Will Random Events RUIN World of Tanks?!? 

They are great and they should push more. Since they are not introducing new maps often, its a great way to make the current ones feel less boring.

Ruinberg and Himmelsdorf zeppelin are my favourite of the random events. Ruinberg breaks the stalemate that often seems to happen with heavies in city, and the zeppelin on Himmelsdorf allows you to move up from either the street or the square to advance things as well.

I think random events is a huge improvement to the game. Maps have worked and been played almost the same way for years now. This change has been a long time coming.

I dont think it ruins the Game. It can allow a sudden advance or a sudden change in game. Which i think is really good. Now Unicorns like yourself can also Lose a game or 2 due to events. Games are not predictable anymore.

Nah…they won’t ruin WoT

In my eyes the random events are fantastic because they spice up the gameplay, they're well telegraphed so everyone sees them and can get out of harms way. I would like to see more maps having random events. But my main gripe is that from the 6 maps that were tested in recon 2022 none made it in

10:30 I'm just imagining a couple assault TDs holding out in that tunnel against a team that refuses to cap.

I like random events, should be more of them to add interest and variety to the game, and a bit more realistic as it is supposed to be a war zone

Id like to see the night maps be in rotation to change up the meta a bit

I think my favorite is when you get the train and zeppelin at the same time on Himmelsdorf. Suddenly both flanks feel they need to take action.

From what I've seen, random events primarily happen to break heavy line stalemates, which is just about the best thing that could happen to heavy tanks; no longer are we confined to a 5ftx5ft area for the rest of the game, forced into cupola wars, but we can engage in flanks and alternative routes.

So far I haven't been close to the actual event when happen. He always catch me on the other side of the map, so I didn't even notice him many times. But what you are asking for, namely that they appear only at a possible "draw", that would no longer be "random event" but "sudden death", as it was in games like Worms Fortress: Under Siege for example. 😋

They should make a random event on mines where the entire hill is flattened

I see this as an absolute positive thing overall. As a free-to-play player nothing is more demoralising than all of these heavy tank maps having super strong hulldown tanks that can just sit in one position and farm. Always love when wargaming allows for new ways to outplay and flank those poorly balanced heavy tanks. Even if it may come at making the games even faster, sad as that is, i feel like it makes for a better experience for the f2p player overall. Saves me a bunch of those gold ammo that i usually won't hit anyways and definitely can't afford either way.

I would just like them to be unpredictable with no prior warning other than maybe the sounds of the aircraft coming in. Pay attention to the skies and be ready to run if need be, otherwise oh well

There's also the fact that the events happen in the last few minutes of games too. Sure some of them happen earlier but that's why it's called "Random events" but it will def be help in stalemates that happen in longer term games. I think they're doing good with it and it will be cool to see more of them in different maps. We'll see what happens

dont even play wot but i still watch to stay updated on my "lore".

The random events are amazing i am rooting for more Maps and also i hope the Timing where they happen ir should be random. Can be early or not. That means variety. It also can never happen. Absolutely love it

Honestly, barely even notice them. Should be more of them like pop up infantry with piats and bazookas!

I only have seen the random event on Prokhorovka so far, with the 4 planes crashlanding from AA fire, and it was really interesting to see it making new cover and changing how spotting and engagements there is going.

No they wont. Next topic.

Random events should be without any warning, since before they happen there are many sounds that alert you, like the planes in Ruinberg, personally I think it takes away a little of the randomness if they warn you before. They are a good change, and can do great things.

Couldn't agree more with you QB! Random events next to them being visually appealing at first instance, turn very quickly into these scenarios where a oportunistic player simply holds back untill the event happens. One might say it's a skillful move, sure but I think WG shouldn't have implemented in a way where you clearly find the implication of the event targeting towards an accelaration of the match by creating another flank. This may sound weird but I think it would be way more interesting if the event was far bigger in scale, causing the entire map to change. That would create a new scenario for everyone, possibly turning the tides and if done well, extend the duration of the match.

Nah they won't ruin it. I love these events so much

I had that one battle on Himmelsdorf where a BZ-58 where hit sit at the blimp position and gets instantly one shot so it doesn't destroy the game it adds in humor in it ....

I think random events really kill Prokharovkha for Lights, since the plane kills and destroys the bush line, making pushing through borderline impossible, and forcing lights to push early and risking a lot.

So many ways to adjust the maps from one battle to the next, a new bush here, an old one gone there, an object arriving, or disappearing, from one battle to the next. This can remove/create fire points and routes, removing op positions, weakening screening bushes, and so on, creating more variety within maps.

I was on the safe haven map when three T-29 heavy tanks at full health were destroyed by the random event. We were losing before that happened. What a crazy swing of advantage that was.

