Cheating in WOT

Wait for the folks to jump in and tell you this is all bullshit and it's really about skill and potatoes.

Make you wonder just how many folks with a "Unicum" status have cheated instead of earning their status.

Can you win money and prizes? Trying to understand why you would want to cheat otherwise.

I'll cheat in single player games when I tire of them but want to see the rest of the content. Otherwise, what satisfaction?

Ack Ack and his squadron utilized an aimbot hack.

I'm not sure if ack ack did himself but apparently they hacked into the targeting available in the TA and enabled it in the MA.

It may still be happening today.

Some other players had unlimited fuel and ammo. They could up with 25%

That's gotta make you feel dirty. Who enjoys that?

Pellik, for sure was one.

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Pellik, for sure was one.

That guy went from perpetual n00b to pro overnight, it was obvious to anyone with more than 2 brain cells waving bye bye to each other that he was cheating. He would land hits at well over 1000 yards consistently until he got caught.

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Ack Ack and his squadron utilized an aimbot hack.

I'm not sure if ack ack did himself but apparently they hacked into the targeting available in the TA and enabled it in the MA.

It may still be happening today.

Some other players had unlimited fuel and ammo. They could up with 25%

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If memory serves, it wasn't just an aimbot it also affected the turn radius on his P-TurdyAte and made it turn like an A6M.

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I'll cheat in single player games when I tire of them but want to see the rest of the content. Otherwise, what satisfaction?

I do that also and I've also turned on cheats in order to try out various things in the game. For instance, in Hearts of Iron, I've given myself units to try out and see how effective they are. I then use that information to make different choices that may or may not have an effect on the outcome.

Of course for some the challenge is to win however they can. The game provider is responsible for securing their game. Even if it means suing the shit out of cheaters.

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Can you win money and prizes? Trying to understand why you would want to cheat otherwise.

After a fashion, yes.

WoT is a "freemium" game, microtransactions are it's business model. Since they do advertise it as "free", It is possible for a player, if they play well enough, get into a winning clan, and do all of the special events, to win enough prizes and in-game currency to play "free" without ever having to actually come out of pocket to buy things like premium time, gold, special tanks, etc. And not too many years ago (doubt you can do it now) One could go on different gaming forums, and sell an account with really good statistics (High Win 8 rating) for a fairly good amount of money; I've seen figures as high as 5K$ for a Purple account that had all of the current Clan War reward tanks. I heard that there were quite a few transactions after the T95/FV201 (chieftain) came out, that fucker's simply broken, and the only people who were able to get them were those in the top 5 CW clans. Wargaming.net has the official position that accounts are not to be traded/bought/sold/shared, but as it turns out, they have either no actual way to enforce that rule, or they don't actually have the inclination to.

Good players in WOT can lose 29 games out of 30, yet some hang in there at 60+% and try to convince you you're crazy. It isn't a matter of mastering oddities

Yeah, but there's some people with absurdly high numbers of games, where they can dunk dozens of games in a row and not hurt their stats.

The game can't be trusted, "random" is anything but

I won't argue that point with you, especially where Wargaming is concerned. Their RNG mechanic takes concepts such as skill and accuracy, and flushes them in the toilet.

What's the point of cheating if there's no reward beyond a game you compromised?

Don't play