So, I’ve played a few battles after the new patch. Why is that every time Gaijin makes a patch, it fixes few problems and introduces tons more? Let’s point things out…
1. Camera
Oh. My. God. I cannot possibly imagine a reason for this change. Flying an interceptor became a nightmare and chaos. Flying a fighter is barely bearable and frigates? I nearly got my eyes stabbed by my tail fins.
Also the game does not remember your camera zoom anymore and resets it to default every time you use free view, desintegrator / torpedo or respawn. Why did it remember such things previously and does not now I have not a clue.
Current camera settings I (and most probably many of you as well) consider unplayable in most cases. Also why is “zoom in” from options actually zooming out and vice versa?
2. Ship details
Now that [ctrl] is used to view bonuses, we cannot see detailed statistics anymore unless we change tooltip to full in game options. Why did they overlook it…
3. Looting
I just don’t know what to say. They intended to make looting system “more interesting”, yeah. But what we have now is just BS. I don’t even care if we still have effectively the same chance to gain new items, this system is just rage-inducing. Previously it was “yaaay, I have new item”, now it’s “s***, it failed to retrieve it again”. Also paying real money for a laughable chance of 30% for successful looting. Are you kidding me?
I don’t even care THAT much about military loot, but what about rare experimentals? Do they have 10 / 30 per cent chance too? (according to [Mowa](< base_url >/index.php?/topic/19766-new-patch-a-river-of-tears/#entry200123) apparently they do) That would be epic rage to lose them nonetheless, which you’ll have quite a good chance of no matter what you do.
Also scenarios became obsolete for some players, cuz now only thing guaranteed is money. Just… wow.
4. Missing icons in scenarios (minor issue)
Played shipyard scenario, Blackwood is its name I believe. In 1st stage and following ones probably as well there are missing icons on the buff / debuff bar. It’s an exclamation mark in a circle with “NO DATA” underneath. Just saying.
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In summary, this patch have some little things that are good, like the new categorized equipment system and an actual mail system that allows to send mail, wow. We just needed it that much. It is, however, all lost in all the things that got screwed up in one way or another. Gaijin, what are you doing? Gaijin! Stahp!