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Soft wipe is coming next week, this will take away all your tanks and crew but it will return all EXP you have ever earned as free exp, so no loss. You will also be refunded all money and gold you have spent on whatever is in your garage.

Old thread 404'd faster than I expected, but oh well.

The softwipe has been delayed to the clan wars patch, pretty sure there will be no changes to that. But in case there is I'll explain the softwipe. A softwipe will transfer all of your exp spent on research into free exp so you will be able to research any tank you have enough for. Credits will be refunded for all of your tanks, modules, and equipment at that time in your garage. They may or may not give you a certain amount of gold to help, if they don't the gold spent on garage slots/equipment/unused premium will be refunded from what I know. NA/EU server split is estimated around 24th of December, clan wars sometime between January and February.

Also this spot here in the image will get your tank stuck and you can't move, avoid it.

>>6591829
I was told by a dev in game the wipe was due at the server split and NOT the patch.

>>6591844
Yeah, that's what it seemed like as well.. but it's somewhat complicated I guess.

The soft wipe was initially because they didn't know how to transfer the database from the NA server to EU server from what I heard, but it appears they've found a way and will be doing that. I don't know why they said a softwipe for clan wars though.

Naturally announcing a soft wipe and then a week or two later saying there will be none has created somewhat of a shitstorm and they might end up putting a soft wipe on the server split, but everyone is just guessing and hoping at this point.

>>6591859
you have a link to where it is said the wipe will be at the clan wars thing?

>>6591873
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/20488-petition-for-devs-to-do-soft-wipe/ here's a thread about it, I don't know where the exact post that said it was for clanwars was though. On page 5 there's a guy who made a really good post about it as well.

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>Due to processing complexity there will be no soft wipe prior to this major event (ie not soft wipe this year).

fuck.

It's pretty amazing, at this point, I have to ask, are you guys actually drawing your own Touhou+Tanks pictures every time?

>>6591962
No.

You will never know true hate until you fight a platoon is Ferdinands and your heaviest ally is an IS3

>>6591951
goddamn, now I'm going to have a crewless 3001P sitting in my garage forever waiting for softwipe and full refund. I really shouldn't have blown all those credits on equipment now.

Good thing I decided to go ahead and get the 3002DB though, I'll probably end up moving down the TD tree too with this much time left until softwipe. Just have to decide now if I skip the Hetzer or use my free xp on the 3002DB upgrades.

>are you guys actually drawing your own Touhou+Tanks pictures every time?

The Japanese military otaku are numerous and they produce a ton of fan art. They even have their own magazines and guide books.

Some is Touhou art, other is generic cat/fox/animu girl.

Bail out! We're done for!

Speaking of which, I really need to get proper scans of all these tank manga, and find someone to translate them.

>>6592058
Being called "Desert Fox" makes for some great fanart!

i saw some caps from the previous thread, where people painted their tanks with camo-colour and stuff.. is there some trick behind that like loading the dds into a 3d prog and then adding images/colors or do you only use ps for that? I mean those dds-images are confusing as fuck and i fear it takes me countless times of trial and error to get a proper camo on that tank without messing up on some little gadged on the side etc. ;__;

>3001P

how did you level this goddamn it''s a fucking brick with a shitty gun until upgrades

>>6592108
Endurance, pussy tactics and a lot of patience.

When the softwipe comes, I'll take a break from the German TD tree, stop at the /jp/anthah, and have myself a Taiga.

>>6592108
I kept going back and forth between it and my Pz3 and converting all my Pz3 xp into free xp. 1st engine upgrade first so it can actually move, then tracks, then turret, then L/70. Got the 2nd engine upgrade before the 88, which I only tried for a short time before going back to the L/70.

Once I got the L/70 it was better than my 3/4 that couldn't kill anything, but mainly I just sniped with it because it's sluggish and unmaneuverable despite high top speed even with 2nd engine upgrade. Basically it's a Tiger with only 2 hashes over it instead of 3, that can go twice as fast downhill. Climbing the hill on Himmelsdorf I discovered that Hummels can actually climb hills faster than a 3001P.

had two really stupid games right before maintenence. first game the other team was almost entirely marders and various artillery that camped in the trees for the entire fucking game. second game was on the map with the river through it and someone thought it would be funny to block the top two bridges. anyone that crossed the remaining bridge got killed and eventually the only ones left on my team were two guys that somehow got stuck and couldn't move. the game ended up in a draw because the cowards on the other team wouldn't come over to kill them.

