6 reasons why not to pay for this game! Your Daily RANT! | World of Tanks

[@DezGamez]

Covered exactly the same issue about the MM a month ago, hopefully your video goes out there as well. The LT + SPG MM is a joke right now. TOO much mobility in the game = TOO fast battles = SLOW tanks can go F themselves = GG FINITO (as Skill would say). 1 EBR limit is a MUST have cap, but IMO even 3 LTs might be too much, as to game is already too fast for the size of the maps we have. 2 LTs can do all the work needed with EEEZ. Btw, when was it when we tested the ammo changes on the SandBox, what happened to this, WG? :D And oh yeah... the fact the we have to check out good or bad tanks ACTUALLY are from the third party sites, to see their "soft stats" or "hidden stats" is absolutely mindblowing + armor model... Freaking community has to do that for themselves... I mean it is not 1990 anymore where games were supposed to be 10MB. Oooh, I do not want to ruin my chill-day. Good talk Skill. Love you brother. ❤

[@kalashnikov1343]

Hello dez

[@DamoBloggs]

Hey Dez - nice of you to show some solidarity! 👍

[@rembrandt2323]

The Issue is: Wargaming does not care and incompetent Guys are hired as lead Developers who do not even play their own Game outside of their "Development Network": See ballancing Department! Once somebody must have been ill: That was the time this Department realy IMPROVED the Game by little Adjustments to the STB-1 and Leopard 1...

[@David-ir5op]

Dez why don't you speak out more instead of selling WG products even though you know they are ripping off the player base, Claus Kellerman says it as it is every stream, this is now a rigged game, when was the last time you got a KOLOBANOVS medal?

[@xaber_]

Exactly. These maps we play today are not designed for high speed tanks like EBRs in the first place. They have been balanced with slower tanks in mind. It's a complete shit fest when an enemy EBR charge into your spawn point within 30 seconds after game start and spot every single tank including your arty leaving them to die to counter arty fire in matter of seconds. Every light tank and medium in your team rush back to base leaving good positions for enemy to grab just to chase that pesky cockroach of an EBR who's whisking around in the midst of a rain of shells (which majority goes to waste - draining credit from players) before someone finally manages to kill the damn thing. Now when the players turn back to fight other enemies they find even enemy T 95 has crossed the map! The damn thing ruins the too many games before they even begin properly.

[@AwesomeEpicGuys]

Thank you Skill for the nice rant! The more people who watch this video the better! Spread it around people!

[@Rika101OfficialYT]

Nej...nej...nejjjjjj!!!!!!

[@Scorpiany]

We did our best to cover the most significant issues in the video. Unfortunately, we know that at this point most of the community contributors have already made such videos, and we know the direction WarGaming continues to go in. It's a very difficult situation for players like me, I truly love this game with all my heart, but I can't stand the decisions that WarGaming makes sometimes. Their balancing department needs some serious attention, and as much as I want to support the game that I love, I also don't want to support WarGaming's shitty decision making.

[@Rika101OfficialYT]

@@Scorpiany at the end, skill is right, we can only talk by playing/spending less...sweet talking no longer works, if it did we won't have where WOT is right now.

[@Lupi33z]

a montage video of all the prominent CC rants on the topic could go viral ...or maybe use that common advertising technique of each CC speaking a few words from the same sentence (in black and white video) 😄

[@dimitrijejovanovic5939]

This was just like your rant video from January

[@Gruandag94]

I play this game since 2010. Closed beta tester, almost 11 years of experience now. And I can tell you that lately every year the game is just becoming worse and worse. The peak was around 2013-2015 IMHO, but suddenly they started to introduce broken premiums (starting with 252) than 1.0 happened and since than its a spiral going down without brakes. The gameplay itself just becoming more and more primitive, one sided. After the reworks of 1.0 all of the maps just started to become generally 3 narrow corridor, with usually one winning side, and that's it. The tanks get powercrept until to the point when now you have to load premium ammo to be able to damage the WEAK POINT of the meta tanks. And the matchmaking, after 11 years still lacking any skill-based balance and creating more and more of those monstrous battles where one team is literally the orange/red army, while the other is just green and above-average players. You can't do that in a game like this which involves and requires so much skill and knowledge in it's gameplay mechanics (think about spotting system, armor thickness, gun stats, map strategies etc.). And the saddest thing is (and here I'll be disagreeing with you Skill) that WG probably exactly know about these problems, and potentially know how to solve this, but they don't care, because they don't have to. Sh*t is still getting sold like candy, and generally in my opinion this whole unbalanced powercrept meta is what keeping the game's monetary system alive. See, what happening is that more and more players herded into the hightiers: with 5x multipliers, blueprints, etc everyone can reach tier 10 in about 3-500 battles, while back in the old days you had to spend the same amount battles only in the T9 vehicle itself to research the T10. Now those players will meet with that absolute disgusting monstrosity we know as hightier meta. Playing tier 10 is expensive in general. Than you have to spend credits, a LOT credits to buy premium ammo and consumables, so you can be competitive. And thats it. The whole hightier meta (from T8 to T10) is about to make you burn as much credits as you can, so you buying the new premiums and the premium days. This is what this game slowly became starting since 2016-17-18 to this day. A freakin' money sink. Everything, every new addon, event, etc is subordinated to this purpose. I spend literally a decade playing with this game, and I really really feel sorry seeing what this otherwise one-of-a-kind masterpiece become. I miss the old days. Truly.

[@Maskyt]

They don't want to balance. They want to make money, not to make a great game. They are falling into the same strategy as WoW

[@majdichabbeh]

@@Maskytlet's not forget about the crying babies with op tanks (early ; chieftains) complaining about everybody using HE against them ( because believe it or not .. even gold ammo can't pen them when they are hull down). the HE rework was a gift for them not for the community... Trust me.

[@alexandrelabelle3149]

You speak the truth my friend...

[@merictumer289]

I am playıng for more than 10 years and yes it was fun from the beginning there was premium shell only sold for gold so nobody used it and it was hard tonplay you could bounced but now 2021 they penetrate you every time you cant bounce. The balance between tanks are huge. Maps name are same but the maps are completely different when super pershing was released it has 175 mm pen and it was enough then everything changed and super pershing become the weakest tank in tier 8 they said if you want you can sell it for the exact amount that you purshased. (Which I did) now you can see the average pen for tier 8 tanks become 220 for standart. Why you changed that so much. This game should fun but not anymore. And also too many cheaters in game something must be done for that. I watch games from experienced player and can shot badly sometimes but in game ı see people playing crazy hşt everything. Then I wonder and check their stats. Overall is yellow or red but last days he plays purple :) funny story. When you send ticket they say dont do that because we dont punish them with tickets. Whatever game is not funny anymore.

[@thewhiteowl9885]

Sadly this is the reality of this cruel world. I’ve been playing on and off since 2011, when the community was still very small. Money has always been the most important thing if looking through the history of mankind and sadly the developers don’t care that people grow up with games that they have made, which has today lost it’s core charm

[@badendhappy2903]

WG: Fixing everything except the problems that needs to be fixed.

[@joseyang5098]

a company in a dictatorship country with their dictator as the company shareholder, will NEVER know the meaning of being democratic...

[@myonline1985]

@@joseyang5098 What exactly does that have to do with the game? The political situation in Belarussia does not influence the balance in the game, nor does a single shareholder have any influence on how the game is run.

[@Tiberiotertio]

@@joseyang5098 Since when is Cypres a dictatorship? Let me guess you are from a country that thinks the whole world belongs to them and has to play by their rules?

[@joseyang5098]

@@Tiberiotertio : everyone knows that WG is a Belarussian company with headquarter and RD in Minsk, only later they created their OBU in Cyprus, and everyone also knows that Cyprus is a money laundry paradise in EU zone.. for only one purpose: clean those corrupted black money from Belarus to Cyprus.. it's clear that you are either idiot enough or evil enough to manipulate by saying Cyprus.. but everyone in financial field knows how to do such money laundry dirty job..

[@blackwood4734]

@@joseyang5098 so how about EA, 2K, Activision, all from the supposed "most democracy" in the world am I right? don't ya forget Activision paid zero tax in 2019, fired 300 people while claiming it was their most finalcial successful year?

[@TheGrandexeno]

So, last days as CC for Skill, huh? They managed to really piss off one of the kindest and most positive guys I saw online

[@JDSFLA]

That is what WarGaming did to "Flamu" a few months ago when he was "too" negative about how World of Warships was being managed.

[@armasxd]

@@JDSFLA *cough* SirFoch *cough*

[@majdichabbeh]

@@armasxd i wondered why the dude quit playing wot for good... and now i see why!!!

[@JDSFLA]

@@armasxd Exactly!

[@petertiagunov5666]

Skeeeel! But what about your pension?

[@Stefan_Silviu]

The problem is, all this is known already. Hundreds of pages on forums from ppl that complain about all these issues. And nothing is done. But i appreciate to see a CC doing this tbh. This is a very important voice and approach in my opinion and there should be more of them. I thank you Skill for the courage to do this video and you have a new fan. Hope they change some things in game.

