WoT v WT effort-thread

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To be honest, you can do the same in WoT

 

yea....no

 

You can carry all you want sure

 

But you just cant luagh off panzer 3 and 4s futile attempts to pen your T-34 as you dispatch them one after another after another after another in one shots

Or sneak behind your broken lines to one-shot Tiger ammoracks as they advance on your spawn 

 

Or go around ammoracking T-28s and M-60s in your T-54 all by yourlonesome 

 

Epic

 

Stop steeling the results screen off my computer dammit 

[SuperComrade 237]

You can just as easily switch off your brain in WoT and not care about winning/losing and simply enjoy the game. Nothing in WoT obligates you to care, just like nothing obligates you to care in War Thunder either. It's all entirely your choice.

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i never said world of tanks isnt fun

 

Im just insuitating that a game that has more to do with your personal skills as a tanker, such as being aware of the terrain and limitations/benifits of your machine and the eneimes is more my cup of tea than throwing a dice to the RNG gods every time i boot up a match that my gun dosent miss every shot at world war 1 ranges, that my team dosent crap out and i get to pump 3 shots into a guy who eats it and memes me with his paper gun or blueprint armor or that an aritllery piece dosent nuke me from orbit

 

Warthunder has its flaws, and even in GFs you die to bombers quite easily, but hell, atleast the other guy had to like fly to you and stuff 

 

plus im getting old

When i get into world of tanks and i get outmeanvered and out reacted by some teenager who isnt even old enough to shave i start to feel like a dumb old foul

 

Same reason i play more games like red orchastra than call of duty

 

this slow turtle just excels at using his brain rather than his arms 

[Meplat 1,037]

i never said world of tanks isnt fun

 

Im just insuitating that a game that has more to do with your personal skills as a tanker, such as being aware of the terrain and limitations/benifits of your machine and the eneimes is more my cup of tea than throwing a dice to the RNG gods every time i boot up a match that my gun dosent miss every shot at world war 1 ranges, that my team dosent crap out and i get to pump 3 shots into a guy who eats it and memes me with his paper gun or blueprint armor or that an aritllery piece dosent nuke me from orbit

 

Warthunder has its flaws, and even in GFs you die to bombers quite easily, but hell, atleast the other guy had to like fly to you and stuff 

 

plus im getting old

When i get into world of tanks and i get outmeanvered and out reacted by some teenager who isnt even old enough to shave i start to feel like a dumb old foul

 

Same reason i play more games like red orchastra than call of duty

 

this slow turtle just excels at using his brain rather than his arms 

I just get more annoyed at the mega-gamers who HAVE to have it all their way, and the fucktards who somehow got to tier six or seven without learning how to actually play the game.

[SuperComrade 237]

I honestly find World of Tanks to be a more consistent game than War Thunder. War Thunder just has so many variables that go into it that it effectively becomes an RNG of its own.

[Meplat 1,037]

I honestly find World of Tanks to be a more consistent game than War Thunder. War Thunder just has so many variables that go into it that it effectively becomes an RNG of its own.

90 mm bounces.

On a Pz II.

 

Nuff said.

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Warthunder is even worse with that angled armor bouncing shit

 

ive seen leopard 1s bounced 100 and 122mm rounds to their upper front plate just because its slopped

 

maybe when Gaijn decides to stop fucking with the zoom features they will introduce armor overmatching 

[Meplat 1,037]

Warthunder is even worse with that angled armor bouncing shit

 

ive seen leopard 1s bounced 100 and 122mm rounds to their upper front plate just because its slopped

 

maybe when Gaijn decides to stop fucking with the zoom features they will introduce armor overmatching 

I was talking about WT..

 

Bounced more than a few 90mm off bot PzII's and 38T's.

[Vasily Krysov 31]

To be honest, you can do the same in WoT

Not in terms of reward though, unless you get that "resistance" tag that treats you as a winner for exp/silver. In WT you get what you played for afaik.

[SuperComrade 237]

Not in terms of reward though, unless you get that "resistance" tag that treats you as a winner for exp/silver. In WT you get what you played for afaik.

Yes, but against that must be balanced the fact that

1) War Thunder's ingame economy is shit and has always been shit since 1.39 or something like that

 

2) War Thunder's mechanics inherently make it a more frustrating game where you often can get one-shot out of pure dumb luck

3) Battles in War Thunder, especially RB, take far longer than the average World of Tanks battle

[EnsignExpendable 3,081]

I've sat in WT queue longer than some WoT battles.

