Table of Contents
[hemmerling] Games
Related pages:
Simple & Classical Games
- EN.Wikipedia "Ludo", DE.Wikipedia "Ludo" - “Die Entwicklung von Mensch ärgere dich nicht ist eine direkte Anpassung des indischen Spiels Pachisi, das Schmidt während seiner Reisen entdeckte und für das deutsche Publikum umgestaltete”.
Free Computer Games
- Abandonware DOS "Great Naval Battles vol. 4: Burning Steel, 1939-1942". Experts suggested me this game due to its accurate ship simulation and ship managment!
- EN.Wikipedia "Cloud (video game)" for Windows.
- “Grand Theft Auto (GTA) V Five”.
Free Online Browser Games
- “1024” & “2048”.
- “2048”.
- The free browser game 2048, Github "2048" online game.
- The free Android game Google Play "2048".
- Github "gabrielecirulli/2048" - “A small clone of 1024”.
- “1024”.
- The free Android game Google Play "1024 - The Original of 2048".
- DWS Delta Wars - “Browser based real time strategy game: Build up your industry & army and fight for the last resources on earth!”.
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- Chat Noir ( Flash ).
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- OGame with “Space” theme.
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- “Z”, “Civilisation”,...
- “Happy Wheels”.
- Android appstore UpToDown "Happy Wheels".
- Kongregate - “You now also have access to our PC game store, Kartridge! Start playing some of Kongregate's best games, ad-free!”.
- Kartridge - “A PC games platform from Kongregate”.
- User experience:
- There are still FLASH browser games!
- There are Unity3D browser games ⇒ Error message “We're sorry, we can't load this Unity Web Player game. Unity Web Player games are no longer playable on Chrome, Firefox, or Edge browsers. Please try this game on Safari or Internet Explorer 11. If you are using Safari or IE 11, please ensure that your Unity Web Player is correctly installed”.
- NewGrounds - “Newgrounds.com, the large Flash games and animation site that spawned Alien Hominid, has been accepting user-produced submissions since 1999”.
- The Flash based free browser game Rail Nation.
Free Online Browser Games for Teams
Online Game Service Providers
Amazon Luna
- EN.Wikipedia "Amazon Luna", DE.Wikipedia "Amazon Luna" - “Beim Streaming von Spielen über Amazon Luna werden die Bilder auf speziellen AWS Game Servern berechnet. Nach den Eingaben, die der Server vom Spieler erhält, werden die berechneten Bilder über einen Videocodec enkodiert und dann als Videostream über das Internet an den Endbenutzer gesendet. Durch diesen Dienst benötigt der Spieler selbst keinen leistungsstarken Computer oder eine Spielkonsole und kann theoretisch überall, wo ausreichend schnelles Internet verfügbar ist, spielen”.
Battle.Net ( Blizzard )
The Online Platform
Call of Duty
- Call of Duty "Call of Duty: Warzone", Call of Duty "Call of Duty: Warzone" - “Eines der größten kostenlosen Battle Royale-Spiele aller Zeiten”
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- “CROSS-PLAY... For that reason, we support synchronous cross-play between iOS and Android exclusively on mobile and have chosen to avoid the imbalance of cross-play with consoles and PCs”.
- For Windows computers: “Steam” or “Battle.Net” Account needed.
EA Origin
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- Origin "Auf's Haus" - “Hol dir komplette Spiele und Erweiterungen – absolut kostenlos. „Auf's Haus“-Inhalte gehören dir für immer, sobald du sie deiner Bibliothek hinzugefügt hast. Die Auswahl wechselt häufig, also warte nicht zu lange!”.
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- Facebook Gameroom for Win7.
- “C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Facebook\Games\FacebookGameroom.exe”, e.g. “C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Facebook\Games\FacebookGameroom.exe” - The game launcher.
GOG
- EN.Wikipedia "GOG.com", DE.Wikipedia "GOG.com" (formerly Good Old Games) - “GOG.com delivers DRM-free video games through its digital platform for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux”.
Google Stadia ( 2020 - 2023 )
itch.io
- itch.io - “Download the latest indie games”, “itch.io is a simple way to find and share indie games online for free”.
MMOGA
- MMOGA Ltd., Germany - “MMOGA war einer der ersten professionellen Anbieter für die Vermittlung von Game Services auf dem deutschen Markt. Wir haben mehr als 12 Jahre Erfahrung”.
NVIDIA GeForce Now
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- “Note: You must already own or purchase titles to play them on GeForce NOW”.
- Memberships “Free”, “Priority”, “Ultimate”.
STEAM
STEAM
The Service
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- Steam "Eingeschränkte Accounts" - “Wie kann ich Zugriff auf alle Funktionen erhalten? Sie müssen mindestens 5,00 US-Dollar im Steam-Shop ausgegeben haben”.
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- New accounts are limited from using all of Steam's community features. You'll have access to all of Steam's features once you've spent $5.00 USD in the Steam store or added $5.00 USD to your Steam Wallet. Some of the features that you won't be able to access are:
- Adding friends on Steam
- Buying or Selling items on the Steam Community Market
- Creating a Group on Steam Community
- Creating user reviews or rating artwork, screenshots, workshop content, or Greenlight submissions
- Using Friends chat in your Browser or on a Mobile device
Events
- STEAM "Steam Next Fest", 2021-10-01 - 2021-10-07 ( starts @10AM PDT = 19:00 UTC+2 ) - “Announcing Steam Next Fest, a multi-day celebration of upcoming games. Explore and play hundreds of game demos, watch developer livestreams, and chat with teams about their games in progress, coming soon to Steam”.
Steam Direct ( formerly: Steam Greenlight )
Steam Greenlight- “Greenlight is being retired... As of 6 June, 2017 Greenlight is no longer accepting new submissions and voting has been suspended. Starting 13 June, 2017, Steam Direct will be the new path for developers to bring their game to Steam”.- Steam "Steam Direct" - “Joining The Steamworks Distribution Program”.
Resources
Once free Games, Offers by Steam
- Steam "Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game" - Free for a limited time ( - 2017-09-30 ).
