'Tis the season for tanks.Upcoming events:Well-deserved rewards, near the end of November (Account anniversary rewards).Holiday Ops 2025, start of December (Popular Q4 seasonal event with cost-efficient lootboxes and EXP + Credit earning multiplier bonus).Download:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1407200/World_of_Tanks/https://worldoftanks.com/en/game/download/Previous:>>1386966
>>1511442Almost forget about annual well deserved rewards.
>>1511442New road mapHighlights: +1MM, new open map, new nation with new mechanics, rebalancing of old tanks.
>>1512026Activate your Windows.
>>1512026These points are all an absolute load of shit until we actually see them.Feels like all the actual content developers are on lesta russian servers, our """content""" is them exporting lesta tanks over to our servers in a nerfed state, while doing nothing to fix current issues outside of cherry picking 2 or 3 branches every 7-8 months.Mentioning new maps without an estimated release date means nothing. This year we had 0 (ZERO) new maps.Tier 6/7/8 balance, I hope they hit the chi-to sp at the barest minimum.
>>1512190I hate western branch of WG because they are retarded and full of women and they also admitted they lost most of their talent in game content after the split, it's why new content is coming out at a crawling pace the past few years and flopped most of the time. But recently it's starting to get better, i hope we will see the game improve.
>>1512026What happened to WoT 2.0? I thought no meaningful updates were had because they were focused on that and it was supposed to come 2025
>>1512398Wot 2.0 is either project cw which is a different game or tier 11 in wot ru.
>>1511442https://youtu.be/ytdW5cEmS7oAt this point the RU server is just way better.
So, anons, are YOU buying the christmas gamba boxes?
>>1512707Maybe 11 or 25 boxes. The upcoming tanks don’t seem interesting and I want to build up gold for the raumpanzer
>>1512807Same
>>1511442Update 1.27:https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/updates/wot-1-27/>Well-deserved rewards coming on December 4th>Cliff and Siegfried Line added to 'maps under development' mode>Advent Calendar returns on Dec 1st>3D attachments for tier 10 vehicles will be added to holiday ops event this yearhttps://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/3d-customization-attachments/
>>1513398Nice, xmas has always been something special in WOT. But I'm pissed that they break well deserved reward on the 30th of November, they just gave an excuse to delay because something is wrong with the reward this year.
>>1513398The 3d customisation elements is such a worthless copout I've always liked the models themselves and the 3d skins are well crafted, but they are static, some even need a refresh since they look ancient I remember some 6+ years ago WG working on implementing battle damage beyond just hit decals and more dynamic models (e.g. a backpack bouncing around when driving in rough terrain, not just being glued in place), but I guess that went in the shitter
I need 15 more points on my conq to get this fucking battle pass ahhhh
>>1514313Good luck
>>1514386I didn't manage it, I was 4 points off my conq, whole day unironically wasted, actually fuming
>>1512026+1 MM and midtier rebalancing are some BIG highlights. I hope they just make half the servers of any region be +1 as a test and then gauge its viability through a survey. if they simply say "ehhhh maybe we'll leave it for the supertest/sandbox" there's a big chance they'll just scrap it forever
>it's a rapidfoetus loads gold ammo to shoot at tanks he can penetrate with standard episode
>>1514806>he doesn't know that i bring full gold load out because i still have 60m credit from last year xmas
>>1514806No point tilting over being hit by gold ammo in a paper tank…
I fucking hate the rng in this gameI had a 10 game session in the Leopard 1 where the game "um, akshyually"'d every shot I took leading to average damage of 1000 per game in this session >fire at manticore>um akshyually the shell goes between the hull and turret >fire at 430U from the side>um akshyually the shell tracks him, but hits his UFP >277 in the air, lower hull at 0 degrees>um akshyually you hit the pixel line of UFP No other tanks were affected all games were normal and the shots connected, not the M60, not the STB, not the fucking 140, not the Action X
>>1515239german accuracy is a meme. play a chinese tonk instead and enjoy getting unreasonably lucky and unlucky shots instead
>>1515239>shitty aim>snipeSkill issue
Maneuvers CW auction results:>EU: 48500 - 49000 bonds>NA: 29303 bondsHonestly, I thought NA was gonna bloat more. If I knew it was gonna be sub-30k bonds I would've gone in for 116-F3 or ST-62 v2. I was wrong about the ST-62 v2, watching people play it and it's a terrific stomper.>>1515239Leo 1 accuracy drove me nuts, I sold it and started playing RHM PZW instead. Despite being a light and even mroe fragile to HE it's more fun (actually having a functioning gun makes it 90% better already) and skill ceiling is higher.
MBT-B teased (tier 10 american heavy auto-reloader). Very likely our new assembly shop tank.Took the Lione's shell reload gimmick.Description:>The MBT-B, a new Tier X American heavy tank, has excellent mobility (the top forward speed is 55 km/h) but mediocre armor for its vehicle type (200 mm at the front of the turret and 105 mm at the front of the hull). By the "protection/mobility ratio" this tank is close to the AMX 50B. The MBT-B wields a 120 mm gun with a maximum depression of –10° and a 5-shell autoreloader with a short in-clip reload time of 2.5 seconds. The reload times of the shells are non-typical, which has tactical implications:>The first shell's reloads in 22 seconds, which makes it a "reserve" shell: This round should only be used in critical situations.>The second, the third, and the fourth shells reload in 8, 10, and 12 seconds respectively. These are your main "working" shells, and staying on the second one provides the best DPM.>The fifth shell also reloads in 22 seconds, making it a "bonus" shell. Whenever you stay inactive in battle (intentionally or unintentionally), you will get an opportunity to have a full clip that can be treated either as a 4-shell clip (ending with the best-DPM second shell) or a 5-shell clip (if the risk is worth it).>With a one-time damage of 400 HP, this configuration provides not only a potential 2,000 HP of damage per clip but a lot of tactical flexibility—but requires you to always keep track of the situation.
>>1515662This shit is like few years old at this point and still not released
>>1515700WG likes to release all the old tanks rotting in their backlog like KV-4 KTTS, so I think it’s the real deal for being the next assembly tank.Shame about the armor nerf, I liked how the layout was before with unique weakspots.
Should I spend 12,000 bonds to get the FV215b?
>>1516937Play german Pz7 instead
Kek this year we have 3 CCs as cameo.
>no platoonbro to grind holiday ops with
>>1518233Only if u play Asia server
God, I hate artillery scum
>submarine arty skinOkay, I kek'd.
>more extreme burst fire premium tanks at T8thanks WG, what could have the game been without that?
>>1522969Tier 8 power scaling was already ruined, a few more won't change anything.However I think the chinese tank DZT-159 will push the powerlevels of tier 9 premiums way too much, it feels like the second coming of BZ-176.One time (BZ-176) can be a mistake, but 2nd time in the same seasonal event and same nation/rocket gimmick (DZT-159) makes me think they are cashgrabbing for chinese players and metafags at the expense of tier 9 balance.The way the cupola is positioned in the back is like the T95/FV4201 Chieftain turret, it is hidden on max gun depression which is busted. Gun mantlet does not seem to be a weakspot, as it averages 350mm thickness upon hovering over it in tanks.ggYou can rocket boost to contested hulldown positions like Malinovka windmill and farm people coming up, while having leftover rocket boosters for lategame.https://tanks.gg/tank/dzt-159
>>1523329They've also slipped in last minute buffs, as if it needed any more incentive for people to whale for boxes.https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2024/12/04/wot-1-27_1-micropatch-dzt-159-buffs/
>>1523329It's still a trash tank after buff, retard. It goes fast but that's about it. - 7 gun depression is not workable
>>1523455>-7 gun depression is not workableYou brain rotting idiot. Are you really having this take when WG went out of their way to rework maps to be more flat to cater to heavy tank and assault TD gameplay?We're ignoring how the DZT-159 turret statchecks all tier 7-9 tanks and requires tier 10 340 HEAT rounds to pen? and can even sidescrape corners when there are no bumps to play around because they gave it the same armor sides as E-50?I guess IS-7 and Object 260 are shit because they only have -6 gun depression and have to use a little more effort in playing around hills, right?
>>1523481>hull made out of cheese>less hp than tech tree of same tier>shit gun handling>slow without boosterIs somehow op kek, gitgud. The object 752 is more broken than this.
