It is not a bad game per se. I played it for a few months in the open Beta and I am playing it now sometimes after it went "release".Alphadrop said:
The game is in its core pretty similar to something like CS or Unreal if you want so where it offers an fast arcade game play just with tanks instead of the usual though it is NOT an MMO yet as you have 15 vs 15 as max battles. The game for itself has 2 resources credits (or silver coins) which you get for each battle when you captured the enemy position or damaged and killed some enemy tank the more you achieve here in the battle the more credits you get. And there is gold which can be only get by spending real life "money". With gold you can do a couple of things like for example buy a "premium account" which gives you 50% more experience and credits for each battle. So in other words you level up faster because you have to buy the tanks with the in game currency which you get for each fight and you have to spend experience from the battle to research for new equipment and tanks. You can also convert gold to silver for 400 silver coins for 1 gold coin. Though to get the Maus super heavy tank you will need something like 600 000 000 silver coins and you still have to level up to it that is where the farming part comes in ... because the best way or cheapest way to get silver coins is with using a medium/heavy tank of lower levels and "grind" in those matches trying to kill as many people as possible. Some tanks will give you that way up to 30 000 coins for each battle.
There are different trees where you have tank destroyers and medium/heavy tanks and artillery it is most of the time with a logic behind. The IS2 will lead to the IS3 for example if you get enough experience. With some tanks you can research more then just one vehicle like jumping from the Panzer IV to the artillery unit Hummel and you can continue from there to get the top artillery (they use the same chassis) you can still return to the Panzer IV though and just continue with the heavy/medium tree of tanks.
What I can say is. The game IS fun. Once you spend enough time to find a vehicle you like to play and can level up that way. Though I do not think the game is worth any money yet. It has basically only 1 game mode (Capture the Flag) and only random battles. If you want play with your friends together in a match at least one of them has to get a premium account with money because only premium users can create platoons of 3 people and thus get together in random matches. The matches most of the time see everything from light, to medium, heavy tanks and artillery. Problem is just that the matchmaker will quite often throw your "weak" armor in matches with armor you cant penetrate effectively. Or it will create matches with 4-5 artillery units on each side which can add very fast in "it killed me in one shoot" matches as artillery can deal massive damage and has quite huge range.
The grinding kills somewhat the fun in this game really. Because it has a fast nature like Counter Strike. But you need to level up and it can happen that you end in stupid matches where you cant do almost anything because from the 15 enemies there are only 2 or 3 you can attack effectively since there is not much a very light tank (even with its high speed) can do against heavy tanks. The game has also a few other troubles the developers need to address. Like the system around camouflage and spotting which depend on the skill level of your crew. So it can happen sometimes that tanks disappear almost directly in front of you if the enemy has high camouflage skills and your crew very poor skills.
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