So are tanks really pay2win now because of bushes? If so I'm never touching them again and might just uninstall the game until they bring back enduring confrontation for realistic.
Just spent 30 minutes testing ranges with Awesomecaek (RIP) in custom battles
The bushes are almost pointless. I'd call it pay2win but the only use I can see is obscuring weakspots in an absolute knife-fight. They disappear really quickly
[editline]5th April 2016[/editline]
So why are they so expensive??????
[QUOTE=Shibbey;50074665]Just spent 30 minutes testing ranges with Awesomecaek (RIP) in custom battles
The bushes are almost pointless. I'd call it pay2win but the only use I can see is obscuring weakspots in an absolute knife-fight. They disappear really quickly
[editline]5th April 2016[/editline]
So why are they so expensive??????[/QUOTE]
Probably because they're resource hogs and they don't want everyone using them, shitting up performance for everyone and also the server, forcing them to do work to fix these scaling problems.
Basically they're trying to pull the 'Hey look we did something!' good will card and cash in on it without actually thoroughly working on it.
Presumably because they're busy doing...
?
What the hell are they really doing? While every update has lots of content it all seems to be random clusterfucks of additions that don't seem to have any guiding structure. And judging by how Tank gameplay is getting worse over time I'm going to say that there really ISN'T any structure to these updates, or at least not a very good one.
Shit this also came basically out of nowhere.
I'm guessing they're working on boats
I'm just waiting for "aircraft with no cockpit modelled disabled from Simulator battles. Player control of turrets also disabled in Simulator battles" and I can be content for life
[QUOTE=Shibbey;50073525][url]http://warthunder.com/en/news/3673-shop-discount-on-foliage-decorations-ends-soon-en[/url]
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA[/QUOTE]
So they put an item up for sale, then only announce after it's been up for a day that it's at an "initial discount" and the price is going to double a few hours later? That seems like a pretty scummy thing to do if that's true.
[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;50074652]So are tanks really pay2win now because of bushes? If so I'm never touching them again and might just uninstall the game until they bring back enduring confrontation for realistic.[/QUOTE]
The bushes are useless outside of point blank range. They don't even render at 200m~ or so.
Bushes are ironically for the opposite purpose as of right now.
They murder people's framerate and cover weakspots up close, but are totally useless at a distance.
Mind you, that sounds goofy, but suddenly a lot of tanks can knife-fight at biting distances without getting slammed through [I]~le weakspot~ [/I]shit. My IS-4 was basically invincible in a 7.7 city match because both the optic and driver port I covered. :v:
It's pretty nice, Gaijin is taking away all my desire to play the game. I haven't even thought about opening it up.
Has anyone used big bushes to make the M22 Locust completely invisible?
Ram kills are back in apparently. Just slammed into a panzer IIIL with my m4a2 and it died.
Well fuck, I didn't get home early enough to buy tank pubes for 500GE. Looks like I have something to use my wagers on.
I have wagers but I'm terribly afraid of taking them on alone.
I still have nightmares of my 34 loss streak...
[editline]5th April 2016[/editline]
Also can someone (if you own them) take a screenshot of what the palm tree branches look like on a tan tank?
[QUOTE=Tea Guy;50077778]I have wagers but I'm terribly afraid of taking them on alone.
I still have nightmares of my 34 loss streak...
[editline]5th April 2016[/editline]
Also can someone (if you own them) take a screenshot of what the palm tree branches look like on a tan tank?[/QUOTE]
I'll play with you and carry you into a 100 game losing streak with my superior lack of knowledge on tanks, tactics, ammo, and common sense.
Ramming damage is kinda buggy as all hell right now, and it can happen to teammates and corpses.
A slight lovetap has knocked out my entire Sherman before. :vs:
I gently pushed a BM-8-24 who was struggling up a hill in one of my own tanks and he got pretty dead.
I really don't know what to think of the game anymore. The gameplay itself is still great (usually) and there isn't anything else like it, but the developers seem to keep doing pretty bad things and making it worse.
[QUOTE=Doom14;50080129]Ramming damage is kinda buggy as all hell right now, and it can happen to teammates and corpses.
A slight lovetap has knocked out my entire Sherman before. :vs:
I gently pushed a BM-8-24 who was struggling up a hill in one of my own tanks and he got pretty dead.[/QUOTE]
I accidentally slightly nudged a flakpanzer that had just spawned. The entire crew died.