>>1523610>hull made out of cheeseIMO frontal hull being cheese doesn't matter as much when they gave it an extremely good turret and usable side armor, and you can angle the front in a way when peeking hills to make it autobounce and reduce the green autopen area.>less hp than tech tree of same tierOne bounce and you already had more effective HP than other meds, and this tank have loads of it compared to other assault mediums like E-50 and Object 430.>shit gun handlingMostly negated by bond equipment, crew skills and 2 key. DZT-159 also have the turret armor to take your sweet time aiming in if necessary.>slow without boosterDZT matches other medium tanks well enough on reaching positions with boosters at the start, and most of the time it should be playing around heavy brawling area. Once you get there, it doesn't need that much speed to do peeks and sidescraping.IDK man, this tank fits the mold of fast, heavily armored hulldown tank extremely well. I'm not seeing why you're downplaying it, or what other tier 9 tanks you are comparing it to when you keep calling it shit. The fact that I have to keep referencing tier 10 ammo to combat its 315mm~ effective turret armor should be a tip-off that it's gonna be degenerate for the tier.
>>1518233which server, anon?
>>1523826EU. shitter who's played just over 12k battles
>>1523842Damn, would have totally done some grinding with you if you were also in NA purgatory
>>1523893no worries. I tried NA a few years back only to realize that starting anew with no oldfag benefits or bond vehicles would be painfully tiresomemaybe we'll meet when the prophesized EU/NA player merge happens in a year or two
D-day Sherman actually has like 145 pen, I have 72% w/r in this tank, was wondering why everything got penned so easy with standard ammo
Did they nerf the armour on the AT2 or something? Just had an equal tier medium yolo gold through the upper super-structure like it was nothing
>>1524413yeah, they crippled that thing. now same-tier TDs can pen it from the front using AP with no hassle
>>1524918Why?
Also did they nerf the 25pounder or something? I used to enjoy that gun as a side-grade to the 6 pounder but it seems bad now
>>1525476why design weakspots when you can just nuke the entire frontal hull and casemate armor instead
>>1525486Boxes are out. Did anyone buy?I thought about it, but I will wait for tank reviews first. I really don't need to sink another 60-100 bucks into this F2P game.
>>1526420Bought 12 boxes, didn't get shit.
>>1526420been a freebie since '17 so no. does the free box they give you for completing the advent calendar have standard drops, ie. gold n tonks?
>>1526425Yeah, only one large box though. 2.4% to get one of the featured xmas lootbox tanks.
>>1526430not bad I suppose>low tier dropsthe 38 K is surprisingly strong judging by its stats. basically a pz. IV H with better speed, gun stats and slightly more HP. seems super fun
So I am an impulsekek, and bought two bundles of the 12 boxes.The first 12 bundle gave me jackshit and lowrolled gold (2.9k~ gold), but the second bundle gave me more gold (4k~ gold) and two of the featured tanks.I should be happy I hit the 2.4% rates twice in a row, but I reaaaally didn't want these tanks. I wanted the vz68 squall, DZT-159 or the SU-100I and they all dodged me...
>>1526471At least the xm is good. Squall is trash, dzt is average trash.
>>1526482XM57 is really good for corner peeking, it's goodI already had the BZ-176 and Kilana though, so this isn't new gameplay to me
God, the Toro is such a piece of shit.Simply from the sheer amount of shells being fired, it barely makes as much profit as tier 8 tanks. It’s not even fun to play either, it’s the shitty Progetto 66 4 round 360 dmg gun on a terrible platform. You can’t even run this without food consumable, because the reload and VR goes to shit.I legitimately have more fun and make more credits playing the T54E1 over this turd, and that thing is a tech tree.I just wanted the DZT-159, watching other streamers they break 4k games in it easily and make 180k profit while shooting a bit of gold while this shit makes like 60k at best
>>1526561You would do at most 2k dmg then die anyway.
>>1526642Probably not, because giving a tier 9 medium the same thickness of turret face armor of type 5 heavy and maus is peak balance.Roght now any DZT-159 that matches in tier 9 or below is giga seal clubbing because nothing has the pen to go through it hulldown outside of gold TD rounds. The gun is not shit either, the popular streamers keep praising it.
holy hell, you don't even get new christmas tank girls any more
What were they thinking with the new crew skills? What's with all this conditional slop? How was engineer ever a good idea when the game was already moving at turbo speed?
>>1526737What? You get this sexy cutie compared to DEI fairies from last year.
>>1527258You get 1 (won) of these, compared to last at least 6 years where you got 4 (fow)
>>1527132Engineer is only 1 km/h, it doesn’t affect much.Off-road driving is fucked though. Everything accelerates so fast it’s unreal
Came back to the game just to grind some credits for the holidays, finally escaped the shitter accusations.Any other anons itt doing the christmas grind?
>>1527821I'm passively on it. don't know what I'll do with all the national blueprints but it is nice having some extra premium time on top of the returning bonus and the well-deserved daysas for not being a shitter... my WTR's slowly rising from orange stats to yellow. think my recent's green so that's nice
>>1527821feels good to be a king
>>1527482wrong, u won't see her before unlocking atmosphere level
>>1527821>Any other anons itt doing the christmas grind?I am doing that now, after buying 25 magic boxes and aggressively converting all resources to clear out Jason Statham missions for a big credit multiplier
>regular friends I platoon with don't want to play WoT anymore because they got invested in the recent FOTM
>>1528843>ex-friendFTFY
wew lad
>>1528941>SUPEEEERRRR hellcat>actually winning against same-tier tanksexcellent game anon. truly commendable. though I do wonder why you've played the tank that much
>>1528941>playing Trashcat instead of Chito SPGood game though, at least.
Anyone else turning off their daily session stat resets to see how much silver we accumulate over holiday ops?I am at 5 million atm.
>>1527898I guess I was wrong, thanks
I have 40 x5 xp missions, but I don't want to grind tech tree tanks at all.
>>1529453Just use them to grind field mods, it's what I do with mine.
>>1529389It's 3m for me
>come back from a year long break>get new tank>reset skills>retrain crew for tank>set skills once again>"you're crew no good, give gold cyka)))))))))">can't use exp books eitherSorry for being late to the party, but: wtf. Did I screw up somehow? Talking about those 60%.
>>1529926No, just play the game and it will go back. There is a 6 skills limit now for crew. That 60% you are seeing is for skill effectiveness not efficency of crew member on said tank because every crew member start at 100% now.
Finally get the full bonus
>dog got me a gazebo decoration>available for last level only >orange dot on inaccessible button taunting me
Dude, I'm so hyped for tomorrow's free 250 gold and 100k creds, just like last year!>>1531770Have you seen the tree? You can view all the toys in the slot you've got, but locked slots of the same type, using the same decorations, will remain marked as "new".
>tfw too broke to buy boxes>a japanese friend gifted me 25 boxes
>>1532065Got only 1 tier 8, the squall
Do autocannons actually just never crit?
>>1532625The czech lights are programmed to never crit crew members, and it only does 4 module damage per shell if it wins the weighed coinflips.A lot of people are running around with safe stowage or survival improvement suite, so it's not very likely you will crit people the higher you go.By the time you actually damage something to red, you'd likely kill them already by sheer damage.If you wanted pure module damage, wait for the char mle 75, whenever WG wants to stop putting it in release jail like BZ-176 and EBR 75 FL 10
>>1532082Squall is S tier if you have any concept of good light tank play. That gun is an absolute monster, your HE deletes bourrats, other LTs, and any paper TDs with 1600 alpha at 50 pen, and even when you're not doing that your standard AP is 800 with 182mm
These holiday gamers are genuinely awful. Hate being on these teams where it's just a 1v29.
>>1532780>shit damage if firing from distance>long exposure time>big as a boat as a lt, can't compete with elc while taking a lt slotLol
>>1532781yea i feel u
>>1511442Man that old garage brings back memories
>>1532781>>1532831We posting good games?
>>1532926>doesn't have paris blacklistedI didn't know it was possible to hate yourself that much, anon
>>1532969>not banning mountain pass, ensk and empire border
>>1532969Sorry, I'm only blacklisting mines, and that chinese wall map whenever I get the second slot.
>>1532969For me, it's Cliffs. Lame ass hulldown map with 1/3 of the map closed off to water, and the 1/2 line camped by TDs content with sitting there for 8+ minutes
for me it's Paris and Ensk, however I'm considering replacing Ensk with airfield Why did they have to ruin that perfectly good map?
>>1533476Airfield is shit but at least u don't lose in 3 mins like ensk.
>>1531775I got 250 gold and 1(won) day of premium
>>1534698Hell yeah, dude! Huge!And mine went exactly as expected.
Bruhhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyW0BdLIaqA
>>1535198>better maps>better balance changes>godawful new tankswhat's up with lesta?
>steppes assault defense>go to the most OP position in the entire map (hills on southeast edge)>2 nigs already there, bickering with each other in chat>slide in behind them to peak and take shots>they collectively turn their rage at me for existing in the same space as them>tfw neither of them, in their fast tanks, bothered to hide behind the rock on the hill just in front of the bushes they were sharing>tfw they chose to be stupid and blamed everyone but themselves for it
Holiday grind is comfy
these are the faggot niggers that write "useless team" in the chat
>>1535948Not worth bitching about holiday teams that much atm. I got curious and re-downloaded XVM after a while and both teams are a sea of red and orange players, playing during NA prime time.
