Armored Warfare - Caribbean Crisis

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[@The_MightyJingles]

After a slightly shaky start, the JINGLESJAN2018 code now definitely has unlimited uses, so everyone can go to their account page at aw.my.com/us/user and claim their LAV-150 90 MERC premium vehicle.

[@masterskilhollow]

Thanks, Jingles! For the code and for the video. I for one appreciate you making clear when a video is sponsored and for what it's worth I *do* believe that the opinions you offer are honest regardless. Based on what you've said here I might just fire Armored Warfare again and give it another go.

[@dillydoetv6132]

Well can't argue when you're getting paid lol I for one am going to fire up the game again! The mm was the thing that was broken in this game, like you would just get steam rolled game after game and you would know that when your the last tank on your team over and over again and you finish top of the leader board, and the other team has one or 2 tanks, that you killed, you know that something is not right with the mm... When it came to the end of round, you and 2 others would be up against 10 to 13 enemy tanks! That's why I quit, now that its 5 vs 5, I actually have a better chance of surviving and winning games lol

[@DheerajChawlaq8]

thanks bro

[@HMSConqueror]

Thanks Jingles!!!

[@cristianmusteti]

Thank you Jingles! Looking forward to your next video :) There's been a few more changes since this video was posted, especially to the PVP battle modes and queue. Spoiler: Global ops is now the default PvP game mode.

[@teeffw2776]

I will always be surprised at the way that Armored Warfare was legitimately fun game a few years ago, managing to avoid every single pitfall that plagued WoT. Arty problems? Make them visible after firing and set up the gameplay so that Arty players have a great incentive to actually do anti-arty actions. Light tanks being useless? Make them maneuverable and have great punch in the form of accurate high-powered cannons or high-alpha ATGMs. Medium tanks were a fun jack of all trades, while heavy tanks were all about positioning and had a great punch. The maps were varied, the team sizes were just right, matchmaking was fantastic with plenty of single-tier or +/-1 tier matches, and it was simply a fun game. There was no gold ammo, and the premiums were fun sidegrades. It was WoT, with almost all the problems fixed. Then came the dark times, around the time the MBT-70 was released as a premium. The premiums became straight upgrades that stomped over everything. Arty first got nerfed into oblivion due to whining players, and then apparently got removed from PVP entirely. Light tanks had their accurate mobile cannons nerfed to hell, so now they had to camp in rear positions instead of zip around the map scouting everything. Medium tanks were nerfed and were now weak against everything. Heavy tanks were nerfed and there was no reason to play them since everything penned. Slowly all the things that AW got right about the game were removed or nerfed into the ground, and the game became a reskinned WoT. And the playerbase kept diminishing, and diminishing.

[@starcoloneldunadansonoft501]

TeeFFW There were never medium or heavy tanks in AW. What exactly are you talking about?

[@teeffw2776]

Their WoT-AW equivalents, in the same way that there aren't any strictly light tanks in there either. Unless your pedantry somehow can't distinguish between a slow-moving hard-hitting MBT with tons of armor and a more mobile MBT with much less armor.

[@petiertje]

This about sums it up sadly. The MBT's were invulnerable at some point though. And sadly My.ru wants AW to be a WoT with modern tanks. Biggest mistake they ever made imo. At first i played the game a lot, spend a fair amount of money on it too. Now i don't even have it installed. It's true what people say, PvE has kind of the biggest playerbase, and it shows there is a good amount of people wanting to play with tanks, but not with the competitive (and quite often toxic) PvP variant. Sure, there were issues with balance, but the biggest issue was a part of the playerbase that want to play the biggest vehicle out there, and want to do damage to everything, yet don't want to take damage when getting shot at 'because it is a MBT, and those are made to not get damaged'. Kind of the same people that complain about Battleships in WoWs not being powerfull enough, and it's kind of obvious where that has lead to in that game. Now it's a ton of reskin premium vehicles, terrible high tier PvE (ATGM spamming AI that spawns with 10 of those vehicles all around you), fun mid/low tier PvE and a good start at a 'storymode' PvE. If AW keeps improving in the future, i'm willing to give it one last try. Although, until i read something useful in the news (check it every now and then), i'm content in not having it installed. It's a shame though, the game had, and still has, great potential.

[@deaconfrost2009]

" ... the biggest issue was a part of the playerbase that want to play the biggest vehicle out there, and want to do damage to everything, yet don't want to take damage when getting shot at ... " This has also been the long-term issue with World of Warships - everything got nerfed to the ground because battleship mains refused to learn to turn, or to stick with a cruiser or two for AA protection. And that sort of the thing is also the problem with many other games. The one thing in common? Whining potatoes. Sadly, nobody's come up with a good answer to them.

