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>World of Tanks 2.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTEkzHeiafg [Embed]

>What is World of Tanks
https://youtu.be/AxXqRjI1AlA?si=kbfInj2xMrdAKbQh [Embed]

>Official site
https://worldoftanks.eu [EU]
https://worldoftanks.com [NA]
https://worldoftanks.asia [ASIA]

>Guides
1: Armor penetration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqVfdeGCov4 [Embed]
2: Concealment:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgEE7L7jXvI [Embed]
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZVWmHQVuVI [Embed]
3: Vehicle spotting:
https://youtu.be/En0pkMs41X8?si=MTZmmUT4LZ5SjOZ- [Embed]
4: Damage blocking:
https://youtu.be/MdGD7w1_xOc?si=bDuamk--ZGY4KCsO [Embed]
5: Introduction of Nations and Tank class:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLdX4uF0qNSfA6nXi3oH_QvkXyl2TJceN
6: Crew guide for beginners:
https://youtu.be/7Epw9DvEKLA?si=OT9f5aFH4LYmfF2b [Embed]
7: Game settings guide:
https://youtu.be/nbSS6WYfa94?si=6fVMe_Efg2JLWzoW [Embed]
8: Bond tanks review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk6QFokQUjw [Embed]

>Resources
1: Strategy planning tool, ideal for planning clan tactics:
https://stratsketch.com
2: Tank statistics and 3D armor models:
https://tanks.gg
3: Tanks and players' performance statistics:
https://tomato.gg
4: Tanks' rating and recommended pieces of equipment:
https://skill4ltu.eu
5: Unofficial game news sources, leaks:
https://thedailybounce.net [EN]
https://wotexpress.info [RU]
6: Official game mods portal approved by WG:
https://wgmods.net
7: Monitoring service for game servers, used for checking whether servers are down:
https://wgstatus.com

>FAQs
>How alive is the game?
The game still has a considerable playerbase, peaking during Christmas with over 1 million players.

>Is the game P2W?
You can rest assured that if you are good, you can beat other shitters reliably. Shitters can spend millions and still get owned by good players.

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>>2028315
>/wot/
What happened to /wotg/?
Also when will all these 2.0 shitters disappear from in-game?
They are pretty much sabotaging a tier 10-11 matches with their shit gameplay.
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I shouldn't have started playing again so early in the year. I'll be fed up with this game once christmas comes around.
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>>2029011
Give it a rest, shitters are always a part of the game
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>>2029011
we can't even keep the /vm/ thread alive, let alone /vg/
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Poor man's Tiger II Kuromorimine :(
Also, how's the Panther 88 nowadays?

>>2030672
>we can't even keep the /vm/ thread alive
Last thread died because a spammer flooded the catalog.
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How bad is the grind for a new account on EU?
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>>2031355
Grind has been significantly reduced for individual lines, but increased overall for the national tree
You will encounter 2 massive bottlenecks, T6 where you will be used as fodder for T8 and T8 where you will be used as fodder for premium T8 tanks and T10
If you make it to T10 after that you are better than 70% of the player base
Even without premium, it is impossible to lose money up to T8 unless you are 100% loaded with gold, however the game is generous with credit and xp boosters especially during large holidays
Easy lines include US T110E5 line, Object 140 line, Tortoise and T95 line (easy to play, but very team dependant), Canopener (you can even ignore the gimmick)
I would recommend you to avoid dedicated LT lines until you know the maps and how the positioning works
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>>2028315
i have a friend who played that game for a while he could go on a long rant how pay2win ruined this game
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>>2029011
onslaught is sucking up the tryharding population atm
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Is WTR calculated from recent performance or whole history? I play way better than before, I wonder how much my account holds my stats?
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>>2036974
The moment you stop caring about statistics is the moment your wr% starts getting better
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>>2041691
I don't care about WR. The teams are often so unbalanced that you cannot win and after 1 minute it's already 2-7. I play to win, not to pad the stats. But at the same time, stats give estimation of your impact in the game.

I would love the game to have balanced MM, where your WR and current skill rating would allow you to estimate if you are improving or not, but that's not the case in WOT 2.0.

Also depends on the tank I'm playing, some are not fast/versatile enough to solo carry game, while some other are.
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How shit is the Walking Dead tank? I already have a Toro so not sure I'll bother.
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>>2046417
It seems interesting, it was broken on Lesta but the version we got is sort of a weird Minotauro/Italian TD sort of affair.
You have a LONG intraclip reload of 5s, but the DPM itself is pretty competitive among the T9 heavies and it has a short clip reload on a 5 round magazine, so you get the sort of stun proof/consistent reload advantage the Italian TDs have. It's less a conventional autoloader and more of a tank with that needs short windows of downtime to reload the autoloader which isn't much of an ask with how static the meta tends to be.
Of course the downside is it doesn't have too much in the way of turret armor and lacks gun depression, so it's more of a heavium although that seems to be half the "heavies" in the game anyways. Just not ideal on a tank that has an intraclip that isn't fast enough to magdump and isn't slow enough to be doing peekaboo tactics - by the time you retreat behind the corner you're already almost reloaded, but if you stay out in the open your reload isn't doing you favors and you don't have armor.
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lol
lolmao
coming 2.1
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>>2046417
Garbage when there's a superior tech tree tank in T54E1
Are you going to pay real money for a rear mounted tank that takes 20 seconds to unload a 2000 damage clip... Or play the busted shit that unloads 1600 damage in 6 seconds?
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>>2047598
I hope they implement the same battle summary as in onslaught in random battles. Onslaught one is a really good improvement.
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Why are pub players so fucking retarded
Why the FUCK do they insist on pushing into the open and die immedietely.
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>cause 15 crits
>reroll
>win 4 battles
>12 battles later, bonus mission
>win 5 battles
fuck off, fuck this game
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>>2054613
when i used to actually do those missions for black rock i dreaded seeing the win missions and the destroy 4 vehicles in a battle
they take forever to do for a daily/bonus mission to do relative to other conditions
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>>2055784
today is the kill 4 tanks
fuck me

on the unrelated note, the haxor is very good even when stock, holy shit
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>>2056179
xm69 hacker is cracked
look at the stats comparsion of the stock hacker to what i consider the best feeling guns at tier 10.

hacker pretty much gets a built-in free bond vertical stabilizers on the base stats. after then you stack crew, rations, progression tree and equipment on it and it becomes sex
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The E65 is surprisingly good, the gun handling is what keeps it very competitive
also permatracking borats
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>>2057807
It really is good. It's very easy to keep your DPM up, you can skip one reload and just shoot twice next time. With 1.5s lock time, it's very fun tank to play. Only thing is paper turret against tier X. You will be bullied hard. But against the rest upper plate can bounce surprisingly well. It's not broken, but like you said, the gun handling makes it fun to play.
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H3 on the other hand is weird. This 5s intra-clip reload is awkward. It's short enough so you don't have time to pull back, basically forcing you to go in, but at the same time it's long enough that you will be punished before unloading your load on the enemy. At the same time, zero armor and huge tank, doesn't help.

I played only few matches, but I struggled a lot to find a playstyle. I think it's a good tank to set an ambush from a far and do some backshoots and unsuspecting enemies. But then there are so many better autoloaders to just dump your load faster.

It's shit to go in, shit to stay behind cover, because you won't be using the clip at all. If you have tips for this tank, let me know.
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god fucking dam it, why do I have to carry 3 friendly tanks against 1 (won) enemy
one even managed to die, fucking hell
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WG used to be stingy with progetto 46 sales, now they're for it pushing it hard hoping to bank off old nostalgia now that protoipo 6 and the buffed panthera p.44 rised up as competitors in the auto reloader niche...
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>>2072221
I mean it used to be a pretty strong vehicle, borderline unfair, but like you've said who really gives a fuck with the Prototipo 6 and the good Pantera? The Progetto is still GOOD, but it's really nothing game breaking anymore so why not sell it frequently.
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Why World of X over War Thunder?
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>>2072807
for me world of tanks was more potato friendly when i had a shit pc, stuck with it since
the 15 vs 15 arcade style held up pretty well over time, since most genres don't go for a competition size having teams this big which i prefer over the generic 5v5 template
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>>2072807
war thunder has worse grind
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>>2072807
For Warships, despite how bad Subs/CV/powercreep has gotten WT Naval is still abhorrent
For tanks, it's sort of just down to individual preferences. Some people want the arcadey HP bar gameplay where there's room to make mistakes and there's positioning and teamplay and the like. War Thunder is just click on the other guy before he clicks on you because most hits are one shot kills, there's an appeal to War Thunder Ground and for some people it's going to be better than tanks, but some people want a more "casual" experience.
For Planes, it's the reverse of Naval where I can't imagine why anyone would play WoWP
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>>2072221
There is no reason to buy this tank when the Pantera does the same thing now
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>>2072807
>Why World of X over War Thunder?
Speaking about tanks, Warthunder has:
>beyond shit levels of worse grind
>god awful pixel hunts before modern tanks, my KDR skyrocketed when I got a 4K monitor
>a respawn system that is flawed as fuck
>revenge planes in ground battles, makes artillery look reasonable in comparison
>developers that are beyond jewish, don't think i've seen a single free day of premium in over 10 years
>tank models are objectively better made but visually the game just looks worse overall
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>>2028315
https://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/general-news/update-2-1-1-tanks-overview/

Mid-january 2026 we'll get three tier 11s, one of them being a new branch as USA autocannon mediums.
>PTZ-78 (China TD)
>STK-2 (Japan Heavy)
>Ares 90 C (USA Medium)

The following tanks are set to be re-balanced:
>Leopard 120 Verbessert
>AS-XX 40 t
>Object 432U
>CS-67 Szakal
>Hirschkäfer
>Strv 107-12
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>>2082569
Surprised how quickly they added more T11s
Weirdly interested in the US autocannon medium branch too, the Czech LT branch is kinda fun but ultimately the Tesak is kinda dogshit as an LT. I do REALLY well in my Squall though since I have good map sense and know when to be aggressive, so I'm sorta looking forward to a similar playstyle on a medium tank where I don't have the pressure of creating a spotting advantage and trading out the enemy Even 90 but can just work flanks.
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>>2072807
I play games to have fun and War Thunder is not as fun for me. I played since the alpha and still like the planes at lower tiers but they should have avoided missiles like they said. Missiles are not fun, at least to me. Also World of Warplanes was ass when I first played and haven't touched it since.
>tanks
Respawns? CAS? I have to pay to respawn the same tank? I have to grind out several tanks and also at least one plane/heli of the same tier to even have fun. Or I can pay up to 80 dollars for one plane for one nation. World of Tanks used to have a bad grind unless you bought one tier 8 premium but it got WAY better over the years so now I can play the tanks I want, and I won't get a bomb dropped on me immediately.
>ships
lmao. WoWS wins this one easily and I enjoy it over tanks just for the slower pace and less tryharders. People just play it to have fun. Absolutely no one does boats on War Thunder and splitting the naval into two categories was retarded.

It doesn't help that gaijin happens to be even scummier than wargaming and the grind basically requires spending a significant amount of money. I had my pretty nice ten year old account hacked and they would not give me the time of day since I had not purchased anything. They actually told me since I had not linked my credit card to the account they would not help me. Not could not, but would not get it back.

WT wins for aviation by far, tanks are a matter of preference and WT ships are largely ignored.
It all depends on your flavor of autism.
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>>2082597
For me, I'll go up the USA autocannons if they share the same unique penetration rules that the czech LTs have that makes them penetrate shit that they really shouldn't be doing with dinky 50mm caliber shells
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>>2083295
They look like pretty solid, large caliber autocannons on a medium line so I imagine they should have good pen. Tesak has 192 on 57mm cannons, I would expect the US medium autocannon to sit somewhere around 230-240 on standard rounds and 280-290 on premium.
They'll both be APCR though to absolutely fuck you on normalization, might be cool if they get whacky HE like the Czech line though with something like 100mm of pen.
I also don't think they're going to be the same blistering rate of fire since they have an "overheat" mechanic which suggests to me they won't have a conventional magazine/reload but instead they'll fire at something like 60RPM with an alpha around 100-150 per shell and after something like 15-20 shells they overheat and lock you out, but you'll be able to fire in 5-10 round bursts and never have to reload.
We'll see how close I am vs what WG has decided to do once supertest details start leaking or WG just gives us a proper sneak peak.
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Who is it? I'm thinking Benedict Cumberbatch.
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>>2083641
Arnold, again
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>>2083641
looks like you were right
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>>2085413
That was a good holiday ops welcome video, I enjoyed that one.
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>>2083355
Yeah.
If you've played overwhelming fire they're probably gonna work the same as the m-v-y thunderclap.
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>This year well-deserved rewards
WG is insanely generous this year, another free tier 10 branch for people who already claimed the one from September, and we get a decent tier 7 tank.
https://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/general-news/epic-thank-you/
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>>2030902
It died because the retard that made the thread didn't use a GuP thumbnail.
>Also, how's the Panther 88 nowadays?
Absolutely trash
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>>2089696
>we get a decent tier 7 tank
LOL no, it has 0 dpm
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>>2089696
Nice gibs
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>>2089696
The amount of real players must be incredible low that they drop such a gift, game is shit since 2.0
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>>2089696
Man, after all of this I'm all out of crews
Hope the Christmas progression comes with at least 4 members
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>>2089696
I will start making more new accounts with EBR to keep yoloing arty, and being able to fund expensive ass tanks without having to commit to 5 hour grinding for 10 mil credits like Jagdpanzer E100, FV4005 and 30B that i can unlock for free from taking EBR 105
Thanks WG
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>>2092114
Gz, time to farm pub.
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>>2092114
black rock is the most fun tier 11 by far, the burst mechanic carries the crap armor profile
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>>2094208
I've had a lot of fun getting 2k damage rams in my kr1, but the burst on the blackrock is definitely my favorite of the tier 11 heavy tank gimmicks otherwise
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>>2094211
i'm a shitty 2k dpg player and the burst mechanic on black rock bumps me up to 4k-6k damage territory pretty easily
the only thing frustrating about black rock is the accuracy but changing out bond gun rammer for bond vents fixed it enough
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https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/holiday-ops-2026-large-boxes/

Christmas Lootbox tanks revealed.
The tier 10s seem pretty strong, with BZT-70 having a stronger hull than expected and the Coccodrillo being impenetrable from a distance with simply using -2 degrees out of the max -8 degrees gun depression.

