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world of tanks

The biggest problem this game has is the people that play it.

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Is the drops calendar on the wot site wrong?
It says there are no more drops for this week (I already claimed 5 tokens for this week) but twitch shows progress
??

>>2981323
>farming drops manually in 2026
ngmi

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>>2981323
as usual in wg's fashion they either forgot to update the calendar to include additional drop-enabled streams or they just didn't give a fuck to announce it anywhere beforehand
yeah it seems that it's an entirely different set of drops

actually that anon that missed three sets from past weeks from the last thread if he somehow manages to get another 5 extra he can still get the IS-3A if he also watches all the remaining streams

>>2981575
>>2981323
they read the thread and added another drop just for him
t. my dad works at WG

How do I into Ares?

I’m not sure leaving my twitch drops miner on is even worth the overnight cost in power for the value of an IS-3A to be honest

>>2981637
Shoot the enemy until dead
Aggressive positions suit the line well, the T9 is the worst, keep at least 50 HE shells to keep heavies uncomfortable by shooting the top armor
Don't overheat, tap shots keep enemies permatracked
T3 experimental turbo, vents, cvs

My toxic trait is I listen to teammates and take advice from them, need to stop that going forward.

>>2982111
That's like asking youtube comments for life advice. Never ever listen to teammates, they're guaranteed to be retarded.

>>2982056
>the T9 is the worst
NTA but should I go all the way to T11? Is there any keeper in the line?

Finished grinding the Buryan and it didn't really click with me - gun handling is ass, armour is good until someone presses two then it doesn't really do anything, sluggish speed. Had a few good brawls such as in the heavy line of Pearl River but otherwise it's a pretty inflexible vehicle. Would rate the current tier 9 loot box vehicles as such after grinding all mods :
Ambassador > WZ-120g > Terrifiant > Jasan > Buryan

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What kind of people type
>Game lost
>Team full of bots
>18% win, gg
immediately at the start of the battle?
why would you even play the game with this attitude, you open the profile of someone who types that shit and it's a 47% 30k battles gaylord

>>2982056
Why CVS?

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>>2983389
>gun handling is ass
Bad RNG or trying to snipe with it, I presume
It has the best gun handling of any 128/130mm HT - better than the E-75/Tiger Maus (even if only marginally better than the Tiger Maus) with the only downside being the lack of overall accuracy
It's also the fastest of it's cohort with good P/W, I'm not sure how you're finding it sluggish unless you're someone who only plays mediums - it's only a smidge slower than the Ambassador with the same top speed and it's definitely faster than the Terrifiant.
Armor's a valid complaint but that's also like 80% of tanks in the game outside of the ones with retardedly angled armor that goes to 400mm/autobounce angles in a hull down

>>2983296
The T11 is still a beast, it's a keeper for me
>>2984002
There are too many positions where faster tanks will shoot you from <100 meters and remain unspotted if you don't
There is no downside to get cvs on any medium tank

I can only play braindead heavy tanks and highly armoured mediums but I do play them proficiently. I can’t help but wonder when I will magically get good

>>2983437
>you open the profile of someone who types that shit and it's a 47% 30k battles gaylord
these are the hardstuck silver mentality high on delusion ego types
it's always someone else's fault, it's never their mediocrity
extremely common in any kind of competitive games

>>2984732
Yeah this. If you have ever been improvement-minded about anything in your life + been in contact with the community for that thing, the first thing you'll notice is that most people aren't interested in genuine improvement. You'd need to actually accept that you're not perfect and have room to improve, first.
Not coincidentally, the loudest fuckwits in WoT are the worst players. Happens in onslaught a lot too.

what about when I have a good winrate and get really fucking mad that my teammates aren't pulling their weight
like I'm making some mistakes, and sometimes I end up in a match where I could've carried if I played perfectly and did another 2-3k damage but it's like if everyone on my team could just do a tiny bit more I wouldn't have to, like if that TD player could click the enemy two times before he died it wouldn't come down to the wire and I could chill

So many retards with less than 500 battles in tier 9 premiums.

>>2984815
Lootboxes please understand

I don't think it's bad but I would rather play all the others over this. Typical soviet gun depression doesn't help, gun dispersion at 100m being .40 is the crux. Sometimes you will come across a Type 5 or similar that you don't particularly want to get close to and try and it's best to take potshots, that's when the gun handling lets you down. Standard round pen isn't great. Probably the best thing about it was pretty high alpha and DPM, so it definitely has some merits, perhaps just not my playstyle.

>>2984839
meant for >>2984094

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>>2984839
>typical
It's 7 degrees, it's not a -10 ridge working king like some tanks but 7 degrees is good for a Soviet tank when plenty of them have 5 degrees
>standard round pen isn't great
This is again your bias from playing it and not hitting weakspots with 0.40 accuracy but it's not actually true. It has better pen than the Terrifiant and Tiger-Maus flat out, and it has better pen than the Ambassador because it fires AP over APCR as standard. You can scroll up and look at the comparison I posted again, Buryan has REALLY good standard rounds for a T9 heavy with 255 AP that has good shell velocity and only falls off 10mm at 500m
There are tanks with better standard round pen, it's not the king of T9, but it's very good and the only tank with comparable alpha that shits on it is the WZ-114 (266 AP)
If 255 AP isn't enough, which understandable sometimes it isn't, you have 315 HEAT. That's 5mm better than the Ambassador and again a very competitive round. The best T9 HTs have 340 but 315 is nothing to scoff at.

