Steel Hunter - Yet another game mode

[Kymrel 185]

In case you haven't seen the announcement, WG is launching yet another game mode. Like last time, you don't get to use the tanks you've grinded out or payed for and the game seems to be a Fortnite-clone. Color me uninterested.

https://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/general-news/steel-hunter-announcement/

[Deus__Ex__Machina 989]

at least you can play this one more than 4 times a day, and aren't limited because of some mobile gaming tier fuel mechanic.

[kariverson 180]

IDK man this honestly looks pretty fun. 

[Sapros 348]

On 8/19/2019 at 5:36 PM, Deus__Ex__Machina said:

at least you can play this one more than 4 times a day, and aren't limited because of some mobile gaming tier fuel mechanic.

Chevrons tho.

[Kuroialty 449]

WoT has been bungled so hard that it's now just a test bed for WG to explore other game ideas for them to develop into the future.

[Madner Kami 405]

Starting with low ammo is fine, but jsut 8 shots is just stupid. If you don't find an ammo crate before your next best spawned enemy does, you're just flat out fucked and might just as well roll over and go back to garage. This is nonsense.

[Sapros 348]

Finding a crate as soon as you spawn usually isn't an issue though. But I guess you're really not supposed to pick fights early anyway.

The grind to 25 was a lot easier than anticipated. 

[Balthazars 210]

Tried it just now a little bit. I agree starting with just 8 ammo is ridiculous. My first game, I only found 2 green crates (no ammo) before my first encounter with an enemy. Because he also isn't an idiot, it's a bit of a duel and we're bouncing shots off each other. Except I run out of ammo before he does (he had killed another player) and then I'm left trying to run away to find more ammo. Radar ping the map...not a single ammo crate in sight (plenty of green). By the time you run further, you just run into more enemies, and because you are all the same speed, it's very hard to lose someone, especially if they are set on killing you. So frustrating. Not sure I can stand to keep on grinding in this mode, it looks like it has the capacity to be irritating as all heck.

[Jesse_the_Scout 2,100]

This mode is right about as stupid as I imagined it would be, and that's pretty fucking stupid. I should play a few more to give it a chance I guess.

[Archaic_One 1,853]

Did they put this one behind a gold paywall like they implied they might

[Sapros 348]

It's really fun once you get the hang of it. Best thing WG has come up with in ages. 

[kariverson 180]

It's not bad. Almost came first twice but he chose to be heavy and I chose to be med and he killed me in the last square. But I also got caught in 2vs1 early on twice and lost 4 chevrons -_-

[Android25 962]

It's not bad... a lot more fun than anything else WG has come up with recently. Here's 50 some games. Platoon was way easier.

[Lethul 18]

On 8/27/2019 at 12:35 AM, Balthazars said:

Tried it just now a little bit. I agree starting with just 8 ammo is ridiculous. My first game, I only found 2 green crates (no ammo) before my first encounter with an enemy. Because he also isn't an idiot, it's a bit of a duel and we're bouncing shots off each other. Except I run out of ammo before he does (he had killed another player) and then I'm left trying to run away to find more ammo. Radar ping the map...not a single ammo crate in sight (plenty of green). By the time you run further, you just run into more enemies, and because you are all the same speed, it's very hard to lose someone, especially if they are set on killing you. So frustrating. Not sure I can stand to keep on grinding in this mode, it looks like it has the capacity to be irritating as all heck.

I have to say you both seemed to be a bit of an idiot if you are not running away from each other. Just ignore all tanks until you are at least lvl 5.

On 8/19/2019 at 4:15 PM, Kymrel said:

In case you haven't seen the announcement, WG is launching yet another game mode. Like last time, you don't get to use the tanks you've grinded out or payed for and the game seems to be a Fortnite-clone. Color me uninterested.

https://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/general-news/steel-hunter-announcement/

 

Fortnite, the mother of all BR games ... ?

[kariverson 180]

18 hours ago, Lethul said:

I have to say you both seemed to be a bit of an idiot if you are not running away from each other. Just ignore all tanks until you are at least lvl 5.

I tried that. By the time there are less than 10 tanks left you're still at the stock tank and they can smash you. Yes you'll get 1 chevron but that's it. They only time I've managed to win solo was when I was opportunistic found two enemies duking it I killed both and I upgraded really fast to be a predator they can't fight.

edit: Just won again 1st in solo. Killed two guys in the start and then I was 2 chassis above until top three when the two assholes that were left cooperated all fucking game. Fucking assholes. Two IS3ish, I escaped them earlier in the game and I met them in the end again. Beat both these assholes with my autoloading t55ish

edit2: Rattlesnake is underpowered BTW

edit3: Just won solo again. The last guy was STOCK LOL. All 3 times with the Russian tanky. Agile little thing. 

[Madner Kami 405]

Technically, Rattlesnake should be fast to be highly upgraded, thanks to the reduced radar time. Top config has pretty rad DPM compared to the other two, but since they can fit an autoloader, this DPM-advantage becomes meh. Rattlesnake also runs into ammo-issues even if you avoid conflict early on. Fuck this ammo-issue, seriously.

Russian wankercan goes from unarmored fastish medium with decent gun, to IS3 plus. Go figure.

German one is... I dunno what to think. The armor advantage is noticible early on, but the upgrade-path of the russian wankercan makes it more effective as a tanker, so what's the point...

