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Am I the only one who can't work out what so called improvement they've made to the MM in this patch?

On a positive I unlocked and purchased the Emil I yesterday, still stock, but I think it's a tank I'm going to enjoy, it suits my play style if I hang back and keep the hull hidden. Similar to the American hull down tanks just with the added advantage of the increased gun-depression.
 
That was just lip service in the patch notes.

Few hours of premium left so I'm just going to be playing the bare minimum for Valentine's mini marathon with Chinese lights to get that other mission done.
 
izzop said:
Am I the only one who can't work out what so called improvement they've made to the MM in this patch?

On a positive I unlocked and purchased the Emil I yesterday, still stock, but I think it's a tank I'm going to enjoy, it suits my play style if I hang back and keep the hull hidden. Similar to the American hull down tanks just with the added advantage of the increased gun-depression.
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I ground the Emil to the Emil 2, ultimately I gave up on the Emil 2 even when fully researched it was super painful to play.
Yes hull down ( an increasingly rare opportunity these maps) it can be a force to reckon with however the gun even the top one is terrible, poor accuracy and an eternity between each shot in the drum make it unusable . I sold it before I even unlocked the tier 10 Krvangsldangdog thingy ...
If you want a multi loading heavy look no further than the US T57
 
ademcg said:
new patch same old same old...won 1 from 7 so far...perhaps uninstall time and take a loooooong break from this $***!

Edit, so I kept playing until I broke back to 50% (18 games in total)
Oh my.. it is painful tonight.
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As someone said, with the current MM if you lose a couple of top tier team mates as they are AFK (or stupid) it becomes a rout very quickly.
 
OspreyO said:
As someone said, with the current MM if you lose a couple of top tier team mates as they are AFK (or stupid) it becomes a rout very quickly.
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Yes a quick count of matches that are either lost or won 15/ 4 makes the failings of the mm template rather obvious and the frustration of the entire community is being either underestimated or worse still, ignored.
 
In the current MM/Meta I find my situational vehicles do very badly overall. My more balanced tanks do much better. Or a tank with no real weakness and perhaps one strong attribute.
I also think that tanks with decent pen at distance, seem to do better.
IMO armour is less useful unless its useful against gold ammo. Because its spammed so much, and most often by top tier tanks.
 
I try to not fire gold ammo even when it's being flung at me from loads of enemy players but I will hit the 2 or 3 key if I need to stop a higher tier tank from capping or to finish them off.

The worst offenders are stat whores who, regardless of the tank they are in, only want to improve their wn8 by guaranteeing they will do damage even if your in something that has paper armour.

It's not going to change and I have to accept that but it's more fun killing a gold spammer with normal rounds, just feels more satisfying !!
 
Downloading/installing the new patch at the moment. Obj. 257 looks like its being played a lot at the moment which is nothing unusual, will be interesting to try the 257 and IS-M. Also looking forward to the T-44 as well because I've been having a decent time in that tank even before it's additional buffs this patch. Fairly mobile, armour seems to work quite well and the gun handling has been quite good for me as well so with the decreased dispersion this patch I should be enjoying it even more.

Just means I have to start playing the T-10 again now in preparation for the new Tier X on that branch and that thing was nothing but paper armour for me when I was grinding to the IS-7.

Other than that it'll be business as usual and I'll probably rage quit after a few battles this evening.
 
T-44 with its new engine upgrade and terrain resistances is now a more mobile machine than AMX CDC, go figure who works for their balancing department.
 
HD maps up on test server...battles are ace..maps are often unrecognizable....just played Erlenburg....noice.!!..Westfield is awesome too OMG...but within the hour it wears off and you are left with the same mechanics. But a pleasing upgrade for sure.
 
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I'm sure new people who will be attracted by the updates graphics will enjoy getting killed in seconds by Pz. 1C and other autoloaders, ganked by seal clubbers, getting steam rolled by certain OP T4 tanks and then having to contest a sea of meta and premium vehicles if they stick around to make it to tier 5 and above.
 
I'm sure new people who will be attracted by the updates graphics will enjoy getting killed in seconds by Pz. 1C and other autoloaders, ganked by seal clubbers, getting steam rolled by certain OP T4 tanks and then having to contest a sea of meta and premium vehicles if they stick around to make it to tier 5 and above.
 
Took the Super Conqueror out for a spin yesterday evening and had a 6,000 damage + 1,000 assisting damage game on Winter Ruinberg. As always, that wasn't enough. Next best damage dealer was a T110E4 on a shade over 2,000 damage, the rest of the higher tier tanks struggled to do 1,000 damage. World of Tanks infuriates me with games like this because you do really well and still end up losing a game, then the next game you barely do any damage and the team steam rolls the enemy - it happens to me every single time. Wasn't a single thing I could do towards the end of the Super Conqueror game because I sat in the cap while the E4 decided to sit out in the open and get farmed by an invisible Strv. 103b and Grille 15 instead of just capping. He died and then the Grille 15 came after me in the cap and only had to look at me to kill me as I was on under 100HP.

IS-M makes a nice side scraper, but every time I play it I get a wide open map (no surprises there). Obj. 257 seems pretty good, managed to fend off a Tortoise and IS-7 yesterday at the same time yesterday, but to be fair to the Tortoise he was trying to peak me around a corner that exposed his cupola every time so it was easy farm.
 
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Win ratios of all the tanks I have started in the last few months have been atrocious, generally between 25 and 40%. Ir doesn't matter how well or how badly I do in them either it just keeps happening.
 
Must not be playing with premium ammo, consumables or investing gold into free XP to get the latest meta tanks. You're playing it all wrong ;)
 
Haven't had too bad a time on this today (had a decent top tier game in the Obj. 257 where I took zero damage because Russia), but I've only played a couple of hours compared to the normal entire afternoon and evening to get my weeks worth in one day. I think I'll try giving this game a break for a while because my current premium time runs out in a few days, I started playing the storyline on The Long Dark yesterday and Kingdom Come Deliverance is out in the week. However, I imagine I'll be back complaining again next weekend because I'll need a tank fix at some point...
 
neoboy said:
So just me or there have been crazy latency spikes on servers all day?
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It was not affecting me, but other clan members were complaining of it on TS last night. Doubt WG will do anything though and it may be ISP issues anyway (so not much that they can do).

****TankFest****

So, in other news, who is going to tank fest this year on the 30th June? I'm going down to Weymouth on Friday and staying until Sunday morning, doing Tankfest on Saturday.
 
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