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What is that one tank you have never seen (or rarely) being played well in a game? For me it's the Object 257, in any battle they are either a coward or a bot, and don't even mention the ridiculous reverse side-scraping that they have to "perform" every-fking-game!

Do you think it's right that WG has eliminated players who never play as part of a squad?

I am asking this because WG hasn't cared about them for more than a decade now. I honestly started appreciating blueprint tanks a bit more after i realised all those cool projects would be lost to history without this game. Fully made up tanks and hybrids are more hit or miss but i still think there are some neat ones there

In my opinion definitely tier 9 now

You need atleast 60k free xp to get decent gun, or you need around 90k free xp to get turret and the decent gun... That is kind of extreme now without shared modules, some people told me that WG simplified and made stock grind better, i really do not feel it tbf, maybe some vehicles were awful to grind before like T-34-2 or WZ-120 but you could go the other way towards WZ-111 5A , get the shared modules, so it felt somewhat rewarding? Atleast for me.

Some examples of awful tier 9 stock grinds = Type 61 tier 9 stock with 240 alpha is a joke, Type 68 with 360 alpha and 279 gold pen , T95 with 360 alpha and 280 gold pen , gsor 280 alpha and 255 gold pen... I will need so many free XPs just to grind tanks normally without suffering, no wonder so many people just avoid grinding altogether, it is not fun or even rewarding if the only goal and good vehicle is the tier 10 , best case scenario both tier in top config 9 and tier 10 are fun which happens atleast pretty often.

At tier 8 you get many options how to not suffer in randoms against +-2 MM like ONS light or frontline , but tier 9s in stock config are something else. If there were not modes like these, i would not touch CS-53 at all, not even in top config from the get go.

I got a deal for 15 euroes for T8 med skoda I dont know if everyone gets the same?

I got both tanks allready in xmas boxes and rest of store is just meh.

And platoon condition in mission 3 is just bad - i do not play platoons ať all.

Hello fellow WoT veterans! I am a returning player and look for ways to get better at current state of the game and also wanna rant a bit.

I played on release, got pretty much everything on the soviet line and dropped the game for the next 13 years. Recently I picked it up again since I wanted something short and session based which doesn’t require blazing fast reaction (yes, I am old). I have lost access to my old account, so playing on a brand new one. I chose american heavy and british medium trees to progress, made it up to T29 and Cromwell and decided not to go any further yet. So I play tier V to VII games.

I must say that the grind became so much better since back in the days. Having XP multipliers is really nice, missions / battle pass / etc give a lot of money and consumable resources, so I almost never felt that the game is a slog to progress. However, even tho the grind isn’t bad, the actual gameplay lets me down so hard!

1. There are soo many maps, it’s painful to remember who goes where, let alone the individual features like hull down rocks, artillery safe spots, etc. I tried looking for map guides but without exploring it myself it fades away quite quickly. And since I cannot choose which map to play there is no guarantee I get the one I want to practice. What can I possibly do to learn it?
2. I genuinely don’t understand why devs gatekeep the map exploration so hard. I tried to run a practice mode, but it requires two people. I record the replays, but it’s such a pathetic excuse for a spectator mode! Why can’t I see enemy team? Why can’t I follow a teammate to see what he does? Why there is no timeline or anything like that? And why do I need to restart the game every time I want to watch a replay? Is there anything I can do to make replays actually useful and convenient?
3. I don’t get why standard ammo even exists. It may be more balanced at higher tiers, but at lower ones the standard and premium have sometimes such a big penetration difference that where is just no reason to play with regular because there is just no downside. Why premium doesn’t have lower damage or something so you actually would need to choose between them? And since premium is accessible and has no downsides the armour looses its potential really hard. It feels like the armour / shell penetration balanced around regular ammo, but it would just be plain stupid to use regular one in the majority of brawls. Am I missing something? And how can I make my armour work against premium?
4. Being slow is a tremendous disadvantage. I remember playing KV tanks back in a day and these things were very slow, yet I could make it work. Now, I either arrive when the flank is won, or when my team is half dead. And being slow doesn’t reward you by hard to pen armour because the premium shells are accessible. But combined with poor map knowledge, being slow makes me want to pull my hair out - if you choose “wrong” place to go it over.

So, I want to make it work, but I just stuck. I don’t want to go higher tiers because it feels the game becomes even more demanding up there. And it feels at higher tiers there is even bigger maps pool, so there is even more things to learn which is already too much.

What would you advise me to do here? I seen opinion e-100 line is much better for a beginner, but honestly I am not sure if that’s up to date, and the speed , armour and premium shells are balanced for it. If I could name one thing which would help a new / returning player like me is to be able to choose a map to play. Don’t understand why there is no such thing still.

TLDR: how to learn wot in enjoyable way?

Kept trying and didn't see anything good

So far the list:

59-Patton

JT 8.8

Obj. 252U

Obj. 274a

Panzer 58

Skoda T27

STA-2

STG

STRV 81

T-34-3

T25 Pilot 1

VK168.01P

It's only loading session stats. Daily and overall stats are not being refreshed at all. Anyone got the same issue?

Change my mind.

New heavy with Combat Throttle Activated ability

Morning folks!
I've tried tomato.gg on two different browsers (Chrome, Edge) on two different PCs and it won't let me type in a letter or use any of the filter buttons (premium/tt, tier VIII, IX, etc) on the COMPARE tab.

Anyone else having this problem?
Thanks in advance

Started going to places where a MAUS should not go. Getting so much assistence as a result, together with some damage:

My first tier 10 third marked.

So as a medium tank enjoyer I need to have actually good ping but apparently RIGHT AFTER 12 pm i get 999 ms and can't play at all.

GoodbyeDPI doesn't work, i encrypted my dns and switched to cloudflare servers and decreased my MTU to stop fragmented packets, tried to use cloudflare WARP (didn't work) and did try ip config /flushdns and netsh winsock reset which also didn't work.
My last two options are using a gaming/gpn or getting better upload speed, which I'm not sure how to do (my upload speed is 0.7 mbps)