>>1535953You should always use xvm unless you anonymize your name to not getting focused for having purple stats.
>>1531775Same result with a tier 3 premium shitter
>>1535315Turn off all extra mode if u want to have stable winrate retard.
>>1535315Turn off all extra modes if u want to have stable winrate retard.
>>1535953>>1536110I have never used XVM and what I could get from the in game chat and forumites is that they whine when their number is lower than the enemy number why would anyone want that?
>>1536162It show the stats of everyone, doesn't matter if u use xvm or not. It helps to make the right play if ypur team is full of retards.
T7 is fun, didn't think I had to carry 2 cheeto SPs
>>1536510Gj
>>1536114>>1536116You have skill issue if you actually need to do this. Regardless, the issue wasn't even with the mode and their retardation would've manifested just as easily in a standard battle on the same map since the same position is also OP there.
Prokhorovka moment
>>1536685>assault mode>most of the team decided to camp till timeout>skill issue Retard, have fun with 5% lower wr.
>complains if you pick non-meta tanks>complains if you pick optional randoms types>complains if you don't feel like complainingis every statpadding illiterate tard on EU like this nowadays? the only time WR matters is when you need to auto-apply for a clan, and even then stating your WTR/WN8 in an application form is more importantI don't have assault on but if you understand how maps change due to it you can dominate consistently
>>1537511You don't need to be a whiny statpadder to know that you're a mouthbreathing subhuman if you're not good enough to get at least a 51% winrate
Speaking of rating, i took a look at one of the monthly WOT reports they send to your email and having 7700 WTR means being in the top 6% of the playerbase.I always thought 7700~ WTR was like top 25%, but top 6% means the playerbase is worse than I thought, or that I surrounded myself in unicum echo chambers.
>>1537633Reports sent to your email? What, never heard of anything like that
>>1537633>Thus, “green players” are the TOP-10%, “turquoise players” are the TOP-1% and, “violet players” are the TOP-0,1%.from the XVM site itselfsaid top 10% starts at 6.6k WTR so yeah, most players are middling or badI do find it interesting that actual tomatoes are a minority at 20% compared to orange and yellow stats being 40% and 30% respectively
>>1536317>if ypur team is full of retards.the secret is you always assume your team is full of retards
https://youtu.be/S4nrKMDk7fsThis guy is the only wot cc with good humor
>a tier VIII premium TD>spends the whole match trying to drive up clearly impassable cliffsides around the map>0 shots fired>0 hits received>0 assist>1,35 km traveled>check stats after the game>mfwThis must be what encountering an eldritch abomination would feel like.
>>1539204Lmao
who is gabler and what is he destroying?
>>1539281Based climbGOD
Reminder that ch*ms is terminally seething about the fact some other wot cc's friend had an anime pfp.
>>1540272he's a retarded arab-canadian so he can't into animethat's one of his few shortcomings
>animation of kicking a bottle lid offwhy?
I've not played in a few years, what are the *fun* tanks currently?
>>1540357Skoda T17 is one I can remember off the top of my head. like the T25 but at a tier higher with light tank stats and 2 extra shells in its clip for 10 less damage. the autocannon lights that come after it are a bit harder to play but are still fun, especially the Bleskthere's a japanese TD line now too, with high alpha guns and decent armor. the tier 7 is busted and is basically the old T18 but with slightly less damage and speed tier for tier. all of the tanks in that line play wellthe K91 line received major buffs and its tanks are relevant now in randoms. the BC25t is back to being semi-meta thanks to a much higher shell count and better dispersion values. and some other lines like the american mediums have also been given a nudge in order to return to being playable in randoms they also added the GuP BT-42 into the game as a premium tier V light. its howitzer shreds everything a tier lower than it and cripples same-tier tanks, all while having well-rounded stats for a scout. turret traverse and dispersion values are pretty horrific though
>>1540357Game shifted to burst damage over DPM so autoloaders generally
>>1540379Thanks, I'll have to rush the Czech & jap lines.>>1540397Armour even more worthless then?
tankbros... it's over...
>>1540577Armor still okay for bouncing unaimed shots, but yeah generally worthless to anyone shooting gold ammo.The only tank that remain gold-proof is still this king, WG still have not released it to the general public since the nerf.
>>1540597why does he like assault to begin with? half the people playing on offense don't realize the defending team wins when the timer runs out and camp for no reason
I can't take it anymoreI've been playing WoT since like it came out and shit is so fucking retarded bad now I don't know what to doI took like a year or two break now I'm back and the current state of the game is so shit, I really WANT to play tanks, but it feels like I'm just in a torture chamber instead.Everything's premium.Everything's an auto reloader, or a double barrel with impenetrable armor.Everything is faster than light tanks.Every shot I fire misses or bounces.Every shot headed my way tracks me and fucks me.I'll have an entire team lit as a light, nobody will fire at them.I'll be lit and instantly die.I wanted to buy the boxes this year (mostly because it's a good $/gold value, I don't even factor in the other shit at all) but I can't bring myself to do that.How can I justify spending $100 this year on WoT when every fucking round is pure garbage? What happened to this game?
>>1540946If u spend your money mm will be better. Jk it's retard season, i have 65% wr normally and now i barely break 50%. Just grind credit.
>>1540953I'm at the point where I yolo for credits because actually playing is a waste of my time, but the problem is I don't see anything improving when all the christmas tourists leave.In the bourrasque the Squall basically counters it. It moves faster, gets to places first, has more engine power and can push me out into the open while we're both reloading even if the Squall is pushing a bourra UPHILL.There's literally nothing you can do to an XM57 in any normal tier 8 unless you shoot gold and get lucky.I am grinding credits at the moment but I feel like I'm wasting my time because the game just isn't fun. I want it to be, but it isn't.I've had countless matches where ALL 4 SHOTS in Lorraine 40 t miss on stationary mid range distance targets and that shit is unacceptable to me. I also hit enemy light tanks often but do zero damage, armor not penetrated, ricochet, tracks eat it (without immobilizing them lmao) and that shit makes me want to play War Thunder but War Thunder is cancer.I want World of Tanks not World of Rigged Bullshit and I haven't played a single match in the past 30 days that felt like an honest fucking game.
>>1540962Find a clan and start platoon with people better or at least same skill level at you. It makes the game better and less frustrating. It's the reason why i haven't stopped playing this season.
>>1540962Lmao borat shitter tears
>>1540946pray that the 0.9.5 server reverse-engineering project that some random slavs were working on didn't get shuttered by WG for good on KoreanRandomthat, or just wait till holiday ops is over and all the credit grinding lemmings go away
>>1540962>this shitter borat got outspotted by the squallTop kek, here is a tip, bring cvs, bond stab and bond optics
>>1540962I yolo in my premiums too, you just have to take one of the plethora of autoloader premiums or heavy tanks and run it down asapI wouldn't play bourrasque personally, too much going against it for yolo credit grinding>poor standard ammo pen>obnoxious gun handling and accuracy>low clip potentialYou can play it right and get 180k~ credit games... but it's easier to yolo in two tanks and get 80k - 100k per game in that same amount of timeframe.
>>1540962>>1542014I forgot to add the lorraine 40t is horrible too, it has the old 100mm SA47 french gun that was even well known back in the day for being absolute ass.What else do you have that isn't bourrasque or lorraine 40t? If you have none, what loadout on lorraine 40t?
I'm new and I might get a couple of tier 5 premiums, would the Churchill and Excelsior be good picks?
>>1542292The Churchill 3 is absolutely busted with the right equipment and full gold spam. But like any tank below tier 8, it doesn't make much credit. I would say save your money and buy a td like ka ri or borat. Ka ri is more forgiving with some armor and as td. Borat is busted but has high skill ceiling.
This is my first ever rating, most of the playerbase for this game must be completely retarded lol. Though I have played about 1500 hours in War Thunder and am also now playing this so I guess that includes me too.>>1542295Ok will check one of those out with the churchill, thanks.
>>1542335Gj, that's really high for someone new. I was mingling around 5k wgr for my first 5-7k battles.
