Imho these players are especially in Air RB way more common than most players might think. The goal of opening new accounts is to get on top of ranking lists like KpB, WR or KDR.
They use usually the same strategy:
Playing a hell of Arcade battles before they switch to Air RB
Playing low ranks & non premium delays level increase significantly
Playing usually exclusively op/undertiered fighters & avoiding USA
By leveraging experience advantages whilst playing preferred low ranks they have usually exceptional stats thx to this strategy.
I met some weeks ago such a player - level 37 with an overall Air RB KDR of 15:1 - 960 kills, 66 deaths (6 months old account, 25:1 KDR in Air AB - 4279 kills, 165 deaths).
Just with this single example it is imho obvious these level discussions are rather futile as level says nothing about skill. Imagine the effect of a level based MM if such a player would not face experienced level 100s…
“What it feels to ramm teammate” asks the me-262 c2 with 8.0 BR plane at level 100.
“Like cocain” responds the enemy team
“will try”, concurs the Me-262 and proceeds to rocket-boost his way into 3 teammates, killing the third.
A few minutes later, camping the airfield, he proceeds to ram out a guy trying to land to repair/rearm in a f80C.
People complain about everything nowadays … this genius with 15k battles got upset in a 6.7 battle …
This was the situation in battle …
One can argue at this point whether it is ‘spawnfarming’ … I call it a spawnpush in a battle that is so far advanced. Whoever spawns in knows what’s coming.
My point is that apparently 6.0+ is now considered lowtier …
Yesterday, I had an odd encounter of this kind. Doing the daily task, I set out to farm thunderer at 3.0. Got a decent map for it, but some enemies simply attacked my bombers as soon as I got there. (Score event is on) So after I lost the second bomber, I decided that it has to be Hero of the Sky instead. And then some red guy got pretty upset. I didn’t even head over to their side or hunted anyone down, they were red clouding our spawn region anyway.
But you guessed it, just because I am a level 100, I should not have used my british premiums to farm a task and some SL. Maybe they shouldn’t rush the tree or try to revenge kill again and again?
Well… its a pvp game… what is your expectation when you start into a over 10 year old pvp game? To only face other new players?.. not gonna happen.
Yes the system is not perfect, crew lvl, spaded vehicles and not needing to play bad vehicles is a 100% bonus for the vetetan that u dont have. If you dont like it… the game is p2w, so pay for it if u dont like others with 1000+ hours can basically run over you.
And i am noz tryinh to motivate u zo buy smt or to support p2w, i hate that system and i would love a better matchmaker… but the current direction of the game is since helis came out, broken cas sells good, Broken tanks sell good, anythink op sells good and often it stays op for quite a while before they adjust smt on it… its all about money.
I signed up to play WW2 vehicles.
At this point all the WW2 vehicles are ‘low tiers’.
I am a level 100 player, I almost exclusively play low tiers.
It is the vehicles I enjoy, I don’t want to play modern stuff.
I would be in favor of a working ‘skill level matchmaker’, but I suspect getting right would a real challenge. I think trying to skill match the team might work.
Player level means nothing in the game it is a completely useless number, all it indicates it that somebody has played an arbitrarily fixed amount of time in the game that is all nothing more nothing less.
As it is the game is garbage so it matters not one iota who plays where, it is a random game of chance.
I believe it’s time for an official statement about the game level, as it doesn’t really mean much in WT.
I reached level 100 even before ground forces were any part of WT. What if someone today gets to level 100 while playing only naval? Why should he/she be punished in any way just because he/she wants to switch to ground forces, too? There are lots of players who like only WWII stuff. Why should they be punished for wanting to play what they like?
Its very strange, but I see this Level 100 Cowards in nearly each game from BR 1.0 to 5.7 in all random matches and they have many excuses. I don´t know and dont care, if they want to improve their statistics or their ego. The Level 100 guys say “We will go on competing against noobs, because we can. You have to learn and be better” while the noobs like me are saying “why not bringing the Level 100 guys together, when they want to play BR 1.0 or whatever and let noobs fight noobs?”. Then they Level 100 guys can have “their fun” on low tier and noobs have more fun without them. Just combine BR and Level of Player. Can´t be that difficult, can it?
Level 20 people can significantly outperform level 100s for multiple reasons.
Previous game experience. For example in asb - il2, dcs or even general/commecial aviation sims.
The level 100 played pure planes/tanks and just started playing tanks/planes. Also boats i guess
Simple skill diff. All level represents is hours played, nothing else. Playing mindlessly zombing your way to 100 is not going to make you a better pilot than someone who watches their dogfight replays and tries to point out every time they messed up but are only level 30.
Premium time and premium vehicles and high tier lead to faster lvl 100.
On point 4-
I fly 15 minutes in asb with a rank 3 plane and get at maximum 2500 rp which translates to 2500 xp towards lvling.
I fly 15 minutes asb with a rank 7 plane and get 5000 rp.
I could play 100 hours using f4u4 of bf109f4 and have half the progress as someone who played 100 hours in f8e.
This is before premium bonuses or boosters.
I think it is pretty obvious that account level barely if at all has any correlation to skill.
And finally.
When this game released top tier was things like me262. Telling experienced people that they are not allowed to fly 5.7 planes, which while not exactly the top tier of the day, were still considered high skill brackets is… fascinating.
Dont treat ww2/prop tiers as “beginner” tiers.
The only thing one could argue is a beginner tier is tier 1 eith the funny interwar vehicles and biplanes for AB and RB. For SB, i’d say tier 1 planes are anything but beginner friendly due to handling, visibility and lack of conveniences - in sb ironically, if not for repair costs and terrible compression, rank 5 jets would be the most noob friendly.
High level doesn’t necessarily mean they are good, a lot of players who played since the release still perform worse than someone who got the game three months ago, you will even find plenty of them at the forum who usually give ridiculous bad takes that you would start wondering how someone been playing for so long but doesn’t understand anything. I also hit a wall long time ago and hadn’t seen no improvement whatsoever, and I believed it is due to the fact that I’ve found my comfort zone and refusing to try anything else that could improve my winning rate. So if you see me at 5.7 I wouldn’t be the one that could influence the match due to my passive playstyle, my lv100 is just a decorative purposes.
