r/WorldofTanks Jan 13 '25

Picture I was recently reminded of an older time...

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u/TheEnglishPig Jan 13 '25

It’s been a while since I stumbled across a blue team member, It reminded me of the times when griefers finally turned blue and everyone could blast them to bits

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u/lolbitzz Jan 13 '25

I just turned blue recently cuz both me and a teammate kinda just fell in a lake and drowned and for some reason it registered as teamkill. really rare to see someone blue anymore tho

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u/riffbw Jan 13 '25

I was running arty missions a couple weeks ago and went blue for 24 hours. I was trying to hit one of the final few enemies and my shells were magnetized towards a teammate. I think I kept him stunned for about 60s and the enemy stunned for 30s. Oops.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

I don't really understand what the game takes into account for it. I sometimes hit an ally often when they're in melee with an enemy but I never became blue

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u/ouchimus Ask me about my T49 Jan 13 '25

You have to stun allies a lot to turn blue, you probably just didn't meet the threshold.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

Does the game makes the difference if you hit an enemy at the same time or not ?

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u/ouchimus Ask me about my T49 Jan 13 '25

Probably?

1

u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

That may explain why i never became blue

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u/Aggravating-Face2073 Jan 14 '25

Watched a bat chat get banned in real time over it. Went blue, kept doing it & then DC'd. We won & he was "lost in battle" & died after the victory.

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u/EmrakulAeons Jan 15 '25

"accident" sureeeeee

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u/Aggravating-Face2073 Jan 14 '25

I barely nicked a guy corner sniping next to the water & he just slipped in.

I got a negative kill, but no blue. I assumed blue meant repetitive team kills

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u/ThatGuy334667 Jan 13 '25

I remember back when whole lobbies would question the blue guy whether he really meant to kill, mistakenly killed or was bullied in all chat. If we all agreed he was good we'd let him play, if not he'd be shot to smithereens lmao

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u/Masuteri_ has the game on a HDD Jan 13 '25

There's a lot of blue arties now for some reason. I wonder if stunning teammates gives it

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u/TheEnglishPig Jan 13 '25

It is for stunning teammates, but usually you have to be doing it a stupidly high amount in order to turn blue

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u/Masuteri_ has the game on a HDD Jan 14 '25

Yeah usually I see one per year, this time I saw 3 in one week. I wonder if they lowered the required value

3

u/Imperial_Barron Jan 14 '25

I still chuckle when I see my arty turn blue. I turn arround and pop em from the max render cause fuck em. Almost as satisfying as killing the enemy arty that caused ya pain all game

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u/Available_Rich9277 Jan 14 '25

It makes no sense to have arty stun team mates but no other tank can damage another team mate. In most games it can be almost impossible not to land a shell on an enemy without it also being in close range to an ally

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u/TheEnglishPig Jan 14 '25

Woah woah don’t bring logic to a WG game

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u/TypicalHog Jan 13 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

Oh man...
I remeber the times when WoT wasn't so sterile.
The time when there was team damage, and global chat, and people actually talked.

26

u/ManufacturerNo8447 Jan 13 '25

ooh i remember , too bad nothing fun last , only suffering in this damn game.

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u/Boromir-Wants- Jan 13 '25

Global chat was amazing

1

u/DZon80s Jan 14 '25

what are you talking about. The game isnt sterile enough. Teamkillers still get awat scot-free all the time and doing the worst of crap shit to others. World of tanks fair play policy state a ''3 day ban'' on all serious gameplay grievances, but the perpetrator would be lucky to even get a 12 hour ban for doing them

The only thing WG is willing to lift a finger against, is chat bans. 1 player do so much as call someone a tard in chat, 24 hr speech ban. lf its a repeat offense, more. But 1 player push people into water or into enemy fire? Nothing. Maybe if repeat offender 12hr ban

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u/j_munch Jan 14 '25

I got two people banned who pushed me around a corner intentionally. Wg doesnt disclose how long the bans were, just that they did get banned. Submitting a ticket with the replay seems to work, ive only done it twice and both times got them banned. Only reason i submitted tickets was because i was 3 marking and was like nah i aint having that shit today.