It's fair if it's not your playstyle since ultimately you do have the valid point of the 0.40 consistently dictating how you're playing the tank, but I find it unfair to say the gun depression or the pen are bad. The gun depression is middling/mediocre, and the pen is great. I will continue to defend it because I consistently put up great games in it, it's not overpowered but I would definitely rank it as one of the better T9 premiums and so would tomato.gg (it has a +1.46% WR diff which is the fourth best of all T9 HTs; the overall winrate of 53.24% is also the fourth best. Third in both categories if we exclude the ST tank with 250~ battles)

...although, it probably says something really bad about the state of the game that you have to scroll down pretty far to find a tech tree tank when you sort by WR

>>2984800
Caring too much when you’re good is a symptom of a different thing. But also tanks is like staring into the abyss. No jury that understood would convict you

>>2984872
> although, it probably says something really bad about the state of the game that you have to scroll down pretty far to find a tech tree tank when you sort by WR
It’s not the worst thing in the world because the playerbase is quite mature and there are circumstances behind why tech tree tanks aren’t there
But it’s not great, either.

>>2984896
I get that people, especially the better players, are grinding credits and bonds in their T9 premiums but it's still a little grim to look at the state of a lot of T9 tech tree tanks and I think it's undeniable that the best premium tanks at T9 simply offer more than the tech tree ones do. It's not like you can't win in tech tree tanks, the Type 4 Heavy is doing alright, but if you really want to win you're playing the Concept 1B, the SPHT or the Buryan

>>2984918
The Concept is my investment tank for if a friend wants to play tier 9 someday and I actually want to win. Fucking thing is a tier 9 e5 with no cupola

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my first victory today only costed me 7 battles
it's one of those days where I'm not allowed to deal damage

I have a feeling that the matchmaking is actively malicious to make the player more engaged (mad)
That's why I stopped playing 10 years ago

So, I guess it's not worth coming back?

>>2985404
It's still like that

Game seems near death, pretty low player counts whenever I'm queueing at the moment.

should have bought more lootboxes full of vehicles turning the matchmaking into a chore

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How are tanks like Leopard and E100 or whatever meta heavy on the same fucking tier?
Here's the list of things that a leopard can do:
>Shoot from a distance like a rat
>Suck dick because it explodes in one picosecond after getting spotted
Here's the list of things that an E100 can do:
>Shoot from a distance like a rat
>Trade hp and survive
>Tank shots
>Bonk enemies
>Push or defend flanks
>Actually impact the outcome of the battle on key positions and playing the damn game

the maps are literally just three corridors where retards stare at each other, why would you ever play anything other than hulldown monsters with 30 degrees of gun depression and 500mm turrets and maybe if you feel so inclined add in a special ability that rapes the mother of your opponent when you press X
it's so baffling to me that heavies are clearly the most op overbuffed fucking class in the game and there's a reason why best premiums are either heavy tanks or play like heavies, and yet the shitbarn, grille, leopard or whatever other non-tank are the most popular tanks in pubs, not to mention how nowadays you have like 1-3 heavy tanks in a battle in the best case scenario
what else needs to happen to force people to actually play the game?

>>2985622
love the 48% wr larp anon you really had me convinced there for a bit

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got it before the nerf

>mission: win 5 battles
Well, fuck you too.

>>2986026
Nice. I think I've decided to just finish with the tier 8 and not bother with the rest of the line until they do their "adjustments" so I'm not caught with my pants down.

>>2985518
You underestimate how bad it'd have to be for the game to actually die. It's got another 5 years in it at least.

>>2986026
How much is tier 11 repair cost?

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I estimate that in <2000 battles I'll be done with every single tech tree I wanted to go up. Currently at 17350. Since I'm meant to be working atm, I'm going to blog about the tanks I've been grinding.

T30: honestly, it's what's written on the tin. Everyone knows what you get with the T30, and yes, it's as good as it's ever been. Stop peeking the 750 alpha 320 pen gun because you think you can land a hit on the cupola. Haven't bought the E4 yet.
Waffentrager: I am extremely bad at high camo paper tanks but this one Just Works™. I won't be getting the Grille, I only went up this line for campaign missions. Still, this tank is really good.
Maus: haven't bought the tank yet, but the Mauschen was a lot better than the 1001p, pound for pound. The Tiger P was honestly better than both. You'd think armor flashlight would have obsoleted it, but it hasn't because it's a tier 7.
E100: haven't bought the tank yet but the E75 was great. I could not make the Tiger 2 work, even post-buff. I also couldn't make the Tiger 1 work post-buff.
Pz55: get the fuck outta here. You don't have to play this line, but you should at least play the tier 8 right now before they nerf it so that you forever understand what it means to be overpowered.
I'm not grinding any Russian lines at the moment (already done with them all) but the post-buff T-100 LT is super nice.
Chopper: really good. Unsurprisingly, having strong armor and a solid gun makes you a very good heavy at t7.
Centurion 7/1: I've never heard about this tank post-2015, but it is really good. 1500 shell velocity, 390 alpha, 0.28 acc + 2s aim time, feels great man. The preceding Centurion I felt like dogshit though and I despised it.
Lynx 6x6: fucking hate this thing. Whoever decided to match it up against the EBR75 should be shot to death, preferably with a 75mm high-explosive round.
I'm gonna wait 2 months or so before I start grinding the Fauteur line from the 65t. Or I'm gonna wait to save up the 250k exp to skip it completely.

>>2987372
The E-100 is kinda whatever, it's OKAY after armor buffs to make it slightly less of an EXP pinata but it's still mostly a bit slab of HP with an alright gun. I don't know if, tier for tier, I'd call it better than the E-75.
>Cent 7/1
They've made the line better, my big complaint about the 7/1 (the 1 is dogshit, yeah) is the long reload. The AX is just a straight upgrade and is very nice to play. Iyouxin describes it like "playing the piano" and I sorta agree.