HumbleBundle
The Store
- Humble Bundle - “A digital storefront for video games”.
Once free Games
- Humble Bundle "Outlast Deluxe Edition" - Free for a limited time ( - 2017-09-23 ).
- Keys:
- (W)/(A)/(S)/(D) - Movement.
- (TAB) - Inventory, (N]otes, (D)ocuments.
- (Mouse Right) - Record with Camera. (Middle Mousewheel) - Zoom in & out. (F) Night Vision.
- (Mouse Left) - Open / Grab.
- (Shift Left) - Run.
- (Ctrl Left) - Crouch down.
- (Space)+(Move Forward) - Jump.
Kinguin
- Kinguin - “Steam CD Keys and PC Game Keys - Compare & Buy”.
- Search option “Free2Play” - But no results?
How to install a Game provided by HumbleBundle at STEAM
Get the Code
- Get the code e.g. from HumbleBundle.
- Install and open the “Steam Client Application for Windows”.
- Enter the code at “Steam Client Application for Windows”, click at the left bottom at ”+ ADD A GAME”.
- At the “Steam Client Application for Windows”, select “Library / Games” and select the game.
Option #1: Comfortable Download and Installationg by STEAM
- Press the blue button “Install” ( or “Play” ) so that Steam takes care of the installation on the proper STEAM installation path.
Option #2: Download of a ZIP file by HumbleBundle
SEGA
- SEGA Make War Not Love 5, 2018-02.
- Sign up through Steam and get TWO FREE GAMES sent directly to your Steam inventory.
- Enter and confirm your email.
- Take part and win in daily competitions, every 24 hours you'll be rewarded with a range of free SEGA content, delivered directly to your Steam library.
Uplay
The Online Game Service
Resources
- Neowin "You can now get seven Ubisoft games for free on UPlay", 2016-12-15 - “This year, Ubisoft has been celebrating its 30th anniversary - dubbed as the “Ubi 30”. As a part of its promotion, for the past seven months, the publisher has been offering PC gamers one title free of cost each month. The company initially announced that each game would be available for free on its UPlay client for a month only. However, for this week only, Ubisoft is allowing gamers to get all seven titles listed in its promotion, free of any charges”.
Voodoo
- Voodoo - Free smartphone games.
Free Android Smartphone Online Games, which require Permanent Connection to an Internet Server
Angry Birds
Free PC Online Games, which require Permanent Connection to an Internet Server
Aion
Aion
- GameForge "AION Free-to-Play", GameForge "AION Free-to-Play" (EN), GameForge "AION Free-to-Play" (DE).
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- NCSOFT "My Account" - “Aion - Download Game”.
- Wiki Wikia "Aion Wiki".
- EN.Wikipedia "Aion: Upheaval", DE.Wikipedia "Aion (Computerspiel) - “Aion verwendet zum Schutz vor Hacks, Cheats und Bots die Software NProtect GameGuard von INCA Internet, welche in der Kritik steht, da sie sich mit einem eigenen Treiber tief in das System des Spielers integriert und nur schwer wieder zu entfernen ist”
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Ancient Aion - 3.0 Ascension
- Ancient Aion - Private Server 2.7 Full Support - “Have you missed the good old Aion Version? Join now at ancientaion.com and get back your nostalgia with FULL 2.7 Support, with crazy server Features such as Working PVE/PVP Arenas, Custom Auto PVP Rewads, Working Sieges, Instances, Quests, Active Development Team and much more!”.
Not Aion
Apex Legends
Arma 2 FREE ( Discontinued )
- Arma 2 Official Website "Arma 2 FREE" - “Arma 2 Free has been discontinued!”.
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- “In June 2011, a free version of the game was released, featuring multiplayer and limited single-player modes”.
- “ARMA 2: Free. In June 2011 Bohemia Interactive released a free-to-play version of ARMA 2, featuring full multiplayer compatibility with the retail version of ARMA 2. However, the single-player campaign was omitted and players are not able to use high-resolution textures. In 2012, Steam removed ARMA 2: Free from its database. The service eventually was discontinued on 8 April 2014”.
Armored Warfare
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- Press “ALT” + “ENTER” to switch from fullscreen mode to window mode. With my computer, login doesn´t work in fullscreen mode ( I can´t press the buttons ).
Battlefield
Battlefield Play4Free ( Discontinued )
Revive Network
- BF2 Battlelog - Battlefield2 Revive Project - “Play 4 Free”.
- Revive Network - Battlefield 2142 Revive Project ( BF2142 Revive Project ) - “Play 4 Free”.
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- Revive Network "Account Settings" - “Your Revive CD-Key. You must use your Revive CD-Key to play BF2 & BF2142 online! The Revive Launcher can apply this key for you via the SETTINGS tab. The CD-Key is case-sensitive - Never share your Key! Click below to view CD-Key”.
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Forgotten Hope
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- “Forgotten Hope 2 (FH2) is a modification for the game Battlefield 2 (BF2). Its aim is to transform the game into a historically accurate and more realistic World War 2 scenario. The latest version of FH2 contains more than 30 maps, over 50 weapons and 75 vehicles and much more”.
- “Forgotten Hope 2 is compatible with the following versions of Battlefield 2”.
- Battlelog.co (free).
Resources
- Blog Battlefield-Inside.de - Dein Blog rund um Battlefield about “Battlefield 1”.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ( CS:GO )
- EN.Wikipedia "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive", DE.Wikipedia "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" - “Global Offensive became free to play in December 2018”.
DFB-eFootball
Digital Combat Simulator ( DCS )
- EN.Wikipedia "Digital Combat Simulator", DE.Wikipedia "DCS Black Shark" - “Digital Combat Simulator”.
Dirty Bomb
Dreadnought
EVE Online
- EN.Wikipedia "Eve Online", DE.Wikipedia "EVE Online" - “On November 11, 2016, Eve Online added a limited free to play version”, “Am 15. November 2016 wurde mit der Erweiterung Ascension ein Freemium System eingeführt. Unbegrenzt lange kostenlos kann man mit dem Alpha Clone spielen. Eingeschränkt sind unter anderen die erlernbaren Skills, die Trainingsgeschwindigkeit ist um 50 % reduziert und man hat keine unendlich lange Queue”.
