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Post by CHRrOME on Aug 3, 2018 18:31:52 GMT
Curious, anyone plays or tried out this game? Generally speaking I've never been much into these type of games, but I'm a big sucker for anything military honestly. After watching some videos on YT, I started to play about 2 months ago, and taking aside the bullshit it's quite fun. So for all of you not knowing Warthunder is a tank/plane/ships (kinda...) F2P centered game. No infantry, it's kind of a sim I guess, but not quite hardcore. The cool part is that both planes and tanks are available from the get go, for the ships though it's in beta and to get in you gotta buy yourself in, I believe it's gonna be a paid DLC anyways. There's quite a lot of content, and the grind is real unfortunately. You progress towards a research tree getting old stuff first (WWII stuff), and all the way to things like M1 Abrams added recently for instance. For tanks it goes up to the 80's ish, for planes I think it goes up to the 60's / early 70's, due to how unbalanced it would be having AA missiles and other shenanigans, not sure if they'll add at some point more modern jets. You have the usual suspects as factions including some that perhaps are not seeing much like Japan or France, each one has their own repertoire of vehicles and tech tree. Each faction is more or less balanced towards something like better armor or guns, or something like that, at the end of the day, it's preference or which faction is better at a particular rank/rating. The attention to detail is very good for the vehicles, the maps are pretty big and interesting, if not lackluster in the variety department (there are not that many maps, especially if you play at lower ranks in smaller maps). The game is easy to get in, but it's quite complex in the sense that you gotta know which vehicle is good at what, plus knowing things like weak spots, it's not just point and shoot, there's shell drop, muzzle velocity, different type of shells and what have you. It's mainly PVP, there's PVE, but honestly it's dreadful, and also a campaign of sorts. There're also custom missions, but you don't get progression through those I Believe. So as every single F2P game out there, there's a catch, well the catch here is that the grinding is absurd. Having a "premium" account on (which essentially is a subscription) makes you grind literally twice as fast, which is quite P2W if you ask me, not gonna sugar coat here as much as I like the game. There's also a fuckton of cosmetic shit and not-so-cosmetic ones like adding bushes that act as visual camouflage or hide a little bit obvious weakspots, if not to confuse the enemy. There're also vehicles that can only be bought through IRL money, but honestly most of them are just different looking vehicles or different versions of already available ones, they don't necessarily add to the P2W concept, some of them are quite meh actually. Anyways, without going into to much detail, I'll leave it at that.
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Post by Serza on Aug 3, 2018 19:48:12 GMT
SOMEONE made a thread? Just another flavor of Tutti, reporting. Currently what, 14th on Thunderskill. The aircraft go up to F-86 Sabres, MiG-17s, Hunter F.1's, Vautour IIs and all that. The tanks... The tanks go up to M1 Abrams (1980), T-64BV (1985), Leopard 2A4 (1985), Type 90 (1995?) and Challenger Mk.2 (sometimes, I guess?) I only have the Abrams. It's still the best anyway. Even though they skipped on the M1IP, M833 DU APFSDS-T, M1A1 and M829 "Silver Bullet" DU APFSDS-T. I'll upload - or stream, whichever's easier for me these days - some gameplay. Let people see the game in action.
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Post by CHRrOME on Aug 4, 2018 3:07:09 GMT
Cool. I'm personally very focused (???) on the Ruski tech tree currently. I'm almost half way rank III in the tech tree, got the T34-85 and along with the ZTZ version trying to work my ass over progressing towards the IS-1 and at least 2 other tanks at that BR so I don't get fucked by the horrendous match making. Seriously, BR +- 1 for matchmaking is atrocious, I'm sick of seeing Jumbos and Cobra Kings and all the other damned M tank variants that are fucking impenetrable from the front whilst my T34's are essentially glass cannons.
Also just started with the German tech tree because I was getting sick of getting my ass handed over by Tigers and Panthers at 5.0 ish BR. And following the line of "if you can't beat them, join them" ... But I'm barely at rank II with PZ IV tops. I play with the German tanks to get a break of the T34's on the Russian side. Currently I mostly play arcade (I'm a scrub, I know), mainly because lower tier tanks have way too much shell drop and it's really hard for me to aim at longer distances without the icon assist.
