skorp G used cut down the best armor tier 10's like nothing (it was always WHO's FUCKING NEXT! ) 2 years later im bouncing off tier 6 lite tanks you know the one with 20mm of armor should go in and out of 6 to 8 of them lined up side by side BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO ! not even a crit and thats if this best gun in the game can even hit the barn im behind F -wargaming
@@zippome Planned obsolescence started 100 years ago with light bulbs. Manufacturers agreed to build household light bulbs with a programmed lifespan. Following that experience, other industrialists also began the same method.
100% Agree. This game has always been greedy. They have implemented algorithms to "incentivize" players to spend money on things that will degrade 100% in a month.
@theodorefreeman I got to love the purple accounts who argue the point qith you and then take a look at the tanks they play, mostly prem. Don't get me wrong there are good players but most who brag about their stats are Seal Clubbers and premiership all the way accounts
Yes, noticed this. The Scorpion G can now miss point blank shots, repeatedly throw fully aimed shots in the ground, and deflect a shell from a light tank with a 30mm plate hit at 90 degrees to the impact. When I first had this tank it was possible to get 5,000-6,000 hit point games and five or six kills, now 3,500 and three kills is the best I see. Invisibly nerfed.
With electronics you don't need to explicitly plan for obsolescence, just use cheap parts and you can be pretty sure that some cap or diode dies. "Sorry sir, we don't produce that circuit board anymore" Happened to my display monitor after 6 years, amplifier after 5 years, kitchen appliance after 2.5 years. Most I can fix myself when it comes to simple components, but that's not so for most people.
Capacitors are one of the components most likely to die. But it's easy to see when they do, and they're also one of the easiest components to replace. Just make sure you get one that has the same capacitance, and the same _or higher_ voltage rating.
I'll tell you what I heard from the car dealership few years ago: a reputable spare parts salesman was doing a training and he was asked about the durability of the spare parts. The answer was that they have no problem making a spare part that lasts even a million kilometers, but the OEM determines how long the spare part can last. In other words, the OEM gives a time when spare part has to break down and the owner has to go to the service. The reason is simple - OEM's earns more from the spare parts than from manufacturing and selling cars
The Scorpion player got the kind of RNG I was experiencing, the kind that makes you rage quit and causes a mental breakdown, let me guess Claus you lost your CC status because you were calling out how much BS is in this game and Wargaming wasn't happy
I bet his outing of the scam artists doing stat boosting finished the situation for them, I am fully convinced WG is participating in the boosting operations, if nothing else by just providing former players accounts for use by them.
It's true, when I made some anti Wargames comments All my tanks were nerved Xp was lowered 0% success in multiplayer, Every team I was on got annihilated >5 mins I finally quit and gave up. Multiplayer has become an almost impossible feat to accomplish.
@@harrisonwickham7426 the problem with the extended warranty they are built to last at least that long or a little longer and will break after the extended warranty runs out. That's why I stopped buying the extended warranty!
I can empathize. This is a pretty regular occurrence for me when I try to snipe from distance. To me it feels like when I log in, the game either has a win or lose setting applied, and that determines my RNG. I have gone so far as to exit the game, wait a minute and restart. Invariably, after many losses in a row with consistently horrible RNG, when I restart my win rate increases and my RNG is suddenly good.
I feel his pain. I don't play premium tanks because I refuse to buy them or play with premium rounds, I'm old school lol. But I'm seeing a lot of stupid RNG in the game lately & it almost feels like I've been put on a blacklist for refusing to pump money into the game. I was in my Charioteer & a BZ-176 shot me in the tip of my barrel, marking very clear, no impact on the tank & he more or less 1 shot killed me. Yet I shoot tanks guns & I deal no damage, just keep doing critical hits. I posted a picture of this in their discord & they told me I need to learn to play better & it just infuriated how low IQ people are.
Years ago I loved my Skorpion and played it a lot. When it became obvious WG was acting like a greedy, money hungry bunch of twats I stopped playing altogether. Not worth the time, energy and frustration.
Another bait and switch was the Excelsior. When I first got mine, I felt invincible. As long as you didn't expose your side to the enemy, you were good. Even the ass had great armor. I was cleaning up on the battlefield when I first got it. Now, every shot seems to pen me. It is a slow tank, with an ok gun, so the armor was the main selling point. The armor seems to be useless now, so I don't like playing it much anymore.
Wargaming might be doing the same thing with World of Warships. The premium BB West Virginia '44 was OP for the weeks of the Dockyard event, where you can grind and get it. I had massive games in it, the guns hit everything in sight and hard. Past week? Nope. The shells are spraying everywhere, I can't citadel a stationary broadside BB in 4-5 tries. The dispersion used to be tight, now it's wild. Perhaps it was just RNG. But the pattern is there, too. So idk, but I'll keep playing it and watching the dispersion.