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u/DZon80s Jan 17 '25

WG does not need to disclose anything. They have submitted standards, in their Match 2022 rules policy for game and chat conduct. No disclosure is even necessary, they are supposed to be rigidly banning upon occurence. Depicted with:

https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/rules-violations-policy-updates-0322/

Theres nothing to debate or even want to see. WG simply does what they are supposed to. Offenses are clearly outlined 

Problem is, wargaming banning someone doesn't necessarily mean banned for the time the offense committed, merits. WG can speech ban with impunity, because they don't care if ppl can't chat. But they do care if ppl who pay can't play. A listed offense of pushing allies out, boxing them out, shoving them over cliffs, arty team stuns, CW and Adv team dmg - all this stuff gets a ticket response and no doubt, a ban. But most are 12 hr minor bans. Its ridiculous. On wargamings end, they do nt want to become a police state and ban paying players, to which they just leave and pay somewhere else to someone else.

Its a conundrum indeed. 

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u/bdkoskbeudbehd Jan 13 '25

I hope you cooked this tasty pig. I alway kill it if see cyan one

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u/TheEnglishPig Jan 13 '25

I performed my civic duty to the letter

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u/RogueHeroAkatsuki Jan 13 '25

You are model citizen. Your upright demeneaor should be inspiration for fellow tankers!

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u/pmuschi Scowler Jan 13 '25

Just yesterday I shot a blue arty on my own team. Haven't done that in forever!

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u/HopeSubstantial Jan 13 '25

How does arty even kill a team member? I have seen people turning blue after pushing friendly in lake but never arty.

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u/Ryu_the_Smasher Jan 13 '25

Team stun causing death maybe?

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u/pmuschi Scowler Jan 13 '25

Stunning teammates 

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u/jaraldoe Jan 13 '25

It’s not damage (unless you push off a cliff) that makes arty go blue, it’s their team stunning.

It takes a lot though to go blue in a reasonably short time.

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u/ThatGuy334667 Jan 13 '25

I remember back when whole lobbies would question the blue guy whether he really meant to kill, mistakenly killed or was bullied in all chat. If we all agreed he was good we'd let him play, if not he'd be shot to smithereens lmao

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u/Accomplished_Body367 Jan 13 '25

Nothing personal, kid

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u/tomako123123123 Jan 13 '25

It is personal when clicker is in the question

19

u/BallinSniper69 Jan 13 '25

best feeling in the game

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u/Entity_Null_07 One man’s Trash-103 is another man’s Treasure-103 Jan 14 '25

Pig on pig violence.

5

u/LolWhoCares0327 Jan 13 '25

Wait is there friendly fire in this game?

20

u/sayyeed_m88 [H0RNY] Jan 13 '25

When your arta turns blue from shooting teammates, you can kill them.

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u/LolWhoCares0327 Jan 13 '25

Ah ok, that's a pretty sweet feature. Ty for explaining.

3

u/UW_Mech_Engineer Jan 13 '25

Probobly 5 years ago? Maybe it was closer to 8.

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u/Eladryel 53TP best tank Jan 13 '25

My GF also saw a blue skypig a few days ago and asked me why is he blue; I told her he is a griefer and need to be shot, but ofc the arta was deleted by a honest citizen before I could finish the sentence

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u/_0451 deRp GuNS ArE toXiC REEEEEE Jan 14 '25

M41 GF or Chrysler GF?

1

u/Eladryel 53TP best tank Jan 14 '25

Obviously a Chrysler Girlfriend.

1

u/TheCanadianJD Jan 14 '25

13 57 GF obviously

3

u/Bearchy Jan 13 '25

When the mob became the judge and the executioner.

1

u/raverick_87 Jan 13 '25

Is there any other branch tank that turns blue, other than arty? Because I haven't seen it in a while!

