Lenticulas

And to add some description to it. Also, no platooning or deliberate sabotage or anything, just trying to win. On the way up To start off, I just couldn't lose. People seemed to know what to do, proceeded straight to the cap, captured it, move on, etc. Sometime I did well, sometimes I did badly, it made no difference at all. Loads of platoons on my side only. Everything good 60% Winrate - I'm a tanking GOD! In short. Always on the "good team" And then at 55 games, the MM flipped to the exact opposite, as completely, and mechanically as if someone flipped a switch. On the way down No one seemed to know what to do, people wandered off to random places, I wondered sometimes if there were really 10 people on my team at all, I actually had to count the dots on the map, they seemed to just not to be there at all. Loss after loss after loss, no way I could have done anything about it. 80% of platoon advantage, ie when only one team has one, was NOW on the red team. In short. Always on the "moron team" back to "normal" Then even after switching to the other next Rosomak, the shit continued. Until my Winrate was slammed down to 52.5% exactly. At that point, normal teams, normal games, some good, some bad. The line now moved on exactly as I first thought: a wiggly line, some up, some down, roughly in line with my normal Winrate. Rigged as fuck

What happens when a perfectly new player plays Glops? I decided to find out: Presenting Mr. Anonymous and the Rosomak Experiment. I played, 120 Glops games, starting with the T7 Rosomak, and when I ran that out, bought and continued with the Rosomak M1M. All games played by me, my skill level is the same from the start, to the end. I personally am not a new Glops player, yet this account is. So improving skill is pretty much removed as a factor. All games were played, with a fresh dump character, so I have no MM "stats" to affect the outcome - the game didn't know me. This character has only played about 10 games of glops EVER before this experiment, l long time ago. At game 74 I finished the normal Rosomak and bought the Rosomak M1M. I upgraded stuff as i went along, I didn't free-Xp any modules, or play any other games but Glops in these 2 vehicles. I then drew a chart of the wins and losses: up-one, for a win, down-one for a loss, in a wiggly line. to see if the losses went up or down over time, stayed the same, changed, whatever, and here it is. So the question was: what will happen? I imagined I'd start, win a few - lose a few, and the graph would progress in a wiggly line, but broadly in a slope reflecting my normal winrate. Really? Apparently the "MatchMaker" had something rather different planned ...

i guess NO, because it's not a video file, and is just recreating the match by pumping back everyones mouseclicks into the client ...

So true They saw the giant, platinum-lined, tank-shaped jacuzzi full of money, coke and hookers that SerB of WoT has, and there was a ka-ching noise, and (₽!) o (₽!) Rouble signs appeared in their eyes ... "it's pvp, it's PVP I tell you!" ;-)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ymp2xoldq09peow/2020-08-13 165809.awr?dl=0 by the clock at the top of the screen, visual jerking of my viewpoint at approx.: 13.10 12.26 10.20 5.46 5.43 5.01 My pleasure.

Bollocks it has.

Since if you BHed a T10, you get no benefit from No Tier 11 & 12, they might adjust the MM so, you would be more often in games like 1x T10 You 2x T9 7x T8 So you would get increased chances to kill easy targets, rather than, say 10x T10

IIRC, it was on Ghost field, glops, I was at ground level, and there was a Sphinx up a hill a bit. I fired, and the missile went straight forward, into the ground, instead of starting to turn upwards towards the target. Even if I didn't get lock, surely the missile would have gone towards my aim point? I'll check later, maybe someone smoked near me or him and I didn't notice?? EDIT it was some missiles just seemed to vanish, and the VCAC missiles basically have no maneuverability, even with Rashid & the ATGM computer retrofit... it's pretty much got to be straight shot, or nothing

On the face of it, of course it's pointless, but if they were sneaky, they could still make it more likely that your match in a T10 was a T8-9-10, or T9-10, than just a straight T10 only one. Then you'd still get the advantage of more chances to shoot lower tier tanks