Final Fantasy XIV
- SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. "Play FINAL FANTASY XIV for free" - Free Trial up to stage 35 “Beginne dein Abenteuer. Erkunde die riesige Welt von Eorzea, ohne von einer Ablauffrist aufgehalten zu werden. Lebe deine Geschichte. Werde zum Krieger des Lichts und kämpfe, um die Welt vor ihrer sicheren Zerstörung zu bewahren. Erkämpfe dir einen Weg. Spiele jeden Job bis zu Stufe 35 und finde einen Stil, der dir liegt”.
Gaijin
GamersFirst
Gamigo
Gamigo's Portal for all Games
Savage Hunt. Dragon's Prophet
Guild Wars 2
The Game
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- Guild Wars 2 Wiki "The Underworld" (
Guild Wars Wiki "The Underworld") - My server.
German User Testamonial
- 2012. Also Guild Wars 2 war damals noch nicht kostenlos. Als das erste DLC kam, wurde die main-story kostenlos. Inzwischen gibt es 2 DLC's. das dritte soll dieses Jahr kommen. Ich finde es auch ziemlich schade, dass GW2 eher unbekannt ist und gleichzeitig zu den größten MMORPGs gehört. Wenn man es kostenlos spielen möchte, dann hat man ein paar Einschränkungen, die eigentlich zu verkraften sind. Zum Beispiel kann ich mit einem Klick meine Resourcen, die ich im Inventar habe (wie Erz), in meine Bank befördern. So habe ich wieder mehr Platz im Inventar. Oder man kann keine Gegenstände an andere Spieler verschicken. Mit diesen Einschränkungen kannst du aber ohne Probleme das Base-Game durchspielen. Weltbosse (die alten aus dem Base-Game) kann man mit anderen Spielern gemeinsam besiegen. Also man kann schon sehr viel Zeit in der kostenlosen Variante verbringen. Die community von gw2 ist auch sehr hilfsbereit und unterstützt neue Spieler.
- Man muss die Erweiterungen sich auch nur einmal gekauft haben. Im Moment braucht man sich auch nur den letzten DLC kaufen und erhält den ersten gratis dazu. Ich denke auch dass es nicht teuer ist, wenn man bedenkt wieviel das Spiel einem bieten kann. Die Geschichte von dem Base-Game wird weiter erzählt und ist wirklich aufregend. Mit dem DLCs erlernt man neue Fertigkeiten, wie Gleiten oder auf Reittieren reiten. Dadurch hat man im Base-Game den Vorteil, dass man schneller unterwegs ist und an schwierige Stellen leichter ran kommt. Dennoch kann man alle achievments auch mit der kosten Version erreichen.
- Wenn man heute neu anfangen würde und sich die DLCs kauft, dann fehlen einem trotzdem einiger content. Das sind Zusatzgeschichten, die zwischen den DLCs passiert sind, die kann man sich kaufen oder erspielen. Wenn man zu der Zeit des Erscheinens aktiv gespielt hat, bekommt man diesen Bonus gratis. Diese Zusatzgeschichten (mit neuen maps) kommt auch in regelmäßigen Abständen. Noch dazu gibt es jahreszeit-bedingte events. Zum Beispiel Wintertagsfest im Dezember. Jetzt ist Mondneujahrsfest. Und zu Halloween gibts nochmal viele Extras.
- Den großen Gewinn macht Arenanet wohl durch das verkaufen von Skins (Aussehen von Waffen oder Rüstung). Man kann sich schöne Skins kaufen um besonders auszusehen. Es verändert die Rüstung/Waffe von den Werten nicht. also kein Pay2win”.
- Du kannst mit der kostenlosen Variante nicht auf die neuen maps, aber alle können sich auf den standard-maps aus dem base game treffen. man kann sogar geschichtskapitel zusammen spielen. Es gibt auch noch die pvp (player versus player) und wvw (world versus world) Spieloptionen. Bei wvw kann man nur zusammen spielen, wenn man auf dem selben Server ist. Ansonsten könnte man sich als Feinde begegnen. Sonst macht es auch kein Unterschied, auf welchem Server dein acc ist.
- 49,6 GB auf der Festplatte.
- du musst nicht in einer Gilde spielen. Ich weiss nicht, ob es in der kostenlosen Version auch möglich ist, aber ich kann sogar in 5 Gilden sein. Einige Gilden sind auf WvW spezialisiert und andere auf PvE. Viele Gilden setzen als Bedingung, dass man die Gilde repräsentiert. Dann stehen die Kürzel der Gilde hinter deinen Namen. Und man kann nur eine Gilde repräsentieren. lässt sich im Gilden-menü einstellen. Gute Gilden sind selbst-organisiert und haben eigene Discord-server oder Teamspeak.
- wenn du im spiel auf z drückst, kannst du unter dem Reiter “Anhänger” meinen namen XXXX sehen. So funktioniert adden in gw2. Wenn dich jemand hinzugefügt hat, du ihn aber nicht, dann ist er unter “Anhänger” finden. Wenn ein Freund online/offline geht, dann wird das auch im chat-fenster erwähnt.
- Wenn du dir noch keinen Charakter gemacht hast ein Tipp. Welche Rasse (Mensch, Norn, etc) du spielst, ist eigentlich egal. das ist eine ästhetische entscheidung und welche starter-geschichte dich mehr interessiert.
- Die Klasse ist wieder interessanter.
- Manche Klassen sind nicht sehr anfänger-freundlich. Zum Beispiel ist der elementar-magier sehr kompliziert oder der Krieger ist sehr stark, aber liegt schnell (Taktik: der gegner muss schneller liegen als man selber :D )
- Der Nekromant ist sehr beliebt und wird als erster charakter von vielen empfohlen.
- Die Klasse hat auch noch einen ästhetischen aspekt. Magier, Nekromant, Mesmer = leichte Rüstung. Waldläufer, Dieb, Ingenieur = mittlere Rüstung. Krieger und Wächter = schwere Rüstung.
