? I just signed up on the game's site on a Friday evening and got an invite the following Monday (I'm assuming it only took that long because no one was in the office on the weekend).

Taking a break from it for a few days because that's when I'll have enough gold for a month of premium and it feels like a waste to keep playing it as much as I have been without the bonus. (Past couple weeks pretty much all I've been doing is playing WoT and Spitan, and watching Wakfu). You guys must be playing way too much if you're almost to the Maus though. I'm loving the PzIII right now, although like 90% of my battles are against tier 8. Doing stuff like killing the other team's arty then occupying the attention of two mediums, an IS-3, and a Jpz4 so they don't notice my team closing in on them = feels good man. And I get to laugh at all the heavy drivers who whine nonstop about arty.

>Afrika Korps
>Hitler
>Implying Rommel was ever a Nazi
>mfw
>(its blank)

Gonna Illya Arkadia that shit up bro

Its funny how he uses Hitler in his name, but he picked the Afrika Korps instead of the Wehrmacht.

Don't be mad.
Get glad

I should sleep

Server be busy. :(

Just downloaded it, I read on one of the messages that there are artillery units. Are artillery the SPG I see in the tech tree? Are they actually any good or should I just stick to heavy tanks?

>>6414864

ESS~"BEE"~GEEE~
Bzzzzz~ Bzzzzzz~ I'm a goddamn Bumblebee

Oh hey, a world of tanks thread in /jp/? strange.

>>6414864
Yeah, the artillery is the SPG's you see. They are insanely strong really, to the point where even the top tier heavies cower behind cover so they don't get shelled.

Russian artillery does the most damage as they have two that are one tier above the best german artillery but they fire really slow and move even slower. German artillery has more mobility and faster reload.

>>6414834
I laughed pretty hard.

>>6414147
FUCKING ASSHOLE.

Well I'm only a VK3601H... ;_;

I think I'll go Medium tanks once it goes "retail"

>>6414184
Agreed it's super fun, but it's also super grind and boring sometimes, but they have a nice balance, the fact that I made it to VK3601H/Hetzer/Su-5 makes me thing the gmae is good.

>>6414227
But I'm already in it, someone make a /jp/ channel the /v/ one sucks.

Here /jp/ I made a /jp/ channel.

damn out of keys D;

i will keep searching

Does this game still have invite keys? I want to play this, seems fuckawesome.

tried 13 sites , and all of them are out of keys T.T

>>6417006
Guess you guys are really out of luck, i got like 4 keys a few days ago for my friends, I think it's no that they're out of keys but the giveaway ended.

>>6417026
yeah

Perhaps somebody will fill in a newfag. What was the deal with the "Moryia shrine conspiracy?" All I managed to puzzle out of the endings was that they were running a nuclear reactor or some shit. Weak.

Have the deific duo done anything more conspiratorial then just that?

Also.
Tanks classified by their owners as "Heavy"
>KV-2 ("Heavy" Russian Tank) 45 tons
>Sherman "Jumbo:" 42 tons

Tanks classified by their owners as "Medium:"
>Sherman- 30 tons
>T-34- 26.5 tons
>Cromwell Tank- 27 tons

And the Panther?

>Panther- 44.8 tons

The Panther was a heavy tank, even if the Germans didn't classify it as such. Deal with it.

You guys are small time.

>>6417171
Toolbox + Binocular Telescope + Camouflage Net on Strug to farm money to get my Ferdinand.

>>6417184
>ferdinand
Don't you mean hetzer?

>>6417206
Hetzer is the worst thank ever. I passed to the next tank as fast as possible. I only did 18 battles with it.

>>6417218
I only need 200 exp to get it, and god damn I don't want to.

Enjoy your SPG abuse and cash shop ammo. Also get out fucking /v/.

Oh god, fuck those T-44s.
Seriously, fuck them.
I was moving out of base in my JagdPz IV to defend east arty on Ensk, when KABLAM, fucking T44 comes to own me 1mn into the game.

>>6414244
Note that you'll keep the Valentine when full game goes live if you got it with these keys.
Kept one for myself to open an account with it and own traktors and MS1s on the few first days.

>>6417277
Well they are the fastest, most hard hitting thing in the game.

If anyone wants to make a platoon some time, my game tag is IronKingz.

>>6417306
Invited.
Join the /jp/ group talk or whatever it is called.

>>6417218
I got the Marder II and then stopped TDs because the Hetzer was so clearly shitty, switched over to the PzII, then the Wespe, then finally started going down the tank path. What fucking sucks about the TDs is the firepower doesn't go up enough and TDs really need a lot of it to beat frontal armor due to lack of a turret for circling targets to shoot their sides/rear. Marder II has an awesome gun (problem with it is no survivability, dies to one HE shell) but the Hetzer's 75mm L/48 is a downgrade (and the 105mm is more of a sidegrade than an upgrade). Not until you get the Stug do you finally get a better gun with the L/70, but then you're two tiers higher than the Marder and fighting way nastier stuff.

So yeah I went over to the tank tree; PzIIIA was painful because even tier II lights can rape you and you can't get a good gun without upgrading the turret (which also requires upgrading the suspension first), but once I got the medium PzIII it was so fun. I got Steel Wall in a low tier battle where I had half the enemy team shooting me after I got tracked, thought I was dead then I realize I still had 100% HP. Then in high tier battles (what I get most of the time) it's basically as good a scout as a light (visibility is somewhat subpar though) and the low velocity 75mm with HE makes it better at killing arty than a light.

>>6417121
he Panther was classified and used as a medium tnak by the relevant people, the Germans. Deal with it.

>>6417392
TDs are not meant to get in close fights that's all.
I prefer TDs over heavys because they actually deal damages. I feel like my Tiger is fucking slow/can't hit shit.

>>6417392
>>6417392
I was playing a lower tier game. my whole team got wiped-out, leaving against the whole enemy team, but they had no heavies to counter my KV-3. Let's just say it was hilarious and by the end I had 11 kills.

Have some (slightly outdated) release tank trees!

>>6417440
thumbnailed it made me think of the 'nazi' symbol.

Confimred as slightly outdated, Jagdtiger has been added as Tier 9 tank destroyer.

>>6417447
The fuck is a Maus?

*googles*

OH LAWDY! Those wacky nazis.

those teasers made me laugh, dowloadan torrent now. I got lucky on that shattered crystal site and they sent me a code, so if anyone else is planning to play, they should that site.

>>6417498
oh lawld forgot the address:
http://www.shatteredcrystal.com/index.php/world_of_tanks

goddamn you guys.

Just go to the WoT site and request a key, they WILL give you one, guaranteed.

>>6417590
That's what I did.
Requested key. Went to sleep. Woke up, check mail, get key, feels great.

>>6417469
>*action*

out

>>6417596

What the hell, I requested mine yesterday and it didn't arrive. God does not want me to play this game with all of you.

i have to go back to this
playing with a hetzer nearly drove me mad

>>6417626
like I said earlier this thread, I registered on a Friday evening and got it the following Monday, so you might not get it immediately.

Though I suppose it's possible that they've stopped accepting new players since then, for the past week the server has been getting quite overloaded; tons of disconnects and boots back to garage

>>6417644
Ah Panzer III was driving me crazy because I was an idiot and used that super small 7.5cm gun... I quit for a month or so and I came back for some reason and now it's fun.

>>6417695
when i got my first panzer 3 A they throw me versus tigers and panthers

>>6417706
Ah the automatching system is not worth talking about most of my PzIII time was spend as cannon fodder for T6+ tanks.