Everything about this game is fixed. If you don’t think the mismatch maker manipulates the gameplay you probably spent 90 dollars on a tank from these crooks. The snap feature says it all, fully aim miss badly, point at a target blindly and hit wow shows you how the game works. I also remember when it first came out and had a free rental. Ten games and all of a sudden I had ten losses in a row. The completely random 10 game losing streak. Back then I knew the mm was manipulating gameplay. The winning and losing streaks are what has me convinced of manipulation by the mismatch maker.
Streaks are the norm with MM and not the exception that they should be. By design or by flaw it's common to see streaks with single digit probability multiple times in just a few days.
hey Claus, when it comes to machinery, the phrase your looking for is " time stamp" the point where engineered wear points fail, and cause new machines to be purchased
My Scorpion has degraded to about this point as well, used to be god like gun handling, now totally unpredictable on what it does. Careful center mass fully aimed recital does not reliably hit anymore.
When I still played WoT, the Skorpion G was sometimes hit with some kind of shadow nerf after some updates, with the shots going straight for a couple hundred meters and then, blatantly, visibly spiraling out two times out of three. This got me playing it like the old Hellcat used to be, providing close-in fire support, peeking and shooting at ranges below three hundred meters.
for a moment forget the shots that just missed, What About the SHOTS that Vanished!! i've Never seen so many Ghost Shells!!! WG is Absolutely Ridiculous!
I can attest to my Scorp doing the same thing. Hit a Nomad where I can pen literally everywhere and got 0 dmg. But most times, just miss and miss and miss.
This is surprising as I have noticed that on a game with low % win chance by XVM, My shells will tend to miss a LOT more. On wins, not so much. And I'm not totally carrying the games, I could have reversed a lot of losses if I got normal miss %. I play same so not me.
I was one of the first players to buy the tier 7 scorpion. I loved it and managed to 3 mark it. Then after a while something changed and now its just one of those tanks that feels off and I stopped playing. Just think we are being screwed over by special RNG to get us to buy other tanks
Well done really great work.ive been saying this for the last two years.ha but it sounds better you shouting it out to all players. I dont spend cash anymore I just roll out in the game and proper wind everyone up.and I have great results and great fun doing this.keep up the good work thank you.
Happens to me a lot nowadays. Sometimes you can hit the eye of a needle and other times you can't even hit the barn door. I am starting to believe that when you hit your positive RNG quota, the game starts shiting on you.
Was the term you were looking for " planned obsolescence"? MTTF, mean time to failure.... MTTF - Claus, you should set that as a lyric with a backing track from the song "YMCA".
All clan mates said, buy the scorpion give you lot of credit you must have it... it come to the store and I brought it. It sucks. I have similar game play what this player had. Fully aimed shots miss 75%. I was happy watching this video, made me feel better about myself as it is not me it is the tank :D. Thank you Claus!
Anyone who outright trashes this game and exposes the TRUTH is AWESOME! It warms my cold broken gaming heart to see!! I’m smiling because you all are validating what I’ve been saying for years!!
Years ago when I first started playing, my favorite tank was the M-12 Arty. (This was before the great arty nerf) I almost couldn't miss with it---many fantastic shots. All of a sudden I started missing most of my shots---it was a secret nerf. I wrote them and they would not own any kind of nerf. I was incredibly angry. I know how this guy feels.
I had games just like this. In many tanks. Not just the Scorpion G. Round after round hit the ground for no real reason outside the target circle sometimes even. It really sucks in a slow loading tank.
I have over 13k battles in Skorpion with 2 marks of excellence. I too have seen this degradation in my tank, the guys I play in platoons with are constantly hearing me say "they did something to my tank!". Oh and if I am shooting at russian tanks I have a model I follow: you need to shoot them 3 times before you get a pen! Not so often does this happen but I have noticed at times shooting AP, rounds flying like an APCR (velocity wise) and vice versa. There is definitely some funny business going on with these guys. Slow rounds, fast rounds (velocity manipulation of rounds), vanishing rounds (no accountability) it helps to see in replays and a lot of low rolls at inconvenient times or getting burned up like near the end of game and your team is losing big time.
Skorpion and Grille 15 have that stupid thing: If aim reticle has a few pixels of terrain, shell is going to hit that pixels. Missing a few perfect shots is a normal day Skorpion experience. However missing that much means bad luck day.
If you want to buy a product that lasts, whether it's fridges, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, look for the commercial grade products. Because businesses need products that will keep working reliably, that's what the commercial grade products are for. The consumer grade products are the ones that will break after 5-10 years or however long.
I am going to show this to a platoon mate. Scorpion is his go to tank and he has been lately experiencing the same gun handling issues. I am sure his crew skills are 5+.
I have the Skorpion and it is probably the most frustrating "tank" to play out of all of my tanks. I have had the dispersion down to .27 and used to hit the vast majority of my shots. Lately I only hit about 55% of my shots. I don't play it much anymore unless I need some credits, so the overall hit rate in the years I have had it is 72.54% (which shows how good it really was at one time). Besides that, bounces off of lights have become a regular occurrence.