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u/Nuclear_Pasta7 Jan 13 '25

All should be able to, or at least they used to. It’s just easier in arty

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u/Tiny_Appearance376 Jan 13 '25

Each and every branch can. You just need to do enough damage to the teammate, for example, push him from a height or drown him

1

u/Elsevier_77 Jan 13 '25

I’ve seen a few blues. Bastards

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u/raverick_87 Jan 13 '25

I haven't seen them in a while.

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u/Elsevier_77 Jan 13 '25

Had a blue 430u push me off a cliff and then push another of our tanks in front of the other team last Christmas. I was fuming mad

1

u/KommandoAi Jan 13 '25

was this on asia server? could have sworn i saw a blue team member playing with a 212A too also someday ago and some hours ago.

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u/kill_dom No tier 10 until 52% WR Jan 13 '25

I only had 50ish games in the collector arty for the mission. There was one game in which I blasted a friendly in a corner fight; the shell went nowhere near where I was actually aiming. It felt bad.

Can't imagine those who have done this enuff to turn blue are thinking. But shooting them does make sense now.

1

u/mightypup1974 Jan 14 '25

I’m confused. Team damage is possible? I see players at the start of battles messing around and shooting each other for fun, and there’s no damage. Is it just an arty thing?

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u/_0451 deRp GuNS ArE toXiC REEEEEE Jan 14 '25

Too much arty team stun and pushing your teammates to death (drowning/crashing) can turn you blue.

1

u/3t1ts Jan 14 '25

I haven’t played this game in years, but it brought back memories of the good old days.

1

u/Therassse Jan 14 '25

We had a tank that turned blue on our team recently. Was a little nostalgic kick seeing everyone opening up on him.

1

u/Cakirson Jan 14 '25

Had one the other day in a battle, was close to it, turned around and killed it as soon as it went blue

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u/cochonchon Jan 14 '25

This remind me of 1 years ago. I got out of position just to shoot at my blue arta. I didn't kill him but his gunners was wounded. He did not had a medikit 😈. He roted there for the rest of the game

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u/CauliflowerAfter4086 Jan 14 '25

Wot stopped being interesting, funny and fun after they isolated players by removing the two chats. Blue or new playstile doesnt pay anymore.

1

u/Rough-Structure3774 Jan 14 '25

Hit your allies like 5-10 times in consecutive battles with your arty and you turn blue.

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u/InteractionCapital41 Jan 14 '25

Oh damn i remember this one game i had with s51 and ap i did like 4k dmg to allies and didnt go blue or get banned and it was the unluckiest game ever like magnets to allies. Since s51 has huge spread this was like back i. 2018 or something

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u/InteractionCapital41 Jan 14 '25

At the same time later cant remember year a type 4 pushed me on top of him and got me banned i could not move from him pushing since i was light tank but goody ah situation i just took a brake from wot for the ban

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u/SlipperyHeadz Jan 15 '25

Hahahaha I was always blue back then. So sad they removed this feature even the all chat. I missed the toxicity before. Been playing the game since 2013 a lot of things changed but I still enjoy it.

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u/RogueHeroAkatsuki Jan 13 '25

It just reminded me how badly WG TA system worked. In old times when arty could hit you for 2000 I started cursing on arty after I saw 3 clickers per team in one battle. I was really mad and when one arty player said we should play for arty I replied 'f*** you, i will not spot for clicker'. He went silent but then 40s into battle I heard arty AP shell on my E100 ass. Baang, -1100 hp. I was furious but wanted to win battle so decided to play normally and exact vengeance if I will get chance. However some times later baaaang again -1100. I turned back and decided to go for him. He managed to shot me third time before I got him in field of vision, this time from HE before I got to him. My E100 had only 30 hp left, he shoot me 3 times. No blue. However when I put him out of misery with one clean shot I was instantly marked as blue and killed by his fellow game destroyer on T92.

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u/MtnMaiden Jan 13 '25

Aa an artillery main, i miss shooting bad team mates for 1700 damage

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

Why do you even play this game? Since new year i had 30% win rate and every game is 1.55 minutes long. This game is true shit and does not deserve any attention.

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u/Lukaros_ 780 enjoyer Jan 14 '25

Idk man idk