Recent reviews by DivineReas

At 445 hours, I rated this game positively. I enjoyed the gameplay, I enjoyed making my way through Italy, tank by tank, plane by jet.
At 1000 hours, I celebrated my achievement, I purchased a premium or few to help branch out into other nations, rank by rank, BR by BR.
At ~2100 hours I surpassed my friend in playtime, we had fought alongside each other for long, loving the game and all the memories we made. We killed countless enemies shell by sabot, machine gun by cannon.
At 2785 hours, I am rating this game negatively. I still enjoy the gameplay, mostly. I still somewhat enjoy making my way through America, hundreds of thousands of RP by hundreds of thousands of SL.
But it is unacceptable what Gaijin has done, or rather, what they did and their lack of conviction to undo their wrongs.
I hope that by 2800 hours I can turn this negative review positive, and I do still look foward to the upcoming update (Freccia IFV my beloved). But until Gaijin reviews the mass, nay overwhelming flood of criticism we have given unto them, I will not be changing anything.

Update 31/12/23:
I would not say that Gaijin has fixed everything, far from it. In fact they've made some aspects worse since, such as restricting map sizes on old maps completely ruining the few diverse play styles that Ground players have. It comes to a slog of ramming your head into the enemies' and hoping yours is thicker. The addition of Rank VIII Tanks was largely unnecessary in my opinion, they are all essentially just Rank VII equivelant (literally some are just old Rank VII moved to Rank VIII), but they come with Stock APFSDS. That should just be standard for all MBTs at 10.0+, as most Countries have sufficient ERA to protect against the Stock HEATFS shells. Top tier Air Realistic Battles are now just a furball consisting of missiles being thrown without tactic or precision, with a 50% chance of hitting an ally in the fray. And of course, my favourite Italy, still getting ♥♥♥♥ on every update with few redeeming qualities. Seriously why are the Ariete's placed where they are, they are not equivalent to the other MBTs they face, and the OTOMATIC is 10.3-7 at best given the 2S38 at 10.0. The Centauro 120 can be justified at 11.3, given it isn't made to go head on, but that goes back to my previous point of Gaijin making maps smaller and linear, removing all kinds of flank tactic gameplay.

As for things that Gaijin has done well, I suppose the Skill Bonus RP rewards are nice, and I while they are often poorly implemented, I do appreciate the diversity of vehicles in the game. Obviously I am still a fan of the gameplay, given I have played for another ~500 hours since I last updated this review (I made it at 445 hours, the first point, and updated it at 2785, the last point before this update).

Do I recommend this game? It depends on your willpower. You WILL fail, you WILL die, you WILL eventually succumb and forfeit cash to the snail. But there isn't a large multiplayer military vehicle based game quite like it, and as someone who absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ loves these things, it's my home. So yes, I will recommend this game to other people, but be warned before entering, it is a hell like no other.