I know i’m representating the very old players here, but it’s the second time in a row that all the warbonds vehicles proposed in the store are already earned. Thus it’s not really motivating to do warbond tasks to waste them on a useless talisman for already maxed out tank/plane/ship. I think it would be a nice addition to your oldest customers to add a “random vehicle” crate at max cost (~3500), that would give a premium/event/squadron vehicle that you don’t earn yet and missed in the past.
What do you think about it guys ?
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The current free BP track wants you to grind your ass off for just a Rank 3, and the Warbond vehicles are merely Rank 2 and 3 as well (even no Rank 3 in this season).
For the BP progression to become easier you need at least multiple trees at Rank 3 and even higher, but at that point you wouldn’t really need the prizes anymore cuz you have grinded past the Rank where those premium vehicles can be useful.
For the current season I grinded for the Rank 4 talisman box, only for it to end up on the Israeli P-51 which I don’t really need, the SB2C and Warbond P-40 can be a bit use for me but not much. I don’t think I will do BP ever again unless the vehicles prizes get a raise in ranks.
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If only the main rewards were actually good like they used to be…
But no, look, here’s another M46, Tiger 2p, german bomber exactly the same as tech tree counterpart, but with useless missiles and Sholef being the worst SPH in the entire game and modelled so incorrectly it barely resembles what it should actually be :)
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Gaijin has, in the last few years, started to rely HEAVILY on copypaste vehicles to fill out updates. It’s blatantly just them trying to pass off old vehicles as new constantly in every patch or change.
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Yeah and imho that’s terrible. It waters down tech trees and adds unnecessary grind. It’s just lazy.
I wouldn’t mind copypaste as stop gap, premiums for country of origin or occasional captured vehicles premiums, but adding them as permanent tech tree additions unless absolutely necessary is disgusting.
Like why on earth would Germany get M44 added instead of Hummel? There is no reasonable explaination other than gaijin’s laziness.
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Fully what I believe as well
The purpose of the game is to grind vehicles that are higher than the required to grind with. With the WB store Gaijin asks to use Rank III vehicles to finish the tasks, but for some [cheap] reason now gives useless Rank II vehicles as rewards. With the old WB store you were able to get to the top in 30-some days and you would be able to collect nice and juicy boosters and Rank III vehicles. Now it takes 90 days… and all you collect are Rank II vehicles and 1/3 of the boosters. Make it make sense smh.
On top of that, with the recent Naval aiming changes and screwups, now it’s much harder to accomplish the daily BP tasks. The grind is now monumental just to get these trinket rewards… and you still have to pay real money to get the full BP. I’m at a point that I’m just sick of the daily grind, rerolling the stupid tasks just for a chance to get something not as dumb to do. There are so many times I cannot get even an easy task done just because I have to get a win as a condition. Meanwhile I’m on a 10+ losing streak ONCE AGAIN. I see income nerfs all over the place. This is so shady of you, gaijin.
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I agree with you here. Since in naval arcade, air stopped functioning, all tasks involving planes are obsolete.
I wouldn’t say “have to”, as I haven’t paid for this pass. But I will likely use the coupon to make this seasons tank sellable and abstain next season.
I have always had the impression, that during the last days of the season, the win tasks grow more abundant. I kind of lost interest in this daily stuff too.
This however does not seem a clear rule but your personal preference. From my perspective, it is just fine if I can earn more SL with them too.
That seems a bit rosy a memory. With the old store you had rank 4 tasks that had to be done on the same day. So you had less liberty in changing tasks. One could not always collect rank 3 vehicles, because they were in a tighter rotation. Sometimes, you simply owned them already. At least now you can get up to 3 talismans, even if you own all the vehicles already (me this season). The random nature of talisman placement makes this option less enticing than it could be.
I meanwhile find more enjoyment in the game, when I do not follow these objectives out of habbit. I would therefore reccomend to simply not do it, if it isn’t fun. I have made that decision on the israeli meteor and will probably make it on the next battlepass. See what it brings though, as I could get it for free.
I’d like that. I don’t care for the warbond shop being tied to the battle pass either. Would be great if it went back to the old shop system
Both better vehicles/way of having one that you don’t have like it was suggested and camo for vehicles up to the last tier. (From what i remember it’s up to rank 7 but not rank 8)
A similar option for getting a talisman for high tier could be great or there could be something like a random event vehicle from a pool of vehicles corresponding to the current active sl box that would require 5000 warbonds or something.
Currently, for me, i have barely any incentives to care about warbonds except if it’s about bush/camo of plane and heli.
Do you purchase any BP levels? I went to level 150 just once and to level 125 to get the free BP once as well. Other times I would just get to level 80+ or 100+. Notice that this so-called free BP is not that free, if you want to purchase any extra levels. When you buy a BP, you have option to get 15 levels for 500 GE (discounted). You don’t have that option with the “free” BP. You pay full price for each level, so if you purchase these 15 extra levels, you will end with around ~700 GE saved, not 2000 GE. It’s been few years since I calculated this, so exact value might be a bit off, but it all negated the effort to get to Level 125 value-wise. There is no way I would grind the BP without purchasing the extra 15 levels and even then getting to Level 100 is such a drag at this point.
As the Naval is pathetically broken right now, I’m contemplating skipping the next BP myself. I might still do it, as I have 75 days of premium time left, but I’m not going to buy any more and probably taking a break until November or so, if not longer. I’ve had enough of gaijin’s shenanigans. Too much drama for something that was supposed to be fun. Gaijin sucked out fun out of this game years ago. Now it’s just an empty [snail] shell, at least for me.
When I buy a battle pass, I always get the version for 2500GE. The 500GE are in no relation to the the time efford to get 15 extra levels. But I have never bought extra pass levels, not even on free passes. I will take this free pass to lvl 126, collecting a third talisman and the coupon.
I take no personal pride in collecting a title at lvl 150, so I couldn’t care less if I get it. I am more interested in acquiring WB. And I rather burn my chests to get 100 extra warbonds than buy a level or do more special tasks. I usually take the special task counter to 40, so I get to pick the best talismans.
As I indicated, I found that ridding myself of all “task participations” actually increases my enjoyment. I can now learn things I want to do, even if they don’t count for the “ongoing tasks”. Only play when you like to, no more daily tasks that ‘have’ to be done.