WARNING: RAMBLING REVIEW. WRITER RECOVERING FROM ILLNESS.
I am a WOTB (3000 hours and a Clan Leader) player, who discovered it on Steam. I had no idea at the time that there was a PC version. I would have much preferred the extra complexity and eye candy etc etc of the PC version.
Unfortunately; my WOTB account can't/won't transfer over my garage and tanks to the PC version.
I've seriously considered dumping WOTB to start the PC version, but I have 300+ WOTB tanks, with loads of them as premiums.
I'm an older human, and therefore my reflexes etc can never be as good as the young 'uns, which is a big disadvantage in online, competitive games. But it is even worse in these particular games, as new players have none of the crew skills' bonuses etc etc that the more experienced players have earned/achieved. In a game that is absolutely obsessed with every statistic possible, it really can be beyond disheartening for those of us who aren't either gifted, young or gaming champions.
The Devs are stuck with a very difficult dilemma. Do you reward players for their time with greater skills (logical enough) or do you give newbies all the crew skills and then penalise them as the player's skill record and progress improves (which is counter-intuitive to most game structures) ??

Unfortunately; the prevailing opinion amongst experienced WOT PC players is that the WOT PC game is dying. I used to love a super MMO game called 'Tribes Ascend'..... then the death spiral started. A desperate (and mostly ruinous final update) followed a short while later by nothing. Locked out, and nothing to show for years of investment (except some great gaming memories).
So; I'm going to delete WOT PC. I don't wish to go back to being disadvantaged again cos I'm a lower skill player. An example is my WOTB experience. I started, did well for the first 2 tiers..... then started falling down the win rate from T3 and up. I didn't understand that camping in an actual tank was wrong or the subtleties of how the different ammos worked etc etc etc etc. The in game training was unsuitable/unsatisfactory. Fell down to a low 40-41% win rate from a few thousand matches and was expelled (bad win rate) from the original Clan that I had joined. I came to a crunch, ditch the game from embarrassment or try to be competitive. I did the latter. I'm now close to 17,000 games and have lifted my win rate to 52.6+% on my quest (originally) to get to a 50% headline rate.
I have found the WarGaming customer service experience to be rather like a random number generator.
I am on the Asian server and the in-match culture there is generally toxic. A great game, but players understand quickly that WarGaming really don't care about much apart from themselves and I think this permeates onto the battlefield.
Apologies for the rant. Hope that some folks may get something from this....
So: I'd love to really get into WOT PC, but it's just too risky and potentially disheartening. But at least there is a half-decent training mode on WOT PC. I'm making this review a positive one, just cos it was so nice to experience the eye candy on the PC version.... even though the folks who pay for and play this game are canning it with a tsunami of negs (and I can understand why).

WARNING: RAMBLING REVIEW. WRITER RECOVERING FROM ILLNESS. I am a WOTB (3000 hours and a Clan Leader) player, who discovered it on Steam. I had no idea at the time that there was a PC version. I would have much preferred the extra complexity and eye candy etc etc of the PC version. Unfortunately; my WOTB account can't/won't transfer over my garage and tanks to the PC version. I've seriously considered dumping WOTB to start the PC version, but I have 300+ WOTB tanks, with loads of them as premiums. I'm an older human, and therefore my reflexes etc can never be as good as the young 'uns, which is a big disadvantage in online, competitive games. But it is even worse in these particular games, as new players have none of the crew skills' bonuses etc etc that the more experienced players have earned/achieved. In a game that is absolutely obsessed with every statistic possible, it really can be beyond disheartening for those of us who aren't either gifted, young or gaming champions. The Devs are stuck with a very difficult dilemma. Do you reward players for their time with greater skills (logical enough) or do you give newbies all the crew skills and then penalise them as the player's skill record and progress improves (which is counter-intuitive to most game structures) ?? Unfortunately; the prevailing opinion amongst experienced WOT PC players is that the WOT PC game is dying. I used to love a super MMO game called 'Tribes Ascend'..... then the death spiral started. A desperate (and mostly ruinous final update) followed a short while later by nothing. Locked out, and nothing to show for years of investment (except some great gaming memories). So; I'm going to delete WOT PC. I don't wish to go back to being disadvantaged again cos I'm a lower skill player. An example is my WOTB experience. I started, did well for the first 2 tiers..... then started falling down the win rate from T3 and up. I didn't understand that camping in an actual tank was wrong or the subtleties of how the different ammos worked etc etc etc etc. The in game training was unsuitable/unsatisfactory. Fell down to a low 40-41% win rate from a few thousand matches and was expelled (bad win rate) from the original Clan that I had joined. I came to a crunch, ditch the game from embarrassment or try to be competitive. I did the latter. I'm now close to 17,000 games and have lifted my win rate to 52.6+% on my quest (originally) to get to a 50% headline rate. I have found the WarGaming customer service experience to be rather like a random number generator. I am on the Asian server and the in-match culture there is generally toxic. A great game, but players understand quickly that WarGaming really don't care about much apart from themselves and I think this permeates onto the battlefield. Apologies for the rant. Hope that some folks may get something from this.... So: I'd love to really get into WOT PC, but it's just too risky and potentially disheartening. But at least there is a half-decent training mode on WOT PC. I'm making this review a positive one, just cos it was so nice to experience the eye candy on the PC version.... even though the folks who pay for and play this game are canning it with a tsunami of negs (and I can understand why).