Tank Crew Servers

[LordMaldoror 0]

For those of us who are trying Tank Crew but have little experience of IL2 as a whole, it would be great to get some feedback on which servers people here are gravitating towards.

 

One thing I note as being immediately confusing is that mouse-disabled servers (of which there are many) do in fact work fine when controlling a tank with the mouse (simply by selecting joystick control in the options).

 

Any particular servers where people have been going regularly for either a tank or a combined-arms fix?

[Larguzo 18]

Yesterday I played in coconut expert campaign, but there was only a small confrontation between t34 and pz3, nothing worked. The other day there was another server, I do not remember the full name but I put some Chinese. Anyway, the best thing I remember in tanks was the server 72 ag ded expert. There were real panzer operations, with targets to take several km. On more than one occasion, some t34 appeared at the aerodrome sowing chaos. I remember another case in which, after 10 km of penetration into the enemy lines towards an airfield, they bombed their own bridge next to the airfield so that we could not get there. This happened in our noses ... That was really funny but that server disappeared.

[=EXPEND=Tripwire 626]

Action dogfights and tanks (shutdown for now), or the Untouchables servers were the two I saw reasonable tank numbers in with KV1S and the Tiger available.  

 

Most others seem to still not be updated with the new tanks even if they have tank spawns. 

 

Edited July 28, 2018 by =EXPEND=Tripwire

[Larguzo 18]

Until recently, the dedicated server with normal difficulty to fly with a mouse was running, it had all the indicators and the tanks could be taken, it looked like war thunder but that server is not here either.

[Yogiflight 995]

32 minutes ago, LordMaldoror said:

One thing I note as being immediately confusing is that mouse-disabled servers (of which there are many) do in fact work fine when controlling a tank with the mouse (simply by selecting joystick control in the options).

The mouse-disabled does only mean, that you can't fly with your mouse, but have to use a joystick or a yoke flight system for flying. It has nothing to do with the tanks.

[LordMaldoror 0]

21 minutes ago, Yogiflight said:

The mouse-disabled does only mean, that you can't fly with your mouse, but have to use a joystick or a yoke flight system for flying. It has nothing to do with the tanks.

 

Indeed. Still, you can see why it might be a bit confusing for people who have only bought the tank module and haven't therefore ticked Joystick Control in the options.

 

Overall it seems like finding a Tank Crew-supported server with good uptime isn't easy. I know the development resources are limited for a niche product but it would be great to see an officially hosted dedicated server with support for the latest Tank Crew vehicles. Nothing fancy, just one of the standard maps it comes with an two teams (and maybe some AI?) battling end to end. I think such a server would more than make it's money back in terms of the videos, streamed battles, etc. that would circulate in the tank-minded gaming communities. And for early adopters at $70 buy-in, it would be nice to have at least one haunt to drop in on and have a chance to meet other tankers (the resulting feedback of which surely helps development).

[Yogiflight 995]

@LordMaldoror

Absolutely agreed, but don't forget, the early access for Tank Crew started only ten days ago. I am pretty sure this will come. But making some interesting online missions might need some time.

[Larguzo 18]

3 hours ago, E69_Heinz_Knoke said:

Hasta hace poco, el servidor dedicado con dificultad normal para volar con un mouse se estaba ejecutando, tenía todos los indicadores y se podían tomar los tanques, parecía un trueno de guerra, pero ese servidor tampoco está aquí.

Precisely I just saw that this server is active again but in the mission he had, they could not take tanks, which is strange because their title remains the same.

[Larguzo 18]

Good news, a server to our measure.

[JG1_Vonrd 213]

7 hours ago, E69_Heinz_Knoke said:

Good news, a server to our measure.

 

What server is this? Sorry, I can't tell what the name of the server is. 

[Larguzo 18]

4 hours ago, II./JG1_Vonrd said:

 

¿Qué servidor es este? Lo siento, no puedo decir cuál es el nombre del servidor. 

The name and the rules are somewhat funny, it appears on the right above the mouse pointer. There were a few people yesterday so we went to the rearguard and destroyed an artillery position ... Something is something.

