Decent game but...meh – Clash of Panzer Review

This game was pretty fun in the beginning. Smashing opponents in your awesome tank that you’ve upgraded to the max! But then it starts to get worse. Here’s a list of my main problems. You start to see a pattern once you replay things like rating battles. Every time you play, there are at least 1-6 helicopters, which is good! But then you realize how absolutely broken a team with 1 helicopter can be against a team without any. I’ve had this happen several times, although rare, it shouldn’t even be possible! This needs to be fixed. Next, also regarding the helicopters, they are too broken, all you need to do is go right on top of a tank, and just spam missiles until they are dead, unfair. Third is the cost of basic things. 30,000 gold for a simple camouflage?! That’s way too high! Fourth is the inability to get new tanks, sure you can spend $20 on some more new tanks that are broken, or you can wait 6 months to level up and get an average at best tank that gets destroyed easy. Doing this ruins your game, making it pay to win. Fifth is the range, accuracy, and scope. Sniping is impossible on a map that’s 10,000mx10,000m, while the highest range tanks have are about 5,000m, and then you have to get within spotting range of enemies, and die a slow, painful death. This isn’t a problem for things like MBTs or AFVs, but for tanks with HUGE guns. You would expect a little better range. Another thing is accuracy, shell velocity is apparently non existent. As all your shells lob a little from medium to long range distance. Making you have to figure out how to hit them in fractions of a second. I am not an artillery gunner, I have no clue how to shoot with a lob. Both of these problems should be fixed. Sixth is one of the maps. Bright pink bridges in a forested area?! Those don’t go very well together. Not sure if this is intentional, a bug, or you just forgot to add a texture and color to it. But this is probably the easiest fix of them all. Seventh is a specific AFV, this AFV made me quit the game actually from how mad it made me. I am talking about the disgrace of an AFV, the BTR-60PB. Why on EARTH does this thing exist. You only get a machine gun! And then you have a BMP-1 turret on it that’s uncontrollable! When I first played this game about 2018-19, I quit because of this AFV! Now, in 2020, I came back to see if you maybe fixed it, NOPE! Still is as inadequate as ever! I’ll play again if you fix this! But this is ridiculous! You made a variant after the BMP-1, a VERY capable and deadly AFV, one of my favorites! And just DESTROYED it!!! You could’ve made something to look forward to! Fix this, and I might play again! Number eight is probably the biggest problem of all, your “online” games, are a hoax. Not only can I play on airplane mode, but I’ve investigated these “players” that are in the game. #1. Nobody ever chats, jokes, or says anything, despite the text box on the right. #2. I have about 600 battles, I do about 60k damage, average 4 kills, I have lost 4 times. 4! Not to mention I get MVP about 95% of the time! This is suspicious. #3. Every time an enemy shoots me, they deal about 700-2,000 damage, while when I shoot them, I effectively half their HP. #4. There is never an AFK “player” during a match. #5. You might argue the chat in the garage, but I think those are actually other people, but you will never play with them, you only ever play matches with bots. #6. Every “player” goes the EXACT route they went in a previous life. This is just a small number of observations that I have found, but I won’t list more. This is shows how greedy this game is. Charging hundreds of dollars to just get a simple camouflage, or a decal, or a flag. Lying to their player base that it’s “online”. Leaving broken or useless tanks and helicopters untouched, never to be nerfed, or buffed. These are just a fraction of the problems that plague this game. And I will not rejoin until at least some of these are fixed. But it isn’t fair to just list the bad. There is some good things about the game, although not as much, it’s still a game that has some potential and could be fun to play! Here’s some good things about this game. Suspension, I like the detail, along with how smooth it runs over bumps and hills. Sound, great music, great gun noise, just awesome. Variety of tanks, although this has some flaws, the amount of different tanks there are is pretty impressive. Gold, the amount of gold you can get is pretty decent, though not near enough for a 35,000 gold camouflage, 1.2k gold in a month is pretty nice. Statistics, you made almost all of the tanks have the same, or pretty near the same statistics. Making each match a pretty balanced game, no super broken tanks, or AFVs (helicopters are a different story), it’s quite balanced. This is a pretty fun game to play when your bored, sitting in a waiting room, or at the DMV, or at the bank, it’s like one of those little boredom games that are quick, easy, and don’t require extensive knowledge on how to play. And for that, I would like to give some recommendations that would make the game multitudes better. First, balance the helicopters, this can be done in 3 ways. 1. Nerf the helicopters, slower fire rate, less damage, less HP, something. 2. Buff the tanks and AFVs, or more accurately, better gun elevation, to hit the helicopters more. 3. Remove the helicopters entirely, and give compensation to those who had helicopters. This is an easy fix, and would make competitive players like me, a whole lot happier. Second, make the paints, decals, and flags cheaper, this would make trying to get them a lot less of a chore and more a fun task. Third, fix all problems I listed before. Fourth, add things like stationary artillery, controllable missiles, or different ammunition types. To conclude: Like I said earlier, this game has a lot of potential, it’s a fun, easy to play, but if you don’t fix the flaws, it will fail. Fix this before it’s too late. From-DMK
Review by ImAlwaysLateForReviews on Clash of Panzer.