Now hear me out.I think its a lazy way of making money off of a game which as a shitty grind BUT its way better than locking actual intresting vehicles behind a paywall. Most of the old premiums were experimental ww2 tanks that dont have a tech tree version. So unless you pay up you loose out on like solid 30% of the intresting vehicles in a tech tree. Its much better to make copy paste prems since people are buying prems just to grind. A good example i can give is the clovis. Its a recent one and unless you pay money you CANNOT get it which is pure bullshit in my opinion. Another example is the cv90105 for sweden. Its the only non 40mm gun tank in swedens 10.3 lineup. Unless you pay you only play the same vehicle for a whole lineup.
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Depends, if it’s a domestic copy paste like ace pilot planes or the t-34 85 “partisan” then yes, if it’s another nations vehicle that doesn’t differ from any in game variants then that’s bad
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Plus you can test drive premiums to decide if you actually like it or not. I don’t like the Abrams, so I decided not to pursue America further. I hate Phantoms, and I know that from having the F4S, so that helps with deciding to skip the F4s in every tree.
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I mean am fine with multiple nations having the same tanks as long as they arent in sim battles. I enjoy a little bit of t55 action in sweden myself. You also get a premium leo1a5. The issue is that the entire sweden 10.3 lineup is cv9040. No bullshit its just 9040 , 9040 but with radar, 9040 but with atgm launcher. The only non 9040 vehicle is the 90105 and its a idk what 30 dollar premium ?
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you are missing out on the raw fun that is f4e
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Depends.
If theres a tech tree equal in that nation whatever. as long as its not a spammed vehicle like a leo 2
Yes, the best premiums are things like:
Tada’s Ki-61-I. It’s the literal same plane as the tech tree Ki-61 inside the tech tree IT ACTUALLY BELONGS IN. This lets people fly their favourite plane without having to fly for the enemy if they actually want good SL economy in sim.
I want more Tada’s Ki-61-I.
I want Pappy’s Corsair.
I want Erich’s Bf109 and so on.
Emphasis: WITHIN THE SAME NATION AS THE TT VARIANT.
I’d love to fly the French yak-3, but France and USSR are usually on enemy teams in my experience at WW2 brackets and it just causes needless confusion. The British Cannonstang is borderline since it has significant historical value and UK is always on america’s side.
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I’ll skip out on that, I prefer MiGs anyways.
I would just suggest having tech tree equivalents of unique premiums.
give us a techtree early f2 give us a techtree early f2 give us a techtree early f2 give us a techtree early f2 give us a techtree early f2 </3
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It’s mainly Sim that this affects the most, as you can hardly tell who’s a friendly or an enemy just by looking at the tank now, as trying to look for an insignia requires you to get ridiculously close to an enemy.
Every premium should be copy paste in my opinion. They would be much easier to balance.
And I hate that lots of unique vehicles are premium
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A good example is the premium Mirage F1C-200, which has tech tree version F1C as replacement.
A medium example is FA-18C Early, well it’s ok since at least we have 18A.
But like F20A, which has no variants but only a prototype one, is a premium… I like its look and its uniqueness(although may not so strong), but I can only play with it by paying…(I actually paid for this, even if I had almost completed the US air tech tree)
Now we will have premium L39, premium F2 early…
Kinda? The devs won’t be making unique vehicle any faster even if they never do C&P, so having some C&P brings variety at least in terms of skins. Yes, sometimes the in-game skins available would impact whether I want a vehicle or not.
For the F-18C early and similar stuff, I don’t find those acceptable either. We will get 2 F-2s soon, one at 13.7 and the other which is locked as a premium as 13.0.
Gaijin should instead add 2 F-2s at 13.0 and the premium one could have bonus decal or something.
Unique vehicles outside of the TT are somewhat acceptable if they are event vehicles. But those events should be reocurring every other year or so, so new players can get them too. Its stupid to have some old event vehicles worth thousands which you rarelly see anyone playing and thats a pity.
We could have events were you could choose between a small selection of vehicles (new and some old that fit a similar role for the event)
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I’d prefer all premiums to be TT vehicles with other unique camoes or from other nations (TAF 104S , AH-64A Greekache), while anything else -unique to be event or SQ vehicle…
If anything if i was GJ , i’d stop releasing premium planes and instead i’d bring a second talisman that converts TT/event/SQ vehicles to premiums and get done with it… The price would remain the same as buying a premium vehicle, and the bonuses (premium account/GE) the prem vehicles have i’d include them in that tali…name it…Ultimate Tali!
I didn’t have a problem back in time with the premium planes that were inscripted to named pilots, and they were not ^different vehicles^ than the TT ones…and why not keep selling that kind of premium vehicles, but as a pattern i’d make premium talisman. It’s just better in variety, would sell more and it won’t break balance or cause problems in what BR to give it if it’s unique…
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Oh god damn this game company do this again… The newly added premium mig29 sniper makes tech tree ones inferior.
This would be best.
Finally, premium F4U-4 in US TT and premium Bf109F4 in GER TT!
If it’s the same price as say, Mustang Mk IA or Tada’s Ki-61-I or french Yak-3, I’d totally buy it next sale if I got frivolous money left over.
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Not exactly… It’s better for A-G from what i saw in the video, other than that the same .
R-27ER and R-60M. not even an effort to fix the loadouts…
The premium one get its radar and rwr upgraded. The rwr is digital. Especially the radar, it can tell you what the enemy is now. And u know what is the tech tree one’s radar like…
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