The worst game I played me and another player were taking out the other team and the rest of our team huddled together as the back and had a picnic and didn't invite us.
Yes I feel rng and match making is horrible some days on this tank. I’ll have an average of 4000 combined dmg and get stuck on the losing team five games in a row. Then I get on the winning team I can’t hit a shot to save my life.
Part of the mechanic that WG slipped into the game, is 'shell drop' guns that used to be super accurate, now have greater 'shell drop' over distance (old game mechanics, your shell always flew in a straight line from where you fired to the impact point) and the shell drop I have recently been using with 'slower' shells to actually lob a shell over a hill and hit a tank on the other side of a hill (low hill roll sort of area) at LONG distance. There is another added mechanic where WG changed the aiming to 'calculate' at the aim point, and now the shell does fly rather differently like that one shot the Skorp took to the back (was it T30?) as it backed up on the hill roll to duck under the ridge line partially, the Skorp shell flew way UP and over. I see things like this in battles all the time now. The other mechanic that got slipped in was the shell damage value from range, you will find now, that if you are long range sniping, more often than not, you will low roll (like 4/5 shells) because of the 'distance' - this mechanic was improvised into the game for the STAR Shell rounds which do TONS more damage up close, but very poor damage at mid/long range, sadly the poor programming by WG didn't separate this in the programming, and it has carried to every other gun in game (with different damage deviations based on the min/max).
TL-7. I have a 30% win rate in it because I can't land a shot and I can't pen (shot a Kv-5 in the side and bounced 2/4 shells). It has a 40.31 second reload for 4 shells of 360 damage. It has literally no armor and my top speed with a turbo is 53. In a bush, I have worse camo than virtually all tier 8-10 heavy tanks driving in the open somehow.
He was aiming very low in most shots. The 12.8cm kanone gun was developed on a mix of the 12.8cm barrel and a russian 122mm howitzer gun carraige hence the firing arch dropping towards the end of the shot a lot of the time.
In fact lets make a list of tanks that used to be amazing, and fun, and now, are either nerfed to crap, or gone completely. I know a few: The excelsior, the KV 2, I think the T 18 at tier 2 (gone now), SU 100, AMX ELC, every arty, etc. It is just getting insane. Keep the list going guys. I am sure I missed many tanks.
The very first Premium to be nerf'd was the Type 59...even after Wargaming said that they didn't...until it was finally removed from the game back in 7.2 or 7.3. The writing has always been on the wall when it comes to Wargaming and nerfing tanks that people spent REAL money on when it was time to release the new premium hotness.
I have the Skorpion, not the G, with 900ish battles in it the hit rate is about %55, the dispersion is .26. Before you start I know how to aim it :) What I see is a lot of what he got, the rounds just go all over or ghost round thru them. The physics of a round accelerating and going up after it's fired is a WG secret.
I agree with you. There are a lot of tanks that don’t preform the way they use to. I’m not spending anymore money on this game either. I am at the point where WG owes a refund to its player base.
Planned or forced obselescense. They do it with many products, from razors to phones to appliances......I swear a market must exist for a retro manufacturer. Like your content, comments, and humor CK - much thanks!
There are some games where you don't aim properly and hit everything, and then some games you aim fully and miss everything, its the RNG in this game it sucks
But if you aim higher, the shell will go into orbit. You cannot win with the RNG against you regardless how accurate the tank is, with the equipment, consummables and so on. It's all a red herring
Aiming at the tracks is what he was doing trying to track them for extra assistance damage. But the shell shouldn't drop 85% of the time against slow targets.
I agree, was my thought too .... still I have the Scorpion G and somehow it feels kinda weird since hmmm .... a year? When the shell goes down and i think .... gosh think! you aimed to low and gravity pulls it down ..... try to be better. Then i try to aim better and consider gravity etc. ... then suddenly it goes up like hell and i think ... wow negative gravity. I am only a very average player, but with that tank it seems pretty weird sometimes. Still .... its a game :)
Claus, I agree with you on the accuracy issue. I don't have the time or the inclination to collect data and apply stat tests. But just looking at videos it appears that there's something wrong with the accuracy of certain guns. What we should see is shots clustering around the middle of the aim circle and feathering out from there to the edge, i.e. a normal distribution (Bell curve or Gaussian distribution *). Instead I see, as was the case in your video this morning, an inverted Bell curve. Shots were clustering at the edge and feathering toward the middle. There's nothing normal about that distribution. It has been brute force manipulated rather than having a straight RND/RNG factor applied. (And for the doubters - Yes, I understand that the sample is tiny. This is a gut check call that may well be wrong and/or biased.) I understand that WG is a business and they have to make a profit. I don't even care how big a profit they make. But bait and switch, even if they tell you in the EULA contract that they reserve that right (but bury it in the legalese so you don't notice it) is unfair play - and criminal if they hadn't disclosed it in the EULA. * (I know you already understand but I should add that this is an aim circle that uses radial coordinates to mark hits so I know I was a little loose with the term "Bell Curve". I wanted to use terms that everyone is reasonably familiar with even if they are actually inaccurate in the case of gun handling.) 🤠
I kind of have the same problem with my Su 130 PM like the Skorpion. Got to around 82% Gunmark, but then the shots went to places where I just don't aim. I ended up putting Imrpoved Aiming on it and it got better again. But Strangely my T 103, which is a bond shop Tank hit's so many bullseye shots, without any equipment to improve the Gun
I sold my SkorpG for the same reason, tired of ghost shots and bounces. To be fair he was consistently aiming for the tracks at long distance and even gold rounds at 1100 m/s you’ll get a slight dip and lack of accuracy. Btw, I never thought that td was very accurate. The Lowe has a far better canon for example. Also, he’s only shooting gold and RNG will force push his average down by triggering miss shots. He should switch to regular ammo and close distances to win regular and tame RNG. WG doesn’t want it to be obvious that winning is only about top equipment, 6 skills tankers and all gold rounds.
