Crashing M18 Hellcat bug – Beware

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Hello everyone,

for those, who didn’t notice this yet. Patch 9.0 came with a very nasty bug – when playing (specifically) M18 Hellcat, the game crashes in battle from time to time. The existence of this bug was confirmed by numerous WG staff posts, for example here. Developers are aware of this issue and according to Wargaming info, they are working on a hotfix (for this issue only, not for FPS drops).

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    • Nope, sorry, the Hellcat is not the only one having that issue (thou it might have an extra cherry on top of the sh!t cake).
      Played arty, TD (americans and german), light tanks, mediums… Crashes to desktop sometimes 1 out of 10 games, sometimes each game in a row for 4-5 games. I don’t even have the Hellcat… And while previously I had 35 to 50 fps (depending on map) with everything maxed out, now I barely manage to stay in the 25 to 30fps zone, after I turned almost every option to medium or low (except view range and terrain quality).
      I only played the first test (historical battles/ test… zero, before 1), and didn’t have any issue on that. Not even FPS drop.
      …
      So… The guyz responsible for this should be left alone with access only to pr0n sites, but wearing locked gloves made of broken glass.

  2. We all knew a Hellcat nerf was coming sooner or later. Though nobody expected it to look like this, I guess :P

    • same on Pz.IV H.. my game crashed twice on that tank, once while in a historical battle

      edit: that wasn’t supposed to come here. it’s not a reply!

  5. I encountered this bug (crashing to desktop and not able to return) in my SU-85 and just bought SU-85i.
    Didn’t encounter it in my Hellcat though. Maybe it has to do with camo mechanics or something like that. I crashed 3x and every time, I had a camonet and just drove into a bush. Don’t have a camonet on my hellcat.

      • Nah, I don’t think so. When it happened to us yesterday (2 Hellcats, 1 Cromwell in platoon) all of us where on the move, going full speed over the field on Siegfriedline after we cleared it. All of us ended up stuck in the dragon’s teeth.

  7. it happened to me yesterday. I wanted to try the hellcat (since it’s the only HD tank in my garage) and in the middle of a battle – crash to desktop. I managed to get back to the battle but it was very annoying.
    Hope they fix this asap.

  10. I’ve had it in the 59-16 and the PzV-IV, where the battle crashes and any attempt to rejoin before the battle ends just crashes the game again.

      • Yep. Had a few crashes in the M37 as well. But I’m not sure if it is random because we had a tier-9-session later and I did more than 20 battles in a row with the JT without any problems.

        • It’s random as in in which tank it crashes. The title of this post says Hellcat, but people have had all sorts of tanks crashing, so it definitely isn’t just the Hellcat
          Edit: lol I wrotr Jellcat

        • now got same crash with Bishop… cant even get back into battle.. I have to wait for battle to finish … just keep crashing when I’m trying to login back…

  11. game crashes while playing Hellcat? .. don’t play the Hellcat .. :D (working as intended)

  12. lmao … happened to us yesterday. 2 kitten and 1 crommy in ‘toon … my game crashed, 2 sec later the game from the other cat, and at the same moment the game from the comet. All of us tried to restart, but shortly after re-entering battle the game crashed again… and again… had to wait for the match to end before we could play again.

    But it seems to me, that it is even more likely to get a back-to-desktop ticket when playing artillery. Game crashed at least 5 or 6 times when I played arty – the same style: after the crash you have problems to come back into the game, because it immediately crashes again and again. Maybe after three or four tries it’s working again, but otherwise you have to wait until the match is over.

    Played a whole bunch of games JT later. Didn’t crash once. Tiger P and lots of others worked fine as well.

    Thought it was maybe because of the mods but found it strange it only happens unpredictable now and then and not always and just with certain tanks. So when they confirmed this bug – if you ask me, there’s a few vehicles more than just the Hellcat that are affected by that.

