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PC Specific

• There's a fast forward button, use the hell out of it.

• The PC version lets you field an entire army of uniques - guild mercenaries and story characters. There's no longer a need to even look at the standard Athlum Army troops.

• Generally speaking, you will not want to grind on lower level enemies unless you can build up a substantial (50+) chain. That said, the PC version redressed the levelling mechanic such that you don't need to worry too much. It's very hard to permanently screw up your stats.

• If you are playing the PC version without a gamepad, make sure you go into your options and go past the keyboard tab to the XBox controller tab. The option to have in-game buttons show up as keyboard keys and not XBox buttons is in there, and it will save you a lot of hassle. The game actually controls fine by keyboard/mouse once you swap the prompts.

• Despite what a lot of 360 version veterans will tell you, grinding works in the PC version.

General

• There's a reason you can save anywhere, and it is because battles take really long. Save a lot. No one will judge you for it.

• Use Mr. Diggs as much as you can because he gets a lot better at digging and a lot of those components (especially metals) are needed to upgrade weapons. And as a general rule of thumb save a few digs for any red harvest points you may miss.

• When you capture monsters, always make sure you've got a nice supply of each component it's comprised of before you decide to keep it.

• You don't have to do all side quests available, because there are a lot, but if you're having trouble with story quests, don't keep attempting it, do some side quests. If a side quest is too hard, do a different side quest or go exploring.

• It's usually a good idea to hit the guild in town first to see if you've met any of the requirements, especially the 'obtain 3 of X' ones. Because if you use those components for crafting, you no longer have the requirement.

• Don't feel pressured to use the first battle leaders you get. While the ones with super attacks are quite useful, feel free to use characters unlocked from side quests as they will usually give your team a bit more variety.

• As soon as soldiers who can use revive herbs show up, recruit a few and stick them into your unions.

• You can turn off the QTE crits (making them a random chance) in the options if they buggin you, although there is an achievement for doing a lot of them right.

• Always use your time shift to engage battles so you can keep your chain up. Remember, you can use your time shift to avoid battles too although it makes it a bit more risky.

• And yes, INSTALL TO YOUR HDD.

• Avoid as much fighting as possible until you've received your final union upgrade to 18 people. Ideally wait even longer until you have all the party members you want to use. This is because the game makes a big distinction between easy battles and hard battles, and if you fight a bunch of monsters at/below your level you might gimp your stat progression and find it hard to continue. You probably want to be BR 7-16ish by the time you've finished the first disk, lower is better.

• The Nest of Eagles fight is ridiculously hard, particularly if you are avoiding levelling. In order to beat it you'll basically HAVE to wait until you have an AoE spell option like Blackout, or David's Gae Bolge (he has to be a union leader for it to show up).

• Try to have 42 sidequests done before you get to the last room of the aqueducts, as game events close off some of those 42 quests forever. Have Emma's and Baulson's quests done before Nest of Eagles. If you really want to be picky, look up which ones you can skip and which ones disappear on http://www.gamefaqs.com or some other similiar site.

• http://lastremnant.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_Remnant_Wiki_-_The_Last_Remnant_Guide is your friend. Most of your questions about where to find particular monsters, how to do a bothersome quest, or where to find upgrade components can be found there.

• There is no shame in consulting a guide for this game. I found several game mechanics and quests are counter-intuitive, and if you are a completionist you'll basically have to consult a guide. Gamefaqs has a few, as does the wiki site.

• Be a bit stingy with your money early on until you can buy Baulson. You need his beefy HP score to deal with the first real boss.

• Enemy stats increase as your battle rank does, but at a slower rate than your own stats, so don't be too worried about your BR going too high.

• Characters ask for components to upgrade their weapons. If they ask for one, and you buy the component, and it doesn't show up in their inventory immediately, don't worry. They'll take the component soon enough.

• As soon as one of your characters learns spark V, make him the leader of his own union and put at least 2 other spellcasters in it. This union will be able to use the combination spell Blackout, which puts a real hurting on bosses and kills anything else.

