ZXrage

That being said, WG's handling of the situation is superb

My current f2p account I've started some time ago is "bringbackserb" mostly referencing he was better at balancing the game. Now I need to spend 2500 gold to not look like a Putin Troll

No change then?

They need to boost t8-t10 hp so the games slow down otherwise the meta will continue getting more and more dogshit. 

Deft Penk bot

Nice aim bot loser

121b is waifu

Yeah that's what I'm worried about the most. It's obviously fairly average but it sets a precedent for them to sell some stupid overtuned machine and slap a $100 pricetag on it

Honestly I am surprised they didn't start selling tier 9 premiums years ago. Imagine how well a Concept 1B that prints credits and bonds would sell.

Concept 1B-B (Black) coming soon to a loot crate near you!

Seems fine and not broken at all...

Dear god, yes.

7v7
Everyone on winning team gets 1 chevron, losing team loses 1
Maybe tier 9?

No. Like Echo said ELO system and it's fine. Going 7vs7 would be a big buff for some tanks and a big nerf to others. Meta tank list would get smaller by half. 

I barely even sidescrape anymore either, at most I do it to try and bait track shots. It just is too unreliable. At most I normally peek my nose out at an extreme angle to bait the shot without exposing my drive wheel, and then peek out. Or sit hull down, because thats the only real way to safely use armour on most tanks nowadays.

I've always been firmly part of team 'Maximize chance for opponent to get fucked by RNG'

Driving at people at an angle/switching angles so they hit tracks or ricochet off side armor, wiggling, fast pokes, baiting, showing the strong side of the T-10 pike nose, etc. There's very few cases where you can safely assume you wont take damage.

It hasn't been working too well in my IS4 lately that's for sure.

Same to you.

Less rekt'ing in battles!

Greetings from 2020 time travelers

I'm sure it can't possibly be worse than 2020, and that I'm not jinxing us all by saying so

Yep, I thought I'd play a few games last night before bed. First game in, M46 on Highway south spawn, go north. Within first 2 minutes of the game, smacked for 80% of my HP by arty, 3 dead crew and perma-stunned. Dead with 1 shot of damage inside 4 minutes. That's a solid 'Nope!' to playing any more!

No, it's a neat vehicle.

its not bad tbh. 350 HEAT and decent handling with 420 base VR makes for a playable tank 

jk i took it back

hehehe time to shitpost and get perma'd

Not a maths guy, but compared to AP, APCR is almost exactly 10 less than what it says and HEAT/HE is almost exactly 20 less vs your average tank (50 degrees sloped armor). That's the simplest way of looking at it.

APCR slowly becomes 20-25mm less pen than AP as you get closer to autobounce. For most tanks, about 69 degrees is when APCR is doing nothing for you. If you're at range this is a lot sooner (66-67) due to pen dropoff and less angle negation due to high velocity rounds.

It's really rare for it to be straight up worse than AP, but it's surprising just how often APCR is doing literally nothing on tanks that only gain 30 pen or so, like the AMX 50 100.

IMO Shell velocity is a bigger pro than the extra pen for APCR vs AP.

Wot in a nutshell

...why is the AP shell like 900 m/s while the APCR is 1569 ms/s?? That has to be the fastest shell in the game.

42 minutes ago, Jesse_the_Scout said:

...why is the AP shell like 900 m/s while the APCR is 1569 ms/s?? That has to be the fastest shell in the game.

Fastest is the K-91's standard, followed by the Leo 1's premium and then Chieftain/T95's standard (the tier 8 trash one)

4th best in the game is a good place to be though

back up an extra 50 meters

as if playing a heavy would make it any better - your meds would just camp 600m from the engagement after telling you to spot and watch you die.

Plus, the cities on both maps used to be a lot more dynamic. WG removed the ability to easily flank/maneuver (taking out doors/adding stupid rubble) in the cities and ruined both maps for me.

I cannot fathom why they removed flanking opportunities in city.
-Tanks get introduced with stupid frontal armor
"Oh just flank"
-Haha kidding no side shots allowed please buy the defender.

I actually quite liked old Kharkov city, the southeast side was wacky enough that you could flank people on the city outskirts if you won it

Yeah, feels pretty hard to get wins at the moment, for me also most metrics are going up but win rate is going down (lost almost 0.1% in the last week). Not helped by me grinding tanks that are not good at carrying, but the steamrolls have been real.

they didnt change the armor at all really 

they just fixed the issue with the front drive wheel having a weak armor zone that could easily be penned when sidescraping 

GLD

I haven't been paying attention to this stuff at all. Has anyone made a guide yet?

Yes. All Italian auto-reloaders, it would seem. The  IS-3A couldn't mount one, so that's all of them.

Premium wheelie isn’t getting a mobility nerf; tier 5 and lower premium vehicles are also keeping the rammer bonus despite no longer being able to mount one...

IB4 T-54 experimental autoreloader T8 russki prem!