the first silver is just to get the crew through the hatch and able to operate the vehicle
like you must do with every new vehicle, maybe this is where your confusion is coming from?
You don't get any bonus.
Yeah I must be confused, because I thought I only had one crew with a level 500+ but I'm in-game right now, can't check. Not to put any blame on Gaijin for me not remembering what the hell slot I'm using, but everything about switching tanks in this game is hella awkward.
the overall UI does make me cry a little I admit
38 ground targets, almost entirely mission objective ones, and we still lose because the rest of my entire team got 3.
gg
[sp]Where the fuck does MM cull these deadweights from?[/sp]
[QUOTE=Doom14;45029667]Whoever thought armored cars and AAA needed the same icon as enemy fighters on the minimap, last patch, needs to be tried for war crimes.[/QUOTE]
Now it's really fucking up my matches..
I wonder what people are thinking when they try to head on the PBJ-J with 12 MGs in the nose.
(oh right, they're not thinking.)
So there was this review a while ago that got me to play Ground Forces, and it was mostly positive, but it talked about how there was a lot of camping and not a whole lot of movement in the more skilled of players. It cited instakills as the reason. Admittedly, I do best when I set myself up with a nice killzone and sit still, but I think I have a better hypothesis.
There wouldn't be as much stationary camping if [B]you didn't spawn within 10 seconds of combat range[/B].
This game is wasting itself hardcore on these "corridor" maps. They are likely spending too much time in-house developing maps, detailing them up similar to how Wargaming does their maps. This would explain why we haven't seen any new maps. In a tank game, you don't need details like that. Not a proper one. Not one where you stay in any given location for a few minutes tops. Not one where players can't complain about a lack of detail when the map is 80kmx80km and the battlefield itself is a 20kmx20km square. Let tanks use mobility, let slow tanks actually be punished from their slowness, give scout tanks that go 10-15kph faster than other tanks a reason to be played, remove corridors allowing for actual flanking and actual natural feeling open world combat, add [I]actual[/I] hills, etc etc etc. It just doesn't make sense. Realistic air battles feel astoundingly like IL-2, but WT:GF just feels like instakill WoT. It's an improvement over WoT, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't add up to the quality and believability that we see in air battles.
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For instance, in a corridor, if your only option is to go forward, and your only option after going forward is to hope to instakill the enemy [I]on a diceroll[/I], you're not really playing, you're just facilitating a diceroll on your own life with the ability to aim. There's no "positioning" element to the game, which I'd say is the other [I]half[/I] of combat in a game like this.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;45031166]~Maps~[/QUOTE]
They're like that right now because most of the maps are both tests (notice how it's small and zero cover, small and cover everywhere, somewhat large and light cover, somewhat large and mixed cover, and huge with no cover) and set up for Arcade (except Kursk.)
Arcade, despite being the most mind-numbingly stupid and simple mode (I enjoy it, honk honk); is their most popular by and far. So these maps are geared towards simple minded, short, fast matches with zero lead-in, thought, or even much of a drive.
These same maps populate RB and SB right now, which is terrible. We'll probably see much better in the future considering there's like what, five maps right now? And four of the five were made for Arcade.
[img]http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/bernstein08/files/2008/12/atremical.jpg[/img]
[B][highlight]THIS IS GOING TO BE ME IF THE GAME PREVENTS ME ONE MORE FUCKING TIME FROM TELLING TEAMMATES MISSION CRITICAL INFORMATION BECAUSE I TYPE WITH MORE THAN 2 FUCKING FINGERS[/highlight][/B]
[QUOTE=Mbbird;45031515][img]http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/bernstein08/files/2008/12/atremical.jpg[/img]
[B][highlight]THIS IS GOING TO BE ME IF THE GAME PREVENTS ME ONE MORE FUCKING TIME FROM TELLING TEAMMATES MISSION CRITICAL INFORMATION BECAUSE I TYPE WITH MORE THAN 2 FUCKING FINGERS[/highlight][/B][/QUOTE]
Their chat spam protection system is the strictest shit.
Why does it think that taking less than 30 minutes to type a sentence is spam?
[t]http://puu.sh/9jUbm.jpg[/t]
50% of tier 2 Japan v. US missions in one picture
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we blew up all their landing ships because he was being a bitch about having to fight and he still won't come down. I'm chasing him now alt tabbed.
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okay it's over
tldr: shooting your 7.62s at someone to make them think you're out of cannon ammo while chasing them is the greatest way to end a chase.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;45031857]we blew up all their landing ships because he was being a bitch about having to fight and he still won't come down. I'm chasing him now alt tabbed.[/QUOTE]
I've lost to [Training Exercise] before because we had a handful of Meteor F3s versus F-86 Sabres. And when we somehow tied it all together and it boiled down to a 2 v 1, the enemy Sabre spent the next 15 minutes climbing in a straight line - and would only come down to dive on us if we went to land.
[sp]We lost because their ground forces magically won despite being almost even at the start, nearly an hour previously.[/sp]
Okay this is REALLY bothering me and I don't know how to google for it:
I have 40-60 FPS. It's solid, it never goes below that, I like it. Correction: it SAYS I have 60 FPS, but it plays like 20 FPS. [B]Why[/B]. My game in the past has always run War Thunder fine, regardless of settings, but now 3 months later I realize this is super annoying.
lower your settings.