Would you still see other peoples'? The desc isn't crystal clear on this one. 100% agree. I can see them sitting round a table asking: is there any feature that no-one uses, costs gold, and we could somehow persuade them to blow gold on it. Wouldn't be surprised if there was more of this coming. Something to do with buying camos for gold, or worst case: gold-retrofits, or just go full-WoT-retard and have gold ammo... At that point, I'm outa here I also think it helps, or it used to help in WOT, to view every decision from the point of view of a. Pvp. The devs seem to be mostly focused on this. b. IRL Cash/credits/gold. If a decision makes no sense from a gameplay perspective, it's this. Increased credit or gold sinks, or pay-irl-cash-to-win

Agreed, too much Narrows... in fact everyone seems to agree that Narrows is shit. I can't believe they haven't done anything about this..., my tinfoil hat theory, is that Narrows is the map that they've worked out how to make people lose on. And when your win rate gets too high, they put you on Narrows, and screw you over.

I KNEW I'd seen that particular expression before.... Salami tactics, also known as the salami-slice strategy or salami attacks,[1] is a divide and conquer process of threats and alliances used to overcome opposition. With it, an aggressor can influence and eventually dominate a landscape, typically political, piece by piece. In this fashion, the opposition is eliminated "slice by slice" until it realizes, usually too late, that it is virtually gone in its entirety.... Compare and contrast with "boiling the frog" And "just the tip" Look baby .... we can compromise, I think we're ready, but how 'bout you know ... "Just the tip". I promise if it hurts at all I'll pull out. I guess the OP Premiums are "just the tip" . Having now read the "Battle Hardened = preferential matchmaking" ... I guess that's the next inch or so.

Amongst others: Random jerking into zoomed-in mode, glops and pve. Vehicles randomly jerking their own steering, resulted in 2 crashes in my VCAC in 1 match, both resulted in me being jammed on an obstacle, shot & killed. Viewpoint randomly jerking to the side 45 deg, and then sometimes back again, so you can't tell where you are going. VCAC missiles ploughing into the ground 30m in front of tank Rubberbanding when driving, even when dead, and watching from over some other player's tank, it's giving me a frigging headache. Tips to replicate: Play glops, crash repeatedly, attempt to not bayonet the screen with the keyboard in frustration. Edit: this lot has happened since the most recent update.

and another thing. In glops you can only get a match on Narrows/GhostF/Roughneck unless you get in a Tier 8+ match. ie 8/9, 8/9/10, and so on. (i.e. no tier 5-6-7 tanks) If you get a t8 vehicle and Harden it, that means you can't fight t10, so you are only getting 7/8/9, if it's a 3 tier match, dooming yourself to more matches on those 3 maps.

Oh come on Hassy, don't sugar coat it man - no one's gonna get it if you keep tip-toeing round what you really mean ;-) couldn't resist is there any confirmation re: IS THIS IN Glops too? Because, say at tier 5, you already have Hell's own job getting ANY match at all, even in a non-prem, and then with this, you are limited to T5-6 only, limiting your player pool even more. I suspect though, that there may be a time/queue size limit to this and it'll just dump it after a set time period, rather than never giving you a match. Of course this has no effect on T9-10. The other fallout from this is of course, those people with normal tanks, are gonna be more likely to get in the +2 match zone, because they will have to fight the leftovers from other peoples' matches. ... and the effects of mass Strelas + OPhelia + Premium MM too - that explains a lot

Leo Bought. (if it's a dud, we know who to blame don't we ;-> ) First impressions are pretty good, after only a couple of PvE games, just to try it out. I free xp'd the tracks, and got off-road driving for the driver. It zips about quite nicely. Easily goes up hills that would have floored a Chally, pretty maneuverable. Acc is .. OK, it's not a sphinx obviously, enough to speedily pull back, behind cover in a hurry, & in a long straight run I got it up to 70+kph. The reload is a bit of a wait, oh well, but i knew that. Down to 8.62s atm. Upgrades: installed breech-block, and filter systems for more acceleration, 'cos speed is king. - ill leave the 3rd (& 4th) til i know what it needs.

