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MrVic: I have no issue with dealing with them

MrVic: Found this interesting. After recent testing of the HE changes since the last patch, HE is massively lowered. Most players run AP that I know of. I have run HE vs heavies lights ect. Seems to be in line actually much lower then the Real world versions effects.
The IS-7 with its armor and its slope, you have to remember the listed numbers do not mean every inch of the tank on that facing is that thickness. Also its never a simple matter of armor X thickness vs Y penetration. Their is variance in the armor pen of all weapons. Also the listed tanks fighting IS-7s are quite capable of penetrating the armor in some/many places on a IS-7 it all comes down to where you shoot at or where you hit. Also sloped armor can be reduced and negated by positioning. Its all geometry, almost no shot is purely a level shot at a perfectly square target armor facing.
IS-7 hull 150mm Turret 210mm
Your facing off:
IS Lowest armor pen weapon 144mm average of their weapons 175mm upper end 225mm. Hull shots are possible even turret with variance chances odds are, weak spots on tank plenty of punch for those.
4502 base armor Pen 200mm Hull np even chance on turret with some luck, better gun 225mm pen through turret and through the hull. Granted slope can save you a good but but with some good angles and geometry you can negate a lot of slopes depends on the players.
Jagtiger base 246mm pen top end 276mm pen, its got enough punch to pretty much poke a hole in you at will. Slope does kick in and help bounce many shots for sure. (done quite a few myself) But closer the ranges the better at hitting weak armor spots and parts of your tank the slopes are lessened or negated for better chances (applies for all tanks)
Jagpanther 132 pen low end, 200-203mm pen average. Hull and soft spots quite capable, Even the 132 if you place a real good shot into a weaker spot could do some damage but would be hard.
Rear shots on turret or hull from any of these tanks will go through your armor like butter. So if you turret traverse to shoot at once odds are your turret rear was starting to face another in many fights. Also all were capable of dishing out damage through frontal armor with no issues for the most part with AP.
I have extensively played a IS-7 and getting head on with a Jagtiger alone would lead to a fast death especially vs one that was a good shot Unless you know what all the people were firing its hard to really know even with trying to see certain graphics for certain rounds, Many of my AP rounds hit and "splash yellow"
Figured this might help clear it up some. Currently I do not know if each rounds have special looks all the time from all tanks, Its something I will look into.
For me HE is way way toned down and working fine for me in any of my tanks.
Also in my many days in a IS-7 some battles you feel indestructible due to luck and averages panning out in your favor others many you just get rocked due to angles geometry ect. But if I ran head long into that pile of tanks I would expect to last a very short period of time.

ARGO: My humble amature guess would be that since the custom map would be put together "mosaic puzzle piece" style then the big server would already know and have each piece of the mosaic maps and I suppose the only job your PC had after designing it is sending the combination to the server when you create a training or battle room who then sends it out to all the players PCs. The real question is would the WoT engine be able to handle it?

ARGO: yes i figured that Russia, USA, and England would have been unstoppable at that time and working together I supposed they would be able to basically conquer the world. Now whether or not they could hold on, that's a whole other thread to explore.....

ARGO: No need for any minuses here because Like I said before, this isn't about complaining it's about a question. "How does the score system work?" I decieded to ask this in a thread because I am sure it has happend to others and I figure someone has the answer to why sometimes one gets a medal and why sometimes they don't even when they kill the same number of tanks?.
Always remember that the only dumb question is the one that's never asked.

MrVic: Very neat idea. I think using premium tanks for this could be the most fun way to go about it. Plus their repairs are cheap.

MrVic: Sorry to hear your troubles, Currently I play both those tanks. Love my tiger seems a bit easy to spot but module damage is never severe unless I have taken a ton of small hits. Had a few fires nothing extreme. Otherwise no issues. In fact so far I feel I take less module damage overall in a tiger I then most of my other tanks. Panther doesn't seem to lose faster. But these are just my experiences so far.
One thing to keep in mind the balance system is getting improved very soon and were going to see more tanks and more game modes in the not to far future.
Hope things smooth out for ya tho.

MrVic: Have not heard either way if its small or large Just my blind guess. Checking into it

ARGO: This isn't a complaint more than it is a question. I got 5 kills in my VK3601 and I was at least 2-3 above the other team members and I did get all the exp+credits I earned but I thought it was wierd that I didn't get any kind of recognition for the most number of kills in that battle. How does that system work?
Has this happened to others?

ARGO: What about the M60A1 with it's 105mm, will that tank be availible?