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

The most recent patch seems to have restored some specialization. MBTs are very tough still, but not invincible, even from the front, and they tend to have high alpha but with long reloads. AFVs have great DPM and okay survivability, but can have problems penetrating tougher targets. TDs also have great DPM, better penetration, but poor survivability. And LTs strike a balance between all these things. The specialization is big on the Insane difficulty PVE missions. The 2nd mission in the current batch has a couple spots where you really need to be able to burst out a lot of damage to kill several tanks quickly, or you lose. 5 MBT teams often fail. You need a couple AFVs or TDs in the mix. The only big complaint I see about PVE is the ATGM spam. But honestly, my own perspective is that this is more of a "git gud" issue. The people whining about it always seem to be the ones who sit out in front of a dozen enemies just soaking up shots for no reason. The game is as fun as its ever been to me. I just hope we still have enough players to keep it going for a while. I don't care if its hugely popular, I just want there to be enough people that you can actually get through the queues.

[@LegionOfEclaires]

PvE is the reason Armored Warfare didn't die. It was popular from the start. It offered something that WoT or War Thunder or even World of Warships did not, a fun little place to play your vehicles without all the toxicity common in PvP. And it was actually profitable. It's not perfect. It has it's flaws but it works.

[@TamasBodo97]

Battles are 5v5 because there's not enough people for a full match, which made the queue hideous. They didn't do it to solve tactical deployment of teams, but because there was nobody playing.

[@Metal_Tao]

Tamas Bodo Why not both? It's what they should do when the server population is low to keep their playerbase but it also *brings interesting and different gameplay due to size* And that is what Jingles is saying, he is enjoying it despite it means

[@blackopsy9]

+Tamas Bodo He made it clear in the video that is why it was done, he also mentioned, as a side affect, some other issues were alleviated.

[@sabrewolf4129]

PVE was always 5 players, PVP was 15v15

[@rudyossanchez]

11 am I'm on the north American server with 7 people, on PvP there are 7 of us.

[@SakuyaFM4]

Try something around 3-9pm Pacific, though I can only really speak for PVE. EDIT: Playing at 7:30pm right now. Had 11 people, then I guess a premade bugged out because it suddenly dropped 5 people.

[@NDK0]

Yes.. We need to get more players in this game 😄

[@The_MightyJingles]

My.com have been in touch with the news that since the first 1000 codes went so quickly they're going to be giving me more codes to giveaway, probably tomorrow. So watch this space and I'll let you know here, on Facebook and on Twitter when you can grab yourself a premium vehicle in case you missed it the first time.

[@garethfairclough8715]

It looks like the reds have been making something of a marketing push with regards to this game as of late. First Phlydaily, then you. Who next? Circon? Quickybaby? Ian Mccollum of Forgotten weapons? I think it's a damn shame the way AW has gone. It had such potential!

[@Kiwittgmail]

1,000 codes all gone! ... AW must be more popular than the nay-sayers say

[@harleywalls6356]

codes all gone dam wow more people on right now then ever I have seen I was there from bete

[@harleywalls6356]

also they need to push more marketing on this game

[@Dzharek]

All one , i would sugesst to post them at a certain time in the video on screen so that people first look at the video and then insert the codes ^^

[@Sabre_000]

I think that a good chunk of the NA playerbase wanted something very different from WOT in AW because we like to have our world of tanks be our world of tanks and not a distant cousin with a few changes that made it different. it was really refreshing (to me at least) the way obsidian developed the game, hen my.com took over we pretty much all left because of it (we don’t deal with change from things we like too well (that is when you like something the way it is enough to complain))

[@TheTemplarnight]

really?, cause lately on NA I've had faster queue's and seen more in queue in a long time, Not that I'm a frequent player myself, but to me it felt like AW picked up in pop on NA

[@Sabre_000]

They reduced the que times by reducing amount required to start a battle. That being said I haven't played in quite some time, I'm just speculating right now.

[@TheTemplarnight]

I'm also talking co-op/pve I haven't queued for pvp in a long ass time cause I don't care to wait anywhere from 4-30 minutes for the privileged to play 1 round in my tank

[@BlindGuardianCz]

Everyone wants something different than WoT. except people with potatos powered by hamster wheel.

[@novatopaz9880]

AW is still broken, in my opinion. They never did really fix the balance problems they created in previous versions, only compounded them. It looks good, and I may try it soon, but I’m not getting my hopes up. Besides, I’m still bitter over the train wreck that was the test servers to test AW balance changes. I still have a tier 9 Centauro 120 waiting in my garage hanger, waiting for me to return.

