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3 minutes ago, Haswell said:

You mean like this?

Whoever is left spotting the target, as long as the target is being spotted only by them, gets credit for assist damage.

Thanks, looks like valid tactics to boost own XP/credit gain.

(In that pic "You" should doze some smoke in LoS between target and "Ally")

As opponent the infantry is ok. As player s minion - free damage, no skill. Biggest joke in pve is that most DPM machines like T-15 get infantry to boost them damage score even more.

On 4/29/2020 at 4:57 AM, Baron_Georg said:

@Travlla

so how do you play a support tank like say a tier 9 leo in that situation? (the first post Sat 2:35)  as a support MBT I find that I'm getting out ranged in vision by the bots and can easily loose 2/3 of hp without seeing what shot me from where.

 

Guess not play some range-impared  commander like Phillipp, Rachel, Freya or Viktor. Use commander with range - either Miramon or Sanna. Invest into full view range retros. Specifically to this map, say to fuck off to bush lover teammates sitting on hill and approach the city center from south. 

On 4/28/2020 at 9:09 PM, Baron_Georg said:

@-anybody else commenting--   how do you justify running PT when you only play 2 to 4 hours total a day.  should I just run PT on the day I get it from the log in bonus or the day after.

Possible way to spend one day prem is to play it in two time windows in two days. This gives +100% efficiency. Example - activate prem 08 PM , play your usual x hours, next day play before (08 - x) PM, enough to enjoy prem acc bonuses for two days.

Wait till you get cornered with need to a use 2 platinum boosts to level up your commander fast enough (and you need pay precious gold to activate second boost). Cheapest way would be activation of boost (and prem) in way they work on two days cycle.

If only you rely on free premium - maximize efficiency and stack it with everything (2 boosts and insignia). I also suggest observe periodic bonuses to things such as xp and credit boosts. It means not every weekend you should play with free prem.

What happens with assist damage when smoke screen is placed between you and friendlies who spotted target as first, does it redirect income of spotting assist damage? I didn't have much opportunity to make a real test with this in training room.

To accomplish this, a tanker needs to direct smoke backward direction and it is not works well with tanks with radial smoke screen (CATTB, Revo, Falcon and few others)

3 hours ago, Baron_Georg said:

14 total games played, two losses, tier 9 leo, 149 K cash made.  payouts as follows (sorry I didn't record the mission) --  36, 77, 58, 84, 76, 35, 108, 33, 91, 83, 146, 94, 99, 41K  total 149.  in most matches I was lowest man in damage in a platoon with my battalion mates.  

 

The game makes distinction to what tier/class you deal damage. Higher tier MBT paid better vs same/lower tier AFV.  

Non-free consumables or kits, respawns are now major contributor to reduce income (when play without prem), even in the case of "team" victory, their usage can drop player profit almost to zero. 

In general, i suggest study of results present in last page of mission report and what happens with them, where multiple elements of gameplay results listed - mission and secondary completion tasks, damage dealt (splitted to tier categories), damage assist, mission base multuplier, and like i wrote above, consumables make final cut from payout.

On 4/5/2020 at 7:19 AM, Haswell said:

PvE definitely favors sustained DPM over burst,

When bots are coming in waves, they are fairly well "consumed" by real burst type of tanks provided that delay between waves (or spawns) is enough to full reload.  The reload management (or "bot spawn and accounting") then is key to get best performance. 

On 3/11/2020 at 6:13 PM, Haswell said:

• Player A on MBT spots a target. Nothing else happens. Player A on MBT gets credit.
• Player A on MBT spots a target. Player B on WILK with PELE immobilizes the same target. Player B on WILK with PELE gets credit. Player A on MBT gets nothing.
• Player A (1st line) on MBT spots a target. Player B (2nd line) on WILK with PELE immobilizes the same target. Player C (3rd line) on SPHINX designates the same static target. Player C on SPHINX gets credit. Players A on MBT and B on WILK gets nothing.

 

(fixed) - illustrated with in-game example

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Tiers 6 and 10 for PvE because they're top tier in their matchmaker brackets.

Tiers 8 and 10 for SpecOps for the same reason.

@knutliott Yeah, same.

And these tiers offer most efficient pve vehicles, like t-15, Marder, K21, Termi and Magach 6. 

On 4/10/2020 at 12:49 PM, Haswell said:

In short, I'm going to torture myself in the name of bad science. So here I go... Please welcome dima99ru, who will masquerade as a Russian pubbie.

Sheeeeeet, just realized you picked number plate series reserved for state service cars and employees and it is in Moscow region. Rest of Russia must love them.

The numbers you often see on Russian nicknames not represent age or year of birth, but region. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Russia

Speaking of pve, there were better and are premium mbt than 99A2-140 even before this nerf. Even if consider accurate shooting with HEAT and Cortez commander for higher rolls as his only strong side now, it less comfortable in any combat due terrible gun depression and its ammorack can be hit with little side exposure.

On 4/10/2020 at 12:49 PM, Haswell said:

• no premium time
• no insignias
• no boosters
• no opening boxes (including contract stuff)
• no daily login rewards
• no premium vehicles
• no gold usage
• no freebies from the store

Here it goes... questions, comments and advice are welcomed!

They (masters of game) changed the economy the way when a prem tank and prem acc each give you +100% to credit earnings, so any other configurations lag in terms of earnings. So my advice - not pursuing or refusing the usage of free premium day from my.games (my.com) is bad idea. Non-stacking of available boosts / insignias with enabled prem account mode once a week is bad idea. There is one 1-day rented premium vehicle from so called weekly "training" reward chest. Challenging for new player, but possible. Non-stacking its use with activated free prem acc is undesirable.

Correct progression plan im my opinion should focus on unlocking Miramon commander and v2 of two optics. Better visual range is free profit (as usual).

Payout for some missions makes it simply not worth to play - due either to highly pre-programmed probable failure, or because mission payment variables are set low. That is the knowledge new player may not have, but he/she should start pay attention too. Also, for pve - when possible and safe for sake of main mission, clear secondaries. 

Two mates did really well and I also completed one weekly contract mission

Hello there. I started playing AW during close beta in 2015 (platinum founder). I skipped entire 2016 though and came back to the game in 2017 few months just before famous "balance 2.0".