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neoboy said:
Think I've experienced the biggest drop in WR this whole year and developed an ulcer after playing today.
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A 30 or 40 % Win rate is about as good as you can expect on a x5 XP weekend.....it is the norm
Although I usually run a 55-65% WR today I have won only 7 out of 18 games...it is bot filled team after bot filled team and I am switching off.
 
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I normally do alright regardless but my WR graph looks like the £ right after the referendum right now. Just huge losing streaks, and you literally seem at the mercy of lady luck. I played a few games after midnight and amount of 44/46% was huge, I guess that's when actual bots hit their large numbers.
 
Speaking of stars I two marked my Indien Pz. in the ****storm that was yesterday, which is surprising as I neither like the tank nor knew I was even close to it.

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You know I've never had huge dips in WR during special events, sure standard of play drops but the useless people tend to distributed pretty evenly. I've well over a 100 battles over the weekend now and I am well below 40%. I know you hit losing streaks here and there but this is a simple ****take at this point, I don't think MM is that clever but it almost feels like being thrown into some loser pile of the player distribution now.

WN8 has been alright somehow and I'm not really being stats obsessed either, just having a hard time enjoying even the wins. Every game ends in complete slaughter of the enemy team where you don't feel your contribution matters no matter how well you've played. It honestly just feels like playing the roulette right now. Unfortunately being a cheap player who never ran premium, the x5 bonus and free premium just too hard to miss, especially when I've plenty of tanks to grind still.
 
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You know I was actually thinking about investing a little money into the game with the Thunderbolt and maybe Rudy but after the weekend I somewhat clicked about the utterly extortionate relationship WG have built with their consumers and the absolute liberties they take with EU server.

We all know what RU and NA always had better deals and while you can't really explain the latter at least the former has the excuse of worse economic conditions so having to give more value for money to the players. The disparity between EU and RU though in terms of the offer for the military parade is beyond disgusting though. We had the x5 bonus, 15% discount on T8+ and the two missions.

On RU for getting one win you got a day of premium, and 5 premium consumables for every nations so if you sold them, that's 9 x 50k = 450k. Second mission on EU involved having to get 150k XP just to get 15 premium consumables. RU servers had two more missions which involved getting 5 and 10 kills respectively, each awarded 5 emblems so 10 in total which depending on the tank would have an average gold value of around 1000. That in itself has a gold value of around £3.50+ and I'm not sure whether they were unique or you could buy them.

Apart from the x5 bonus for a first win, all consequent wins also yielded x3 crew experience for tanks of T4 and above. Offer is still running a day longer and started a day earlier on 5th of May. On top of that there is 50% discount on garage slots and consumables. I'm not even counting that £ for £ they had better offers for tanks in premium shops because fair enough, "economic conditions" factors.

Naturally they also had a discount on any vehicle with 50%, 30% and 15% discounts depending on the tier, premium and no premium tanks. We can't even buy the Berlin tanks all at once over here, right now you can net all 5 including new Thunderbolt with 2500g and 30 Days Premium for just over £60. So you know after gold and premium time you're paying about £9 a pop per tank.

So yeah, they can go **** themselves with getting money from me when they so blatantly take advantage of their customers.
 
So having only just finished the Stug mission and getting my full first female crew, I'm a little disappointed that the voice I hear is in fact still a male one. I realise it's not a game changer, but I would have expected WG to have record some female voices since they introduced them in the first place.
 
Got an email from Wargaming yesterday with the subject "We Understand Why You Left Us" which said:

A Miracle: Matchmaker Fixes

Improved Matchmaking: To lessen your frustration, the matchmaker is now more fair, balanced and intelligent.
Artillery Rework: Remember the time you were one-shotted across the battlefield? Well that's not going to happen anymore.
On top of this, so much more has changed in the last few months. Come back and check it out!
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Shame it took them 3 years to fix the match maker (also arty never annoyed me).

I feel like they need a gold star for fixing one issue lol.
 
The MM has certainly taken a step in the right direction, but it's by no means fully fixed.

As for arty, I miss not being able to one shot others :(
 
Absolutely nothing fixed about the matchmaker, merely one small positive step that should have happened years ago and it still falls very short in properly matching tanks tier for tier, nevermind skill.

I actually found artillery more bothersome since the new patch since aim doesn't matter that much anymore.
 
The MM will continue to be broken until they balance out the win chances. When your top tier tanks are all 43%ers with 20k games it does get a little frustrating. I don't mind having a team of varying abilities - just share out the idiots.
 
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The MM will continue to be broken until they balance out the win chances. When your top tier tanks are all 43%ers with 20k games it does get a little frustrating. I don't mind having a team of varying abilities - just share out the idiots.
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+1 I guess all we ask for is a decent chance rather than one team being lumbered with 5 or 6 bot or poor players.
On the topic of bots..can someone enlighten me to the point of having a bot? What are they actually used for? ??
 
Well you can go on ebay and pay to have a choice of tanks unlocked on your account, then you have those "codes" for T95E2 which isn't a code at all but you basically pay and invite someone to play so they'll just fire up a bot to grind to T10 as your friend. Could just be someone who doesn't care about their stats and use it grind tanks/credits as you're guaranteed to make a certain amount if you play lower tiers.

If you're into conspiracy theories then allegedly it's WG also flooding the player base with bots to keep up player numbers and quick queues but that seems a little far fetched.
 
Played it again last night. Bounced off a Type 64 light tank with my IS 122mm...just grrrr. Almost every game I died from arty, repeatedly tracking me then just rapid fire from all arty.

I switched playing my tanks/TD with bino's and camping out of sight and that worked much better.
 
I don't mind AFK quite as much. If I'm in a game and the doorbell goes with a delivery, I have to go !

By the time I've signed for something and get back to the PC it can easily be 3 or 4 minutes.

Real life happens.

But when you see a 43% player with 12k games in a T10 tank with average damage in that tank of ~400 the account should just be closed.
 
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