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Boycey0211 said:
On the other hand I get really annoyed with the LT's that scoot over the hill for 0.03 of a second and spot everyone on your team, but clever enough to only expose themselves enough to get the spot.

I know its good gameplay tactics but its a massive case of 'REALLY' just before 3 artys focus you non stop for the next 10 mins.

Spotting was far too easy before, just dl'ing the new patch now so will find out!
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Proper good LT drivers are rare, yes a few will get that initial spot and cause a bit of chaos, fewer still last long enough to deal as much damage as they spot and genuinely aid the victory.
 
Telecaster said:
I don't like this patch at all, I'm not really fussed about the visual changes as WOT to me has never been about eye candy.

I may only be imagining it but things seem to be firing from stealth completely unspotted for much much longer, I see many more big heavies parked in bushes now playing as TDs and just not getting spotted even with some high tier lights doing some fairly risky spotting runs. In fact I saw a pair of batchats get absolutely wrecked by a Black Prince both shooting from stealth and spotting them for his team, it was ridiculous.

I'm a very very handy LT player and I noticed an instant reduction in spotting ability and spotting fewer tanks doing the same sort of things as pre patch, they've definitely messed with something on this side of things, either directly or indirectly with the map changes.
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For me its just too much for my machine. Everything is just laggy now.

I'm also having lots of spotting issue in this patch heavies just appear in front of me from now where in the middle of the open.

I've uninstalled it again.
 
I managed todo the impossible - get Update 1.0 working on the Mac wrapper without installing :D

Here's my voodoo-chilli laid out for anyone that has problems:

Open Terminal on the mac, then copy each line in:

cd "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/World of Tanks/Bottles/worldoftanks/drive_c"

ln -s "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/World of Tanks/Bottles/worldoftanks/drive_c" "c:"

cd /tmp



As I don’t have wget installed on the mac, the following line will not work:

wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks"

Instead go to the https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks in safari, then copy and paste into a new text file called wine tricks.sh

I used vi in terminal todo this but textedit should work if saved as txt then renamed.

chmod +x wintricks.sh

export PATH=$PATH:"/Applications/World of Tanks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/worldoftanks/bin"

env WINEPREFIX="/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/World of Tanks/Bottles/worldoftanks/drive_c" ./winetricks.sh -q vcrun2015


Download vc2015 from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145 to /tmp then run this in wine by doing:

"/Applications/World of Tanks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/worldoftanks/bin/wine" cmd

Then at the DOS prompt simply type:

./vc_redist.x86.exe

Then use repair and click ok. It will exit back to the prompt after installing the libraries



Add the following to winecfg/libraries by typing:

"/Applications/World of Tanks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/worldoftanks/bin/wine" winecfg



Then go to the libraries tab and add these two libraries as native, builtin

msvcp140

api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll

ucrtbase.dll


To run the game just run:

"/Applications/World of Tanks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/worldoftanks/bin/wine" cmd

Then at the DOS prompt:

c:

cd Games

cd World_of_Tanks

WorldOfTanks.exe


If you see anything like this in the window when running the game (example with ucrtbase.dll not being found):

wine: Call from 0x7b42c099 to unimplemented function ucrtbase.dll._except1, aborting

Simply add the dll name to the library tab in winecfg as you did above.
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Update 1.0 without any change or reinstall ... sound works, game graphics in SD work on my 2011 mac :D
 
So the new 'Italian free tank' event is really easy to complete !.. sure you need to put in about 70 hours a day earn millions of XP but why bother when you can pay £50 and bypass all that fun !!

Haven't played the game in a few weeks and not ashamed to say having fun playing it again. I might finish stage III and consider the package with 30% dizzy as it does contain all the extra goodies from each stage if you were to complete them. The new auto-loader hybrid thingy looks good.

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After stage III it ramps up to 30k base xp which I'm close to finishing but I'm thinking £30+ for all those goodies and new tank is fine I'll just do two hours overtime in work Mon to finance it :D
 
Someone did the maths, came out at 312k base exp for all 10 stages. Which is insane. That's like 450 battles if you always get into top 10 and manage to cash in 700-800 base exp each single battle. I already did Stage 3 yesterday in 6-7 hours,, I really doubt I will do more than Stage 5, even maybe Stage 4, I just can't be bothered to fight and rage through all that gold spam at Tier 10. I'm average player at best, smth like 1.3k wn8 for those using xvm. I managed 9.5k base exp counted for Stage 4 and I started with 1.5k left for Stage 3. That's 11k base exp today. In 31 battles. Stage 4-5 sounds about right for 2 weeks if I have some sanity left after all that :D
 
WG have surpassed themselves here. £50 for a group of pixels - the price of a AAA game for ONE TANK.

Their plan is clear, get loads of players up to stage 3 or 4 and they won't want to 'throw away' all the effort and will buy it anyway.

Don't fall for it !

Even though there is a top 10 requirement, I'm betting there will be a mountain of bots just playing 24/7.

Until they deal with bots, toxic community and gold spam, they are not having a single penny from me ever again.
 
I understand that Hodders and taking that stance is a personal thing, nothing wrong with it.

Spending £20-50 on some 'pixels' is all relative in the grand scheme of things, everyone wastes money on stuff they don't need be that games or beer or films etc.
 
I don't even expect to get to stage four, so a decent discount is out of the question for me. I'm on stage 2 and apart from doing a little bit on the game today after not making it to work due to the car breaking on the way there I won't be touching the game until after the 24th. Not convinced I'll like the glass-cannon style that the tank has really, but I would've liked to try the new loading system. I'll just have to try and grind an Italian line when the tanks are released.
 
Finally unlocked the Leopard I - played about 8 random battles lost 8 :p

My only victory was in a grand battle doing about 5k+ damage a load of kills and getting a Mastery award, shame they don't carry stats over though.
 
So first foray into the new Frontline mode ... very nice!!

Tip 1 - Use Premium tanks

Tip 2 - Make sure the vehicles you want to play are fully set-up in the garage with crew and goodies

I used a 50% credit token and XP and the battle wasn't very long but the cash reward is sweet.

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Yeah, Frontline is nice. Aside from the credits, I've been using it for free XP to help with future research. Plus I like the fact that if I do something stupid during the battle (which I still do from time to time even after 10K battles because I get impatient sometimes) I don't ruin it for the entire team. Haven't tried it with any boosters yet because I found the income to be decent anyway, but 360K in one battle would be very nice.

Been trying to grind the Italian tanks as well, but so far they seem average at best in my opinion, currently up to the P43 bis. Tier 8 onwards looks like a nice series of tanks, but I think it'll be a slow and sometimes torturous grind just like the Churchill 1 to Caernarvon was.
 
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