PAINFUL Record Losing Streaks and Unbalanced Battles in World of Tanks

[@DezGamez]

Losing streaks happen and it opened up a discussion about the craziest losing streaks. What is your record and what do you think... Why do we have or notice more one-sided fast battles than before?

[@eduardomartinez3043]

Well me yesterday like 20 losses and 7 wins 😢😢😢

[@BimanGhosh]

The worst ever was I think 20 or so battles. There were so many factors that I am pretty sure influenced the outcome. 1. Bad Matchmaking 2. Premium rounds & Premium tanks 3. Autoloaders (too many as you stated) 4. Too many arty and that too of the higher tier. 5. Always getting matched up with higher-tier tanks. (Most 2 tier higher) I just accepted that Wargaming doesn't care and kept playing.

[@TheW89]

@@BimanGhosh They don't care to rig the matchmaking into your favor, is that what you're suggesting?

[@dilmendoza]

worst losing streak was 27 losses in a row and finally 1 win

[@mikecimerian6913]

I have alternating good days and bad days. Like clockwork. Let's be real here, there is secret MM in this game and the marketing department have their finger crooked in one of the parameters. Whatever new tanks are introduced, statistical distribution should spread chances evenly.

[@jeanlongsden1696]

don't you just love having 5 losses in a row, where you are in the top 3 on damage each match. then your next match you get killed in the first 2 minutes and the team wins and you get virtually nothing for your daily double.

[@Akrilloth]

This is why the 5 xp bonuses that comes with premium account is such a game changer for grinding. The daily first win is generally more a source of frustration than a blessing.

[@ambrosiogiovanni6952]

That happens a lot to TD players. Sometimes you have some crazy battles, of 4-5K + damage, that are losses, and then, you get one of those 15-1 blowout wins, where you can't do shit.

[@stevenmanning5647]

Oh don't forget when you have x3 boosters active.

[@frysebox1]

5 losses? Try consistent average to good (1300-2000 WN8) performance, with 20% WR sessions lasting for 30+ battles several days in a row. Game has decided that you should lose at that point.

[@DarkSkay]

I prefer my streaks of 10 losses with my garbags crews, tanks and my noob skills. And the most I like a Scorpion G sniping me from red line to the other red line. A Scorpion G I can't even buy.

[@luco323]

this year i've had a weekend with 42 losses out of 44 games, and very recently the exact opposite, 35 wins out of 36 games. it felt like riding a wave, like i could go afk every battle and it would not matter at all. teams just refused to loose. bloody 3 or 4 to 10 comebacks and shit....mm is seriously broken

[@Virtualvideos11]

I have often same.

[@SeanRCope]

Why I stopped playing. Nine years Solo random player tired of getting pissed off playing a game. I tried, I really did. It’s sad too, I have quite an impressive garage....

[@christiaancarstens4091]

Same, wish there was something else to play like it. But enough of this shit.

[@robert85_790cs]

I started playing wot in february 2012 and i still Play. The bad thing is that frome the 2014 year batlles started being faster and faster because the new tanks are faster and they have better dispersion and aiming time. Also there are two many artys and td's are too bad to make batlles slower.

[@robert85_790cs]

Wg also removed very good maps and on this maps batlles were slower.

[@DjEloy]

^^ this! I didn’t stop playing but I play way less then I used to because the experience sucks 9/10 times and I get pissed (i got many chat bans... lol)

[@christiaancarstens4091]

@@DjEloy You can call me a chat ban monster, so salty at this point that almost anything gets me raging at other players.

[@webster4600]

Ferraris + tripple Arty. Gets me in heavy tanks many times

[@filipebimba]

3 artys in a game it really is too much 🤮

[@Basti5792]

I had a losing streak the whole of last week, broke my keyboard and quit WoT for the time being. Feels much better already.

[@robert85_790cs]

I started playing wot in february 2012 and i still Play. The bad thing is that frome the 2014 year batlles started being faster and faster because the new tanks are faster and they have better dispersion and aiming time. Also there are two many artys and td's are too bad to make batlles slower.

[@sorinancuta3934]

@@robert85_790cs nope.wg made the games faster.ebr,bots grinding so fast and so on.and they like it that way😉+the mm:one team has bots,the other one from average and above

[@KOS762]

WG owes you a new keyboard.... they programmed the frustration, they should pay for it too.

[@robert85_790cs]

@@sorinancuta3934 I didn't say fast batlles are not made by wg. I agree with you that ebrs and too fast grind are very bad idea.

[@Doman9191]

Imagine raging at a game

[@gavinglass3818]

WG determines who wins and loses. MM is preferential for "Certain" players, the rest are cannon fodder!

[@santr81]

Absolutely true. This is a rigged game ... but no one cares it seems ...

[@BlueLineofthesky]

Just 12 continuous defeats? Man, you are lucky. The rest of us achieve this regularly. Every damn weekend.

[@bara555]

It doesnt even have to be a weekend

[@nogisonoko5409]

I achieved this everyday when i was active. That is how stressed i am playing this game yet i still come back.

[@agile-heliuk1801]

Same here... I think I can normally 1win 1 then loose 5 to 8 in a row.

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

@@bara555 yeah, if you’re really bad

[@bara555]

@@shmekelfreckles8157 Oh there is the smartass among us.

[@bzumbzumbrekekeke]

When there are platoons of three unicums, 3 full gold Bourrasques against platoon of Panther 8.8, 59 Patton and senlac you can rage quit even before battle starts.☹

[@theoriginalbanana3195]

senlac aint bad

[@me-low-key]

Do you know if WG balance for platoons? because if they don't that means the team with the most solo players is at a disadvantage, and hence the crazy lose streaks for so many players.

[@norberthegedus7398]

After I had some similar losing sessions, I started to average the win ratio of the players in our team and in the enemy team. No surprise that in most cases the difference was about 2-3 percentage in average. The lemming train battles from our side was also common in those games. Sometimes you can penetrate someone 3 times in a row, but the last shot that would kill the enemy player misses 4 times, altough you aim and shoot the exact same way as you did with the previous ones.

