Comments on: WG supporting AFK?

By: Philip Philippidis

Philip Philippidis — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:29:13 +0000

So everyone will try to killsteal to get 1 kill and then back away behind cover and wait for the match to end?

By: Philip Philippidis

Philip Philippidis — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:27:06 +0000

The worst mission is the one for 15 wins per day. This is the one that brings all the bots and afk’ers into the game.

By: Adam Meizner

Adam Meizner — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:48:10 +0000

I have an easy fix: implement the AND clause.

Kill 1 tank AND win the battle AND survive it. All of this 7 times. Problem solved.

By: Missingturret

Missingturret — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 14:21:17 +0000

…-and other TDs should never camp…

By: Missingturret

Missingturret — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 14:20:05 +0000

Lots of good points here; you’re all touching on the weak points of stats as an evaluative method – as soon as a small set (<7 or so) of statistics are emphasized as measures of success, it only takes a little thought to figure out how to behave in such a way as to maximize those stats (rather than achieve the intended mission). As such, negative behaviors will likely always be a part of the necessarily simply defined missions (i.e WG can't create a mission based on 10 different metrics, we'd all think it was stupid and impossible)…

This also begs the question – is there a way to perfectly define performance in WoT? What does high performance in WoT even mean? Especially considering the roles of each tank type, and roles of each tank within that type, are so different (I.e. a camping LT is probably useless but some TDs have to camp to be effective – and

By: HH

HH — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 08:59:09 +0000

Thanks for informing everyone of this, now I see 2-3 people AFK in the base every round. Really, thanks a bunch.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 08:03:10 +0000

Maybe instead of just “survival”, perhaps it can be added on to an existing objective, i.e. survive and WIN 5 battles in a row, which despite my decent win rate of 52-53%, my survival rating is NOT very high – which is, unfortunately, the price I pay for using Soviet TDs, since they rely on camouflage and your teammates holding the line so that you can shoot from the safety of the second line. That’s something that rarely happens in pub matches since for some reason they insist on having the TDs in front of everybody else, but sorry to disappoint you when I have to tell you that not every TD is a T95 or a JP E-100.

By: Latertimelord

Latertimelord — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 00:18:25 +0000

Now, you might think it was just a bunch of random retards, but when asked why didn’t they move, one of them answered “Gotta survive for the mission”.

And the player quaility gets thrown out from the window… Good job WG, as always. :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 20:46:13 +0000

sadly, arnold schwarzenegger sound mod was not updated for 8.7 :(

By: Sakuji

Sakuji — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 20:11:58 +0000

There are also many maps where you can ditch over a cliff edge, and basically be impossible to kill unless an enemy tank gets stuck over the cliff as well.