My account is already flooded with tier 10 reward tanks already, so I don't really need to swipe for this year's boxes. I also got burnt last year chasing all the XMAS tanks and playing none of them except for the squall.
Going to aim for the Cromwell Applique at tier 5 and stop there.
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>>2094950
None of the tanks are interesting. Hulldown wise the dravec is just better.
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>>2096231
BZT-70 feels underrated by the community. 330 HEAT pen is enough in heavy brawling areas and being able to angle your lower plate to bounce 340 HEAT pen around corners is damn strong.
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>>2096288
Except that nobody will shoot that when armor flashlight is a thing lamo
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>>2096531
They'll still take like 4-5 seconds to scan your tank to find the green spots.
Keep in mind this is the same community that bitched about object 279e not having a lower plate weakspot despite having commander hatches to snipe and being buttered to 340 HEAT pen and TD shells.
Even now after the armor flashlight update, the 279e is still considered one of the strongest tier 10s by the general playerbase out there despite the tank aging poorly in the slow powercreep of tier 10s
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Well, I got the Canopener line
What about you guys?
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>>2096831
Type 5,grinded Canopener when it was released.
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>>2096831
The chinese tier 11 TD with the 180 spin sounds retarded, so i'm in >>2082569
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This game is on life support, giving away another full line and loads of other shit to get people to play is a Hail Mary, probably because they're such stingy cunts when it comes to credits in higher tiers. WoWS is doing a lot better and was like 4th on Steams global sales list yesterday. Wargayming are lucky that War Thunders naval mode is complete shit.
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>>2097184
Honestly X is unplayable. You will burn credits, and be forced to buy them or grind premium tanks. And if you want to be economic and play without premium consumables and ammo you will be a meat for tryhards to farm you. The only way to have fun in this game is to swipe and everything is balanced around that.
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One of the things WG needs to add to this game is the fucking bounty equipment counter, it should count the upgraded ones as well
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>>2097314
You can play on standard account at tier 10 without using food if you play a hard hitting heavy or tank destroyer and penetrate your shots.
Anything fast firing or autoloader is too expensive for standard account though
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no one is playing arty at tier 10 currently
it's fucking great
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>>2098088
They do need to update the economy with booster packs like WoWS has
In WoWS it used to be that if you bought a permanent camo for gold, you got significant economic bonuses for a ship. This means more credits earned, less repair costs, etc. You can still get the booster packages, they just aren't tied to camo anymore since the game separated economics from visuals.
Now at the end of the day a Tier 8 with a booster pack still isn't as good as a Tier 8 premium, but it's close enough for people who really enjoy playing a tech tree vehicle and if you have booster packages on your tier 10s you can play tier 10s without any sort of premium account.
The WoT should do the same thing, if you buy the expensive 3D style for a T10 tank that costs like 4500 gold or w/e (or if you have it from putting in effort/winning it from whatever source) you get a credit boost on that tank that makes it possible to earn money or at least break even on a tier 10 without a premium account.
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>>2096831
Grille because you get the tank you choose elited and can select field mods without researching the tier 11.
People I know are picking wz 1113g ft and they like it a lot.
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Hmm, Minotauro or Udes 15/16?
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>>2098721
I have 100 mil credits and 4 digit numbers of credit boosters on my account
I don't use food or load full gold on my T10s, until November, my only T8 premium was the FCM 50 which was collecting dust for years
All your financial problems will be instantly solved if you stop listening to YouTube fags telling you to load full gold and play with food AND don't die with no contribution
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>>2097314
>>2097184
Retard, that's why you play on xmas. 50% more bonus credit, permanent 10% from the dog for first 10 battles daily, 15% from platoon, 50% from premium time, 50% from premium. You are literally swimming in credit unless you play like dogshit.
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>>2099137
Mino is easier to play but udes has higher potential.
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>>2099302
>I don't use food
sandbagging 50%er
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>drive the newest lootbox tank
>ammorack a heavy tank at full hp
>do it again afterwards
your response?

https://www.twitch.tv/orzanel/clip/BraveAbstruseSardineHoneyBadger-UcLd3mdPYJKScX-s
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>>2102133
>BZ-75 gets ammoracked
water is wet
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>>2102133
Streamer RNG.
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>>2102188
They told me bz-75 is best, they lied?
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this is in leafbux but god damn
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>>2102615
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>>2102615
my results in 28 boxes
baited by the train animation and didn't even get the tier 5 cromwell applique
at least it's the tier 8 instead of the shitty tier 9s
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>>2102621
it also got me to festive level 4 and 8% credit income increase
seems like you need to spend a lot more to max out the bonuses this christmas year
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it seems that this year your friends need to actually login for the christmas promo to get the extra resources
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>>2102621
i caved and bought 24 boxes since i was halfway through pity
i'm going to sit on this and open it tomorrow. i hope it's the bzt-70
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>>2102651
Good luck anon
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>>2102651
>i hope it's the bzt-70
It won't be. The probability of getting X in 28 loot boxes is like 3.6%.

The loot boxes are so exploitive to our brains, we expect things to happen in general, but the truth is different.

Good luck though, you will get other cool rewards like silver.
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>>2102744
I misread, for 24 boxes it would be 3.08%
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Finally got around to playing my E-77 I got last year and wow, this thing is surprisingly good.
Armor didn't do a lot for me (although it looks like it would be good if I put it in a hull down) but the mobility and the reliable heavy hitting 128 put in a lot of work. It plays like a medium with heavy alpha without having wonky dogshit dispersion which is nice.
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Don't buy boxes, you cum guzzling faggot whales
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>>2102403
it's the best heavy tank at blowing up, sure
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>>2102676
>>2102744
I GOT IT GOT FUCKED
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>>2104284
Doesn't look like BZT to me.
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Wargaming seems to be chasing that enormous audience of black women interested in tanks for the 3rd year in a row
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>>2105192
Was there a niggress last year? I don't think so. There's a latina and asian but no nigger.
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where is the next video, chems?
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anyone got the coccodrillo or bzt 70?
worth gambling another 50 boxes?
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>>2110502
Not worth it. You should open boxes for gold.
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also i hope the object 268 v5 is worth the bonds
impulse yolo purchase
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>>2110502
Yeah I got them all.
They're kinda whatever.
Cocomelon is good at doing 1k in two shots but if you're not extremely patient with the aim and positioning you get chewed up.
BZT has a shit gun that needs really careful management and planning, and it has to crawl to engagements and needs people to be retarded in front of you.
Best tank in the set by far is the stridsxya and there's already a million good tier 8 medium premiums.

If you already have a lot of tanks then these ones are very skippable.
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>>2110584
>BZT has a shit gun
Better or worse than the Pancernik (tier for tier)
I swear every time I use that PoS the gun max low rolls every single shot, I have never done the average damage much less highrolled
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>>2110588
About the same.
Needs a lot of equipment to fix, you also need to be creeping around by tapping r and only fighting people inside 100m.
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>>2104284
i was initially disappointed with projet louis but i shifted my thoughts from having a good scouting game to yolo dumping 1 clip ASAP at the start and the game started being fun again.
i have 1k DPG in it but getting 70k credits every 2 minutes for yoloing is fine
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>>2028315
ummmm wtf, I didn't get the free 60 days prem for some reason
I got another free tech tree from the xmas event but not the 60 days free
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>>2111239
some of them are locked behind missions, do you have 30 days at least?
i think if you logged into 2.0 beforehand, they're not going to give you another set of rewards under the 'For Seasoned and New Commanders'
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>>2111890
ya, I logon for the 2.0 launch
but what do I have to do for the 30 days free?
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>>2112205
Play 1 battle daily
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>>2112205
>I logon for the 2.0 launch
i don't think you're getting the premium days anymore

i checked my missions to see if i got it since i played at 2.0 launch and i didn't get it again
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>>2110678
louis is funny tank
never seen so many critical hits in a while
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I took the Udes 15/16
I hope this stupid cheesewagon is good
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>>2112208
I did, but still didn't get the 30 days
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>>2112258
Tanks that can shoot fast will crit module. Every shot is basically a roll module damage.
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Do you think we'll get a Tier 11 Conqueror in 2026?
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>>2112638
Certainly, judging by how quick they pump out new tanks.
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>>2112638
Soup conq is inferior in every way to the Canopener, no reason to make it a T11 gimmick tank
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>>2112267
Why did you take a medium that gets set on fire frontally, take massive damage from arty and weak gold pen values
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I opened the game for the first time since the 2.0 update just for the rewards, got the ping pong tier 10 TD and played a game but the UI is still so fucking shit the after game report made me close the game
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>skill4ltu selling tanks for charity
>people are willing to drop 1100 euro for a marathon light tank
>2500 euro for BZ-176
>still 10 days remaining
who the hell drops this much money
the fucking BZ lot is more than i spent onto the game over 10 years
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>>2116266
>355 eurodollars for the roach
wut
that shits on sale like every three weeks
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>>2116292
When was the E-25 last on sale? I've been legitimately wanting to pick one up but if it's been on sale I keep missing it.
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>>2116304
Check the past news. You can kind of gauge its return. E25 is pretty meh nowadays so WG just sell it occasionally
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>>2110579
the object 268 version 5 feels so nice
400 gold pen on a turreted platform is stronk
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>>2118089
Actually it's dogshit and you should have bought the DBV-152 instead
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>>2118219
i have the DBV but it's annoying to it up for aggressive play and it sometimes get troll bounced due to 330 pen. sold it after getting my campaign missions done as i wasn't playing it for months
object 268 version V gameplay is peek out, slap a bitch with the 400 pen gold for 750 and wait. extremely nice support tank
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>>2118273
>annoying for aggressive play
I never found that to be true, with the speed and the rear-mounted turret it does surprisingly well in forward positions and even urban maps, at least for a thinly armored glass cannon TD.
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this origami mode sucks dick
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Where is my free Blyad Prince 2? Do I have to redeem it somewhere?
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>>2118997
holiday ops override the well-deserved award.
i think you launch the game in safe mode to hide the holiday garage so it opops up. at least that worked years ago when i had the same problem
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very funny WG, I will not participate in these cancerous mechanics, nor buy any lootboxes
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I'm sorry guys I pay piggied. Got the TBT and BZT-70 in lootcrates though.

>>2118567
I agree, I'd simply rather not play.
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>>2122440
explode
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Love me tree. None of that Chinese crap on mine.
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>>2120100
Arty aside it's a hilarious and pretty decently done style.
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>>2122440
how many boxes did you swipe for?
do you like the bzt?

i stopped after getting projet louis and stridsxya in 50 boxes. stridsxya is boring but louis is fun as fuck to cheese people with
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>>2122700
Louis looks fun in the hands of a bluenicum, I've been too busy using the holiday ops bonuses to grind out my last few tier 11s to try mine out yet.
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>>2118567
I don't like it either but I had a few fun games as the heavy.
If you use rage to invincibly collect and deliver to your base, when you die you add +1 present from your own death.
Won a game that way.

The missile targeting on the defender needs work before it inevitably gets added as a t11 ability for the sheridan 2 or whatever.
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>>2122700
I got 90 boxes, I wanted the gold really to be able to buy the Foch in the store, as that means I won't be tempted to spend bonds on it anymore. TBT is pretty well balanced, you can do well with it as long as you stay in the group and right now you can earn a ton of credits even with just gold ammo, low DPM will put a lot of people off but the turret armour is solid. Haven't tried BZT yet but it seems strong. Louis seems like fun but I don't really play light tanks.
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>>2123281
>buying the inferior Foch
ouch
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When's the next worthwhile bond store tank I have like 30k bonds and nothing actually worth spending them on, I guess I could buy a Tiger Maus but I'm one of those weirdos who thinks it's a waste to buy something that isn't a T10 (but I also don't want to buy a reskinned 113 or an Fv215b)
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>>2123423
Just get six rammers.
Surely you would not regret buying six bond rammers.
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>>2028315
I don't have time this xmas to grind out the paper tanks event, will I miss a lot if I skip it?
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>>2123423
Tiger Maus would be a good credit and bond grinder, but it depends if you already have enough of them.
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>>2123440
Just credits bonds and 3d attachments.
The missions each day accumulate rather than being limited to one day though so you can probably complete the event quickly if you wait.
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just got the udes 15/16 and holy fuck, I wasn't expecting its view range to be that low
what equipment?
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>>2123931
Experimental Hardening, rammer, turbo or vent.
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>game is still full of AFK camping retards who CANNOT fucking push a flank even if you push at the perfect time with the perfect tank and distract the entire enemy team long enough to nearly solo the flank
I'm so fucking tired
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>>2123423
I'll shill for the 268 v5 but you need to have a 5 skill crew, pink equipment and food, or the accuracy trolls you too much / turret rotation feels too slow for aggressive play >>2118273

being able to lolpen any flat armor surface with 400 pen feels great though
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Another battle pass incoming
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>>2133163
https://worldoftanks.asia/en/news/general-news/holiday-ops-2026-battle-pass/
Looks to be just commanders? I'll probably pass on it, the improved pass 3D attachments might be cool but idk that it's worth the sort of gold they want without even having a tank.
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Winter Raid is such a dogshit gamemode
actual nigger tier gameplay
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>>2133337
The problem is WG turned these modes into a boring grind.
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I had the absolute worst rng today
fuck wg
fuck this game
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>>2133442
not really the problem is its a vantablack gorilla gamemode with dogshit unfun tank designs and it becomes a question of will you end up on the team of lobotomized troglodytes who gets doubleteamed since the barely sentient jeets who play it just pick one flank and drive down it the entire match and if you get unlucky that means you have to fight both teams until one of them wins
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>>2133337
Sucks ass but I just play whatever the gay mission I have is then gtfo.
Too many afks to make playing for wins worthwhile.
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https://youtu.be/VH7tvZdHW2k
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So... just a worse Char Murat?
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>>2135195
If the soft-stats are good it might be decent. The tank is good looking at least.
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>>2135140
>Free garage slot
Wow thanks Benedict
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>>2135195
>>2135361
the free tank fantome is okay. with the 3.5 second intra-clip reload, it's closer to a char futur 4 competitor.
it's decent at a bare minimum due to autoloader. already seems better than gsor the tank and patton the tank
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>>2135435
The 0.38 and 0.22/0.22 is not really inspiring confidence in me, on top of a 2.88s aim time.
The garbage gunhandling is probably really going to gimp what could otherwise maybe be a decent tank.
13 degrees of gun depression is promising though even if it comes at the cost of a gimmicky suspension.
Unfortunately it lacks any form of real turret armor to really exploit that and is a pretty large target for return fire compared to a Char Futur.
Still, maybe I should reserve some judgement until I actually play it.
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>>2135584
i'd just slap full gun handling on the fantome.
bad aim time can be worked around by decreasing after-firing bloom as much as you can, and the important dispersion stat (turret traverse handling) is much lower than the char futur 4's.
accuracy is a fake stat so we'll have to see how it truly acts in-game.
for reference, type 5 heavy also have 0.38 base dispersion but that gun is one of the most accurate motherfucker in the tier 10 heavies category...
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>>2135618
>accuracy is a fake stat
True, everyone shits on stuff like the Obj 274a and the T-54D for having "dogshit unworkable guns" and meanwhile I thoroughly enjoy both tanks and their guns rarely let me down.
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>>2135195
I don't think it has any role
It's a big tank with shit accuracy, long autoloader reload, zero armor and bad view range
It is just T10 tank food to trick the pubbies, maybe if it had .36 base accuracy, it wouldn't be so bad
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Why do you all still play this game?
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>>2136216
As always, feel free to suggest any other large-scale arena game out there
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>>2136216
Sunk cost fallacy, I have invested too much time
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why does this dead game have maint EVERY FUCKING DAY
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>>2028315
https://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/updates/2-1-1-CT/

Update 2.1.1 common test
>USA Autocannon Medium Tank Branch
>Two More New Tier XI Vehicles for China and Japan
>Tier 11 Medium and TD rebalance
>New onslaught shop tank (LTC II) and bond equipment (camo net and binoculars...)
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>>2137103
Fuck off WG, we didn't need even more shitters camping
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>>2137103
camo net remains a meme because it only boosts stationary camo, not camo on movement or after firing so don't waste bonds on that.

bond binoculars have some interesting applications. it's useful for hulldown heavies to peek over hills and spot people not using the bush mechanics properly, and for tier 5 to 7 light tanks that don't have access to CVS, being able to smuggle in a vision-slot boosted binos.

