Yep, that’s what made me quit playing. Even though I have a 54% win rate and a high whatever that other rating is and I’m apparently ‘green’.
It wasn’t rage against me (all the time) that finally made me give up, it was just the constant ‘I’m 12 look at me curse and swear like my dad’ mentality that has invaded the game.
Not to mention the lemmings. I can’t handle the lemmings.
Dave47
5482
Stat-obsession is one of the most obnoxious parts of the online gaming “experience.”
Nevertheless, WoT is a more enjoyable game when you’re paired up with competent teammates against competent opponents. And the XP mechanisms (especially during promotions!) are designed so that poor play by your teammates can notably slow the rate of your progression.
Given these conflicting feelings, I’m not sure if my enthusiasm for playing this game after drinking speaks to an anti-social misanthropy, or a strong and principled stance against the creeping threat of stat-obsession.
Dejin
5483
When did this thing come out? I’ve never noticed any comments from this, but I haven’t played the last two weeks or so.
wow… you guys actually read the chat window?
RichVR
5485
Lately I only play after a few beers. And i love playing my Marder and PzII. And now my new KV-1 kicks ass. Then I do 1 round in my Lowe.
I still have a 49% win rate. The number of wins to losses fluctuates around 20 games. I guess if I could win 21 games in a row I’d have a 50% rate. But honestly, who cares.
Right before 7.2 or so. I’ll admit there are a lot (were a lot) of matches without comments about stats. But then you get them, and you go insane watching these people.
XVM now also indicates the win or loss percentage of your whole team for the match. So now we get XVM ragequitters who log out at the beginning of a battle. Looks really funny when there are 3-4 tanks sitting in the start area for the whole match.
Also a lot of people are now using multicolored hit skins which display the most vulnerable parts of tanks.
I hope both of the above are banned soon but given that Wargaming is raking in over $10 million a month they probably don’t give a damn. It is astounding how much profit this game makes.
I know what keeps me coming back after a hard day in the trenches at work: not the lemmings and the foulmouthed kids who know it all. Not the insanely slow creep towards the next Big Thing.
The pure and simple joy of driving a 60 tonne tank through someones’ living room and then fire a 122mm armor piercing slug into the side of some other angry metal monster.
The day they take away those little white picket fences and the houses that crumble as you drive through them is the day i stop playing.
Yeah, it is sort of self inflicted I guess, but years of pre-voice MMO playing have conditioned me to read chat I guess.
Yeah, as a clan becomes more or less successful and starts growing, it attracts all kinds of people and it becomes hard to control. Even, perhaps, there is not even much desire to control it as long as people perform well in CW. I am not playing that much over the last month or so and start seeing lots of new nametags.
Funny, WoT is a strange game, people experience stuff that I have never ever experienced. Sure, I get a comment here and there about my or other person’s win ratio but I’ve never seen a person throw a fit over it and especially ragequit. Weird.
Personally, I find XVM mod extremely useful. Many times, my friends and I have made a tactical decision based on it and most of the time it paid off. It’s important to know what to expect from people and which flank or group will need more help than others. Making this kind of decisions based on tanks is fine but knowing the skill of a person behind the “wheel” makes these decisions more informed. A person in a top tank with 42% will need all our help while someone with 55% in the same tank most of the time can be left on his own (well, not literally but you know what I mean :)).
Dejin
5491
It makes me sad if people aren’t reading the chat window. I use chat quite a bit to give situation reports and request help (e.g., “IS-4 coming up our left flank. We need help from a heavy as none of the defenders can penetrate.” Or “we’ve lost the hilltop [in Himmelsdorf], you can expect a swarm of mediums coming down in just a few moments”).
I use it for that too, and to give props to people who save me or work well with me… But I don’t even take time to process non-battle related chatter.
The game seriously needs a way to see old chat. I alt-tab out during pregame stuff and then when I tab back, it’s in the middle of a conversation.
I also tend to give props to the ones who kill me
I tend to leave in a rage as soon as I die.
It appears wargaming is planing to add features similar to the XVM mod in the future:
The set of medals and achievements is being worked on towards its expansion (and some modification as well) at the moment. So the introduction of mastery badges, which was in my opinion rather successful, is not the final step in this direction. We are planning to introduce some stuff, including things that will be displayed during the battle, allowing to tell noobs from pros assess the performance of team mates and enemies. The details on this will follow later.
I don’t use the XVM mod but I might start. I’m tired of noob/bad players telling me how bad I am or how I lost the game (I’ve been playing since the EU beta, and have an efficiency rating over 1500), I’m not a bad player. Its frustrating when “dead players” spend the rest of the match belittling their teamates who are trying to win the match, maybe a feature like this might shut some of them up, if their own stats can’t back up their comments!
Dejin
5497
What’s that sonar pinging indication? At first I thought it was a not very useful replacement for the “targeting” indicator, but it looks like targeting is still in the game. Does that just go off when a unit is first seen?
Dejin
5499
What gun do y’all recommend using on the IS? I’m currently using the 100mm and have not yet unlocked either of the 122mm’s. However they look like real stinkers when it comes to both rate of fire and accuracy. I’m already missing stuff with the 100mm’s accuracy, I hate to see what happens with the big guns. I guess I’m too spoiled by my German and American guns.
Gun choices are often a matter of taste, I guess. I think the better 122 is a good choice on the IS-3, because the IS-3 is a sort of heavy medium, a brawler, and not a sniper at all. Accuracy is less important than alpha damage when you’re toe to toe, IMO.
