Yea IS-3 pike nose hard to do diamond angling, need to do side and inner angling a bit more if compare to defender.

TankGG helps a lot in how to setup the side angling



Kinda know why got ppl yelling 257 is OP if 1v1...

Track/forehead of turret    

Despite a very obvious weakspot, Obj 257 gun is almost same as IS-7, but shell velocity much better, not to mention its mobility (only loses when it comes to climbing hills/acceleration to top speed)

IS-7 is no doubt super solid in holding the position, especially doing the usual side scraping, but sadly need good crews in order to offset the terrible resistance, but no doubt it is a very good ridgeline peeker.

Shell speed + weakpoint wise:

IS-7: close range brawler/waypoint defender
257: Heavium with for mid range support (its cupola is too obvious kena hit in close range if tracked)

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KV-2 ® Warhammer 40k came out 2 days ago, you bought? I gonna buy this super ultra cool removable skin on this premium KV-2!!!

well RM134 for:

Full 6 BIA ready crew (I was headache of lacking good crews since I re-train my KV-2 crews to IS grinding)
Bonus XP and Silvers (more on XP bonus on tier 6, always much welcomed)
Able to take in any Russian HT crews without Penalty
Not Tier8
Removable Preset styles
Its Nordic Valhallan Ragnarok color scheme!

Some ppl might argue can get the skin for free from those "pending for review" MODs, but GW and WG gotta make profits too (Dota 2 is doing the same F2P cosmetic sales)

WG Malaysia gm is actually friends of us. I saw the news in WhatsApp group.

Its sad to hear that WG Msia have to close down its branch... it means the demand of organizing WoT-related events in Msia is no good(past few years economy not really good)

Low prem sales from Msia really? Since last year Sept I already bought quite a lot of tier8 prem tanks... And gonna buy this Valhallan Ragnarok KV-2...

After grinding from IS to IS3 during the "ON the track to IS-7" missions, I found out that from using these 2 method:

1. Grinding from tier 1 until tier 8, all the while need re-training crew to a new tank when moving up 1 tier, you need at least RM46++ to smooth things out(30 days prem acc, and it is not easy either to suffer the pub games MM)

2. By using RM directly skip tier 1-7 to tier 8 by FREE XP, you will need RM70+ to skip until tier 7, and top up another RM30-RM40 in order to get tier8 stock stank from tech tree.

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Basically what I want to say is:

1. RM70 or less is a very small cost to skip from tier 1 to 7 using FREE XP,
VERSUS
if you consider the cost of GRINDING with prem account + crew retraining + silvers to buy tank/equips, from tier 1

2. THe tricky part is, whether the tier 7 tanks is worth to grind toward tier 8, without the "On the track" mission XP bonus and without the prem account bonus

3. Almost all tier 8 tanks need its top guns unlocked asap by FREE XP, as they will be facing tier X armor in current MM

My conclusion is, having at least 1 premium tank in each tank type, is really much more baloi in a long run, than running prem account + painful grinding using subpar gun.

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Currently I having 2 prem tanks that overlapped their role as credit earner: (to me quite a waste of RM)

HT: Mauerbrecher/252u (I favour mauerbrecher design, but 252u easier to use)
TD: SKG & STRV S1 (I favour S1 silver income earning ability more, SKG gun is trolling me and I hate its gun mantlet)
MT: M4A1 revaloise is performing greatly as usual
LT: Blackdog is gaining thicker dust but still a great collection with its design
WoT is really giving me a good adrenaline kick which keep me hooked...

True enough.

IS with 175mm PEN gun: Manageable against tier 8 & 9
IS-3 with 175mm PEN: Disastrous and totally being bullied despite better armor profile.

Suddenly my 252u & T95 performance and control a lot better after using 175mm for a long time. having a worse gun can really train you in weakspots and snapshot timing, finally patience.

Finally incoming 1.0.2 update:

Changes to Vehicle Technical Characteristics
1. Changes to the U.S.S.R. nation

The following vehicles have been added:

K-91
Object 277
T-34 Shielded
2. Changes to vehicle technical characteristics:

Object 268 Version 4
Increased dispersion during movement of the Object 268 Version 4 suspension by 33%
Increased dispersion on hull traverse of the Object 268 Version 4 by 33%
Changed the traverse speed of the Object 268 Version 4 suspension from 23 deg/s to 22 deg/s
Increased dispersion on gun traverse of the 152 mm M-53S gun by 20%
Changed the aiming time of the 152 mm M-53S gun for the Object 268 Version 4 turret from 2 s to 2.5 s.
Changed the gun traverse speed from 30 deg/s to 28 deg/s
Decreased armor of the hull
Changed the forward top speed from 55 km/h to 50 km/h
Changed the rear speed from 22 km/h to 18 km/h
Changed the engine power from 1,500 h.p. to 1,350 h.p.
Changed the vehicle durability from 2,100 to 2,000 HP.

