WT is just giving me rampant diarrhoea at the moment. Teams seem to have actually gotten worse.......as if there has been an influx of new players, some awful awful games of late. I is sad
Well, given the way things are going with War Thunder, what do you expect?
First of all, the game hasn't decided whether it's a fun arcadey tank n' plane game, or a serious historical simulator. It can't be taken as a serious 'sim' game when the mighty, feared '88 of the Tiger tank fails to kill T34's in hits to vulnerable areas. Equally, it can't be taken seriously when the notoriously poor Yak 9 T's and K's (which required fighter escort just to survive) act like UFO's with their flight model and insta-kill from their cannons, compared to the woefully poor performance of the similar 37mm nose cannons in the P39 and P63's of the Americans.
Then there's the 'meta' game. In higher tiers, you get unbalanced jet v prop matches due to the wide BR spread and poor matchmaking, and so some players end up with a full lineup of bombers which just suicide-dive at bases and the airfield until they're gone, leading to no-fun 5 min games.
Next there's the 'gremlin' of disappearing tickets, due to ground units destroying themselves or each other by no actions of the game players, equally leading to short battles which experienced players only end up getting 2, perhaps 3 planes out of their lineup flown.
The removal of the x2 bonuses also massively discourages teamwork and co-operation, as when these existed at least *some* of your team *might* have been bothered about trying to actually win the game, in order to get their x2 bonus for that country. Now, there's little incentive to win the match and I'm seeing more people quit after the loss of 1 tank or 1 or 2 planes, thus leading to an off-balanced match which leads to further quitters and as soon as you're 4 players down you may as well write off any chance of a win, unless you're in a 4-strong OcUK squad because we pwn hard!
So yeah, over the last 6-9 months I've seen nothing of any real improvement to how the game actually plays or encourages teamwork or 'good' decisions towards making the matches last longer and actually involve completing objectives and being rewarded accordingly. And yet it'd be so easy to do, but Gaijin has a massive forum filled with people making good suggestions, backed by polls and a majority of the active community there and they repeatedly ignore the suggestions, and come up with their own derp ideas like the rewards boxes.
However, as long as they find a few massive 'tards willing to spend 60,000GE on gambling on getting a rare tank, (without even knowing the odds!) then they're raking in the money, and that's all they care about.
Shame really, I can see myself drifting away from War Thunder, possibly even before the remainder of my year's premium account runs out.
(and that's another thing - wouldn't it be nice to be able to gift some of my premium time to another player? like when a friend or family member without premium is over for a all-day LAN session, I could allocate them a day, or a week's premium from my allocation? It'd cost Gaijin nothing, and mean the donating player would 'need' to renew their premium quicker!)
Shame, so much wasted/missed potential.
But drunken WT OcUK squadding is still not to be missed!
