kolni

This is more and more common recently. Really not fun for 3 marking. I get 3 mark variation but going +/- 7% in a day is a bit silly when you get 2 maps over and over again. 

Also are you constantly getting the same spawn? I remember getting only north spawn redshire for 2 months. 

I remember getting 4 Karelia defense spawn in 6 games when I was marking t-92 like a month ago. Ironically the results were not good because my teams all went to the sides and 0 tanks covered mid as the new meta for losing defense.

That is why I have both types of 13-57.

We need a Schwarzpanzer 58 Black

i also only exclusively play single tanks, use the death timer to fiigure out improvements

went from a shtiter to a 5k player in a single stream today in that process

No, mine definitely still gets penned by both HEAT and premium APCR if presented flat.

Now it's RNG dependant though for some reason I think RNG got worse recently. I get fully aimed shells go more often to fuck knows where on 0.3 tanks and even my m60 with 350mm heat has issues with flat angle e100

Wargaming school of balance strikes again!

Personally, I would have preferred they didn't give it siege mode and given it better accuracy instead.

The siege mode is absurdly situational, but better accuracy is always nice.

I've been thinking of picking up a Bounty IAU just for this thing. Not sure about giving up Vents for it, but really the only real issue with the gun is the base accuracy, which makes it frustratingly unreliable. With that being the case, I think the improved accuracy from IAU would probably be more beneficial than the slightly better reload from Vents.

All those games and there's WoT with 1k viewers, what happened lmbo

How much did they pay for top page advertisement?

I think you misunderstand. I'm not talking about rushing in and dogfighting like a CW battle. I'm interested in if the knife's edge could be sharper. The method of sharpening that blade is what I'm interested in, and I think it might be worthwhile to look in new places. 

Do you ever really know your mechanical limits until you push them to the brink? Knowing means precision, which is what I'm looking for. This is an area I used to be incredibly good at, but with playing less I rely much more on thinking to beat my enemy. I can still win every 1v1 I will ever come across on even ground, even some 1v2s - but 1v3s? No way. Doing them might be bashing my head against a wall, but upping the difficulty might lead to higher efficiency in those 1v1 and 1v2s that I can win in the long run. 

I think I've mastered tempo as far as it goes, and mechanically I'm about as strong as RNG lets me. Decision making as well, but there's still something that makes me feel inadequate in games. So I'm going to try and find that needle.

Ah, you mean more in a personal way, and less in a meta way.

Well, i was always of the opinion, that by forcing the enemy to do something, you can force an opening, since, if they have to do something, there is a good chance they will fuck it up, so you can start ``a chain of events`` Especially when they are not in their camp spot yet, and they cant fall back on basic gameplay (like red shire aim for the crossing at start) many people are simply terrible in improvising, or getting out a self dug sh*thole.

(like how 90% of the arty player has no idea what to do late game in td mode, they simply never live long enough to be alive in the end and are toally clueless)

ps: However i think offensive play, aka forcing the enemy to make mistakes, is next to impossible nowadays, your playstyle, of beiing passive, seems to be the superior play now (on most maps and in most situations) except with Ebr, there you can still win by offensive play (once in a while, so far my ebr-90 games are glorious wins, or tragic defeats)

This is likely one of the reasons why breakthrough tanks are so hard to balance - they change the dynamic of the game by allowing more proactive action, meaning you are no longer dependent on the enemy team making obvious mistakes in a stalemate.

You can try to balance them by cutting back in the areas where they are strongest, which often results in them being unastounding in any role, or in the areas where they're just ok, resulting in what is often an unfun and one-dimensional tank. Introducing reasonable weakspots without going overboard would probably be a better idea, but WG is obviously reticent to actually do that

Depends on what your goal is

Winning?

1. 907

2. STB

3. 140

4. Carro. 

5. 430U

DPG?

1. STB

2. Leo

3. 140

4. 907

5. Carro

8 hours ago, kolni said:

Depends on what your goal is

Winning?

