As you may or may not know, there’s an on-going event for ground battles where you can obtain the KV-8 (The KV-1 with flamethrower), and as you also may know, how you progress on the event is the same as always: Achieving a stage takes 30000 points each, and you have 48 hours to complete a stage. With this info on hand, let’s do a simple math problem:
-Assuming you always get a 3000 point match, this would mean you need to do 10 matches (MINIMUN) to get a stage. Each WT match has a 25 time limit, let’s assume a match ends in like half that, round it up to 13 minutes. For you to achieve the score requirement, you would have to play constantly for more than 2 hours with the consistent performance of a YouTuber the likes of Spookston or Dollarplays.
And this, ladies and gents, it’s the best case scenario. For the peasants like me who average around 1000 points per match, it would TRIPLE THAT AMOUNT, not only because of being less skilled, but for the classic War Thunder experience: Your teammates are even worse than you are, the team sweeps the opposite team before you can do anything meaningful, the constant uptiers (Especially mid tier 6.7BR). ETC.
The events and how they’re grinded are simply uncompatible with how the game is structured and the constant game loop, as if Gaijin assumes the player only plays War Thunder and ALSO doesn’t have a life beyond the game, we all joke and laugh about giving our soul to the snail, but this game is seriously taking too much time of my life for something that is honestly NOT WORTH IT. The game’s high-top tier is still borderline unplayeable with a controller, which i’m stuck with as a console player (And my PC struggles with the trashiest graphic settings), and the midtier can only be described as a chinese torture.
Liking this game is getting harder and harder as time passes, and i just cannot see a bright future with how it’s been handled
1 hour of gameplay per day really isn’t anything insane
Depending on the rank, you only need 4-6 kills per game to get 2k points with the rank and gamemode modifiers
30,000 aint that bad if your playing toptier with full line up i think it should cap at 45k max for event vehicles
Yeah, depending on the rank. I’m a F2P player who’s mostly stuck in Rank V germany at the highest, across most other trees, it’s either Rank IV and III (Even two in like Italy or Sweden) Because i play the game for the tanks, i’m a tank nerd after all, i couldn’t care less about reaching the top of the Tree.
F2P players are still the vast majority of every freemium game, hope you understand that
being f2p changes nothing about how you grind the event
It changes however that i’m an averagely skilled player, who simply doesn´t earn enough RP to have access to top tier and as such, the most optimal way to grind the event, and also other games i would like to play out of genuine enjoyment.
I also have other hobbies, other games to play, people who also want to play on the same console, responsabilities outside of the game, the event is only enjoyable if you have little responsabilities and lots of times to spend on the game, which i do not have. Also, grinding top tier for a RANK III Tank? What’s the point?
not neccesarily.
i measured this during obj 292 event (haha its been already two years someone stop the damn time), played one star with US 5.7 and one star with german top tier and it took me the same amount of time to finish the star.
Issue is while higher ranks might have better bonuses what you actually want is to score high scores consistently, which might not be doable (certainly not for me with the current state of LMUR/BMPT/KH38MT/Pantsir SM infested top tier). but playing any of my premium lineups? 2k score per battle easily and i can reach that consistently.
That’s what i’m saying, the game asks you to be almost top of the board constantly, which as you said, it’s simply unrealistic
As i said before, i’m both F2P and not that skilled, my highest BR tank is the first Leopard, and i don’t have money to spare on top tier premium, especially with it infested of BMPTs, Pantsir’s, helis and players also wanting to grind the event.
I never said that.
I said you want to play at the highest rank where you can score consistently well.
Its up to you to figure out which one is that. You do well in King Tigers? Grind the event with king tigers etc.
That is irrelevant. Premium brings no advantage to event grind.
Optimal way is to use a rank 1 event vehicle and get 7k score per game
I think the old event system was better, where it was somewhat objective based for example, get base capturer streak, get ‘x’ amount of kills in a game so on. Plus you could complete the air event in grb as well.
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Events do need improvements, I’ve got a couple of ideas such as:
- 3 days per token (with possibly overlapping tokens)
- Bonus tokens on weekends
- Score reduction or multiplier increases
But ground grinds are by far the worst of the 3 vehicle types. Air is trivial, boring at times, but largely trivial, air being single spawn notably increases the amount of score you get with every action, so even in a short match, you can get quite a bit. Naval, whilst it can be slow, does also have certain limitations on the number of spawns and you also get a lot of score for beating the living hell out a target and not necessarily just for the kills. But ground… is basically 100% dependent on you get a metric ton of kills, which just sucks. I actively despise ground events and avoid them at all costs. They take waaaaaaaaaay too long.
For me the bigger issue is how much more difficult (rather time consuming) it is to get the coupon to sell the vehicle, the old system only required 2 extra marks, 8 for the vehicle, 9 for the cammo and 10 for the coupon.
Those 2 extra marks also served as a buffer if you had to miss some days due to life.
Now not only have to do every mark, but to get the coupon you need to effectivly do every mark twice.