[@Kikan319]

Wargaming doesn't listen to their CC. They made it perfectly clear they don't give a damn about anyone after 9.0 dropped. Unless it's positive feedback etc. The only way to make them listen is if everyone stopped spending money on the game and stop playing for a month or so. Both being the best, but not spending any money is the next best thing since people would still play the game even if the servers on NA/SEA dropped to 5k and EU/RU dropped to 20k

[@sir.roe-say]

@@Kikan319 I hope this works on wot blitz as well.

[@JasonRobards2]

They won't.

[@leonaslevickis838]

@@sir.roe-say wot blitz is in perfect state compared to wot pc lol. For example, everyone complained about sheridan missles, guess what, they removed it. And there is actually balance, well yes tier 7 needs to get fixed, but i still enjoy it. Meanwhile, wot pc community is complaining for over 2 years, and nothing is getting changed. I think blitz is in ok state right now.

[@CaramelMeako]

@@leonaslevickis838 Blitz get's priority on balancing change because its a mobile game. By design it is made to appeal to those who do not game on a pc or console. That office worker who has never played a video game in his life who plays mobile game on his/her commute might actually play the game when they get home and take a break relaxing on the sofa and if for them "the game is to hard" you just lost that customer and potential source of income. Obviously thats a pretty niche example but Blitz is targeted for exactly those types of people, casual mobile gamers, who are a delicite bunch and probable can't tolerate a poorly balanced game.

[@Bluewoofz]

The dislikes are the wg employees that dont know their own game's mechanics

[@rembrandt2323]

And the AMount of Dislikes matches the Numbers of Employees at the "Ballancing Department" ;D

[@Lupi33z]

WOT forum moderators meanwhile probably couldn't even find Skill's channel because they're too busy fapping to anime pictures

[@CatDaddyJeff]

Lol at my time of viewing it's '3' so that totally checks out.

[@georgegeo1893]

@@filthyway45 seems so...that it has..

[@ivann4512]

oh they know,...they just cant talk about it :)

[@Vrey662]

Imagine a 120 mm shooting a car, well the same should happen to ebr.

[@Tiberiotertio]

Had placed a direct hit with a 260mm shell still the thing could drive away.

[@Mehrunes86]

Same with 170mm shells, just bending a wheel and the gokart drives away.

[@arandomboi682]

Try war thunder

[@jasongieske817]

Actually there's a video of a sherman shooting a pickup truck at a shooting range and hitting it in the tire, and it's extremely underwhelming. In that same video, a gigantic arty shell (exceeding 120mm) bounces off a row of 10 or so watermelons and flies off spinning end over end into the wild blue yonder...the slo-mo shows that the shattering watermelon form a wave of pink slush which the shell ends up "surfing," causing it to veer way off course. Perhaps that's what's wrong with EBRs; they have watermelon armor?

[@ktmbikes9227]

@@jasongieske817 I have seen them videos, The 75mm shell punches through the car like tin foil leaving a small hole, this is what would happen to an ebr; smashing crew and hitting ammo on the way through. The wheels would deflect the shot, but not enough to avoid the hull, a shell would still have enough kenetic energy to easily punch through. After hitting the melon the shell only deflects 1-2 degrees, this wouldnt save a tank.

[@josipmrkonic2175]

WG managed to piss off most calm streamer and player out there. Yeah GJ muppets in WG.

[@russianbotstein1422]

Exactly, you know if skill makes a video like this it must be very bad. WG should have listened to Sir Foch years ago rather than turning their backs on him and the players

[@TriNguyen-nl7qo]

@@russianbotstein1422 "Statement about the skill4ltu incident" article coming up soon

[@AbonneAbscent]

@@TriNguyen-nl7qo a year later, nothing changed except for the worst. cheers

[@JorgeAraujo97]

Touched a lot of bases and forgot the cheapest, dirtiest mechanic in the game: charging cash to demount a piece of equipment. THAT shouldn't ever be in the game, no matter what's the excuse.

[@JacksAgency]

I'm still surprised nobody's talking about this "little" thing. This is one of the most irritating things in today's WOT.

[@Festival-sb2kf]

To be fair, that has not been that big of a problem anymore. After the demounting kit were introduced, I always end up with them through missions (and I don't have a premium account). Not saying it cannot be improved but I would much rather have them do something about the matchmaking first.

[@JorgeAraujo97]

@@Festival-sb2kf You can't experiment stuff with the little amount of demounting kits that comes by. You have to buy some gold every month or so.

[@nosextonight]

@@JorgeAraujo97 i don't agree that it should cost money, but €10 gets you 250 equipment to demount. Idk how you would do that every month or so... I'd be suprised if i personally would use 2500 gold in 6 months on equipment demounting. Thats ~85 tanks with 3 equipment.

[@yazanalsaadi2919]

Please contribute to making this clear to people to see, Demounting kits just should be nerfed in any freaking possible way, even if it was you get free 3 per day to use in same day on top of current mechanic.

[@Mico605]

I love meeting chieftains and 279e when i play my stock tier 8. Said noone ever

[@bobderjaegermeistertm1648]

Imagine encounter them with your stock t-34-2. 128mm pen gonna be sooooooooooo fun...

[@quickyfrost751]

On the other hand, you can be that 279 e or chief, and it's pretty much free dmg for you. That's fair, it's not like you are the only player is this game, others can have more or less luck than you

[@MrLorreeeeeeeee]

@@quickyfrost751 what's fun or "lucky" if you are the 278 e or chief to wreck a tier 8 stock? I would not have fun in 278 e or chief.. How can u feel good when that happends.. For me it's more about skill and trying to outplay or make a move, that is just random clicking and always doing doing without receiving >

[@ximanji]

@@MrLorreeeeeeeee nah thats bullshit. Dont focus on 279e or chief, lets take a IS7 or E100. They also would have fun farming a tier 8 stock shitter - I mean, I would do it. I dont see any problem here. Yeah okay stock tanks in +2mm are shit but idk, this isnt a big problem imo. But maybe something like that chiefs and 279e are only meeting t10. But also on the other hand, if u are playing in t8 against t10 dont be in the first row...

[@thiccjager2436]

This is why we have free exp, to skip the stock grind and get the top modules.

[@OnOn1999]

After 8 years of playing , I finally uninstalled it forever It's a shame, I used to love WoT.

[@GokyThePanzer]

they just keep ruining the game adding shit so old players pay to keep playing the meta, and new players stop playing after a few days 🤷‍♂️ very bad game design decisions and too much currencies gold silver bonds tokens like wth WG gold and silver were perfectly fine 🤷‍♂️😅😅

[@kenankundo7380]

@@GokyThePanzer I agree with you. No new players they are squishing the life out of us old ones

[@metal_mo]

Congratulations! I've yet to kick the habit, but it feels close.

[@intenseio2351]

Try out War Thunder. Its a much better game overall

[@kenankundo7380]

@@intenseio2351 I actually have it, but after playing wot from 2013 its hard to adapt and learn mechanica

[@spanishmarc]

100% in agreement with you. My wallet is currently closed to Wargaming.

[@zemljajeravna5336]

Yet Wargaming got so much money from the players, that they can run this game next 30 years with 0 income.

[@mikewilson7132]

yah no more money for them

[@g10col92]

Agreed 100%

[@CatapultGaming]

Really hope Skill keeps this attitude up, nice to hear someone that can affect the opinions of "the masses" towards getting WG to actually try to fix/work on the game.

[@dughuff8825]

Ah, if only WG would listen... They've proved time and again that they don't care about the player base or the CC's until the point at which it starts hurting their sales.. skill is 100% right that people need to just stop paying if they don't like it.

[@wolfattack402000]

I don't want the drunk-tards of WG to work or "fix" anything anymore. They need to sell the game to a more competent company.

[@tianvanwyk3732]

I would like some assistance damage when I damaged the wheels of EBR....they slow down but if someone else shoots them you get no assistance damage

[@the1kielu]

Exactly, I know you're not exactly tracking them/immobilising them completely however you greatly decrease the speed so I don't see why we shouldn't get assistance damage for that.

[@melem7808]

Ebr should be one shot for every tank. Tier X shell cant penetrate a fkin french piece of rubber. Thats some bullshit

[@PabloPagues]

@@melem7808 Agree. Just for the sake of consistence. I know this is not a simulator but for consistence every high caliber shot has to be a hitkill on an EBR.

[@laszlopap8271]

@@PabloPagues Think about this when in 1.13 ur HESHgasm shot will go "straight through" on EBR's wheels with EXACTLY 0 dmg... ^^

[@nacona9399]

This would be some big point. I watched keyhand(world of tanks official DE stream) showing the new sandbox test equpment in EBR X and yolo into enemy taking 4 hits in tires = 0 damage... hit repair and gone auto fireing hitting most of the shots at full speed. And repead the same again... and again... and again... As i asked he told me that penetrations through the tires can hit the hull and make damge... i did not agree... because i think it is like a big armor... but maybe i am wrong about the physic?

