Something to add to a testing mode or “firing range” it’d be fun to quickly change equipment or crew. You’d be able to better understand if you want that clutch braking skill. Or is something else a better skill to take. Being able to test this easier than trial by fire in a match would be really great.
I myself honestly wish that wargaming would play in the era's/tiers that have been affected by broken tanks and get first hand treatment to what they have made due to letting the core part of the game basically take a backseat for so many years
I would like to see one fluff, custom paint job(s) where I can control what gets painted and or make my own patterns. Example the gun, turret, and hull. I believe PC you can. Wishful thinking I guess.😊
There is so many positive things wargaming can do, but will not. The old days when everyone talked on mic. Commanders…should be able to share commander points whit other commanders of the same nation, that way you can use the points you have accumulated that is never used. I sell any 2d commanders they give me, I even have sold most of my WW2 tanks, for me Im staying with cold war. Good video thank you.
I agree with sharing the commander points.. I have 2 nine still commanders that have close to 2 million points. As this is my 2nd year of really playing, I only have 13 nine still commanders, between WW2 and CW
10:49 the ELC is the only tank on that list that is not P2W. The ELC was rewarded during the winter event for the players that played during the event. I think wargaming should keep doing rewards for playing events rather than selling premiums, that way anybody can have them and it gives us incentive to play.
It seems to me that the skill balancing could be easily resolved by simply ensuring that the total number of crew skills on any given team is as close as possible to the total number of skills of the opposing team among their respective individual crews. For that matter, it might be better for everyone if they did matchmaking the way they do it now but with the addition of each individual player’s win percentage factored in to each team’s composition and attempt to make them as close as possible. New players with unskilled crews and lack of experience could be “carried” more reliably by their experienced teammates.
Do you think you could do a review on the Fv215b, heavy tank, I’ve noticed that the gun is absolutely powerful on the move, no blume with perks and equipment making it like an abrams with how little you have to aim when on the move haven’t looked at the stats in a while but it might be on par on being the best gun on the move,just and old tank that needs more appreciation
I disagree about more skills, unless there is some protection for lower tiers. When I started playing (in 2020) I was getting smoked by tanks I never even saw, and my friend who got me started told me it was likely guys with 15 skill crews seal stomping on their X-wings. Without some limit, that is a great way of preventing or discouraging new players. Something like “the only skills active are up to the tier of your tank plus 1”, or something like that. That means at tier 3, only the first 4 skills (which still puts newbies at a disadvantage) would be active. Other than that, I generally agree with both this and your previous suggestions. I understand that it’s a business and need the premiums to keep the servers on, but some balance issues are important. I will add that I do not mind the seasons, but as a history buff, I’d like to see some work on history, which I’ll admit can be tricky.
Why are all the events aimed at kids when it's rated PEGI 12 . like the ice queen event . It makes no sense at all . What about something for the older players who have been playing it for years and invested a lot of money into the game .
I agree. I’m 60 years old and have been playing since beta on console. It seems almost self evident that it’s “the adults in the room” who are WG’s biggest customers.
@ivanskovar I'm 51 years old. All the events are aimed at kids, that's less than 5 percent of their players, probably less . It makes no sense at all .
Realistically adults are not the primary players of this game. Children are the primary players of all games. That is just the facts. Children are also spending a lot of money on the game. Have you talked to a 12 year old recently. They like crap like the ice queen event. Also kids don’t care about the balance of the game. Put in an op tank and they just want to buy it and do the cool stuff. Making new players happy is how games make money. Long time players may spend money but if they can cycle through thousands of new or on and off players and get them to spend $30-50 that is more lucrative than the comparatively few long time players. And long term players don’t leave so it doesn’t matter to them. “You” will spend the money because you always have and have proven that it doesn’t matter what they do because you still play and pay.
@natebarg I have to beg to differ. The chart I'm looking at on reddit says only 1.58% of players are under the age of 10, and the highest percentage of players are aged between 25-39 . Sure it might be slightly wrong but close enough .
@ I just looked up what you posted and if it is the survey, then I find that info to be very limited. The reason being most players of games don’t watch videos or go to Reddit. I looked up the age of Reddit users and 75% of Reddit users are between 18 and 50. So the that only tells you that the majority of the Reddit users that play the game are older. But I could be wrong, but i still stand by my opinion.