1. 907

2. STB

3. 140

4. Carro. 

5. 430U

 

DPG?

1. STB

2. Leo

3. 140

4. 907

5. Carro

I'm honestly surprised the STB-1 is so high but then again the other L7 meds haven't been megabuffed like it has

8 hours ago, Bobi_Kreeg said:

STB, 907, 140, UDES, Carro.

We obviously disagree on Leotard.  It has great firepower, great mobility, but not having any armor anywhere on it is..

Damaaage whore 

M60 just barely didnt make the cut

I hate T8.

Bourrasques gun is nerve wrecking.

Progetto makes no money.

Skorpion makes money but it is eternally unfun to play.

@LetsMakeTheMagic

I find Renegade pretty decent, it's prolly not as fun as the meds or as good for money making as the Skorp but it's somewhere in between in both respects

The bigger problem is just the game in general and all the retardetry that comes with it

I tried the Renegade on a friends account. I find the cupola not even to be the biggest issue. The gun drives me nuts. I can't seem to hit any fully aimed shots if I don't run coke. 

The E75TS is often considered the worse Renegade but it clicks more for me tbh. Wouldn't buy either of them though.

I forgot the 703 II which is decent. Only weird thing beeing the switching reticle when it switches guns. 

Cool! I will watch it as replay. 

yeah i quickly went back to thinking "yeah this was probably not a good idea"

Between the clown cars and all the new hull down monsters I've bounced and missed more shots than I care to admit after coming back.

yeah, FCM seems even more rare as CDC

I went back and tried mine again lately due to Equipment 2.0. Even with Bounty V-Stab + Bounty IRM, the gun is infuriating.

It's sad. The tank has so much going for it. 1500 HP, great mobility (51kmh top speed, 23 power/weight), DPM, pen, gun depression, view range, shell velocity.

But it all goes to waste due to how infuriatingly derpy the gun is. 

The only good thing you can say about it is that it's better than the AMX CDC... But that doesn't actually mean anything given how bad the CDC is.

that's kinda strange considering my memories of the FCM was mainly just arty problems and felt that the gun was good way back when it was one of the "good" credit farmers back in 2015 or something when I started getting good at the game but I guess now compared to guns like the Caernarvon or Progetto it just sucks ass

they did but mostly it just fucks t6s

kv5 is one of the most hilarious t8s in the game lol

Get a friend in an FCM 50T to push the KV-5. Or two if you really want to go all out.

No, it's a shit tank but it is a very very fun one when it works

(it's like a 3/10 tank)

qgd/kid are solid openings, if you want send me some games and I'll offer some analysis

I doubt I'll reach heights of that kind and I don't have the aspirations to, since climbing is slow I've tried playing computers and even moderately difficult ones wipe the floor with me but I wipe the floor with ~1400 players so I'm sure I'll hit a wall soon enough.. and I wonder if it'll be like League where it stops being fun when I stop dominating.. time will tell

Yeah, looks like Carlsen's getting caught up with too though, Airthings Masters was hell of a tournament to watch

To stay at Nr 1 in the world is f&kin hard and everybody will get some ups and downs. Carlsen isnt getting any younger
and to stay that crisp sharp I have a suspicion you need to be relatively young. Point is- before Carlsen Norway pretty
much sucked at chess. Sure there were a couple of obscure Grandmasters but way down the rankings. Denmark and
Sweden have always had better chess culture. With Carlsen came this insane boost so that a lot of talent who otherwise
probably would be doin smth else entered the chess community here. ATM we pretty much smack up both Sweden and
Denmark- not only due to Carlsen but because another 5-10 guys also are decent. Anyway- GL with your chess

Isnt she supposed to be autistic? I haven't watched the show. Iirc you were diagnosed as autistic and those kind of behaviors are fairly common. Probably why you relate to the obsessive and headstrong nature of her character.