[@adrianstejar2711]

In my opinion, because of the first seconds, the video should be rated +18:)))

[@smolchungus5647]

funy

[@drakko26]

That's on you for expecting something else in an x5 weekend

[@daftbence]

Yeah, blows my mind how veterans palying for a decade still can't grasp a simple concept: 5x xp = you lose your mind and WR *OR* you don't play and enjoy your weekend

[@drakko26]

@@daftbence yup. Had a 11-5 streak for today. Only played enough to get my missions done and said F this shit, I'm out.

[@daftbence]

@@drakko26 I feel ya, I didn't even touch WoT this weekend, instead I watched Resi 8 playthrough on youtube.

[@meaninglesscog]

Who is getting the wins then? Half the players are winning all these games everyone is losing.

[@MrKillswitch88]

Except this crap happens on work days at nearly all hours for the past year with brief moments where the old normal returns only for there to be another tsunami of shit bots and suck4fun.

[@milospopovic7267]

I thought I was only one, yesterday I had one win and then 11 lost games in a row, then iIstopped because I was too mad to keep playing. Not a single game i could at least try to influence. Glad I can share same pain with someone :D

[@carlosvieira7163]

You are not alone... The other day I sent a ticket to WG to please remove the curse of my account! I asked for mercy... so many many losses in a row... They say there are not cursed accounts... ok ok... And what about the curse in Bat-chat line? I've got the tier9 25t AP and it is very difficult to win... now with this tank I have less than 35% win ratio... omg...

[@Doman9191]

@@carlosvieira7163 Lmao "cursed account"

[@ChristoDeFerroxD]

These battles happens to me every single time and to my friends too... Idk what happened at WG HQ but this is too much

[@phanley3760]

Ouch, that leaves a mark! 🙂 No "thank you, may I have another" after that. I quit at 5 losses on these days. I hate these turbo battles. I enjoy a nice, close slugfest. As always, great video! Already anxiously awaiting your next one.

[@JohnSweevo]

Aye me too, 5 and out

[@pburgess22]

Mobility speed creep has made a huge difference too. There are so many fast heavy tanks now that can push a flank stupidly fast if they are ahead.

[@pandzban4533]

My personal record is 18 lost games in a row. That day I had 25 lost games out of 30 played. I had several months like that. 12 loses in a row was like every 3, 4 days. I dropped from 56% WR below 52%. For the last couple of months I recovered a bit like 0.5% up. Match maker does not put you randomly in a battle. I have a tone of screenshots from those series of loses. I always had as much damage as my all team combined. No one in WG will convince me it was random. It looked like MM was doing that on purpose and I don't why?

[@boristhebarbarian]

I think the best 3 reasons for unbalanced battles are 1. the difference in spotting and 2. the willingness to work together and 3. the willingness of teammates doing their assigned roles (so no mediums or heavies hiding among backline TD's or arty). 1.When your scouts get less spotting then the enemy chances are high you will lose and fast. AND if someone decides to spot and he/she gets support by shooting the spotted targets that is working together. if someone decides to spot and the team is focussed on other targets then those spotted then the spotter will die fast and the team will fail. 2. If a team (or the main group of heavies/mediums and TD's) works together instead of as a bunch of individuals doing their own thing then chances are your team will win. Either in push or hold mode.

[@Crimson_Abyss]

4:43 London is not my first language. Sweat hahah, Love you Dez

[@anthos1048]

-Rng always trolling me -Teams suiciding -My ping that doesn't want to be normal -XVM players focusing me -Gold noobs spamming gold at me Don't know why I have to go through all of this all the time... Surely because I'm a free to play player

[@webster4600]

Me personally, I think WOT has become more and more needy to pay to win to be / stay competitive. I play F2P too and sometimes the pure goldrain is just annoying and it makes me thinking about playing some other game...

[@anthos1048]

@@webster4600 yeah same

[@killertruth186]

Yeah, and arty players are focusing on a single tank for way too long. And not trying to help the team. Also yeah, gold spamming had gotten far worse than regular HE. When I had played arty, I had used to trying to destroy anything that is being spotted and not being tactical like the way arty is being designed. So when I had tried to do that, I had gotten so much better playing arty and cringing at other arty players trying to get as much kills with it.

[@sassysaddles9981]

this is pay to win game for them, us free to play players are just cannon fodders, we exist to get farmed by them

[@anthos1048]

@@sassysaddles9981 this is why if they don't do somethi.g about the pay to win aspect in the near future I'll quit the game for good

[@D0youknowWhoIam]

I think the 357 matchmaking is a big factor too. It concentrates so much firepower into just a few players and it only takes one above or below average player to swing the balance for one team

[@paulfountain1364]

Sharing this pain sir. Tanking through it.

[@rosenwolf7892]

There are three major things i find that are a constant in the game that makes me extremely upset with how War Gaming has made WoT super flustering. The first one was not mentioned because it is a game mechanic, that is the + / - 25% that they add to the rng on gun handling stats. guns handling stats are there for a reason and then to pervert them with their own passive handicap is a real pain. On to match making, it is commonly known that your win rate is a factor in choosing teams, 51 % win rate or higher equals better match making for you, no matter how your skill in the game has progressed through out years of playing, teachings from other players / clan mates and so on. and the final thing that really upsets me with game balance the most is the introduction to wheeled vehicles. not only are they able to spot almost the entire map in seconds, they are way to agile, and take hits that should cause damage to them and shrug them off like a heavy. they tried to rebalance them and failed miserably because their changes where then countered by a new equipment system. Rant over

[@joshstokmans5534]

Yeah, I think you’re reasons for fast games are pretty accurate. I really agree with players learning quickly now. I don’t know what it was like in the past, but I’ve only been playing for 6 months, and my WN8 is almost 900 already. Most of my sessions are closer to 2000 WN8, often close to 3000. I’ve learned so much from watching you streamers and learning how to analyze the game.

