/jp/ - Otaku Culture

World of Tanks is a Tank MMO in "Closed" Beta (over one million registration worldwide can hardly make it closed). Battles are 15 vs 15.

The /jp/ channel in game is called "/jp/ (Mew)", 10-30 people are usually in it and will answer any questions.

PanzerMoe is all about tanking it easy, enjoying your tanks and having fun with other /jp/ers.

If you're impatient about Beta codes, check with Mmohut or ShatteredCrystal or Alienware for keys, they give them out.

Decals (by AllDay): http://www.mediafire.com/?9tdcd59qytftc1d
Touhou Tankmen (by AllDay): http://www.mediafire.com/?nq8ikbwv49vubd1
More decals here: http://danbooru.donmai.us/post?tags=transparent_png
Or there: http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/index?tags=transparent_png

Low FPS? Try this pack: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/10957-low-graphics-settings-pack/

Tank Skins Editing:
1. Find your tank in C:\Games\World_of_Tanks_closed_Beta\res\vehicles
2. Have .dds supported image editing software such as GIMP or Photoshop with a dds plugin.
3. Backup, edit, save, restart WoT to take effect.

Crew Faces Editing:
1. Find your crew in C:\Games\World_of_Tanks_closed_Beta\res\gui\maps\icons\tankmen\icons (There are 3 files which all must be altered)
2. Do not forget to backup before.
3. For Barracks and Small images, Shrink your replacement image to 100x60 (Keep your image ratio by changing the image size for the larger variable, then changing the canvas size, or it'll look like shit)
4. For the large image, make it 158x118
5. Save as .tga IN ALL 3 FOLDERS and restart WoT

Nations and other Logos Editing:
1. Find the file in C:\Games\World_of_Tanks_closed_Beta\res\particles\Decals\graffiti_stickers.dds
2. Backup, edit, save, restart WoT to take effect.

You're going to get banned.
Also, damn, that's like half a year earlier than I expected.
In unrelated news, SU-14 is a gigantic piece of shit(at least stock), it annoys me to no end that by being dedicated to playing arty you get the worse SPG.
I want a softwipe, dammit!

>>6790737
I rarely post anyway, so I'm fine with that to post this information.

Considering how reliable their announcements are, take that with a grain of salt.

Remember the soft wipe fiasco?

damn I'm not looking forward to 90 more games with the m3

>February 2011
>HARD wipe
>everything will be wiped and you get nothing back

well that's disappointing, guess I'll just play it out while it last and just quit after the hard wipe

Hopefully, they will still give you daily 150 gold, even after release.
Without premium, high tiers become impossible.

>>6790766
You know, I thought the same, but than I realized I have most fun in low tier games anyway, so I guess it's not that bad of a problem.

Hard wipe? Well I guess it is time to drop this slavshit game.

>>6790783
we can only hope, but if this is gonna involve paying shit just to get the most satisfaction of the game, its not worth the effort for me, I've learned a very HARD lesson regarding MMO games, "If I got the time and money to spend burning my ass on online games, might as well spend them doing something profitable and worth the time"

>>6790783
That's so utterly impossible it's not even funny.
No, seriously, just rid yourself of even the slightest hope you're going to get free gold, it ain't gonna happen.
In f2p games, the players who aren't paying aren't customers, they're a commodity - never expect to be treated as anything buy that.
What's more, you should probably expect gold to give paying players more and more of an edge - I wouldn't be surprised at all if premium ammo prices dropped massively after release.

Grinding back through the T1 Heavy and M6 again is something my body is not ready for.

That grind to get my T29 was torture man.

>>6790825
*buy->but

>the players who aren't paying aren't customers, they're a commodity

by the time of its release, they will be target practice for premium users

>>6790825

I wouldn't be surprised if they lowered the amount of XP you get during battles when the game goes live.

Want more XP? Pay $10 for premium to get slightly more xp.

captcha very related: extorto economies

>>6790825
No, seriously. Paying players can get a 'true premium', that is, they get more gold per day and slightly more exp than premium users that don't pay.

>>6790838
They both get the same tanks, except for the premium ones, and if the premium tanks we have now is precedence, there's nothing to fear.

>>6790838
How do you figure? Barring the possibility of premium shells dropping in price, you'll be looking at three segments of the population: Those who aren't paying, those who are paying for premium, and those who are paying for premium and shells.

