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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:24 pm
by GORDON
Anyone ever play this? I have seen it talked up in PC Gamer for several months, and I got some free in-game currency when I bought my recent video card, so I am downloading it to see what the fuck.
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:00 pm
by GORDON
Ok.
worldoftanks.com
1. It's free to play.
2. It online multiplayer.
3. Quick matches, less than 10 minutes each. Usually 6ish. This keeps games from dragging.
4. You start out with 4 primitive, newbie tanks, one from USA, Germany, Soviet Union, and France.
5. As you play you earn experience points and shit, and you cash these in for upgrades and more research. The more you research, the better equipment and tanks you can buy.
6. The way this game makes money is buying "gold" online which is a shortcut to getting research points/items.
7. Gameplay is red v blue, random teams, on many maps. After 30 games I just now saw a brand new one. You win by killing all enemy tanks, or "capturing their flag" by having at least one of your tanks within 100 feet of their flag pole.
8. Besides tanks there are very weak "Tank Killing" artillery with which you can lob shells from far away, but typically these things take one hit to kill. Newbie tanks take 2-3 hits to kill, heavy 3-5, etc.
9. Damage from hits is often localized, and your crewman can be wounded. For example, you might lose a track and be immobilized for a few moments while your crew fixes it, or your gunner might sustain a wound and "barely be able to aim." Just as tank parts can be upgraded, crew members become veterans over time and become better at what they do.
+++++
Have played a few hours of this game, and I still am lost with most of it because I have never stopped to read the Tankipedia.
I suspect this might be a good team strategy game, it is more like Counterstrike than Team Fortress. Once your tank is dead you are out and spectating the rest of the game.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:59 pm
by Leisher
Hacked.
If you have an account, change your password.
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:01 pm
by Leisher
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WoT is celebrating their 100,000,000th registered user.
Yeah...
When they celebrated their 60,000,000th it was revealed their high concurrent users was about 600k.
I think that number is impressive enough, do they really need to promote the clearly bullshit one?
World of Tanks
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:23 pm
by GORDON
Got an email today, someone was trying to change the pword of my wargaming.net account. I couldn't even remember what that was so I ignored it. Email said "If it wasn't you then just ignore this email." K.
10 hours later I hit it to refresh my memory, and oh yeah, World of Tanks.
I changed my email myself, and glanced at the WoT page to see if it would remind me of any extras I had back in the day.
Then I saw if you link your military veteran id.me account, you'll get even more extras. So fuck it, I did. And apparently, I got a couple new tanks and in-game decals and stuff. But I'll probably never install the game again so it's fine.
Finally, 4 years in the Marines paid off big time.