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IS-5 is a tank creeped into oblivion + never offered outside of CW (afaik) and that combination makes for stupidly difficult requirements, both in MoE and mastery if you're the only one playing a tank more than a few games you can basically manipulate the tank average into your own averages with a high quantity of games - which is almost always a bad idea if you are already above the average cutoff

a disclaimer then: relevant servers only

when it comes to being as cheap as possible in this game you save up credits for 11 months and blow it during christmas, repeat next year

how to avoid tilting as a tryhard: distance yourself from emotional investment - while treating the game like life and death sure gives you a good attention span towards it but it'll also cloud your judgment every bad streak of games meaning you're letting your emotions dictate your gameplay quality figuring out ways to prevent your cause of death/bad situations for next time is all you can do after the mistake has already been made, most of these tend to be very specific but once you get them down you can start looking at the map with a much better sense of gameflow in the end since you just keep adding stuff important to know about the map in its current situation ^ focus on this and it should be easier to keep a neutral attitude towards your previous bad game look at hard facts port mortem, keep them simple when reasoning as to why your game was shit and find an answer, don't blame the game/enemy tank/gold/serb/rng for what happened but rather think about something actually useful like why you died, what should've been done instead and so on until you get reasonable answers like "pushing here blindly with X and Y positions unspotted makes this play dangerous" and make note that you need position X and Y in this situation to be spotted or made sure to be unused for this play to be a good idea etc. > go into next game. this type of thing tends to get specific but go over the game until you find a lapse of judgment from your end and work your way from there into a better gameplan - this is probably the biggest source of useful non-written info the game gives you if you stick to it over time as you will get much better at predicting outcomes with better gameplans and more efficient at doing it. low risk low reward plays are still better than high risk high reward plays if you start comparing their results (at least to me they are) because low/low plays don't kill you - obv low/high plays are best but when unsure of what to do, take the high percentage play and you save yourself a lot of frustration, especially on maps you're unfamiliar with its terrain on (knowing which houses are solid, what rubble tanks the entire shell and not just slightly lower its pen and the general elevation differences is beyond my knowledge at least on this many maps), playing more cautiously helps you make better decisions when you often run into situations you're unsure of how to play out on those maps once you're tilted you are, don't brush it off but admit it right away to start speculating as to if you feel like this mistake ruined the session - if so then just quit and try again later, no reason ever to play during sub-optimal circumstances if you don't need to arty - start tracking their reloads and poke before their reloads are up and try to wait until the arty fires (most preferably on someone else doing the same thing you are) until your next poke to keep yourself from being lit and in a reloaded arty crosshair at the same time i normally just quit whenever my anger gets the better of me, first time that happens means at least a 2h break these days i only really tilt from being focused unreasonably, like tanks not shooting the easiest target they have, or not focusing a low HP autoloader in the open but rather the hulldown full hp tank poking (me) etc, things that should be working, looks like they're working, acts like they're working, but don't. you just start accepting the stuff you can't impact and get with the programme there. maps, mm, rng are all things you can't really control so it's a needless source of pressure you don't need, when these things happen you can't really do much to change them but play along and if you really got screwed then you simply drew the short straw, everyone gets those once in a while. when that happens you still have a reason as to why the game was bad, and when it's out of your control then there's no point dwelling on it at all. mostly it's about self-criticism and some confidence, tilt prevents you from using either which are both vital aspects of skill refinement and it absolutely destroys your attention span and keeps autopiloting to focus on processing emotions instead tl;dr better understanding of the game prevents tilting put yourself in low risk situations over high risk even if the payoff is much worse, take the short term small loss over "risking it" every time and you should automatically start going into wr of 58+ imo stabilise gameplay, every action should have a reason for it and that reason should be good enough to warrant the action recognise when it's time to quit focus is required to improve but not to play well - autopiloting means that the game isn't your primary focus currently going on inside your head so remove the other distractions if you want to learn more efficiently sound assumptions let you skip steps in favour of tempo understand why something's happening and it stops getting under your skin eventually

Playable? Yeah, grinding through them isn’t painful Relevant? T29 and Type 62 are. Tiger I suffers from the meta and gets progressively worse but there still isn’t a tank that does the same things better than it in its tier, even if it’s kind of bad it still has a role in the game. The other 2 are outclassed by same tier and nation prems in literally every important stat so there is zero point in using them besides progressing further in the tree

i did it the other way around, wouldn't call it the optimal way of playing it but with ebr's being present every single game you rarely get to play primary spotter anyway so i went vents/rammer/optics and went for full damage gameplay just like the lt432 is good at, it's all about not overextending then, playing it more as an agile medium since the gun is lowest alpha in tier with sub par dpm that doesn't really help it rack up damage that means you have to draw games out and make sure you play the long game, meaning you don't always use your mobility to take vision control but use it more as a relocation device when you need to split, use camo and small profile to keep yourself from taking damage while making sure you keep dealing damage one tip is to play reasonably passive until the game opens up, once people are alone and get caught you can just yolo in as the 2nd tank and freefarm, do that enough times and you get some pretty good reliable damage out close to every game while taking every free shot you can find (use your mobility for this, not CQC with other lights) lt432 is a real good tank to practice in a lower tier with easier opposition, identical playstyle at a lower difficulty