Why World of Tanks has never been in a worse state... 

WG is so far disconnected from the player base it's incredible that the game continues to survive. The continuing "dumbing down" of the game is ironically killing it IMO.

It feels like the gap between the weak and meta tanks has never been bigger and the whole game needs a massive rebalancing. Also the spread of maps needs to indulge more playstyles.

Basically, they need to change maps, and delete or at least reduce the corridor and hull down maps. Create some new open field maps where you can actually flank and relocate easily. This would be great for everyone and it will also change the meta

2 or 3 lane corridor maps are killing the game. It feels so restrictive when you play anything but a heavy tank. Lights and mediums are so much harder to play because you only have 2 or 3 open maps and rest are just meant for heavies to fight over one corner

I just want they remove +2 MM and replace with +1 MM and balance the game instead of keep throwing superb OP prem tonks to the game :)

Matchmaking has been broken since day 1. I'm so sick of the majority of the games being 1 sided, 4 minute 15-3 blowouts. Tier 10 is almost unplayable these days because of this. Even winning isn't fun like that.

Well put. I would add that all tiers are suffering. Trying to grind credits in tier 8 prem playing 5 games and facing a tier 9 and 4 tier 10 matches. Trying to use standard ammo as much as possible and getting clobbered by tier 10s spamming gold rounds. For the average player, having the credit system nerfed is a struggle at times. This meta of hull down tanks is getting old too. One of the reasons for keeping arty around was supposed to be to prevent people from camping, but what do hull down tanks do other than camp a ridgeline? I think what WG are missing is that the more they make the game easier for newer players, the more they nerf the fun and excitement of the game. Honestly, I get so fed up sometimes I just rage quit, get chat banned and boycott the game for a few weeks. It's pretty sad that I get more enjoyment from doing the dishes than I do from playing this game.

With the exception of making consumables reusable, every change they've made has made the game worse. I don't think WG has the desire or the ability to save this game.

Imagine Wargaming bringing out patches every 2 weeks like League. Meta tanks would receive some nerfs and underpowered tanks would get some buffs. Meta would be changing constantly.

I'd love to see more different game modes being implemented into the game. 7vs7 was the most fun i ever had in this game, and i would love to play the old capture the flag or domination game mode. Just something different than randoms. No game can stay in a healthy state if there's just one way to play it. The same goes for the hull down meta

I agree with most of what you said and I am a long time player (almost 90k games) and 60 tier Xs. 1-I quit the game right after EBRs were added because they destroyed light tank and aggressive medium play. 2-I just recently came back (less than 2 weeks ago) and the new hull down heavy meta is boring. 3-Tier X is nothing but EBRs, gold spamming and sitting in the back for the first 2 minutes because you get punished if you try anything (like getting forward in fast mediums for quick spots and early damage). I think I have played exactly 2 tier X heavy games since I came back and am endlessly frustrated trying to play my lights and fast mediums. Tier X is supposed to be the crown jewel, but I have much more fun at tiers 5-8 these days...

Agree with pretty much everything you have to say. I believe maps is a key aspect to fixing a lot of the game's issues. The map themselves really are the deciding factor on how the game is really played. And Wargaming's design philosophy when it comes to maps is pretty flawed. Would love to see some more map discussion from the community! However, I disagree with you on the new outline feature. I don't think it's "dumbing down" the game, it's just providing you with more information. To me, this feature is similar to the extended map features, the hit log and hit-indicator, and the team health bars: More power and information to the player! For me, the game has never been consistent in which structures and geometry you can actually destroy, shoot through, or are solid etc. So yeah, you have to learn the specific properties on each individual structure on every single map. Of course, I agree that it does reward experienced players and will feel satisfying to be able to outplay your opponents thanks to your knowledge in this regard. But are you outplaying these players because of a well implemented game mechanic, or a poorly implemented game mechanic? I think most structures in the game are poorly communicating what is actually destructible or not, so you just have to find out by trial and error. So to me, the new outlining feature is a perfect way to communicate just what is destructible or not, and I think this is something that should have been in the game since the beginning. World of Tanks is already a very complex game and I don't believe implementing such a feature is "dumbing down" the game, it just helps us understand the game better! Anyways, great video though! /Zwhatsh

imagine having maps as big as in war thunder, with like still 15 people on it, in a game mode resembling steel hunter in terms of spotting mechanics to force people to move around and look everywhere to find the ennemy. this could allow flanking and also provide new and potentially fun gameplay for everyone to learn

