Remember that Breaking Benjamin's song "Milk it for all it's worth, make sure you'll get there first..."? This song describes the game perfectly! It's not a game how I remember it in 2014. It's business and only business.
Back in the release days, the game actually had the soul. It was meant to be an ideal World of Tanks where a major part of mistakes was fixed while being restrictedRemember that Breaking Benjamin's song "Milk it for all it's worth, make sure you'll get there first..."? This song describes the game perfectly! It's not a game how I remember it in 2014. It's business and only business.
Back in the release days, the game actually had the soul. It was meant to be an ideal World of Tanks where a major part of mistakes was fixed while being restricted with mobile platforms. There were no events, less tank trees and the premium tanks were something special rather than just an instrument to farm more silver coins. There were much less features than today, but everyone was satisfied with what they'd been given.
Now it's just an infinite conveyor of new imbalanced premium tanks, lootboxes, disgusting camos and pay-to-win events (sometimes, you must play 6+ hours a day if you don't wonna pay).
The user interface was remade to show you more donation offers as well. When you enter a tank tree section, the game scrolls the screen up to show you the available premium tanks first. If you want to open free regular lootboxes (that give you almost nothing), you must enter the premium shop first to be able to move to "Containers" section. When your battle is over, the game may offer you to buy a premium account to improve your income. Even when you enter the hangar, the game meets you with a screen to buy their new lootboxes. EVERYTHING in the game wants you to pay!!!
Some FPS games have problems with cheaters, but this game has an even worse problem: it's overflown with bots and players who do nothing to win a battle! And they still earn some experience and credits from each battle and will eventually buy the next tank to spoil games on a higher battle tier. Wargaming doesn't do anything with them because such players donate in the game and buy premium tanks to make more credits on doing nothing!! They also keep the online counters high enough, so the royal management is convinced that more players play their game!
Of course, we have a like/dislike system to mark such useless players, but guess what? It's doesn't ban anybody!! It's garbage!!
The game server is a giant lagging machine full of crutches! It is the most horrible client-server communication I have ever seen in online games. No matter how fast your internet is and how reliable your provider is, the game keeps lagging from time to time!! This problem is usually faced when the online is 60k+ players and the developers do absolutely nothing to fix it! They won't establish an additional server for us to spread the overall load.
So concerns the game's netcode. It's not hopeless, but it's definitely legacy and must be improved. What happens on the server isn't even close to what you see on the screen. You're like playing in the past while everything else is in a different time-lapse. Try Battlefield 5 or even CS 1.6 and you'll understand what I mean.
Let alone the server-side problems, there is bunch of problems for clients as well. The major one is... optimization! You might ask "How the f**k a modern PC can't operate a mobile game??" I don't know. I have Radeon RX 5500 XT, Intel Core i7 6700K and the game is installed on a SATA SSD. For some reason, when I first spot an enemy - the game lags for ~0.4 secs! What the hell? The game can't preload the tank textures!???
I mentioned imbalanced premium tanks already, and it's a major problem as well! The gameplay problem is global. Each tier has can be divided into 3 group: the once which s**k d**ks, the once that kick other as*es and an average group. The developers don't care what the players say. They watch the statistics only which barely represents the "strength" of tanks. Sometimes they "up" a tank which didn't require it and now it's even more powerful than its "neighbors". The common sense is completely out.
Wargaming doesn't really care about their players. The moderator state effectively deletes all the criticism and even minor discussion of what the developers do and ban the players for it. This totalitarianism has especially occupied the official forum and Discord channel. So, don't believe in their lies like they have heard our views! That's **** The best you can do is to point at a bug which is easy to fix. And they won't fix it until the next update (in ~1,5 month)!
All these problems concern mobile platforms as well since the game is cross-platformed and mobile owners can play with PC owners together.
Thank you for reading this! Don't even bother playing the games of this company!… Expand
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