I was pretty downed writing that, you might wanna re-read if I miswrote anything. (Fixed it a bit)

I think she has to have something, very rarely does a person only have a single thing on their mind for so long. (I'll keep this spoiler free)

My autism and other things obviously make me relate to things in this way (manic), but less about characters and more about logical consistency. A windshield that is differently cracked during a car chase (gets worse/better with a new shot) makes me have to turn what I'm watching off that movie. I don't think I do anything else than obsess over things, I just learnt how to swap topics for a while but loose ends don't stop bothering me until I tie them up.

She is likely either psychotic or a savant. Psychotic episodes don't end unless they are noticed, and they aren't always bad. There's a tribute to Fischer who was quite literally crazy, wasn't long after the Spassky game he went nuts and without spoiling, a chess game in the 60s between the reigning USSR World Champion and the US champion rings a bell.. (Alma calls Benny Bobby in the show). The savant thing might be a Carlssen nod, as he is one. I just got the impression that she loves chess, but hates losing so here we are.

(An inconsistency though)

The one wrong thing is about her meds as they, whoever wrote that in, didn't do their research. Netflix always has to have some substance abuse or it isn't a good show in their eyes, but now they just got quite literally the key factor wrong about it. It doesn't actually matter for most of the show >(it can be anything) but very late the actual name of the substance is mentioned which makes it researchable. It's a Bensodiazepine, first one ever made. It helps with anxiety and can hinder withdrawal symptoms along with a bunch of other nifty stuff. However it's super addictive and withdrawal is deadly, so A) cold turkeying a school of orphans probably results the exact same way it does in the show, but with most of them tagging along. and B) The substance Librium kills your brains psychedelic abilities, all bensos do this. It not only clouds your mind, it clouds every perception you take in. (I take a newer version of these daily because of anxiety and if anything it makes things more boring). Never noticing the name makes this more believable, and pinpointing it has no purpose so.. why leave for screw-ups

You can be having the LSD trip of your life, take a normal dosage of those pills in the show and you will be back in reality within 15 minutes. Psychonauts call this the benso-exit, for when the trip goes bad. Liibrium is off the market but Xanax is very similar (same class, effect etc with a few differences but it's treated for identical symptoms. What surprised me is that I googled this and found no content, yet this is something anyone who has ever worked on intensive mental care facilities should know like the back of their hand. 

I'm not entirely sure of my answer, since both would be nice.

But, that question has made me wonder what kind of winrate 6k DPG would get you.

Probably not much higher than 4-5k. Win rate has a pretty high drop off due to factors outside your control.

speculating here but: i only think that's true for tier 10s (even though they are implied in op, there's others obv) 

in tier 10 the HP pools become so large that you can shave off 10k HP off the team in a few seconds as a light tank (Mali super aggressive bush that you could take when enemy team had no light - when that mm existed) and still lose the game. i have literally had this very thing happen to me more than once

i think at one point HP pools are so large that they simply don't matter but decisionmaking is entirely what decides a game 

15v15 and decision making between them almost always means that the most cohesive teams win, but still the winrates really stagger at 70 in tier 10, that's still 30% of the games where almost no player manages to carry through the terrible decisions of their own team

in tier 9 i have made the 80s solo with skoda t50 on several accs but very few games are real carries top damage game , it's mostly reliably having a teammate around to eat shots while i clip, but with tanks that i will singlehandedly decide games with (every 8th or so in the PTA) and generally play a much bigger part in damage wise, on average my WR is still at 72(+/-2) in all the good tier 9s  and 70 is where almost all the t10s i can top dpg charts are at too

i think when the hp pools get smaller but some guns perform at a similar levels you get a higher ceiling in solo winrates

80 in progetto, borrasque, renegade and vk looks likely with 3k+ dpgs in them 

I've been reliving 90s goth rock. Fits the mood

i do almostentirely electronic music, could upload mylibrary as there's hidden gems and club hits in almost all genres outside of big room edm since 2012

its like 12TB of mp3s though so i'd need a server...

https://bandcamp.com/yung_xd

here's my profile of the stuff i bought this year

Try to unplug your keyboard and wash it with water, let it dry naturally.

like.. july? came back to 3moe 279 when i noticed it had dropped so did that for a day tho but rust is real bad still

nevermind, found my groove after some trial and error

nice, with all the streamers marking it recently, show us some vids too

was done a while back, just forgot to post it, replays not eligible :/

am only playing off stream for now... i really suck now so would rather focus on me and me alone

5 hours ago, PityFool said:

- North spawn seems to have a noticeable advantage in getting to mid and north brawl area first. 

