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linktoinsanity said:
So you're back are you Defrag? At least part-time. :)

I'm struggling to see your issue in that game, you seemed to do quite well, unless you are hinting at how one-sided the game was...

P.S. I have a fair few more tier tens since we last platooned. :p



I'd not even suggest balancing it out that much, just nearer 50% for the whole team...
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Yup, back until my rage meter hits the top again. which might not be too long! :)

No issue, just that even after 7 months off, first game back - top is where I belong! :D

Tier X's - there can't be many left! I think I was at least 4 versions behind, so many maps have changed since I last played. Ensk on fire! Have they just made the same maps but with different skins?
 
one of the maps which is half town half field has an "on fire" variant which basically means the whole map is darkened and you get glare from the "sunset" lowering your ability to see objects.

Yay.
 
Delboy said:
Yup, back until my rage meter hits the top again. which might not be too long! :)
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I have some tips for anti-rage in this rage inducing game:

1) Only play when you're really in the mood for tanking and play the tanks you enjoy, don't grind, too much. ;)
2) Platoon more often than playing on your own
3) If you are starting to rage, give it one more game to improve, playing one of your favourite tanks (I tend to jump in the IS), generally not tier 10s though.

I usually only start raging if I start to play badly, then I play the IS, if I suck in that I quit.

No issue, just that even after 7 months off, first game back - top is where I belong! :D
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Ah that's what you are getting at, fair enough.

Tier X's - there can't be many left! I think I was at least 4 versions behind, so many maps have changed since I last played. Ensk on fire! Have they just made the same maps but with different skins?
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I have 26 now. I think I have enough for the foreseeable future. How many have YOU got? I imagine I win. :p

Ruinberg On Fire is the map Hotwired is thinking of, I have to say I find it pretty pointless, though I prefer it to Firey Salient (or whatever).
 
Link - did you see that Jingles mentioned your question in his last Mingles ?

Jingles still did not get what we mean by skill balance.
 
Hodders said:
Link - did you see that Jingles mentioned your question in his last Mingles ?

Jingles still did not get what we mean by skill balance.
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Yeah I did, and yep he didn't quite seem to get the point I was making, it doesn't seem a lot do.

However his argument against what he thought I put was pretty good and at least he "tried" answering my question... :p
 
Gid domm idiots. had a 5 v 2. I had died killing the last TD on their base. We had 5 tanks chasing down one arty. Meanwhile, their last tank started to cap.

FIVE IDIOTS CHASED DOWN ONE ARTY and took so long to do it they lost.

2 cap, 3 chase down would have been fine. But no.

I had to spend 2 minutes hitting things before I could even start to relax. Worst thing was it was a 6 kill, 5000 damage game.
 
OMG the weekend from hell :(

Started at overall win rate of 50.55%, ended it of 50.52% - 0.03% win rate killed in 2 days, 46% winrate days over almost 200 games I think.

never seen it so bad :(

But plus side and all that - 4/5 days till TogTober is completed for me, and the Fury APck should eb out either tomorrow or Wedensday!!
 
Hodders said:
On a more positive note.

LETS GET SOME MORE PLATOONS GOING.

The clan has been really quiet recently online.

Come on guys get online and lets toon up with some of the newer players. I remember it helped me loads in the beginning.
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Up for some of this tonight if anyone's about
 
I have given up grinding now; I have been grinding since beta in 2011 and only just realised that it isn't fun and pointless. I never play my TierX in randoms, 90% of them are now useless in clanwars. That only leaves me with Obj 140, bat chat, T110E5 and Is7 that are of any value.

I have however started to grind money to rebuy the tanks I enjoyed but sold over the years to fund Tier Xs (that I never play lol)

So far I have rebought:

T29
Cromwell
E75

Plan to rebuy:
M46
Pershing
IS3
Tiger 2
Tiger 1
T32
T69

The only fun I have at the minute is in my T37, E25, Cromwell or T34. I quit playing last night after getting constantly destroyed in randoms.

The game needs to stop mission creep with all the autoloaders and premium ammo spam, it is so bad that it is almost pointless playing slow heavy tanks as you just get destroyed by gold spamming autoloaders.

Gold should be banned from randoms. They won't do this as it is a cash cow.
 
