Who?
Lauri,he clearly doesnt know the game
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Depends on who’s counting it seems, but I never lied.
Statshark has me at 28.66% (Below Average), Thunderskill has me at 57.91% (Average).
Which is the claim that I made.
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Time efficiency – Players may only have a short window and want quick matches.
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Focused grinding – Concentrating on spading or unlocking upgrades for a specific vehicle.
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Personal preference – Sticking with a favorite tank that feels comfortable or fun.
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Premium purchase – New players often jump straight into a top‑tier premium they just bought.
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Stat padding – Protecting kill/death ratios or other performance metrics.
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Seal‑clubbing – Using a strong vehicle in lower tiers to dominate less experienced opponents.
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Event completion – Speed‑running tasks or missions with a tank they know well.
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Booster optimization – Maximizing rewards while a time‑limited booster is active.
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Squad synergy – Coordinating with friends who all want to run the same vehicle for fast games.
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K/D safety net – Higher chance of leaving with a positive score when limiting exposure to one tank.
That’s everything I can think of right now. If more come to mind, I’ll update the list later.
For the record, I don’t play this way, I stick it out until the end. K/D doesn’t matter to me, what I value is the number of vehicles I’ve collected.
This one seems not quite right.
Everyone has a limited pick of vehicles within the BR range. Using your best is not “Seal Clubbing”, IMO.
I’d say it’s more like taking your aced crews to a very low tier - possibly with friends - and beating up on less experienced players. Those new players can’t possibly have your experience or your crew levels. But they could have similar vehicles.
Being aware of the META vehicle for that BR and entering with a full team using the same setup is likewise considered Seal Clubbing.
Rage-quit. Unfortunately, the game is designed to force you to buy progress, and even if you spend money, there’s always something that will easily kill you
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The ODLs are beyond repair. The game is as it is now, with absurd bounces, ridiculous damage, extremely small and unbalanced maps, poorly placed respawns, the CAS system, and underpowered SPAAs, and finally, the players themselves who are simply bored with the game. Gaijin abandoned the game, and that’s what happens when bugs aren’t fixed: players end up developing bad habits that are detrimental to the game.
If the devs ruin the game, the players end up helping to ruin it even more.
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If a 155mm HE round can overpressure an is6 by hitting the track but my 155mm HE cannot kill m41 walker bulldog by hitting the roof then this game is gone beyond repair and 1 death leave
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Personally for me, i only one death leave if i get straight gaijined.
As an EU player if i load into a game and see i am practically the only one or there are very few (most cases), and then get straight gaijined when i should kill/disable and dont then die, i will just leave as i see no reason to continue in that match when i know i am at a disadvantage due to the relic servers not being set up to handle the massive ping difference.
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I don’t think people would do actively sabotage by blocking your verhicle from behind.
You wildly overestimate the War Thunder playerbase.
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It happends way often that you can imagine
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M44 hit the tip of my barrel - head on - and wiped out my Chi-To.
Oh, I one death leave all the time. It’s honestly just because I do not, and will not, care anymore than I want to at any given point in time.
Team of idiots who all lemming train on one side and leave a whole flank open? Immediate quit.
Some random BS where I expose my front left lower ventral testicle turret cheek exposed for 0.000000002 milliseconds and get sniped from across the map? Immediate quit.
Or even, I do something ridiculously stupid because I’ve started hating everything about this worthless game instead of paying attention to the match? Immediate quit, absolutely.
I literally do not care about the game. Hundreds of thousands of other people more than likely feel the exact same way. What you need to understand is that it’s not going to change, obviously. It only affects the “players”. Who cares about that when Gaijin is meeting it’s bottom line for 18.0, Rank XXIII or whatever top tier super jets being sold in a month? Get lost.
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These is one my new reason i will leave instantly…its when im alone with potentially the whole team cause my team mates decided to go in 1 single spot
And most of the times they cant even take control of it…
Expecially in these long range maps,if im alone,i will quit instantly,i dont care no more to be honest,ill take 8 minutes of crew lock but i will save myself 10 minutes of brain damage
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The question for ODL is no longer why some people do it, but why some don’t. The game has become such a mess that, between the broken mechanics and the way many players play, it’s almost impossible not to get tired of it after three matches. You can only play many matches if you mentally switch off and abandon the competitive aspect.
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Pretty valid take, a good 80% of the time I struggle to find the motivation to even play, all the game modes are just repetitive slop at this point, and the same BS mechanics and gameplay is very burnout inducing when I’m not deadset on grinding things. The only thing keeping me going at this point is the sunk cost fallacy of over 6000 hours and who knows how many euros
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The only thing that keeps me playing is my love for the theme of tanks and military vehicles in general, and since WT is the best, even if it’s by a small margin, I keep playing even if it costs me my mental health. Besides, there’s also the risk of being kicked out of the clan for inactivity.
What annoys me most about the game is that it’s fundamentally a great game. If only the developers focused on doing things right (like when the game first started), it would be fantastic. They just need to revise the damage models so they’re not so unfair and random, revise the penetration calculator so bullets behave more realistically, and finally, create larger, better-balanced maps to make them more engaging and allow for different strategies. It would also be good to have at least five spawn points spread across the map to prevent spawn kills. If they only did that, the game would be amazing, and I might even be tempted to spend money on it again, something I’ve decided against for now, since they don’t deserve even €0.10.
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I got clips of the amount of non sense it happened to me these last weeks