• Traps, Explosives, Lotions, and Evocations all blow. Don't let your characters learn them, and don't level them up for characters that already have them. The first few hexes are terrible but the ultimate ones are great, so only let your characters learn them if you're willing to use them a lot and level them to the end. The rest of the skillsets are good and you should let your guys take them. (Note: Evocations are different from invocations, which are good. Evocations start with mystic missile, invocations with spark.)

• Pick a couple trees you want Rush to concentrate on and disable those you don't want to use. Same goes for any character, pretty much.

• Don't neglect Hexes or Psionics - although you'll only get the latter much later in the game. Hexes can seriously debilitate unions and are good AoE damage, and Psionics can absolutely wreck a union's morale in a single cast.

• Build unions around a common thread, but make sure every union has a Herb User or a Remedies Caster, preferably multiples thereof.

• Don't just blindly rush into a boss with every union at once - many bosses have extremely powerful counterattacks or AoEs. A lot of the game's strategy is in being able to manage your unions, going through a cycle of switching them in and out for healing while one or two unions tank a boss.

• Switch around your union leaders often. The leader gets priority for performing moves, so it can help to catch up anyone who's lagging behind.

• Explore! The main story will take you to maybe a third of the available locations. Sidequests and Guild Tasks are very important, not least because it'll unlock skillsets for Rush.

• Whenever you fight an extremely large bird enemy, throw as few unions at it as possible in the first turn, because that fucker will use Curse as a counterattack on every unit that does. This gives each character within the unit a solid chance of dying when they try to attack, and it's generally a death sentence.

• Speaking of status effects: they activate on an entire union if they hit anyone within that union. If you're fighting something that loves throwing statii at you, rejig yourself to have as many unions with as few people in each as possible.

What are the best PC tank games 2020? Rolling into battle in a vehicle that weighs the same as ten elephants and can raze entire buildings with a single shot simply never gets old, but it’s not always easy to find a game that delivers the perfect tanking experience. If you’re looking for the best free tank games or the biggest triple-A armoured division sims, you’ve come to the right place.

Tanks are brilliant because they’re immense hunks of killer steel, destroying all in their path with ease. But the tank is also synonymous with tense firefights and immense claustrophobia. The agony of reloading, the snail pace, and the fact that you’re the enemy’s priority target make tank games as nerve-wracking as they are empowering.

There have been countless greats to pick over the years; the genre has been knocking about since the Apple II days. From hyper-realistic, control-laden sims to arcadey, point-and-explode shoot-’em-ups, here are the best tank games on PC.

The best tank games are:

WORLD OF TANKS

If it is a hardcore, lifetime-to-master tank game you are looking for, steer well clear of World of Tanks. This free-to-play titan offers fast and frantic gameplay with only a handful of realistic elements thrown in for good measure. This is one of the best tank games for casual gamers looking for an in-road to more tanking action, and yet one with enough depth and progression to keep gamers invested well into the later tiers of unlockable tanks.

Perhaps World of Tanks’ greatest strength is its roster of over 250 armoured vehicles, ranging from scout vehicles to battlefield behemoths. Better still, with the game featuring vehicles from France, Great Britain, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Soviet Russia, the United States and China, there is heaps of variation in what you will be battling alongside and squaring up to in World of Tanks.

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War Thunder

A leviathan of free-to-play tank games, War Thunder favours hardcore tacticians, genius statisticians, and obsessive attention to detail. Unlike rival World of Tanks, War Thunder cannot make any claims to being accessible. There are a ridiculous number of tanks and branches of research; you can easily pour hours of your time into the wrong tank. Additionally, War Thunder boasts a complex and sophisticated armour penetration mechanic, which forces careful consideration before firing a single shot.

While War Thunder’s arcade mode does a good job of introducing gamers to some of the game’s core mechanics, you cannot consider yourself a War Thunder veteran until you have emerged victorious from a simulator battle. This stripped-back game mode restricts your view, turns off aim assists, and dramatically increases the time it takes to perform any action. Every encounter is a nail-biting tactical nightmare.

If you’re just starting out then be sure to check out our War Thunder Ground Battles tips and our guide to the best War Thunder tier 1 tanks. War Thunder also offers planes and ships to pilot, making it one of our best plane games, too.

