World of Tanks
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All that jazz said:
My fully upgraded Cruiser 3 loves Province, just as I do. Regardless of the MM I can usually lead my team to a victory on that map and it's my favourite map in the game for that reason. Pity it rarely comes round at tier 2 though and instead it's Himmelsdorf and Winter Himmelsdorf time after time, both of which I absolutely hate.
Spoke too soon! Just got "ROFLstomped" on it! Started on house side and I had my fat head in the bush to the left of it to see down to their cap and the castle. Next thing there's a pz1c and BT2 camped at the bottom of the cliff just in front of us which promptly lit up our entire team and within 10 seconds it was 0-10 
. I had the sense to get back behind the house so no-one could get me but it was only a matter of time until I was swamped.Great tactic by the enemy team and if you're running a fast light tank it's well worth doing on whichever side you start to light them all up. If you stay tight enough to the bottom of the cliff they shouldn't be able to get a lock on you, but you'd be f
ked in crossfire if any of the enemy team decided to do the same.Alan O'Hagan said:
eatcustard said:
I have quit the game and uninstalled it, got sick to death of playing with dumb kids
11 games in a row without a win was enough.
Its only....its only game. Why you haf to be so mad? 11 games in a row without a win was enough.
I am often stuck with teams that have a 36% chance of winning. That makes the game unplayable.
TEKNOPUG said:
eatcustard said:
Not mad, just %^&* off with the commies MM, its so dire.
I am often stuck with teams that have a 36% chance of winning. That makes the game unplayable.
Turn off the stats. They really aren't very accurate when you understand how they work.I am often stuck with teams that have a 36% chance of winning. That makes the game unplayable.
Alan O'Hagan said:
QBs mod pack is pretty good and does most everything I want but like all mod packs it wasnt perfect for me. His face popping up every time 6th sense triggered was a bit irritating. He also uses efficiency rating to guage the skill level of other players. I personally prefer WN8 which QB admits himself is a better measure. He said he only uses efficiancy basically through force of habit and familiarity.
These quibbles are not deal breaking by any means for me but just a bit irksome. I decided to try Circonflexes mod pack instead. It does everything I want and uses WN8 not efficiency. Moreover it doesnt have any annoying 6th sense tinkering, juast the good old light bulb. Ofcourse it isnt perfect. It uses the purple colour blind mode colour scheme to mark enemy tanks where I prefer the traditional red. You can't even toggle it off as Circon has it configured through xvm rather than the ingame settings.
However, circon explains in his youtube instalation video how to turn off this feature as well as other stuff, so I was able to tweak his xvm to get all the settings just how I want them....perfect!
I've used QB's mod pack in the past too, but am now using Circon's as well. I forgot he used colour blind mode and I really couldn't get on with the enemy tanks in blue. You can easily change the colours to anything you like using XVM Configuration Editor, so now they're back to red.These quibbles are not deal breaking by any means for me but just a bit irksome. I decided to try Circonflexes mod pack instead. It does everything I want and uses WN8 not efficiency. Moreover it doesnt have any annoying 6th sense tinkering, juast the good old light bulb. Ofcourse it isnt perfect. It uses the purple colour blind mode colour scheme to mark enemy tanks where I prefer the traditional red. You can't even toggle it off as Circon has it configured through xvm rather than the ingame settings.
However, circon explains in his youtube instalation video how to turn off this feature as well as other stuff, so I was able to tweak his xvm to get all the settings just how I want them....perfect!
Edited by Alan O'Hagan on Wednesday 16th July 09:06
I also edited the tank carousel mod from 3 rows of tanks back to 1, as I only have 7 tanks at the moment anyway.
I quite like the session stats mod, but I don't know what all the figures mean yet.
His XVM display at the start of the game still uses WN7, not WN8 though. He says that in his video
Out of interest how does one remove the modpack ?
Is it just a matter of leaving it there and overwriting it with new modpack ?
Probably going to remove QB's modpack as cannot get rid of the stats before the game, that face popping up will also do my head in as seen it in his vids.
Tried removing the stats like this below however only found and changed showChances, cannot locate the showChancesExp so am presuming that is why the stats are still there.
"showChances": false,
"showChancesExp": false
and change to this
"showChances": true,
"showChancesExp": true
Is it just a matter of leaving it there and overwriting it with new modpack ?
Probably going to remove QB's modpack as cannot get rid of the stats before the game, that face popping up will also do my head in as seen it in his vids.
Tried removing the stats like this below however only found and changed showChances, cannot locate the showChancesExp so am presuming that is why the stats are still there.
"showChances": false,
"showChancesExp": false
and change to this
"showChances": true,
"showChancesExp": true
Win % is the only meaningful stat as it means you've made a positive impact in the majority of games that you have played if you have 52%+.
Obviously it depends on what tank you are driving and doesn't mean that you are bad if less than 50% But I think it's a pretty good indicator once people have played in excess of 5000 games in a variety of tanks.
It also shows you who on your team probably knows what they are doing and play for the team to win, rather than their own stats. I wouldn't pay too much attention to the match victory % - I just see that as a challenge
Obviously it depends on what tank you are driving and doesn't mean that you are bad if less than 50% But I think it's a pretty good indicator once people have played in excess of 5000 games in a variety of tanks.
It also shows you who on your team probably knows what they are doing and play for the team to win, rather than their own stats. I wouldn't pay too much attention to the match victory % - I just see that as a challenge
TEKNOPUG said:
Win % is the only meaningful stat as it means you've made a positive impact in the majority of games that you have played if you have 52%+.
51%+ shirley?Also, on the subject of QB's mug - I must have conditioned my brain to it, as all I see now is a big yellow warning triangle. It's on the periphery of where you're concentrating anyway.
Aw, mine is only 51%
That said, I don' play for the stats, I play for fun. In the tanks I feel best with, the KV-1 and the VK36.01, I've got 58% and 53%. I think if I just cared about my stats, I'd only play the KV-1, as multiple kills per game and Steel Wall medals just roll in when I'm using that.
That said, I don' play for the stats, I play for fun. In the tanks I feel best with, the KV-1 and the VK36.01, I've got 58% and 53%. I think if I just cared about my stats, I'd only play the KV-1, as multiple kills per game and Steel Wall medals just roll in when I'm using that.
Mastodon2 said:
Aw, mine is only 51%
That said, I don' play for the stats, I play for fun. In the tanks I feel best with, the KV-1 and the VK36.01, I've got 58% and 53%. I think if I just cared about my stats, I'd only play the KV-1, as multiple kills per game and Steel Wall medals just roll in when I'm using that.
I play for fun too but I play to help my team win, not to harvest personal stats, which can be very tank specific.That said, I don' play for the stats, I play for fun. In the tanks I feel best with, the KV-1 and the VK36.01, I've got 58% and 53%. I think if I just cared about my stats, I'd only play the KV-1, as multiple kills per game and Steel Wall medals just roll in when I'm using that.
That's why overall win rate is the best measure, I think. 51 is acceptable
Yeah ultimately i think win rate is the best measure too, but as has been said it needs to be viewed in the context of over a lot of games - too many random factors for it to be reliable over a small number. Tank win rates are vulnerable to this especially, my arl 44 win rate after 40 odd games is far far higher than my kv1-s, but I'm much more effective in the latter which has 500+ games.
Wn7 / 8 are a good guide, but can be padded, whereas really its about winning so thats the best measure. The average win rate on the eu pc servers is around 49% iirc, as approx 1% games are draws.
Wn7 / 8 are a good guide, but can be padded, whereas really its about winning so thats the best measure. The average win rate on the eu pc servers is around 49% iirc, as approx 1% games are draws.
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