It was only when I noticed that rushing in and spotting and kill arty that I did get some experience.

>>6417798
that reminds me, need to grind to get a IX radio for the BT7

.

I has Maus.

Wow, Damn. This threads been around since last night.

>>6417695
>>6417706
>>6417798
Pz3 is basically a light with the armor of a medium so you can kick ass in the low tier battles and be a scout in the high tier battles. And the 75mm is GOOD, you aren't going to do shit with the 50mm and AP against tier 8 tanks; 75mm with HE can crit the heavies and rape arty in the high tier matches, and crush most lights in lower tier matches. Only time I've found myself wishing I had equipped the high-velocity 50mm is if I find myself slugging it out with a leopard or another Pz3. I always see the Pz3 being recommended in chat when newbs ask "what tank should I get", and I have to agree.

You're always going to wind up fighting heavier stuff because high tier battles need some players as scouts, and the highest tier lights are tier 4. It would be retarded if you had nothing but heavies slugging it out and no one to hunt down the arty. The problem is when the teams get totally unbalanced because of platoons, as long as the teams are fair you can contribute in a lower tier tank by fighting stuff you CAN kill and leave the heavies for your team's heavies and arty.

In general, whenever you're fighting higher tier stuff the solution is moar HE.

This looks damn interesting.

>>6418152
I heard the Maus is a horrible tank.. one of the reasons I stopped at Tiger and am going for the IS series of tanks.

>>6418152
you haven't kept a single lower tier tank aside from PzII? Isn't that a great way to run out of money? I always hear that the middle tiers are the best balance for making money, go too high and the repair costs fuck you over if you don't have a great round every time.

I'm constantly going back and forth between my PzIII, Wespe, and Marder, ocassionally I'll actually have all 3 in use if I die super fast and/or a battle drags on forever.

>>6418227
GET OUT.

>>6418233
I make plenty of money in high tier tanks.

I don't even use the PII.

It was a few months ago, before the patch, when high tier tanks cost a lot to repair. I only pay 24,000 for when I'm completely dead, but I make on average 35,00- 45,000 a game.

>>6418227
The IS series does look pretty awesome with their speed, while the German heavies look painfully slow. One of the reasons I'm going for the PzIII/IV to the VK3001(P) and on to the Panther, instead of going PzIV

>>6418227
It's not horrible per se, it's just not the rape-machine that is the IS-7. Unlike the IS-7, you're goddamn slow. On the plus side, slightly better armour, even more hp and a more accurate gun.
IS-7 is basically a run'n'gun machine perfect for lone wolves. The Maus is more like a fucking moveable brick wall that's best used togehter with other teammates, because drawing fire is something you're going to do anyway in that gigantic monstrosity. And unlike your more fragile teammates, you can afford getting hit, a lot.

>>6418239
Oi, I can't help that the Russian tanks are better because of it being a Russian game. At least I got a Tiger, I will proudly drive that along side my IS series tanks.

>>6418284
to explain a bit...

The sloped armor is REALLY good. I've deflected shells from King Tigers in a KV.

>>6418239
in his defense, if you go for german heavy route you get a prototype of super tank
if you get the russian tree you get cold war tanks

its not really a matter of oppionion, russian wins

if only we got the ratte...

>>6418262
>>6418270
>>6418284
>>6418309
>>6418321

>>6418321
The IS7 being a cold war tank shows you how far behind the Russians were compared to the Germans.

GTFO back to /a/ if you like shitty Russian tanks.

>>6418357
Not the guy you are talking to and I not even playing this game but I like Russian weaponry. The fact it always has something outdated or not not effective is nice.

i have a couple of SPGs an a shitty hertzer

>>6418357
>if you like shitty Russian tanks.

but i only like the object 279

>>6418357
>shitty Russian tanks
>shitty

Less shitty than anyone else's tanks at the time. Well, pretty muhc all the time until the 80's.

So cozy.

You guys might get to see my shiny new IS-7

>>6418680
Enjoy your shitty tank.

Brand new. Ain't that cute?

>>6422884
elephants are always cutes

So envious!

>>6423331
by the way, is there a /jp/ channel?

>>6423410
Yes, there is. Search /jp/ channel.

>>6423423
oh, thanks

they seem to be out of keys. is it too late for me to play?

Downloading and prepared to receive my ass whoopin'
BOOF, join the IRC and send me lots of tanks please.

Can't post the larger versions because currently shitty internet, but here are the full American, Soviet and German tank trees

http://static.mmorpg-center.com/USA_tree_full%28eng%29.jpg

http://static.mmorpg-center.com/USSR%20_full%28eng%29.jpg

http://static.mmorpg-center.com/Germany_tree_full%20%28eng%29.jpg

There's also a French tank tree, but I can't find it, and they were working on the British tank tree

All these people playing heavy tanks.

I still play with a PzKpfw38H735(f), and it's glorious.

Bah, closed Beta can suck 5 dicks.

>>6423486
There are always still keyes out there. Sign up on the World of Tanks website, go to the forums, and people will help you find a key.

>>6423629
I think I'ma just wait for the next wave of invites, too much effort for me at the moment.

>>6423635
mmohut has tons.

>>6423642
Hot damn you were not lying.

I went to a gaming convention and got a disc for this free in the door prizes, should I install and fight for the fatherland?

>>6423642
Well, time to join The Reich.

I want a King Tiger!

I'll probably resume playing tomorrow night or maybe Thursday; after tomorrow night's gold handout I'll have enough for 30 days premium.

As much fun as I've had with the Pz3 (and my highest credit rounds), I've had my best rounds for kills and xp with my old Marder. This was the first SS I ever took and I think it's still my highest xp.

Finally got one. Thanks, Boof. Downloading client as I write this.

Well, this is going to take a bit to install. Looks like it's writing time.

>>6423680
OOOOO

I do hope you can finish that Scarlet fic, it's so delightful.

Round 2!

Ha-ha! Soon I shall terrorize the battlefield!

I hate my piece of shit Hetzer and I hate grinding to the far superior StuG III with it

Why the fuck does the tech tree not make any sense, Hetzer was introduced long after StuG III and Marder III

Install faster damn it.

>>6423700
Part 2 is going to be a sizable read, Patchouli's section alone is going to take about 1.5 pages, and then Remilia's section is going to be drawn out as well. Promising a good, violent, erotic read

>You have to restart your computer in order to use this program

>>6423892
It's fucking annoying when that happens isn't it?

>>6423903
Whats fantastic is I didn't, and it appears to be working.

>>6423841
I await eagerly.

Also for any of you, my username is ''Manfred60''

I am so creative it hurts.

if you guys are going for the IS-7, get the KV-IS instead of the KV-3 after the KV.

The KV-3 is better, but you get put into harder battles.

The KV-IS shares parts with the IS, so you can just mount them on the second you unlock the IS

Oh wow I have no idea what I'm doing in the least. All I know is theres a lot of tanks.

>>6424065
Just take it slowly. in the starter tanks (MS-1 and Ltraktor) there's no cost for dying, so use them to learn how to play.

>>6424218
Eh, I'll try it tomorrow, I'm getting really in to this Patchouli section. I hope this game doesn't end up making me delay this anymore than I should.

Oh god Valentine is failing me.

>>6424275
sell that shit.

>>6423991
The KV-1S may look good on paper.. but it's a horrible tank. And being put in higher tier battles is actually good for KV's sometimes. A good example is my KV. This monster of a gun can do 80% damage to Ferdinand from the front, however if facing a lot of mediums you will be raped senseless by the 30 second reload and 14deg/sec turret turn speed.