Craptakular - I agree 100% with pretty well all of what you say.

When a Woffle can 1 clip you from 100% in a T10 tank at 300m in 8 seconds and never even appear it has just got silly.

I remember getting my T110E4 and it just getting owned whilst hull down from the front by a gold firing T9 med and I realised the game had got a bit broken.

The act of making 'gold' ammo available for credits stopped the whole tactics thing overnight. Prior to that meds HAD to flank. But now a T62a can sit there with 330mm of pen. Putting shells through the front of your turret.

Powercreep is exactly what has happened. Needing people to spend gold to grind the newest best most OP new tank is what WG's business model is based on. Of course after a couple of patches the new OP tank is nerfed and a new one is introduced.

Oh look shiny foch-155, power-grind, nerf. Ohh look shiny new woffle, power-grind, nerf.

I serioulsy reckon that the game was at its best *just* before physics in terms of balance. Or in other words, get rid of all gold ammo and all T10 TDs, MTs and Arty. Just leave the T10 HTs as the only T10s with the new graphics and physics.

The other thing thay have started to do is to make all the maps more linear. Taking away open fields of firing arc, bascially making maps 2 or 3 corridors with less soft cover. I guess they have realised that the stealth TDs with big guns have to be nerfed somehow.

Lastly - PLEASE let us have skill based MM. Just share out the idiots. Dont select players by skill for a given game, but DO make sure that the win chance is ~50%. I hate doing 7k+ damage, 6/7 kills and losing just cos the 10 assorted bots and tomatoes have all but suicided.
 
@ Craptakular fully agree with grinding.

I will only play a couple of games a night in a tank i am grinding, as its too depressing to keep at it.
I have also re-bought some tanks i rushed through, either i was in a hurry to get the next or its play style didnt suit me at the time.
Prime example is the T20, i hated it when i first went up the USA med line, i liked the Pershing and loved the Patton so a few weeks ago i decided to give it another try.
What a good decision, :) its one of my favourite tanks now, fast, agile, decent gun, depression etc...
A toon of these can wreak havoc. :D

Also agree the gold rounds have ruined the game, main reason why i prefer playing meds now.
Armour has no advantage now.
 
I agree armour is a lot less relevant. Brawling meds is where they seem to be taking the game. Having said that the E100 is great fun in a good side scrape position. Had a game with 8000+blocked damage yesterday.
 
Hodders said:
I agree armour is a lot less relevant. Brawling meds is where they seem to be taking the game. Having said that the E100 is great fun in a good side scrape position. Had a game with 8000+blocked damage yesterday.
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nice, but in my med i would just run away and try and get behind you if possible :D
But you are experienced and would never go alone unlike a lot of players lol
 
You are right an E100 is dead of it gets rushed by 2 meds. BUT med drivers now are so used to sniping with gold that they rarely do :-)
 
WG are reacting to the in-balances, but in slightly stupid ways.

The T10 TDs are game breaking. A hidden woffle can clip pretty well any tank in the game without even being spotted in 8 seconds. That is just daft. Instead of dealing with it by saying yup we got it wrong, autoloading TDs are a mistake, they take away soft cover and firing arcs.

The number of maps where you can play camo are few and far now.

The problem with a woffle is not that it can stay hidden, but that it can kill a 100% tank in 8 seconds. You just cannot close the distance to spot it in that time.

By taking away the soft cover, you take away from tanks like the hellcat/e25/flakbus that rely on players using camo well.

You still get good games, but it is hard.

Get rid of gold (or nerf damage) and give us balanced teams and I'd be a load happier.
 
chipps101 said:
1 year of not playing and it seems everything that made me leave the game has gotten worse by reading a few of you lots posts :(
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Only 7 months away from the game for me but you're absolutely right chipps. The few games I've bothered to play turn out exactly the same as they did 7 months ago - morons are still morons, teams get blitzed by the opposite team due to too many red tards on one side, I'm not on a premium account and every game I've played makes me a loss so you can't make good credits without a premium account it seems - this seems much worse than it was when I gave it up.

I play a few games here and there but for me the game will never be the same and I certainly won't be funding WGs new mansion extensions from now on. If my silver credits run out....I won't even bother playing the few games I do. I went from 3 mil to about half a mil in only a couple of games every other day for the last week.
 
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