There is no -Shoti - clan…its just an illusion
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I’m just curious as to why Shoti, a clan notorious for botting, was banned then unbanned.
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The squadron was never banned. The original human commander, foolhunter, was banned for ground botting. He was later “unbanned”, or possibly just his Banned flag on the web player record was removed along with a lot of other banned accounts a few days ago.
The squadron has been #7 in activity of all squadrons for a month now.
No account has ever been banned purely for naval botting that anyone can confirm. Last month’s banned bots were apparently all ground bot players.
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No that isn’t what he’s saying. Naval is plagued with bots.
…Ah, I see.
So it does seem they only really care about Naval as a means to sell event/premium vessels…
That could be, but I don’t think. Naval is one of my favorite modes and over the years, I think GJ has been pretty attentive to it. You remember the days before battleships? Or the days before Bluewater Fleets in general? They’ve done well.
The problem is Naval is the easiest mode to bot. It is easier to follow patterns on those maps because Naval is a lot less random than the other modes. Some people may disagree, but that has been my observation. Players have patterns and habits and if you play with them long enough, you start to see them. If you are good with some types of editor programs that will run macros, you can easily automate some tasks that will run under basic scenarios.
And if you are wondering how I know this, I am a programmer for one of my livings. I don’t bot because it’s unfair and it would be a waste of the thousands of dollars I’ve sank into this game only to get banned.
It could still be done in other modes, yes. And it happening in Air and Land modes is probably what called GJ’s attention to it. Players in those modes are far more vocal than Naval players because for many, Naval is a sideline or they don’t play it at all. Air is my sideline because I am a horrible pilot so I don’t know enough. It must have been a big thing in Helos too because after my small political protest; I returned to find Helo EC changed into an AI battle instead of PVP.
I also will note that the USS Helena was common in a lot of those profiles and it is a little OP. I bought one back before it became ubiquitous and noticed it was quite strong. But consider that it has “anti-fragmentation armor” and main guns that fire 15 rounds in a salvo when aimed in one direction. So it throws a lot of hell downrange and has armor that is resistant to spalling when hit.
Is that OP or just good engineering? :D She has a sister ship in the tech tree that is equally as good when fully RP’d and as a US player, I enjoy having any piece of equipment that can stand up to E. Euro bias. (Just my humble opinion). I recently started playing Russian tanks because I like to win sometimes.
Take it all at face value, just my long take on a hopefully short problem.
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The first Kerchbots showed up in October 2021. It’s been a couple months now from two full years of naval RB being heavily botted.
Short in geological time scales, I suppose.
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Plus the naval-bots are really becoming a lot better nowadays. Opening fire at once and sometimes very precise. Hence we can see now Des Moines with 5000 missions played and 5000 kills. Quite a piece of work with a fairly new premium, eh?
You could say adding aimbotting, which we first saw a year later, around Nov 2022 as a result of Gaijin’s anti-botting efforts, but it wasn’t really. As they gradually took over the mode, and there were only other bots to kill, they had to get good enough in the Moffettbots, later the Knoxbots, to kill each other, so somebody on the “bot team” got some kills in every game. Hence the improved scripting. Their real targets are each other now.
As they gradually took over the mode, K/d between mostly bot teams was inevitably going to approach parity (1:1).
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They actually use people convicted of Internet crimes to play video games like pure bots so they can make money sselling accounts Nort Korea also does this it seems weird to force people to play game for punishment but imagine for just a min being forced to play a ju288 for 14 hrs a day and only being allowed to hit a base and fly to enemy airfield to die while other players rage on you and call you a bot…its probably pretty shamefull feeling if your actually good at game
There is a whole squadron in this game that only play 1 ship for thousands of games. I also think I was the only human on the team cause after 4 minutes in the game. It crashed.
OF COURSE NOT !! We all know it comes from Russia … 😁🤣🤣🤣🤣 >joke<
I’m actually glad this topic was posted because cheating, third party dark web hacks, and bot clans rip us all off but the question I have is how many players actually USE the reporting system? Have some faith in the Great Snail people … And remember snails by nature are … sloooow 🐌
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Bots in naval are aggravating. But you can also take advantage of the situation by out thinking the AI they’re using (which isn’t very sophisticated- I see so many Moffetts bump into islands and blindly fire away. Also the bots don’t seem to get the concept of zone stealing. So there’s that. What’s most aggravating is if you wanted to play vs bots, the game allows you to set up matches like that so it becomes redundant.
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