5:03 am, October 24, 2014
This is my new way of reviewing tanks, including the grind from stock (albeit I only play a few games while stock) to help people that do not like to use free experience. Beware, as this is m [..]
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5:03 am, October 24, 2014
The difference? The first would be if your heavies are in a fairly intense fight and have a fairly good chance of winning if you play it right. By this I mean if it's like 4 heavies brawling against 4 [..]
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4:03 pm, October 22, 2014
1) We are not a heavy tank - leading charges is not for us
2) We do not really have armor - so do not play pe ca bo games
3) We do not have the speed of the Easy 8
4) We are often [..]
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4:03 pm, October 22, 2014
Morning Tankers,
I am just curious and asking the community, why do people keep calling me a reroll? What about me says "oh this guy must be a reroll?"
It doesn't phase [..]
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4:03 pm, October 22, 2014
I "upgraded" from my 38T because I was tired of my 75 bouncing all the time. In the case of a TD, every shot needs to count because you'll likely have to move, and if 1/2 your shots bounce a [..]
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4:03 pm, October 21, 2014
I'm on the indien and honestly it has to be the worst stock grind. The 8.8 L/56 that you need tracks before you can mount the L/71. Not to mention as a tier 8 medium you are often facing tier 9's. Its [..]
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5:03 am, October 21, 2014
Ok so I don't come acros this often so I am at a loss at what to do against a good player who does this. The only method I've come up with is flank them. (Not always possible if it's a choke point and [..]
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4:03 pm, October 20, 2014
I think it would encourage the use of these consumable if there was a 4th slot that could only be used for consumable that are consumed at the beginning of each game, like chocolate.
Win-wi [..]
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4:03 pm, October 20, 2014
I've often read on forum posts that platooning is a good way to improve stats. However, I find that on the limited number of occasions I've decided to do so, my stats are WORSE than what I get solo pu [..]
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4:03 pm, October 19, 2014
Morning everyone,
I'm not the most technically inclined, but often whenever I click Play from the launcher, it can take up to 15 minutes for the game to actually load. I wonder if [..]
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4:03 pm, October 18, 2014
To start off, I'm not saying arty makes me think rainbows and butterflies. Most of the time, arty is just that annoying brat, the one who hits you but you can't hit back. I don't even play arty.
But, [..]
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5:03 am, October 17, 2014
Isn't that you get completely lopsided battles. Sure, if one team is far more skilled than the other, the skilled team is probably going to win. The problem is that MM sucks at balancing vehicle types [..]
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5:03 am, October 16, 2014
WHERE IS MAH CROWNZ Jokes aside, I realize how staggeringly many people use XVM winrate mod and use it to flame others. Reaching 51% supposedly made me a 'green' and the games have gotten more relaxin [..]
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4:03 pm, October 14, 2014
Would like to find a Canadian clan to join if there is such a clan. i do have some CW experience and enjoy platooning and team battles.I have several tier 10's which all are CW ready. I do play quite [..]
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4:03 pm, October 13, 2014
Ah yes, with the influx of new scout tanks people have been throwing out "OP OP OP PLS NERF TEARS TEARS TEARS" in pretty much every game now. Lets take a deeper walk into this mindset, dis-s [..]
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4:03 pm, October 13, 2014
I often see this but must have missed what it means and were to find it. I'm a very casual player (working to much).When I get time I tend to just play rather than look at the forums. And, y [..]
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5:03 am, October 12, 2014
My WOT install decided it needed to re-install itself, and now I can't get it to work. I get a "Installation Failed" error every time, the log file shows this: 11/10/2014 14:22:11 Installing [..]
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5:03 am, October 11, 2014
Since recent patch, I noticed significantly more of class imbalanced battles. Examples: one side has 2 top & 2 middle tier heavies, other has 1 middle. Or even one side has 2 TDs and 10 heavie [..]
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4:03 pm, October 8, 2014
So with the introduction of the Fire for Effect medal (variously described as the most useless medal to earn or the most depressing medal to NOT earn) I've started looking at damage numbers in my team [..]
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4:03 pm, October 7, 2014
I have a tier VI FV304 whose crew reached 100% about 200 games ago and are now at 114 % and the perks/skills/training is still unavailable to me. I've recently discovered right click - personal file a [..]