>outpost>playing MT>crossing left border >line of assault TDs forms on the hill>spot all 3 enemy TDs >all friendly shots miss >light MTs join with my TDs>enemy MTs join with TDs >enemy is not moving from hill>enemy is not damaged from fire>castle taken by enemy >town captured by enemy >do 3K damage before I'm eventually overrun>TDs get overrun and die doing 800 damage each I miss obnoxiously pinging the map, you can only call your teammates niggers only so much until you are chat banned for 3 days
>>1542335you are given your statisticsuser input has no effect on thingsrng accuracyrng shell velocityrng penetrationrng damageyou're not good you are luckythe sooner you realize that the better
https://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/general-news/holiday-ops-gift-december-2024/
There are rumors from WOT Express that 60TP will be nerfed in the upcoming 2025 balance changes.My spectulation: It seems like either it was 60TP was too meta in competitive formats (low-mid ELO onslaught and clan wars), and/or it was too popular in random battles, at the time of this writing the 60TP is the most played HT in tier 10 for EU.I feel like T110E5, Batchat 25t, Ho-Ri 3 and Centurion AX will be on that nerfing block too.
Is the Caernarvon Action X a shit premium?
>>1542835>bat-chat, ho-ri and AXfuck did they do? BC barely got buffed and is now a healthy kind of meta tank in skirms and CW again. ho-ri filled the jagdpizza/bobject role just by being a good enough all-rounder armored TD, and the AX still lags behind in relevance60TP isn't that strong either, but since having 10 of them per team is considered CW meta I can understand why WG would want to nerf it
>>1542848It's terrible. Permatracking is not a thing anymore and meta shifted to burst damage over DPM
>>1542835Wot express is total bogus now, they were speculating that wot is dead next year but nope.
>>1542546Same, still on 3 days ban.
Who was the big lootbox winner besides WG? I think XM57. You see two or three every match.
>>1542546Always remember: this is not a team game. Those green dudes are not allies, but obstacles and competition. Machiavellian mindset is required.>>1542664>jay-son>gee-sorThink I see what they were trying to do. Very lame naming convention for those gift tanks, though. Could've done something creative.
>>1543282Winner is debatable, but Losers are Squall and Toro.Squall is handicapped by 55 km/h top speed and giant size making it very easy to counterspot and shoot at.Toro is high skill ceiling that requires a shit ton of investment for the gun to be bearable. I have a 5 skill crew in it with food and I still regularly get pissed at the Toro gun handling and accuracy. Toro is a """sidescraping"""" tank, but every penetration through the side means ammorack or fuel tank fire.
>>1540962Hah, please post your tomato.gg. I like seeing just how poorly people manage to do on the borat.
>>1543282XM is tardproof like the E3 and has cheap gold rounds, so it's definitely the most toxic one out of the bunchcontradictious and toro are fun to play and aren't overtuned, though the latter needs bond equipment or a top-tier crew in order to work. BZT seemed to be OP at first but it's not all that strong in reality.squall is kind of fucked. no speed, huge size and subpar spotting capabilities. the blesk unironically mogs it in terms of light tank capabilities
Feels good to be a king
>>1543524Gg, I'm still stuck at spg mission.
>all these platoons on wot official discord>shitter still crying that they have no one to play with
>>1543444when I feel like trying I usually have 55% and 1200-1400 wn8you still get games when you fire 20 shots and zero hit due to RNGthis shit pisses me off and is why I don't bother most of the time
I just realized crew perks are free to reset now, and it ends in 7 days.I'd like to reset every crew member I have, is there an easy way to do this? in bulk?I have a bunch I want to adjust but don't expect to get through them all manually withuot it taking a lot of time.
>>1543799barracks -> reset all perksI personally didn't do it and hand-picked every crew but that's me being a tard
>>1543800Oh cool, that's perfect. Thanks.I see why it isn't done automatically (potential to be annoying if unwanted) but it's definitely worth it in the long run for me since I have so many crews with suboptimal perks.
Tanks you love that you're not really supposed to love?
forgive me father, for I have sinned
>>1543817Blesk gudLight tank that can ignore armor gud
>lost every gamesee you next Christmas WoT...
>>1544160>quitting this soonYou're ngmi and forever be a noob.
>>1543823Play whatever you find fun>>1543817T57 heavy, i didn't think i could play a ht with no armor but that 1600 burst is sick, just find unaware enemy, peek and boom boom boom boom, you have 2660 hp with bond hardening and maxed out field mods so taking a shot is no problem. I'm averaging 4k on it.
Hmm today I will clip an unaware 1750hp tank with my 6 shot 300 alpha gun.Also>dream of getting one-shot by arty>wake up upset
>>1543393squall kicks ass with my 6 skill crew, I love melting other LTs + bourrats + skorpshitters, and the camo/VR is more than good enough to passive scout if you're map aware enough to play around your lower top speed
>>1544463I wish I had the squall. I am playing the blesk recently and it gives me old T49 152mm derp gun vibes.Being able to anti-scout ELC EVEN 90 is great, but the HE pen on the blesk can’t go through the front of bourrasques and batchat 12t so I’m stuck waiting until those players make a positioning mistake. I find this more fun than my EBR and RHM PZW
>>1544510You're not gonna anti-scout for shit. Any competent elc or manticore with bond exhaust, bond optics and cvs will outspot you and get you killed first.
Now that we all can claim the GSOR TANK, what equipment and perks should be used on it?
>>1544562you should play it as much as possible so I can continue skullfucking you and all the other morons driving it with my cobra
>>1544562Sell it for 1k credit.
Can't decide if I like Winter raid or if it's shit. I'll play either way as a I want bonds.
>>1544586it's ok but far from being the best event mode. classes are meant to use rock-paper-scissors mechanics but end up being imbalanced (go support if you want to do nothing all game long). the map gets boring quickly and doesn't really offer a lot in terms of gameplay opportunities. it's fun but I wouldn't be playing more than 3 games of it if it weren't for the neat attachments and rewardsstill better than winter showdown, lmao. fucking OP gold rounds that healed your teammates in a mode meant to be fun. what a way to shittify the best april fools event there was (karl v karl)
>>1544586it's shitlike almost every eventand wot itself is shitUNLIKE every other online gamewot is shitbecause wot is shitthe server tickrate is like 10 ticks a second and this means everything is slow as fucking shittanks also don't have smooth turningit's 0% steering to instant 100% steeringthis means things like taking smooth gradual turns are impossibleunironically if you could use a controller input or joystick at least for the tank movement instead of wasd/r/space the game would feel a lot nicerespecially ON ICE in damn the christmas map and with the lightssame issue in regular wot for non-hacker tankschar mle for example slides around and will happily flip itself over hitting the tiniest bump and the turning is too abrupt with binary steering/notsteering WASD controls so it feels like absolute fucking crap 100% of the timethe christmas gamemode/map isn't bad because it's badit's bad because it's WoT.
>>1544693WoT console was fun because controller input added clunkiness to everything. analog sticks allowed for smooth tank steering and weighty aiming, something that's simply not possible with any other input type. keyboard/mouse WoT is basically a third person shooter but your character has arthritis and moves like a slug.
>>1544697They should add controller/joystick input support to PC, not doing so is idiotic.Lots of pc gamers own alternative input devices for vehicle games so it absolutely would be put to use.Steering with A/D is cancer. Always has been. Only works... barely... because most tanks are slow. When they become fast, it becomes straight up retarded.EBRs are hacking cheater vehicles that are glued to the ground without any physics. Tanks, on the other hand, are severely impacted by the shit steering.
>>1544701I don't think it'd make for a better experience. with the exception of steering it'd be a handicap
>>1544702You can use joysticks along with a mouse for aiming.Analog trigger for acceleration would be fucking AMAZING in tanks with lots of gun bloom while moving, let you slightly crawl forward to shoot without obliterating your dispersion.I know you can tap R to slowly accel but that's very awkward compared to a gentle squeeze on a controller's trigger input that you can let go or go full throttle at any time.
>>1544708I use cruise control for stuff like that (R/F). still, would be nice for tanks with hydropneumatic suspensions like the STB
>>1544523There are plenty of bad light tank players to prey upon atm. For the competent LT players I can identify with XVM and adjust accordingly. >manticoreYou're actually seeing tier 10 light tanks atm? About 95% of the game I'm playing in Blesk have been 3-4 tier 8 LTs per game due to the sheer amount of tier 8s in queue this holiday season.If I do match into manticore for whatever reason my team also have a tier 10 LT too.On another note, holy fuck is the XM57 being spammed hard across all servers. No wonder why I'm hating HT gameplay atm.
GSOR the KEK!!!
The christmas missions are bullshit.Steal 25 presents in a carrier using stealth?Oh guess what, no credit. None. Zero.Unless you also successfully delive them.
umm.... guys?I've been collecting my resources daily and I just realized I think I might be collecting useless shit now.It seems like this year there's no way to convert excess resources into gift terminal tokens, and I already bought all the decorations, completed Jason's missions, bought the skins in the shop, and idk what to spend the rest of my resources on now. I have over 6K of each and don't see any way to spend them.WHAT DO?