What about a credit and/or bond boost for tanks with worse community performance averages? OP reward tanks should be given deferential match making so the best they get is +1 MM. And a rework to ammo types so there are damage, accuracy, and pen tradeoffs.

I really respect people that make content for this game. But I also can't help and feel sorry for them. I've been with this game since the Beta. And while it has seen a large number of improvements it is also obviously clear that Wargamming will not change their principles here. They will do everything they can to increase their profits. And as long as that works, the gameplay, meta and everything else will either remain the same or get worse. So anyone that's hopeing there will be some kind of "change" here, well I think that's naive. Play the game if you feel it's fun. But don't expect that it will change.

From what I've seen, a lot of the "improvements" are just previously banned mods to begin with. I don't know if they just think it's easier to give everyone the mod instead of trying to combat it or if they really can't stop the banned mods to begin with but either way it has and always will make the game easier.

Just another idea; I was thinking that it would be so useful to have something like a shooting range that you can try and feel any tank with any combination of skills/equipments freely. It is so painful to grind a tank just to see it is not your taste.

I believe some time ago, in some interview, someone from WG said that they didn't even expect the game to last this long. If this was really the case, I think WG knows their game is dying and is currently just trying to squeeze out as much money as they can while they can. It's a super pessimistic view I know but it just feels like it.

I actually quite liked the new tank silhouettes being added, it adds a lot to the quality of life. I personally think it would already be a great start if wargamming started adding substancial weakspots to the turret armour of their newly added tanks.

I've always thought there should be a special page in-game where players can choose to watch videos from all educational community contributors. Wg is clearly not capable or does not want to make a viable tutorial themselves, then why not promote the people who promote your game in return by recommending their videos as tutorials. This is a win/ win for both sides, wg will not have to spend resources making tutorials, at the same time people who make good content will receive a bigger following and motivation to continue promoting the game. As for the skill floor thing, that's probably the most frustrating aspect for unicums and better players in general, cause they tend to strive for perfection and if a lower level player can achieve that perfection easier with help from penetration indicators etc. it kills the competitive vibe over time. That said players who are good and have played for years have easier access to many little tweaks like bond equipment, already grinded field mods, very good crews, etc. which also makes it unfair to newer people fighting against them. I cannot offer a reasonable solution about this though, it is possible if you redesign the game from scratch, but that means pretty much creating a new game which is never going to happen for financial and marketing reasons

i have been playing the game since the beginning and many of my friends that i invited to the game quitted just after 1 week of playing, playing tier 1 2 3 is so tragical, you are slow, your crew is very bad, hitting something makes it impossible and on of top of that as u mentioned they dont know about spotting mechanic, hull down position, hiding behind the bush (they think bushes are here for better graphic impressions) and when they get in +2mm they just die in 30sec of a game since they dont know where they gonna meet other tanks and just ends up in massive crossfire they dont understand why they cant pen that tank but he can one shot them, they dont even have enough money to go for gold ammo... they just get a very very bad experience during that time and i dont blame them

i personally want wot from 2012-2013 back

you know, i just discovered you with this video. I can’t do anything but agree. So much people are leaving the game, even the super unicum, because of the current meta, the « kranked » meta. You cannot play regular tanks, which don’t have 350mm turret armor and pen. I’ve been playing since 2013, and i see the game becoming so bad… Tier X is becoming very hard to play. I can’t play my dear M60 anymore :,(

Great video. Very articulate with your points and I agree it would be great to have some variety in the end-game content.

