Here is some info on this "warm up mode; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qr96ZJR8t6yUep8.html

In the End of Game results, the Battle Type literally says BOTS. So this is a built-in thing - either a mode he selected or something WG put in for returning players to get back into the habits and patterns to play. Edit: I would also be surprised if the results from these "warm-up" games count towards anything in the same way that Training Rooms don't.

It says right in the battle report at 12:43. Battle type: Bots It hardly seems that nefarious.

Wg have created a mode where players who haven’t played in ages/years can go into a few games against bots to get used to the controls again and a few maps before putting em back in the match maker again

As you noted, the patent description articulates the ability to recognize and manipulate win streaks/losing streaks. Implicit in that ability is the methods/means to engineer team composition, map selection, RNG allocations, etc. In other words, MM can (and does) manipulate a variety of input variables to engineer 'balanced' outcomes. That WG does this not simply to balance against win or loss streaks but for returning players or other preferred customers should come as no shock -- the MM is Wargaming's meaty thumb on the scale, and is present in every battle.

Actually, they announced this being a thing and since he hasn't played in a while, he meets the requirements (180 days) so he's in warm-up mode. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qr96ZJR8t6yUep8.html Video that covers this.

This game has become a comedy, I used to play back in 2014 and 2015 and loved it. Its sad to see what it has become, thank you Claus Kellerman for your investigative journalism :)

I want the same WG, a single player mode option to fight only bots. Make it happen, please.

CK: Meticulously creates conspiracy video and presents it on youtube. WG: Warm-up mode. CK: I lost touch.

I fully expect that wargaming is Part of boosting companies, or just does nothing because it benefits them

There's algorithms for everything. That's how both tanks and players are balanced. Why you get muppets in your or enemy team, why you hit ground while aimed or snap accross the map, it's algo deciding to balance stats of players and tanks. So not RNG but ANG. When you enter a battle you get allocated in 2 tables, one for team and one for sigma/pen. However, algorithm can decide to flip you up or down in that sigma/pen table in the middle of the game. It's really easily noticeable.

As an arty player I chatted with a number of arty players in game one Saturday who were experiencing the same thing I was: suddenly not being able to hit anything. This has happened on a number of occasions during peak playing hours.

I would have to agree, my game gets alot easier right after I purchase some tank But after few weeks of not buying any tank, game magically becomes harder for me. Especially teammate wise.

Returning players get this matching. I think they get 10 return games with outher players that also return to the game, if it can't find others at the time it will just give you bots. After you complete the warm up starter games you then forced back into normal match making. I had it on an alt account and had some crazy dmg wins.

after all this years that you play ,you finnaly start to realize what some of us already know over 5 years now...

It even says: "Battle type = bots" at the bottom of the replay, definitely the "warm up mode". Doesn't count against the general stats or mark of excellence.

It is part of a welcome back warm up matchmaking you get several of these match styles that do not count towards your stats to help get you back in the groove of the game

Come on Claus! This is happening every battle, every game. I am always on a defeat streaks, without getting win streaks. And, as you say, TEAMMATES in my battles are at least 50%-60% bots. But, I have never seen something like that. And I believe it is also the other way round. If you do not spend enough, they put you in a straight loses series, so that you get mad and spend money on premium tanks to TRY and win. It's all manipulation of the customers, so that WG gets profit. Nice video! Keep up!

This is warm-up mode. Was announced previously by WG that it was out for players that didn't play for a while, and they would play some battles in this mode before going into randoms. Stats,such as damage record or marks of excellence won't count when you play here. Please at least be aware of what's new

Awesome work Claus. Respect.

keeep up the great work on this stuff Claus.

It also happened to me... I did not play for like 10 months.. At first i was confused all the other players moved like bots then i noticed it is just like a warm up battle....the out come of the battle doesnt affect your personal stats

I've noted the easy games on new tanks or after sometime not playing. The honeymoon ends after a few games. Although I've never seen anything like this in tier X EDIT: It's warm up mode, there's a video somewhere....

i think you are right Claus! We often talk about this in our Clan and we have same feelings. Keep go on Claus!

WG needs Bots that also talk in chat, insult people, and ask me to spot for them.

Speaking of bots, yesterday i booted up wot after like a year and got 7 "warm-up" battles where i was the ONLY human except a few games where i had some other players on my team. Managed to get around 50,000 xp, so that was fun.

It have happened many times before. I have seen many such strange replays. This time bots are moving at least. It means they upgraded them up ;)

Great video. What I thought watching this video was: What else are they doing without us knowing?

Wow T10 bots i have never seen! I wonder what else we are going to see next. Really weird! Thanks Claus for bringing these to the light. 👍

thanks for exposing cheaters I have been slowly working on my missions for the 279 E and its taking a lot longer than i want but I am doing it myself. so once I achieve this I know I earned it not paid to get it .

