XVM
The mod that popularised showing every player's rating in the battle loading screen, and the origin of the colour scale everyone uses.
Also known as extended visualization mod, stat mod.
XVM reads public statistics and paints the loading screen with each player's rating colour, along with a predicted chance of winning. The colour bands it chose became the community standard, which is why a stats site and a mod agree on what purple means.
It is also the reason showing ratings in battle is controversial: seeing the colours before the first shot changes how players treat their own team.
Related terms
Rating colorsThe nine-step colour scale the community reads ratings through, running from black at the bottom to dark purple at the top.WN8A community performance rating that scores a player against the damage, kills, spotting and base defence expected of the vehicles they actually play, with a win rate term on top.UnicumA player in the top few percent of the server, named for the purple band their rating colour falls into.TomatoA player whose rating sits in the red band, at the bottom of the colour scale.