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I got into the WoWP alpha this morning.
I thought I'd just start playing that non-stop now, but it's really an alpha. Sigurd knows what I mean. WoT will still be my main game for now.
P.S. Please no one snitch on me for making that extremely vague comment.
Finally researched IS4.
Again as always the last few matches in my IS3 were my best one's yet. I made 900+ XP in atleast a half dozen matches today, making more than 9k XP in day. Quite a record for me.
This last match I actually managed to foil a T110 who bounced five shots off me :dizzy2:
We were both surprised, although I was pleasantly surprised and he was horrified as he was finally taken out by my team after I tracked him.
Makes me regret the necessity of selling the IS3 for the creds.
Edit:
This isn't strictly related to the game, but something on my mind that I had to share, and since I was playing WoT I'll post it here.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Quick question. I remember I started playing that game early on. I remember that I had no clue of how I could invite some mates in the same games in order to play together. Can you do that now?
Now that I'm done, here's the link to the Total War music mods I made. RTW, M2TW/Kingdoms/MTW, and an ETW/NTW hybrid:
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index....ack-music-mods
Yes. Before you needed to be a premium to put together platoons at all, but now you can have 2 man platoons for free.Quote:
Originally Posted by nw_drako
So I finally got the IS4.
The very first game, I was surprised because seemed it to be even more sluggish than my KV, which is saying something. I did well however. Terrorised a Lowe and an IS who tried to cap (killed them both, and got Defender+Steel Wall int he process). Felt quite elated.
Then game number two, a T34 almost single handedly put me in the ground. He kept hitting the weak port thing on my front, and then when I finally decided to turn to stop him from hitting that spot, somehow, an IS3 managed to do me in with one BL9 shot to my side. :wall:
So illusion of power and invincibility, shattered. Got a nice big repair bill of 16k.
Now I'm pretty sure that if a T34 could hit that spot no matter how I tried to angle, others can too. So what's the solution? I've seen other players simply charge into enemies bouncing everything off their hulls....
The IS4 is basically crap until you get it fully upgraded. I remember the grind rage I got the very first time I tried it on a test server. On the public servers, it went more smooth as I bought the suspension equipment to mount the second turret early.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
But the IS4 is not a great tank until you can mount that S70 gun.
It is a slow tank and should be played as a slow tank sneaking around and staying with other more nimble tanks. Let others spot, because you have poor view range, which basically mean you are not the spear point... you are its brawling brother and mid-range targets are your favourite. Stay in cities if you are on such maps... always take the shortest route to enemy base, and angle your tank to show those tracks... they are a tempting target for unseasoned players. If you encounter seasoned players, they know where to hit you. your driver's hatch is a favourite, but I would prefer they kill my driver than taking out my ammo racks which are located on each side of the driver (those slanting glacier plates that angles away from the main front glacier). So angle your tank, but not so much as to flatten the ammo rack weak points. Good enemy players need to die first, and that is where your S70 is needed. T34(US) are easy to destroy if you have the S70.. the BL9 will have problems.
During the grind I lost many games in the IS4 and had around 37% victory rate on it which is bad. Today with it elite, I have lifted it to 42% which means I am winning more games than I am losing in it.
I am still relatively low in number of games played in it.. When I reach 500 games, I should be able to give a better assessment.
I mostly agree with Sigurd except that due to the long grind I got used to using it with the BL-9 after a while and became some what used to it. Under the right circumstances and if you know where to aim, the BL-9 can take out an E-100 from a frontal angle etc.
The S-70 is obviously the better gun but the BL-9 isn't that bad really, you just have to aim more carefully and make every shot count.
Then again that's advised with the S-70 as well since it reloads slower and doesn't always penetrate either.
And vulnerable is pretty relative, the IS-4 can bounce a whole lot of shots from all angles, it can make sense to expose your ammo racks a little because they're still well armored and that way you don't expose your weakpoints as much. Better a bounce near the ammo rack than a penetration on the driver's hatch that takes 200-400 hitpoints away.
My victory rate is 47% after 124 battles and I haven't had the S-70 for most of them.
