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Gets
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T92 is almost nothing but a perpetual "That was close!" on repeat. I'm downloading the physics test client. Plenty of footage on YouTube already and the word of mouth is pretty concise about 8.0 being a large redefine of internet tanks. |
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Abagadro
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Did they redo the gun sounds for 8.0 or is that a mod?
Graphics look quite a bit different too.
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Ginaz
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Now that they've fixed the match maker, two things need to be implemented: a no arty mode and an IQ test for ever player with an account. I can dream.
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Merusk
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Did they redo the gun sounds for 8.0 or is that a mod?
Graphics look quite a bit different too.
Sounds like the guns just had reverb to them. Could be soundcard or mod. The trailer for 8.0 mentioned upgraded graphics & lighting. That vid looked more like a difference in lighting and shadows to me. The inability to put a tank on its back is going to lead to some silly physics shit, methinks. Tank-push hill climbing being the least of them. |
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Tmon
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Physics mod makes it almost a new game in a lot of respects, cliff diving is now potentially terminal and there are new routes and fighting positions due to the removal of a lot of those invisible walls.
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kildorn
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From another preview video, they did change the tank gun sounds a bunch.
I'm not sure about the physics, because they still seem to have a bunch of invisible walls on the maps. Those are what get me killed more than anything else.
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I would have thought it was the shells from enemy guns, myself  |
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kildorn
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I would have thought it was the shells from enemy guns, myself Please, have you seen what terrible shots WoT players are?! |
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WayAbvPar
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Point conceded.
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Tmon
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I would have thought it was the shells from enemy guns, myself Please, have you seen what terrible shots WoT players are?! One of the things about WoT is that your round impact point is completely random so there is no practical way to adjust your fire based on observing your shots. As a former tank gunner this makes me very sad. |
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Merusk
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Yeah, pisses me off because I know I've had wide-misses for no good reason but a scatter roll. A goddamn T-50 was lead properly and right in my goddamn sight last night... "wooosHHH" over his head.
Even more frustrating when aiming at a weak point that should pen and do mega damage (Machine gun port on Tigers!) from only a building away and *Plink* "That one bounced!"
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Gets
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Remember: the random number generator hates you.
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Tannhauser
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Or you outnumber the enemy 3 to 1 and your two allies can't hit shit and you die. Not that I'm bitter!
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apocrypha
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Interesting event on the EU servers this weekend: Behind the Lines - Tanks vs Arty. There's been a lot of dissatisfaction voiced on the EU forums in recent weeks after some particularly lacklustre specials, with other regions getting considerably more interesting and more rewarding events than the EU servers. I suspect this event is a reaction to that with an attempt to come up with some new ideas and more interesting specials. I haven't played for a little while, mostly because I've got caught up in other games (STO mainly) but I applaud this attempt at trying something different. I suspect it'll end up with some mad arty-heavy games, but it could be fun nevertheless. |
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Gets
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This weekend special on the NA server is half off on gold ammo and credit consumables, which is good because our clan is now fighting 3 other clans every night until we get pushed out of Europe. Good time to resupply!
Also something about tanks with the letters K and V in them. I think I'll get the KV-1S since I unlocked it eons ago but never bought it.
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Brogarn
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This weekend special on the NA server is half off on gold ammo and credit consumables, which is good because our clan is now fighting 3 other clans every night until we get pushed out of Europe. Good time to resupply!
Nice! And ya... all those 100 member "small clans" piling up on you folks. Fun! I'm in NUKED btw, and no, I don't know wtf is going on with us either, so don't ask me. ;) |
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Ginaz
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Labour Day weekend special with 5x XP bonus. http://worldoftanks.com/news/1548-labor-day-weekend/"Tankers! For those times when you aren't too busy celebrating Labor Day weekend with your friends and family, we've put together a few discounts and bonuses. Starting at 04:30 PDT (11:30 UTC) on August 31, 2012 and lasting until 04:00 PDT on September 4, 2012 (11:00 UTC) the following bonuses will be active. Curious what time this is in your region? Use this handy Time Zone Converter to help you out. Experience bonus for first victory of the day: 5x 50% discount on the following tanks: M4A3E2 Chaffee Credit income bonus: x2 M4A3E2 Chaffee Discount on crew training and retraining: 50% Discount on Premium Account: 3 days - 300 gold 7 day - 600 gold Please keep in mind that selling the discounted tanks listed above during the sale will only yield a 50% return of the sale price as credits. " |
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WayAbvPar
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Hot damn! About 6k away from unlocking the E2, and I already have a Chaffee. Also need to retrain my T20 crew into a Pershing (when I can afford it), so this special is perfectly timed for me. I am guessing I can't retrain a crew to a new tank without owning said tank, yes? So I couldn't elited my T20, sell it, then retrain the crew to M26 and stow them in the barracks until I can buy it?
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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Merusk
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I don't think so, no. I've always hung-on to the prior tank until I could afford the next one, though, especially if elited. Lets me keep training the perks and skills that way instead of having them miss out on the 2x xp that elite status lets you push in to them.
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Tmon
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you can train a crew in any tank you have unlocked, no need to actually own it. With the more expensive tanks I generally unlocked the tank and trained the crew immediately. If I had a premium of the correct type I stuck the newly trained crew in it (any crew trained in the same class as the premium can run it with no penalty to their stats) to train up while I ground out the cash.
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Abagadro
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Hot damn! About 6k away from unlocking the E2, and I already have a Chaffee. Also need to retrain my T20 crew into a Pershing (when I can afford it), so this special is perfectly timed for me. I am guessing I can't retrain a crew to a new tank without owning said tank, yes? So I couldn't elited my T20, sell it, then retrain the crew to M26 and stow them in the barracks until I can buy it?
