Wargaming is now in an interesting position. On the one side, World of Tanks – This is the phenomenon of unprecedented for the countries of the CIS scale. Unprecedented success had to be fixed, and it was born World of Warplanes, which today is considered to be “not soared”. On the way World of WarsHips, whose prospects are also foggy. And now the overall picture should supplement World of Tanks Generals, The developers positioned as a card game for those who have never played card games.
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It is interesting that the developers did not make another tracing paper with Magic: The Gathering And they relied on a slightly different format of card tables: there is not only a deck and a hidden hand, but a full -fledged field.
Each player has a headquarters hidden in the corner of the field with an area of 5×3. The cards lying in the hand should be laid out on a small area around your base, and then sequentially shift to the right, attacking the enemy. Thus, the game is tied not only on map combinations, but also on the correct location on the battlefield. Otherwise everything is more or less familiar. There is a deck where the cards are recruited by accident and do not show the opponent. The combat unit is characterized by defense and attack indicators. Any technique requires resources to bring it to the table. Brown – move and attack. The ultimate goal is to break the enemy headquarters.
Further – thinner nuances. On the left are the fields for improvements. A certain class of “support cards” can increase the attack or headquarters, if they are put in the corresponding cell. There are also “orders”: abstract teams like “apply 2 damage to the enemy” or “move a unit of equipment to one cage”. And, of course, the technique itself.
There are many different cards in the game, but they will differ from each other only in the eyes of the seasoned “tankers”, because they depict tanks, artillery and sketches of military life – of course, not a couple with a variety of memorable monsters. For an ordinary player, the whole variety comes down to a set of types: light tanks can take a step immediately after appearing on the table;Middle can walk diagonally;heavy counterattacks are bad;Artillery can beat at a distance.
Due to the fact that the number of special capabilities of cards is strictly limited, 220 copies in the deck are not at all felt. Nobody really knows anything but nuances regarding attacks, counterattacks and movement. Even premium cards rarely offer something more interesting “get one resource for each American tank on the battlefield”, so the battles are rarely remembered and not too different from each other.
It is good that they are strictly limited in time: each player has a total of 15 minutes, and if they expire, you automatically lose. A funny situation – after about 30 minutes of struggle, the game begins “who will faster to drop the move” so that the treasured timer comes to naught the enemy. However, this is an extreme that does not reach.
The basis of the game lies in the fact that tanks can only beat on those cards that are concerned closely. This is called “detect”, and without the discovery of the enemy, even artillery will not be able to beat at a distance. But the location of the headquarters is known from the very beginning, and you can beat it without a twinge of conscience. Thus, the party consists of the fact that you throw the cards on the table and crawl towards the enemy’s headquarters, trying to install your technique in such a way as to be away from strong enemy “units” and more quickly attack the weak.
However, this simple concept stumbles on a large number of pitfalls. For example, the amount of resources allocated for the course, unlike most games of the genre, does not increase during the batch, but depends on the disposition. The number is determined primarily by the type of headquarters: for someone, for example, the Americans, this number more. Someone, like the Germans, has less. You can increase production volumes only due to bonuses and equipment put on the table.
But this gives rise to a massive balance problem, the solutions of which simply are not visible. So, the states, from the very beginning, having the opportunity to dump more cards, crushing in number. And at the same time increase their potential even more. At the same time, others cannot and, once missing the moment, obviously lose. At the same time, it is impossible to turn the course of the battle, rolling out a “stained” trump card at the last moment. With this state of affairs, a map of any power throws out onto the table in the first or second move.
Another important characteristic – the strength of the headquarters – is also variable. And from the very beginning, players find themselves in unequal conditions. Soviet troops, for example, have a clear advantage, as owners of the strongest headquarters and the average number of resources. This allows you to play a protracted game with good cards and win with the United States simply due to the number of lives. At the same time, the Germans, the most aggressive, but with a weak headquarters and a small number of resources, look doubtful, because playing with strong cards for them is extremely problematic. This is a matter of so subtle balancing of nations that developers are unlikely to ever achieve the ideal. Although I still want to hope.
National question
Like any other game from Wargaming, Generals hopes to captivate you for a long time. And therefore offers to go a long way before becoming a great master. Get ready for the fact that you will have to play a lot.
The usual three types of resources will have to earn (or pay) in completely ugly quantities. The deck is determined primarily to the headquarters. But buying something besides the “training camp” in the near future is impossible. First you need to invest enough money in the study of additional cards, and only after a while you will get the opportunity to change the characteristics of the key cage on the field. The development tree is similar to the other games of the line – it is branching, so planning long -term tasks is really important. Otherwise, going into the wrong branch of development, you can greatly regret the time spent.