If they do implement this at least cap it at tier4 or tier5 helping new players and not destroy the smart plays and terrain usage in higher tiers

I started playing the game in 2012, back in the days tanks have weak spots where you can aim for them in order to damage them. Like the vk4502B, it was hard to pen frontally but it has a little machine gun and a driver port which you can easily pen if you know that it is a weak spot. Then after learning the weak spots, you should learn the map positioning wherein a tank destroyer can snipe from this position, a heavy tank can brawl in this position, a medium tank can flank on this position. I think it was a fun experience wherein if you truly spend time on the game you can fully develop advantages over your opponent I think wargaming is slowly killing wot's appeal for the old-time players (heck some of them for sure already quit). The knowledge that the veterans developed during their thousands of battles will generally be Thanos snapped on this new feature that they are planning to implement. I know it's a good feature to attract the new players but keeping those veterans to teach those new players instead is much better. Wargaming already started destroying their appeal on the old players wherein tanks don't have any frontal weak spots, Now tanks don't have frontal weak spots it is either you load gold or you cry on the corner. I think wargaming is also in a tight situation since they can never nerf a premium tank and they need to make their time/money consuming reward tanks "worthy"

I just found you...enjoyed your commentary. Smart. I've played since 2014 and the Hellcat was god king tank at that time. One of the things I actually enjoyed about the game at first was trying to figure out the weakspots for what seemed like an amazing amount of tanks.

When you suggested the tier nine campaign I felt my heart skip a beat... I was filled with joy just imagining for half a second how much fun I could have

I’d love to see a domination game mode , three cap Right and left flanks and one in the centre with the centre one being worth 2 points per second , but the catch is 20v20 on the grand battle maps.

Thank you for uploading the replay! I'm the player that played in the first game you showed with FV4005.

Good stuff man. I made this point back when they removed friendly fire. It's been a process and not a good one. The game, I believe, has lasted so long precisely because it was so hard to master and required a great amount of knowledge and the skill to apply it.

I agree with everything you said except for the outline mechanic. I honestly don't think the impact is such a drastic problem as it is presented in this video. The skill difference between a good player and a bad player has so little to do with how the outline is presented that it's almost irrelevant. Though I do understand that you present this as an example of a more systemic issue like map design. The one issue I do have with this line of thinking, is presenting this game in any way as truly competitive. Sure at high levels of clan wars it can be, but it will never be in pubs, and was laughable as an esport.

The last time I had fun in tier 10 was during the streamer clash? I believe it was called this way. The 7vs7. You could just take any tank and have a positive impact at the game by being good. I used my Type 5 Heavy, I just used the weight of the tank to slowly crush the ennemies without stopping (20 km/h --> -600hp) they all tried to perma track me (3 shots from 277 needed to track me once, 1.5s repair time, good luck) I though that was so epic just brawling arround like a heavy boxer against light childs. I achieved something like 75% winrate in this tank during the game mode. the battles were often close and you had your little adrenaline rush each time. in FFA? yeah you mean the 15-0 simulator where by the time you arrive to your position half the ennemi / ally team has suicided like tier 1 bots? not enjoyable, still some decent game, like 1 in 10, the rest, even when you do 8k+ damage and still lose, it's bullshit.

Kajzoo, I've been playing this game since 2011, but I've never payed WG any real-time currency. Meaning - everything I have in my garage I earned in-game. Back in the day, there were no XP or credit or Crew XP boosters, you had to grind and grind to get that Maus or E100 or IS7 or even T110E5... then you had FV215b, which had the best gun in a HT class after being added to the game, and ppl couldn't spam gold at you cuz you had to pay gold for extra pen, that's why its called "gold spam" to this day, there was no "spaced armor" or "godlike turrets" with no weakspots. Point of this post is this - while grinding your way to that tier X, you had to play and learn the mechanics of different classes, where to aim and shoot, how to outmanouver enemy TD or slower heavy, with no help on the side or any guides or content like yours. Game was much slower and you had time to think your next move. All you had were your buddies, 10 fingers, minimap and a tank which you learnt more and more about with every game played. Ohh, and some ppl had brain (today's uniqums and s. Uniqums).

