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Tmon
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UnsGub
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Apparently in their spare time WG has been working on... They are a huge company. Over 1000 people and +$10m a month in profits. |
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Lots of lag spikes for me today too. Victory!
Battle: Sand River Friday, August 17, 2012 12:56:06 PM
Vehicle: T32
Experience received: 5,769 (x3 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 62,400
Battle Achievements: Sniper, Master Gunner I think I like x3 xp weekends. |
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Brogarn
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Oh I thought that wasn't kicking in until 7pm eastern. Nifty! I've got an M103 to grind through.
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WayAbvPar
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If you didn't do doubles last night they turned into triples this morning.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Nebu
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If you didn't do doubles last night they turned into triples this morning.
What happened to you quitting in disgust?  |
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WayAbvPar
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I didn't quit, I took several days off. And with my latest teammates, I may need to do it again. Just had a T-34 (top tier tank) hide behind our spawn on Steppes...when my side got overrun (in my nearly stock M18 v SU-152, T-34, SuperPershing, and Easy 8), he sat there. And sat there. When the SP crosses the tracks to fight him, he left his ass pointing at the SP and shot and missed 3/6 shots. Honestly- how the fuck are people THAT BAD at this game? My son isn't even 4 yet and he could outplay a good 20% of the player base.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Gets
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I got all my final triples in a row while the competent people were sitting in company battles trying to fight Wargaming's Chatbanning Committe. They had a Hellcat autoaiming with premium ammo.
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Tannhauser
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Got back this weekend. I like the new matchmaking though I'm getting my ass handed to me due to having not played in months. Scarfed up the 3x xp, good stuff.
Edit: Clarity
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« Last Edit: August 18, 2012, 08:51:16 AM by Tannhauser »
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Merusk
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I got all my final triples in a row while the competent people were sitting in company battles trying to fight Wargaming's Chatbanning Committe. They had a Hellcat autoaiming with premium ammo.
I keep trying to parse this but can't. |
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Tmon
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There was an event last night where Wargaming employees formed a tank company and joined the tank company battle queue, if you matched up against them and won every player on your team got 400 gold, if you lost everyone got 200. His last sentence doesn't have enough context to parse, he could have been talking about WG players being noobs and wasting gold rounds by using auto aiming or talking about some guy in a pub match.
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Gets
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[...] WG players being noobs [...]
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Brogarn
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I didn't log on Thursday night, so I had all my doubles turned into triples and got them out of the way before 8pm Eastern on Friday. So, I got the full 4 3x's from this weekend. It was sweet because now I'm only 94k from the E5 and will be done with this POS M103.
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Merusk
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Ah, makes sense now thanks for explaining. I was continually disappointed last evening trying to get my 3x in my Type 59. I had two games where I made the majority of kills for my team but didn't get the win because unfortunately that meant 4 kills and 2 kills for me and 0 for everyone else.  Love games like that. Seriously, the 2nd game I had the only two kills of the team and we were on defense.. wtf. Of course the next game I got 0 kills and we won. Of course! I'm not good.. but the pubbies are getting worse. I'm also annoyed at the wallet warrior epithets being slung around more frequently. Somehow spending $50 on a tank instead of $15 for 4 months makes me a bad player.  |
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Amarr HM
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It was sweet because now I'm only 94k from the E5 and will be done with this POS M103.
Nice!! I'm thinking of skipping the M103, but I then think I may be able to do good things with it, when fully upgraded. So I bought an Object 261 and the first 10 games were horrible, one match even had 14 arty in it. Lost 8 of 10 cause none of the teams I was matched with thought it prudent to ever stop fast tanks rushing through, 'let arty deal with it, not our problem'. |
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« Last Edit: August 21, 2012, 05:16:09 AM by Amarr HM »
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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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Merusk
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If you play arty regularly enough to have an Object 261 you don't understand this: The rest of us tankers all hate you. Even if you're on our side and are a great arty support instead of the usual "derp Im out of ammo and have hit nothing!" There's a subconscious agreement to just let you be pasted so we can play TANK SMASH in peace instead of playing hide and or go splat by hugging terrain. |
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WayAbvPar
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I hate games without arty. They take fucking forever and are actually more camptastic.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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kildorn
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Matches with 1-2 arty per side have positioning concerns and keep the fights somewhat mobile/gives lighter tanks a reason to exist.
Matches with 6-7 arty per side however are fucking stupid. Even 4 arty per side turns into "tracked = instantly dead", or with really good arty "vaguely spotted = instantly dead"
I had a match where 5 arty rounds kept my gun destroyed for the entire time I was in combat. >< Fucking M103's gun is made of paper mache or something.
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Kageru
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Just realised the SEA server exists and gives me 100 pings (compared to 300) on the US server. But there's no transfer process and the idea of grinding through some of the tier 3-4 junk to get to the good tier 5 stuff pains me.
