Had a nice little moment the other day playing the Armored Warfare early access. I was playing a co-op battle in my M113, the Tier I vehicle from the more NATO-oriented German arms dealer (as opposed to the more Eastern Bloc-oriented Russian one, though there are exceptions in both cases), which is the US aluminum APC fitted with an autocannon-equipped turret to make it into kind of a half-assed light tank/CFV. (I'm not sure if this is a variant of the M113 that actually exists. There are a million-zillion variants of the M113, so it's entirely possible.)

Anyway, the M113 isn't a terribly good APC in real life, so you can imagine what kind of improvised light tank it makes in a video game, and I'm a bit of a scrub. Still, I survived longer than I generally do driving Tier I light tanks in World of Tanks, and did actually accomplish a thing or two before I managed to get lost (hey, what do you want, I'd never seen the seaport map before), flanked, and blown up.

At which point I had the following stereotype-defying exchange in team chat:

zgryphon Oops. Well, that's what I get for bringing an APC to a tank fight...

(notice that there's another M113 driver on the team list who's doing a damn sight better than I am)

zgryphon ... and for not being as good at driving it as Morguebat.

Morguebat <3

There I was expecting to get slagged off for my noobitude, because that's what you do in this kind of game, and the guy(?) went and hearted at me. :) Then there were congratulations all around as the surviving team members capped and won the game.

That kind of community vibe probably won't survive the game going into open beta, let alone release, but it's nice while it lasts.

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