World of Tanks

[UnsGub]

It may technically be balanced but it certainly isn't fun when there are 4+ arty per side. Especially in the upper tier matches. At least in lower tiers you are usually fast enough to out drive it but for most high tier heavies evasive maneuvers are impossible.

It's the same reason I don't enjoy clan wars and company battles. It feels like you spend the whole match spotting for your arty from concealed positions and hoping not to get nailed by the enemies instead of fighting with your tank.

Arty is the heavy tank counter.

Counting arty shots in CW and CB is common.  Move when they are reloading.  One or zero Arty are effective lineups on some maps (typicaly cities) for CW.

Dislike arty so much play a Tier 5 Light which is the arty counter.

WoT without arty would be one less dimentional and really out of balance if it was just light, medium, tank destroyer and heavy.

I get that games have features and content that occur as not fun for people.

For me Tier 9 and 10 are not fun for pub matches so I do not do them.

[veredus]

I do play t5 lights and yes it's just to kill arty, love them.

I never said to get rid of arty, notice I said I don't like 4+ per side. Yes I do enjoy matches w/o arty more even when playing my t5 lights but I understand why arty is in the game and how it functions. I disagree it makes the game less dimensional when there are no arty. I could argue that having a bunch of arty on each team actually makes it less dimensional as you're very limited on what you can do, specially if you're in a heavy. I think 2 or 3 arty per side isn't that big of deal , yes you have to be aware of the arty but I feel you can still play your tank.

[Furiously]

I'd sign a three arty max per side petition.

[Engels]

Ya, its not a balance issue, its a gameplay issue. Its tiresome to see 4 arties per side. Two or three makes it fun, more than that its just about the arty. The rest of the tanks are just speedbumps and the entire game is about spotting, not about usual tank play.

Also, its entirely unbalanced to have even just one super light tier 5 tank on one side, and not the other. It doesn't take particularly awesome skill to scout out the whole other side with your super light, and that gives the entire game away.

[Nebu]

I officially hate you all. 

While this game does have its imperfections, it really scratches my pvp itch well.  It's tactical enough that it's not entirely twitch... which is great for an old man.  I've been playing quite a bit the last few days and it's becoming a full-blown addiction.  I should have a tier 6 german Medium soon and am enjoying my tier 5 TD quite a bit.  I'm almost to the KV in the russian line, but it looks so sluggish that I don't know if I will go after it right away.  I'm finding that I'm not much of a slugger and prefer to either snipe or hit-and-run. 

Is it me, or is there a big jump from tier 5 to tier 6 in terms of armor and hps? 

[Furiously]

Generally yes. But your KV will blow up in two-three hits.

[Brolan]

Just be warned, the KV is a terrible tank.

[Numtini]

Gods I love my KV.

[disKret]

Gods I love my KV.

So true - with derp gun its fuckin funtasticc - its a real definition of glass cannon.

[Amarr HM]

KV is a fun tank & not a bad earner once you figure out how to play it.

[Merusk]

Woo, double income all weekend on the E8 Patton I just bought a few days ago.  Time to make back the cash I spent!

[Ginaz]

Theres a promo code you can get from a German site that gives you a free T-127 (Tier 3 Soviet light tank).  I tired it myself and it works.  As well, I've heard that you can get multiple codes and tanks by using a different email address when you enter at the German site.  So you can sell the tank for credits and keep the garage slot.  That may be fixed shortly but for now it seems to work.  To get the code, click on the picture then submit your email address.  To use the code, go the WoT website, log in, click on your account name (top right corner) then use the code in the "Enter Bonus Code" spot.  Profit.

http://www.computerbild.de/gutscheinaktionen/cbs-codes-Worlds-of-tanks-6895480.html

[Ginaz]

More free stuff, 750 gold 7 day premium and m3.

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/74570-ign-free-750-gold-7-day-premium-and-m3/

[apocrypha]

Nice one, cheers Ginaz! All worked for me. Spent the 750g on garage slots, which are half price atm!    Plus my boxed copy just arrived which is another 2000 gold and premium tank and 7 days premium!

Now all I have to do is tear myself away from Dungeon Defenders...

[Xuri]

*pokes at Luis with a bot-detection-stick*

Are you real? Or are you just a figment of my imagination?

