It’s great to see this event return, and I hope this might be the beginning of Gaijin realising the value of rerunning events and event vehicles.
Though I do share the same concern as many other players when it comes to putting the new reward vehicles right at the end of the event, which is rather dissuasive for older players.
I want it as a permanent vehicle I can use.
Not happening, as Smin has already mentioned in this thread
For anyone that did the last ww1 event, wants the new vehicle and not spend 2 weeks and 35k points to get it, it is. What’s stopping you from putting the new rewards first and the old ones last?
I sincerely hope this is not a statement of doubt on Gaijin’s side over whether to run this event again next year, because I think I speak for the vast majority when I say that returning this event is a great positive for the game.
The only thing we are critical of is the way the new rewards are implemented, and that the returns for people who already grinded the event last year feel rather pitiful compared to the time investment required. We are not critical of seeing this game mode come back.
Not at all. Simply it was a clarification on what we must assess, consider and weigh up for each type of new event we run. Not just (or even spesifically) this one
Hopefully one day.
Can we get the armor on the Saint Chamond fixed this time? Please 🥺
We also must consider the population spread of the event. For example if every event had the best or most appealing rewards first, there would simply be a mad rush for the first day or so then a drop off after. With it becoming progressively harder for those trying to complete the rest of the stages to obtain vehicles to carry on, as less and less people would continue to take part if the most exciting rewards came first. Hence why there are rewards for all stages for all players, even if you own the vehicle.
“Everyone can earn the aircraft rewards as the top reward for the event. Those that have the exiting vehicles receive additional bonuses.”
If you look at the sentiment towards those “additional bonuses” you can see the consensus is that said bonuses are crap.
Forcing those that already have the previously available vehicles to do all 7 parts x2 for the two new vehicles is honestly a tremendously shortsighted decision. The first couple days of the event last time were fun, but after awhile it just felt like a slog to get through (which i guess is fitting for the Great War). So having to do 70,000 total mission score in an event that some players likely found boring after the first 2 days, for 2 1.0 planes, while only getting the “bonuses” mentioned earlier is, as a commenter whose sentiment was dismissed earlier said, a waste of players time.
will the br of the spad and fokker be 0.5 so a new br or wil it be just 1.0 would be nice to see this game mode or normal ww1 tree in the game thing ww1 air battles would be cool to see smaller maps or indeed in tank rb but only a lower br cool that the event is coming back this year and if it comes back next year i will play it again.
what do you guys think of maybe next year when we have infantry in the game that this event will get also infantry as a option to play. :P
and as last wish we had some ace packs to buy because of the end of ww1 11 nov
like the red baron pack so profile pic and the plane and for britain Edward Mannock with the Nieuport 17 just an idea that popped up.
Doesn’t the game already have the ability to put bots into low population matches? Why not do it for the event as well if “population spread” is an issue?
For real, they missed a crazy opportunity.
The new vehicles should be the very first reward.
Players who did the event back then did six stages per side - twelve in total.
Now we would have to do another seven stages - so fourteen in total just to get the aircraft.
I just feels like we had to do 26 stages for the same rewards just to get a few more decorations, and what ends up being just a few SL-Boosters.
If the new vehicles had been the first stage of the event, all players would have had to grind the same amount to get all vehicles. The old vehicles effectively being a bonus for players who didn’t get to play the event back then.
I’m all for returning some events, especially if there is some unique gameplay experience to be had. Just the way it’s being handled feels rather unfair.
If I had been told back then the event would rerun and the way it’s going to be rerun, I would not have even considered doing it back then to what feels like getting just a year of early access to the same vehicles.
I sincerely hope the suggestions will be considered though knowing Gaijin, I sadly several doubt anything is going to change - though as they increased their efforts to communicate with the community this year they surely will reconsider and try to gain further good will with their players, right?
Yeah why not?
Ngl, i feel happy for new players, but also feel kinda stabbed because i grinded for the first great war they did in game. I got all the vehicles thinking they would be exclusive but they wont be rare anymore thanks to this.
Btw, they could have done 3 things for the players that played the first time.
1-Make them just grind for the new things.
2-Give them the zeppelin as a special reward for the extra grind. Atleast for collection.
3-Give real special rewards for the ones that played the first great war event, like some golden eagles, a week of premium.
But nah,gaijin just said, we dont care.
There should be more than enough people to play the event. There’s plenty of people who don’t have the old rewards or have played the mode at all. Events that have had no rewards still have had players, and ground is one of the more popular modes.
All of these rewards are equal, being 1.0 meme vehicles. I wouldn’t call the biplanes “exciting” more than being niche, and there’s a certain balance of worth to them that’s not as much as doing all the tasks over again, and frankly it’d be more appreciated by long time players if they didn’t have to do that.
And? The FT-17 was developed in 1917, while the American .50 cal was developed in 1918 and the M2 model in game wasn’t made until around 1933.
They’ll be 1.0 like the other WW1 vehicles from the event last year.
May I point you towards,
and the rest of my Air TT expansion suggestions.
If team balance is still bad it will be a very boring experience again…at least reduce the score requirements, we only have a day for each stage and matchmaking time was horrible last time.