I would rather like to see the chat activity than the number of caps.
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And perhaps you were not the only one with this judgement. What did the chat look like?
I don’t think the chat matters much really. What the OP had ALSO said in his 1st post was…
This was from the very start of the game. I thought he made it quite clear that none of his team were interested in capping from the very beginning. No other team members would have thought it a suicide mission, because none of them wanted to cap in the 1st place, so being a suicide mission wouldn’t have even crossed their mind. If they had tried capping with the OP, they would have evened it up and maybe even taken the zone… but they more or less all ran away in any direction except the direction to capture the objective. I know it happens, i have seen stupid teams do this so many times myself and have been in exactly the same position trying to cap on my own, because from all the years of playing Battlefield 2, 3 and 4, I learnt to play the objective if you want to win.
Me. When I see a stupid team do this, I just 1 death leave because they are not even worth the thousands in rapair bills.
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This has been a common issue for a lot of matches now and I suspect it might actually be bots. My theory is that that they’re trying to go to a capture point that does not exist due to the gamemode.
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That is why chat matters.
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When the chat is oddly silent, I start getting bad vibes…
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Not just that. Players often routinely take up position for the 3 cap game. And when they notice “there is no cap”, it is too late. It helps to remind people to go for A. Same as it helps to remind people of fuel during larger operations maps in air.
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Conquest game type is the worst.
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I’ve noticed an exponential decline in use of chat ingame over the last 4 years. Now, typically, if I say something, I will be the ONLY person saying anything in chat the entire match. That’s crazy in a multiplayer game. I can go like 10 matches without seeing a typed message. It’s very weird.
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Aside from people just deciding not to communicate, most console players do not have a keypad or keyboard hooked up. So, there is that too.
In the matches I’m in, it’s like 90% PC players. That’s what’s so jarring.
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It’s funny that whenever I do meet people that actually talk in chat, it’s always the rounds where people seem to actually know what they’re doing. It further proves my point of most matches having bots in them.
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I’m not quite sure about it being all bots, but there’s definitely been a communal change even if bots accounted for 80% of the players. The remaining 20% would still have said something from time to time in years past. They do in enlisted, of all games!
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Enlisted is a lot harder of a game to get bots working in, plus there’s a lot less incentive for account farmers to use bots since the game isn’t as active as War Thunder.
Enlisted is quite literally 40-70% percent bots, if I remember correctly they’re not even people violating TOS, they’re part of the game to beef lobbies so players have food to shoot at. And I’m not talking about the other infantrymen or crew in your squad, I mean the ACTUAL PLAYERS ON THE SCOREBOARD are significantly composed (or at least WERE) of literal bots put in by the makers of the game
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It’s been a while since I played Enlisted but that sounds horrifying. That’s TF2 levels of bots when that was an issue. But yeah that’s pretty much what we’re seeing in War Thunder as well. I have to wonder how bad other multiplayer games are getting with bots since some people just don’t know how to spot them.
About 8 months ago, it was like this. As far as I can tell the bot numbers are dropping precipitously.
It’s really sad, man. Gaming in general is just so weird now. War Thunder is my reprieve, my multiplayer game that doesn’t go away and die after a few years. All of my other favorite games have died off, only War Thunder outlives them. Fortunately, I absolutely love tanks and aircraft, but man, it’s sad to see FPS as a genre wither, decay, die, and get turned into a weird streaming industry. RTS are hanging by a thread, turn based strategy is hanging by a thread. What’s left in gaming?
Not much. Unregulated phone apps designed solely to separate people from their money.
For the most part, gaming is decaying and withering away to almost nothing.
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There is the problem with consoles, not sure if they even have the chat messages PC players send. The other major thing is probably a language barrier. An automatic translator would be usefull for such cases.
The only reason I see most people use the chat for, is for rage of some kind. Teamwork almost never.
Console players do, but you have to set up a keybind (button bind?) to activate typing in the chat, AFAIK most people on console don’t know that. Also I’m pretty sure enemy chat is off by default but I’ve had it on for a long time now.
And yeah chat messages are a lot harder to send, if you’ve ever looked up a show on Netflix on your TV, you know what I’m talking about.
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On console, We actually can’t type messages into chat once spawned for whatever reason, can only use the quick chats and mark on the map to communicate like a caveman
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