Long ago, the 4 playerbases lived together in harmony, but everything changed when the wallet warriors attacked, and then the tryhards, and the seal clubbers, and gaijin themselves, basically everyone attacked eachother.
I started playing in 2017ish, the most broken thing in the game was Object 120, aka the long boi. Max BR was 8.0, the most advanced stuff was 60's prototypes and some light tanks from 70/80's. The grind was manageable, I got to tier 4 and kind of stopped since I like the WW2 stuff the most. Then they deccompressed the BRs to 9.0, pretty good all in all, and then they started compressing everything again. The Pen-Pocalypse happened, the Tiger went to 5.3, Cone was killed then ressurected, the number of nations doubled and even naval was added.
And somehow they still managed to squeeze in completely killing the game's economy, turning all tracks into ice, removing tanks for no reason and adding more and more vehicles with insane research costs. It already takes me a good month of on/off playing to get a new plane or tank at tier 5, how am I supposed to get anything done when it takes 300,000 RP to research a bunch of slightly better pixels.
Overall, good game, really good game infact, but its gotten so horrible to play that I cant recommend it to anyone but a masochist. I researched the P51-H before a patch and they made it mandatory to get the F-82 before you get the P51-H. now I have 71,000 RP to research for no reason. Any other game would just let you buy your hard earned pixels but no no no, not the best WW2 tank and plane sim, here we need to research the previous vehicle even though you have the next unlocked.
I'm still going to play it next week though

Edit: I havent played the game in years, if I started today I would never have played as much as I did, the game has taken its downward spiral from bad to worse in recent years, I thought 2020 was as bad as it was going to get, apparently, nope gets worse. I still read all the update logs, just to see if Gaijin has fixed things, nope, worse, every time.

Edit 2: GAIJIN IS ACTUALLY FIXING THE GAME I REPEAT THE SNAIL IS FIXING THE GAME(still pay2win tho)

Long ago, the 4 playerbases lived together in harmony, but everything changed when the wallet warriors attacked, and then the tryhards, and the seal clubbers, and gaijin themselves, basically everyone attacked eachother. I started playing in 2017ish, the most broken thing in the game was Object 120, aka the long boi. Max BR was 8.0, the most advanced stuff was 60's prototypes and some light tanks from 70/80's. The grind was manageable, I got to tier 4 and kind of stopped since I like the WW2 stuff the most. Then they deccompressed the BRs to 9.0, pretty good all in all, and then they started compressing everything again. The Pen-Pocalypse happened, the Tiger went to 5.3, Cone was killed then ressurected, the number of nations doubled and even naval was added. And somehow they still managed to squeeze in completely killing the game's economy, turning all tracks into ice, removing tanks for no reason and adding more and more vehicles with insane research costs. It already takes me a good month of on/off playing to get a new plane or tank at tier 5, how am I supposed to get anything done when it takes 300,000 RP to research a bunch of slightly better pixels. Overall, good game, really good game infact, but its gotten so horrible to play that I cant recommend it to anyone but a masochist. I researched the P51-H before a patch and they made it mandatory to get the F-82 before you get the P51-H. now I have 71,000 RP to research for no reason. Any other game would just let you buy your hard earned pixels but no no no, not the best WW2 tank and plane sim, here we need to research the previous vehicle even though you have the next unlocked. I'm still going to play it next week though Edit: I havent played the game in years, if I started today I would never have played as much as I did, the game has taken its downward spiral from bad to worse in recent years, I thought 2020 was as bad as it was going to get, apparently, nope gets worse. I still read all the update logs, just to see if Gaijin has fixed things, nope, worse, every time. Edit 2: GAIJIN IS ACTUALLY FIXING THE GAME I REPEAT THE SNAIL IS FIXING THE GAME(still pay2win tho)