My scorp and SU both the same. I think its also party lag combined with slow shell velocity too though. Of course just because you buy a premium tank doesn't mean the barrel doesn't wear with age!. What you really need to do if you find the accuracy drops in your prem tanks is to sell it and buy a new one with a less worn barrel :) Actually, not even sure I should put this in print, WG may read it one day and it'll become a thing.
I have the BZ 176 on my main account don't remember how I got it, maybe a box at Christmas, anyway, I've not played many battles with it, I tend to have a go on it - fail to pen every shot - rage quit - and then don't play it for a long time.
This is totally, 100%, right. There is new tank RNG and old tank RNG, without a shadow of a doubt. The only thing that has helped my Skorp recently is field mods - the effect is way out of proportion to the change the figures suggest - but that is WG all over... (Built in obsolescence)
The distance he is at ,and the size of the reticle is expanded for that distance and the shells are all with in the circle. He is making an error that many do. When you have an elevated position and aiming down and aiming over the back track only , you have less to hit. At that distance always try and aim at the side and include the turret in your sites. He was also aiming to low consistently, rewind it and you will see. I have a 3 marked Skorp G and have had it to 100% moe and often in the top10 on na server in that tank. RNG treated him like everyone else and next game it will give him 2 pixel shots . When it comes to whining, many have the BOUNTY whining perk ! 😂
Happy 4th of July to all my American friends!
Dude, this game is redundant, just like it's built in obscolescence.
Thank you!
My mother has a GE water heater from the 50’s. It’s copper lined, last forever. I have replaced mine every 7 to9 years just after the warranty ends.
skorp G used cut down the best armor tier 10's like nothing (it was always WHO's FUCKING NEXT! ) 2 years later im bouncing off tier 6 lite tanks you know the one with 20mm of armor should go in and out of 6 to 8 of them lined up side by side BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO ! not even a crit and thats if this best gun in the game can even hit the barn im behind F -wargaming
Happy (late) Canada Day!
Scorpion G showed for sale in my garage last week. I clicked the link, saw the $90.00 price tag and said, "Fuck you WG!"
And I thought that Gaijing was money hungry (they are) for asking 70€ for a Leopard 2A4
The prices are more than twice of what one might find reasonable.
90$ wholy shiz yeah fkin nope to that!
said that 3 years before, and leave this game..
Yah but the standard versionen cost 37€
Planned obsolescence
Also built to fail.
That's why I still drive my 1980 Mercedes diesel LOL😅
This was considered an outrage back in the 50's. It's now considered standard operating procedure.
Its nonsense, Skorp seems about the same RNG it always has. I have played it a fair amount recently, generally pretty good games.
@@zippome Planned obsolescence started 100 years ago with light bulbs. Manufacturers agreed to build household light bulbs with a programmed lifespan. Following that experience, other industrialists also began the same method.
100% Agree. This game has always been greedy. They have implemented algorithms to "incentivize" players to spend money on things that will degrade 100% in a month.
Truth
@theodorefreeman I got to love the purple accounts who argue the point qith you and then take a look at the tanks they play, mostly prem. Don't get me wrong there are good players but most who brag about their stats are Seal Clubbers and premiership all the way accounts
Yes, noticed this. The Scorpion G can now miss point blank shots, repeatedly throw fully aimed shots in the ground, and deflect a shell from a light tank with a 30mm plate hit at 90 degrees to the impact. When I first had this tank it was possible to get 5,000-6,000 hit point games and five or six kills, now 3,500 and three kills is the best I see. Invisibly nerfed.
Same. Will NEVER pay for a danm thing again in WG
Free or earned only for me.
@@cb3391 exactly. I'm not paying foe the stress the game already causes me😅
With electronics you don't need to explicitly plan for obsolescence, just use cheap parts and you can be pretty sure that some cap or diode dies. "Sorry sir, we don't produce that circuit board anymore"
Happened to my display monitor after 6 years, amplifier after 5 years, kitchen appliance after 2.5 years. Most I can fix myself when it comes to simple components, but that's not so for most people.
