Some of the low tier Brit tanks have an anti aircraft pom pom that can shoot 4 times in rapid succession.  One of those may have hit you.

Bish

I have noticed the same issues as you guys. A couple of time i got penetrations but it didn't seem to reduce the damage. And also a couple of times i have been taken out with one shot and having 100% health. I know on one occasion it was a Hetzer took me out, and i was in a Pz IIIA. But still i would have thought it would have taken more than one hit. Then yesterday i was hit twice in quick succession by the same tank. And it wasn't one with a cannon like the Pz II has. Theres deffinatly something going on.

The 0 damage penetrating hits do damage in a way; they knock out modules or kill crew members (e.g. kill  the driver, damage the gun ect.), although this damage isn't reflected in the tanks overall HP. And yeah, the Hetzer with the howitzer is pretty devastating, if it penetrates it can kill anything in it's tier or lower with a single shot. You can also get one-shotted by arty quite often, especially at lower tiers, which is always annoying

Thaks Alex. Seems odd that you can do that sort of damage and it not reflect in the vehicles health. I sort of understood it with the Hetzer, and ye it did have the gun gun. But i am sure its happened with other vehicles. I must say i have taken out a vehicle that was 100% with one round from a wespe. Was rather pleased with that.

Watchmann

Some of the low tier Brit tanks have an anti aircraft pom pom that can shoot 4 times in rapid succession.  One of those may have hit you.

Possably, i can't remeber what it was now. Will have to make a note next time.

Heres another one i don't get. The otehr day i was hideing behind a building and got taken out by a round which went straight through said building. And just now i was on the Abbey map. I was in the square with buildings all around and got hit from behind. So i turned the turret and there was no one there. A second round took me out. I am sure some people are able to fire through buildings. Anyone else had this happen.

Bish

Heres another one i don't get. The otehr day i was hideing behind a building and got taken out by a round which went straight through said building. And just now i was on the Abbey map. I was in the square with buildings all around and got hit from behind. So i turned the turret and there was no one there. A second round took me out. I am sure some people are able to fire through buildings. Anyone else had this happen.

Bish

Watchmann

Some of the low tier Brit tanks have an anti aircraft pom pom that can shoot 4 times in rapid succession.  One of those may have hit you.

Possably, i can't remeber what it was now. Will have to make a note next time.

troublemaker66

Bish

Watchmann

Some of the low tier Brit tanks have an anti aircraft pom pom that can shoot 4 times in rapid succession.  One of those may have hit you.

Possably, i can't remeber what it was now. Will have to make a note next time.

I know it wasn`t an AA gun killing my Tiger, which is a tier VII...unless a higher tier light tank has some sort of auto-cannon...still shouldn`t have been killed in 2 shots at 100% armor. Those lower tier 37mm cannons plink off of most higher tier armor.

The only thing I can think of that can kill a Tiger in 2 hits would be arty. That or you ran into a high-tier Russian TD...

PaperPanzer

Bish

Heres another one i don't get. The otehr day i was hideing behind a building and got taken out by a round which went straight through said building. And just now i was on the Abbey map. I was in the square with buildings all around and got hit from behind. So i turned the turret and there was no one there. A second round took me out. I am sure some people are able to fire through buildings. Anyone else had this happen.

The closest i encountered to that was an invisible hacker, appeared today on the opposing team, and proceeded to shoot everyone on my team, whilst we could not see him... rawr!

I swore I was taken out from behind buildings before, but if one part of your tank is stickin` out from behind cover a sniper will pick you off.

Alex Shaw

Bish

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 You can also get one-shotted by arty quite often, especially at lower tiers, which is always annoying

troublemaker66

PaperPanzer

Bish

Heres another one i don't get. The otehr day i was hideing behind a building and got taken out by a round which went straight through said building. And just now i was on the Abbey map. I was in the square with buildings all around and got hit from behind. So i turned the turret and there was no one there. A second round took me out. I am sure some people are able to fire through buildings. Anyone else had this happen.

The closest i encountered to that was an invisible hacker, appeared today on the opposing team, and proceeded to shoot everyone on my team, whilst we could not see him... rawr!

exactly...invisitanks. One answer is the enemy player purchased the binocs and coated optics....can see way far away with that combo...was up against a French LT that had us spotted across the map and their arty lit us up. They could also have cammo nets and paint, which adds to their stealth. I have nets on 2 vehicles, don`t seem to help much tho`...lol.

