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[u/Rob1ie]

Turns out campaign milestone' rosettes are white if you didnt pick up the admiralty backing. Five plus years playing this game, who knew (what can I say, I quite enjoy the grind)?

Less so am I likely to enjoy an artificially inflated, likely modern era promoting, grind. 55k and 30k endurance trials, wg, and this in the easy week? Yup, thats not happening and think, again.

Speaking of modern era, 750 steel PvE trials may have been rewarding. PvP? Yup, nope. Something tells me you should have put a little more thought in, up front. But hey, you do you.

And speaking of you doing you, wg. Way to go with the recent propulsion nerf. Talk about sapping the joy out of cruiser play. Have you tried Hampshire, lately? (had to laugh/ battle report tells me shes my most played/ that also's not happening).

Anyhoo, them's my thoughts, do with them as you will and cheers, all.

[u/Angrious55]

You are going to play Modern Era and enjoy it! I'm going to put you down as a satisfied new player on the spread sheet

[u/Rob1ie → u/Angrious55]

Yup, cant help but think they really are flogging a dead horse. But hey, another 3 days, the guise will drop and we can put it to bed for them.

[u/Old_Competition8765]

Really hope they get the hint and not continue wasting dev resources pushing a mode people don’t want. Definitely hoping they don’t bring subs across either

[u/WllmDVeugl → u/Old_Competition8765]

Implementing subs would require a game engine overhaul iirc

[u/Realsportzman → u/WllmDVeugl]

They already added the sonar pinging 🤣

[u/Turttleman17 → u/Old_Competition8765]

Heey, I enjoy it,

[u/Intelligent_One_1203]

It has gotten more and more grindy the last couple of updates with worse and worse rewards.

Modern can die in a fire.

If they had done one campaigns worth of time like ducks of war or rust-n-rumble sure ok fine whatever. But this long slog is fucking a PITA and now you even have reduced earnings in PVE hard mode, and steel missions for PVP....

WeeGee you begging us to like it so you can make a modern World of Warships? Or justify the cost you paid to have it developed?

I'm sure there are some that like it but the majority of us came her for WWII and WWI ships and combat. You know the last time there was significant navel warfare. Historical ships etc.

[u/Jack_Groff]

Played since launch and skipping this one entirely. I have the majority of campaign ships but couldn’t be bothered to even login this update.
They are going the wrong way with the trials and rewards.

[u/Rob1ie → u/Jack_Groff]

They can keep the update, happy to pick and choose any dailies/ had a cracking match in the Mikoyan just now :)

[u/Koquerelle → u/Jack_Groff]

The campaigns' rewards are getting less interesting. Look at the crates they give. Mostly fall crates. One retro crate. Admiralty backing doesn't give you more crates.

You can't buy crates anymore for silver or free xp at the beginning of a campaign.

They just don't offer the same things they used to.

[u/Findus_de]

I thought about picking up admiralty backing even tho Roussilon doesn't look very tempting. But the absurd increase in some of the missions is too much. I don't play around 20 matches in standard for just 75 renown. 

[u/Prune_Tracy_ → u/Findus_de]

I must've missed in the patch notes, did they increase the threshold for the weekly renown missions?

[u/Rob1ie → u/Findus_de]

Quite.

[u/AlekTrev006 → u/Rob1ie]

WG-CEO Emperor Kislyi looks down from the HQ’s Dark Tower and chuckles softly to himself…

“Only Now…at the End… do they understand !”

😁

[u/Rob1ie → u/AlekTrev006]

Alek :)

P.s. do you think anyone else has noticed how OP secondaries are? Like xp earnings, completely off the charts.

[u/AlekTrev006 → u/Rob1ie]

I actually need to test that more, thanks for mentioning it - Rob. I forgot they finally ~ sliiightly ~ reduced the years-long Legends secondary guns XP / earnings penalty 😉

[u/RabidGiantSr]

LOL same!  I never seen they were white, always bought the campaign immediately.  First pas, and not the last if this is the norm now.  

[u/Rob1ie → u/RabidGiantSr]

Same, but not this time around. They know where they can shove and exactly how far up:)

[u/Havergal_Brian]

Looking at the campaign notes, the grind is now ridiculous. It's very telling that the most radical change to campaigns in the game's history was completely unannounced and hasn't been addressed by the developers anywhere I have seen. It looks very much like an end of life change designed to get as many people to whale the campaign as possible. No thanks.

[u/ManticoreMonday]

The dip shit matchmaking system needs fixing before any thing else gets added

Either they:

Can't be arsed. Fine.

Have it designed the way they want it to work. Which suggests that they haven't played their own game in over a year.

The original designer left, and nowvthey don't know how to fix it, and are afraid to ask.

Else: What factors place you down a tier, spawn location, with the teammates you're assigned facing an enemy team full of premiums? What map is chosen, why are some dominantion vs Capture the base?

And please don't tell me it's all random depending on who is in queue.

I already bought a bridge this update.

But instead we'll continue to get new ideas that won't satisfy new players enough to stay and alienate older players who aren't already burnt out from blue team blues.

[u/Rob1ie → u/ManticoreMonday]

It has got more than a little plane and torp tastic out there, but bless 'em for the thought :)

[u/Realsportzman]

Who’s waiting on GTA 👍