Definite SHENANIGANS going by War gaming. My win rate, match making, and RNG has been horrendous in the past 2 months, I normally have a 53% win rate but since last 'patch' I have been averaging only about 35 -40%, getting teamed with absolute, complete and total MORONS, and shot after shot of mine going wide.

it says battle type:Bots in the battle sumary. i dont know if there is a mode nowadays with bots, it's been many years since I played. I just want to say that I watch you every day and appreciate your videos, they are perfect to watch after work keep it upp Claus

I never had a tier 10 game with bots. That was sick too watch

This is absolutely incredible… obviously much more WG tweaks in terms of MM than players even can guess

interesting. Did you notice the battle type on the result screen? So it's actually a dedicated game mode.

This bot-filled game is a feature, Wargaming released a video stating that returning players have a 10 battle warming up period to fight bots, then can return to random games. And no, stats, marks of excellence and personal missions aren't counted. What's the issue?

This is not a random battle. There is NO WAY he did all the dmg we hve seen nd not get Mastery badge. Either Klaus is trolling us to make us comment and promote his channel, or Klaus is a muppet for believing this is what actually happened.

The tanks drove around quite convincingly but what gave it away was the absence of mapspamming, flaming in the chat and the obligatory message at the start "noob team lost again" :D

Could you imagine if there's 15 vs 15 bot games just running in the background? :D

Thanks Claus!

This exact thing happened to me! I had been gone for a good 2 years and my first 5 battles were agains bots as a "warmup" i believe it was a special playermode, it wasnt a random battle. I was so proud of my 9k dmg in my T-10 until i realised it was agains bots.. You seen on the victory screen that there are no medals and stuff, that's because of the warmup mode.

That must be the "Welcome Back" algo. LOL

wow, you really raised some good questions here!

Did you ever play that training camp or how it's called for new players? Basically there when teach you how to make repairs, one of the bots snipe exactly in that second in the tracks... This means that the server can put any bullets where it wants.

The day after I unlocked obj260, I won 21/23 games... I think that was a gift. As well I think somtimes whenever many not usuals players are playing, WG trie to hook them by giving them many wins... while usuals players are crying that's unplayable. This is too curious to be normal.

Wow, an eye-opener.

It's says in the battle results "Battle type: Bots"...is that even an option to select for players? I haven't played since last year and deleted the game off my computer, I finally had enough, but I'm curious.

Would be nice to see the stats from the Bot´s. How many games they played and what tier.

As someone who used to boost people on World of Tanks for real money, I worked as a duo with my now best friend & flatmate. We would find people who want three marks on a certain tank, obviously we would charge more for a tier ten and even more for a hard tank like the Obj 907 etc. We would always platoon, one of us would boost & the other would play something like a Maus or E-100 to tank everything and just track people. We got things done so much quicker like this as opposed to do solo. We never rigged matchmaking to an extent of using bots or logging into other accounts to farm damage on the enemy team etc. Bare in mind this was back in 2017/18 so the game was a little different to how it is now.

wow, thanks for showing and exposing this

Wouldn't doubt it

Funny thing about the bots is, they have typical names for the country, their tank is from. Italian tank has italian player's name, chinese tanks have chinese named drivers and so on

Minimum 1000 battel not loged in for 180 days you will go in warm-up mode (training). If you look at first page of post stat game you will see ''Battel type: Bots''.

this happens in other games too .. in clash of clans when i stop for some months, as i return all the first villages i attack are full of resources and abandoned ... the same happens in Clash Royale .. the first battles are easy wins, then it goes normal again !

This explains a lot!

If you look at the bottom of the Team Score screen, the Battle type is Bots, so it probably happens more often than we think.

LOL the details even say “Battle type: Bots”

I am free to play player. I've noticed that over the last 4 or 5 years I've been getting about twice as many unwinnable games. Once that ratio was 20% certainly won, 20% surely lost, but now, in my opinion, it is approximately 15% surely won and 35-40% surely lost. Probably in this way, the pay to win players are stimulated to think that they are monogo better than they are.

Hey, I went to college with Timur. He's from Uzbekistan. Solid dude.

Interesting that the battle results (team score tab) lists the Battle type as Bots.

I haven't played for a month and i am not gonna play until August. I wonder if i'll get a mm like this on my return. I'll keep you posted. But no worries, I am still watchig your posts Claus ;)

Grandijooss is lucky. When I stopped playing the game for awhile (being upset with the pay2win OP prem/reward tanks, unbalanced MM, frequent 1-sided blowouts, etc.) and then when I come back, I would get 14 players who play like bots on my team, and the enemy team would blow thru us in 2 mins. WG just hates me, probably because I don't pay them.

I would also like to add that we did clanwars.Sometimes we recruited players who were with us in teamspeak for practice and during the clanwars battles.I remember a man and woman who lived together.The woman played worse then the bots.She had a overall winrate of 43% on back then +14k battles.There was also a older man who would only drive the t95 and would always drive it to the defending side edge of the map and sit there with his ass against the border of the map and wouldnt move until the battle was over.Frustrating back then,hilarious to think back on. Haha

I got the same Bot battle when I loged into an account I haven't played in like 10 years plus a pile of free tanks etc for completing a bunch of missions

The same happened to me - I was not playing for more than a year and when I got back I noticed the same - I was fighting bots for about 10 first games. I was playing mostly T8.

