Developers posts on forum

ARGO: I totally agree about the arty going before anyone, Time is extremly criticle for arty to be hidden and effective. As far as everyone else is concerned, shooting each other over right of way is silly. Can you imagine if people acted like that in thier cars?

ARGO: I was in this game in Malinovka, I was in a very heated battle and a few of my buddies where also there, one of which has an IS. during the battle we all talk on a system called GSC "a lot like team speak" so I can hear what my comrads are saying. Anyway we are in this big battle we are all out in the middle of the field in a heated slugfest and out of the corner of my eye, I see this little MS1 go up right behind my buddy's IS and pop him right in the butt "BANG!" all of a sudden I hear my buddy yell WTF! and completely disregard the tank he was currently duking it out with and turns on the MS1 yelling "C'MER, C'MER, C'MER" The MS1 realizing "holy crap!" he turns tail and starts running with my buddy right on his tail still yelling a host of obscenities. He chased that MS1 all over that field to the point that all the other tanks stopped firing to watch this "Benny Hill" chase scene. I was laughing so damn hard because the little tanks seemed to just stay out of his reach and still my buddys who's also now writing on chat to the MS1, "Stay still, I'm not gonna shoot ya, I just wanna crush you like a grape!" By this time you could see the other tanks all looking at the chase and commenting However and unfortunately the little guy who was doing quite well keeping ahead of him ran into a hill and SPLAT! he was gone.
Now let's here a story from all of you.

ARGO: To be completely honest, This question gets many answers but I have found with the 107mm AP rules, I tried HE again and again and again with it and it never did me good. However, I now have a VK3601 and it has the 8.8cm and let me tell you that HE rounds in that cannon does a crap load of hurt on tanks but not quite as good as the trusty 107 in my KV3. I will hazard a guess that HE works a bit better in the German tree than the Russian because my IS3 and it's 122mm also do not do well with HE either.
Stick with the AP kiddo and hit em hard!!!!!

ARGO: You have a KV3? Excellent tank! I loved mine especially with the 107mm. Go check out a post called "To all KV drivers" you will definately find help in there for doing better in your KV3. BTW if you use it like a tank destroyer I bet your kill rate goes up faster.

ARGO: Can how this is done be explained? I am interested on trying this out.....

ARGO: You are so right Merig00,
What players need to do is adapt to this new threat as they have done so many times before. This is an excellent chance for scouts to have the limelight because now scouts have a reason to be noticed and more to do other than escort heavies. I am now seeing all those big heavies asking for scouts where as before it was quite rare they would but with the presents of better arty to combat these bigger tanks, you are going to need some serious scouting which I think improves the game enjoyment.

Jeremy Taylor: Screenshots update available for the Karelia map
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ARGO: I will venture a guess that it may be premature to give complaint over the balancing system until some of the lower tier players graduate a bit up the ladder. This evaluation is being done shortly after the wipe in which as we all have seen many players got a nice boost up into all these iron goliaths we have all seen running around. What I am trying to say is that I think over a bit of time this problem may be "self correcting" because of a few simple truths:
1. All these guys who went hogh on heavies will start to feel the credit crunch and say "What the hell was I thinking" and selling thier credit pigs for a more practicle choice that won't hurt thier playing style or wallet.
2. Newer players eager to get into one of those big tanks will grind and move up the ladder evening out how the balancing systems perceives them.
3. The presents of more and more players will waterdown how many heavies get into each battle. "You can see this happening already".
I think for now it is going to suck for awhile but I have faith it should even itself out within the next couple of weeks. Besides, just before the wipe all I read and heard about was how the T-44s were the menace of the game because they were so overpowered. Now it's been about a week and I havn't heard a single complaint about them at all. Goes to show as Willy Wonka said to Charlie in the Chocolate Factory in that movie: Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

merig00: a. wrong sub-forum
b. http://forum.worldof...ery-discussion/
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ARGO: I am sure there are many reports out there about similar stuff, but they are spread out and I can't seem to find them on search so I am making this here so you all can chime in. Moderators: Can you guys make a Glitch error reporting section?
Here is my Glitch report:
1. Tank not returning for a long time: While on premium account, I left battles after being killed in my VK360. I then went into other battles with my tank. When I got out of each battle I would check to see if my VK returned and it did not for quite some time 20 mins mabye more. This only happend when I did it with my VK360 and did not happen with any of my other tanks.
2. No red reticule around tanks, I have tried everything. I have a Nvidia 9400GT Turbo and 1 gig mem on it. I run a Dell 520 with a pentium D dual core 3.0 processor and 4 gigs onboard and Windows 7 64 so I know my PC got the moxie to run this game very well.
3. Unable to activate chat to all players, Team chat works fine but no All call....Yes I know about Ctrl enter. I have a Logiteck keyboard.