>>1545618Are you retarded, in the token machine screen, there is a get token text on the right side of the screen. You can trade 2k resources for 1 token
>>1545649wtf that shit literally changed todayI was looking multiple times before and it always said you earn them from missions/etc and there was no way to buy themit's right there now, but it was NOT before
>>1542835Next on the list is M-V-Y buffs. Curious to see how much they will follow Lesta buffs, as their buffed M-V-Y was meta afterwards.https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2024/02/06/wot-ru-patch-1-25-balance-changes-to-the-m-v-y-branch/Also >only three branchesBalancing team hard at work again.
>>1546024I legitimately haven't seen this one in pubs, started going up the line for the BP at the start of the year for the cool skin but stayed at T8 because I like it with the 90mm gun
>>1546029I haven't either, sometimes I thought about going down this line too but it's just a shittier E5 atm.If it's an entire branch left for buffs now, I hope it will be either one of the japanese heavy tank lines or the czech light tanks...
>>1546029problem with the YOH TANKS is that they're 2 gimmicks that run opposite of eachother slapped onto one tank. you get tracks that should never be shot at due to weak hull armor, and you got a turret housing an ok gun with ok soft stats that can be penned in the hinges. it's just silly
The fact artillery still exists is proof this game is beyond saving.
The WG stream of the ‘future of world of tanks 2025’ is starting in 9 minutes.https://youtube.com/watch?v=aVAgoHHc-Sw
>>1546762>not even a 1 minute teaserDEAD GAME
>>1546777>3 more maps with random event>the brit double barrels brit ht
>>1546785Some people think it’s personal missions 3.0 which would be cool. I got the 260 and 279e several years ago and I would like another set of challenges to work towards.
>>1546793Oh yea i kind of missed it. There is rebalancing old tanks too
1:40 EXP conversion sale active for the next 4 days, until Dec 26th.Decent time to stock up free EXP for the next assembly tank. You'll need 1 million free exp if only using it as resource since it is the most efficient currency outside of blueprints; With this conversion bonus it costs 25,000 gold for 1 mil free exp.(DO NOT USE GOLD OR BONDS)Previous assembly shop calculator: https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/assembly-shop-4-2024/
>playing World of Artillery in 2025Why haven't you moved to War Thunder yet? I can understand playing World of Warships though since that is actually better than WT's naval mode.
>>1546824>getting clicked on from across the map?>psh, why don't you play OTHER GAME where you get clicked on from across the map with worse grind Sure buddy, I'll do just that
>>1546824I played GRB up to BR 6.3 and quit again after getting tired of the CAS and literalwho tank spam.sure love having every BR range be infested by poopensharten single-prototype-built guns on trucks who camp one spot of the map and wait to ambush half the other team. before J'ing out after 1 kill so they spawn in one of their 5 backup planes with multiple 1-ton bombs strapped to each one
>>1546819But we are poor, anon
>>1546824You need to go back
This game is absolute fucking shit. I fucking hate it. I fucking hate it. I fucking hate it and the developers. I just want to play some tanks and have some fun, but no, uptiers every game, every single fucking game, and if it's not an uptier? It's two fucking uptiers! One is bad enough, you need to buy gold to penetrate fucking anything, against two you have no fucking shot at all. And then, if you do get into a fair fight, you can fucking forget that, as the moment you get spotted you get fucking artied by 3 fucking boring camping cucks sitting at the map, stunning you so you can't do fuck all and await until the inevitable overrun from from the enemy team. Or on the other hand, if you're on the "lucky" winning side, you can roll up the map and spot enemies, perhaps even get a shot in on them before the boring camping cucks on your team spam arty on the tanks you just spotted, making you a glorified spotter in a game where you just want to play tanks. Don't get me started at all on the aggressive predatory lootboxes and gambling mechanics, that aren't random at all and are just adjusted on the fly depending on whether or not you are currently playing the game and captive, or if you have just reinstalled the game again after an absence they decide to throw you a bone so you stick around. Playing this piece of shit makes me incredibly angry and depressed at what it could be, but what it actually is. Fuck the devs, fuck all of you for playing it and fuck me for being stupid enough to sink any time into it at all.
>>1546824If you think the artillery is bad in this game, then you are naive to the absolute faggorty that is artyniggers in War Thunder where they can just oneshot you by just clicking on even the heaviest parts of armor without having to aim for weakpoints and it instantly kills. When you have shit like M109s that can oneshot mauses in the turret face that have no armor to a point that if you don't have HE loaded or get a direct hit on their ammo, your rounds are just gonna pass through them without doing much damage when APHE fuses don't hit enough armor to activate.
>>1547103i actually read through all of this and you didn't have the courtesy of stating what tier or tank you were playingput more effort into that blob of text
>>1547143It's possible to oneshot heavy tanks in WT with SP howitzers and the like via overpressure but it requires you to hit specific points on the tank which becomes pretty hard to do over distances and may just explode harmlessly or bounce if you miss. They also require line of sight. There is also actual artillery strikes in WT you can call in which don't tend to kill unless you're in lower tiers and are telegraphed by smoke about 15 seconds, basically designed to get campers to move out of a location rather than outright kill, a much more preferable method of using arty in a war game for gameplay balance than in WoT, that's a matter of taste though which is fine, but it's not for me. I know things won't change but at the same time I don't intend to stick around any longer to be bothered by it.>>1547148Tier 5 and 6 medium tanks. Activated some boosters for some tier 6 games for currency grind, all my games in the hour were uptiers and got a bunch of games against tier 8 tanks as well, just complete bullshit trying to beat tanks with double my HP and armor values. Game should only uptier you by 1 level. Very cynical way of ensuring that my boosters don't result in much value.
>>1547165>it requires you to hit specific points on the tank which becomes pretty hard to doBullshit. They're more of a point and click adventure than the german's long 75s and 88s despite having lower gun velocities when hitting something that isn't a volumetric nightmare like panthers and king tigers they kill it. One thing WoT does better than WT is arty plays like artillery should, as a long range support against stationary targets. In WT they just gokart around because their true purpose cannot be done with how WT gameplay works.
>>1547165WG have been waffling with the idea of +1/-1 MM, and content creators are starting to clamor for it so maybe in the future...I don't think you have as much fun at tier 8+, the matches get more steamroll-y with everyone having maxed out view ranges and significantly fasterTiers 5-7 is closest to old WOT, and if it doesn't make you happy it's probably not the game for you
>>1547181I ran some analysis with a typical arty piece against a tank at the same battle rating, you do have to hit certain points of the tank otherwise nothing will happen. If angled, the risk of detonation and kill would be even lower.
>>1547188>if getting railed by evens, borats, bzs, turtles, shitpacks and now xms without any chance of retaliation doesn't make you happy it's probably not the game for youYou know what? Fair enough.
>>1547165tier 6 mediums are pretty fun so I understand your frustration. they altered MM so that tier 8s wouldn't be uptiered all the time but inadvertently make tier 6 and 7 suffer more. tier 8s are also designed to fight tier 10 now so the gap in performance is even bigger. and if you get matched against lights or mediums with CVS? yeah, say goodbye to playing sneakily in a cromwell+1/-1 MM might become a reality in the future but for now just try and play around the fact you're weaker. supporting flanks, getting surprise shots from different angles and positions, whatever is possible. of course shitty 3-lane corridor maps won't do you a favor, but if you get himmels or prok you've got a nice playing area for being an annoying little fly against the big bad tier 7s and 8s.
>start of winter break>x5 xp out of no whereThe game is actually unplayable now. Thanks, jewgaming.
XM57 broke heavy tank gameplay for me. Having even tier 10 heavies afraid of pushing into them makes the heavy flank so stagnant and boring.For BZ-176 at least you could pen them in the cupola, or just push into them if playing something relatively armored and fast. XM57s actually park around corners like a tomato and wait for people to drive in front of them and hope for a losing battle so they farm 3000 damage per battle.
>>1546024More possible leaks, the last few are E 100 and Type 71. (Somehow there's a 3rd branch buff)I'm not sure what they would do for the E100... maybe the removal of the weakspot on the rangefinder bar at the top of the turret?
>>1547247I like mine it makes me happy
>>1547294>maybe the removal of the weakspot on the rangefinder bar at the top of the turret?This game went to total shit once weakspots got removed from tanks, we don't need more of that
>>1546819um excuse me....did we not just have 1:100 the other week?gold for free xp is always cucked paypig behavior (play more games, get free xp for free, not spend $$$ to play the game less? lol?) but 1:40 is not much better than your standard 1:35 sale.
I finally got 65 drops tokens, which Tier VII is the best buy?I don't have eny of the three.The Steyr WT seems like it might be fun but I don't know how it actually plays, and the tits on it seem like they'd get in the way a lot. Goes from 8 to 2 degrees of depression? really? that might be a deal breaker but I guess it has 8 degrees on all other sides than the front and the rear so maybe it's not a problem.
