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Wango you need to get back on Insurgancy, theres new maps for the day of infamy mod and apart from a few muppets its not bad.
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What I mean by Russian bias:
This was in a LAGG 3-8 with BR 2.3, with mostly similar and some higher BR opponents.
It is silly that a plane with quite a rubbish turning time can manage this, only because it has a 20mm gun... (not that I minded this game, grin all match long
, managed to win dogfights vs spitfires (silly bugger tried twice, but overshot me both times and got punished immediately after ), though mostly boom&zoom, and scissoring when tailed towards friendlies).
This was in a LAGG 3-8 with BR 2.3, with mostly similar and some higher BR opponents.
It is silly that a plane with quite a rubbish turning time can manage this, only because it has a 20mm gun... (not that I minded this game, grin all match long
, managed to win dogfights vs spitfires (silly bugger tried twice, but overshot me both times and got punished immediately after ), though mostly boom&zoom, and scissoring when tailed towards friendlies).
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Ah, welcome to the official OcUK trolling / seal clubbing zone crew!
Bit late to the party sadly as most of the old guard have stopped playing, but yes, in a low tier match you can sometimes just wreck a huge amount of players who have quite literally no situational awareness whatsoever, and those early 20mm Russian cannons tear through everything.
Just one thing to note based on your earlier post - matchmaking is done off the BR stats, not the tier of the planes, and it averages out over your best 3 planes - so if you have a 2.3, a 2.0 and a 1.7 you'll get an average of 2.0 and may well end up in lots of matches with biplanes in them still.
When you level up a bit, you may find you get dumped into more games with higher tier opponents, and you end up wanting to run a full BR 2.0 or 2.3 lineup.
Brits at 3.7 conquers all though
Even those dirty commies...
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Yep, to be entirely honest, it wasn't that long ago I discovered you can freely look around with C (I tried to get awareness from the map always, and then point my plane to someone to look aroundAh, welcome to the official OcUK trolling / seal clubbing zone crew!
Bit late to the party sadly as most of the old guard have stopped playing, but yes, in a low tier match you can sometimes just wreck a huge amount of players who have quite literally no situational awareness whatsoever, and those early 20mm Russian cannons tear through everything.
, then I felt very dumb when I watched some YT vids and saw people looking around freely), and also only recently discovered combat flaps for trading speed for manoeuvrability.Aye, but I think they changed one thing, your BR is that of your best plane, with US I have 1 plane with 3.3 or 3.7 I believe, rest is still lower, and my BR is 3.3/3.7.
Btw, I have 1 US plane with the 37mm cannon, that is seriously silly at this BR, you get killed before you notice you're even attacked, and a single or 2 hits obliterate even the biggest planes
. Altitute advantage gets far more important the higher BR's you go I feel. Dogfighting is less, erm, safe at this BR.When you level up a bit, you may find you get dumped into more games with higher tier opponents, and you end up wanting to run a full BR 2.0 or 2.3 lineup.
Brits at 3.7 conquers all though
I really want to try the Brits, I like dogfighting more than boom&zoom, thus I'd love the agility. But I'm very impatient and can't stand biplanes atm, takes so long to get to battle (slow *** buggers).
When I get bored of the US and Russia, I'll give UK a go.And yep, full house of BR 2.3 Russian planes, 3x LAGG 3, YAK-1 and some Mig
.I exaggerated my second to last post, but I still have a 2:1 KDR with Russia (and a negative KDR with Japan, though, like I said, back then I was one of them noobs without awareness and didn't know about camera controls or flaps, also I was one of them idiots who chased a target into oblivion even though they outran me).
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Not quite... the MM system is horribly over-complicated, and so if you give too much BR gap between your planes it just takes the BR of your highest, so little point in buying a high tier premium plane early-game.
What you're seeing there with your US is that effect in action, as far as I remember.
For tanks, it just goes off your highest BR tank only.
Btw, I have 1 US plane with the 37mm cannon, that is seriously silly at this BR, you get killed before you notice you're even attacked, and a single or 2 hits obliterate even the biggest planes
Just wait until you unlock the Yak9T and Yak9K.... UFO + massive auto-cannon, with none of the inaccuracy of the USA 37mm!
A man is pleased with his 2:1 KD ratio, as well he should be.
Allow a man to introduce the i301:
I shall allow you to calculate the maths
Anyone got 3K GE they fancy gifting me?
On a serious note, it's a bit of a shame this latest update is a "feed the whales" update, but I guess that's the only demographic who is giving WT any money any more, so they may as well pander to the paying customers rather than the free ones.
On a serious note, it's a bit of a shame this latest update is a "feed the whales" update, but I guess that's the only demographic who is giving WT any money any more, so they may as well pander to the paying customers rather than the free ones.
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I think GB planes are a bit overpowered too, the Hurricane Mk.4 with the 2x40mm cannons, it's BR2.0 but it's silly strong, I prefer it over BR 2.7 planes of the brits (Spitfire mk2 and typhoon).
