4:03 pm, October 17, 2014
First off I'd like to say that I'm not saying this would work, I'm asking if it could, and if not why? I'm also not saying that the current system is broken or bad, I just had this opinion on how it m [..]
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4:03 pm, October 6, 2014
With the advent of the matchmaker tier range changes, all the new tanks, and various map changes to encourage brawling, the Lowe is suffering as a result. Even with the most recent minor buf [..]
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5:03 am, September 18, 2014
that would prevent people without any cajones from buying heavy tanks
****RANT WARNING*****
That is the one thing that just roasts my turkey
Seeing a heavy hide, while his team g [..]
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5:03 am, September 10, 2014
After 10 battles or so in a row, in my tier 6 vs tier 8, I was wondering (to improve the fun for lower tiers) if MM could carry a counter per tank measuring its tier mix, so that a step threshold, the [..]
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2:01 am, August 27, 2014
This turned out to be longer than I intended, but please bear with me. If not, there's a TL;DR at the bottom. I keep seeing "drunk MM" comments both here on /r/worldoftanks a [..]
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2:01 am, August 27, 2014
Chaffee changes
Chaffee turret and guns get changed (amongst other changes)
If you have the Chaffee unlocked:
- if the 76mm T94 gun was unlocked, you will have 75mm M17 gun unlocked
- if you had the 2 [..]
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2:01 am, August 23, 2014
Below are my thoughts/ramblings on the long-term success of WoT eSports. 1) The largest problem right now is that the game played by "the pros" does not resemble the game played by t [..]
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2:01 am, August 23, 2014
I had a discussion with support this week, and one of the statements they made is "We've explained the matchmaker system in detail to you, and are happy to find that the majority of players are v [..]
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2:01 pm, August 15, 2014
I just don't understand why WG is so stubborn in its refusal to fix its hopelessly shoddy matchmaker. Yes you may be able to get games extremely quickly but when a significant proportion of th [..]
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2:01 am, August 14, 2014
Yesterday, I had the worst night every playing WOT. I probably played around 20 games and only won one game. The loss wasn't close. It was more like total domination. Novice vs Pros. 15-0, 15-1, 15-2. [..]
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2:01 pm, August 5, 2014
Don't get me wrong, I love World of Tanks. With that said I feel like some of the game mechanics and features need to be reworked.Keep in mind, I'm not a game developer so my personal opinion only mat [..]
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2:01 am, July 25, 2014
Seems last 3-4 days there are an inordinate number of sub 25% matches coming up. I understand IT once in awhile, but not this steady. what's up with that? Takes the fun out of playing for sure.
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2:01 am, July 18, 2014
i think we all can agree,Matchmaker is broke.
other than Large clans that own land and have had wargiming BUFF their accounts. when you can go in matches and half your team is dead in the first 3 min [..]
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2:01 pm, July 12, 2014
Some may take what I am going to say as a rambling rant, but don't be fooled by fools. This will be a wall of text, and if you honestly have care for the product you sell, you will want to read to the [..]
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2:01 am, June 24, 2014
I am coming back to World of Tanks after about a 2 year break and just got an IS-3. I am getting absolutely crushed with the starting load out using AP rounds, very rarely ever able to penetrate anyth [..]
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2:01 pm, June 23, 2014
Skill based MM in random battles is what some people think the game is missing and there are is a very vocal minority that basically postulates the following: Random matches should have some sort of s [..]
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2:01 am, June 18, 2014
submitted by PapaSmurf_7 [link] [114 comments]
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2:01 am, June 17, 2014
submitted by 0_0_0 [link] [5 comments]
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2:01 pm, June 16, 2014
So there I sit in my Fv4202, 1:26 on the que and I think "Maybe MM is trying to find me a Fair match. Nope. Turns out the patented Wargaming MatchMaker is working as intended.
http://imgur.com/l [..]
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2:01 pm, June 7, 2014
I understand that players come in all skill levels, and the matchmaker is random, so I am not griping about the ability of the players on one team vs the other. The issue I'm having tonight is player [..]
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2:01 pm, June 6, 2014
I'm having some problems finding any inspiration to play WoT and I'm just seeking what others do to keep going on the 'grind'.
I have to say that I struggle with finding reasons to play WoT solely [..]
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2:01 pm, May 21, 2014
submitted by FinFlack [link] [1 comment]
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2:01 pm, May 21, 2014
I had an amazing run the last three days and brought my win rate up to 50.31%. Tonight though, Matchmaker and RNG decided I needed to lose, and lose badly. EVERYTHING that I fired had its penetration [..]
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2:01 pm, May 20, 2014
In the german section of the official WOT-Forum is a very interesting topic ongoing. The question asked: Will you recommend the game to your friends? Not very surprising, 71% of the discussing people [..]
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2:01 am, May 11, 2014
So as the topic may indirectly suggest I have been on one, where my win rate has been low for each session.
