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Secret New Player Mode
By Niliu
Explaining the Hidden New Player Mode and what you can expect during and after this period.
   
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Category: Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Multiplayer, Secrets, Walkthroughs
Languages: English
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17 Mar, 2023 @ 5:50am
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Overview
Overview 
What is it? 
How do Battles Work? 
How Long Does It Last? 
What Happens When It Ends? 
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Overview
Greetings, Commanders.

As many of you are long standing players, you may be unaware of the secret New Player Mode that the game gives New Players. In fact, the mode is so hidden, it doesn't even tell New Players they're in a protected new player mode.
What is it?
The New Player mode is a mode for players who have booted up for the first time, or created a new account.
How do Battles Work?
Matches are 9v9 battles with only one or two players per team, the rest being bots. During low-population moments, you may be the ONLY player in the match.
How Long Does It Last?
Unknown. As this is a secret mode the devs do not want you to be aware of, the threshold for what kicks you out of it is unclear. It may be a certain number of battles or victories, or a certain amount of time since account creation.
What Happens When It Ends?
If you are a new player, not an old player using a new account, you will immediately be stopped from progressing any further in the game without spending money. You go from playing, at most two, at the least, no human players in 9v9 battles, to 15v15 battles with extremely poor match making mechanics.

You will likely be Tier 2-4 at this point, and you will encounter the following in WoTs matchmaking hell.
  • One team will have all light tanks, the other team will have all heavy tanks. Meaning one team has a higher health pool and more firepower than the other team.
  • Players who have placed in Ranked mode. Ranked is only unlocked when reaching Tier 10 tanks. This means high Tier players are coming down to low tier, and picking off new players for fun.
  • No/incredibly slow progression.
  • No option to return to the bot battle format that you were previously comfortable with. I deliberately logged into a server that only had 200 people online, used a Tier 1 tank, queue timed out rather than give me a bot battle.
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Niliu  [author] 12 Jul @ 6:21am 
@Shifty I'll have to take your word for it mate ;)
ShiftymcSwifty 10 Jul @ 9:44pm 
this is why war thunder is just better in every way
Niliu  [author] 28 May, 2023 @ 4:02am 
Too be fair, World of Tanks was not made in good faith. They deliberately used the "World of" to try and capitalize off World of Warcraft in it's heyday, rather than gain traction based on quality. Long term players are just sycophants to an immoral dev team. What can you expect from a company that until last year were ardent Putin supporters and beneficiaries. Wargaming, especially the WoT team, has strong ties to the oligarchy.

World of Warships actually has a good, gradual introduction system, and the game mode you start playing on and practice with still exists after you finish the introduction.

I am curious as to whether WoT broke any consumer laws with their bait and switch tactic.
Generic Roughneck 28 May, 2023 @ 2:05am 
Just started playing the game and after a day or so hit this brick wall. So this is why the way I learn't to play is useless? I went from taking out 5-6 enemy a match to lucky if I survive 1 minute. What a sneaky cash grab.

I'll personally continue playing, WITHOUT paying real money. As soon as it feels like I'm getting nowhere, I'll just uninstall the game and move on. They lose a player and get a bad review. Simple as.
comus18 1 May, 2023 @ 5:47am 
Yes i experienced exactly the thing you are describing..it took me while to realise what was going on..i thought that i had suddenly become super Tanker mark 1, then all of sudden the game mode changed and you described and i was back to being mr average tanker..however the plus side was i had purchased a LV5 tank from the shop so was able to get loads a of free experience to upgrade my tech tree tanks
Hans Zupp 22 Mar, 2023 @ 9:37pm 
Yes experienced a huge wake up call
SeppukuHarakiri 18 Mar, 2023 @ 1:55pm 
TRUE :|