I want to use the potential of each new card as much as possible, because after research it has to be bought by a separate action. This compensates for the eternal problem of “boosters” with useless trash – you won’t run into a cat in a bag here. Finally, you can proceed to a shuffling of a deck, which is difficult to deal with due to the reasons described above with the distribution of resources. Automatic compilation does not take into account the difficult situation with the withdrawal of high -level cards on the field, so you can’t do without handwork. And this, as any connoisseur of the genre knows, the process is at least a long. Especially at first.
The authors did not lie – WOT Generals really hardly like players deeply versed in board and card games. However, the “casual” audience may well become interested in: after all, in addition to throwing cards on the table, they offer bright, tangible differences between the fractions and more the gameplay, the need to lead the battlefield. So the threshold of the entry and understanding of the basics is as low as possible. And the return for the beginner in the genre will be sufficient.
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I absolutely did not like it, the interface is not intuitive, often fights in “put up a tank, drove up to the headquarters, the enemy puts his tank and kills it on the same move, you put the tank again, kill the enemy, the enemy puts the tank again. “And so on to infinity, until the deck ends (
Rather, the prospects are vague precisely by the generals, t.To. World of Warships is quite cheerful topylovo with a lot of interesting chips
“However, the“ casual ”audience may well become interested”, this is also not about this project! In the same HS, 100 times will learn to play easier, purely my opinion!
A good attempt to create an interesting card game on the topic of tanks. But I think the concept of such a Hearthstone would be more appropriate, and not that hat that turned out at the exit ..
Yes, what they do on what they do. What nafig naval battle without water? There will be no fall and current. You can stand in tanks for a rock and you won’t demolish you. This is certainly good too, kids burns on the foreskin will leave with joy. But I want a cool sea robilov for adult uncles. : (((
Piss boiling water. If the foreskin is in place, then it will be able to “wrinkle” at the time of the gaming orgasm and then Baaaam stream of boiling water and PPC. Burns, pain, operation, injuries for life.
But the water surface there is exactly the surface. There are no waves and there are no different water levels in different segments of the map. That is, these are the same tanks only ships. If there are dynamic waves in the future, so that they bring small unpredictability, then cool. But they will not be introduced, because it is too difficult for the average stupid.
Oh, how much I was late, oh well.
Firstly, I want to say that I really like to read Kungurov reviews, even if the game itself is not interesting to me. Sorry, Dim, that I didn’t write this before, probably this also needs to be heard sometimes.
So, here, having finished the preface, we turn to the essence. This time, complete nonsense was written, in the wave “I did not like the game and write reluctance to write”.
Let’s start at the end – the final conclusion “Paradise for the Casual” is actually refuted by the author himself, who did not understand the mechanic completely.
I will not give quotes, it will turn out too voluminous, so thesis.
1. The balance was not brought.
In fact, at the current stage, the majority of headquarters are led to the appropriate level, statistics were periodically published, and the developers themselves are not shy about to illuminate it when the next newcomer makes a bold, but erroneous assumption about which nation and the headquarters are the most naked.
2. Americans IMBA.
In general, this is an ancient illusion, but since then everything has changed significantly.
Amers are primarily combo-colleagues and resource management is a complex and fascinating activity that strictly speaking with “wow what rich headquarters” is just beginning.
But the main thing is that Dima completely missed, each nation has its own cost of cards. That is, Yuther only has 4 mana, and the 11th Airbon has as much as 9, but this does not prevent the first from realizing the tactics of spam (given that his mechanics are directly imprisoned for the quick liberation of his hand) and Rush.
Even besides the fact that on average, the output of the output is less, there are still such properties of a map as a “blitz” that will allow the card to be displayed not for mana, but for the discharge of cards from the deck.
In general, a little crawl away from the sand and everything generally becomes different as it seems at first glance.
2. Pumping.
It should be noted that the Core mechanics of the game are levels of maps and the balance weight of each of them, revolutionarily drunk from large tanks.
Therefore, the steep headquarters is not an end in itself, but just a way to change the type of game (at each level BV its own meta). This, by the way, is a rather entertaining find. If the rest of the KKI (or TKI) is a unified game where you are simply crawling to the top, then there is a change in filling the deck (rejection of “heavy” cards) transfers you to another weight and, accordingly, opponents are also forced to abandon strong but high -level cards. I will not say that this is an absolute good, but it is definitely worth noting.
3. Matchmaching.
And then I would like to return to the thesis “Paradise for the Casual”. I am not a big lover of card games, so I will compare with XC. Although the ELO system is a lot where there is.
So, if in other games the incident sits at the bottom and fights with the same, then everything is like in Tankache. Only now you have no teams. And if you do not know how to play, then there is very little chance of holding a successful (at least by your standards) battle. For even if you jump above your head, you can easily run into the folder. And there are completely different laws and another game. Accurate calculation of the deck and its weight, a verified strategy and unmistakable tactics on the field.
