Why I am quiting WOT (World of Arty) ..various reasons

Gwalker999, on 20 June 2011 - 01:40 AM, said: First of all, I do like this game a lot.. and really liked it at lower tiers but me and a few friends have had enough..... ive played it since beta and have an IS7 Ob 704 and a Jadgtiger.... I have also played a friends account where he had T54,, T30 .. and a T-8 arty..
I will list a synopsis of the main reasons why I am leaving WOT since these topics have already been discussed in great detail.
1. Russian tank bias... they are just owners of the battlefield if power gamed correctly even if the other nations armor is power gamed.. they are just the "correct" nich for they way this game is designed and slightly OP modeled for 'this' specific game layout and procedure... they are FAST.. HEAVY armored .. and Great guns.. with small critical hit boxes compared to the way the other nations are coded (this in itself is fine and historical IF.. and a big IF the t-8 to t-10 guns where actually historical as well) .. but when you have badboy guns either bouncing or only taking slight damage off flank shots or rear shots.. or doing nothing or slight damage to front, its a recipe for unbalance game play.,,, which is why you see crazy amount of Russian tanks in clan battles. this is GREAT though if you love the Russian line lol
2. Arty is just plain retarded.... F-16 2000 pound LGB's all over the map.... shoots you right when the suicidal scout maps you -- BAM half health or dead.. then you sit out for the rest of the game... or you set up your TD in a nice spot and try and snipe somebody and actually do your job.. NOPE.. you fire once---> BAM arty.. kills you.. tracks you.. takes you to half health..or one shots you.,,,, or this is the best----> you are actually having a REALLY nice match lots of great fun going back and forth... both sides trying to maneuver and flank while trying to use their tanks to the full potential then arty BAM kills you... I want to play WW2 era tanks where you have to use tactics, maneuver, and cunning to win.. arty actually KILLS any decent amount of fast tactics that this game should be all about... the name "WOT" is actually an oxymoron. Arty messes up the whole game flow of small unit combat tactics (on a game design such as WOT). 90% of the people that I talk to and privately poll would jump for joy if arty was revamped or taken out AND, I know how to deal with arty and counter it with my armor as best I can... so you can spare me the "you just get owned you are a cry baby" type of flames... because I am not talking about just me here.. I am standing up for the community as a whole.
Now you will say "well arty is suppose to make you move and think and it is suppose to weed out all the "campers".. " I have never seen a game where arty is needed to make it more interesting and balanced. We have flag caps, scouts, and small enough maps to complete any game needed to complete for a win.... the few games that arty was "needed" there have been thousands where it has been an interference.
3. TD role and lack of game mechanics to suit TD's. The spotting of and camo of TD's (more so the larger ones like the JT) needs to be revamped.... How am I suppose to be a TD when after any shot basically I get the arty storm from hell making me move therefore forcing me to show myself to every enemy armor on the map? isnt that mechanic countering the whole role of being a TD? ..... there are too many counters to the upper tier TD's.. aka arty.. aka fast hard hitting Russian armor.. other TD's. They need to make TD's unable to be targeted by arty if they are going to keep arty or TD's in the game... the TD's are not a camp and kill piece of armor, you have to be careful and if you camp or try and get greedy it will be death for sure when the heavies or the 54's come and eat you like a pack of lions. The JT is slow.. weak sides... and if any medium aka T54 or heavy gets near it and close enough to where I have to use my slow rotation, I am dead.. so I have plenty of negative counters to counter me... thats why you throw being spotted by arty and gibbed everytime I fire into the mix, it just gets plain retarded.
4. the JT armor model needs to be looked at.... its VERY soft from the front... there is no reason not to play the Obj 704 at this point... the JT has a buggy and brittle front end that gets punched way way too hard at the moment... the front should pretty much block any but the most best guns and shots in the game if its going to be a slow moving, slow rotating machine as we move away from the 2000 # laser guided bombs rolling in all over our area... at least with the 704, you can run for your life before you get picked off when the F-16's roll over head with their laser designator pod watching you from 30,000 feet waiting to gib you (AKA arty).