[@SilverforceX]

This game was never about fast paced twitch shooting, its slow pre-ww2 tanks, then ww2 tanks that are still slow, and now you throw in EBRs that are like racing cars, the entire audience that they build up, are older games not kids into fast shooters and they throw something like EBRs that have such a high influence on battles zooming around the battle spotting everyone. Ridiculous whoever thought it was a good idea.

[@MysticT]

It's been too long that we've had a "love/hate" relationship with this game. We need wargaming to make this a game we can love again.

[@jonathanvl1160]

That hasn't been anywhere near the scope of reality since before the Type 5 was godzilla, wg cares not for love only money.

[@pelham7533]

I was just playing the game yesterday when I realized that I don't have fun anymore. When I just started out about two years ago I thought that my frustration and bad performance were due to my own poor skill. Now, being a "green" player with 54 win ratio, I am more inclined to think that the game is just badly balanced. Every single situation you described happens to me regularly in almost every game session. I don't want to spend my time on this anymore. Life is too short.

[@Acme1970]

I came to that conclusion about 4 months ago, i used to play between 50 and 70 games a day and now i can barely play 5 games before i get bored and log off, it's sad.

[@FockeWulfFW200]

I dont have fun with the game since 2016-2017. Yet here I am, playing this almost everyday, spending money on the game regularly. Its a fucking adiction to me, unistalled the game SEVERAL TIMES, even changed my password of my previous account to some random combination of alphanumeric values so I could not log in again (and I could not re-gain access to my acc since the email attached to it its long time forgotten by me and dont remember that email password either). Now, I created a new account and already spent a lot of money again. I know its my fault and not WG's, but still...

[@Acme1970]

@@FockeWulfFW200 I know what you by addiction, i played World of Warcraft for 10 years and quit at least 5 times in those 10 years but i always went back till one day i had a revelation and that was i wasn't having fun anymore and i didn't really wanna play it anymore and that's when i finally quit for good, sometimes these games are like a bad relationship, get out early before you end up owing alimony.

[@MrMolestior]

I stopped spending my money for them. This remains the only language, which WG is understanding. You may consider the same.

[@pelham7533]

@@FockeWulfFW200 I've been there, so I know what it feels like. If you feel like you want to quit addictive gaming, but you just can't, then I'd recommend you to try switching to other games. I personally tried to play into narrative-driven games like Metro or Firewatch. I found this experience to be rewarding. It really filled me up spiritually. Also, if you think of it every human activity is a game of sorts. So, another thing that helped me was to think of regular activities in terms of scores and goals. This helped me to distract my attention from WoT. Helpfully, if you really want to stop playing excessively, you'll be able to do that. I wish you luck.

[@zx169]

In addition to all this: 1: Poor hit box modelling, we have all been there, aiming right on the edge of a cliff, the sight is completely free form the cliff, yet when you fire it still hits the cliff somehow... 2: Rocks feel more like ice than rocks, no grip and your tank just slides around like a 3 year old's first time on the rink... 3: Physics for EBR, if a tank does a 180, going at 90 km/h, like it does in WoT, the crew will be turned in to mince. 4: +-25% is trash, at most it should be 15%. This kills it for e-sports and just makes the game too unpredictable. 5: Poor interface, I am still trying to figure out if there is a way to see if you can install all modules/equipment on stock tracks or not, without unlocking them first. In other words, should I grind that gun first or the tracks? There maybe a way but after 35k battles I have not yet figured it out and it is so damn easy to make it more intuitive.. 6: You get those epic medals like 30k base capture points but that it is.. no reward for it other than that medal itself... Rewards are very minimal in this game, considering some of us are paying freaking 90 Euros for a prem tank.. 7: Too much spam like unneeded decals, stupid camouflage, presented as some sort of super prize... no one needs that shit 8: The biggest one for me, is that the game is not developing anywhere near fast enough, in fact you might argue it is regressing.. No progress, hardly any changes to game play, and cannot fix bugs that were present when I started playing... in 2011 like the cliff hit boxes. The game just feels too 2014 with outdated physics, graphics and destruction. The penetration holes on tanks are ridiculous, we all had those one meter smudges that don't even follow the contour of the tank. Lazy.

[@Leon_Orlov]

No. 7, finally someone said it!

[@sowutlolz]

agreee on number 6, i got raider medal on my freakin o-i....

[@somethingbroken]

Rt

[@christiancolombo87]

I got an answer for 5! Add the tank to comparison and configure it, you can see if you need the tracks..

[@zx169]

@@christiancolombo87 Thanks bro, never tried that feature, but this is something that should be a "mouse over" mechanic

[@juustem2000]

I agree and stopped playing this game after 8 years. Sadly WarGaming will not change anything and will milk as long as they can. They don't care about retention, every player that leaves will be replaced by someone else who will be enticed to put in some money. What I am saying is that the goals of the players/community and WarGaming is not the same.

[@bram.2074]

Ik speel World of Warships en ik denk ook dat ze bijvoorbeeld bullshit zoals premium Shells in wows gaan gooien. Maar die skills dingen van WOT zijn zo onnodig

[@tardwrangler]

Milk?? That time has long since passed. The cow is dead and they're selling the maggots

[@gytispranskunas4984]

You know shits serious when even skill can't take it any longer...

[@skull917]

Hilarious how WG balance shell penetration and damage perfectly in Steel Hunter with sacrificing damage for extra penetration, but can't balance it in random battles. All of the points you make here skill are why I have been playing this game since 2011, but only have 12k battles. I can't stand playing this game for more than 2 months straight without a 6 month to a year break in between.

[@iftiflo2039]

They can't beacouse unicums will whine about it. They released a test server 2 years ago and unicums whined about it

[@vertstabs8728]

@@iftiflo2039 yeah man the 1% unicums single handedly stopped this. Delusional.

[@chris.w80]

Same. Account created May 18, 2011 but I have just under 7.6k battles. It's a struggle to play more than an hour per session and I'll often have days or weeks in between sessions because this game has gotten so incredibly P2W that it frustrates me. Some days I'll log in, play one or two games, and quit in disgust. A shame really, because the game was so fun in 2011 and 2012.

[@fuerstmetternich1997]

So true 🤣 I have 22k battles since 2012 but most of these battles were fought 2012-2014. In recent years I only play a couple of months every year. It is a love-hate relationship.

[@josuastangl7140]

@@fuerstmetternich1997 Same, 20k battles, but at least 17k of those were between 2011 and 2015

[@mradamcshaw]

Stopped playing Tanks over 2 years ago. Got fed up with the Premium power creep, gold ammo and especially arty. I uninstalled WoWs 6 months ago. More power creep and carriers. WG fundamentally do not listen to player feedback. It's all about getting new players and selling them winning premiums.

[@britinmadrid]

This! WG making money at the expense of the game across its ‘stable’ of two games (forget Warplanes). WG employees either outright lies to defend the company or simply doesn’t know the game. Stop spending money and become a free-to-play miser until they improve. If you pay, you are stupid.

[@Nazgul07]

this ist world of premium and amunition premium tanks

[@mradamcshaw]

WG customer service were trained by Putin FSB.

[@1337flite]

Yes, I've only been playing about 2.5 years and I've come to the same conclusion. New players spend money. Old players have everything and spend comparitively little. So there is no reason to worry about retaining old players. About 2-3 years and WG has sold them all the prems and the gold and the players started seeing the cracks and has stopped or significantly slowed down their spending - so why bother with player retention?

[@nfdhje38743m]

imagine crying about gold ammo when it has been accessible to everyone for 5+ years

[@littleafterall]

I am one of those who doesn't watch Skill's streams as his "style" doesn't suit me, but... I am saying that he is great player and he understands game and game mechanics perfectly. At the end, man 3-marked every single tank in the game. I agree on every question he raised here. He is *completely* right about everything. Especially regarding paying money for such a game. It would be great seeing other streamers raising their voice/opinion about current state of the game.

[@markreynolds8449]

They have, check out DezGamez and Claus Kellerman for recent videos on this subject area. Hell even QB has said the same thing……but WG are just talking into an echo chamber. One wise monkey has hands over ears singing la la la la.

[@Gabriel-sdf]

Kind of reminds me when I met a WoT developer once, instead of the average "hope you die" insult, I just said: "Hope you play your game" nothing is worse than that.

[@yordankrushkov8488]

You think that game balance is dependent on devs only. WRONG most of the time it's marketing or owner that says what should be done, even if devs disagree because naturally they want ppl to be happy with their game

[@wolfattack402000]

@@yordankrushkov8488 Bottom line, the wrong people own this game.

[@narukami597]

@@wolfattack402000 Nah. Most companies care about only one thing: Profit. WG is a pretty normal company. The problem is the playerbase which lets WG get away with being as greedy as they want basically. Tl dr: sheep will keep paying.

[@CrazyCopter]

@@narukami597 Very true!

[@7th_CAV_Trooper]

@@yordankrushkov8488 LOL, okay. The devs suck.