>>6424275
Sell it. That's really all it's worth, a good 200k credits to start with.

>>6424334
>30 second reload and 14deg/sec turret turn speed.
I hope not all heavies are that horrible

>>6424606
The turret turn speed averages about 20-25 on a lot of heavies.

The guns average from 4 to 8 rounds/min, the one on my KV is basically the same gun that goes on the Russian tier 6(highest tier arty) SU-51.

>>6424606
30 sec reload is the 152mm howitzer. Bloody thing fires alll HE, all the time (unless the guy using it is a retard) and will insta-pop almost anything on the same tier or below to the KV and pretty much fuck up anything bigger evne if it doesn't penetrate. It's like a sawn-off heavy artillery piece.

>>6424709
Well, technically, the KV was an 'assault gun', which is sort of a short-ranged SPG. It was also useful as a tank.

But why would anyone stay in it and not advance immediately with those specs is beyond me. If I recall, the KV isn't the last tier 10 tank.

>>6424806
The KV with the large gun is a KV1, used for destroying fortresses.

The best setup with the KV is the default turret and the smaller HE only gun, the one that does ~400 damage.

Faster reload, faster turret speed and more then enough damage to deal with most tanks.

>>6424806
The KV..well.. It prints money.

2-3k repair, very cheap shell costs unless you count the 152mm howitzer and even then due to how cheap it is to repair you should always earn a good amount of credits. The KV is also often put in battles of medium tanks as the highest tier tank.

It's basically the perfect all around tank from what I can tell. It has the 152mm, sloped armor, and good health to roll with the high tier heavies and it has the 122mm howitzer combined with a lot of sloped armor to steamroll the medium tank battles, you'll often see 20+ hits taken in those battles. If you mount the 107mm and you'll be the jack of all trades of KV's.

this game is terrible. I bought a BT-7 and now I keep getting matched with tigers and other ridiculous crap.

>Get booted off server after last battle
>Try to reconnect
>Server busy

:|

Also what the fuck are HE shells good for.

>>6425156
Once you get tier 3 tanks you'll be out of the "beginners" bracket. Not much you can do about it in a light tank except scout as the balance is kinda fucked.

You should focus on upgrading engine and suspension, when you are put in such a game then just go as fast as you can to the enemy base while trying to avoid being shot. Once you are in their base..well, run around and try to shoot artillery or lower tier tanks. You'll get a nice amount of credits and exp usually if you can get to their base without being destroyed.

>>6425182
Module damage, artillery(artillery who don't use HE are pretty stupid), if you are a low tier tank trying to shoot a higher tier one or vice-versa HE is best as in former all AP will likely bounce and in latter if HE can pierce the armor it will do far more than AP, or on certain guns where HE does far more damage than AP or has nearly as much penetration.

Take
>>6424334
for example. the AP has something like 110 penetration and 700 damage, where the HE has 86 penetration and 910 damage. The HE in that case is far far better than AP.

>>6425191
It gets wonkier with the premium tanks, as they aren't in any tier.
I've been matched with Loltraktors and PzIII A alike.

>>6425203

So are you saying to just use HE then?

>>6425257
Only in certain cases or with certain guns.

If you use HE with say.. a Tiger and try to shoot something that basically isn't tier 9(even then AP can pierce with good aimed shots) then you will do less damage than if you used AP. However.. if you, for example.. used a Panzer III and tried to shoot a King Tiger, AP will pretty much never do any damage. HE won't do much either but it will at least do a tiny bit.

Now for example you are a Tiger and some silly Panzer III is trying to shoot you. You don't have enough damage to one shot them with AP and you know you can pierce their puny armor with your HE, you can switch to HE to most likely one shot them instead of using two AP shells.

In simple terms: If you are in a low tier medium or light tank and see a heavy use HE. Otherwise use AP unless HE has more damage and almost as much penetration as AP.

>driving my slavshit around trying to stay on the edge of the map
>killed by a tiger 2 from across the field
fuck this game I hate it so much. I need 4500 exp to buy the next level of light tank, and then 15000 more to get to medium, but I'm only getting around 100 per battle because I keep dying.

>>6425744
>FIghting on the other side of the map
You're a shame of a panzerkommander.

>hear about the Hetzer sucks

GAME'S AWFUL

>closed beta
>this game lasts two weeks before becoming pay to play

>>6425871
I was trying to go around the edge and maybe blow up some artillery but some jackass in his penis compensation mobile spotted me from across a river and blew me up with one shot

>>6414147
This needs a Rika thread

In a low tier (1-5)match use AP if you're Tier 1-5. Well except for KV.

If you're let's say a PzIII and going against a Tiger or something awfully armored. Use HE and if possible aim for the Engine/Ammo Bay/Tracks.

Basically
AP - Big Penetration / Low damage
HE - Low Penetration / Huge damage

>>6425929
The huge problem with the game the camouflage system. TD and Arty get a bonus. And what pisses me off the post. High tier Heavies have the biggest View Range, much biger then Light tank scouts etc...

So if they spot your scouting/attacking whatever, you'll get shelled by arty, and killed by TDs and Heavies.

>>6426179
how does view range work? is that why sometimes it looks like tanks are appearing out of nowhere?

>>6426219
Well at long rage tanks telephone around, they'd said they'd fix it in the next patch.

But yes thats why they appear out of nowhere, view range is determined by some points, you see more when you're stationary, you are more hidden when you're cover such as bushes, and you can buy some equipment that let's you see more and be seen less. But only when you're stationary. This obviously mostly benefits TDs and Arty.

Is it just me or is the SU-5 a downgrade from the SU-26?

Well yes, no turret means constant refocusing. You do move a bit faster I think when you're moving but thats not something arty should be doing.

The better gun does awesome damage but you can only carry 14 shells.

And if you use the old one well then there no point really.

So yeah basically it sucks.

Oh boy, I play on staying up all night tonight.

Add me, "BOOF"

>>6428478
SU-26 is the only SPG with a turret.

You can aim all day with it and not have to worry about the tank moving and resetting your aiming reticule.

So what's the gameplay like?

Everyone get in /jp/ channel.

Is the /jp/ channel called /jp/ (Mew)? That's the only search that came up when I searched for /jp/.

Also, just finished installing the game, got three light tanks and don't even know how to play! Sweet.

Is there anything I should aim on buying? Personally, I like the fact of being highly maneuverable over sheer defense. Makes me feel less like a sitting duck on a battlefield.

Why an I the only one not playing this game ;_;

Oh, wait, I haven't received that veri code. Fuck.

>>6428549
Yes, I don't know why it has my name on it, probably because I crated it but thats it yes.

If anyone knows how to remove my name do tell me.

>>6428549
Sell Valentine. It's plenty of cash to start with. Play a battle or 2 and you should get the hang of it pretty fast

>>6428558
Go register on MMO-hut, they have a shitton of codes available for just registering.

>>6428558

Yes, go do this right now. I didn't even needed to wait for my code from the WoT website, I just got mine from there.

>>6428549
Sell the Valentine
After that try playing the game. Heavy tanks are slow as fuck but also strong as fuck. But you have to camp and play jumping from cover to cover with them because arty rapes you ass hard.
Go for the KV if you'd like to play as Heavy. Germans get Heavies 2 tiers later and it's quite a bitch to get there.

On the other hand you have medium tanks that are pretty darn fast and pack a punch so you can run from the arty. If you like the Medium Tank play style (you can judge the play style from the PzIII or A-20)

Light tanks are super fast but are crap both in armor and guns, they only good for scouting for the arty or TD/Heavies.
Or you can play as TDs, camp all day and snipe.

