World of Tanks

[Ginaz]

I don't normally like playing arty, I'm starting to realy like the FV304.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCnlcM4N7VQ

[WayAbvPar]

Everyone raves about that thing. I am still on the Birch Gun, but that little bastard is nice too. Doesn't do a ton of damage, but it aims and fires quickly and accurately.

[Merusk]

My only problem with the Birch was you had no range so you had to get really close to the action but being arty were always low man so you'd get wholloped really soon after firing, even if you did the fire & move.

[Abagadro]

I don't normally like playing arty, I'm starting to realy like the FV304.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCnlcM4N7VQ

During the T6 (and then even the T8) portions of the last campaign, we fought on Province and brought 4 or 5 of those.  The sheer number of shells and accuracy you can fling with a group of those things frustrated the everloving hell out of our opponents.

[Ginaz]

I don't normally like playing arty, I'm starting to realy like the FV304.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCnlcM4N7VQ

During the T6 (and then even the T8) portions of the last campaign, we fought on Province and brought 4 or 5 of those.  The sheer number of shells and accuracy you can fling with a group of those things frustrated the everloving hell out of our opponents.

I know.  Its one of the reasons I picked it up.  They've been my nemesis for awhile now.  They're like the E25 of artillery.

[Abagadro]

If anyone wants to watch the lulz we are smack dab in the middle of a war that starts tomorrow between Havok and allies (which includes us) and the Evil Gaming (Villain, Thugz, etc) group of clans.  


EDIT: Now Forge and the animal clans are joining in on opposite sides.  Relic is the only shoe left to drop and then it will be a total map shitfest.

[Abagadro]

Gah, tried a big mod pack with xvm and all that shit and the screen is so jumbled can't tell what is going on 50m in front of me. No idea how people play with that shit on.

[Ginaz]

Gah, tried a big mod pack with xvm and all that shit and the screen is so jumbled can't tell what is going on 50m in front of me. No idea how people play with that shit on.

I don't use any mods and I've done pretty well without them.

[Abagadro]

This shit was ridiculous. The minimap had all these circles for view range, draw distance, tank names, last known, etc. Fuck it had a line showing where your gun was pointed. I mean, you need a line on the minimap to see where your gun is pointed? Then all the color coded shit and lightbulbs for god knows what. Info overload if you ask me. I run Jimbo's reticle and that's it.

[Der Helm]

This shit was ridiculous. The minimap had all these circles for view range, draw distance, tank names, last known, etc. Fuck it had a line showing where your gun was pointed. I mean, you need a line on the minimap to see where your gun is pointed? Then all the color coded shit and lightbulbs for god knows what. Info overload if you ask me. I run Jimbo's reticle and that's it.

It takes  while to get used to that stuff, but once I knew whats what, I found it hard to play without. I think I am running something called Sela's mod pack.

Also historical gun sounds are a must.

[Engels]

This shit was ridiculous. The minimap had all these circles for view range, draw distance, tank names, last known, etc. Fuck it had a line showing where your gun was pointed. I mean, you need a line on the minimap to see where your gun is pointed? Then all the color coded shit and lightbulbs for god knows what. Info overload if you ask me. I run Jimbo's reticle and that's it.

Lemme guess, you tried the OMC mod with full features on. That's not how its meant to be installed. That's just to 'show case' the features. You're meant to turn 60% of that stuff off and only leave what you find useful.

[Nebu]

Here's what I use:

Jimbos
XVM (only to see opponent WR, last known position, and my damage during a match)
White tanks
Locastans stat package (shows daily W/L, WN8, silver made)

Doesn't clutter my screen at all.

On a side note: Are you guys finding it difficult to carry on the weekends?  I had a steak of games where I was doing between 2-3k damage a match in my tier 6's and 7's and still couldn't stay above 50%.

[Merusk]

I stopped using mods once they added the shell countdown timer to the default UI.  Too much of a hassle and XVM just made me irritable.  I'd follow the purple/ green players and still find that we'd lose or they were axed because everyone targeted them first.

[WayAbvPar]

This shit was ridiculous. The minimap had all these circles for view range, draw distance, tank names, last known, etc. Fuck it had a line showing where your gun was pointed. I mean, you need a line on the minimap to see where your gun is pointed? Then all the color coded shit and lightbulbs for god knows what. Info overload if you ask me. I run Jimbo's reticle and that's it.

Heh. Yeah, if you go from no mods to the full OMD pack or something, it would definitely be overkill. XVM (which includes the minimap features, which are pretty useful when you get used to them), J1mbo's are the only real must haves for me. White tanks is really useful too, and the daily stats thing is nice, but neither are must haves and could be left off until you want them.

[Abagadro]

Lemme guess, you tried the OMC mod with full features on. That's not how its meant to be installed. That's just to 'show case' the features. You're meant to turn 60% of that stuff off and only leave what you find useful.

It was a mod pack one of our Dep. Commanders swears by.

Nebu's pack sounds decent, but I am too much of a dope to be able to customize mod packs.

[WayAbvPar]

Use this one-
 
You can add anything you want into it.

[Nebu]

Nebu's pack sounds decent, but I am too much of a dope to be able to customize mod packs.

I just went to this list and picked the ones I wanted.

Hope that helps.

[Abagadro]

That installer that way linked is pretty slick.  Running some stuff now trying to get used to it.  I'll check out that list.

[Ginaz]

Why does it seem like every time I get into a game and my team starts typing in Spanish or Portuguese, I know I'm going to lose?

[angry.bob]

Why does it seem like every time I get into a game and my team starts typing in Spanish or Portuguese, I know I'm going to lose?

