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I started playing back in 2013 and played fairly solidly up until I left for school in 2016. Some friends got me interested in playing the campaign around Christmas and again for the most recent one. After that I decided comp play was kinda fun again and that I might check out some pubs to get some of the new tanks. These are a couple observations I had after jumping back into the game, I would be interested to hear other peoples thoughts on them. - Good lord I am bad! I used to comfortably sit around 3k+ and thought that most people should be able to. I thought I would be able to pick up where I left off after a few rusty games but that is definitely not the case. - The meta is simultaneously much more passive and much more aggressive. By this I mean it feels like as a single player there are much fewer chances to make successful aggressive plays to change the outcome of the game or push the pace of a match. However on a whole team scale the matches feel like they are much faster in general. The average game feels about 4-5min in length with few exceptions. It feels like there is very little back and forth where a good play can change the game and more lopsided rolls each way. I'm not sure if this is a symptom of the new maps or just me being bad but the game flow definitely feels very different. -There are a lot of new and reworked maps. The general theme seems to be that there are a couple areas made viable for each type of tank that you are mostly shoe horned into playing with very little room to take different/aggressive positions. Do you guys find this to be the case or am I just out of touch when it comes to map knowledge? -Arty is still here, it no longer one shots you most of the time which is nice I guess. I realize the rework is ancient history to most people now but what was/is peoples overall opinion on it? From my games coming back it feels like we didn't really go anywhere just maybe rearrange the furniture a bit. Still has the overall same effect of punishing anyone who dares get spotted but maybe even more effectively now with the bigger splash. -The player base feels super tiny. When I left the top end was already a fairly small group who mostly knew of each other but there was still a multiple viable clans and a good chunk of mid level clans that sometimes punched above their weight. Now it seems like there is only a hand full of the mid level clans and even fewer high level clans. Has the player base really shrunk this much or do I just miss-remember? -Kinda linking on to the last point but it feels like most of the people I used to play with are gone or log on once in a blue moon. Is the player base really this dead or is it just a new group playing now? Edit: Also I apologize if this is the wrong sub section for this post please do whatever you need to do if it is. TL;DR, Push me to the edge all my friends are dead?

Just picked this up, RNG#1373 if anyone wants to group.

121: 14 113: 18 TVP T50/51: 12 Amx 50B: 24 BatChat 25t: 26 AMX 30B: 12 Maus: 18 E-100: 27 E-50M: 25 Leo 1: 20 STB-1: 22 Centurion AX: 19 FV215b: 25 T57 Heavy: 20-3=17 This thing is great if your fighting idiots, anybody else will pick you apart without mercy T110E4: 18 T110E3: 17 M48 Patton: 25 T110E5: 24 Obj 268: 11 Object 263: 18 T62A: 25 +1=26 Comfortable to play with excellent gun handling, a solid body and good DPM. Object 430: 20 Object 140: 20 IS-7: 14 IS-4: 21

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Speaking of dead people,

My friends list seems to have experienced the black plague and is full of dead people. I generally play T8-10 on east but can do west as well.

I enjoy being dragged to victory.

121: 20 113: 20 TVP T50/51: 20 Foch 155: 20 AMX 50B: 21 Batchat 25t: 20 AMX 30B: 20 Waffentraiger: 11 The entire premise behind this tank is dumb, it's neither fun to play nor play against Jagdpz E-100: 21 Maus: 20 E-100: 20 E-50M: 20 Leopard 1: 21 Just really fun and comfortable to play, good gun with excellent speed and alpha. STB-1: 20 Type 5 Heavy: Centurion AX: 20 FV215b 183: 20 FV215b: 21 FV4005: 17 T57 Heavy: 20 T110E4: 20 T110E3: 20 M48 Patton: 20 T110E5: 22 Object 268: 20 Object 263: 20 T-62A: 20 Object 430: 20 Object 140: 21 IS-7: 20 IS-4: 20

Add me, I play mostly 8-10 and am not that terrible.

Always loved the song, never knew there was a story behind it.

Student,

Sorry I died

It's probably because of the stupid dynamic platoons. You could get more than three in a toon since if someone joins while you are in battle you can still invite someone from that battle via the dynamic platoon method to get a four man toon. Or at least that is the only logical reason I see to do this......and why they wouldn't just patch it so you cant do this (I'm no coding genius but I can imagine it would be remotely difficult to do) is beyond me.