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[Dutchygamer]

NergiZed, on 19 Jan 2011, 19:46, said:

I've begun to like my SU152 a bit; with the nicer 122mm, it's actually starting to function like a real TD. Sadly, it's slower, less stealthy, and less manuverable than the SU-100, and it doesn't play as a TD as well. You do have to play more aggressively with it. Though it's kinda fun since Mediums basically dissappear if they ever cross into your cone of attack.

It's supposed to be a bloody big assault gun, not a sneaky Sniper tank

[NergiZed]

I just got the Panther II, GW Panther, and ISU-152 SIMULTANEOUSLY.

So far the Panther II and ISU-152 are both simply all-round better than their predecessor in every significant way. The GW Panther is an interesting mix, it's a lot slower than the amazingly fast and maneuverable Hummel (which is incredibly historically inaccurate), but it's turret offers such a wide range of attack that you rarely need to turn and thus you have much much greater accuracy (as opposed to the Hummel, which suffers horrible accuracy loss after turning and aims very slowly). I must say that I like all three, which is rare, since there have been quite a few duds that I gotten over the time (3001P and Grille for example, and M3 Lee and Hetzer, which I both skipped).

Edited by NergiZed, 20 January 2011 - 04:29.

[Kris]

Does this mean softwipe OR totally hardwipe?

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World of Tanks Open Beta Launch Date Announced
Launch date for the official open beta - January 27th, 2011

World of Tanks Development Team is happy to announce the official open beta launch date for World of Tanks that is scheduled for January 27th, 2011.

Over the past six months more than 260000 players took part in the closed beta fighting around 2 million battles and destroying 40 million vehicles with peak concurrent users number surpassing 20000 people. All the data and feedback received from beta-testers helped the developers detect and address important technical and gameplay issues inspiring the team to add new features and making the game one step closer to the final release.

During the open beta players will have a chance to test unique game modes and explore new maps and vehicles.

“We’ve been very pleased to get such a response from our players that means the direction we are moving in goes in line with the views of our community”, said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net. “I’d like to thank our fans for their crucial contribution to the development of the game and remind that there’ll be a lot of new stuff added in the open beta”.

[Soul]

Oh sweet, I'll definitely try it now .

[Sgt. Nuker]

So the experience boost that was supposed to last until 6pm Eastern Standard Time ended some time before that. And by "some time", I mean an hour or more. I tried logging on around 5:30pm EST, and the boost was gone. Awesome. Good thing I was able to either get the tank I wanted, or a tier below. Going back to "normal" will take some getting used to.

[NergiZed]

Yeah, seriously. Normal now sucks. I'm going to be playing a lot less now, especially since in my desperation to get the GW Panther, Panther II and SU-152, I dumped all the gold I had and converted it into free xp; now my premium's gonna run out...

Well, at least I found a few more 'keepers' (I currently have my T-34, SU-100 and 3002(DB) as new xp farms, as well as an experienced Hummel crew waiting for a tank slot to free up and become another xp farm). However, this really doens't help my situation as my three primary tanks (aka tanks I need to grind) are the Panther II, ISU-152 and GW Panther, which are all gonna be HUGE money losers, especially when premium runs out, since they're still relatively vanilla (though all their crew is near 100%).

Bleh, I wish they would tell us more. Because if the hard wipe is coming that soon, I should probably play a bit more in order to at least determine which way I want to go post-launch.

[Soul]

How do you get premium tanks anyway?

[Sgt. Nuker]

You get premium tanks by using your gold in the store. Tanks like the Churchill III are 1500 gold.

I'll be playing less of this game, mostly because the tanks and equipment I want are far off experience wise. The one tank I had been wanting, the T29, has every upgrade, but it's not elite and that's just under 100k exp away for me. The BL-10 is something like 50k+ exp away and the mighty S-70 is roughly the same distance. Doesn't sound like an awful lot, but in tiers 8 and 9, that's an eternity. My King Tiger and T20 are roughly 40k away, as is my Jadgpanther.

[NergiZed]

Ja pretty much the same here. GW Panther is pretty much elite except for the almot 170k xp needed for the GW Tiger and the ISU-152's telephone pole cannon (BL-10 me thinks) is 60k away. , The Panther II I might actually be able to get some things before the beta ends but it's also the lowest xp making out of the three...

My main plan will be to get daily doubles for the three tanks mentioned above, and try to counteract their monetary losses with my legion of money-making tanks, like the T-34, SU-100, KV, IS, and S-51 (hopefully that still makes money...). I suspect tanks like the VK 3002{DB} and IS3 will no longer make money... :(

Edit:
I got 6 kills in my GW Panther and got a draw, only got 816 xp and a net profit of 8k (no vehicle damage, just shells alone). And I currently still have premium, It's not even bloody fair. At least I don't have any upgrades I want on the GW Panther. (I really don' think I'll ever get to GW Tiger)

Edited by NergiZed, 21 January 2011 - 17:49.

[Kyouko]

Theres no real reason to play with the Open beta Imminent. I only managed to get the Upgraded gun for the t54 and it wasnt that great (Was 50k off the pershing)

Looking foward to clan wars though.

Edited by jman1a, 22 January 2011 - 16:09.

[Sgt. Nuker]

There are currently 2 tanks in my garage that will reliably make money for me: my M4 and M4A3E8. Finished a game on Campinovka with 6 kills and ended up keeping 41k. Fortunately this was also my daily double, so I took home 3930 xp. I ran out of AP ammo (46 rounds) and used 1 HE shell and ran an ammo bill of just over 1400. The M1A2 76mm may not do incredible damage, but ammo is sooooo bloody cheap it's hilarious.

