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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: There is usually something to make me quit playing a game after a
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On 30/06/2025 15:12, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 6/29/2025 11:42 PM, JAB wrote:
>> On 29/06/2025 09:49, Xocyll wrote:
>>> Ayep, and why the no talent newbs accuse everyone who kills them of
>>> being a wall-hacker.   Although mostly that's less about walking through
>>> walls as it is seeing through walls to locate your opponents.
>>
>> The World of Tanks forum had more than its fair share of players who'd 
>> scream cheat at the slightest thing. It didn't seem to matter how many 
>> times it was pointed out that the pretty much all the calculations 
>> were done server side. Was there a mod. that removed foliage, yes 
>> there was but all the spotting calculations were done by the server so 
>> it doesn't really help.
>>
>> The bigger one though was the game was rigged against them because 
>> they had such uber tenk skillz.
> 
> If they have such "uber tenk skillz" then why were they getting their 
> asses kicked?  :P
> 
The normal excuse was that their team (it's a 15 vs. 15 format no 
respawns) was deliberately made 'bad' compared to the enemy team. The 
fact that if global stats are rigged then how do you tell a bad player 
from a good one and the implication is that the other twenty nine 
players are just there to target one individual was lost on them.

Even when someone analysed thousand of replays looking at team 
composition showing that it was what you'd expect if skill wasn't taken 
into account didn't matter for 'reasons'.

Other excuses, the RNG was rigged against them, everyone else was using 
cheat mod's, it's impossible to lose ten games in a row and good players 
were only good as they spent money.