Katsumoto

What this could be directed at is a player that has the BC's building up but nothing to spend it on. At the surface yeah its a bad deal, however if they crank out that many BC's because it is something they want because they don't have the gold then the BC's start to look like a really good deal.

You know you are talking about the same developers that can't get patch notes out before a release right?

There are some things in the first mission that need to be fixed. Comments about the ease of the mission due to the tiers have already been noted There is a lack of clarity about what the caps in the beginning of the match are about. I didn't know what it was until Haswell's post. The flow of the entire mission is hectic and the flow of it from start to finish shows You have a medium size area that everyone stumbles over each other trying to get through to funnel into a small corridor that looks like its 2 wide but reality only fits 1 wide to advance forward due to the amount of "debris" present. Much like having to go through a turn stile This was an okay-ish mission, but not one that I would want to deal with having to stumble my way through for the however many times to get all the missions related to it completed.

Did they put the patch out yet? I'm getting a game client versus server client different and there is no download option.

Let's look at it from another stand point: You have a new player that is dealing with trying to grind out a vehicle that sucks. They are just 1 win away from having the XP needed to upgrade something or get out of it completely. Then insert into that last match someone with this mentality. About a third of the time with a new player and someone with this mentality in a match yeah you get by but its rough. Add in one of those horrible maps and another player and it turns into a loss. A loss results in hardly enough XP for them to advance. So now you have a new player that didn't get the XP needed and has to do that "one last match" all over again. That closed minded mentality of "good enough is good enough" can have a trickle affect. Now that new player is hating life a hair bit more because maybe they don't have time, and then and then and then. Sometimes it might be good for you but what about the others around you? How far does this attitude carry down the line with other people and impact them? I have intentionally tanked matches before to get even with someone for being "unsportsmanlike". How did I do it? Just like Haswell suggested.

So what you are saying is that for those of us that want to do well, be team players and strive to be better/improve over the last match or just overall, you are exerting the minimal amount of effort to support yourself at the expense of us?? I understand things like the phone rings and it is the significant other. I understand things like "OMG! My kids just did something stupid gotta go!". I understand that every now and then I have to pick up my pace when others are having bad nights, and likewise others have to pick up my slack when I am having one. Life happens. What you are suggesting is so fundamentally wrong at the core of it that it is hard to fathom that someone would suggest doing this, much less actually doing it. If you are suffering from burn out like I have with AW, find something else other than AW. Burnout right now in this screwed up world is not healthy.

Sounds like a remnant from the beginnings of AW where in the garage you could have 100% GPU usage and a very low CPU utilization then when you go into battle things got back to a sane level of usage for your setup. There are still some times the fans on my video card in the garage will spool up and then cycle back down for some strange reason.

Don't get me wrong, there is a huge appeal to a crock pot because of that very thing you mentioned. But when you're craving something like a pot roast or pulled pork/chicken and its something that you have to have that moment is where the InstantPot works miracles. What I've seen is that it is on par with a crock pot as far as flavor goes. There are things it can't do sometimes that a good 12 hour simmer in a crock pot does well. The biggest issue I have is living alone so when I cook either I have to make something that lasts for a week or I do a small batch of something to last me a few days. Today after work I'm getting about 3 pounds of chicken and some BBQ sauce to do pulled chicken in the InstantPot. Cut it up into small quarter pound chunks and braze them in a cast iron with olive oil and garlic, then drop them in the pot for about 20 minutes with about a cup of sauce and a 1/4 to 1/2 cup of water. OR the alternate is about a cup of chicken broth and you mix in the sauce afterwards in a container of your choosing. Serve up on a nice sesame bun with some slaw.

I have an old crock pot that I use sometimes because it's nice to throw it on before work and come home to a nice stew or chili. Then I discovered an InstantPot and all that crock pot does now is collect dust.

Going through some of this, I just keep in that December 10th, the new DLC for MW5 comes out. I know where I'll be at on December 11th. Now there is a new battle path with "MOAR DAKKA DAKKA". A Shilka (to be honest I'm surprised that it wasn't one of the first tanks ever added to the game), a modified BMP-3 (now with MORE MISSILES!), a mini-me version of the T-15, and then something else with a 152mm in the form a huge Russian MBT? Something I enjoyed getting 033'd from the previous battle path makes it really hard to want to be excited about this new battle path.

When you get stuff like this, it makes it hard to not want to call them what they are:

I have never understood why an as-designed IFV is classed as a TD in Armored Warfare.

It's like the Comic Sans font....just because you can doesn't mean you should.

So, back to one of my questions that everyone kept dancing around: When will the developers put up the changes on the PTS for us to test before they put it on the live server? An edit: From the 0.33.7403 patch notes: Also, why did they change the fonts on the AW page? They are shadowed and it is hard to read.

Did the event get extended?

The K1A1 getting a nerf to the upper plate is not fair at all. The tank went from workable armor in 0.32 to it feeling like a down grade in 0.33. Now its getting a reduction again? Thanks.

I have no idea. That would be a @Silentstalkertype of question to answer.

In all fairness, what happens when infantry die in a match? This wasn't to negate your point which is valid because having a dead body hanging out of the commander hatch is pretty tacky.

...yeah, I poke at patches and releases, but to be fair the devs haven't quite had a stellar track record have they?

Then it will be messed up when it gets rolled out.

I want to see what this messes up. Will it be tested on PTS?

Yeah, the missile spam from MBT's is getting annoying. Watching someone get chipped away by a Merk 4M or a Type 99 is kind of a kill joy to watch much less have it happen to you.

I had to go break out the TurdDeuce since it has been so long since I played it. Remember that the T2 has a 120mm gun and the QZT has a 105mm. The T2 does one thing good and that is deliver damage but it will not take it even with those ERA blocks all over the front and turret. it has been and always will be the original glass cannon in AW. The VT-5 and the TZQ do something that the Deuce can't and that is give assurance that everything will be okay. You can dive into something and come out the other side at least understanding what happened. Facing a Bradley or T-15 blob the QTZ will come out of it better than the Turd. The HEAT round is for both of them reliable. They hit something other than ERA and you get good damage. The HEAT round for the T2 was "THE" round that everyone wanted HEAT to be based off of when the T2 came out and it still has the ability to give that warm fuzzy feeling that you get when you use it. Getting a high roll against something in the ZQT is nice when you break put it to use but its like most of the other HEAT rounds: nothing to write home about. All it means is that you have to use 1 less round to get a target down.

Add in that there is no APS to be seen and no ERA means that there is no chip damage, it's either all or nothing for damage from ATGM. If you are looking for a tier 8 that is readily available as of right now as I'm typing. For an MBT, the Revo is nice. Yeah, post 0.33 it is picky about certain things but it is consistant and would be a solid go to in my book for a premium MBT. AFV's, you have the Marauder and the BMPT. The former you can get from the store, the latter you have to get on sale... For a light tank, the ASCOD is okay, but you have to pick and choose. If you are willing to open up the envelope a bit and want to get other than a tier 8, then the options open up quite a bit.