BTW, do you know if they plan to do something with the Italian tech tree? seems like it has been empty for quite some time (aside from a few jets and very few premium only tanks).
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Post by Serza on Aug 4, 2018 9:22:03 GMT
Jumbos... *sigh*
Do you have Teamspeak?
Wouldn't be the first time I explained Jumbo weakspots to someone. Heck, Vesco used my lessons to fuck me over good and proper during a training recently.
At 5.3/5.7 you should really be penetrating almost everything with the 85mm gun. Tigers are dirt cheap to defeat (instakills even with seven-sixer guns on Shermans). Panthers just need a tiiiiny bit more effort, because the weakspots aren't quite as apparent. But since I have all the tanks that cause you trouble, well.
The Italians are still a "Soon" unfortunately. It's starting to look like Naval forces will be released earlier, but who knows what the next patch holds...
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Post by CHRrOME on Aug 4, 2018 13:05:12 GMT
No, unfortunately I don't use teamspeak, English is not my first language and speaking in enlgish is not something I can do very well, plus my effing mic broke quite a while and I never bother buying a new one (trying to save money for a general PC upgrade). I do know the weakspots of the Jumbo and the Sherman series though, it's the lower sides (where the tracks are positioned) or a trick shot to the cupola, but that's hard to achieve and depends a lot on ammo and, well, luck. I'm very pissed that not even a russian tank destroyer at that BR can penetrate the front armor, and everyone seems to spam Shermans and Jumbos these days. I'm at 5.0 currently, I have a tank destroyer (I can't remember the actual name, it's a very small and close to the ground vehicle), the T-34-85 which finally has a decent cannon with 100+ pen unlike the crap ZTZ version that also is 5.0 and has still the old 76mm pen cannon. Those are I believe the only 5.0 vehicles I have currently in the preset I'm using, plus a 3.0 SPAA which works well enough at that BR. So long as I don't get uptier, which happens quite often unfortunately, I'm more or less fine, but at this BR the russian tanks are really easy to kill. Dude, I got killed on my T-34-85 by a reserve Stuart of all tanks, because they move so fast and fire so quickly people seem to like spamming them a little bit too as annoyance in my experience.
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Post by Serza on Aug 4, 2018 15:31:34 GMT
What's your in-game name?
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Post by CHRrOME on Aug 4, 2018 16:16:54 GMT
My nickname in game is HecatombeDos, if you like I can give you the steam nickname also (the account in which I have the game). Which region of America are you in? Obviously I'm forced to play in american servers because there're none here down south, bummer 180 ish ping, but I'm used to shit pings anyways.
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Post by Serza on Aug 4, 2018 16:59:11 GMT
Actually, I'm European.
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Post by CHRrOME on Aug 4, 2018 17:59:26 GMT
Well, fuck. Ping in European servers is off the charts for me personally.
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Post by Serza on Aug 4, 2018 18:48:43 GMT
That's shitty. I can do US though.
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Post by CHRrOME on Aug 4, 2018 19:23:40 GMT
Yeah, I reckon you'd have better ping than I'll ever do, since the distance is waaaay shorter. Which part of EU are you? I'm a bit pissed they never bothered adding servers here in south america, like nobody ever thinks we exist, yet they do want our money. Well, the same happens to Asia usually, or India I guess.
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Post by Serza on Aug 4, 2018 19:30:54 GMT
The Czech Republic. One of the minor countries to have vehicles in the game.
(If you're up and about, well...)
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Post by CHRrOME on Aug 7, 2018 2:54:52 GMT
Dude, I've finally got the T34E, what a dumb event for christ sake. Most horrible grindy shit I ever did, and it didn't even worth it. I don't know if you were on-line yesterday or today, I wasn't even looking at anything but the loading screen of the game, jumping from game to game. All my free time was playing this thing to get the parts. The thing is, I had some progress done on the event so I wanted to finish it just to get that piece of crap since there was no chance on hell to get the IS-7 as we talked about.
