What other Online Games besides MWO do you else play?

@Remarius
http://guidescroll.com/2014/06/war-thunder-ground-forces-comprehensive-guide/

-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t-Qtc81ZzJPYw06gqiqXEUjVGh6det70m7o31KSEh-E/pubhtml#-

 

Realistic battles is weird. Doing well I think and just managed a 9 kill 1st place which is nice but the maneuverability upgrades seem far more important as the tanks behave like shit. My rewards do seem lower though in terms of silver eagles which I'm desperately short of. Do you have to take a full plane into combat to use one in that mode?

 

A nine kill is not nice but impressive in realistic,... As we discussed yesterday I find the point on tank behaviour weird as personally I find the tanks to behave much more intuitive in realistic. On the other hand, I cannot for the love of ... get my 50mm gun to behave decently in that game mode. I can get kills easily enough in my Pz IV F2 and Stug, but my Pz III M, being the most survivable of the three, does nothing more than accurately take out 1 crew member after the next component,... by which time a KV2 or plane lands a MOAB on my turret

 

Yeah but what BR is a KV2?

My main problem in that match was running out of good ammo. Found myself using my ap with extremely high pen that just went through them....

 

A derp tank in World of Tanks, and clearly in Warthunder as well. Although I must admit that aiming that low velocity gun in realistic musn't be too easy,...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov_tank

 

I hate KV2 (BR 5 in arcade and 4.3 in realisitc/sim btw). That gun is a near instat kill every shot. They aim for your turret and the blast tends to send shrapnel down through the, often thin, top plate into your unsuspecting crews brains.

They are my number one tank to watch out for at the moment. If I'm flying they get my bombs/rockets first.

Tanks do drive like shit to start with, the upgrades help as does a decent level of tank driving skill for your driver.

Would you guys recommend realistic over arcade?

 

I have been talking Remarius into playing realistic over the course of the evening yesterday. He seems to have stuck in it as well even though reading here it doesn't make him enough silver lions.

I vastly prefer realistic over arcade as I tend to go pop sublimely fast in arcade and do much, much better in a game mode where my overpowered enemies actually have to look for me and know how to aim in order to kill me. (as opposed to all spotted tanks having a big marker over them showing their location AND having a nice indicator showing when their shell will hit even though they cannot see you whilst hiding from behind a bush.

Using arty is a pain in the *** seen that you have to guess the enemy location on the map (again, no more indicators)

Much more skill involved = a happy Zot


(I have had the case where a Sherman just drove by me in a quite open field. My sand colour Pz III didn't contrast well against the yellow field so in his tunnel vision he missed me. Put a nice AP round through his side as a thank you )

 

I have played both realistic and simulator modes, admittedly at the inception of ground battles so I suspect it has changed a lot.

I found the queue times to be appaling, has this improved? Just had a shifty through the wiki. What are the major changes between arcade and realistic now? It seems to have changed a lot since I last tried it.

I do have some fond memories of the harder difficulties, poping a few T34 while lurking in bushes as they idled past me. Landing those long range hits without the easy mode indicator.

 

Didn't have any waiting time longer than 1,5 minutes yesterday

 

You can add me to the list of people you've convinced. I will give it a spin this week.

 

Only problem I've found is some teams play utterly passive and sniper camp expecting the rest of their team to take the spawn points. Doesn't work at all so I don't understand the tactic.

 

Because if you die without having done anything, you cannot respawn The rewards are bigger if you lose whilst having done damage than win and have done anything but spurt towards a cap point and fail.

 

That makes no sense as I'm the one getting #1-5 they end up getting ver little and having not helped their team win at all. Are they just farming the time bonuses?

 

It makes sense when you're a bad player,...

 

@PyckenZot, @Remarius, Holly crap, realistic is really how to play Warthunder. Had one match and I am hooked on that mode.

Pros:

• Aiming feels more rewarding
• Mobility is actually useful, without easy mode aim negating it
• Sneaking up on people is loads of fun
• No where near as much arty/bomber spam
• XP seems so much better

Cons:

• Spawn camping is easier (My AA was killed by an M6A1 camping at the back of the spawn)
• No easy aim, suddenly makes tanks with small weak points much harder to deal with (Also a positive).
• Need to also research planes?

Had a great first match, going to jump into some more games and will report back my findings

Edit:

Hmmm, after a couple more match it seems spawning in anything but your heaviest/highest BR tank is daft. Cost goes up each time you need to respawn and naturally the best tanks cost the most, seems a little silly in my opinion.

 

I level all same BR so makes no difference to me. Fights are much closer in I noticed and like you said people always camp the spawn zones.

 

My last game, a friggin piece of BS,... 5 kill, 4 assist game. Could have been 7 if american locust weren't able to dig themselves halfway into my tank and shoot me whilst (logically) being outside my gundepression limit,... My 2 cancerous growths were funny to see but less so to endure :/

 

303mm of frontal armor and 105mm cannon. The king of camping is coming to Warthunder.

 

And WoT