Hello, currently, bushes can be obtained free of charge in the “warbonds” store every 1 to 3 Battle Passes.
The bushes are in a level V chest, unlockable with 5 special objectives completed and 2200 warbonds.
With the current Battle Pass (Season XVI “Skilled Marksman”), these are unfortunately not bushes, but road signs!
The previous Battle Pass (Season XV, “Northern King”), it was bushes, I had won a pile of straw.
For Season XVII, we’ll see whether we’ll have a chest of bushes or a chest of helmets.
From a distance it’s just a blurred mess and it still an advantage to have these bushes, having to identify that second tank from 400m away is not easy and the Maus is obviously always a Maus but it matters where on the turret you hit it.
Yes, I love having to alert the tanks I want to shoot by spraying them with MGs first and wait for the bushes to fall off if I somehow manage to hit their shitty hitbox and then I can shoot it, that surely sounds like a fool proof plan, assuming of course you have MGs on your vehicle, which tons of vehicles do not.
Still, it should be grindable like squadron vehicles or ace crews (that is something you can make slow progress towards whenever you play, even if it’s an absurd grind. Seriously, make it a 200 or 400 hour grind per tier or per vehicle to unlock a single bush and I’m happy), rather than time-gated to a specific battlepass that needs level 57 to access (and 5500 warbonds which I think you cannot obtain in a single BP cycle. I’ve been working on getting the aigle this BP and at level 37 I couldnt afford the 2700 warbond cost and needed to grind to level 48 for another 850 warbonds). It’s the time gated aspect that really bothers me because some people have really weird schedules like me where they have zero free time for a month or two, then WFH & chill for a month or two and repeat.
It’s fun to see some guys shouting “Unbalanced”, “Unfair advantage” in the thread for a whole year, while Game Masters and Community Helpers try to explain how this mechanic is balanced and not P2W ^^
Game mechanics haters always found to be like this.
Also, bushes are not always available for warbonds, like now for example.
Also, new players will not have the time/skill/knowledge in order to grind for them. The game literally never explains to you what warbonds or specials tasks are.
Yeah, and then they changed the warbonds so that items cycle out of the shop and they tied it to the battlepass so you can’t do that remotely as easily as you could before.
Battle Pass isn’t the only way to get bushes free… By grinding events you can get nearly everything free.
And btw, to “turn off” or remove bushes is completely another problem. Just like asking to remove CAS, remove artillery… what they want is to remove the fun, reduce choices of gameplay, and finally produce a “very fair” game that everyone use the same vehicle, same crew and same mechanics.
“Turning off” isn’t for decorations. Instead it’s for non-historical things, to make the game more realistic. For instance historical camos can’t be turn off. In the same reason bushes should never have a turn off option.
Fine if you don’t value your time.
Why does my choice of turning off bushes affect your fun, your choice or anything when they’re not an advantage? You still get to see them