Before I start on my rant, let me preempt the realism nazis by saying. Yes in WW2 tanks were crewed by a crew and it is Realism!!1 to have a crew here. But the belligerent powers in ww2 didnt just plop Boris or Dieter the slack jawed drunken peasant farmboy into a pair of uniform coveralls and say "congrats son your a tanker, go get em tiger." They gave them training first, erudition in basic tank tactics i.e. getting blowed up=bad.
On konigs platz the other night I hop in the t34, the commander hops into hull MG and we had a good guy as the gunner. the gunner hops out, gets killed after killing a faust ,and logs. meanwhile I drive over to the right of the monument. The gunner and me proceed to clear the next objectives and are keeping the tiger and enemy infantry away from the siegesaule. Suddenly we see a faust. the gunner hops out to kill the faust. I jump in the turret and suddenly the drivers seat lights up. The gunner pistols the faust and we drive off to his crys of"stop! come back!" Some fool has apparently run all the way across the map, and decided that if the tank is killing germans by the bucket where it is at now it will be killier if he parks it on the reichstags steps. I meanwhile am trying to unload the HE into a group of germans hiding next to the siegesaule wall and load AP to kill the tiger heading for us. While spamming vehicle command stop. No use he turns left as I fire and I take out a group of russians
in front of the siegesaule. Now I do not know why every guy who hops into your tank after its parked somewhere doing a nice job thinks the name of the game is Joust and the object is to stab the enemy tank with your gun barrel higher then his is, but that is precisely what this guy thinks. We ram the tiger, get blowed up, respawn and he goes back to charging the enemy tank with ours.
Now I have quite a few of these experiances and I think tanks should be left as they are at spawn. Its after the tank leaves spawn that you should have the ability to lock the hatchs or something. This will never be implemented in RO anyway of course.
Owing the other team in a Stug or SU is quite common for me to have someone who doesnt know basic tank usage, nor listens voice commands hop in and drive with out asking first, then getting us killed by not turning so I can shoot and shouting "shoot the tank n00b" is quite frustrating. On occasions when I spawn as a tanker and the tank doesnt pop back into spawn in the next 10 secs, I run out pick up a gun and start helping the team. On rare occasions I hop into an occupied tank, I either go mg, or if none I ask the tanker what the plan is. I do not decide to drive the tank at full speed across the map. Or empty the guns HE supply shooting at dead cows, clouds, and friendlys.
If you are no good at driving or shooting in tanks, pop a ritalin, and google tank tactics and read that a bit while at work or something before Starting RO jumping into peoples tanks without asking and proceeding to play mariokart with them. Learning something about tanks beats eating cheeseits and watching Lazytown.
The other night I got to see a hijacker get his just reward though. It was on wateverovko. I was tank commander we captured kolchaz and I went across the front lines to the railyard. I see a faust pop out of the ruined building taking aim at the other t-34 in front. I jump out and smg him just as he blows up the "friendly" Well good luck he hopped out to. I get back in my tank and drive over to pick him up. Another man helping cap the railyard could prove useful I think, he runs over hops in. I am typing "ok lets get railyard" when he starts spamming vehicle command "get out" So I say what do you mean get out? He replys "I have skills and need to have a tank for myself" I think well yes you had a tank for yourself but you got sploded and now you are in my tank. I told him I am not getting out. He replys "I am better then you, I need this tank" quick look at scoreboard shows my name at the top with a lot of points, he is near the bottom with 0. You had a tank, you lost your tank. Now you can run back to spawn and get a new one, or you can calm down act like an adult rather then a 14y/o with RO "achievements" and we can cap railyard. He shouts over chat"GET THE **** OUT OF MY TANK!!!" he then proceed to start shooting HE into the near walls damaging us. I drive back to spawn thinking fine he can have this old wreck,( I got fausted earlier but without any skills HEed the fauster. ) Meanwhile he is spamming get out and throwing a temper tantrum on how I am not letting him use HIS tank, if he used this tank we will win and the grateful nations of earth will pronounce him IRL emp0rer for life. Then Justice, the admin says "is there a problem here" Meanwhile a few others by now are telling the admin this guy is being a tool. I drive into spawn, we both hop out and sprint to the next tank, when suddenly he disapears, and the admin says I love a good banning in the evening.