MrVic: Well the premium tanks you see such as the churchhill are lend lease tanks. Or tanks given to a nation from another nation, or even captured. They are as is in their level of research. So the Britsh tree comes out their churchills are not going to effect the Premium lend lease Russian ones. As Britain improved their tanks that is represented in the research but the sold to other nation ones are pretty much stock so to speak so do not gain any of their equipment.
I believe that is how this works and will work

MrVic: I would venture to say 2-3 weeks area purely a guess off of the OP lists. Actually don't have a time frame right now. But I get the suspicion that there is a small content patch coming sooner.
Still collecting information. Will try to nail down a better time frame (Actually been to busy finding out what all is going on and never really asked on the time frame to a new patch lmao) So pretty much I was going "Ohhh shiny" way to much lol.

MrVic: Didn't vote, But typically the 105... But sometimes the long 88 is just way to much fun to use due to reload speed and aim time. But I probably lean to the 105 for stopping power.

MrVic: Didn't vote, But typically the 105... But sometimes the long 88 is just way to much fun to use due to reload speed and aim time. But I probably lean to the 105 for stopping power.

MrVic: Didn't vote, But typically the 105... But sometimes the long 88 is just way to much fun to use due to reload speed and aim time. But I probably lean to the 105 for stopping power.

ARGO: Actually in this scenario, Russia, USA, and England all decieded to take over the world together so in this alternate history they all 3 were allies not enemies. What I meant was do you think these 3 countries could pull it off.

ARGO: Tomorrow is the Anniversary of Sept. 11th, 9 years ago the United States of America was attacked by terrorists and suffered it's worst tragedy in history a tragedy that rocked every nation on the planet. I would like to take the time to give thanks to all the people from all the countries that helped America in her time of need. September 11th was a day that just about every country lost a citizen and the world became one voice against terrorism. I would like to honor all the people who gave their lives in the service of saving lives. The military, The Police, The Firemen, The Security Guards, the victims, and most of all the families of the loved ones who died at ground zero. We all need to never forget the sacrifices that were made for the freedom of the world. It does not matter what country your from, on September 11th, we were all Americans for one day and although it has been 9 years since America's greatest tragedy, the threat of peace is still very much present in our world and that is why we remember. Please take some time today to thank your military, law enforcement, and Firemen and anyone else you know that fights to save lives. Especially your veterans from all the wars, thank them all, they deserve and earned it.
Lest we never forget our fallen, who laid down their lives for the freedom of the world.

Jeremy Taylor: Please don't worry about your vids being accepted. It just takes a bit of time.

ARGO: This is for the IS tank fans. Please add your photos of any IS model tanks here. Looking for :
Different models
Outside pics
Interior pics
Combat pics or footage
Paint schemes

MrVic: Shooting and hitting another player regardless of hitpoint damage is a banning offense. I would suggest not doing so in the future. As for they blocked your way if you feel it was intentional and they were continuing to move to block you repeatedly you can screen shot that and submit it for review. Shooting a team mate for any reason is a bad thing tho. Friendly fire does happen on occasion tho so usually its best to give people some slack

MrVic: Keep the ideas coming
Just a note the first 2 examples in the orignal post are just examples, Their both old posts. They are in no way official or anything of that nature. Hoping for more new ideas to keep coming in! If you wish to discuss SPGs more then just posting pure ideas refer to this thread. http://forum.worldof...ery-discussion/

merig00: Two fold solution.
1) Disable UAC and Antivirus - try to install it.
If it fails
2) Try to install it in the Safe Mode

merig00: Speed-up crew training has the same effect on the secondary skills as on the primary.

merig00: Speed-up crew training has the same effect on the secondary skills as on the primary.

merig00: Here is the definition as of Beta 0.5.4.2:
Destroy more enemy vehicles than any other player on your team in the battle (at least 7). This achievement is awarded whether the player survives the battle or not. If two or more players destroyed the same number of enemies the achievement is granted to the player who has earned more experience points in the battle, not including Premium bonuses. If the amount of earned experience is equal as well, the achievement is not granted.
There will be an official post soon.

merig00: This doesn't tell us much... please follow the instructions here http://forum.worldof...-tester-profile

merig00: There were a handful of reports on having to go to Safe Mode to delete the installer, but you are the first one who had to go to Safe Mode to install the game. Usually disabling UAC/AV works.

merig00: what error do you get?