[@stevepritchett6563]

They could try skill-based MM, this would help to avoid mis-matched teams to some degree. Surely WG have the players stats to be able to implement this. They are able to do this for new players below tier 5, so they could introduce this across the board "IF" they wanted to. OR, am I talking out of my arse here?

[@ambrosiogiovanni6952]

Nah, it would be pretty easy and make the game more interesting.

[@americansmoke3551]

No it would work, I can tell you right now they pick and choose who to assist in MM and RNG. I can get on my account and just have bad luck non stop, get on another account and have the complete opposite outcome. Because they want to help the new players and get them sucked in.

[@sethhardy866]

Only issue that I think you'd run into is the player count for matchmaking. Because that mainly the reason as to why they enabled crossplay amongst xbox, PC, and ps4/ps5.

[@jrcat2258]

Been playing since beta. The first thing they really messed up was the introduction of high tier arties. Then we started getting GROSSLY OP Premium tanks. This was a major problem, which led to the introduction of higher damage normal techtree tanks. Remember when all tier 8 mediums used to do 240dmg? There was a reason for that. All the while, because the game is so old, players got better and better and started organizing themselves into platoons and finding out how they could get better. Now that credits and gold are cheaper and equipment is more specialized, we have a lot of above average experienced players who get their hands on OP Premium tanks and they just destroy the casuals like myself. Even up to two years ago my battles were not bad at all. I would get stomped some times but most of my battles have historically been about 50% decent (even losing battles can be fun). In the last two years, I've noticed that battles don't last long at all and the outcome often gets decided in the first few seconds. The discrepancy between good players in good vehicles with a good crew and equipment and regular filthy casuals like me is just too great. Another factor is introduction of mechanics that can single-handedly change the outcome of the game. In the past, that used to be only higher tier arty. Especially in the endgame, arty can decide the outcome of the battle with a SINGLE SHELL. But now, a good auto-(re)-loader will dominate the endgame against regular guns. They will out-trade regular tanks every time, which means that there is less time for the battlefield dynamics to come in to play (i.e. a rotation, like in Counterstrike GO).

[@geoffreyM2TW]

Arty is the class that least affects games. The best placed arty is ranked at place 263 of all tanks in WoT (about 660 in total) in Wotlabs (EU). It is the SU-14-2. If everyone played arty, battles would be perfectly random

[@SeanEpoc]

I too have been playing since beta and i 100% agree. regardless of how much damage i do or how well i perform, it's just loss after loss after loss in my T9 and T10 vehicles

[@robertslosar7565]

I had a WR of about 56% until the moment I wrote to wargaming about one issue (I admit it was not WG issue, it was my fault). Since then I dropped to

[@test_nametest_surname1794]

Yeah don't do that.. I wrote to CSupport about the epic reward. You remember it used to be advertised as 100bonds, 1day of premium and plus smth small of value? And then I did not get 1dayPremium complained, they point me to some of their obscure website that it can be 100bonds+2random rewards.. Did not help my winrate 😁 but they eventually changed that - now you can see what you will get in advance.

[@kokoeteantigha389]

Hahaha!! My NKVD-moment with WG kicked in after I started ranting on the game chat. Suddenly, my win rate plunged and has continued to nosedive since. Go figure.

[@gl7492]

Same here..I just ask them,what a f..ck is wron with MM...why my team is made of total morons and enemy team is allmost pro and many other things that are not fair..man..I ruind my stats so fast that it was epic,even today I'm on losing streak!!

[@happytrails5342]

I raged at wargaming, sent a couple disgusting rants to them, and they ofc don't listen, and I get absolutely horrendous rng.

[@Synthesizing-TOYSLABS-3923]

i love the graphics and game play style... Play like a pro gamer still lose streak.. Some time aiming and see green point but still cant penetrate the armor. I uninstall it finally.

[@johnsmyth152]

I have a three battle rule, if i lose three in a row it's off. The game is so bad now, i can only manage playing once a week. And i definitely feel better for not playing it as much😊

[@dottorekaoz8679]

I played arty in a row, and I found some strange correlations... In a "good game" from individual perspective, shells fly directly at the target, sometimes "stray" to hit. In a "bad game", shells stray to the farthest point in the dot circle away from the aimed target. This becomes obvious when the target is no longer spotted and the shell hits straight on. Also, splashing seems to be reduced. There seems to be a slight bonus when you have handed over money (premium days, gold, tanks), but this is neglectable. Missions: if you have missions, WoT seems to be diminuishing the opportunities to reach the goals. Like if they want to keep you playing a certain number of games (I guess about ten or 15). Server change or loging off for an hour seems to help. Also, this seems to come in waves - one day, you get the fast games with win, another one is a close, long game with win, then a long, close game with loss, and then fast losses. I chose arty bc your personal input in the game is smaller than in other tanks. After all, the role is narrowly defined, and most of the time, arty cannot make a losing team into a winning team (bc of reload and stray).

[@rauder3849]

Average players get punished the most in WoT! They are a lot of times not good enought to carry the the brainless and loose against the good players in battle situations.

[@killertruth186]

Exactly.

[@stevepritchett6563]

Totally agree with this

[@ambrosiogiovanni6952]

This actually helps a little. I am an average player, but somehow, these last few months i started being able to carry games. I don't know if because the pressure, i started playing better, or the muppets per square meter got off the charts, but i noticed that. So, at least the better average players or the ones who didn't plateau yet, can have some hope.

[@JasonPFK]

When they fix the MM game will be more playable . How to fix ?? - split players in 3 categories : ~under 4K pers score , 2nd - players between 4-6k & 3rd +6k pers score . Another rule, u can buy a tier8 premium tank only when u have 1 tier 8 research from tech tree, reduce numbers of arty /battle (1 in a battle)

[@zoltansalgo4831]

Mobility meta. At least I think so. If you're fast you can take key positions faster. It's really hard to turn a battle if you can't even take the position where you should play.

[@zGJungle]

Also I see one team with 8 auto loaders and the other with hardly any, never really works out well.