I swore I was taken out from behind buildings before, but if one part of your tank is stickin` out from behind cover a sniper will pick you off.

I once saw a situation once where there was just a French scout and an ISU-152 left on our team. The ISU parked up behind a bush, sent the scout off to spot targets, and killed the 3 remaining heavies on the enemy team, without being spotted once! Those Russian TD's are damned stealthy

Alex Shaw

troublemaker66

Bish

Watchmann

Some of the low tier Brit tanks have an anti aircraft pom pom that can shoot 4 times in rapid succession.  One of those may have hit you.

Possably, i can't remeber what it was now. Will have to make a note next time.

I know it wasn`t an AA gun killing my Tiger, which is a tier VII...unless a higher tier light tank has some sort of auto-cannon...still shouldn`t have been killed in 2 shots at 100% armor. Those lower tier 37mm cannons plink off of most higher tier armor.

The only thing I can think of that can kill a Tiger in 2 hits would be arty. That or you ran into a high-tier Russian TD...

Hey : ]    I have been following along for a while hoping someone would bring it up,  yet have not. For all of those claiming ninja snipers...if its not your ping then your most likely right....  What I am talking about are mods.    There are a great number of them,  most can be had from the curse client.  Including magnifing sniper mode...You can be seen from across the map....  Is it cheating...probly.  I see it this way.  They have it.  Does it ruin the game.  Definitly.  

oh and google the hit skin mod.  it removes any artwork on the tanks and replaces them with ..well look

orange are ammo racks, clear no armor,  green tons of armor.  yes people play like this.

Ripcord

Hey : ]    I have been following along for a while hoping someone would bring it up,  yet have not. For all of those claiming ninja snipers...if its not your ping then your most likely right....  What I am talking about are mods.    There are a great number of them,  most can be had from the curse client.  Including magnifing sniper mode...You can be seen from across the map....  Is it cheating...probly.  I see it this way.  They have it.  Does it ruin the game.  Definitly.  

oh and google the hit skin mod.  it removes any artwork on the tanks and replaces them with ..well look

orange are ammo racks, clear no armor,  green tons of armor.  yes people play like this.

Hitbox skins, zoom-out/in mods, freefly camera mods, tracer mods, agent orange mods, bots... in other words, lots of ways to annoy people in this game! I do not believe there an any actual "hacks" in this game though. I've been on the WoT forums for quite a while now, and every week or so someone will complain about being killed by a "hacker". Truth is, most of the time they've either just got ammo-racked, or been hit by two tanks at once

Interesting, I'd seen mods to paint your tank with 'My Little Pony' decals etc  but not these. I might have to give some of them a try, I keep trying to hit heavies in their vulnerable areas but I'm not very good at it. 

I don' t think anyone is hacking the game but there are a lot of people out there way better than me, maybe they should open a server just for people like me that suck at FPSers. And there may be people with various installed equipment and camo that gives them an advantage, I don't blame them, you should get more if you pay for the game. My issue is that I used to run about a 50-60% win rate, here lately I've dropped down to about 20% or so. Could be my M18 is in a higher tier than my M10 and I'm facing better opponents- frankly I dunno...   

check out how far I zoom out...

Gamera

Interesting, I'd seen mods to paint your tank with 'My Little Pony' decals etc  but not these. I might have to give some of them a try, I keep trying to hit heavies in their vulnerable areas but I'm not very good at it. 

I don' t think anyone is hacking the game but there are a lot of people out there way better than me, maybe they should open a server just for people like me that suck at FPSers. And there may be people with various installed equipment and camo that gives them an advantage, I don't blame them, you should get more if you pay for the game. My issue is that I used to run about a 50-60% win rate, here lately I've dropped down to about 20% or so. Could be my M18 is in a higher tier than my M10 and I'm facing better opponents- frankly I dunno...   

Or your teammates have just turned out to be a bunch of morons! They usually come out of hiding when these sort of specials are on, so don't blame yourself if your winrate starts to drop

Hey some artillary shots...

zoom out to space to find ya

then I can see your radiator fans spinning...

or...maybe a close up of your tank track links...

