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Draschel:  Centurion 7/1 is mediocre at its best. That is why people dislike Strv K, mediocrity. Mediocre at its best. Is Strv K awful, like WZ120 or Mauschen? No, it isn't, but its mediocre. And at a tier where reward prems like Phase 1, Concept 1, Kamp pz dominate, Strv K don't sit too well in the spot-light. And as a paid for premium, that don't sit well two-fold 7/1 has poorer gun handling for a late tier med. While the accuracy and aim time are fine, .18/.18 dispersion don't cut it. The turret armor is not solid, it is passable. Mediocre. DPM is sub par. Camo sub par Actually quite the opposite to what you have said, 7/1 shines from starting out stock. Unlike Patton, E50, T54 - centurion starts out at least with 226/259 pen semi-capable gun. And at 2,399 base DPM, it isn't a travesty. In fact I completed cent 7/1 nearly averaging 2.6k DPG with the second gun, 20pdr B barrel, pretty much the same thing as the stock gun simply because huge DPM increase from top gun, and better gun handling. I wish more tanks were like this, offering a nice window of opportunity to avoid painful stock grinds, such as something dumb like ST-I. If you start straight into STI from KV4, without doing IS3 you are hooped totally, stuck in molasses with a useless 175 pen derp gun.  Or playing VK4502A without completing Ferdinand first for the engines,  wow.  Ferdinand doesn't need mobility, nor does it really get mobile anyway when elite engine-up. But VK4502A NEEDS THE ENGINES  I wish more tanks were like this, sort of how the old tech trees were designed and placed. Where one thing leads and helps out the other. Now WG is making newer tech trees with individual, isolated modules invoking long nonsense grinds. Like giving Panther II  E50 once-unique L100  88 gun to help out E50 grind. See how AMX30 proto has the SA47 100mm, so if you went up the heavy tank line first  (AMX50100 or 65T)  you'd unlock a capable middle gun for AMX. And as mentioned before, using IS3  BL9 122mm gun to help out tanks like T10, 257, STI from stock. British LTV light tank another good example, stock gun being Setter top gun, is just as capable as top gun and you can complete the grind with it.  Take for example, some new lines introduced. Vz 44-1 and VTU K are supposed to be sharing the 'same' gun, 105mm Vz39. But the guns are 2 different guns, requiring 2 individual grinds. Why do 25TP K, DP Pz, Bugi, 40TP share guns.....but 45TP, CS44 have different ones? Especially painful because 45TP Habi could've used the non derpy 90mm CS44 gets.  Why doesn't SU101 get SU100M1 top gun to help out its grind? But instead gets a whopping 3 other new guns. The game lacks the strategic planning it used to have. Hate it. WG wants people out grinding every single piece now. 

Jaguarz:  You dont seem to understand the point of the whole debacle, or that they tried to shove it through on World of Warships and failed. The sole purpose of Crew 2.0 is to make (more) money but for them to balance the system properly means it isnt worth implementing anyway. Pay to win is literal game poison, even the suggestion of it can be killer and crew 2.0 is beyond egregious in terms of a cash grab, you got the cash, you win. A likely scenario is someone moved up Wargamings ranks and is jealous of the millions and millions that the original team managed to bank so is desperately trying to come up with something which will give a large, short term influx of cash so they can rake in bonuses and share options and cash out fast, its exceedingly unlikely to make it past the beancounters though, they dont get bonuses like that and their job is to protect the golden goose and its exceedingly unlikely that the few whales will cover the shortfall in revenue should a significant amount of casuals stop playing (virtually guaranteed). World of Tanks (currently) for all its faults is an example of F2P done right, crew 2.0 would make EA blush.

Draschel: They can give it a boost. They did buff the AT15A, so it isn't out of the question.But things like M56 scorpion, steyr, T28HTC, super hellcat need the buffs more than it does I'd start with giving it a gun traverse span like object 704,  11" / 11" so it isn't such a narrow arc. And give it IS6 new 196/225 pen. They use the same gun 

Jaguarz: garbage event, reward decent (but I already had it), at least it wasnt pay to play like last years debacle.