Or you can play as Arty, camp and sniper from super long distances.

Protip:

Sell all your Slavshit and go down the center tier in the German tree.

>>6428596
More like if you like arty and heavies or mediums go Russians.

If you like TDs and Heavies go German.

>>6428596
And have BT2/T26/BT7/T46 driving circles around you all day erry day, unless you are in a PzII Luchs?

>>6428572
>>6428580

Thanks for the info, guys. I love you~

the fuck, I thought I could get premium tonight but I must have been mistaken in when I had received gold before; I thought I was going to pass 2500 tonight but it won't be until tomorrow night (I'll be at 2490 tonight, nice fail, but I had already taken that into account). Oh well, I'll just play more Spitan tonight and hopefully finish Nelie/Shiah route so I can start Nim route.

>>6428623
I'm not sure what's special about the Luchs regarding keeping people from running circles around you? PzIIIA is actually more mobile, although its paper armor made it quite a pain to play as PzIIs with flak could rape you. Once you get the medium PzIII then you can laugh as lights bounce their shots off you and you're just as mobile as them (have to protect your sides though). Pic related, got Steel Wall after I followed a single teammate to the enemy flag and he got killed, then I got tracked and ganged up on.

Can anyone tell me how to play fucking TDs? Unreliable aim, virtually no sight range, and the fact that to aim more than 10 degrees each side, you have to fucking turn the tank is giving me a shit. I always find myself trying to hit something, but for some reason, I never do.

Any indication that the devs are going to fix the SPGs to not be ridiculously accurate?

>>6431309
>TDs
TDs work very well in a semi-defensive role. Hiding in a bush and waiting for your enemy to come to you works quite well (and the SPGs will thank you for the cover, even if they don't say so). I haven't really had a problem with aiming other than to say that TDs aren't really meant to fire while moving.

>>6431309
TD are meant to be a surprise unit, hiding in the bushes, then one shotting things that come your way (but of course, you'd have to be similar level/tier to the enemy tank). As an arty, I love friendly TDs, although I prefer a heavy as an escort more. Still, I feel TD are pretty underpowered compared a heavy or a medium of same tier; they're just not worth playing.

>>6431352
TD's are--german TD's at least, very very good but oh so easily countered by artillery. When they have cover and someone watching their back they are insanely deadly and insanely hard to kill.

This JagdTiger for example, when it was looking like a complete loss.. he, with a King Tiger watching his back, killed 8 enemy tanks including a King Tiger and panther, and still lived with 25% health. Combined with the King Tiger, they took out 11 enemy tanks mostly all alone. In hindsight, I should have taken the screenshot of the tank list.

You absolutely have to have a decent tier tank backing you up or else you will simply be detracked, circled, and killed. And you have to avoid getting shelled by artillery.

Just finished to update my WoT.

World of Tanks beta v.0.5.5.1 - v.0.6.1.5 changelog:

General:
- Added new tech-tree - American tanks. 22 tanks + 3 premium tanks. Also added American tank crews.
- Added two new maps: "Monastery" and "Sandy River".
- Removed "teleports" of tanks at great distances when aiming at them.
- Introduced advanced video settings.
- Now for the first battle of the day on each tank (24h) player will receive double experience.
- Fixed crash to the garage with 0 experience and credits.
- Fixed almost all cases when tank gets "stuck" in battle.

Balance of tank performance parameters and economy:
- Cost of gold consumables reduced by 50%.
- Increased effect of the following consumables "Chocolate", "Coca-Cola box", "Extra combat rations".
- Increased shell dispersion for SPGs by 10%.
- Shell velocity decreased by 20% for all vehicles, including SPGs’ shells.
- Increased repair costs: Hummel (15%), Ferdinand (10%), JagdTiger (20%), SU-8 (5%), S-51 (20%), SU-152 (20%), ISU-152 (10%), T-43 (10%), IS (15%).
- Reduce rate of ammo-rack burning for all tanks.
- Improved fire extinguishers: manual fire extinguisher = +25% to firefighting abilities, automatic fire extinguisher = +50% to firefighting abilities.
- Added ability to pivot turn on a spot for tanks: Panther, VK3601H, Tiger, Tiger II.
- Increased VK1602 gun’s angle of depression by 4 deg.
- Increased tracks repair speed by 20% for VK1602.
- Rebalanced Pz38t: maneuverability, cross-country ability, turret rotation, accuracy, and aiming speed adjusted.
- Removed AP rounds from the default ammunition of 152mm gun BR-2.
- Fixed rate of fire for the stock guns of SU-152 (decreased) and ISU-152 (increased).
- Reduced traverse speed of SPG "Bison" by 3 deg/sec.
- Increased traverse speed of SPG SU-5by 8 deg/sec.
- Changes to Porsche_Deutz_Typ180_2 engine of the heavy tank 4502: increased horsepower to 840 h/p, switched to diesel, decreased chance of fire.
- Added match-making limitation on participation in high tier battles for tanks Valentine and T1 heavy.
- Minor balance fixes to tank performance parameters.

FZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Update!?

God damn it I waited so long ;_;

Damage models and game mechanics:
- Fixed "ricochet" message when the damage is inflicted.
- Set limitation on the distance of projectile movement inside the tank after the armor penetration. The limitation is set in order to reduce number of “was hit at the front and the engine got damaged”, etc.
- Increased normalization effect when shell penetration value is twice as much as armor thickness value or more.
- Fixed cases when projectile "disappears" after hitting the gun.
- Reduced randomization in armor-penetration and damage from 30% to 25%.
- Improved HE explosion: when exploding your HE on the static object near your tank, your tank will be damaged; when exploding your HE on the armor, the splash damage is distributed by the standard rules of splash damage.
- Fixed repair kit when repairing fuel-tank.
- Battle Hero "Steel Wall" is not awarded posthumously anymore.
- Battle Hero "Sniper": the rule "no less than 10 shots, no less than 80% hits" replaced with "more than 10 shots, no less than 85% hits".
- Fixed error with displaying reloading for guns with low rate of fire.
- Fixed error with counting hits when shooting at destroyed tanks.

Match-Making System:
- Balance-weight of tanks does not increase when in a platoon.
- Removed influence of modules on the balance-weight of a tank.
- Added one more battle tier for the high tier vehicles: HT 10,9,8,7; MT 8,7; SPG 5,6; TD 7,8,9.

Content:
- Fixed several places where tank can get stuck on the maps "Himmelsdof", "Prokhorovka", "Lakeville", "Pagorki".
- Fixed indestructible objects on the maps "Murovanka" and "Himmelsdorf".
- Fixed crash states and models of some objects.
- Added destruction of some objects.
- Removed the dog yelping when driving over the dog houses.
- Reduced size of textures of destroyed tanks.
- Optimized tank models for display at long distances.
- Tank Tiger I: redrawn tracks, fixed increased brightness of the 75mm in the second turret.
- Fixed mantlet of 10.5cm guns on tanks VK3001H and VK3601H.
- Fixed texture errors of the second turret of the VK3601H tank.
- Fixed tracks model of Tiger II tank.
- Fixed chassis model of SU-85B.
- Fixed black tracks texture of the crash-state for "Marder II".
- Fixed darkening of SU-5 guns at the far distance.