=D

I also recommend you gentlemen enable the server reticle.  So that you hit what the server sees, not what your slow ping lagging client reticle sees....   lol

What reticle mod are you using Ripcord? Looks much nicer than the original one

Ripcord

I also recommend you gentlemen enable the server reticle.  So that you hit what the server sees, not what your slow ping lagging client reticle sees....   lol

Thanks Mike, will give it a try. Also going to try out some of other mods too. 

Funny, I've downloaded a pile of mods for Skyrim, mostly to replace armour of the female characters in the game with chainmail bikinis...

Looking at the stats the Hellcat has frontal armour of 13mm as opposed to the 51mm on my old M10- that could explain a lot about me getting one-shotted...  

That one is called DAR artillary sight.

Ok guys, I`m a little confused. I`m no computer wiz, just like playing the games. Where are these mods? The only mods I knew about were the ones in the game that you have to buy with credits or gold. Are these extra-caricular? If they are, it`s definately cheating. How do you change the reticul from game to server?? These things may be part of the reason why I`m gettin` my azz handed to me lately..lol.

Also noticing alot of "trolls" lately, starting nonsense in the beginning of games. Had a guy in a Pz38 harassing me in my Churchill I so much I had to kill him just to be able to get into the battle!! Of course, I`m the jerk...lol.

I have had something similar Len. I took up position on one side of some bushes, so i was in cover. And this guy in a russian TD came over and kept bumping me. Not sure if he thought that spot was reserved (i didn't see any signs). I came very close to putting a cap in his backside.

troublemaker66

Ok guys, I`m a little confused. I`m no computer wiz, just like playing the games. Where are these mods? The only mods I knew about were the ones in the game that you have to buy with credits or gold. Are these extra-caricular? If they are, it`s definately cheating. How do you change the reticul from game to server?? These things may be part of the reason why I`m gettin` my azz handed to me lately..lol.

Also noticing alot of "trolls" lately, starting nonsense in the beginning of games. Had a guy in a Pz38 harassing me in my Churchill I so much I had to kill him just to be able to get into the battle!! Of course, I`m the jerk...lol.

This is a good place to find mods -

http://www.curse.com/wot-mods/worldoftanks

I believe all the mods on there are legal, WoT seemingly endorsed the site by posting a link to it in a news article once. Some of them are a bit iffy though; there hasn't been a definitive yes or no as to whether zoom out mods and "agent-orange" mods, among others, are legal.

Yeah, mostly mods change only your game, aka they change the graphics and sound like painting your tank with 'My Little Pony' characters (shudder), change the pictures of your crew to pretty girls, alter the voices etc. They don't actually alter the game mechanics.

The changes to the interface seem a little more involved but they still don't make your tank drive faster, hit harder, take more damage etc, they just change the view and controls. So it really cheating anymore than buying a better mouse or a bigger monitor is cheating.

I've had the bumping thing happen too, don't get it, you're parked in some bushes and some guy on your own team just comes up and rams you over and over. Weird...

I installed these:

Damage Map Mod: Probably a better one out there- this one doesn't show all tanks.

Cute gals: Replaces the pictures of your crew with cute gals.

Over target markers: Better IDing of foes and damage remaining.

DAR Artillery Site: Helps to target using SPGs.

J1mbo's Crosshair Mod: Allows you to zoom waaaaaaay out and easier to site on foes.

Anyway those are just the ones I installed - I'm sure there are far better mods out there.

How to install:

On Win7 - I dunno about XP or Win8

Open Documents

Click on Local Disk C: on the left menu

Click Games

Click World_of_Tanks

Click res_mods

Click your latest version- should be the last one on the list - 0.8.2 right now

I drag and drop them so reduce the window to half size on the screen - hit the window button in the NE corner of the screen it's the middle one and reduce the window to half the screen on the right.

Open Documents again

Window it too- so you have both windows on the screen - this one half size on the left

Click downloads at the top of the left menu

Click the download from the list

Open the GUI file on downloads- find where it goes on the game files on the right and just drag and drop them.

BTW: Found this awesome 'skin' for my M18 with foliage!

I apologize to post this but...theres no camo on my screen...  lol

I have an add on the removed all camo to increase my ping , fps, and load time.  

http://www.curse.com/wot-mods/worldoftanks/artasans_no_camo

Hey Cliff. Got to the part with the GUI files....didn`t see anything like that...I downloaded the J1mbo mod. Do you have to unzip it 1st? I`m pretty stupid when it comes to this kinda stuff. And, do I just drag it into the 8.2 folder? Sorry man...need to be walked thru....