What pisses me off is WGs "testing". Even in the best key scenario, they just put out a Sandbox where basically everything goes through, except like VERY controversial stuff (Crew 2.0 ex). Then they tune it a bit (in best case) without sharing any info and it goes STRAIGHT TO COMMON TEST! Happened with field mods and this new unbalanced RTS plus basically all of the new tank lines recently

Releasing a cw campain with tier 9 as an experiment whould actually be pretty cool tho. What whould make it perfect is banning reward tanks aswell, so clans dont play c1b or kpz because of their huge versatility. I personally never play CW (reason is the obvious) but that'd be a good motivator to try it out!

As a 50% player and have never played clan wars and only have tech tree tanks to use if I did, I'm going to agree with you on these things, your points and solutions make perfect sense. Will WG listen, I doubt it unfortunately.

Every tank should have weighting in MM. Tanks like the EBR 105 make most of the other lights useless. Heavies like the chieftain and 279 can almost just hold W and win the game. Make the new contour system for tiers 1-5.

I got a dumb and fun idea Decrease the hp of your ammorack by the percentage of gold you bring As an example tryhards who spam gold for marks/noobs who don't wanna aim for typical weakspots will be blown up by a single shot to the ammorack If they choose to bring a load out with full gold

great vid, keep up the good work

Overall, I think we'd all be happy if Wargaming were to Rework/change existing maps, reducing +/-2 matchmaking down to +/-1 matchmaking, Artillery Lights and maybe TDs getting limited to 1/2/3 respectively, the tutorials getting a major overhaul, and last but certainly not least rebalancing to OP Tanks. These sentiments are usually echoed in the community but this video is such an eye-opener to why the game is dumbed down so much. If they never explain anything to you, the of course newbies will turn away.

I think they should make the vehicle outline thing available up to tier 5 or 6. Its a good thing to help *New* players learn what you can shoot through and what you cannot shoot through easing them into the tougher mechanics of the game. But having this feature at high tiers where things get a bit more serious is gamebreaking. It takes away the knowledge that experienced players have learned over tens of thousands of battles.

thank you very much, your totally right...for me it was patch 18.1 i think that started the down hill slide and now it's snowballing.

Thanks for great videos

The thing about reaching higher tiers and having something to pop up to teach new players how to sidescrape, how shell velociti works etc. actually exists in the game. I played on a new account to do the refferall program and there were so many pop ups but they all lead to the youtube videos or play the video in game. Not saying its bad or anything but it could be done in some kind of a game mode or just added to the one where you play against bots(cant remember the name of the mode). But I completly agree on the fact the base tutorial is complete garbage

The issue is that wot gains almost nobody nowadays so by them "trying" to make the new players learn more with these stupid mechanics will just make already dedicated players who have been playing for years to just quit cause it will just annoy them and make them quit.

Let's not forget how hard is to new people to get crew with 1 skill, if they reroll it for free (starting from tier 5) and not gold they finish they first skill is around end of tier 7, beginning of tier 8. This mechanic worked back in the days but this days there is too many people with few skills crews on lower tier.

The aiming contour is a good change. To know what can be shot through and what can't on every single map, you probably would need 10s of thousands of battles.

I wish I knew which tanks were competitive at top tier when I started. Now I have a 277 that's awesome but frustrating in the current meta, an IS 7 which is fun but absolutely eaten by gold spammers, an AMX M4 54 solid tank but it felt like a worse S.Conqueror. Bottom line is, I dislike the new meta because I've shed blood sweat and tears only to find out my tier X is frustrating to play because they're not meta tanks.

Sad part is, they wont give a crap to this WG in 2030: Heres some new mechanics that drive, shoot and angle ur armour for you! You just need to select tanks!