>>2987372
Not grinding any Czech tanks at the moment, but I'll eventually go for the 63P.
Type 68: technically I did okay in this, with dpg about the same as my other t9 heavies. But wow it is frustrating to use this line on non-hulldown city brawl maps. You just eat shit because your upside is that you get to beat them on hilly maps. It feels pretty bad, man. The STK looks good though.
Already done with China lines. I still haven't used my BZ-79 though. Not sure about playing it without upgrades.
Have not gone up a single Polish line.
UDES 16: I am not good at this tank, and I don't like it, either. I thought having an invincible hulldown medium would suit me, but it actually doesn't. Also the preceding UDES sucked, but the Leo is my pick for worst tank I've played in the last 3 months.
SMV CC line: pretty shit so far. Just got to the tier 9 and I'm really hoping it's good. If nothing else, it's a stepping stone to the Minotauro, which I'm looking forward to. I do not like how the t7/t8 played. They didn't have the armor required to step into the role.
Rino line: every single tank here is insane, but probably none more than the Carro. I bulldozed people in that thing. The Progetto 66 gets an unfair rap too imo. I outdid every other t9 I have with it.
Progetto line: in keeping with the other paper lines, I actually don't do well with these tanks. I need an armored turret. They're fun though.

Highlights of my last few months of grinding: Carro P.88, T30, Cent 7/1, Progetto 66

>>2987390
People say the E100 is still really strong but I'm hesitant to believe them. In a world where everyone has 330+ HEAT and tier 11s are rolling around with insane alpha, I just can't bring myself to think that the E100 is anything beyond "above average". I do hope I enjoy it when I pick it up though.
Really looking forward to the AX. I've seen people say it's better than the STB at being an STB, which is kind of insane.

>>2987392
Oh, and I forgot to mention:
Leo PTA: exactly what I expected. I suck in this thing and I'm only gonna continue to get the Leo1 because it's a cool tank I want in my garage. I have no idea how the fuck you play this thing on a map like Studzianki.
Ru251: despite the nerfs, still really good and fun.

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>>2987397
>330 HEAT
They buffed the E100's turret and even upper hull armor because it was getting powercrept into oblivion. It's still not perfect, and you still have weakspots like the bar on top or the turret ring (depending on angle) but the armor is in a much better place now and it can be played a bit more like a Maus where you angle the turret to bait shots out. With a longer reload + higher alpha gun than the Maus, that playstyle is even more viable since you expose your flat turret face less often.
But it's not terrible, it's just not exactly exciting to play most of the time.

The AX does basically everything you want in a medium and the only downside is it doesn't have a reliable turret. You WILL bounce stuff off the turret, if you're using the gun depression the upper parts of the turret reach autobounce/450mm of armor and can shrug off any round in the game. The thing is, you're relying on them having poor aim/dispersion. If they hit your mid/lower turret around your gun it's a very mediocre 260 which is only really good for shit like Tesaks or Ares. But if you play it as a standard flexible sniper/support medium with the ability to flank and occasionally get away with poking over a ridge, it does everything you want. More than anything the gun is reliable, I guess I'd compare it to the Leopard. You trade some speed and a little bit of the accuracy (you have really good on the move dispersion though, better than the Leo) in exchange for armor that holds up a lot better and a bit more DPM too. A Leopard will get shredded by a Tesak or an Ares or even some of the nastier HE in the game, meanwhile Ares 90 APCR against a Cent AX turret is about a 20% chance of pen.

>>2987397
>I've seen people say it's better than the STB at being an STB, which is kind of insane.
Both tanks have similar speed, the AX has much better effective armor and a gun that can actually hit things
The gun depression on the STB is a gimmick with few practical applications

>>2987397
STB has only one gimmick and it's going to the hulldown and shoving heat into the face of anything it meets.
Cax does this nearly as well and can also be a medium and flank and push because it isn't a slug like the steeb.

>>2986714
27500

they are fucking changing fisherman's bay, sigfried line and fucking himmelsdorf, but not mines?
fuck off

>>2988076
I mean I'll take Fisherman's Bay changes. That map fucking sucks. I don't know why they're fucking with Himmelsdorf though and Siegfried Line is only going to get worse. The one I'm really rolling my eyes about is Ruinberg, which is just plain horrible for heavy tanks unless the event happens, and their fixes won't do shit to address that.

>>2987397
STB is slow while cent AX zooms real fast too, makes a significant difference in ridge peeking

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Holy kek, the E100 is pretty funny after all. This was my 4th game in it. I didn't even notice I'd done the mission.

>>2991285
Did mine with IS4

>>2991546
I have an IS-4 but every time I play it I'm reminded it isn't 2012. I'm looking forward to that line getting a T11.

>>2991285
>NTR
R A R E

>>2991285
Nice, time to do 260

Grom is such a negro coded tank holy shit

>>2992885
Depends on how you fight it. If you keep your distance, it isn't that bad to fight against.

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wish I wasn't chat banned

>>2993498
what would you have said

>>2993505
he is bad because there are still kikes around

>>2993699
he's czech

>>2993704
honorary polack

>>2993699
I fully empathise with anyone having a melty playing this game, the worse people for me are the cowards of which there are plenty. I have more respect for anyone who actually tried to push for something and gets blown up in the first minute.

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that's a new one
when the game refuses to let you play I take it as a sign straight from God and quit the game immediately

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LET ME PLAY THE DAMN GAME REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I HAVE RESERVES BURNING

>>2992661
Unfortunately I still have to do SPG-15 with only my 212A. I should probably grab at least one more artillery.

Do you reach a point in this game where you think, ahh I've unlocked enough vehicles now time to enjoy/mark them or does the game just keep you on a constant treadmill of wanting to unlock new vehicles without really enjoying what you have?

>>2984800
>over under on the enemy breaking through the weak flank to base and/or the heavy brawling corridor is under-staffed and/or failing

Be proactive about triage and flex minutes earlier to give yourself and the team a chance.

>>2994707
I think you can achieve it but it hasn't happened for me yet. I'm always moving on to the next thing. I don't really mind though.

I hate having to fight noobs so much. It's so unpredictable what they will do.
So many good games ruined because of their stupid moves caught me off guard.

>>2995895
It's situational, unfortunately. You can't always hedge your bets by playing it 100% safe and staying out of danger in the event a retard pushes up way too far and can take shots at you, but similarly you can't always play on the razor's edge because there will, at some point, be a retard that pushes up too far and doesn't get punished for it and now you're dead. You'll have to figure out when to commit. Just another part of the tanks skillset. I will say though that staying safe is usually the right play when you're learning (and by learning I mean sub-3000 wnx).