Though it could be a chance to play some other tanks I've skipped. US turreted TD, Pz-III/IV if they buff it when they nerf the Pz-IV.
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Amarr HM
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If you play arty regularly enough to have an Object 261 you don't understand this: Hehe, thing is it took me around a year of only ever playing doubles to get out of the Object 212. It's a ridiculous grind. |
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Nebu
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Matches with 1-2 arty per side have positioning concerns and keep the fights somewhat mobile/gives lighter tanks a reason to exist.
Matches with 6-7 arty per side however are fucking stupid. Even 4 arty per side turns into "tracked = instantly dead", or with really good arty "vaguely spotted = instantly dead"
I had a match where 5 arty rounds kept my gun destroyed for the entire time I was in combat. >< Fucking M103's gun is made of paper mache or something.
I agree with this. 1-2 arty are fine. Though I do think that lower tier arty need some serious rebalancing. Getting 1 or 2 shot by arty a tier below be is a bit rough while I'm learning where the good safe spots are. |
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Amarr HM
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Just keep moving Nebu. Shoot and then hit W as soon as you fire.
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Nebu
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Just keep moving Nebu. Shoot and then hit W as soon as you fire.
Some tanks are more amenable to this than others. I always get excited about matches with no arty. Hell, I'd go so far as to say that I'd pay extra every month to ensure that there were no arty in my matches ever. |
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Brolan
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Just keep moving Nebu. Shoot and then hit W as soon as you fire.
Some tanks are more amenable to this than others. I always get excited about matches with no arty. Hell, I'd go so far as to say that I'd pay extra every month to ensure that there were no arty in my matches ever. You will only get good at avoiding arty if you play as arty some times. Then you will see where the arty safe spots are and how moving screws up a shot. Just the simple act of "jogging" backwards and forwards constantly will make arty players give up on shooting you and go after someone who is standing still. |
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Amarr HM
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Sorry Nebu I thought you were talking about being counter-artied, my bad.
But that rule still applies I suppose.
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Sir T
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Downloaded this and tried it out and I have to say I'm wondering what the fuss is about. That and I was totally lost.
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Nebu
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Downloaded this and tried it out and I have to say I'm wondering what the fuss is about. That and I was totally lost.
The game starts to gain in depth and complexity at tier 4 or so. In the initial stages the game is rather chaotic. Having said that, ask a lot of questions. The people here helped me to enjoy this game A LOT through better understanding the mechanics and design. |
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Merusk
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Just keep moving Nebu. Shoot and then hit W as soon as you fire.
Some tanks are more amenable to this than others. I always get excited about matches with no arty. Hell, I'd go so far as to say that I'd pay extra every month to ensure that there were no arty in my matches ever. You will only get good at avoiding arty if you play as arty some times. Then you will see where the arty safe spots are and how moving screws up a shot. Just the simple act of "jogging" backwards and forwards constantly will make arty players give up on shooting you and go after someone who is standing still. Which only works well if you have a gun with a really tight aim time or are right on top of people. Soo many blown shots when I tried this. |
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Gets
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Fraeg
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Mad skills with the rod.
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New to this game, and 75 pages to sift through. Play a tier 4 light tank (Leapord) and a tier 4 Arty (Grille). Enjoying it so far, and have to admit I love playing arty. I have to say playing Arty a lot has made me far far better at my light tank scout when I do play it.
Not really sure about the endgame, but for now I am happy bumping about in the random pug lower tiers. Play with a few other friends in a guild, and apparently our name is *not cool*. Instead of names like "Sherman's Brigade" or "Panzer Division" or whatever, we just call ourselves "GOATS", and for whatever reason people seem to have issues with that... kinda puzzling.
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Brogarn
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Argh!
Sigh. Pubbies. Plus, not only ELVIS but their baby clan. Color me shocked ... Wait! This isn't the dregs of the Clan Rivarly/Diplo forum. My bad. |
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Amarr HM
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New to this game, and 75 pages to sift through. Play a tier 4 light tank (Leapord) and a tier 4 Arty (Grille). Enjoying it so far, and have to admit I love playing arty. I have to say playing Arty a lot has made me far far better at my light tank scout when I do play it.
Couldn't agree more, my first few hundred games were in an SU-26. |
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Engels
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If you play arty regularly enough to have an Object 261 you don't understand this: Hehe, thing is it took me around a year of only ever playing doubles to get out of the Object 212. It's a ridiculous grind. I suppose I'm some sort of demented sicko since I have a Type E, 92, working on the 261 and just got into the tier 6 french arty |
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Amarr HM
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Yes you are |
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Abagadro
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I love the 212. Oops, missed by 6 meters. Oh well just blew your tread off and did 400hp damage anyways.
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