[@JFskeezix]

After 9 years I finally stopped playing. WoT is just no more fun.

[@papa1603]

I uninstalled this game last month, after 9 years of playing every day. I can´t find the "old" fun anymore...

[@livewithbrain]

me too after 5 years of playing and 2 years of being a super Unicom i have decided to never play the game again because even a super Unicom like me cant beat the mm my win rate for the past week is 30% my overall is 62

[@Teetjeee]

@@livewithbrain lol... colors dont give skills.. did you no that ? Reroll...

[@deadduck4041]

@@papa1603 After 8 yrs also playing everyday, I've given up Too...

[@thewhiteowl9885]

Me too, and I switched to War Thunder which honestly is a breath of fresh air Btw I played since 2011

[@FM-kl7oc]

- 3 arties makes the game unplayable. Only counter-play to arty: Never get spotted. - Too much mobility. Mobility is the great enabler for tanks in today's meta, and more so the great enabler of turbo games. - Too much view range. You cannot really move much around the maps anymore without getting spotted. Just go with the blob instead, blobbing also help you win/lose quicker. - Too small maps. Inflating mobility and view range is effectively shrinking the already too small maps even further. - EBRs annihilates all other light tank gameplay for both allied and enemy light tanks that aren't EBRs. - Most technical innovation in the past few years come from WG copying 3rd party modifications into the game. The only innovation WG does themselves, comes from their marketing department. I consider all these "rebalances" just marketing BS too.

[@thewhiteowl9885]

Yes the view range problem you mentioned is absolutely true and many players don’t realize this, they much rather complain about arty etc. Having larger and larger viewrange makes the map even smaller and thus makes it repetitive gameplay, as you can only go to a few spots in every map. No room for creativity, no room for the element of surprise, and the repetitivness is one of the reasons why I stopped playing after 10 years...

[@dg2973]

You said all mate. Agree with you 100%

[@bobcampbell4385]

I play a lot of arty and I would like to see only one arty per game max.

[@TheLucreziia]

After many years of playing WOT I have had enough. They have ruined it with the greed and pay to win fiasco. This latest round of nonsense has killed the game so its for me it is Game Over.

[@pingwinger6668]

Not gonna lie, I see 3 reasons not to do so, in almost every battle xd

[@jerryisgaming6571]

Yeah, but that's per team. So for the game, Skill is spot on.

[@laszlopap8271]

" Alt+F4 is ALWAYS your friend..." (Ancient Roman saying) :D

[@modx5534]

Mh do you mean 3x arty or 3x EBR?

[@StayKwimp_]

@@modx5534 both.

[@darrengoacher4340]

Agree with light tank and arty limits, 3 & 2 + no more than one wheelie in any game, and preferably none in my games 😂. I would happily wait 90 seconds to get in to a game that might last more than five minutes.

[@tosicaleksandar]

Then you just need to play after midnight on eu server, you will wait 90 seconds every game.

[@harrisonday2033]

i wait over 90 seconds a game anyway (Australia server things)

[@Ficohaker]

@@tosicaleksandar not true, I get games all the time and I play eu till 6 am

[@empty3102]

nice... over in the au server i wait 5 mins a game, and only at primetime at night. During the day theres literally only 10 players in queue.

[@lordpraisestone8314]

Wargaming could make so much more money if they would actually listen to player feedback and criticism, it's not even funny. With a game with this much potential, it's crazy how Wargaming is shooting their own legs by not looking in the future. I think it's safe to say, if the game would fix its greatest flaws (MM, unbalanced tanks for example), they playerbase would already rise a lot. Because many veterans would come back, if the problems were solved they left the game for, and new players would just have a lot better time getting into the game.

[@fp93]

Finally someone that made it simple for WG.. Some of my friends say that "as long as they make money they wont care" and i reply to that, "Imagine if they actually made some actual balance changes that would make the game more fun, older players would return,newer players wouldnt stop playing and by default more players=more money".. I don't believe that not a single employee in wargaming thought about this

[@Carpetcleanerman]

I agree 100 percent. And I think it's because wargaming thinks too small. It's hand to mouth thinking. I rather milk the skinny cow to death than actually looking after the cow which would produce more and better produce. WG is losing players left right and center and they cant overcome their small-mindedness. It's the definition of madness: doing the same things over and over and hoping for a different outcome....

[@smajin28]

If they actually make a good game, they can even make money completely off of cosmetics alone. It's a tank game with 1000s of possible customization options they haven't explored. Instead they create skins like the Overlord that aren't even properly mapped to every tank. The skin goes upside down with seams running all over the place on some tanks.

[@drasticfred]

They are lazy, thats why their grandfathers' laziness caused collapse of bloody ussr.

[@nickfenris6696]

96 dislikes are from Wargaming's balancing team...

[@miguelmontenegro3520]

One team wins, and one team loses. Balanced.

[@L9vivideh]

At least u had dislikes back then XD

[@beadsman13]

I stopped playing this game a year ago and watching this I won't play it again. Friend of mine stopped when they introduce EBR in the game.

[@kimmorintamaki4422]

My light tanks collectin dust only because EBR's

[@H3F4ISTOS]

A lot of people stopped when they introduced those muppets.Me included.

[@ivanderschreckliche8385]

i stopped with 1.13 and the HE nerf.

[@laiebi_3639]

Same and started making my own tank game because I just like the genre too much. Going great

[@ivanderschreckliche8385]

@@laiebi_3639 how is it called and where can i download it?

[@Gre-unit]

But then how am I supposed to boost my stats when I can't quickly and easily platoon with my friends in our overpowered clan rewards tanks and fight people that have no chance of killing us?

[@ollpainless5679]

Forget that skill ammo wich Make u much better If u pay enough😉

[@sigmamalegrindset132]

3 obj 279e platoon or 3 chieftain platoon is pretty much guaranteed to have like 80% wr

[@NotADuncon]

@@ollpainless5679 actually people did experiments and premium ammo doesn't make you that much better. It won't turn a 50% player into a unicum. Hell it won't turn him even into a 55% er

[@thomascroft6057]

I cant tell you how many times I hit an EBR in the back with high caliber TD-s and almost always does 0 damage.

[@MadMaxxxTV]

disgusting ^^

[@CS-zn6pp]

Chinese tier 9 TD. 152mm of bang stick. Can put holes in everything...... Except and ebr...... Even with HE it does nothing....

[@JobeStroud]

I love how my 183 derps its side for like 200.. Like really? The shell is bigger than the car!

[@781mm]

I hit him with jagd e100 normal gold and HE armor cant be penned hahahaha

[@Sethasss]

@@781mm me 2

[@Twas-RightHere]

Can we also talk about how they introduced new skills but didn't give us anything to change our skills with, not even a skill retraining discount?!?!

[@echo_9835]

There are days I wonder if anyone on the WG balancing staff has ever installed World of tanks, let alone completed the tutorial.

[@1ordof1o1]

Bro... I doubt they even own pc

[@ujhazilaszlo5885]

The success of changes is measured in money, not in player satisfaction. In this game, you are not playing against the players of the other team, but against a manipulated system. There's a broken system between the enemy tank and your shot. Toxic...toxic game, toxic players because of the high amount of frustration caused by WG is manipulating the game for a single reason: P-R-O-F-I-T

[@ujhazilaszlo5885]

@@1ordof1o1 they became billionaires by causing so much damage to the spiritual world of many millions of children. Who starves to death in heaven learns to gain weight on Earth

[@Gwingdk]

Another shitty hidden stat is RNG, +/- 25% This is BS. I can agree on some RNG but not 25% 10-15 should do the magic.

[@andypandy2848]

I agree. Its one of the worst aspects of the game. Adds so much frustration.

[@bluewinds10]

They only do this so they can manipulate the games - i.e rigged

[@bara555]

On console, they reduced it to 10%, and everyone splashed into their pants when they started hitting what they were aiming at. We could finally use some improvements too. Honestly, arta, EBR, MM, all that shit aside, if I was actually hitting my targets, I may even stop complaining about most problems.

[@thomasb.842]

Skill rants for 35 Minutes WG: Oh you want us to look into HE shells? Alright we will investigate.

[@russianbotstein1422]

Yep, they will give type 5 300mm armor all round and give it back its derp gun. WOT was such a fun game when I started playing in ariund 2013. Just gradually got worse. I preferred when all premium tanks were a bit weaker than the main tanks rather than being OP

[@BobbyBillyBill]

They probably won't listen since it's WG

[@samirsolai7579]

we heard you! we are introducing a new premium soviet obj!

[@zemljajeravna5336]

5 years later.......

