Post by nittany224 on Oct 18, 2022 21:18:38 GMT
So I decided, just for the hell of it, to hop on and play a few battles for the first time in over a year (I stopped playing in August of 2021). I had an itch to scratch. To set the scene (long story ahead):
I was in my Super Hellcat, tier 8 match on Vineyards. I got 2 kills and almost 3,700 damage but ended up getting shut down. Left on my team was a nearly full-health Mauerbrecher, a T-34-2G-FT, and an AT-15A vs. an Asterion (who only had around 600 health ... keep this in mind), stock T-150, and a M56 Scorpion.
Asterion isolates the T-34-2G and kills him as he was trying to flank. The Mauerbrecher takes forever to crest the hill and kill the T-150, but it eventually does happen, so it's now just 2 vs 2. The M56 flanks around and starts to put side shots into the Mauerbrecher and then hides behind a building, eventually he makes a run for it but grounds himself into a rock ... Mauerbrecher lines up a shot and MISSES from point-blank range, allowing the M56 to get away. Meanwhile the AT-15A is still making his way up the slope as the Asterion and Mauerbrecher keep trying to put shots into each other. My two "teammates" have the Asterion on the back foot but they refused to try and flank, instead resorting to fruitlessly pumping auto-aimed shots into the stupid shovel on the front - which obviously keep getting absorbed.
The AT-15A suddenly tracks the Asterion so I'm pretty much now screaming at my TV, "MAUERBRECHER GO AROUND HIS SIDE", but the Mauerbrecher instead BACKS UP and cowers around behind a building. Meanwhile the M56 shows up again but the AT-15A somehow miraculously shuts him down, catching the M56 by surprise. Unfortunately, the Asterion uses this distraction to shut down the Mauerbrecher and then turns his attention to the AT-15A who is STILL auto-aiming shots directly into the front of the shovel on the Asterion. Eventually it looks like the Asterion runs out of his regular rounds and resorts to shooting HE, but he still manages to pen a couple of HE shots into the AT-15A's cupola and secures the unbelievable, absolutely stupid victory.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting in front of my TV, my head in my hands, in total shock at what I just witnessed. The Asterion ended up with a Radley-Walters medal and almost 7,000 damage. The AT-15A and Mauerbrecher ended up doing less than 600 damage between the two of them (with the Mauerbrecher doing just 193!) ...
I looked up the Mauerbrecher player's stats, and sure enough: he has 15k games played ... with a 45% win rate ... and WN8 of around 430. I ended up reporting the Mauerbrecher player, shutting down my Xbox, and pouring myself a glass of whiskey.
It's horrific gameplay like this that leads to veteran players like myself quitting the game. This game already has a huge number of still-unresolved issues, but to add a horrifically inept playerbase as the icing on top just makes it almost unplayable now. It' just so demoralizing. How the fuck are you guys still managing to play this game without punching your TV and throwing you Console out the window? I mean this playerbase was already pretty poor but how it's gotten WORSE over every passing year just never ceases to amaze me. Simply unreal.
I was in my Super Hellcat, tier 8 match on Vineyards. I got 2 kills and almost 3,700 damage but ended up getting shut down. Left on my team was a nearly full-health Mauerbrecher, a T-34-2G-FT, and an AT-15A vs. an Asterion (who only had around 600 health ... keep this in mind), stock T-150, and a M56 Scorpion.
Asterion isolates the T-34-2G and kills him as he was trying to flank. The Mauerbrecher takes forever to crest the hill and kill the T-150, but it eventually does happen, so it's now just 2 vs 2. The M56 flanks around and starts to put side shots into the Mauerbrecher and then hides behind a building, eventually he makes a run for it but grounds himself into a rock ... Mauerbrecher lines up a shot and MISSES from point-blank range, allowing the M56 to get away. Meanwhile the AT-15A is still making his way up the slope as the Asterion and Mauerbrecher keep trying to put shots into each other. My two "teammates" have the Asterion on the back foot but they refused to try and flank, instead resorting to fruitlessly pumping auto-aimed shots into the stupid shovel on the front - which obviously keep getting absorbed.
The AT-15A suddenly tracks the Asterion so I'm pretty much now screaming at my TV, "MAUERBRECHER GO AROUND HIS SIDE", but the Mauerbrecher instead BACKS UP and cowers around behind a building. Meanwhile the M56 shows up again but the AT-15A somehow miraculously shuts him down, catching the M56 by surprise. Unfortunately, the Asterion uses this distraction to shut down the Mauerbrecher and then turns his attention to the AT-15A who is STILL auto-aiming shots directly into the front of the shovel on the Asterion. Eventually it looks like the Asterion runs out of his regular rounds and resorts to shooting HE, but he still manages to pen a couple of HE shots into the AT-15A's cupola and secures the unbelievable, absolutely stupid victory.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting in front of my TV, my head in my hands, in total shock at what I just witnessed. The Asterion ended up with a Radley-Walters medal and almost 7,000 damage. The AT-15A and Mauerbrecher ended up doing less than 600 damage between the two of them (with the Mauerbrecher doing just 193!) ...
I looked up the Mauerbrecher player's stats, and sure enough: he has 15k games played ... with a 45% win rate ... and WN8 of around 430. I ended up reporting the Mauerbrecher player, shutting down my Xbox, and pouring myself a glass of whiskey.
It's horrific gameplay like this that leads to veteran players like myself quitting the game. This game already has a huge number of still-unresolved issues, but to add a horrifically inept playerbase as the icing on top just makes it almost unplayable now. It' just so demoralizing. How the fuck are you guys still managing to play this game without punching your TV and throwing you Console out the window? I mean this playerbase was already pretty poor but how it's gotten WORSE over every passing year just never ceases to amaze me. Simply unreal.