[Furiously]

Looks like it was lifted verbatim from http://mmohuts.com/review/world-of-tanks. So definitely bot.

[Brolan]

Thanks for the free tank code, it worked for me.

[Numtini]

Free tank and slot. Oh yes thank you. I can't figure out the ign thing though.

[Ginaz]

Free tank and slot. Oh yes thank you. I can't figure out the ign thing though.

You create an account at IGN using the option to have a 7 day free trial.  You'll have to enter a credit card number but you can cancel immediately after you create your account without having to pay.  You then have to go to Fileplanet to get the code.  I don't know if it still works but it did for me last Friday night.  Use the URL below to get to Fileplanet.

http://www.fileplanet.com/betas/world-of-tanks/index.aspx

[angry.bob]

I just did them both, both still worked - including selling the t-127 and getting a second one with a different email.

[disKret]

I just did them both, both still worked - including selling the t-127 and getting a second one with a different email.

If you will register two different bonus-codes with t-127 at once - you will get only one tank but two days of premium.
If you will register one, login, delete t-127, logout, register second ... you will be 170.000 credits richer.

There is a limit of tanks you can sell in one day 

[Nebu]

I have to confess that the MM is starting to wear on me.  I've got two tier VI tanks and am constantly placed in battles with Tier VIII and IX's that I can't even penetrate the armor of.  HE doesn't seem to do much either and my tank is maxxed out with the best penetrating gun.  I feel like a kid with a bb gun in a warzone.

[Kageru]

I wonder if that's actually intentional. The feeling of "If I just grind / pay some more I'll be the big fish in this pond" drives people up the tiers, which is also the point where it's harder to play for free and they're capable of being involved in the end-game content.

[Sparky]

They should add lower tier clan wars because fuck grinding a T9-10 just to enjoy some persistent gameplay.

[apocrypha]

Isn't exactly that coming in the next patch?

[Tmon]

Tiered company battles are coming in the next patch.  They have said that they have no intention of introducing tiered clan wars battles at any point.  There are no MM changes for the next patch but they will be cutting the earning power of all higher tier arty pieces, I guess in the hope that if they less profitable they will be played less which will result in fewer arty dominated pug matches. 

[apocrypha]

Ah OK, I misunderstood the company battles part.

Less arty would be a good thing, no doubt.

[Gets]

The lower tier Company battles are great. You never have to see or touch anything above tier 8 again. I went from "I can't stand doing doubles on all these goddamn tanks" to "Oh boy, I wonder which of my tanks I get to play with next".

Tier 10 company battles are still bad though. It's basically clan wars with random maps aka not fun.

[Engels]

Is it a mess of SU-85s?

[Engels]

WoT Gamescon 2011 teaser. Pretty cool.

[Abagadro]

WoT Gamescon 2011 teaser. Pretty cool.

Sweet. Whoever does their media is good.

[angry.bob]

That's a pretty accurate representation of what matchmaker has been doing: Königstiger vs Matilda, T95 vs Königstiger or E75? E50? Eh.

Also, anyone else having a hard time earning credits since 7.0?

[apocrypha]

Have only played for a few days since 7.0 came out, because SWTOR also came out. I was making less money though, definitely. I was guessing it was because of the changes to armour and penetration - I was getting WAY more shots bounced, thus less damage done, thus less credits.

[Gets]

HE and Artillery credit gain got nerfed.

[Engels]

Its probably the HE. HE doesn't work as it used to; its actually more 'realistic' now, as explained in this lengthy and confusing forum post here:

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/72978-new-he-mechanics-explained-using-crude-illustrations/

The thumbnail summary is that HE's radius explosion will now only penetrate sectors of armor that are in the direct line of propagation from the middle of the HE shell explosion, whereas before anything within the area of the blast was affected.

Ironically, this means that in some very select situations, an HE shell from a tier nine heavy or TD will do more damage than an actual AP round, but on the whole, unless you've studied the hull thickness schematics for each tank, and then had the opportunity to land a shot in a very very narrow region, its best to stick to AP, unless you have zero chance of penetration.

That's probably the main reason you're seeing less money in the bank. Your Panther II can no longer splash a Maus for a crit hit with ease, so you're not getting cash for that.

Do I like it? Not at all. Do I see why they did it? Sure; tank nerd developers run amok with notions of realism over game play.