- Leichte Rüstung ist etwas luftiger und wird gerne für weibliche Charaktere genommen, und die schwere Rüstungen sehen an einem Char dann natürlich mächtig aus.
- So lange du in keiner instanz (story, sehr spezielle orte) bist, kannst du andere spieler treffen. Zum Beispiel direkt nach einem log-in bist du auf einer map mit anderen spielern. Königintal ist eigentlich immer gut besucht von Spielanfängern.
- Wenn du eine story-Instanz einfach verlässt (disconnect, spiel aus machen, Instanz-berreich verlassen), dann musst du diese Instanz komplett wiederholen. Wenn die Aufgabe in der Instanz erfüllt ist, dann erscheint unten rechts, über der mini-map, ein Symbol (Tür mit Pfeil, denke ich... vllt). Über das Symbol kannst du die Instanz verlassen und der Fortschritt ist gespeichert.
- Bis auf die erste story-instanz, kannst du auch mitspieler mitnehmen. Manche Kämpfe sind da schon etwas länger und angenehmer, wenn einer mitmacht. Trotzdem ist die story für solo-spieler machbar. für den allerletzten story-abschnitt wird empfohlen andere mitspieler mitzunehmen. ich habe die story trotzdem komplett alleine gespielt, weil mir mitspieler zu viel reden :D
Videos
Resources
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- “Join A Guild”.
- “If you have decided to join a guild already, be sure to check if the guild has any server requirements. They might ask you to join a specific server for their guild”.
- “If you want constant action in WvW (which is tons of fun), I recommend you join a tier 1 or tier 2 server. See here for a list and name of servers. The first 6 are t1-t2 servers (see the rightmost column for the tier status). However, joining tier 1 server is very hard now because most of the time, the tier 1 servers are marked 'full'. It’s not that there is no WvW action in other tiers, there certainly is. But from my experience, since I am on a tier 1 server, if I am in the mood join big scale fights, I can just hop in WvW and almost immediately see some action. On low population servers, the WvW action can be occasional and there is a big waiting period between seeing some fights and just roaming around the map. So I’d recommend joining a t1-t2 server (or a t3 server the very least) if you want intend to join epic big scale fights against other players in WvWvW”.
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- Le Bus Magique - “A French Guild Wars 2-based community guild originally dedicated to organizing events for players. Today it has become a reference in terms of articles and guides about this MMORPG via its website”.
- Le Bus Magique "Tutobus" - “Guides for Guild Wars 2 beginers”.
- EN.Wikipedia "Guild Wars 2", DE.Wikipedia "Guild Wars 2" - “By August 2015, over 5 million copies had been sold, at which point the base game became free-to-play”.
Heroes & Generals
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- Wiki Heroes & Generals Wiki.
Infestation
Infestation: Survivor Stories Classic ( Discontinued )
INFESTATION - The New Z
League of Legends ( LoL )
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- League of Legends "Level up your League knowledge", EUW - “It's time to level up your League knowledge. On this page you'll find 6 handy guides on some of the most important aspects of League of Legends. Each section has a video and article you can watch/read to help you improve in your early days on the Rift. Take it all in and show off what you've learned in game”.
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- The free third-party tool OverWolf Appstore "Replay HUD"
MechWarrior Online
Mortal Online
Panzer Ace ( Discontinued )
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Google Play "PUBG MOBILE - Mad Miramar" - “The official PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS designed exclusively for mobile”.
Runscape
- RuneScape - “The Free MMORPG - Online Fantasy RPG”.
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- Runscape's “New Client”, for Windows, Linux, MacOs.
- Runscape's “Retro Client”.
- You may play Runscape by older MSIE Internet browser ( on Windows )
, “but not with Google-Chrome and Edge”, nor with Firefox, nor with MSIE11 .
- Google+ "RuneScape" - “The World's Greatest Adventure. The most popular free MMORPG in the world”.
Rise of Flight
Red Crucible: Firestorm
S.K.I.L.L. - Special Force 2
Standing Stone Games LLC
The Lord of the Rings Online ( LoTRO )
Dungeons and Dragons Online
Star Wars: The Old Republic
State of Survival
Total War: ARENA
- Total War: ARENA - “A team-based online strategy game, thrusting players into battles of epic proportions in two teams of 10 on ancient battlefields”.
Urban Terror
War Inc. Battlezone ( Discontinued )
- FANDOM powered by Wikia "War Inc. Battlezone Wiki" - “Sadly i am to inform you that War Inc is overrun by hackers because the developers announced that they officially stopped updating the game. The Developers have given the Game Build out to the public. This way Call Of War was created. You can check it out here: Call of War”.
- Archive.org "Call of War - The memory of War Inc lives" ( - 2015-01-04 ).
WARFACE
World of Tanks / World of Warplanes
The Classical Games
The New Blitz Game
- For PC:
- For Win10:
- For Android smartphone:
Player Statistics & Replays
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- WoTLabs - “This is a website dedicated to tracking the statistics of World of Tanks players”.
Third Party Services
- OverTank - “Skip the credit grinding and face up faster against the highest tier tanks. With our World of Tanks services you don't have to waste your time grinding, pass us your account and we will do this job for you! Buy any amount of World of Tanks credits or experience for your account”. Doesn´t sound very legal?! .
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- “Plan your battles effectively with StratSketch, the most advanced strategy planning tool for World of Tanks”.
- For “World of Tanks”,”World of Tanks Blitz”, “PUBG”.
- WoT ModPack - Doesn´t sound very legal?!.
Literature
Resources
World War II Online: Battleground Europe
The Game
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- World War II Online "Resources" - “Voice Communications. WWII Online now uses 'Discord' as its primary out of game voice communication tool”.
- F2P conditions:
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- “When you create your new account you will receive a 2 week introductory trial to earn as much rank as you can. Upgrade to a Starter or Premium account before your trial ends to keep your rank”.
- “Our Free Play subscription gives you 2 initial weeks of full (premium) access to get introduced with the game, followed by a perpetually free (but limited) subscription as seen below. (WWII Online is not a micro-transaction game)”.
- “Subscription Comparison. Feature Access”.
