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Offline humble

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WOT = Waste of Time
« on: October 06, 2010, 10:58:48 PM »
For now at least.

Anyone who moans about how the crew at HTC handles the "C" word needs to go no further then WOT to see how badly it effects a game. Combine that with the balance issues and limited terrain and
I cant see this one surviving when it goes "live". If you let folks keep all their stuff you'll have a very hard time keeping new subscribers and you sure piss of the current following if you take the toys away.
The apparent volume of "C" related issues is staggering and hopefully they'll get a handle on it. Reminds of the Halo DoD mods at the moment....

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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2010, 11:05:15 PM »
Its free and I can have a few quick battles in my lunch break at work. I intend to spend a few bucks on it to get myself set up but that will be it. Now, if I had to pay $15.00 a month to play it I would be pissed off.
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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2010, 04:09:59 AM »
what is this C word? i am very confused...  :headscratch:

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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2010, 04:59:12 AM »
WOT = Wide Open Throttle.  :rock

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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2010, 05:59:36 AM »
Snaphook I agree that when it goes live it needs a full wipe. So all those guys in their IS4's and KV3's will start over again.

To me the biggest problem is in the match making side.

You put a tier 3 tank in with tier 5's, 6's, and 7's guess what happens to the poor 3? Yep he gets slaughtered.
Hit a KV3 13 times in SU-76, 2 did damage, the rest just bounced. Then he finally turns his turret, single shot, poof, I'm toast.

Also rather than banning people for team killing (see a lot of that at times)
They need to do Killshooter like HT figured out.
You shoot someone on your team, you take the damage.

Tanks start in a big pile, and if someone thinks you cut them off, they'll track ya for kicks.
You turn and shoot them back, are unlucky enough to kill them, and your smacked with a TK ban.

Last I think they should double the size of the maps. Then increase "Visual" only sight range.
So if your scoped in on an open field at a half a mile, you'll see a tank move across your view.
But if someone is stationary, hiding behind tree's, then you won't see them.

I think that would slow the gameplay down just enough to give people a chance to communicate, and work together more.


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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2010, 06:15:06 AM »
There will be hard wipe. IMO I think they'll give the current beta testers something small as a 'reward' for helping them out. Probably just like a prem tank or something...they suck anyway.
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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2010, 07:11:48 AM »
I take WOT for what it is, a nice small free tank game that allows you to sit down and get a few games in my spare time. Nothing more, if I'm not paying then I'm not complaining.
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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2010, 08:00:51 AM »
what is this C word? i am very confused...  :headscratch:

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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2010, 08:31:07 AM »
I take WOT for what it is, a nice small free tank game that allows you to sit down and get a few games in my spare time. Nothing more, if I'm not paying then I'm not complaining.

I'm not complaining at all, in fact I made the same comment along with a lot of ghosts stuff directly to the development team...thats what beta players are supposed to do. The play balance should change for the better
as they refine it. There are a tremendous number of small but cumulative playability issues however. Ghost hit a key one. Inferior tanks had to work hard for close range flanking shots. If they succeeded they had a very very high one shot kill %. This is reflected in the tremendous RL combat records of the US TD battalions. As an example 2 M-10's blunted an entire German attack near St Vith (battle of the bulge) knocking out 7 German tanks (Tigers & Panthers) and breaking up the entire assault. This can't happen in WOT because of the erroneous damage modeling.

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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2010, 08:52:32 AM »
More like a facebook game , point and click , point and click ....
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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2010, 10:23:13 AM »
LOL you guys are a riot. The game is great and is going to do just fine.

They have said over and over on release there will be a wipe.

Some of you must be really bad at it to cry this much over a fantastic little game thats still in beta.  :aok

Oh and what game isn't a waste of time?  :lol
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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2010, 10:32:01 AM »
My Tiger is a fun tank to use in there.   I guess I've nailed down the trajectory of the L/71 88mm.   

I wish they'd cut out the Maus, 4502, IS-4 and 7.   But I take the game at face value.

It's still fun.
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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2010, 10:39:02 AM »
Lighten up folks. It's a game. A free game. In the closed beta phase. Give it time. There's more coming. And if you don't like it, don't play.
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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2010, 10:50:27 AM »
Teleporting tanks is the only thing that pisses me off since auto aim is useless. "C" i have no idea how to tell if someone is, been killed a few times through buildings but don't know if its a map issue or the "C" word. Only been in one game that was really off balance we had 4 Tiger II's and some decent meds vs an IS-7 and some good arty and a mix of crap. It was a race to see which one of us could pull the trigger first to get the kills that round, seemed like every kill was one shot.

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Re: WOT = Waste of Time
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2010, 10:52:14 AM »
My Tiger is a fun tank to use in there.   I guess I've nailed down the trajectory of the L/71 88mm.   

I wish they'd cut out the Maus, 4502, IS-4 and 7.   But I take the game at face value.

It's still fun.

Maus and 4502 seem like a waste of time, I've stopped at the Tiger II. Can use the large canon to rape at long range or one of the smaller to rack up large chucks of cash and exp.