Valkyria Chronicles 4

Tanks denote a feeling of power. You burst through battlefields encased in metal, blowing various buildings to smithereens. Not every game lets you get away with that, though. Valkyria Chronicles 4, for one, leaves you feeling exposed if you charge in all willy-nilly – making for an alluring blend of power and strategy.

Sega’s tactical RPG puts you in the trench coat of an army officer tasked with guiding his unit through the grim reality of war. As you engage foes in turn-based battle, one of the units you call upon is a tank. Play it smart, and you’ll blast ‘em to bits in a cunning flanking manoeuvre; put a step wrong, however, and you’ll find your tank shut down by a Lancer.

Europe’s pre-WWI political climate inspires the setting of Valkyria Chronicles 4. Visually, however, it looks closer to an anime game, which gives it a visual charm in comparison to other tank-based games.

Armored Warfare

While the tags of ‘MMO’, ‘free-to-play’ and ‘tank’ apply to Armored Warfare as well they do to World of Tanks, a number of key differences ensure both are worth the time of a tank games veteran. Transporting World of Tanks’ remarkably approachable gameplay to the more modern era, Armoured Warfare provides tankers with more equipment, newer tanks, and a selection of versatile tank tech that adds a great deal more variation to the core gameplay.

Additionally, Armored Warfare brings PVE to the fold, allowing you to team up with friends to take on AI enemies, progressing through the ranks of tanks without constantly losing out to highly skilled foes in PVP.

As a live game, Armored Warfare new tanks arrive frequently with updates that enhance and expand the game. You’ll never be short of a boomstick on wheels. On top of being one of the best tank games you can get, it’s also one of the best free PC games.

Steel Armor: Blaze Of War

What’s more fun than blowing stuff up and driving through buildings? Carefully micromanaging its crew and innards to the point where you forget you’re actually in a tank and instead begin to believe you’re a machinist in a factory… obviously.

Steel Armor: Blaze of War offers up new pastures where tank games are concerned, looking to the battlefields of the 1980s Iran-Iraq conflicts. Tank enthusiasts will adore the rampant attention to detail – there are only two tanks in the game, but both are rendered to staggering detail, inside and out. Despite being fiddly and at times inaccessible, Steel Armor’s dry ardour for military hardware makes it a must-play for tank game veterans and fans of war games who want a more modern setting.

Panzer Elite Action: Gold Edition

Bundling two classic Panzer titles into one Steam release, Panzer Elite Action: Gold Edition is hours upon hours upon hours of driving tanks around World War II battlefields and blowing stuff up – and that is exactly what we need sometimes. Incredibly user friendly, but full of engaging mechanics and unlockables, Panzer Elite Action is a tank game all about surviving famous historical campaigns to fight another day.

Speaking of: Here are the best survival games on PC

Playing on either the Allied or Axis side in a variety of famous conflicts, Panzer Elite Action gives you control of four-to-five tanks and sets you on your merry way blowing stuff up and cowering behind hedgerows for some semblance of cover. While it lacks the realism of its originator, Panzer Elite, the need to look after your crew and upgrade your equipment makes for a compelling experience from start to finish.

Arma 3

170 miles of pristine military sandbox await players heading into Arma 3 – it’s a massive open-world that lends your tanking an overwhelming sense of scale. Gone are the days of distressing close-quarters encounters in bombed-out cities, Arma 3 hands players a new source of anxiety in the form of having to constantly scan the horizons for new threats. Buildings and natural cover are scarce, meaning that survival, and indeed victory, rely upon being able to identify and destroy the enemy before they even know you are there.

While not strictly a tank game, Arma 3 possesses an incredible level of realism that brings the concept of modern tank warfare to life. Indeed, Arma 3’s realism means it has been mistaken for real war footage by news organisations. Playing as the armoured arm of a massive army is what Arma 3 does best: aiding ground assaults, hunting down enemy tanks and wreaking havoc on strongholds. Besides, when you hop out of the heavy armour you’ve still got one of the best sniper games around.