[@lmao7177]

To be honest, i've basically done with the game, sometimes in a 3 players platoon i play 4 or 5 games, but usually even less, like 1 or 2 because this is simply not enjoyable anymore. I have the Chief and the 279e and even the t10 EBR, but even with those its just a waste of time. Constant arty spam, 4 ebrs, not balanced maps with not balanced mm. No chance to grind t7 and t8 effectivly, because of the constant +2. But at least we have brand new t8 prems in every month, rebalances on older t8 prems so people will buy them and an everyday action on t8 prems. The only mode i like is Frontline. Yeah it is boring after some times, but it has some positive sides with credit and xp. Also you can grind tanks more or less. Probably WG gonna ruin that mode aswell but hey, at least we have steel hunt with literelly zero use. So for me it seems like WG haven't planned this game to last this long. They have no idea how to make enjoyable content or have any idea to at least preserve the enjoyable content that is coming from another programmer, like Frontline. They have no idea how to continue this, thats why the spam of styles, paintings, black tanks, wheeled shit and the basic balance issues so they can force this to go even without ideas.

[@mezmerya5130]

Ironically enough that 279e player has problems with t7 and t8 in modern game where it's no more than 50 battles for either. And less than that for a good player. Or you spent 1000 eur on boosts to get reward tanks and now salty they are not allowed in rankeds?

[@giorgigarsevanidze6334]

Right you are. They ran out of ideas a long time ago...

[@lmao7177]

Hehe my comment haven't aged too well... frontline got destroyed months after my comment.

[@Rubashow]

I think people need to finally understand that WG knows all of that and they don't care. Frustration and the negation of skill was always part of the game design. You increase frustration by having randomized MM and RNG. You increase frustration by creating stock grinds and giving an advantage to people able to afford shooting gold. Then you offer shortcuts in exchange for money. This was the business model since the start. Right now you guys seem pretty frustrated.

[@TriNguyen-nl7qo]

WG's been acting like they've been living under a rock for quite a while. Chiefs, 279s, EBRs, arties, and MM are left free to ruin random games. No one asked for the Progetto nerf and they did it anyway.

[@BudoReflex]

Exactly. The whole point is frustration pays their bills. The amount of levels they have to manage frustration is amazing. RNG is not random. It's computer intensive to generate random numbers, far easier to assign them as an "array". MM is not about who gets what tanks on which side, but "who" is on which side in which tank. A constant 15\5 is the result of stacking the teams with uneven skill players. Not the WG rating you see on your profile, but the tank per tank rating. It's not personal. No one is rigging my results, but the game is rigged to have one side always stronger than the other.

[@sigmamalegrindset132]

thats idiotic, I would pay and play all day if they fixed their game. WG thinking is so boomer- alike.

[@rembrandt2323]

@@TriNguyen-nl7qo Because it is a NON RUSSIAN TANK.....

[@darkerdelirium]

​@@BudoReflex exactly right, shame people underestimate WG's capacity to balance things out. It is perfectly balanced so that it generates the shortest average game time. More games / hour = faster grinds = more gold spent on crew retraining and more credits needed in general to play at high tier. Shame we don't have access to that statistic, I'm sure it's been tumbling in the last few years, and not by accident. They're a money-making machine, a very good one at that, and, as skill said, until they see their revenues drop (more than what's seasonally normal), they have no incentive to even begin fixing the game, because there's nothing to fix, from their perspective.

[@mathiasberchtenbreiter8864]

Ebr should only be able to repair tires when they stop moving.

[@top-lul7540]

Sure if they get tracked they schuld drive slowly as F and if they stopped repairs started

[@ryaeon9793]

that good

[@noyes4947]

Learn to aim maybe?

[@juanx149]

@@noyes4947 no

[@ryaeon9793]

@@noyes4947 did you know even if you miss if server say yes you damage them? did you know if you aim carefully and server say no you miss? learn aim? you 10 or something?

[@Scheibi85]

You forgot the autoreloader with the burstdamage. Patz, patz, patz, enemy death. Pershing, Panther II, etc. against Borrat and Proghetto, good luck.

[@chef767]

finally someone, remove all autoloaders !

[@niunawea08]

Get clipped lmao

[@DungVu-wx2nj]

Auto loader is a good and innovative mechanic of the game and I love it. The problem is balancing tanks in the game, techtree tanks and pre tanks. We clearly see some worth playing much more than the rest. And that shows a bad sign of balancing when you have a thing can do well in almost all circumstances, while some constantly get fked everywhere and when. There are so much things to talk about the imbalance existing in the game, Im afraid we need hours if we want to list them all.

[@zGJungle]

Autoloaders don't bother me too much, it's when one team has all autoloaders and the other one or none.

[@Scheibi85]

@@zGJungle Proghetto=3*240alpha=720=broken? Nah, not realy, we can test Borrat at the playerbase with high speed, low profile, high camo and a burst of 2 times 360. Thats fair enough to balance the techtree tanks. And then, there is Skoda T27, that one is balanced as a autoloader. And then the ELC Even 90, EBR 75, have fun with HWK 12, Bulldog, LHMTV, LTTB. The premiumtanks and reward tanks are most time a bad joke for the game balance.

[@vinishshetty8055]

They should be sued for false advertising and hidden facts

[@skill4ltu]

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[@1337flite]

There is NO PROBLEM with the match maker. It's optimal. I know this is so, becaue Ekeboo told me on stream - befor e chat banning.. A number of times. The playerbase don't know what's good for them. There are no hidden stats - the WG Director of the Asia region told me that personally. It's normal and good for the players to have each team with 2 heavies, 2 mediums and all the rest sniper shitzels, EBRs and Shittillery. Hey - you forgot the map rotation - the same map twice in a row. I've also been told that does not happen. It's like they don't know how to read their own logs. Or maybe they just don't know how.

[@1337flite]

PS I like this new, "they took my carrot away" angry Skill, even more than the old Skiiiiiiiil. The spotting thing is probably a bug related to having two spotting disks when you point the turret to the target (the cuppola disk and the manlet disk) and the fact you only have the cuppola when you turn the gun away. It's probably not designed to do this, but I'd bet there's a modifier calculation error in the code. Lesson for the WG guy you spoke to - dev's sound smart, some of them are smart, but they are often too confirdent in their smartness - never trust what a dev says. (I base this characterisationof devs on around 5 years as a dev myself and about 20 years deplouying and supporting dev code on production servers - i.e. operations)

[@MartoradGaming]

I agree with everything you said and I have something to add. I really, really, really HATE unbalanced premium tanks. Why would you ever grind the LTTB when you can just buy the LT-432 which is better in EVERY SINGLE WAY? There a lot of premiums that are insanely unbalanced. 703 II is a tier 9 heavy tank. LT-432 is a tier 10 light tank. Bourrasque is a tier 9 medium. KPZ 07 RH is a tier 9 medium. The KPZ can go at 65 at tier 8! That's faster than most tier 10 mediums! It has broken DPM and broken HE rounds. Finally I want to add that the FV4005 and FV215b 183 are horrible for the game. They are not unbalanced, they are BROKEN. To be able to one shot all tier 8s and 9s and most tier 10s is an absolute joke. Skill, I promise you - from now on I am not spending a single cent on WoT, until I see changes.

[@rembrandt2323]

A Battle I had yesterday on an open Map: 1 Heavy (me) 2 Mediums 3 Scouts 3 Arties rest TDs.... A Friend of me had a Battle wich ended in UNDER 3 Minutes (Tier 8-10, not Tier 1-3!)

[@koushikraj9815]

one of the most regret to me was spending too much games. because of that i am still playing this game even after 4 years. i can only play 5 to 10 games/day because i started playing this game after i started job. i naturally enjoyed this game before special ammo change from gold to silver.

[@curvefeverlegends628]

Good thing u continue the Sirfoch legacy of making rant videos, keep it up

[@martinwinther6013]

Aye. wheres the saltshaker hiding? Ik hes on planned vacation, but for how much longer??!! - theres not more than a handfull of streamers/YTrs I enjoy watching. But Sirfoch is on the top3(together with skill4ltu,- ill let the last hang a bit. keeps things exiting eh)

[@curvefeverlegends628]

@@martinwinther6013 I really hope he will play WoT again at one point.. He was my favourite streamer

[@uvler]

SirFoch forever in our hearts...

[@rembrandt2323]

That's your daily dose of TRUTH.... Thank you Skill!

[@ZaasKenar]

Quit WoT years ago, and the problems were the same back then: matchmaking, arties, gold ammo.

[@arc00ta]

I'm very close to just quitting after playing since beta. I just can't take it any more. I've been at 58-60% solo WR for 30,000 battles but the last few months I can't even hit 35-40% on a good day. The NA server is so terribly unplayable, 3-4 minutes to get a battle that lasts 3 minutes. The biggest problem I can see is they have chased away all of the average normal players with the bullshit MM and weird RNG that seems like its on steroids compared to a few years ago. The 47-51% range is almost entirely absent so there is no stability. They keep adding features so we have more and more "turbo battles" where new players can't learn anything, and now its very possible for someone to be at tier 10 in 300-500 battles with all of the boosters and stuff. You look at the teams and high tiers are infested with people under 1k games with 30% win rates that cant figure out if what they did was right or wrong because everything happened so fast. WG doesn't care much, they admitted in their stream the other day battles are down from an average of almost 8 minutes to under 5 minutes. EDIT: as far as EBR, to me it shouldn't be a clown car light tank. The purpose of those vehicles in real life is to bring a big gun on a mobile package for city warfare. It should be treated like the Stryker in AW, basically a paper TD with decent mobility.

