Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Yes you can run platoons max 3 to a platoon and i think the french are getting a 360 release next though i could be wrong of course

Ya, you can run platoons on 360. I thought it was Soviets next for 360 but any new faction would be good.


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 Hivefleet Oblivion wrote:
Still waiting for Russians on the Xbox.

Am I right in thinking you can't run platoons on the 360?

Whether I enjoy a match depends on random team mates. Today we had a tag with my AT 2 and a Panzer 3... he spotted a churchill 7, pulled back, I took off all the CHurchill's health as he was trying to circle me, big holes in his rear panniers, then as he got near I couldn't quite turn fast enough. Panzer 3 got his rear and finished him off. I like how you have to communicate using 7 or 8 words in total.

I'm running Churchill 7, AT2, Stug, VK36, occasionaly Panzer III. I love the AT2 for how you can sometimes control a game, always great to get the Kolabonov, and last night I got the one named after the French dude whoever he is...

Those friggin AT2s are indestructable. They simply don't care about going up against a heavy.

I've got a Churchill and It's my first heavy. I like it but it's got completely exposed tracks and everytime it gets shot it get tracked.

Poked around the internet for a bit and your right it is the russians next. Not sure where i got the idea of it being france from

At2 can suffer against people who get up close and know where to hit you.

Am I right in thinking you can't run platoons on the 360?

Yes, but only platoons of up to 3 people. It definitely makes it more fun than no platoons at all, but it is a problem when it comes to having enough competent team mates at times to really enjoy the game.

I regularly play with a friend or two and all of us are quite good at the game, frequently finding ourselves near or at the top of the performance card for damage caused to enemy vehicles and improving the overall win percentage for all of us. However, it's sometimes just not enough to overcome the preponderance of terrible team mates with which we're often saddled since they still take up 12 or 13 slots alongside our platoon. It would be great if platoons allowed for at least 5 or more friends to enter battle together.

You'd think that the ability to platoon up would make the game markedly better but even the possibility of getting matched in with 3 morons running together (instead of them individually) can be devastating to your team. Platooning also gives you the idiotic chance of a Tier 1 or 2 in a Tier 7-10 match because the new guy is leeching off of his friends instead of those friends instead getting a low tier tank and running at his tier. It screws over the entire team when you run into people like that.

 warboss wrote:
You'd think that the ability to platoon up would make the game markedly better but even the possibility of getting matched in with 3 morons running together (instead of them individually) can be devastating to your team. Platooning also gives you the idiotic chance of a Tier 1 or 2 in a Tier 7-10 match because the new guy is leeching off of his friends instead of those friends instead getting a low tier tank and running at his tier. It screws over the entire team when you run into people like that.

I have seen that, but I've also seen the game just stick a randomly really low tier tank in a much higher tier game because I've had it happen to me on occasion.

You do have a point though. My ability to build a platoon of good players can be offset in some games by people building platoons of really bad ones that are then placed on my team. What a bummer.

One other issue in the game is "trolls", people who enter a game without any intention of actually playing it, but who instead are there just to annoy, bother, interfere with or even kill their own team mates. Fortunately this is not a major problem in most matches, but if I play for a few hours it's bound to happen on my team at least once during that time. Here's a list of some of the common "trolling" behaviors I've seen:

- Deliberate killing of team mates. Team members only take splash damage from each other, but it still does enough damage to be a problem. Artillery does a ton of splash damage which makes it especially dangerous to team mates.
- People pushing their mates out of cover to get them spotted and killed. This is especially a problem when defending on the hill in Assault scenarios on Malinovka. I always look behind me at the start of every match in that situation to avoid this problem.
- Team mates shoving or deliberately blocking and impeding the progress of team mates in general.
- Players who deliberately do nothing. I've seen people just driving their vehicles in circles and engaging in other inane behavior without making any attempt to actually assist in destroying enemy vehicles or capturing a base.

Still, overall I find World of Tanks on Xbox 360 very fun and addictive. Most of the time it's exciting and entertaining. I have learned to take breaks when it starts to go bad at times on tier matching or when I get a spate of bad teams. Sometimes it's best to quit and come back to it at a later time.

