First of all, Let me say thank you for proving my suspicion right, I have now earned myself 5 pounds in a bet I had with my room-mate.
Aaaaanyway,
As a very new viewer of your reviews (since EP15) I was very pleased to find out that you were indeed going to do World of Tanks, I had fears for some parts but you have shown quite allot of mercy for the game and its community but there are a few things I feel I should rectify or heck even add to your review just to get it off my consciousness.
I’ve been part of the World of Tanks community for a long while, Joining the game quite a while ago during its beta, playing over 6000 battles before release and even now after release I’ve reached over 4000 battles and pumped a few hundred pounds into the game for Gold.
It is thus safe to say I got a bit of an idea what I’m talking about, but there will most likely still be people that disagree or know things better then I do.
I personally had little interest in Tanks, they were just that; Tanks cool looking machines but nothing more, but when a friend introduced me to the game I was instantly hooked and now you can find me looking at tank schematics and warfare books.
During the first few battles I was wondering WHY my unstoppable machine of steel was exploding so much, Sure I was trying to ‘Tank’ damage out in the open and it was clearly not working.
Over time tactics grew on me, I started to learn the ways of angling armour and aiming for weak spots.
So my point would be; You can only learn this game by trial and error…lots and lots of error and even with many hours spent and the biggest tanks achieved…you will still get blown up…allot.
Another thing that needs mentioning about this game is its Forum Community.
In game one can find that the community in game is…rotten to say the least. I personally think you have been lucky but the amount of times in my battles that certain derogatory terms were used for so little as to go into someone else’s favourite bush then you know there’s something terribly wrong.
The forums however a full of kind people, sharing pictures and blue-prints of tanks, sharing stories of their amazing victories against all odds…but also the many MANY complaints that are shared between tankers.
Many of the main complaints you have covered in your review, but one of the biggest ones that was missed out was the complaint about the Bias of the Developers towards one faction.
You will find that the forums are full of people complaining that the Russian developers of the game Favour the balancing of the nations in the Russian Tanks favour. And there are plenty of topics on the forums concerning said balance issues so if you interest yourself in this game, its worth a read.
Aside from the complaints about Russian Bias, The game has issues with feedback. from forum and in-game tickets. Many of the older bugs are still somewhat present and every patch takes longer then the other.
Wargaming has major troubles keeping their release promises (Being dubbed as WG-Time now) and many of their specials as mentioned in your review are only 50% off off gold items and purchases and 3x experience boosts for your first battle.
Speaking of the experience boosts its another little (But important) thing that seemed absent from the review is that there’s an automatic 2x experience boost for your first win of the day in every tank…which resets at exactly 00:00 UK time on the European server.
In many battles there are people that complain to others that they ‘ruined’ his daily double and there are people out there purposely trolling people so that their daily doubles are useless.
A thing I really have to stress out is that the review covers the game for the lower tiers quite well, but unfortunately (And this is something Wargaming doesn’t mention but is well known to long time players) to be able to afford to run tanks beyond Tier VII require a premium account.
Yes you CAN run them without a premium account, you’re not bound to Tier I to VI but the profits from wins will not be enough to cover the repair bill and ammo restock of Tier VIII and above tanks (Only so if you had a REALLY good battle)
People are thus forced into buying premium accounts to keep playing to get to those magical Tier X tanks or suffer through having to run smaller tanks to make up for the losses you make on your bigger ones.
Game play wise there is ALLOT of difference between the nations and not just the tank types itself.
American tanks are mostly all about manoeuvrability and strong guns, but paper armour.
German tanks are mostly all about accuracy (And in higher tiers INSANE armour)
Russian tanks are mostly all about everything really, many of their tanks combine at least two of the above or even more…bringing back the point of ‘supposed’ bias.
French tanks (Rather new to the game) are all about heavy armour in the lower tiers to multi shell ‘clip’ tanks in the higher ones.
There is a tank in each nation which’ll will differ from the above but the general gist is there.
Each nation plays differently, and while its possible to play tanks from several nations at once, I find that playing one nation and sticking with it has served me well, so give it a try.
Now as a final parting way I want to assure people that the game is very much alive, recently the French Tanks have been added, planned changes for crew skills and changes to the American Tank Tree are just outside the door and soon there’ll be more Russian and German tanks…and in the future British and Japanese tanks are planned.
There will also be experience tradable between World of Tanks and the two other World of games Wargaming is currently working on (World of Warplanes and World of Battleships) so if you do not like Tanks but like WWII aerial combat it might be worth keeping an eye on Wargaming and their efforts.
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Just my 4 pounds and 5 pence.
StompyChar aka DrakeZiggo
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