Ulric Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Not really. Like anything in life, you have to work for what you want. I've wasted way to much time (and money) acquiring pixel tanks when I could have been doing much more productive things. I've basically switched my video game time over to Solidworks for now, and it's a similar all consuming monster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted March 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Ulric said: Not really. Like anything in life, you have to work for what you want. I've wasted way to much time (and money) acquiring pixel tanks when I could have been doing much more productive things. I've basically switched my video game time over to Solidworks for now, and it's a similar all consuming monster. I find the argument for videa games as a second job to be weak. But then again, if the average customer is someone who puts in 5 hours a day then that's who they're going to cater to. Time playing with Solidworks isn't wasted, at least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulric Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 I guess all of the complaints that I heard about clan wars reward tanks has made me tone deaf to certain sentiments. The people who earned the rewards are the people who where both incredibly good and highly dedicated. Clan wars was a rough time, and when I was in Foxey, we had 50-60 people showing up almost every evening for several hours, for a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApplesauceBandit Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 8 hours ago, Toxn said: Is anyone else starting to get a bit weirded out by just how big the discrepency between the tank tech and plane tech has become? Tanks are up to the beginning of the 80s in terms of technology, while the most advanced planes are still gen 2 jets. Relatedly: is anyone else here kind of resigned to never actually getting to top tier at this point? Because I've been playing (very intermittantly) for years now and am still solidly stuck in the middle tier. Maybe it's just an old-person thing: with maybe an hour a day to dick around, its just impossible to rack up enough hours (something like 500 being needed per nation as a minimum if you don't spend money on it) to actually ever get to the end-game content. I've been playing since before they added tanks, I still don't really have any progress into tier 5s, though that's probably got a lot to do with how I don't play high tiers because of the module grind and my lack of a premium account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 The charms of realist battle are fun at times. I got in a spot in the M4A1 and managed to kill a T-34 and KV1, the 34 before it saw me. Being able to sit in a spot on a flank and shoot people while they have no clue is fun! The battle was perfect because all the ranges were under 600 feet, so I could hit with the first shot. Some other fun screenshots. Panthere in its natural state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 I've been playing my American tanks in WoT casually. It's been pretty fun. The M103 is much nicer post-buff. I'd switch to WT, but that would mean repeating the mistakes I made to get my WoT garage, so I'll just keep playing the latter when I feel like tanking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 Wargaming found several pennies and used them to pay for those videos: Is NA playerbase so bad as i heard last time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApplesauceBandit Posted March 31, 2018 Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 (edited) We TF2 now https://warthunder.com/en/news/5426-event-hats-off-to-you-en Edited April 1, 2018 by ApplesauceBandit hat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 My haul from this event. The hat and skin. And this skin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApplesauceBandit Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 PSA in case any of you haven't noticed it yet, but you can use those points in their online store too. Like right now, instead of giving gaijin my actual money for more eagles or a B1 Ter, I can just use those points instead. It's 1:1 with USD, which is crazy since I was selling those plane crates for 0.7 Gaijin thingies right when the event had started (they're about half that now). Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Meplat Posted April 15, 2018 Report Share Posted April 15, 2018 So. Trying to catch up .. Apparently there is some fuferall about how Gaijin handles HESH and HEAT (and post pen fragmentation in general) that has me asking "Really what were you thinking?". Seems some shot will produce "spall" (as they call it) that assumes a 90 degree (and only that) radius from point of pen. And from there will just superball at 90degree angles. Being one of those who uses WT as a "Oh I'm a bit tipsy, the BoB movie is on and I want to gank Jerries with a Spit" escape, how true and /or relevant is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted April 15, 2018 Report Share Posted April 15, 2018 and "network interruption". Really Gaijin? Fix. Your. Shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LULZ Posted April 15, 2018 Report Share Posted April 15, 2018 hello, i very much like WarThunder for confirming Challenger 1 is indeed, a steaming pile of shit Jeeps_Guns_Tanks and Lord_James 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted April 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 Since top tier tanks are half a decade out, I've decided to occupy the intervening time with hating myself. I've been playing the M4A3 (105), which manages to keep every shortcoming of the normal Sherman (height, mediocre manoeuvrability, poor armour, a tendency for shots to instantly find your ammo box) and gets rid of all the advantages. Anyway, it's a dog but I still end up having a good game with it every now and then. So I'm going to unlock the tumour to really make myself miserable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted April 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 So the Sau-40 is just as miserable as I was expecting: half a dozen games in and I think I've scored 1 kill. The M6, however, has been wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApplesauceBandit Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 Why they decided the SAu-40 needs to be a higher BR than the StuG A despite being worse in every way, I'll never know. I guess it makes people want to drop money on skipping it though, so that's probably it. Give them money to skip the crappy low tier tanks so you can give them more money to make your high tier tanks playable without hours of soulless and painful grinding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LULZ Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 This is WT, you don't have to play a vehicle unless you're a masochistic completionist SAu is 2.0 and the Stug is 2.3 in every mode btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApplesauceBandit Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 2 hours ago, LULZ said: This is WT, you don't have to play a vehicle unless you're a masochistic completionist SAu is 2.0 and the Stug is 2.3 in every mode btw They must have updated its BR and I missed it, was 2.7 when I tried playing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 On 4/16/2018 at 10:24 AM, Toxn said: Since top tier tanks are half a decade out, I've decided to occupy the intervening time with hating myself. I've been playing the M4A3 (105), which manages to keep every shortcoming of the normal Sherman (height, mediocre manoeuvrability, poor armour, a tendency for shots to instantly find your ammo box) and gets rid of all the advantages. Anyway, it's a dog but I still end up having a good game with it every now and then. So I'm going to unlock the tumour to really make myself miserable. The M4A1 at 3.3, the same as the 105, is pretty competitive. Even in RB, or more so in RB actually. I find 3.3-37 American (75mm Shermans) more fun than 4.7-5.0, where the M6 comes in, but I enjoy both. The 37mm on the M6 is surprisingly handy in AB, and works well on hellcats!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted April 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 5 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said: The M4A1 at 3.3, the same as the 105, is pretty competitive. Even in RB, or more so in RB actually. I find 3.3-37 American (75mm Shermans) more fun than 4.7-5.0, where the M6 comes in, but I enjoy both. The 37mm on the M6 is surprisingly handy in AB, and works well on hellcats!. The 75mm shermans are all wonderful, and I'm collecting them like pokemon at this point. The 105, on the other hand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 Yeah, the only saving grace for the 105 is it's really mobile. The slow turret is annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulric Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 2 hours ago, Toxn said: The 75mm shermans are all wonderful, and I'm collecting them like pokemon at this point. The 105, on the other hand... I've done that with T-34s. I think the only ones I don't have are the T-34-100 and the German captured T-34 that inexplicably has all the best parts of their different T-34-76s in a single tank. It has the STZ hull with a '42 turret, the extra tracks from about 3 other T-34s draped all over it, and the widest selection of ammo possible. Of course the Germans would get a better T-34-76 than the Soviets would, that makes total sense. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LULZ Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 Germany has the best: T-34-76 KV-1 F-86 Sabre M-47 MBT-70 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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