Excellent game! – Warship Rising Review

Superb balance among different classes of ships, realistic WW2 ships, and smooth graphics. Community is decent, with typical rude or crass players here and there. Enjoyable without paid upgrades in game, you can be competitive without paying a lot - just takes a while to save resources. Comments about being blind or overwhelmed by paying players is bullocks. Before paying I was competitive and winning. After 3 months, only VIP 2 and have no resource issues or problem being competitive. Pay to play a lot more fair in this game than most others. I’ve paid over $100 in world of tanks and am beat down by super paying to win players. Warship Rising in same period perhaps have paid $15 and doing well. I don’t think supporting devs with $5 a month is unreasonable.... UPDATE 01/24/2018: Drop from 5 to 4 stars, strongly considering 3 or even 2 stars. Game play and mechanics, and opponent matching is far better than WoW Blitz. However, with latest update on 1/18/18, the revised AI with bot opponents takes gameplay when with bots on team from awkward and at times disruptive to now nearly all the time disruptive and downright frustrating. Bots go through and shoot through land, turn on a dime, and will ram you to a dead stop - multiple times. If you disable them, there is no effect. Then new maps with annihilate and hunt modes, with large maps, when actual players find each other on the maps, bots cruise in and disrupt the battle. At least with capture the flag the bots had a goal other than disrupting their own team players. Finally - on 1/22/18. Server crash and the game down for at least 7 hours before 6waves responds to their players. Almost a day passes, game back up, but account problems. Back down for at least over two more hours. Universal compensation for “inconvenient”, which is their version of inconvenience, but nothing for paying customers who lost a day of play and paid game perks. If this happens again, will definitely file a complaint with Apple for not getting what paid for - although I doubt much will come of that. All of this aside, the game down has given me time to evaluate WoW Blitz. While WoW is undoubtedly mor stable and less susceptible to developers lurching clumsily about with ideas (at least they are trying!), WoW gameplay in battle is far less smooth and fun than Rising. Rising has so much potential! The deva need to leave alone what works and focus on features such as guild play, arena play, and other promised features that would take the game to the next level. Modes such as Hunting and Annihilation work with full player teams, but not in solo play. New players to the platform are hence at a disadvantage as most experienced players team at 4-5* level.
Review by jeep_dog on Warship Rising.