Comments on: 20.2.2014

By: Medjed

Medjed — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:44:42 +0000

I have too much noobs like yourself to pwn yet. How’s sucking going?

By: liplop

liplop — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 04:30:03 +0000

No you can’t afford all the prem shells you need. You couldn’t even on a premium account: you’d need to buy extra gold and convert to credits.

You obviously mean all that you think that you need, but that’s not what’s most effective. We ARE discussing whether the prem shells are pay to win here, and yes, games will be decided on those low-roll bounces that wouldn’t happen if you had fired gold. Add a lot less weakspot sniping and missing, reloading depending on what you meet and so on to that and it has a bigger impact than one would first think.

Now if we add premium consumables to the soup, well those are gonna be some expensive games.

I probably do as you, run with a smaller set of gold ammo and make an overall profit. But just because I’ve gotten used to that and can get by on it doesn’t mean I can’t recognize it’s not optimal.

By: Septfox Malkier

Septfox Malkier — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 01:23:25 +0000

It’s not so crappy…in a TD. The Alecto handles it well, or so I’ve heard; personally I used the 3.7in. for its lobbing ability.

On an SPG, I found it sorely lacking. Not enough arc for shots to go where they really needed to, and when it did hit something…280 average damage, with a fairly low chance of hitting somewhere thin enough to fully penetrate? Meh, just meh.

Granted, the 4.5in. doesn’t have massive amounts of penetration either, but it can also pretty consistently nail roofs and engine decks flat-on due to its silly-high arc, and the ability to scare people into screwing up when they *think* they’re in adequate cover is invaluable. If the 25pdr had been more like this, it’d have been awesome at tier 3 and acceptable at tier 4…

It might have just been me – in fact, it probably was a lot me – but the gun just felt exceptionally mediocre, especially on the Birch Gun.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 19:27:26 +0000

Rats. But I refuse to give up the hope.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:58:30 +0000

Just wondering, but have you actually *tried* getting an autoloader and shooting prem rounds all the time, every time?

…and just to nitpick, the HEAT shells for that 76mm US auto are the direst shit there ever was.

By: kerradeph

kerradeph — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:12:40 +0000

The problem I’m running into is that I can either make a really choppy high quality video of the replay, or I can have a decent quality low resolution video. I’ve got a decent video card (560TI) but it’s still bogged down trying to make a video out of a replay.

By: dragonfruit

dragonfruit — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:48:07 +0000

In fact the 25pdr is not so crappy, it is accurate and having a good RoF. The problem of low damage can be somehow compensated by wisely switching AP shells, which is having 71mm pen.

By: oglop

oglop — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:16:44 +0000

I don’t care .. I’m medium tank driver so even 3 tier lower tank can penetrate me..

By: Baldrickk

Baldrickk — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:42:33 +0000

I do!
I actually dropped the settings down to medium to test fps difference recently. It did improve it (slightly) but looked absolutely terrible.
Oddly enough, after putting settings back on maximum, my fps went up higher than on med settings.
(This may have had something to do with a gfx driver update though)

By: Septfox Malkier

Septfox Malkier — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:24:38 +0000

Ah, is that it. Guess I just didn’t play with it enough to notice…probably free-exp’d the majority of the way through it, having been sick of that same crappy gun for so long (particularly on the Birch Gun, jesus that was awful). I honestly don’t recall.

It’s worth it in the end for the pretty awesome 4.5in, though, and there are far worse stock grinds in the game…I don’t really see why anyone would single this one out for “reviewing”.