5321

Aw come on. I was really kind of excited about that. Dang.

5322

Hmm, not sure if you’re joking or actually trying to pick on Rich (always hard to tell on the Internet!), but if you’re going to pick on someone about epeen, I don’t think it should be the guy who’s excited about level 2 and 3 badges on his tier II and tier III tanks.

5323

lol, and you should be, grats!

former

5324

I got the Ace Tanker badge on the Pz V-VI yesterday. 1729 exp in that game, 75k creds. Considerably better than I’ve done with my tier 7-9 tanks too.

5325

Does any else feel like since the patch there are more penetrating shots that don’t do any damage? And I don’t hear the indicator for a critical hit either. So the penetration apparently did nothing?

5326

Now that you mention it … on my main tank I got the “Deadeye” perk (100% completed) which increases critical hits and I haven’t really noticed any critical hits at all, much less an increase. Although I just looked it up on the Wiki and apparently it only increases crits by 3%, so it’s quite possible that I wouldn’t notice (and that’s low enough I’m wondering if I should respec for Repair instead).

5327

I put that perk on a crew member for my KV-5 (which isn’t 100% yet) hoping that it would help when faced with tough opponents and at least cause some crits, but after your comments I wonder if I should also repec; 3% seems like to little of a gain to be worth it.

5328

Maybe there are no longer audio indicators that you scored a critical hit? I thought I still hear them, but now that I think about it I’m not sure.

5329

mk56. I’ve noticed the same thing. I get a lot of hits that say penetrating, and the tank diamond thing flashes, but no damage registers.

5330

This BS has been going for awhile, ever since they’ve introduced screens in December IIRC. According to the devs, it happens when your shell penetrates a screen but doesn’t penetrate the actual armor. Hence “Penetrated!” with no damage.

The largest screens are on the sides (and different vehicles have different sizes) but there are other in various places. For example, IIRC T-29’s “ears” are now screens as well.

Another reason for this behavior (and this one is old, it was there even before the screens) is when your shell hits an external module (track, gun, periscope, etc.) but doesn’t do enough damage to knock it out completely (hence no “Critical hit!”) and doesn’t go through to hit anything internal.

If you see these cases more often lately (I really don’t but I haven’t played that much this week) it might be because either Random loves you this week or you are paying more attention to stuff due to patch or maybe the devs did some changes to screens - the patch did say “modified damage model on the following tanks…”.

This bullshit is the main reason for my frustration with this game and why I am playing less and less.

5331

Yay, I got my Ace Tanker on my Pershing after all – my 688th match on the Pershing:

Victory!
Battle: Arctic Region Sunday, April 08, 2012 8:36:33 PM
Vehicle: M26 Pershing
Experience received: 3,696 (x2 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 45,033
Battle Achievements: Mastery Badge: Ace Tanker, Boelter’s Medal, Top Gun

7 kills, 26 shots/22 hits. (Actually most of the kills were way below my level, and I didn’t do most of the damage on a lot of them)

5332

This has been a good night so far:

Mastery Badge I on my Marder
Mastery Badge III on my Lowe

Wallet warrior my ass.

5333

If we’re comparing badges,

Ace Tanker on my S-51 (that wasn’t even a great match imo)
and 2 or higher on everything else. It didn’t seem difficult to get.

Still saving credits to buy GW Tiger, Jagdtiger and IS-7 (arrrrgh)

5334

I got an 8-kill round in my IS yesterday and only got rank I badge :/

5335

Credits are such the bugaboo now; I find myself usually far shorter in credits than in exp. Luckily the T34 makes good money and is a nice change of pace from the Type 59.

Clan Wars battles also seem to have more variety of vehicles in them now, though it’s still skewed as you might expect. I’m seeing more TDs and mediums, and a nice mix of T110E5s and IS-7s, which are blunting the flood of E-100s. I’m also seeing a resurgence of the Maus, which for a while was conspicuously absent in most of our matches.

Sadly, my clan still has trouble defending territory we take. We’ll fight an epic tournament to take a land, only to lose it the next night. One issue is the defenses are always at 11PM+ Eastern, which puts a real burden on at least half of our regulars. But beyond that we’re still trying to figure out what we’re doing wrong. I suspect we’re playing too defensively, and conceding the initiative.

5336

While bumping each and every sale is the road to madness, it’s probably worth noting that the upcoming Anniversary Special contains a lot of good deals.

5337

Whole bunch of boring imo. 5x XP is always nice I guess, but it’s not XP I lack.

5x credits, I would have been playing like a fiend all weekend.

5338

Extra XP is always good though for getting those crew skills up. I’ve got my most experienced crew with 100% + 2 skills on top of that at 100% + a third skill at 76%. Some of those perks can be very, very useful (sixth sense I’m looking at you) and some of the skills are also great (repair still remains of critical importance, particularly for lights and mediums). So you want all the XP you can get even if you may not need it to unlock tanks.

I’m pretty doubtful they will ever give out extra credits (although you never know), because that will hurt their bottom line.

5339

I don’t know about other servers, but the US server used to give out 2x credit promotions for certain tanks during battle-themed specials, but I don’t think any of those tanks were better than tier V non-premiums.

I can imagine another promotion like that, but too many of them could kill the market for the high-tier Premium tanks. That would probably be good for game balance, but not for WG’s financials. I can’t imagine ever seeing a 5x (or even 2x) credit promotion on all tanks. It would be ridiculously easy to earn credits on basically any high-tier tank.

But I would be glad to be proven wrong!

5340

Me too!