- Idk about south flank, idc about south flank.

- I go straight to north brawl area, then rotate back through mid after winning north

- Going mid at the start forces you into a tight choke point which enemy arty pre-aims every game, guaranteed HP loss.

In games with arty, starting with the mid guarantees HP loss but also a good amount of easy farm in return if you have high alpha/armour/speed. It's a wash if each side has 2 arty, and not worth it if more, but the flanking fire that winning mid can give you is huge. 

IMO the ideal opening seems to be rushing mid, getting 1-2 cheap shots off and rotating to either the town or to the heavy valley. Town is more important and should be the priority, but also means more risk.

That said, the early engagements can get chaotic very quickly and if your team is pants on retarded you can win the town at first and still get swamped because your friendlies are hanging back at the choke point rather than pushing forward and farming the people trying to rush town.

If the other side have much faster meds then the play becomes poke the chokepoint once or twice and fuck off back to the heavy valley. The far side feels like a TD trap and pretty pointless.

I think I have one good replay:
http://wotreplays.eu/site/5569460

and generally I had success playing in the heavy brawling zone even with my meds. Tell me what you think, if you have time to see it. 

@Vindi 

yeah the missing reward tank 3 marks are still bothering me... on that specific account I have so many that I almost feel like 3marking all of them on that account too (as of now, that would just be three extra, T-22, 907 and VK72) - im confident i can redo t22+907 so no hassle outside of vk72 that could give me trouble..

the only reward i have left to complete personally is the T95E6, so if I do it on that acc it's like 3 rewards left per acc completed so am debating cominb back - but i have not yet done so but i just know that i can do this, walking away feels like failing and that's just unacceptable in my mind

@PityFool thanks was pretty much this i was looking for seeing as i haven't played the map yet

@3MAJ86 i'll look at it when i have time to spare

Yeah,my days off don't include gaming unless there's very little to do otherwise

@Tman450 because it's a decent MOBA with large skill expression, i can literally outplay every spell in the game with Shaco, if I want to climb I play Shaco, I can play other junglers but I'm working on laning as I get filled and just lose the game because I am a plat shaco and like silvereverything else

League is cancer, it's a far mroe toxic game than even WOT, een if the core gameplay is good

i dont give a shit about griefing players,you'll get that in every online game.. even offline games?

ever watched the super smash melee community tournaments? offline small tight community and you'll never meet anything as toxic

what i obv don't like is that in league the griefer gets to play again after running it down and giving away gold to enemies, but in league i also have the respawn so if i fuck up i get another shot until you fuck up enough times as a team to lose.. that is a better system than wot imo when you have REAL skill expression

i mean skill4ltu plays with a 20cm mousepad and 3k dpi like wot skill expression is close to none mechanically, i went blue (before i got a gaming pc) playing with a trackpad

i m gonna say it - wot is a game for people who can't mechanically perform so they have think their way to decisions

clever design for the catered daddy coming off of work player in russia but i mean you could rid the reticle and just have the crosshair and i swear to god that half the playerbase would start missing EVERY shot at 1300m they'd otherwise hit 9/10 while ppl like stanlock, decha and the other insane aimers would hit everything with just the crosshair as a possible place to go

good aim matters but not a lot, i can play only with autoaim (no actual aiming, to fire just using mouse to autoaim them) and still outperform most of the playerbase - which is like... ridiculous, legit no actual aiming is required to be super unicum