ARGO: I don't really mean "jump" as in up and down, I am refeering to basically ramping through the air when the tanks is trucking along at top speed for instance:
In Karelia map, there are 2 small "brooks" on each side of the map that dip down and up, If you hit that brook in a PZII at top speed I would imagine your tank would leave the ground and do a little bounce when it landed, maybe even drop a track too. Anyway,, Thats one thing I would love to see to add some realism to an already great game.
Here is an example of tanks ramping through the air: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=nN-AwDX77h8

ARGO: Ok, I finally broke down and gave 250 gold to try out premium for the first time. I had read all these posts and heard all the complaints about it not being all that fair so, I decieded to go and see what all the hubbub was all about and heres what I found:
When I first got it I was really amazed at the nice flashy garage screen I got.....NICE. I had a IS3, VK360 I use my VK to feed my money hungry IS3 so I figured that I would grind a day and make enough to take the beast for a walk a little more often. The first 3 or four times I went out, I was amazed at the EXP/Credit difference, I mean WOW I had the IS3 in one battle in Prohovaka and I killed one Tiger II and my team won, I GOT 40,000 creds and 1,110 exp!!! My friggin jaw hit the floor! I was astounded. But alas, that's where the good times ended. I had to leave for a few hours and came back with a good 8 hours left on my premium and went in there and found that the only "Premium" difference was that I still had the snazzy garage. I went into grinding for the rest of the night and saw little to no change in creds / exp that I would have had in normal battles. Another thing was also noted, It seemd that when I started playing premium the second time, I got placed into some really lopsided battles for the remainder of the night. Coincidence? could be but I say this because I have heard the same complaint for a few others who live on premium accounts.
I am not complaining more than I am reporting this so the DEVs can look into this and see if I am onto something here. Other than that, I really do like that neat garage screen with the pretty music in the background. Perhaps they could put a scantaly dressed chick in there walking around and serving drinks and hors d'oeuvres .

MrVic: Cough your playing on a sever located on the east coast right now
Close range vanishing tanks after the patch has greatly improved for many it seems.
Check this thread out and see if it helps your issues any. I think some of the appearing tanks are packet loss issues.
Follow the info on the following link and help track down what the issue may be
http://forum.worldof...s-glitchesbugs/

merig00: THIS FAQ IS OUTDATED SINCE BETA 0.5.4.2 HERE IS A NEW FAQ - http://forum.worldof...c/8498-faq-crew

merig00: Everyone, behave yourself!

merig00: It has been said that in clan-wars the leader of the clan will be able to call in an airstrike... Haven't heard anything about reconnaissance planes, but you never know.

MrVic: You should see some of the US tanks late Sept or early Oct

merig00: All the data except settings is stored on server. Don't forget to delete the preferences.xml file on your old computer since it contains your password.

merig00: Most mode have the same in game names as on forum. Summon whoever is online at the moment. Or if moons is there make a screenshot and we'll deal with it later.

merig00: Yes. Usually it's AP/Premium/HE. Depends on the gun. The same concept for penetration and damage

merig00: Developers decided to remove the display of commander's bonus experience since it confused a lot of people. So it's still there just not being displayed. As for the rank - that's a good question. I'll check that out and let you know.

merig00: There is a video memory leak. This is a work around so that instead of your computer freezing - the game lets you know in advance.

merig00: Seems like you are missing a lot of files.
Here are all the .dll libraries in that folder
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FOUF389J
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UARKZWYV
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4C30I17R
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=36TWCXWS
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IIQ3A1NO
If after that you'll still need more files. I would recommend downloading new FULL installer from here: http://game.worldoftanks.com/update uninstalling the game and reinstalling it again. Make sure your anti-virus is off.

merig00: Here you go http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1WOUENH0

merig00: Yeah apparently there is also a 20% pen reduction after each penetration of the projectile.

merig00: http://forum.worldof...ery-discussion/

merig00: WoT will have avatars... eventually

merig00: Largepotato got it right.

merig00: The "hardcore mode" will not have HP in it.

merig00: End of September, early October... you know how these things are

merig00: I'll update it on monday.

merig00: Press F1 when in the game, then press Ctrl+Print to make a screenshot. Find the jpeg file in your game folder. Print it out

merig00: T-44 is one big ammo box on tracks

merig00: T-44 is one big ammo box on tracks

http://a.yfrog.com/i.../2162/t4464.gif

merig00: It will take a while. This is like recruit battles all over again

merig00: Behold IS-3 with T-10 turret!

That is why you get ammo damage so often. Buy the anti-HE liner, or whatever they call it now.

merig00: Behold IS-3 with T-10 turret!

http://www.popmech.r..._1243422006.jpg

That is why you get ammo damage so often. Buy the anti-HE liner, or whatever they call it now.

merig00: This will be introduced eventually... not very high on the priority list for beta.

merig00: Reinstall it.

merig00: Tier 2 might get placed with the higher tiers but that just means that they game couldn't find another 29 Tier2 players and your waiting time expired so the game was forced to place you somewhere.

MrVic: I did the work hehe