I ditch World of Tanks for WarThunder years ago for less RNG and more realism. but now, WarThunder continues to shit on its users with bad decisions regarding its economy, and wish to move on from it as well.
I ditch World of Tanks for WarThunder years ago for less RNG and more realism. but now, WarThunder continues to shit on its users with bad decisions regarding its economy, and wish to move on from it as well.
Someone explain why WT sucks, please, I apparently haven't played enough to learn that yet. Side note: I just fly for now.
Tbh, I wouldn't say that it sucks, more that it's "almost fun." Overall, it's a pretty solid game, but there's also a lot of questionable gameplay/economy balance decisions that have been made over the years. For example, balancing OP tanks/aircraft by making their repair costs so incredibly high that you'll wind up loosing SL if you die, no matter how good you actually did in a given match.
Battle rating compression is the other big issue. Basically, the BR balance is overall designed with the goal of getting players into matches as quickly as possible, which results in the BR spread being such that there's always plenty of vehicles within +/- 1.0 BR from the BR of the vehicle(s) you are playing. As such, this results in a lot of cases of WW2 vehicles fighting vehicles from the early/mid cold war, which is fine in some cases but frustrating in others. It also results in cases where certain vehicles are OP at their current BR, but bumping them up just one BR bracket results in them being completely useless (and also vice versa, where a bad vehicle can't be moved down 'cause it would be too OP).
Oh god, I got Bungie.net-during-Halo-3 flashbacks reading this, lol
Thanks for the explanation!
See: anything with heavy armor, unless your tank has the name Panther and has a 5.7 BR, then you're just allowed to roam around stomping everything around you. Unless you get sucked up to the other BR black hole, 6.7, which doesn't really matter because your opponents overall don't really change much on how you play, just there might be a bigger gun here and there.
On the flipside, in the air US just gets handed so many generous BRs mostly because a lot of the people who play US also love lawnmowing.
It’s a good game being killed by the profit model because the dev needs to make some cash from their free to play model