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After having my 5.3 matches uptiered to 7.7 the other day, the MM is clearly just broken.

I also though 'meh, why not' and took my 7.7's out for a spin and got dumped into a 6.7 battle, with only me and a couple of others on my team having 7.7's T54's and IS3 roflstomping commenced.

It felt wrong, but its not my fault, the game should have put me vs people of my tier. 6.7 tanks are unplayable now.
 
Yeah I took it for a spin last night, with my other Tiger, and Panther D.

Seemed OK, the 88mm seems to be about as gimped as all the other 88's in the game... couldn't have them knocking out glorious Stalin-tanks now could we? ;)

It took a few rounds, got damaged, repaired, and then ended up getting bombed - quelle surprise! Seems quite similar in performance to the standard Tiger, possibly a little slower, and has less rear turret armour, but if you're getting hit in the back of the turret it doesn't really matter by that point!

Thanks to a useless team we ended up largely pinned in spawn, but my trusty 'D' got out on a flank run, popped a T-44, (yup, 6.7 battle... yay for MM) and then got behind those tanks who were pinning up in spawn, and proceeded to smash another 3 before getting overwhelmed. Fun ending to the battle :)
 
matt_fsr said:
1. Make great game
2. Get lots of players in
3. Ruin game???
4. Profit

That's how capitalism in Russia works, right?
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seems to be, I've only popped on maybe 2, 3 times in the past couple of months. but it just now feels like a cluster **** of a game.

even tried a game of 3.7 brit planes the other night - that's always been my goto when I'm not feeling the love and everything just felt 'wrong' - if you know what I mean. the premium typhoon was handling a **** in soup, even my beautiful spit IIB felt like they had done something nasty to it.

as for the handling on tanks - some of them now handle like a one legged fat kid on ice. not good, not good at all.

now all of that might just be because I haven't played in a while - I couldn't remember half my controls to begin with! :p
 
I got the VK 4501 P free xmas tank last night too :D

I had completely dismissed the tasks/challenges as I didn't want the game to force me to play in a certain manner to accomplish goals..... until I checked the achievements last night and realised I'd unwittingly already completed 5 out of 6 of them just through playing more than normal over Christmas!

Had a mad rush to shoot down 60 planes with SPAA's last night before they expired this morning and managed to get it done, just :)
 
Thats it, I've taken the plunge, WT has been uninstalled.

They have ****ing ruined this game on all levels, it just isnt fun to play anymore.

Cheers guys, was an epic run.
 
Flew out my trusty British 3.7's last night, I think one of the recent patches must have put things back to what they used to be, the cannons actually seemed to work again! :eek:

Went 7-1 without really putting much effort into it, may have to try a bit more next time :p

For anyone who's interested, British Churchill and 3in gun carrier have been released to research. The gun carrier is in my experience, worthless, but the Churchill can do good defensive work if used properly.
 
matt_fsr said:
Flew out my trusty British 3.7's last night, I think one of the recent patches must have put things back to what they used to be, the cannons actually seemed to work again! :eek:

Went 7-1 without really putting much effort into it, may have to try a bit more next time :p
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flew mine about 2-3 nights ago - was so bad I uninstalled! I always said I could cope with them breaking anything but if they broke my 3.7 brit planes that was it! might.....just might reinstall and see if they've fixed them again. if not I will uninstall again and curse the name of gaijin till the end of days!
 
Thekwango said:
flew mine about 2-3 nights ago - was so bad I uninstalled! I always said I could cope with them breaking anything but if they broke my 3.7 brit planes that was it! might.....just might reinstall and see if they've fixed them again. if not I will uninstall again and curse the name of gaijin till the end of days!
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You love to curse teh Gaijin! :D

Also, I had a quick test-drive out in the Donqueror. Sadly, Gaijin has no idea how to implement a HESH round. It's a 15KG, 120mm shell, which hits it's target, squashes (that's what the 'S' means) and blasts a shockwave of metal armour spalls around inside the tank, murdering everything within.

From firing a few rounds off, it will hit but not kill a Panther, hit but not kill a Tiger 2 in the turret, and I had rounds bounce off the Maus. (eh?)

Supposedly the shell has an equivalent TNT filling of 2.97KG of explosives. A quick look at the derp-cannon of the IS-2 and IS-3 reveals the best Russian shell has a meagre 272G of explosives, or less than 1/10th that of the Conqueror's HESH round, yet I don't see many Panthers surviving a hit from an IS-2 side-on!

So if you were fancying grinding towards Tier 5 Brit tanks, don't bother :)

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Oh hai!
 
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Finally!!!

https://forum.warthunder.com/index....-economy-changes-for-ground-and-air-vehicles/

Gaijin are bringing back the 8.0 BR rating for top-tier tanks, which will get them out of 6.7 BR matches!

There's also a few nice changes in BR for tanks which are struggling right now, although the IS-3 dropping to 7.3 means I might actually drive it out now.

Sadly, the Centurion and Caernarvon are being bumped up to 6.7, which is no surprise given the moaning on the forums I've seen about them and the APDS ammo, but no-one seems to moan about the IS-2 ammo at 6.0?

If it gets a better average type of tank battle for the 6.0+ BR spread though, it will be an improvement.
 
Well its been 2/3 weeks uninstalled and tbh I don't really miss it, aside from being game to pop on and die in 5 mins it seems its got little to give.

Good to see they've buffed and dropped a few things though, although this final comment made by the devs before they locked the official update thread made me laugh:

Heres the deal - Try conventional tank warfare, stop relying on frontal penetration and snipe shots, stop looking at your killcam in reality, tanks wouldnt have alovely colour xray telling you where your shot went, try flanking, working together .

This topic is closed for now, we don't need any more feedback on it thank you, we have enough and its been passed.

You know of all the concerns some of you have raised, we didn't anticipate that this would be seen as a t34 buff, just goes to show you how you can continue to be surprised by a community. o7
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'We dont need feedback' Should be gaijins catchphrase.
 
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