Battlefield 4

Careful positioning is key to surviving in most tank games. Battlefield 4’s tanks hate careful positioning. Battlefield 4’s tanks like going really fast, blowing helicopters out of the sky and making little ground people run away and cower behind buildings. Battlefield 4’s tanks are ridiculous.

Rampaging around the map causing untold damage and ruining the carefully laid plans of your fellow soldiers is the order of business in Battlefield 4. This is tank gameplay at its most empowering, allowing players to become Death on tracks and leave any veneer of tactics or strategy behind them as they romp around the map exchanging shells for XP.

Related: Check out our best simulation games list

If you prefer your tanks a little more old-school, you could hop over to Battlefield 1, or for the WW2-flavoured Battlefield 5 vehicles. Panzers, Churchills, and Sturntigers await!

Heroes & Generals

Forget the strategy-based metagame that accompanies Heroes & Generals’ engrossing ground battles and you have still got a hectic combined forces war game in which tanks play a vital role. Football manager touch. Include the metagame and Heroes & Generals is the complete tanker’s package, offering everything from resource management to explosive first-person combat.

There are few tank management features to pay constant attention to in Heroes & Generals, which means the focus is strictly on wreaking havoc. The combined forces element of Heroes & Generals lends your role as a tank commander some genuine potency on the battlefield, where your actions can make the difference for your fellow teammates, whether on the ground or in the air. If WW2 military hardware is your bag then Heroes & Generals is easily one of the best free Steam games you can get.

Red Orchestra 2

Tanks are not the focus of this realism-heavy Eastern Front shooter, but the way they seamlessly fit into its mud-and-guts gameplay make for some of the finest tanking moments around.

Red Orchestra 2 utilises a similar ballistics and armour penetration mechanic as War Thunder, ensuring that every encounter between two tanks is an adrenaline-fuelled duel where knowledge and precision triumph over brute force. The constant threat of instant, fiery death at the hands of enemy anti-tank troops is just part of what makes it one of the best multiplayer games on PC.

Company of Heroes 2

Transporting the brilliantly refined RTS gameplay of the first game to the Eastern Front, Company of Heroes 2 is a SEGA game all about tactical ingenuity and making the best use of your tanks. Cover, line-of-sight and suppression are the keys to success in Company of Heroes 2, meaning you will have to direct your resources using genuine battlefield tactics if you want to repel the Axis threat.

Packing a devastating punch and able to turn the tide of any battle, the tanks of Company of Heroes 2 are a joy to send guns blazing towards enemy infantry units and watch as the casualties mount up. Like all good tank games, Company of Heroes 2 acknowledges the vulnerabilities of a tank, punishing players who send their armoured units into the fray without due caution.

Panzer Corps

Panzer Corps is old school turn-based strategy gaming at its absolute finest. Putting you in the boots of a Wehrmacht general, it is your job to oversee and manage operations across 26 gruelling Axis campaigns.

Ignoring the fact that you are fighting for the bad guys, the focus of Panzer Corps is firmly on leading your units to victory. There are over 800 unit types spread among 20 unit classes, which results in an endless array of attacking options for both sides. If that is not convoluted enough, every unit has roughly 20 parameters by which its strengths and weaknesses are judged – it is all a battlefield-mathematician could possibly ask for, making it one of the best strategy games around.

Panzer Corps 2

Almost nine years after the release of Panzer Corps, the Panzer Corps 2 release date has finally arrived. Besides the huge visual upgrade, the WWII strategy game sequel also expands on the tank battle experience, with the inclusion of over 1000 unique units (up from Panzer Corps’ 800) and an expansive campaign including 60 scenarios.

The multiplayer offerings are also numerous, with several ways to take the battle online against – or in cooperation with – your friends, and with extensive modding support and a powerful Scenario Editor, you’ll be able to orchestrate the tank-on-tank showdowns of your dreams.

Stand down, commander: your training is now over. You now know all the very best tank games you can play on PC, and are ready to run your own campaign of destruction. If you’d like a little out-of-tank action, you may also be interested to know we have training in the best WW2 games, too. But until next time, keep your eyes on the road and a shell in the barrel, and have fun tanking it up.