if you like it or not, now you will be FORCED to progress in the battle pass to have soldiers and equipment.
as it’s going to be the only way to obtain those.
therefore if the premium battlepass will unlock you the free rewards as well, it will be literally pay to skip once again.
Not all, and they will obviously get replaced. We can’t lose the option to buy a premium squad for Normandy now can we
I still very much doubt they will continue being as powerful as the CBT squads are. Wouldn’t be surprising if the CBT squads would remain powerful, while anything sold after these get discontinued is fairly balanced.
I don’t really see anything wrong with being able to pay to skip.
I work large portions of the day, it’s not often I have more than an hour to take a few matches, why shouldn’t I be allowed to simply pay to skip? I don’t have the time to play this game for 5-6 hours a day. I choose to use my time to make money, I should be able to use that money to my advantage.
It’s an MG30. Pretty much any squad with any kind of MG will be ungodly powerful. It’s just a problem with machine guns overall. Doesn’t matter what game they’re in.
which, this is quite the problem.
and though to explain as well.
i’ll try to make it simple as possible.
as you are paying, to skip basically progression. which is somewhat understandable, but you end up having a shorter game experience.
after that, not mentioning the huge gap between who pays and not, it’s just going to be worse and worse.
perhaps some sort of match maker system should be implemented. but even than, seal clubbers would benefit the most by playing all faction and those earnings putted into the battle pass.
hard to explain and very complicated.
but allowing people to reach the meta fist than the others, will most likely kill the playerbase and the game because of people being able to pay in order to get things more faster.
If the game takes this route, he will be the one losing money.
It’s better to enjoy the game for longer than a few months like in Total War Arena, one of the most promising Free-to-play concepts, that ended up being destroyed by the pay-to-get-advantage, which means Pay-to-win.
i mean, not to sounds too rude, but wasting his money, it’s his decision.
as we all waste money on something…
i’ll admit to be the first one about wasting money in useless things.
but, moneys come, moneys go.
the real issue though,
is wasting his and everyone else game experience.
like, the grinding is part of the game.
because, you feel rewarded by playing, and i miss that feeling from the alpha.
where, you were able to do many things, but by progression, you were able to play newer squad to try something new. not because of the meta, but to enjoy, and have fun. remaining somewhat historical accurate.
that was the main point.
not ruining everyone funs with unbalance stupid weapons that people have to buy.
one of my best friends, that i bought the CBT for him, stopped to play the game after realizing how bad it has become.
and it’s… sad.
something that i would like to avoid for many other people as well.
Honestly an easier fix would be to simply properly balance the couple broken premiums. I made a suggestion here: How to balance p2w Weapons
But all that a point cap based off of loadout would do would be people would drop a squad member or only fully equip 3-4 members from each squad. Ultimately it wouldn’t do anything to balance the game. And it would just punish those that have progressed into the game.
You say the grind is part of the game, I say that I don’t have time for it. With only being able to play an hour or two a day, grinding and reaching any sort of relevant stage will take an eternity.
Gaijin is publishing this, and it’s likely this game will take the same route as WT, you’ll need to dedicate your life to advance through the later tiers, or in this case, campaign levels. I’d rather just pay and get it all unlocked so I can make meme-worthy situations and go around messing around with everything and having fun than spend 6 years grinding and still not even be close to the end.
That’s why I have been pushing for the removal of weapon/perk upgrades as they just add a frustrating stock grind. Let people be able to casually enjoy what they unlock