Interface:
- Reworked platoon creation interface.
- Fixed error when not able to leave pre-battle room by invite.
- Fixed error with “non-rotational” destroyed vehicle in battle UI after the battle start.
- Added 2 tips.
- Marked non-demountable modules in the module list with "lock" icon.
- Added additional cursors.
- Simplified tanker's panel in the hangar. The addition information is now displayed when pointing at the tanker.
- Redesigned screens "Barracks", "Depot", "Store" to fit the general style.
- Now when pressing Esc while in "Barracks, "Depot", "Store", "Statistics", "Research", etc. you will exit into the hangar
- Fixed minor errors with re-education of the tank crew.
- Added tank description in the tank's info-window (so far only for soviet and german vehicles).
- Added crew description in the tank's info-window.
- You can now mark your tanks as prime/primary and it is displayed at the beginning of the garage tank scrolling selection lineup.
- Players, which haven't loaded into the map yet, now displayed with "connecting" status.
- When generating a new tank crew, they will always have different faces.
- Added additional statuses to the team lists in battle: connected to the battle, connected and in battle, destroyed and in battle, destroyed and left the battle.
- Added clarification on the cost of transfer of the free experience for the gold.
- Few fixes for vehicle research window.

- When buying consumables, it is possible to set amount of consumables to purchase.
- Crew members in the hangar and in the tank window in the battle are always displayed in the same order.
- Added tank control when holding down mouse wheel.
- Added voice messages when crew members injured.
- Fixed error: "When researching a module, the amount of free experience in the hangar header does not change".
- Fixed several interface errors in training room and invites.
- Added button "E" to disengage auto-aim.
- Removed possibility of bringing up marker "Attacking" on a destroyed enemy.
- Fixed display of several repair notification when pressing "Repair" button multiple times.
- Fixed cases of erroneous display of win and defeat percentages.
- Fixed texts on some interfaces.
- Added the elite-tank marking in the tank list in the hangar.
- Limit on display of number of medals increased from 99 to 999.
- Added description of the current battle mode under the button "Battle!".
- Fixed error with displaying medals/achievements counter.
- For SPG: moving mouse when RMB is pressed allows separating camera from reticule.
- Added button "Maximize" in the window mode. Added ability to change window size with a mouse.
- Multiple minor interface fixes and improvements.

and last

Miscellaneous:
- Improved grass visualization - grass color fits better to the color of landscape.
- Removed reticule fixation on some minor objects.
- Reduced possibility of displaying movement of destroyed tanks.
- Fixed tracks "jerking" effect when tracks moving.
- Fixed error with SPG tracers splitting mid-flight.
- Fixed sound of observation modules when they are being destroyed/repaired/damaged.
- Removed unused modules from the Store.
- Added new graphical post-effects.
- Renamed executable file to WorldOfTanks.exe
- Fixed error with displaying hanging sections of fences in some camera angles on different maps.
- Added caching of some sounds in order to decrease “twitching” when driving over destructible objects.

>>6431309
>>6431441
TDs are like snipers.
I kill more enemies with TDs than heavies.

USA tree, for those interested.

USA tanks! USA tanks everywhere!

>- Added new tech-tree - American tanks

Fancy as fuck!

>Removed the dog yelping when driving over the dog houses.
I always told my team doing that removed points.

>>6432102
I'm quitting this game.

I want to play the game and I am even willing to pay for this premium account stuff, but tell me, will it let me play just random people all day or can I actually group up with peoples and we can coordinate and shit. Enlighten me.

>>6432134
There's platoon (party) option. I'm not sure if they fixed it, but the limit of a platoon is 3 members.

>>6432134
The premium thing is totally free, you just get it by paying with gold coins that you get daily.

>>6432141
>>6432150
Thanks there, but it seems like this game still didn't release? I played the beta when that first came out but didn't stick with it.

>>6432159
It's still in beta.

Updated graphics, check your options!

>>6432274

>almost 700mb update

Damn good graphics, those.

Update uploaded here

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U9XRE29N

Download and put it in the game directory to save yourself from the 4 hour update time.

>>6432394
It is available in torrent too, which is much faster.
http://game.worldoftanks.com/update
I always update through torrents since their servers usually seems overwhelmed.w

Coca-cola, haha, oh woaw!

>>6432002
Picture very related.

>>6432474
I didn't moved AN INCH to make those kills, and I didn't get hit.
TDs = snipers

>>6432394
>>6432423
It was ok-ish for the first half hour, I got to 50% and I thought you guys were exaggerating... well, after that it went downhill. At least it's almost done now, just took three more hours than I expected.

>>6432533
Except the fucking Hetezer fuck that tanks is so fucking useless and you always end up in high tier matches. FUCK I HATE THAT TANK.

>>6432394

I cannot believe I waited 4 hours for nothing. Well, patience is a virtue, I suppose.

>>6432886
>Hetezer

Hetzers gonna Hetz

no but really, what they did to the Hetzer is a war crime

>>6433191
You know when I first played the game I saw the tank, and comparing it to all the other games I played like Company of Heroes or Man of War or Sudden Strike or Blitzkrieg the Hetzer was always a fine stealth sniper with a fuckton of frontal sloped armor.

Not this piece of shit.

>>6433276
yeah, hell, didnt the hetzer have a stealth skill in COH?

>>6433276
I was once with 27 HP left, killed 4 tanks and capped the base from 0 to 100% alone.
On a Hetzer.

At least have the common sense delete this thread, given that there's no spam it'll stay up for days otherwise.

>>6433375
As long as they don't spread on the rest of the board (and with a janitor as active as our meido, I'd doubt it), it's not really a problem.
Let kids have their fun, they usually have quite the short attention span anyway.

>>6433381

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Leopard is best.

>>6433342
It did, that and that scope upgrade that let you view 20% more or something when stationary.

NYAN NYAN!

>>6433390
Hah, wow.

Wait, now I hear Ranka

JUST GET THE FUCK OUT ALREADY YOU SHITPOSTER NYAN

>>6433375
Threads like these are good because all of the bad posters in the board get attracted to it. Haven't you noticed how while it was stickied, not a single common spam was sighted on the front page? That felt good. Although checking the archive I see some bad threads that got deleted, so maybe the mod was not as bad as I had thought.

NIHAO NYAN

Oh god what's going on here?

make it stop

>mods fucking with /jp/
I'm ok with this only if it leads to the board's deletion

look at how fucking small this tank is goddamn

ps it's the hetzer

nyan

call me when you can play as a ratte

Goodbye, shit thread.

>>6433390
>Oh god, you can embed YouTube videos, let me suck your dick!
Fucking power-mad mods. No wonder they don't stop shitposters; they are part of the problem.

Oh shit, it's the fucking song that my little sister listens to every day.

>>6432880
I believe this is a trial.
A thread with no bump-limit. How long will it stay up?
Will /jp/ learn to take it easy?
Will somebody rescue it from page 15?

Stay tuned.

>>6433422
Oh shit, are you me?

THIS BACKGROUND MUSIC IS NOT /jp/ RELATED.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy_xbXIJ898

CHECK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU WRECK YOURSELF.

Nyan nyan

>>6433427
What the hell ISN'T /jp/ related? Otaku love that fucking nyan dance last I checked.

I actually think threads like these would be fun from time to time if they didn't attract shitposters from all the corners of 4chan.

Oh well, that's the price you pay from keeping a clean board.

SHIT
JUST
GOT
NYAN!!!

It's not a sticky anymore.

the frustration

NINJIN LOVES YOU YEAH

Can't Meido delete this now ?
Also, stop bumping.

>>6433433
Which means you can report it! Good times.

The first time I heard this was in a Chenroll video, so I've associated it with Touhou ever sense.