TD like STRV already had vision slot option in field mods so it wouldn't do as much for them. the best class would've been EBR wheelies, but they blocked off using binoculars on wheeled lights in-game, thankfully.
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>Plays multiple random games
>Fantome somehow outlives alot of tanks in most of these games
D-did WG gave everyone a good tank?
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>>2137647
Stop living in the future we're not supposed to have it until tomorrow
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>>2138029
Anon I got it 4 hours ago.
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>>2137103
Bond binos and bond camo net activate in half the time that the regular versions take, that seems pretty good for niche builds. Could bring a 600 meter view range passive scouting set that still has slotted cvs for maps like prok and mali
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>>2138202
Just means I'm gonna know way faster when the redline camping maus on my team has them.
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>>2034141
He's not wrong, but the game wasn't ruined, it was that way from the start.
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true
p2w started with the Lowe and it's all been downhill from there
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>Give everyone a decently good tank
>Result
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>>2139864
Been playing tier 9 premiums today and 9/10 when I see one of these they're free damage.
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you don't even get bounty equipment in the part of the BP
fucking hell, the greed
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>>2144787
You have to trade your tokens for those.
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You guys can switch to War Thunder at any time!
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>>2144845
Same shit, different greedy company
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>>2144792
That you get 4 (four) free
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Fuck triangles and fuck squares. Game would be better off without them both.
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>>2144845
War Thunder Air Realistic is the only good mode.
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Tier 10 mm is the worst its been. Absolute retards every game, you get in position and get ready and half your team have melted away in the first 3 minutes.
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>>2144845
I hate myself but not THAT much
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AHT-7 on supertest.
insanely strong tank destroyer for trading as it deals about the same damage as a Jagdpanzer E100 on a turreted platform and not too slow.

>>2145173
don't look at this bro...
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>>2146956
>reserve track
So it just comes round a corner, blasts you, then rolls back and you can't stop it.
And unlike the 4k5 is has nonzero camo and armor.
Very gay.
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Today's mission will fuck me right in the ass.
"Cause 10% of the total amount of damage caused by your team."
There goes my dog.
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>>2146956
Need this and the Ashigaru TO BE HONEST
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>>2147152
Ashigaru better get some fat ass buffs because there's so many free alternatives i'd rather be playing than that shit, even with a bias towards japanese tanks

39 km/h top speed is tragic
the gun handling is legitimately dogshit and not what you want on a tank destroyer firing every 6 seconds (not accounting for gun cooling, which nerfs your gun accuracy for not interacting with the mechanic)
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>>2147196
To give you an idea of how DOGSHIT the dispersion stats on the Ashigaru is:

Worse than the big hitting heavy tanks that deal 750+ damage per shot.
Worse than even the shittest handling autoloaders outside of the rinoceronte, which is the lowest bar possible in terms of tier 10 gun handling.
Similar in gun dispersions to 116-F3 and Kranvagn, and the Ashigaru doesn't have the armor profile to spend time aiming in during brawls.

I haven't even touched upon the heavy-class tier top speed and it almost the lowest hp pool at tier 10. If this turd is assembly shop then it's the easiest skip of my life...
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>>2147196
>0.26
jesus lmao
what the fuck man
even with 0.2 cooled, LOL
0.31 with that DPM looks promising but yeah with that mobility and that bloom you just have to sorta sit in one place and hold down LMB which is not what I expect from a wheeled TD
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>>2147207
Saw two WG testers platooned in the ashigaru in a match today and they just sucked ass all game.
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>>2147038
This reserve track thing just pisses me off
Not on this tank, but how the mechanic is handled by WG, why not give it to any tank with 4 tracks?
Make something interesting instead of
>What if we put gimmick on tank with gimmick to put in loot boxes
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>>2147412
They'll do a mechanical pass on all the tanks with multiple tracks after they merge NA and EU servers and remove rammers in equipment 3.0
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>>2147412
>give tank multiple tracks
>don't give it the reserve track mechanic
>meanwhile Lesta does give any tank with multiple tracks the reserve track mechanic
our devs are just retarded & incompetent
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>>2147533
>Try out lesta's wot
>The fucking spg rape my medium tank with almost perfect accuracy (SOMEHOW) every 2-3 games
Did they buffed spg on lesta?
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>>2153176
Yes they did.
Guess we know which half of pre split wargaming kept buffing arty.
Nice digits btw.
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>>2153183
the digits seem to continue
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Are there any gimmicky module choices left after the big culling of stock modules? I remember that there were some stock turrets that had a better armor profile than the top turret, and also some meme stock gun tanks.
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>>2154285
Not really. Most of those gimmicks are useless af anyway.
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>>2154285
Only two things I can think of are using stock turrets with less weakspots like amx 65 t and contender.
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>>2154819
VTU had better gun depression on stock turret
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>>2154285
stock 110 gun with gold
stock is-3-ii with the 100mm guns that unloads/charges faster and more DPM
stock lhmtv gun with the 75mm HE pen
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>faggot blocks on purpose
>talks mad shit when i asked why he pushed me to die and take 3 shots himself for 330 damage done
>wah wah report me wg dont do anything
>save replay for before xmass
buddy got some nice family time without wot :^)
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>>2136216
Jokes on you, i dont.
I teched all the way up to amx 120 and realized it was impossible to free play tier 10 without vast amounts of tier 5-6 grinding to cover costs. That and gold ammo made me sad. But man it was a fun tank to roll down hills into people.
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I have 10k bonds, which premium to buy? I'm eyeing the 130PM TD.
Is it any good?
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>>2157008
Yeah its ok.
Good camo, good damage, tolerable view range and speed.
Only really bad qualities are the iffy accuracy and low standard pen, but the heat is really good and doesn't have a low velocity.
Worth having for missions as well.
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>>2155823
It's the best feeling, whenever something happens I just report them for being antisemitic and they get banned usually the same day, sometimes even permanently with little or no evidence. Like one time an arty was focusing me the whole game for some reason, I just sent a ticket to support with the replay saying it was a targeted antisemitic attack and his account disappeared like on the Stalin pictures
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>>2157008
polak MT is an overall good tank
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Should I play the Pancernik?
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>>2157065
wow, it must feel great to be a part of the thought police
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>>2157561
It's fun to play if you like taming shit guns and can barrel block your hull weakspots, but it doesn't do anything special.
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>>2158025
>taming shit guns
Not only is the handling dogshit, it always max lowrolls
I don't think I've seen a single shot above 600 damage in like the 15 matches I played before I gave up on it
thoroughly unenjoyable dogshit
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consumable and equipment discount for the next 5 days
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>>2157008
Obj. 268 V5
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Should I create the blueprints for the IS-7?
I dont like the obj 257 to be frank
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>>2158868
You could, the two aren't very similar except that they teach you to play recklessly with overangled sides rather than relying on the pike.
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>>2158870
yeah, well the IS-3 was such a good tank I love it.

The Obj 257 is not bad either but the grind is fucking unbereable, especially when you get matched up with tier 11 nowadays.
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>>2158871
>but the grind is fucking unbereable
It's like that for 10 years now, free to play ends at Tier 8 by design.
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>>2158868
if you have free tech line selector i would actually take is-7 for the field mod unlock

all the glazing people have towards is-7 is when the tank is fully decked out with field mods. without them you are playing the is-7 at like 40% of the fun factor

take a look at the acceleration graph here. without field mods you're going to be about 10-15 km/h slower as a stock IS-7 because you absolutely need the field mod for improving ground resistances and unlocking the mobility slot for your grousers.
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>>2158881
I don't actually. I used one for the Italian TDs and the other one for the medium soviet line, 430U.

So I'm grinding for the IS-7 like a retard.
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>>2158898
it's so over
i recommend to actually abandon the grind and go back to is-3 to branch off into object 277 at this point, unless your goal is specifically the kr-1 at tier 11
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>>2158908
Might as well get through the is7 now, it won't get any easier in the foreseeable future.
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>>2158912
yeah i guess it doesn't hurt to unlock is-7 at least
i could not imagine trying to grind out 325k exp with slow gimped is-7 and shitty 310 APCR against tier 11s

object 277 works fine at stock config and you get to have fun using top of the class 340 penetration HEAT
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>>2158916
Are you playing with gold?
Now is the time to bank up on convertible Xp and Gold to get free Xp during the next 1:50 conversion rate.
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>>2158908
nah man, I'm half way there for the IS-7 I'll keep grinding till I get that shitty IS-7.
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>>2158920
with assembly shop coming soon in january / february i don't think there's gonna be a gold conversion to free exp event for a while.
WG even went out of their way to remove the announced sale they had for this month at like 1:35 rates

>>2158921
godspeed anon
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>>2158928

>godspeed anon

thank you man, would be really nice if the teams didnt melt in 5 minutes
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>>2073612
Only good thing about WoWP imo are the prototype/paper planes.
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>>2159167
I was a WoWP alpha tester and I actually liked the game during alpha but it felt like they just dumbed it down and stripped out all the fun by the time it released.
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F2P only gets 1 Xmas Box for free?
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>>2160348
Yes, did you expect more?
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>>2160368
Honestly? Yes.
But I don't know why I was expecting more from a shit company like wargaming.
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>>2160374
F2P is just there to hook you, they want you to reach Tier8 and start spending. That's it, guess why all the noobie shitters get Tier 6 tanks gifted.
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>>2160383
>reach Tier8 and start spending
That's just scummy. After Tier 8 your credit income after a battle is usually negatie without premium time, even if you get into a winning team.
And you are just spamming non-gold ammo.
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>>2160393
Probably that's why they are adding the dog to boost credits a little bit more.
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>>2160393
That's how it is since forever, I got 14 years in this game and it was always like this. You need certain premium tanks + a premium account to earn money past Tier 8.
Fun fact: Arty is the only class which earns money on Tier 10 at all, everything else is loosing money on average.
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>>2160406
Wait, even light tanks are credit negative at tier 8+ ?
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>>2160409
https://tomato.gg/economics/all/30?tiers=0000000001

Mostly
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>>2160393
you just need to play tier 8+ tanks with high damage per ammo shot, and ideally good penetration on the standard rounds. can't play anything fast-firing or autoloader so that disqualifies all lights and mediums if you want to play tier 10 without premium time

>>2160409
>Wait, even light tanks are credit negative at tier 8+ ?
if you play properly with food taking -20k credits per battle for the viewrange boost, yeah. the only light tanks that can go decently well without food is czech autocannons light tank line
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To be fair it's not THAT hard to get a few premiums for free, and if you sink a bit of money into the game you tend to stack way more premiums than you'll ever need.
You can get a free premium from the Twitch tokens right now for example, not that the options are incredible but I honestly like my Obj274a
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>>2160430
>Obj274a
I'm 10 token away.
Last time I got the T34, but it sucks. By the time I reach the frontline, everyone is dead.
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>>2160430
https://tomato.gg/economics/all/30?tiers=000000010&nations=&sort=avg_profit&direction=true&tankType=premium

Funnily enough, the easy to get free Tier8 premiums are also the worst Tier8 premium tanks to earn credits.
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>>2160436
I don't want to overhype it but I definitely think it beats the Strv which is just a shitty Cent 1 clone.
The armor profile is very nice and respectable for a medium, it's pretty mobile all things considered, and the gun hits pretty hard.
The downsides are that it has poor gun depression (-6, but that's slightly above average for a soviet med really) and the gun handling is not exceptional. I actually personally find the gun works REALLY well for me, like it almost never lets me down, but it's not amazing on paper and plenty of other people complain about it.
But it's a solid if not impressive mid-range brawler that has workable soviet armor (300m~ turret and an autobounce UFP if you're able to find the sweet spot where you're using all 6 degrees of gun depression.
Add to that 58kph of speed once you fix the ground resistances with a decent crew and 320 alpha and you could honestly do worse.
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I'm almost there on my IS-7 grind guys, time to drop the obj 257.
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>>2160447
Yeah, that Strv sucks, it wasn't even a question which one is the better tank.

Also, how good are the upcoming USA autocannons on the T20 line.
I've farmed the 100.000 XP to unlock them on their release.
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>>2160504
Impossible to say how good they'll be since there's still room to tweak them.
They seem kinda mediocre though, they had absolute dogshit pen that got a bit of a buff but it's too early to say if they'll have enough pen to do real work on release. The DPM/overheat doesn't seem super impressive so you basically just have a weird autoloader that can "interrupt" its reload by firing again before it fully cools down.
I don't think they're going to break the meta, just be sorta alright and gimmicky. I was kinda hoping they'd have a higher firerate too, like they'd do half the damage they do now in exchange for firing twice as fast with twice as many shots before overheating. As is the RPM isn't quite that satisfying Czech LT autocannon playstyle but on a medium.
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>>2160504
High Alpha is currently king, so probably shit and a massive creditsink for gold ammo.
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>>2160514
>gold ammo
remains to be seen the final values but right now you get like 18 more pen on gold, it's basically not even worth loading gold since the pen increase is so miniscule
It's also APCR vs AP on the Ares 90 so against anything that isn't perfectly flat armor it's an even smaller gap, imagine shooting gold for a whopping 5mm more pen. Lol, lmao even.
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>>2160517
Final offer: 50-70mm more pen and 5x the creditcost.
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>>2160523
Hard to say what they'll do but I'm still thinking closer to 245 AP and 280 APCR? I get it shouldn't be able to go through thick armor since it's an autocannon meant to flank stuff but 220 at T10 is kinda lol, at least 280 APCR could go through weakspots/cupolas if aimed properly.
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>>2160529
>US gimmick line
It will be shit in some way.
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>>2160531
You say that but they buffed the M-V-Y to the point it's actually good.
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It's a shame that the free 60 days premium time ends soon.
It was sort of enjoyable to play this game.
If that would be the default, the playerbase could grow much more.
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>>2160553
1 year of premium is only 50€ during sales
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I've just got the IS-7, kitted it out and played 10 or so battles.
What an amazing piece of tank.
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Anons, which tanks are you using for the "be the top Nth dps/xp" missions?
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>>2160622
Good for you, I'm only starting the tier 9 of that line.
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>>2161103
Mid tier shitters like the E8 Sherman, T7 wheely bongoloid or soup hellcat
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>>2161103
I just play normally, but if it's damage I play a heavy.
Had one today so I just played IS7 since I was a couple games off getting the final field mod.
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>>2161197
it's gonna be a slog, I didnt like the obj 257 too much. The IS-7 is a significant improvement. Just grind through it cause the IS-7 is worth it.
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Happy new year, guys!
I will use the 10% discount for the T803, what about you?
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>>2162166
I used mine on KR-1
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>>2162166
I have fuckall trees unlocked so when I get around to it (when's the deadline for all these missions anyways? I've been saving them all to do them all at once) I'll probably just take the Szakal.
I'm actually kinda looking forward to what they come up with for the Cent AX tree, the Cent AX is so fucking good now so if they manage to improve on it they could deliver something really fun.
I'm not sure what gimmick it'd get though, maybe a mix of the T803 and Szakal? Each shot that you hit and penetrate increases your accuracy (decays over time) and also fills up a gauge that can be activated to give you a 25% reload boost for 15s.
So you fire on reload, get a super accurate gun, and then burst ridiculous damage with pinpoint accuracy.
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>>2162166
BZ-79
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>>2162208
The stuff you get from tier 11 should be more goofy.
I want to see a toggle to alter shell velocity to like 200, so you can lob shells over cover and pump hesh into campers roof decks.
It would be a fun callback to playing golf in the low tier brit meds with the howitzers.
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>>2162511
I wouldn't mind a T11 light tank deploying anit-tank mines.
Doesn't do too much dmg, but doubles/triples the track down time.
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>Unlock the KR-1
>It sucks compared to the IS-7
>Unlock the Contriver
>It sucks compared to the Canopener
Lmao what's the point? Just more pointless shit to grind.
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>>2162511
I'd put low shell velocity on the Conq line to "call back" to the howitzers the Churchs used to have
I guess maybe a literal railgun would work on the Cent line where your shell velocity improves to like 2000m/s and it increases your alpha?
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>>2163048
Alpha buffs are lame imo.
Penetration going up to like 400 temporarily would be sweet.
Every minute or so it can just shove a shell into your tank almost regardless of armor.

