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| 8 NOV 2010 at 10:59am |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | ok thanks.
can anyone tell me how to find people and join the games theyre in?
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 11:19am |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | if anyones interested you can find me by name.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 12:12pm |
CageCenturion
Posts : 94
Joined: 26 JUN 2004
Status : Offline | I'll be running a platoon when i'm on so if you're about i'll invite you. Feel free to join or not. It'll be either me Longshank or Blocky. Only running in tier 1 battles.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 12:38pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | Im having a blast working my Bt-2! Im using their XP to run up the 2 tech trees I decided on and gold be damned!
when I get my T-44 and Panther Ill start saving
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 12:49pm |
WallysWorldCenturion
Posts : 464
Joined: 30 MAR 2005
Location: CA
Status : Offline | I too have started playing this. Quite fun with the different tanks. But I'm also thinking what exactly is the purpose of the game? I know it's to have fun and advance your tank research, but I wish there was some kind of campaign mode with Germany versus Russia.
Abe Simpson: "I used to be 'with it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what's 'it' seems weird and scary."
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 2:02pm |
conCenturion
Posts : 670
Joined: 23 MAR 2005
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By WallysWorld
I too have started playing this. Quite fun with the different tanks. But I'm also thinking what exactly is the purpose of the game? I know it's to have fun and advance your tank research, but I wish there was some kind of campaign mode with Germany versus Russia.
I think in the final retail version they will have battles that determine resources and territory in operations and or campaigns. They will also set up "historical battles" where only tanks from a certain nation and time period can compete (ie Early Russian campaign etc),
I think they have quite a good base to build a lot of different ideas for making a fun MMO for tankers
Con
[b]Dr. Venture[/b]: Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 2:09pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | from reading the forum they do seem to set up specific battles where you cant use upgraded tanks.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 5:50pm |
MTWCenturion
Posts : 75
Joined: 22 JAN 2007
Status : Online | I've also just got in to the game. Having a blast with it. Some matches you're knocked out in 1-2 minutes and others you mangage to get a knock out or two. Seems like a match averages about 7-10 minutes. The maps are really well done also.
I have been spending time in a Marder II, trying to level up my crew to see if that helps any with some of there perks and exp.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 6:54pm |
endfire79Commander
Posts : 1315
Joined: 25 JAN 2005
Status : Offline | Sluggin' through with a PzIV. Any bigger turret on this thing and it just doesn't look right
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 7:03pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | ya, those Pz-4 with the Panther turret are just wrong to look at! LOL
Im trying to not buy a new tank until I can get something worthy. this is in no way detracting from me having fun though. at the moment Im loving the light tank battles.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 7:20pm |
DennisSCommander
Posts : 1300
Joined: 12 FEB 2004
Location: US
Status : Offline | I just finished a game, in my T-44, where I went ripping through the central mountain pass, and took out three arty. I got both steel wall, AND scout. Heh heh.
Total uproar. Their arty was screaming for help, I am blowing them up as fast as I can..and my T-44 has a ton of hit points, for the light and medium tanks that were attacking me.
I really like the T-44..it is the very best combination of speed and damage dealing. I can outrun anything that can kill me, and kill anything smaller than me.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 7:25pm |
RepublicCenturion
Posts : 285
Joined: 20 MAY 2010
Status : Offline | I've been grinding away in the T-46. Some rounds I do great, others...well...pathetic comes to mind.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 7:27pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | and so it goes....
thats why Im sticking in a low tier tank until I have something far better to use.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 7:29pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | one thing is for certain.
using terrain to your advantage is key in this game. hide behind anything that blocks shots.
rocks, buldings and wrecks.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 7:29pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | Im also quite adept at using the extreme flank to get around and into position to whack the opfor.
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 7:43pm |
endfire79Commander
Posts : 1315
Joined: 25 JAN 2005
Status : Offline | ^Your arty is going to worship you for doing this. Can't count the number of times i'd race around with the BT and spot 'em all, then let arty raise some hell. Plink off a few shots of damage yourself, and you'll get a ton of xp + cash for all that work (pays off).
