I have never both loved & hated a game as much as this one before. Every day I play a few matches and it always pretty much always ends with me ragequitting and ranting to myself[B] "Just fucking quit, uninstall and play something else, it's not worth the stress everyday"[/B]
And yet no other game can satisfy me the same way this game does...when it does.
Is this what an abusive relationship feels like?
[QUOTE=Jake Nukem;52872995]Why are .50 cals OP?[/QUOTE]
They are pretty much the "do-all" weapon system.
Excellent ballistics, vast ammo reserves, very effective mix of incendiary/armor penetration qualities, and a huge variety of stuff that you can damage or destroy.
.50 BMG doesn't have the raw stopping power of a 20mm shell, or the sheer spamming quantity of .303 British, but it does the best of both and has the largest engagement profile.
Still don't understand how a P-47's engine eats 20mm HE and AP-I shells for breakfast, yet their 50 cals can tear off the wing of an all-metal armoured bomber without much effort at all (my experience in the G8N1 so far)
Also got this monstrosity
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[QUOTE=slabby;52873310]Still don't understand how a P-47's engine eats 20mm HE and AP-I shells for breakfast, yet their 50 cals can tear off the wing of an all-metal armoured bomber without much effort at all (my experience in the G8N1 so far)
Also got this monstrosity
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Highly experienced friend of mine told me that American .50 M2 Brownings go through a cycle of insane performance followed by mediocrity around major releases. Would be a better idea to average the performance between the peaks and troughs to call it a day.
Friendship ended with Wetmore. Bostwick is now my new best friend.
Congratulations on nabbing the Kikka. I practically never see Japanese hardware in Era 5 and beyond, which is a shame since some of their machines are quite good.
[QUOTE=Lyonidis;52873986]Highly experienced friend of mine told me that American .50 M2 Brownings go through a cycle of insane performance followed by mediocrity around major releases. Would be a better idea to average the performance between the peaks and troughs to call it a day.
Friendship ended with Wetmore. Bostwick is now my new best friend.
Congratulations on nabbing the Kikka. I practically never see Japanese hardware in Era 5 and beyond, which is a shame since some of their machines are quite good.[/QUOTE]
I'm having a hard time seeing the appeal in higher tier Japanese stuff, nothing seems that exciting or interesting tbh
Did they buff the british tanks or something? I've been trying out some of the lower teir ones after getting into the game again and they're quite fun, and I managed to bag a few people in the A13, too.
Perhaps it's just because I'm better in general now but I'm really enjoying them.
[QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;52874124]Did they buff the british tanks or something? I've been trying out some of the lower teir ones after getting into the game again and they're quite fun, and I managed to bag a few people in the A13, too.
Perhaps it's just because I'm better in general now but I'm really enjoying them.[/QUOTE]
The A13 is stupid good for it's tier, in my experience: midtier vehicles like the Cromwell and Archer most tested my patience, solid shots just don't work anymore.
[editline]9th November 2017[/editline]
but you eventually can delete balans)))) with APFSDS
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that was from a different game
[QUOTE=GhostShoes;52873201]I have never both loved & hated a game as much as this one before. Every day I play a few matches and it always pretty much always ends with me ragequitting and ranting to myself[B] "Just fucking quit, uninstall and play something else, it's not worth the stress everyday"[/B]
And yet no other game can satisfy me the same way this game does...when it does.
Is this what an abusive relationship feels like?[/QUOTE]
imo this game is considerably better than WoT or WoWS ever was for rage
in this, I genuinely feel like I have an impact on the game - there's some matches where we've won because individuals have made some very smart plays, or played patiently and lured the enemy into bad fights
a much different experience to the WoT "oh welp looks like my team flew down an awful flank and got nuked, so this game is unsalvagable"
as long as i feel I can have some sort of impact on the game, I don't tend to rage
The kind of crap that makes me rage is when I shoot a shell directly through the entire middle of a tank, turn the whole crew yellow, and have him turn and immediately one shot me.
[QUOTE=sgman91;52874571]The kind of crap that makes me rage is when I shoot a shell directly through the entire middle of a tank, turn the whole crew yellow, and have him turn and immediately one shot me.[/QUOTE]
also this sometimes
i stopped playing the british tree purely because this was a regular occurrence
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;52874576]also this sometimes
i stopped playing the british tree purely because this was a regular occurrence[/QUOTE]
british tree is a toss-up in my experience, either you fail to do fuck-all or you find a great spot to hull down and slaughter anyone who comes before you
[QUOTE=paindoc;52874594]british tree is a toss-up in my experience, either you fail to do fuck-all or you find a great spot to hull down and slaughter anyone who comes before you[/QUOTE]
i think the british tanks are absolutely deadly in the hands of skilled players with good positioning and good aiming
it's just, if I want to turn my brain off and mindlessly play some tanks, I'll hop in my panzer IV H or G, and murderize everyone in a single shot*
*unless it's a russian tank or a sherman jumbo in which case it's a 50/50 bounce and die horribly or pen and kill instantly
I hate myself so I just play japanese tanks and jets.
I've got a talisman for the Ta-Se and that thing absolutely wrecks at its tier while being one of the fastest tanks for point capturing at the start, then I spawn in my Ki-43-II and dominate the skies for my team.
Japanese tanks have incredible ammunition, they're not bad at all.
Except for the I-GO-KO.
[I]Fuck the I-GO-KO[/I]
there's some pretty neat sights getting put up
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[QUOTE=PsiSoldier;52874770]there's some pretty neat sights getting put up
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BVV_d is one of the developers, so its good to see they're adding more functionality to making custom optics, aka how the TZF 9b works on the Tiger. Thats pretty rad.