[Lethul 18]

12 hours ago, kariverson said:

I tried that. By the time there are less than 10 tanks left you're still at the stock tank and they can smash you. Yes you'll get 1 chevron but that's it. They only time I've managed to win solo was when I was opportunistic found two enemies duking it I killed both and I upgraded really fast to be a predator they can't fight.

edit: Just won again 1st in solo. Killed two guys in the start and then I was 2 chassis above until top three when the two assholes that were left cooperated all fucking game. Fucking assholes. Two IS3ish, I escaped them earlier in the game and I met them in the end again. Beat both these assholes with my autoloading t55ish

edit2: Rattlesnake is underpowered BTW

edit3: Just won solo again. The last guy was STOCK LOL. All 3 times with the Russian tanky. Agile little thing. 

 

I've won over half of my games by avoiding contact until the second gun. I just stick to the corner of the map and radar for loot. When I get the fun I try to bully someone

 

How do you get autoloading t55? I tend to end up in IS3/T10 combo with DPM end gun. I find the DPM gun is better than alpha in the end when it is basically a 1vs1 in one zone.

[kariverson 180]

4 hours ago, Lethul said:

 

How do you get autoloading t55? I tend to end up in IS3/T10 combo with DPM end gun. I find the DPM gun is better than alpha in the end when it is basically a 1vs1 in one zone.

I get the the mobility upgrades instead of the HP ones. Even if you take the big gun in the start you can end up with the auto-reloader. Not autoloader on the germans. My mistake. The American one ends up a t69ish with autoloader. And an m103ish with hp and armor upgrades.

With the german one never managed to get to the end upgrade. Neither fast nor heavy.

The Russian starter is so much better than the rest, especially the American. It's the fastest by far and sits in the middle in armor. It can bounce. It can fight and it can run from anything. 

BTW I came across a Vksomething top upgraded German and he was shooting me for OVER 1K dmg each shot. Holy shit I run away as fast as I could.

 

edit: I just made My VK shoot 1k. Lol it was so funny, everyone was scared shitless after the first shot. I killed 10 tanks in this game xD

[kariverson 180]

OMG the 4 shot HE autoloader is so much fun. 0.5secs intraclip pew pew pew pew and you run.
But in general fast tanks are in a huge disadvantage at the endgame. Where there is only 1-5 sectors to fight.

[Oicraftian_ 14]

On 8/26/2019 at 1:46 PM, Sapros said:

Finding a crate as soon as you spawn usually isn't an issue though. But I guess you're really not supposed to pick fights early anyway.

The grind to 25 was a lot easier than anticipated. 

You only pick fights when its a good idea to, because its an FFA with limited ammo. Gamemode uses 'old'? tracers where you can track the shell to the point it was fired, so good luck hiding. Really, its just a matter of picking up as many of the good drops as possible, and when you have ammo, killing people and stealing their stuff, without wasting your own time.

On 8/26/2019 at 6:35 PM, Balthazars said:

Tried it just now a little bit. I agree starting with just 8 ammo is ridiculous. My first game, I only found 2 green crates (no ammo) before my first encounter with an enemy. Because he also isn't an idiot, it's a bit of a duel and we're bouncing shots off each other. Except I run out of ammo before he does (he had killed another player) and then I'm left trying to run away to find more ammo. Radar ping the map...not a single ammo crate in sight (plenty of green). By the time you run further, you just run into more enemies, and because you are all the same speed, it's very hard to lose someone, especially if they are set on killing you. So frustrating. Not sure I can stand to keep on grinding in this mode, it looks like it has the capacity to be irritating as all heck.

At that point you just run. The amount of HP in this gamemode is stupidly high, reducing the feeling of risk by silly amounts. The new view range system is ridiculous.

On 8/28/2019 at 3:38 AM, Lethul said:

I have to say you both seemed to be a bit of an idiot if you are not running away from each other. Just ignore all tanks until you are at least lvl 5.

 

Fortnite, the mother of all BR games ... ?

Not sure if that is a good or bad idea. Because I figure you will level up too slow at that point.

[Lethul 18]

15 hours ago, Oicraftian said:

Not sure if that is a good or bad idea. Because I figure you will level up too slow at that point.

It is ok, because you will be guaranteed to not drop Chevrons if you avoid fights until 390 alpha gun. And when you find sub lvl 5 players you can dominate them.

[Rexxie 10,789]

So this is back and I've been having some fun. I've probably won ~30% of my games? Really wish the non-pass rewards were more worthwhile - ~25k credits per game is kind of awful and it doesn't seem to scale with performance. 

So far I've found the best to be the American tank - it's fast enough to pick fights, well armored enough to screw over the french LT in early 1v1s, and the combination of agility and your trap lets you circle anything forever. Basically, you will win a 1v1 with anything if you get close. It also has a very nasty autoloader. Target Tracking is pretty much useless, but Trap is so overpowered that it doesn't matter.

The worst I've tried is the french one, but its highly dependent on what routes you take. It's really easy to get top 5 with it by just running forever, but if you keep taking the mobility upgrades you will get utterly screwed when the zones close in. It cant circle as well as the american tank and the firepower is entirely reliant on you taking the HE spam autoloader. Fun until then, though.

[hall0 1,095]

I won one in the french and made two times to the top places. Out of three battles. 
The key is to run away. See an enemy which looks strong? Run! If you play like a coward it will benefit your score. I try to level up as fast as possible and only engage enemies when they are low level or fighting others. Basically I played like an asshole but it worked. 

But my favorites are the US and UK tanks. Both are very similar and provide medium gameplay with good consumables. 

[Private_Miros 2,969]

I am utterly confused still by the penetration mechanics and the armour layout. No matter what tank I drive, they penetrate me literally anywhere from any angle, and I manage to only penetrate lower plates, rear turret shots and 1/10 side shots.

So, I basically avoided engagement and finished top 3 each time.

Played a platoon game and there we finished first with 0 kills and 0 damage.

[lavawing 498]

this is legit harder than tier 10 wtf is even happening