dyrewolfe

Never mind all that...we got the old Christmas garage back...w00t! 

10 hours ago, Qbicle said:

From official discord server's announcement channel:

 

Apparently AT infantry have very poor accuracy at the moment.

That would explain why the ones in my M113 ACAV never seem to do any damage... 

Another name and shame for the devs with more bullshit matchmaking. How the fuck are you supposed to win games like this? Another roflstomp over in minutes.

Oh, and another shoutout to dumbass team mates. This time the enemy team went for an early cap and no-one but me tried to do anything about it. Unfortunately I was in a slow-ass MBT and didn't make it in time. I swear the game is giving me teams that are 50% bots...

Oh boy have I got some naming and shaming to do after the last few days...

Firstly a couple of idiot team mates. I know it was only a Tier 2 battle, but how dumb can people be. Scenario was thus: end game on Roughneck map. 3 enemies were capping our base. I went over and began shooting at them. Destroyed 1 and got the other 2 pretty low on HP. All of a sudden a LAV 150 gets me in a cross fire from the chemical plant and evaporates about half my HP in a few seconds. I back down the slope out of the firing line and ping its location as it suddenly disappears from view, hoping my team mates would help me by getting rid of it.

What do they do? Absolutely fuck all...just sit in their positions like they're AFK (maybe they were).

What do I do? Just sit in place and allow enemies to cap our base. With hindsight I should have dived into the cap circle the moment the LAV started shooting me. I could have traded hit points with the cappers at that point, but my natural instinct was to take cover. Anyway, thanks team mates, for sod all...

Secondly, low-tier seal-clubbers. Way to screw the early game experience for newbies and returning veterans who just want to grind through the low tiers quickly. I appear to have lost the screenshot for the game, but this M51 player on the enemy team finished with 10 kills and barely took any damage - even though I hit him with a few shots (running mods / upgrades?).

Thirdly, thanks to the devs for shitty matchmaking, as evidenced by this brilliant game where over a third of my team did 0 damage. Always fun to have balanced games like this. Not the first and I know it won't be the last, but that doesn't make them any less frustrating.

Thankyou to the devs for a second time, for introducing shitty, game-breaking autocannon vehicles with stupidly high DPM. I'm already wondering if I should just quit again, with even low-mid tier games being ruined by these abominations...

Shame they are making it a premium vehicle, otherwise I'd be interested. 

Looks like a boxier PL01 - especially with the shrouded gun barrel.

Excellent story...so far. Many description...such lols... 

Looking forward to the part where Alpha One has to fight inside a giant multi-storey spaceship dock, survive hilarious artillery barrages and take down the enemy flying saucer.

At least it started out well, but deteriorated somewhat along with the quality of the Spec Ops mission sets and the maps we had to play on. Props to Soren for the effort though. 

On 7/11/2023 at 5:18 AM, SirPeanut said:

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Ladies and gentlmen, let me introduce you guys to this gem of a player [GTX69] sgtdalzell. Apparently he/she/it is of the opinion that the role of a MBT is to sit wayyyy at the back and provide supporting (questionable) fire. Because of this, the players who actually want to succeed in this mission are forced to take up frontline positions in paper tanks so as to soak up all of the damage for him/her/it so that he/she/it is able to be pampered all the way to the finishing line albeit being an MBT.

When called out for camping by another player, and requested by me to tank some of the incoming fire as I was on my last life, sgtdalzellrejoiced that his last remaining AFV was about to go down. As we headed further into this mission past the bridge, sgtdazell lamented that I was holding back and that he/she/it was hard carrying the team all these while. When I called him/her/it out for his/her/it's hypocracy, sgtdalzell then proceeded to push my Gepard around, trying as hard as he can to immobilise me on the map artifacts, but, like his erectile dysfunction, his determination was flacid and he gave up doing so in about a minute or so.

Naturally, I died shortly thereafter when a T-15 spawned.

That said, if you see him in game, please do not expect that he will help the team out. Like the coward that sgtdalzell is, sgtdalzell wants to be pampered to victory and will not hesitate to gaslight/grief you for your incompetence.

Thanks for your attention.

If I come across players like that (and I'm the only other player left) I generally go to the farthest corner of the map and just type stuff in chat until I get bored. If I'm pissed off enough I'll just AFK.

I refuse to help idiots like that. I'd rather taunt them and/or watch them flounder and fail.

Good effort at trying to carry your team btw. 👍 Your back must've hurt for a while after that one...

On 7/17/2022 at 8:55 PM, ceejee007 said:

What I find the most disturbing thing is this is going from 2020 (first post) till now (and yes been there, seen it, had same issues), and NOTHING has changed.

Some clans / battalions / players wont do secondary

Block your shot.

