Since there has not been any change to this mechanic and last big update has brought “free” vehicles that have not curbed nor fixed the “one death leaver” problem, its high time that this update we finally either get a change or straight up deletion of the crew lock.
In theory it was meant to de-incentivize people from leaving early from the match as a form of a hand slap. In practice however all this does is punish players that have actual lineups after players that only brought one premium tank leave the match resulting in the player count on one team being drastically reduced.
Free vehicles have done absolutely nothing to curb one death leaving because the fundamental issue with one death premium leavers. Once their premium vehicle is destroyed, they will not spawn a crew level 1 stock tank that doesnt even give any significant RP gain unless they are researching something within its effective research rank range.
The only thing that the free SPAA has given us is 7 pantsirs per game since that is effectively the only vehicle from the free vehicles that is largely unaffected by being stock.
Crewlock is a mechanic thats for some reason still present despite being harmful to the players more than not and doesnt do its purpose.
A significant reduction in “time out” or complete deletion of this mechanic is genuinely needed at this point.
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It’s still fine for air since people j out to avoid getting hit by missiles (we still need a maneuver kill mechanic)
It serves no purpose except being infuriating. you get into a dogfight and dies from a small mistake at mach chicken, wait 5 minutes. you go try ground, the other team is in your spawn after 6 minutes because half the team left after their premium tank got destroyed, the one tank you can still spawn is an spaa with missiles only so you leave. you need to wait 4 minutes before you can go back in with your full line up.
There is absolutely no reasons for this system and it wont ever change anything to people leaving after one death or to avoid giving kills away.
Like mentioned above, the only people who get punished by this are the legitimate players who simply happen to be in a bad lobby or make a mistake while flying. (Then you get to contemplate your mistakes for 5 minutes)
The only reason for addition of free vehicles was to add free spaa. Tank was added just so it wouldnt look like straight up nerf for cas. If gaijin actually tryed to increase players pool of vehicles, they would at very least give an apfsds to high tier tanks. Top tier spaas doesnt have “stock” missiles so there is not much difference between spaded ones.
Speaking of topic itself. Once I load in to a match and see the map I dont like - I just leave. I just go for next setup from other nation. If I run out of setups I just close wt and go for another game.
As you mentione in your post - yes, it doesnt solve an issue at all. And also if im annoyed as a player by constant crew locks - im less likely going to spend money on wt.
It has zero purpose in air either, you just move to another nation for a match if you want to keep playing without a couple minutes break.
It also crew locks you whenever the server has a fit or you accidentally crash, which happens way more than people j’ing out to deny a kill, which it doesn’t stop those people doing it regardless.
I never J out on purpose or crash intentionally, yet I get crew locked fairy regularly and all it actually does is lead me to have a less positive view of how I’m treated as a player
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