ARGO: Oh my Lord are you seriously protesting this? I mean I am sorry but this entire subject is so unbelievebly lame I am now forced to make a world class sarcastic rant......
The following rant is meant as humor and should be taken as nothing more than humor.
Here we go......
Are you telling me that theres players out there in computer animated tanks killing computer animated dogs that you can't see? Oh my God the humanity. I can't believe such a computer animated heinous act like running over computer animated dogs. I mean like how many more animated dogs need to die before they all become...should I say....ENDANGERED!!!!
In fact, I think the whole idea of this game is now starting to bother me because when we are done making sure that another computer animated dog never again has to die we can then start protesting more things that upset us about the game.
Next we need to get rid of the insignias on all the German tanks because they make us think of the Holocaust....Yeah that's it, then we can replace them with Rainbow stickers. Then we can get rip of all the insignias on all the Russian tanks too because they make people think of Communism and we can replace all them with save the environment stickers....Now were talkin.
Now then we will need to replace all the tanks because they make people think about war and we all know that war is wrong because we should all talk about peace, love, and understanding so we can replace all of them with Toyota Priuses and all the game music with the song Kumbiya.....
Ah yes then the game would be so much better....well except one more thing. Any pictures of the soldiers faces, I think they should all have ponytails, goatees, and berets. Now I think we would finally have a game that's much more realistic.
Welcome to: World of Liberals.........Holy crap, Now that's really scary.
Now stop worrying about Rover, get back into your tank, and let's get back to doing what we are here for.....Beta Testing.

ARGO: There is a name for "Kill Stealers". In the early days of gamming we called them "Vultures". Ever see how a vulture gets it's dinner? It sticks around the lions and other preditors, waits for them to do all the work and then swoops in grabs a mouthful and takes off.
Anyway, Vultures don't tick me off half as much as the guys who are screwing around gloryhounding for last minute kills while your base is getting capped. At least the vultures are halfway assisting you by killing someone in battle and not running away to garner kills at the entire teams expense.
and now for my rant..........
Oh yes Thank you Mr. Gloryhound, I and our team "not to mention our heavies" really wanted to thank you for those meager 52 exp and 12,000 we ended up with in repairs not to mention the 5,000 in shells I just spent trying to win while you were out selfishly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

MrVic: This patch was mentioned a few weeks before by not as a standalone post.
This one time they missed a notice about it, even tho it had no gameplay changes it was all server tech stuff.
Then on top of that Admin/Dev apologized for not updating and posting it up.
Not sure what else can be said so closing this.

MrVic: http://forum.worldof...balancing-vote/

MrVic: http://forum.worldof...balancing-vote/

ARGO: Would it be possible to make a feature in the game where players can make/design their own custom maps? I remember a lot of old school games that had this feature where premade sections where placed "like a mosaic" to fit together in some cases to arrange and make different maps. I suppose there are many ways this could be done but My guess is that it would be very popular among players. I am no programmer but I think a custom map feature would not interfere with the game engine.

ARGO: I had 2 TDs I didn't even know they were there come to my aid when I was in my IS3. I had annouced that I was going to take out the enemy arty. I got ambushed half way by 3 other enemy TDs and before I could even fire a shot our 2 TDs jumped in and started kicking some serious tail. I nailed one of them and then one of them said to me, go on and get that arty, we'll take care of these. The three of them died in the process but they did buy me the time I needed. I love those TD, AAs far as I am concerned TDs can roll with me anytime!

ARGO: I was wondering how to beat one with a Russian IS heavy so where better to post than Russian heavy tank discussion.

ARGO: The VK4502B is a nasty, nasty tank. It can kill at distance and it can take a whole lot of punishment. Some call it a mini Maus. Others call it a royal pain in the.....well you know. So how do we rid ourselves of this bad actor when out cruising in your IS 1,3,4, or7? I am sure theres a few of you with some good tips and or stories about a successful run in with this monster so share the wealth and give us all some pointers and or weak points.

MrVic: The buffs and nerfs you are referring to are typically covered just not in exact detail. If the stats of a tank change on purpose they change in the in game description. If there was a issue such as the preivous patch was fixing the damage models of some tanks. So it was making them true to their listed stats not changing those stats aka fixing a bug. The stat changes that did take place were listed with the patch info that was updated and changed and posted weeks before the patch ever hit.(Ferdi speed and T-44 acceration change ect) Also this is a beta and things change and get moved in and out of patches frequently, I would rather they patch faster instead of spending 2-3 days getting hard number details or trying to explain to me the code lines they repaired to bring the models back into line with the in game listed stats. So far they just fixed things to be true to what it was intended aka bugs. It would look a bit silly saying patch notes! 3601 front armor was 80mm now its 80mm!
As for the launcher patch they did inform us last week, and it effects no gameplay just a maintence patch of sorts.

MrVic: Good idea, yeah I will update them later tonight when I get a chance

MrVic: The patch from 9/8/10 I beleive is the launcher update. More fun stuff coming soon, but not in the minor update