Trolls are definitely an issue but I encounter utter stupidity alot more. Yesterday, for instance, 3 of us were in the small valley to the left of the Lakeside map we were facing two enemy tanks.. one of which was over the top and shooting me (and I was of course tier 7 in a 7-9 game). You would think that by me signaling to focus fire on the only guy threatening a team member that the rest would focus fire on a single tank... but that wasn't the case. Even though that one tank was plainly visible to all 3 of us (with the two others on my team being T8-9 heavy and TD), one guy decided to wait for a better shot so as not to get spotted himself and the other fired uselessly (doing no damage) on the sliver of a turret of the guy behind the hill instead of the guy on the top. Needless to say, his E-75 killed my T-29 and then he turned his attention on the two idiots.

I play light tanks alot and the same thing happens there. I usually score the top score (total score, not damage) by surviving and scouting the whole game and not by idiotic suicide runs in the first minute. When I scout out in the middle of the valley of the new desert map and light up 3-4 of the enemy team, you would think they'd be thankful enough for that to actually cover me... but they tend not to be. Instead, they focus on guys on the hills and COMPLETELY ignore the one guy in the quick medium tank that inevitably drops down into the valley to go spot me in return. They get the one kill between the 3-4 of them that I'm spotting for and then lose the person that was giving them the spots in the first place. I really try to be a helpful and annoying (to the enemy) light tank and I don't think it is too much to ask that people prioritize my safety when their own WAY WAY back in the starting area isn't at risk in any way. If you have 3 enemy tanks in front of you and two are no immediate thread but one is a threat to a teammate, why wouldn't you target that last one? Obviously if one is a t-95 or somesuch and you can't penetrate it that is a different case but it makes no sense when you can damage all three but choose not to take on the guy about to kill a teammate.

I agree that the game is addicitive but the Call of Duty MLG sniper 1337 pro attitude some players bring to a decidedly team game helps me occasionally kick the habit for the rest of the evening. :(

 warboss wrote:
You'd think that the ability to platoon up would make the game markedly better but even the possibility of getting matched in with 3 morons running together (instead of them individually) can be devastating to your team. Platooning also gives you the idiotic chance of a Tier 1 or 2 in a Tier 7-10 match because the new guy is leeching off of his friends instead of those friends instead getting a low tier tank and running at his tier. It screws over the entire team when you run into people like that.

Ya that was me. I was a Tier II getting pulled into Tier VI games.....sorry, everyone.

Trolls are definitely an issue but I encounter utter stupidity alot more.

Most definitely. Yesterday I had a game where my team went 3-15, luckily immediately followed by a game where my team went 15-3.

I get far too many games where team mates simply cannot figure out how to damage an enemy tank or they throw their tank away pointlessly instead of using tactics to get into situations where they can damage the enemy and contribute to a win. I've seen team mates throw a game away by leaving a mostly captured flag to go fruitlessly look for one more cheap kill that they can't possibly get. I could go on and on... :(

Of course, I also benefit from that kind of stupidity when it's on the other team. The other day I had a Stug charge into my Sherman Jumbo, making it much, much easier for me to kill him. I have dumb opponents do stuff like that all the time. I always want to thank them for the free and easy kill!

I've been playing the 7 day trial. It is quite enjoyable but I can't figure out how to delete tanks so I can buy the next teir up (I've filled my slots).

Considering buying Live Gold again to play this, but don't really want to have to spend money on in-game coins to unlock slots. Not a fan of microtransactions at all.

 SilverMK2 wrote:
I've been playing the 7 day trial. It is quite enjoyable but I can't figure out how to delete tanks so I can buy the next teir up (I've filled my slots).

Considering buying Live Gold again to play this, but don't really want to have to spend money on in-game coins to unlock slots. Not a fan of microtransactions at all.