Capacitors are one of the components most likely to die. But it's easy to see when they do, and they're also one of the easiest components to replace.
Just make sure you get one that has the same capacitance, and the same _or higher_ voltage rating.
@@Knowbody42 You know that, I know that. Now try my brother ;)
With rental version you hit everything but when you own him a while ... Typical WG bullshit.
And this means they do manipulate the game
Ya there’s always a honey moon phase even with a bad premium tank there still good for like a month then there shit
It is Called planned obsolescence
I'll tell you what I heard from the car dealership few years ago: a reputable spare parts salesman was doing a training and he was asked about the durability of the spare parts. The answer was that they have no problem making a spare part that lasts even a million kilometers, but the OEM determines how long the spare part can last. In other words, the OEM gives a time when spare part has to break down and the owner has to go to the service. The reason is simple - OEM's earns more from the spare parts than from manufacturing and selling cars
The Scorpion player got the kind of RNG I was experiencing, the kind that makes you rage quit and causes a mental breakdown, let me guess Claus you lost your CC status because you were calling out how much BS is in this game and Wargaming wasn't happy
I bet his outing of the scam artists doing stat boosting finished the situation for them, I am fully convinced WG is participating in the boosting operations, if nothing else by just providing former players accounts for use by them.
@@oldtanker4860 if the boosting companies are paying WG money for each account then I can see that happening
It's true, when I made some anti Wargames comments
All my tanks were nerved
Xp was lowered
0% success in multiplayer,
Every team I was on got annihilated >5 mins
I finally quit and gave up.
Multiplayer has become an almost impossible feat to accomplish.
built-in obsolescence. Started by the 60s.
yep they did that so they could also offer you extended warranty
@@harrisonwickham7426 the problem with the extended warranty they are built to last at least that long or a little longer and will break after the extended warranty runs out. That's why I stopped buying the extended warranty!
This is how my Skorpion plays.... Missing a lot!
I can empathize. This is a pretty regular occurrence for me when I try to snipe from distance. To me it feels like when I log in, the game either has a win or lose setting applied, and that determines my RNG. I have gone so far as to exit the game, wait a minute and restart. Invariably, after many losses in a row with consistently horrible RNG, when I restart my win rate increases and my RNG is suddenly good.
To all the American players - Happy Independence Day
To all the British players - keep drinking the tea!
I feel his pain. I don't play premium tanks because I refuse to buy them or play with premium rounds, I'm old school lol. But I'm seeing a lot of stupid RNG in the game lately & it almost feels like I've been put on a blacklist for refusing to pump money into the game. I was in my Charioteer & a BZ-176 shot me in the tip of my barrel, marking very clear, no impact on the tank & he more or less 1 shot killed me. Yet I shoot tanks guns & I deal no damage, just keep doing critical hits.
I posted a picture of this in their discord & they told me I need to learn to play better & it just infuriated how low IQ people are.
engineered obsolescence is what you looking for Claus
they call it "value engineering" - an appropriate OXYMORON.
Yeah. That’s pretty Standard Skorpion rng that I experience.
Years ago I loved my Skorpion and played it a lot.
When it became obvious WG was acting like a greedy, money hungry bunch of twats I stopped playing altogether.
Not worth the time, energy and frustration.
Another bait and switch was the Excelsior. When I first got mine, I felt invincible. As long as you didn't expose your side to the enemy, you were good. Even the ass had great armor. I was cleaning up on the battlefield when I first got it. Now, every shot seems to pen me. It is a slow tank, with an ok gun, so the armor was the main selling point. The armor seems to be useless now, so I don't like playing it much anymore.
Claus, I am so thankful your channel exists! 🙏🏻
Maybe without you I would still be part of this gigantic shitshow and ruin my nerves for nothing.
The built in function is:
RNG = 100 * (money we want you to spend) / ( money you actually spent)
Silent sigma nerf is real. My t-103 shell go to orbit a lot after the update. it was like 70% before. now about 50-50%.
Wargaming might be doing the same thing with World of Warships. The premium BB West Virginia '44 was OP for the weeks of the Dockyard event, where you can grind and get it. I had massive games in it, the guns hit everything in sight and hard.
Past week? Nope. The shells are spraying everywhere, I can't citadel a stationary broadside BB in 4-5 tries. The dispersion used to be tight, now it's wild.
Perhaps it was just RNG. But the pattern is there, too. So idk, but I'll keep playing it and watching the dispersion.
Everything about this game is fixed. If you don’t think the mismatch maker manipulates the gameplay you probably spent 90 dollars on a tank from these crooks. The snap feature says it all, fully aim miss badly, point at a target blindly and hit wow shows you how the game works. I also remember when it first came out and had a free rental. Ten games and all of a sudden I had ten losses in a row. The completely random 10 game losing streak. Back then I knew the mm was manipulating gameplay. The winning and losing streaks are what has me convinced of manipulation by the mismatch maker.