Thank you for the valuable advice. I was afraid that the tank wouldn't be good stock (almost no tank is) but with all the hype about how awesome the IS4 is, I was hoping to feel a bit like I did in the KV.
Thing is almost everyone I've seen tier 7 and above knows about the weak points of IS4. And being a tier 9 it is rare that I am allowed the luxury of lounging back and sniping.
And the biggest problem is the creds, buying the thing wiped me clean, and they increased the already prohibitive repair costs for IS4....
Thus I've come to the decision that I'll just wait for 7.3 to buff the IS4 up again (I heard they plan to do away with the driver port entirely), while I admire it's curves as it sits in my garage, and grind creds to buy the Obj 212 in the meantime, (which I researched quite a few months back but did not want to buy, because I wasn't all that interested in going up the USSR SPG line beyond S-51).
News just in from the WoT site.
Apparently the IS4 will lose its s70 gun in the next upgrade.
Instead it will be given this gun as its top gun:
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/asleka/LdPfv.jpg
A 270 mm penetrating 440 damage gun with a higher RoF (5/m compared to 3.89/m for the s70)
This gun will also be available on the IS-8 and the ST-I (tier 9 tanks)
So it has slightly higher penetration, slightly lower damage and a more significantly higher rate of fire.
Sounds balanced enough. So the more 'tank-changing' changes are probably going to be made to the tank model/armour itself.
Yeah... This puts it more into the T110/M103 group which have very similar guns. If you want the S70, you need to get the IS7 (which is my goal before 0.7.3).
It will be the tier X gun with the highest penetration and does slightly more damage compared to the tier X gun on the US Heavy line.
Heh, I doubt I'll be able to get the IS7 so soon even if I kept playing the IS4.
TBH I'm not all that keen on IS7 anyway. The only reason I moved up the USSR tree was because I wanted the IS4 (the next real heavy after KV3 IMO).
Once it moves to tier 10 with buffs I'll be content with it.
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You have replay?
Edit:
I give up. How does one get the entire image in the post instead of just the thumbnail? This is one secret that always eludes me.
Upload it to photobucket or tinypic and link it with img tags.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
Here's the replay, thought it might not be as glorious as you imagine...until the final showdown :beam:
Well, I may have missed the proverbial train with WoT (after all, I got three other MMO's that I don't have time to play, WoW, EVE and STO) but I will make sure I get on the WoWP. Hopefully with some of the Orgahs, as well. Not to mention WoB, if its anything like WoT, it will be incredible fun...
I can even see myself buying a mad joystick for WoWP, first in many years...
I already have a joystick for WoWP alpha but its one I bought at Walmart 5 years ago for BF2. Needless to say its rickety and I need a new one.
Reading your post I'm not sure if you play WoT or not. If so and you're on the US server, what's your username?
Nope, as I said, I "missed the train" on that one. Honestly, I found it appealing, but had no time to play it. Playing WoW, EVE and STO atm, as far as MMO's go. Also, I am stuck on the old continent. But will def try out WoWP.
Heh I was hoping for an exciting battle of exploding tanks and one hit kills....the new map does not really allow for such a game though. Has to be the dullest map till date.
Will I be right in assuming that you have a premium account/premium code running?
Also I am on the NA server. I want to join up with the TWC clan. Who's running it?
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NVM I just checked it...I don't know any of those guys...are they from the Total War Center?
Then you said "Not to mention WoB, if its anything like WoT, it will be incredible fun..." which made it sound like you have played it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Voigtkampf
And yes the TWC clan = Total War Center. I'd happily join an Org clan but I think there's maybe only 3-4 NA players here.
I can get you in if you want...it's still Total War related and guys are willing to platoon if you ask. They dont do any clan wars stuff though.
What's your username so I can at least add you to my contact list?
My username is diain.
Looking forward to platoon-ing :yes:
Me too. We would have sooner but I assumed you were Europe.
I'm Horrorsh0w btw
In this regard, they need to fix their multi cluster server stuff in a way that allows us to play cross-continental on demand.