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FUCK yeah, I thought I was going to be stuck on this for months. Now I just clean up the LT missions and skip 3-4 of the level 15 missions for the 260. SPG, TD, not sure, not sure.

>>2996520
>260
I'd skip SPG-15 for sure as it tends to require a LOT of luck to get done
HT-15 might be a skip too, not sure if the Taschenratte or KR-1 makes it do-able? I know it's pretty hard to get done with a T10 and armor flashlight has not made it any easier.

>>2996713
The crazy thing is that I'm 95% a heavy player, but I think skipping HT-15 is maybe ideal because HT-12 and HT-15 are among the absolute hardest missions in the game, definitely not missions you pick up by just randomly playing. Which is unlike the LT and MT missions, where you're almost guaranteed to get them if you just play in your tanks.

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They just put the SFAC on sale a week before Frontline.

>>2996736
In a post flashlight game yeah blocking missions are absurd.

>>2996740
>standard package direct sale
I might genuinely have to shell out for the first time in a while, I massively regret not paying the gold for this thing at auction when I had the chance
It's kinda expensive for a T8 but like... it's almost too good not to own

>>2996751
I bought it because
1) it's op
2) I think I'll enjoy it (who doesn't)
3) I'll use it in frontline
4) I want to use it for campaign missions, it's basically the de-facto pick for anything that requires doing a multiple of your own hp
Pity I don't have a french TD crew. I think I'll use Frontline to level up the crew and maybe start going down the line later on

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The Leopard 1 is so fun. Shame about the Leo 120.

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This weeks mission is kill 35 tanks
very cool, today in 12 battles, I had 3 kills
>reroll
other missions include deal x damage with SPGs
kill x tanks with polish TDs
block x damage, restriction breakthrough HTs

I don't really see what the point is of grinding vehicles of tier 10 and 11 since tier 8 and 9 is nearly the same thing anyway except you don't lose credits for playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZT-QEPr1lQ

Looks good except
>7 degrees gun depression

Could be a dealbreaker for me

>quickybaby
>premslop
yawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bMDJrxRNp0

Here's Skill's take on it, now everyone should be happy.

>>2997228
Nope.
This is a MaxGamingFPS thread.

Whens T9 Frontline WedGie

wake me up when Iyouxin reviews it

Nudoom, really?

>malinovka
>our LT 49%WR
>enemy LT 54% WR
Explain to me why skill-based matchmaking is a bad thing.

>>2997635
Nu-DOOM is good thoughbeit o algo

>>2997228
>getting your opinion on vehicles from someone else
ngmi

>>2998285
that is doom 2016 and nothing else

>>2997245
I don’t mind that guy on a personal level but some of his takes really suck. Or less hyperbolically, he seems to really really value the gun on a tank at the expense of everything else + puts too much emphasis on a 3-game run with a bunch of his less-played tanks. Only a madman wouldn’t like the Vz.63P

>>2997252
Especially now that the pz55 can get in there. God, no…

is T-54D any good? Thinking about getting it

>>2998942
If the thought of 5 degrees of gun depression doesn't bother you too much, then yes it is.

>>2998942
It is. Gun depression is crappy but the armour is insane for a medium, even the hull. Gun is fine, though it needs vstab. Only downside is that its premium round is 300 pen heat, so you won't be able to fight some T11s at all.

12,000 matches of WoT, going back to when it was just US/Sov/Germoid.

Can not believe how ass this game feels to play. No idea how I played so much of it in the first place. Have 60 hours of Tyr now and it's actually fun. It respects the player. It fixes everything wrong with WoT.

Rest in piss wargaming.

>>2999117
>unironic tyr shill
go back to whatever hole you crawled out of until they stop allowing rapestacks to match against randoms.

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>trying to do the "land 10+ damaging shots in a light tank" missions
>only have a 1357 and a projet louis

>>2999196
what's the problem anon? 13 57 does that in less than two mags and so does projet louis. Surely you're not dying before you reload even once, right?

>>2999209
The actual problem is that playing a tier 7 light is to hell. Retards in their purchased bond premiums want me to scout when I don't have CVS, I'm the size of a house, and I'm up against an ELC or even an SFAC, both of which have better camo than I do

>>2999222
Sure but can you not just tell everyone to go suck a dirty dick and play like a coward for 2 clips.

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>>2999233
Fortunately yes but it still needs the right map/matchup. Open map = terrible, too closed = also bad. Got it done though.

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>>2999222
have you considered just playing the thing? Just for you I logged on and did triple the requirement on the first try in the LT you're complaining about. Nice get though.

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>>2999270
No, I think I'll post about how difficult this one is instead. I might need a bigger tank for this.

>>2999278
>1800 assist
>2000 damage
I nearly got that on accident in the post you're replying to with a 13 57. Just play a t8+ light tank that actually gets cvs and you'll do it in one or two tries.

I live in fear of the day they introduce bond CVS

>>2999158
>can't win against a rapestack
No friends huh?
Play ranked.

>>2999402
none of my friends are dumb enough to play a mediocre knockoff of wot

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>>2999281
Aaayyyyy
Now for the actual hardest mission in the game
capping

i occassionally catch up to this game like once every few weeks, but
>e65 zwilling
>pz.55
>now sfac 105 on sale
what the fuck is the current state of tier 8 mm lmao

>>2999507
geg every time I do those I have to disable personal messaging because I get death threats by fags who can barely speak english mad at me for taking away their extra 100 damage they could've farmed

>>3000299
>enter tier 8
>2 sfacs per team
>2-3 pz55s per team
>add 1 zwilling per team for flavor
>1 elc per team
>1 bz-176 per team just for laughs
Don't wanna talk about it

>>3000333
I tried it all day and didn't even get the chance to cap, let alone succeed/fail. Most maps are too small or too open to even try it, or the last 5 people on the team are base-camping TDs. I guess I'll just have to spam lights until I finally get the chance.

