I really wish the 2 week windows were extended for whole duration. It is a lot of fun to be busy for a month or two and miss a significant amount of challenges…
War Thunder Naval is a failure, so I agree wholeheartedly that BP challenges should not include Naval combat. I played naval quite a bit, but it’s just not good when compared to World of Warships.
Wow, it only takes a grand total of 5 minutes to realize how bad Naval mode is when the Battle Pass requires playing it again. Such a terrible balance and gameplay when you compare to World of Warships. I am not sure why Gaijin doesn’t just scrap it, or at least stop requiring it for Battle Pass challenges.
The tasks should be doable in any game mode. I don’t like these specialized ones, so I just skip them. The grind is not worth going past Level 80. Given the amount of grind needed to get anything in the BP, I’m surprised they are still daring to charge for it. They want us to pay for the privilege to grind. 5.5 years of the sucky tasks that only got more grindy over time. Why? They change the gameplay mechanics, but do not adjust the tasks for these changes.
The whole purpose for the Battle Pass is to feed the Marketplace with rare vehicles. People pay for the Battle Pass to get the coupons to sell them for more money than they spent on the BP itself.
In the West that’s definitely not a good way to make money, given the amount of grind and time spent involved. For all the events they jacked up the grind even further just for one to get that coupon. They did this to inflate prices on their market. The pretty much non-stop events are yet another way to push these marketplace vehicles. From fun and casual game with some grindy events from time to time to non-stop FOMO tactics. I just skip most of the events while still tolerating doing the BP to level 80 with 15 levels purchased.
The WB store is so stale, there is just 1 vehicle I can get out of 6 (have other 5). They are about to have Rank IX in game, but the WB store is stuck at level II-III. Pathetic. That was fine when there were FIVE ranks in the game, not nine. They require to do tasks in Rank III, but half (sometimes more) of the rewards are Rank II. Pointless, if you have to grind all these months and you are already grinding Rank VI-VIII.
There are lots of people who “play the market” and make lots of money doing it. I usually sell my event vehicles so I just have premium without actually paying for it. The other day, I noticed the AMX-50 was $1,500 … I don’t know anyone in their right mind who would pay that kind of money for P2W, but I guess there are some because there’s a least one selling every day (probably marketeers).
Honestly this wasn’t so bad. I got it done in like 90 minutes with the S-701.
Want to know what’s bad?
This
Notice that a game mode is missing.
Notice what this battlepass rewards.
Let me spell it out:
This battlepass rewards a propeller air defence fighter with a radar. The swedish mosquito.
You can progress the challenge in: Air AB, Air RB, gorund AB, Ground RB, Ground SB, Naval AB, Naval RB.
NOT in air SB.
WHY?!
You give us a cool plane and you can’t use it to progress the battlepass in the only air mode I enjoy.
You are better off investing something like $300-500+ purchasing a bunch of new vehicles (that are still cheap), holding for few years and keep flipping. You can then casually play what you want. In my opinion events are way too grindy for what you get. You can get more money for your effort by selling some stuff on eBay and such.
Job?
Not even counting as a job, but extra hobby on a weekend. The amount of effort to do that is minimal, compared to what gaijin requires as a grind for events. Given that vehicles go for $15-40 after the event, why would I even grind for 16-18 days straight for that? Not to mention, you wouldn’t even get a tradable coupon for that and you would have to grind so much more to make it tradeable.
applies to minimum wage too… flipping burgers will do.
Well, at least with that you will get a free burger, some fries and a coke once in a while. lol
I feel personally attacked lol.
Edit
Yes, I know this wasn’t specifically targeting me but I am genuinely guilty of this.
Naval challenges are mostly fine, but I’m going to be blunt, whoever decided to force coastal vessels to get torpedo kills against Blue water should be shot
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I wouldn’t go that far but I do agree pt vs bluewater for challenges is definitely silly.
That is the historic purpose of torpedos and torpedo boats.
Why not make it a challenge?
It worked out quite OK, once I tried.
Good luck trying to hit anyone with actual brain cells with torpedoes in arcade.
But given how people like to sail in straight lines without evading, might be easier done than said.
The best I got was 4 in one mission. Don’t whine, try.
Agreed. Naval is dead, naval is lame and i dont want to visit naval.