So you run out of arguments.
We already agree anyway, the game is pay2win. We also agree on 4k displays being a p2w element. We just draw different conclusions from there on. You want to make the game a little less pregnant.
I have played the game from different locations in the past. And I learned from then, that NOTHING within the game can compensate the effect of playing from different locations. So you may think that bushes, premiums or other gimmicks matter. I realized they don’t matter compared to what location does alone.
You may think all you want with that tho, but the conclusion is not the location that matters, but rather if you`re used to it. Back home i have FHD 75hz monitor and mouse-keyboard, do pretty decent i believe. At friends they have 2K 144hz monitor and expensive mouse-keyboard, i do less when play at them sometimes. That, again, isnt what game devs are responsible for. Having ULQ that let people see through houses and rocks sometimes, having p2w bushes and machinery on the other hand - is on them. And your opinion on if its LESS viable than being used to the place you play or not is also pretty viable, still that doesnt make those elements NOT p2w. Opposing p2w is a basic instinct of gamer brain.
I went on vacation and was in the middle of an event. And I was never before as good as while I was on that island. Back then, there was a “kill 12(?) players” task as option in every event phase. At home, I never managed that during these events. At that location, I had the “click of death”. First mission got me the 12 kills every time. Tried back at home on same equipment. Nope. Skill for 2 weeks?
Finding the important variables is a basic instict of a scientists brain.
Some luck of the day, nothing more. And maybe OCEANIA servers that have poor players there. I had some good games on old 15* laptop with integrated graphics while i was on vacation too. Doesnt mean the old 15* laptop is better than modern 24* FHD monitor and decent graphics card.
Which include game having obvios p2w mechanics giving FACTUAL advantages.
You can put your head in the sand. Luck every game isn’t luck. Luck for 2 weeks, starting the day I get there and ending the day I leave. OK, then bushes are luck too. Luck now explains the world.
basically, if its one day, it can be. I sure know the feeling, FV4030 is prime example.
Ignore the other part of course. Anything to fit the narrative.
Hey you can admire your bushes all day along - GJN can do that by you can see it while others don’t. But in this case they force other player to process your bushes for weak spot. That’s fucked up and that’s the fact. Better skilled player factor is obviously not relevant here.
They can do that with tanks too.
No one ever did that in war. Same as disco balls, right?
Yeah, skill doesn’t matter. It is all luck.
TLDR: enable the option to disable other player’s cosmetic - according to GJN on our screen - since they’re merely cosmetic right?
Yes but its not working for bushes but I wonder why? hmmmmm?
So I am speaking for Air and Naval but I use exclusively premiums.
I got most of them free via events, gamble sacks, etc.
But I did buy a bunch. I’'m not a broke btch.
The ones I did buy almost always have a tech tree version that is = or better.
I use them cause I am a gamble addict and they earn more lions. That is all.
People call me “wallet warrior” as I use a sub par version of the P-61(A) for example as they pwn me in a (C) which is free and better. I am always uptiered in my premiums making them trash.
How is it “pay to win”?
I always have the losing team.
I even have a theory that while using premium or premium account you get the losing team so your reward for winning is taken in return nerfing your total earnings over time.
I mean losing team 95% of time.
So am I missing something?
Are my weaker stat premiums better somehow?
How is that pay to win?
Is it just cause they are poor and angry?
The only thing I noticed that is cool about Premium is I can have American planes in my Russian line up for example P-47 and P-63 and B-25.
So much for Russian bias when I pay to use American planes, eh?
Well that’s nice for f2p players for sure
Probably just that you end up in matches with lots of others wallet warriors, who are known to be insanely bad at the game
Also not all vehicles are op, just a few, but so blatantly that they give a general impression. The ones you play are just the bad ones
I mean if you stay truth to yourself then you don’t have to let ppl get under your skin lol :)
I do see that in AIR RB I get a whole team of one premium plane base racing and crashing but Air RB is soooo boring to me mainly for that reason.
Fly for several minutes to a wall of team smash and a fast game of nothing.
Everyone so hungry to hopefully get one kill.
I do arcade and sim now.
Sim I understand, arcade though is just arb but worse, it’s adhd simulator
Another “neat” impact of crew skills is mushing out the IRL advantages some planes were meant to have - namely G-suits of late-war U.S fighters, reclined seat of Fw 190s.
Played some Il-2:Great battles yesterday. Me in P-51D-15, jumped by 1 Bf 109 G 6 (late) and 1 Bf 109 G-14 at like 3km altitude (so not even “amercan fighters suffer because matches are low alt”. Reason for 3km altitude is: clouds.)
I was able to take down one of them and “outturn” both 109s by virtue of one thing: High speed control and G-resistance. At one point I did a 7G maneuver (split S) into a sustained 6G (descending spiral while rolling) one which made my pursuer fly a wider circle letting me get on THEIR six and shoot them (then I got shot at by their buddy while I target fixated on the falling aircraft trying to confirm the kill).
If this same match-up happened in Warthunder and all 3 of the involved parties had maxed crews?
Doing a 7G maneuver into a sustained 6G one would have done nothing to clear my six in the Mustang as I know first hand that an aced 109 can just… sit at 7.7G for a good 10-15 seconds without losing consciousness and sustain 6.2G indefinitely since I do that constantly when fighting P-38s/P-51s.
In other words, crew skills as they currently exist in Warthunder remove a whole dimension of aircraft balancing and dogfighting levers.
It isn’t working for disco balls either.
But bushes are realistic on a tank, disco balls are not.
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Air Arcade is the better game compared to realistic. All objectives matter and games can be won and are won in many different ways. Most planes matter too.
Nah, if they are realistic, they should be in modification research not GE and WB shop.
Even a child knows this.
