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between the borked physics engine and team of drones sitting in spawn for the entire game, tonight has left me feeling like I want to repeatedly smash my face off the keyboard.

Earlier, we could have won but I couldnt get out of spawn cos of friendly tanks blocking the entrance, unbeleivable.
 
KnightStalker said:
Ta Thekwango, sorted the images, as for the crew i thought so, but i was playing it safe by spreading them all equally, ill refocus on those ones now though.
As for being in the squad i was at one point, got booted :p
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Send another invite, there was a few got booted without good reason lately, don't take it personally. :)

Boycey0211 said:
between the borked physics engine and team of drones sitting in spawn for the entire game, tonight has left me feeling like I want to repeatedly smash my face off the keyboard.

Earlier, we could have won but I couldnt get out of spawn cos of friendly tanks blocking the entrance, unbeleivable.
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Arcade mode? It's worse now that you can't even put a high velocity round into their rear :(
 
I dropped arty onto 2 friendlies the other day :o

Given that tanks move faster forwards than backwards, I reasoned it might be a way to persuade them to move closer to the capping point...

Now, if only we could get the 'creeping barrage' function in somehow! :D
 
matt_fsr said:
I dropped arty onto 2 friendlies the other day :o

Given that tanks move faster forwards than backwards, I reasoned it might be a way to persuade them to move closer to the capping point...
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I fear they may not think like that. I had the problem of spawn-sitting-long-shot-tankers yesterday on the Berlin map. As I re-spawned, an enemy bomber dropped their load on the those campers, and instead of moving forward, they tried to reverse. BOOM, even with the delayed fuses, 4 tanks destroyed :rolleyes:.
 
Well, I think I've just found a new favourite tank! :p

Unlocked the APHE shells for the M36 Jackson tank destroyer in the US line.... my god, it's a beast! :eek:

With the first ammo type, I was putting round after round into tanks, and getting little results - mostly assists, and the occasional kill if I could get enough shells into something and hit a properly vital part.

With the HE filled shell.... goodnight! Downed 5 tanks, before missing a snap-shot and being overwhelmed by 3 of their tanks, basically because I was being careless and having too much fun smashing my way through their tanks, 1-hit kills on nearly everything. :D

Gonna have to see how much more devastating it can be if I actually use it properly, or with some fellow OcUKers :)
 
Spangles said:
Half way to the Tiger almost now. Drunkenly buying premium for a month was actually a good idea :)
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good luck with that....

when I'm up against Tiger 1's, they are armoured beasts, nimble with 1 shot capabilities, an absolute monster.....
when I'm playing as Tiger 1's, they are paper thin, slow un-manoeuvrable spud gun firing pieces of plop

played a game early yesterday evening, realistic in my t44 - created absolute havoc in the enemy team. think it was 6- 7 kills......this was followed by gaijins usual stealth rank nerf. next game I jumped into my Tiger 1 and got smashed up by 2 of the lowest tiered American AA trucks. 1 of which took 2 direct broadside hits from the Tiger

but hey gaijin is gonna gaijin
 
Thekwango said:
good luck with that....

when I'm up against Tiger 1's, they are armoured beasts, nimble with 1 shot capabilities, an absolute monster.....
when I'm playing as Tiger 1's, they are paper thin, slow un-manoeuvrable spud gun firing pieces of plop

played a game early yesterday evening, realistic in my t44 - created absolute havoc in the enemy team. think it was 6- 7 kills......this was followed by gaijins usual stealth rank nerf. next game I jumped into my Tiger 1 and got smashed up by 2 of the lowest tiered American AA trucks. 1 of which took 2 direct broadside hits from the Tiger

but hey gaijin is gonna gaijin
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Quoted for truth :(

Sometimes it seems like after a successful tank battle or 2, your "hidden" hit points value decreases to 1, meaning that no matter what you do, any incoming shot just insta-explodes you - whereas the round you fired, into the side of the enemy's turret, right where his ammo is... doesn't kill the tank.