I love these videos thank you, WOT for many who play do so on on there own, and then through this game they find like minded individuals and platoon mates. But overall your frustrations feel very much your own and it is nice to see and feel you're not alone with certain aspects of WOT. However one question i would like the devs to answer. - was dreaded update 6.0 not meant to help them progress the game and implement fixes easier? However it seems as hard as it was pre 6.0 to fix the game? i.e. Tank gun mechanics, and such as mentioned in this brilliant video
With the release of the road map there is a little bit of hope for the future of tanks, I really hope they follow through with what they've provided and if changes need to be made or delays need to be made like back when they released the Italian tds hopefully they communicate this so we have an understanding
I primarily play CW era 2 and 3 and it feels like we are only getting the same 8 maps or so. Theres at least a dozen maps that i remember playing on CW era 2 and 3 that i havent seen in at least a year. Those need to come back. Where the fuck is berlin
Crews are a very much underused part of the game. You grind them up to 6-9 skills (depending on your preferences) as quickly as possible and then there are essentially no longer part of the game. Back in the olden days of yore, crew training was always on our minds, and we were looking forward to each new skill slot. That was fun. This is a game, so fun should not be optional. So here is what I would change: 1) Get rid of the reload skill. Everyone has it, so it has no effect at all. (Everyone but very fresh beginners that is, which makes it worse.) 2) Nerf a couple of the other skills. Currently you can't pick 9 skills, you can only pick 3 or 4. The others are so powerful that you are at a serious disadvantage if you _don't_ pick them. I want a choice. The balance should be that ~3 skills would be very useful for a certain tank type (eg. view range for scouts), three more are usually recommend and the other three are totally free to pick. 3) Once the skills are nerfed, stop limiting the number of skills. Not because it affects gameplay very much (it's not meant to be), but because you work on the training, enjoy your progress and so on. (Also, I miss discussions about Mentor... 🙂) This also opens up more possibilities for cosmetics and other not-game-affecting stuff. 4) Don't allow crews to switch between nations. First, it's no longer a necessary feature, as you can swap entire skill sets between crews. Second, it removes 80% of clutter from the list of tanks/crews when moving crews, and even allows for different, a much more streamlined menus. (If you've never seen the old crew switch menus, you wouldn't believe the difference. It was literally a two click affair for the most common cases, and took 10%-20% of clicks for more complicated ones. Yes, it got really really bad.) 5) Disallow crewless tanks. Doh. (Can someone please explain why this is not at least an option?) 6) Get rid of the ugly icons. This would be an interesting test: Make screenshots of the current icons and more screenshots of the descriptions. Find someone with lots of knowledge about tank games (to save time on explanations) but no knowledge specific to WoTC. Ideally, an experienced WoT PC player who has never heard of WoTC. Now ask him to match icons and descriptions. I would be genuinely shocked if he has a hit rate over 50%. (For extra credit, do the same test with the pre-6.0 icons and descriptions. Extra extra credit: Pre- and post-6.0 Equipment icons.)
With no war chests and no long haul at the moment my motivation to play is gone. Slow accumulation of gold for premiums was why I played. Currently only way to get gold is to pay.
Understand what you say about commanders. But what we had before 6.0 is exactly what everyone wants back. Not exactly but pretty close. Pc has experimental equipment and such. We could look towards something in that nature.
I have 2 of these OP tanks.. I rarely play them as I know the effect they have on the game. I had 1 of the others and got rid of it as I hated playing against it. It is about to be nerfed but should never have been introduced in the first place ( T249) I would gladly give these up if reimbursed for them.. Great points from the community , now I wish WG would listen and make some of the changes
So wargaming are not intrested in long term players because its 'unfiar' to new players. ? Thats been apparant for a while. So I would like to know how long wargaming imagine they can maintain long term players .
They need to continue giving us more maps as far as giving information on individual players stats I think that's a private issue we have no control over who's playing in the matchmaking why should we need to know individual stats according to their play experience what good would that do other than single out certain players that is a very bad idea and we have enough Commander crew skills and the special offers are BS offering people equipment for gold they need to offer more Black box tanks occasionally for special offers and yes bring war stories back. thank you for your video
Why do you not shoot spotted tanks that are really close to you? I come from pc and I've already seen it a couple of times in your videos, do they not see that you are spotted?
Riki, I’d love to see some more help videos on getting started in warthunder. Spotting, positions, etc. I’m about at the point of disgust with WOT. The trashy emotional tactics used by the game developers to keep the player base riled up and churning money is just abusive. I’m ready to move on to something better.
If wargaming would just offer a good clean game that is reasonably balanced and fair, people would play it. It’s got nothing to do with they “can’t” do this or that it’s that they WONT. These things that piss us off are simply and plainly shakedown tactics. It’s just like the B.S. of being “allowed” a 70-80% win rate for a week and then being savagely crushed for a solid week in response. The “ups” make you feel like you’re finally getting there. That you’re actually a good player. Everything is start to pay off. Then the downs follow right behind and are so savage they make you second guess everything about your game play. You sell tanks, you buy tanks, you revamp all your skills and on and on. All this cyclical churning just makes you dig in harder and harder each time you “fail”, and you turn into a rinse and repeat cycle bleeding money all along the way.
