World of Tanks Beta

[Tarkhan]

Are they hiring?

 

[MobBoss]

Well, the WoT beta comes back online tomorrow and they are now going to test the American servers. As there has been a 'soft wipe' I am now probably going to switch from Germans over to the Russians and see how far up the T-44 med tank line I can go. I had close to 200k experience when the servers shut down to patch for the week, so that, plus my other creds should get me up at least as high as a T-34-85 or so.

I still dont like how accurate and effective arty is in this game and that is one of the primary reasons why I havent tried heavy tanks yet. I like being out in front and that makes me arty bait.

Any news as to the prospective release date yet?

 

[FriendlyFire]

Mobboss mate its up now
I just logged in to get my 5000 Gold and take a Churchill for a spin

 

[MobBoss]

Mobboss mate its up now
I just logged in to get my 5000 Gold and take a Churchill for a spin

Found that out last night as well. They had not yet done the soft wipe.

What did you think of the Churchill?

 

[FriendlyFire]

Out of all the preiumn tanks I probably take the Matilda it has a 76mm (it use to be an 85mm)
The churchill is pretty poor even with the fast 45mm but it counts as a heavy tank. (The Matilda is a medium) So many people have a preferance for it. Stuart tiny tracks mean it has very poor turn else its fun to play

NA servers are not bad about 260 ping for me. I read the Russian servers got there 0.54 patch and devs are currently fixing it due to problems. Once it stable i expect the english servers to get the patch and go live. So were close to release when the devs get around to us.

But COH:O just went open beta and Relic announced that they wont be doing a wipe. (unless something goes wrong)

 

[Esckey]

I wish I had time to play this. I want to drive a Sturmgeschutz

 

[MobBoss]

Out of all the preiumn tanks I probably take the Matilda it has a 76mm (it use to be an 85mm)
The churchill is pretty poor even with the fast 45mm but it counts as a heavy tank. (The Matilda is a medium) So many people have a preferance for it. Stuart tiny tracks mean it has very poor turn else its fun to play

NA servers are not bad about 260 ping for me. I read the Russian servers got there 0.54 patch and devs are currently fixing it due to problems. Once it stable i expect the english servers to get the patch and go live. So were close to release when the devs get around to us.

But COH:O just went open beta and Relic announced that they wont be doing a wipe. (unless something goes wrong)

My pings for the german servers were in the 220-240 range. The NA servers are giving me 85-100. I still get the warping of trying to shoot tanks at long distance, but not as much. Since we are about to soft-wipe, I went ahead and played with a VK3001P last night in the german medium/fast tank line. Once I got it upgraded started getting some nice kills. Not bad having a tank that can go 60km speed and still mount an 88mm gun on it.

I have been noticing the T-44 dominating on a lot of maps however. It seems to perform much better than the Panther in this regard. Whats your observation/comparison of the two?

 

[cardgame]

T-44 is superior in most fields.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Mobboss you didnt have enough for a T-44 ?
I was suprised I had enough xp for an IS4 and the NA servers are packed with top tier tanks.

Yup the developers being Russian have the top tier russian tanks as superior. Especially for the late game.

Is everyones aiming retinal for auto aim now HUGE ? like double the size of the damm thing.
Sniping with my IS4 at around 800meters my crosshairs would lock down quite tightly pre patch giving more or less a hit, now post patch damm thing is so large all my shells are flying wide.

 

[MobBoss]

Nah, I got into a T-44 no problem. Actually got 7 kills in a match last night. Works great on a map that you can maneuver on.

 

[cardgame]

I love my VK3601, took down a tiger by myself

 

[Tarkhan]

I like this game. It's kinda like they got together in a dev meeting and said Ok, what do people think is awesome? Driving tanks.

Let's make a game about tanks.

 

[MobBoss]

I love my VK3601, took down a tiger by myself

I hear a lot of good things about the VK3601 too. Being able to put the big 88 on it is nice.

One of the things my friends and I did over the weekend was make a scout tank platoon (T-46s, PzIIIs, BT-7s) and making the challenge a perimeter race around the battlefield without getting killed. Makes for a fun, deathrace 2000 kind of thing. And in doing it we also scout the enemy artillery very well too. In fact, in the games we did it, at least one of us made it through every single time, and we won every game as our arty was able to take out the enemy arty, and half the enemy team got distracted in trying to chase us down. So we both had fun, and actually contributed to the team!!

 

[Hammurabi II]

I went ahead and added the three of you who have posted in here as contacts in the game - cardgame, MobBoss, and FriendlyFire. Maybe some of us can group up at some point now that they have added squads. Might make tactics a little easier.

 

[cardgame]

That would be great. I'll try to find out how to make one, and invite you if you both express interest. However MB seems to already be in a platoon - and I am too, actually, although it was a semi-random pickup from general chat.

 

[MobBoss]

That would be great. I'll try to find out how to make one, and invite you if you both express interest. However MB seems to already be in a platoon - and I am too, actually, although it was a semi-random pickup from general chat.

Actually, I have about 6-8 friends who are all playing this so if I am online I am always in a platoon.

I do run into cardgame every once in awhile.

There is even a guy named Flying Pig that plays, but he is not our FP.

Right now, I am running in a tech-ed up T-44. Always willing to comment on that if people want to hear about it.

 

[cardgame]

I love my Luchs so much.

 

[cardgame]

Finally got around to taking some WOT pics:

 

[remake20]

I just downloaded the game. Looks fun.

It's installing right now, is there any sort of friend list in the game?

If there is add me remake20

 

[cardgame]

and add me, cardgame