[MMO] World of Tanks

[biostud]

With a rear mounted turret it has great sidescraping ability. Cities should be it's best environment.

If you can get one on one, but there always seems to be 3-4 tanks and the rest of the pack can take you out easily while trying to side scrape one. Maybe it works well in the end game, but I rarely make it that long.

 

[biostud]

hehe, just got steel wall in my 215, guess you just have to stay back and hull down.

 

[stag3]

not a bad weekend for me, ended up around 56% w/r
at 120k for the leo PTA
and 70k for the type 61

 

[datalink7]

not a bad weekend for me, ended up around 56% w/r
at 120k for the leo PTA
and 70k for the type 61

Nice, it was just the opposite for me. I had a 43 percent win rate over the weekend.

Last week was good though. I played 197 games over the week and had a 60 percent win rate. Best win rate over an extended period that I've ever had. So the weekend was kind of a let down.

 

[Keeper]

Nice, it was just the opposite for me. I had a 43 percent win rate over the weekend.

Last week was good though. I played 197 games over the week and had a 60 percent win rate. Best win rate over an extended period that I've ever had. So the weekend was kind of a let down.

Disjointed.... On a conf call that I have NO speaking part...
I have a WEIRD experience the last 2 weeks. I am struggling to get my overall win percent to 50%. There are three times during the week where I can game with no distractions (read wife and family LOL).
And I have less than 1000 games so moving the needle is NOT a lost cause.
I do OK on Wednesday and Sunday night. PRIOR to the last 2 weeks I was 49.7. Then I played last Monday and last night. Last night started out 0 & 7
Low 40's if not high 30's. Both Mondays. And LOTS of angry people on Monday. LOTS. Plus the match-ups were REALLY weird. The other side would get 4 heavies.... We'd get 3. Same number of mediums, TD, arty. Sometimes one less medium too....We got extra lights. WOO WHO... Go us.

Side note. Any crew tips? The guides just are NOT helping me. Not at ALL.
I gimped one set. Tried keeping one set for all US lights.... That went poorly. Any AT tips, MUCH appreciated.
And Mods.... Again. Google search gave me some GREAT gun sight mods. Which helped. I am 55 and I need the brightest rectile there is.
I hear there are mods that show you weak spots on enemy tanks. Are they legal? And if yes... where are they?
I downloaded this one mod, that I thought had that function. It gave projected win percentage. But not much else. It did give a sight radius range, and that was nice. Suddenly I could not turn off some WEIRD auto aim function and kept locking on friendlies. THAT went well. Of course I did NOT back up that file you replace. So I had to re-install.
Again, any tips. MUCH appreciated.

 

[Fallen Kell]

I use firebeard's mod pack. It doesn't have a weakspot mod (which changes the tank skins), but it has a couple really useful ones, such as XVM (no mod pack is complete without it), one that makes the mini-map fill the screen when you hold tab (and has the last spotted location of enemy tanks on it (which I think is part of XVM)), a mod to prevent you from shooting a friendly tank if they move in front of you, a mod to prevent you from firing a shell at a tank that just died, a mod that makes dead tanks show up a bright white so you can see them better if they are being used for cover, a mod to change the zoom range (both 3rd person view, and in gun sight), and a couple others, like showing who shot you, how much damage was done, what kind of shell was used, as well as one that keeps track of the damage that you do.

I found that for weakpoints, I used a mod for a couple weeks and then stopped. You pretty much learn what to look for after a while as most weakpoints will look like a weakpoint and things that look like it on other tanks will also be a weakpoint (there are some exceptions). I found it better to look at some of the websites and look at a couple tanks on there for the weakpoints, and that knowledge translates pretty well between other tanks in the line and for other tanks in general (i.e. a view port on the KV line is a weakpoint, as well as on every other tank. Things like hatch covers are typically weak (as long as you have a good angle so your shot doesn't just deflect), mini-turrets/machine gun turrets are weakpoints, etc...).

 

[gammaray]

...

Side note. Any crew tips? The guides just are NOT helping me. Not at ALL.
I gimped one set. Tried keeping one set for all US lights.... That went poorly. Any AT tips, MUCH appreciated.
...
Again, any tips. MUCH appreciated.

Well, one thing i do with all fresh new crew is this: i get mentor for the commander (experience will go up faster overall, need less game to increase skills...) for those who disagree, just use 6th sense first (tells you when you are spotted - which is essential) and second skill is 6th sense. Now depending if youre gonna play TDs with this crew or the kind of hide and snipe medium or a scout, get camo skill and fourth, if you ever get there, brother in arms. 1 thing you can do is, once youve reacher the 3rd 100% skill, re-train the crew and remove mentor and go this way for the commander:

6th sense, BIA, camo.

if playing a Heavy or huge medium (e50m comes in mind), you can switch camo for another skill.