Although I'd miss my ping of 30 when playing on the NA server I guess. ~;)
Yes, reasonably so. But I have been following and reporting on WoT even before it came out, and I got enough experience to deduce from all the reports from many players, videos and reviews that WoT is actually a high quality title. But as I said, not enough time to play them all, so I didn't even bother, especially since I would prefer WoWP or WoB setting more than simple tanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graphic
I've seen WoWP footage and, given the physics engine is well done, I am certain it will be as amazing as WoT is, in its own way, and same goes for WoB. Basically, I always tip right on the quality of the game we are about to receive, well, with one exception... Age of Conan. I was pretty certain it would be the MMO to end all MMO's. I still wince when I pass the Collector Edition on my shelves.
I'm not sure WoWP has a physics engine, it's pretty arcadey AFAIK.
WoT definitely needs the physics engine they're developing, I hope it will also make the tracks adjust to the terrain instead of being so static.
If it's as ridiculous at release as it looked the last time they showed off the physics (a month ago), they can keep it. It's like moon gravity with T-54s flying off 50 foot cliffs and taking 1/4 damage and a damaged (not broken) track.Quote:
Originally Posted by Husar
People can be real jerks sometimes.
I was playing the S-51 and had a really good game with three kills, an E75, a T-44 and a T34, and one unintentional TK when a T-50 got too close to the T34.
Anyhow, everyone was real happy with my performance, and I was down to my last shot, with the last tank being a Jagdtiger with damaged tracks at 107 HP. perfect setup for Fadin's medal. I requested that I be allowed to kill him, and they were all OK with it since they were capturing.
Then at the moment my aiming reticle is nearly focused and I'm pressing the T button just in case, this GWP who'd not scored a single kill in the entire match or said a word swoops in without a comment and kills the JT.
I never tell people that they steal kills. I know that it's important to kill an enemy tank as quickly as possible, but when the game is won and the tank in question is no threat at all and is half a map away from where your team is capturing the base, doing something like this, is being a jerk.
Someone wanted to know what mods I use since I seem to use a lot. So here's a list.
Panther II skin with turret replacement (schmalturm = fugly)
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http://mirtankov.net/german/germed/p...anther-ii.html
(when you install it into the Panther II folder, make a new folder called "normal" in there and put the included "lod0" folder in it to make the model swap work)
Panther I with all kinds of details
these are all over the first few pages of the link
example:
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http://mirtankov.net/german/germed/p...v-panther.html
Panzer IV with side skirts and armored turret
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http://mirtankov.net/german/germed/p...634-pz-iv.html
Several other skins with the modded model can be seen on the first few pages here:
http://mirtankov.net/german/germed/pzkpfw-iv.html
StuG III with side skirts
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http://mirtankov.net/german/gerpt/st...-stug-iii.html
More skins for the model on the first few pages:
http://mirtankov.net/german/gerpt/stug-iii.html
Engine and gun sounds from WoT "Atmosphere" mod
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index....phere-bfot-20/
Essential. If the default, droning bRRRRRRRRRRRRR engine sound drills a hole in your brain like it did mine, you'll want this.
Pogs Tank Icons with armor values and pen values
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http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.p...icon-3x-grepa/
Adiya's historical scopes
Does lots of things like let you pick from historical scope reticles for sniper mode, add an actually numerical countdown for reloading so you know exactly how long, plus superfluous stuff like an animated shell loading animation thingy (you'll see)
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index....-mod-03312012/
Total War music mods
as a couple might know, I made these. They fit the game surprisingly well. If you're tired of the cheap techno, try them out
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index....ck-music-mods/
TF2 voice packs
Also made these. I usually use one of these (Medic mostly).
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index....2-voice-packs/
Sometimes I switch to one of the Company of Heroes voice packs when I get bored of the TF2 ones
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index....any-of-heroes/
So is anyone planning to participate in the 'Design your own French SPG competition?'
Cause I would like to but I don't have the will or time to do it all alone. So if anyone is interested in entering as a team, I'll be happy to join.
A very useful mod (IMO) that I use is this one: XVM mod for World of Tanks
Handy to see what you are up against and who to focus firepower on.
This is what you get to know about the players you face:
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your team: number of games played / efficiency rate / win ratio
enemy team: win ratio / efficiency rate / No of games played.
In game it gets truncated and you will see efficiency rate colour (default) - this is customizable.
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