Yeah, I hear ya. Weekends are my best chance at getting online for several hours due to work. Hopefully Gaijin can do better so that we can avoid kids buying premium gear and ruin the game. You and Zyranovos hit it right on. Weekends have been a pain lately. Doesn’t help that I’m in Japan and have to bounce between NA and SA depending on the time.
I do play Germany, but have usually had balanced matchmaking for the most part, until about two weeks ago. I can only gain traction during the 3-4 games I pay a night. Then get wrecked again. I know about the stigma of Germany players always complaining. This isn’t that type of complaint.
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idk but I’m at br 5.0 and I’m facing jet fighters… ain’t they supposed to be at br 7.0 at least?
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Working days seem to be the reasonable time to play Ground Assault while weekends are swamred by wallet newbies
Ground arcade? you can see A10 but that thing is slow pig, if enemy also has someone that spawn fighter, your A10 will not make it to drop the bombs as fighter are spawn right behind CAS and they will likely get you before you reach the battlefield lol
was talking about air arcade (yes I play air arcade please don’t hit me)
I meant that I’m seeing 7.x fighters while my best planes are 5.x which shouldn’t be
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If the best is 7.0 and you are 5.7, that is covered by the rules of arcade. That is not a bug. You can prevent it if you only bring one 5.7 and one 5.3 and the rest lower.
The latest update is extremely biased. Like someone said in the thread, there are 2 teams, one thats smashing everyone and one that gets smashed. There is no more even battles. I have found myself on the dishing out “smashes” and had 10 victories in a row. Then had to log off only to come back later in a few hours and get completely “smashed” 20 times. Makes for very shitty gameplay. BUT, since there are kiddies that have access to mom/dads endless credit card, there is no real balance. The owners of WT know this and just want to make a dollar vice creating a “good game play” experience. The bias is completely obvious to the point its hilarious. I mean I had a “new in game” kid in BR 5.7. He just bought his way into the high tier cause the thought he’d be able to smash people. Plus when I see someone’s profile with only 10 games and racks up like 11 kills in the game, you know there is something fishy about it. Either some troll started a new account and “bought” his way up in BR 5.7 (for whatever reason) or their is extreme programming bias. We will never know. Just makes for an overall shitty experience. One that WT and Gaijin just don’t care about. Its not about skill or fair anymore in computer games. Used to be, early on. Then it was and still is all about cheating. I just don’t get it. To this point, not even sure why I play. Just drawn to it. Probably like gambling. The idea that maybe you might win. Oh well.
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Are you progressing by spading or playing new vehicles as you get them without modifications, or are you playing the same composition with spaded vehicles and Aced crews?
I’m also curious as to what vehicle mode you’re playing.
This game is meant to cycle you through different match experiences in a grand cycle, so it sounds like you’re underperforming when it’s your turn to score high.
I have a couple of questions to go in this:
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Why does it seem that players who’s…rank? is very high, such as 100, get put on the same team. This is not an uncommon occurrence but a regular one as I have looked at the profiles of players of teams that seem to win quickly.
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Why is it that many of those players who are of such a high rank come into a 4.0 BR arcade match with the strongest tanks they can? Is it because they are not as good in the lesser tanks? Not nearly as good as those of equal rank? A combination of both iterations and just want to flex?
I ask because if I were a very high rank looking to basically flex in the lower levels, I would come in with the worst, least protected vehicle I could.
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Blame battlepass tasks. Some of them are so absurd, that seeking the simplest, most efficient setup leads to this.
Even then it feels like the game intentionally stops us from finishing them quickly.
In the matches I’m allowed to win for a win condition, my teammates will be uptier and strong. I have to compete against them for points. Then in the downtier it’s unwinnable. Teammates evaporate without scoring kills. I’ve lost multiple battles with over 16 kills and 2 or more zone caps.
Also events. Why would I grind tier 6 for 1k-1.5k matches when I can score over 3k consistently in tier 3. It takes all day to get 35k at that rate.
I used to grind my highest ships and farm RP for modifications during events, and even that takes forever, so I drop to my solid coastal/bluewater comps at 4.0.
My first match for Naval after the latest big update was in a full 1.0 uptier to 6.0 where my team had 10 5.0 ships and sprinkled 5.3, 5.7 here and there and I think 2-3 bots. Meanwhile the enemy team had 10x 5.3, some 5.7 and 6.0 with maybe 1 person or a bot being 5.0. To clarify, we had ZERO 6.0 players, so the ENTIRE enemy team was shifted up by 0.3.
I started the match by seeing my teammate being obliterated in his destroyer in spawn. I had to watch entire enemy team of cruisers taking potshots at us, as that’s all they could see. It was just a wall of shells incoming. I barely survived in my destroyer while making funny turns and had to play with 29% crew, which didn’t last long. Very quickly there was a beeline of cruisers for the A-B caps. I still got 3 or 4 kills and didn’t see a point of respawning, as the match was already decided by gaijin.
TL; DR: We lost the match by a mile with no chance of ever winning. Total waste of time and boosters.
My only question is have you ever replied to someone in game prior to this patch with the response “skill issue”
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Something like 9 out of 10 matches in a full downtier in Naval is a steamroll loss for me. It’s just unbelievable suck all around for me and my window licking team. Other matches I will get 10+ kills and then multiple matches with 0-1 kills. So many matches I cannot kill anything half of the match, but then suddenly I’m starting to kill everything left and right. That’s the type of the match where one side was winning and POOF gaijin’s magic sprinkles and the other team takes suddenly over and steamrolls the winning team. Everything seems so strange these days.
I’m chat banned for 7+ years now, but I had plenty of people on the forum tell me to “git goot” while they barely have 1:1 k/d. Always makes me laugh.
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I salute you, sir.
O7
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The “git good” thing is a mockery overall. A lost match doesn’t necessary mean that one is bad, it’s most likely related bad teammates (especially the low level wallets)
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Lol, I kinda ask in private chat but am often ignored. Perhaps rightly so.
Ironically, in a match I had subsequent to my last post I was spawn camped by a better ranked player in a casemate tank destroyer. I got off a snap shot immediately that took out his barrel. I then took out his tracks and came up beside him.
I fired off “Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits” with my MG at the side of his tank, then fired my main into the rear of his tank. I then repeated the MG ditty and took him out.
Then I PM’d him and told him that if he was gonna spawn camp he better make sure the player he camps does not make him look like a fool.
When it comes to me, then yes, I am not good enough to compete with many players. Yet, I have observed that on many maps one spawn side seems dominant over the other side. On the map with the horse track, it seems like the team spawning on the side of the map on the side opposite of the train tracks from the horse track have an advantage, while on other maps it seems the same. I could be wrong, and maybe it is just due to my inexperience throwing off the team balance when I get killed easily.
As for “git good”? Yes, and no. It is kind of hard to do so when the other team is loaded with highly ranked players in the strongest armor they can get into, often up-tiering the match a full point above my highest vehicle, and tearing through the oppo.
I also know that with more experience comes skill. When I started playing COD (1) decades (?) ago I sucked. I stuck with it and by the time I stopped playing COD4 in 2015 I was the guy who “got gud”. By that time I was running and gunning with single shot rifles just to make it more interesting. I actually dropped the M4 and was using the G3 for years before I stopped playing.
Because the MM does mix players, it does not build ranked matches.
They could just as well have come into a 5.0 BR arcade match with the weakest tanks they can. It isn’t their decision. 75% of the time, they end up in uptiers. You only see the rare downtiers they get.
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