Is the stock IS-1 supposed to have a much better reverse speed? I've been using it by driving ass-first into combat, like that weird british spg (Except with a 360-degree turret)
Started today with 73% WR in the P-47M.
[i]Nine lost games later...[/i] :suicide:
[QUOTE=Lyonidis;52873225]They are pretty much the "do-all" weapon system.
Excellent ballistics, vast ammo reserves, very effective mix of incendiary/armor penetration qualities, and a huge variety of stuff that you can damage or destroy.
.50 BMG doesn't have the raw stopping power of a 20mm shell, or the sheer spamming quantity of .303 British, but it does the best of both and has the largest engagement profile.[/QUOTE]
I mean they're OP in that they tear wings off. They're more reliable for me than 20mm's or sometimes even 30mm's. It's come to a point where I'd happily trade 2 20mm's for 2 50 cals.
They weren't exactly used by the Americans because they were particularly good, just reliable and they had them in numbers. I see 37mm's completely implode planes, but the 30mm's don't?
[QUOTE=PsiSoldier;52874770]there's some pretty neat sights getting put up
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I am hoping for more zeiss optics for the German tanks, as I don't play the tiger that much :(
[QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;52874124]Did they buff the british tanks or something? I've been trying out some of the lower teir ones after getting into the game again and they're quite fun, and I managed to bag a few people in the A13, too.
Perhaps it's just because I'm better in general now but I'm really enjoying them.[/QUOTE]
Once you get the Comet with the APDS, it has zero trouble punching through anything it fights (OP at 5.3). It is easily one of my favourite British tanks.
The 17pdr on the Achillies, Archer and the Firefly are pretty good as well if you place your shots right.
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[sp]Arcade because special tasks[/sp]
[QUOTE=paindoc;52874172]midtier vehicles like the Cromwell and Archer most tested my patience[/QUOTE]
Odd, those are the two mid-tier British I'd say are probably the best. I mean, Archer is retarded and literally backwards, but it's also a 17pdr gun at 3.3, which is just outright hilarious. Pretty much the British Flakbus. The Cromwell is just a speedy-ass Sherman, and while it's boxy armour is a big weakspot, it's flanking-speed and decent gun at 3.3 is well worth it.
[QUOTE=Jake Nukem;52872995]Why are .50 cals OP?[/QUOTE]
Incindiary rounds on the late belts are treated as ridiculous high explosive rounds in game for some baffling reason
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;52874562]imo this game is considerably better than WoT or WoWS ever was for rage
in this, I genuinely feel like I have an impact on the game - there's some matches where we've won because individuals have made some very smart plays, or played patiently and lured the enemy into bad fights
a much different experience to the WoT "oh welp looks like my team flew down an awful flank and got nuked, so this game is unsalvagable"
as long as i feel I can have some sort of impact on the game, I don't tend to rage[/QUOTE]
There are also more game-modes to fall back on when one isn't working for you. Also planes are really easy to carry in. A couple of early kills from playing aggressively and your team just outnumbers the enemy, or with the right plane you can pull off 1v5s with clever play
[QUOTE=Shendow;52876860]Started playing this game again, how do you deal with groups of 5+ enemy planes in Arcade planes? It always seems like I can't engage anyone because I know I'll get swarmed by the rest of the team. I don't know if there's manoeuvrers or other stuff you can pull to gain the upper hand so I just fly close to the ground but usually this doesn't work.
Just noticed they added French planes as well but I can't play them currently, so I'm probably going to stick with the US planes.[/QUOTE]
Positioning and speed works for me
ie: don't dive straight into the enemy swarm or towards their spawn, pick off dudes wandering away from the collective ball of fighters, boom and zoom to discourage opportunist players tailing you
Anyone have any tips for the M4A1? I keep dying in it but in my Stuarts I do fine.
[editline]10th November 2017[/editline]
As far as I know, I don't think its supposed to be a vehicle that you flank with, and I should take advantage of higher ground when I can because of it's amazing gun depression, right?
the aiming in ships still sucks ass how have they not fixed this yet
edit: its fucking bullshit and they know it
are the train cars on the 'Battle for the Rhine' RB air map a new thing? it's like 30~ easy soft targets and [B]shitloads [/B]of points that allied players can get within like 2-3 minutes of spawning.
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makes the spam in the kill feed from the Norway bases look tame
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also my J7W1 had a little accident with the rear landing gear and i had to use the little baby wheels on the back to land :v
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[QUOTE=psychofox67;52877029]the aiming in ships still sucks ass how have they not fixed this yet
edit: its fucking bullshit and they know it[/QUOTE]
Care to elaborate?
[QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;52876944]Anyone have any tips for the M4A1? I keep dying in it but in my Stuarts I do fine.
[editline]10th November 2017[/editline]
As far as I know, I don't think its supposed to be a vehicle that you flank with, and I should take advantage of higher ground when I can because of it's amazing gun depression, right?[/QUOTE]
In my experience, at it's own BR (3.3), it's a breakthrough tank. You got fair mobility, strong armour and a good gun with great traverse and a (not that good) stabilizer. You push up, shoot from the short-stop, and just utilize the fact that you're the biggest, baddest motherfucker on the field to win the battle.
Oh, and also pray that there's no Panzer IV F2's around. They'll eat you up. Not much to do about that. On the bright side, you'll eat them up just as easily.
[editline]11th November 2017[/editline]
This, of course, also depends on if you're playing RB or AB. Don't have much advice for AB, all tanks handle the same there and that means the IV F2's better gun makes it objectively superior.
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