Scmallturn on PzIV? When did that ever happen?
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 7:51pm |
DennisSCommander
Posts : 1300
Joined: 12 FEB 2004
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By GDS_Starfury
Im also quite adept at using the extreme flank to get around and into position to whack the opfor.
As you learn the maps, you will also learn what specific strategy works best.
If you head down the middle of a map, you can be spotted by just about everyone. You don't want that, as incoming will be ... incoming right away!
You cannot take a shot from a heavy. At minimum, you will be tracked. If you are tracked, you're dead. Period.
Speed is life. For a light tank, I don't stop, ever. I would rather go screaming through the enemy position, and live to fight another day, than to scream into the enemy base, and call it done.
That's how you get the really big points. You have more than one engagement. For any tank, if you survive the first and second engagements, and do damage for each, they you will see a very nice credit score and experience gain.
I have had matches where I had six or more little mini-engagements, and earned over 2,000 credits. Great fun when it happens, and it doesn't happen often!
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| 8 NOV 2010 at 7:59pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | yup, I might not be surviving the match much but Im giving better then I take right now and Im banking what seems to be good XP.
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| 9 NOV 2010 at 2:10pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | so what happens if I put an experienced crew in a new tank without retraining them?
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| 9 NOV 2010 at 2:48pm |
ARFF1TampaCenturion
Posts : 14
Joined: 3 MAR 2009
Location: US
Status : Offline | Hey, I downloaded this monster World of Tanks client download and it ended up corrupted. So I re-downloaded and installed it and it works fine. The problem is now, whenever I either try to download something else, or try to open/delete/ect. the corrupted file my computer (I guess) is trying to complete the original download of the corrupted file ( the computer is working like crazy and any other functions are severely delayed). I tried changing the download path for new downloads but that didn't work. I have windows XP and it happened on Firefox. I can go to Internet Explorer and download, but would rather get Firefox fixed. If I just click on the file and let the computer run (thinking it will eventually finish) I get a "downloads not responding" message after about 20 or so minutes. Other possible thought might be to just un-install and re-install Firefox. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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| 9 NOV 2010 at 2:55pm |
QualmCenturion
Posts : 395
Joined: 17 JUL 2005
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By GDS_Starfury
so what happens if I put an experienced crew in a new tank without retraining them?
Their skills starts at the base level of a brand new crew. So their performance will be poor.
With an experienced crew, you normally do one of two things: 1) spend the cash or gold to retrain them to the new tank you just bought (especially if they have hit 100% and are building secondary skills) or 2) keep them AND the tank they were in and use it to farm cash / exp towards shared equipment.
Typically it's not worth retraining crews until you are in a Tier 5 or 6 tank - you level out of a tank before your crews are really good. Later when you are in a higher level tank for a long long time (IS3 to IS4 takes a looooong time) and you hit 100% with some guys it is worth retraining them.
I've taken about 3 weeks off from this game, but I think I'm ready to get back into it - look for my T34 / T34-85 / Panther / T43 / IS3 under the name of Qualm in your battles and give me a shout!
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| 9 NOV 2010 at 7:32pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | will do. Im getting plasterd being a Bt-7 scout for my teams arty but it does seem to be worth it.
Ive also finally figured out the auto targeting when on the move. while I cant scratch the heavies or mediums Im getting the occasional arty piece.
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| 9 NOV 2010 at 7:51pm |
RepublicCenturion
Posts : 285
Joined: 20 MAY 2010
Status : Offline | I've "upgraded" to a T-28...I think I'm going down the wrong path for me. I think I may be better suited for tank destroyers. Gonna work until I get into a KV then see what happens. I'm so tempted to start working on the German tech tree but that just seems too 'easy'...
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| 9 NOV 2010 at 8:03pm |
GDS StarfuryGeneral
Posts : 16394
Joined: 26 MAY 2001
Location: 0, Starbase 10
Status : Offline | Im pretty much ignoring the Germans until I get my T-44.
after that Ill play more with the Germans and I think Im going to go for the upgraded panther and the jagdpanther.
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