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[World of Tanks] Tanks+MMO+Free= Why aren't you playing already?
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World of Tanks is an action/simulation MMO involving battles in WWII era tanks. The gameplay is a blend, with simulation elements like armor thickness, ammo penetration values, and accurate tank speeds, mixed with a 3rd person perspective and quick multiplayer rounds. The battles involve 15 players per side and play out like TF2 with tanks. Each type of tank has its role and you need all of them to win. In between battles you can use the battle XP and cash you gain to upgrade your tank, or buy a new tank. Your crew also gains skills and you can select different abilities for them like repair or camouflage. There are 3 tech trees at the moment, German, USSR, and US, with a French tree soon to be added and a likely British one coming eventually. There are several classes of vehicle: Light, medium, and heavy tanks; tank destroyers, and self-propelled artillery.
Officially the game is in closed beta, but I applied a few days ago and got an invitation the next day. If you submit your email you will probably get in very soon.
http://game.worldoftanks.com/registration/cbt/
Stability and feature wise this game feels like release quality, so I'm guessing they still have it in beta to test and balance new tanks as they add them.
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Tank destroyer video
This game is f****** addictive. The battles happen quickly and matchmaking is super easy. You just select your tank and hit the 'battle' button. You are auto assigned to a battle based on your tank's tier in the tech tree and its class. The matches always have a reasonable mix of tanks (imo sometimes a little heavy on artillery), and I haven't been in any obviously mis-matched rounds. The best part is that if you get blown up in a battle, you can exit the round and start up a new one if you have another tank in your garage. Your destroyed tank stays in the battle and when it's over you get all the cash and XP you earned without having to spectate the rest of the game (but you can if you want to). Progression is quick too, I played for about 4 hours last night and I'm already into the tier 3 tanks. What really makes this game addictive is the tank and crew customization. You are always upgrading equipment or balancing your crew's skillset.
There is an option to form 3 person platoons that join the battles as a unit. In an upcoming patch they are adding a "clan wars" feature where you can set the whole 15 player side for organized games. But so far the pugs are still really fun. If anyone gets into the game I play under the name 'bamjo.' Maybe we can get on the PA vent server and crush some pubbies sometime. If there are enough people interested maybe we can get a steam group up.
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That's.... actually pretty badass.
Damn the M3 Lee and its crappy turret.
Mogh is my in game name, feel free to blow me up if you see me, it won't be too difficult.
Next I want to try out the Soviet heavy tanks, although the German Tiger series seems pretty cool too.
Friggin Lee I'm stuck grinding on has all the disadvantages of a TD with none of the advantages.
::edit:: hey, you ever going to finish your Battles from the Bulge LP?
But right now my M57 SPG is funding my climb up the other tank trees, it's a real money maker.
And yes Fleeb, I will get back to that LP soon, after finals for sure. Between school and other games I got kind of distracted. Thanks for your interest.
Farleyman is my name ingame. Hit me up if you ever want to play together.
Part of this is the last patch fixed tanks warping from one spot to anther when viewed from long range. Now people can actually lead their shots so lights/meds can get tracked and killed while moving at full speed before they can get close/flank heavies, or get tracked and one shotted by arty. All without the medium/light ever seeing any of the tanks shooting at them since visibility is messed up right now.
I said Russian because the devs have a pattern of making the already good russian tanks even better every patch, while giving minimal improvents or nerfs to the germans and US. Latest example is the IS-4, i have one and its arguably the best tank in the game, is getting its near impenatrable front armor made even thicker next patch (a small part of its rear armor is getting slightly thinner, still thicker than a tier 6 meds front) for historical reasons. While german tanks are slower and guns less effective than their historical stats for gameplay reasons. The US heavies which have good turret armor and paper thin hull armor are getting their armor reduced across the board and getting their movent, accuracy while moving/traversing reduced as well.
That said, I still like the game. Just after the soft wipe I will keep my IS4, maby get an IS7, buy an IS, and drop all the points i spent on the other trees above tier 5. The low tier battles are fine, except for artillery being too good at that level, just I see no reason to keep my tiger or get another t44 with the russan heavy line the way it is now. The higher tier german TDs can be OK though. Probably just save a buch of free exp and see if they rebalance things latter.
Really? Oh FFS, US tanks are already made of cardboard!
As an aside tho, if you can afford it it's totally worth it to train crew to 75 or 100 %. Makes a huuuge difference.
From what I understand, the Panther and T-44 play way differently. If you're doing well in the Panther I'd say stick with it. My understanding is that the Panther is a mobile sniper and the T-44 is more of a brawler
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Oh and alas, I don't currently have a Panther, so that was part of the problem in choosing. With the softwipe however I will be able to afford one, as I can consolidate my XP.