FML, this took ages to grind out.
[T]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/286350544364227225/D758420366CF0D500CD893B0F4E9A1919AB2469C/[/T]
And yet it taunts me.
Edit: It's great!
[QUOTE=nightlord;50080216]I really don't know what to think of the game anymore. The gameplay itself is still great (usually) and there isn't anything else like it, but the developers seem to keep doing pretty bad things and making it worse.[/QUOTE]
This is typically where I write one of those big autistic rants about how Gaijin is ignoring a lot of core issues even if they're making cool progress in other areas. And also that (most) of the developers are pretty rad people, but the CEO and Moderation team have a shitty attitude and don't seem interested in the longevity of the game. Blah blah blah. Oh and that the gameplay has stagnated and the grind keeps increasing because $$$.
I'm tired of those. I'm tired of the game. Wake me up / can't wake up. Swan song. etc.
Even multi-man Calliope squads are only appealing for the shit that gets said on Skype, and not even the gameplay itself.
Shame that my other options for this kinda stuff includes the MOBA we call World of Tanks, World of Tanks 2.0 (Armored Warfare), and a bunch of older/dead niche simulators. Rise of Flight was a lot of fun, but WWI isn't my cup of tea. And I've heard really mixed things about the new IL-2 games.
The new IL-2 games are really rather good in gameplay, but have been dodgily mishandled money-wise. The tanks are also basic as fuck and more of a proof of concept thing that a completed game
If you want the best airplane experience, wait for the next Team Fusion patch for Cliffs of Dover. I played about 40 hours of it with Art and it's had pretty much all my top sim experiences (ramming 109s in a Tiger Moth, two-man Blenheim/Stuka bombing runs, scissoring Messers to death in a (properly modelled with boost!!) Hurricane...). You do have to learn how to manually control a plane's engine but it's honestly not that hard
Is Cliffs of dover the game with the first-person gunners?
Every IL-2 game has them, and multi-crewed vehicles
Rise of Flight's gunners are quite fun, a lot of them have keys for detaching them and re-attaching them to other parts of the plane, and you have to manually reload them with drums
Can you have a chum or two to be the gunners?
[QUOTE=O'Neil;50081357]Can you have a chum or two to be the gunners?[/QUOTE]
Or in the case of the TB-3, many chums
Shibs food we should totally do low alt airfield terror ops again
[QUOTE=O'Neil;50081357]Can you have a chum or two to be the gunners?[/QUOTE]
Or bombadier
[QUOTE=arthuro12;50081404]Shibs food we should totally do low alt airfield terror ops again[/QUOTE]
Is it working on W10 properly yet? I wanna fly planes in any proper sim at all, I am antsy for a real joysticking without 3rd person turret jobbers (tho I will probably die horribly being out of practice)
[editline]6th April 2016[/editline]
Tbh I wish most of all that we could get modded Il-2 1946 working online that was the hypest thing but C.U.P broke co-op, which is a shame as there are some lush planes in there (Spitty XII <3)
[editline]6th April 2016[/editline]
Random tank anecdotes:
[quote][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqqrtChc40[/media][/quote]
Meanwhile, War Thunder tutorial videos put this out..
[video=youtube;HBc9LbB2-F4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBc9LbB2-F4[/video]
Obvious slightly altered Fury footage is obvious.
#fuckhybridenginedtanks
Also Shib', not too sure on W10 but their forums prob has some info on it!
[QUOTE=Shibbey;50081467]Tbh I wish most of all that we could get modded Il-2 1946 working online that was the hypest thing[/QUOTE]
If this became a thing I would practice up for it because the mods for that game added all sorts of redic stuff I'd love to fly, along with the actual gunner seats and not-gimped payload options.
[QUOTE=Doom14;50082755]If this became a thing I would practice up for it because the mods for that game added all sorts of redic stuff I'd love to fly, along with the actual gunner seats and not-gimped payload options.[/QUOTE]
Art and I briefly got it working on a version on 4.10, flew some He-219s with Mg213/20s+30s, but when we tried the bigger mod on 4.12m it fucked up
Still have my 4.10 install somewhere, I think...
I deleted it since it took up 200 gigs or something.. lol
This tank ramming is ridiculous. I had just spawned in and was going around 20mph and then I gently tap another tank then this happens
[t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/282973442532532793/3945BC905F2C00D3C95D3D67AC355CE4412ABCBD/[/t]
:what:
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