Just click the upgrade button and at the bottom is "sell. "

If you go to the tank you want to "delete", click "X" and then go to "sell". You get rid of it from the garage and get most (but not all) the silver you spent on it and upgrades. The XP (gold stars next to the tank tier) stays with it though. You can always rebuy the tank with silver and that XP is still there.

Cheers guys - thought I had gone through all the possible places where the sell button might be but I must have missed it

Garage space is a problem and at some point we've all probably sold a tank to make room for a new one. I bought one of the more economical starter packages to get 4 more garage spaces and bought two more after that with the surplus bit of gold I had after buying the package.

There are a whole bunch of new bundles available for anyone who may be interested. Go to this link for details:

http://worldoftanksxbox360edition.com/en/news/specials/april-monthly-bundles/

Tankers!

Interested in expanding your garage and collection of Premium vehicles? Check out these great bundles we're offering this month! You can fill up your garage with slots for those new tanks you're unlocking, get a full-year of Premium, and some impressive Premium vehicles to boost your credit earnings. We've got everything you need to keep you unlocking new and dangerous tanks!

Early April Bundles End: Sunday, April 20, 23:59 PDT (April 21, 02:59 EDT / 06:59 UTC)

Month-long Bundles End: Wednesday, April 30, 23:59 PDT (May 1, 02:59 EDT / 06:59 UTC)

I didn't have the best of luck with the Hetzer at first but now that it's fully upgraded: holy crap. Might as well be shooting a laser cannon. Hetzer gonna Hetz.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Those friggin AT2s are indestructable. They simply don't care about going up against a heavy.

Track them and get around their sides and rear and they are easy kills. If you have to fight them from the front aim at the commanders cupola or the gun mounting (not the mantlet, the area directly surrounding the gun), it 'only' has 100mm of armour there so most tier Vs and some IVs can get a least some pens there.

I have decided to finally get myself a Tiger, its not exactly the most impressive stock tank ....

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
I didn't have the best of luck with the Hetzer at first but now that it's fully upgraded: holy crap. Might as well be shooting a laser cannon. Hetzer gonna Hetz.

It definitely gets better but that laser still blinds you with that 200 some odd spotting. German view range is subpar at low to medium tiers but the hetzer needs some cataract surgery stat!

Since I've been playing lights mostly, I decided to try the brit line and I'm impressed. The tier 2 and 5 lights are quite good light tanks (ok spotters but great flankers). The crusader fully upgraded has a good gun for a light and does NOT get the ultra crappy scout matchmaking. Its bigger and slower than the Luchs and Stuart but is low profile and turns well.

Just wait until you get the Cromwell...

Just checked it out on the wiki as it isn't in the xbox version... yup, sounds like I'd enjoy it. I'm actually looking for a T6 maneuverable tank as the Jackson and M6 are too slow. The hellcat looks nice and the firefly sherman would be great as well.

Anyone else completely sick of the VK36? Never made it to the end of a game yet... enjoyed every other tank I've run 'cos each has their strengths. This doesn't seem to have any.. (Still on stock gun etc).

So what is it good for?

Re AT2, yes, keep shooting at the cupola. It will take a huge amount of punishment anywhere but there, and its gun is lousy (tho I loved it, it was a great tank).

 Hivefleet Oblivion wrote:

So what is it good for?

Sidescraping. I love my VK, its my second favourite T6 heavy after the KV-2.

I doesn't have a good selection of weapons, even the 88 isn't all that good, but it is well armoured and if you angle it properly you can tank anyone that you are likely to face. I have faced down tier 8 tank destroyers in mine before now. Its a decent all round tank but if you get yourself in some hard cover with good lines of fire you will do some good.

News from World Of Tanks Xbox 360 of Facebook:

World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition
39 mins ·

***Name Your Crew Contest***

Submit the ultimate crew name for a chance to win Gold!

Deadline: Friday April 11th
Leave in-game name

https://www.facebook.com/WoTXbox

 Palindrome wrote:

 Hivefleet Oblivion wrote:

So what is it good for?

Sidescraping. I love my VK, its my second favourite T6 heavy after the KV-2.