I am not the best player but I feel like when I do Greater than my own hp by the end of the [..]
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2:01 pm, May 1, 2014
OK, i wrote and complained about the Match Maker and this is a response I got
Quote from WarGaming
Players often confuse battle tiers and their vehicle's tier. The two are unrelated. Vehicle tie [..]
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2:01 pm, April 28, 2014
Yes Folks a Conundrum. Something to think about ! Something to make you go Hmmmmmmmm!
We all know how MM just uses tank weight as its **only** parameter other then the fact MM will put you in matc [..]
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10:05 pm, April 27, 2014
Warning, this is the product of a lot of frustration so I am not going to be that diplomatic. If I step on your favorite tanks toes, I am not that sorry.
Where is this game going? Is it just me o [..]
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2:01 pm, April 24, 2014
NA is not Russia, we don't have the population to support the same MM system as Russia in historical battle mode. Our population is simply too small. What happens as should have been foreseen is that [..]
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10:05 am, April 17, 2014
CW is the definitionof hardcore. It requires real commitment from clan, and those on the map are always the top 50 clans. Instead of changing the current CW, just let it stay. Hardcore tankers can rem [..]
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9:05 pm, February 22, 2014
I'm beating a dead horse here, but I believe I speak for everyone when I say that the Matchmaker needs to be narrowed. For instance, when I'm in my IS and KV-13, I don't want to constantly bang my hea [..]
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9:05 pm, February 11, 2014
My team had 7 more tier 10s than theirs. We won the match 14-3
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9:05 pm, February 10, 2014
11. Thou shalt not drive pretend tanks and **** other pretend tanks on the sabbath
3 Sundays in a row (my only full day off) the Match Maker has been a real B**** . Every other day of the week, i [..]
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9:05 am, February 6, 2014
With the amount of idiots increasing in WoT these days, it is impossible for matchmaker not to eff you up until you suffer hard from the clowns playing with you!
Share your daily losing streak here [..]
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9:05 am, February 5, 2014
I'm interested in discussing this. The If not for tomatoes, there would be no WoT thread has generated tons of discussion, and there has been one particular debate over one core assertion of t [..]
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9:05 am, January 28, 2014
I've been getting very lopsided matches in the last week. I don't generally take much stock in the XVM chance to win, but I was seeing percentages in the mid teens and low 20s. Although I was generall [..]
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9:05 pm, January 24, 2014
So rather than completely exclude two entire tech trees for being "incomplete," why not do the following instead:
Have the matchmaker include Chinese with Russian tanks since most of them [..]
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9:05 pm, January 10, 2014
Disclaimer: I'm just going to pull numbers out of my *** here. This is a concept, I'm not going to figure out hard values. I do not want criticism of how much each modifier is, but criticism of the ov [..]
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9:05 pm, January 7, 2014
Since 2011, I have had a relationship with World of Tanks. Like few other games in my long gaming career (which dates back to the 1980s), I have poured my heart, energy and even money into this one. I [..]
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9:05 am, December 22, 2013
Just upgraded to tier 6 and this thing sucks! Practically every round bounces or fails to penetrate! Is it a weird fluke if the matchmaker that's only matching me w higher tier tanks or what? [..]
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9:05 am, December 21, 2013
submitted by Volatar [link] [15 comments]
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9:05 pm, December 16, 2013
I just finished watching "New Video - Explaining Mechanics: Matchmaker" in which it describes how the system matches teams for combat.
My first thought was "WTF?!?"
So, Warga [..]
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9:05 am, December 15, 2013
"On the first day of tankmas,
my wot matchmaker sent to me
Some gold rounds for my waffentragger TD.
On the second day of tankmas,
my wot matchmaker sent to me
Two turtled teams,
And some gol [..]
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9:05 am, December 13, 2013
So this weekend special is pretty typical. 3x experience for the first victory.
Let's face it: that's pretty darn boring. I understand that normal weekends are less spectacular than major holidays, bu [..]
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9:05 am, December 11, 2013
So WG released a video on how match maker makes matches ( http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/17/explaining-mechanics-matchmaker/ ). Since there are a lot of people complaining about ma [..]
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9:05 pm, December 9, 2013
submitted by sorXul [link] [19 comments]
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9:05 pm, December 9, 2013
Stats. Oh god. Stats.
Virtually nothing else has the potential to cause extra long threads, bruised egos, whining, and intellectual dishonesty. I vowed to stay away from the topic, but rules are made [..]
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9:05 am, December 5, 2013
Yeah I know MM is the whiner's whipping boy. Right? Well here is a great example of why: 10 tier 10 (mostly TDs), 2 tier 8 tanks, 2 tier 7 arty, and 1 tier 6 scout vs 3 tier 10 (one an arty), 7 tier 9 [..]
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9:05 pm, November 15, 2013
World of warplanes has a feature I would love to see in world of tanks. When you run a t2 plane, you will never see a t4+ plane, only t1-t3. When you run a t3 pla [..]