Draschel: His account is before yours. He's been here since 2011. What the flying F are you talking about. Trees been here for foreverDo you even bother to read?Next 

Jaguarz: If crew 2.0 arrives at World of tanks (and they failed to push the same stupidity onto Warships where they called it the "paragon system" ) I will just find something else to do with my time, no biggie.

Jaguarz:  Everyone has opinions but like him or hate him he is a ridiculously good player and the antithesis of a padder, he does what he does in everything as opposed to easy to play tanks so unlike others hes a fairly solid benchmark to start from. 

Jaguarz:  Right? I really enjoy the Pz7 but Im still aware that its not a good tank, the T103 has the camo values of a heavy (worse than the defender and most of the other t8 heavies), the mobility of a heavy, super slow traveling rounds  and the armour of a weak heavy. Looking at it statistically its like a worse Renegade in virtually everything but with a better gun. Its not a good tank at all, its a niche tank which requires specific player style to illicit performance from it, as Scorpiany admitted he had to do. Like the Pz7 people dont know what to do when theres a semi competent player behind the wheel of it. 

churchill50: Funny, because WG just added the Renegade and Bourrasque to the Premium Shop today:https://worldoftanks...rrasque-110121/And they are easily two of the best premium tanks available right now.

Draschel:  Despite being more difficult to play than normal tech tree counterparts,  things like skorpion G, SU130PM, progetto, bourratt  nevertheless even in average players accounts perform just about green. Making these things difficult to 3-mark.If these such common, average players took the time to perform how they do pleasant, popular tier 8 premium tanks, they'd be doing pretty much fine in Tiger P too.  

Draschel:  Tier 1/2/3  lol?  just free exp itTier 4/5 should just be completed in south america server. No hassle. Tier 6 should be completed in T6 med SH. Again, no hassle.           stay in tier 6 doing SH until crew has at least core 6th sense, safe stowage, smooth ride, snap shot and well into repair or camo (50%) This is equivalent to 1 universal book, 250,000 and isn't hard          what makes it real easy, is if tanks like T3485M, Cromwell B, Type 64, Pudel, T40, M4FL10, Bretagne,  244, T-50-2, Excalibur work for pursed lines, and are used to train these crews faster             And voila, being at the mercy of match maker actually starts tier 7.   

Jaguarz: Great game but best t8? Pushing it a little I think... Its comparable in camo to a E75 TS (holy fk this things camo is bad), significantly less mobile that a E75 TS, terrible traverse both chassis and turret. *edit* Also that is some glacial shell speeds it has. It has a solid gun, a viable gold round and can carry plenty of ammo which is a big bonus over my preferred T8 TD which is the Charioteer which post HE changes doesnt have a viable gold round with its low ammo capacity (but you know, its stealthy, fantastic base round and is damned fast). Seems like you kicking [edited]with that thing but horses for course and all that.

Jaguarz: Because actions should have consequences and driving badly or making an error is an action, its annoying and I do it occasionally but it is what it is. Mirny is a silly mode with a dumb fk turbo on every class against bots, its irrelevent there.

Draschel: out of curiosity, even before the Tier 1-6 HP re-balance, 1500 DPG wasn't hard to achieve for a tier VII. Now, its easier than ever. Tack on another 300 for assistance, and that consistency marks the tankTiger P isn't Black prince. It is faster, has better view range, and has guns for 1-shot track instead of a ridiculous pew pew that even presents low crappy DPM I am not saying Tiger P is good, by the way. Just saying 1800 combined in something like this isn't difficult. 2,080 base DPM with 194 pen isn't the end of the world. 

Einzelganger7:  I want my own cookie as well. lol

Einzelganger7: I got it on the second day without spending a dime nor gold, played around 40 matches in total so of course you can get it for free.   

