Fedaykin89

Finally managed to Ace this thing... with almost 1600 Base XP Still don't feel I can carry games in it Bonus: I somehow managed to bounce a Jagdpizda (!) http://wotreplays.eu/site/5775620

Maybe it's just me and I'm bad @ theorycrafting, but after watching skill's first video on this tank, the best way I can imagine being used is like a 2-shot autoloader support tank... you peek out, you fire 2 shots in 4 seconds (trading damage if you must) then fall back to reload and go dark. All 3 shots I would use only for isolated tanks and to confirm a kill.

Omg omg omg omg Sorry for my stupid enthusiasm fellas... but this is really the first time something like this happened for me! This is the 2nd bunch of 3 boxes I bought this winter (the other being in December... I don't have the best of wages AND I'm not keen on giving WG my money at all, but what the heck, the 3 box deal is dirt cheap)...and the fucking Borrat came in the 2nd box! 3rd box also gave me 3D style for E4, fuck yeah! Oh my bloody stars! At first I thought it was a tiny tier 5-6 shitter or whatever can drop out of them boxes... but then I noticed the silhouette.

Well... glad to say that so many years after my rant on the official forums against the Tiger 2, people have finally acknowledged that it was severely lacking in so many categories - and that WG FINALLY took the steps in fixing it. That 360 alpha feels like it's packing a punch, especially when tracking people around corners... also, having a turret that isn't lolpenned by everything feels like a godsent

Interesting parallel with the Tort, in my eyes the Tort's gun arc provides way more flexibility, allowing it to angle its armor and shoot around corners with impunity (nota bene: I really loved the Tort, managed to 3 Mark it and pretty much regret moving my crew 1 tier higher in the Badger... kept the Tort in my garage, since for me it was such a beast... so you'd think I somewhat master the skill of handling a lumbering, high ROF TD...) Maybe I'm too much of a potato to properly understand the meta, but IMO Skorpion and more recently the GSOR can flex/exert way more influence than the TS

QB in his most recent tier 8 premiums rating video has deemed this tank borderline OP/pay2win. Now, either he's been hitting the crack pipe lately (also highly recommending the IS-5, wtf?!) or I'm just a complete scrub in this thing (very likely) but... I find this thing almost impossible to play well! If you stay back and snipe, the crap accuracy will ensure that you will barely hit anything properly... but if you try & go HAM assault TD style (when top tier and just 1 arta), everyone hits your upper or lower weakspots (going hulldown is also a PITA due to poor gun depres

Is this tank played only by bots now or wtf? Just had a decent 3k damage game, mark of excellence went up by almost 1%. At this rate I'm gonna have one of the fastest 3 Marks in this game, alongside the IS-3 (Meanwhile, cries in UDES03... from 93% to 85% in a few sessions...)

43% Win Rate in this thing and no Ace Tanker... I must be doing something really wrong with it... especially since some years ago I managed 56% win rate in the T32 - and I feel I had way more fun in that thing, despite the horrible pen & accuracy

Well to be fair, being salty and sarcastic was his shtick (I also find his rants entertaining as hell - for shits and giggles, you guys should look up his KV-1S video) and when I first discovered him it was a very large breath of fresh air, hearing someone having legit complaints and frustrations... especially after QB's very PC / family-friendly environment. Still, he was a damned good player from which I tried to learn some things (Mind you, I'm very much aware that there are even far better players out there and doing streams... it's just that I was never the Twitch / watching streams

I find the armor to be quite tragic, tbh... especially after shooting at them during the Marathon I really expected that UFP to bounce more stuff, especially considering how sluggish it is... As for the gun handling - I'm an oddball, I really enjoyed the A-44 back in the day, so I don't really mind taking my time to aim my shots.

Well... just decided to go a bit HAM myself and put on Improved Vert. Stab... I'm 1500 bonds short (kinda went on a semi-hiatus, didn't participate in FL, RB or whatever gives you loads of bonds these days, so only had about 8200 at the time being) from slapping on Improved Vents as well. Would still take this tank's gun handling over the Pz 58 Mutz... which despite having better overall accuracy, I'm really having a way harder time racking up damage in that thing (granted, it has 300 DPM handicap against the the 274a to boot... so much for lower dmg -> higher DPM rule) Then again, I

Yeah... I think one of my first reactions was "didn't Skill say this thing is not so good, with standard equipment at least?" He kind of changed his mind after toying a bit with bounty/improved eq., but still...

Just played a few games in this and... Holy crap, 2nd class for 1200+ something base XP, with 4.6k direct dmg and 1254 assistance dmg. 3rd class for 1021 base XP Yep... not gonna Ace this thing any time soon. And I can completely forget about 3 Marking it. So yeah... my first impressions (3 games in) correlate with these results... it feels VERY powerful and played at insanely good levels. MAYBE a 5k damage against tier 10s is good enough for Ace Tanker

Does anyone have any idea if the anonymizer is ignored or anything by XVM or other third party apps? Especially recently? Because lately arty focus seems to be very real again - and it's not because I'm overly aggressive, I have at least 1 or 2 replays in which I'm obviously singled out while the enemy sky pig completely ignores the clusterfuck of brawling MTs 20m away from me.

Well... when even some of the best (public) players out there have had enough... Mind you, he's not saying or bringing anything new to the table, we all know the major reasons this game is going from bad to worse... still, his epic plays will be missed!