Why does the battle type on the bottom result scree state "Battle type: Bots"???????

@ 12:32 it shows Battle Type: Bots - it was marked at the bottom after the Server game time: - WoT not really hiding it. Its just a warmup. Did the performance really affect his WTR rating?

Imagine Wargaming gives you a confidence game every 100 defeats.

Claus - it was a Warm Up game because he had not played for years ! As you can clearly see above the countdown before the game began . Hence the 29 Bots . He also didn’t get any medals or ace tanker for his 15K damage . That one was easy to solve .

Claus, this happens to me sometimes, battles with one or 3 allies acting erratically like bots. It's very annoying! Hug

What's Battle Type: Bots mean on the bottom of the Post Game Stats??? Is that a new mode?

How is the MM suppose to work like that 5 or so years ago when I had tanks which stuggle to get the dalies off. I now play wows on coop only and the new issue is the AI have laser accuracy in another game mode which forces you to play German BB.

Usually for me, when there are bots in the battle, they are all on my team. I was playing Tier 6 last night ( I'm a tomato, not a seal clubber) and had one battle where we lost 2-15. Post battle stats showed 6 on my team did 0 damage and 4 of them never fired a shot. I didn't check the accounts to see if they were real, but I have to assume at least some were bots...right?

I can’t say I have experienced exactly this, but I have taken breaks for a year and several months at a time and when I come back all of a sudden I win 5-10 matches in a row.

The answer to WHY? Is customer retention. I’ve been trying get it across that in order to reduce player churn the company introduced a handicap system about three years ago. This has been refined to the point we are at today. Think of it like a golf handicap that’s intended to level the playing field for the lesser skilled. It’s achieved by reducing or increasing damage per shot and at its extreme the better player is playing the game with a fraction of a second delay applicable to them.

Is does Sat bots at the bottom of the team score

i'm curious to know if his account was used for boost other accounts during his quit time....

When you don't see lots of chatting going on that should be a hint.

I haven't played my PC account in years. should I maybe give it a go?

Something else I have never seen is the title " Battle type: Bots" at the bottom of the team score screen.

I came back about 2 months ago after a 9+ year break from the game, (2011 account). And never saw anything like this.

The "Battle Type" literally says "Bots" instead of "Random". Is there an option in some clients for this?

A bit like Socrates' cavern of shadows...where the shadows are tanks...

If you would have read patch notes lately, they said that returning players get to do Botgames for their first games regardless of the tier. But its ok

I just love a pleasant gemming experience

13:12 after so many years you still have questions related to war gaming😂😂😂

At the bottom of the replay scoreboard it even says "Battle type: Bots" which means these are an actual category of games the matchmaker has in its pool. It's clearly on purpose.

I struggle to ACE the obj 705a from 1 year ago, now I know why can't achieve it!!!

Claus, a real eye-opening video. Thanks. Battle summary page says game was played at 19:25 and battle type Bots. Why would MM intentionally make a bot game at 7:25PM at tier 10. I never realized that game type info was there. As to your greater point, Does MM make different games for Content Creators (or certain ones)? Does MM decide if I have won to many games, or my results were too good lately. I've spent more money and time playing this than I should have if I can't decide if my stats are real. Seriously, what's the point if the games aren't truly random. Does Wargaming think it's customer base is this stupid???

The bottom of the score tells you that the battle type is "bots"

WG introduced this option for players if they have been away a while, its to ease you back in. My 2nd account was offered this mode after not playing it for about 9 months.

I looked up his profile: This game hasn't been counted to his statistics. His highest damage game is 5,751 dmg. So this might be intendet? I guess that all kinds of missions are disabled in those games too 12:52 Battle-Type: Bots. There you have it :)

If you have been absent from Mother Wargaming, she prepares you a nice little dopamine fix so you stay...

The elite bots are being held in reserve. They will only be unleashed on the servers when Skynet goes active and the bot takeover starts.

It says Battle Type "BOTS" at the bottom of the summary.

I have said these for years...😎😎😎 1) WG puts better players in one team n below average on another...so game ends faster with score of 15-3/4/5 2) The team that is supposed to loose will have bad rng than the fixed winning team 3) Sometimes WG will just log u out or give massive lag spikes if u r in the loosing team n at a critical outcome changing moment. 4) The rng of new or lootbox premium tank is massively boosted regardless of above 3 points. 5) Some of matchmaking employees r connected with boosting companies at platoon matching.

Hey Claus, Yuri says it's working as intended & to trust the process.

If there would be no bot icon, I would think, everybody is on fentanyl

Did you notice towards the bottom where it says "Battle Type: Bots"?

Your awesome dude and awesome video I agree with you