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4:03 pm, October 6, 2014
I've been driving this thing a while, bought it while it was on sale. At first it was fun, as the gun was kinda crummy but at least it was bouncy. I currently have a 55% WR over 318 battles. Lately, h [..]
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5:03 am, October 6, 2014
This isn't about people being bad at the game or having bad stats or whatever. This is about platoons that bring tier 1-3 tanks into tier 9-10 games. It seems to happen a lot more than usual lately. W [..]
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5:03 am, October 5, 2014
Now, the A-44 has many drawbacks, including a frontal mounted engine that gets damaged every other shot, slow aim and reload times, awful gun depression, easily damaged tracks, but hell, it can ram. [..]
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5:03 am, October 5, 2014
A lot of the time people are posting full screens of their game at whatever res they run to show something in the bottom corner. Not only is it a pain for mobile but it also means you can't see the co [..]
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5:03 am, October 4, 2014
First off, sorry if this has been posted before. I tried searching, but couldn't find anything. I've been playing this game for about 5 days now on the Xbox 360 and I absolutely love it! My only conce [..]
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4:03 pm, October 3, 2014
Enemy, [edited] the pride
Come on over, to our side
We're the same, just afraid
What's the difference when we're all dying?
The real IOC is looking to finish filling our [..]
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4:03 pm, October 3, 2014
Tankers.
I have seen a lot of sad posts lately from players with 2k to 5k games who are struggling with the game. Poor win rate, WN8, bad stats, low esteem. I am no guru, so please don't ge [..]
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5:03 am, October 1, 2014
Often imitated, never duplicated, the only RDDT clan with a female commander is looking for a few more tankers to join us in our quest to bring drunkeness, *****, and destruction upon those who oppose [..]
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5:03 am, September 30, 2014
So one of the most common gripes in WoT involves gold/premium ammo. Some players use it sparingly, some not at all but some use it as a crutch, a way of guaranteeing they will pen without going throug [..]
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4:03 pm, September 29, 2014
Russians must pick up their groceries and place them next to the C-4 in the trunk of their cars. Because that is the only way a car would be that loud when a tank round hits it. Th [..]
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4:03 pm, September 27, 2014
We obviously like when we have good matches. We rake up lots of damage, get a bunch of kills, and you get the ending feeling of accomplishment. But did you ever and stop to think a [..]
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5:03 am, September 26, 2014
So, I'm looking for a clan that's clan-wars capable but with the caveat that it has to be women-friendly. I'm currently clanless and may one day talk my partner, who's a gamer, into taking a dip into [..]
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5:03 am, September 26, 2014
Everybody loves arty, right? No? Exactly the opposite, you say? Hang out on the forum long enough and you'll probably notice terms like "skycancer" and "clicker" being thrown aroun [..]
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4:03 pm, September 22, 2014
Hi tankers.
I've been reading lately about fellow tankers bemoaning losing streaks. I think we all have experienced losing streaks and know how they affect our mood. But when I read about l [..]
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5:03 am, September 22, 2014
On this map in standard game when caps are left of the railroad is it good tactics for 4 or 5 tanks to go up the hill on right of the tracks? I dunno. I see so many do that and try [..]
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4:03 pm, September 21, 2014
Yes, there is already a topic on this, but since I'm an idiot and I'm making my own thread on it anyway.
Anyway, according to FTR, here are some tentative buffs.
- DPM increased [..]
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5:03 am, September 21, 2014
Staff Sergeant Finnegan shouted over the din of the engine to his driver. "Allingham! We're exposed on this road! There's a slope on the side, right next to the lake. Take us along there [..]
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4:03 pm, September 19, 2014
I just elited my T-150, don't have the creds for the kv-3 right now. I keep hearing that this line isn't as good as it can be and doesn't get buffed as often or if at all compared to the IS-7 line. I [..]
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4:03 pm, September 19, 2014
From my observations in random battles, in tier 10 battles specifically, i have noticed that in certain map areas, where one team has deployed higher tier tanks than the other team, results often lead [..]
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5:03 am, September 19, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKGazLedJf8 I've had the M48 a while now and it really isn't the best T10 medium in my opinion, but I am getting better at it. I was as low as 30% W/R and I'm currently [..]