The immediate downside to this is that it's not as easy to do this with the other tanks, especially my IS-4, since I don't have the Finger of God.......yet. The grind for the ISU's BL-10 is just horrendous. I switch between using the D-25 Mod. 1944 and the ML-20, but it doesn't seem to matter. Accuracy is poor with the ML-20 on all but urban maps, and if I do that, meaning that I'm charging forward (or amongst other heavies), I don't live long because I'm targeted first. If I hang back, I rarely get a chance to snipe with the mod. 1944 because the penetration isn't enough to even tickle tier 9 and 10 heavies (because they always seem to be presenting their fronts towards me).

I haven't touched my IS-2 or IS-3 since the xp madness ended because with the current swath of IS-4's, T-54's, IS-7's, VK45's, and the like, I know both of those tanks will lose me money hand over fist.

[NergiZed]

jman1a, on 22 Jan 2011, 10:27, said:

Theres no real reason to play with the Open beta Imminent. I only managed to get the Upgraded gun for the t54 and it wasnt that great (Was 50k off the pershing)

Looking foward to clan wars though.

There's no wipe with open beta. In fact, open beta is a great thing, firstly because there's gonna be a lot more noob players to destroy (remember, the server upper limit is going from 15k players to either 90k or 75k) AND you are getting 250 gold per day instead of 150 once open beta hits.

@Nuker, at this point I've gotten everything I can on the ISU-152 and the GW Panther before open beta hits. I might be able to get the 75/100 gun for the Panther II, but I think the second 88 is a fine sniping gun atm, and that I really don't need anything beyond it. My new money makers; the 3002(DB), Su-100, and the T-34 are making embarrasing abounts of money so I don't think I'll need to worry there. Playing a lot less at the moment though.

In other news, some nice pics of tier 8 arty, the Lowe (German premium tank) and some little panzer in this week's Newsletter.

Edited by NergiZed, 24 January 2011 - 21:21.

[Soul]

Any suggestions for what I should do when I play come the open beta?

Also is the Ram II any good?

[Sgt. Nuker]

I lol'd at the review, because the author of that article, I one-shot in my IS-3 when he was in his Leopard, which made him mad (yep, he mad).

Unfortunately, I think I'm about as far as I can get in terms of tech trees. Right now I have the following:

IS-2 (elite), IS-3 (elite), IS-4 (needs S-70, which is roughly 50k exp off), ISU-152 (nowhere near the BL-10), Jadgpanzer IV (half way to the Jadgpanther), Tiger I (half way to King Tiger), M4 Sherman (elite), M4A3E8 Sherman (almost elite), T29E3 (only the T32 to unlock, which is literally over 90k exp off).

"Noob" players did you say? Hmm....perhaps I'm not screwed after all.

Edit: The Ram II isn't really that great in terms of armour or speed (mostly because it's a premium tank and there are no upgrades for it or any other premium tank). However, the 6 pounder it mounts recently got a buff and it fires 30 shells/min, which is insanely fast for a shell that's roughly 57mm in diameter. Penetration is respectable for its tier, though the damage isn't anything to write home about (that's where RoF comes in).

Edited by Sgt. Nuker, 25 January 2011 - 02:46.

[Soul]

So premium tanks can't be upgraded in any way? You think they may be upgrade-able in the future?

[Kris]

So far, i have a T-34-85, T-26, SU-5 and a MS-1 ( ) for the russians. While on the Germans, i have a Tiger 2, VK3601H (elite), Stug 3 (elite), VK1602 Leopard (elite) and a Bison (elite) and for the US, a Sherman lol. I think i'm stopping there since i'm happy with my King tiger as my heavy.

[NergiZed]

Flooded with homework and gonna run out of premium tommorrow. My WoT experiences pretty much ends for now, until my gold recharges to 2500 and I can get premium again. (only 10 days in open beta, so it's not that bad).

[Sgt. Nuker]

Soul, on 24 Jan 2011, 22:25, said:

So premium tanks can't be upgraded in any way? You think they may be upgrade-able in the future?

No, premium tanks can not upgrade anything (turret, gun, suspension, motor, radio). I don't own a premium tank, but I'm also pretty sure they can't mount items such as a spall liner or coated optics. Might need to check into that.

[Amdrial]

I got the T-14 a while ago "for teh luls". The only thing you can't change on them are the suspension, engine, turret, barrel and radio. I have a rammer and toolbox mounted on it.

The thing which annoys me most right now is the fact my StuG always gets placed in higher tiered matches, usually putting me at almost the bottom of the team's list. I never, ever manage to put a dent into anything (Yes, I tried using HE rounds, no, it didn't do over 1% damage each shot, and that's not even a guaranteed "hit".

[Sgt. Nuker]

What gun are you using? It sounds like you're using the L/70 if your HE rounds are "only" doing 1% damage. Try using the 10,5cm (aka the "LOLcannon"). You'll get more than 1% damage, guaranteed.

[Kris]

[Sgt. Nuker]

And thus begins the first day of 250 gold/day. I'll be storing up obscene amounts of xp to convert because of this.

[Soul]

I just registered, see you guys on the battlefield .

[Kyouko]

Try go get up in a platoon with some friends, since it went open beta I've seen ALOT of people who well... aren't very well informed about the game.

[Wanderer]

Word of advice: Skip the hetzer. You'll save your sanity.