Streaks are the norm with MM and not the exception that they should be. By design or by flaw it's common to see streaks with single digit probability multiple times in just a few days.
hey Claus, when it comes to machinery, the phrase your looking for is " time stamp" the point where engineered wear points fail, and cause new machines to be purchased
My Scorpion has degraded to about this point as well, used to be god like gun handling, now totally unpredictable on what it does. Careful center mass fully aimed recital does not reliably hit anymore.
When I still played WoT, the Skorpion G was sometimes hit with some kind of shadow nerf after some updates, with the shots going straight for a couple hundred meters and then, blatantly, visibly spiraling out two times out of three.
This got me playing it like the old Hellcat used to be, providing close-in fire support, peeking and shooting at ranges below three hundred meters.
for a moment forget the shots that just missed, What About the SHOTS that Vanished!! i've Never seen so many Ghost Shells!!!
WG is Absolutely Ridiculous!
Well in my case the 130 pm behaves exactly like his skorp does, the notorious su moments, while skorp actually hits where I aim almost all of the time
I can attest to my Scorp doing the same thing. Hit a Nomad where I can pen literally everywhere and got 0 dmg. But most times, just miss and miss and miss.
"You just have to buy a new one"
This is surprising as I have noticed that on a game with low % win chance by XVM, My shells will tend to miss a LOT more. On wins, not so much. And I'm not totally carrying the games, I could have reversed a lot of losses if I got normal miss %. I play same so not me.
The reason why I haven't played this game for 2 years now
But Claus, he needs to properly equip the tank and get gud, oh wait a minute……
More like, bend over, spread cheeks, spasm clench colon, oh yes Yuri, like.spasms,,yes ,clench is good,,😅😂
I was one of the first players to buy the tier 7 scorpion. I loved it and managed to 3 mark it. Then after a while something changed and now its just one of those tanks that feels off and I stopped playing. Just think we are being screwed over by special RNG to get us to buy other tanks
lmao the 1mm armor USA M56 will bounce a skorpG like it has 400mm of armor
Well done really great work.ive been saying this for the last two years.ha but it sounds better you shouting it out to all players.
I dont spend cash anymore I just roll out in the game and proper wind everyone up.and I have great results and great fun doing this.keep up the good work thank you.
Happens to me a lot nowadays. Sometimes you can hit the eye of a needle and other times you can't even hit the barn door. I am starting to believe that when you hit your positive RNG quota, the game starts shiting on you.
Happy fourth of July, all respect to a great nation. From a once proud Canadian, we will be respected and proud again. When we many up
He’s got my f2p rng
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Was the term you were looking for " planned obsolescence"?
MTTF, mean time to failure....
MTTF - Claus, you should set that as a lyric with a backing track from the song "YMCA".
Same with my Type 59. It used to be king, now you barely see any.
U mean the intendent breaking point, or "Sollbruchstelle", as we say in Germany. They lernen to implement these kind of stuff in a CAD-Course
All clan mates said, buy the scorpion give you lot of credit you must have it... it come to the store and I brought it. It sucks. I have similar game play what this player had. Fully aimed shots miss 75%. I was happy watching this video, made me feel better about myself as it is not me it is the tank :D. Thank you Claus!
PLANNED OBSOLENCE and RNG has killed my favorites
Anyone who outright trashes this game and exposes the TRUTH is AWESOME! It warms my cold broken gaming heart to see!! I’m smiling because you all are validating what I’ve been saying for years!!
Years ago when I first started playing, my favorite tank was the M-12 Arty. (This was before the great arty nerf) I almost couldn't miss with it---many fantastic shots. All of a sudden I started missing most of my shots---it was a secret nerf. I wrote them and they would not own any kind of nerf. I was incredibly angry. I know how this guy feels.
This reminds me of the stvr s1. Amazing when I first got it years ago. Now the gun misses 9 out of 10 shells at close range. 100 meters or less.
Yup, par for the course. Imagine me who only plays the Grille 15 and Skorpion G
I like my Skorp G and also have the twin to it and the Tier VII Skorp. The G is a little trollish for me, too but I still love it!
I had games just like this. In many tanks. Not just the Scorpion G. Round after round hit the ground for no real reason outside the target circle sometimes even. It really sucks in a slow loading tank.
The Scorpion's RNG in that game is about what I get on average in my T95, except my reload is horrendous!
I have over 13k battles in Skorpion with 2 marks of excellence. I too have seen this degradation in my tank, the guys I play in platoons with are constantly hearing me say "they did something to my tank!". Oh and if I am shooting at russian tanks I have a model I follow: you need to shoot them 3 times before you get a pen! Not so often does this happen but I have noticed at times shooting AP, rounds flying like an APCR (velocity wise) and vice versa. There is definitely some funny business going on with these guys. Slow rounds, fast rounds (velocity manipulation of rounds), vanishing rounds (no accountability) it helps to see in replays and a lot of low rolls at inconvenient times or getting burned up like near the end of game and your team is losing big time.