  14. seen more than one Hellcats going AFK in the middle of the battle today, so yeah, this seems to be an existing problem. i have used camo net on the new tier 4 Stug when i was trying that one out, played 3 battles, camo net worked just fine inside and outside of bushes. so it could be related to the camo net, as some of you say, but the problem only exists on a few tanks.

  20. Well WG out did Gaijin, WoT crashes much more than WT does.

    Looks like TESO is the game to play despite the boredom.

    • every new patch brings some shit..:( .. I understand SS’s raging because every patch you need to go thourgh tedious searching how make the game playable again..:(

  23. Why im not surprised. These NA shitheads still havent even managed to update the servers. Fucking tools.

    So far we have :

    - crashes
    - furmark garage, ready to melt the GPU
    - heavy fps loss
    - suddent microstutter

    • Apart from one crash, I’ve had none of these things. Your GPU must be made out of butter, FPS has been fixed and what microstutters?

  24. This bug is not exclusive to you driving a Hellcat, however I cannot rule out the crash is due to Hellcats in general…

  25. I do have a feeling that this is not a tank specific bug, but a general one.
    (i think it is related to mods… maybe not…)

    • I dont think it’s mod related – I installed the 9.0 patch and played a few games without any mods, not even XVM. And it still crashed on me.

  26. Also when playing with the FV304 the game crashes for no apparent reason, when trying to restart the game it kept crashing. I was able to get in the game only after the battle ended.

  28. I had a crash with Panther in a historical battle. I wasn’t able to get back into it – every time I tried to get in the game it just disappeared at some point of map loading (as in crashed without any error). I wasn’t doing anything, I was just driving. My game was initially a clean install of 8.11, now of course updated to 9.0 – without any mods.

  29. karelia. enetred south base from the “open” side and the game crashed not only for me but also my platoonmate when we both entered the area around the hill.

  30. My Bishop had a crash too the game droped me in arty mode 2 times on steppes map

  32. Even being a “Free 2 Play” game, not having the pressure of paying / buying costumers, there should be limits for the amount of errors. WG is long past the small company trying to conquer it’s space on gaming world, they should be ashamed of the poor performance and errors on the new release.

  33. Not restricted to Hellcat, had a hysterical battle where the entire opposing force crashed out( German ), would post a screenshot, but unfortunately i crashed out as well.

    Is this issue restricted to EU server or are RU having it as well ?

    Once crashed, you cannot log back onto server till that game instance completes, this stands for both Hysterical and Random battles.

  36. Wow another update that screws everyone over! I hope it doesn’t hurt their bottom line, hurry everyone buy more gold so they can afford to fix this. I give up moving on to a game that isn’t rigged and doesn’t crash all the time. Lots of luck playing this turd of a game!

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  42. For everyone reporting it in other tanks, check if someone else in the game is driving a hellcat; it seems the model is bugged and will cause crashes, so if there’s just a hellcat in the game it can happen.

    • any tank seems to crash, I just had a simultaneously crash with my platoonmate, exactly the same second
      might be hellcat in game didnt check cause well, I got ctd!!!

  43. It affects more tanks than the hellcat. I was running a panther/m10 in the historical battles and twice now its crashed and wouldnt let me back into the game until the match was over. What a crock of shit.

  45. My game crashed when I use all my tanks.. in the bigger tiers battles the game freezing in the most interesting at the battle and later I appears dead.. Previusly at the install the upgrade I play without any problems..

    Now i have that, my FPS changed from 18 at 50, the ping in 250 produce the wrost lag ever (that dont happen in 8.11, the lag only appears with a ping of 380, in 8.0 appears in 480)
    when Start the battle have a delay of 30 seconds and appears in the middle of the battle and the voice at start sounds really bad, when i use the scouts the game have bigger problems to proccesor the images (I have all mimimum) and my vehicle crashed and send me at the start menu, that needs almost 30 seconds to load because have problems to load graphics of garage and crew parameters (that never happen before).

    WG have my Congrats finnally, founded the way of destroy this game.