Instead of +1/-1, why not just do a major rebalance of all tiers? Make the power difference between tiers half of what it is right now. That way a rebalanced +2/-2 would feel like the current +1/-1. This would be a big change. Yet a BIG change is needed to revitalize the game.
I just started war thunder a week ago tell you what I've enjoying playing the game more than world of tanks and I feel disappointment, I spent more than 7 years in wot modern armor ., the thing with world of tanks is they always start very good and then they f*** off.
Calling World of Tanks an actual tank game is like calling Dennis Mulvaney a biological woman. Pay to win premium tanks . Totally unrealistic damage model. I understand they never have advertised it as a simulator type game but it's become ridiculous. Clearly someone at WG has a fetish for light tanks.
Seriously short sighted with regard to crew skills basically you are saying screw new players. This is such a toxic elitist mentally and is simply so you have an unfair advantage. I have 500 hours on ps and and god knows on xbox as played since it it was released so way over 12 years and I totally disagree with giving longer players an even bigger advantage.
Also for the long term health of the game you need to attract new players how you going to do that when they get steamrollered with experienced players and their extra crew skills.
They already have Nerf the weasel mk1 the turret rotation is slower. The gun is less accurate and does not pan as much as it used to and they haven’t told anyone.
@ztvorek The elc has ruined era 2 just like the weasel tow ruined era 3 . And war gaming is too stupid to understand because they don't know how to pay their own game and don't care .
Something to add to a testing mode or “firing range” it’d be fun to quickly change equipment or crew. You’d be able to better understand if you want that clutch braking skill. Or is something else a better skill to take. Being able to test this easier than trial by fire in a match would be really great.
Testing the tanks is something that you can/could do in Armoured Warfare. You could test any tank no matter how far up the tech tree.
New maps would be nice
I myself honestly wish that wargaming would play in the era's/tiers that have been affected by broken tanks and get first hand treatment to what they have made due to letting the core part of the game basically take a backseat for so many years
I would like to see one fluff, custom paint job(s) where I can control what gets painted and or make my own patterns. Example the gun, turret, and hull. I believe PC you can. Wishful thinking I guess.😊
That was always my biggest complaint about wot, not enough camo choices.
There is so many positive things wargaming can do, but will not. The old days when everyone talked on mic. Commanders…should be able to share commander points whit other commanders of the same nation, that way you can use the points you have accumulated that is never used. I sell any 2d commanders they give me, I even have sold most of my WW2 tanks, for me Im staying with cold war. Good video thank you.
I agree with sharing the commander points.. I have 2 nine still commanders that have close to 2 million points. As this is my 2nd year of really playing, I only have 13 nine still commanders, between WW2 and CW
10:49 the ELC is the only tank on that list that is not P2W.
The ELC was rewarded during the winter event for the players that played during the event.
I think wargaming should keep doing rewards for playing events rather than selling premiums, that way anybody can have them and it gives us incentive to play.
Wargaming won't make any changes unless it makes them more money.
Great vid. All excellent comments and suggestions.
nice video
It seems to me that the skill balancing could be easily resolved by simply ensuring that the total number of crew skills on any given team is as close as possible to the total number of skills of the opposing team among their respective individual crews.
For that matter, it might be better for everyone if they did matchmaking the way they do it now but with the addition of each individual player’s win percentage factored in to each team’s composition and attempt to make them as close as possible.
New players with unskilled crews and lack of experience could be “carried” more reliably by their experienced teammates.
Do you think you could do a review on the Fv215b, heavy tank, I’ve noticed that the gun is absolutely powerful on the move, no blume with perks and equipment making it like an abrams with how little you have to aim when on the move haven’t looked at the stats in a while but it might be on par on being the best gun on the move,just and old tank that needs more appreciation
I disagree about more skills, unless there is some protection for lower tiers. When I started playing (in 2020) I was getting smoked by tanks I never even saw, and my friend who got me started told me it was likely guys with 15 skill crews seal stomping on their X-wings. Without some limit, that is a great way of preventing or discouraging new players. Something like “the only skills active are up to the tier of your tank plus 1”, or something like that. That means at tier 3, only the first 4 skills (which still puts newbies at a disadvantage) would be active.
Other than that, I generally agree with both this and your previous suggestions. I understand that it’s a business and need the premiums to keep the servers on, but some balance issues are important.