Or they could steal the lesta sabot rounds where the damage scales depending on the cross sectional area the round travels through.
So like face to ass on a heavy it does over 1k damage, but sniping a cupola with air behind it you do like 200.
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What should I buy using the Holiday Spirit resources?
2D camos from older holiday events or coins for the gacha machine?
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>>2163862
I personally don't like any of the styles except the carpet one, gatcha machine gives you credits, free xp, credit boosters and experimental equipment and parts
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Hey Guys! Someone's maybe going to have an extension stream on Twitch yesterday. I suggest making it a few days, not just a few hours.

The image below says:
Playing Tanks Blitz / World of Tanks
!!!Extension stream - 1 viewer = +1 minute, $1 = +1 hour!!!
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He's Nickname:

l_der_kater_l
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>played 50 games today
>25% WR
Sick of this rigged pile of shit, I'm going to War Thunder, adios.
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>>2164747
Retard
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>>2164747
>The only player who was in all 50 of my games is me, why is my winrate so consistently low?
>It must be wargayming's fault
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>>2165448
If you legitimately believe that you clearly have not dealt with some of these teams lately
>consistently top the scoreboard on exp and damage
>bro you're le only heckin constant
yes, the other guy is probably dogshit, and if you're a pixel perfect gamer with immaculate gamesense you can drag your WR up to 55-60% of the time but this also often involves playing with other highly skilled players and stacking 3 actually competent people on a team. If you're solo queueing you never stood a chance.
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>>2165462
I was shitting around solo with boosters on in random tier 8s for 30 battles to grind silver earlier and ended up with 63%, it's not hard.
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>>2165468
Sort by vehicles :^)
Also it's all luck of the draw, the reality is that on a 15 player team you can exert some influence but more often than not you can't actually decide the battle if the other 14 players are retarded
best example I have is from yesterday
I was playing E100 (I know, already throwing the match) on Highway. I go city, rack up 6k damage, but end up in a 2v3 as everyone else in the city with me is literally nothing more than a meat shield. I actually could've probably won the city and my team could've won the match IF our T110E5 was willing to flank a 150~ HP E100; I could've pushed in to a better position, fought against and beat a BZ-75, and would've been ready to deal with an enemy BatChat 25.
Instead he just AFK'd while the E100 stared me down, the BC flanked me out and I was caught in a dogshit position and died. The T110E5 simply sat there and did literally nothing the entire time, didn't even secure the kill on the E100 or shoot the BC clipping me.
I did everything I could, and so did two other people on the team, but it simply was not enough to make up for 12 other deadweight meatshields, 5 of whom did literally 0 damage.
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>>2165533
Onslop in two weeks fampai, see you there.
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>>2165571
I almost never play Onslaught although honestly i might go hard this season cause I have a ton of bonds to spend.
Wondering if it'll be worth picking up the Charlemagne or the new addition or if I should just grab the Kpz and call it a day.
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>>2165578
You should it's better than 1v29 especially once you get out of wood league.
If onslop was a permanent game mode I would play it exclusively just because games are faster and it really punishes the average random battle coward who won't spend their hp.
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>>2165580
>it really punishes the average random battle coward who won't spend their hp.
this shit was hilarious, I'd just queue up E100 and retard push and get rewarded for it
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>>2165571
onslaught is gonna be funny as fuck
i never played light tanks so i'm going to practice it on my alt and try to carry myself out of it in a heavy tank meta
said alt also has like 1000 WTR so i'm going to feast on all the after battle messages
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>>2165592
Heavies are actually kinda shit because they get really mediocre role skills.
The meta is e50m and tds like foch b and e4. Maybe a little object 140 or batchat.
Last sneason I played pretty much exclusively e50m to gold then crashed all the way back down grinding field mods after I bought out the store.

Lights are decent on open maps like ghost town but it takes a lot of clicking to keep dropping planes while you're trying to fight.
If you have the map awareness for that you might as well just play e50m and be really devious isolating people and killing them.
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>>2165604
yeah i know assault mediums are the way to actually climb if you play onslaught at a decent level

i wouldn't mind light tanking but i got into it too late and trying to learn how to plane in a gold - legend lobby is actual griefing

i actually enjoy onslop at a lower level. so many random shit happens at this skill range and tons of people crashing out because of a mix of people trying to climb out of ELO hell and people who DGAF and play for weeklies
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>>2164747
War Blunder is fucking soulless and is in a much worse state than WOT. The core game itself is literally hear the engine and spot the pixel, and I'm fully convinced that the type of retards that scream WT is better than WOT are simply too retarded to learn WOT mechanics and utilize it. The premium tanks problem is even worse in WT because gayjoob can release extremely broken tanks on release, then nerf them at a later date. Balancing is literally non-existent, and gayjoob will nitpick false info to nerf some tanks while refusing to implement secret documents on some.
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>>2165578
Kpz and Concept are both fun Tier9 tanks, Charlemagne feels like a waste of bonds.
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>>2165610
You need to play Onlaught during the first days, to get carried by no life pros for a bit.
It's hell to play during week 2 or later, poolish kid platoons are gonna throw so many games for you that climbing gets hard.
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>>2165624
they made it easier to climb to silver now so it's not that bad even with 45% WR as long as you place high within the team
for my main, i'm content with what i have now so i don't feel the need to run the treadmill for more bond equipment / reskinned tier 10. i'll just play the mode for the gameplay itself and have fun doing something i never done within the last 3 onslaughts by light tanking
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>>2165626
I just want to get the market to buy the chinese TD, last time I gave up due to shitty platoons throwing match after match.
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>>2165628
the 114 SP2 is ok but i had more fun in the DBV-152 and object 268 v5
I also forgot the LTC II is a new reward now so I might have to grind for it if it turns out stronger than the projet louis in randoms
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>>2165634
https://tanks.gg/tank/ltc-ii
Looks neat. 10 shell mag with 2s intraclip. Closest thing we've had to pre-nerf bulldog since the light tank changes.
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>>2165638
Tier 9 AMX 13/57 sounds not like fun to be honest.
265mm pen max and only 1500HP against Tier 11 in every 2 or 3 match.
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>>2165655
Anon, the projet louis is already in the game as an uptiered 13 57 and people love it despite it having even less pen (248) and even less hp (1400) than the LTC II. It even has worse camo and view range than its tier 7 counterpart.
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>>2165638
i took a look at the comparison and it's actually pretty grim for the LTC II
I skipped over the 42 second reload and 18 second unload time, that is ball breaking fora combat scout, especially in 3 minute game meta

projet louis at least have the module damage gimmick from unloading fast at 7 seconds
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>>2165664
It looks worse than the Char Mle. 75 and that's a gimmic tank.
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>>2165448
>go to your place on the map
>fight and trade well
>stay in the fight
>meanwhile the rest of your team have surrendered the other half of the map and are now in your base
you are le only heckin constant
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>>2165688
The game's on life support mode anyway, you won't have to suffer much longer. Giving away all those free tier 10 lines was a Hail Mary. WoT content creators have about a sixth of the views/subs what War Thunder creators have.
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it's another "teammate rushes ahead to die providing crucial cover for the enemy tanks" episode
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Tier 11 tanks are shit lmao, the only good one is the Taschenfatte
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>>2165695
Lmao fucking retard. It only explain that none of the WT niggers play the game. WOT has much higher twitch and player numbers.
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>>2165755
World of tanks runs very heavy twitch drops campaigns and essentially viewbots itself.
The viewership isn't organic at all and all the CCs are dickheads. The ones that aren't dickheads get removed from the program.

Besides which the game isn't flexible or expressive.
This isn't like the runescape guys who can pull obscene numbers by doing self imposed challenge runs.
No ones going to make a russian tanks only account and make a video series on it exploring getting the object 260.
All you can really do is show content previews and match highlights.
And those get incredibly stale.

In conclusion, if wargaming want to revive world of tanks on youtube, they should make onslaught a permanent game mode available tiers 6-11.
Thanks for reading my blog.
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>>2165755
>Thinking that anyone watches WoT on Twitch outside of getting drops
Lmao fucking retard
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>>2165774
>>2165788
WT drones spotted. WOT is big enough to feed dozen of streamers and the game is entertaining enough to watch. Huge nigger cope. WOT playerbase is something like x3 x4 of TroonThunder.
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>>2166053
I have literally just viewbotted world of tanks for at least 60 hours to get a shitty tank.
And ima do it again.
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>>2165612
Core game of WoT: if you don't load gold and use premium consumables with 4+ perk crew you are unironically sandbagging your team.
WT premiums are still better than "unnerfable" ones from WoT. LeHF single-handedly killed fun in everything tier 5-6 range.
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I thought the Contriver was shit at first but I like it now after getting upgrades. You just have to play as a support heavy not a frontline and you can be very powerful. People don't realise or expect how accurate the doubles can be at range.
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>>2166452
>You just have to play as a support heavy not a frontline
That makes it shit, just because of how the MM works.
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>>2166668
Just play behind one of the 3 Taschenratte on your team and it works well.
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>>2165448
You're literally 3% of the match, what makes you think consistently carrying the 47% while hoping the 50% is shit is normal
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remember when game was fun?
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>>2168000
It can still be fun
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>>2165688
>>2166743
Next you'll say anyone with a >50% winrate only has it by platooning or cheating, cope harder.
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>>2031355
It's all bout choosing meta (and meta shift proof) vehicles with least-bad module grinds, and high base pen and/or infallible gold round. The trouble comes in when you're grinding things in many lines just to try them out.
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>>2105192
They make good drivers.
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>>2110579
Get the Chinese one as well for even bigger boom stick.

>>2110678
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>>2130664
People waiting until you die to shoot the side of tanks that you're keeping occupied - like there wasn't 3rd person to verify - is a perennial problem. Same with someone initiating a break through push yolo getting in behind a brawl, and no one committing to going ham on the interference generated.
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>>2168000
The post-apocalyptic stuff was the first fun I've had since then.
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>>2031355
Depends on goals.
You can get your free tens and bond a satisfactory premium and be pretty set to jump in at most tiers.
On one hand you wont have much bond or experimental equipment, but on the other you wont have any tanks that require it.

If you get three lines for free the best 3 are probably Batchat and IS-7, then either leo 1 or obj 430u.
Something notable about free tank line selections is they skip the need to unlock the subsequent tier 11 to elite the vehicle and be eligible for field mods.
This is a big deal on each of the tanks listed, and each line here also leads to other handy tanks like amx 13 105 and obj 140/e50m.
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I took the CS-63 and the UDES 15/16 :)
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I'm afraid to play further
It can't be 3/3 wins with the T110E5 with the last win getting 5 kills, Steel wall, high caliber, confederate all with the wrong equipment setup
The other game was an E65 game with 200k winnings
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>>2168820
>moving the goalpost and projecting
There was literally nothing wrong with both those posts
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>>2160504
Remember the auto-loader Bulldog? Like that and the Louis, probably.
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>>2170843
They're better than that. There's zero "reload time" except when switching shell types and other than overheating they fire somewhere between 2 and 3 times per second. The unbuffed version of the tier 10 on the test server could reliably hit people for 400-800 at medium ranges in a single burst and it's apparently more accurate than that now.
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>>2160504
I'm very hopeful that they'll be good.
People who are smart and abuse both the blue he and really fiend for magdumps and trading eight to one should make them seem decent.
The fact that they don't reload except to intuition is very exciting, no ones going to be able to reliably guess your heat status so the tanks will naturally have a big fear factor.
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Did the average skill level at tier 10 drop or something recently? I'm just getting back into the game and I feel like I can't rely on teammates to hold my flanks in my UDES anymore. Shit is absolutely infuriating since I killed the reverse speed with a field mod
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Anyone own the AMX 67 Imbattable? how shit is it? I owned the AMX 50 B and it's just unplayable, gun is just not good enough to make up for no armour. Don't understand why I would even bother researching this tier XI.
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The fantome is a German tank
It has German style cupolas, smoke dischargers, head and rear lights
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>>2171483
they gave out 2 tier 10 lines
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>>2172560
okay and what are you going to do about it
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>>2172635
I'm gonna write a comment on a mongolian basket weaving forum
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>>2172768
okay
*adds another T-54/T-55 premium to Germany*
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>>2166053
Holy copium tsunami
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just had an insane idea for the Progetto T11, although it's probably not original - you use the select next shell mechanic to decide which shell goes into the auto-reloader, and then that shell is indicated by a color in the magazine.
Black for standard APCR, yellow/gold for premium HEAT, and orange for HE
So an example magazine would be gold > gold, so you have high pen HEAT rounds when you're dipping into your mag and you need your shots to count, black (standard round) and then you'd load standard APCR as your fourth shot. But the thing is Italian meds have really good HE they can never use because of the way intuition works with auto-reloaders and this would fix that - you'd fire two rounds and a target for your HE would pop up. You'd press to queue up HE and it'd reload HE as your third round without clearing and wasting your two HEAT rounds. You'd hit the target with HE, get rewarded for smart ammo use, and then when a heavier target rushes you shortly after you'd hit him with three HEAT rounds instead of your gun being empty because you wanted to use HE.
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Robocop battle pass incoming, premium M-VI-Y as the reward.
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I'm not going to lie, taking one of the worst T9 tech tree tanks in the entire game and copy-pasting it with barely any fucking difference (40 more alpha at the cost of like 200DPM) is definitely a bold choice.
This is a tank that not only can you basically get for free, most people spend fxp to get past it.
And it's not like there's a lack of American heavy tank premiums in the game.
If I just need a crew trainer and don't want to spend money, I can get the Ae Phase 1 or the Concept 1B.
If I am willing to spend, I'd rather shell out more for the M54 Renegade, T26E5 Patriot or hell even the M6A2E1 is unique and interesting at least rather than just being a tech tree clone.
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>>2174700
Really don't know why it's not the ares mbt since autocannon meds are coming out at the exact same time.
Guess WG just doesn't plan stuff.

>>2174459
Sounds overly complicated and not compatible with WGs spaghetti code since no autoloader can load shells of different types into the same mag.