[@Eon2641]

Even if they do make them more combat focused, they need to get rid of the ridiculously unfair auto-aim they get and make them at least stop to repair modules. I don't particularly care if they make good active scouts so long as they don't have insane advantages that defy every convention of every other vehicle in the game. Even artillery is more consistent with other vehicles, the EBR feels like you're suddenly playing carmagedon or something.

[@virtualmoravicus2542]

Wheeled v. is separate branch, not a light "tank". 1 per battle.

[@no1noob194]

I agree, my win8 is over 2100, and my recent win8 is close to 2500 which according to wotlabs is better than 99.90% of players on the server. I have a 43% win rate in the last week. Lost 7 matches within a half hr last night. Tried different tanks, different tiers, same results every match 5 people dead in 1st min with no chance to win. I know they can do PR-based MM as they now do it in platoons so why not have a 20% gap max instead of having top-tier 10000 rated player vs top-tier 3000 rated player. So if one team has a 10000 rated player the other should have at least an 8000 rated top tier player so you at least have a chance. They won't do that though they are all about squeezing every penny out of the players they can now. Fast match = more $$.

[@Akalipt0s]

skill what i admire to you is that you have "balls" to choose a side.... and you choose with peoples side... gj on exposing them in public.. ps. Thats the reason i like you ..thats the reason you are going piri piri in my dreams!

[@arturoz6547]

but people still so dense, you always get the "hey its their money, they can do whatever" xD

[@raphaelsavatier2129]

Watch on warship what happen when à CC open his mouth 🙄

[@ambrosiogiovanni6952]

We all know, that in the CC's of WoT, Skill is best girl.

[@thewhiteowl9885]

What is CC? Like a sponsored content creator?

[@Akalipt0s]

@@raphaelsavatier2129 what happened to warship cc?

[@johnyjoe2k]

@33:00 I recall when SirFoch did this exact thing and Wargaming's response was to try and ban him and false copyright strike his channel. In the end, the community had his back and Wargaming just removed him from CC.

[@TwentyFourCharactersLong]

Pretty much the same with Flamu in WoWS

[@AlexandruDGatea]

I just uninstalled the game. Played for almost 8 years, spent thousand of euros in it during this period, but the game has become worse and worse untill it became unenjoyable. Thanks @skill4ltu for all your precious videos, totorials and all the time you've put a smile opn my face. I'll still watch you struggle, though.

[@emikoakamatsu5171]

Totally agree, Skill. I stopped spending money on the game since I lost 15 times in the row, in all battles I was 1-3rd by dmg/exp and in all games my team always had 4-6 players who did 0dmg and enemies had 1-2 0dmg players. EBRs are just cherry on top. I didn't even buy the last marathon tank at 80% discount

[@joseyang5098]

me too

[@prolosertheatomistic8101]

Sorry, if you lose 15 times in a row, you are actively making teams lose. Even on my worse days and in 21k battles over 6 years of playing, I have never lost 15 in a row. Even at the beginning when I was a trash player.

[@gl7492]

@@prolosertheatomistic8101 So..you were winning by your selfe..doing it all by your selfe?? 😂😂😂

[@prolosertheatomistic8101]

@@gl7492 No, I just played well enough that I didn't actively make my team lose 15 in a row.

[@gl7492]

@@prolosertheatomistic8101 What your are saying is..that is his fault he lost 15 games in a row..you alone cant do a shit if you have idiots in your team and opostite team have good players which is happening alot lately in wot. You were happy to have good team otherwise you are sayin that you won by yourselfe!!

[@czeskiczarownik1645]

I'm surprised how no one noticed that in WoT blitz there's already a mechanic where you have less damage, but better penetration than standard rounds.

[@tomaszkpl]

It is also in the PC game - look into the Steel Hunter mode...

[@noyes4947]

@@tomaszkpl no one plays that shitty game mode, there is no reasen to do so anyway…

[@EnergiaRocket]

@@noyes4947 speak for yourself

[@Ultrasonictwo]

@@noyes4947 i agree . i love frontline though :)

[@farmeroz7275]

Foch left. Circon is struggling to play and has played less and less recently, claus kellerman is pointing out the bullshit, mailand exposed console world of tanks for its stupidity recently and now skill4ltu is having his say. Im starting to see a pattern here.

[@ecka4x4]

Dezgamez has also pointed out issues with the number of arty & LTs in high tier MM. We can only hope WG take these things seriously & fix it.

[@Lupi33z]

@@bogdanscripcariu6501 it feels like a Casino gaming machine lately

[@mathiassalgado4683]

Don't put Claus together with those names, that guy 0 clue on how to play the game

[@farmeroz7275]

@@mathiassalgado4683 still has more knowledge then 50% of the playerbase...

[@mathiassalgado4683]

@@farmeroz7275 he doesn't, most of his statements are full bs

[@AnubisMRM]

I played the game for about 7 years, but I got fed up with it last December. Let's hope WG takes notice and fixes some issues. Then maybe I'll return. You (and other streamers/youtubers) mentioned these issues many times in the past and nothing changed. Since this game doesn't have too much competition and people are still paying money, I don't see things improving in the near future unless WG's income drops significantly. Good job Skill.

[@env1roWoT]

Thanks for this video Skill. I agree with all you said and I hope also that WoT would be still the game I want to play more and more like in the past. As I said many times, would be great if WG balance department could be as good as WG marketing department - we would have a perfect game. Let's cross the fingers for the better days for all of us - players of WoT. Cheers!

[@JDSFLA]

A few months ago "Flamu" was equally forthright about WarGaming's shortcomings in World of Warships, so they ended his being a CC (community contributor). I applaud Skill for this video and WarGaming should be thinking hard about how they can fix existing problems - but I fear that they will think that just "firing" Skill will fix things. Don't forget that this is a Belorussian company and the mindset that problems can be "fixed' through totalitarian measures is pervasive.

[@tonac13]

Well ain't that a wonder, coming from an soviet mentality country/company. This KZbin link on the official forums was, of course, removed as soon the moderator woke up today.

[@koenigtechnologies9517]

Doesn't have too much to do with the location. Most companies nowadays are like this, but they will disguise it in the FOTM political correctness. Like the "banned for rassissmus" meme of the Bethesda forums when complaining about shitty FO76

[@milivanili3791]

Exactly and very good that you point politics now. I will be not surprise, if Skill will be dissmissed as CC but WG deserved big punch in the face already. Am not paying for long time and I hope more players will start do same.

[@RedXlV]

Funny thing, the World of Warships side of the company *used* to be better in terms of PR and player-friendliness than the World of Tanks side. These days it seems to be the opposite. Though that's not a matter of WoT getting better, just WoWS getting a lot worse.

[@paolomaniezzi3770]

Totally agree with you!! 👌👍 I like this game many and many but in the opposite I hate so so much the behavior that WG shows towards players and the guilty indifference towards their (ours) opinions. I remember the vicissitude about Sir Foch and these "idiot guys" of WG: I think that if they could make the same totalitarian behavior towards Skill, it should be a great kick ass for them. Not only because Skill is very know and appreciated for his sympathy and contribution to WoT (....also the opponents "raise the pp" when meet him in battle ☺🤗🥰 this didn't happen with Sir Foch or other unicums) but also because the times has changed, and this has a great importance. Not only Skill became more critic in the last time, but also Dez, Claus and in some way Qb. Ponder WG, ponder!! 😡😠🤬👿

[@indycustommade3568]

Wargaming doesn't even have the common decency to give me a reach-around.

[@armandosignore3120]

That would be a Russian reach-around...

[@piotrbednarek8425]

@@armandosignore3120 Is this considered Claus-bombing?

[@joseyang5098]

a company in a dictatorship country with their dictator as the company shareholder, will NEVER know the meaning of being democratic...

[@armandosignore3120]

@@piotrbednarek8425 HAHAHA! yep.

[@leventefuszfas5713]

What if the ferraris can't repair the wheels while driving? This wouldn't take away the ability why they are other than a tracked light, but i think it would be a significant change.

[@myonline1985]

It could be pretty neat actually considering they lose agility and acceleration for each wheel lost. If they can't turn to get away and they can't repair without getting shot it makes them vulnerable and would discourage the yolo rushes through the lines with laser accurate gunnery.

[@stevenglikin3219]

losing a wheel should make them swerve out of control and have a lot of difficulty moving, it's bs that the car still moves as if nothing happened after having a wheel BLOWN OFF

[@leventefuszfas5713]

@@stevenglikin3219 in wot a lot of things dont match reality, in my opinion that is a reason why it is enjoyable... but it should be somehow balanced. I have a slight doubt about so much control loss. It is a 15 ton (or more) steel block...

[@janko6791]

TOMORROW NEW SKILL VIDEO: I am no longer in CC program.

