39 thoughts on “Soccer Mode in Numbers”

1. I played one game and it was a 0-0 draw lol

2. T-50-2 turret recycled as 0.5 tons of hatched ball.

3. It’s called football though

   • Football for us europeans, soccer for USA

     • Football for everyone, but ‘muricans too arrogant as always :D

       • Quite a few other countries call it soccer or similar too. Arrogant Europeans :P

         • We asian also called it “football”

         • Proof?

           • More than enough proof available to make you cringe. On the side of football many games like Rugby League, Australian Rules and American NFL are also called football.

             The football you refer to is called soccer to differentiate if from the real football games which are the main game in the country. In the case of Australia, Soccer is the fourth ranked thalidomide albino cousin of Rugby League, Australian Rules Football, Rugby (Union). It ranks just above Basket Ball. Hockey (field) and Netball rate higher though they aren’t football games.

           • The word “soccer” originated in the United Kingdom.

     • We call it soccer first, because we already have a major sport called football and second, because it was originally referred to by the English as soccer and that carried over to the US.

       • The brits call it soccer and you don’t find this reason enough to not use that name?

   • Should be called Tankball

     • Playing football with hands. Silly muricans. Yep, it’s football, shove the soccer where the sun doesn’t shine.

4. Only 500kg? Its way too low IMHO based on the characteristics and movement of the ball.

5. Did 3 games…

   in all three games had been 1-2 afks.

   well.. say not to bot /afk free xp mode..

   • They fixed it later on by giving 0XP to those, which stopped the grind.

6. Correction: 500kg ball was at first test of the soccer mode.

7. Was quite fun for me except with the majority of your teammates actively playing for the enemy team. Repair skill+toolbox+reserve shots for the ball+learn how to shoot ball to make it go where you want+ignore trackshooting and trackshooting failtards = steamroll your way to free GLD. Also farmed ton of free xp and plopped the commander into KV-13. WG did good with this.

   • kv-13? thats one wasted commander :p

     • Nah. Liked & did well in VK3002DB prebuff long time ago, and KV-13 plays very similar, and the armor is kinda more bouncy, so far I like it :)

8. > – average duration of one battle was 6 minutes

   Wait, wut? Wasn’t the match time limited to five minutes or something like that?

   • Seven minutes, actually.

   • Im almost completely certain that the battles were only 5 minutes

     • nope, 10 min iirc

     • The intro text said:
       “Match time 5 minutes”

       However, when the games started, the timer began at 7 mins :-P
       Usual WG laziness I guess, decided to increase the game time, but too much of a bother to change the intro text.

9. fastest round: Once there was 3 enemies from the same clan, all of them were afk’s.
   slowest round: I scored a goal 20 seconds after the start, then I guarded the ball at the edge of tme map over the rest of the time. ALmost everyone quit :)
   The best match: When I was alone, 1 player was afk, the other was a bot, staring at the wall, and I’ve won against 3 human players.
   The best match that Isaw on video: when somehow 1 tank was pushed over the wall and he went to roam on the streets of Himmelsdorf.

   • “then I guarded the ball at the edge of tme map over the rest of the time” So lame and boring.

     • Yeah, that kind of game-play killed the mode for me. Happened way to often.

       Otherwise it was awesome.

10. Nothong to see with football mode, but..
    SS, do you know what are the changes on Karelia map? Don’t remember we spoke about it.. :/

11. And I hope they fix the “feature” of ball being blocked between the tank and wall(which made the game so damn boring).

12. Same success as HB mode … I think it worked because it was a leveled mode, same tank and more or less the same skill set. At above all, it was fun.

13. I loved the mode. The ball physics was fine and enabled billiard-type shots (i mean that it depended on where you hit the ball). Shooting the lower part produced nice lobs (i even hit the upper bar of the goal) while shooting sides could change the ball trajectory significantly. Also mid-air volleys were spectacular especially when hit in considerable height and aiming for the goal. The only thing I would change was the position of the ball after scoring which enabled fast counter-goals especially after well-coordinated goals when the team made use of passes so all the team was in the offensive half of the pitch. I would say that T-62A was perfect for the task.

    The downside was that sometimes what I went to normal battles after several football matches I did not realize that normally the tank is not impenetrable… :)

    • The biggest problem with this mode was that when a team scored, the ball “restarted” in the middle again.
      Usually this meant that the team that just went under one goal, got a “free” equalizer.
      Really really unfair, you could dominate a match, working your way forward, pushing the other team and finally getting that hard-worked goal… and then the ball is dropped in the middle, the other team gets in two shots and the ball rolls into your goal… so frustrating.
      Of course you could have one man back trying to be a sweeper of sorts, but it was usually imperative to attack with all 3, not just 2.

      And the ball…really unpredictable, I swear it was not round :P
      Behaved like a beachball, sometimes it bounced really high into the air, totally bingo were it ended up. One time it landed in the oppositions goal :P

      All in all, a mode which left much to be desired, but judging from “the mode was done really quickly”, that makes sense.
      Still, I got my gun laying drive…

14. i would’ve liked the WZ-132 for this, but who can complain about the T-62A?

15. Average number of matches per person was 13? Then why make it again, obviously people played 13 then got board. Also thanks for telling us the free XP would be redeemable right near the end. I know at least 15 people who stopped playing because it was thought the XP had to be converted right away. How about Hockey? Then something else, put them in rotation.

    • By the way, this was to WG not you SS. =P

16. Soccer Mode was just waste of money! they spent some time making this crap for a few days or how ever long it was and than removed it. WG really knows how to waste your money

    i never played it to be honest, i thought it was a fucking pathetic joke

17. So much useless statistic.