Just give it two mags of 2 rounds that can be loaded independently and swapped.
So you carry one apcr mag and one he mag.
You fire both apcr shells, then mag swap and load 2 he rounds quickly.
You can now intuition for a third apcr shell or just fire your he.
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>>2174837
I imagine they think the Ares prem is worthy of being a lootbox prize to really milk the money, but I remember when WG dropped premiums well ahead of a line to really get players excited for the tech tree and to get them to buy into early access.
The Progetto 46 was a really good marathon tank that was well worth buying before Italian mediums came out. Now, honestly, you can skip buying it and get a Pantera instead and you aren't missing out on too much. Contradictious, lots of fun and well worth splashing out for before the double barrel line dropped. Obviously still way better than the Conceiver so it has some value but if you want to save some money you can grind the line to the Canopener and get the same gameplay without buying a premium tank.
The Ares prem looks a bit better than the tech tree one but why bother buying a bunch of lootboxes for it if I can just grind the tech tree one out for free?
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I'm 14k xp away from the 803
I want to blow my brains out playing T10 heavies
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>>2176049
i hated the t803 hull so much that i'm heavily considering selling it and going back to t110e5
it's just so damn long and losing the boat shaped hull that i used to bounce things with using t110e5 means i'm down like 800 effective HP

if i wanted to jerk off playing hulldown i would be playing my CW chieftain in the first place and i found out about it too late
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>>2176155
E5 really that good?
Been watching some gameplay on it and considering grinding out the line, the tumor on top is a bit of a turn-off but obviously that can be played around and the tank looks pretty good otherwise.
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>>2176165
i'd rather deal with t110e5 tumor than the fat ass turret on the t803 which takes ammorack damage all the time

i can't describe my hatred for the t803 chassis well enough so this image speaks 1000 words
it sucks for aggressive play in comparison to t110e5
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>>2176165
E5 is mad good but it demands that you wiggle constantly and not repeek the same spots if you're fighting on a hill.
The only time you can be lazy is corners that hide the cupussy.
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>>2176172
also some blues and unicums are getting aware of the shot trap weakspot by shooting AP or APCR underneath the t803 gun mantlet when it is gun depressed
you can't even hold hulldown angles against good players anymore

t803 only claim to fame is being able to farm shitters with the ability ramping up DPM but every other tier 11 heavy does that too so i find increasingly lower reasons to take out t803
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>>2176172
I have the KR-1 and Contriver and their Tier 10 counterparts are better than both. Tier 11 is just more shit to grind. Taschenfatte is the only one which is a real step up but desu it could do with a nerf to lfp armour values.
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>>2176187
BZ-79 is insane upgrade too
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Going through my garage and I have a ton of premium tanks I don't remember having lmao
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>>2176172
>deal with t110e5 tumor than the fat ass turret on the t803 which takes ammorack damage all the time

Even with hardening? o_0
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>>2177894
experimental hardening helps
the chonk size of the t803 and turret design really doesn't help against multiple firing angles while i could somewhat deal with bad situations like that in the t110e5 due to the more compact size and boat shaped hull being able to troll bounce
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Today's battles are gonna be shit, weekend camper bots are online and I'm on my way to the 3rd loss of the day.
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came back to the game after 5 years, wtf is it with all these double tap high damage tanks
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>>2178173
You are le only constant
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>>2178231
haha bro look up the MBT-B if that isn't what killed you
just check the stats on tanks.gg
I assume you're talking about the half dozen double-barreled tanks they've been introducing though, there's also a bunch more stupidly high alpha TDs because it's fun to make one mistake and lose half your HP to a guy sniping from the back of the map.
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>>2178552
it was a TBT or some shit
I hate how WG saw the bourrasque and thought "we really need more of this in our game"
then again they added tier XI tanks so why am I surprised
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>>2178573
TBT is basically just another Skoda T56, it's one of the least egregious of the two-shot autoreloading nigtanks since it has a fucking atrocious 32.60 clip reload and a laughable DPM of 1651
If he shoots someone else you just kill him
like get a load of this shit, yeah the MBT-B is a tier higher at T10 but 2400 clip in 8.5 seconds lmao
If this thing catches you in close range after you've fired and you have like a 10s+ reload it's just lights out. And if you do have a short enough reload to shoot him once before he finishes unloading you still haven't traded very favorably unless his ammo rack was already damaged and you manage to cook it off.
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>>2178231
the game environment transitioned to high damaging single shot or autoloaders that dump 3 shells into you within 6 seconds

DPM playstyle is a lot harder to pull off now, and tanks aren't armored enough to stay out in the open to use DPM unless it's a hulldown tank hiding behind a hill
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>>2178231
It's nice to come out of your rock, but the T8 meta is 800 damage bursts now
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Fuck it might as well grind out the Robocop tank, got nothing better to do.
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>>2180259
Seems awful, I think I'm gonna deliberately not pay the gold so I don't have it in garage.
The two zero skill crew are in the freebie side.
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>>2180270
It's a pretty shit vehicle but in all seriousness in this game now, you activate a booster with a tier 9 premium, play a few games, play as part of a lemming train and earn about a million credits per hour and a bunch of bonds too. It's worth 3500 gold.
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>>2180277
Idk about that, some tanks really aren't worth the anguish of playing them.

What I did notice is they're selling mentor tokens in bundles this time round.

As a weeb looking to replace all his crews with girls und panzer tie-in crews, these are of phenomenal value to me.
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>>2180277
Not really, it's a very mediocre/bad tech tree vehicle sidegrade. You can argue the economy is somehow "worth" it but you could also just wait a bit for an actually good battle pass tank or buy a Tiger Maus for bonds or whatever
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i stole this from reddit but you can revert battle results to pre WOT 2.0 now.
never installed a mod so fast in my life

https://wgmods.net/7450/
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>>2180814
how the fuck is thai even real
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>free tech tree choice running out before the new line releases
fuck you WG
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>>2180836
Lol retard. Do you expect them to give you newly released line for free?
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>>2180259
>got nothing better to do.

Not with this game, or with that tank having a better less cupolAIDS stock turret and higher dpm/gold pen 105mm
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>>2180836
you also have to select your discounted christmas line before it releases
what, you thought you'd get the hot new line for cheap?
pay up
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>>2181536
>what, you thought you'd get the hot new line for cheap?
hasn't been the case for a while as new tech tree lines were getting excluded from tech tree discounts
this point would have been more relevant like 2-3 years ago
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>>2181551
Yes.
Last year there were global discounts for tech tree vehicles due to Tankfest and both the Tesák line and Canopener line were not eligible.
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>>2181551
>>2181562
i had to dig this up but they stopped giving new tank lines credit discounts since tankfest 2021 with czech heavies
this nitpick is 4+ years old
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Just me or is the T-54D so fucking good
Never had a bad match in this thing
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>>2182042
Been keeping an eye on holiday ops credit stats and it's rank 23 overall.
Clearly it ain't bad.
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>>2182276
For me it's something about the surprisingly reliable armor scheme and the gun rarely ever lets me down with a solid 390 alpha, with the soft stats for dispersion it should troll me way more but it just works well for me.
If I had to complain it has dogshit gun depression at -5 degrees and it's a bit on the slow side but it just works really well for me. I can brawl like I'm playing a HT, I can flank like a proper medium if I don't try to push early game positions that require a much higher top speed, it's just comfortable to play.
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>>2157065
>jewgaming are unironic jews
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>Mle in bond shop
ouugghhh that's a tank I lootboxed for in the free bond shop...
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>>2182940
i had to look because i thought you were bullshitting me
even though projet louis is a different enough playstyle, i should have saved money on 50 boxes and simply buy char mle 75 from the bond shop lmao
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>>2182940
WGenerous
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I've started the Ares 75 vehicle.
Which are good skills for the crew? Apart from brother in arms and repairs

Also what equipment to use on that line? Are vert stabs worth it?
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>US autocannon HE pen
>10 (ten)
this is singlehandedly the most blatant antifun decision made in this game
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>>2184856
It has a super weird pen formula and actually pens a way higher number while doing way more damage than it should against medium thickness armor. Next time you see a lightly armored tank with like 30-40mm of armor, just shoot him with HE. You'll be surprised how much damage it does.
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>>2184856
someone wrote explanation of ares autocannon line having special HE rules on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldofTanks/comments/1pqg90k/ive_seen_a_lot_of_confusion_around_the_new_ares/

if you don't wanna click that shit
>no splash, meaning no internal module damage
>10mm HE is meant to stop the HE shell from penning spaced armor and track wheels
>ares HE shell damage starts dropping off after hitting 40-50mm armor despite the ingame value listing at 10mm

besides, you don't have to feel sorry for the USA autocannons. the tier 10 and 11 are going to dump 2000~ damage into you in 3 seconds if they catch your back after intuition switching in only 2.5 seconds
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>>2184924
There was a guy streaming the 90c last night who was getting 6k dpg.
You can just punish people for 700-900 damage every time they make a mistake.
They're super underrated I think.
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>>2182940
I will never ever play light tanks or squares
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Was there really a need to ban safe shot mod?...
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>>2185064
Yeah.
Autocannons being in the game mean that mods that restrict firing under certain conditions (allies in cursor, heat bar about to be full) are an unfair advantage.
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>>2185293
>heat bar
Okay, that's fair, but blocking shot when an ally drives in front of you shold be okay.
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>>2185293
>>2185337
I think it's hasty on WG's part and there's a decent chance that Safe Shot works something out with them to ensure them the mod won't be an unfair advantage
but then again WG is literally retarded and hates their community so it's entirely possible they just tell the guy to pound sand
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WoT classic when? All the tanks they've released in the last 8 years are annoying as fuck.
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>>2184706
Use the same skill set you used on MT
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>>2185912
We had Classic once and it was kinda fun, not sure people would want to play it nonstop but it might be fun as a once-a-year event for a few weeks
They should just do Frontline frequency "flashback" events where you can only play certain tanks from certain years, like only tanks released before 2019
granted there've been some rebalances so it wouldn't be 1:1 but it might be fun to play "no autoloaders" as a gamemode
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>>2184706
Surprisingly good camo. Stock engine is still fast with Ground Resistance skill. Get the top gun first. Optics, Bush Xray, Your choice-- counter enemy lights, and vulture counter-push to back up your front line. Take speculative suppressive HE shots at light tank bushes in the early game. Always be kill securing.

>>2184856
The lack of criticals is what's most bullshit. But we could say that of HE face raping open top vehicles in general.
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>>2186300
you get module damage with US autocannons
I can't tell you how many people I have set on fire with just the T8 tank
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most ares shitters shoot until the gun overheats and they they die with like 400 damage dealt
I use that to my advantage and murder them with burst fire
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Anyone know why after the update I'm getting a lot of 10v10 player matches and waiting time is taking over 1 minute? EU servers btw.
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>robocop tank for improved pass only
lmao
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>>2187489
You already got a free tank during Christmas.
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>>2187317
Ares spam is torturing the matchmaker
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>>2187489
This is the case for years now, the last free BP tank was the 56tp
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>>2187489
It being a dogshit tech tree clone aside, why would you expect to get a premium battlepass tank for free?
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So many shitters are now in Onslaught grinding for T11, its even worse than before. Unplayable outside of peak EU hours.
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>>2188153
If there's an abnormal number of strvs and grilles I'll just jam rhm games.
's cool.
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>>2188164
It's slavic kids that just drive around aimlessly, they don't know the maps.
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>>2188177
All the more reason to play a light and plane their retarded random battles deployments.
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Friday night on EU servers and I'm getting 10v10 matches and waiting almost 2 minutes. Had a match where there were 4 heavies on my team that didn't move at all. Don't know what's going on. It says there are 107k on WOT rn.
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>>2189471
in what tier? time?
even on NA i can get into 10v10 matches if i queue up tier 7 at like 4 am weekdays
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>>2189471
I do know what's going on.
Ares spam is torturing the matchmaker.
Since 2.0 tanks need to be matched against their tier, class, and role with a reasonable spread.
The matchmaker is currently flooded with high tier support mediums and retards trying to grind the t20.
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I’ve been taking a break from WOT due to holiday ops and oh man there’s a shit ton of complaints from ARES and bad people grinding onslaught
Is the gameplay really that bad atm?
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>>2189570
I was in tier 9 arty.
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what does the dog meter do and what happens when it is full?
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>>2190359
You've shocked your dog enough that it stands up.
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While I enjoy playing this new Ares line, it broke the alredy shitty balance of the game even more.
Some light tanks are slower than mediums, they also can't spot shit, some medium tanks more armored than heavy tanks.
And now we have a pack of mediums that can punish those who are on loading time.
I'm glad that my 2.0 60 days premium expires in 6 days, so I can say good bye this shitfest.
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>>2190411
Who tf care about balance faggot? What's matter is having fun
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>>2190426
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THERE ARE SO MANY USELESS FUCKS NOW, ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLAY !!!
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>UI DISCOVERY

Spacebar restores the old layout, Vehicle Parameters to the Right, Crew Left, a Grid with Filtered Tanks center.
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i was looking up what tier 8 medium could be a decent match for the ares 75 autocannon spam with the following requirements
>armored lower plate and 50mm+ side armor to not get cheesed too hard by HE
>enough DPM to somewhat contest the ares 75's 2900~ DPM
>big enough hp pool to take hits
and the answer i came to is the m48 raumpanzer with the boat-shaped hull, of all things.
the cupola is a problem but not having a weaker UFP or LFP for ares players to yolo dump their clip on seems worth the tradeoff

stridsyxa almost hit all the requirements too but side armor is 40mm and susceptible to HE yolo cheese
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>>2191915
You can fuck on them with just about anything if you aren't lazy and peek quickly and precisely.
I was farming them in the shitpack the other day because I would just leave cover, snap their turret and roll back and the stupid shits would be satisfied trading single shots with me.

Anything with above average armor also murderzones ares tanks.
Behold; the humble 112.
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>>2191925
K-2 gods we're so back
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>>2191932
I haven't seen them in MM for ages now..
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>>2191925
yeah tier 8 heavy armor can more or less dunk on them for true easymode.
i should have grinded out the t20 during holiday ops since i do really well with czech autocannon lights and i'd probably be slapping bitches decently well in an ARES too.
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>>2191992
Gg, platoon is basically legal cheating.
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>>2192039
the platoon was made at the end of the battle to get brothers in arms
I'm 30k XP away from the T9 tank, and I only had this tank for 40 battles
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it's crazy how many 5xs I have stacked and how literally impossibly slow the grind was without them, it feels like the game is balanced around having 5x missions
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>>2191915
conclusion: m48 raumpanzer does work against yoloing ARES but the matchup against modern tier 8 tanks blows so much that i abandoned this test

GST turm and projet louis have been pretty good though. turm gets a 260mm lower plate that confuses ARES player and projet louis can bounce autoaiming yoloing ARES 75 that are a 3x of in every match
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>>2192548
Premium's value proposition is nonexistent outside of Christmas. Add in Back in Action line discounts for not playing 8+ months, to really max those 5xs. It's the credits that's most fucked.
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https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/specials/trade-in-january-2026/
New trade in tanks you can buy
>HWK30
Probably an alright crew trainer for people grinding the Borken
>M46 KR
fuckin lol
>STG Guard
This one, if I'm not misremembering, is in the bond store so kind of a pointless addition.

I wonder when they'll bring back a T9 like the TL-7 that was available for all of like one trade-in? It'd be neat to get a limited-time offer like a Medved or the Udes alt 3 to drain a bit of gold. Maybe even the Toro?
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>>2187992
I was in a coma for 5 years and that's how it was back then - you did the grueling marathon grind and then got a shitty premium for free so you can park it in the garage and never touch it again.
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>>2193964
Marathons are, for better or worse, gone. Battlepass is a lot less of a direct marathon grind; they're usually more reasonable to complete and you get a whole bunch of stuff even if you don't finish them for the tank.
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>>2193921
aww. i was hoping for one of these four premiums since WG would probably want to drain gold from lootboxes
guess i gotta wait for the next trade-in
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Took 69 battles to fully research and upgrade the ares 75, as a bonus I made the first mark of egg salad shooting standard only
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>>2195298
You get near enough top engine horsepower with the 10k credits Oil consumable, parity with Turbo. Get the guns first on the IX and above. And have the Ground Resistance skill.