Take it easy /jp/

>>6433438
mods can change the bump limit (I think)

DOWNLOADIN NOW

Is the Valentine really that awful and shitty so you always have to sell it? I got an M2 before the servers went down, it had one of those burst cannons, so I could have shots bounce off light tanks, horay!

30 days premium costs 2500 gold
you can convert 2500 gold into 1 million credits
you would have to average 66666 credits gained per day for the 50% bonus to be worth the investment

is this correct?

>>6435847
actually wait you can't use the premium for the first 12 days so you would have to average 111111 credits per day to have the same amount at the end of 30 days. I still think I'm missing something though.

>American T2 artillery piece has more armor than the t2 medium tank

haha oh wow

>>6435757
The Valentine you get while you still have tier 1 tanks. It will take a lot of games in the Valentine to make that 200k credits it is worth, and then it will take even more gold to transfer the exp you gained while earning that 200k to free exp. It's just not worth keeping around as a starting 200k credits is really nice.

Ok, so I'm interested in this game. But I have a problem. I only really like the Stug III. It's my favorite armored vehicle of world war II, and I orgasm whenever I think about driving the cute little thing in a game. I have no problem grinding up to it on the tech tree. But before I do this, I have to know:

Once you reach a tank, if you decide you love it and don't want to tech up to the next one, they don't force you too right? So once I reach the Stug III, I can use it forever more, and just keep upgrading it until it's as good as the Stug can get in the game?

Pic related, its the Sturmgeschutz IIIG, the most produced German tank of WWII, and the war machine responsible for killing more tanks than any other weapon in history. She's quite cute and unassuming for such a cold blooded killing machine.

>>6436026
Oh, and I like Hetzers too. I love tank destroyers. The Stug III G had better frontal armor than the Hetzer though, which makes it better as a tank destroyer, but the Hetzer has its own charm too. So I won't mind having to grit my teeth and tech through the Hetzer in this game to get to the Stug.

>>6436038
Quick random fact

The Hetzer was the first tank to use a remote controlled machinegun

>>6436038
Have a free Hetzer

>>6436128
Why thank you, kind anon. I'll be sure to ambush many an unsuspecting enemy with it!

>>6436026
Yeah, you can keep the tank as long as you wish.

There's even a reward for researching everything on that tank, it gets elite status and can either use the rest of the exp gained to speed up crew training or transfer the exp it gains to free exp at 1 gold per 25 exp.

>>6435847
>Premium and Credits per day
30 days for a million credits comes to 33333 credits per day you need to get from the 50% bonus, or 66666 credits per day base. At low levels this is impossible, but once you get to the tier 4-5 tanks it is easy to get that with about 10 matches (fewer with win streaks, more with loss streaks) I regularly get 8k experience with my SU-5 if I survive the match. The 12 days you spend saving don't factor in because the choice is between 1M gold and the 30 days of premium. This also ignores the 50% extra experience which is invaluable when considering the steep costs of research after the fourth tier.

>>6436738
>More premium account and credits
I could further note that once you've gotten the 30-days of premium, it only takes you ~17 days to get the required credits again, so the remaining ~13 days worth of daily gold are still available (2000 gold) for whatever you would like (Including converting it to 800k credits), so you could also consider it as: Would I rather have 1.8 Million credits, or 800k credits and 30 days of 50% more credits and experience and the ability to form a platoon?

>>6436026
You can keep it as long as you want to.
But you have to keep in mind that it's a V tier tank, so you won't make high level of battles.

Pic related, it's my Stug III that I keep in case I need money. It's super fast and reliable.

got a key, downloadan the client

I just can't resist anymore.

Any advice for a noob?

>>6437849
Light tanks that aren't moving will die.
Brush reduces your visibility if you're stationary.
Shoot them in the back.
Shift to get a gun view (or satellite view in SPGs)
You can sell the Premium Tank you start with for a sizable pile of credits.

>>6437849
play russian tanks.

>>6437862

>You can sell the Premium Tank you start with for a sizable pile of credits.

so does that mean it sucks, or is it just if you want to use something else?

thanks for the tips, I expect to get my ass handed to me until I get the hang of it, but I'll keep in mind to keep moving.

~17 minutes left in my download, woooo

>>6437885
It isn't that it sucks so much as it puts you in higher tier battles before you're ready.

That and credits are a bit hard to come by early on. Oh also:
Don't exchange Gold for credits. It pays out 400:1, but the Gold is more valuable for other things (tanker training, experience transfer, Premium Account)

Resumed playing last night after hitting 2500+ gold, goddamn I was having such shitty rounds I was making less xp/credits with premium than I had been before. Also the new matchmaking is pissing me off, suddenly my PzIII gets tier 9 instead of capping at tier 8 (no big difference really, either way I'm dead if I let something hit me) but my Wespe no longer gets high tier fights filled with easy-to-hit heavies, now I just get low tier battles with hard-to-hit lights and I earn shitty xp/credits due to the lower tier even if I do well.

>>6437925
I exchanged gold for credits at the very start since you can get enough xp for the tier 2 tanks way faster than you get credits, and I didn't want to be stuck in the loltraktor grinding credits. Then I did it again to buy the Marder II because I didn't want to be stuck in the PzJg1 any longer. After that it clearly wasn't worth it, plus I got a PzII next; once you start playing multiple tanks, credits start rolling in a lot faster than you can max out a single tank. Of course none of this matters if you sell a Valentine or something (I didn't get anything since I just registered from the main site).

>>6437862
I should note that regarding light tank advice, a lot of it flies out the window when it comes to the tier 1-2 battles which are just light tanks slugging it out with each other. In that case camping or stopping to aim would be a good idea to make sure you at least deal some damage; I tried moving nonstop and it just made me miss all the time while still getting hit because the starter tanks are so slow. Then I'd get almost no xp because I didn't land a single hit before dying. Using a flak gun (i.e. PzII) you can just zoom around and spray and pray though.

>>6438123

I've found that the faster firing cannons are a huge advantage with my starter tanks... that "spray and pray" methodology is good since the basic cannon is ass anyways, and the 20mms can do surprising damage even against medium tanks if you get the drop on them.

If only they weren't so damn slow! Freaking mediums zipping past me while I struggle to go 5kph up a hill...

Not sure whether to go down the SPG or TD tree now... glorious artillery or delicious Stug?

why the fuck do they call it world of tanks? they should call it world of invisible tank destroyers and artillery camping

>>6439001
Welcome to 1940's

>>6439001
>invisible tank destroyers and artillery camping
Hiding in the bush is almost the TDs only advantage.

For the artillery: it helps a great deal to have a competent counter-arty on your team, because arty can usually one-shot other arty.

This last patch has made using my Tiger much, much better. I had my doubts with the reduced shell velocity but jeez, this was a major much needed buff to the German tanks.

I got tired of playing my KV and really wanted to play a few games as my Tiger.. out of 5 games so far, I've gotten sniper in four. That is a 150% improvement as you can reliably hit from long distances and not have to miss and waste credits on shells or be in close combat which the Tiger isn't supposed to do.

I assume this goes for all other German tanks as well, since the German tanks have better accuracy than the Russian tanks of the same tier.

>>6439071
their disadvantage is supposed to be that they're slow and don't have a turret, but that hardly matters when you can camp a huge area and not even be visible to people trying to shoot back.

>>6439333
I don't think they did anything to the tiger.

>>6439071

I thought TDs had better penetration/guns too?

I'm just a tier II scrub right now though, experimenting with playing the SPG or TD tree because it's a different style of play. I usually don't like to be the one charging into the thick of things.

