And with smaller and smaller maps players will spawn less and less.
Why do you want to help gaijin make more money and less fun for gamers. Gaijin is broken as a game developer, its just a money making machine with nothing to give back
Helping making more money in what. I’m not supporting any GE for faster unlocking crew.
You want to punish players for leaving a brokem game, maps, teams, nations and match maker etc
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Nope. I shouldn’t be forced to spawn because gaijin cannot: balance a game properly, have decent map design, or make a genuinely fun game.
Punishments are stupid, and crew lock should be removed entirely, it doesn’t make anything better.
A change like this will just kill WT.
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aka “please punish the people paying gaijin”
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I play as i want. I want leave after 1 death - i leave.
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Absolutely not lol. There shouldn’t be any penalty and crew locks should be removed entirely.
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Almost every other PVP online shooting game allows players to come and go from the game whenever they want without penalty. These games are not falling apart and the matches aren’t instantly becoming blowouts all the time. War Thunder’s ODL issue is not about the people leaving when they are dying, it is the nature of the game that is encouraging leaving.
Like those other games, War Thunder wants you to put fun first. You can pick any vehicle, any playstyle, pursue any objective you want without being forced to do anything. You don’t even need to worry about winning because most event/battlepass tasks do not need a win and most of your match payout is based on personal performance and not team efforts. Additionally, War Thunder sells premium tanks for players to quickly climb tech trees they do not have unlocked without providing additional vehicles or support to make those players useful to the teams they will be joining. So Gaijin clearly doesn’t care about ODL, so why does crew lock exist?
Crew lock exists to push players who have already obtained all the vehicles in their nation’s lineup to play every vehicle they can and respawn as much as possible so that they will serve as content for those other players who are working to progress their own tech trees and spade their own vehicles. It is meant to get people to continue to spawn into losing matches to increase their repair costs and give the enemy team a higher morale boost that comes from getting more kills for their win.
Crew lock has nothing to do with getting them to be better teammates, Gaijin doesn’t care if we work together or not. ODL is never punished for people who only bring 1 vehicle. So why are you supporting this? Let people play as they wish and leave when they are done. Forcing people who need to leave, are having a bad time, or don’t want to play with you anymore is nonsensical and only breeds more toxicity.
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Are you going to sit here and really say that if we choose to leave a match, we should be punished for it, rather than ask for better rewards for staying in longer? Or atleast incentivize staying? I get Gaijin already does, but the problem is that when the match devolves into spawn camping, that incentive bonus means all holy kaput. Gaijin needs to make it so regardless, win or loss, it is useful.
Edit: Gaijin has tried the stick. It doesn’t work. So why not the Carrot?
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Well said.
Thanks, I’ve only had to say it a million times in between the new and old forums. (Although it has taken me time to get to this opinion- I realize now how important it is to have incentivization rather than punishment)
As does J’ing out of all vehicles available, thereby burning all your SP. Easy option if you don’t care about SL or KDR.
I will not stay in a match on a map I find intolerable.
I will not stay in a match and feed the undeservingly high Russian WR%.
I will not stay in a full uptier.
I’m not obligated to do anything I do not want to in this game. I’m not even obligated to spawn. I will ODL or even 3DL - burning my SP to defeat the stupid crew lock - as much as I see fit. That is my right as not just someone whom has financially invested in WT, but as a general player of this game.
I’m not beholden to you, any other player or even Gaijin.
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That sort of strategy hasn’t worked in other games and wont work in this game.
I not going to give a game developer money to be punished. If i wanted it kinky i would go see a dominatrix
Yea the crew locks are bad enough, i mean getting crew locked because the server hamster dies and you get booted from a match is bad enough, being force to respawn when your spawns are over run so that you can be farmed … no thanks