Also-- Vstab doing hardly anything outside of the furtherst heating bloom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsgTJZTV3XY
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>>2196483
>Vstab doing hardly anything outside of the furtherst heating bloom
bruh this take is dogshit for a tank line that wants consistency on magdumping shots

i plugged that shit into tomato.gg and even with regular VSTAB, your firing consistency goes way up because of lowered dispersion on the first shot bloom and improved after firing dispersion when you are magdumping

even in the chems video you linked, he's using VSTAB and the directive to improve after firing dispersion... wtf?
what are you even replacing VSTAB for?
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>>2196561
You're incorrect.
Bloom after firing is a fake stat, the bloom is only proportional to heat.
The chart you're highlighting is aim time while bloomed, which is what vstab handles; bloom due to the other dispersion factors.
Chems admits his equipment is all over the place because he didn't immediately understand the mechanic and all the footage was gathered in one session of testing.
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>>2196999
>Bloom after firing is a fake stat, the bloom is only proportional to heat.
hmm... i guess so. i spent half an hour trying to see if anyone else cared about the ARES firing bloom, but the only hint i got from it is from QB's video, of all things.
the wording 'the higher the temperature, the more some of its parameter changes' allude to this.
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>>2197464
Yeah.
Before this was explored by players the only hint was that the rank 7/tier 9 field mod seems to not affect dispersion after firing as is typical for support mediums. It instead does something else.
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how do soviet double barrel heavies hold up?
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>>2198774
If you're asking about the 703 II from the trade-in; it's pretty damn solid. Reliable armor, reliable firepower, just an all around good T8 prem heavy. Pretty worth the gold, especially if you're trading a bond alpine tiger or whatever for it.
If you mean the actual tech tree line I unfortunately don't have an opinion for you since the 703 II was more than enough for me and I never bothered to grind out the line. They seem to be rated pretty decently by the community but arguably the British double barrels are just way stronger even if their double shot mechanic is a bit clunkier to use.
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>>2198774
703 is ok. You get shot through the turret face by heat too often.
IS-2-II is ok, pretty comfy with the 2 second charge time and short lockout. Even has a 3d style for some reason.
IS-3-II is a lowpoint. Weak armor, sees tier XI, much harder to play.
ST-II is ok. Armor's significantly more reliable than the others and you can gun block your weakspots with the fat barrels.
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>>2198774
i bought back the is-3-ii with the holiday ops discount and it's as fun as i remembered it

i put on the stock 100mm as opposed to the 122mm though. higher base DPM, faster double shot time at 2 seconds and interclip reload going from 5 sec to 3 sec makes it easier to dump 2 shots into an enemy.

only downside is shit pen vs enemy heavies but intuition switching to gold somewhat fixes it
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Ares... more like Annoying
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How is the T95 still considered good in 2026? Literally made out of cheese and dogshit dispersion. I'm getting penned from any tank and from a distance too while angling the tank.
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>>2200191
You are better off playing the PTZ-78 or the Breaker. T95 was nice before T11 was introduced, nowadays though, you are just bottom tier fodder.
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>>2200191
>How is the T95 still considered good in 2026
said who here
you can thank the armor flashlight function for fucking up armored gameplay
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>>2200191
Armor flashlight is gonna show everyone the magic track and damage pixel in the front that you used to have to specifically know about.
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this snowball stuff is pretty fun
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>>2200191
>frontline support vulture

If you're top tier, you can bully. Otherwise find unfavorable trades to tank for your heavies.
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Have to play 50 matches a day to complete this shitty little battle pass. Totally not worth it.
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love onslaught. get 15k exp for playing decent off one match
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If I had a gun and 2 bullets and was in a room with Ursula von der Leyen and a teammate from this game I would shoot the teammate twice
God, why are they so fucking useless
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>>2207074
Shoot them?
I'd sodomize them repeatedly.
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>>2206496
the superheavy spam is killing me, I'm tired of shooting at Maus and T5 Heavies.
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>>2208041
i'm slow grinding through onslaught, 2-5 matches per day until i complete the daily premium mission that gives 3x exp.
i feel like i could climb to low gold by spamming object 268 v5 against the superheavy meta but ehhh.
burnt out on doing onslaught weeklies over the years and being constantly pulled into champion / legend lobbies as high silver is really annoying as a NAfag.
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Blacked Market tomorrow.
Are we excited?
Any thoughts on what we'll get?
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Damn, /wotg/ was alive this whole time? I've been playing again for 4 months after a 12 year absence but I fucking suck now. On the bright side, I'm an actual adult with a career now so I can afford to buy all the tanks I want.
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>>2209258
yeah we exist. version 2.0 update got some new people and veterans checking back on WOT every so often

>>2208906
i wish for old tanks, but the chances are pretty low
my cope is that field mods are enabled on these tanks, and it's not the first time around WG put out nostalgiabait via WTF E100
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also i took a look at thearmoredpatrol, and the 1st lot should be EBR 75 FL 10.

typically we mirror wot ASIA black market offerings, with one or two tanks being changed out during the run.

sometimes they change the purchasing currency, like when 121b monkey king went from 40k gold in WOT asia to 30 million credits in WOT NA/EU

https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2026/01/28/wot-asia-first-lot-of-the-2026-winter-auction-ebr-75-fl-10/
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>>2209510
I'm only up to the Lynx in the EBR line and I've heard the 75 is insanely broken, but I still don't think I want it. I already have an ELC, Projet Louis, and a 1357. Call me insane but I kind of prefer the regular scout tanks.
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>>2209720
EBR 75 FL 10 is good but not what i call broken anymore, a light tank dealing 350 damage and able to set themselves up for damage and spotting opportunities makes it easy to break stalemates in competent hands

it feels like the pub meta is moving on from wheelies terrorizing the game though. there's so many things that have affected wheelies over the years

>maps being de-bushed and turned into corridor lanes, meaning EBR runs aren't as impactful as 7 years ago
>update 2.0 increased tech tree HP globally, meaning the 350 damage burst doesn't chunk as much of an enemy tank total hp% as before
>wheelie damaged suspension nerf changed the turning maneuverability and acceleration of wheeled vehicles. EBR 75 FL 10 got tuned to be less affected by it but it's still noticeable when driving around with damaged wheels before and after nerfs
>enemies are way faster to react with stuff like field mods, buffed off-road driving and experimental turbo increasing turn speed on tank hull and turret
>mirrored matchmaking means you can't be the only anti-scout shitting on their LT pick, and most games past 2.0 have 3 LTs atm anyways
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>>2209727
Fair analysis I think. I'm only a recent returnee but I've always enjoyed light tanks and it feels like they are both better (when they are good, they are great) and worse (when they are bad, they are fucking awful) than ever. Also, right now specifically they're in a bit of a tight spot because the Ares exists and everyone's playing it.
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>>2209733
yeah ARES autocannon medium tanks are the ones dunking on pub meta now.
they're a significant design change by being high capacity, fast shell unloading time and minimal downtime between bursts making them unconventional to position and punish properly.

the previous ARES iteration were pretty balanced as gimmick tanks too, WG just gigabuffed their firepower out of the blue probably because the shitty supertesters were sucking gigantic dicks in it
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4k bids on NA, I wonder if it's worth the 8500ish gold bid to potentially get the EBR. The only reason I'm hesitant is I have like 26k gold and if they drop something like the Ashigaru for gold I want to be able to go all-in, I don't know that 18k gold is enough for a T10 tank on the Black Market.
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>>2209727
>mirrored matchmaking means you can't be the only anti-scout shitting
Mirrored MM into Lynxes is most of what makes/made the EBR 75 so dominant - there's not a huge number of them so you often get matched against a vastly inferior tech tree tank that you can stomp with impunity. The injection of more of them into the MM will be another subtle hit to the power of the EBR 75 especially with the French wheeled tree being so old that the amount of people grinding the Lynx has fallen off + people who wanted it could tech tree skip to the EBR 105.
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>>2210794
I’m on NA and queue times are horrendous, though adding 3000 more to people’s garage will probably help.
Really good for missions that require you to hunt other light tanks with HE or patrol duty medals.

For fun, I prefer Czech lights over wheelies now.

>>2210799
Yeah it clubs the occasional lynx that I would get matched with back then, often a EBR 75 mirror match. I mentioned before that queue times for tier 8 and 9 wheelies suck cock on NA since it ranges from 3 minute queue to actually timing out at 5 minutes, which is when I dropped playing the EBR 75.
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>comp bid up to 16k
meh, I'm going to bet on a better/more unique gold auction
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>>2211099
Waiting warmly for the BZ-176
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>>2211114
this is huge cope but I'd like to bid 20-25k and get the Ashigaru
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>>2211099
if you care about the new tanks some of these will be showing up for sure
yong bing fits the annual chinese tank shilling they do for black market
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>>2208293
Old post but you made me curious about the 268/5 so I took a look at it. Is it just me or is it literally a soviet E4? But possibly a bit better?
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>>2211127
Hate to shatter your dreams man but there isn't a chance it goes for that cheap. Kit one out on tanks.gg and it goes up to like 5.4k DPM, plus it has wheels. I'm betting it's going to be like the Phonix, where you have to pay 50-100k gold.
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>>2211135
i like the better field mod options, decent camo, big speed limits and the 395 HEAT pen fuck off shell on the object 268 v5.

the things i think the T110E4 have over the v5 is better DPM, a faster premium shell velocity, APCR when shooting tracks and a slightly bouncier hull
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>>2211162
Yeah the camo seems like a big one, you can actually get it to respectable levels. The E4 isn't doing shit with its camo. I did forget the E4 fires APCR for its gold round, though, 375 pen APCR is pretty insane.

I'm almost done with the T30 now and I still don't know if I want to buy the E4. The T30 is so good and feels so good that I might just keep it forever.
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Lot 2 is up on Asia, SPHT
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>>2211173
unlock the e4 so you can go through field mods for t30. the level 2 field mod that improves your terrain resists and tracks durability is a huge difference
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>>2211181
Oh fuck I actually wanted that one
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>>2211181
>>2211185
https://tanks.gg/tank/spht/stats?vm=hybridLive

call me a hater but i don't see why you would play SPHT over Concept 1b
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>>2211195
actually the SPHT is more like a sidegrade M103 than Concept 1b, but still.
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>>2211195
Fair point, I forgot I even had the Concept. To me the SPHT looks like a tier 9 E5, which is not a bad place to be, but yeah premium status isn't enough for me to double up on tanks like that.
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>>2211202
The hull looks too mediocre to be an E5, on flat ground head-on it's total paper dogshit.
Yes, it has some weird geometry and potential to autoricochet stuff if you're angled and the target is a little below you, but you don't have incredible gun depression at only -8 and anyone with good pen or gold can punch through your 280mm turret face even if they can't hit your cupola so it's not like you're playing ridgelines and autobouncing anything that doesn't snap your (huge) cupola
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>>2211202
it doesn't have the boat hull of T110E5 so it's gonna be dogwater on flat ground fights
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>>2211207
>>2211210
Took a look at the armor model and I think you guys are right. Looks like a wash when its own gun can go right through its mantlet.
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>>2211140
>aSHITgaru
tanks with 4 to 5 second reload per shot already exist (H3 / astron rex / char futur 4) and it's already kind of hard to dump their clip sizes onto a target before it's gone, even in "easier" games at tier 8 or 9.

i feel like the ashigaru DPM is a bit overrated, no one really exposes themselves to get farmed like that anymore. i'll still throw up to 14k gold to try and get one as a garage queen, but autoloaders and autoreloaders already more or less match the ashigaru in DPM situations where it matters
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>>2211246
It'll be a feast or famine tank imo, and filter out bad players. If you get a really good position against mediocre/bads you will farm retarded fucking matches and yes, you do get matches like that every once in a while if you aren't a retarded tomato yourself and have map sense and good positioning. No, you won't get to farm every target with 5000DPM to the face every match and bads will probably sit in the open trying to cycle the gun on cooldown and die with 1100-1500 damage games but honestly I'd want it even if it's mediocre just for the gimmick factor of being a wheeled TD. I think it's going to be a LOT of fun though, in the same tier as the DBV.
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>>2211256
i'm in it for the gimmick factor too. compared to when ashigaru was first revealed the luster kind of wore off once i saw the soft stats, the top speed still being stuck at 40 km/h and ARES tanks just pulling shit off like this in general when farming bads
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>>2211195
https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2026/01/25/wot-spht-vehicle-changes-in-micro-patch-2-1-1_1/

SPHT got micro-patch buffed to have 165mm HE pen with 550 damage.
It actually has a gimmick of being an HE flinger now. like a heavy-class centurion 7/1 in the 2026 meta. i think i'll bid a little over minimal bid for this one now
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I'd probably bid credits for the Small Penis Humiliation Tank, honestly
Not feeling gold but it's definitely a step up from the K-91-II that I won the credit bid on and have yet to play even once.
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>>2211308
the more i look at the new SPHT the better it gets.
this thing is a tier 8 sealclubber. it's some unholy fusion of a M46 patton and Centurion 7/1, with the lower plate of a K-2 and the troll cupola of the T110E5 when judged against tier 8 regular shells.

i'm getting this shit 100% now. the skill ceiling is incredibly high with the new 50 km/h, 165 HE pen and DPM rivalling top-level tier 9 mediums. it doesn't have the boat hull but i can transfer over my T110E5 skills to this tank
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>>2211331
>T8 sealclubber
have you tried actually playing a T9 in 2026 MM
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>>2211297
>Tank gets buffed specifically to make my grinding the Tiger II worse
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>>2211342
this is generally my experience in NA server that i could capture in a tier 9 heavy, so the experience won't be that different
i will generally see five to seven tier 8s in a match, so having an armor profile good against 1/3 to half of the lobby is strong to me
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>>2211352
How's the IS-3-II? That's one of the last lines I have to go up (and actually want)
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>>2211352
the SPHT armor also makes the ARES 85 shells somewhat inconsistent to penetrate so their burst potential is cut in half if you can fight them on your own terms around corners.

a lot of tier 9 heavy tanks are hopeless on flat ground fighting / corner peeking so having the ability to fight like that against tier 8 is strong
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>>2211359
i like it but i put on the 100mm stock guns to make it closer to the E 65 Zwilling style and have the base DPM to keep pace with faster matches
the 122mm on the IS-3-II is going to get outclassed by the tier 9 chinese yong bing chillin soon if it releases this black market
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What maps do you guys have banned? Right now it's just Paris for me. Even though I primarily play heavies, I can't stand that map. I'm thinking about Overlord and Ruinberg.
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11,000 min gold bid for the SPHT on EU
Probably going to skip it, although I hate not knowing if there'll be another better lot for gold after it.
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>>2211559
Seems shit, if anyone decides to press 2 before shooting you they can pen you anywhere, most of the time with just 1. At least it's mobile.
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>>2211448
Just prokhorovka, I can't stand it.
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>>2211559
I was gassing up the SPHT but god damn 11k gold is a lot for the starting price

>>2211448
start the session unbanned then ban a map i don't like playing that is on rotation like cliffs
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>>2211592
I used to despise it but now I just play mid every game and I like it.
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>>2211601
11k is almost too much as is
With a lot size of 35,000 on EU and probably like 15,000 on NA for a tank that a lot of players are probably not going to be super interested in, I expect it will unironically be had for the min bid of 11,000 especially after people whaled out on the EBR and drained their gold
I'd be genuinely surprised if it went for more.
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How much do you think a winning bid will be? have bid 11500. I wasn't sure about it at first but it looks like a fun vehicle as long as you aren't in close range brawls.
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>>2211638
I watched a strimmer play it and it seems pretty solid if you just want the tank. Very nice gun, reasonable mobility, armour will sometimes bounce t10 heavies. Also makes quite a bit of credits if that’s something you care about.
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>>2211631
i'm going to stick to my evaluation of the SPHT. tossing in minimum bid, i feel like your bid analysis is right. probably gonna have more fun with this than getting the ashigaru.

