World of Tanks

[Furiously]

Teaming with Aba a lot lately has taught me one very important thing. When the chips are down and the enemy team is ahead by 6 tanks. Don't just YOLO into their guns, find a good spot to hunker down and make them shoot your tracks. Then kill them all...Then you get a 5 kill game like this.

Vehicle: T34
Exp: 4,598 (x2 for the first victory each day)  Credits: 235,626
Battle achievements: Mastery Badge: "Ace Tanker"

[Nebu]

I'll second this.  I've learned more by playing with Aba than I have in any other way.  Aba's help changed me from a 45.6% player to having a 60% win rate over my past 60 days.

[Furiously]

http://www.wotreplays.com/site/854982# For anyone that wants to watch.

[Engels]

Teaming with Aba has taught me that I should take up scotch again, probably.

[WayAbvPar]

Teaming with Aba has taught me that I should take up scotch again, probably.

This 

I also like playing with Aba since he is nearly as profane as I am when he gets frustrated. A kindred spirit.

[Amarr HM]

I played a game or two on the Xbox other day for a giggle, the hilarity drained away pretty quickly.

[angry.bob]

668 games since 12/4.  We going to quibble about what "since december" or a "few months" is now?

No need to quibble. Since you're a freaky fucking stalker you can probably just check your spreadsheet of the number of games I've played each day and look for where the drop off from whatever I was playing to 0-2 games a day. I thought it was probably in December, but whatever. If you've got suck a hard on for pinning me down to one or the other go with "a few months". That's three or more, so again no need to quibble.

I haven't backpedaled one bit.  Win rate is a function of skill. Period.  You've built up some stupid ass strawman that I have claimed that win rate is the only stat that matters or that it is sacrosanct and can't be buffed, something I have never said.

Well now you're just bullshitting. If you actually believe that you need to go back and reread what you wrote. That third sentence there is a pretty doozy of a strawman itself. It's awesome though that rather than admit what you said you went with the online equivalent of punching someone.

Why do you think you will lose?  

Because I don't give two shits. It's a game I never wanted to do much more than have cool tank models to look at and change around. If I could I'd just throw money at the game and have all the models without ever actually playing it. It's got a worst community than UO did and that's saying something. Go back and search the thread, the thing about the models is probably the first thing I wrote. For advancing to tier 10 in all the lines at once it's been more efficient to rush out try to get a kill or two, get killed in the first five minutes, go back to garage and try to 2X the next tank line. Rinse and repeat until they're all 2Xed. Man, fuck your hide in a corner and sell your life dearly shit, I got 16 more tanks to try and 2X, papers to write, and 2 kids to take care of. If you want to spend your free time trying to be the master of a videogame with a three year half life that's got about seven months of that left, go ahead. But just because I don't feel like doing the same doesn't mean I'm wrong. Especially when, as was stated previously in this thread, the most "skilled" players wait in cover until the potatoes to do enough damage before dying that they can can come out and taxi to victory.

[Nebu]

Removed: Yelling at clouds.   

[Simond]

If you ever feel discouraged with tankery, take heart that at least you're not this bloke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0hxJSzmoE

[Abagadro]

I'll second this.  I've learned more by playing with Aba than I have in any other way.  Aba's help changed me from a 45.6% player to having a 60% win rate over my past 60 days.

You guys are going to give me a big head.  I just taxi to victory though so I guess I shouldn't think TOO highly of myself. 

BTW, if he still played Amarr/Blindside would teach us all some stuff based upon the few games I managed to toon with him.

[Amarr HM]

If you ever feel discouraged with tankery, take heart that at least you're not this bloke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0hxJSzmoE

Wow! My blood pressure raised slightly just looking at that.

Thanks Aba, but I'd say these days if I started up again it would be me learning off you guys.

[WayAbvPar]

If you ever feel discouraged with tankery, take heart that at least you're not this bloke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0hxJSzmoE

And this is why I can't wait to get back to my garage as soon as I am dead. Pubbies hate to win. Good fucking GOD.

[Engels]

Thanks Aba, but I'd say these days if I started up again it would be me learning off you guys.

Ya, you have to come play with us sometimes. If only so that I can say that for at least 15 minutes, I was better than Blindside 

[Furiously]

So I tried solo-pubbing this morning. I decided to see if their after 3 losses in a tank you will get top tier system was true. And it worked.

