I was an original founder and beta tester for Armored Warfare back in 2015. It was a pretty nice game then until they took the development away from Obsidian Entertainment. It lost a lot of players and became so difficult to get even an Objective (co-op) match, that I was waiting in the queue for over 20 minutes just trying to find four other players. Needless to say, that's when I stopped playing. Don't let the Steam hours played mislead you. It is low because I found out I couldn't use the Steam version so I uninstalled it. I have tier 10 and 9 vehicles and have put a lot of time into the game.

I guess they finally realized there were no players on the North American server and closed it and merged everyone to one server. This increased the player base somewhat and I guess getting it on Steam helped too. The thing is, they didn't even allow merging original accounts over to Steam so I had to install the non-Steam version to keep my vehicles and progress. I have close to 50 vehicles and about 30 are premiums. I found it much quicker to get into a co-op game when I went back, typically 2-3 minutes, which isn't terrible.

My problems began when I opened my battalion screen to find that the battalion name I'd had since 2015 had been "flagged" for being inappropriate. I can tell you there was nothing inappropriate about it but I decided I'd try to fix it by changing it anyway. This didn't work as it would not allow any name to be added, even though the names were only using the English alphabet, not even numerals. Contacting tech support, I was told that battalion names must contain only one word. This is crazy because my original was three words. I then looked at the list of battalions in the game and there are many with two, three, and even some with four words, but I'm being told I can have just one word.

Not only this, but coming back, I had over 18,500 gold and decided to buy some premium vehicles. A lot of premium vehicles come with a special skin or camo making them stand out from the ones in the game's tech tree. In fact, this is the only difference in many of the premium vehicles, so why buy one unless they look different? So I bought the Sabra Mk.2 that is clearly pictured on the store page as having a special camo but it didn't come with the camo. Tech support tells me I bought one without the camo so everything looked fine to them. They said the vehicle would say "Sabra Mk.2 Smash" if it had the camo. Guess what? The name of the vehicle as it showed in my garage was "Sabra Mk.2 Smash". The camo was listed in the camo section but "locked". How do you have a locked feature on a premium vehicle? There is no option to unlock it.

There is also a bug in the game where you will be driving along and suddenly your vehicle will not be controllable. It may get stuck in an infinite loop like be driving in a circle where you cannot steer nor fire your weapon or just repeat a 5-second scene over and over. You cannot do anything but wait for the match to end or exit, where you will receive a penalty.


I leave this game now that I've invested hundreds of dollars in, have top-tier vehicles including 24 premium vehicles, 5700 gold, 67.4m credits, 909k XP, etc. Support did not care to help keep a veteran player in the game, what chance do you think a newcomer has? It is clear that the people who took over this game have no idea what they are doing and have completely ruined the game. Do not invest time or money into this game because it will be dead soon.

Minden patch-el technikailag egyre rosszabb.
Szívesen játszanék én vele, de már ott tart a game, hogy a bőven a maximum rendszer követelménye feletti gépemen már csak 25-30-FPS-el fut, meg vagy 2-perc mire betölt még egy PvE-meccset is...

És semmilyen más játékkal, programmal nincs bajom, csak ezzel a sz@rral.
Két éve jobban futott mint ma, a régi gépemen jobban futott mint ma, ez egyszerűen közröhely.
És rengetegen panaszkodnak ezért már évek óta a közösségi fórumjaikon, és le sem sz@rják, és még bannolnak is érte, ha pl. a játékon belül írod...

Hitvány sz@r játék ezért, mert amíg technikailag egy ♥♥♥, másról nincs beszélni.

Most utoljára próbáltam vele játszani újta. Gratula a készítőknek, így kell elsüllyeszteni egy - egyébként ígéretes - játékot...

A játék alacsonyabb szinten élvezetes, Tier5-től felfelé viszont PayToWin erősen. Hiába van papíron rendkívül erős páncélzata a tankodnak, ha az ellenfél prémium tankkal vagy orosz tankkal nyomul, garantáltan véged.
A PvP csaták jelentős része botokkal teli, ami jó, de unalmas, ha az ellenfél csapatát kell levadászd, és siralmas, amikor a te csapatod kétharmada ledaráltatja magát.
A WoT-hoz képest még mindig jobb, hiszen messze több lehetőséget biztosít a játék (pl. AT szakasz telepítése, éjjeli csaták, AT rakéták, füstfüggöny, stb.), ugyanakkor siralmas, hogy mennyire hatalmas előnyt biztosítanak a prémium és/vagy orosz tankoknak.

Ilyen téren klasszikus WoT: ha nyerni akarsz garantáltan, fizess vagy játssz oroszokkal.

Ez sajna tényleg halot. Annaj idelyén még az alfával kezdtem, mindig voltak pvp csaták, de manapság a napi player szint a behívó képernyőn 30-50, de azok is mindig magas tierekben. PVE játékmódban többen vannak, de valjuk be az nem olyan szórakoztató :S Kár érte, kicsit töb törődéssel talán még WoT verő is lehetett volna. Saját tapasztalat, volt hogy 32 percet vártam egy pvp csatára délután.....