[QUOTE=Skwee;45032506]lower your settings.[/QUOTE]
Nah
changed renderer to Dx9 and now it works as it says it is.
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Although I'm also running in normal fullscreen now too so that wasn't a very good experiment. I'll mess around with it later.
Was your Vsync off? Always turn Vsync off.
Vsync is bad. Vsync is death.
unless of course you actually need it
Gotta love getting 6 kills in a furball only to be slammed into by one of your own allies out of nowhere.
[QUOTE=Skwee;45032659]unless of course you actually need it[/QUOTE]
You don't need VSync.
I would rather have my monitor physically rip itself in half than to suffer the input delay of Vsync.
Server is busy my fucking butt. Fuck butt.
It would be my luck that it dies when I'm THREE BATTLES AWAY FROM THIS SHITTY BOSTON I'LL NEVER PLAY.
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Ahahaha HAHAHAHHAHA
IT HAS BEEN DONE.
[img]http://i.cubeupload.com/fS3z3I.jpg[/img]
I am finally back to clapper jets and nothing but.
And sooner or later, they will give it it's proper engine power (and not 50%), a not-shit flight model, and some proper payloads.
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/yXIB93.jpg[/t]
And on that day, I will be ready.
Did they buff the short 75? I was using it last night and I was having no problems penning T-34s with stock ammo.
[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;45035159]Did they buff the short 75? I was using it last night and I was having no problems penning T-34s with stock ammo.[/QUOTE]
what do you mean by stock 75? the one with 103mm pen?
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oh nvm this isn't the WoT thread
the worst part of this little event thing is the requirement of playing 75 matches - i'd already met the kill quota before even getting a third of the way through the games-played quota :I
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24075839/warthunder/images/bostonbomber.JPG[/t]
[QUOTE=PsiSoldier;45035268]the worst part of this little event thing is the requirement of playing 75 matches - i'd already met the kill quota before even getting a third of the way through the games-played quota :I
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24075839/warthunder/images/bostonbomber.JPG[/t][/QUOTE]
70 Tank Kills - 9 Battles
70 Aircraft Kills - 4 Battles
70 Matches - Fucking Kill Me
Couldnt you just enter a match then quit out immediately? or crash your plane etc etc?
[QUOTE=kenji;45035320]Couldnt you just enter a match then quit out immediately? or crash your plane etc etc?[/QUOTE]
They require 50% activity. You have to be there at least half the match.
As I stated previously, even at five minutes a match, it's 6 hours of monotony.
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Anyone wanna tell me where the KV-85/IS-1 magic spot is? Because I keep getting one shotted by tiny shit any time the front of my turret is exposed.
[QUOTE=Doom14;45035283]70 Tank Kills - 9 Battles
70 Aircraft Kills - 4 Battles
70 Matches - Fucking Kill Me[/QUOTE]
It was really that many less battles for the aircraft kills? I got the tank kills in like 1/3 the amount of time as I got the aircraft kills, and I was top of the scoreboard a lot of the time.
I'm STILL getting this goddamn 70 matches requirement anyway.
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[QUOTE=Doom14;45035346]They require 50% activity. You have to be there at least half the match.
As I stated previously, even at five minutes a match, it's 6 hours of monotony.
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Anyone wanna tell me where the KV-85/IS-1 magic spot is? Because I keep getting one shotted by tiny shit any time the front of my turret is exposed.[/QUOTE]
Actually, I don't think it's "be there", I got 53% for a match I fully participated in. I think it has some criteria for what it considers involvement. Sometimes if you have to kill someone who loves the P-51 "extend extend extend dive extend etc", the rating can go dangerously low despite the fact that you're actively "in combat" for the entire thing.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;45035444]Actually, I don't think it's "be there".[/QUOTE]
It's not. I play that way for safety.
It's based on how often you're in "combat" or doing stuff. You can't bind up a macro to fly sorties in straight lines nor can you quit quickly. I've only just fucking hit 65/70
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The jiggle bucket is the only thing keeping me from getting a model of a KV-85 and smashing it with a hammer.
[editline]8th June 2014[/editline]
Game crashes on my 69/70th battle.
Someone kill me.
[QUOTE=Doom14;45035533]... jiggle bucket ... getting a model of a KV-85 and smashing it with a hammer.[/QUOTE]
in my experience the KV-85 is buckets of fun, especially compared to the rest of the heavy line up to that point
[QUOTE=PsiSoldier;45035757]in my experience the KV-85 is buckets of fun, especially compared to the rest of the heavy line up to that point[/QUOTE]
I had a better experience with the KV-1s. They didn't instantly lose their entire crew because a 75 L/43 tickled the front of my turret. Aside from that, their ability to be slow as fuck, the overpuffed Arcade BR, it's not fun. Them being moved down to 4.0 did [b]dick fucking all[/b] to Realistic. I still see Panther/Tiger swarms 100% of my matches.
Also:
[img]http://i.cubeupload.com/xIW92P.jpg[/img]
The fat bitch is mine. Time for a nice, long break.
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