Draschel:  Claus is a comedian. People watch it, to be the cynic, for the conspiracies, for the comedic act on stage. But in reality, lets mention that.... Claus still performs decidedly better, and knows decidedly more Warp produces content in a manner, well to express what he believes. And he can believe what he wishes, whatever he wishes -- that isn't the issue. But to express this as proposed quality content for players to look into? To hail and label it as ''for Free playing players only''  vs super unicums that are out to abuse tanks / new people? How is this an attitude to get others to improve? What kind of nonsense does that further? 

Draschel:  A person (him) has the right to be incorrect. I can argue all i want, but nevertheless, one has the option to have opinions, correct or incorrect. But the problem i have is, the terrible attitude. And yes, I have terrible attitude too, but do not couple that with rife errors or a nonsense closed-door policy. What kind of CC, ignores someone immediately upon receiving an opposing comment?  Rofl.  Its also the misquoting. Like he will quote another CC, which he often does, in terrible presentation and out of context. Or for totally different means which isn't intended in the slightest. Or even plain toxicity, in itself. The guy, all too often in watching his gameplay, will cause team arguments and harassment. For the life of me, HOW DOES WG allow that? When they can clearly see he is often visibly insulting? Please, name me another CC, that will openly, flagrantly start insulting people in game chat.Claus may def do it, but its all verbal. Warp ACTUALLY TYPES IT DOWN, and WG ignores it? 

Draschel:  And he is wrong too.Apparently 2 heavy tanks means 0I don't speak Warp though. Maybe I am wrong

Draschel:  He commonly produces sub-par, incorrect content. Learning players need to stay away. There are plenty of more thoughtful, accurate, helpful streamers / CC out there. He talks about heavy tanks not tanking, more of result of incompetence rather than not wanting to / trying. Thing about team incompetence, incompetence can be applied to blame many things, not 1.What I want to know is, why talk about heavy tank ''tanking'' when using a +2 tiered premium shell vs -2 tier heavy tanks. Nice control testing. This guy....Who talks about viability of tanking, with 334 HEAT, in tier VIII? Do it with an E100, in XWhat I also want to know is.....so this guy says he is a champion for the people. Who want free to play as a model. And he sets up his tank with 25 premium shells and primary slot. Nice. Alot of good players out there, don't badger warp because they don't like him. It is not like that at all. Its because he tries to play the part of being a helpful, informative CC / streamer, when he is quite quite quite far from being informed or being helpful to begin with. 

Draschel:  Because it takes you half-decade to mark, possibly one of the easiest things possible. And don't use the word farm-damage either, 1,300 DPG clearly isn't that. 

Draschel:  They compare.Concept 1 is superior. Concept 1 has quite a notch more mobility, better gun handling, smaller weakspots, better view rangeBut on the other hand Phase has some wildcards like resistant to ramming, slightly stronger UFP, 120 for overmatch, 340 HEATThey are both powerful, but I think Concept is very powerful, the best tier 9 tank Would i compare T55A and kamp pz? certainly not, but they are the more powerful meds in the tier. 1 side gets 1, so should the othercan you compare 260, 279E, chieftain? they are powerful, but all quite different;  again should all be matched in team composition. concept 1 and phase 1 actually have the most likeness here

Jaguarz: just pretend mission doesnt exist and play, it will happen sooner or later.

Jaguarz: Mirny 2020 with its grotesque pay to play model was the worst mode ever.

Jaguarz: I remember falling off the middle road Lakeville...... I blamed lag......

Jaguarz:  The best tank for the early stage (double) is not very good on the boss stage as you have low dpm and have to keep [edited]pointed at the boss or he will charge and roll over you, The centurion is best in the boss fight as can thread the weakpoints easily and avoid the boss, use the shield to make life easier from hedgehogs. Of course the easiest way is to platoon.

Jaguarz: Its not fun but you can grind out a OK tanks from it with minimal effort and unlike last year it isnt pay to play.