[@meownesswatcher446]

you missed: -smaller player base (fare less player than a few years ago) -premium/bond equipment and more ppl use food, -better premium / more shitty outdated tech line tanks (not all but name 1 good heavy german tank, E100 and Maus are decent) -differnce between new and old players, old players with premium account (+bond equip. + food, + only gold shells) dominate with op premium tanks vs new player in stock tanks with 75% crew and now equipment (hint next point) -shitty mm, players are matched with their tank type and tier, not with player skills, Pro player like you will always farm n00bs, => less n00bs like the game => more premiums and pay to win mechanics have to finance the game = in the end wheeled vehicles for faster matches, more matches = more money in WG pocket

[@iskrenvlaykov5968]

All of the reasons are valid, but I think most important of them is the number of auto-(re)loaders. I really miss the old-school games with slow heavy tanks that really feel like tanks not like buggies with machine guns

[@kermanp]

I believe that many things combine the current meta to "favor" fast and one sided battles. But one stands out for me: matchmaker. I use XVM to evaluate team balance and I have noticed, that more than 55% of the games I've played the teams are severely unbalanced. No matter the metrics, efficiency, WN8 or WTR. I believe if matchmaker could take player stats/skills/rating in to the equation, it could make more balanced teams. I think it's possible, since WG intoduced a "softer" matchmaker for new players. Oh, and for the topic of losing streak... I haven't got a clue. Worst winrate for about 40 game session has been around 30%...

[@jbsmith966]

Dez Games - welcome to my world.

[@JohnSweevo]

You took the words right out of my mouth

[@matasmate]

Dez, finally you made the video i was vaiting for. I am a moderate player(2300WN8 overall, 3k recent 42k battles all tier x tanks researched so i have alot of experience). I can speak from my experience, that this thing started for me 3 or 4 years ago. Yes i realised some things, that at period of my lifetime i was very tired after work, made very bad decisions in the battles. But for my surprise, it continued when i was energised and happened to me when i was not tired at all. You can be the best player in the world in these "losing streaks" but you cant win them. Like as Skill4ltu used to say, "Well, you know fellas, you cant win them all". This is purely my opinion but i think these are combined together leads us to this current situation. From my point of view, one of the problem is as you mentioned, players have too much credits. They just can spam gold all day and still have very much credit left. Another thing is the playerbase, and here lets separate things. Im not racist or anything, but if you watch the battles closely, more and more players from Russia come to play the EU server. Why? I dont know but i am sad to say that they change the battles. Its purely my opinion and my instinct, you can disagree with it, but they play differently. They are all in, rush in players. If you think it, its logical. 15 VS 15 player in each side. If 5-6 of them are these kind of rush in players, they can grind a whole part of a map, the other part just have to hold the flank, till they grind around if they are "good/experienced" players. If they are bad, they rush in and die. If the good players meet not so good players they kill them and win that side because of outnumbered situation. If the "rushers" have bad players in, they just simply walk into a trap and die. And when you are in tier 10 and lose 6 players in the first 3 minutes, you can be as good as you want, but its hard to change 8k minus hp from any side. And if you combine these, they are full premium ammo users, i can almost hear these players every time seeesh with HEAT rounds, they spam you with gold, they rush in numbers, you cant do anything about them. If you are in the so called winning team, because of this effect, you just run around the map and try to find your opponent to damage because of the rushing style, you end up winning by 0 or 1k dmg, because they hunt the enemy before you could do it. If you are in the losing team, your team dies in the first 4 minutes and you simply try to farm as much damage as you can, but you cant win because of this unbalance. Usually this is why i end up with like 4-5k damage but losing, and we win, but i got 0damage, they farmed everything before i got there *sad Maus noises*. The corridor maps yes, you can go straight and thats it, you face the enemy. IN this situation only 1 thing that change your battle, the RNG. You can load heats or anything if the RNG throw it to the enemy not penetrable side, you can do anything you simply wont win, yet the enemy will penetrate you every single hit, and you cant do anything about it. Doesnt matter how you angle your tank, they will penetrate because of RNG. You know its underwhelming when you got -25%rng all the time, and the enemy got +25% all the time. They manage to hit you on the move(OBJ 277, full speed 60km/h), and you cant hit them when you aim your tank for a whole week(Jagdpanzer E100 with purple equipment). Its unfair. But the most annoying thing is you cant change it. When i started playing in 2013, the whole game was slow, but more enjoyable. 8-10minute battles, where you could think, what to do. Later, they introduced more and more things that changed the game, yet you still could think what to do and could win with a stock light tank against 4 enemy. But in this fast paced battles, you can do as you want but you cant change anything. They rush in from unexpected places... for example, maus rush in malinovka the middle of the field and noone shoots and penetrates it, or a paper TD 1 hits you on the move with the light tank... Yes they are possible outcomes and you should think about them, but most of the times you cant. You not expecting a light tank to stay in the back and not spotting, and etc.. Players sometimes dont seem to realise what is their job on the battlefield, or they have XVM and see that their team suck, so they wont do anything to win the battles. I am so fed with this topic i could talk about it all day but wont change anything. 1,5month ago i stopped playing and i can say i am much more happier, and i stopped thinking that all of the people are my enemy... when i played the game because of the reasons i listed i played as a one man army and yes, sometimes i was spotting and my own teammate shot me with arty, because he thought i am not spotting in the middle of the map and etc... The playerbase is toxic, too many players still using cheats(destroy mod that shows what you destroyed in the minimap, aimbots that aim exactly to the weakspot, and i know players who paid for these stuffs, yet they still not banned because the cheat detector program cant detect a cheat which was made by the Wargaming's programmer :) :)...) I could continue days but noone cares, even you wont read it all. I loved this game but what it morphed into i hate it now. Its not about the EBR, its not about the auto/re loaders, its not only the playerbase. Its the WG who let these happen and they are ignoring the playerbase, coghs in *OBJ 268 V4*.... 1 year? or how long was in the game with that overpowered state? everyone was crying about it yet they ignored it... Playerbase tell them what to do, they sh!t on us every time. BUY E-25 WE WONT SELL IT AGAIN, BUY DEFENDER WE WONT SELL IT AGAIN, BUY MUTANT WE WONT SELL IT AGAIN, yet they did. OK its their property they do as they want with it. But From my point of view they lie and keep lying about it every time. Back then in 2013 tanks were balanced, at least in some way, a tier 6 light tank could outspot a tier 8 heavy, but it was a hard thing to penetrate the heavy even from the back, now what you do? tier 6 light tank see you, they load in gold and penetrate you from frontally. LOGIC? no. I finished crying. Im so fed up with this game i cant describe it. Hope you have better experiences, i dont, sorry about it. Have a nice day.

