Snap Shot: Hello? Is this thing on?

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I totally appreciate what WG was trying to do with the new comms system in World of Tanks. I really do. It's theoretically a team game and making it easier to give your team useful info is a noble goal. However...



  1. Nobody uses it. I almost always tell me teammates during the countdown where I'm planning to go. I'm almost always the only one. I can't remember the last time I saw somebody other than me click the little preset location pins.
  2. The driving to position pins you can put down with a right-click are useful, but a little annoying. I like that you get the "it's 400m that way" indicator. Especially on maps you don't know it can be a handy GPS to tell you which way you need to go to get to your desired position. But there's no easy way to clear them (that I've found) so heaven-forbid I change my mind and decide to go somewhere else. I just have to put down a new pin, I guess. And even worse, if I missed my EXACT position by even 10m, when I get to where I actually intend to be, that pin sits there, just out of reach, begging me to tag it.
  3. It makes no sense to me why wargaming took "Affirmative" and "Negative" away. SO many times I want to just say "Yes" or "No" with a single click. I may just have to program a keyboard macro for it, I guess.
    Update: They put them back in, thank goodness.
  4. It's now harder to call for fire on somebody. In the old system if you just were pointing NEAR that person you could call for fire, even if they were behind hard cover. Now you have to actually have their tank highlighted, or selected. So if they're behind cover...or if they're a YOLOing French wheelie, it's much harder to do.
  5. The whole "Press Z to confirm" thing sounds like a good idea, but I can rarely get it to work. I press "Z" and it gives me some comm choices that don't seem related. Now I rarely bother with it.
  6. Pointing at a friendly tank to confirm something is harder too, especially if you have multiple friendlies around you and you're not 100% sure which one posted what.
I appreciate what they tried to do...but it was a swing and a miss, in my opinion. It's rarely used, perhaps because it's kinda difficult to use.

What are your opinions of it? Leave them in the comments below.

GLHF!


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