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9:05 am, November 13, 2013
Not sure if there is a thread like this yet. But Lets make this one stick.
OFFICIAL WGA-f (We Give All F**ks) - Union against Incessant Failing at Game Making THREAD
POST SCREENSHOTS OF FAIL-MATCHMA [..]
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9:05 am, October 27, 2013
Okay, so I get the concept. You need 'scout' tanks as fodder for the heavy tanks. Here's the deal, though: it doesn't work. The only thing this does is **** off tier V tankers who get in the way of th [..]
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10:05 pm, October 24, 2013
I hear a lot a players complain about losing to many games in a row & lowering their win rates & maybe even their efficiency rating as well.
It certainly is a painful situation but I have a so [..]
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10:05 pm, September 29, 2013
There are many stints of games where I am constantly going below 50%. I am unsure as to why there are so many games in a row that end up in "according to XVM" for sure losses.
If the game i [..]
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10:05 am, September 28, 2013
I've been troubled by the ranking up of lights in the matchmaker for a while. It just seemed to me that if a tank has low armor, low firepower, and low HP, that matchmaking it against very, very much [..]
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10:05 pm, September 24, 2013
Was listening to music here at work and i heard a lyric that made me think a bit of WoT as it is now:
(if you know what song this is from kudos to you)
This is the house - come on in.
This is the h [..]
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10:05 am, September 24, 2013
And here I thought wargaming would actually fix matchmaker, what a fool I was.
It has been less common but still, its annoying.
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6:46 am, September 18, 2013
Just decided to uninstall this game. Been playing since June, and I think I have gone as far as I care to go with it after ******** around with the free premium trial my friend gave me, so much so tha [..]
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10:05 pm, September 17, 2013
Tier 7 + 8 vs tier 6s... ? Explain.
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10:05 pm, September 13, 2013
So I'm sure this has come up a lot, matchmaker is unfair etc, etc. Let me start out by saying, I get it, its random numbers and your randomly kicked into battles, but the tier sprea [..]
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10:05 am, September 9, 2013
It occurred time when i was reading a post here that even though everyone agrees that matchmaker isn't the best, people just accept it with all it's flaws. This had me thinking, if I c [..]
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10:05 am, September 6, 2013
Hi all,
I am a veteran of the Air Force, (yeah, I know, why am I not playing World of Warplanes? lol)
I am 46 yrs old and have been enjoying this game for a while now, but have kinda hit a rut, I wan [..]
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10:05 am, August 24, 2013
I've been playing my Matilda Black Prince a lot lately. I'm closing in fast on 400 games played and I've really been enjoying myself. For such an awful tank, it's been a real treat to play, particular [..]
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10:05 am, August 9, 2013
So, i happened to stumble upon some of these... half games, and other messed up junk. I sent wargaming a complaint about 3 weeks ago, just got a response not too long ago (they took forever to tell me [..]
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10:05 pm, August 5, 2013
submitted by smashedfinger [link] [1 comment]
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10:05 pm, July 27, 2013
I have been experiencing freezes while loading matches and its getting annoying. I wanted to know if this is happening to others or if someone knows how to fix this. The loading bar will fill but it w [..]
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10:05 pm, July 21, 2013
submitted by GaugeFOREVER [link] [74 comments]
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10:05 pm, July 14, 2013
So half of both teams were scouts...but there was no artillery!
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10:05 am, July 12, 2013
Ever since 8.6 the matchmaker has been creating stupidly lopsided matches. Please see exhibits A, B, and C:
Exhibit A: My team has 4 Tier Xs, but enemy team has 7? Awesome!
Spoiler
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10:05 pm, July 10, 2013
Matchmaker WoT Wiki Matchmaker Chart Imgur Rehost One of the biggest factors in any match, it is vital to understand the matchmaker and how it places you in a match. Penetration Mechanics Youtube Drop [..]
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10:05 am, June 24, 2013
This isn't a rant about being put at the bottom tier all the time. This is more about the issue of matchmaking stacking the odds in favor of one team way over the other. Just went into a match with my [..]
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10:05 pm, June 19, 2013
submitted by Pechpilz [link] [2 comments]
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10:05 pm, June 18, 2013
This is a rant and it's fueled by rage of almost always finishing top on xp earned and damage done yet being unable to progress higher than 65% wins. But it's by no mean an attack on p [..]
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10:05 pm, June 16, 2013
http://wot-ro.blogspot.com/2013/05/wots-matchmaker-is-rigged-proof.html
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10:05 am, May 17, 2013
I've been playing my WZ-132 for several games now and noticed if the MM decides that if my team is the only side with lights, I'm usually in trouble. Since the enemy side will end u [..]
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10:05 am, May 17, 2013
Have you guys seen this link to the patents recently published, and owned by WG? What do you think?
http://wot-ro.blogspot.de/2013/05/wots-matchmaker-is-rigged-proof.html
--Sorry if this has been p [..]
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