>>6592150

MC Axis issue 14 had a 5 page spread on tiger tank loli.

I might be confusing it with the 3001(H) but I get killed by those things a lot. pretty much anything german past the panzer 4 has a way better gun than anything the americans or russians can get.

>>6592187
all of the tier 6 german mediums have the same guns, the difference is the 3601 is basically a heavy (slow, best armor and HP), 3001H is fast and maneuverable with paper armor (but has slope) and lowest HP, 3001P looks statwise in the middle (and the highest top speed). But actually it's gigantic (seriously, it towers over low-profile heavies), no slope to its armor, and doesn't have a good enough engine to actually achieve top speed except downhill. It does at least have the fastest-turning upgraded turret by a small margin, but that's about all it has going for it, the 3601 is so much better.

I really want to know what they built it out of that it can be as big as a Tiger and like 2/3 the weight

I'm not a tank nut so I have absolutely no idea which tanks are which or what tier or whatever the fuck that makes them one-shot me. It seems like all tanks are impenetrable by my M3 Stuart.

Nowadays I only play art'y because it's the easiest to get kills with.

Also, what are you guys thinking about the new coming French armor?

>>6592218
I thought only the tier 7 daimler benz prototype had sloped armor

>>6592179
Oh god, that's a gorgeous loli

>>6592218
Is the VK3002DB or the Panther worth the grind with the VK3001P?

>>6592271
Compared to a Tiger 2...

I wouldn't be so sure...

wow it's 100% bullshit that a marder can plink my sherman to death without ever becoming visible. the entire view range thing is retarded.

>>6592317
Yeah, the view range is really broken right now

>>6592245
I'm not sure about the hulls of the other VKs but they at least have some slope on their turrets, the 3001P has the vertical-sided turret like the Tiger.

>>6592271
I can't really say since I only played 1 match in the 3002DB right before maintenance; it's the fast and maneuverable one with lots of slope, making it play like the American and Russian top mediums. Lots of people hate the Panther though and I don't think I'm going to get it. The Panther is basically a fast heavy, not a medium; it doesn't dogfight well like the 3002 and is more of a sniper (which then makes one have to ask, why not use the KT instead?). It can mount the L/71 though which gives it way more firepower than the 3002 (3002 only has the same guns as the 3001P, and before turret upgrade can only use 75mm at 12 rounds/minute instead of the 15 that all the previous tanks had).

3002 is like a 50% hitpoint increase over the 3001P though, which makes a huge difference especially fighting other mediums. My one battle in it I killed a PzIV then fought a T-44 and got him down to 8% (with a little help from light arty) before dying, then the arty finished him off. I would have even beaten him if I didn't lose my ammo rack, then bounce a shot, then lose my gun before I reloaded.

>>6592317
>>6592325
Marders have 460m spotting range though, so bushes/camo aside, a Marder in the open could theoretically kill a Sherman without being seen based on view distance alone (depending on how much distance the Sherman closed while being hit)

Latest changelogs: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/19394-beta-062x-update/

- Fixed "black screen" in howitzer mode for some players with AMD processors.
- Re-rendered static shadows on all maps using new algorithm which provides better quality.
- Fixed a controls setting, which demanded reassignment of all keys.
- Command "autoaim" is unbound from the command "free camera".
- Fixed error: "If to reassign a key to another key which already was bounded for another function, and if to skip the warning window exit from the controls assignment window, the setting will save as incorrect information".
- Fixed appearance of a "red rectangle" in the controls settings window.
- Fixed incorrect assignment of the "Kolobanov's" medal.
- Expanded descriptions of medals and achievements.
- Fixed unwarranted disappearing of sections of statistics without a possibility to open it up in the statistics window.
- Fixed display of zeros in the nonzero statistics.
- Fixed "hanged up" display of a speaker icon next to a "dead" player.
- Added automatic removal of incompatible consumables. E.g.: removal of gasoline when changing from gasoline to diesel engines.
- Fixed incorrect display of tank's tier in the tank purchase window.
- Fixed update of the experience value in the hangar while spending the experience.
- Fixed non-obvious work of a progress-bar for replenishment of shells in service window.
- Fixed disable "after death" post-effect option in settings.
- BT-7 tank removed from the exceptions during match-making.

finally got my m41

never again do I have to use the priest

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This is awesome.
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/8205-tutorial-adding-zimmerit/

http://game.worldoftanks.com/ratings/?type=detailed#wot&drt_offset=100&drt_order_by=ctf_poin
ts&
>I am the 121st capper.
>Lower total exp than those around my rank.
>I am also currently the 900th in Target Detected ranking.
Feels great man.