As for training crews, going up to 100% is great, but don't sweat if you don't have the gold. Most tanks become noticably better at 80% proficiency, and from then on you won't notice a massive difference. So just train to 75% and play a few battles is good enough for the most part.
Thought maybe I had sent one before and forgotten, tried to do a password recovery. It tells me the e-mail/captcha combination is invalid every time.
Sent in an invite request with my school e-mail and four days later I have nothing.
That'd hopefully still work and get you in
Check out the Penny Arcade World of Tanks thread to join us in some fun times.
Currently grinding up the german TD line, about to buy a hetzer(though the horror stories scare me). Im really excited for the stug, though.
3ds friend code: 2981-6032-4118
The problem with the hetzer isnt that its just horrible, just it gets put in games with tier 9s all the time. So it just dies instantly when seen and can barely scratch most of its targets. Stug atleast gets the long 75 to snipe with when matched aginst those tanks, and the speed to get close to use the 105.
All the codes there are long gone.
I've got to disagree with Ogotai, the Hetzer is that bad. You've just got to Hetz your way on through to the Stug. The Jagdpanther is good fun, so it's worth the grind.
Edit: Gaslight, I got in by just signing up through the main page, it took them about a day to send me a key.
As I said, it tells me my main e-mail is already inexplicably in use and they've ignored an attempt with my school e-mail.
EDIT: I keep getting one shotted by Stugs, those things are monsters.
I still play occassionaly, ingame name: Evigilant
Right now I have a Hummel, Tiger I, and an M3 (debating if I want to work up the american heavy tree).
I'm really disappointed the American TD's aren't in the game.
Oops, sorry, missed that bit. I don't know what to tell you.
In my experience, they both have their ups and downs. The USSR SU-76 and 85B are pretty dang awful, but things get better after that. The AT-1 is fantastic for its tier, though.
"Early december", according to the forums.
Oh then I'm sorry
The next soft wipe is supposed to be coinciding with the server split in early/mid December, but there are the battle leagues going on and I don't see how they could split the servers before those are done. I'd say it rolls in at Christmas time or early January.
Check out the Penny Arcade World of Tanks thread to join us in some fun times.
This is fun in small doses though.
The stubby little 5 cm gun on my PzIII looks comical compared to the massive long 88's and 105's on the higher tier tanks. My tank is the one that gets ridiculed by the bigger, older tanks in the locker room. The best I can do is get some truck nuts to compensate
Then of course you get the matches where your tiny little tier 4 goes up against a nice and big Tiger or IS. Hell, i've even seen Hetzers playing in games with a Maus. Luckily for the Hetzer though they were on the same team, but still. Thats just not right.
Russian TDs tend to be better up to the SU-100, where they become a par for the German ones. From then on its a case of do you want a massive gun that fires every so often, but wreaks anything (Russian side), or a smaller one that doesn't do as much damage, but fires faster and comes in a better survivable hull. Only thing to note about the German TDs is their top gun (is it the 105mm?) is disproportionately expensive on the higher tier models.
TDs are weaksauce considering their supposed function of, I don't know, destroying tanks. It's a little masochistic that I like playing them. TDs since the Marder are just matched against opponents that vastly outgun, and outlast them.
The 105mm gun would be reasonable, if the reload time wasn't so absurdly long. At least then you'd be a reasonable threat to anything that wasn't down to single digits in health, or on the other side of the map so you can snipe and plink their health away.
At least the Stug moves well, even if it can't take hits.
It is $1000 a shot, but I still make money with it on the Jagdpanther. I think it does more damage than the stats would indicate.
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So I'm zipping around trying to get scouting XP, and I stumble into a cluster of 3 SPG's. I didn't really want to stop and fire long enough to take them all out, so I decided to give ramming a go. I ended up running over one of those little tier 2 Soviet SPG's (SU-18?), and killing an M37 and a Wespe. That drew the attention of a Stug who promptly turned around and one shotted me.
It was my best round in a PzIII so far. I got a nice chunk of XP toward the next tier. I'm not sure if I want to head up the Panther tree or go for the Tiger.
I'm always one to say the Tiger II is the best tank in the game so I would go there. Word to the wise, the PzIV and VK3601(H) are phenomenal tanks, but the stock Tiger is just bad. A huge letdown after you've fully upgraded your VK. If you go for a Tiger don't sell your VK
Check out the Penny Arcade World of Tanks thread to join us in some fun times.
That said, i'm going to try something new come the softwipe, so what do I know?