World Of Tanks Guide

booman · Jun 28, 2014

allenskd · Jun 30, 2014

The game looks incredible! I've been meaning to try it myself with some friends but never got around it

booman · Jul 1, 2014

Its fun, but for some reason every time I try a battle I end up in a soccer game with tanks. I can't figure out how to play a standard battle anymore.

Kladiator · Jul 3, 2014

Can anyone tell me how steep is the learning curve for this game?

Is there a possibility to learn how to play before going online and, mostly likely in my case, be insulted by a 13 old boy for being a complete noob?

booman · Jul 3, 2014

World of Tanks seems to have the same "catch 33" where you risk playing against the obsessive pros or the kid who screws off and shoots everybody. Even people on his own team.
I had a lot of fun roaming around maps looking for ways to flank the enemy. You can also hide in large shrubs or trees. I found there is a lot of debris and buildings to hide behind, but at the same time there is a "sniper-mode" where you can zoom in, but accuracy is quite low. So you may have a chance where you get picked off by an invisible sniper, or you have to go face-to-face with 5 tanks at once.

The best way to play is join a group or team and work together.
I know what you mean, how do I practice so I can be beneficial in the battle and actually have fun?

The cool thing, is all the tanks are WWII tanks, which means they are mostly slow and the battle is close up. WoT is mostly an arcade game, but you can upgrade your tank or purchase other tanks.

So the learning curve isn't so high, but you always risk fighting against those pros who play all day every day.

Red Baron · Sep 24, 2014

Greetings.

The above is an awesome job of step by step how to!! Since you wrote it some things have changed. I was very disappointed when I could no longer play WOT on linux about June of this year. I thought I would give it a try just now and same issue. I happened across your tutorial, and thought I would give it a try. Unfortunately using the new playonlinux 4.2.5, and the version of Wine you say to use, causes a failure. Right about the time I try to launch the .exe file. It pops up with a blue window, with a windows type error box that says, "World of tanks - Critical error" "an unhandled exception is occured". (yes it really says that.) "the application will be restarted". Ok, cancel. Hitting ok, just repeats the error. Cancel is the only option at this point.

Red Baron · Sep 24, 2014

Also, what I have happen, installing the normal way, fails at login in with "login interrupted by user" I've don't packet traces on this, and it keeps sending out packets and listening on different ports. Which makes it sound like a WOT problem, but I've gotten no where with them. So for now, I can only play on planonmac laptop. Would love to get it going on my Linux workstation again.

booman · Sep 24, 2014

Dang, of course, some update probably broke it.
Can you post the debug from PlayOnLinux?
Also, were you able to play it previously?
What distro are you using? 64-bit or 32-bit?
Might as well list your video card specs too

Red Baron · Sep 25, 2014

To be honest, I was hoping for a sanity check and hoped someone would try it from scratch to see if they/you got the same thing. <GD&R>... that being said, I deleted the whole mess without saving. In the past any message sent to Playonlinux was never answered, and I didn't know if this message would ever been seen by a human.

I am happy to do it from scratch and save what ever info you would require.

I played it heavily on my Opensuse box for many many hours. It got borked when WOT did their update. This was back in June. I keep hoping it would get fixed, and I just happened on your tutorial above and had high hopes. I'm using a desktop with 64gb, 4 processor intel, with an Nvidia GeForce GTX285 video card. I am using a 64 bit distro. Opensuse 12.3

The thing is, the game installed via Playonlinux loads and installs and loads just fine. Where it fails is when you try to log into the game. It fails. There is some sort of strange check that goes on, and the game doesn't get the reply and it tells the user that the user (me) has disconnected, and another message that escapes me at this moment.

It could be something odd or different in my distro, but I'm guessing not.

Red Baron · Sep 25, 2014

Oh, if you want a debug, do I need to use any switches on loading of playonlinux to get that info and where is it? I'm not very versed in POL.

booman · Sep 25, 2014

Nope, just click "debug" to launch the game in PlayOnLinux instead of "Run"
Then a window will appear and post all of the errors
Please post it here: PlayOnLinux

Red Baron · Sep 27, 2014

Okay, done as requested and placed as a new thread as instructed above.

booman · Sep 29, 2014

Thanks, I'll take a look

booman · Feb 26, 2015

The World Of Tanks Guide has been updated with Wine 1.7.37
No more IE8 neccessary!
Runs GREAT

Red Baron · Mar 1, 2015

Wonderful!!! The instructions look very comprehensive! That should help most to get online. I used to play it on my Linux box but during one of the updates my fps dropped so bad, I could no longer play. I'll have to try this and see if that has helped. Thanks again!!

booman · Mar 2, 2015

I didn't actually play any matches, but everything seemed to run fine.
What video card are you using?

Red Baron · Mar 8, 2015

You really have to play a match. Once in the match, you will get a running readout of fps, and ping in the upper left corner. I am currently running an EVGA GeForce GTX285. It did run find for months, and then an update made it unplayable. I'm sure if I spend some for a newer card it will be fine again, but something happened to cause more overhead. I keep hoping NVidia will make good on their promises and work with linux to make a super clean code for video

booman · Mar 9, 2015

So your GTX285 was running smoothly for a long time? What settings were you using?
I noticed even my 550 Ti was slowing down with everything on HIGH at a resolution of 1680x1050
So you might have to lower the video settings or invest in a new card.
Which distro are you running?

Red Baron · Mar 10, 2015

Yes, sure did. I was getting roughly 40-60fps. VERY playable. I already have resigned myself to a newer card. I just don't have the funds currently. The perplexing thing is, that it DID run very well for several thousand games/several months. I wish I knew if it were a Playonlinux issue, or a WOT issue or?

I don't recall now, It around 1680... I think or something like that. It is not really playable at 1024... I mean I guess you can to prove a point, but that is about it.

I'm currently running Opensuse 12.3.... no changes there, except the typical patches etc. I did do a couple of video updates in hopes that would solve it.

Just priced the 980 I think it is. Still $589. I could get by with far less I'm sure, but will probably hold out for that when the price drops a little more.