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>16 shots before overheat vs 9 shot before overheat
I've come to the conclusion that the Ares 75 at tier 8 is more fun than the Ares 90 at tier 10
Not to mention that 195mm pen at tier 8 is better than 220mm pen at tier 10 tier for tier.

Friendship with WoT ended
Tank Battle Classic is my new best friend

Doom bp waiting room

>DOOM BP overlaps with Ace Combat 8 release
why are they like this

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it's another episode of
>your team can't push the 10 v 3 flank while the enemy realizes they can just roll over you

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>WG hotfixed the QB crucible missions before I could get the 7k bonds

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>has thermal, rangefinder and even a radar
>350m view range
Huh?

>>3005410
the badger and super conqueror don't have gun sights

I have a bunch of x5 XP tokens but I don't want to use them on premium vehicles that I already have fully modded because I just want to credit farm. Can the tokens be disabled? Do I just have to make sure we lose every match?

Any recommendation for tier 6 HTs and TDs for easy high caliber?

>>3005626
t150 is a beast, all around great armor, but the M6 is there for the gun and mobility

>>3005588
>Can the tokens be disabled?
No

>>3005785
So I just have to make sure I get a lot of damage but that our team loses? Understood, I'll do my best to make that happen.

>>3006141
the x5 xp missions are automatically applied on victories after the first victory for the specific vehicle if you finish in the top 10

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Bought the Tiger 131 just because. I forgot how relaxing mid tiers are compare to high tiers.

>>3006563
It's still a good vehicle, not so much for the armour but for the gun. Plus you can make a few credits.

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>3500 gold
Worth it?

>>3007344
I would say so

>>3007344
>hmedium with good dpm and the ability to double for 700
>50kph with a turbo
>relatively strong hull down
seems fun to me

>>3007344
3500 gold for a tier 9 premium is an insane deal even if it's not very good. This looks like it'll actually be solid, so extremely worth it.

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>malinovka
>hill controlled
>2x neu, breaker, bv111, hacker
>enemy - KR1, Leo120, Bv111; all TDS on the road on the opposite side of the map
did the green team
a) push, securing half the map
b) snatch defeat from the jaws of victory due to inaction

>>3008625
trick question, it's c) 15 minute draw due to inaction on both sides

>>3008929
the enemy team is always better, it was b)
teammates are worse than no support

Bought the SFAC, it's shit. Fell for it again award goes to me.

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I'm currently really enjoying the WZ-114. Really likes its gun.

>>3009310
I do have a soft spot for this tank but the DPM is just absolute ass. It's only really good for brawls where you have teammates backing you up.

>>3009306
Genuine skill issue, it's the best sniping TD in the game tier for tier. Charging your double gives you effectively DBV alpha with perfect gun handling and the best accuracy on any gun in the game bar none, with zero downsides except a 30kph speed limit for the 3s you're charging. If you change your doubleshot key to something other than m1, which you should have already done for any of the other doubles in the game, you don't even have to actually commit to firing either.

Man, I don't want to grind WoT again but I do want the Collector

>>3010177
Consider that the only utility the Collector has is grinding WoT.

I think I've found my calling in life as a diamond player. So much more fun than aiming at cupolas in the heavy line.

>>3010322
It'll be worth accumulating
Also the game gave me a 15% off coupon for logging in and getting an EPIC cheevo so that's nice I was going to buy the SFAC anyways so I'll take a discount

Neon Dash back tomorrow, who's excited?

>>3010799
I think I actually hate it but maybe that's because I'm not willing to sink the time in to master it
There are battle pass points and bonds in it though so I'll probably farm those out

>>3010799
just gonna bring my szakal to farm out missions as fast as possible to minimize the amount of time I have to play it. Neon dash never recaptured the fun of camping that ramp on the first release.

Alright, how do I actually grind out 40 battle pass levels? I don't want to play this shitty game for 5 hours a day.

>>3011032
Bad news chief.

>>3011032
do dailies in tier V vehicles

>>3011032
Buy 10,000 gold))

>>3009310
If I had to wait for 19 seconds to shoot someone for 530 damage I think I’d kill myself

>>3009310
>lightweight suspension
he fell for the noob trap

>>3010799
Remind me again what is Neon Dash?

>>3011119
its like fall guys but gay and retarded

>>3011129
>>3011119
Still worth doing though because of bonds and other rewards

>>3011092
Patience is a virtue, at least until you're getting rushed.

>>3011092
It's a low cortisol players tank like the T 56. You can fire, back off, have a sip from your can, then move forward, repeat.

I also play WoWS so long reload doesn't bother me that much.

It's like playing direct fire artillery :)

>>3011079
>>3011083
>>3011084
aah shit

>>3011197
WoWS is honestly a better game than WoT but unfortunately it’s not about tanks.

I've played 3 games of Neon Dash and now I never want to play it again.

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mfw I have no face and I must scream

>EU servers fucked

Hope I get compensation for missing out a day on the doom pass

>>3014173
Probably due to Indian public holiday.

>>3014173
The game doesn't know your cash and bonds, you can still play once per vehicle

>playing T4/T5 to complete the battlepass wastes 5x missions
blech

>>3013659
I played 3 games of it and it's pretty fun. Using the BZ-79 or the EBR90/105 in there is great. Then again I am very small-brained and ramming/shooting someone off the side does make me laugh

Mle 75 is also a cheatmode 1st place tank if you map decently and don't get needledicked (I was getting sniped from across the map but surviving it)
the mode is so braindead and full of scum but it's almost funny to watch the insects fuck each other and themselves over, I watched an FV304 try to knock an Obj430U into blocks only for him to survive it and the FV to get knocked into a hole by said blocks and reset

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I bought the Maus and E100 not even 3 days before they discounted the entire German tech tree

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Will they ever buff the M4A1 Ravioli? It's one of my first premium tanks so I don't want to trade it.