>>1549596tits do in fact hinder gun depression but they're rather small. IS-2M and VK are alright but do you really want to play a heavy with meh armor that's going to have to fight impenetrable tier 8s and 9s?
>>1547247I fucking hate this tank. You get penetrated no matter what. At least bz-176 won't penetrate your HT so easily.
>>15495371:100 is a personalized offer for some accounts, and there’s a hard limit of 300k before it reverts back iirc. Would be nice if I got it but i never got it to pop.>>1549596I took the VK 45.03. Comfy heavy medium hybrid with -9 gun depression. Credit earning feels pretty high, almost as much as the lower end of tier 8 premiums. I thought about IS-2m but I would rather play the tech tree chinese IS-2 with the better prem ammo on it.
Assault TD moment
>>1550567You still have a high chance of winning at least. That VK could push and hold line 0 instead of camping behind, the city already had enough tanks.
for some reason my anti-aliasing setting isn't being saved....When I launch WoT I have to change it and then re-enable it because it has zero. Jaggies all over.I'm using the older engine becuse it looks cleaner IMO.The setting persists through sessions but when I exit and re-launch tanks, it gets reset to 0 MSAA.How do I fix this?
>>1551145anti-aliasing in WoT is terrible anyway. it's either FXAA or TSSAA and both cause ghosting artifacts and afterimages. I suggest you try and use a GPU app like NVidia Control Panel or whatever AMD's equivalent is to add their own AA technique in
>>1551322No, you're wrong.The regular client has MSAA and on Ultra it uses Transparency AA which can admittedly shrek your performance when in bushes in sniper mode.Nu-WoT has bad AA.Original client has it good.Sadly, there's no simple 200% render scale option.They have it set to let us render lower but not up any which sucks.I'd like to disable AA and just run at 200% scale but we can't.Also, no, I don't wanna NVIDIA DSR for that because the UI scaling in this game just uses bilinear filtering to upscale the UI elements and they get blurred.
>>1551331understood. haven't used the potato client in ages
>>1551331I did some testing and it turns out they have managed to botch the 1x display scaling since last time I checked. Some elements (notably Equipment icons in the garage) are crisper at native 1x scaling but many other things appear to have been improved so it's more of a mixed bag now.Wasn't the case in the past but I guess if it's like this with some improvements at 4K and some downgrades at native, I might just start using DSR scaling for this game.
>>1511442Update 1.27.1 common test notes are out.https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/updates/1-27-1-CT/60TP got the gun accuracy nerfed, reloading time slowed down and also lost 100 base hp.I didn't expect to see Tiger (P) armor and mobility buffs, it's really nice.
>>1551694biggest wins of the update>multiple stock grinds improved or shortened for tech trees>many buffs to tier 5-9 tanks that were terrible to get through>JP heavies buffed to a competitive state with appropriate changes>moar frontline with no dumb changesmeh/mixed parts>M-V-Y buffed to the point of almost being overbuffed. will have to wait and see whether or not it'll be overperforming>60TP nerfed but in a way that retains the tank's annoying aspects (high alpha gun with HEAT pen up the ass and strong turret)>british salvo heavies of varying quality, tier 9 being the next followed by tier 10, 8 and 7, the last two being a bit subpar and amounting to blueprint sinks>new onslaught variants are interesting; prok is altered to have houses and foilage along the center ridgeline allowing for engaging gameplay, good enough for randoms toonegatives>E 100 buffed to the point it's foolproof>a lot of buffs and additions being focused around boring hull-down heavies...>worthless battle rating system that gives WG no info>more onslaught
>>1551736forgot this but>many fun and viable guns removed from tanks alltogetherwhy did the VK 36 need to have its 75mm Waffe removed? it was the best gun on that tank and now you're forced to use the Tiger's 88 which is far more unwieldy. and why remove derps from high tiers too?
>>1551738Derp gun is borderline useless after HE nerf, wtf are you talking about.
>>1551736M-V-Y buffs still seem kinda underwhelming to the T110E5, Top speed / vehicle classification didn't change like Lesta. 310mm HEAT pen is pretty bad and the hull is kind of cheese still.E100 buffs are a lot more noteworthy, the extra 10mm on the turret face makes it way better against 340 HEAT pen, maus is mogged
>>1551736The tier 10 double barrels brit is the new chieftain. - 12 degrees of gun depression and impenetrable turret.
>>1551751I was taking a look at the FV230 Canopener myself - it is weirdly armored pretty well against 340 pen HEAT even on flat ground. Makes the M-V-Y buffs even more of a joke IMOhttps://tanks.gg/v12710ct/tank/canopener/model?vm=hybridLive&cs=113&cl=0000010
>>1551745not even technically, it's still good. HE needs a bit more finesse with aiming but other than that it's hardly any worse than it was pre-1.13. only annoying parts are getting armor not hits/screens not penetrated on shitty tank layouts, but that happens with HEAT and AP anyway>>1551746why they decided to buff the armor, I'll never know. all a player needed to do was apply angling and bait HEAT shots, now it's completely foolproof and nothing can pen the E 100 unless it YOLOs for the lower plate and eats 150mm of ass>>1551751it's annoying but I'd never call it chieftain-level busted. the cupola, no matter how small, is weak and you have a bulge in the hull that can be penned easily. even a shitbarn or deathstar with AP can pen the turret frontally if they're lucky enough.
RNG is a stupid fucking nigger.
>>1551756what the fuck are they thinking with these armor layouts, holy shit
>>1552007I'm not sure, all this canopener tank needs to do is depress the gun -3 degrees and the engine weakspot disappears while the sloped front goes 350mm+ effective armor.Since the gun mantlet moves when depressing the gun, you can also pull a reverse kranvagn technique (right picture) and depress the gun all the way to cover the cupola while peeking or after firing and gain protection.For reference, think of the left image as the canopener on a defensive hill position, because most of the time you aren't going to get that close to them and have to engage by distance. The mantlet blocks off 90% of the cupola, so you have to pray for a pixel shot on the far left, or somehow hit the middle of the gun mantlet through the guns, and also high roll the penetration check because it is 350mm effective armor.This is not some a niche scenario where you have to sit back for the armor to work like this, This is the canopener simply using -5 gun depression out of the -10 gun depression it has. It's absolutely chieftain level of busted with how the cupola disappears while being able to fire back at enemies.
Death to all tankersDeath to all tankersDeath to all tankersDeath to all tankersDeath to all tankersDeath to all tankersDeath to all tankers
>>1552749Nah i don't think i will.
why is chems posting so much videos, holy shit
>>1554808december is the best time to post on youtube because the amount of interaction and watch time increases drasticallyhe hoards video content for the entire year so he can dump it all in december for max ad revenue and buy HOps boxes lmao
>>1552869>admitting to being a tankerYour funeral.
>>1554808>open a video>skip to random part>it's blasting autotune nigger mumblesyeah idk how people watch this faggot
Turbocharger is the new meta!
Any new upcoming events before/after New Year?
>>1555329ass shopfrontline (late feb probably)a possible marathonand a chinese new year lootbox fiesta, probably
https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/specials/get-ready-for-2025-discounts-mission/50% consumables and equipment for the next 5 days. Make sure to stock up.>>1555329Gotta wait for the monthly report when january comes
>>1555680I've been waiting for this!No discount on directives though, get fucked)))))))))
>>1554808He is based
>>1555987Directive sale would've been based, but not there sadly...I picked up approx 1000~ games worth of food and like 6 coated optics equipment. Once I get more food for my american and russian tanks I'm tossing in the credit grinding, despite it lasting until Jan 13 2025 and like 300~ credit boosters leftI'm so fed up with yoloing premium heavies at this point.
Total tanker death.
>>1555999Very funny, chems.
Fucking glowniggers GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY GAMES
Can't wait to have to skip the brit tier 9 double barrel because its turret is shit
Are the christmas boxes a good value this year?I think I bought $100 worth when the Char Mle was a thing. Mainly for the gold+premium days.
>>1556561No lootbox filler makes it better since its new tanks only. Gold value depends on how lucky you are with getting the low tier tanks to drop as dupes.In terms of new tank playrates, it's:XM57 > DZT-159 > Squall > Contradictious > Toro
>94% mark of excellence on the tiger (p)time to throw it
>>1556929MOEs literally prove nothing just so you know.I know people might think they're a sign of a good player but they truly are not.They're so easy to manipulate with premium ammo/consumables and a platoon willing to protect you but let you farm the damage vs stealing your kills.For them to mean anything platooned battles shouldn't count and the battle count should be over 250 battles, not just 100.