Thinking of new “tanks” they can add would be wheeled TD’s or a completely new class of IFVs( we pretty much have one amx 13 57 ) that mostly follow the characteristics of medium tanks except for the vr that would sit higher then mediums but lower then scouts And removing ebr

I've been conviced for more than 2 years that a tier 9 CW would be a great idea because of the balancing of this tier with lot's of differents tanks that each have a particularity but none of them is actually ruining the game experience of the others. And it would be very skill based because the players and the strater would need to use at the max efficiency the advantage of all the tier 9 tanks and try to lower the effect of their drawbacks in order to win.

Wheeled vehicles are the most upsetting change they have made for me. I can deal with the rest, but 90% of the time I hit one (which is maybe 10% of the time) I get a bounce off its hubcap, its ridiculous. They need to address how many bounces the EBR's and wheeled get, its ridiculous, not to mention its hard enough to shoot them they should NEVER bounce. Then them breaking HE, where I shoot tanks with HESH in my FV and do 0 damage. Zero. Ridiculous, it just bounces off a leo and does no damage, not just once but many times to the point I don't even enjoy the FV or KV2 anymore, broken. So my HE or HESH can do 0 damage, but an EBR can bounce multiple shots, sure makes sense for the disconnected WG. I haven't given them $ on my account since they added the EBR just playing for free now.

Great video- thanks for being brave enough to speak the truth. I love this game, and have played it for a long time. But it is nowhere near as good as it used to be. The current corridor map/hull down meta has really made the game far less variable and enjoyable than it used to be. A lot of the battles feel predictable and repetitive now, whereas it used to be much more varied and interesting. I really hope that Wargaming will fix the game, and restore it to it's former glory.

I know this video is 7 months old at this point but even on console this is a problem too. We had to play an introductory training mission, and we were given about 10 training missions that had incentive for new and experienced players to play. Now we're forced to play a single type of tank until tier 3 without many tips and tricks. And the Cold War mode is the only mode that has training missions; now we have extremely un-experienced players getting multiple high tier tanks and still not understanding the fundamentals of the game which ruins the experience for veteran players

How is the contour system any different from hit indicators / last spotted on the map It's additional information. I also don't like how some buildings are destructible and some aren't so this really eliminates any randomness to it and makes it more consistent. It's a welcomed addition imo.

I wish if all this existed in our day - new players have a lot advantages to start playing/grinding faster/learning etc .. while in our days 10 years ago we have to learn all this by ourselves to figure it out all and be very skilled. At the end get called not skilled only gold spammer noob! Lol

The things that drove me away from this game were the predatory premium ammo and consumable mechanics, and the ridiculous amount of RnG involved, both in shell dispersion, penetration, and damage. The fate of a game could literally be decided by a high or low roll. That, and the +-2 matchmaking which was just horrible, even worse than War Thunder's buggered up BR system, at least in that you have a chance and there's no bogus DPM, hitpoints, and made-up armour profiles to screw you over. The dumbasses at Wargaming keep running into player retention issues, and instead of addressing the ACTUAL problem, being the predatory and RNG game mechanics, they instead add crutches that allow even more toxic gameplay and discourage good gameplay. New outlines won't matter anyway if random shot dispersion makes all of your unaffordable premium rounds slam into a rock anyway.

Another aspect to consider is that there is a prolific number of players using mods like perma contours and toggle vegetation. By introducing some of these capabilities into the standard HUD they can level the playing field a bit because experienced players have been dumbing down the game for themselves with mods for years.

About the contour change... Not only I loved it, but I actually suggested it when we were still in the Beta testing.... The problems with the game right now are annoying clown cars and overpowered hull down meta. Strategically placed weak spots IN ALL TANKS would reduce that second one.