I doesn't have a good selection of weapons, even the 88 isn't all that good, but it is well armoured and if you angle it properly you can tank anyone that you are likely to face. I have faced down tier 8 tank destroyers in mine before now. Its a decent all round tank but if you get yourself in some hard cover with good lines of fire you will do some good.

Now I'm on the long 75mm, it's transformed. Thanks for helping me stick with it.

Love the quote, and the look of the beast but. my, these are underwhelming tanks. THey mostly sit there like beached whales until killed - both my side and the oppos. We lost a game tonight, I went to the base and took it, wiped out Pz IV and two arties, sat on the base while the TOG just sat there. Did the same after I got blown up. Was the last one standing, sitting there like a bump on a log. Did nothing....

Getting gipped on this War acheivement. It won't pop even though my stats say I have destroyed over 500 vehicles. Anyone else have this problem ?

Did the same after I got blown up. Was the last one standing, sitting there like a bump on a log. Did nothing....

That has nothing to do with the TOG II. I see that problem all the time. It has to do with people either getting disconnected from the server or being away from controller or leaving the game early. That's why you'll sometimes see tanks sitting there in the starting spawn area not doing anything or even sitting other places occasionally on the battlefield not doing anything at all.

I played a game the other day where there were not one, but two "unoccupied" tanks at the enemy base. Needless to say, those were easy kills and a severe disadvantage for the their team which was down two players the entire game.

As for the TOG II, there's a lot of interesting info on that premium tank from the game makers here:
http://worldoftanksxbox360edition.com/en/news/Guides/get-to-know-the-tog-ii/

Just got my Pz IV - excited!

Got into 6 games in a row with my mate last night, without being platooned. That was entertaining.

 BrassScorpion wrote:

I played a game the other day where there were not one, but two "unoccupied" tanks at the enemy base. Needless to say, those were easy kills and a severe disadvantage for the their team which was down two players the entire game.

On the PC 'AFK' tanks have their barrels pointing to the floor. Some people do seem to like camping their own spawn point for some reason so its possible for active. albeit not very good, players to be in their own spawn for most of the game.

When a tank is totally inactive, never moving it's tracks or turret or firing a single shot, I'm pretty sure the player is AFC (away from controller) or has been disconnected.

Unfortunately, server disconnections do happen and I've had it happen to me and to friends during games. Sometimes people never load into the game properly and you'll see those as grey symbols rather than green or red at the top of the battle screen. More annoying are the people who load into a game and simply don't play, severely hampering your team's chances for a win in a close game.

I definitely see totally inactive tanks in some games. Again, as described in a previous comment here I killed two of them in one game the other day which was really good for me and my team and really bad for the opposing team which got completely destroyed. They certainly might have done at least a bit better if they didn't have two AFC players on their team. It's especially problematic when the AFC players have the most powerful highest tier tanks on a team.

On another topic, tier matching has gotten to be quite problematic on some evenings. Recently I've had more than one game where it shoved five or less tanks of one tier into a game where all of the other tanks in the lobby were a tier or two higher. This puts you in a situation where you have little to no influence on the outcome of the game as you really can't go out and do much useful or effective battle at all in those situations. It's frustrating and a complete waste of time to be in games like that, leaving you totally dependent on your team mates for the win or loss.

Good and bad team mates are also an issue and it seems to run in spates. Some evenings even with my usual talented platoon we simply cannot seem to get a winning team, the game always giving us the weaker team mates. My win percentage really suffers on evenings like that. I've learned to take breaks and come back another day when it gets like that before my stats suffer too much.

I once lucked out on the issue of a player being AFC. Everyone on the team but two guys were dead and one of the two remaining players was clearly AFC, his tank having been abandoned mid-battle and not responding at all. His tank was absolutely essential for a win against the remaining enemy vehicle as the other vehicle was too small and too badly damaged to win a one-on-one fight. Fortunately, the AFC guy decided to come back to his tank just in time to win the game. That's rare though, usually when I see a tank abandoned either at the start or during a battle the player never comes back and the inactive tank provides an easy kill to some enemy player.