things that previously enjoyed HE immunity are now vulnerable to the 165mm HE.
intuition switch to HE if the situation allows it and go wild with 4400 DPM with a respectable 550 damage per shot, otherwise with APCR you still get 3380 DPM which is at object 430u levels at tier 9.

i haven't even looked at the tier 8 armor profiles yet either, something that i pegged a tier 8 sealclubber is going to go wild on downtiers
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fuck, got killed by rapidfoetus in the SPHT review
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Sick of this dog bringing me useless crap, which I could just automate it.
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>>2212076
You can if you use the aslain modpack.
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>>2211448
you might find this interesting. top 10 banned maps from players on EU server

https://tomato.gg/maps/EU
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>>2212581
Big surprise that the top 4 are the most basic "funnel into 1 of 2 corridors" bullshit. I swear to god Paris and Berlin are the worst maps in the game, you can't even do anything if you're a medium without a turret on the latter. Himmelsdorf I usually only ban if I'm actually trying to do a LT/arty mission, but it has the same problems. Safe Haven also blows, just a bunch of plain undecorated firing lines with no cover. I swear the russians got all the good map designers in the divorce
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EU auction ended for SPHT
reports are rolling in from the official discord that 12k gold was near the closest to the bare minimum for a win

all the CCs pushing out favorable reviews probably induced a ton of FOMO.
QB, skill, daki pumping out 5k+ battles in their video reviews looked pretty convincing.
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12k gold
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>>2212598
All the CCs do 5k damage in every tank they have. People are silly
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>>2212657
honestly after sleeping, watching reviews and streams i'm over the SPHT. one of the few perks of being 4 hours behind EU auctions.

it's honestly tuned extremely well for a heavium and the gun parameters is sex, but it's the same ridge peeking playstyle, reminding me of the concept 1b playstyle but with moar DPM.
165mm HE good but it don't really see as much usage as i thought until cleanup time, the HE only gets shot like 2-3 times in the matches i am watching.

don't need another premium for credit farming, and i can get the same playstyle from my T110E5, Object 260 or Dravec. I don't think the SPHT is worth giving up the gold cost of 180 premium days for me, even though it fits me to a tee...
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>>2212682
It's not too late, you can still fomo into it in the last 3 hours. But yeah I'm not paying 11k gold for a decent tank when I already have like 20 premiums.
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>>2212694
nah i am skipping now
look at this carousel. 16 heavy tanks and i already don't take them out often, let alone play WOT as much after beating the sector 3 missions
i don't need another one on top of all these HTs lmao
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>>2212715
Damn you kept the 54E1? I fucking hated that thing until I was nearing the very end of the grind and felt like I was beginning to understand it. Then I sold it and tried to play the T57 in Onslaught and sucked ass. I'm too smoothbrained for tanks that require more than pushing forward.
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>>2212730
the 1560 damage burst on T54E1 is insanely strong and you pretty much delete someone on the enemy team every 40 seconds.

the T57 Heavy line scales incredibly well the more you invest into it. maybe it's a mentality / playstyle thing, because i play T54E1 without food and use it to float in high tiers on standard account and i naturally settle in at 90%~ MOE...
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>>2212598
NA auction for SPHT got a competitive bid now
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>>2212761
last 10 minutes
>13000 gold competitive bid
>160 people FOMOed within the 1 minute span i took the image
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Lot 3 is the "Triumphant", a Centurion AX clone. Complete skip for me since I have the tech tree with 3D styles, might be an okayish pickup if it's for credits since it'd let you skip grinding the tree. Otherwise a very boring day but I guess at least one lot had to be a hard skip.
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15k gold on CN, SEA server only does FXP because of laws
I certainly wouldn't pay 15,000 gold for a mediocre looking reskin of a tech tree tank but to each their own
Wouldn't be surprised if this lot doesn't sell out
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>>2213117
i'm pretty sure this is the credit offer, they always sell tier 10 reskinned tanks for credit
it's ok if you're into clan wars for another decent tank to bypass tank lock
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>>2213117
I'm going up the AX line but I still don't see myself buying a T10 reward tank. I haven't done CW since the NTR days
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Not quite sure how to feel about finishing my Tiger II grind with 66% MoE (nice), 1600 dpg (awful), and 48% winrate. I never really got the tank to work properly. I hope the E75 is more idiotproof.
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>>2213151
E75 is kind of butter
it's been like 10 years, the general playerbase knows to shoot the flat turret face with gold now, and the ball-looking viewpoint weakspot on the turret got revealed by armor flashlight
it still hits pretty hard... but you won't be reliably bouncing things until E100
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>>2213166
Am I just an idiot for grinding tech tree tanks in 2026? I have the Mauschen unlocked as well and I'm dreading it.
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>>2213173
tech tree lines can be good like ARES, japanese superheavies, batchat 25t, m48 patton...
for the german heavies they've been around since like the service launch so people will learn how to fight them over the span of 15 years
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also, i took out the premium tank kv-4 ktts for fun.
i'm somehow bouncing a lot of 300+ pen gold shells with this 2015-era tank in a post-armor flashlight world.
the people shooting me aren't that garbage either. they're like 5000 wtr - 7000 wtr range. wtf?
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Had a day off work today so I played several hours of tonks with a friend. Got to the tier 9 ares, the E75, and I'm 25k away from the RU251. Then I just need about ~60 million credits to buy all these tanks I have unlocked. Frontline can't come back soon enough
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>>2213188
is very good soviet vehicle tovarish, stronk tenk ))
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>>2213144
I'd unironically buy a T110E5 or something like that where I haven't ground the line and it's a good tank.
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>>2213229
For me it would have to also be a line where grinding it sucked. Say, the STB or the CS-63. Because I agree but there's no real point when the line is also fine to grind. That said, I'm not doing very well in the Cent 1...
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Actually on that note, give it to me straight lads.
I have 600k free exp and 33k gold. I have unlocked the Type 61 which, if my STA-1 statistics are any indication, is going to be FUCKING AWFUL. We're talking 43% tomato tier. However, I used blueprints on the STB-1. It would only cost me 148k free exp to skip straight to the T10 and would likely profit me a great deal of sanity. Also I have a cool 3d style for the STB waiting.

Thoughts?
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>>2213245
Wait for the auction free exp loot box tomorrow, buy it for like $20 and see if you high roll for 500k free exp
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>>2213240
The Cent I is sadly pure dogshit
The 7/1 is also not amazing until you're fully upgrade and even then I was never impressed with how long the reload is.
Cent AX is nice though, Iyouxin describes it as playing a piano and I like that description.
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>>2213251
You can buy the XP now if you check the ingame shop. I bought up most of the Breaker line.
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>>2213134
Unfortunately it's confirmed as gold on EU
No clue what the fuck they were thinking, nobody is buying this for gold after the EBR 75 and SPHT drained all that gold
I wouldn't pay 15k gold for a tech tree clone reward vehicle that's only useful for CW lockout memes, actually retarded
If this thing actually sells out I might lose faith in the playerbase, although it is only 6k lots on EU so I guess there's some FOMO/exclusivity tank collectors who'll want it.
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>>2213301
I’m tempted to buy it to skip ARES line but I’m not sure about the queue times. I still see 2-3 ARES in my games
Nothing drives me more nuts than 3 minute queue times when I know I can get into a match on a different tank in sub 10 seconds
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>>2213363
I played a bunch of ares today on NA and queues were 1 minute max. That was during prime time though
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Now that I think about it I'm pretty worried if they do decide to drop a T10 like Ashigaru or Schwertwal it's going to a Dutch/snap auction starting at like 50-75k gold and it'll be sold out well before the price I'd like to pay for it.
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What happens if I get the t110e4 or obj 268 in the twitch mystery drops but I already own them? Do I get credits or what?
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>>2213479
the 7v7 tanks? they exist as a separate tank and WG removes them from all the players garage when the current onslaught season ends
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>>2213245
free XP is cheating
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This SPHT ain't that great guys don't worry if you missed out. You can get to position early which is great but then when you try peaking anyone can just pen any part of you, any bounces are very lucky. Best playing as a support and doing some cheeky flanks, but then why would you be playing a heavy if you wanted to do that with no concealment?
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>>2214286
There is no better antidote for faith in humanity than a 15v15 game where you can spectate after you die.
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>>2213931
Then wargaming is about to have a serious scandal on its hands
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>>2211331
>>2211652
French/German hull. 165 HESH is the real Tier VIII rape mobile modality. BZ-176 without the reload grace. Try it on German range finder turret nubs and road wheel splashing.

>>2209739
>unconventional to position and punish properly.

The 100-200 chunkings add up and add extra push deterrence on a brawl lane. And they're a nasty counter-recon support for lights, especially with Anti-Bush equipment & optics, perhaps the first real direct hard Clown Car counter.

>>2213245
>43% tomato tier.
>148k free exp to skip straight to the T10

IX is perfectly fine to grind. Save it for something actually trash. The only argument for it is saving credits and/or time. 150k XP on daily multipliers/ 5x goes quickly. Just do dailies and it'll be done well under 2 weeks.
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>>2214378
which of these numbers is the real number of holocaust victims? 9 out of 10 americans fail this test.
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>>2214303
>There is no better antidote for faith in humanity than a 15v15 game where you can spectate after you die.
there's actually some funny shit to be witnessed if you sit back and watch the games end.
i used to wait it out when i was waiting for a tank to get back into garage for sector 3 campaign.

>>2213409
they said there was dutch/snap auction, but we'll find out in an hour or two anyways
i only have 20k gold so i'm not getting ashigaru for sure, and i lost interest in schwertwal after type 5 heavy buffs
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The Peacekeeper isn't too bad actually, would rather play it than SPHT.
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>Be sure to check the auction, it's closing soon!!!
Hmmm, nyo. I don't think I will.
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>Cent AX clone
>752 clone
fuck me I should've just bought the EBR at this point
two clone tanks this year, what a dogshit auction
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>>2214807
I'm starting to think that those rumours that Lesta got all the good devs are correct. I guess they really REALLY want to drain gold from the players with shit tanks after Christmas
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>>2214823
The Cent AX was whatever, there's usually a clone tank and I'm fine with one day of filler maneuvers bait.
But TWO clone tanks and one is for a semi-common T9 premium? Yuck.
I actually might not get anything this black market depending on how brutal the snap auction is on the last day and that sucks, I probably would've bought the EBR if I knew there was going to be nothing else for me.
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>>2168000
I got 13 kills in an IS-3 in the beta
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>>2214835
At this point I’m expecting the WT E100 coming back as a snap auction rerun
My cope is that I can save my gold for assembly shop, or that they bring back the random lot thing that could be paid 5000 gold for a key in 2021 black market
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Are assembly tanks actually worth paying that much? None of them look that overpowered...
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>>2214966
If they snap auction the WT E100 I'm going to be legit mad I skipped the EBR 75
I'm genuinely coping and hoping I can get SOMETHING from day 5 but it's feeling like I'll just sit on my mid-sized hoard of gold for the rest of the year, I guess maybe buy a battlepass tank or two.
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>>2214977
Are they worth paying hundreds for?
No.
Is stuff like the DBV worth dropping the $20~ for the fxp grabdeals right now and dropping a million fxp on? I'd argue yes.
They're mostly meant for long-time players who have little to no tech tree tanks left to grind and an overabundance of resources.
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People are theorizing that a reskin GSOR 1008 ill be the last day (Jade Coil)
I might legitimately mald if it is
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>>2215055
Fair enough. For me it would be all of my free exp and almost all of my gold and I'm not done with the tech tree.
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>>2215074
I’m pretty sure it’s for the 3 tiered lunar new year loot boxes this month, the same one that pissed people off with MBT-B last year. You need some filler for all those tiers after all.
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>>2215088
Some of them like the Lion are kinda cool, the DBV is a Grille 15 but good, but some of them like the Obj are kinda whatever.
I'll let you know what I think about the next assembly shop tank and whether it's worth draining your resources for - I'm sure a bunch of other people and the content creators like Iyouxin will have useful opinions too
Assembly shop is sorta a case-by-case basis unless you're one of the people with a maxed out account in which case it's not like you have anything else to buy
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>>2215055
i got bored so i was looking up unreleased tier 10 tanks up to a range of 9 months ago. expect to see these tanks in lootboxes / assembly shop / maneuvers over the half of this year
i wouldn't want any of these tanks except for AHT-7, but that thing was the most recent one that just went supertesting one month ago.

this upcoming content pike is gonna suck balls it's a lot of tier 9 premiums and slow, armored heavies again...
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>>2215161
I think qb was right when he predicted the timeline based on t8 premiums.
2026: "normal" tier 9 premiums, like the TBT, JgPz90, etc.
2027: start seeing some more broken t9 prems, the equivalents of your bourrasques, your skoda T56s, etc. This is where they want you to move on from T8 to T9 so you can feed the T11 players.
2028: your god-tier t9s, BZ-176 equivalents, etc. Probably introduce T10 premiums around here.

For now, we're fully in amongst the normal T9 prems that are worse than or equal to tech tree shit. Meanwhile we're drowning in shitty T10 "reward" tanks because they're not ready to give us real premiums yet.
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>>2215161
I still think I want the Ashigaru and would take the Schwertwal if it doesn't cost a small fortune.
Collector and Durendal are probably hard skips for me, AHT might be cool but I don't love how many tanks just delete half your HP pool in a single shot.
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>>2215161
Unlisted gimmicks with these tanks are that Schwertwal gets rocket boosts that last twice as long as the BZ ones, and the Durendal gets the MBT-B style two shot burst, so it's going to struggle even more at range than the 0.39 dispersion suggests it would.
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KV-4 KTTS is fun to drive, people don't respect it.
i'm like running around with 2500 - 4000 average eHP.
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>>2215179
bzyg seems pretty overtuned. turreted Blyskawica is a strong gimmick
>frontal armor is tuned well for corner peeks vs standard rounds and tier 9 gold rounds
>impenetrable armor when hulldown
>1800 m/s shell velocity
>the average shell damage per trading distance is like 500-600 damage.
>gets the good field mods by being breakthrough tank and gain an extra 4 km/h and hp boost.