Now you're thinking what about the rest of the crew when i pick 6th sense for the commander? well there are too many options, depending on the tank and your play style, not going to write a book here But as a side note to help, when i pick camo and BIA for the commander, i usually (if not always) pick the same skill for the rest of the crew.

i will remind you that BIA needs all crew to have it at 100% for it to be working.

Another thing to consider is, look at the tier 10 on the particular tree or branch of tank you are playing and see what would be the best skills to have for that tank. Anyways, don't worry, you can always re-train your crew.

 

[stag3]

i use sela's mod pack, has everything you need

i did ok today, 65% w/r and ~2500 wn8 out of 19 battles
trying to be way more patient to conserve hp for the endgame nowadays
it's so against what i like to do which is brawl...ugh

 

[datalink7]

I swear I'm cursed in my T57 Heavy. 46% win rate in the thing over 104 games. Went 1-7 with it today. Even lost a 69 percent chance (though, this is why I don't put too much stock in XVM) where I did over 5k damage.

 

[stag3]

i have the opposite of you, i have a >60% w/r in my t57 but my wn8 sucks cuz everything dies to fast from teammates

 

[datalink7]

Is there somewhere you can go to check individual wn8 ratings per tank? I use noobmeter.com to check my overall ratings, and on there you can check your daily win rate per vehicle, but not (that I can see) individual stats per vehicle.

For instance, here is my stats today. You can check out my stellar T57 win rate:

http://www.noobmeter.com/recent/na/...16_023725/1005336737_00007563_20140817_002138

But if you look at my overall ratings (ER, wn8, etc.), I played pretty decent today. So it's obviously not that I played the T57 poorly. It's just cursed

I am curious though as to specifically how my T57 games went, but I don't know how to check those stats (other than overall win rate).

 

[datalink7]

By the way stag3, I just checked out your stats, and I feel for you. Your "most recent" ratings have you playing between "good" and "super unicum", and yet you're walking away with 47% win rate over that time period. Crappy team luck.

 

[biostud]

33% win ratio last 9 matches 215b 43% overall. Looking forward to Chieftan.....

 

[datalink7]

Ha. One thing about the 215b is that I always think it's a 183. A few matches ago the 215b fired and I thought "I have you now!", thinking I had nearly 30 seconds on the reload. Rushed around the corner and took one right to the face

 

[biostud]

And after I posted this I had a 5.8K round in it....

Playing Himmelsdorf, first clearing 3 tanks at the train tracks and the rest of the enemy team rushed the hill, or should I say lined up in row for a nice shooting gallery from across the park. Did 4.4K there

 

[stag3]

Is there somewhere you can go to check individual wn8 ratings per tank? I use noobmeter.com to check my overall ratings, and on there you can check your daily win rate per vehicle, but not (that I can see) individual stats per vehicle.

For instance, here is my stats today. You can check out my stellar T57 win rate:

http://www.noobmeter.com/recent/na/...16_023725/1005336737_00007563_20140817_002138

But if you look at my overall ratings (ER, wn8, etc.), I played pretty decent today. So it's obviously not that I played the T57 poorly. It's just cursed

I am curious though as to specifically how my T57 games went, but I don't know how to check those stats (other than overall win rate).

vbaddict

use the activedossier program, it auto uploads your file and you can track your progress in real time, and the website

 

[datalink7]

Ok cool thanks. I'll check it out.

 

[stag3]

haha brutal so far today, currently @ 40% w/r
and i'm just not in the zone today

 

[toughtrasher]

Just got back into the scene and oh jeez have I missed this game. Well, gaming in general.

 

[stag3]

hopefully with arty off the on track now, we'll see less. saw nothing but 3-5 arty per side the last 2 weeks ugh.

i went from 52.5 % w/r to 52.48 just from sat/sun ugh...need that "fake" 53% w/r
to show up haha

 

[datalink7]

Ouch, that sucks.

I'm sitting at 53.7 percent. I'm trying to get an actual 54 percent before it starts getting too hard to move the percentage. I'm just over 7k games so when I have a good day I still see good progress, but a bad day really knocks me back.

Oh, and agree on the arty. Last few weeks have been very annoying with a ton of 3+ arty games.

 

[datalink7]

Woo, another 0-4 with my T57 Heavy. That makes it 1-11 now.

 

[PowerYoga]

played a few games this weekend and got fucked in almost every game. Made me dislike my T-28-proto because it's not a game changer, more like a speed bump. Especially when your whole entire team lemmings into one side and gets raped by 3 tanks.

 

[stag3]

t28 in tier is a beast, anything higher and its a speed bump.

 

[stag3]

looks like x3 and x2 crew xp weekend placing top 10 in win or loss.
50% off crew training/retraining and skill resets.

perfect as i just bought the 50 100 back for the mini campaign, i kept my t69
and will probably pick up a 1390 or an is-3 to round it out since there's no tank locking for the campaign.