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4:03 pm, September 18, 2014
Two part question concerning how the game's matchmaking system works: The first part of my question concerns how the game determines battle tiers: I have a basic understanding of how the game determin [..]
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5:03 am, September 18, 2014
This is just going to be a bit of bread and butter stuff. It'll show a few battles from a string of matches on Himmelsdorf just to show some of these tactics in action. Also if you are expecting some [..]
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5:03 am, September 16, 2014
Ok not always, but... When I do really well, more often than not my team throws all my effort away and I get **** xp. When I'm having a **** game my team steam rolls the enemy and I get **** xp. Like [..]
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4:03 pm, September 15, 2014
Okay, I just hit 4800 battles, so I'm still a noob. But something I'm noticing more often is that I'm being ****** by tanks that I can't even see.
I spot a target, line him up and begin to [..]
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4:03 pm, September 15, 2014
Most advocates of Skill Based MM are better players wishing to get rid of the 'tomatoes, potatoes and new kids' on 'their' MM. They envision a full-spectrum skill based MM where better playe [..]
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5:03 am, September 15, 2014
hello everyone I just thought of a good way to rebalance auto loaders here are my suggestions:
A: jam them every so often [so they are less fun and also more realistic] so they have to relo [..]
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5:03 am, September 15, 2014
Did its matchmaking get buffed? As in it gets matched up with tier 10s more often? I've been noticing it more in 9.3. I haven't been paying attention to Patch notes, so thats why im asking. submitted [..]
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5:03 am, September 11, 2014
So I'm at 2k games with a frustrating 48% win rate (much lower in recent weeks) and my question is to blues and unicums. What skill or set of skills do you have that the majority of the player base do [..]
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4:03 pm, September 8, 2014
When WN8 was formulated the devs used winrate as the main correlation. So a players with high WN8 did also have high winrates. Now that WN8 is out for quite a while more and more players pad it by da [..]
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4:03 pm, September 8, 2014
I got this tank a week ago. I loved it a few games after I got it, and now it is one of my favorite tanks.
Here's just one replay of the kind of games I have in this tank (even [..]
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4:03 pm, September 8, 2014
OK Wargaming, get your programmers working on this new stat to track for overall performance. I would like to to see where players rank for damage done in battles, in comparison to their team-mates an [..]
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4:03 pm, September 6, 2014
So, I've been wondering, "Why use a T110E5 when you can have an E-50M with better DPM, mobility, accuracy, and ROF?" I mean seriously, the DPM of the E-50M is slightly better, the T110E5 is [..]
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4:03 pm, September 5, 2014
Eagle Company is recruiting, we are a small clan at the moment but want to grow. All you need to join is a tier 6 (or above) and decent stats (such as 1k battles, and a 46% win rate [..]
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4:03 pm, September 4, 2014
"Shut up you're dead."
A sentence usually outed by the fiery red (both statistically and appearantly in anger level) pubbie.
Usually goes accompanied with '..., noob' o [..]
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4:03 pm, September 4, 2014
First off, this isn't related to unbalanced tier matchups, that is, two tier Xs on one team and six on another, as to me that's fairly easy to fix in my mind.
No, this i [..]
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5:03 am, September 4, 2014
http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/09/03/insider-wargaming-thoughts-on-arty/ Summary: Players Whine about Arty, supported by Stats (a) WG sets to nerf arty Serb rages predicting TD will be whined about Spe [..]
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5:03 am, September 2, 2014
It's the same every time WG includes kills as a requirement in missions/events. I was just in my panther and had a platoon of 2 E8 Shermans with me, we ran into an SU-122-44. We tracked him and start [..]
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8:14 am, September 1, 2014
I wasn't exactly sure where to report this, but occasionally my camera will suddenly start to rapidly shake / flutter up and down. It's not very often, and seems to either snap out of it when I enter [..]
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2:01 am, September 1, 2014
I often use it on light tanks, but is it really worth it? Im thinking about throwing it on my AMX 12 t, bu should I spend the credits (140.000) on something else? submitted by DatRagnar [link] [33 [..]
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2:01 am, September 1, 2014
I submit the "automated team killing monitoring system" is not only flawed but almost useless. Many tankers now know how to circumvent it by keeping track of how many times they shoot team m [..]