Skorpion and Grille 15 have that stupid thing: If aim reticle has a few pixels of terrain, shell is going to hit that pixels.
Missing a few perfect shots is a normal day Skorpion experience. However missing that much means bad luck day.
If you want to buy a product that lasts, whether it's fridges, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, look for the commercial grade products.
Because businesses need products that will keep working reliably, that's what the commercial grade products are for. The consumer grade products are the ones that will break after 5-10 years or however long.
I am going to show this to a platoon mate. Scorpion is his go to tank and he has been lately experiencing the same gun handling issues. I am sure his crew skills are 5+.
planned obsolescence.
I have the Skorpion and it is probably the most frustrating "tank" to play out of all of my tanks. I have had the dispersion down to .27 and used to hit the vast majority of my shots. Lately I only hit about 55% of my shots. I don't play it much anymore unless I need some credits, so the overall hit rate in the years I have had it is 72.54% (which shows how good it really was at one time). Besides that, bounces off of lights have become a regular occurrence.
That Scorpion gun behaved like an average ISU 😅
Once up on a time I used to play Su130pm, but this mechanics forced me to sell my lovely TD! I think you right😢
"service life" or "built in use by date"
Is called "programmed obsolescence" you can see it particularly on smartphones
planned obsolescence
Absolutely recognizable. Every first shot does nothing. 100% certainty.
Planned Obsolescence
ive had this issue as well! with my own fav tanks
The worst game I played me and another player were taking out the other team and the rest of our team huddled together as the back and had a picnic and didn't invite us.
Yes I feel rng and match making is horrible some days on this tank. I’ll have an average of 4000 combined dmg and get stuck on the losing team five games in a row. Then I get on the winning team I can’t hit a shot to save my life.
The Scorpion G game is like watching my own games in it... 🤔🤨
Great video. Finally. Ty Claus.
lol that's the norm for my games too
Part of the mechanic that WG slipped into the game, is 'shell drop' guns that used to be super accurate, now have greater 'shell drop' over distance (old game mechanics, your shell always flew in a straight line from where you fired to the impact point) and the shell drop I have recently been using with 'slower' shells to actually lob a shell over a hill and hit a tank on the other side of a hill (low hill roll sort of area) at LONG distance. There is another added mechanic where WG changed the aiming to 'calculate' at the aim point, and now the shell does fly rather differently like that one shot the Skorp took to the back (was it T30?) as it backed up on the hill roll to duck under the ridge line partially, the Skorp shell flew way UP and over. I see things like this in battles all the time now. The other mechanic that got slipped in was the shell damage value from range, you will find now, that if you are long range sniping, more often than not, you will low roll (like 4/5 shells) because of the 'distance' - this mechanic was improvised into the game for the STAR Shell rounds which do TONS more damage up close, but very poor damage at mid/long range, sadly the poor programming by WG didn't separate this in the programming, and it has carried to every other gun in game (with different damage deviations based on the min/max).
i snipe a lot from long range. my observations for low roll damage disagree with you.
TL-7. I have a 30% win rate in it because I can't land a shot and I can't pen (shot a Kv-5 in the side and bounced 2/4 shells). It has a 40.31 second reload for 4 shells of 360 damage. It has literally no armor and my top speed with a turbo is 53. In a bush, I have worse camo than virtually all tier 8-10 heavy tanks driving in the open somehow.
Planned obsolescence. That's the term for something that is designed not to last as long as it should.
Same experience here with my Scorpion, frustration rules😢
elllllooo....built in obselesence
He was aiming very low in most shots. The 12.8cm kanone gun was developed on a mix of the 12.8cm barrel and a russian 122mm howitzer gun carraige hence the firing arch dropping towards the end of the shot a lot of the time.
In fact lets make a list of tanks that used to be amazing, and fun, and now, are either nerfed to crap, or gone completely. I know a few: The excelsior, the KV 2, I think the T 18 at tier 2 (gone now), SU 100, AMX ELC, every arty, etc. It is just getting insane. Keep the list going guys. I am sure I missed many tanks.
The very first Premium to be nerf'd was the Type 59...even after Wargaming said that they didn't...until it was finally removed from the game back in 7.2 or 7.3.
The writing has always been on the wall when it comes to Wargaming and nerfing tanks that people spent REAL money on when it was time to release the new premium hotness.
I have the Skorpion, not the G, with 900ish battles in it the hit rate is about %55, the dispersion is .26. Before you start I know how to aim it :)
What I see is a lot of what he got, the rounds just go all over or ghost round thru them. The physics of a round accelerating and going up after it's fired is a WG secret.
Last night hit an elc on side with SU130....…no pen for you 😂
Makes one think of going way of Mike Douglas in Breakdown,😅
I agree with you. There are a lot of tanks that don’t preform the way they use to. I’m not spending anymore money on this game either. I am at the point where WG owes a refund to its player base.
Thank you
Planned or forced obselescense. They do it with many products, from razors to phones to appliances......I swear a market must exist for a retro manufacturer. Like your content, comments, and humor CK - much thanks!