I agree with all you've said. I remember back in the days when we had a lot of events (like the world football champion with those 3v3 matches), those days are fun. But now, it seems like if i leave this game and come back in 2 years nothing will have changed, apart from new cancer hull down tank and OP rewards that people can buy with their wallet... This game has so much potential but still WG it's just deciding to not do anything to even get close to it. I decided to quit this game time ago and i don't regret it. This game is just not fun anymore.

didn't really agree with your initial impression of the new 'obstacle shading' feature (you are right that no one asked for it - but didn't think would be a big deal) but after you explained why you felt that way I can see what you mean. If WG actually provided some useful training / in-game tutorials / ANYTHING to help ease new players into the game in an enjoyable and most importantly useful way then wouldn't need these types of catch all 'life jackets' to help new players at higher tiers (which result in removing the nuance and dynamics of each match -- i.e: everyone being hull down) Totally agree T10 is a joke unless in one of the like 5 meta tanks. The missions and campaigns are just awful too. Some of the missions are completely dependent on random chance of getting into a game with the right number or tier of tank (for example MT15 for the T-55A i've been stuck on forever because for like every 15 games I maybe get like 2 or 3 matches that have enough of the appropriate TDs - so then I have to like play the game but am less motivated because my focus is on finishing one particular mission) So much potential still in this game. I don't think simplifying it is all bad but they aren't doing it in the right ways at all. I'm still waiting for Crew 2.0 to rear its ugly head again. (literally - one of the dumbest ideas i've ever heard at from the conceptual to practical level - perfect example of WG not getting the point; or more likely not givng a sht)

good thing I left this game 5 years ago. I was also a player from the release and the power creep + impenetrable tanks + gold rounds killed it for me. I still remember how fun it was to play the VK4502A as a heavy medium…

Man, they are really killing this Game. Would love if they actually would care for this game instead of making it Noobfriendlier to make more Money. I wish more CC's would talk about the State of the game. Great Video! Edit: Wtf is that FV4005 RNG. Better than with my 0,24 Dispersion Grille 15 lol

sadly no amount of logic will reach the ears of the wg hierarchy cause they use revenue -+ to determine how much change the game needs, no hope whatsoever

Before I stopped playing, I was a very casual player mostly stuck at tier 8. It would be interesting to hear how that's working/not

I used to play a lot of light tanks i took a break from the game for some time and now when I came back I feel like I cant play lights and the reason is the maps. I cant find match where i have map where light can shine.

Yes more tanks with god-like turret with an ant size weak spot so people can sit at a hull down spot and just shoot because why not Wargaming I'm glad I have uninstalled WoT last month and I feel so relaxed

You make a number of excellent points, Kajzoo. There are a ton of things in the game that when compounded together make for a less than stellar late game experience, make for terrible matches aka Turbo Stomps. I have all of the tech tree tier 10s and a few other 10s thrown in to boot, but I find the tier 10 experience to be absolutely abysmal. Stale maps, terrible map design, view range inflation, rushing new players to tier 10 via blueprints and the like, match maker template (Kran=/= 50b), all of these things combine to make for little fun. I would love to see new maps, or even adopting Ranked battles 10 vs 10 format for tier 10 games would bring something new. I don't know what the answer is, but I know it isn't adding a bunch more premium/reward tanks to the game.

I don't know if it's an update that came out or what, but a few days ago I started taking hits to my ammo rack within the first shot or two every game, no matter what tank I was in, and shots that should have penetrated enemy tanks either constantly ricochet or do 0 dmg. And these were shots to the belly or rear of the enemy. Or my shots would go flying over and away from tanks while I'm stopped on flat ground and fully aimed. Last night I had a losing streak of 16 or 17 matches, each one full of these problems. On my last match it came down to me in my t29 vs a t6 TD. I managed to come out behind him and nail him in the back, but the shot did no damage and he managed to destroy me while I was reloading. I uninstalled the game and deleted it from my steam library.