Push you (in the moment of firing)

Have the same language when you block obscenity in the chat (******************, you *****************, mother*********)

Are very goooood in kill stealing (but unfortunally in nothing else most of the times).

Don't shoot helicopters / pillboxes etc (simply don't count, so why should they)

Only use " high output" tanks. (spotting is for a pussy in a MBT).

 

Personally I see it day in day out and, but if the game mechanism does not change and keep them rewarded, nothing gonna change.(and personally..... cant blame them...they play in a " most effective"  attitude.)

Honestly I hate "min-maxers" or "meta slaves" who treat games like jobs and play for minimum effort, maximum reward...even if it means screwing over team mates, or playing in a manner that is not how the devs intended.

I know some people have a limited amount of time to spend playing video games (I am, in fact, one of those people) but I always try to play in the spirit of the game, using vehicles in their intended roles, as far as possible, completing as many objectives as possible and basically not being a douche to my team mates. If it means the grind takes a little longer, so be it.

IMHO its very telling about their character if they need a reward / incentive to play the game with a modicum of team spirit. 

On 7/20/2023 at 11:54 AM, ceejee007 said:

Unfortunally I see this kind of behavior almost every day in the games I play. Even if I have some understanding that more and more MBT are camping based on the huge amount of " ratatatatatat AFV / TD present" As MBT you are good to " eat the shells", but hardly can do a huge amount of damage and don't even think about making some kill's. The amount of kill stealers is becoming more and more (all based on the missions in the BP).

And in some perspective, I can understand this kind of gameplay (camping, kill stealing etc.), as mentioned before " the game mechanism does not change and keep them rewarded, nothing goanna change. (And personally..... can't blame them...they play in a " most effective" attitude)". 

But it is another issue is when the start to block you, push you in an immobilized position, ram you all the time in a game etc. Because they have huge ego's and when you call upon them, those poor souls are deeply hurt. Then they wish you all kind of diseases, going to do something with your mother etc. And reporting has no use. When you send a screenshot to support, they want the whole replay, and when you send the replay, they want the specific screenshot (together with all kinds of info of your pc processor, videoboard, memory etc. of which I really seen no use for....), and so I stopped reporting. Also due to the fact that some kind of player, in this case from a specific part of Europe was recently stating "This is a RU game, and they won't penalize RU players". (don't say / state that this kind of incorrect behavior is only the case regarding RU players, because I see more and more copy behavior from non-RU players). Simply because they / the game system doesn't act upon such behavior. And fully understand that the DEV's will declare it " complete nonsense", but as the game quote says is so nicely; "I have a bad feeling about this". 

So it is my opinion that I for the time being that this game is still alive, we have to deal with this kind of behavior, because personally I don't have the feeling that the DEV's / Moderators / Support or whoever going to do something about this kind of behavior of some kind of players and the game mechanism does not change (I have really no info about such kind of changes...) and this kind of gameplay keep them rewarded (really can't blame them...they play in a " most effective" attitude), so nothing goanna change. Then the only 2 options are remaining:

1) Accept it as it is. Try (when possible) to ignore it, and in my case, when It is way to much I leave the game, and when I will receive a ban because of " desertion" so be it.

2) Uninstall the game (as suggested by some moderator, if you don't like it then feel free to leave and let the door.....)

Personally, I went for option 1. But that kind of gameplay behavior made that I'm losing the fun in this game, play less and less and looking around for some other games. And as a overall result of this, I nowadays hardly invest money in this game.

Godspeed.

A lot of what you describe here is why I originally quit the game about 3 years ago. A mixture of toxic / selfish gameplay and seeing the meta shift so drastically from MBTs to autocannon and ATGM vehicles. I was trying to grind some Tier 9 & 10 MBTs and eventually just got fed up getting put in battles with multiple Griffins and other vehicles with ridiculous DPMs. Just felt like my only purpose was to catch shells while everyone else farmed the damage & kills (actually had fun).

Saw my fair share of idiotic players, but only ever reported 2 for griefing. Both with Russian usernames. Don't know if they actually got any kind of punishment and I don't think there is any way to check.

Anyway, I'm back and having fun at low tiers. Be interesting to see if I can get back to the high tier action before MailRU decide to shut down the servers.

Quite honestly I'm of the opinion the M48 GAU is a ridiculously OP gamebreaking piece of crap...along with the T-15.

It really is a fun-killer when you're teamed with them. Think about it: does anybody log in just to be a spectator? Which is pretty much what you are if you try to play an MBT.

I speak as someone who regularly gets teams full of autocannon and missile spammers. 

I wouldn't go so far as to openly call someone a selfish prick for playing them, but if there is more than one OP gamebreaker in the team I simply quit t he battle before it starts and move on to the next.