Eddig jónak tűnik. FAIR-ebb a játék mint a WoT (WTF) vagy a WT (WC) -ben. Bár azt olvasom hogy nagyobb szinteken ez is ugyan olyan unfair mint a már említett másik két tankos hulladék. megoldásnak nem megoldás de akkor nem kell nagyobb szintre menni, a fejlesztők meg reménykedjünk hogy balanszolnak minden szinten, és nem csinálnak egy harmadik PayToToptier / PayToNotnabteam "játékot". A (csapat) játékosok viszont ..háát inkább ne káromkodjunk.. PvP-ben, mindegyik autista robot, agy nélkül nyomulnak a map közepén keresztül az ellenfél bázisáig, amit már persze nem érnek el (szerintem nem botok -- csak agyhalottak). Ezért is írok értékelést hogy hátha több épelméjű kap kedvet ehhez a játékhoz.

frissités: sajnos ez is egy rakás xar.. még mindig egyes szinten játszom, de már berak két szintel nagyobbak közé, laggol folyamatosan, úgyhogy felejtős!

Reinstalled it out of nostalgia, started playing in 2015 after Let's Play did a sponsored video for it, been playing on and off since.

Good PvP, excellent PvE, servers for multiple regions, interesting story, the game had a bright future with Obsidian at the helm. Back then this game had the potential to put WoT 6 ft under and stand toe-to-toe with War Thunder, but now exists as a stagnant money pit. A lot of this I'm recalling from memory, pardon any details I miss.

TL;DR: hit the Ignore button and move on. Small stagnant player population, only server region is EU, significantly more paid than free content, and they're collecting information on your PC in the background.

Obsidian got axed (that's a whole story you'll need to Google search), a year of radio silence, no updates, servers were still live but the community saw all this as a sign that the good times were over and slowly moved on.

New team eventually steps in, communications resume, small updates start rolling out, and then the "Global Server Update" to address long que times. The update solved this issue by MERGING SERVERS. If you don't play MMO's, "server merging" means that the global player population is so low that it's impossible to que for anything (pvp, raids, etc) and that all regions will be merged to a single server region to fix que times. The new server region itself being somewhere in Europe (don't remember exactly where), game is eventually brought to Steam and veteran players can't log into the Steam version with their existing accounts.

I'm in NA, I can't play this game without a 160+ ping and constant 1 second delay (players in Australia, Oceania, and parts of Asia in particular got really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over, like 300+ ping). PvE is manageable but I'm never touching PvP like this. Since the new devs stepped in the game has gone full Live Service mode with no real effort to rebuild the playerbase it once had and it's been that way for years. Battle passes, premium bundles, and loot crates as far as they eye can see. We do get updates to the free aspect to the game (maps, pve missions, good QoL changes, etc.) but I can't remember the last time new progression vehicles were added to the tech trees (the stuff you can unlock and use for free) and they're heavily outnumbered by the amount of premium vehicles (and a handful of them are stupid OP).

Majority of the player base at this point are newer players that stumbled across the Steam version and the handful of veteran players that stuck around. To the best of my knowledge there is zero effort to advertise this game at all in the Americas and Canada. Whenever the player surveys went out and asked "1 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this game", I always gave them the same answer: "0. Bring back regional servers."

They won't, this game has no future. All the publisher ever wanted was a World of Tanks clone and they got exactly what they wanted.

World of Tanks is 100% a P2W hell hole. Talk to any veteran player if you don't believe me, that game got review bombed on Steam for a damn good reason.

War Thunder is a soul crushing, depression inducing grind. I know this from personal experience, the devs want the grind to be as miserable as possible to get you to spend money without turning everyone away all at once. Keeping up with the tech tree grind, battle pass, and seasonal grinding events for premium vehicles and cosmetics is it's own full time job.

Armored Warfare is a pathetic shadow of it's former potential. Just another F2P live service trash title on the publisher's catalog. Don't waste your time with this game, just more f2p trash that's fading away into oblivion.

Why am I and so many others sticking around? Games like this scratch an itch that nothing else can scratch. Avoid the tank genre all together if you don't want to end up like us.

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate live service games.

Nem értem miért nem mergelik az összes szervert egybe az Orosz szerver fullon van gyakorlatilag mindenki ott játszik aki tud .ru email címet szerezni.Ígí élvezhetetlen nincs játékos.

I really had high hopes for this game, not because I thought it was better than World of Tanks or War Thunder, but because it had a mode that those other two games does not, that is, PvE. When you grow tired of the 15 vs. 15 idiot-fest that the other games become, you can play Armored Warfare and fight computer controlled opponents. Sure, you still have to deal with 4 other humans, but usually one or two of them go link-dead during the battle or stay along the edge of the map and out of your way.