I mean, aim, get within 0.3km, do a single shot that fires 2 rounds, and u can snipe every target. Bombers single hit kill explosion. How did this free plane stay in BR2.0? It's not very hard to aim either if the enemy is at a ~90 deg angle, it's **** easy to hit them, even from 0.45-0.5 km. Also, most face on encounters, it will easily win, unless you're fighting an experienced pilot that swerves with the pitch, most seem to face you dead on and not move, easy pickings for a 40mm cannon. I seem to see many mk4 pilots behave like idiots, holding the fire button with the target not even near sight and quickly going through their 30 cannon rounds, I treat the plane as a 15x single shot attacker, which works much better. Then when it's reloading I might take some spam shots with the MG, but always use cannon sparingly.
Will need to fix my KDR with japs, but otherwise it's quite positive :
Getting to know most of the planes in the rank 1-2 area now, much better to know which planes are potentially dangerous on opponent side, and which ones can be easily ignored or outclimbed.
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Halfway researching to Beaufighter, curious, I've had mixed success with the Japanese Ki45 heavy fighter, but that was in a time where I barely knew how the game mechanics worked.
I mean, aim, get within 0.3km, do a single shot that fires 2 rounds, and u can snipe every target. Bombers single hit kill explosion. How did this free plane stay in BR2.0? It's not very hard to aim either if the enemy is at a ~90 deg angle, it's **** easy to hit them, even from 0.45-0.5 km. Also, most face on encounters, it will easily win, unless you're fighting an experienced pilot that swerves with the pitch, most seem to face you dead on and not move, easy pickings for a 40mm cannon
. I seem to see many mk4 pilots behave like idiots, holding the fire button with the target not even near sight and quickly going through their 30 cannon rounds, I treat the plane as a 15x single shot attacker, which works much better. Then when it's reloading I might take some spam shots with the MG, but always use cannon sparingly.Will need to fix my KDR with japs, but otherwise it's quite positive
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Getting to know most of the planes in the rank 1-2 area now, much better to know which planes are potentially dangerous on opponent side, and which ones can be easily ignored or outclimbed
.Jesus, I just checked the specs for that plane, silly high armament for br2.3. I don't spend money on the game though, only occasionally get free eagles from doing stuff on my phone like install apps or watch some ad vids. Cba with all the premium/gold eagles vehicles
.Halfway researching to Beaufighter, curious, I've had mixed success with the Japanese Ki45 heavy fighter, but that was in a time where I barely knew how the game mechanics worked.
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Guilty. I bought the Wyvern and T29.
The Wyvern is awesome as a ground pound for Air RB. Does well in Air AB too if you climb with it and ditch the bombs/rockets for increased mobility. Its acceleration around ground level is scary good.
The T29 is by far the BEST US tank I have had the pleasure of using. When it appeared on the dev server it only had a solid shot, and HE round but when implemented in 1.59 to the Live they gave it a APHE round which is amazing and makes the tank. I finally have a 6.7 lineup I enjoy other than the Tiger2s from Germany which I was forced to play rather than wanting to play.
I think GB planes are a bit overpowered too, the Hurricane Mk.4 with the 2x40mm cannons, it's BR2.0 but it's silly strong, I prefer it over BR 2.7 planes of the brits (Spitfire mk2 and typhoon).
I mean, aim, get within 0.3km, do a single shot that fires 2 rounds, and u can snipe every target. Bombers single hit kill explosion. How did this free plane stay in BR2.0? It's not very hard to aim either if the enemy is at a ~90 deg angle, it's **** easy to hit them, even from 0.45-0.5 km. Also, most face on encounters, it will easily win, unless you're fighting an experienced pilot that swerves with the pitch, most seem to face you dead on and not move, easy pickings for a 40mm cannon
Will need to fix my KDR with japs, but otherwise it's quite positive
Getting to know most of the planes in the rank 1-2 area now, much better to know which planes are potentially dangerous on opponent side, and which ones can be easily ignored or outclimbed
Jesus, I just checked the specs for that plane, silly high armament for br2.3. I don't spend money on the game though, only occasionally get free eagles from doing stuff on my phone like install apps or watch some ad vids. Cba with all the premium/gold eagles vehicles
Halfway researching to Beaufighter, curious, I've had mixed success with the Japanese Ki45 heavy fighter, but that was in a time where I barely knew how the game mechanics worked.
Beaufighter works well if you have good cover and support, since it's firepower is pretty substantial
If you enjoy playing them, then fine - It's just a shame the game seems to be heading towards a huge amount of premium content per patch, and naff all free. Granted, there is already a lot of 'free' content in so far, but the game needs free players as well as premium players.
Beaufighter works well if you have good cover and support, since it's firepower is pretty substantial
No **** sherlock!
You'll enjoy the Beaufighter VLC, it's the best of them and it has the lowest BR to boot. Be aware that cannon shells travel quite far, and people with wing guns often think it's a good idea to go head to head with you when you're in a Beaufighter. 4x 20mm down the noseline generally doesn't end well for them... when you open up at ~1.5KM out they're taking hits and sometimes explode well before their gun convergence can land anything more than a couple of bullets on you... rinse, repeat, next!
