New record in number of automated farming bots in a match

[Pirillo]

Gaijin decided to delete my previuous thread because I was telling the truth, hence I have to open a new.

I am a premium account player and I never used any cheat: I think that I deserve to speak the truth… Or not?!

In the game of which I will post the ending statistics’ screeshot there were 20 automated farming bots: I wonder how many cheaters there are in other modes without markers (simulator and ground RB, maybe?)

Is this what we deserve? I think not.

Note: the thread will be reposted if will be deleted again. I think that we left “Gestapo” and “KGB” style in the past, right?

[Real_K_Soze]

@Pirillo

Note: the thread will be reposted if will be deleted again. I think that we left “Gestapo” and “KGB” style in the past, right?

Imho you address an important topic, but with such remarks you play with fire.

As a sidenote: If you look at countries like the UK you will notice that posting certain opinions will put you in jail - so it looks like that old trends see a revival…

[AydanL44_Hunter]

Here before this is closed (for funnies, I don’t play naval)

[SilentTracker]

So, there are “already multiple other threads” about this. Some are old and still up. I fully understand your frustration and support your efforts. I only want to offer some suggestions.

First, this is one older thread I found about the bad bots in Naval:

(There may be more, might be an older one. But this was the first one I found that is “old” and still up.)

Naval has a serious bot account problem!

Currently when joining any Naval Realistic game, the matches fill almost entirely with bot accounts (no not the usual AI that WT adds to make up for a lack of players, with names such as “John Doe”) I’m talking about accounts with generated user names like “w4ths3mz” and many variations like that. They’re always in a German Leopard, they streak across the map and just farm each other basically. This means the big boats spawns are completely full of non WT AI bots and when trying to grind the tin…

Second:

There were a LOT of discussions about the naval bot accounts on the latest fair play thread, and the replies stayed up. Especially a ton from @Bruce_R1 I would very much recommend reading this entire thread, especially the conversations Bruce had. I would highly suggest copy+pasting your reply to that thread as well. LOTS of players will see your input there:

[Fair Play] Fair Play: January 2026

[image] We keep fighting cheaters using your reports and the BattlEye anti-cheat system, and as usual, today we’re sharing a bit of info on bans that we’ve distributed over the past month. If you’d like to help keep War Thunder free from cheating, you can find out how to file a report and how our anti-cheat system works on our Wiki. Banned accounts Since our last fair play, we’ve banned 8320 accounts that were found to have violated the rules. Specifically 3.2.3 of the EULA namely in the …

Third:

I would also highly suggest copy+pasting your thoughts and opinions to the largest and longest running “Naval Issues” thread here:

Naval mode is finally dead

Naval mode was bad before, and with every patch, they somehow make it even worse. Now the aiming sights make no sense—you can’t even tell where the guns are pointing while the turret rotates. You aim your shot, and it lands completely off, anywhere but where you aimed. It used to be better; you could calculate your shots and strategize where to damage the enemy ship.

Now, before everyone dog piles on with “well it’s a new issue it deserves a new thread!” I do not disagree with you. But for Naval with the community being so much smaller than the other game modes, I highly recommend posting to the largest/most visible threads that we have.

Here is a quote where I expressed this previously:

@SilentTracker

@Dodo_Dud

@SilentTracker

This thread is the best place to discuss current issues with Naval Battles.

Why not put it into the thread I linked, which was dealing precisely with the topic the OP addressed?

That thread is minuscule, super tiny 🤏 With Naval already being a smaller community, every effort should be made to involve as many naval players as possible. And this thread is by far the largest and most active naval thread there is. And it is specifically about ALL issues that are negatively affecting Naval Battles.

Making more threads for each naval issue only fragments the community further, and 90% of the other naval players will never see all the various naval threads.

If each of these new naval threads had hundreds of replies it would be fine. But each new naval thread barely breaks 10 replies. Waste of time, and counter productive.

Even this “large” thread barely has over 200 users:

The thread you linked to has barely over 10 users. Total waste of time. You are better off talking to a brick wall. No one will ever see it, and the Devs will 100% never see it: