There's just a lot of times when you can't expect your team to behave aggressively. Many don't run premiums so if their tank blows up they lose a lot of money. I got about 4-5 million banked away not doing anything so I don't care if I lose 10-20k a game, but I can see how that would affect some people.
This is is a valid point for higher tiers. Although I do see the 'scaredy cat' behavior even in lower tiers. Not like tier3/4 where everyone just drives wherever they want, but like tier6/7/8 games have issues too where people don't want to push inferior forces b/c they might die.
That said, I feel like this is the price of playing high tier tanks. Without premium, you WILL lose money unless you're really good. Everyone knows this; WG has stated it repeatedly. Beyond that, some games the neighborhood heavy has so much armor that he probably could plow straight through, like E-100 or Maus running into tier8/9 defenders.
Basically, being useless b/c you don't want to lose credits falls under the "selfish" category. This is a team game & that is simply not an acceptable behavior. A tier10 tank that isn't fighting is just a detriment to his team. This behavior also falls under the "stupid" category b/c letting yourself get held up by weaker forces raises the chance that your other flank gets rolled since you're selfishly occupying a team slot & not contributing. Then you get flanked (you lose just as much money) or you get capped (you prob lose less if you selfishly manage to stay alive by hiding) and you lose.
But if you're set on keeping your tank's paint job fresh and clean, then for the love of god don't get into situations where you are stopped cold by smaller numbers of enemies! That means DO NOT RUSH CHOKE POINTS JUST TO SIT THERE. If you're driving a heavy and have 0 intention of pushing a choke b/c you're scared (and also retarded) of losing credits, then don't fucking go there*. Pick a different area where you can go and be useful.
And another less-good alternative: you push an area and the advance gets halted by weaker forces. Pushing through would be too costly, oh no! What do you do?
1) Wait it out. <---retarded 90% of the time.
2) Leave a smaller force behind and re-position your ass. <----DING DING DING
The first option can be good if you haven't encountered the bulk of enemy forces yet--maybe they're going to try and push through so you need more defenses. Then it's cool to wait and see how battle is unfolding. I'm not arguing for ATTAK NAO GOGOGOGO play; there are times when waiting/defending is the right choice.
But once it becomes clear that your front is going nowhere and we just have resources committed to doing nothing, it's time to move. DO NOT give the enemy a free numerical advantage on the rest of the map by sitting and waiting. Leave behind enough tanks so that if the enemy moves up, they don't roll the defenders. The rest can go move off to where they're needed. B/c presumably (and this is another thing that ppl don't do b/c they're dumb) defenders on other flanks are hiding/doing fighting retreats to buy time for the failed push. So you can be like "hey my ____ is moving to *ping map*". People in trouble near that area can retreat to link up with reinforcements, and move out again.
You know... team tactics. Not every man for himself. *sigh* pub matches make me want to punch babies.
*Yeah I know this isn't really possible on all maps... fuck you Komarin. And I don't blame people for dumb shit on maps like that b/c dumb shit is all that exists.
What's the deal? Anybody else see something similar with wonky damages?
I don't track this in enough detail to comment... like mentally I feel like I do more 0 damage crits than before, but that might just be b/c it's so damn annoying when it happens that it makes a stronger memory impression. And I also feel like "looks like it went right through" happens more often. I hate this one too--penetrating straight through w/o doing ANY damage? Seriously?
But there are definitely plenty of WoT forum posters complaining about 0 damage crits. And about crits that don't do any hull damage. One of the biggies is some people seem to believe that if you're down at 1 or 2% health, there's a much higher chance of this happening, lol.
The crit damage system is still ridiculous. For one thing, they should change the name. In every other game in existence, critical hit = higher than usual damage. On top of that, letting modules have "saving throws" is reasonable so that tanks don't have horrific module damage on every hit (thus making the game ass to play). Well, except for the Tiger, haha. BUT currently, if you pen for critical & say hit the radioman first and he passes the saving through, the shell just stops. That's insane.
Having constant crew/module damage would suck enormously, yes. But not doing ANY damage is retarded. In those cases, I'd argue that remaining shell damage should pass straight to HP OR the shell should continue onward, only having damage go all to HP if it doesn't encounter any more crew/modules or if all further crew/modules pass saving throws.
Similarly, hits that only do (internal) module/crew damage are also insane. If I punched a big hole in armor and broke the radio, killed the commander, etc., then "hit points" damage was definitely done! Even if they don't change this, they should at least be awarding xp & credits for damage to crew/modules... so we don't feel as fucking cheated out of shell money.