- World War II Online Article of 2010-08-20 - “Our current definition of “free play” is as follows (note this is not written in stone)...”.
- World War II Online Article of 2012-08-09 - “As I write, free accounts are now able to be created and played on the live server. Equipment choices are limited and a premium account cannot be downgraded to a free account. The general rule of thumb is that the equipment a free account user can access is lower down the scale to encourage them to get a paid account in order to get the 'good stuff' you all want. As the campaign progresses the quality of equipment a free account can access does improve, but they can never access the latest or best gear”.
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- Wiki World War II Online Wiki.
- Support tickets by Playnet Support.
Resources
- Mod DB "World War II Online Windows, Mac game" - “Today we're going to cover a bit of Production and things happening in the pipeline now that we've crested this major milestone of getting the game onto Steam”.
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- Comment of 2014 “I'm afraid that the Free to Play model just died as we entered the new 2014 year... if in 2013 the free to players had rifles, smgs, 3 tanks, 2 planes, 2 guns and later on binoculars and infantry placed positions, right now it only has rifles and a gun... and to make matters worst you can't even cap enemy buildings anymore without the paid subscription... Sure the game won't die out but the way they managed the free to play system is disappointing... and more over if they don't do something for a radical improvement... then maybe someone else will 'borrow' the idea and make a better game out of it... just saying”.
Some other free PC Online games which require a commercial Online Account
DiRT Rally
IL-2
Men of War Series
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Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II
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Steel Beasts
Some free Games
Jeopardy
Sony Playstation 4 & 5
Not specially recommended just-Commercial Games
- Rocket League.
- Two Point Hospital.
- Jurassic World, Evolution 2.
- ( Fortnite ).
- Red Dead Redemption II.
- Star Wars - Jede Fallen Order.
- Shadow of the Tom Raider.
- Assassin's Creed Origin.
- Monopoly Plus.
- UNO.
- Tom Clancy's The Division.
- Rise of the Tomb Raider. 20 Year Celebration.
- Goat Simulator
- FIFA 21.
- Farming Simulator 19.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! - Masterduel.
- Death Stranding.
- Resident EvVII - biohazard.
- Minecraft.
- Captain Tsubasa. Rise of new Champions.
- Stranded Deep.
- NFS Heat.
- Call of Duty. Modern Warefare.
- Days Gone.
- The Crew 2
- Frozen - Free Fall - Snowball Fight.
- PlayStation VR Worlds.
- Walking Dead Onslaught.
- The Playroom VR.
- Star Wars Battelfront II.
- Control.
- A Way Out.
- Gunhouse
- The Witcher - Wild Hunt.
- FIFA 19.
- FIFA 20.
- W2K18.
- Cities Skylines.
- Horizon - Zero Dawn.
- ( The Sims 4 ).
- Hellblade - Sensua's Sacrifice.
- Until Dawn.
- Ben 10.
- PUBG Battlegrounds.
- Brawlhalla.
- Life is Strange.
- Fallout 4.
- Tom Clancy's Division 2.
- Call of Duty - Modern Warefare. Remastered.
- Batman. The enemy Within.
- Anthem.
- Conan Exiles Age of War.
- Tom Clancy's Rainbosix Siege.
- Warface Clutch.
- FIFA 18.
- Marvel Spider-Man.
- Dishonored 2.
- Friday the 13th - The Game.
- Yakuza KIWAMI.
- Fallout Shelter.
- FIFA 17.
- III.
Recommended Just-Commercial Games
- The Walking Dead.
- Grand Theft Auto 5.
- The Texas Chain Saw Massackre.
- Dead by Daylight.
- Hogwards Legacy.
- South Park.
- South Park - Die Rektakuläre Zerreisprobe.
- Detroid Become Human.
- Jump Force.
- The Walking Dead - The Telltale Series. The Final Season.
- Grand Theft Auto. San Andreas.
- The Evil Within 2.
- The Evil Within.
Free Games
Official
Resources
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- Apex Legends.
- Destiny 2.
- Warframe.
- Die Sims 4.
- Fortnite.
- Overwatch 2.
- Fall Guys.
- Genshin Impact.
- Rocket League.
- Call Of Duty: Warzone 2.0.
- Astro’s Playroom.
- Sky: Children of the Light.
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- “Besitzt ihr eine PS5, dann könnt ihr euch natürlich auch auf Gratis-Games freuen, denn die Konsole ist zu fast allen PS4-Spielen abwärtskompatibel”.
Game Playing Resources
Aerial Warefare
Flying Maneuvers
Boom and Zoom
- Reddit "How to BnZ?", 2014.
Boom and Run
Resources
Ground Warefare
Literature
Tank Guides
- War is Boring "Cold War Coloring Book Taught A-10 Pilots to Kill Soviet Tanks" - “What you always wanted to know about the T-62 but were afraid to ask”.
Battle Tactics & Battle Strategy
- “Versuchsübung 35” & “Lehr- und Versuchsübung 58” in the Munster/Soltau area.
- Yumpu "Als die Bundeswehr ihre 'Brigaden' bekam" - “Lehr- und Versuchsübung 58” of 1958.
- Tankpedia - “A website about Armoured Fighting Vehicles especially tanks”.
- Wiki Tankpedia Wiki.
- DE.Wikipedia "Bereitstellungsraum (Militär)" ( WarThunder “Spawn Point” ).
Hardware Model Kits
History
Sidescraping / Mahlzeitstellung
- EN.Wikipedia "Tigerfibel" - “Tigerfibel”, page 84&85, about “Mahlzeitstellung”.
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- “The Panzers I to IV afaik never utilized angling (at least not to the amount as we have it now in games) because their side armour was just to thin... if they would angle, at least in the Mahlzeit-System, they would expose their side armour... The Tiger with it's 80mm side armour could angle without much risk”.
- “Panzer III/IV and even the panther had thin side armor. panzer 4 have 30 mm on the sides and 80 on the front, panther has 170 on the front effective, and 60 effective on sides. it s dangerous angling sides. Tigers instead have 107 mm effective on the front and 82 on the side. so you can angle up to 40° and you improve your armor”.
