No team work on EU server. Language barrier too Big!

[Dbars_eu]

Here in EU land we have all kind of people and many dont speak english. It is way to hard to make a plan in game to win. Everyone just does there own thing and its very annoying. WGing needs to add more in game abilities to indicate targets and where to go during a battle. 

[Renwor]

It's not so much language barrier. Its just a matter of developing common plan with group of strangers most of whom my actually be opposed to developing a plan ... all that in 15minutes (or rather , first two minutes, than it's too late).   Not much different from WoT random. Only rarely you get a group of likeminded people who are willing to stick to a plan ... and only because thier own plan is similar to yours.

 

 

[placeholder001]

This is why we have teamspeak. Dont expect a random stranger to listen to you? remind you, he thinks he is smarter than you an all the  rest of the team... Also he has his own plan for the team but hey so does the rest of the team...

[Rem3mberMe]

I am considering playing on the US server. I can speak english/german/czech, so I understand also polish, but in every game I have played the, US community seemed more friendly to me and there was no language barrier as well.

[mtm78]

There is teamwork but to a limited extent. Don't expect your team to know what you are thinking, if you want to coordinate use chat and be concise but elaborate enough to make sure they know exactly what you're saying. And language barrier? I had great coordination with people from all different kind of nations, be it western or eastern europe or even other continents ( PT server ). As long as you can convince people your 'plan' is viable and beneficial for everyone ( not just: go spot! go cap XYZ! Noob, go left/right/straight! ). 

 

[ThatOneDidntGoIn]

What a choice. EU server where they don't understand you because of the language barrier. US server where they don't understand you because on screen chat doesn't come with pop up pictures.

[Dbars_eu]

I am considering playing on the US server. I can speak english/german/czech, so I understand also polish, but in every game I have played the, US community seemed more friendly to me and there was no language barrier as well.

 

i agree more people seem to talk on US server. I feel like i am playing with robots on the EU server.

[Grydneg]

[...] ( not just: go spot! go cap XYZ! Noob, go left/right/straight! ). 

 

 

or even better: ping the minimap without any comment whatsoever.

[Admiral_noodle]

I was in a game today where someone was ponging the minimap in a way everyone understood and followed! And we won! No chat just pinging. It can work!

 

[mtm78]

 

or even better: ping the minimap without any comment whatsoever.

 

I sometimes do this though, because I don't have the time to type in chat. Still usually works if you first ping the ship/ships who in your opinion should to something and then ping the place they should go ( cap a zone, flank someone, defend a cap ), if the people who you ping aren't the kind of players which think they are god's gift to WoWs. 

[Hannibalurg]

Germans are allways a problem on EU servers. Normally they get own servers. But don't think that will happen here.

[Admiral_noodle]

@mtm78 - absolutely. And if done sparingly it doesn't come across rude. And leads to less hatred.

 

@hannibalurg - I'm not sure that comment is appropriate.

[gbgroger]

Germans r sometimes a problem yes, as they tend to speak german and 75% of the team dont understand.

[mtm78]

Germans r sometimes a problem yes, as they tend to speak german and 75% of the team dont understand.

 

Moin

 

Seriously though, most Germans are perfectly capable of speaking English and if you address them and ask them to repeat it in English so you can better understand they usually will do so. I really do not like this generalization of countries and their inhabitants. 

 

 

[gbgroger]

Some of them speak english I agree, but 50% refuses and does so cheerfully

My native language is swedish, but I wouldn't dream of using in general chat - to put in perspective.

And Ive only played 2000+ rounds. Just stating my opinion.

[mtm78]

That's probably because you don't see that many Swedes in a game 

 

If Pape is streaming a lot of his viewers are also playing, if they end up in the same game can you blame them for some German banter? Chat has always been open for all languages, and when needed ( tactically, to secure a win ) trust me almost all of those Germans are capable of speaking and understanding English.

 

I have talked Dutch with a few people from the forums who I know to be Dutch as well, but it was always just a few lines at the start of a battle. Don't really see the issue, as long as people aren't using game chat as some kind of online chatbox when the content of their discussion is in no way related to the game.

[OldGrandad]

I am considering playing on the US server. I can speak english/german/czech, so I understand also polish, but in every game I have played the, US community seemed more friendly to me and there was no language barrier as well.

 

I opened an account on the NA server last week and I can assure you their player base equals ours in 'gutterspeak'. In total honesty it is home from home, you speak kindly and you will get kind replies. There are always those that choose to do their own thing no matter the country.

[Hauptbahnhof]

Is it strange there is no teamwork when you are only allowed to play with a maximum of 2 friends and not even allowed to make some custom games where you can play around more for less rewards?

[SBS]

I don't think germans are a problem. This may be because I can understand a bit of german, but generally they are great at teamwork.

To behonest I don't thinkl language has anything to do with this. I think it is simply because it is an "online" game with "random" players on the team.

A lot of people are just their to get a quick match in or to grind and don't care about you or they think their opinion and plan matters more than yours.

 

Also I spoke with Ectar at a community gathering. Apparently some statistics from the servers show that the people on the RU generally rush a lot more, people on the US server are generally more campu and on the EU server as he described it are more passionate and tacticall or something like that.

The way I see it is that the russians just don't give a flying *** while the US are overly causious and don't want to die while us EU players take things way to seriously 

 

But to be honest, I don't think the language or the server matters much. You will someone or something that will annoy you.

[Kostis_Larsson]

It's similar to WoT, support others but don't expect support from your team (you can rely on your platoon mates ONLY).

You 'll find exceptions... but few.

[Venatacia]

 

i agree more people seem to talk on US server. I feel like i am playing with robots on the EU server.

 

Not robots, just bots.

 

Even when the folk from abroad can speak English, they tend not too. Number of times people asked politely if they could talk English to form a battle plan only to be told in English (so they can talk & type English) to F-Off and "If we want to talk in our own language we will".

 

 

Seems there is still much hatred around on the EU server. Can't even find common ground in a game we all enjoy. I would join the American sever if it wasn't for a slower connection.

[SBS]

It's similar to WoT, support others but don't expect support from your team (you can rely on your platoon mates ONLY).

You 'll find exceptions... but few.

 

As the popular saying goes. "Random battles, random teams, random results". 

Well, you can impact the results a bit... 

[MudMonkey]

I have played with an other account on the US server (WoT). And I can tell you that there are very well people that dont like other languages at all. For them only Canadians are acceptable (and even they use french sometimes). But there are a lot of players from south america. And they use spanish and portuguese in game.

I dont understand how you guys can look down on people who have not been so fortunate to learn english the way we did. Ask them politely to use english so you can understand what they are talking about. If they are not [edited], they will do so, and maybe some will even tell you that they have trouble with that language. If they are [edited], its probably not worth knowing.

[gbgroger]

I do ask politely, often to no avail or the respons: "learn german"!

 

There r many swedes here but we dont flood chat with swedish

[Hauptbahnhof]

 

There r many swedes here but we dont flood chat with swedish

 

Göteboska FTW!