[WayAbvPar]

My choices recently seem to be-

Great team, bottom tier (have to fight to get any XP before my team rolls- I get a lot of bottom 5 doubles this way)
or
Top tier with a team full of cretins. If I am in a tank capable of carrying a game, I can sometimes pull these out, but mostly it just tears another piece of my soul away.

Seriously, there doesn't seem to even be middle tiers any more. Or average teams.

[Nebu]

Interesting changes to Komarin planned for 9.1

This may make the map playable again... yay?

[WayAbvPar]

Maps, oh let me rant about maps. Like Ruinberg. I think I have played 50 matches on Ruinberg since the weekend. They really need to set aside a tiny bit of the moneyhats they are rolling in to upgrade their map server so we can have access to the full set at all times. This pick 6-8 for the day and repeat is bullshit.

[Merusk]

Interesting changes to Komarin planned for 9.1

This may make the map playable again... yay?

Looks like a lot of hill changes and a lot fewer "I can sit in this corner and hit 90% of the map" sniping spots.  Didn't watch to see what changes were made to the island.


First time back in months today and I get this:

Victory!
Battle: Steppes
Vehicle: AT 15A
Experience received: 2,474 (x2 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 82,014
Battle achievements: Top Gun, Steel Wall, Mastery Badge: "Ace Tanker"

Very happy because my first thought was "Oh fuck, steppes in this thing."

Replay Here

[Abagadro]

Great.  More elimination of strategic positioning and sniping.  They are really trying to drive me out of this game which may be for the best.

[WayAbvPar]

Very happy because my first thought was "Oh fuck, steppes in this thing."

Yeah, that is not exactly the best map for that tank. Really need to enemy to come to you. Which apparently they did!

[Merusk]

The REAL kick in the pants is first I DC'd then I came back to find the west flank was already being overrun.  I got a big spike in latency because things got really sluggish as I tried to pop a hellcat from behind and overshot him.  I was convinced we were going down.

[WayAbvPar]

Sometimes their pubbies hate to win even more than yours.

[Furiously]

Great.  More elimination of strategic positioning and sniping.  They are really trying to drive me out of this game which may be for the best.

I think it's their way of dealing with the abundance of tds.

[Nebu]

They are really trying to drive me out of this game which may be for the best.

Just in time.  It looks like Warthunder Ground Forces is entering beta tomorrow.   

[Abagadro]

Great.  More elimination of strategic positioning and sniping.  They are really trying to drive me out of this game which may be for the best.

I think it's their way of dealing with the abundance of tds.

Then just nerf the fuckers instead of destroying perfectly good maps.

[Tmon]

They are really trying to drive me out of this game which may be for the best.

Just in time.  It looks like Warthunder Ground Forces is entering beta tomorrow.   

I've been in the closed beta for this for a couple months, it has it's own share of issues.

[Brolan]

They are really trying to drive me out of this game which may be for the best.

Just in time.  It looks like Warthunder Ground Forces is entering beta tomorrow.   

I've been in the closed beta for this for a couple months, it has it's own share of issues.

I'm just so bored with WoT now,  I want something different.

[angry.bob]

They are really trying to drive me out of this game which may be for the best.

Just in time.  It looks like Warthunder Ground Forces is entering beta tomorrow.   

I've been in the closed beta for this for a couple months, it has it's own share of issues.

Ground Forces is sexy as fuck. What are your issues with it?

[Sir T]

Looks in at this thread after a few months and just laughs.

[Engels]

Quiet, you irish potato.

[Nebu]

Looks in at this thread after a few months and just laughs.

You miss it.  You know that you do!

[Sir T]

DAAAAAMNNNN YOUUUUUUUU!! 

[Tmon]

Ground Forces is sexy as fuck. What are your issues with it?

Mostly little things, the most annoying to me is the whole spend 5 minutes sneaking and peeking across the map and die with one shot from a tank you never saw thing.  It also bugs me that I have to shift for the driver, I'm the Tank Commander I should just be able to tell the driver where to go and let him do the work.  Of course the biggest issue over all is that you still get thrown into matches populated by random folks, most of whom  will perform only marginally better than a pigeon pecking at random keys.

[Nebu]

Of course the biggest issue over all is that you still get thrown into matches populated by random folks, most of whom  will perform only marginally better than a pigeon pecking at random keys.

Sounds exactly like WoT. 

[Nebu]

I found a tank that WayAbvPar endorses as the tank of choice for the average pubbie.  They might want to add this to Ground Forces as well.