2nd shot hit a 3d destructible building, building ate it
2:30 he's stunned again .. oh-oooooh 😍 (by his fkn inaccurate shots)
It's not the aiming, it's not the ping, it's not even rng, that's SIGMA in its most pure form!
Not an expert or a fanboi, but I felt Mr Scorp was aiming a bit low with that shell velocity.
There are some games where you don't aim properly and hit everything, and then some games you aim fully and miss everything, its the RNG in this game it sucks
agreed distance matters on how your shell will drop
But if you aim higher, the shell will go into orbit. You cannot win with the RNG against you regardless how accurate the tank is, with the equipment, consummables and so on. It's all a red herring
Aiming at the tracks is what he was doing trying to track them for extra assistance damage. But the shell shouldn't drop 85% of the time against slow targets.
I agree, was my thought too .... still I have the Scorpion G and somehow it feels kinda weird since hmmm .... a year? When the shell goes down and i think .... gosh think! you aimed to low and gravity pulls it down ..... try to be better. Then i try to aim better and consider gravity etc. ... then suddenly it goes up like hell and i think ... wow negative gravity. I am only a very average player, but with that tank it seems pretty weird sometimes. Still .... its a game :)
He is aiming to low. There is a drop in the shell as the distance gets further out. So it's his aiming.
Claus, I agree with you on the accuracy issue. I don't have the time or the inclination to collect data and apply stat tests. But just looking at videos it appears that there's something wrong with the accuracy of certain guns. What we should see is shots clustering around the middle of the aim circle and feathering out from there to the edge, i.e. a normal distribution (Bell curve or Gaussian distribution *). Instead I see, as was the case in your video this morning, an inverted Bell curve. Shots were clustering at the edge and feathering toward the middle. There's nothing normal about that distribution. It has been brute force manipulated rather than having a straight RND/RNG factor applied. (And for the doubters - Yes, I understand that the sample is tiny. This is a gut check call that may well be wrong and/or biased.)
I understand that WG is a business and they have to make a profit. I don't even care how big a profit they make. But bait and switch, even if they tell you in the EULA contract that they reserve that right (but bury it in the legalese so you don't notice it) is unfair play - and criminal if they hadn't disclosed it in the EULA.
* (I know you already understand but I should add that this is an aim circle that uses radial coordinates to mark hits so I know I was a little loose with the term "Bell Curve". I wanted to use terms that everyone is reasonably familiar with even if they are actually inaccurate in the case of gun handling.) 🤠
Skorp is a full gold tank for me. SU-130 I don't like the HEAT ammo, so I shoot more regular shells on that one.
I kind of have the same problem with my Su 130 PM like the Skorpion.
Got to around 82% Gunmark, but then the shots went to places where I just don't aim.
I ended up putting Imrpoved Aiming on it and it got better again.
But Strangely my T 103, which is a bond shop Tank hit's so many bullseye shots, without any equipment to improve the Gun
I sold my SkorpG for the same reason, tired of ghost shots and bounces. To be fair he was consistently aiming for the tracks at long distance and even gold rounds at 1100 m/s you’ll get a slight dip and lack of accuracy. Btw, I never thought that td was very accurate. The Lowe has a far better canon for example. Also, he’s only shooting gold and RNG will force push his average down by triggering miss shots. He should switch to regular ammo and close distances to win regular and tame RNG. WG doesn’t want it to be obvious that winning is only about top equipment, 6 skills tankers and all gold rounds.
1 data point = "I know what the answer is" Lol, scientist my arse.
My scorp and SU both the same. I think its also party lag combined with slow shell velocity too though.
Of course just because you buy a premium tank doesn't mean the barrel doesn't wear with age!.
What you really need to do if you find the accuracy drops in your prem tanks is to sell it and buy a new one with a less worn barrel :)
Actually, not even sure I should put this in print, WG may read it one day and it'll become a thing.
1st shot through the tracks under the armor
Built in disfunction chip! LOL
I have the BZ 176 on my main account don't remember how I got it, maybe a box at Christmas, anyway, I've not played many battles with it, I tend to have a go on it - fail to pen every shot - rage quit - and then don't play it for a long time.
This is totally, 100%, right. There is new tank RNG and old tank RNG, without a shadow of a doubt. The only thing that has helped my Skorp recently is field mods - the effect is way out of proportion to the change the figures suggest - but that is WG all over... (Built in obsolescence)
The distance he is at ,and the size of the reticle is expanded for that distance and the shells are all with in the circle. He is making an error that many do. When you have an elevated position and aiming down and aiming over the back track only , you have less to hit. At that distance always try and aim at the side and include the turret in your sites. He was also aiming to low consistently, rewind it and you will see. I have a 3 marked Skorp G and have had it to 100% moe and often in the top10 on na server in that tank. RNG treated him like everyone else and next game it will give him 2 pixel shots . When it comes to whining, many have the BOUNTY whining perk ! 😂