IMO these events make the game more enjoyable for the casual players, like myself. I sometimes don’t have the time or energy after a long day to sit on Himmelz in a stalemate however I can see these changing the way/meta WoT is played

Random events are good, but there should be more than just plane and zepplin crashes. I remember they teased that the tides would go up and down on airfield. Could you imagine a random event like a fire occuring in prokhorovka and burning down all the trees and bushes in a certain very campy part of the map near the end of the game as to prevent intense campfests. Or maybe even battlefield 4 style levolution events that can be triggered by players. For example, in westfield if enough people shot at the supports of the bridge with explosive rounds it would get damaged and chipped away until the support breaks causing more of the bridge to fall.

I think this would work better if the random events were truly random not a game to game basis but in map basis ie the same match can have different changes happen every match so the battle field changes from one match to the next

Would be neat if they added weather events like sandstorms, thunderstorms, blizzards. That way visibility can be reduced.

My first experience with the random events was on himmelsdorf and I was on the hill at the point of the castle. Suddenly look to my left and there's a whole BLIMP coming towards me. Needless to say, I needed a change of pants after that.

I'd prefer it if the post-event version of the maps were the default version. They really break open those stalemate maps

I love having a dynamic map. Getting rid of those frustrating bottlenecks was great. It’s either that, or get rid of the map, or just introduce the map change from the beginning with no special visual sequence.

I have a clanmate who is a war veteran. He loved the idea of random events as it simulates the randomness of war better, however also suggested that the random events be way smaller and more plentiful. Examples of these would be on Prokhorvka, where a plane coded in the game dives and drops a bomb on a random place on the map. Minefields could also be randomly laid around the maps. I honestly think that the random events were not a bad idea, but I also agree with my clan member stating that they could be smaller and more frequent. Have a good day everyone!

0:58 I thought a ufo was just casually flying overhead 🛸

I had a game on ruinberg that was really cool and got opened up nicely with the random event in the town. I thought it was really fun and interesting to get to play around with the new angles and positions that were created after sitting and fighting in the same ones for up to 10 years at this point. Of course some players on the enemy team got caught off guard quite heavily as they didn't even seem to notice the event went off and the buildings got destroyed but they'll eventually grow aware of it I would think and counter your push or do whatever.

id say that the problem is map sizes, when you think about it, its so cramped and theres only 1-3 ways to play any class in all maps everything is the same. Now look at frontline, huge map many different opurtunities. We need bigger maps.

People have complained since 2011 that randomness is not that fun of a game mechanic. It seems in 2024, randomness still isn't that fun of a game mechanic. Who would have thought.

I enjoy the extra spice and cover they provide. Makes the maps different and gives one expectations of seeing an event. On Prok, and Himmels, I have seen unwary/uninformed tanks get hammered by the event. So far, the members of my clan that I have talked to, like it as do I.

The random events are nice. Some are more useless than others and hope they change the bad ones to be better

Actually good advice from QB. I see the same problem with Random Events. New things are usually excited at first, but when you take a deep look into them, you start to realize what's not so good.

Imagine the Mines hill collapsing due to "sappers" blowing up the tunnels underneath and creating paths for climbing it from different sides...

It'd be cool if there were certain conditions that needed to be met and/or triggers that both sides have to initiate in order for the event to happen, but not in the first part of the game.

Also, for those people who know every spot on the maps, this shakes things up.

3:30 that roll actually pissed me off haha

I just started playing again after about a year long hiatus and completely forgot they were adding them. Was pleasantly surprised when I saw it.

It could make sense for the events to only be possible when a certain number of players are remaining. For example, after half of a team has been destroyed, there's a 20% chance of the map changing to open new paths. It may even help encourage longer games, giving an environmental advantage to the losing team. However they choose to trigger it, I think it's important that the events be unpredictable and don't occur the majority of the time. That helps keep the spectacle fresh, and prevents players from building their whole strategy around *expecting* them. It raises the skill ceiling to have players factor the possibility of the event into the positions they choose, but would suck to play with people who hang back and just wait for the event to occur

They did a similar thing to what was used in Battlefield 4. Add some random or player triggered events to change the map structure. Helps to move the battle along from stalemates and change angle of attacks etc. I love the idea.

The bombers' crash on the West of Prokhorovka is a proper mess up for the southern spawn team if they are pushing. My team lost two T110E3s who couldn't reverse out of the crash zone fast enough so got wiped. I was scouting in the UDES 03, as there were no light tanks in the game, and had to move to avoid the crash which got me spotted and killed. So 3 tanks were wiped out by a random event just on one team's half of the map. The enemy had to do nothing but camp in the same positions they always do in North West Prokhorovka. The only counter to this is to camp at the back and not move for the Southern spawn team. The Northern team cannot push into the zone or they will be killed by the random event so they just camp the North West corner. This is the worst "random" event in the game.