>>1556944I like funny stripes on my favorite tanks. This is for personal satisfaction, I am well aware no one else gives a damn about MOEs that aren't on meta tanks, and even then only compfags care for those.Tiger P best tiger.
>>1556944Huge cope
>>1557062if you're on NA there's basically no point to bragging about marks if you don't have VODs of you doing it. there's incessant amounts of paid rigging done to get themeven now with EU getting new servers, you're seeing the same pattern be repeated in the east-ier yuro servers like it always has for south america
>>1557074Well I'm talking about doing it honestly. Paid for marks is one of the most shameful thing because you can't paid for skill and your tomato.gg stats show who you are immediately.
>>1557074It’s why for NA, the higher end clans specifically look for DPG instead of pure MOE instead.Also mentioned that tomato gg is pretty comprehensive and used to find abnormal trends relatively easily.
>Have some time free>Decide to play some tanks>Every game is a gold spam festWhy did I come back to this game, see you guys in 6 months when I have another retard moment I guess
>>1557701Git fucking gud. Buy the shitpak and learn how to play without armor.
I'd rather just not
Shitpak?
If you can't play around the gold spam you're too shit at the game to play anything with armor anyway. Just backline camp in a skorp g like the 48%er you are
RNG gods were merciful today, got all 3 missions + Jason mission at the cost of >car battery drained due to cold >no alternative transport to new years party>paper bag tearing and spilling new year party supplies >good winter jacket soaked with soup>emergency work at 7 in the morning
Switching from +2 mm to +1mm when, also WOT 2.0 when?
>>1557705Shitpak is fucking annoying to play. You have to put a lot more effort into it, while having gimped credit earning due to the sheer amount of ammo fired, against other tanks that out trade you, or out burst you due to autoloader meta.Shrek is simply outdated design, even after its DPM stat was pumped out to the max.
>>1558311might happen this year with WG teasing MM "improvements". 100% sure they'll find a way to screw it up but they're considering it, that's for sureas for WoT 2.0, there's a likelihood that the september 2025 date they announced in their latest teaser video is for a megapatch. lesta is making a 2.0-ish update for their game that's coming out soon with tier XI tanks and lots of other additions, but it's unrelated
>>1558314So at least half a year, one year more suffering with no real content update?
>>1558314I have no hope for those MM changes coming anytime soon. WG is full on milk mode and clearly don’t like rocking the boat seen with how conservative they are towards tank balancing.
>>1558314There will be some interesting stuff added.Those flamethrower tanks for example. I don't really see how they'll work on the other hand.Short range, probably paperthin armor.
>>1558312We get it anon, you've got a terminal skill issue
>>1558416For that TD, yup.I want to relax credit grinding, not sweat my balls off trying to maximize DPM. That type of gameplay is reserved for the tier 10s that I'm trying to fund.
>>1558490It's comfy af to play lmao.
How can you guys still play this shit game? If you play it, you know all the problems of it, and how shit WG are as devs.
>>1558511Shill me another large scale arena game and I'll consider it.
>>1558511Wot is unique af and there no game that can replace it. Shit on WG how you want but they managed to run it for over a decade now and even updated the game engine. They could just rugpull us and make wot 2.0
>>1556944>>1557062>>1557074>>1557081>>1557092Who the FUCK cares. They look cool
Anons, how many games can you play a day?I cap at 6-7 after that it's a drag.Also, why is this general so dead? I thought WOT was more popular.
>>1559625In my peak I could slam 60 battles but I has out after 20~ games max.For WOT, we went several years dead and started over again on a low traffic board. The rare WOT thread on /v/ fills up really fast in comparison.
>>1559625I'm done with the game when I complete the daily missionsIf these games are good, maybe 5-10 more games If there is a battlepass, I play until 5 levels are completed
>>1559625It's a very old niche game, people here have been playing it for years and tens of thousands of battles, hundreds for some. Old threads in vg were largely kept alive by bants, including local clan rivalry. At that point, people haven't lost all of their hope in WG. None of that could last forever. People left. Me, I don't even play outside of december holiday event anymore. Do my dailies, do something else.
>>1559625I play tank randomizer or terrorize people in my fv304 so around 20 games
Rape
>>1561669WRONG THREAD, ANONWRONG THREAD!!
>>1561669anon...
>>1561669giwtwm
Anyone having connection issues with wot recently?Store not loading, not connecting to servers etc.?
>>1561921Are you on EU? A couple of weeks ago it got absolutely unplayable with packet loss, I noticed that TTL decreased by like 9 or 10 from normal (40-something instead of 53 I usually get). That means a few additional hops in the route. But in the next 2 days it got sorted out by itself. It was a routing issue, no idea who to blame, but that stuff is out of end user's control.2 suggestions: try another server, try a vpn server situated in Luxembourg/Amsterdam, depending on your preferred EU server.
>>1561939>try another serverThat fixed it, auto selection always tried to connect to the fucked server
Oh boy, holiday wot premium expired, now I'm being mm'd into the losing teams.
I hate credit grindingI hate credit grinding
>>1564543I'm not even playing outside of major events for this exact reason.Especially without a premium account I'm getting this treatment.: >>1561971
The Asia server sucks so much it's unreal. EU fags is playing on easy mode.
>>1566079Yeah, I just took a look at the 30 day mm stats, asian tier IX & VIII basically don't see tier VII and VI, respectively. This is unplayable...
>>1566203Yea and you get a lot less tourists to farm. You have to work your ass off and pray mm too because there are fucking bots farming credit ruining your game.
This game involves a lot of penetration.That makes it hella gay.
>>1566294Perhaps the same could be said about all military games.>>1566234I'm on EU, just taking the piss. Can you imagine, though: playable mid tiers.
>>156629499% of tanks are male. it's true. female tanks died out after the interwar period
Play tier 7s. Being middle tiered is fun and the perfect blend between tank variety and casual/comp ratio.Tier 8 and 10 gets super boring with same tier matches...Picture is EU 30 day recents from today. NA is nearly the same trend outside of having more seal-clubby tier 6 stats.
>>1567000Play mid tier is boring because I'm too good, there is no challenge. I get 70% wr easily platoon with my bros.
>>1567148>platooning with your brosNo wonder. It’s a bit more interesting playing solo.Ironically, being top tier in tier 7 is the worst. I would rather bottom tier against tier 9s than suffer low tier arty shell barrages
>bought 12 boxes>got lucky, got one of the high tier premiums>It's the XM57Shouldn't complain but fuck I wanted the squall/dzt
>>1567240I would trade my squall for your xm any day.
>>1567240>retard >gets a retard tankChecks out.
>>1567240I got all five lootbox tanks and the only ones I take out on a regular basis are the british double barreled tank and squall.DZT is OP but I realized I don't really like tier 9s in general.
>>1567245Miyabi would never
>activated wot+ free trial at the start of holiday ops>it didn't motivate me to play any more than I already was>tfw it's about to expireThe only valuable thing in wot+ is equipment demounting anyway. The weekly gold's a meme with how much you actually have to grind for it.
>>1567621>1 more map banThat's really good
>>1567660Map bans don't work unless you play only standard battles. Even then, it doesn't matter that much unless you really don't want to play on a certain map.
>>1567817If you want high wr, play standard only. Also 3 maps ban help a lot when 3 marks.
>FV niggers in literally ever tier 10 gameYou'd think the stupid niggerbarn would've been nerfed into the ground with how much it gets spammed, going by kikegaming's balancing track record.
>>1567843It should have never been buffed in the first place. It used to has -2 gun depression and almost no one play it.
>>1567843>sand river>match starts>teams not even out of their spawns yet>shitbarn crawls to the base camper bush>aims>fires>kill message for an enemy shitbarn pops upWar is hell.
It's insane to me how this game is somehow even less playable now that holiday slops is winding down vs when it was in full swing.
>>1567843I started spamming FV4005 too. If everyone is spamming gold to beat my heavily armored tanks I might as well ditch the armor and go all in on firepower.Wasn’t so bad before but gold spam is at an all time high near holiday ops end for a few months
>>1568933I forgot to mention XM57 is such an ideal tank for casual TD players and also have the highest net profit in the game, people will alternate between XM57 and FV4005 because XM57 alone is enough to offset the cost.https://tomato.gg/economics/all
What tree should I put the Christmas discounts on?
>>1569264Yoh or k91
>>1569264Newer chinese heavies or brit wheelies.
>>1569264I chose the STB line for tiers 8-10; I already grinded to the chi-ri since I wanted to try it out (it's very fun) and the tier 10 seems to be competitivecurrently on the STA-1; not the most flexible tank due to its lack of armor and meh pen but it's quick and small enough to take good positionsas for other tanks, chinese ones are unnaturally more expensive than their counterparts in terms of module and tank cost in credits. using discounts on them is advisable
>>1569307>meh penSeems fine to me. 'Tis the season for this kind of stuff.
