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Magister
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So the model they have set up right now is ingenious really, you want to advance, spend hours grinding or pay money. And in those hours of grinding, how about sending you against decent to slightly OP pay tanks, the first really obvious one is the Churchill, whose notable feature is that it has 100mm thicker armor on the front than the KV. Oh but it has a worse gun, but you require a fully upgraded KV(Long Barrel, a cumilative 20000 experience points spent exclusively on that and the turret required to run it(That's about 4 days of grinding for 4 hours)), or a lucky shot with a TD(Haven't checked but I think the Wolverine and the Stug can pen it, but I can't recall) to pen it. Then as you raise in tier, the next obvious one will be the Type 59, which is a high tier medium tank that is somehow nearly invulnerable to bullets of a lower tier than 7, and has been raised from t7 to t8, and the fans consider it a t9, considering the real life tank is a variant of the russian t9 medium. So while you are sitting here grinding to your hearts content, you are being bombarded with the subtle message, you could be better if you'd just pay.
The game itself is insanely addictive, quickly drop in get killed drop out, maybe talk a little smack. But when you are doing like I've just done, and ground up to another tank from a very weak tank(A-20 to T-34) it often feels soul crushingly depressing because the match maker seems oriented at either motivating you to pay, or forcing you off the gravy train at t5 and t4. It's all fine and dandy at first, even t3s are mostly fine, but at t4 and above, you seem to get sent up against t8s a hell of a lot. Coincidentally t8s is their pay tank grade for certain types. Most pay tanks seem to be t3, t5 and t8. So again it's subtle poking, PAY FOR THIS GAME. I did, I bought the box I enjoy the core gameplay so much. You wanna know what I purchased with my gold from that, TANK SLOTS. Because I had run out, and foresaw myself playing the game a lot more. And I have, I've taken the french lines up to at least t3, and the Russian lines up to t5(The grind for the t-50-2(They recently lowered this, much to my chagrin, I ground up the 75k experience it was at one point) was horrible but I think arty grind was the worst.)
The game actively discourages you from playing specialized roles, with imposed grinds on SPGs(Artillery) and TD's to the point of ridiculousness. For instance if I want to get a t6 arty, I would literally have to play 200 matches or more on my KV or my Arty(That's assuming a modest(sarcasm) sum of 500 xp per match, in practice that's about double what you will get from the average match). And you'll be doing this while being faced with opponents like t9s, or the time we got sent against 6 t10s in our t4s and t5s with about 2 t8s on our side.
I've come to the conclusion now, that while I have a lot of fun playing this game. It's an ultimately pointless endeavor because people will expend none of the effort you did to get to certain ranks, and will then play completely cock in ass retarded, making the game all the more not enjoyable for those of us who did expend the effort. Still the core gameplay mechanic and systems are insanely addictive, and this is a game worth trying out for the fact that often times, those Churchills will play so retarded because they haven't grasped basic principles like say, penetration and armor sloping, and why when you are fighting someone you always want your turret facing towards them and your front towards them as well, at a slight angle but not such that you expose your sides. Or the little touches you learned from playing certain maps, over and over. Like how certain areas are instant death to go into from either side of the field, certain places are unassailable by certain sides if a decent defense is mustered. And that is when you are sitting in your TD and you snipe that person from halfway across the map and smile because you know you've ruined that particular paying entities day. And it's moments like those that make you enjoy playing. It's moments like being in your KV with your long barrel, and killing 8 people that match, being the last person left alive and winning the match with 10 hitpoints left on your KV. Knowing you had just faced down 3 churchills, 3 stugs, and 2 other kvs and come out on top of the pile. Moments that make you feel LIKE A MAN DOING MANLY THINGS IN MANLY WAYS. It's essentially a form of PvP similar to EVE where superior ship does tend to give and advantage but you can still have a kill with a LOL Tracktor that is you kill stealing everyones kills because you were exploiting a flaw in the hit detection that states that the last damage in is the shot that takes the kill and for a short while at the moment of death everyone had 0/0/0 armor. Or essentially, being in an Iteron 5 and taking down a Megathron,
Also I do recommend that you watch that video, that is a cargo ship with roughly nothing for armor taking on one of the heaviest PvP ships in the game. And it's also why you never fit a ship PURE BUFFER in high sec when you have no logistics ships.
The game itself is insanely addictive, quickly drop in get killed drop out, maybe talk a little smack. But when you are doing like I've just done, and ground up to another tank from a very weak tank(A-20 to T-34) it often feels soul crushingly depressing because the match maker seems oriented at either motivating you to pay, or forcing you off the gravy train at t5 and t4. It's all fine and dandy at first, even t3s are mostly fine, but at t4 and above, you seem to get sent up against t8s a hell of a lot. Coincidentally t8s is their pay tank grade for certain types. Most pay tanks seem to be t3, t5 and t8. So again it's subtle poking, PAY FOR THIS GAME. I did, I bought the box I enjoy the core gameplay so much. You wanna know what I purchased with my gold from that, TANK SLOTS. Because I had run out, and foresaw myself playing the game a lot more. And I have, I've taken the french lines up to at least t3, and the Russian lines up to t5(The grind for the t-50-2(They recently lowered this, much to my chagrin, I ground up the 75k experience it was at one point) was horrible but I think arty grind was the worst.)
The game actively discourages you from playing specialized roles, with imposed grinds on SPGs(Artillery) and TD's to the point of ridiculousness. For instance if I want to get a t6 arty, I would literally have to play 200 matches or more on my KV or my Arty(That's assuming a modest(sarcasm) sum of 500 xp per match, in practice that's about double what you will get from the average match). And you'll be doing this while being faced with opponents like t9s, or the time we got sent against 6 t10s in our t4s and t5s with about 2 t8s on our side.
I've come to the conclusion now, that while I have a lot of fun playing this game. It's an ultimately pointless endeavor because people will expend none of the effort you did to get to certain ranks, and will then play completely cock in ass retarded, making the game all the more not enjoyable for those of us who did expend the effort. Still the core gameplay mechanic and systems are insanely addictive, and this is a game worth trying out for the fact that often times, those Churchills will play so retarded because they haven't grasped basic principles like say, penetration and armor sloping, and why when you are fighting someone you always want your turret facing towards them and your front towards them as well, at a slight angle but not such that you expose your sides. Or the little touches you learned from playing certain maps, over and over. Like how certain areas are instant death to go into from either side of the field, certain places are unassailable by certain sides if a decent defense is mustered. And that is when you are sitting in your TD and you snipe that person from halfway across the map and smile because you know you've ruined that particular paying entities day. And it's moments like those that make you enjoy playing. It's moments like being in your KV with your long barrel, and killing 8 people that match, being the last person left alive and winning the match with 10 hitpoints left on your KV. Knowing you had just faced down 3 churchills, 3 stugs, and 2 other kvs and come out on top of the pile. Moments that make you feel LIKE A MAN DOING MANLY THINGS IN MANLY WAYS. It's essentially a form of PvP similar to EVE where superior ship does tend to give and advantage but you can still have a kill with a LOL Tracktor that is you kill stealing everyones kills because you were exploiting a flaw in the hit detection that states that the last damage in is the shot that takes the kill and for a short while at the moment of death everyone had 0/0/0 armor. Or essentially, being in an Iteron 5 and taking down a Megathron,
Also I do recommend that you watch that video, that is a cargo ship with roughly nothing for armor taking on one of the heaviest PvP ships in the game. And it's also why you never fit a ship PURE BUFFER in high sec when you have no logistics ships.
...ah I'll probably try it anyway, but $ = 2 x power ammo sounds horrible.