[@robertlamczyk1961]

I read the wole thing, and agree with you. Many at point observations.

[@matasmate]

@@robertlamczyk1961 So many things i didnt even mention, but thanks for reading my text! Have a nice day!

[@sergeroy2041]

Well it makes sense to have unbalanced teams. It's in the interest of WG to have fast games so you spend more credits = money for WG.

[@stevenmanning5647]

Yeah, screw fair or balances. Seems that rng they said would level the playing field has completely flipped the advantages in less skilled players' favor and WG wallets.

[@nubtaiab2532]

You're absolutely right. I had 2400wn8 and decided not to play fair anymore. The money I used to invest on gold and premium account I use on banned software. Aimbot and tundra. There is no point in being fair in this game anymore , I now have almost 2600wn8 after 3000 fights in which I used banned programs that target vulnerabilities themselves and penetrate 90% of the time . When I saw that they manipulate the game I decided not to be fair either. In my clan there are still 23 players who use the programs. No one has been banned because the programs are sold by WG.

[@m0rtl]

wheeled vehicles just need to be unable to hit anything while moving. Easy fix. Driving= no hit. Not driving = hit

[@PeterKJRichterIMHO]

Having driven lighter track and such, I know there's NO way you can can even hit a stationary target while moving at a ridiculous speed...

[@henryvaneyk3769]

13 in a row last year. 32% WR previous 2 weeks. Only starting to pick up this week again. It was painful to say the least. Fast losses is just down to very poor MM. When almost everybody on one team have a lower than 48% WR and everybody on the other team have more than 48% WR, the outcome is a foregone conclusion. And I have seen enemy teams where 3 people on that team had less then 42% WR, in a tier 8 battle.

[@pedromeme5139]

Hi Dez. In my opinion its all about the matchmaking regarding the player base because everyone have the same weapons. The 15 to 1 battles happen more and more just because the teams are very unbalanced. Cheers m8.

[@MrMeeHigh1]

Same weapons but some snap gold from 700 meters with 11 skills crew, others miss cupola from 10 meters 2 times in a row. Including Skill in his Grille 15 video.

[@TheHateSpeechChannel]

As someone who is permanently chat banned. I had to delete xvm. Seeing my team of 44% WR team was too depressing. 99% of games I would be the best player out of the 30 players statistically . I'm not even that good. I stopped playing it for years and recently came back. I have no doubt I am being put in dire teams for my "rule breaking" and sessions of 20 to 30% win ratio is so common now. Even dez states if you do nothing it's going to be 46% so something is obvious. My wn8 is only going 1 way and going that way fast. I'm usually in the last 3 players left on my team then get gang banged by the 14 autoloaders on the enemy team. The game is not fun. Not fun by a long long way. "just play better" = STFU UPDATE,..... JUST HAD 18 GAMES WITH 2 WINS, THAT ISN'T EVEN POSSIBLE!

[@RocketmanXO]

I've had several 8 to 10 in a row. Win 1 then start another streak. I just end up doing the daily doubles and log out. Or take a long break. Longest was 3 years.

[@kokoeteantigha389]

Lucky man.

[@johnmorrison2226]

Matchmaking breaks the game. When you get 3 good player in OP tanks in a platoon, the results are greatly skewed. Even as an average player, I teamed with 2 other guys and we took 3 obj268-4 and buldozed the enemy. Once 3 guys push, others follow. We won 70 percent for a while. The matchmaker does nothing to counter unbalanced platoons.

[@R4msz3sz]

I think they could reduce the wheelies to max. 1 per team, and also max. 2 arties per team. Maybe do something similar like in rankeds, like assault meds would be matched with other assault meds, super hevies with super hevies, so it would not be like 50b vs 279e. Like this other lights would have some chances, also other.

[@vannustube]

then the team with the good wheelie player auto-wins. wheelies need fixed/removed.

[@robstervienna4695]

Dez: describing the problems WG: "so what?"

[@shanevillis4079]

I lost 15 games every day for a month. It really made me think "what the fuck am I doing". I tried different teirs, different classes. it didn't matter, my teams just disintergrated in every battle.

[@Magnetic1884]

That’s what you get for using your bonuses. Straight set of losses until they expire. Every time.

[@shanevillis4079]

@@Magnetic1884 This was before bonuses was a thing. But your certainly right.

[@towelband]

Dez you completely forgot about reusable consumables. The fact that I used to have to take 2 repair kits in my t57 heavy, or my leo, and now I can take food without worrying about getting ammo racked or tracked in the first 2 min. This plus the more affordability of gold rounds to good players/more tanks without true weak spots, has allowed good players to be ultra-aggressive and bully less skilled players or tanks without having to worry. We have seen the meta change from mobile mediums, to the weird modern well-armoured heavy tanks with 330 gold pen.

[@defiant7630]

7 years ago, I lost 24 battles in a row.

[@geoffreyM2TW]

That is probably a world record.

[@thorbenjager1563]

@@geoffreyM2TW oh no today i brocke it 45 games that 1 won than 1 draw and now i am at 54 loss 1 win 1 draw ...

[@geoffreyM2TW]

@@thorbenjager1563 - stay inside today and keep safe, don't operate the stove

[@redspark2009]

My record is 18 losses.