This seems to occur whatever BR rating you play at.

Maybe Gaijin are so completely unable to balance out having good and bad players together in the same battle, that this is how they "work" it?
 
matt_fsr said:
Quoted for truth :(

Sometimes it seems like after a successful tank battle or 2, your "hidden" hit points value decreases to 1, meaning that no matter what you do, any incoming shot just insta-explodes you - whereas the round you fired, into the side of the enemy's turret, right where his ammo is... doesn't kill the tank.

This seems to occur whatever BR rating you play at.

Maybe Gaijin are so completely unable to balance out having good and bad players together in the same battle, that this is how they "work" it?
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I remember being laughed at quite heartily when I first made the statement that there appeared to be 'stealth nerfing' taking place after we had a couple good games, and in fairness originally I was joking.
but as time has went on I've been noting this has been happening with too much regularity for it to be coincidence or a freak occurrence.

sneaky sneaky gaijin.

I had a try at outsmarting it last night. played a couple of games where I just drove straight out of spawn and basically ended up getting 1 shotted.....low and behold next game I join and I can 1 shot tigers from across the map without even having to aim at them!
 
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Dear goodness, how does one destroy an IS3 in a Panther?! Side of turret, front, shot trap under the mantle, nothing worked, everything bounced off. This was at ~ 20m range. It took an M18 to drive round behind him at point blank and take 4-5 shots at him to take him out.
 
FirebarUK said:
Dear goodness, how does one destroy an IS3 in a Panther?! Side of turret, front, shot trap under the mantle, nothing worked, everything bounced off. This was at ~ 20m range. It took an M18 to drive round behind him at point blank and take 4-5 shots at him to take him out.
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Yea, I've been in game with IS-3's and they are deadly. The slope on they're armour means that shots have to be pin point accurate, even then they can still bounce. And if you don't get them within a shot or 2 they will smash you to bits.

Really can't wait to unlock mine!

Edit: that said, mine will probably get one shotted by an AA truck!
 
FirebarUK said:
Dear goodness, how does one destroy an IS3 in a Panther?! Side of turret, front, shot trap under the mantle, nothing worked, everything bounced off. This was at ~ 20m range. It took an M18 to drive round behind him at point blank and take 4-5 shots at him to take him out.
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back of the turret (if you can get there) or low in the side works for me, nothing from a frontal angle penetrates..... but if i'm driving it, it's another story...
 
Currently researching it atm, only a bout another 3 years to go :(

The Russians have a lot of good t5 stuff but the Germans stuff is apparently awful apart from the maus and jagdtiger, somewhere for the research points to go at least.

Wish I could put my research into the planes instead, even if it's at 20% of the value of what it's worth for tanks
 
So... in order to get the IS-3, I need 320,000 research points.

A superb lucky/skillful arcade battle netted me this - 5,500 research points:

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So what I'd need is 58 battles giving that same reward, or the equivalent in a larger number of battles.

58x8 kills = 465 kills in total - without using any boosters, but with a premium account. Just to unlock 1 tank. And Gaijin claim they aren't greedy?? (Hoping that I'd end up saying 'stuff it' and spending Eagles on the tank out of sheer frustration)

The next 2 battles out I got 1 kill each battle, and therefore the total RP was much less than from that first battle. :(

I also don't often want to roll big tanks, because they're slow, unwieldy, take forever to reload, take forever to get upgrades for, and frequently die in a single hit from 1Km+ away, or get bombed because they're too slow to move.

But saying that, every now and again you do get a match where you just IS-2 everything in the face, and all becomes so right! :D
 
Yeah I love this game but sometimes the things that happen and the slow progression always push me away and I end up leaving it for months again.

The 1 hit kills need to go, no matter how skilled you are there should never be a 1 bullet/shell kill in a game that is won and lost on how many spawns you take

Annoying AF.
 
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