- “Well you can angle any tank, but much less than a tiger. around 20° max”
- Computer tank combat games where it is useful to do sidescraping with some tanks:
- WOT, ( since 2010-06, by introducting its “armor profile system” ).
- WT ( since 2014-05 ).
- One of the “latest” successful computer games without need for sidescraping, as there is no armor or even module system:
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Sloped Armour
Design of Games & Programming Games
Design of Games & Game Maps
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- Sentient Sketchbook - “Computer-Assisted Game Level Authoring”. Free Java application of 2013.
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- Speech “AI getting Serious... about Games” by Georgios Yannakakis on the conference Serious Games Conference by nordmedia GmbH as part of the fair CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, 2018-06-14.
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- Event Artificial Intelligence and Games 2018. International Summer School in Chania, Greece, 2018-05-28 - 2018-06-01.
- Semantic Scholar - An academic search engine for scientific articles - Free PDF documents.
Design of Maps
- SandyStation - “Interactive Sandbox”, “Sandbox in new colors”.
- “No Man's Sky” - AI was used to create the. playgrounds, i.e. “planets”, which are all different.
- EN.Wikipedia "No Man's Sky" - “Players are free to perform within the entirety of a procedurally generated deterministic open world universe, which includes over 18 quintillion planets”.
- Gamepedia "No Man's Sky" - "Galaxy" - “The universe of No Man's Sky comprises 255 unique galaxies, which in turn are comprised of around 3 to 4 billion regions, each of which contain more than 122 and up to hundreds of star systems. All star systems feature from 1-6 planets and moons, and usually a single space station”.
Programming Games
Developer Resources
- Wikipedia.
Sales of Online Games and Offline Games
Fanatical
- Fanatical - Buy PC Games, Steam Keys, Bundles (formerly Bundle Stars), also special bundles ( sound,.. ) for game developers.
G2G
GOG.com
- GoG - Vendor of legacy, DRM-free games, for budget prices.
Groupees
- Groupees - Great Deals + Community + Goodwill, also special bundles ( sound,.. ) for game developers.
Humble Bundle
- Humble Bundle, also special bundles ( sound,.. ) for game developers.
Trading of Accounts :-(
- EpicNPC Forums - “Gaming Marketplace - “Buy, sell or trade your accounts, items or services. Where members can buy, sell and trade accounts for free”.
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Resources
Resources
General
- 4Fansites - “4Fansites das Portal für Fanseiten. Zum Netzwerk gehören Fanseiten zu World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Torchlight, Mythos, Titan Quest und Diablo 3”.
- Everything War Thunder - War Thunder Guides, Events & Squadrons - “A community-led project to provide articles, guides, squadrons and events. Supported & ran by real war thunder players”.
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- War Thunder made a recent update on August 5th, 2016 that made it impossible for us, and other recording software that hooks directly, to be able to hook into the game. However, you can still record War Thunder by making this alteration:
- In the main directory, locate the “config.blk” file and open it in Notepad.
- Locate where you installed War Thunder on your PC.
- At the very top, add a new line and input this line (without quotations): “hooks:b=yes”.
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- Tankistador "War Thunder" ( Russian only ).
- US Army.
- Wikipedia articles about paper projects.
Buyer's Guide - Budget Offers, Freebies,..
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Humble Origin bundle", 2013-08-15.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Schnäppchen Thread wer weis Was !" ( 2013-11-28 - 2014-02-28 ).
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Steam Spiel aufs Haus", 2014-06-04.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Humble 2k Bundle", 2014-07-11.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Humble Bundle Angebote Thread" ( 2015-05-19 - 2017-02-08 ).
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Steam Summer Sale!", 2015-06-06.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Steam Gratis Key" ( 2016-03-13 - 2016-10-14 ).
- Steam Community "DACH Federation DACHL", Announcements # - Experts told me that in this group every new free game on Steam - free for only a short time - is advertised, so that you can´t miss it.
Videos
Videos about real life Hardware
- Deutsches Marinemuseum in Wilhelmshaven.
- Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster in Munster.
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- YouTube "Stahl auf der Heide 2019, Live" - Live stream 2019-09-07, 2019-09-08.
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- Musée des blindés de Saumur : toute l'histoire du blindé ( FR / EN /DE ).
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Videos about Games
- YouTube Channel "Angry Nerd" - Famous WT Arcade-only player.
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- Press “ALT + Z” for movie recordings.
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- “Implied”.
- The traditional video channnel YouTube Channel "Implied".
- YouTube "War Thunder neues SOUND FEATURE was bitte soll das bringen?" - “Wenn man allerdings die Renderentfernung für Details runtergedreht hat, dann ist diese Betonwand weg” ⇒ “Details für entferntes Gelände” = “Nein” ?.
- The new video channel Implied Online ( 2020-01 - ).
Checkpoint War Thunder,Lets Play War Thunder on YouTube ( Checkpoint Charlie WT )- “Die War Thunder YouTube Community. Alle Videos unter einem Dach!”.
- YouTube Channel "DEFYN" - Helpful tutorials “Guides/Tutorials” for WT pilots.
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- YouTube "War Thunder How To Get Easy Kills In Arcade" with air battles.
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- YouTube, Krebs "War Thunder: How to get Enemies off your Tail" with air battles.
- YouTube Channel "long5hot" - Many playlists of WT video tutorials.
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- YouTube "reib00n", a former LEO2 tank driver,educated at “Panzertruppenschule”.
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- Rise of Flight.
- YouTube Channel "IRFC Requiem", Playlist "Air Combat Maneuvering", 2011-2014 - “Collection of Videos showing various Air Combat Maneuvers (ACM) in Rise of Flight”.
- YouTube Channel "The Air Combat Tutorial Library", Playlist "Basic Fighter Maneuvering (BFM)" of 2014-2016 - “This playlist shows the essential maneuvers an individual pilot should master to be effective with his aircraft in flight and combat before moving on to the Air Combat Maneuvering section (ACM)”.
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- Video about fire control systems of different tanks, played on WorldOfTanks.
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- YouTube, Squire "War Thunder Film - The Key to British Tanks!" - 7 funny rules.
