Comments on: How Individual Missions Came to Be

By: Marian Rodu

Marian Rodu — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:37:15 +0000

Yeah well, I don’t feel the same concerning the clan modes and missions, I just don’t care as much as those are clear social modes from the start.
The platoon requirement for the personal missions is stupid because even if you are in a platoon you have to do your own mission and can have nothing to do with the other players than just be in a platoon. I find that useless.

By: Mr_Ekshin

Mr_Ekshin — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:25:24 +0000

I just got the WZ-111 tonight. I went to WotLabs and read some tips on its gameplay. I have equipped it, but have a crap 75% crew.

It’s a monster. I primarily play arty, then lights, then mediums. Not much into heavies any more. The 111 can push hard. It’s fun to play. I’ve been smashing through the HT mission set and having a blast.

The mission set reminds me of WoW. Whenever I was bored, I’d look up some grind for rep and get a cool mount. The missions are fine, and give me something to do.

There’s a lot about this game that still annoys me, and I think some things are still broken, but the missions are better than nothing.

AND THEY ARE VOLUNTARY!!!!!!!!

If you don’t like them, f*ck off and don’t play them. Pretend they are not here. What is wrong with you people complaining about things YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO! Please get psychological help.

By: Barbu Mateescu

Barbu Mateescu — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:36:44 +0000

About the 3) is… Not that I’m opposed to platooning, but since I’m not a clan material (WN8 a bit over 700, 51% win rate and my top tier is VII) and I don’t really wanna spam “who wants to platoon with me” in the general or in-battle chat..
I went thru 6 missions (and redid 3 of them for the aditional goal, just for fun), but I’m kinda put off by the ones later, where I’m required to be in a platoon. I get it, they try to „engage” players so they work together, get used to doing stuff cooperatively… But still, in about 7k battles I did less than 50 battles in platoons. They will turn me into a spammer, just so I get to find some platoon; not confortable for me, and sure as hell annoying for the ones spammed (exactly like the clan spams).
I told this to explain the POV of a casual player, and I’m far from being an “antisocial as hell” guy. Forced socialising… Nope, sorry. Still for the ones in clans (seeing as, for the 10-20 missions I would probably need to find from 20 to 100 platoons).

By: Corthag

Corthag — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:13:51 +0000

You must be quite the weirdo then.

After the WZ-111 grind I’m so burned out that the stupid IMs actually made me uninstall World of Tanks.

By: crisis7

crisis7 — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:14:17 +0000

It really does not matter to me, I think there are numerous fundamental issues with the game that drives people away. Giving them a bunch of tanks is not going to be truly effective when it is the core gameplay that frustrates players and drive them away.

WG has promised many things such as HAVOK Engine and multi-turret years ago, but have not yet fulfilled those and instead keep saying “its done when its done” or gets indefinitely put on hold.

I feel that they have become far too ambitious and began pursuing projects like WoWP(which was a complete flop) and WoWs(which will certainly not be as successful as WoT) instead of focusing on the core golden product they have made.

As a result the game has suffered greatly.

By: Daemonik

Daemonik — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:23:07 +0000

Ah, but didn’t I explain that they don’t care about you? You are nothing, a drop in a bucket of 12 million drops. If every person who refuses to platoon left, they wouldn’t even notice it.

Here is alternative: They don’t follow what all psychological studies show, and don’t force platoons at all. Now there is a good chance that a lot more of those people who were platooning will have less compulsion to stay. They lose way more people and what’s worse? People who refused platooning will still leave as their bond to the game is exactly the same.

So it’s a complete loss for WG and a game. So, like anything else in the world, suck it up or GTFO.

By: AppyRose

AppyRose — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:11:11 +0000

I feel the same as the last few posters, these missions have broken gameplay like nothing else has.
I tried hard yesterday, no longer shackled by my old Dinoputer, the new monster is 125fps with everything on max, I moved into a great opportunity with a new clan, my stats are going up well, even through the WZ111 mission (though the kill steals are horrible). I jumped in with both feet with the IMs yesterday, I had the day off, gave it my all.
Game play was crazy, I got rammed and killed by a T28 that craved across the field, and died right after he killed my PZ 1c. In chat he said, I’m sorry, I had to do it for the mission. I’m know for fighting to the end in arty, often helping to carry.
Yesterday the arty mission where you hit 3 do a thousand points damage and stay unseen, kept getting blown one way or another. I was frustrated to say the least. Finally early in a match I had the requirements done except not being seen. Then the game turned and it looked bad.
A AMX 50/120 started carrying, I started killing a bunch too, we got it down the 3 shot up tanks and us.
I could have gone TD, I had a full clip in my bat 150/58, we had this.
Problem was I needed to go TD, be seen, blow the mission again.
I hid, not like me at all. There was no where to go and not be seen. The 50/120 died, I let them cap. Last thing I saw was the 50/120 player, putting just a question mark up in chat. I am sorry to that 50/120, we had that. Yeah I got the mission, but at what cost. That’s not happening again. With the new clan, win8 and win rate are expected to come up.
That’s more important than tanks I really don’t want that bad, female crews, or the other gains.
I am done pursuing the IMs, I will leave them on incase I hit one without trying, but I’m not going to let them distract me or my game play anymore.
Appy

By: TC_LT

TC_LT — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:45:57 +0000

“This motivates players and gives them the opportunity to play all types of vehicles.”
What they meant to say is: This aggravates players and forces them to play vehicle classes they don’t enjoy. Well, it would if I gave a damn about their pathetic missions for clone tanks and ladyboy crews.

“IM’s will come in seasons. It would be stupid to stop after one set, as the UI WG developed is too good for that.”
HAHAHAHAHA! Holy crap, that’s rich. Yes, WG, your shitty IM interface is such a breakthrough in software development it would be a tragedy if you didn’t keep jamming it down your player’s throats. SerB should patent it! Surely the royalties will buy him many stronk rockets.

By: Nulami

Nulami — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:53:35 +0000

So forcing people to platoon, they are forcing people to play and enjoy the game longer.

Forcing me to platoon definitely does not force me to play this game and it most definitely does not get me to enjoy the game longer. If anything, it convinces me to play less. And by playing less, the enjoyment of the game decreases.

By: Daemonik

Daemonik — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:10:15 +0000

So the world has to adhere to your life?

I want you to get down on your knees and suck my dick, why can’t this happen? Fucking WG can’t make my desires happen? What a fucking useless company.