Unfortunately, the developers of this game, or perhaps the programmers, never learned the difference between a challenge and a massacre. And, since they appear to be totally incapable of figuring out how to program an intelligent AI, they opt for "cheats". And boy, are these cheats massive.

That, in itself, is why this game fails so miserably. If you've had any experience at all with any type of combat-related games before this then you understand the basic concept of flanking. If you are in a "light" tank, you cannot hope to penetrate the frontal armor of a Main Battle Tank so you use your speed to get to the side and take advantage of the weaker armor on the side and rear of these vehicles.

Only....in AW, the AI vehicles have learned to "spin" in place so that you are unable to flank them. Even if this is not possible in the real world. Or their turrets miraculously do a 180 degree turn in under a second to snap a shot back at you that, of course, always penetrates for maximum damage. Or how, even though you've remained undetected until you pop over a rise, the AI tank somehow sensed you were up to something and turned to face you, thus negating your flanking move.

Now, to be fair, this behavior is extremely exploitable. If you are lucky enough to have a friend on your team, you have your friend shoot the AI tank to keep it's attention and then you pop out and shoot them. Or, if it insists on turning to face you, then your friend can hit it in the side or rear. And if you are fighting 2 vs 1 then that is totally realistic and understandable.

But.

Again, the programmers, unable to figure out a better method or just too cheap to do so, simply flood the map with AI tanks. In PvE you fight with a team of 5. The enemy throws out 20-30 tanks at you. And to make matters worse, all of these tanks appear to be "enhanced" with better penetration, accuracy and depression/elevation than any player controlled vehicle.

Or they flood the game with missile-capable vehicles (T-15 Armata, Terminators) who are able to ripple fire their 4-shot clips in about 3 seconds. And they seldom miss with these shots. Nothing like having a full-health MBT reduced to a pile of smoking rubble because two AI T-15's just spawned in behind you.

Oh yes, forget about clearing flanks and/or making a planned advance to the target area. The AI spawns in miraculously behind and to either side in just about every scenario. Do you have to hold a position? Well then you need to have someone watching every quadrant, even though you just spent the past 10 minutes clearing say the eastern or western flank. Just to have four tanks pop-up out of cleverly concealed underground bunkers behind your battle-line. Yay.

It's a free-to-play, loot-box-ridden, poorly designed and extremely flawed game. The PvE aspect just can't make up for that and in the end, or rather after a day or two if you're like me and enjoy the pencil to the eye, you just remove it from your active inventory.

I've played this game since it was in Closed Beta in 2015. To start you to know that this game was made as a response to WoT and WT, both of them by russian developers. This is important due to the mindset that these 2 russian devs have towards their playerbase. Basically it amounts to "Don't like what we're doing? Don't play." AW was marketed from the beginning as a modern arcade tank game by a western developer. What we didn't realise was that My.com, the publisher, is run by a russian company. So much for that. The other thing is that it was designed to directly address the criticisms both playerbases had for their games. You'd expect that this setup meant AW was destined to fail.

You'd be partly right but not in the way you might think. The game mechanics were designed to be more fair overall with a lower RNG swing (10% compared to WoT's 25%) and an emphasis on gun accuracy and speed of play. These major changes along with several other minor ones created a game that was tons of fun for all skill levels. What was even better was that Obsidian Entertainment actually wanted to create an overarching story to the game and to bring some RPG elements as well. They really wanted to take the good from WoT and WT while eliminating the bad and drive this kind of game well beyond the original scope. I personally have spoken to developers from obsidian all the way up to the project director for AW about this and heard nothing but amazing things from them about their goals for AW.

Then My.com started to push back. All they ever wanted was a WoT clone and they started to make that abundantly clear right after the game launched in late 2015. From launch the game went steadily downhill as massive tank and tier imbalances were ignored, map issues were ignored, and game mode imbalances were ignored. They tried to cover up the problems with new tanks, new maps and new game modes but the core issues remained.

Finally the other shoe dropped. OE got cut by My.com. Despite what it says here on steam this is NOT a game currently developed by Obsidian Entertainment. It is now an in house development team at My.com. And as far as I can currently tell, they are stumbling their way around trying to make this game even more like WoT than it already was. AW coming to steam is nothing more than an attempt to drum up support for a game that has already lost its playerbase. Cannot recommend AGAINST this game enough.

Game had a lot of potential but the publisher had a big brain idea, they wanted to copy WoT and make a lot of money the way they did. But WoT being the sunk-cost fallacy and the only game occupying this very specific space on the market, it wasn't going to work. So Obsidian decided to make an actually fun game, expand it a lot and have a lot more originality than WoT. So the publisher did another big brain think and removed them. Killing the game in the process and making sure they never get any money. So now they basically hold other trash games as hostage on their ret*rded platform as a way to bring in cocaine money. RIP Armored Warfare, you had potential.