I really miss the days when I could get on the game with just about any tank and not only did the games last longer than 3 min but they were fun. You had to actually understand your tanks roll. Now most of the players play every tank like a TD.

thanks king for the good content

I just miss the good old days when 50 100's and IS-3's were leading the way on tier 8 tank company's. Back then it was a criteria from WG that premiums were weaker than their tech tree equivalents but the moment they realized the income potential with stronger premiums was a pivotal moment for this game. I honestly think that one thing WG and maybe most of the playerbase hasn't considered is because they cannot directly nerf premium tanks because of the backlash but they can change everything around these vehicles i.e buff everything around them so they are not directly nerfing the premiums but still somewhat reintroducing some fucking balance on this game 🤣

The wierd thing is, ships are implementing alot of bans / 1 of each shiptype in CBs (CWs) with great respons from the community. I really cant see why the department next door dont see the benefits from that. I guess ranked was 1 step in that direction, but then it stopped.

What we need is new maps, make the existing ones bigger. Bring back HE for "field tanks" and leave the current ammo for arty as it is, perhaps a little bit more damage but way less damage. As somsone who has played the game for about 10 years, I never felt like I needed an indicator that tells me if someone is behind a tree or not...the pen indicator I do see it handy since I honestly don't have as much time as I used to so I can't be always checking on the newer tanks.

Honestly what the game needs mostly is more premium soviet tanks.

I really agree with you. I play this game since 2010 and current state of the game now is really unenjoyed to play every patch game update.

outline feature is great thing, they are moving in right direction, its so annoying when there is bush between you are enemiy and you cant see, if he is partly behind rock, or house or something, this is great, I love it I really hope they implemente it

Excellent video. Kudos to you for this. As someone that ( I guess WAS is the right word now) was a unicum and who played WoT right from the beginning and was practically forced to stop playing it due to all of the horrible changes that game has endured over the years, I fully agree with every word you have said. I miss the old days when this game was entertaining and had some balance, unique mechanics, and diversity of choice between nations. Now it's all the same power crept junk. Also, awesome one-shootable gameplay on the FV.

While watching others build up damage from penning enemy tanks, I noticed that I am not getting half of what others are receiving. I've used all the bonuses, tokens and what have you, to build it up, but there is no improvement. Could you tell me what I need to do build or collect damage from penning and destroying tanks. Thank you so much in advance.

I really like the "trying to drown themselves in a teaspoon full of water" line, never heard that one before :)

I would like to see some matter of "fairness" in matches i.e. tired of 5-15 games aka stomps, or teams of Pros versus Schmoes, as I call it. I thin it was Chems had a suggestion of trying to even out the MM with a balance of try-hards and casuals, but the company answer is that it's hard to balance skillz versus skill matches, which I agree to a point esp when I've noticed players with seeming low stats, but play like unicums, which I assume is either a re-roll or try-hard with a 2nd or 3rd acct starting from scratch o.0 I have one myself, but I wanted to see how gameplay is for a new player in 2020, as I forgot how I started way back when, and the Tutorial etc has changed over time. Funny thing is my 2nd acct is better than my OG acct, has I still carry my crappy stats from the first few years I played not truly knowing how WoT worked, and only sine Lockdown have my stats improved ;)

I mean this has been happening for years now. I stop playing when they introduce rework the LT line and MM, the 3-5-7 MM, the freaking arty stun mechanic. Like I miss the time when you have 12 top tier on both side making fight really long and intense. I miss when LT are meant for scouting not for fighting so they got +3 MM. I miss when you have weak spot so standard round still works.

Really glad to see I am not the only one who thinks negatively about the new outline that WG want to add. Been discussing it on the forums with little success, as the majority of the players seem to not see how it dumbs down the gameplay.

I have been playing wot on pc for about 5 months now, on and off, i started off strong, but have now lost my first lust to grind for the e100 my favourite tank, although having that said i am still drawn back to it sometimes as i have been playing wot blitz on my ipad for 6 years.

