Excellent summary. WT has always been about technical realism, how things function and physically exist. Historical elements such as how/where/when they were used, such as the doctrine of a given military, isn’t a factor.
WT is a giant sandbox of realistic vehicles, which we the players get to use as we see fit.
As for your painting example, I wish I could find an online version, but the planetarium/museum here has a beautiful painting depicting HMS Discovery (age of sail ship) watching space shuttle Discovery launch. Both ships and the setting are detailed, accurate, and realistic, but obviously the pairing is not historical.
Very respectful post thank you for that detailed response. You make a good point in remembering the mistakes they’ve made, it did take extreme action by the player base. So hopefully things move in a better direction, I will admit the copy paste is disappointing.
I decided to get 60 days premium time and wish I didn’t I went from 5-6 kills a match to maybe 1 if I am lucky. Keep getting matched on the team 90% of the time that quits 4 minutes in so 5 players vs whole team after that. Start of the matches my whole team is 1/4 to the cap and the other team already has someone capping. Teammates ignore call outs and pass other team not even trying to shoot them and 3-4 teammates gets killed. 5 air up on team and they all ignore other teams cas and go after tanks they cannot destroy instead of going after other teams cas. It is like one teams shots bounce and one team one hit kills with machine guns. Get killed from the front but tank does not render in till after I am dead. My shots phasing through other team (been going on more this past 2 weeks). All patches are for modern day vehicles. Turret speed and driving speed nerfed on vehicles it took me years to unlock. Yeah just frustrating.
I saw a lot of comments saying that wt is only big because it became what it is today, small maps, little time, and quick battles for Twitch players, but the truth is that the game only became big because of what it was in the past and the players from the past who brought a lot with them… I started playing before 2015, it was a completely different experience, but I can still have fun with this game
Totally agree with t starter. WT 4 or 7 years ago was way more interesting. Now RB turned into arcade. Maps are horrendous and cutoff with red areas. All this forcing players to go head on and turns it into an arcade. Strongly disliking it. Map options are running out with every new map/update.
Whoever is in charge last couple years definitely doesn’t play his product nor knows what he’s doing. Or perhaps is a teenager.
Speaking of realistic and balancing, where is M1 KVT coming from exactly?
Balancing seems to be never ending. Improving one things depreciates the others and in the end this balancing game never stops.
It seems to me there’s no concept of what they want to make of it. Just throwing random changes seeing where it takes. Fixing chaos with more chaos. This kills the game for me personally. So much that i even type something here, which i dont do normally.
nah… hes mostly right… They have been making maps smaller and smaller, and then even with medium sized ones they are cutting off the areas by making them red zones.
They need to just make most maps be medium sized or larger, and then have spots where you can snipe/do long range, or brawl (like go into a down or bowl area) - especially for high tier.
No, they’ve shrunk the borders on single-cap maps, so people can’t cheese them and disrupt match flow by going to irrelevant, non-objective areas. Single-cap maps are supposed to be more “focused” than three-cap or Battle, but even in this form they’re hardly Operation Metro.
But that’s all that’s happened, just this correction for single-cap maps. It’s basically a bug fix.
no, they have 100% made Most maps smaller and new maps are even quite small… Its rare to be able to snipe, especially with them shrinking the map, and even blocking off sniping areas (with huge rock walls, or cutting it out of the map entirely, etc.)
AB is arcade. you dont need to think - you are shown where the enemy is.
RB was initially smarter - you had to think and come up with positions and tactics. Now maps are cut off and tunneled - you are left with vey few options but to fight head on. That’s what i’m trying to say. And the latter makes one a worse player. Not having to think and come up with ideas. IMO.
Balnace wise - again that’s just my option. I mighe be wrong. I wish I am actually. But playing this for 9+ year makes me think this.
Whoever is in charge of maps last 2-3-4 years - i’m not his/their biggest fan if i’m honest. Tunneling maps and red zoning them - taking away game options from the players. What’s the point? What exactly you want players to do if you’re limiting their map options?
What’s the point doing that? Changing the game into somehting else? Well i here dont like this new game. I want more options, not less. Why do i have to play the game someone else likes while i dont ?
And after all - why would you limit players to somehting on maps, instead of allowing for more variability? You’re not limiting them to 4 nations - you are giving them more. Why give them less variable maps then? I dont get it, sorry.
Compare football with ice hockey. Hockey has smaller fields and all scenarios are known and some say it is doomed due to that, while football is almost limitless in playing scenarios.
Why limiting players here with maps? I dont get it, sorry.
exactly. you are forcing players to play however you see them playing. When was the last time that worked anywhere? Genuinely asking as a Russian person here ;)
the fix is easy. They need to 1 Stop removing sniping spots.
get rid of the absurd red zones on maps (a few of them have spots that are blatantly retarded)
Make maps bigger in general (medium sized, but then have open areas where you can snipe, but then places like towns or with lots of cover where you can brawl and get in close quarters, if you are in the mood for that/have the vehicle for it, etc)
Absolute truth there. The red zoned areas absolutely wreck good flanking routes and most of the maps don’t have adequate space to make the ballistics of certain shell types actually matter. Nothing like using a long 88 on a map where its advantages can’t really be used fully.
easy, dont pay rigged games, play 4 free or makes events, sold an buy prem vehicles, when not pay, invisible enemies kill u, ghost planes and more kind of gaijin nerfs, again, dont pay and play 4 free
As someone that cameback to the game and is my main game now as i enjoy grinding all the nations occasionally , i can relate to some of this “issues” there is way to many matches that end in 2min .
My favorite game mode is the ones you have to defend 1 flag because what i noticed those tend to last longer , not always but the 3 flag matches are just 1 team sided way to often for my taste and for that i just leave when i die twice or so , heck i even left sometimes when my team is spawn killing because i just get bored and sometimes i spawn in a plane to patrol and enjoy the views.