Currently grinding for STG on Norm. Instead of doing advanced algorithms on HackerRank, so I can land me a nice gig at MS. Sigh. Dang video games lol
Otherwise, excellente update, enjoying. Tunis seems very plain though - bunch of running over open fields, getting sniped by bots and snipers. Bombing thing is fun, yes more modes, to change things up.
Tunisia gets more interesting when people actually have engineers. Engis not being around till level 9 means lots of games where there are no rally points, which makes the game a lot slower and more skewed towards downtime. The buildings feel really different than what normandy and moscow have to offer, and have some really lovely interior detailing, as well. I also love smoke artillery, its made the radio operator squad my favorite by a good margin. Turning the point into a giant stab fest as everyone runs around blind never gets old.
There’s only a handful of complaints I have with this update
StG in Moscow
Panther being added to Normandy when the US has no AT guns that can knock it out frontally until the M10 which is an even more unbalanced reverse of the Jumbo situation
The absolutely insane prices for new premiums and what some of them are (Jumbo with APCR and PzIV with HEAT)
That still doesn’t solve the imbalance because it’ll be level 35+
Jumbo could fortunately be destroyed frontally by every German vehicle sans the 3N
While not ideal, it was doable
Ideally the Jumbo would have been swapped for something less powerful, but that’s not what ended up happening
What I am thinking as the updates are coming more and more, is that the devs didn’t have much of a long term vision. They are adding and adding in order to fix some holes, but adding doesn’t solve the problems at the ground. They shouldn’t be afraid of reskinning or changing completely an already implemented squad setting/weaponry etc. An example? The smoke artillery thing is only in Tunisia because the squads are new, they are afraid to mess up the old ones of the other campaigns
I’m almost certain that the campaign system is going to get a overhaul before the game exits beta, so I’m banking on that sorting out big disparities
Probably combined with some sort of squad power level limits like mechwarrior tonnage to keep you from just fielding super meta squads
Disparities ain’t the problem, since all the weapons in good hands can butcher the entire squads, it depends by the player, the contest, the squad, by a load of other things.
In fact focusing too much of deleting “disparities” is the problem, since in order to balance the russians in Moscow we got Stg44 with scopes. Word to the wise
Yes, it’s good you buy most of the premiums, cause I didn’t buy a single one, since CBT. good thing I skipped on 50 bucks for Tunisia premiums, would have burned if I bought it lol