>>3015813
I'm not sure what you'd give it, actually
The alpha is already really good - most T8 105s get 360 instead of 390, so it does 122 damage and is near the top of the pack for T8 alpha. The DPM is competitive for the alpha, the accuracy is pretty acceptable, I guess the two things it could use for being a relatively slow sniper would be a buff to the pen to bring it up to 218~ standard pen so it can sit around where the STG and Wojtek do, and a camo buff so it can actually hide behind bushes
I guess you could also try to argue for giving it Easy 8 levels of mobility, +8 to the top speed and better ground resists so it isn't painfully slow moving across soft terrain without off-road

>use 15% off coupon for the SFAC
>get 20% off coupon
fuck OFF

>SFAC is completely fucking useless on city maps with a five hour charge time
nvm the other guy is right this thing is a fucking scam

Okay, open map.
SFAC is fucking trash. Completely unusable dogshit. NOBODY is standing still for the 4 seconds it takes to charge + firing delay so the double is completely useless unless you're like literally fucking precognizant and start charging before the guy even peeks and even then you have to time it PERFECTLY
Just a truly dogshit tank, I overrated doubles way too much from playing ones with reasonable charge times
This one is pure fucking dogshit

Alright, four battles in
This thing is fucking awful. Truly terrible.
3/10 tank, DO NOT recommend buying this fucking joke of a premium
The entire gimmick of the tank, the double barrel mechanic, is literally useless
The charge time makes it nearly impossible to get a double off and if you're playing it with singles it's just a mediocre paper TD
Completely fucking pointless vehicle that serves zero purpose and has a gimmick that is borderline unusable, incredibly unfun to play
Disappointed I let FOMO and hype convince me to buy this steaming turd of a vehicle
another SFAC caught me way out of position in the open and I took ZERO damage from him because he tried to charge a double and in the five hours it took I was able to dip into cover and his double just flew over my head harmlessly
completely cucked dogshit tank

holy skill issue self report blog

>>3016581
it's literally the most dogshit T8 TD in the game and that's saying something

>>3016579
You don't actually use the double except when you have a clear shot.
The charge mode functions as an on command reticule shrinker which you then release once you've aimed, or commit to if your target is obliging.
Please don't slander the tank anymore, I hastily acquired it in the initial auction when I first recognized it's power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiVBnxQyJ6E
Map changes

>>3016594
>You don't actually use the double
pretty much
bait and switch garbage

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>>3016586
please, keep digging your pit deeper. It's basically the best credit grinding triangle in the game, and has a carry potential unmatched by other t8 camo tds.

>>3016615
It's literally just a worse SU-130PM
>worse alpha
>worse accuracy
>worse camo
in exchange you get... a double you can't even use?

>>3016621
>double you can't use
there you go calling out your own skill issues again.

>>3016625
are you playing on EU5 or what magic server are you on where anyone stands still for 3 seconds while you charge it

>>3016628
my guy, the SFAC gets better gun stats while charging the double, you precharge and double on the move

>>3016628
there is literally zero penalty to charging a double if you just let go before it fires, so any time someone might poke a corner you can have a double nearly ready to go. And, when you ARE sniping at range, the double makes you the most accurate gun in the game with ZERO gun bloom meaning you can start charging the double as you swing the guns over and shoot them as they're pulling back. Sixth sense takes 3s to go off, 2 at the worst, so you've got plenty of time unless you're blind or braindead.

again, keep self reporting if you think a gun with zero bloom and 0.19 accuracy is somehow unusable

>>3016635
>on the move
yeah cause you want to be moving and getting spotted in a tank with like 1100 HP
come around the corner and get traded in your glass cannon HE magnet lmao
>>3016637
>it has an amazing double you can never use that totally makes your gun really accurate if the enemy is AFK and retarded
lol, just lol

>>3016652
you're clearly unsalvageable if you still can't figure it out
post stats.

>>3016652
ah you're my favorite kind of td player.
the one without a keyboard.

>>3016656
>bro just move 30kph in the open with your 10 camo it's totally going to work bro trust me you're basically a DBV
lmao

>>3016658
>oh look there is an enemy over there I will start charging my guns while I turn my tank and swing the guns to put them on target in the 3 full seconds I get of XM Hacker levels of gun handling for free
somehow, this is too hard for shitteranon
>10 camo
okay so you're just blatantly admitting to being a retard now. Any reasonable setup on the tank will have 30+ moving camo even if you're too cheap to run food.

>>3016661
>I will swing my guns to put them on target
dude you're actually fucking challenged, are you on EU5?
I don't even need to swing my guns, I'm already looking at them
NOBODY stays in the open for that long
if you have to 'swing' your guns they're already in cover before your guns are even on target
if you're already aiming at them they're already back in cover well before your salvo is charged
you will only get your double off on truly retarded players who are stationary in the open and maybe even tracked
the gun handling doesn't even matter you have a shitty 390 alpha gun with no DPM
if you're playing it with singles just play a real turreted TD like Skorpion or SU-130PM end of story

>>3016665
>shitter rant again
post stats.

>>3016667
notice how you can't even refute it's just straight up worse than the SU-130PM or the TVP

>>3016669
I have on 3 different occasions in this thread but you're seething and going "nuh uh"
post stats.

>>3016669
Shitpack is good but it has low alpha and depression issues.
Su would be good but where as it needs 5 pieces of equipment, the shitfuck can skip rammer and aim and can mount a schizophrenic loadout like hardening lownoise turbo and maintain high accuracy and dpm.

Am I wrong to think that tier 8 premiums are obsolete?

When are they going to nerf the new German HTs? I'm TIRED of them.

EU servers shitting themselves a bit again this morning, someone forgot to feed the hamster

>>3016883
You get a higher credit multiplier for tier 8s, but with 9s you get a lot of credits anyway plus bonds. I would rather grind tier 9 personally.