I will add that I do not mind the seasons, but as a history buff, I’d like to see some work on history, which I’ll admit can be tricky.
Why are all the events aimed at kids when it's rated PEGI 12 . like the ice queen event . It makes no sense at all . What about something for the older players who have been playing it for years and invested a lot of money into the game .
I agree. I’m 60 years old and have been playing since beta on console. It seems almost self evident that it’s “the adults in the room” who are WG’s biggest customers.
@ivanskovar I'm 51 years old. All the events are aimed at kids, that's less than 5 percent of their players, probably less . It makes no sense at all .
Realistically adults are not the primary players of this game. Children are the primary players of all games. That is just the facts. Children are also spending a lot of money on the game. Have you talked to a 12 year old recently. They like crap like the ice queen event. Also kids don’t care about the balance of the game. Put in an op tank and they just want to buy it and do the cool stuff. Making new players happy is how games make money. Long time players may spend money but if they can cycle through thousands of new or on and off players and get them to spend $30-50 that is more lucrative than the comparatively few long time players. And long term players don’t leave so it doesn’t matter to them. “You” will spend the money because you always have and have proven that it doesn’t matter what they do because you still play and pay.
@natebarg I have to beg to differ. The chart I'm looking at on reddit says only 1.58% of players are under the age of 10, and the highest percentage of players are aged between 25-39 . Sure it might be slightly wrong but close enough .
@ I just looked up what you posted and if it is the survey, then I find that info to be very limited. The reason being most players of games don’t watch videos or go to Reddit. I looked up the age of Reddit users and 75% of Reddit users are between 18 and 50. So the that only tells you that the majority of the Reddit users that play the game are older. But I could be wrong, but i still stand by my opinion.
I love these videos thank you, WOT for many who play do so on on there own, and then through this game they find like minded individuals and platoon mates. But overall your frustrations feel very much your own and it is nice to see and feel you're not alone with certain aspects of WOT.
However one question i would like the devs to answer. - was dreaded update 6.0 not meant to help them progress the game and implement fixes easier? However it seems as hard as it was pre 6.0 to fix the game?
i.e. Tank gun mechanics, and such as mentioned in this brilliant video
With the release of the road map there is a little bit of hope for the future of tanks, I really hope they follow through with what they've provided and if changes need to be made or delays need to be made like back when they released the Italian tds hopefully they communicate this so we have an understanding
The find-a-platoon option would require in-game chat, which in my experience is of a much lower quality than PS voice parties.
I primarily play CW era 2 and 3 and it feels like we are only getting the same 8 maps or so. Theres at least a dozen maps that i remember playing on CW era 2 and 3 that i havent seen in at least a year. Those need to come back. Where the fuck is berlin
Is límited to era 1 because it is small and era 2 and 3 are faster, thats what WG said, its annoying because i dont think nobody complained :)
Crews are a very much underused part of the game. You grind them up to 6-9 skills (depending on your preferences) as quickly as possible and then there are essentially no longer part of the game. Back in the olden days of yore, crew training was always on our minds, and we were looking forward to each new skill slot. That was fun. This is a game, so fun should not be optional. So here is what I would change:
1) Get rid of the reload skill. Everyone has it, so it has no effect at all. (Everyone but very fresh beginners that is, which makes it worse.)
2) Nerf a couple of the other skills. Currently you can't pick 9 skills, you can only pick 3 or 4. The others are so powerful that you are at a serious disadvantage if you _don't_ pick them. I want a choice. The balance should be that ~3 skills would be very useful for a certain tank type (eg. view range for scouts), three more are usually recommend and the other three are totally free to pick.
3) Once the skills are nerfed, stop limiting the number of skills. Not because it affects gameplay very much (it's not meant to be), but because you work on the training, enjoy your progress and so on. (Also, I miss discussions about Mentor... 🙂) This also opens up more possibilities for cosmetics and other not-game-affecting stuff.
4) Don't allow crews to switch between nations. First, it's no longer a necessary feature, as you can swap entire skill sets between crews. Second, it removes 80% of clutter from the list of tanks/crews when moving crews, and even allows for different, a much more streamlined menus. (If you've never seen the old crew switch menus, you wouldn't believe the difference. It was literally a two click affair for the most common cases, and took 10%-20% of clicks for more complicated ones. Yes, it got really really bad.)
5) Disallow crewless tanks. Doh. (Can someone please explain why this is not at least an option?)
