I would love to be able to just buy the vehicles that I am interested in, but not at the prices Gaijin is charging for packs (the new Triple packs excluded, as they are pretty good value) and high rank vehicles.
Alternatively a subscription model that just lets you play all vehicles would be amazing. But I guess Gaijin doesn’t think that such a subscription would bring in enough money…
Except… Are they?
If you grinded the French Ground TT, you probably wanted to play the Leclerc, not the Leopard 2, if you had wanted those, you’d probably have grinded the German TT.
I dont think a single French main is happy to have Leopard 2 C&Ps in their TT, but would have probably rather enjoyed the Belgium Scimitar to bolster their IFVs as its a hole they have
To be fair, the Badger could have been amazing, Gaijin just chose the wrong variant.
The ZA subtree did fill more gaps than the other subtrees though, even if most of those gaps could have been filled with domestic British vehicles.
Eh… imo, it barely did.
Badger 2 or 3 years ago might have been really useful, but after the Fox, Scimitar and Desert Warrior, just seems like a waste of dev time and the Ajax would have been a lot better.
We still have a huge SPAA void between 5.3 and 8.3 and yet we have alternative ZA 5.3 and 8.3 SPAAGs to use. Instead of adding either or even both of those, could they have added a ZA SPAAG at 6.3/7.3?
and like you said, everything else could be fairly easily replaced by something domestic.
The SPAA gap could be smaller, if, you know, they got rid of the APDS on the Falcon (and nerfed and APHE a bit, I suppose). The Bosvark and Ystervark (as much as I dislike them for being fragile and unwieldy) are good alternatives to their British counterparts and the ZA-35 is overall much better than the Marksman (they should have given us the Chally Marksman instead of the Chieftain Marksman).
The autocannon Badger was never going to be a useful addition, even if we didn’t have the Fox and its useless brother, the Scimitar. The ZT3 Badger is the one that would have been great to have, as the ZT3A2 missiles are extremely potent ATGMs and having them on a vehicle that isn’t a Ratel would be great for high/top tier.
As for the gaps the ZA tree filled (imo at least), they provided a great howitzer before almost everyone got the M109 and they bring amazing light vehicles to a tech tree that apparently is only allowed to have (bad) auto cannon rats instead.
Yeah outside of the T-72B3A and the F-2A (which are both massively overdue vehicles that should have came forever ago) this update is looking like a massive let down.
Even the new SAM systems which I was looking forwards to are looking to be a massive letdown with how they are currently plus the fact we are expected to use them on maps like advance to the rhine and other small cqc maps.
Its basically just going to be Vanguard Grind for me and only if Soyuz doesnt ruin top tier like Scharnhorst did and I stick with just playing cruisers again
74km HMD/ACM, very nice
Its a middle of year update, they’re typically on the smaller size
I don’t think La Royale and Seek & Destroy got that memo lol.
Yeah I’m not even looking forward to the T-72B3A anymore. It suffers from the typical aps curse meaning that imo it’s borderline doa.
At least the F-2A still looks cool visually, even if it’s not going to perform super meta.
Yeah, Usually its March and October that are the smaller updates tpyically with September being middle of the pack in terms of size
Thankfully they put the right tea into the Iron Fist system on the Black Night.
i got alot of mix battle recently and dude pantsir vs 38mt is CINEMATIC battle dude
At the right BR it would fit more. But everything at top tier is just super compressed, and the game doesn’t really do well with theoretical vs practical BR’s.
In terms of premiums being added, this is a pretty large update. It’s sad to see that apparently most of the development effort went into those premiums.
if theres isnt a second dev and the spaa is ass on release
im gonna crash out
They are gonna be trash.
I’m huffing the strongest copium you could ever imagine and hoping they are holding these systems back until every nation has a medium range SAM, but it’s not looking very good right now…
im just gonna use adats
I’m gonna keep using the Stormer HVM
what
bro just use adats