>>3017013
>higher credit multiplier for tier 8s
Really? I thought they buff credit multiplier for tier 9 premiums?

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It took me a while to realize just how bad the Ru 251/Rhm's camo is, but it hit me today. The 251 literally has the same camo as an SFAC. I'd been driving it like it was still a regular fucking scout. Now and only now do I feel like I've had my legs cut out from under me, I don't even want to keep playing the tank. I might as well just sell it and keep playing my T100, or start going up the Manticore line.

>>3016883
By design, yeah. They're moving everyone up to tier 9 to be fodder for tier 11.

>>3017093
You can't have everything, they actually have workable gun depression unlike the chinese/soviet LT's. If all you want to do is sit in a bush then pick manti, I find the US/German lights more fun because you can scout and fight.

>>3017107
>You can't have everything
Well, you can, you just need to be driving a T100. But I get your point. I'm really just whining because I have a full female crew for my Ru251 because of pre-patch goals and now I don't even want it.

>>3017114
It seems amazing but I just find you get cucked out of so many shots with that gun depression. LT's are a pretty unpopular class anyway, whatever you pick if you have good equipment and understand how to play you can do well. Having a few less percentage of camo affects games less often than you'd think, what matters more is just not dying, the later in the game it is the more valuable you as a light.

Call me idiot, but I'm not going to touch the Pz 55 until they nerf or rebalance it. This tanks is so fucking disgusting.

Came first in Neon Dash, would recommend using something with speed and weight or you just get pushed around too much, E50 M was good

>>3016652
I just fought an SFAC that was hellbent on single firing me when I wasn't looking (I was in a T8 HT stuck between a char futur, leo proto and foch 155)
Did I just fight (You)?

>>3017570
I can’t believe they still haven’t. It would be devious but I’m 5% expecting them to sneak the nerfs into this upcoming patch.

>>3020637
no you fought literally any SFAC player because nobody uses the double, it's bait
>when I wasn't looking
If he tried to double you, you'd either turn your gun and trade with him or move into cover and he'd lose his chance to shoot you

>>3023015
>he's STILL seething about being bad at sfac 2 days later
kek

>>3023027
>think you're buying a double barrel TD
>it's actually a gimped Bourrasque

>>3023036
kwab

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>be bad
>cry and shitpost

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>playing a real tank
>die on my dogshit flank because the other flank camped and the entire enemy team rotated back, spectate SFAC on our team
>watch him whiff double after double despite having 1 MOE (he's a 53% WR player)
So THIS is the power of the SFAC LMAO
>it's a good tank trust me bro it's just you

>day three of seething

>>3024352
Shitters can exist independently from you

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Decided to finish the chores (new set of Onslop missions)
I think I've used up all my rng for the next few weeks at least

Man you can really feel the effect of the weekend teams sometimes. My winrates on the day range from 30 to 80 percent, can't buy a win in some tanks

wait, the centurian action shit doesn't get any HESH? lmao

>>3026997
Nop.
APCR/HEAT/high pen HE

>thigh pen he

Mines is such a shit map, should be for tier 8 at the very most.

>>3027400
Tier 5 you mean

>ban the most open map because i hate open maps
>doesn't matter because theres a dozen other open maps
holy fuck map bans are fucking useless what's the point

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>>3023165
>drive up to where the heavies are brawling in my shitbarn
>fire one shot
>600 damage
>die immediately
>now you have to tryhard to win
>if you win i get to use one of my daily xp boosts
>if you lose i've already finished like 2 more matches
imagine caring

Hmmm today I think I will ban maps that are bad for scouts (clueless)

there has to be a less shit way to grind the bonus battlepass chapters than playing T4/T5 at 5AM so you can farm bots and get points fast

>>3015813
>>3016286
Stock pen APCR isn't good -- but it's APCR. The price per round is fantastic, however, given the damage. Prefer a dispersion on movement and ground resistance buff and/or some extra horsepower.

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>see Sfag approaching
>fully aim
>load HE
>-200dmg
>he hits back double for 800

Skill says the American light line is shit but they're actually goated. On the T49 now and loving it. What's that all about?

>>3030900
A bunch of CC opinions are massively outdated thanks to patches and reworks. But also if that was a recent thing then yeah he's just wrong.

>>3030851
wtf the thread shitter said sfags literally can't ever use their doubles and that it's just a worse skorpg quit lying

>>3030851
>he hits back double for 800
did you try moving
you have three seconds to react

>turbogrinding onslaught for all the weeklies at once, making mad money even firing full gold plus all the bonds
>unlock the Gorilla without ever playing a random battle in the E4
>finishing the doom bp too
Onslaught is the one trick they don’t want you to know

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I'm probably the only person on Earth that cares, but I hope they revamp the customization system
It feels so obsolete with the nodes where you can place emblems and decals

>>3037506
i don't think i've ever bothered to put a decal on my tank, i did always find it funny whenever someone used one of those mouth decals on their turret to make it look like a face though, haven't seen that in ages

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How do I make this tank work? I don't want to sell it (yet) but I'm closing to because of its poor performance.

>>3037619
It's a passive triangle, you camp the back of the map behind a bush with all the others and shoot anything you can. Maybe if your team looks like it's winning and you can find your balls you can also drive forward and help them secure kills.

>>3037619
it's an Strv but without the parts that make it good

>>3037619
it fucking sucks, I only keep it for those braindead "hit X times/damage as sniper" missions

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>160mm frontal armor
>weight 57t and can go 45km/h with almost 20hp/t with boost
The new GuP tank looks like a menace.

>>3039065
On one hand, I'm glad the tank is good. On the other hand, my poor Tiger 131...

>>3037619
The Windhund? It's genuinely worthless, sell it for credits.

>>3039065
The 160mm will only be a couple of strips, like the Tiger P. Still, that's pretty oppressive at tier 6.