[@Deix007]

Like he care about that. As u saw, Skill's community in Twitch and KZbin is following him for his impartial feedback and real criticism. He's not polishing the turd.

[@metallicmonk2271]

To be honest, if you watch his streams, and read between the lines, WG probably threaten him already in their private communication, and when they took Carro from him. Only skill knows, and maybe i am completely wrong :D.

[@janko6791]

@@metallicmonk2271 yes, I know about Carro

[@dakeso14]

yeah definitly

[@Sebb747]

@@Deix007 Yeah, the only thing he would loose is early access to new tanks. But he's one of the top streamers in the game and has a solid following anyway, so this would probably hurt WG as much as it would hurt Skill.

[@Peter_Schiavo]

Over the past 18 months, I pulled back from playing higher tiers. This coincided with the advent of wheeled scum. I was playing mostly tiers 4-5-6. Six months ago, I moved to Spain and asked for my account to be transferred to Europe. I was told no, it would never happen. Since then, I've tapered off and haven't play now for 2 months. In the past I averaged $4-500 spent each year. That is now done. My account is gathering dust and my premium time is counting down to zero. Skill and Claus Kellerman are my last links to this game. I watch them because they are entertaining. Not necessarily because of what they are playing.

[@AleksandarFilipovic-r4z]

if you ever want to come back to this game, i'm selling my account so hit me up if you're interested

[@AleksandarFilipovic-r4z]

EU account

[@user-nj8djdkdma1o]

불만있으면 ebr 타세요

[@puma51921]

Use to play this game every day since it started. Now I can't take the MM. Lucky if I play once a week.

[@HungNguyen-pc6oy]

lol im just deleted the game and im fine with it XD

[@beicel]

Same here, played almost every day and paid a few thousand euros in the past few years, but didn't played the game from Chuck Norris mission!

[@adriaandavel]

Finally a community contributor is not just making complaining videos, he is using his community to take action! GREAT WORK

[@poad156]

Finally!!! Thank you skill

[@goasgschaugustl5847]

What I would like to add is the combination of the "never nerf premiums" policy and the habit of Wargaming to add overpowered premiums to the game. These premiums are completely dominating the game and there is no way for balancing them since they can't be nerved. (Progetto 46, EBR 75, leFH, Pz. V/VI, KV-220 etc.) Imagine being a new player and getting your first t8 tank, completely stock and then having to compete with fully maxed out Progetto- and Bourrasque-Unicorns... It's just not healthy for the game.

[@jakabrobert96]

The really funny thing with the Pz V/IV is that when WG downtiered and buffed it, the Pz III K was already in the game and it was clearly obvious the V/IV will break the Tier 4-5 MM, hell even Tier 6 to some extent. They still went through it.

[@CGI_Lantern]

That's why i was excited when the FIRST frontline season was launched... Everyone played that mode with his tech tree t8 tanks.... I grinded mine as well and played the mode to noose bleed... Then second season... Progeto progeto progeto progeto progeto progeto

[@mspanhaak]

Well, i already quit due to the EBR's its just insane. I was spending quite a bit, but no more. Wish you all the best.

[@robaerto71]

Funny, exactly my experience: I stopped playing WoT years ago after spending thousands of Euros in this game and WG never has shown any interest what so ever in my absence!I And every time I locked in again (in a moment of complete insanity) I immediately quit again when I saw and EBR!!!

[@Ellemshaye]

Yeah ebrs really upset me at first. My old reflexes couldn’t hit them. They’re a little better now with the nerfs.

[@svetoslavnikolov7099]

One of the reasons i quit is also EBR

[@4freebird69]

It's been a year since I last played. I still keep up by watching WOT KZbinrs. But between the EBRs and the ridiculous equipment enhancements to the still failed MM I just couldn't enjoy the game I use to love. I'd take SPGs over EBRs any day. Yes they were annoying but as long as you played smart you could limit the hits you could receive. The SPGs really weren't any different than an (undetected) tank shooting at you from halfway across the map. Not easy to defend yourself from that ether but you could. At least you can pin a tank instead of having your 120mm shell bounce off an EBRs rubber tire.

[@joseyang5098]

me too.. (a player since early 2013)

[@ChillWithKris]

Ive completly stopped playing. But thats also thanks to the "friendly" community

[@nioutest]

Switch off chat and post game messaging and the community will seem more friendly :)

[@ARandowrites]

I've mostly walked away from WoT. -/+2, arty,, p2w, poor communication. I don't need to put time or money towards a game that is actively becoming a misery to play. Edit: And at this point WG has no intrest in listening to the commity or CCs

[@omarshahin3879]

We had that today, a 279 e and Chieftain on the opposite team. They lost, don’t know how, but yeah..... almost enough to rage quit

[@naiki_eu]

Probably triple arty rebelanced them. Neither for you nor for them it was good experience

[@snipera4526]

I live streamed yesterday and I had a battle with 3x 279e in a Platt on in the enemy team. We won 15:5 as they pushed into strvs and 2x50Bs

[@marin2204]

yday enemy team had 3 279e in a platoon and my team had 50b pz7 and kranvagn and our team won that game and it was really satisfing

[@marin2204]

@@snipera4526 i wonder did we encountered same platoon :D

[@snipera4526]

@@marin2204 2 of the platoon literally just got their tanks (less then 5 games in the 279), so maybe :D

[@necoy5258]

From personal experience, when bringing up these issues with WG the counter arguments are either: a) not my department, cannot comment, b) how you feel is not how everyone else feels (we have data, when brining up 3x arta), or c) that is why we have sandbox (and then completely ignoring the obvious majority who dislike with the argument the game needs to keep evolving)

[@wolfattack402000]

Or don't forget the "You don't see the big picture" reply from those morons.

[@Moct3zoom]

3yrs ago and WG have done nothing to improve matchmaking, you either get a fully experienced team or you get paired with a full "ill snipe from the back heavy tank" team with no support at all. for WG there is only Black and White, you either get rigged game to lose or rigged game to win, no such thing as balance.

[@Strombahs]

100% agree with Skill4ltu, thats why i m not playing much this game, MM is so bad cant play! :(

[@Fabio-wc6rv]

Only people that have good rng accounts can say the problem is mm

[@DanEzZ4]

@@Fabio-wc6rv what do you mean?

[@Pincer88]

Thank you @Skill for standing up. It's brave too, because it's your livelyhood. Just like Claus, DezGames, all the great players that care about the game and gladly, the lesser gods in the game too. It's disgusting to see how a once great game is laid to waste because of greed, nothing else.

[@ramrod9556]

The reason the tank was lit for 16 seconds is that he has the designated target skill perk and directive which require that the gun be aimed ( within 15' ) at the enemy tank. If you test without perk or directive the tank is lit for 12 seconds whether you aim at the tank or not with the radio detection. There may be a bug that the perk overrides the radio detection equipment so it thinks you don't have the equipment when you are not aimed at it.

[@hegamon7433]

(based on their old mechanic videos) most spot things and durations have limitations. like 445m rule. So, spot duration has also I think like max duration is 16 and min 6-10(?).

[@captainmorgan2307]

I haven't spent a dime on this game in years. I stopped playing almost a year ago after playing for 4 years.

[@nickc.802]

Respect to you for speaking the truth - I concur with every single of your points and solutions! I haven't paid for this game for 2 years now

[@bjor1s]

Stopped playing a while ago. Then I saw a video about this "catch postcard for good deals". And then it turned out most of the time, it wasn't deal. The value was the same. Or sometimes, even worse. I still don't understand how that went under the radar. In a lot of countries, false advertisement like that is punishable. Baffles my mind.

[@imperator_danny]

It didn't go under the Radar it was covered by a few streamers, all the Deals were Garbage.

[@zrider100z]

The deal being worse than standard offer is not punishable. They are not advertising anything other than "a system with deals".

[@atanarjuat6525]

As long as WG keeps making money, the only changes we’ll get will be tweaks in order to squeeze more cash from their players. Bottom line is money.

[@pupinpupin9307]

True, so stop paying

[@GokyThePanzer]

bottom line is people are really fucking stupid and will keep paying and buying shit 🤷‍♂️😅

[@justinscammell6101]

I think the best way to balance EBR's in matchmaking isn't to reduce the number in games, but give them the same hit points as say: artillery. They're not proper tanks, so why should they have the same hit points as tier 10 light tanks? So if EBR's got the same number of HP as artillery, this would make them more balanced and easier to counter.

[@vonthrash]

Well said King Baboon, hopefully someone takes heed of these words

[@Kanikalion]

I've uninstalled WoT for the last time. Until they solve these problems, I have better things to do with my time, and a million other things to spend my money on.

[@MrThePrankstar]

I have one more thing to the list that bugs me. Those 30 seconds load in, where everyone is just parked, and all you can do, is read the teamlist and admire ppl's camo. Realistically I think most ppl just tab out and watch youtube instead. But I wish, we could move for those 30 secs. Not freely around the map. There needs to be a time for everyone to load in. But if we had 30 seconds to move around in the "spawn" area, we could see where ppl are planning on deploying. So if I see 15 ppl going to one side of the spawn area, we have 30ish seconds to fix it. For someone to say "hey .. this is bad" in chat, and for someone to go to the other side. That could lower the amount of lemmingtrains I think at least.

