I would have to spend hours trying to explain how bad this game is and how long I have been writing about it on the old forum. Pathetically bad match maker, 70%+ of matches that should never exist (that’s including tanks), constant uptiers and losing streaks. Every match I’m asking myself a question “How am I going to get screwed this time?” Borked aim, shells not working, getting 1-shot from across the map by a bot, steamroll loss and pretty much guaranteed (predetermined) outcome before you even press that ‘To Battle’ button. The very rare full downtiers? Somehow you have a hard time hitting anything, shells suffer from a cotton ball syndrome and you end up with a steamroll loss 9 out of 10 times.
How about them uptiers? Naval battles now usually have 4-5 people on a team. You will be lucky to have a half team that is not bots, yet the game still manages to have 1.0 BR spread with 1 team having (for some strange reason) more higher BR players than my team… and I just always happen to be the lowest BR.
Feast your eyes on this turkey (peak gaijin gaming experience):
https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/374244371931899348?public_key=UOWlwLc8M1wOUKRPSEy9
Half players, half bots. My team just happens to have 4x6.0 cruisers (including me) and the other team shifted up (just 1x6.0), full of battleships. You spawn with a stupid timer that spawns everyone Star Trek style and everyone starts shooting. With the stupid spawn design I spawn almost all alone against majority of the enemy team while my team spawns nice and safe in the middle. The match was so fun that I couldn’t even get out of spawn while being targeted by the majority of the enemy team at the same time.
Never mind that gaijin has nerfed Prinz Eugene mobility over the years and never mind it was 5.7 before the last update. Now it’s just constant suffering with compressed 6.0-7.0.
Btw, I used this premium ship as I was using 300% SL booster. Used to use Moffett most of the time, but last 3 years about 90% of the matches with it were 0.7-10 uptiers, so I mostly retired it about 6 months ago. Played Fort Knox for a while, but even that ship started getting 0.7-10 uptiers. Prinz Eugen was fun for a few weeks, but then the suck started with it as well. All my stats are dropping like flies for years now. I stopped playing tanks due to constant uptiers and steamroll losses that just told me it’s all a waste of time. Naval was my refuge, but last 3 years everything just started going downhill with the last 4-5 months being the absolute worst. What kind of people, that are in charge, would allow this game to become such sad joke? Every day I play I get further disappointed. Constant screwups, bugs and nonsensical gameplay runs this game to the ground. All these years (more than 12 now) and I see this game in the worst state, yet.
It’s ‘funny’ that about 9 years ago I had an overall 68% win rate and the more I learned, the better I got, my win rate was getting worse and worse. The more I killed, the worse uphill battle I had to face. Every match I have to grind the skin off my knuckles just to get a win. Most matches end with the enemy team having 90%+ of tickets left. Torpedo boats or bots decide most of the matches. How can ONE cap zone out of 3 bleed 100% of the tickets??? Why is one team bottom BR heavy while the other team is top BR heavy??? The above match is a perfect example what I have to ho through every day.
It looks to me that gaijin is trying really hard to make their long term players and game supporters to stop playing their little game. I guess I’m a witness of what this game was, so I have a broader perspective on gaijin’s persistent screwups. The word ‘equity’ comes to mind. If you play well, the game makes sure you have worse time and less income (so you don’t get ahead of yourself). Right now I’m sitting at 44% win rate (that’s right 44%) while being in the 79th place overall (even though I play much less than I used to… this tell me I’m not the only one that plays less these days). I complained about sub-50% win rate for the last 8 years. I had events that required 10 wins, but I ended up playing 32+ matches just to get these 10 wins. All these years of the same suck. The second day of this battle pass I went on this absolute sucky losing streak once again… and I’m still plagued by it to this day. My overall score went down and my overall kill per spawn also went down by about 1. This is not an accident, but deliberate suck built in. How can you have a special task that requires 8 wins… and it takes you 6 days to accomplish it? The sad thing is the exact thing has happened to me many times now. You just play and collect loss and loss while not being even able to finish a stupid easy task.
Funny how much easier it was for me to get wins when I was a newer player and how much my overall win rate has tumbled down from 68% to as low as 52% at times. Strange thing that I had more than 20,000 matches, but my stats are showing 19,000+ now.
Gaijin needs to scrap this awful match maker and go back to the drawing board. All these hidden “Gulag” subroutines need to be removed, as “equity” is ruining this game. Stop punishing seasoned players, gaijin. I guess you think because some people stick around for so long, you can now treat them like trash and cannon fodder for your handicapped matches.