[@FedZN]

So here is my opinion: There is more new players than veteran players so what can i say is that they dont have enough experiences how to play in certain situations or dont know how much information they will get by looking at the mini map. Secondly there is more and more new tanks with big alpha damage or autoloaders. It is not fun to get 2 shoted and you are dead in tier 8 or get from arty 1400 hp damge and you are dead in tier 9 so basically WG has to hp buff all tanks except arty. This would reduce severe punishment you will get. And the last thing if WG wants to have wheeled vehicles then make separated QUE for those tanks(what i mean is that wheeled vehicles vs wheeled vehicles their own battles) because at the moment they are destroying the game. You can use them in skirmish and clan battles. So yeah what to you guys think about my opinion ??

[@Alexander_S18]

!! 5x EP events !! In addition, it is easier than ever to get a T10 tank, with a new account you get a T8 after almost 1 hour and then it is not far to T10 - a battle / performance lock would be cool to unlock certain levels (e.g. min 1500 Games / 6000 WTR to unlock T8 +) I think it's mainly due to unbalanced teams, unbalanced maps, and an unhealthy meta - simply the whole game: D E.g. 3x armored vehicles + 3x Arty + 3-6 TDs = camping + no HP -> map decides) Proposals: 1. Simply max. 1 Arty + 1-2 Light Tanks 2. More balanced teams (tanks & skill) 3. Redesign and balance maps and tanks (4.) +/- 1 MM

[@garyengelman7867]

I started useing XVM out of curiosity and realized a few interesting things. One was the win8 scores of players. It was amazing at times how unbalanced the battle was due to this. Many player gripe about the the s*** team’s, not knowing that the battle was one sided from the start. How do you fix this in a way the is far to everyone? This game is long in the tooth, top heavy with high ranked players. It eats its own children and there is no end game. It would be interesting to know what the player base numbers were over the last few years, I would guess that they were declining.

[@dylanhughes5944]

It's definitely declining lol

[@chrisvig123]

The worst part about the game now....how is it I can have %90 win rate one day and a %30 win rate the next ...WG has gone too far with skill based MM and rigged games. The last mission marathon I did the win rate went from 60’s down to sub %20 as I approached the end of the marathon...I have never done another mission marathon since then over 2 years ago...it was blatant game rigging on WG’s part. I find that more and more the games are complete blow outs...🖕WG

[@jimik7354]

I noticed my win rate dropping every marathon as well. To the point i was not playing also. Its crazy AF.

[@hinefamily7565]

Surprisingly WG can ensure lower tier games are balanced to ensure new players do not get disadvantaged. So why not all the tiers, I have lost count the amount of times games have been complete walk overs....its no fun, win or lose. I wonder how many unicon players would start having trouble as their high ranked platoons would not be guaranteed to win. Limit 2 arty per game and only one ebr a side and only if the other side has one as well.

[@Jugalow68]

Try playing on the NA server, 12 losses in a row is normal with most players having a 45% and lower win rate.

[@ed8212]

that doesn't make sense lol, the average win ratio of players has to be around 50% or are there just that many unicums?

[@dylanhughes5944]

I have a 55.8% win rate that tanked to 55.5% after 21 losses in a row all teams died in 2-3 minutes 13:2 with me doing all the kills and doing top damage everytime at tier 9. To stop it I had to deploy my 62% win rate udes 15/16 tier 10. Not even mm can stop that tank. Initially had an 82% win rate with it

[@raduilnitchi6983]

My friend, I love your work and I'm constantly watching the videos you release. About the question: "reason why" the games are shorter and unbalanced? First: a battle can be short only if unbalanced. A balanced game is not short. Never. Second: what is Wargaming purpose: making money. Are they doing more money with short games, or with long, balanced games? Obviously with short, because we are spending consumables, directives, etc every battle. And this way we are spending more. So, they are actually doing their best to have shorter games. Every new element introduced lately in the game leads to this. Even the reward crew members with 3-4 in-built skills. How could a new player, grinding a tech-tree with a 75% noob crew, to play against a 5-6 skills enemy crew? Unfortunately, I think the game will become more and more unbalanced, with every update. Because of the money... Love you Dez, keep it up. 👍

[@njc964]

I always thought AFK players got about 44% win rate, but I am seeing SO MANY 42 and 43% players these days that it can’t any longer be true. My record streak: 14 losses

[@jo-ov9vc]

Definitely rigged MM. I've had far too many games with completely unbalanced teams in the last few months. Yesterday as example my teams tier 10 heavy was 72000 games 42% wins...other team has a 60% heavy player...and many more like this. 2 days ago I got chat ban for saying rude things about WG tossers

[@Pyrolysis2142]

That's why I use XVM. I know I need to play passive when I get a team loaded with 12 players under 2k games +

[@Elsin132]

I've seen a few players personally with 39% winrate.. it makes me question things..

[@Pyrolysis2142]

@@Elsin132 you've gotta try pretty hard to get below 40%. Most sub 40% players I've seen push teammates out from behind cover or get spotted then hide behind unspotted teammates.

[@gluemola]

Same here, been seeing a lot more sub 44% players lately. Players with thousands of battles.

[@emikoakamatsu5171]

I think this started since EBRs were introduced into the game. Those one sided games have been very common since then. Btw matchmaking is the reason I am playing only ocassionally now. Once I lost 18 battles in the row and I was always top 1-3 by dmg/exp. But my team had ALWAYS more 0 dmg potatoes that the enemy team. This tells me matchmaking is rigged. The longer I play the better results I get, but my teams tend to be worse and worse. Nice vid DEz!

[@TiberiumWars]

Had a losing streak of 18 once was Fun times. 80% 3 -15

[@shanesmith3380]

Yea it's definitely an issue I've run into alot especially in my tds not sure if there is any connection there or just pure coincidence

[@dark_bat6903]

Oh welcome to my everyday experience (not even kidding)

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Dez . All of the above !

[@realkekec4028]

Mine record was 34 defeats in a row,that time i stoped playing for a year bc of that.I hope WG has some statistic of that :)

[@hrvatskibricks7745]

If you had a 50% chance to win all of the games you have a 0.000458% of that happening. Buy a lottery ticket.

