That just makes them harder to get, so encourages folk to buy them for real money.
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My apologies if my jest offended you, i was merely alluding on how on most PoH posts you get the ‘where are the Germans, Italians, and Japanese Pfp’. Hopefully you will enjoy your German PFP! :)
Does anybody know if this “Controlled Rage - Destroy 10 player vehicles using aerial ATGM, AGM, AShm”
will be doable with Fritz X or something else on low rank, or I need get Bullpups?
Im relatively new player. Started August this yr.
But the last BP had great vehicles compared to this new one. Sorry, no money from me for this.
Last BP had one of the worst vehicles, if not the worst in history of BP.
It really goes to show how much did the BP go down the drain if in the last 3 BPs we had 3 worst vehicles in history of BP one after another each further one being worse than it’s predecessor.
BP as of now is not even remotely worth it unless you want some old low tier ground vehicle from level 38, but even then not having ability to choose your reward is just scummy
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I’d love to see the return of a rank V, VI tank, plane, or ship for the BP. Since we really haven’t seen one since I believe the very first BP.
But a helicopter would be rather neat too, and a first for the battlepasses.
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Plz dont provide more ideas for gaijin to make the battlepass’ even worse
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Maybe I just suck with Helicopters, but as soon as I am on the Battlefield in my Ka-50 I get completely discombobulated. Unplayable. But I don’t just wanna ATGM snipe, I want to get in there with Rocket pods and gun.
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A helicopter would be cool, how would this make it worse? Have more perspective
Helicopters are the worst thing ever added to this game, only comming second to the Isreali tech tree. I rest my case.
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The Ka-50 is wonderful, but it doesn’t handle like normal helis. It doesn’t have a tail rotor, so first off, you want to set your collective to 80-90%. At 100%, it won’t turn correctly. It uses the difference in the twin rotor speeds to turn. Then, you want to use WASD (Q and E for rotation) for hard turns, and mouse for fine adjustments, like when you are using rockets. Finally, do you have “Sight Stabilization” keybound? That is the key that you want to use to ‘focus’ on a target, to aim your cannon in 3rd person view. Hit it a few times until it puts the ‘crosshairs’ inside the red box, on the intended target. You can do the same thing in gunner view, but doing it from 3rd person allows you to target while maneuvering. Once you get used to it, you can fly almost directly on top of a tank, pointing almost vertically down with the nose and fire the cannon down through their turret. Will pop even MBTs with the cannon. Try that all out in a test flight some.
Oh, and I would recommend just taking full rockets if you dont want to take in the ATGM’s and/or you want to heli rush early. The extra guns are pointless, the built in cannon is PLENTY good enough. Just make sure you have your built in cannon set to the APDS ammo belt. Then, I just use the rocket salvo keybind instead of single firing rockets. If you tap the rocket salvo keybind, it fires off 2-4 of them, which is MUCH better than doing them one at a time. And then if you want/need, just hold down rocket salvo and you can spam a target/group of targets without having to mash the single rocket keybind over and over.
Final tip, turn this option on, it will jettison empty rocket/missile pods, makes you go faster after you use up your munitions😉
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That’s a hot take. They’re bad because you don’t play them? I for one, absolutely love helicopters irl and in game. So it’s pretty reasonable to have one to me. You don’t dictate the whole game.
If anyone remembers the first battle pass, we got 4 vehicles, a Light cruiser, a plane, a heavy tank, etc.
-Now we get re-used rewards, and if they’re going to keep doing the re-used rewards, they should also include old event vehicles too.
-Additionally, what happened to Rank V or VI vehicles in the battle pass?
-Minor nations could use a new vehicle for them every BP, but we are getting back to back German vehicles with the event going.
So the UK, then maybe the French, Then China, then Italy, Then Sweden, and Israel.
This upcoming battlepass is only marginally better than the sholef one (which I have yet to play any of the vehicles I got from the sholef BP). if I’m being honest.
What about an idea for a battlepass that has a helicopter as the main prize? It hasn’t been done before, and it mixes things up no?
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Indeed the first was the best, but also the only one that everyone paid for. Then for a good number of players the following BPs no longer paid off with the coupons.
I think that the first model is no longer viable currently, whether in relation to the price or the number of vehicles offered (you have to count those from events etc., that’s starting to add up to a lot of vehicles).
However, the downgrade was too strong in my opinion and the happy medium was not found.
It is more appropriate to spend 7500 Golden Eagles to buy a one-year VIP during the anniversary celebration. It is shameful to spend 2000 Golden Eagles to buy a pass that requires a lot of experience. The pass is actually a chip used by the operation planner to ensure the number of players online. It should not be so painful, and the rewards should be better. Moreover, if the grand prize vehicle of the pass is missed, it will not be available. This is actually forcing players to buy and spend a lot of energy or spend a huge amount of money to buy a low-level vehicle that may not be strong.
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Actually, if you are buying premium time during the two major sales, it is cheaper/thriftier to buy that time from the Online Store rather than with GEs. The difference is slight, but still . . .
The Battle Pass is a way for Gaijin to generate revenue, which every F2P game must do to stay operating. As for being “painful” and the quality of the rewards, both are subjective to each player’s perceptions. The Grand Prize, to me, is not that hard to obtain and will certainly be available to buy off the Marketplace at a later date. The “cost” of any given item is whatever a person/people are willing to pay for it. The item’s “value” again, is also subjective and determined by the individual.
Could the prizes be “better”?? . . . of course. Could they make the Daily & Special tasks easier? . . . sure. Same for the Challenges.
Keeping/Adding more players to the Online Player Count is a good thing for both the game and the players. More players = shorter wait times to catch a match, and a larger and broader/more diverse pool of players queued up for battle . . all of this benefit us all.
As for the time/effort and/or cost of doing the BP, this also is dependent to the individual players and totally up to each players as to how they wish to approach it. Freedom of choice . . . this is a good thing.
Out of the 17 BPs we have had so far, I paid out of pocket for 3 . . 1 @ 2500 GEs, the other 2 @ 2000 GE’s. The first 3 or 4 I sold one of the BP vehicles on the Marketplace to get GEs(and some other stuff from the Marketplace)to pay for the next BP, but they extended the wait time for so long that I stopped doing that and just play to lvl 125 and get the next one FREE.
But that is just how I do it. I am retired, I have the time, but I also work the tasks for things I can do faster/easier for me, my vehicles and play style. This too will vary from player to player.
If you do not like the BP, for whatever reason, you are not required to participate.
Could it be better for a wider range of players? . . . again, yes, but it is what it is.
I think the best thing to do is what works for you. Many get caught up in the HYPE of anything/everything and FOMO!! . . it’s a video game . . your value as a human being should not be determined by your stats or “pixel possessions” in an online video game. Play YOUR game, do what you enjoy & makes you happy . . . I doubt there are very many(if ANY) that have everything that is offered in the game.
But in the end . . . “work the game, don’t let the game work you”.
No one BEATS War Thunder, it has no finish, no one “wins” . . it is an ongoing quest and you determine which direction takes.
I like the Battle Pass and I hope someday, you can learn to like it as well . .
Of course, no one dislikes the pass, the game company gets online people, and the players get rewards, but the event challenges are too annoying, and the pass progress can only be obtained by doing these annoying challenges. It should be added to the R&D point exchange. I already have 140 million free R&D points and there is no place to use it.
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“Flame of Fury
Set enemy vehicles on fire a certain number of times 80 times”
Do those fires have to be damage related like shooting the engine, or can I also just annoy Players with Napalm and my Churchill Crocodile?
Damage related of course
Aww :(
Wanted to take out my Croc and launch some people with Napalm.