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- YouTube, VikingzTV "How To Fly In The Hangar | War Thunder 1.47", with installation instructions text.
- “Requirements: Purchase P-51D-5”.
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- YouTube "Understanding Your Basic Ammo Types in War Thunder - Ground Forces" - At 18:11 German ammunition.
Resources
Forums, Newsgroups
Developer Forums
User Forums
- Aion.
- Aion Online Forums - “You must have at least a level 10 character in game to create a forum account. Logging out of your NCSOFT account will allow you to view the forums as a guest”.
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- Armoured Warefare.
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- my.com "Armoured Warefare, Deutsches Forum" - Thread "Ein neues System im Kampf gegen Bots!", 2018-05-31 - “Spieler müssen mindestens ein Tier 5 Fahrzeug besitzen, um einen Beitrag erstellen zu können”.
- Lets Play War Thunder on YouTube ( Checkpoint Charlie WT ) Forum - The #1 independant German WarThunder forum.
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- Discord.
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- Change your nickname on Discord to your summoner name and region! example: Torpedosheep (EUW)
- Go to this thread, and leave your Discord ID (name#number) as a comment. League of Legends Boards "Presenting the EU Boards Discord!", EUW.
- Say hello in the “summoner_verification” channel and link your comment if possible, so an admin can assign the verified role to you!
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- Discord Channel "#warthunder-discussion", Discord Invite "War Thunder Community Unofficial Discord Server"
- And many more channels...
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- Facebook.
- Facebook "Project Fury" ( bfp4f revival project ).
- WarThunder.
- Facebook "War Thunder. @WarThunder", Facebook "War Thunder. @WarThunderDE" - By the “More - Switch Region” feature, you may switch between the international and German page.
- WorldOfXXX.
- Gaijin.
- Gaijin Entertainment Forum ( War Thunder ).
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- “An error occurred: We're sorry, but new users are temporarily limited to 3 replies in the same topic”.
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- “Content I Posted In”.
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- War Thunder - Official Forum "Posts by 'hemmerling'"# - Linked list of all posts of “hemmerling”.
- Forum:
- Profile photo “1 file was larger than the maximum file size of 100.0448kb, and was skipped”.
- Signature “Images up to 1000 x 200 pixels”.
- Search:
- The forum-internal searchine doesn´t work properly.
- Search options “This Forum” ( default ), “All Forums”.
- Use a web search engine instead:
- Important threads:
- BP spreading.
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- “Du kannst es aber auch durch das BR in Deinem Deck zum Teil selbst beeinflussen. Ein BR8.0 Deck ist fast immer mit 75% 7.0-7.7 aufgefüllt. Oder andersrum: Mit einem 7.x-Deck ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, 4x 8.0 anzutreffen extrem hoch. Wenn Du ein 4.3 Deck hast, bist Du meist einer der stärkeren, weil es nicht so viele Fahrzeuge mit 5.0 und 5.3 gibt. Mit 2.3 bist Du meist hoch gegen 1.3, aber selbst wenn Dir 3.3er begegnen, sind die nicht wesentlich stärker als Du. Ich nehme den Pz IVF1 mit 2.3 auch gern mit ins 4.3 Deck, räume damit 5.3er ab und kassiere fette Prämien”.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Discussion about coming Ground vehicles matchmaking system changes", 2014-07-22 - Article “BR changes and tank matchmaking system rework”.
- “Basically it means that all ground vehicles BR will be increased by an average of 1.0 BR and combined with the minimal increase in possible gap between the lowest and the highest ranked vehicles in the battle, it will cause the number of matchmaking brackets to go down from 20 to 10. In majority of cases you will not notice any difference in the BR of vehicles you encounter, but the waiting time will go down significantly, especially for rank 4 and 5 tanks and tank destroyers. These changes will not affect the lowest matchmaking bracket though”.
- “For instance, the highest ranked German vehicle the ZIS-30 could meet in the old system was the StuG III Ausf.A. Now the ZIS-30 can encounter enemies up to BR 3.7 i.e. Pz. III Ausf.M (still an easy target for its outstanding gun)”.
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- Cost-sensitive playing.
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- Commands:
- Key “M” → “Attention to the map [g5]”.
- Key “T” → “Attack the A point”.
- Error message “Chat spamming” if you post messages too often.
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- “The point where you save money is when you let the vehicles repair over time for free. So, when you played your last game for the day, you can leave them thrashed, yet when you log in next time they are repaired for free.
- By playing more nations, you can keep playing even when you deem a repair too expensive for the moment.
- You can also join battles (arcade planes for example) with a few damaged vehicles. This way you can play until your whole lineup is wrecked, then simply switch nation. Of course you can't always play only the newest & shiniest this way, but in times with empty pockets you will gain SL again fast.
- Remember: when the vehicle is not in a slot, the free repair will take much longer, so just let them sit in their slots to repair”.
- “The vehicles in slots that are shown at the bottom when you see that nation are the ones getting the crew repair, whether you are online or not. Everything else repairs at the same, slow rate”.
- Repairing and reloading vehicles at “Capture Points”:
- War Thunder - Official Forum "What are the costs of bailing-out by 'J' key, for ground vehicles?" - “you can reload your ammo if your team holds one of the cap points. Just pull in and sit still and you'll auto-reload. You can repair that way also if you don't have parts and can manage to get there”.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "[Ground Forces] Repairing and reloading vehicles" - Just suggestions.
- Tickets.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "What are the 'Tickets?'" - “Arcade mode games are played in either “Ground Strike” mode... or “Domination” mode, which consists of seizing enemy airfields by landing your aircraft on them, causing the opposing team to slowly lose 'tickets'; the team whose tickets reach zero first or lose all of their aircraft loses”.
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- Airplane flying.
- How to fly an airplane.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "TFD- 'THE FIGHTING DUCKS`'" - “Pilotenhandbuch “Luftkampf” ( PDF ).
- At the beginning of an air battle, “Don't dive in right away, climb a bit, look around, wait for the situation to develop, dive on an unsuspecting target, know where you will go after you engaged him ( usually you will want to go back to your own lines unless you have the altitude to stay above everybody else so they can't harm you ). fly around again, always climbing a bit, look around, etc.”.