You can train a crewmember to a tank you don't own as long as you have it researched. Not sure why you would necessarily want to though. You can always just stash your crew in the Barracks trained on the t20 and then train them up to the m26 once you buy it (just buy the tank without a crew). |
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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Nebu
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I just can't bring myself to play the E2 with the E8 in my garage. I just love the responsiveness of the E8 so much more.
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WayAbvPar
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Hot damn! About 6k away from unlocking the E2, and I already have a Chaffee. Also need to retrain my T20 crew into a Pershing (when I can afford it), so this special is perfectly timed for me. I am guessing I can't retrain a crew to a new tank without owning said tank, yes? So I couldn't elited my T20, sell it, then retrain the crew to M26 and stow them in the barracks until I can buy it?
You can train a crewmember to a tank you don't own as long as you have it researched. Not sure why you would necessarily want to though. You can always just stash your crew in the Barracks trained on the t20 and then train them up to the m26 once you buy it (just buy the tank without a crew). Only reason I would do it would be to take advantage of the 1/2 priced retraining. Although running the crew in the elited tank at 2x XP doesn't sound like a bad option either. |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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angry.bob
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As nice as the 5X exp is for the first victory, the number of shitgoblins playing is almost unbearable. Not just the normal bad players, but people so bad it's like they're sabotaging the team on purpose. The one thing they all seem to have in common is they're fucking hispanic, FAAL and MEX being the most common and worst players. It's so bad I'd just TK them on sight in the spawn but they suspend you for that now.
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Merusk
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Oh good.. I thought I was the only one who thought "shit this is a loss" when they saw a lot of those tags or Spanish/ Portugese before a match. I feel like a racist when I do, but dammit it's a loss every time so far.
We should all platoon this evening for the 5x.
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Abagadro
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Only reason I would do it would be to take advantage of the 1/2 priced retraining. Although running the crew in the elited tank at 2x XP doesn't sound like a bad option either.
Ah ya. Didn't notice that in the special. I generally find training a crew from 90 percent to 100 is relatively easy so don't even bother when it is half price. |
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Engels
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As nice as the 5X exp is for the first victory, the number of shitgoblins playing is almost unbearable. Not just the normal bad players, but people so bad it's like they're sabotaging the team on purpose. The one thing they all seem to have in common is they're fucking hispanic, FAAL and MEX being the most common and worst players. It's so bad I'd just TK them on sight in the spawn but they suspend you for that now.
You need to get on their TS. I got a chance to visit with a few latino groups, and they are just having a laugh half the time. They can't take the game seriously at all. There are SOME decent latino clans, RCTL for one, but by and large, they're all just joking about on TS and its just a coincidence that they're playing tanks, rather than some other game. |
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OandA
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Those must be the guys I get on my team in LoL all the time.   |
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Sir T
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Played again tonight. Tried out Artillery. And really liked it. Also blasted apart a light tank that ran in on me which made me giggle.
Dunno id I will play it habitually but its fun now and again.
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angry.bob
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You need to get on their TS. I got a chance to visit with a few latino groups, and they are just having a laugh half the time. They can't take the game seriously at all. There are SOME decent latino clans, RCTL for one, but by and large, they're all just joking about on TS and its just a coincidence that they're playing tanks, rather than some other game.
Rather than needing to get on their TS and understand that they're all about joking and chatting while they're in a match, I suggest they need to eat a giant bag of cocks. Frankly, the fact they can't be fucked to take a game they're voluntarily playing seriously for an average of 7 minutes, especially when it screws over everyone on their team makes it way worse than the retards who chat about which gun to get on the next tier tank. Which gun? The fucking big one with good pen and accuracy. Take that shit to the forums. |
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« Last Edit: September 02, 2012, 10:42:06 AM by angry.bob »
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Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.
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Abagadro
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Played again tonight. Tried out Artillery. And really liked it. Also blasted apart a light tank that ran in on me which made me giggle.
Dunno id I will play it habitually but its fun now and again.
Arty is very Pavlovian for me. That nice "pop" when you blow up a tank with an arty shell is just great. |
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Engels
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I'm glad you removed the last part of what you said bob, cuz that was pretty much flat out ignorant shit right there. Just because not everyone plays the game with your angst-riddled, rage fueled histrionic style, doesn't mean that you can attribute a country's political problems to their video gaming style.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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angry.bob
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I'm glad you removed the last part of what you said bob, cuz that was pretty much flat out ignorant shit right there. Just because not everyone plays the game with your angst-riddled, rage fueled histrionic style, doesn't mean that you can attribute a country's political problems to their video gaming style.
People can play games however they feel like, up until the point where they're ruining the experience for entire rest of their team. Expecting someone in a team based game to at least try to play is hardly rage fueled histrionics. As far as the part I deleted, I'd love to hear a counter example if you can provide one. |
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Gets
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Pubbies hate winning. Nothing you can do about it. These lag spikes are really a thorn in my side. Leading scout tanks involve seeing them turn 180 in the blink of an eye, getting hit by arty also means getting hit by 500ms ping, not to mention my aim reticule just goatse'ing everytime it happens. At least I'm only 0.01% away from a 60% winrate  edit: lag is so bad everything is just freezing. |
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« Last Edit: September 03, 2012, 05:53:57 AM by Gets »
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Amarr HM
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At least I'm only 0.01% away from a 60% winrate Fellow stat whore! Have you checked out http://www.planetwot.com? Worth a look for daily stats. |
I'm going to escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it and you with it.
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