>>6439404
It was removing the "ghost tanks" the skipping tanks at long ranges. With them removed German tanks can actually use their advantage of accuracy and range properly

Playing US tanks, I've found myself getting from point A to point B faster, but also dying a lot more quickly. Not to mention not killing anything.

I wonder if I should just ditch them and stick to the Pz38H735(f), or give the US tanks more chances?
Also, no US TDs?

>>6439431
>no US TDs?
Not yet.

>>6436026
Yes, you can keep any tank you buy. Initially, you have 6 garage slots, but you can buy more for gold. Same goes for barracks, where you intially have space for IIRC 32 crewmembers.

It's actually a good idea to have several tanks. High-tier vehicles have a problem making profit in many matches and you can just jump into a new tank and new match if you get killed instead fo waiting for the round to end.

So I decided to give SPGs a try and I'm feeling pretty awesome right now. Having a top-down view of the map, clicking wherever I want to shoot, I feel like I can pretend I'm calling down orbital strikes or something.

Has anyone managed to max out the Camouflage, Repair, or Firefighting skills yet? It starts to take forever after 60%.

>>6439483
>99%
Almost there!

>>6439501
>Arno Günsche
Related to Otto Günsche, the dude that tells Hitler Fegelein is nowhere to be found?

>>6439515
That was just a random nick...

>>6439481
Why the sage?

>>6439570
Just a habit. I don't think my comments are worth bumping the thread. Especially since this thread isn't really related to /jp/.

wow, I just got tier 10 in my Pz3 now; it wouldn't be a problem except I now frequently get no-arty high tier matches, making me totally useless since there's no friendly arty to spot for and no arty to kill (and spotting for friendly tanks is useless since heavies have massive view distance anyway). And my Wespe still hasn't gotten a single battle higher than tier 5 since the patch, hell even my Marder occasionally got tier 6.

As a result I was starting to question whether premium was even working due to terrible xp/credits but apparently it's just my rounds have been total shit. (I finally had one Pz3 round where I got 1200+ xp and 16k+ credits so the +50% must be in effect). Finally got my PzIII/IV and my very first battle I get instantly one-shotted by a Ferdinand, resulting in 44xp after the first-battle-of-day doubling, what a fucking waste of that.

And loading times are fucking horrible now, something is wrong with Ensk in particular. First time I got it today I was destroyed by the time I got in, second time I got it I was still late entering; every round multiple players on both teams are late.

Yes, I mad

>>6439728
Yeah, this patch looks laggy.

>>6439728
>Finally got my PzIII/IV and my very first battle I get instantly one-shotted by a Ferdinand
>And loading times are fucking horrible now

Brand new tanks will often look worse than previous one. Just wait to get fully upgraded and used to it!

>>6439811
it's not that (actually the PzIII/IV requires very little upgrading), just that I got screwed by the battle it stuck me in and the doubled xp got utterly wasted. (A couple battles later I got a lower tier battle on Abbey, slipped down the undefended east road and fucked their shit up inside their base, no problems). Just annoying because that extra xp makes more difference when you're trying to get those initial upgrades researched ASAP, in the long term of course it's just a drop in the bucket.

>>6439483
>>6439501
Yay!

>>6439811
oh, and I just noticed you quoted the thing about loading times; I was talking about the map loading when you enter battle, not gun reloading

>>6439896
Ow, I didn't noticed any change about that.
Probably because I have the game on a SSD...

This'll be longer than the eurobeat.

I fucking hate killing loads of enemies and not being able to win.

>>6442521
That's better!

You know... I bet there is a tsundere overcompensating loli tank girl Hetzer made by some Japanese artist somewhere. She's sensitive about her huge, big titted older catgirl sisters JagdPanther and JagdTiger, but strives to prove her usefullness by letting infantry ride on her flat back like her role model - the caring, good at sports oneechan Stug III. And Hetzer-chan can kill big tanks too! Hmph!

>driving along in my panzer 3
>ram a stuart to immobilize it and turn my turret to finish it off
>killed by art

>driving along in my a-20 at 60 km/h
>no enemies in sight
>killed by art

fuck this game I hate it

The spotting system in this game is literally awful, there's no point in light tanks, because as soon as you get close to an enemy medium the entire enemy team can see you and you get blown up.

>>6443583
The spotting/radio system does need improvement. I don't know the specifics of how it works now, but at bare minimum there needs to be a delay for radioed spotting of a second or so.

>>6443489
>And Hetzer-chan can kill big tanks too!
I've got bad news for you.

>>6443583
That's obvious that if you're in sight of the whole enemy team you'll get killed pretty easily. You're supposed to dodge and run fast.
>WHY ISNT IT EASY GODDAMNIT I CANT INTO STRATEGY

>>6443583
If you get a Leopard it'll get a lot better.

I've actually bounced shells from VK3601H's, and once from an IS while scouting. Though the Leo is worse at turning and acceleration than a Luchs, the survivability really helps at times.

Alright, Hetzer TD or a 7.6cm pak36

>>6443800
When you first start using the Hetzer, its going to suck. It's going to be really slow, and the gun will be less effective than the 7.6 on the Marder.

HOWEVER. After you get used to it, and you upgrade the engine and such, and you upgrade its gun, it becomes much better than the Marder. It has better armor, and more health, and it has a closed crew compartment, so HE isn't as effective against you.

It seems to me that every time I upgrade to a new tank, it seems worse than the old one, but after using it for a bit, it quickly becomes awesome. Probably a combination of upgrades and getting more familiar with it.

But personally, I recommend the Hetzer. You have to grind with it some time if you want to get to the Stug, which is a great TD especially with that L70 gun.

>>6444000
>every time I upgrade to a new tank, it seems worse than the old one
Consider, if you will, that you're comparing a late production model (fully upgraded) of the first tank with an early model of the new tank (not upgraded).

IS-7 from across the forest:
First shot: set on fire
Second and blind shot: killed

I fucking love TDs. Best xp/money ever made in one battle.

>>6444000
Actually the Hetzer's 75mm upgrade is still worse than the Marder's 76mm. There's the 105mm but that's kind of a sidegrade rather than a clear upgrade, as you're gonna be doing HE only for crits, slower fire rate, better against the stuff way over you but not as good as AP against someone evenly matched. The big problem is you're higher tier and thus get tougher opponents than the Marder will, Marder gets an occasional tier 6 at the very most, generally nothing higher than tier 5, and it can punch through the armor of any of those.

Having to go two tiers higher just to get a gun that's seriously better than the PaK36(r) just did not seem very appealing to me, that's why I stopped with the Marder and went to tanks. Also camping gets really boring, I'd rather scout and die and quickly hop in another battle.

That feel when stuck with shitty T-28 when KV is so far but close.

>>6445060

well, when confronted with this problem I'm thinking that maybe it makes sense to research the Marder fully, make it elite, and then do your grindan with the Marder and/or other elite status tanks you may have, and then just use the free experience conversion to go straight from Marder to Stug. It'll cost you fairly significant gold to do that, but in the end you'll have skipped the hetz altogether.

/Or just take your hetzer like a man, it builds character.

FFUUUUUU

I downloaded this because of /v/.

I am at tier III American tank with a 37mm gun. Every single map I am up against tier VII or VIII. Like tiger II, and other shit.

When I play tier 1 or 2, I keep seeing tier III people. Why do they get to play against tanks of their own level, but I never do?

I ambush even a tier V from behind and I get a "bounced off", again and again. After the 4th attack at point blank range he turned and one-shotted me.

When does this game get playable?

>>6445181

*because of /jp/ I mean.