Needless to say I do quit quite a lot of battles (90% of the time they do just fine without me). Its just ridiculous how often the matchmaker puts PAIRS of these things in my teams.

As if the game weren't already broken enough, the devs now seem determined to fill every tier with these shitty pew-pew / blam-blam vehicles.

12 minutes ago, dfnce said:

@dyrewolfe 95% of pve random now consists of former RU server,  you simply have more chance to taste all flavours 

True, but it still doesn't do anything to improve my opinion of them, every time one of these numbskulls drives into me, either for jollies, or because they can't be bothered to drive around me (because, y'know, steering is hard).

Recently had this turdcake decide to push me around during one of the Arabian Nights missions. I'm sure no-one will be surprised by the Cyrillic battalion name.

Not satisfied with just ramming me, he pushed me up against the building you can see just behind us and blocked me for a good couple of minutes.

On 8/23/2020 at 12:23 PM, TeyKey1 said:

Stronk stats, skill confirmed 

Honestly, Kiwi has no clue what he's talking about. I'm close to just consider him a troll given the stuff he writes in the discord. If a player tries to apply real MBT combat tactics into an arcade game and sells them as "the best way to play the game" it's clear to me on what "skill-level" such a player is.

Psst. PVE stats are the most useless stats of all three modes to see if a player is good or not. But don't tell anyone. I'm actually tempted to create a second acc to pad a ~100% PVE WR and Bluestar rate using a Termi or other OP shit like this (of course in easy mode for maximum cheese)

Kiwi is basically Mail.RU's mouthpiece.

Dunno if you remember the first Gulf War, but he's like that Iraqi General who got nicknamed Comical Ali due to his insistence that everything was fine...even when he was filmed with US tanks rolling into Baghdad behind him. 

Well its nice to have bot behaviour explained in such detail.

That said, as others have commented, my personal experience seems contrary to these rules.

Most recently in a Tier 10 match on Scorpio, I had just been killed near the end of the battle. I decided to respawn. My tank (an XM1A3) re-appears near the near-side end of the bridge, then without firing a single shot, the game spawns a Superior XM1A3 and a T-15 right in my face. The T-15 tracks me almost instantly, then keeps me perma-tracked so it can ATGM me to death.

A few days ago I was playing the C13 TUA on Cerberus (with the flash-reduction / camo while shooting upgrade). I decide to drive up one of the slopes near the edge of the map, to give myself a good view...and immediately get spotted by every AI driving along the bottom of the valley / whatever, to the point I can barely get a shot off. Would like to add I was also trying to use the few bushes up there for cover too.

Similar happens when I play my PL-01 on practically any map. Most notably Watchdog & Sapphire. Even though I have the Adaptive Camo upgrade (which is apparently equivalent to a layer of foliage) and knock over trees to use as cover wherever possible...I STILL get spotted ridiculously often. Quite frequently when the game just happens to spawn a random bot right near my location, so I'm probably proximity spotted...then every AI knows where I am and seems to target me.

So yeah...my experiences don't seem to match the official rules at all.

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And just to add another one to the list: just tried to have a go at Ghost Hunter in my PL-01. Helped deal with the Bradleys that usually show up at the start...then another bloody T-15 materialises out of nowhere, tracks me and ATGMs me to death. This is inside the first minute of the game. At least 3 of my team mates were further forward than me...yet I got targeted!

I got some Tier 4 vehicle - can't remember what it was...might've been an LAV. Also got a T72 B3...which I already have. So I just left it at that. Got around 9k gold but nothing to spend it on, so figured I didn't need the extra from a duplicate tank.

Won't be bothering with any more crates, if this is all we can expect.

Great thread! God I have so many examples I could post. Well, here are a few more recent ones...

Gotta love camper team mates who let you do all the dirty work...or most of it anyway.

Also gotta love bot-level wallet warriors...

MBT scouts...been the meta for a while now, hasn't it?

Here's an oldie from a couple of years ago. Can't remember what the hell happened...but something obviously went badly wrong. Looking at the spotting damage figures I think this was during the time it showed x10 what you actually did, due to a bug or something.

Hi All,

Just found this place almost by accident. Was browsing the AW subreddit and saw someone had posted a link to this forum about how the game can now be modded (which I'm not happy about).

Anyway, just making this post by way of introduction. I've been playing since 2015 and have got around 3.500 games under my belt. Would only call myself an average player at best - hopefully will pick up some helpful tips from the ace tankers here. Mostly a PvE player - still got quite a few tanks to grind, but will play PvP and GLOPS now and again (at least as long as there aren't any mods that turn this game into WoT 2.0).