[@paulr5103]

Thoughtful comment, and a good suggestion as well. Prebattle communication and prep might help us avoid those lemming trains, but you know the Ferraris are going to sort out the most advantageous launching points and dive deeper behind enemy lines.

[@ramrod9556]

We have the markers on the mini-map to indicate where we are going during the countdown which very few use. Not sure this would help much but might make for some good traffic jams.

[@Ultrasonictwo]

i wish we could do something else while sitting in the queue

[@ironmonkey1512]

They should reduce it, it's not 2011 any more. I'm sure they have stats on load times or whatever I never see people slow load any more.

[@jariheimoluoto4959]

I think the landslide battles hapen because of hulldown tanks and autoloaders. Once one side of the map falls and tanks start getting shot by high burst damage the rest of the team just melts away before they have time to react or ability to do so because of map design. If the gold ammo did more damage with same or less pen no one would be complaining. The problem of gold ammo is that it makes slow heavy armor tanks just slow exp and credit milk cows. The armor is currently useles if anyone can just press 2 and auto pen you with no aiming.

[@WhyNot-sb9kk]

The best way to fix the problem, and actually get WG to listen... We all need to uninstall at the same time. the game is a joke. WG doesn't listen, they know they have a cash cow because in order to compete, people get sucked into spending cash to try and "fix" why they are losing games, but no amount of cash will fix the core of the issue. EBR, ARTY and poor Match Making. There is no balance in the match making. EVERY game is a lopsided loss for one side. As well, I am convinced that MM is by design. The algorithm is designed to keep most players at around the 50% win mark. That is why one day, you have a great day, win 75% of your games, then like clockwork, the next, you lose 75% of your games. Think of WoT as an online casino. They dangle some wins to get you excited, then you lose a bunch to get you to spend more.

[@hjagger]

My stats havent changed for 4 years. Just under 47%. Agree have days cant lose. Next day couldnt win a game if mylife depended on it.

[@miguelgiffoni8931]

The same issue happens with me. If you have a succesfull day, after that, the algorithm understand you have won a lot. So, deliberately start put you in a team of "rookies" that scores 1x15, 5 x15, etc. Result, 8...10 defeats in a roll or more. The intention is that the players never be satisfied in order to paying gold, pay a better gun, etc.

[@Teetjeee]

@@miguelgiffoni8931 true

[@thewhiteowl9885]

Yes but this algorithm have been around for years with many games (especially mobile games) having this kind of addictive dopamine tactics. What concerned people need to talk about more is the growing VIEWRANGE. If you think about it in every map you have only a few spots to go to, and as soon as you make a tiny push forward you get spotted. The space for manuvering is extremely limited in a already small map. Maxed out crews with bond equipment is an issue no one is talking about. Todays WoT have no room for creativity and element of surprise, only repetitive gameplay.

[@bryanr93]

EBRs should have to stop in order to fix their wheels, they can keep driving with it broken but it can’t be fixed unless they are stopped.

[@andrejespersen8634]

I like that idea :) a still standing ebr maybe my team could hit them then :)

[@domagojivanovic1738]

Skill I used to love ur content, but after this I am LOVING ur content.

[@azizella2778]

Had me in the first half

[@torbjornsvensson2547]

Truly thank u Skill for displaying the REAL problems with the game!! Been to bad for too long....this video is 110% accurat and spot on!!

[@Sirius-qs4fz]

Me personally stopped playing random battles about 6 months ago when I noticed me saying to myself don't play this anymore, you will just rage, I played it again, I raged again because of 5 light tank and 3 arty battles and I quit. WG won't see not a euro, but a single cent until light tanks will be limited to 2 per team, arty limited to 1 per team (or arty missions being removed so majority of the games would consist of 0 or 1 arty's).

[@robaerto71]

Like I said to Skill: I stopped playing WoT years ago after spending thousands of Euros in this game and WG never has shown any interest what so ever in my absence!

[@JFskeezix]

Players don't play arty mainly for missions. They play arty because it is easy cheat mode: low risk high reward gameplay. It has always been this way but lately it's the only way most players can have consistent 'fun' in the game.

[@DetailingCars]

Wargaming needs to talk with their community much more, and actually play the game.. its obvious that they dont understand how the game works and metas. they always try to change the stuff that shouldnt be changed, and problems remain untouched

[@soopafamicom]

They only listen to the RU servers and their wallet warrior players. No other playerbase matters.

[@Bluewoofz]

You should see the representatives of the NA server, they are so bad at the game that theres no way they would know what is wrong with the game

[@matrixdecoded4226]

C,mon. Are you saying WG don't play their own game? What about all the sheriff's you see on the NA server. There is a sheriff in nearly every game! (Haven't seen a single sheriff for 2 years now - new players must be confused when they see the 'hunt the sheriff' mission and wonder what it is)

[@crazygunar]

IDK is it a feature just for me or not, but I can not find any more topic about Game Mechanics in the ticket system on the website. No ticket system no problem! Good WG!

[@paulespinal9577]

To be honest I can't agree more with this video... this is the video I've been waiting for... this game is lagging behind on rebalancing... a long time ago I decided not to invest a single penny until they fix the game... I love heavy and super heavy vehicles but from my point of view that style of play is dying for the reasons you explained in this video... I support you in this cause of a change for the game we love.

[@snapelilly]

The difference between the highs and lows in this game are so insane (without free xp I probably would have quite a long time ago). Like Play a slow tier 6 heavy/med with 75% crew and averages 3-4 shots before death is brutal vs tier 10 heavy/med with maxed everything where it feels amazing and is super fun.

[@V1P3RR11]

You forgot to mention something pretty inportant , that ties into gold ammo spam . Wich is more and more tanks WITHOUT any frontal weakspots whatsoever...

[@MrSkyline11]

And all we get from WG is a irrelenvent patches like HE changes and many others little problems.

[@Leon_Orlov]

HE change is relevant, WG is just unable to balance them right

[@RCRDC_handlesarepoopoo]

Yup, spending years and years to make simple changes that were not the problem in the first place. It's been their thing for so long now that they only think of the short term profit. Let's say the playerbase consisted of only 100k players, what WG currently does is milk that 100k and the numbers keep dropping. I can't understand why they choose to do that instead of actually spending time and effort to have a fair and balanced game that would in turn attract more and more players and potential customers. Keeping the players happy is what would get them more money and support long-term as a company but the damn vodka-soaked monkey brains are too stupid to understand that. WG are literally killing their own game.

[@MrSkyline11]

@@Leon_Orlov In my opinion GOLD ammo should be rebalanced first. After that they could do some changes with HE.

[@Leon_Orlov]

@@MrSkyline11 oh, another gold whiner, i got it... you probably believe that you can pen everyone on autoaim just by loading gold. In fact gold ammo is one of the last saving graces that lets WoT stay alive, even if its recessing a long time already

[@_overchaos_]

@@Leon_Orlov Lol what? The only reason gold ammo is a "saving grace" is because WG for the longest time kept introducing tanks with stupid unbalanced armor profiles and guns that make you spam more gold.

[@KKush21]

Yeeees skiel, tear them a new one 😁

[@DeadPool_StaS]

WG: lets sell new premium tank for this idiots. 1 smart guy in WG: lets just fix random ? make 1 server without SPG. WG: you are fired.

[@joseyang5098]

a company located in a dictatorship country with their dictator as the company shareholder, will NEVER know the meaning of being democratic...

[@robertflint4115]

100% Agree. Thank you Skill for being our voice. Rock on.

[@robertflint4115]

and 279e is mechanically impossible. Might as well be a hoover tank shooting a laser.

[@takacsgergo9629]

I still remember the time when they introduced the british lights as high alpha damage tanks, but we all knew the reality... Anyways, I quit the game for 3 months now, just becasue all of these problems you just mentioned, and I have all the respect for those who still play this game. Hopefully this video will find the right person/people in the WG office and after lots of wasted years they will fix the game. Huge thanks for the video Skill4ltu.

[@RuanLFC]

This video needs like 1 billion Likes so WG can see we are serious

[@wolfattack402000]

They may see it but they will never give a shit.

[@narukami597]

As long as the sheep keep paying nothing will change.

[@williebrort]

@@wolfattack402000 they won't change anything no matter how many people complain. Just look at the new HE. Max 10% of the players likes the new HE, jet they push it through no matter what and ignore all feedback. The only reason they could get away with this is combining it with arty changes. All their media effort is in arty changes and thus most online discussions are about how good arty changes are. Which is also worsening the game by the way.

[@Bgog86411]

the proposed gold ammo changes makes sense as long as it's HEAT or APCR. Heat fires a jet of molten metal to get through more armour, and APCR is a smaller faster shell for more pen. If the gold ammo is standard rounds with APCR as regular it makes sense for more damage and less pen.