Comments on: 31.10.2014

By: Rocri

Rocri — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:51:49 +0000

So the TOG will never be punished for team damage in collisions?

By: Marco Chan

Marco Chan — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 03:34:52 +0000

Awful Panther buff, yay :)

By: Voroseeg

Voroseeg — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:52:51 +0000

“- the exact ramming damage mechanism will not be disclosed”
Good job pieces of shit, keep even more mechanichs hidden and keep spreading ignorance. Wouldn’t be a fucking surprise if they suddenly remove all stats and just leave credit prices and XP costs.

By: Fedaykin89

Fedaykin89 — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:33:15 +0000

1) BL-9 is a extremely powerful gun for a HT at Tier 8. Not only does it have pen equal to the rest of its piers, but it outclasses them in alpha by far (except T34, doh!).
2) IS-3 is not limited to hulldown (where it can shine as well, though you have to pray a bit to RNGesus for good snapshots, since sitting still for full aim time will get that weakspot penned by everybody), IMHO it’s the best sidescraper (not to mention reverse sidescraper!!!) out of all the Tier 8 HTs (suck it, Tiger 2/Lowe!)
3) Even with the crap gun depression it’s still way easier to put the IS-3 to use than the T32. Hell, even in terms of accuracy the BL-9 feels way better than the 105 on the T29/T32. inb4 Tiger 2 turret roof autopen, lol

By: nublex

nublex — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:25:35 +0000

What is with People asking for buffing Lowe again? It is on par with KT now. How about WG remove KV-5′s R2D2?

By: sl_andy

sl_andy — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:55:58 +0000

No i was in the VK on the normal server. Commenting on that it will buff the Germans as they generally have relatively thick armour.

By: Nadeah

Nadeah — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:39:38 +0000

IS-3 is bad at open-maps, I’d call that a flaw.
IS-3 has the worst viewrange by far.
( It’s camovalue marginally better than the other tier 8 heavies but useless because of this. )
IS-3 has a very weak weakspot above the gun penetrable by tier 6′s
IS-3 has practically no gun-depression compared to the other tier 8′s

Add to that that IS-3 hull when not pointing directly at the enemy can be penetrated by 175~mm penetration guns easily. ( Granted, it’s still the best front of all tier 8′s )
No excuses, though. It’s the best heavy in it’s tier, but the same can be said about the E75 at tier 9. ( The ST-I being harder to use and the WZ 111 being … Chinese )

By: Nadeah

Nadeah — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:30:06 +0000

I don’t know if you knew this, but the turret of the IS-3 has a massive weakspot:

The the entire area above the gun of the IS-3 is a massive weakspot that can be penetrated by anything shooting shells with a diameter bigger than 40mm if they manage to hit it. The T32 has a far harder to penetrate turret frontally than the IS-3 if you have a gun that is actually accurate enough to hit that area above the gun. I penetrate it with Cromwell, Comet and T-34/85 regularly. ( though the A-43 has trouble it does sometimes pen that area )

IS-3 has no gun depression and is practically blind in terms of viewrange as well. The pike nose sucks when not facing toward you if you shoot at the area most flat toward you. It also has a massive aimingtime which makes it easy to return fire before they can fire back accurately.

By: baws

baws — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:27:15 +0000

But what’s HIS excuse for not adjusting his course?
(regardless of IRL or not)

By: ramp4ge

ramp4ge — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:35:22 +0000

IS-3′s turret is also pretty much invincible from the front. So while it has a good turret, it’s not the only tank at it’s tier and class with a good turret. I will never shoot at an IS-3′s turret because I know it’s futile to do so. And yet IS-3 is more mobile with a better gun and hull protection that’s at least as good, if not better, and is getting better.

T32′s one strength is gimmicky in today’s game. You can’t even really stay hull-down anymore (Assuming you can even get a good hull-down spot in today’s corridor maps) because then you get clicked by skycancer..