Just check in your profil your rank or "location".
>Log in
>Click link "My Profil"
>http://game.worldoftanks.com/accounts/103875-Mayhem/

I'm gonna need more than a new paint job after this

Installing RIGHT NOW

What should I expect?

>>6592626
A fun game until you unlock a tier 3 tank and start getting thrown against tier 7-10s.
Then it turns into a massive exp and credit grind until you get something that can actually penetrate the enemy's armor.

>>6592626
What (>>6592633) said. It's fun early on, but once you get out of the newbie area, you'll be pitted against higher tier tanks that will completely destroy you in seconds, while you do close to nothing to them. But if you are patience, and grind it out to tier 5 or higher and have a better fighting chance, it'll be fun again like the newbie area.

Protip: Don't fight anything higher tier than you, unless you're a heavy and your opponent is a medium tank

>>6592626
real fun, grindan, and you get to control an authentic WW2 battle tanks of different types, from 3 powerful nations, and you get to enjoy the graphics also

>>6592633
>>6592645
>>6592685
I can only get 20 fps out of it. Thanks for the input though.

>>6592709
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/10957-low-graphics-settings-pack/
Try that.

>>6592713
>[#10342] We could not determine which forum this topic is in.

>>6592760

You have to be logged in.

>>6591802
can't wait for them to add customizable paints for tanks you use in the game

I noticed a new thing that people do that really pisses me off. a lot of heavy tank players will just sit there and camp forever, even when the enemy base is right in front of them. I think they expect me to drive out and give them vision, but fuck them they have way more armor and hp.

>>6592558
'tis just a fleshwound.

>>6592768
God help the poor souls on this game if they ever let us paint our own tanks or decals.

>>6592769
Depends on my opponent. Personally I'm an IS. Despite being a tier 7, I get raped by most things if I am not cautious. In a lot of matches, if I lose my track and/or get focus fired in the open, I'm as good as dead. While I do have more armor than lower tier tanks, my side or rear is not strong enough to bounce tier 5s or higher.

>>6592763
Ah. Tried it out, and I still only hit around 20 fps.

>>6592786
the point is that you're a lot more survivable than most other things on your team. I'll team up with other medium tanks to cover each other as we advance all the time, but with heavy tanks it's like they expect to sit in one spot the entire game while the enemy drives up to get killed.

>>6592713
>http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/10957-low-graphics-settings-pack/
Not the guy you were quoting, but this is a godsend. Smoke effects were raping my framerate, thanks.

Buy new PCs you you.... tankers!

That low graphics pack apparently has mixed effects. Some say it works, some say it doesn't.

Also, what happened to All Day's updated Tankmen pack? He said he was going to update it with a lot more sprites, but nothing happened

>>6592815
you've got a sloppy computer, that's all

>>6593535
I only applied the pack for the smoke and it's wonderful.

>>6593581
Inspiron 1420 master race

re'ported

>>6592093
bump on this?

If I put my drivers in the barracks and let them stay in there, while im not playing the game do they level up?

>>6592093
What I do is screenshot the four sides, front, back and top side of my tanks with the texture open to see what piece goes where.

This is to get specific decals only. To get a full texture change, as in, a camo pattern, I just make the pattern and past it over the texture, reduce the opacity and voilá!

Is it worth spending 200 gold too get 100% with my drivers?

>>6593695
Only with a higher-tier tank, since you need to retrain them every time you get a new one.

>>6593695
Are you in at least tier 6 tanks (tier 4 SPG)? No. More than that? Maybe. I've found that other than the gunner, the others aren't useful enough to justify the expense which could be better spent on Premium for the 50% more experience and credits which is a massive reduction in the grind.

>>6593695
depends. if you already got a month´s-acc. and enough spare money you should do it. Same when your old crew is mediocre-tier and you just bought one of the higher tier-tanks. if you have to collect like 50K+ exp for next tank, you definetly manage to finish a skill or two.

>>6593715
>>6593714
>>6593708
I just only bought the 75% one on just my commander, Im using a pzkpfw 2, I have the pzkpfw 3 ausf a but it sucks so bad that im just gonna use pzkpfw for free exp.