[@realkekec4028]

@@hrvatskibricks7745 Dobra :)

[@zGJungle]

Weekend teams do exist, my stats proove it, every weekend my WN8 and WR drops or stalls a bit then for the rest of the week it climbs a bit more, it's always going up overall but on weekends it stalls a bit. Christmas gives me my biggest losing streaks, days upon days of sub 50% win games.

[@midnightbonbon5591]

Only factor you are missing Dez and thats Mod abuse that WG aint controlling at all.

[@jostiewagner]

My main theory about this -Blueprints: I come across more and more players in tiers 8 to 10 with like 1k, 2k games. Ppl get literally saturated with them, through missions, battlepass, the yearly “Well deserved reward”, and Holiday Ops. During those missions, campaigns and specials, players get loaded with credits as well. Nowadays it is so much easier for a new player to go through a whole techtree line, that the higher tiers experience a huge influx of inexperienced players with the tanks in those tiers. Because of the lack of experience, they tend to have a much lesser impact in a game, by for instance, camping in the back with their mediums and heavies. In that case, a flank on a certain map gets overrun, and then the more experienced players on, for instance, the other flank, will have a much more difficult time trying to fall back and counter the push, or have a huge impact on the game. It kinda fills the marketing strategy of WG atm; to try and get a huge new influx of new players into the game. To make it more appealing and have them keep playing the game, they make progression through tiers a lot easier and rewarding. To the cost of the matches that we, the veteran players and the old gang, are used to and would like to have.

[@TheW89]

My record is 18 losses, with around 3k wn8. Had fun /s

[@Jhow2013]

Lol even you guys suffering several defeats, i was thinking that matchmakong system was broken, 1 won, several straight losses day after day... Thanks for the video Dez

[@BimanGhosh]

Welcome to reality. This is what majority of the players (No paying gamers) receive.

[@kings_nemesis5995]

I swear I have the worst rng possible atm like shots that should never miss miss or just get absorbed by tracks

[@FIRElee]

I spent atleast 60$ on wot and I still lose matches even in the defender despite doing a little decent

[@BimanGhosh]

@@FIRElee This weekend when I was playing with defender I am always getting tier X matchups :(

[@aroncsaszar7152]

Why are you lying?

[@BimanGhosh]

@@aroncsaszar7152 Lying about what?

[@tangalooma7257]

Hey Dez, I think you hit the mark - multiple factors. For me, two key ones (certainly in high tiers 8+); statistically, ration of games with 15-1/1-15 simulator where 3 arty are in the battle and or wheelies. Either peeps camp as no point getting focused by three arty or peeps play aggressive to reduce the probability of being arty focused. Too many clickers.

[@vilmosdavid5128]

Same problem 😂😂

[@slst3phan]

I would be curious to see if they implemented class distinctions (sort of like the roles in Ranked Battles) and then have those mirrored, so one team doesn't get a AMX 50B as their tier 10 heavy, while the other team gets 60TP. And I wonder if EBRs had mirrored match making if that would make a difference as well.

[@dand7763]

TIP if you loose 5-6 BATTLES IN A ROW , get out !!! try later ...make a pause , because WOT algorithm put you in a loosing side for that day

[@Lupi33z]

true, I put my limit at 4 now. If I lose 4 in a row I either change tank, tier or server.

[@gl7492]

@@Lupi33z Man...these days if I lose 4 in row I can change a difrend dimension and drive a space ship and I will lose 10 more..nothing works! 😀

[@NoName-di7uy]

You know what is more rare than the Raider medal? It is a tier 8 battle without premium tanks.

[@epsilonadept7301]

And somehow I still play for some reason, thinking it will get better allowing me to get better.

[@robert85_790cs]

Maybe it will get better if wg will add new maps

[@epsilonadept7301]

@@robert85_790cs A week later and I quit WoT for life. I really see no point in going further.

[@AlexMcNulty0]

In a play session of 20-25 battles, I'll have maybe 3 or 4 quick wins or losses. Less often recently because I've been playing the T95 and as long as the enemy doesn't cap when I'm across the map its easy enough to carry

[@akostoth2267]

Hide the pain harold

[@DezGamez]

The Legend.

[@akostoth2267]

@@DezGamez he is actually hungarian and i am proud of him being a hungarian meme guy :D

[@youssef-lz8fj]

Hell:O! Beautiful people! I like your channel De-Z it is entertaining and diverse buddy! Funny intro! Most of the thing that you mentioned are the same for both teams so it doesn't empower one team against the other. Two things are the most relevant: First the bad matchmaking that relies on tanks' class/type and not players' elo rating you get one team with better players while the other is full with bad players and some of the good one that needs to be trolled (maybe made on purpose to frustrate players and make them play more). Secondly the maps are becoming with tunnels and with lots of cover which deprive anyone that wishes to support a weak flank from a distance which results the isolation of the small force and getting annihilated by a rolling stronger detachment. nowadays you barely get the time to shoot once on anyone that is switching from cover to cover.

[@user-sx6rm9uu7q]

Q n A video Dez pls

[@Fecos1977]

The reason for fast games: the more games you play, the more consumables you will buy, the more credit you spend, the more pressure on you to buy premium time.

[@Valnoten]

I had 21% winrate today :(

[@Doman9191]

I had 80% :)

[@naejin]

Glad Dez recognizes snowball effect of battle and that it's not always "rigged" battles. People who believe that battles are rigged for them to lose are ridiculous who get stuck in self-center bias, and doesn't make sense if you think about the logic outside of your own perspective. No tanker is that important that MM is trying to intentionally cause you to lose battles. Now your topic why you think snowball effect of battles being more prevalent could be an interesting discussion, and that the speed of the game going up does seem to have a high correlation to it. And you named many possible reasons why the speed of the game has gone up. If WG wants to reduce it, they need to recognize what's causing it. However, it might be a case of releasing a genie out of the bottle, where you can never put it back in.