https://tanks.gg/tank/bzyg/stats?vm=hybridLive
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>>2215197
>>2215161
I think the Byzg and the AHT-7 are the ones I'd go for. Though the aht seems like it has the potential to be really annoying with missing your shots what with those gun stats
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Oh shit, the copium wasn't wrong
EU/NA are getting Udarniy for day 4 instead of a shitty reskin.
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>>2215306
Dunno how to feel about it. Gun looks like a worse BL-9 but the armour is going to gigafuck lower tiers. Would be insane on Ensk or Highway
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>>2215311
It's interesting but I'd rather have bought the SPHT, I'll skip over it since it's definitely future lootbox filler now that it's finally been sold
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>buy my stashes
>4x100k
Ouch, that hurts
I was hoping to get at least one decent win to cushion the next assembly shop.
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I just reinstalled this randomly a couple of weeks ago. All my knowledge is about 10 years out of date. Game seems pretty fucked up now with insane power creep, all the old decent stuff is just trash now. Every game is a blowout where it's like 15-3 in about two minutes (admittedly I'm playing like tiers 5-8, not top tier games). Even mid tier games suck because half the players are just spamming 100% gold ammo (when did they add gold ammo for credits?)
Does it get better at higher tiers? Wondering if it's worth grinding up a couple of trees, or if I should just uninstall.
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>>2216040
game changed to a burst environment with autoloaders and high damaging single shot tanks.
240 damage on mediums is really low
>Does it get better at higher tiers?
kind of, wargaming gave out free tier 10s on their big version 2.0 update so all the new blood are mixed there with veterans

tier 5-7 feels like they're slightly more harder because it's populated with people that player their favorite WW2 tank and the closest snapshot to old WOT gameplay.
if you're still interested in playing, drop your garage so we can tell you what's good or not anymore.
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>>2216040
I think I'm going to uninstall soon but it's mainly related to the credit economy, I'm getting sick of having to grind credits just to play the tier 10/11 tanks that I want to like it's a side job. Whether or not you choose to do so depends entirely on your enjoyment of the game.
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>>2216991
>tier 5-7 feels like they're slightly more harder because it's populated with people that player their favorite WW2 tank and the closest snapshot to old WOT gameplay.
I played the beta back in the day, so my problem is that I'm still stuck in this mentality. I just wanna drive my favorite WW2 tanks. Dunno why the fuck they added a bunch of cold war and pseudo-fantasy shit.
>if you're still interested in playing, drop your garage so we can tell you what's good or not anymore.
I'm spread pretty thin, going down the T110e5 line, the Patton line, the E100 line, the E50M line, the IS-7 line, and the T-54/Obj. 140 line. Have a couple T8 premiums. I'm sure most of these are not "meta" or even that good anymore, just the tanks I have fond memories of.
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>>2217247
all those tech tree tank lines got buffed and/or lead to tier 11 so you're fine
if you are not allergic to twitch, go watch a few streams of tier 8+ gameplay. it's a vastly different environment, kinda like jumping an era. if you don't like high tiers then stick with tier 5 to 7 as wargaming actually left those tiers alone and keep pumping out powercreep fantasy tanks for tier 8+

hell i'm pretty much an endgame player and i like playing tiers 6 to 7 at the moment. i prefer the slower gameplay there over tiers 10 and 11
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How much longer until the final EU lot?
Also I like that they don't sync the lots so NA players get a sneak peek, if it's a snap auction I can decide if I need/want to buy more gold.
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>>2217286
3 hours i think
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>final lot is consignment
fuck me I regret not buying the EBR 75 or SPHT now, what a genuinely dogshit auction
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>first black market
WOAH HYPE
>buy no tanks, they’re all whatever
Woah… hype…
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>>2217446
Better than getting FOMO unobtainable OP tanks like Warblunder.
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>>2217451
Really I’m just slightly salty because none of the tanks were interesting. At this stage of the game a tank has to have something extra for me to care about it, because otherwise I already have alternatives. The Udarniy for instance entered the most occupied niche possible
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people can gamble their disappointment away by buying the multi-tiered lootboxes this chinese new years ;)
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>>2217446
>>2217460
my problem was that they front-loaded all the good shit at the start so I waitfagged, I would've bought the EBR or the SPHT as I've said a couple times but no surely they'll drop a huge Schwertwal/Ashigaru dutch auction for like 50-100k gold so gotta save for it and then... nothing
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Also this is obviously going to vary from player to player and new players will get fair value from the boxes but for me the box is totally fucking useless.
I already own both the Bour and the Miel from another lootbox, with the Miel probably being the one re-skin with real frontline value.
I've got the Progetto 46 from the old marathon and it's been sold plenty anyways, and I'd rather run it as a backup to the Prototipo 6 so there's zero value in having a Mars.
I have the TVP and see no real value in the Sotek, I have the Bisonte and fucking despise the thing what a sad excuse for a tank I'd actually hate to have another equally useless PoS in my garage.
Jade Coil would be okay value but I'm not rolling a 25% chance to get it for 7200 gold over just eventually buying the GSOR 1008 if I want it since they sell it all the time.
Even then though unironically the Mars and Jade Coil aren't even that good in 2026, the Miel is still great and the Sotek is still good but even if I owned none of these tanks it's unironically a 2/5 chance to get something good, a 2/5 chance to get something alright, and a 1/5 of getting a steaming pile of shit.
I don't know why you'd end a big once a year event with THIS as the final lot.
And unironically the only exciting lot was the first one, they had one exciting lot this year and one mildly interesting new tank lot, 3/5 mid lots is insane.
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>>2217493
The consignment is DOA for me. I already have a Bourrasque, I don't feel strongly enough about the Mars to get it over just waiting for the next time they sell the Prototipo (and even then I might not bother...), and the GSOR is the only tank I'd want. So...
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>>2217525
They had it last year minus the GSOR/Jade, so it must've sold really well or something.
I don't hate the concept of it and they should definitely sell it but as a day 5 Black Market offer? I'm not feeling it. It'd be better as a secret day 6, like oh the black market was supposed to be over but I found a little something extra for those of you who missed out on the big deals.
That's how you do this sort of thing and build good will not that WG has any idea what the fuck good will means.
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>>2217481
Don’t worry I’m suffering from FOMO too
Apparently people are making gigantic credits with the HE
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I just find frontline boring, simple as
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>>2219459
how though
no stakes no need to really tryhard just drive forward and shoot people who are even less aware than pubs and then respawn in a different tank
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>>2219459
I fucking love frontline honestly. I want a game that is just frontline
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>>2219459
Same.
Pick grom, fight, kill, repeat.
Credit number go up.
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>>2219469
this but unironically I wish we had more gamemodes with no pressure
no WN8 to worry about, no WR to obsess over, just load in and play and grind credits
Onslop is a bit like that but you still have the whole MMR system to obsess over and if you play poorly you're hurting your team/your progression so it's not entirely stress free
WoWS has Asym against bots which is decent income and no stakes, I think for us that's frontlines but Asym is available every day for like half a year while Frontlines is only every few months for like a week
It might kill random queue honestly but I wish we'd have perma-frontlines broken up into 3 month reward cycles. You'd get through the campaign in like 2 weeks of actually playing Frontline actively and then the only reason to keep playing would be that you enjoy Frontlines.
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I've never used a mentoring license, I guess they introduced them while I wasn't playing. So a practical example:

I just finished with the HWK 12 and bought the RU251. This has a slot for a 4th crew member, then the RhmPzw goes back to 3, so I'm effectively wasting a crew member. But if I finish grinding the RU251 and then consume that extraneous 4th member with a mentoring license I could, for instance, level up the 6th crew member needed when I go from the E75 to the E100?

Is that correct?
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>>2219515
I used to be 2400 WN7 and climbing and I would obsess over it a bit, even though I desperately tried not to. Now I'm improving a bit after my return and my WN8/X is climbing and I can feel the stat stress coming back. I kind of wish I was a shit, ignorant casual that didn't care about my dpg at all. Either that or I wish I was much better than I actually am so that I could be deep purple without trying.
I do definitely like frontline partially because it has 0 stakes.
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>>2219518
Yeah, that's correct, and you can also use it to convert the flood of 3 skill crewmembers with no 0-skills that WG has been throwing at us into crewbooks if you have no need for them
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>>2219518
The objectively correct NO BULLSHIT way to use them is to slurp a no zero skill crew into a zero skill crew for free +1 skill.
In your example you could just retrain the crew member for the new role and vehicle.
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>>2219518
yeah, just think of it as
>consuming one crew member into exp
>class doesn't matter, i think it's nation locked

>>2219522
why are you caring about stats like that man

are you in a clan where you want to show off e-peen towards clan members?
are you one of those no-lifer blues that frequent three MOE marking streams with like 20-100 viewers and trying to impress the streamer?
trying to flex off against XVM users? last time i installed it for sector 3 grinding, like only 1/3 of the lobby have it installed and having stats that high alerts those people to yolo you
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>>2219522
WG psychologically manipulates people like you knowingly in this method and in many other ways. You can't just play a casual mode like with most other online games, you're forced to play ranked all the time with just the standard mode, with all the stats visible to anyone which just results in pure toxicity and incourages chudlike behaviour where players are obsessed with some idea of a player social hierarchy. Their latest way is adding the stupid dog that has a "comrade status" to try and guilt trip you into not taking any breaks from playing.
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>>2219534
My whole clan's dead, I only go to streams if I have a specific question, and I play anonymized because of the old xvm targeting system meme. Idk. Having stats visible and knowing benchmarks I should be hitting just makes me disappointed when I don't reliably have it all figured out when it feels like I should.
>>2219535
This is partially true but all it actually does is discourage me from playing rather than the opposite.
Tanks is the only game I still feel like this about. In every other game I play, I've let go of this kind of feeling. I guess it's because it has extremely comprehensive stats. Or because part of my gaming identity is rooted in once being decent at this game. I should think about this.
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>>2219549
you'll find out things about yourself over time. dark green squares are about 20~ games, bright green squares are about 50 games

for me, once i completed campaigns i turned into one of those seasonal WOT player that mostly plays during holiday ops. i lost my goal of playing the game since the DPG / MOE grind did not subsitute the thrill of completing missions at all

when sector 3 missions for black rock came out during september 2025 i was so excited. easily one of the more fun time i slammed into the game.
i wish they gave out more self-challenges like that. the only way i can chase that thrill now is driving dogshit tanks like KV-4 KTTS
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>>2219459
I just tried playing and only 10 players joined for each team, seems like other players find it boring too
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>>2220063
If you’re in NA, you were queuing during late morning on a weekday, only boomers and NEETs queue during that time
This frontline is coming off the tail end of holiday ops too so some of the credit grinding playerbase is going to dodge frontlines.
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also, since onslaught is still ongoing for 20 days and frontlines for 7 days, tier 6 and 7 are fun to queue in at the moment

it felt like boomer WOT, look at all these tech tree tanks
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>>2220898
The Tiger P felt like the strongest T7 I've ever played, alongside the T29
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>>2220950
Tiger P is my favorite tank, it has held up well over the years

if you ever retry the Tiger P, try the stock gun on it. 2.0 update made the regular round usable at 178 pen and it bumps up the DPM to Tiger I levels. you blow up anyone that disrespects you and can damage race other teammates. top gun module can't farm like this
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Played 7 hours of frontline and gained some ungodly amount of money as well as exp. Good times
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>>2220974
I played it and the 3001p very recently and expected them to be trash given how long they’ve been out. Surely everyone knows the armour scheme, etc. But no, they were both really, really good. There’s some fundamental value in having literal tons of armour on the front of your tank in the mid tiers
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>>2219469
>>2219515
>>2219459
A Ranked with no HUD (reload counter, penetration indicator, minimap), no Platoons and increased Silver/XP would be popular. Slowing the pace of the game lowers the blowout frequency.
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>>2219522
Damage doesn't matter, Winning is what advances progression. If you're sustaining well over coinflip winrate, you're having influence over matches regardless of the nominal DPG (right target focus, trades, positional domination, map presence). Going after damage and marks in isolation, you will be throwing just to farm, inevitably-- padding doesn't matter, either.
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>>2219591
>DPG / MOE grind did not subsitute the thrill of completing missions at all

There needs to be Golden MOE (no platooning) and Platinum MOE (no equipment), then another for Only Bottom Tier Matches Count.
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>>2220950
>T29

YOH line T7 has eclipsed it. Give it a try. British Double Barrel heavy as well.
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>>2221125
Is this an elaborate ruse to trick me into having the MVY? The T7 does look strong though, 180mm frontal with a good turret and a 90mm is pretty solid. The Canopener line seems like something I'd enjoy but I just haven't gotten around to it
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>>2221179
not him, but the M-II-Y is up there in tech tree power. you won't catch me driving that ugly hunk of metal though.

i usually sort by WR diff then look at the WR stat and number of battles to spot over-performers like O-Ni.
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>>2221189
That checks out. The Carro and the O-Ni are insane.
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>>2219522
Stats are a good way to track your games, but you should not play for them. The fact is if you play well stay alive and be consistent you will naturally have better stats. Of course not top of the top, because this requires playing for stats with correct tanks and farming DMG regardless of anything else.
>>2219535
Every competitive game is doing this. It's important for player retention. You may think people play for fun, but you have to define "fun". Many people want to get better at the game, because naturally winning more is more fun. Also random queue is NOT competitive. There is nothing competitive in putting 30 random players in lobby. Good players farm bad player. Bad players are having 40% wr. It's a way for players to think the need to use gold ammo premium consumables and so on. Onslaught is matching you with players that at least in theory are at similar level. There you can say it's competitive... But if you think farming kids on random is making you a good player, than you should think again. Obviously stats are sorting players by some criteria of skill. The game would be way less toxic if it had even basic MMR on random, people who care would play with people who care... But it's not possible probably, too small player base and especially for higher level games. Also this would be bad for WG.
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>>2221200
It's funny to me with all those youtube videos with top games. Praising the good gameplay... and sure the player is likely very good, but 99% of the time they are facing bottom tier players. It's like playing CS2 and bragging that you did 40/0 against bots. Nothing competitive about this.
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>>2221200
i personally enjoy the randomized matchmaking.
every modern multiplayer game have a ranking / hidden ELO system and it's lame as fuck.
matches are more fun when the skill levels are mixed together in a high player match.

you wanna know what will happen if we get an actual rating system? 8+ minute campfest, because no one wants to bleed or die early and lose rating. people chimping out at each other over minor things like tank choice or bouncing a shot. even more toxic DMs. longer queue times. you can already experience all that shit in onslaught RIGHT NOW with its barebones rank / balance system
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>>2221221
Onslaught gives me flashbacks to 2012 when I would routinely tell people to kill themselves for being bad. There really is nothing better than tangible rewards and rating points to turn people into animals
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>>2221221
I was responding to >>2219522 where they worry about the stats so much in random mode. I fully agree that the quickplay style mode is good to have, but don't think it's competitive mode.

> you wanna know what will happen if we get an actual rating system? 8+ minute campfest, because no one wants to bleed or die early and lose rating.

That's game design issue not ranked system issue. Also your play style would match the ranking you are at. It's generally low elo players who camp red line and don't know what to do. Although sure 15x15 is bit much to handle for ranked, so there us 7x7...
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>>2221225
Fondly remember my old chat bans. I was surprised to come back to this and see they totally removed allchat.
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>>2221287
>That's game design issue not ranked system issue. Also your play style would match the ranking you are at
Were you not around for 15 vs 15 ranked battles?
People actually did camp their fucking nuts off because they didn’t want to take any bleed at all, they would play for a slightly less damaging loss than trying to go for a team win (and going neutral/gaining as a result) by making pushes or taking out targets by using their HP.
It was done in division 3 to 1, by all types of players. So many fucking rats trying to coast by getting carried and hoping other people die for them so they can use all their HP on cleanup kills so they float.

I ended up remembering my ranked grind for the concept 1b again, god it was so gay
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Another glorious day of frontline credit grinding, 663k from one battle
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>>2223287
how? I keep getting spanked by big boy heavies like Skoda 56 and 702 II while simultaneously getting peltered by camping skorpions and borrats.
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>>2223333
The answer is in your post lol
I play the Skoda 56/Borat/Zwilling/Stridsyxa/T-44-100. The Zwilling in particular is just fucking insane with the double shot
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I think next BM if it's not complete trash I'll buy the new gold tank
I regret not bidding on the SFAC hard because people said it'd be trash despite it being fucking broken, and the SPHT is probably a lot less good but it still looks stupidly good on just the mobility and gun handling and I skipped it
Next year I'll go in hard on the first deal if it's good and then buy whatever they drop that's brand new even if everyone is saying it's trash to keep the competitive bid low.
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>>2223653
SPHT is good, but it's still more clunky than medium and at the same time you cannot play it like HT, because it gets clapped by anything. Though it is the perfect tank for farming bots with HE. The problem is anyone can all in on you, so it's very dependent on others to distract enemy.

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