The last group will get a notable advantage in combat, but at two to three times the price of the second group. Even with slow firing guns I go through 10-15 rounds a match. With fast firing guns in the low tiers I go through twice that. Were I firing premium shells half the time (at heavier targets) at ~6 gold a shell, that's 30 gold per match. 10 matches a day is 300 gold. 30 days a month is 9000 gold, nearly four times the cost of premium.

Even with low prices for gold like $10 = 2500 gold, that's nearly $40 a month to play, which files those under two categories: Kids who use their parent's credit card and people with more money than time or sense. The first group isn't much to worry about (poor tactics and teamwork) and the latter group is a damn small portion of the total game population.

Oh gawd, it's the Cosmic Break launch all over again.

>>6790853
you know what's scary, paying can now buy and supply premium shells in your depot, and it will be a big disadvantage for non paying players of the game, why use the standard AP shell that bounce off when you can pay to get premium shells that slice off armor no matter how darn thick it is if you've got plenty of cash to spend, no, it will only get worst for such players and its not fair

Watch this game go from 1 million players down to about 10 thousand within 6 month after its release.

What the heck are these stupid threads doing here on /jp/? Get the fuck out of here already. You autistic off-topspics make me sick.

>release date February 2011
Hardly. The 'full' tank trees are actually 'release' tank trees. This means all of those tanks (including American TDs and the entirety of the French tree) will be added without testing?
There's also the clan wars thing. It's a pretty big thing to test in just one month.
And then there's the problems that already plague the game.

I call bullshit on that release date.

>>6790907
From Overlord on the forum

"Release was scheduled for Q1 2011 a few months ago. February is more precise timeline.

Server split procedure has already begun, please follow the updates on the website and forums, more detailed information is to be announced.

Pre-starting procedures in progress, copying player database and final server setup, preparing new web sites and forums. "

Overlord is one of the more trusted and active devs who's posted a lot before about future patch details and is the one who posts all announcements so I'd take what he says to be the truth. He's a Russian dev who was moved to English for support from what I know.

/soc/, or /v/, go there with your un/jp/ese activities.

What's next? /jp/ Fantasy Football League in September?

>>6790907
>Hardly. The 'full' tank trees are actually 'release' tank trees.
No, we've had the Release trees for a while.

>>6790928
well I am already in a fantasy football league
why did Torres have to be so shitty

>>6790932
and then some I would note with the inclusion of the T9 mediums and the higher tier SPGs

>>6790938
and the planned release Russian Tree. Again, we're already beyond what they originally planned to include in the release.

>>6790928
We've actually had these threads since September? October? I don't remember the exact time it started but it's been a while.

But it'll probably die down, with the news of the hard wipe so soon there's not much motivation. I log on now and then and play a few battles but that's kinda it.

>>6790932
What about all of these?

>>6790956
That's the full planned tank list, not the release list.

sage

If you want to get rid of this unrelated thread, just report it and move on.

What software you use to paint your tanks. I tried using Photoshop and GIMP but neither supported dds files.
Also, is there any way to alter your crew names?

>>6791657
Search for a dds plugin for GIMP on google.
There is a way to edit the names but it's rather complicated, the solution was posted in a previous thread, check the archives (http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/jp))

>HARD wipe February 2011
That will probably be the end for me, the game is getting pretty boring. The only tank I still enjoy a bit is my T-54, but only playing that will lead to more boredom. I started Russian TDs 2 days ago hoping that the BL-10 will save me.

Well I guess I'll just stop playing for now.

This game is going to die like cosmic break after the hardwipe

Sorry to break it to you

>>>/v/

>>6791681
It seems I need x32 bit version of GIMP to use dds plugin. Problem is that I cant find it anywhere...
Could some nice fellow tell me where you did get 32 bit GIMP.

>>6791720
>T-54
Are you gay or something?

mumble?

>>6791773
Problem?

>>6791798
Its a cheat tank driven by filthy cheaters

I've seen T-54s solo maus, IS-7s, jagdtigers, object 704s, etc. T-54 bounced atom bombs and penetrates shielded nuclear shelters.

How bad. I was three days away from the T34.

Bah, whatever. There's a lot of time between here and February.
And it's not like the game will be that different after launch. Who knows, they may even balance those damned Russian tanks!

The only problem I see is premium and all that. I hope they make it so that higher tiers are still workable without it...

>>6791820
Just like the IRL T-54, then.

>>6791820
A T-54 should be able to solo a jagdtiger and object 704, that's fine as it is. It should also have the POSSIBILITY to solo Maus and IS-7 by using its speed, it's the ridiculous bouncing the T-54 does that makes it overpowered. I've bounced a T30, object 704, generic tier 10 plenty of times. That's not why I love it though.

