CRGKevin

Gathering resources in an RTS

FOR THE REPUBLIC!

Bow tanking while friendly bombers fly overhead.

You have lived a deprived life, amigo... Having lived in San Diego or Tucson all my life, tacos or ingredients to make them have been commonplace enough that they’re a staple food for me.

Nuclear bombs

Waiter: “Sorry, we ran out of yellow-eyed ones and the chef had to improvise.” Waiter, there’s a mountain goat in my soup.

The actual naval forces mode in War Thunder has been a massive disappointment, (love their air and ground modes though!) but Gaijin sure knows how to put together a good sound track!

Why did I not get the order to kill him before I returned his lightsaber?

Mexican glass bottle coke

A Rebel Mon Cal cruiser in battle over a planet.

It’s really nice on Hood. I can keep my guns on target even with my rudder hard over, so I can keep fighting even while constantly maneuvering! Which is good when I find I need to run away back to the rest of the team to replenish my HP...

As the proud owner of the Hood, I highly recommend her. Especially with her recent buffs, she’s very hard hitting against battleships and cruisers. (More so against battleships now since she gets a slightly longer AP fuse) Speed is Hood’s greatest asset, you’ve got the speed to keep up with cruisers, allowing you lots of freedom of movement, especially when you need to get out of Dodge fast if things start to go badly. Hood’s repair rate is also useful, so you can pull away from s difficult situation, repair your HP reserve, and get back in the fight ready for more. (Just note, her armor is a bit weak. She’s not a glass cannon by any means, but things can go from good to bad very quickly. That’s when it becomes time to kite away using your superior speed.) Overall, I’ve found Hood to be a superb ship, and is my favorite Tier VII battleship. (Need KGV though, and Gneisenau is a close second) Oh, and her defensive AA ability can be fun against carriers at times! I’ve had matches where I’ve brought down almost as many planes as the CV did! Which is especially fun if the CV skipper doesn’t realize what’s happening until a whole squadron disappears, and they try to focus you just as the ability recharged and activated again... Anyways, Hood is definitely worth getting.

Have you tried the WG GC beta instead? I managed a several hour run of gameplay without crashes even when playing my T VII ships. I even managed to bump up my settings past minimum with no crashes.

If your experience is the same as mine, you should be in luck. Even when my Colorado got uptiered to Tier IX, with carriers present, things ran fairly smoothly. There’s an FPS drop at times, but that’s still a vast improvement over the constant crashes and game penalties from before.

While I don’t have the smoothest gameplay experience possible, the WG GC fix and 64bit support seems to have done the job. I’ve run it for hours nonstop in PVP random battles, even with my highest tier (Tier VII) ships in play. Not once did it crash. We’ve waited far too long for this, but I am immensely pleased that it has finally come. While I didn’t think I’d ever be able to say this, bravo Wargaming, you did good this time. (Good lord am I rusty though. My first time bringing Hood out in PVP again was not pretty...)