Facing harassment from select players in air simulator battles

Game Discussion Simulator Battle
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Hi,

I’ve been getting targeted and getting sabotaged repeatedly by same players in air simulator battles. I have reported as suggested here but it is extremely disappointing to see the same player come again and team kill / sabotage me.

Please take some action against these players. These players make simulator battles an unpleasant experience. All these team kills are completely unprovoked and are likely due to me engaging in PvP against enemies in SB where they have established that it is a PvE room (Against game ToS).

The main offenders are ZeoSky#1 (ID: 44039621) and KAWA_8776 (ID: 132646398) who collude with few other players over external comms. They join my team and sabotage me by either revealing my details to enemies or team killing me. I am adding a few instances below.

The player ZeoSky#1 (ID: 44039621) has team killed me twice in the same match today and got booted. The first activity in that match was this player team killing me and it was completely unprovoked. This player has team killed me multiple times in the past and I have reported the same here as well. I should admit that I revenge killed him once in this match in an impulse and I regret it. I’ve never team killed or did anything breaking game rules against these players ever before.

Replay Link: https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/253150139840589687

Team kills can be observed around 03:20 and 32:16 in the server replay.

A short preview of the team kills: https://medal.tv/games/war-thunder/clips/iJ5J0YGQmGz-WLbnb/d1337O1kN6VY

ZeoSky#1 (ID 44039621) and Otaku_RiKo (ID 66977156) were colluding with enemy players and revealed my location and plane details multiple times to enemies.

LanxieOwO (ID 139549708) in the enemy team has ejected several times to deny kills to me. All these players were in external comms and were colluding with each other. When I switched to IR missiles for stealthy kills, ZeoSky#1 started to spectate me and reveal my actions to the enemy player via external comms.

Replay Link: https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/253344246592804286

Chat log - https://i.imgur.com/mIBfw3O.png

LanxieOwO's unsportsmanlike behavior - https://medal.tv/games/war-thunder/clips/iJlibGwvPgJCC6OpE/d1337X79dvC4

Team killer 1: KAWA_8776 (ID: 132646398)

Team killed me 3 times in the match. The team kills can be observed be around 13:40, 25:06, 33:33. The teamkills were done after identifying me with the targeting optics of SU-39. He also revealed my location to enemies in chat.

Team killer 2: ZeoSky#1 (ID: 44039621)

Team killed me while I was rearming in the airfield. He was cooperating with the first team killer. The team kill can be observed around 31:20.

Replay link: https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/249761827256061859

A short preview of the team kills: https://medal.tv/games/war-thunder/clips/iJ6a3YPG2OS9zewKt/d1337DCMNHEr


Teammate broadcasted my load out to enemy team and got targeted by the lobby and team killed as soon as the match started.

Team killer: ZeoSky#1 (ID: 44039621)

This replay seems to have been expired. It is highly demotivating to see players breaking game rules go unpunished for this long.

https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/247478214630291408

The team kill can be observed around 9:40 - 9:50 in the replay. The team killer was reported in the replay page and the colluding players were reported using in-game chat report feature.

A short preview of the intentional team kill: https://medal.tv/games/war-thunder/clips/iCPTIzsQqYHHpj7BG/d1337a9rEigp

Intentional team kill. Shot me down with missile even after identifying me within gunshot range. Team kill can be observed around 59:44 in server replay. The team kill was completely unprovoked and likely done under suggestion from the previous offenders.

Team killer: 414 (ID: 21530339)
Server Replay: https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/253363655550035535
A short preview of the teamkill: https://medal.tv/games/war-thunder/clips/iJkpMnwypyF5FMBMS/d1337ZTybMzZ

This player (ZeoSky#1) is now following me across matches and encouraging people to mass report me for false claims. This is straight up harassment at this point. Please do something about this player.

https://i.imgur.com/0Ip5Pic.png

https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/253707635186267479
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The funny thing is ZeoSky#1 claimed yesterday that I have somehow deleted replay files from the Gaijin servers. He’s running around today claiming that I shouldn’t have been identifying enemies in one of my matches (I was in F-15/16 with radar).

He claims this kill shouldn’t have been possible. Clip, Edit, and Share Your Game Clips & Gameplay - Medal

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You should report them to the GM. They have good reason to be banned from the game.

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The reason that I am making this post is because I have already reported all these instances properly as suggested by the game masters but there has been no action taken. One of the replays have already expired. This is making me lose trust in the game’s reporting system.

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I have pinged few game masters but haven’t received any response or observed any action taken against these players yet.

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@Schindibee Please take some action against these players.

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I had that same tactic played against me in a set of arcade air matches, where I highlighted this clown was ramming people to knock thier props match after match, and when I said to the team to report it because he’s doing it intentionally, he started saying I was the one ramming people.

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The clown is in my match again and is accusing another player of cheating.

His whole loop is get killed /offended by someone > watch their replays > follow the target around and asks them why did u fly, why did u look in that direction, why did you shoot, etc.

He also report spams and encourages others to do the same. He doesn’t care even when some sane players call him out.

I’ve never seen someone so desperate for attention/validation.

https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/253749502527494160

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Be patient.

We GM’s are volunteers, not fixed staff working full time for Gaijin, so we’re usually not able to respond in real-time.

Please note also that we can not share any information on the possible punishment of other players, including players you have reported, but you can rest assured that all the reports are checked and punishments issued where an offense is provable and apropriate.

Reporting here in the forum doesn’t help the situation at all, or speed up the process, or give a report more weight. Please stick to the reporting procedures:

  • Chat related issues: report vial in-game reporting system
  • Gameplay related issues: report via Server Replay reporting system
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Thanks for the response. I made a post because the frequency of harassment from these players have increased very much and was impacting my WT experience very much and also lack of acknowledgement to my reports was very disappointing.

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I have the feeling, that those reports take time until they get reviewed, bc there are probably loads with porbably very limited personal.

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I’d understand if this was just a chat offense since they can be stored but these are team kills and sabotages which require manual review of replays from what I understand. That’s why I am bringing this up before the replays expire (they expire every 14 days).

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like the GM wrote, they are doing it and forum posts don’t change things.
I am with you, regarding your concearn, but maybe there are internal things that we don’t know of, to mitigate those potential issues.

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I understand.

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Good luck with the reports !!!

And never retaliate, it will cost you money, let the intentional TK to those ??? … I don’t know how to call them … they like loosing money ? Are they rich in SL ?

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Though I assume that if a ban is issued, the reporting player is notfiied as per: Following the Roadmap: Notification when a Reported Player got Banned!

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Funny thing is that after two TK they are kicked from battle (+ SL penalty). Something similar happened to me year ago. I was doing PvP and I was TK by PvE player. He did it twice and was kicked so I was the one who had the last laugh.

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Yeap, almost 200K SL if they are in a premium plane … for me, most TKs come from premium planes, and I think they are not intentional, just bad players.

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From case to case. I have encountered both intentional and unintentional killing.