>>6791844
IRL T-54 was a crock of shit.

>>6791855
>A T-54 should be able to solo a jagdtiger and object 704, that's fine as it is
It isn't when they do so in frontal slugfests, which they are perfectly able to and often do.

>It should also have the POSSIBILITY to solo Maus and IS-7 by using its speed
This I agree with, but that shouldn't mean a Tier 9 medium should be a death sentence to a Tier 10 heavy

>>6791867
It was meant to roll over Europe and eventually, the US had the Cold War gone hot. It had to be a damn good tank.

>>6791881
>It isn't when they do so in frontal slugfests, which they are perfectly able to and often do.
This is true with the JagdTiger, it's a piece of shit compared to the Object 704. I can't beat an Object 704 without getting to its side, though. I'm not trying to argue that it isn't overpowered, but it will always be able to solo them even if they brought down its bouncing capabilities. Mediums should be fast but fragile, and the T-54 is definitely not fragile.

>>6791855
I've seen a T-54 ram the front of a Maus and destroy it through its front armor while the maus repeatedly bounced off of the T-54's turret.

In real life, the T-54 actually had poor frontal armor and abysmal side and rear armor. On top of that, the crew working conditions were horrendous. The D-10 gun that the T-54 mounted could only penetratr 160mm of armor. In 1954(Way past when WoT should stop), the D-54T gun was tested on the T-54.

TL;DR, the T-54 is a non-era tank tossed into the game by buttmad slavs who refuse to accept that germal technology was superior to theirs. I wouldnt be surprised if a T-72 finds its way into the game somehow.

>>6791953
>I wouldnt be surprised if a T-72 finds its way into the game somehow.
Make it a T-90, add Leopard 2, Abrams and Leclerc for the Germans, US and French.
Tier 11, requires 240k exp.

>>6791764
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Wow, so soon? I'd hardly call the game anywhere near finished.

Well, whatever, I'll keep playing for a bit but probably stop a week after the release or so.

>softwipe canceled a few days ago
>hardwipe scheduled next month

Oh for FUCKS sake. Can we at least get a soft wipe for the last few days before the hard wipe?

What's next? an M1A1 Abrams as a lend/lease premium russian tank?

I suspect some heavy greed going on, why wait when you can start charging for shit as soon as possible? And from the forums I wouldn't put it past most of the shitty devs.

Also, it's complete horseshit to claim paying customers wont have a gigantic edge over non-paying customers. Gold shells for one, but I suspect most of the upgraded modules will turn to gold only items, as well as additional armor and such. Gold tanks will probably get a massive buff as well.

Actually, I was just playing since I liked the community we had going, the actual game is total trash and I hope it fails miserably, and it will since if you ever talk to any senior players they are the first to quit and tell you all the problems the game has that never get fixed. lol cold war tanks. What.

I must have my Ratte to supplement my manly megalomaniac needs for an ultra-heavy tank.

damnit... i have the exp for a maus with a soft wipe, and now there won't be one? for sure? i guess i should use my 4k gold for premium ammo...

>>6792149
>text in spoilers
I've been playing since September, and I'll continue to play after release, all its problems notwithstanding.
Only your second point of paying customers being true will definitely make me quit.

But I bet I'm a rare case. Most of Panzermoe will quit, I guess...

>>6792149
>I suspect most of the upgraded modules will turn to gold only items, as well as additional armor and such. Gold tanks will probably get a massive buff as well.
>I suspect
So you have no proof and you're just blowing smoke out of your buttmad ass?

>>6792289

With a post like yours, you sound more like the buttmad one. U mad WoT dev someone calling you out? Or maybe you're one of the fags who think Cold War tanks belong in a WWII game.

I'm not going to dig for it for you, but there is proof of gold only modules being planned when talking to the devs, there is already gold only consumables in the game, and gold only tanks. I also like how you left out the part where there is already gold only shells that already unbalance everything.

I'll also point the question of "Why wont they?" if they can make a profit off gold things, why not buff them out and add in new things so people will want to buy them? When money is involved there is no longer a "Everyone is equal." playing field.

>>6792624
>Why wont they?
Because in a free to play, pay for extras game there exists a balance of forces: You can shift the playing field to the point where it's purely pay to win, but this comes at a cost: If the people who aren't playing can never win without paying, then they stop playing. This diminishes your user base significantly. Now you have many players paying to win playing against other players who are paying to win; A 'balanced' playing field. The players who were paying to win are no longer winning for paying. They stop paying as much, or move on to another game. Thus you overwork your revenue stream and end up diminishing it.