I don’t think these events are necessarily bad but, on the smaller city maps I dont think they have a positive impact. The smaller maps rarely, if ever become draws and these events are just causing shorter games, which I hate. On the larger maps these definitely have a positive impact as the cover they provide as you have said can break the stalemates that end up in draws.

Solution would be if they would make it random, but after first 8 minutes of playing and random meaning it can happen 10 sec before end or anywhere between or not happening at all.

As a old WoT veteran 2012-2018 I can say dynamic maps are bad for the game. This game is like chess as you mentioned. It feels that RNGesus was not enough and they add this. WG keeps surprising me with new ideas which ruin their game...

That rounded 600 damage at 03:54 was so satisfying for some reason lol glad to finally see they added the random events! I saw this update some time ago and I was so excited about it :D

I remember the first time I saw the exploding Zeppelin on Himmelsdorf and I freaked out since I didn’t know what it was

I absolutely love the random events. It really adds a new flavor to the game and my only complaint is there's not more of them which is why I ended up turning them off for a little bit because I was getting the exact same maps over and over

Prokhorovka's field catches on fire sometime after 7 minutes in!

The random event in Prokhorovka really changes the game play on that map for the better.

Remember the WOT goal. Move money from your pocket to theirs and the faster, the better. Enjoy

Rain changing the ground to mud. Rolling fog. So many cool things.

It would also be nice that different part of the map also get affected. Having ruinberg only affected in one part of the map is a bit too easy. Because you can camp just one spot. It would be nice if the two centre parts where mediums rush also had a chance of opening up, however it should only be either the spots that we have now or the others

The idea is great. We just have to see if the implementation will be just as good. It really should be either: make a random event occur to break a stalemate, or be as random as it can possibly be so, as QB said, people can't anticipate it without throwing the battle if it doesn't happen.

Oh I like that idea QB. If game is a stalemate, say both teams still have an equal amount of tanks 10 minutes in, it automatically triggers an event. That's interesting. Less draws.

I do like how it changes up the battle and can dig people out of common positions without relying on arty

These events in my opinion breaks stalemates where you just have the two sides full of heavies sitting there with their impenetrable turrets for 10 minutes.

IMO they could just ad the maps with the "evolution" into the map rotation. You could have 1 himmel with the zeppelin down and 1 himmel without it. I don't like the idea of the map changing at the middle of the game.

i was so happy when they announced and introduced random events Sometimes i feel like some maps are very corridor-ish and is not suitable to the tank i am currently playing, and the game offering your a alternate path or a new way to play in a random moment of the match is quiet a welcome feature ! Giving a flank oppertunity, or cover to be able to go trought a very hard to cross open area, it has made me go places i thought i would never go before, that is amazing, it's like rediscovering a map i already played thousands of times. I am really happy with it, and i hope that in the feature, each map has a " random event " and non random event version, for those who don't like this features, but i would not mind playing 100% maps with random events.

I have thought for a long time that planes dropping bombs or trains moving through battlefields would be a good addition. I really like the random events and would like to see them expanded to other maps in the game.

More events, maybe more conditions for them to happen but the most important - MORE EVENTS on EACH map, also in tournaments. Maybe even a few in different parts of the map. So many options. This game is RNG based anyway and space awareness can be appreaciated even more with those kind of changes.

I'm surprised how good of a change they made with these events. With the exception of Safe Haven, which is an odd choice to just block a tunnel.

I think it's great. iMO it should be completely random, so ensure people are not expecting them. Maybe 2/3 different kinds of events in each map, having a random number happening and having them happening at any time, including before the game starts

I hope the next map to get a random event is Highway. Have that tornado outside the map actually sweep through the map. It could bring debris from outside the map to drop in its wake and damage part of the city. And pick up your tank and throw it if you're in the tornado's direct path.

The way QB got played by the random event is so rewarding bcz so many maps are won or lost by 1 team who is crunching 1 flank. But bcz of these events those situations are comebackable, where they before were not. But sometimes it will backfire ofc

That 549 roll on the arty made me cry

I love it it look so great and the most important thing is it really change the tactic of the match if you really know how to use it as a advantage

I forgot these went live cause I hadn't played for a bit, and then I got Zepplin jump scared

A random event: getting between 10 and 14 casuals in your team every single game

I absolutely love these random events. It’s a great way to spice up gameplay on existing maps in fun ways. I used to play a decent amount of Battlefield 4, and I loved having that sort of map defining destruction available in the game. It’s very easy for World of Tanks to feel like it exists in this little simulation box away from the context of a larger war, even though all tank designs are typically meant to be part of a larger combined arms war. Random events adds this extra little bit of outside warfare impacting the battle, while still being World of Tanks in all its tank-mania glory

Most of the times the games so fast when the random event comes the battle is already over or just 9 guy hunting down the 2 doomed one at the enemy's side . Still they are great addition to the game .