However, here it is difficult for me to judge, maybe after the release everything will dilute with simple office workers and students in pairs.
3. And again about pumping.
Honestly, the thesis “Having entered the wrong branch can be sorry for the time spent” seems strange to me, but what is there – just sucked out of the finger. Honestly, here the player has the opportunity to at least half shir and decide that you want to download, and not to haw something from boosters, while at least some deck gathers.
Yes, and cards from different nations, although they often have the abilities tied to the nation (or even to the type of headquarters), but there are universal cards.
Well, yet a couple of quotes:
There are many different cards in the game, but they will differ from each other only in the eyes of the seasoned “tankers”, because they depict tanks, artillery and sketches of military life – of course, not a couple with a variety of memorable monsters. For an ordinary player, the whole variety comes down to a set of types: light tanks can take a step immediately after appearing on the table;Middle can walk diagonally;heavy counterattacks are bad;Artillery can beat at a distance.
Honestly, that I want to praise in the game without stopping, so this is the work of artists. Especially if you understand that they had to draw tanks.
As for Rolepley, then xs, I personally did not have to suffer from confusion, each card is individual.
I do not know where to go through the line between the migocodile “ST can move diagonally” and the player, albeit beginners, but at least a little versed in the mechanics. But it seems to me that the author never crossed her.
Honestly, here and here and on the example of xch I perfectly distinguish between cups on HP. And Yeti 4-5 and some lost long-term 5-4 for me vary primarily by stats, and not their rich inner world.
Due to the fact that the number of special capabilities of cards is strictly limited, 220 copies in the deck are not at all felt. Nobody really knows anything but nuances regarding attacks, counterattacks and movement. Even premium cards rarely offer something more interesting “get one resource for each American tank on the battlefield”, so the battles are rarely remembered and not too different from each other.
What does it mean, strictly limited? Honestly, this moment already forces me to doubt that before the review, not only a trial battle was played, but even the work of reading the abilities of technology was done, except for those that are issued at the very beginning.
Okay, I just note that in addition to the 3×15 field, we have 5 types of platoons and a bunch of orders. Some tactics do not at all involve the withdrawal of tanks on the battlefield, except as support.
But since we are talking about technology, we went.
Firstly, in addition to the difference by classes (TT, ST), there are also basic abilities-disguise, cover and protection. As well as blitz and rearguard.
Secondly, let’s make a concession and calculate that “gets less damage from attacks” is bad and boring. I also voluntarily delete firewood from abyls and resource manager.
So, the technique knows how to disguise himself up from the attacks of the headquarters and artillery, cover the headquarters from attacks, attack unrequitedly (this does not remove the return – once during the lane the card will answer), by the way – to attack or counterattate three times during the move, move on than any other, detect the equipment of the attacked equipment, fire, return their cards to the deck from losses, send enemy cards to the enemy cardslosses, just destroy any card from one shot, finally.
Yes damn, alloca is just a sea. “Boring” cards are mainly basic, which are placed in a deck like meat, but even they are very different.
And we are still
1) forgot about the manager of resources, which Dima, without looking branded, but at the same time, the technique may not bring resources at all, but at the same time be stronger than classmates, it can be a farm. What is there, amers have maps that can generally bring resources as much as you can “put” in the card with a draw, but this is a completely different story.
2) boldly decided that the cards on the field should do dofig what to do, except to move and shoot. In general, this is tactics (TKI). And the presence of a field significantly shifts the focus of actions. But even here, the technique has a lot of abilities in their own buff, reducing the damage received, just banalling treatment, etc.p.
3) Well, EPTA, in the game there are still a bunch of orders and platoons. Even if the whole deck consists of meat, the space for maneuver still remains.
In general, I will probably dwell on this, for I am tired, if I correct something, but in this preview there is not a single word that would honestly describe reality.
Maybe in addition to mentioning the problem of timer and protracted games. Thank God, as it is correctly noted, this is really a very rare thing. For 1,500 battles I lost on the timer well, maybe a couple of times. Despite the fact that I just like to turn on the meat in decorations. Yes, and sometimes I also think.
There will be a current and a different water level. Not all at once.
But even in this form, the project is of a certain interest.
IMHO, much greater interest than the same Ur-nor World of Warplanes/
For adult uncle, the game is called a little differently, and is done a little a little east on the coordinates))
I played on the ZBT – I agree with the author, if you played other KKI, you will be bored. I was enough, about an hour. Of course, the ZBT is just the ZBT, the opportunity to get acquainted with the game. But, tanks, on my purely personal, are generally not enough for such a genre. Then I wanted to write about WG, but I caught on time, they wrote a lot before me.