I think the devs have only made mistakes in the last 8 or 9 years. They don’t need to release 20 new vehicles (8 of them premium) with every update. If they simply focused on adding 10 well-made vehicles and then focused mainly on fixing bugs and making new maps that were well-made, things would improve a lot. Simply by improving the impact programming and damage model for both planes and tanks, rebalancing the Br after fixing damage and penetration models, and creating much larger and better-made maps, you’ll have a much better, more entertaining, and less frustrating game.
Yeah, I don’t know about the rest of you, but if Gaijin just sat everyone down and was like “Ok, so for the next couple of years, we’re putting a pause on new vehicles/weapons/etc to go back through and do major bug-squashing”, I would not mind a bit.
Just a couple years dedicated to completely revamping, refactoring, and investigating anything and everything wonky, and maybe re-thinking backend things to build a better backbone for the future.
Exactly. And it’s not necessary to have a couple of years, it’s simply that they slow down the release of so many vehicles and focus on one thing in each update every 4 or 5 months. For example, fixing the damage model, well, reviewing all the bullet models in the game, giving it damage that is minimally realistic and correcting the absurd bugs of when you penetrate and all the spalling is absorbed by a crew member or a module like sights, apart from adjusting the overpressure on bullets with a lot of explosives (hello HESH). Once all that is done, the update is released, and to make the update a little more attractive, they can add one or two maps, much larger and well done, apart from improving the randomness of the maps, which there are times when you play the same map three times in a row.
In another update, the penetration calculator could be improved and bullet models could be better investigated. The M82 and especially the 90mm T33 should easily penetrate a Panther at between 400 and 900 meters. It’s also impossible for the 3BM8 and 3BM25 100mm to have similar penetration.
We could go on for quite a while listing the bugs and possible solutions, the shame is that it seems Gaijin isn’t very interested in making such profound changes to the game.
Yeah, all these little stats don’t tell you how many people actually play, just how many people log in. Many people log in to keep their daily streak going, other do it to collect the daily boosters and then use them every 2-3 days to play few matches. I used to do it as well. Now, if I’m doing the BP, I have yet another reason to login daily to get the log in bonus. If you are doing a BP, you might as well do the event that is running along with it and we all know that these events are running almost non-stop as well. Looks like gaijin is trying really hard to pad their daily stats. How about the extra goodies that you get, if you use a link from a YouTuber to “sign up for the game”?
With all this extra crap running non-stop, I feel really tethered to the game… more like chained. I’m forced to do things daily just to keep up. You miss few days of logins, you multi-year login streak gets reset to a big, fat ZERO. No way to pause it for holidays or vacations. If you take a break and stop thinking what things you have to do in WT daily, you would come back refreshed and recharged. At this point I dread thinking I have to do yet another set of these repetitive daily BP tasks.
Last 4 months are horrendous in Naval. In May I simply refused to purchase any more premium time that was running out. Nerfed and broken aiming… and nerfed income as a result. With all the changes, the tasks are not adjusted, so they are even more grindy than before (read: more forced time in game). Less and less kills while constantly suffering from losing streaks and stupid 1-sided matches. Just look all across the entire game, even Assault. They jacked up the entire game, resulting in yet another income and research nerf. Why would I pay premium for that? At this point I’m just finishing up the Naval event and do the bare minimum for the BP. Played Air yesterday and found that daily BP tasks are much easier to do there. Thanks for killing all the incentives to play Naval there, gaijin.
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If those naval missions are failing like they did a while back, I’d be absolute behind fixing that ‘no starter’ situation.
But yes, that need to keep that streak is a wild drive.
I know but he’s like a tragic teddy bear
Living rent free in your head bud…
Deal with it.
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I do, but it’s just for your eyes that you want to shield, you’re literally just putting your fingers in your ears and going ‘nyanynanyanyaaaaa!’
You can click it.
Nothing bothered me, it was actually making it clear that Alvis lives rent free in many of the heads of those who have issues on this forum.
Big words there, but you’re mistaken.
I don’t need the drama, it’s just funny watching people have issue with what’s said because they are that caught up on being upset about someone posting.
Nope.
That’s incorrect.
Cool story bro, but lucky for everyone you decided not to be one because it’s obvious you’d be a liability in acting on someone who you merely disagree with.
You are after all the one who got upset and spat the dummy about me commenting making quip about my 10 year tenure… You are the one who has the trouble.
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Despite my takes being identical to most of the experts of War Thunder, I get hate.
It’s wild.
From criticizing War Thunder’s flaws, to pro-decompression where compression still exists, to basic facts about nation bias not existing, and so on.
Also @Rikers_Beard staff have icons next to their usernames, which you admitted to.
How can you sound like a very old conservative dude while sound like 12-years-old child at the same time
Maybe I just don’t have the right mindset, but I can’t really understand the profit-only mindset. Do they not see the long-term money potential by being careful, by listening, and targeting customer loyalty first?
Or do they not care?
Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s impossible to please everyone, and I’m not asking them to! But whatever path they choose, wouldn’t it be better to take it slow enough to make sure it’s right the first time?
After all, when I was a kid, I was always told: “If you’re not gonna do it right, don’t do it at all.”
Who cares about the short-term profits, when you can ensure a long-term stable income?
Entire economies bloomed when they took that stance back in the day, why can’t it now?
The Revolving Door mindset has been proven to work, especially in F2P gaming. And it requires less effort.
For every 1 of us on the forum, which represents soooo little of the entire playerbase, there’s a thousand who have played for a little bit, left, followed by a thousand more who played for a little bit, then left. Over and over. They don’t need long term loyalty.
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But…
The principle…
What are we without our principles???
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I’m sure you’re wise enough of the world by now to be saying that in jest.
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One can dream.
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The forums are overly negative cause the issues brought up either get ignored or silenced by the mods lol.
Still waiting for my Sholef to lose its fake 15 tons given to it.
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The issues that are expressed in a way that follows the guidelines of the Forum will never be silenced.
The problem is that people don’t even give the rules a good look and proceed to create suggestions in the wrong section, or use very “colorful” language to express themselves, hence ruining their potentially helpful post.
We do not and never will silence you for saying something that is respectful AND helpful. Your own opinion is welcome as long as it doesn’t harm others.
Hopefully we’ve made this clear enough.
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