I didn’t know there was a mobile version! Guess I know what I’m doing with my lunch hour.
It blows me away but you can play the mobile version (Blitz) on iPad, iPhone OR Mac at the same time. This is first class wizardry. I had WoT that i was playing over the holiday with a family member as team, and got so sick of the controls on the iPad I tried out playing it on the Macbook 12. And it worked! Bigger screen plus keyboard controls ftw. And, due to the nature of how Blitz is designed it isn’t just an instant win for keyboard/mouse players.
Blitz is a lot of fun (for what it is) but it’s nearly impossible to advance without spending cash. It’s kind of a 8on8 Team Deathmatch most of the time that only lasts a couple of minutes. Fun for a few minutes if you don’t take it seriously or invest too much thought or money into it.
World of Tanks 1.0 came out this week, which involved completely switching out the graphics(is that it?) engine. That’s enough for me to re-download the game and hop back in for awhile. I will say, it sure looks pretty. Also looks like a fair amount of new things to check out since I last dropped in.
That reminds me, I need to try out the single player missions. Anyone tried them? Any good?
I just reinstalled as well and played a couple rounds. It sounds like they are up to 30 maps now!
Is that what the campaign missions or whatever thing is? I couldn’t figure out if they were single player or just objectives I had to reach or what. I’ll probably try it out later today.
My understanding is that they created a few mini-campaigns that I made a mental note to try out, then promptly forgot. I’d be interested to hear impressions if you play them.
The campaigns consist of missions, which are objectives you need to complete in regular rounds I believe. For example, finish in top 10 players is mission 1 in the stug campaign.
So I wanted to check out this v. 1.0, and I updated WoT for the first time in ages. Took a while. When I logged in, I was greeted by a slew of spammed PM/chat windows from some power leveling group. Yay. Then, during the first battle I tried (with a low tier tank, just to see what’s up), I couldn’t get this damn pop up about changing my graphic settings to leave the screen until I not only entered the Settings menu, but went through each and every highlighted new setting and toggled it. And even then, the window announcing the ability to change my graphics still popped up and wouldn’t go away after I was killed.
To top it off, the game tells me I can’t change the gamma settings if my game resolution is set to something other than my monitor default, and I’m in full-screen mode. Well, I’m in full-screen mode and the resolution is set to my monitor default, but apparently not according to WoT. I could change the gamma by setting the game to full-screen windowed mode, but then the game switched me back to full screen anyhow.
Admittedly, the battlefields look good, there are a lot of probably cool features in the game now, and it’s certainly not shy of content, but jeez, it’s so complex, so fiddly, and so overflowing with settings, buttons, options, and crap that it’s fatiguing to even look at.
Updated and popped in. Graphics all ultra, looks great. Will be in tonight to check new stuff out.
Yeah, this is what it is. Each campaign has missions for each type of tank, and you designate a specific model for each mission. Then you just play standard missions but you have extra objectives for yourself.
Turns out I was wrong about part of how the campaign works. You pick which mission you want for each type of tank, and then that missions applies to all of your tanks of that type. I was confused because it has you pick a specific tank when selecting the missions. But yeah, nothing single player at all about it.
We aren’t talking about the same thing then, because I’m looking for info about the single player campaign that was evidently added last year:
Ah, that. I believe is console only.
Whoa, really? That’s kind of crazy.
Hey you PC guys that actually spent money on our game over and over? Fuck you.
Someone needed some additional income over the holidays!
Well, World off Warships signed up Steven Segal some years ago. He did a voice for a US captain, which was hilarious. He sounded like he was on 'ludes and to this day I still get a kick when someone mimics his near-comatose “Fire” call-out,. Sadly, Wargaming apparently only signed him for a short period of time, because they took away his voice from the captain and renamed him John Doe.
I’m surprised his fronting for a pyramid scheme wasn’t paying the bills:
Anyone play this on console lately? I played a little on PC years ago, and I’ve been itching for a multiplayer tank-y game lately. Does it still have the “pay to win” bullshit that it used to have? Any better alternatives?