Thus you have to keep a balance in play so that the advantage of paying doesn't crush the game.

>>6792718
>If the people who aren't playing can never win without paying, then they stop playing.
should read:
If the people who aren't paying can never win without paying, then they stop playing.

>>6791953
On top of all this, the T-62 which is more modern than the 54 takes a full 21 seconds to traverse its turret 360*. I can only assume the T-54 was slower in reality. That's motherfucking slow. It probably takes a quarter of that time ingame.

Not to mention you have to return the gun to neutral depression to reload, or the practical rate of fire is 4 rounds per minute when stationary.

So, who's got pictures of Hitler's Maus?

>>6794239
You mean the skin he has? If so, I can't help you there.

>>6794239
His doesn't say PanzerMoe on it but it's essentially the same skin - Saegrimr made 3 different versions of it and I decided to go with the PanzerMoe one.

>>6794239
Yuka Flower Tank - Maus
Has two personal decals for Adolf Hitler in here, and the general PanzerMoe edition for everybody else.
http://www.mediafire.com/?6kzi9jpb446odrd

Aya Maple Leaf - Leopard
http://www.mediafire.com/?e5i2yjdew8ljhdy

>>6794790
>0 kills
>last alive
Good to see the maus is so useful.

>>6795157
Assists, dude. Assists.
AKA 'that infurating fag tagging along waiting for you to drop your target so he can deliver the coup de grace'

>>6795157
Kills is such a useless indicator of team value in this game. You can deal 90% of the damage to 8 tanks but have no kills because someone else got the last hit. Likewise you can have 8 kills but haven't done enough damage to kill one completely.

I'd really like that to have some other metric available such as % of total damage, or better still a score rating based on the exp/credits earned so far.

>>6795206
Or both. That would be awesome

>>6795206
>or better still a score rating based on the exp/credits earned so far.

>http://game.worldoftanks.com/
>My Profile
>Overall Rating
Don't mind me, just being 628th
http://game.worldoftanks.com/ratings/?type=detailed#wot&drt_offset=600&

>>6795157
>Good to see the maus is so useful.
Pic related.

The Maus. Quite an interesting tank. It can be either invulnerable to my attacks from any direction, even with APCR (using a T32 with 105mm), or be penetrated (for horribly low damage) with standard AP.

I wish this game had HVAP. It'd make long range interception easier. This begs the question: why the fuck do I have to do long range interception with a 0.35 accuracy gun? Answer: because the retards playing German tanks, which have the accurate guns, just lock on to a moving target 400m away and fire

>You can deal 90% of the damage to 8 tanks but have no kills because someone else got the last hit

I get this a lot when I am on my arty. My goal is to soften up all tier 8-10 heavies and TDs. I bring them down to 30% life and move on to the next heavy if I figure my guys are capable of finishing it off.

And late in the round someone will always complain "hurrr! Our arty must be sleeping".

They just assumed the enemy IS-7 showed up to the fight at 36% life with a dead gunner and wrecked tracks.

>Picture
And you though you were taking it easy?

Enjoy shitposting on russian's 2-ch on their own tank threads.

>Picture
And you though you were taking it easy?

Enjoy shitposting on russian's 2-ch on their own tank threads: http://2-ch.ru/wm/res/15351.html

Dead chat is dead.

Did everyone just pack up and leave? The actual in game player count doesn't seem to have gone down any, though.

>>6796416
Well, the hard wipe announce really did shave off most of /jp/ from it. Some would state that they would enjoy the game until the hard wipe, but it's all useless.

I mean, what's the point of doing a mad grind to the T30, IS-7 or Maus when you'll probably be able to play it for a week or so, then have it taken from you, forcing you to grind back to it, this time possibly without any premium at all? Just pack up and quit right now, I won't hate you for it.

>>6796426
This, I'll still do skinning work for when the hard wipe happens, I expect these threads to kick back up when the hard wipe happens and people come back to get their tanks, mumble is still open though for other games and shit.

Whatever happened to Horst?

>>>/v/
enjoy your dead game

Fun with ita-tanks. Damn you, frugal Russian skinners!

>>6799300
If only you could edit the UV maps.
Or the models themselves for that matter.

>>6799655
Isn't that an UV map?

>>6800005
That's a Normal Map.
UV maps are used to map 2D texture coordinates on a 3D model.

>>6800019
Aw, nevermind then.