>>6445181
>American tank
>When does this game get playable?

never

>>6445181
This might help you.

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/1930-guide-getting-past-tier-3/
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/13469-scouting-guide/page__p__175752__hl__%2Bscouting
+%2Bguide__fromsearch__1#entry175752

I tried to follow the scouting guidelines but they don't work for me.
Rushing to disable arty? Most of the times I'm getting shot from every possible angle.
Be in the vanguard spotting for heavier tanks? When I finally spot the TD in the bush I'm eating AP.

>>6445230
>Guides
What the fuck is wrong with you guys nowadays.
It's like reading guides on how to catch pokemon.

Just grind and you'll get past the Hetzer.
To scout just run fast, go from the sides so that their shells will easily miss you. And never stop of course.

Pic related, that's how I kill 8 enemies without reading guides.

>>6445230

I read that guide, and it is hopelessly out of date. Scouting is no longer easy XP at tier III

Scouting is worthless in a medium tier 3 tank. Any tier 7 tank can see me before I see them, and a higher ranked light tank on my team will have already scouted half the battlefield.

I thought a lighter tank could outflank a bigger tank and hurt it, but I was wrong. Most higher ranked players seem to be of average skill so I outflank them easily when I can hide near buildings. Unfortunately rear armor on a tank 2 ranks higher is still impenetrable. I got behind them and fired several times, and every shot bounced off.

I wasn't looking for a kill, just battle XP. But I got zero because shots bounding off don't count.

Why can't I simply play against other rank 2&3 tanks? Is this because they want it to be like a Corean MMO and make nasty grinding barriers, but let players with real money buy their way past them?

>Is this because they want it to be like a Corean MMO and make nasty grinding barriers, but let players with real money buy their way past them?

It will probably get worse when the game goes live.

It won't surprise me if XP requirements will double in the real version once actual money is involved. It is in the companies best interest to keep non-premium players stuck at rank III for at least a month.

>>6445276
go fast? nigger my tank goes 66 kph on dirt and I still get blasted by faggots in hummels

I finally got my first medium tank, Panzer III, thinking that I could do something else besides running around doing shit damage as with my previous light tank.

I was wrong, I'm always matched with higher tier heavies and I don't know what can I do besides giving free exp and credits to the enemy who first one-shots me.

thinking about getting that US light premium tank.

It's supposed to be the fastest tank in the game, I've seen those fucking things approach the sound barrier

>>6445877
If a Hummel wasted a shot on you light tank instead of your artillery, your death was an advantage for the team.

>>6443697
I have an M5, it's fairly unagile and if you want to mount the howitzer on it (you do) it's acceleration becomes poop and top speed drops a few kph.

Making this suggestion here won't change anything but I think the spotting system should be changed like so:

Currently if you see a tank, it's position is instantly broadcasted from your radio range to all other tanks, which can probably broadcast it from there (unsure), what you should need to do is actually have your cursor over the tank for maybe a few seconds, and then it is transmitted, obviously it should be easier to spot with light tanks than other classes, in addition this makes it harder to spot light tanks as they will be harder to track with at turret, light tank sighting distance should also be increased, this will firmly give the light tank a roll as either a rushing tank past enemy lines, or supporting near the front as a dedicated spotter.

Also a bunch of people are forgetting, the hetzer has 80 front goddamn armor, at long range AP shells lose effectiveness, so unlike other AT guns, barring high tier german AT guns (more like fixed turret tanks) you can actually survive hits.

>>6445888
I enjoyed my time in the M2 light tanks, and the T2 light tank looked like the same thing but with a smaller profile and faster, you should check it out.

scheduled maintenance FFFFFUUUUUUU

oh well, I should probably go to bed anyways.

>>6446096
Yeah, Hetzer is a great tank destroyer. It is actually 60mm thick front armor. Historically the Stug IIIG (by FAR the most produced) had 80mm front armor. You can survive hits from typical mid-tier firepower quiet well.


Do you guys use some of your gold to get specialized ammunition like APCR or HEAT? If I had those specialized anti tank shells like those, I could kill even heavy tanks with the Hetzer without too much trouble, but it is worth the gold?

>>6446153
I've bought like 20 APCR rounds and you could punch through side armor on lower tier heavy with a light tank gun 37mm

Remind me to get a server up tomorrow so we can get everyone here in one big match.

>>6446177
Everyone. In traktors.

>>6445888
I too had that idea. But then I saw the wet paper armor it's made of...
The H735(f) spoiled me. You can get into a firestorm with that and it'll get you through, if you can get there at all. Bad acceleration is bad.

>>6446183
I was thinking of a race.

>>6446198
Sounds awesome. Looks like some twisted metal type of race, amirite?

>>6446198

What am I looking at?

Also, fucking game. Oh sure, my hetzer handles IS-4's just fine. Lets face nothing but them.

Oh wait. :|

I want the US T29 but goddamn the first two US Heavy's are shit. Even when fully upgraded, they get raped by KV's.

Don't even get me started on the M3 Lee...

basically they fucked up the matchmaking in the last update, tier 4 tanks are getting ridiculously high level battles way more frequently than they did before. It especially sucks for you if you're stuck in a Lee, at least the Pz3 is an awesome scout. I still get good rounds of raping the enemy arty in my Pz3... assuming there's actually any arty in the battle to kill. If you're in a Lee and the enemy team has scouts you can sit back near the friendly arty and try to kill the scouts, otherwise you're pretty much useless.

>>6446272
Hetzers are getting T9 battles too? That definitely confirms that something is fucked up now for tier 4 in particular. I thought that in the case of my Pz3 it was just trying to allocate some potential scouts to every battle (Leopard and A-20 drivers have always had to deal with that since they're the highest tier lights), but a low tier TD against +5 is totally worthless. My tier 3 Marder and Wespe never get anything above tier 5 now, it's like tier 4 instantly sends you to rape zone

>>6446295
/jp/, how do would I go playing this game?

>>6446575
http://www.shatteredcrystal.com/index.php/world_of_tanks is where I got my key, they might have some left.

>>6446606
Nah, I meant how's the gameplay?

Is it the same as AO/*insert generic war game here*?

>DearJaimy, Mucrae

>Nah, I meant how's the gameplay?

Think of a MMORPG where players level 1-75 characters all share the same battlefield. Your level 3 character will be expected to go up against a level 62 warrior, and that warrior is immune to 100% of everything you throw at him and will kill you in one hit.

That is WOT in a nutshell.

Tank rank >>>> skill.

Which one of you plays as Hisui?

>>6446198
loltraktor race vs BOOF? Count me in.

>>6446804
>Tank rank >>>> skill.
I could avoid IS-7 shells by going behind him and nuking his ass with my slow Ferdinand

Seriously guys, if yo u get matched with high tier tanks it's pretty normal, it's always been like that. Don't forget that you get high tier tanks in your team too, just focus on surviving and killing lower tier tanks. If you're against a high tier tank, why would you fucking face him?

looks like we've hit the bump limit.

BOOF, you have to somehow make the william tell overture play during the loltraktor race:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoHECVnQC7A

>>6446804
That's only for the lower tier tanks. Once you get a KV on Russian tier and either mount the 152mm howitzer or the 107mm you can penetrate/damage almost every tank, and on German tier a Tiger can easily take out even an IS-4 with enough range and support from something from the medium tank like or a IS. Basically you just need a distraction who can do damage and the IS-4 is dead unless he has cover, in which case he'll either be dead slower, or cower behind cover after you shell him a few times.

I'd assume it works the same way with the TD's.

New thread

>>6448401