- Bombing.
- Maps.
- Repair at hangar.
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- User:
- “For the free repair using the crew skills to take effect on your tank, you have to upgrade your AIR CREW GROUND CREW skills of REPAIR RANK and REPAIR SPEED. Upgrading repair rank to the required level to have the increased repair speed to the vehicle. Example if the ground crew repair rank is at 3 of 5 stars then the repair speed will be applied to any vehicle up to rank 'tier' 3. If the vehicle meets this requirement then the repair speed will be applied and it will repair quicker. It does not matter if it is a tank or a plane, repair rank and repair speed for air crew ground forces is applied to both”.
- “SPAA reload speed, same as any tank, is controlled by ground forces loader skills, WEAPON RELOADING”.
- Forum moderator: “The Plane's repair rank and speed affects the Tanks' too. Weird, but it is like that. About percentages I cant tell, but I just tried about FW190 A5 which is a rank 3 plane. Its main repair time is 42,91h.
- Stars on repair time, these are with already bought Expert crew qualification:
- 0 Star: 42,91h.
- 1 Star: 42,91 - 11,44 h = 31,47.
- 2 Stars: 42,91 - 14,3 h = 28,61.
- 3 Stars: 42,91 - 17,16 h = 25,75.
- 4 Stars: 42,91 - 20,02 h = 22,89.
- 5 Stars: 42,91 - 22,89 h = 20,02”.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Tank Crew Skills?" - “Common crew skills”.
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- “For field repair (repair in the middle of the match) you need to upgrade the Field Repair skill for your tank crews. All crew members have the skill and it adds up for the total”.
- “If you mean hangar repair (the one that takes place if you turn off auto repair and takes a ridiculous amount of time), you need to go to the air crews and upgrade Repair Speed because aircraft mechanics work as tank mechanics in their spare time for some reason”.
- “Also, your repair times will skyrocket if the vehicle that requires repairing isn't the current active vehicle in that particular crew slot (to a factor of going from, as a rough example, a six-hour repair to a ten day repair)”.
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- “Im von Dir genannten Beispiel hat ein Spieler Sceenshots von der Repzeit beim Sherman vor und nach der Skillerhöhung von 2 auf 3 beim Flieger-Bodenpersonal gemacht. Man sieht dabei, dass die Repzeit von 5d09h auf 3d23h gesunken ist”.
- “Ich hab das eben nachgestellt, beim Pz IV F1 (Rang II) ging dadurch tatsächlich die Repzeit von 26 auf 17 Minuten runter, nachdem ich den Rang der Flieger-Bodencrew von 1 auf 2 geändert habe”.
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- Non-acceptable contents.
- Testdrive maps with all ground vehicles:
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- Warthunder Live "Mission at War Thunder Communities Center" by "_Gilard_" - “Shootingrange Tanks”.
- Warthunder Live "Mission at War Thunder Communities Center" by "_Gilard_" - “Shootingrange Airplanes”.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Der Angeber-Thread" - Statistics & mathematics ( Mean vs. arithmetic means,..).
- The BR-Rule.
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The Tier-Rule.- The BR-Rule.
- War Thunder - Official Forum "Think you're always Uptiered? Take a deeper look"# - Some interesting statistics about the BR level of certain BR racks, on WT, GF battles.
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- Recording videos
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- Sample video YouTube "War Thunder - Zero".
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- Disabling the HUD in live game works with double keystrokes like “ALT + W” or “ALT + Y”.
- Disabling the HUD in game replay just works if a single keystroke is configured, e.g. “F9”.
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- User missions with own maps:
- Assault PvE:
- Spawn camping:
- Reporting of players because of inappropriate behaviour:
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- Gamez Network Community Forum - “Aion”,...
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- GoG Forum - "Allgemeine Diskussion" - German subforum.
- Gamigo.
- Google.
- Guild Wars 2.
- Guild Wars 2 Forum ( EN ), Guild Wars 2 Forum ( DE ) - “As a Play-for-Free member, you’ll be able to bookmark threads you’d like to follow. To engage on the forums as a contributing member, you’ll need to convert to a paid game account by purchasing a Guild Wars 2 expansion”.
- Guild Wars 2 Forum ( EN ) "[DECISIONS] Choosing the right server/world" - “With megaservers implemented quite a while ago, you can play with players across different servers in all game modes except WvW. The only restriction to that are the regions, NA or EU”.
- Guild Wars 2 Forum Archive( EN ), Guild Wars 2 Forum Archive( DE ) - “This is a read-only snapshot of the official Guild Wars 2 forums prior to them being replaced with a newer version”.
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- Gute Frage "War Thunder mit OBS aufnehmen?" - “Das liegt am Vollbildmodus, du musst im Fenstermodus aufnehmen”.
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- League of Legends.
- League of Legends Boards, EUW - Write access to the board is granted, if your LoL account is on player level 15 or above.
- The read-only “League of Legends Forums”.
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- The French League of Legends Forums "New Player Forum", EUW.
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- The English League of Legends Forums "New Player Forum", NA.
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- Mortal Online Forums - “unfortunately, the account you registered on Mortal Online Forums did not meet membership requirements. Your account has been removed”.
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- Reddit.
- GuildWars2
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- “PvE and sPvP, your homeworld (or server) don't matter at all!”.
- “As you can see, the worlds that are full or very high are also the worlds that are high ranking. I can really advice choosen a very high server for later”.
- “The only things you need o consider when picking a Home World are these: Do you know someone who plays? If the answer is yes, try to join the same world. Even if they do not do WvW now, they may do in the future, and this will help playing with them”.
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- Reddit "How do I access the Chinese client?" ⇒ You need a QQ account.
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- Steam Community "DACH Federation DACHL", Announcements # - Experts told me that in this group every new free game on Steam - free for only a short time - is advertised, so that you can´t miss it.
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- World of Warplanes, World of Warplanes.
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- World of Tanks Official Forum "Panzer/Garage vs. Besatzung/Kaserne" - Strategies when and how to hire and skill crews.
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