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Psi Kiya Trist wrote:i disagree, i've done plenty of damage with it in tier 8 matches. the Father's day 5x xp let me get my turret, tracks, and first engine on the P, it performs ALOT better than before. not my favorite tank, but it's playable now.

I see you haven't played any soviet tanks of the same tier.

Poor penetration in the early guns is why I didn't go down the German line, though the bugged mantlet armour during the beta was also pretty... Embarrassing.

Nice. So far the VKP doesn't share any engines with other tanks down the line (Except I think the 4502), but once the Porsche line comes out...

CABAL wrote:

Psi Kiya Trist wrote:i disagree, i've done plenty of damage with it in tier 8 matches. the Father's day 5x xp let me get my turret, tracks, and first engine on the P, it performs ALOT better than before. not my favorite tank, but it's playable now.

I see you haven't played any soviet tanks of the same tier.

Poor penetration in the early guns is why I didn't go down the German line, though the bugged mantlet armour during the beta was also pretty... Embarrassing.

Nice. So far the VKP doesn't share any engines with other tanks down the line (Except I think the 4502), but once the Porsche line comes out...

4502 and a TD, i think the Ferdi.

yes, i'm aware that the Russian devs perfer Russian tanks and make them gloriously OP. and that's why our German tanks with RL sight range in the KM's are limited to sight range in the M's because that's where Russian tank's optics were at during WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II wrote:Moreover, the main armament of the Tiger II was capable of knocking out any Allied tank frontally at ranges exceeding 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi), beyond the effective range of Allied tank guns.

that's the long 88.

Psi Kiya Trist wrote:4502 and a TD, i think the Ferdi.

yes, i'm aware that the Russian devs perfer Russian tanks and make them gloriously OP. and that's why our German tanks with RL sight range in the KM's are limited to sight range in the M's because that's where Russian tank's optics were at during WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II wrote:Moreover, the main armament of the Tiger II was capable of knocking out any Allied tank frontally at ranges exceeding 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi), beyond the effective range of Allied tank guns.

that's the long 88.

Whilst I do agree the devs are slightly biased towards the russian tanks, the only reason the KT and Tigers had such good RL k/d ratios, was because they were put up against mainly Shermans with the 75mm and T-34-76s. The 'bigger' soviet guns, particularly the 152mm family, were very formidable.

Russian tanks were historically designed to be superior to the German tanks.

Almost got the VK36 last night, going with the comical gun until I get the 88/l56, yeah pen hurts but it's a beastly tank from my experience and it will be reclassified as a heavy tank in the finalized tree (hopefully it will get some buffs when it happens).

Zeratul wrote:Russian tanks were historically designed to be superior to the German tanks.

They did not always succeed but you have a fair point.
[bittervet]Unfortunately that doesn't mean you can use "historical" data on russian tanks (the almighty IS-4 buff for instance) and use "balance" for german (Tiger speed is a good example). Yes I am a bit bitter about the original FOTM T-55 that got put in. [/bittervet]
I am quite aware that every nation is up-gunned from their original stats for the sake of game-play and yes German side has a lot of prototypes (all the VK series)

CABAL wrote:The 'bigger' soviet guns, particularly the 152mm family, were very formidable.

The monster of a gun indeed, it didn't have as much penetration as the D-10 guns but what it lacked in penetration it made up in sheer volume. The shell itself was 40 kg.

CABAL wrote:

Psi Kiya Trist wrote:4502 and a TD, i think the Ferdi.

yes, i'm aware that the Russian devs perfer Russian tanks and make them gloriously OP. and that's why our German tanks with RL sight range in the KM's are limited to sight range in the M's because that's where Russian tank's optics were at during WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II wrote:Moreover, the main armament of the Tiger II was capable of knocking out any Allied tank frontally at ranges exceeding 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi), beyond the effective range of Allied tank guns.

that's the long 88.

Whilst I do agree the devs are slightly biased towards the russian tanks, the only reason the KT and Tigers had such good RL k/d ratios, was because they were put up against mainly Shermans with the 75mm and T-34-76s. The 'bigger' soviet guns, particularly the 152mm family, were very formidable.

my point was fire range, not kill range. i'd be perfectly fine with leaving the "damage" rating the same on these guns, if we got the actual range we should get, if the russians are getting their massive close range guns.

do you need a fast connection to play?

TheFuzz wrote:do you need a fast connection to play?

i guess it may help but not really i don't think

Rabbid Thom wrote:

TheFuzz wrote:do you need a fast connection to play?

i guess it may help but not really i don't think

A ping of less than 350ms is not noticeable. Regardless, you can bring up a reticle which adjusts for lag (capslock + 0) which lets you aim properly and such if your ping is high.

Call me weird but I like to play with nice low ping (usually around 50). IT was quite irritating during beta when they didn't have euro servers.

so i recently had a game which was really really awesome... not entirely sure how i pulled it off... but still.

I play.
Kicking ass with 350 ping and my Panzer II.