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15-2 roflstomp. Our arty shot me in my scout for not scouting where HE wanted me to. I was spotting the whole field on Siegfried Line he had targets he just wanted me to rush the enemy spawn.
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Ugh, that kind of nonsense seems to be endemic now. At the weekend I got shot three times in the same blooming match by players who seemed rather annoyed by my reluctance to commit suicide. The fact that I had the best stats of any player on the team and had three marks on the barrel of the LT is was driving didn't seem to convince them that my scouting knowledge was a bit above the 'run at the enemy and die' level.

WoT really does attract window-lickers in scary numbers.
 
It is simply because WG have allowed the community to become more and more toxic.

All the need to is to invite more players to become 'mods' enough that there is a good chance every game has one. Let them ban offenders in game for up to 24 hours, fine credits and submit reports to WG that ACTUALLY GET LOOKED AT.

You could find the mod players by looking at stats like:

Very low average team damage per game
Over 10k games
Over 4 years playing
Over a certain skill level

There is NO WAY I would let my 12 year old play this game as the language is just too dangerous. The other day a Polish player was told "I wish Hitler had put your relations into a gas over. get back to Auschwitz" along with the usual obscenities and racist stuff that goes on.

These players need to be banned. Once people realize that there are repercussions it would slowly get better.

Oh and have a simple 4 digit capatcha before each battle every now and then to stop bots.

If WG took responsibility for these issues it would make the game so much better. The trolls would give up and the player base would improve.
 
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@neoboy LOL.... What are you playing instead? I finished Subnautica recently and loved it.

I did take about 6 months off some 9 months ago. I don't play nearly as much as I used to. When I do play, it tends to be a lot more down at T4/5 as it's a lot more fun down there.

I do however really want a TVP-50/51 so am going up the Czech line and I also only need about 50k on my STRV-103 before I get the T10 - having armour that stands up to 120.000001mm ammo without auto-pen over match nonsense will be nice.

So a lot less stressed about it than I used to be.
 
Hodders said:
@neoboy LOL.... What are you playing instead? I finished Subnautica recently and loved it.
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Well I've got my first gaming PC since 2011 so have quite a backlog of singleplayer games to catch up on. Multiplayer wise, I'm on Squad and Project Reality at the moment but feel I've room for something I can jump in and out of easier.

Ironic problem with playing lower tiers is the amount of hate messages you get from professional seal clubbers telling you what a seal clubber you are just because you killed them and/or helped your team greatly.

Had one this Monday in my Bromwell, helped roll over the enemy team with a Top Gun and High Calibre and then this E-25 (who was top tier in the T7 game) absolutely went off it on me in private chat. I was just laughing at the irony of an an absolutely OP tank with preferential MM who was top tier accusing me of being a noob and seal clubber, telling me that I need to play more higher tiers. He also looked like a reroll with an account barely year old and Skorpion G as his bar far most played tank, intelligence level in this game really baffles me.

To be fair I do barely touch my T10 tanks but that's mostly because frankly you can't afford to run them with a free account without playing lower tier stuff.
 
Hodders said:
It is simply because WG have allowed the community to become more and more toxic.

All the need to is to invite more players to become 'mods' enough that there is a good chance every game has one. Let them ban offenders in game for up to 24 hours, fine credits and submit reports to WG that ACTUALLY GET LOOKED AT.
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That's an excellent idea, but WG almost certainly are not interested in doing anything quite so sensible. Look how long it took them to take even token measures against people running cheat mods. Their attitude seems to be that everyone should be permitted to play, no matter how dreadful their behaviour, because even morons and cheats will sometimes spend money. And for WG it's all about the money.

What I hope WG may be persuaded to do is some kind of 'shadow ban' system, where accounts with bot-level stats or lots of player complaints against them are put into a separate matchmaking queue and only ever get into matches with their own poisonous kind.
 
I am sometimes tempted to start a second account, use as many cheats and bots as I can, play over a VPN and see what I have to do to get banned.

I'm not certain anyone ever gets banned to be honest.
 