It will be interesting to watch the progress of World of Tanks in 2018.

I thought WoT more arcade than  War Thunder, and armored warfare modern as in ?

rarely heard about these 2 game...

So far what I know about WoT is, Its a RTS game with strategy-kind of mechanics + skins from World War Tanks, its the mixture of the elements that makes WoT stands out from the other two.

But I gotta admit, WoT MM is still far from being decent...

Btw,

1. If they really remove preferential MM on prem tanks accordingly, I can expect tier 9 is really getting much more popular due to +1/-2 MM advantage...

2. If WG can add a line like :

"This premium tank's pref MM feature might subject to be removed in near future, do you still want to purchase it?"

It will solve a lot of misunderstandings and less confusion on the buyers side...

3. Despite their poor respect/inconsiderate to the customer, 1 recent implementation I gotta to say good job is, to bring in the 40K warhammer KV-2 premium tank.

- ppl don't like fantasy themed tank; but I love its cool design. but no point to bash cause you are not forced to buy.
- ppl complain too expensive for a re-skinned tier 6 KV-2, but the premium KV-2 can earn credits and bonus XP? & not really perform any worse than KV-2? they forgot BIA crews? Premium KV-2 with 40k design is still quite different from a normal modded KV-2 right?

Comparison between WoT re-skinned tanks pricing VS other game cosmetics pricing:

- Dota 2 boxes cost way more expensive than WoT themed tanks & the drop rate is super shitty

- The mobile games I been playing also need to pay to gacha character skins (Girls Frontline), 1 basic themed skin easily RM60-70 (if collaboration with other game at least RM139), if limited super rare skins including Live2D features, ppl can spend thousands RM just to get that.

Last but not least, in next patch update, at least Obj268v4 will be nerfed as expected, its part of the marketing tactics to boost sales of converting free XP. Dota 2 been doing that when new heroes are being introduced & buffed heavily in order to boost cosmetic sales.

In WoT, u can switch off non-historical skins on tanks
In Dota2, you cant even do that.

mowlous
WarThunder realistic battle is harder to play than World of Tanks. You need to lead, estimate the range and take account of the shell trajectory drop before firing especially WW2 guns. Most of the time for long range engagements tanks are invisible and can be detected indirectly from falling trees, moving bushes etc. Watch the second battle in the video with the markers turned off.

From what I see, 90% of exaggerated drama generated by a small group of over-self-entitled ppl.

But I do admit & understand WG been quite lazy taking care of customers while these gorup of "paying customers" expect shangri-la grade of treatment thus the rift.

Majority of these issues can be avoided by WG simply addressing the issues in a more responsive pace.

Equipments/retraining costs are yet another areas that awaiting a major fix.

However, apart from +2/-2 3/5/7 MM balance issues, I feel that players' attitudes are the most influencing factors to win a game.

Example, My WR is between 44-46%, very often my team always die much much earlier than me without dealing any damage. Some might argue I am noob thus being arranged in same team with a bunch of noobs, but now I rather focus on doing some good damage & pulling off some good play hoping meeting some good teammates instead of ranting here and there.

From today until 2 weeks later:

[Special] On Track to the T110E3

Currently I am using T95 full upgraded, and I am getting T110E3 soon (70K XP left to farm)

1. Should I transfer all my crew to T95

OR

2. transfer only the female commander + waiting for 0 skill BIA USA crew?

How you guys think about E3 capability VS T95...

Day 1 & Day 5 done

Day 2, 3, 4 all missed due to Penang Anime Matsuri... GG my All-tank Kursk camo...

my Churchill III finally got use again... machine gun ripper against MTs/LTs...

Super crew training tank... insane XP per game

When you get used to T95 turtle speed, Churchill 28kmh is super maneuverable~

Anyone knows how to change the account that auto login to the server? My friend use my PC for WoT after the update the other day and until today it keep on logging on to his account every time I open the game.

Nope.