It probably took me about 48hs of raw gameplay to get all 147 parts needed to craft that shit. And they expect us to do all this in 3 days? I don't even know where to go to tell them to kindly go F themselves.
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Post by Serza on Aug 7, 2018 8:08:21 GMT
And now imagine that I saw IS-7s two days ago...
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Post by CHRrOME on Aug 7, 2018 14:37:13 GMT
Could be a limited "test drive" , They sell some at the warband shop, not sure if there's one for the IS-7, but I did see a guy on YT using a test drive on a couple of games to try it out. Garbage unrealistic event.
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Post by Serza on Sept 5, 2018 20:10:09 GMT
Anyone else feel the Freedom Boner coming on?
M1IP just got leaked. That's right, the M1 Improved Performance from 1984. Right now I'm hiding an M68A1 105mm main gun on my person. M833 Depleted Uranium APFSDS-T round has not been confirmed as of yet (seems like they LOVE forgetting 'Murica)
Same leak contains mentions of... UH-1B, UH-1C... huh, UH-1 with XM-30? Cool... Hmm, AH-1G? Neat. AH-1F... AH-1... sweet Mary, mother of God, someone pinch me right fucking now that's an AH-1Z VIPER I'M SEEING IN THE LIST WHAT THE FUCK OH MY GOD WHERE ARE MY CRAYONS IT'S COMMIE KILLING TIME HELLFIRE LOVE AIM-9 CAPABLE .... *unintelligible*
*hyperventilates*
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Post by CHRrOME on Sept 5, 2018 20:52:48 GMT
I've seen in their blog the BMP-2 recently. Also heard some rumors, something about a Japanese heavy tank? Still no idea how helicopters are gonna work. And I'm super very much glad my country is now represented (outside the bloody Shermans, ugh) with one of the new tanks they're adding (TAM), never thought I'd see the day. Hell Fire missiles though... that can't be good. I suppose people are gonna be like when they get killed 5 kilometers away by a helicopter they couldn't even see even if they looked at the right direction.
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Post by Serza on Sept 6, 2018 7:25:19 GMT
Did I mention that the AH-1Z has TOW-2s (even though AGM-114 Hellfire was used PRIOR to Viper's introduction)? It also has no AIM-9 capability.
I guess small mercy is that Mi-35M is getting 9K114 Shturm instead of 9K120 Ataka-V it should be getting.
So we do have very modern helicopters (AH-1Z Viper first flight 2000, introduced to service with USMC 2010) they do not have their realistic weapons systems modelled. And M261 HEDP given as it should be is NOT enough to convince me otherwise when the Viper's workhorse weapons systems are not implemented at all. It would have also made the Viper capable of defending itself versus aerial threats. Plus laser guidance is kinda superior to wire guidance (when shit starts happening you could have another Viper lasing the target for a LOAL Hellfire, or even ground units... like Abramses, which would add a "Save me" capability for tanks that are knocked out and about to be destroyed - just lase your would-be executioner and shout at the nearest Viper to deliver unto Evil, Death, dealt Swiftly from Above.)
Also, lack of M833 DU APFSDS-T confirmed. America is now in 1984, but without correct ammunition types. But eventually, 1985 will come for us, and then, we shall break the hammers and fold the sickles.
M1A1 (M256 smoothbore - M829 Silver Bullet - 600mm penetration) - 1985 M1 IP (M68A1 - M833 - 490mm penetration) - 1984. Fun years: 1989 - M900 105mm DU APFSDS-T introduced - 650mm penetration 1988 - M829A1 Silver Bullet introduced - 700mm penetration 1984 - AGM-114 Hellfire introduced around 1988 - M1A1(HA) introduced
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Post by CHRrOME on Sept 7, 2018 21:13:01 GMT
Maybe they'll get 1.81 out soon?
Then again, with all the stuff being high tier 9.0+, I doubt many new-ish people will get to play any of it. They gotta add more low tier stuff, or things in the middle, lots of people see the 9.0 new vehicles and are "I'm never gonna get there, whatever..."
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Post by Serza on Sept 19, 2018 16:22:28 GMT
I finally had a Shack after several tries with the AGM-12.
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