Ok in conclusion dont jump in peoples tanks unless you know what you are doing or are willing to learn and are not a tool. Good day.
On konigs platz the other night I hop in the t34, the commander hops into hull MG and we had a good guy as the gunner. the gunner hops out, gets killed after killing a faust ,and logs. meanwhile I drive over to the right of the monument. The gunner and me proceed to clear the next objectives and are keeping the tiger and enemy infantry away from the siegesaule. Suddenly we see a faust. the gunner hops out to kill the faust. I jump in the turret and suddenly the drivers seat lights up. The gunner pistols the faust and we drive off to his crys of"stop! come back!" Some fool has apparently run all the way across the map, and decided that if the tank is killing germans by the bucket where it is at now it will be killier if he parks it on the reichstags steps. I meanwhile am trying to unload the HE into a group of germans hiding next to the siegesaule wall and load AP to kill the tiger heading for us. While spamming vehicle command stop. No use he turns left as I fire and I take out a group of russians
in front of the siegesaule. Now I do not know why every guy who hops into your tank after its parked somewhere doing a nice job thinks the name of the game is Joust and the object is to stab the enemy tank with your gun barrel higher then his is, but that is precisely what this guy thinks. We ram the tiger, get blowed up, respawn and he goes back to charging the enemy tank with ours. Now I have quite a few of these experiances and I think tanks should be left as they are at spawn. Its after the tank leaves spawn that you should have the ability to lock the hatchs or something. This will never be implemented in RO anyway of course.
Owing the other team in a Stug or SU is quite common for me to have someone who doesnt know basic tank usage, nor listens voice commands hop in and drive with out asking first, then getting us killed by not turning so I can shoot and shouting "shoot the tank n00b" is quite frustrating. On occasions when I spawn as a tanker and the tank doesnt pop back into spawn in the next 10 secs, I run out pick up a gun and start helping the team. On rare occasions I hop into an occupied tank, I either go mg, or if none I ask the tanker what the plan is. I do not decide to drive the tank at full speed across the map. Or empty the guns HE supply shooting at dead cows, clouds, and friendlys.
If you are no good at driving or shooting in tanks, pop a ritalin, and google tank tactics and read that a bit while at work or something before Starting RO jumping into peoples tanks without asking and proceeding to play mariokart with them. Learning something about tanks beats eating cheeseits and watching Lazytown.
The other night I got to see a hijacker get his just reward though. It was on wateverovko. I was tank commander we captured kolchaz and I went across the front lines to the railyard. I see a faust pop out of the ruined building taking aim at the other t-34 in front. I jump out and smg him just as he blows up the "friendly" Well good luck he hopped out to. I get back in my tank and drive over to pick him up. Another man helping cap the railyard could prove useful I think, he runs over hops in. I am typing "ok lets get railyard" when he starts spamming vehicle command "get out" So I say what do you mean get out? He replys "I have skills and need to have a tank for myself" I think well yes you had a tank for yourself but you got sploded and now you are in my tank. I told him I am not getting out. He replys "I am better then you, I need this tank" quick look at scoreboard shows my name at the top with a lot of points, he is near the bottom with 0. You had a tank, you lost your tank. Now you can run back to spawn and get a new one, or you can calm down act like an adult rather then a 14y/o with RO "achievements" and we can cap railyard. He shouts over chat"GET THE **** OUT OF MY TANK!!!" he then proceed to start shooting HE into the near walls damaging us. I drive back to spawn thinking fine he can have this old wreck,( I got fausted earlier but without any skills HEed the fauster.
) Meanwhile he is spamming get out and throwing a temper tantrum on how I am not letting him use HIS tank, if he used this tank we will win and the grateful nations of earth will pronounce him IRL emp0rer for life. Then Justice, the admin says "is there a problem here" Meanwhile a few others by now are telling the admin this guy is being a tool. I drive into spawn, we both hop out and sprint to the next tank, when suddenly he disapears, and the admin says I love a good banning in the evening. Ok in conclusion dont jump in peoples tanks unless you know what you are doing or are willing to learn and are not a tool. Good day.
