It’s a very good idea, I thought they could do it on the premiun to avoid people who only have that car to get out.
But do it on all carts, they might miss some tanks on certain BRs. That’s one of the negative things it could have. Lose variety.
In short, it’s a good idea but I have the doubt of how it would affect the balance and variety of tanks in game.
I don’t think premiums need even more of an incentive when they’re borderline the only thing worth playing as is.
I’m not sure how it would reduce variety if the alternative is people leaving, I’d rather have more of the same vehicles on my team than just me, myself and I on the team after 5 minutes.
Realistically Gaijin needs to increase rewards for the lesser vehicles to make it worth playing, but they always push monetization to the extreme and only make the premium vehicles worthwhile.
If you made the bad vehicles highly rewarding for a kill and the good vehicles less rewarding it could be fun to get kills with a bad vehicle and have it be worthwhile, instead of making things unnecessarily difficult for yourself and reduce your income at the same time.
Playing my IS-7 and making use of my 15 free Backups, I really did enjoy the gameplay more. Knowing that I get another chance with the vehicle I want to spade, or that I just want to enjoy. The only constructive Question that I have for now is, what should happen to Backups? Wouldn’t they become obsolete?
Probably difficult to not enjoy the IS-7 to be fair as I can’t imagine a more broken vehicle, but as far as backups go I said:
backups still maintain it’s use by being able to get a third spawn out of it so no harm there.
So either get a third spawn or get a second spawn for the powerful vehicles if that is implemented.
Fair enough, definitely less powercrept that the 279 and more enjoyable to me.
Makes sense, I like it.
It was good they added some backups the premium vehicles, but giving out like 10-15 per vehicle does nothing to solve the issue in the long run, and I think you can’t get that many in the warbond shop either.
Unless of course you’re going to buy them GE, but who is going to spend $0.80 every single game, that’s insane.
It would certainly help if it was even only for vehicles suffering “up Tier” to get an Auto Back Up. Especially a full up tier.
Definitely interesting to address that issue as well, although I do feel backups need to be for everyone as you’d just end up with people leaving too soon.
I would prefer to see the same concept as dynamic repairs applied to earnings, where in an uptier you earn more RP and SL, like a full uptier you get 20% increase or whatever, maybe 10% for a smaller deficit.
You should make a poll when starting a suggestion thread.
It’s not a suggestion thread, and I don’t care for people voting ‘no’ without providing actual feedback and explain why they dislike, there’s way to many contrarians out there who oppose any sort of change anyways.
This would work great for people facing the broken o279 and the 4 second reload 906. Lets give them two OP tanks. Lets not forget the WMA 301 and 506 with the early fire and forget tank missiles. Two seems better than one for sure.
Like I said, vehicles like the 279 could be balanced better by only allowing a single spawn.
Why anyone has an issue with the WMA is a mystery to me however.
Gen 2 thermals, 55mph top speed, tandem charge missiles, and proximity anti air shells at BR 9.0. Its a camping monster. Especially with a lack of barrel collision.
Thermals are barely useful these days, top speed really isn’t remarkable, tandem missile isn’t anything special after all ATGMS were nerfed plus 370m/s velocity means your APFSDS is 4x as fast and if at distance you deserve to die anyways as you’d have several seconds to avoid it.
HE-VT with a 18 degree barrel elevation and 1 shot per 7.2 seconds is very situational.
In return you get zero.zero armor, poor acceleration, poor depression, poor reverse, don’t get the better APFSDS and it has this weird recoil that ruins your shots.
It’s a pretty good vehicle at times but really not remarkable enough to single out, especially not after the ATGM nerfs… it’s stats are very mediocre.
I would love this. I have just reached Br11.3 in britain. We dont have any 10.7s (i think) or 11.0s. So you jump straight from 10.3 to 11.3. For me to take a second ground vehicle would mean taking a 10.3 into a 11.7 match. So when i die. Its either CAS or if i didnt get any kills, quit, usually. (I do need to get the chally mk3 spaded to have that as a half decent back up) if i could respawn in my chally 2 again. I would 95% of the time.
So lets compare then. Since Sweden doesn’t get any 9.0 tanks I will use the 8.7 91-105(Light tank). No missiles. No proximity shell. 8.7 second reload. -8/15 degree elevation. No thermals. Worse in all cases and since Sweden has no 9.0 tanks, you fight the WMA301 a lot. WMA301 55mph, 91-105 40mph. Neither one has armor so that is a useless argument.
WMA301 detonation is set to 15% by the way. Which it should not be for a light tank.
I want you to find me another tank at 9.0 with Gen 2 thermals, 50+mph speed, ATGMs, Darts, and Proximity shells.
I wan you to find me another tank around 9.0
I hate when people say “well xx doesn’t use thermals that much” that is completely opinion/objective. Some players swear by thermals and can’t play without them.
The facts are, its a tank from around 2012 that is placed at a BR against tanks from the 1970s. That shouldn’t happen.
AND you ALWAYS HAVE TO ACCOUNT for the -1 BR she gets to stomp at.
Thermals got a significant nerf, so they are not nearly as important as they once were, regardless if you use them or not, they’re not as big of a bonus anymore so that’s worth considering.
Top speed also exists on paper, in a game you barely out drive a Leopard A1A1, only on the streets are you likely to have more of an advantage, as do all wheeled vehicles.
On the downside the lack of reverse speed and the fact a wheeled vehicle cannot move on the spot is massively detrimental, especially paired with the size of the vehicle and having 8mm if armor.
BMD-4 at 9.0 is better, tandem ATGM that reloads twice as fast, 70km/h top speed and 70 in reverse, autocannon, thermals, superior mobility as a tracked vehicle, far better vehicle profile, elevation of 60 vs 18, also more depression, way faster turret rotation speed of 34 vs 15, auto loader, more armor to protect against MGs and it gets IRST that allows it to function as SPAA paired with a 20x zoom vs 11x on the WMA.
Oh good, so you are talking about both russian trees (Taiwan/china is just baby russian tree for crew lockout). Also fun fact the BMD-4 entered service in 2004. So its another modern vehicle placed against 1970s vehicles for other nations.
Can you find anything that isn’t russian or russian shill nation that is this grossly under BR?
The thermals with the proximity rounds makes the WMA301 a massive helicopter hunting vehicle.
Sounds like you’re just changing the goalposts now, besides year of introduction has never been relevant in game.
Because it favors russia not to be correct. The Mig 29 is from the mid 1980s. The F16 and F18 are older than the Mig 29. The Mig 29 and F18 should have been introduced together. The 2s38 isn’t in service yet, but it sits at 10.0 vs 1970s vehicles. The russian pt-76 sits at 5.3 vs WW2 tanks despite being a 1950s design.
It isn’t relevant because it favors russia. Thats just a lame excuse they use to pick on older vehicles. Swedish USH-405 is from 1950 at 8.0. The same BR as the russian 906 which is from the late 1960s.
Years matter, because of technology. The R27ER that russia gets is from the mid 1980s. The USA is given the aim-9L from around 1975. One has IRCCM one doesn’t. This is why years matter.
The russian and chinese trees are basically the same thing with some extra candy in china. Show me another nation that is getting down boosted like they are against older tech. I will wait. It is the same goalpost. Plus you never showed me a tank that gets Gen 2 Thermals, Proximity Shells, ATGMS, 55mph speeds, Stabilizer, etc at 9.0. Still waiting for that one.