@Travlla you are too kind No-one else cares . . I think i can just buy the LEO now, and then the Leclerc when i get there

I have noticed, every time I'm facing an Abrams in glops (at somewhat close range), i can just shoot him through the weakspot under the gun, as if he had no armour at all - at that point, having the rest of the armour is fairly useless. I'm beginning to put the M1A2C at the bottom of the list, despite it being a good compromise on paper, and it moves nicely. With the Abrams out, that leaves me 2 unlocks left for the Leo (and Draco at some point)

It's slightly complicated, i have too much to choose from: I have >T9 unlock tokens from: 1. The Al Hussein - which gets me 1 of: Chally II/T90ms - I've either got all the rest of Shishkin's T9 stuff, or it doesn't need an unlock (T249 vigilante) I have Wolfi Unlocks from: 2. VBR & 3. M1128 Striker - this gets me 2 of: Draco/Leo 2A6/M1A2C, I've got all the rest of Wolfi's T9, but not the TTB without the Playing through All the T6,7,8 Abrams (I have none of these) As you say, ther's no way round grinding through the other 2: Batgirl's Leclerc, or Bruce Lee's T99 I was playing the tanks a bit on Alabino, and they are all pretty similar just to drive around and shoot, stock. Credits aren't a problem. Yes, yes, I know what you are thinking: "Lenticulas you silly person, why don't you just buy the lot" well I don't know, but I have LOADS of tanks and I just can't play all the ones i have at the moment ... Oh You are probably right.

The Chally I, I have played in glops, and it is SO slow, it's "OMG rip my hair out this is boring slow" - and I really like fast vehicles ... But, but, but... when I eventually get to the cap point in the Chally, it gets captured, and 62 tons of immovable British steel means it usually stays captured. So weirdly, I've done really well in glops with it.?!?!?! - so i don't know. maybe are there some really bad ones to avoid? and ill randomly pick one of ther others? i don't know anything about heroics. so i can't comment.

errr welll that's unfortunately the one farthest away from my fingers, at the moment :-( ... I can have the Chally 2 right this second... hmmm BUT of course, it does unlock the super-breechblock upgrade ... somehow.

Taking bets now, ladies and gentlemen .. ;->

I am thinking about getting a progression T9 MBT for Glops. At the moment, I have an unlock token from the Al Hussein, M1128, and the VBR, which if I've got it right, gets me: Chally 2 (I like the Chally I) T90-MS LEO 2A6 (heard good things about this) Abrams M1A2C the others theoretically within reach, but definitely not right this second, are: Type 99a (I'm halfway through theT99) Leclerc (I'm about 15% into the VCAC, but still, it's somewhat on the table) I don't have anything realistically within reach, from the Israeli line at all, or US line to get me the TTB Any thoughts or suggestions?

To start, thank you for replying, despite my usual torrent of unnecessary cynicism and sarcasm. :-) Anyway, re: all new vehicles being a bit OP, fair enough. If that's what it takes, and *IF* there's seriously no effective way round it, then... I'm OK with that. As long as the intention is that the OPness is kept at reasonable minimum, ie Chally falcon, rather than Strela. Remember you'd just have to make new Prems better than normal tanks, not all the other existing premiums And I was thinking about the credit-printer thing the other day, they eventually became their own downfall. People bought them for the credits, ended up with a ton of credits, and then didn't need to buy more credit-printer Premiums. If you need to spam loot crates, go for it as far as I'm concerned. I can buy them if I want, and they don't screw over my win rate. Fine. Make more camos, I bought a load of historical camos, keep it up. Basically, all I want, is that when I play a Glops match, I get a fair shake of the dice, as to whether I win or not. That's all. And everything else, is a logical extension of that desire.

They can answer or not, or can tag their answer as 'official' or 'just their opinion', whatever they want. I dont intend to harass them - it's just they are the only people i can ask. Actually just forget it.