WoT Live?

[Gargamel]

So I read that WoT is going live in a few weeks, 11 April if I'm not mistaken.

But I'm not even sure what that means. Is this going to be a subscription based game? Or a 'after market' add-on type deal (free to play, but the really nice rewards are cash based).

And yes I know it's not a good sim, as the physics and controls are very arcadish, but I've really been having fun with it (got 3 tier 3 tanks in a few days).

[tigershuffle]

Hi,
the game is going to be Free 2 Play.
The beta settings on your account will be wiped
Everyone will start at 0 with just 3 tier 1 tanks.

However, the you can buy Gold (Premium Account) through micro transactions.
Last time I looked there was no fixed price, but I think something like 2500 gold for $10/10Euros was mooted

heres a link to the preorder thread http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index....s/page__st__40

and interesting poster (may be out of date) http://downloads.worldoftanks.ru/wot.../preorders.jpg

[Gargamel]

OK good. And the wipe will be a good thing for me I think, as I didnt really understand the tech trees and whatnot at first, and wasted a lot of points.

[Sledgehammer427]

I'm going to miss my Jagdpanzer 4.

i just got it

[Gargamel]

Are we putting together a clan? I'd really like to get some coordinated manuevers going on. Like a scout that doesn't suicide so my artillery can hit some targets, and a couple tanks w/ a TD setting up some ambushes...

[Sledgehammer427]

SgtPotato and I played a few matches the other day, and while we weren't very coordinated (I was playing in a stug and he was in a easy8 sherman most of the time, it was fun and I gained enough EXP to get myself the JgdPz IV!)

I'd like to start a clan, pre-wipe is fine, and post wipe once the game goes live, I'll have to see about hosting a clan, if I have to spend money opening a premium account to do so. chances are I'll be able to, but we'll see how it goes.

[SgtPotato]

I wouldn't mind to join the subsim clan for WoT.

[Freiwillige]

I never understood why people call groups in military simulations clan's. This isn't world of warcraft lol so why do we use their analogy's?

Wouldn't Squad or Platoon or Unit be better?

[SgtPotato]

"World of Tanks" does make sense because this game will have variety of WW2 era tanks around the world. As I recall, they will add french, british, and japanese tanks soon.

[Sledgehammer427]

Japanese tanks wil be fun to kill. IIRC they weren't very good at all DURING the war...and the post WWII time period we see some of the heavier tanks appearing, we kept them from making new ones...

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Freiwillige

I never understood why people call groups in military simulations clan's. This isn't world of warcraft lol so why do we use their analogy's?

WoW uses Guilds, not clans. So it's not their nomenclature.

Clan's have been around since the first days of online shooters. We had a clan in my dorm back when (actually before, one of my classmates hacked iD) Quake came out, back in '96.

I think it would be cool to have some organization in how the game operates. We won a match today because the other team got into a TK'ing pissing match. I also hate going around a side the requires support, only to see the entire rest of the team has gotten jammed up a in a choke point in a valley of death.

[Sledgehammer427]

agreed, Gargamel.

it seems that sometimes you find a good, tactically minded group and you end up totally beating everything, and sometimes you get a bunch of individualistic morons who jump ahead and die quickly.

[Gargamel]

I had to take one for the team tonight. Some idiot went around shooting us, so I had to TK him to get him to stop. Then he started yelling about how I TK'd him. everybody told him to shut up lol.


But since The wipe is coming soon, I've decided to stay around tier III tanks. I've discovered the M37 is a nice artillery piece, and the M2 with the 75mm Howitzer (thing looks like it's barrel broke off, or was just left at home) is great medium tank. I usually get 3-4 kills per game with that thing. Pretty maneuverable with a good punch.

I have learned though, that for tank destroyers, unless you have a huge gun, there's no real point to them. They just don't have the survivability or power at the lower tiers to do that great. I mean, I do like my Marder II, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to hang around at lower tiers with the TD's.

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[Capt. Shark Bait]

I wanna keep my PzKmpfw IV Tiger1 AusfE

as for the game itself, it needs some serious fixing and not worth getting a premiun acct. the devs, from what I can tell, have never communicated with it's beta tester base, of which I'm one. so, I have no idea if the devs are even aware of the concerns we have

[tvt_addict]

Wargaming.net have undoubtedly found a money maker. They have just earned themselves an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for 125000 players online at one time?

The game was closed beta, as many will know. This moved to open beta.

It goes live on 12 April.
At this point everything except your name will be deleted from the system.
Everyone has to start again, and that may mean a long hard slog.

Boxed sets can be bought. You are effectively paying in advance for a bulk amount of gold, and depending on how much gold you buy, you get a free light, medium or heavy tank. Top prices are not cheap, and may well be beyond the reach of children and players in countries where this amount of money simply is not available.

After 12 April you can buy gold at around £10/$10/10 Euro's for about 2500 (If the rumours are true).

Closed Beta testers may get a free tank or three as a reward.
It appears that Open Beta testers may get nothing.

You can play the game for free, you do not need gold to play.

This being the case, my advice is to play the Russian starter tank, and stick to the Russian Tree if you want a Russian tank. Do not waste time/credits on playing random tanks as without gold you cannot convert your experience from them to research alternatives.

The trick to playing without gold is to research the minimum on each tank to get to the next, without buying it, and without leaving experience stuck in the tank. Remember, without gold you cannot use it on a later tank.

I welcome the hard wipe, as it will erase all of the lemming squad who wreck the game. I have played over 5000 battles, and reckon that out of those there have probably only ever been 20 occasions when a small group have read each others minds and known instinctively what to do. When that happens it is magical, and the effects are devastating for the enemy.

Sadly, a bunch of kids with 'big tanks' will rarely understand tank warfare?

Rob G