merge is meant to group all players in to one match making that’s not wanted you can tell in open games of all maps in custom. What will happen in merge the 2% try Hards will play match making outside events that make it mandatory, everyone else will move to customs and stay there playing the campaigns they want to play resulting in the player base being more divide than it is now. People are playing this game to play the campaigns. Not a war thunder clone with troops. The match making system that has been explained will result in unbalanced matches of players with more experience smerfing with low br gear and dominating new players resulting in bad experience. This is not my thoughts alone but experience in game talking to other players about the idea and looking at how custom matches are being set up. even in custom games mist of matches are single campaign play. and with cross play on no mods you get maybe 10 or 15 matches of all campaigns. and only 2 or 3 have above 5 players. Another thing to remember humans are evil by nature and will take any advantage they can have win with less work or have fun at the cost of others enjoyment of game. Examples land mines on rally points rally points close to map set spawns in armored train to spawn camp the pushing team, setting up mg nest, at guns, and snipping from the hill on Al had farms in gray zone to the 3rd 4th and 5th points, tanks siting in gray zones in all maps and just running back deeper to flee troops, are common tactics in games of people who value there K/d over fair game play and skill.
The tec tree is bad game design over all epically given the sighted reason from devs was to use it was, people hate having to unlock same gear over and over. The tec tree dose do this at the cost of a good easy level system that give more than a tec tree. when to get around the problem the more efficient army level would be better simple unlock weapons and squads for a faction regardless of where they fight, and just the campaign having what gear squads and weapons can be used. The teck tree may look faster but in every game i seen them they are clucky ponderous and slow progress.
Currency change is bad as it is stepping away from the heart of the game Troops on front solders don’t buy the gear with pay, they fill out request forms. witch the cards represent as the amount of paperwork you have to fill out to get gear from logistics the rare and better gear more paperwork needed. This is more thematic with the game itself.
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Also map gray zones need rework in many maps’ half into streets in building that give a advantage to one side to hide in and attack from. from what i can guess is gray zones are meant to be spawn safe areas. So a fix id suggests one of two things NO GRAY ZONES you’re in play or not, you have 5 second and squad dies (out of bound death mark as out of map and no point lose overrides kill by weapons) with boundries of play same for both sides. Second option can’t build or fire in gray zone but also can’t be killed in it, with a 45 second timer to leave it after spawn in.
no red flag is they ignore what people want and then try gain they want to make the game war thunder 2.0 ignoring the fact the player base is here because they don’t want to play war thunder.
You only saying that cause your one of those that is planning to do so. Probably also one of those grayzoners too. Or you’re on the pay roll of the snail being paid to praise the bad idea of the merge
No 95% of the population won’t start playing only customs or stop playing all together it’s just your wishful destructible doom and gloom thinking, most people are fine with the merge they just want it to get tweaked further (i for example want to use PPSh-41 and Fedorov on Moscow maps but with high BR of matchmaking so i would go against top tier Germans, some Berlin Axis weapons need to get buffed like mp3008, VG1-5 and stg45, Axis also lacks heavy hitting counter to Fedorovs)
Do you really think that current system with games (and lack of any MM) is fair to new players? LOL i can spawn into my Premium Jumbo with covered mg port to destroy tiny baby Pumas all day long, even if one gets destroyed i also have 2nd Jumbo, 3rd tank which is 76mm M4A2 (if i feel like it i could remove one of my infantry squad and take p47d which is just overkill)
Grayzone is only there to protect tank from getting killed instantlyl by the infantry as soon as they leave grayzone, Paras can land on top of your vehicle and explode it with tnt/demo packs/rocket launchers when you leave greyzone right now. Lack of grayzone = mines all around your spawn and at guns all around you. Vehicles are extremely vulnerable to anything that gets closer or can set up an ambush, planes are extremely overpowered with no strong counter besides other plane and yet i don’t see you complaining about them. New MM should fix most the issues about the OP tanks you will be able to take Panzerfaust 60 to fight against T-34 1941, and Panzerfaust 100 + Ofenhohr against KV-1 and stronger T-34.
New currency is one of the greatest change they could implement, i’m sitting on almost 6k troop bronzes and can’t do anything with them, i have used like 1k to upgrade some of my troopers that were crucial to me but that’s it i will wait till new progression to upgrade them instantly for free.
PS people been mining spawn beacons for years it has nothing to do with the merge. It seems like to you Merge = another form of Satan.
Spawn into your own tank, drive to the side closer to the grayzone camper, kill it = problem solved. Or spawn into op plane and bomb it. Or take any squad with engineers and build at gun or at gunner and nuke it with the rockets. If it’s Berlin then you can use heavier mortar to destroy those tanks too from the top.
no one i been talking to playing the game liked the tec tree idea. and im the only one of them that chose to join the forms and not till after a year of play more people use reddit then the form. so im going with form is minority view given this is the only place i seen any one happy for merge. Youtube, X, reddit and game chats are negative views of it.
i do try to do thi but when tank spawns in and go boom before you can move its a issue and planes got nerfed so many times bombs and rockets dont even work half the time when you land them on top of tanks
Then it’s a skill issue i’ve been getting killed across two different campaigns constantly by plane spammers i have no time to rest or even blink because i will get nuked from orbit.
situation after the merger: veteran players will go to farm low-level people by changing their powerful weapons by putting low-ranking things, maps that no one will want to play like what happens in Stalingrad and mass desertion, intermediate hell or intermediate heaven depending on whether you face weapons of low rank or weapons superior to you (referring to things of rank 1 and 2 when you are rank 3 you may face things of rank 4 and 5 being rank 3)
idk who you talked to, but tech tree idea is least controversial thing about merge. everyone is pretty happy that they will get rid of multiple grind for same weapon.
situation before merger: veteran players farm low level players with their high level end game weapons. vehicles are often invulnerable to low level players
yet the problem could be fixed without a tree by making army level and only having to unlock something once to get it in every campaign the arm used it. Now It will take 3 to 4 times longer to unlock stuff.
