Any World of Tanks players here?

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World of Tanks is a game I love to hate. Anybody else around here play the game?

I play it. Pretty darn good if you ask me, though it has it's.... frustrating moments. And a nasty learning curve. SO MANY TANKS. And figuring out just what each one does best is not easy.

Though, it's not working for me right now. In the usual sort of Windows-style brilliance that programs running on it often have, it blinks into nonexistence without so much as the slightest error message or anything of that sort. I open it up, it checks for patches, I click "play", and find that "play" apparently means "go away". Ugh.


So once THATS fixed I'll be on it more (it only just started doing this). It's been a favorite of mine for a few months now as multiplayer games go.

I used to play it.

Its a fun little game. Unfortunately it suffers from 3 huge drawbacks:

1- A ridiculous amount of favoritism towards Soviet tanks. The company that makes it is Russian hence the absurd bias towards their units.

For example, historically soviet tanks DID have sloped armor which increased the effective protection of the armor significantly. For example 40mm of steel when sloped became like 120mm of steel (just using easy numbers to explain).

... but soviet tanks also, historically, were made with very inferior steel quality. 100mm of soviet steel provided the equivalent protection of merely 40mm of US/UK/German steel.

In world of tanks, all tanks have the same steel quality so soviet tanks, with thick, sloped armor, ends up with over three times the armor protection it should have. If that wasn't enough, soviet tanks also have the hardest hitting guns overall... highest damage output. The way the game mechanics works, a gun with less penetration but higher damage is more efficient to deal damage than one with high penetration, lower max damage. Refire rate is hardly a factor in games where the tanks fire and scoot back into solid cover.

2- A laughable anti-favoritism towards American tanks. While WW2 era US tanks were indeed vastly inferior to any others, the cold war era tanks are a different story. Cold war US tanks had much better optical systems and guns and much better aiming systems (electronic ones for that era no less!) and turret stabilizing technology that soviet tanks simply did not have period. Yet in the game, US tanks consistently have the worse accuracy stats and the worst view ranges. On top of that, the armor technology of US tanks is not included either... so US tanks of the era that DID have much less armor thickness but who had spaced armor/reactive armor/etc which made the armor insanely better at protection than just layers of steel ...is not present. The US T-34 and T29 tanks of the era had armor tech, electronic rangefinders and aiming systems and very high quality optic systems. In game these tanks have laughable armor and very bad accuracy and view ranges.

3- Finally, the game becomes unplayable past tier 7. It is at this point that the cost to repair your tanks and the cost of the ammunition becomes higher than the money you earn in a map win. This is where you are essentially forced to either remain playing in the lower tiers or you are forced into purchasing a premium tank with real money. Premium tanks earn more in-game-money per win.

This means that in order to play your higher tier tanks you have to play several matches (and WIN those matches) in your premium tank to earn enough money to cover the repair and ammo costs of just one loss in your higher tier tank. It becomes a CHORE to play the game and the fun is killed off.

This game?

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That review made me laugh. I haven't played the game.

Don't play myself but am a long suffering partner of someone that plays
He effs and blinds at the game and sits there like a general cussing at the screen.
He loves to hate that game too

You guys should try War Thunder. It has tanks similar to WoT but from what I've heard about how the two compare, War Thunder's tanks are generally considered better - I've not played WoT so can't offer a comparison of my own. War Thunder also includes planes which is what I play with it 98% of the time, I don't play tanks in it that much - I find them fun but not really to my own interests and have a better time playing the planes. In any case War Thunder is Free To Play so if you want to try it there's nothing holding you back.

P.S. at the moment War Thunder has 5 nations - USA, Germany, Russia, Britain and Japan. At the moment all have planes but only Germany and Russia have tanks. USA tanks supposedly being added soon, with Britain and Japan to follow.

I've been playing since about last month of Beta, first on NA server, then later migrating to SEA.

I've found it to be a good game, but badly implemented (particularly on SEA server) as there's no skill requirement involved in levelling up, and so you can end up in tier 10 battles where you're playing to win against 29 other people trying to make you lose. The recent-ish merging of the Vietnamese server has made things a lot worse, too, as that server was "anything goes" including account sales, botting, hacks (warpack), etc. On migration, WG refused to crack down on these practices (head in the sand), and it has REALLY alienated a large part of the non-Vietnamese server population.

I've also tried War Thunder...Another nice game, but sadly seems to involve too much camping and armor seems completely useless, which contributes to the camping - who wants to move if it could mean being a 1-shot kill. I've only really focussed on arcade there, though.

The new game in development, Armoured Warfare, seems good...Tried it last weekend (early access), but it seems to have inherited the camping issue from War Thunder, where players are too scared to take a hit in order to help the team win. (I was amused by a player in one battle who complained about the game being a waste of $70, when it's still in Early access/Alpha.)

I would play it if it wasn't a "free to play" pay-to-win game. It would be a lot more appealing to me if it were a budget title with CoD-like level progression.

I'm not sure which title you're referring to, but none of them are P2W at present.

World of Tanks was P2W some time ago when "gold" shells required real money to buy, but now standard in-game earned currency can be used to buy them (Of course, with no cap on the number of these players can use, coupled with the game not being balanced around them, it has caused a major skill level decrease across the playerbase.).

War Thunder doesn't have any P2W that I've seen.

Armored Warfare is Early Access, so is "Pay to play" at present, but will switch to F2P on release.

What all 3 DO have, though, is the option to have a premium account in order to speed progression (extra "experience" each game, so you need less time to level vehicles up) and premium vehicles which provide extra currency earning in-game (and crew training). Neither of these are game-breaking, as they only ease the grind, but provide no major benefit...a well trained crew in a bad players hands is never going to beat a bad crew in a good players hands.

Actually, World of Tanks on SEA is somewhat pay-to-win in that a large number of players from certain countries (mainly Vietnam) are known to use a modpack which requires fees to use, and which does provide an unfair advantage...They even have been known to brag about it in forums.