OK I know a lot of people are not happy with Gaijin but honetls I think they are doing a really good job. We get 7 Major Update per year with quite a few new tanks and yes a few of them are copy and past out of simplicity reasons, time perspective and to get good linups in countries until they have the uniqe vehicles developed. They also still manage to get new interesting vehicles in but they take a lot of time and resources to get them working and implemented and can easily cost them 10k€ plus per model. They can not make everyone happy it just does not work. We have 2 major parties for premium vehicles:
- They do not want copy past premiums because they are boring and they should be uniqe
- They do not want premiums to be uniqe and behind a pay wall
Also the copy and past from one tech tree to another like the Leo 2 makes sense for me. Some Tech Trees need linups and are really struggling to get one from their own countries so they add a new vehicles from a different country to it. The Leo is easy to do, they have the files already, the chassis and everything and only need to do some slight adjustments. This saves time while they are working on the more uniqe vehicles for there countries that can take multiple years to create and research. People think only because the add one vehicle that they are not working on anything else. Which is just not true. Also some countries people want to have in there have not enought vehicles or uniqe vehicles to get a own tech tree so they add them to a different country. For me that also makes total sense.
So I think they really try to do it right.
What they should do in my opinion for the premiums is to have them in the tech tree to unlock and as a premium so there is no advantage maybe a slightly different varient that does not give you a real advantage over the non premium versions.
Gajin is doing a mix of that and I get it honestly. They try to make everyone happy but it is just not possible.
There are 7 things they really need to get fixed.
- Volumetric, it is nice to have and makes it possible to model vehicles that we do not know everything of to make it balanced but there should be a max armor cap per vehicle. I am so fed up by not penning a T34 side on with a Tiger 2 because I hit the side skirt or a specific place where the game thinks the armor is 10 meters thick.
- Barrels eat rounds and it just dissapears into nothing. This really needs to be fixed. The gun needs to break when I shoot it with my 88mm Tiger Cannon the barrel does not survive when I hit it no matter the angle.
- Grinding. The grind is just way to much for higher vehicles. One way to fix it would be to have copy past vehicles from one tech tree to another automatically unlocked if you unlocked it in one already. Obviously you need to get to that point first in the other Tech Tree but I do not want to grind the Leo 2A4 10 times for each nation.
- Make it possible to get old vehicles that can not be optained anymore for new players via events. It does not need to replace new events with new vehicles but additional to that. This would be great.
- THE BMPT IS JUST BROKEN AND MAKES 10.7 upwards completely unplayable. PLEASE FIX THIS Gaijin.
- Give us new game mode that make it more interactive with the tanks. It feels like it does not matter if i am there or not. Just some new good game modes would be great. For example I would like to have a ground game mode without CAS, it is so anoying to die mostly to CAS, especially in light tanks. But also I want a mode where I feel engaged. An example would be like in battlefield the “Breakthrough” mode. One Team need to defend and the other one needs to get furhter into enemy territory and push the defenders back.
- Fix the Maps, they have some bad design. I know you are working on that but still some are so bad that you can get spawn camped from a cross the map and you have no chance to do anything against it.