Short remark is it in NOT friendly to new/casual players
I see people play the game, and I always fall in love with it, and think- hey, the game looks fun, let’s play it again. Play for about a month maybe less, get irritated at things, and uninstall. Waiting about a year or two and come back to it. Rinse and repeat.
Think my main problem is there’s not much to really learn from; at least easily. I get there’s fourms here, discord groups, and many of willing and helpful people here to get me on the right track but when I don’t even have a clue what I don’t know I’m not sure how to ask short of ‘How do I play the game?’
My medium tank blows up instantly to AA guns, Tank Destroyer gets a ‘non-penetration’ firing at a light tank, and my light tank can’t even move out of the firing line of Tank Destroyers. Still don’t understand what a ‘Strike Aircraft’ is besides some weird fat dive bomber?
(For the sake of simplicity I’ll focus on tanks)
APCBC (Armor-piercing capped ballistic capped shell) looks like it punches into armor and explodes… good. Armor piercing is good when 80% of the tanks are, well, armored. But then I scroll down to HEAT (High explosive anti-tank) and that’s where I get confused. Anti tank… so it punches through armor? And is HE so high explosive. To me, sounds exactly like APCBC with much less letters. I can read the stats, I can see they do… different levels of penetration, okay sure. APCBC is… better? Stats wise it is but okay, maybe the HEAT is good for some certain situation.
Oh wait- what’s this… APCR (Armor-piercing composite rigid shell)… No explosion, more penetration, okay… so this is like, super armor piercing. I get the idea; HEAT - Light Tanks, APCBC - Medium, APCR - Heavy, HE - Unarmored
Then I try to use that in practice and find out APCR does punch through armor but also doesn’t do much internal damage- have to be real accurate, understand the tank layout, and hope it 8 other things that could go wrong all don’t go wrong. APCBC doesn’t penetrate certain medium tanks, or Tank destroyers even… okay I guess. Have a HEAT shell loaded but run up to a heavy tank and panic shot-… killing it for some reason? Not complaining
More onto the class of tanks I also don’t understand it. SPAA makes sense, Anti Air… though as stated before most of the ones I run into as a tank somehow shred me anyways. But the ones I got are literally shooting 12.7 mm that can penetrate 31mm at best or 15mm that penetrates 33mm so what ever. Light tank, is light… which means less armor… which means easier to blow up. Sure faster but I don’t seem to be good flanking around or… moving out of the way of shots either way. Heavy tank, heavy armor, harder to penetrate but moves slower (I have no further information as I haven’t unlocked a heavy tank yet). Medium tank. In my experience, moves slower than light tanks and las less armor than heavy tanks yet for some reason doesn’t feel like either one balances out in either way making me easier to hit and easier to penetrate
Then we get ‘Tank Destroyer’ which in my experience is the best thing I’ve ‘used’ so far on the simple fact that most of my shots are just BIG which becomes overkill for everything. Only problem- all my destroyers have little to no armor, super limited aiming without moving the tank (Which is great when one single shot can more or less immobilize you), and the reload is really really slow
I watch people play, I watch teammates play, I’ve seen nearly every type, faction, and BR vehicle kick butt easily. But me? Everything I try to do feels ‘wrong’. I could be bad, that is a very good option. I’m not even saying I want to go on kill streaks or win matches left and right but 90% of the time I spawn, drive in, get shot from the side and blow up, respawn and take it slowly, spot an enemy and the moment my turret starts to aim at them I blow up by them, respawn again, follow some allies as a convoy, either get picked off first or if I’m lucky I kill someone who killed a friend- followed by blowing up, and that’s my game. I like battlefield the game, because I can play it and my team could be getting creamed and we’re losing horribly but I could still have fun giving supporting fire, spotting enemies, reviving, etc- but I’d be playing the game having fun doing… something. Doing the air battles I do enjoy being a bomber and taking out ground forces and bases- That is literally the very thing that got me into War Thunder and yet I rarely get a chance to cross the sky before two people gun me down.
I could go on but I think everyone knows this and ‘it’s just part of the game’ or something but I only bring this up (or more to the developers) because I would pay money into this game. I would tell my friends ‘Hey let’s play this and do a thing and blah blah blah’. But I won’t, I would recommend people not to play this game unless they are simply bored like I get. I see people play the game and use recon drones in tank battles, or fly CAS to tanks, or fire at the beaches as a Destroyer and I genuinely fall in love with it ever- single- time. But I can’t seem to do it, and I don’t know where to start or what I’m doing wrong or anything.
I like the game, it is a good game, really do think that despite this pointless rant and honestly I’m only here screaming at the walls like this because I hope they could add something to it. Not even change anything, but give a silly little co op mode where you can play against AI and still feel like you’re having fun. Something where you can actually test a shot to see just how much 68 degree angles can affect your shots, or figuring out your flight moves to dodge fighters. *Or actually have something where you can mixed battles more than just World War (Or again, making it easier to find out where you could do that but my rather quick and brief google searches did point only to WW mode, which I’ve yet to partake in for obvious reasons)
-If this should be posted elsewhere than here do let me know
–If there are easy to read/understand help pages for newbies I’d also appreciate that
—I’m not checking back here that often though and by chance you have comments related to “You’re wrong” “You need to learn the game” “Get Good” I’m just… not going to care? I’ve seen from other pages like this that the game sucks and I quote “It’s never about having fun”