>>1569327I meant 219 standard. HEAT is fine but it gets absorbed for no reason too often
>>1569264If you want to be “efficient”, do it on tech tree lines that WG avoids putting up on sale normally.Stuff like SPGs, french wheelies and new tank lines for example.>>1569271If you are willing to take a risk, Yoh line was supposed to be january discounted TOTL from newsletter leak, but should be the next one in February when they resume it.
Do platoon missions in tour of duty only count if you're in a platoon with a clanmate?
>>1570044No, with anyone.
>>1570044It has to be with a clanmate. Don't know what the anon above me is smoking
>>1570322It doesn't, mine still complete without clan mate.
>>1570336Both the 2nd and 3rd tour of duty daily missions?The first one you can do by yourself.
>>1570376Yea iirc i did that a few times with people outside clan because my last clan was dead.
At first I thought that >>1561971 was exaggerating a simple case of weekend teams, but then I got a full week of exactly the same treatment. Well, see you in December, I guess.
at least Rambo is tangentially related to tanks this time
>zero perk crew basically don't exist anymoreLame.
>>1571079Are you retarded? the xmas girls are zero skill crews.
>>1571066In typical wg fashion, they nerfed the fucking gun
>M103>that you need to actually pay for
>>1571088>none in battle pass anymore>none in bundles anymore>only special xmas crewAre YOU retarded?
>>1511442Battlepass special for Rambo is coming from Jan 16th to Jan 30th.https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/battle-pass-special-jan-2025/Onslaught 2nd season returns, from Jan 15th to Feb 24th. It is a 7v7 'competitive' mode with tier 10 entry requirements.https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/onslaught-season-of-the-manticore-2/January WOT monthly report is out - Update 1.27.1 is hinted to be on January 27th. Will introduce the british double barreled heavy tank line.https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/wot-monthly-january-2025/https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/1-27-1-british-heavy-tanks/
>>1571609how does this work?is there a season going on during this or is this a standalone thing?will earning points towards this consume points that would otherwise go towards normal battlepass?
>>1572370It's like another chapter pass if you pick it you won't gain point for other chapters.
>TD teammate pings me to spot crossing on mannerheim line>don't want to>go sit in usual bush>he F3 flames me, I reply with 'z'>a minute later, he smashes into me and pushes me into the lake
>>1572393Noob go down the ditch the left of that position and peek there to spot enemy crossing, early spotting for TD to shoot is good.
>>1572405What part of>>don't want todo you not understand?
>>1572393send the replay in with a reportthat shit is a guaranteed ban
>playan premium E8 >shoot goobergabler pussy destroyer once (1) >kill turret, gunner, commander >shoot T-34/85 once (1) >kill turret, gunner>shoot SU-100Y once (1)>kill gunner, ammo rack >next battle >farm kilana >shoot engine deck nine (9) times >no critical hit fuck this rng, fuck this game
>>1572590Lol get better luck.
I've done it...I've finished everything there is to do in holiday slops.Fuck WoT. Fuck WG. Fuck YOU.I'm done.I need a vacation.
>>1572629"But before you fuck it all,Go fuck yourself!"Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. And a Happy New Year!
>>1572629anon, HOps sucks to play and it sucks more the longer it goes on and everyone's cramming battles for credits. I've been out of it since Christmas because 5 terrible battles will tire you out way quicker than 10 meh ones. once you get out of the january-march slump there's lots of events and gibs to enjoy. I know because I regret abstaining for an entire year out of petty resentment when it's a literal me issue in regards to wanting to have everything done by january.anyhow, I just got all the drops. free krupp and STB style for when I unlock that tonk with credit discount and x5 missions. should be fun
>blah blah game rigged!!!no one fucking cares shitter, ofc you will get a streak of bad matches due to multiple factorsl2p or gtfo
>>1572370>is there a season going on during this or is this a standalone thing?WG usually runs it alongside a full season battlepass, but this seems like it'll be a standalone chapter>will earning points towards this consume points that would otherwise go towards normal battlepass?Yes, you have to activate the special BP manually and cannot progress both at once
Whats the point playing tier 8 HT, when most of the tome you need to deal with nigger artas, faggot XMs and tier X. Why WG hate heavy tanks so much?
>>1573695WG fucking favor HT, it's just tier 8 mm is absolutely fucked.
>>1573695It's not a good time to play tier 8 heavies in general with the XM57 epidemic, unless you have your own brand of bullshit armor that can semi-reliably bounce their gold ammo like Contradictious and BZ-176.
>>1573695In general, the point of tier VIII overall, as with any tier except X, is to be fodder for higher tiers. Tier VIII specifically is for tier X, the topest of top tiers. You need a lot of suckers to willingly and continuously play the punching bag role, that's why tier VIII is 1) easily accessible with a swipe of a credit card and 2) the most efficient way to farm cred. That is also why anything higher than that is generally unprofitable to run, so that you return back to VIII to farm cred and get farmed by higher ups in return.
>>1573695T8 is forever fucked, but WG loves heavytards like you and have made every single map a heavy centic slugfest
>>1573772Real, the game is destroyed because heavytard can't stop complaining about getting flanked and penned frontally so WG removed all weak spots from HTs and turn all maps into 3 unflankable corridors thus, ruined the game forever.
If I buy a bond tank, then exchange it in a vehicle trade in, can I buy it back again for bonds in the future or will it then cost gold to buy back?
>>1575331You can buy with bond again.
>1.5% away from 3 marking the premium E8 Sherman standard only run the MM has been conspicuously forgiving, I'm actually afraid to press battle
>>1576031When marking, do not play if you are not at your best.
Last day of holiday ops today, I can't wait to take a break from this garbage game after
>>1575405Good to know.Do you happen to know which tank has the best bonds-to-gold value for trade ins?I'd assume it would be one of the higher ones but not sure. Have yet to do the math.
>>1578791Just use tanks gg to check
>>1578791It should be the WZ-111 alpine tiger, but hold onto the bonds until the trade-in actually happens.I remember they did some weird shit where they excluded WZ-111 from other gold tanks and made it only work for trading in towards WZ-114 one trade-in session ago
>>1578825I took the time to find it, it was for this trade-in from nov 2023.I don't think the WZ-111 exclusion happened since, but it doesn't hurt to play it safe and hold off on redeeming a tank for bonds atm.https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/specials/trade-in-nov2023/
>>1576031>intercepted and killed by 2 borats >twice in a rowit's 2.5% now, nice
Bros, I can't pen the canopener in any of my tier 10 tanks
>>1579171It's much weaker compared to obj 279e and chieftain during their reign.
>>1579716>279e>impenetrable during their reignReally?Pre-nerf 279e was easy to penetrate with heavy tank gold rounds and poorfag back then could even hit the cupolas on top with regular rounds.Anyways, you will see the canopener for yourself now that it is released on EU servers.
>>1580035279e that doesn't use elevation to make the armor stronger are noobs. Pre-nerf it has good gun and good armor. Now it still has good armor but the gun is weaker.
>>1580051You do realize that the 279e has to drop the elevation to fire back, exposing the cupolas and making the hull cheese to gold ammo?Even if the 279e never moves, there’s a small strip on the 279e bottom that is an autopen to tier 10 gold no matter how the 279e is angled.Do you have it? Did you even go against them at all? You’re parroting the most obvious shit, while also trying to shift conversation away from canopener which was the original topic…
>>1580103I fought plenty of them and they only need a slight elevation to mostly bounce 340 heat also good luck hitting the cupola when they wiggle the turret and move back and forth. The canopener has average gun and and cheese hull on flat ground against 340 heat. It is nowhere near as broken as you make it.
how do I change the way world of tanks saves screenshots?I want.jpg to be .png insteadand the retarded "shot_001.jpg" to be anything sensible like "YYYYMMDD-001.jpg" so reinstalling it on different PCs and such doesn't lead to file name conflicts when backing them up
>new onslaught season4kino5 time
>>1581207Use screen snipper on window
>>1581297noI want to have the game client save screenshots properlyI already use a 3rd party screenshot thing but occasionally I take them with client and I hate how they're all sequentially named (per install) so shot_001.jpg from like 2015 is also just shot_001.jpg today and tying to back these up is a pain in the dick
it is your obligation to downdoot every single battle that includes artillery faggots
New chuds video dropt
>>1584280he's mostly right aside from the fact that>doing an overly complicated rework of every tank subtype to have unique MM would be infinitely harder than +1/-1 while having the same effect>lights with +3 will suck because 90% of pre-9.18 lights were a tier lower AND strongerand>strange armor comparisons throughout