I LOVE the random events, I’ve always hated the Hulldown heavy and impossible to pen TD gameplay, I think this is a huge improvement to the game. Moreover, as an arty player, I enjoy the fact that some positions can no longer be arty proof.

I think they're a great idea. BUT, speaking of predictability: Why not vary the location and/or effect? Maybe have 3 or 4 different locations on a given map that could change. That way, even if players knew they could count on AN effect, they wouldn't be able to plan for/predict which one.

Yep I hope they will happen later on in the game and they should have some kind of trigger that if stalemate is detected, then the event happens. This should reduce the amount of draws which would be great.

If the events would be later, you would never see them in the age of 3 minute games...

What ruins WoT is more that Wargaming constantly put the experienced players in one team and all the noobs with only one platoon of 2-3 experienced players on the other team. And as soon as the Christmas boxes arrives, "everyone" suddenly want to play WoT, also all the players that hardly ever play the game, making this problem 10 times worse. So first week of December you end up with 20% win, or over 70%, depending on being on the "red" team or not. The exact same happened the first week of December last year, and before that. After about 2 weeks things goes back to "normal". WG need to understand that this game is not fun when a round ends with loosing 0-15 or 1-15, and it is also not fun to win 15-0 or 15-1. It is time WG logs these games and find a way to improve this ugly MM code (matchmaking) to avoid these quick and ugly "One team totally raping the other team" games. If not, WoT will only be for the hardcore few players.

I was wondering what those red and yellow boxes were on the mini map.

Random events surely won't ruin the game. You can't ruin something that's already on the edge of being unplayable for the common player

afaik it is random. it may happen, it may not; and if it does happen, it can trigger immediately at the start of the match, or 5 mins into it. I've observed it on multiple occasions on himmelsdorf. I've had matches where nothing triggers, some matches it triggers well after the brawl up in the castle area. This is a fantastic feature WG has added. EA's battlefied 3 and 4 have done in the past and called it "levelution, where the whole map dynamically changes via player influence, such as dams breaking and flood the whole map, or a skyscrapper crashing down and then divides the whole map into two. It really adds up to the experience of the match

I really like the idea of "completely random drops" for the events. So you never quite know when it's going to happen, maybe even it won't happen.

In my experience these have "randomly" been happening 100% of the time I load into a map where the feature is available. I know that might be a setting WG wanted to push for the first release of the feature - but WG never said so (that I'm aware of), and it makes it look like they don't know what the word 'random' means. I've only seen it affect a battle once. Most of the time whatever happens, there either aren't any tanks anywhere nearby, or it doesn't affect how the rest of the battle plays.

reminds me of levelolution from battelfield series however like that series it was novel at first but after the first month each map had a preffered layout an players would change the map before even engaging each other

This is the best thing that happened since they changed "gold ammo" available for credits. Changing maps with this mechanic it's a good thing and could be more different variants there usual spots, bushes, buildings change locations so you couldn't tell there someone is. Because right now that bush must be scout sitting or td or I can wait here some will show up soon. Same maps for many years it's kind of like "I must go here" all a time. Right now just blind shoot popular spots and often to hit someone and that is not great.

My question is if one person in every game you play has it Turned OFF in settings does that mean the players that want it will NEVER see it. Or will MM become involved and only pair you up with players that want it (assuming you have it checked in settings) and then it pollutes the MM's current algorithm.

anything that adds variety to the maps is a plus imo. I agree that the events should be later in the battle and the time should be random..anywhere from 5-10 min or something. Maybe use a bell curve.. slim chance to occur at 2 min or 12 min etc.

I would have thought that having dynamic maps would add a touch of realism. Unless you are talking about the trenches of WWI, most battlefields evolve and change, and the participants have to adapt to those changes.

For the normal player's view like me, if there is a strong t95, Tortoise or obj705 holding the town side, the random events are really giving out opportunities to fight in other ways.

Personally love em, it rewards players that can think on their feet and not just those that have studied maps forever As time goes on you can study the changes, but it'll still feel interesting

I love that they don't happen every game but when they do it really adds fun.

I agree that the random events shouldnt happen directly in the beginning. Maybe like 3.5 to 4 minutes into the battle would be nice.

I like random events, because I ban them and thus reduce map rotation, which allows better tank selection for better win rates.