Jaguarz: Well, it has a crazy amount of HPs (1800 to the IS3s 1500). really good turret armour, insane levels of depression (for a chinese)

Draschel:  I guess you are part of the camp thinking its great to have teams where one side gets 279E, Concept 1, and mixed 274A, 252U, Skoda 56, Skorp G.                                                                                                                  The other side gets Pz K VII, Type 4, and mixed Emil 1951, M46 KR, T25 pilot, and Kanone 105 

1LT_Dwayne: Lol nevermind

1LT_Dwayne: I was trying to convert some xp but for some reasons I have 28 xp left on my m46 patton and I can't convert it. Anyone else ran into this problem? I know it's just 28 xp but it bothers me lol.

churchill50: If you mean the "Missions completed: 1/2" in the upper right corner, that doesn't mean it can be completed twice. It means you've only completed one of the missions, the one on the right. The other mission, the one on the left, can be completed an infinite number of times, so it will never be listed on that screen as complete.

churchill50:  I'd debate that. The KV-2 ® has been quite effective for me lately (even though my session in it was a session of roflstomp losses).The HE changes mean that you can't indiscriminately spam HE and do 300-400 damage every shot, but you're also less likely to be trolled by spaced armor/tracks.Also, the premium AP is rather good, and revamped Intuition means you can quickly switch between HE and AP depending on the situation.

churchill50:  This ^ 100% agree. Old Derpenburg had good flanks, but an unplayable middle due to the crossfire. New Derpenberg has horrible flanks since there's no way to push across open fields into TD positions, but a playable center.I'd actually be interested in playing a map that's a combination of the two. As is, the current version is not a map I like playing on 90% of the time.

churchill50: I've been looking for an Equipment sale (Need more Turbo's!!! ), and Consumable and Free XP sales are also welcome.Glad I have 27million credits saved up.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys,  We have a tank sale, some discounts, and even a new 3D style for the KV-2 (not the KV-2[R]).  Starting today (29Oct) and running until 1Nov. You can get discounts on equipment, consumables, XP conversion, and customizations.  More information on these discounts can be found HERE. The GSOR is still for sale ending on 1Nov.This tank starts at 41.16 more information on this can be found HERE.  Finally, the Crimson Legion 3d Skin for the KV-2 is on sale for gold.More information on this can be found HEREas well.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! Balance changes to the Erlenberg map The Erlenberg map will be removed from the Encounter Battle mode.Balance changes were made to the Erlenberg map for the Standard Battle and Assault modes to equalize the opportunities of the teams.1. A part of the building has been removed to improve the connection between the teams.(All Pictures are set up as before/after)  2. Changed the house model to minimize long-range shooting when crossing the river. 3. Improved position comfort.        Balance changes to the Siegfried Line map The changes to the map are aimed at balance improvement: 1. A position with a bunker for the lower base team has been added, which allows control of the field and passage in the city similar to the position of the upper team. 2. Improved access to the city for the lower base team, as well as for the attackers in Assault mode.  3. Driving along the ruins has been made more comfortable.  4. Cleared and slightly improved the defensive position in the lower base city.  5. Removed several fir trees that facilitated firing at the lower base without being spotted.  Changed the spawn points in Assault mode to allow the assault team to take control of more of the map than before.  

TragicLoss: Unsure where you're reading "May"?

1LT_Dwayne:  Yeah me too I would like to be tier 1 in a tier 10 game. I love the challenge!

churchill50:  It doesn't necessarily "last". It just reloads your gun (or guns in the case of the Double) instantly 1 time.With the Double, that gives you ~1500 damage right out the gate.

Jaguarz: There used to be good coupons, now its always like extra x5 bonus mission crap which makes me not buy anything even if I was going to.

Draschel: i didn't insult you. I said it took a decade for you to mark Tiger PYou can make whatever you wish out of it.Whatever makes you happy.