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2:01 pm, August 31, 2014
Two part post. One part rant,other part question. So I'm playing the M4 with the 105mm. Splurge and buy me some HEAT ammo. To make a long story short, 6 hits, 2 off the turret,1 off the front, and 3 o [..]
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2:01 pm, August 29, 2014
Ladies, Gents, and Genderfluid Demi pansexuals, We'd like to brush up on a few items of importance that keep coming up either in public or through moderator mail. Feel free to post questions o [..]
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2:01 pm, August 29, 2014
I like sniping so I tend to use tanks like the MS-1 with the 45 or TD's. I've added a cammo net and I'm saving up for binos.
I am very confused how to use cover. Most maps have bits of pieces of bush [..]
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2:01 pm, August 28, 2014
Hi, y'all. So this game has a problem, and fortunately I have a solution. One of the things that bothers players is some trees in the game for some nations simply have no way to train a crew for a veh [..]
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2:01 am, August 28, 2014
I noticed lately, more often than before... new players and/or "bad" players shooting HE rounds from guns which have no business shooting HE...
For example, In my KV-1 I came across a plato [..]
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2:01 am, August 27, 2014
So on my EU account i have 3000 gold and for a fact i know that premium tanks doesn't get discount that often so what to do with 3k gold? submitted by Elucifrost [link] [13 comments]
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2:01 pm, August 26, 2014
Recently I have been trying to improve my play by watching streamers more. I have run into the issue that most streamers will often platoon with other skilled players. This seems to allow them to take [..]
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2:01 pm, August 25, 2014
Hello learnedtankers
It would appear that the makers of this game propose 2 broad strategies for winning. First is to destroy all enemies, second is to occupy the enemy flag for an amount of time.Bot [..]
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2:01 am, August 25, 2014
So, I need a break from the current On Track, it's a punishment. Read some posts, reread some guides and started thinking...
Arty is still a problem in the game. If you can't see it, your logically [..]
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2:01 pm, August 23, 2014
Ever yearn for the old days of the close, back & forth matches? Those that were earned by the skill of the last two combatants on the field? After 22K matches; yes I do miss them so...It seems tha [..]
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2:01 am, August 23, 2014
For the past few days it just has seemed like RNG doesn't want me to have any fun. It was just a nonstop series of misses and ricochets from my shots combined with enemy shots that consistentl [..]
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2:01 am, August 22, 2014
I often see many videos trying to ELI5. I saw one on Hawken and it helped immensely. Anyone have any YT videos they would recommend for a basic understanding of the game? Please :) This game is fun f [..]
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2:01 pm, August 21, 2014
I always carry a Repair Kit, Med Kit, and Fire Extinguisher, none of which come from Costco or are automatic. And I often get this problem a lot, and I know I'm not the only one, but has anyone ever s [..]
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2:01 pm, August 20, 2014
I have been playing world of tanks for a while, most of my early stats show how much of a noob I used to be, and as time when on I realized it too. I have played the US medium line all the way to the [..]
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2:01 am, August 20, 2014
Let me preface this by saying this is my personal opinion developed largely around my experience in this game over the last few months. It is not intended to criticize or insult anyone who disagrees o [..]
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2:01 pm, August 19, 2014
Here is the replay: http://wotreplays.com/site/1094339#team The moment is when I spot a BDR, stop and try to back off, I get shot by him, and as I am backing off, shot by the T-43 on our team. Doesn&a [..]
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2:01 pm, August 18, 2014
Any reason why we enter battle with our tanks "unloaded." Has this ever been explained? Seems to me, if I were entering battle, I would have a shell ready to go before I entered battle. The [..]
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2:01 pm, August 17, 2014
HOLD YOUR KEYBOARDS, this is not a rant in any way. It's just something i noticed that i don't understand. This is also with very few battles so it might just be by chance, but i wante [..]
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2:01 pm, August 17, 2014
I just started playing WoT and I was fortunate enough to have gone through some promotions and get 50% off on equipment. I was able to purchase some and now, it is time for me to purchase some again. [..]
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2:01 pm, August 17, 2014
I've been asking in matches and other people seem to be getting this as well.
Graphics freeze up completely for about 5-10s, often twice in a row with about 10s between freezes. Sound continues to [..]