[Larguzo 18]

Hace 11 horas, II./JG1_Vonrd dijo:

 

¿Qué servidor es este? Lo siento, no puedo decir cuál es el nombre del servidor. 

Hello, the two servers that I have seen that have the tank crew are these:

the flying ass clowns.

CHINA-JG5-Training map tank crew-Flying circus.

[JG1_Vonrd 213]

Thank you!

[Larguzo 18]

ACTION DOGFIGHTS Open!!!

Tiger, KV, 190A8 and Spit9 😛

[SCG_Slater 85]

Need more servers, I was looking this weekend and only found one, I had to jump out for a moment and when I tried to get back in it was not there anymore

 

 

Edited August 27, 2018 by Slater

[SAS_Storebror 857]

The Flying Ass Clowns  Server is still active, Tank Battle has been enhanced a lot.

You need to enable mods to see the server, that's because we Ass Clowns are wholeheartedly modders.

 

Mike 

Edited August 27, 2018 by SAS_Storebror

[Thad 1370]

Gotta love you Ass Clowns. 😊

[SCG_Slater 85]

1 hour ago, SAS_Storebror said:

The Flying Ass Clowns  Server is still active, Tank Battle has been enhanced a lot.

You need to enable mods to see the server, that's because we Ass Clowns are wholeheartedly modders.

 

Mike 

Ok AC you got me, where do I activate mods? 👴

[Thad 1370]

In the game... select 'Settings' then Game. 

 

Check the 'Enable Mods' box.

[SCG_Slater 85]

Ok I tried the AC server and it was fun, however not a lot of players populating the server. 

One question maybe make an area where airplanes and tanks can be used? I would like to have air support. 

Edited September 3, 2018 by Slater

[SAS_Storebror 857]

Thanks for visiting our Server Slater 

Server population isn't anything we can enforce, players seem to be masochists and rather prefer to join the single server on the list that's crowded all the time (read: WoL) just to get back here and complain about it. Weird, but out of reach for us.

 

Concerning air support: If you have other human players at hands, they are invited to give air support in the ground battle area to you. The only ones we ask to stay out of that area, because it's a training mission, are the fighter jockeys, as they will definitely ruin the purpose of this training area for mud movers and with them, for the Tank guys they want to support.

Using AI for CAS tasks is kinda tricky as AI has a mind of it's own and will almost always attack targets you would want them least to, while at the same time diving into the ground in swarms. That works only if you have a 100% scripted mission where each and every object is put in place manually with a dedicated route, interception points, attack points, regress points etc. pp., whereas our mission, for the sake of variety, is mostly random.

 

Mike

[Icer 24]

So two years later, is there a good solid "mostly tanks" server up? Is there a way to just see TC servers or do you have to look through all "Co-Op" and "Dogfight" MP servers listed online?

[Goosevich 25]

No, not really. It's either combined arms or nothing. You have to look for servers manually afaik.

[SCG_Neun 831]

One of the problems is the disparity in players at any given time of the day.  In a perfect world each side would be able to coordinate with their land and air assets and provide air cover when needed, but when servers are left open and missions are designed for extended play 24/7 you can't bring into the objectives any real sense of a mission unfolding.  Players come into a server and do not communicate with each other... with splintered objectives and little to no coordination.  So what you end up having is a single player mission...with some human elements thrown in for fun.

   

I could be looking at this wrong, but that's not the games fault, it's just the way the servers are privately setup within the Great Battles series.  If you had a complex system like TAW with land and air working together I think it could prevent a lot of the problems that have been documented.  A ground attack lingering in the area using his rear AI tail gunner to locate a tank....would be easy prey for a fighter element tasked with capping the area.  In the right server, throwing away an airplane, or a tank by suicidal gaming....would limit the players ability to saddle up to another plane /tank and you'd gradually weed out the trouble makers.

 

In the end, the game just has low numbers of players, and with no appeal for a combined arms approach by such server gurus such as TAW, or more organized tank squads who want to experience multiplayer on the ground the same way most GB players have from the air, it's just an empty nest out there.  At least for now...maybe it will evolve..who knows....

 

Edited May 14 by SCG_Neun