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Still more free stuff being added than premium. Have a look in the patch notes
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and that is what gaijin seem to have forgotten
Sad really, could have been such a good game and I'd have kept on spending money on it.
Still more free stuff being added than premium. Have a look in the patch notes
Perhaps, I didn't count exactly but:
- Reserve German Panzer III with even more paper armour than a PzIIC? Nope
- High level soviet bomber which takes massive grind to get? Nope
- Mid-level British bomber? Nope, still not a spacebar warrior.
- Sheridan which will take forever to grind, and die to any hit from a Russian shell? Nope.
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Same, it just got too expensive for the premium content and there was no money going back into fixing the massive bugs.
I was quite happy to pay 5-10 quid on a prem tank or plane, 30 or 40 was just too much.
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What miffed me as much as anything towards the end was even paying for a premium account the grind was just mental. I mean I played virtually every night for about 2 months and still was only 3/4's the way towards the IS-3. That was when I decided it wasn't worth the effort anymore.
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Aha see thats where the daily x2 rewards came in handy.... oh wait nope they got rid of those
I would still be playing but the MM changes that meant I couldn't use any of my t5 tanks without getting roflstomped by stuff 2.0 BR's higher than me made everything I had worked towards pointless. I had the stock IS-3 but its useless anyway as it has the same gun as the IS-2 with stock ammo so can't pen anything at its tier. Gave up and uninstalled after 5-6 matches of bouncing shots then getting one shotted. I spent months grinding it out and can't even play with it unless i spend cash to get the mega ammo
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Meh, BR system, since I got the Beaufighter, I'm being ranked 3.0, and fighting against 4.0, while most of my planes are br 2.3 or 2.0. Still manage to get 2 kills per death usually, but still, gone are the tiems where I do a whole match with a single plane.
Btw, is there a way to filter battles, I want more frontline, domination, and air domination matches, and less ground strike.
Also tried some RB, I quite like it, somehow I have far less trouble in it simply because of less players per map, no more surprises ''where the hell did that **** come from'' and suddenly finding yourself 6vs1, but it's so unforgiving if you make a mistake, forgot gear once>bye bye wheels, accidentally did landing flaps while at high speed> And they're gone. And was at full speed for to long, and boom, water leak, slow and helpless death after 3 or 4 mins with no enemies in sight. And it was a map without an airfield for repairs.
Btw how do I make the plane ignore the targeting camera in free look mode (c)? I know I can ''clear'' the direction when I look from the front of the plane or something, but basically, I want to freely control the plane at (at least rudder and pitch) all times with in free look (c) mode, and only want it to go to the pointer in mouse aim mode. I don't want it to go where my mouse pointer was last time I pointed it when I'm pressing C.
Btw, is there a way to filter battles, I want more frontline, domination, and air domination matches, and less ground strike.
Also tried some RB, I quite like it, somehow I have far less trouble in it simply because of less players per map, no more surprises ''where the hell did that **** come from'' and suddenly finding yourself 6vs1, but it's so unforgiving if you make a mistake, forgot gear once>bye bye wheels, accidentally did landing flaps while at high speed> And they're gone. And was at full speed for to long, and boom, water leak, slow and helpless death after 3 or 4 mins with no enemies in sight. And it was a map without an airfield for repairs
.Btw how do I make the plane ignore the targeting camera in free look mode (c)? I know I can ''clear'' the direction when I look from the front of the plane or something, but basically, I want to freely control the plane at (at least rudder and pitch) all times with in free look (c) mode, and only want it to go to the pointer in mouse aim mode. I don't want it to go where my mouse pointer was last time I pointed it when I'm pressing C.
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Meh, BR system, since I got the Beaufighter, I'm being ranked 3.0, and fighting against 4.0, while most of my planes are br 2.3 or 2.0. Still manage to get 2 kills per death usually, but still, gone are the tiems where I do a whole match with a single plane.
Btw, is there a way to filter battles, I want more frontline, domination, and air domination matches, and less ground strike.
Also tried some RB, I quite like it, somehow I have far less trouble in it simply because of less players per map, no more surprises ''where the hell did that **** come from'' and suddenly finding yourself 6vs1, but it's so unforgiving if you make a mistake, forgot gear once>bye bye wheels, accidentally did landing flaps while at high speed> And they're gone. And was at full speed for to long, and boom, water leak, slow and helpless death after 3 or 4 mins with no enemies in sight. And it was a map without an airfield for repairs
Btw how do I make the plane ignore the targeting camera in free look mode (c)? I know I can ''clear'' the direction when I look from the front of the plane or something, but basically, I want to freely control the plane at (at least rudder and pitch) all times with in free look (c) mode, and only want it to go to the pointer in mouse aim mode. I don't want it to go where my mouse pointer was last time I pointed it when I'm pressing C.
Sorry can't help with the view question as I'm using joystick+POV hat.
Glad you are trying more RB though. It's the only way to fly and tank