I started to play in 2012, it took me few month to get first tier 10 as a 49% truly average joe. Couple of years later, it was down to less then 1K battles or so with true grind of stock tanks. And then, couple of years ago it became way less then a week. I played 45 battles on T-95 to research T110E3 !!! And that was before fragments system. But my journey through all the pains of low tiers made me a better player - 49 -> 59%. New players are deprived of this opportunity. They get tier 6 from day 0, they have fragments, they have boosters - and they get to top tiers in no time, without knowing anything about mechanics (camo, spot, shell types). Same can be said about maps, vehicles weak spots and other params. And then we (and they) have our beloved 5:15.

I know I’m a poor to average player, but I’ve noticed that a lot of Progetto, Borat and Object platoons in Standard Battles recently. As someone trying to play tech tree tanks without Gold ammo nor large consumables, this means I’m dead 30 seconds after they spot me.

From SEA asia side, I am playing from Australia and the Ping is devastating, 3 months ago I was playing on either Aus or Asia server & it was awesome 3-5 hrs a day, but now the Ping & inconsistency of the internet is severely messing up my time on WOT.

imagine a Tiger I vs 350mm of turret armor, nice balance WG

I started playing in 2018. I found it enjoyable and even did some Tier X games. Wheeled vehicles drove me out of playing the highest tiers (9+10). I don't have a 20 year old's reflexes anymore. Combine that with the terrible MM on the NA server where you constantly find yourself at -2 and I have simply gave up. I did play tiers 4-6 for awhile, but last year when I moved to Spain and WGing refused to even entertain the idea of letting me move my account to the EU, I am now done completely.

How about limiting how many of the same tank or tank type you can take into clanwars. Like a maximum of 2 reward tanks. Or maximum of 2 is-7's, a maximum of 6 heavy tanks... This would force people to create different matchups.

About state of the game - I enjoyed it the most from 2013 to 2015 when I was new player, I was improving and learning the game and I even found it relaxing. Sometimes we played team battles with KV1S and Hellcat. There were challenges as unlocking T32, IS3, AMX50100 and getting 3 skill crews for them. Some people enjoyed seal clubbing with T18, some with T67, some with Hellcat and I don't think tier 10 was ever fun. But I loved Chaffee and M46 Patton. People played low and mid tiers, so it was somewhat fun to play them to relax and there was variety. Breaking point when many players left was adding many OP heavies and other tanks: ScorpionG, Defender which basically erased any free to play content. It was after nerfing/balancing all low tier tanks so MM for mid tiers got horrible and soon it moved to high tiers. Now game went to state when you can play a few premiums (bourrasque, progetto, hwk30, ...) and few tier 10s (leopard, kran, ehm, stb, manticore, t100, amx13105). Anything else is irrelevant. I loved tier 9. But since Patton does not have by far better gun handling than other tanks and it has 225pen at 500m on APCR, it's not competitive when it's forced to snipe and it cant play on losing flanks, cause it's one of slowest tank. To my surprise, tier 7 mediums are fine, they are not much worse that tier 8 tech tree ones and people on tier 7 are often pretty clueless so I can make some difference.

2100 wn8 player here I agree with most of these statements and most of them were the main factor of my decline in playtime recently but I did stick around to grind the 114 sp2 and would love more unique rewards vehicles like that.

I quit a few years back got stuck on a tier and always was close to bankruptcy and nobody talked about the game as much even my friends quit

Yep, thats me. Trying to get the Type 5 Heavy as my first tank in 2018

I don’t know why they don’t have a coop mode in the game like warships, it lets you practice with newly acquired ships, always thought tanks should have the same

great vid man. agree with it all.

I went to their site and closed my acc . Im kinda sad cuz i've been playing for 5 years and i miss playing but everytime i thing bout making another acc and start playing again i remember how much pain this game made me feel

I think WG have tried to improve gameplay but have been spectacularly unsuccessful e.g. the HE nerf and arty, limiting the number of arty would have been better as has been witnessed in ranked. Perhaps in CW they could go 10 v 10 and limit the number of tanks to 1 e.g. 1 907, 1 chief etc this might bring more variety