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2:01 am, August 17, 2014
I think this is thetank I've reviewed on the forums that has changed the most since I bought it. A few (unrelated) tanks that really don't change all that much when you upgrade them are the Type 5 [..]
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2:01 pm, August 16, 2014
FUNNY CHAT LOGS
by pine gaming
What is this series about?
Basically,I get from you guys,funny chat logs,known as funny dialogues from game and put them into a video,along with some funny editing [..]
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2:01 pm, August 16, 2014
This is, by far, the funniest thing I've seen all week.
His youtube channel doesn't get as much attention I think it deserves, considering how often it updates and the high quality of the vid [..]
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2:01 pm, August 15, 2014
I don't mean awful players, but actual bots. The number in lower tiers is staggering (up to 6-7), sometimes 1/3 or even 2/4 of a team is filled with non-humans which really is not fun anymore. [..]
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2:01 am, August 15, 2014
Greetings folks, For the past 1,5 years or so i have been playing WoT several times a week and i am up to about 3K battles. Troubleshooter11 is the ingame name so you can look up my lemon stats at noo [..]
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2:01 am, August 15, 2014
You've probably turned on your T.V. and first discovered this game on a commercial or maybe even seen ads on the internet. I actually even watched a show on World of Tanks. I've had a deep passion for [..]
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2:01 am, August 13, 2014
So I've been having trouble with my E-50M. I loved the whole tree except the panther 2, and have good winrates all the way up. When I first bought the E-50M, I was sure I couldn't go [..]
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2:01 am, August 12, 2014
I've been seeing lots arty threads lately arguing both sides ranging how arty-is-bad-and-should-feel-bad to stfu-arty-is-okay or how-to-balance-arty. Lot of rage and dispute there. I understand that r [..]
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2:01 pm, August 11, 2014
I don't want anyone to take this post the wrong way, but at the same time I don't want anyone to not know what the objective of this game is.
The objective of WOT is to win battles. You must always [..]
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2:01 am, August 10, 2014
Hi everyone, my name is Tilo and I am a postgraduate student at Bournemouth University in England. I am currently writing my dissertation on the perception of eSports with regard to traditional sport, [..]
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2:01 am, August 10, 2014
I'm looking for a chill platooning/social clan that can help me improve my game. I have TS3, a mic, and Im on pretty often. Im not interested in CW atm but that could change. Ive got one tier 10 with [..]
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2:01 am, August 8, 2014
Xbox player here, how often do you guys get 6 to 8 artys in a match? For me I feel like it's going to be 1 out of every 5 games or so and it makes driving a big ol t29 or any other heavies rea [..]
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2:01 am, August 8, 2014
I started playing WoT again after almost 2 years hiatus and I feel embarrassed on behalf of the devs that this game continues to have this silly bug.
I probably get it a dozen times per night that [..]
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2:01 pm, August 7, 2014
Hi there as the title says i just unlocked the IS-3. Well the xp thing at least but i'm just about 1mil credits short.. how do i grind out these credits relatively fast ? or just how do i grin [..]
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2:01 pm, August 7, 2014
There are days where it seems half of the games I play are on Ruinberg. With 33 maps in rotation this shouldn't happen. Not all maps are played by all tiers but still - Ruinberg is too often the map t [..]
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2:01 pm, August 7, 2014
What exactly is the point of the DW2? The thing has nothing that makes it worth the effort of going through it. The gun pen is terrible even with gold, the gun accuracy might as well not even exist wi [..]
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2:01 am, August 7, 2014
I only have one arty in my garage at the moment (212A), but I think I can collect a few facts for arty (AKA the frustration class of "tanks") drivers so there might be pieces of information [..]
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2:01 pm, August 5, 2014
Don't get me wrong, I love World of Tanks. With that said I feel like some of the game mechanics and features need to be reworked.Keep in mind, I'm not a game developer so my personal opinion only mat [..]
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2:01 pm, August 4, 2014
On most maps and tanks, I have a general idea where to go. Unfortunately, JT 8,8 is this vehicle, where I often don't know - and eventually, fail. It has too many known limits, which make it w [..]
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2:01 am, August 4, 2014
Accuracy of any gun can be affected by human error in a big way if the person shooting isnt experienced and doesnt practice regularly. But when a gun's inherent potential accuracy is measured, we aren [..]
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