There was a really old (90s/early 00s) game of which I forget the name that had relatively simple but good AI. I think it basically boiled down to three rules:
Isonzo has AI that's perfectly fine. Not really notable in any specific way, just that they move about realistically and are quick to respond to threats. I can actually tell the difference in that game because the Isonzo bots behave like real world people whereas the players behave like gamers, jerking around in weird-little zig-zags, unfluid movements to throw off enemy fire. In Enlisted they mostly just mull around. If they would just take cover, or have some playbook you could pull up of maneuvers, that would solve it. But like you said, it's Gaijin, they'll never give a shit.
This current wave of backlash is interesting because it didn't stop after Gaijin revert their proposed changes, and steam is currently sitting at 23,000+ negative reviews in the past few days. Now more than likely this won't last for much longer, but its a big enough hit to Gaijins public face hopefully it inspires actual change.
Damn, I should open a sanitation company. I'd make so much hauling Gaijin and politicians promises (shit).
French Tier 1 tanks and literally the entire Type 74 line (Japan) come to mind as a reverse of that (8.0, can't pen most T-55 or later and they nerfed the only worthwhile piece of armor - the gun mantle). Oh, also the "German tanks can catch fire with a 10% chance from mg fire bullshit).
I am cautiously optimistic about matters, which is leaving me confused since I'm so used to immediately transitioning to low-level anger whenever I think of WT.
Don't.
Soviet large ass side fuel tanks say hello!
I am not hopeful for this at all.
Well, there you have it, I guarantee the research/SL gain will be reverted as soon as people forget.
Yep. There is however, one little wrinkle in the Snail's plan. One that in their arrogance they are sure to overlook. The Internet knows their one weakness now: bad Steam reviews.
Yeah but doesn't steam work with game devs to clean "bullshit" reviews? I'm 99% sure they did on a lot of major games. By bullshit I mean whatever the devs deem "not in good faith".
Yeah. And Gaijin did exactly that this time, dropping it from 100k to 12.7k, and its still at Overwhelmingly Negative for the recent reviews. And as you can see that's with the off-topic activity getting nuked.
It doesn't matter, what matters is that Gaijin's reputation has been hit, these mistakes are similar to the path Wargaming had as World of Tanks got worse. War Thunder is just simply following its Belarusian rival in terms of downfall.
The issue in ground forces was the uptiering of tanks from outside the WW2 era. It would be better to categorize by dates/gun size and have later ww2 fighting very early cold war prototypes. L7 NATO tanks versus the T-55 (and a few early T-72s), etc.
MBT's have had z's on them since the whole Ukraine thing kicked off. It got to the point where the snail messed around and nation locked some decals to prevent people making z's I think.
Yup. A lot of early cold war stuff is getting br increases. Still some dumb stuff such as super Sherman and whatnot.