>>3039600
It's 160 along the upper hull, but unfortunately it has 80mm wings that average out to 120-125mm of armor
You've got 150~ on your hull (120~ on the lower plate) but you also have a massive cupola that's 95-100mm
Even with your nice 8 degrees of gun depression and scraping around a corner to hide the shoulders, you have to contend with the nasty cupola.
I guess if you poke the correct side you can try to hide most of the cupola and then finally you're a genuinely threatening HT, but the armor is not that impressive.
Still, it goes 40kph + boost and it has a respectable 1835~ effective DPM on 220 alpha, so it's no slouch
You're getting somewhat better mobility and armor over something like the Tiger 131 in exchange for a little worse DPM and somewhat worse gun handling

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>>3039486
But it looks so damn cool...

>>3039600
nice dubs, and you can go look at the armor and everything else for yourself on tanks gg
tanks (dot) gg/tank/vk-4501-p/

Fuck, I need a lot of components to get the T3 experimental turbo
I am addicted to this piece of equipment

Wakey wakey, time for more Neon Dash

I don't really want to play anymore but I still need to finish off the DOOM BP for the Collector

>>3041958
Same here, and there's this next week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj8hqYymb5I

>>3042134
>next week
AUGH

who is the retarded nigger who decided the M2 LT, a Tier 2 fucking autocannon, should have the push force of a freight train? Fucking annoying gamemode.

>>3042134
Looks like food for tier 10/11 and even many tier 9's.

fuck I hate Neon Dash
literal vantablack nigger gorilla gamemode that only exists for people who have literally nothing going for them in life and derive their tiny amount of joy from making other people miserable

>>3042216
Pick a fast heavy/heavy medium and people won't be able to push you around as much. E50 M and IS-7 worked for me.

>>3042255
Genuinely I want to kill some of these fucking people
Easy first place and ONE fucking shot from a vantablack STB-1 ruined my entire fucking match
I seriously hope this guy gets fucking shot IRL

>hit the launch ramp
>it doesn't launch me
>lose any chance of finishing
I love fighting my vehicle, fighting the map AND fighting other players
Imagine if at any point at all I had any control over anything in this abortion of a gamemode

>>3042347
I somehow never got to play neon dash in the 12 years of playing this game and in my mind I pictured it as skating in a halfpipe with tanks while noscopeing niggas. Imagine my surprise when it's just a shitty quake defrag map.

>get battle pass bounty equipment for 3 coins
>uninstall until next season

>>3042420
I want to get tanks but I cannot be bothered to play the game consistently enough to finish the battlepass chapters

Time for my re-install now that mirny and GuP are rerunning

>>3042572
>I want to get tanks but I cannot be bothered to play the game consistently enough to finish the battlepass chapters
i realized recently that i'm done with all the events and challenges and bullshit because it's just miserable having endless chores, just log in and play my favorite tanks for an hour with my boosters

>>3043945
I don't even log in most days, I've been grinding for my Collector lately and maybe I'll grind out the Eclipse (I regret not grinding shit like the Obsidian) but after that's done and there's nothing to do I'm probably gonna stop logging in
Actually logging in and doing dailies every day to make reasonable Battlepass progress for the 3 chapter pass is like... lol

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I give up. I don't think it's that bad but I really can't make it work.
Maybe I'll get it back once I get all the tanks I want.

>>3042167
Someone shot my BZT off a ledge with that, doesn’t seem to have the zero impact the other autocannons have

>>3042395
Defrag my beloved. Played the absolute fuck out of it during its twilight years. It trained me to enjoy movement in any game

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Anyone else like the IS-5?

>>3044875
I should do the same but I'm a collector, never going to use it.

Should I bother with tier 11 tanks? I don't have one and they seem like money sinks too me.

>>3047504
they range from actively worse than their tier 10 counterparts to sidegrades with a funny gimmick all the way through to genuinely overpowered. Overall it's a fun tier though, a lot of the gimmicks are neat to play around

>>3047504
can they add a t11 fv4005 that doesn't even have wheels but has even higher damage blease

>>3047504
The hacker and ares are very good, the pz neu is amazing, but the stats are as good as the inevitable nerf

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very first game in the cav. Maybe I was wrong about this thing. Also, what possesses retards who have zero clue how a light tank works to ready up in them?

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>>3050317
>ambassador damage

Finally got my Collector
>000 counter on the front of the tank
Is this purely cosmetic or did they add a kill counter to the style?

I like the Jg Pz E 90 but every time I play it the team loses without fail.

I have the Collector now, it's pretty meh but always nice to have a vehicle that earns credits and bonds. Honestly better off forgetting about the doubles unless you're right on top of someone and it'll finish them.

>>3052091
Doubles are a close range tool but they're worth using for trades, if you can get both shells in reliably then you're trading 700 for no DPM loss (and you're not fussing with salvo prep)
The boost to reverse speed on the Collector also helps you draw back around the corner quicker to hopefully avoid taking a shell in return, because a 700 > 400 trade is good but a 700 > 0 trade is even better

>double mode on the collector increases traverse and reverse speed by a very noticeable amount
20ish games in on mine and swapping into double mode to slap someone in the face for 700 and then immediately trick them into shooting an overangled plate or missing entirely is some of the most fun I've had brawling.

>>3052301
I'm just garbage with this tank in general, when I do dubs they both miss or one misses and I do about 1000 damage a match. Going to unlock all the mods then allow it to collect dust.

>>3052325
British double barrels take a bit of time and intuition and they do troll you sometimes, yeah.
I've been playing them since the Contradictious dropped though and I generally enjoy them since they usually have very strong armor schemes that allow you to walk into people (with near zero dispersion bloom) and smack them for 700-900 alpha (Contriver being 450 a barrel) which is almost always satisfying.
And sure you can hit someone for that kind of alpha with a backline sniper TD but being able to do it with a frontline heavy is almost always more impactful and rewarding. Singles are for mid-range or cupola sniping, doubles are generally close range or better yet you have the entire side profile of the enemy tank.