World of Tanks

[Allen]

Don't they reset tonight at midnight?

Never mind, servers being taken down at 4am for up to 18 hours...

[Pob255]

Well I'm going to be pre-ordering the light pack today . . . if this stupid system will let me.

edit: that ultimatepay/playspan thing is such I had an account on there from ages back, so long back that offhand I cannot even remember what game it was from.
but I cannot log into my account, I tried to reset the pass word and the link they email me is bad, so I cannot log in, but I can log in to the support based account just not the main one.
So I had to make a new account just to buy this pre-order pack.

Ahh I think it was AutoAssault that required playspan, not a good sign

[KIAEddZ]

KIA Teamspeak will be mega busy now, please join us for company fun

[Allen]

All quiet on the western front...

So, still no patch and servers not up. Dunno why they said release day was the 12th.

Still, at least I didn't book a day off to play it like some!

[rox0r]

Universal rule of MMOs; Launch Day is ALWAYS a shambolic mess, wait till the day after.

[Pob255]

the news was out for a couple of days 4am UTC and down for 18 hours, so 23:00 BST

which will put it at 6pm Eastern Time to 3pm Pacific Time and seeing as the US is normally the largest market for games it make a lot of sense

[rox0r]

UPDATE: It's now live

[Pob255]

New client is up
http://game.worldoftanks.eu/update

you don't have to redownload just install the new client over the old one

[Pob255]

Time to use my per-order pack code


edit:

Attention!

Too many wrong code entries, try again in 10 min

:/ but I've not tried to input any codes yet . . .
I'm guessing it's a measure to stop everyone trying at the exact same time and overload the servers

ps all beta people who joined earlier during the closed beta phase,

CBT participants registered prior to 27 January 2011 00:00:00 UTC with 1.000 or more battles played according to profile statistics are to be rewarded with M4A2E4 gift tank (extra slot included).

starting to wish I'd found this game earlier now.

[MadduckUK]

Time to use my per-order pack code


edit: :/ but I've not tried to input any codes yet . . .
I'm guessing it's a measure to stop everyone trying at the exact same time and overload the servers

ps all beta people who joined earlier during the closed beta phase,
starting to wish I'd found this game earlier now.

bah, ah well they deserve it i guess

[rox0r]

Codes are working fine now, got my medium premium but not bothered with it as yet. Nearly at Tier IV now where Hetzer hell starts, oh what's that I can't actually damage anything in this match you say? Deep joy.

[Georgy291]

bollox, going from my collection of su-26, su-18 and T-46 an KV

back to loltracktors that can barely penetrate another loltracktor is gay

[Pob255]

Stick with the starting gun on the loltracktor, load with HE the rappid fire guns are just rubbish
It is the worst of the tier1 tanks for it's gun, the russian MS1 is the best with it's 45mm
Missing is more likely at tier1

But I've got past all 3 of them now.

Must say I'm not that impressed with the A-32 it's supper fast, dies easy.
The gun is Ok but the rate of fire really lets it down, any more than one enemy and your toast.

Had the most ballanced game ever
Both sides had two Panzer V/IV, two A-32 and the rest where M4A2E4
yep exactly the same tanks on each team.

[rox0r]

Came up against a whole bunch of M4A2E4 in my little Marder II last night, I must say they're fairly sturdy and take a right kicking to knock out.

[Allen]

Must say I'm not that impressed with the A-32 it's supper fast, dies easy.
The gun is Ok but the rate of fire really lets it down, any more than one enemy and your toast.

That's strange, I'm enjoying mine... when it's matched against lower tier tanks that is.

If it's matched against higher tiers, then you might as well sit at the back and do nothing for the match, but against lower tiers it's pretty solid with 360hp, 70kph speed and a pretty powerful gun.

It's also showing up in game as a medium when it's a light. Probably just a bug though.

[Pob255]

It probably is decent against other tier 4 tanks, but 1 vs 2 against M4A2E4 and you die or 1 vs 1 against the US heavy pre-order tank (I cannot remember the name) and you die.

I'm guessing that it's going to suffer in the same way the A-20 does in that most of your matches will be against higher tier tanks when you can do little more than spot, but there was no higher tier artillery last night.