[@jo-ov9vc]

It's not that games are rigged against an individual...it's rigged against one team or the other.

[@naejin]

@@jo-ov9vc sorry, but I can't help you. you still don't get it. you people are overly superstitious. The snowball effect is real. Everyone who understands that fire focusing to take out tanks (thus their gun) rather than spreading out dmg among all your enemies should understand this. Has anyone even come up with a good justification for the conspiracy theory that would motivate WG to want their MM to rig matches to be so lopsided that one team is basically predetermined to win? It's just nonsense that frustrated tankers need to find someone/something to blame.

[@reamlix5187]

i have this problem 9 in 10 times wheb i play the only reason i don't uninstall the game is because i put some money into it which i completely regret.

[@anthonyhoward4743]

dont regret it.its gone. you might have been out shopping and got run over! or bought something that killed you. Play tanks you enjoy and chill out of you are tilting

[@gregorcarpenter4631]

Autoloaders are a big problem. In one game today enemy team had 3 more autoloader (including Progetto & Bourrasque). Our team didn't have a chance.

[@bosnyakz]

@DezGamez , at 2:48 you say that AFK bots has the same WR as the average of players in Kannonenjagdpanzer? :-o

[@robinhood1488]

The first move WG need to do is get rid of WHEELED VEHICLES and ARTY MAGNETS on the tops of my and many other's tanks so that the game can become more REALISTIC and therefore enjoyable - as it used to be.

[@salzero1]

Good idea to bring up this topic. For me, the most is 6 loses in a row since playing back in 2011. I had a crazy 19 wins in a row a few days ago before losing the 20th battle, winning the 21st then losing the 22nd. So I ended up with 20 wins and 2 losses for the night.

[@espana588]

Welcome to the club man! Almost every day same story to some of us! Such a beautifull gaming experience.. trash blitz games lossed or winned by 15 to 5 in under 5 minutes.. trash RNG.. When you bounce the grille with a 375 MM Apcr.. today 14 games.. 10 losses.. and the 4 wins was like lightning didnt manage to take more than a couple of shots.. oh boy oh boy ...... and something else off the topic, why to pay to demount the equiptment from my tanks when I hardly earned that equiptment after 10 or more batles, why to pay for something that I own!? why? why?.. I play only by a couple of years, but comparing the nowadays games with the days I started playing , its such a huge difference...

[@ChrisN39]

Dez thanks for mentioning this crucial issue of the game. Lately I am having also the same experience and I thought that I was doing something wrong but as it seems to be its not my fault at least not entirely. I believe the problem is the wheeled vehicles, the +2 matchmaking (it so rare that when i am playing with tier 8 tank to meet tier 6 and I am OK with this - there is no point in killing tier 6 tanks while driving tier 8 - I believe the same must be on tier 10 vs tier 8 but this is happening way to often), too many arties, too many gold ammo flying, completely wrong matchmaking in classing the players and many other stuff. I believe WG has to deal with this even with small steps because its very bad what is happening and it is driving many people away from the game or even in other similar games with tanks.....

[@kibo_nbgd]

Same case yesterday, 12 battles in a row lost, and with crazy results. It’s like I’m with bots at ease in my team.

[@lukamiler5824]

My friend and I had a losing streak of 10 battles yesterday that we barely managed to break with a double cap on a 2 vs 6 situation. After that battle, we lost another 4 battles in a row and quit for the day. The game is really crazy lately.

[@stewartmcnair4186]

its because Wargaming have no respect for their game or customers. We ask for better maps, they give us worse maps, (1.0 update looks nice but gameplay so much worse) every map changes makes the game worse (erlenberg,fjords, ruinberg window etc) We ask for the vehicles to be balanced, we get ever more OP and broken tanks (chieftan, ebr) we ask for arty to be removed so they buff it 5 ways, faster aim time, more accurate, faster reload, stun mechanic, bigger splash radius we ask for better MM we get 3/5/7 we ask for gold ammo to be removed, we get armour buffed just enough that gold ammo is now almost standard we ask for a more intelligent game, so Wg make every choicce based on the level of stupid, ebrs again a perfect example of how to make the game worse by adding the most stupidly bad clown car ever and I blame the content creators who just lie and lie and lie about WG and the game because its their living high point was 9.13 to 9.17, since then almost every change has made the game worse and if it was not for covid player numbers be on the floor?

[@jonagute1]

Many correct factors. The main factor is dpm vs hp. While dpm and burst damage increased, hp remained almost the same on hightier. Maybe a hp boost would help a bit, with adjustment to economy.

[@GreatTazGaming]

My longest losing streak is 32 battles over 3 sessions. Another reason for the quick losses in higher tiers is the amount of high tier premiums that are you buy even if you have never played one battle.

[@arafatpokaan8065]

Currently stuck at 49.6 win ratio. I notice that when I'm at 49.6 the game suddenly give me a shitty MM with a loosing streak. On those games, I rank top 4 meaning I played okay. Once my win rate ration decline to 49.5 (after a very very long loosing streak), the MM gets better till 49.6 win ratio. Thats basically my MM cycle in the game 49.6 win ratio = shittt MM and loosing streak 49.5 win ratio = descent MM

[@gytosas]

I am looking for 30-50 players with this issue (EU server only). I want to track their WR,WN8 and in-game spending for a few months to see if there is any correlation.

[@filippozen4186]

in my opinion the problem of one-sided games and snowball effect is related to tanks that are too fast and have too high dpm or clip potential. With the current status if someone makes a mistake he gets punished too hard and too quickly, and also there are so many thanks capable of relocate from one side of the map to the other.

[@IAmJadedJM]

What's worse is when you finally got back to the game after a few weeks of not playing it, then gave you a straight 10+ losing streak immediately even when you always topped the exp/total dmg.

[@erwinvullers]

I used to focus on Win of Lose... but now I mostly check if I still make credits after repairs and stuff, the other thing I try is make a difference / Contribute to the best game we can play... make the game so much better than staying foced on Win of Lose... and most important.. Try to have fun playing even if you losing.