Because you will. I already brought this up in the thread a while ago. If more than one person on your team types something in Spanish it's an autoloss. What's extra awesome is that they always refuse to speak english until people get pissed and say something about it, then they have no problem at all speaking English to call people racists and argue that they don't have to speak English if they don't want to. It always made me feel like a Republican.

[Falconeer]

I hate HATE to generalize, but that's my experience with Italians. Maybe I notice this because I am hypersensitive to them, but it's a common attitude around here to bother other people just because you can, so most of the time they will keep using Italian laughing at everyone else's rage.

It's probably the same with lots of other languages on European servers, but I have a harder time ignoring Italian as I can see through their words and picture the idiots behind those obnoxious ways, and the fact that they usually suck doesn't help.

[WayAbvPar]

Why does it seem like every time I get into a game and my team starts typing in Spanish or Portuguese, I know I'm going to lose?

Because you will. I already brought this up in the thread a while ago. If more than one person on your team types something in Spanish it's an autoloss. What's extra awesome is that they always refuse to speak english until people get pissed and say something about it, then they have no problem at all speaking English to call people racists and argue that they don't have to speak English if they don't want to. It always made me feel like a Republican.

Another clue your team is sunk is a bunch of Poles saying 'Siema'

[angry.bob]

Another clue your team is sunk is a bunch of Poles saying 'Siema'

Googling Siema to find out what it means returned this:



From the thumbnail I thought it was some sort of Pokemon thing. If the WoT euro server is as multilingual as the WT euro server is, ugh. I bitch about the three languages we have on our continent. When people bust out 40 kinds of slavspeak on the euro server it makes my head bleed. Sorry slavbros, I don't understand Moldovan, Romanian, or Russian and not recognizing the difference in your slavrunes isn't meant to be an insult.

[Sir T]

My solution to Italians and Eastern Europeans being obnoxious is to simply start typing in Gaelic. That tends to shut them up. 

[Simond]

Just say "Sorry, I don't speak Russian". 

[Ginaz]

If they really get going with it in chat, I like to tell them to stop speaking Mexican or "English motherfuckers, do you speak it?" (none of them have watched Pulp Fiction it seems).  Then I get a bunch of  "Argentina, asshole"  or "Brasileiro, fucker" which is always followed up by anti US statements which, being Canadian, just makes me laugh.  Even when I tell them I'm not American, they still keep at the anti US stuff.  It's like their map of the Americas end at the northern US border.

I know it's a North American server (no South American server?) and people speak different languages but if you're on a team and you can speak and type a common language with your teammates, then you should really do so.  If I was on the Russian server and could speak Russian, I wouldn't be typing in English in team chat because it would be fucking rude and disrespectful to do so.

[Ginaz]

I don't normally like playing arty, I'm starting to realy like the FV304.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCnlcM4N7VQ

Ok, this is officially my favourite tank to play.  I wish I could have 2 or 3 of them in my garage.

[Nebu]

This was an odd match... but I'm delighted with the outcome.

Victory!
Battle: Malinovka 2/19/2014 7:18:57 PM
Vehicle: Caernarvon
Experience received: 4,910 (x2 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 86,317
Battle achievements: Steel Wall, Confederate, Scout, High Caliber, Mastery Badge: "Ace Tanker"

Odd combination of medals.

[WayAbvPar]

Scout in a Caern? Was the rest of your team all TDs or something?

[Nebu]

Scout in a Caern? Was the rest of your team all TDs or something?

Was on Malinovka and I was the one leading the charge on the hill.  I lit pretty much everyone on the hill as I was in front and lit the rest when I led the charge down.  I think I ended with 5600 damage and about 2k spotting.  Pretty happy since I generally hate playing this tank.

[Abagadro]

Nice game Nebu.

I got a Dumitru (kill 4 arties, first one in 32k games) in my Waffle 100 on El Haluf when I crossed over the whole map via the inlet and then wreaked mayhem.  Those kind of weird games are fun.

I had an epic match tooned up with Shade and another -J- last night. We were up against some really good players (4 VILLN guys and a dude whose stats were completely off even the purple chart). Was on Ruinberg and we went and cleaned up the 0 line while the entire city just got wiped out.  It was 12-5 and we turned around, went back and ended up winning by getting great positions with a decent 704 and just tearing them up. Shade killed 8 and our toon killed 13 total. I'll try to get a replay (I don't record replays) to show it.

[Nebu]

I had an epic match tooned up with Shade and another -J- last night. We were up against some really good players (4 VILLN guys and a dude whose stats were completely off even the purple chart). Was on Ruinberg and we went and cleaned up the 0 line while the entire city just got wiped out.  It was 12-5 and we turned around, went back and ended up winning by getting great positions with a decent 704 and just tearing them up. Shade killed 8 and our toon killed 13 total. I'll try to get a replay (I don't record replays) to show it.

Make sure you save that replay.  It's matches like those that will keep you playing for another 10k battles.  I always love beating unicum platoons.  Especially G and Havok guys.

[Abagadro]

We beat one of those last night too in a different game, a toon of Havok, -G- and SIMP. It was a good night.  I've found I happen to play better sober.

[WayAbvPar]

See what you can do when you don't have me dragging your stats into the dirt?

[Nebu]

I got a depressing reminder of my stats the other night.  I was looking at noobmeter and saw that I have a 55% WR over the past 9000 games.  My overall WR is ~52%.  I think I was playing around 45% WR for my first 5k matches.  No wonder nobody would ever platoon with me.

On a tangential note: Played like utter crap last night.  I just can't seem to get the hang of the A44 and I'm playing the SU 122 44 WAAaaaay too aggressively.  Its camo must be terrible because people can spot me from quite a ways off.