[Vasily Krysov 31]

1) The econ functions far better to me because you don't have to play what feels like hundreds of games to progress to the next vehicle until it gets to the very late game. In terms of silvers I have literally never paid attention to it as I have never ran out of money, unlike in WoT.

1a) Because you can play any vehicle you want and set the research target separately you never have to play a vehicle that you absolutely despise to continue progressing.

2) It sucks but then you shrug and play another match? I personally find it's more often me dispensing the loading screen to others and the potential to one shot enemies with good aim is nice. It means that if you properly flank some fools you can go all Lt. Oskin on their asses and knock them all out in short order. In WoT, not so much as you have to chew through HP pools.

3) Not a problem for me as I am usually having a lot more fun, and more consistently, in those longer WT matches.

EE) My only complaint is that the wait timer can get a bit ridiculous.

[SuperComrade 237]

Back when I still played War Thunder, the economy was probably the single biggest complaint about it. At least it's nice to know they fixed that broken part.

HP system cuts both ways, it makes battles more consistent in my opinion. YMMV

I do enjoy War Thunder on occasion, but I can't perform in it consistently. That is what makes it frustrating. I'm bad at ranging shots and spotting pixels on my screen.

I miss the old 20 rank system. Now you pretty much have to buy everything in your path to unlock the next tanks, or you get the premiums. And War Thunder has a little too many pay-to-win elements for my liking as well (backup tanks/aircraft, buyable crew skills, buyable unlocks).

[Vasily Krysov 31]

Not to toot my own trumpet, but a factor may be that I'm just good at the game. Ranging shots, concealment, positioning and pixel hunting is what makes the game fun for me. It really does feel like my personal skills come to the fore more so than in WoT where you are at a much greater mercy of the game's RNG and mechanics like camo.

Like in WoT a game where you get 8 kills is a huge event. In WT its basically every two games for me. In WT the much more lethal result of landing hits on an enemy means that you can really carry much harder than you ever could in WoT.

It also helps that WT is two games for one really. If tanks has been pissing me off I can hop into flying some planes to get a refreshing change of pace, but still be contributing to my crew slot exp, silvers and the roundabout benefit of better aircraft to use at CAS in combined arms battles. The reverse is also true here for air to tanks.

[SuperComrade 237]

I will say that WoT is more about a different skillset than War Thunder, I think both can be fun, but I dislike War Thunder's mechanics more and prefer WoT's consistency

[EnsignExpendable 3,081]

It's been months since I played a pub game in WoT. Organized play was great, but that too died with PBKAC. Now I have a heap of gold, a garage full of rare tier 10s, and no real reason to play anymore.

[SuperComrade 237]

PBKAC is dead now? Shame, knew a few guys there

[EnsignExpendable 3,081]

Yeah, the new global map was a colossal pain in the ass to manage, so all the officers burned out one by one. PBKAC WoT is dead, there's some rumours of going to AW or something, but I don't know if that'll happen.

[Belesarius 1,476]

Hunh. How long did Harold last?

[SuperComrade 237]

Honestly, the pubs in AW are far worse than those in WoT. PvE bots are better than them.

[Meplat 1,037]

If you really know warbirds, WT will infuriate you.

If you really know tanks WT will annoy you.

 

WoWp will just cause you to uninstall.

WoT is so unabashedly cartoony it just MIGHT be fun.

[Sturgeon 3,956]

Yup. My initial impression of WoT was "oh, this is Crimson Skies with tanks."

[SuperComrade 237]

Well, if I wanted to play something more like a sim, I'd just boot up T-72: Balkans on Fire

[Sturgeon 3,956]

Five years later, I am still a little disappointed that WoT doesn't allow you to mix and match parts from different tanks and nations to create glorious Mad Max frankentanks!

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If you really know tanks WT will annoy you.

 

Eh, other than the:

 

fucked zoom mechanics

fucking greasy lack of overmatch mechnanics

German and bong tanks being remotly useful ever

 

 

 

Its a pretty good game, for me atleast

 

American and Soviet tanks seem really powerful, which makes me feel good deep down inside my concrete and pig aluminum heart