6) Get rid of the ugly icons. This would be an interesting test: Make screenshots of the current icons and more screenshots of the descriptions. Find someone with lots of knowledge about tank games (to save time on explanations) but no knowledge specific to WoTC. Ideally, an experienced WoT PC player who has never heard of WoTC. Now ask him to match icons and descriptions. I would be genuinely shocked if he has a hit rate over 50%. (For extra credit, do the same test with the pre-6.0 icons and descriptions. Extra extra credit: Pre- and post-6.0 Equipment icons.)
When I started playing the game we use to have a proving ground it was good to familiarize with the tanks
With no war chests and no long haul at the moment my motivation to play is gone. Slow accumulation of gold for premiums was why I played. Currently only way to get gold is to pay.
Understand what you say about commanders. But what we had before 6.0 is exactly what everyone wants back. Not exactly but pretty close. Pc has experimental equipment and such. We could look towards something in that nature.
Thanks for using my comment
I have 2 of these OP tanks.. I rarely play them as I know the effect they have on the game. I had 1 of the others and got rid of it as I hated playing against it. It is about to be nerfed but should never have been introduced in the first place ( T249) I would gladly give these up if reimbursed for them.. Great points from the community , now I wish WG would listen and make some of the changes
So wargaming are not intrested in long term players because its 'unfiar' to new players. ? Thats been apparant for a while.
So I would like to know how long wargaming imagine they can maintain long term players .
They need to continue giving us more maps as far as giving information on individual players stats I think that's a private issue we have no control over who's playing in the matchmaking why should we need to know individual stats according to their play experience what good would that do other than single out certain players that is a very bad idea and we have enough Commander crew skills and the special offers are BS offering people equipment for gold they need to offer more Black box tanks occasionally for special offers and yes bring war stories back. thank you for your video
I wish I could sell clown emblems and clown camo. Not to get rich, but just to unclutter the menus.
Why do you not shoot spotted tanks that are really close to you? I come from pc and I've already seen it a couple of times in your videos, do they not see that you are spotted?
WG, stole my crewskills with the famous update a couple of years ago
Riki, I’d love to see some more help videos on getting started in warthunder. Spotting, positions, etc. I’m about at the point of disgust with WOT. The trashy emotional tactics used by the game developers to keep the player base riled up and churning money is just abusive. I’m ready to move on to something better.
If wargaming would just offer a good clean game that is reasonably balanced and fair, people would play it. It’s got nothing to do with they “can’t” do this or that it’s that they WONT. These things that piss us off are simply and plainly shakedown tactics. It’s just like the B.S. of being “allowed” a 70-80% win rate for a week and then being savagely crushed for a solid week in response. The “ups” make you feel like you’re finally getting there. That you’re actually a good player. Everything is start to pay off. Then the downs follow right behind and are so savage they make you second guess everything about your game play. You sell tanks, you buy tanks, you revamp all your skills and on and on. All this cyclical churning just makes you dig in harder and harder each time you “fail”, and you turn into a rinse and repeat cycle bleeding money all along the way.
Instead of +1/-1, why not just do a major rebalance of all tiers? Make the power difference between tiers half of what it is right now. That way a rebalanced +2/-2 would feel like the current +1/-1. This would be a big change. Yet a BIG change is needed to revitalize the game.
Bro used the 2025 warthunder font for a wot vid
I just started war thunder a week ago tell you what I've enjoying playing the game more than world of tanks and I feel disappointment, I spent more than 7 years in wot modern armor ., the thing with world of tanks is they always start very good and then they f*** off.
I don't like the BRIGHT camos in CW.
Same but who in their right mind would use it as there is True vision.. as tanks are seen if you have something that bright on your tank
Calling World of Tanks an actual tank game is like calling Dennis Mulvaney a biological woman.
Pay to win premium tanks . Totally unrealistic damage model. I understand they never have advertised it as a simulator type game but it's become ridiculous.
Clearly someone at WG has a fetish for light tanks.
Seriously short sighted with regard to crew skills basically you are saying screw new players. This is such a toxic elitist mentally and is simply so you have an unfair advantage. I have 500 hours on ps and and god knows on xbox as played since it it was released so way over 12 years and I totally disagree with giving longer players an even bigger advantage.
Also for the long term health of the game you need to attract new players how you going to do that when they get steamrollered with experienced players and their extra crew skills.
Damn the pC version looks like shit
They already have Nerf the weasel mk1 the turret rotation is slower. The gun is less accurate and does not pan as much as it used to and they haven’t told anyone.
Tbh i dont see much difference. Tbh the elc is worse than Wiesel :)
@ztvorek The elc has ruined era 2 just like the weasel tow ruined era 3 . And war gaming is too stupid to understand because they don't know how to pay their own game and don't care .
Nerf the freaking armor on the MK1 weasels!