They simply don't care as long as people hand money over.

It's simple as that for any problem that this game has, we as consumers vote with our wallets and everyone is voting for them to continue to go on the way they are.

Frankly I'm pretty ****** and disappointed with myself for handing over as much money as I did over Christmas period when there are so many great and passionate developers out there. Lesson learnt though.
 
Yup - however frustrating it is I NEVER hand over and money. I've got a small amount of gold from literally years ago that I sue for demounting equipment, but that's it.

But when you see all the Somua SMs around today, you can see how much cash they are raking in.
 
Well so far every map I've played feels like a completely new one, that's how much work they've done to them!

They've done a great job on them. To me they feel flatter, even though they're not, but certainly are going to take some learning to where to play to get the advantage.
 
So Link convinced me to play this again. Have few questions

Tiering Spread - In all of the games I played (mixture of T7, T8, T9 & T10) I was either bottom tier majority of the time (at least never top tier) except in the T10 games which was 15 vs 15. Is there preferential matchmaking in the game now? How do you get to be one of the magical 3 tier 10 tanks beating on half a team of T8s ;)

Loading Time - Why does it take so long to load into a game? Don't think I've managed to get in before 30s of the game has already passed. Game isn't on an SSD (WD Black) but can't see why that should be a problem, used to load plenty fast before.

Performance - Game is often quite choppy for me, freezing up for 5s at a time. Fps is fine, getting 130+. Was the same on previous drivers + the latest nvidia ones.

Penetration / Ammo / Bounces - Have they significantly changed the way penetration or ammo works in this game? Finding silly stuff is bouncing (IS vs a German t6 med flat angle or T110E4 vs a battchat...). Also appear to be many super duper tanks that regular ammo just wont go through, is it a spam premium ammo or go home affair now?

Matchmaker - I see there is no balanced match maker yet :o

Edit: time to put the game back to sleep I think. Nothing has changed in the many years since I stopped playing it, only made things look shiny.
 
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You basically summed it up, matchmaker is still absolute dog****. They've changed the format so it's 3/5/7 (highest to lowest tier) or 5/10 and rarely get those magical same tier games. Pure luck how you end up top tier but expect to be bottom tier majority of the time. Makes bad tanks like Pershing with 190mm pen absolutely miserable experiences.

That brings us to the other point, there are now a lot of tanks where you basically load good or go home. Some tanks are so stupid like the latest Russian TDs, you need to load gold just to be able to go through the "weakspots".

RNG can be pretty bad in terms of penetration, wait till your 120mm+ shells bounce off a flat side of a light tank because they hit a tiny sliver of a track, without even tracking it. Also whole triple overmatch mechanic is rubbish frankly, you can auto pen parts of some tanks because the calibre of your gun is 1mm bigger, something that favours a lot of Soviet tanks.

There are no plans for any skill based matchmaker as far as anyone can tell which is why I've put the game to sleep. In fact I recently read some interview from few years ago in Russian where they basically say they are not planning on it ever as they don't want to take the random element out of random battles.
 
neoboy said:
There are no plans for any skill based matchmaker as far as anyone can tell which is why I've put the game to sleep. In fact I recently read some interview from few years ago in Russian where they basically say they are not planning on it ever as they don't want to take the random element out of random battles.
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I was talking about this a year or so ago with a player from the Russian server, and he was totally convinced WG will never have skill based matchmaking because the bulk of RU players are not interested in fair, close fights. They want to be on the winning side in 15-4 stomps, kicking the other team in the face. I've no idea how valid his view is, but it would explain WG's complete disinterest in fairer matchmaking.
 
I uninstalled last night, after playing a few games in the new graphics. gameplay is exactly same as before, with very few enjoyable games.
maybe just me but I really do feel it has gotten worse over the last few months with more gold floating about and more one sided games and more OP tanks that the older models just can't match.
I gave up trying to get the JP E100 just because the ferdinand is just useless in todays game.

I'm leaving WoT now, and not coming back.
I'm gonna try and learn how to fly a spaceship in Elite mixed up with a bit of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
 
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