I have a job, and aced crews. I share some of the criticism of the mechanic, mind you, but it’s the sort of thing that’s only really a problem if you play the way Gaijin intends, stuck in a never ending grind loop of new vehicles - stock to spaded - crew etc etc. Like Dodo was saying, they monetise player frustration by directing it outward. If you just play to have fun, I find crews aren’t that big an obstacle.
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I play to have fun.
My 109 crew is aced.
But I want an fw 190 crew too so I can field a proper line-up. In fact, I want my german tree to have a 109, a 190 (fighter), a 190 (attacker).
I want my italian tree to have a g.55/56, c202/c205, Re 2002/2005, an attacker and a premium 109 F-4
I want my japanese tree to have a Ki-61, a zero, a j2m2, some random bomber
Each of those slots is a separate 25/50 hour grind on their own before I’m able to do the same things my 109 F-4/F4U-4/P-51C can do.
It’s a massive difference if I can respond aggressively to an enemy fighter and keep pressure on them in a descending spiral or able to reverse them through scissors versus… blacking out from pulling 6Gs a few seconds too long (while my 109 F-4/P-51C/F4U-4 can pull 6Gs forever)
I found your problem:
Spoiler
But you don’t want to do something fitting to get it.
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u don’t even need GJN Coins to buy GE, u can get Golden Eagles with many methods that even console(?) players can use.
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You mean the Competition in the forum or Free GE app?
If so, yes those work also for console
as i heard, that Free GE app is a complete scam.
- weekly reward, u can get 200 GE iirc with a lot of luck
- Competition, u can chat with people, watch beautiful screenshots and win prices, all in the same package!
- tournaments, u can also chat with people, train daily with them and fight against people who actually want to coordinate and not just farm kills to progress.
- content creation, a hard method but that can be very reliable if u do very good on it, and u can win more than just GE by doing it.
- Wiki author program, another hard method but that can be very reliable and even funny to do since u’re basically talking about something u like (or even love, long live the Flankers! that’s my name!!!) and people can give their opinion about ur article which feels heartwarming sometimes. ;)
idk if there’s more methods, i believe there’s way more but i don’t remember which ones.
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Everything listed there works also for Console Accounts
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This may exist.
I’ve even got GE from tournaments.
I have an aced 109 F-4.
It does not change the fact that player A flying the 109 F-4 should perform as well as player B flying the 109 F-4 provided they have the same knowledge and skills.
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I have acquired the Pyörremirski.
It’s a fun plane. It’s a 109 but usually on allies/blue side in sim. I like my 109s. My 109 F-4 is my most successful plane.
In which I’m doing a maneuver that would have succeeded if I was in my 109 with 5/5G & Stamina.
Alas, my pyörre is only
The 162 skill points is from the match (flying premium Pyörre with +50% +20% + 10% boosters running):
I can expert it in my next game.
Did I do bad in this match? No.
Was I denied my full arsenal of maneuvers I can employ with the 109 F-4/G-6/K-4? Definitely.
And it’s not just defensive. It’s offensive too - almost blacking out from pulling OUT of attacks.
Notice how when I rolled into the attack at 0:25, I started losing control so I had to ease up my turn. In my 109s, I could have pulled through.
Then i tried to pull lead again and on 0:36 I blacked out. Now, I’d have overshot in either case but if I hadn’t blacked out I would have been able to immediately respond with a high-yoyo or a lag displacement roll. Instead I flew straight until 0:43 where a more agile plane could have punished this significantly. Thankfully, the 190 couldn’t pull in on time, allowing us to go into vertical loops which don’t require high G to survive.
Now, the Pyörre and 109 F-4 (or G-2 or G-6 or K-4) are not the same plane. Not as perfect a comparison as 109 F-4 vs 109 F-4 (Hungarian), but they’re kind of similar still.
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Holy number of Talismans
lemme guess, this is the only good game you play? play “tank force” and THEN you’ll know what P2W is
Tanki Online. LOLOLOL
It is the only game I play with flight sim as a marketed feature that has two people flying the same plane in the same manner getting wildly different results (6.2G indefinite sustain vs capped at 4.5G indefinite sustain).
4k hours here and only a few aced crews on GRB, think the Leopard L/44 being a legit one.
Type 74 redstar I got at 75 percent or whatever the lowest cost is.
F5C got one on that as well but still paid for it after it was at the 50 percent mark. chieftain 900 as well, paid for it with my GJN the other week for GE to get it.
game is totally rigged by wallet, invisible enemies (not a bug), prem vehicles 300% more accuracy, ghost bombers, pay to kill clans damage reduce by 85%, YES and more issues, game is rigged and lose players every day
If you figure out how to spawn more than 10 times in a single match without just spawning the nuke jet instead… I’d love to see that proof.
After the adition of the premiums F-18 c early, the su 30 and the Terminator we can CONFIRM that is a Pay to Win
Don’t forget that many premium versions of TT vehicles are often slightly better too.
Like the Tiger in the Italian tree has the front track armour. The A13 Mk II in the British tree gets the extra mantlet armour. There’s tons of examples.
You’re picking and choosing what suits you, I think. Do you play other games that are marketed as both sim and MMO?
I play Il2:Ground Battles. It’s not an MMO but it has multiplayer.
In it, you buy a set of planes once and then those planes behave as they should with no way for one player flying a 109 F-4 to get different outcomes to another player flying a 109 F-4.
DCS, far I understand, follows the same principles.
Now, for competitive multiplayer games that are not sims:
CS:GO(2)
Dota
League
AoE2:Definite Edition
Do you know what all the above games do?
Every player is perfectly equal within the match that occurs in terms of potential. The only distinction you experience is your own personal skill.
League and AoE2 have some pay to unlock/progress aspects - League you can unlock new champions through grinding or boosted acquisition (however: once you do they perfectly match any other person’s champion), League has rune pages (which is a convenience item that makes pre-match planning easier and makes no real difference. You can use all the runes you want with just 1 runepage or with 30 and the builds are simple enough that pages aren’t really a big QoL). AoE2:DE has exclusive premium nations in form of its DLCs.
However, whether or not you possess only the base game or all the DLCs, the nations within the base game behave exactly the same AND the DLC features (if any) get incorporated seamlessly into the base nations even if you only own the base game. Additionally, the base game nations are perfectly competitive and you’ve no pressure to buy the new DLC nations outside of “ooh, shiny!”
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