[@YuriPRIMErpg]

The direction Obsidian took this game was the only reason I kept playing... because it had potential NOT to be JUST world of tanks... with models of modern tanks. My.Com lost me there, and their decision from financial perspective, is quite ludicrous, as we've learned from oh so many failed MOBAs and WoW clones back in the day. People who don't like the said game it's based on or it's mechanics will find it too similar to care and like it... those who already invested hours upon hours in World of Tanks, why would they even bother grinding back again from scratch? What's the bloody point? Come on, Jingles even you don't do this content unless you're actually paid.

[@chaz8758]

Well My.Com are just the publishers in the EU and NA, the Devs are now Mail.RU - the people who were paying OE to develop the game for them (and had started doing work in house before OE left, particularly tank models).

[@RedXlV]

There's obviously *some* audience of World of Tanks players whose favorite tanks are from the Cold War or modern eras, rather than anything that can actually be a part of WoT. Unfortunately, that seems to be the *only* audience My.Com cares about attracting with Armored Warfare. Whether that's enough audience to carry a WoT clone remains to be seen. But let's be real, if Armored Warfare ever actually gets to the point of Victor Kislyi having a reaction other than "point and laugh", Wargaming will surely deliver an *actual* "WoT with modern tanks" spin-off game. Hell, they might already have something like that in the works. Which is exactly why it's such a mistake for My.Com to abandon Obsidian's idea of differentiating Armored Warfare from WoT.

[@chaz8758]

Players were leaving before OE split with Mail.RU (My.com are not the devs and have never been the paymasters - Mail.Ru paid OE to start development). There were calls to merge EU and NA servers long before the split, they game has had a troubled start, some good and some bad decisions and directions.

[@Nyctasia]

WG announced WoT II for modern vehicles, and quietly scrapped the idea inside six months. Given the dreadful balance of vehicles and money grabbing nature of WG, it would appear more and more of their older players have left the game in the last couple of years, some for Warships or AW, others for entirely different games.

[@foxfax2]

That was because Mail.ru stopped paying Obsidian due to "creative differences" (ie Mail.ru wanted a WoT clone, Obsidian didn't), so they stopped updating. Due to the lack of updates, almost everyone stopped playing anything but PvE. Nearly nine months later, Balance 2.0 drops to a resounding "WTF?!" as many, many bad decisions come to haunt AW and almost everyone who held on, still hoping it'd be good, bailed.

[@gard86]

I'm not even interested in this game. Just love having Jingles voice on in the background while I do the dishes.

[@kurtn4819]

Yeah, a lot of us feel that way. I mean really, what are we looking at anyway? None of it amounts to hill of beans. It's just Jingles and that velvety smooth UK voice & everpresent chuckle.

[@snakedogman]

haha, yeah I just want Jingles to narrate my life ;)

[@Extrasailor]

Well have you tried it out?

[@GorBane]

When it comes down to it, the only reason I started playing Armored Warfare was because of the PvE. I was also looking forward to what RPG elements Obsidian were going to add to the game. My.com taking over really left a bitter taste in my mouth. What's even worse is that I've started seeing people blaming Obsidian on the forums for why the game's struggling so much. Obsidian drew me to the game, and what they managed to put together, given their development history, was pretty impressive. Obsidian may have left the game in a bad spot when they were fired, but they had plans (Which they shared, and then took down a day later when they were fired), and it sucks to see them, instead of My.com, blamed for the current state of the game. Not saying Obsidian is blameless, just that both parties had an equal hand in this. And if I were a conspiracy theorist I'd say My.com's spreading that ideology just to make themselves look better. Doesn't change the fact that I was looking for more than just "WoT with modern tanks." I still play AW PvE, and I'm really hoping My.com will make the game better. And maybe do something about the still awful server population, even after the Steam release. A lot of people hoped that just having a Steam release would solve the population issue, but I don't think AW even made it to Steam's featured page. It was a pretty quiet Steam release, TBH. /rant

[@ducky449]

When my.com removed obsidian and basically said they just wanted a WOT clone and not a better game then WOT I removed the game from my computer and will never return.

[@seantaylor2683]

*Mail.RU My.com is owned by Mail.RU

[@phulcrum1984]

"Armored Warfare, does it have anything different than the last time I played?" Yes, an even lower player base. The only reason it's 5v5 is because they don't have enough players to fill a 15v15 in a reasonable amount of queue time.

[@raghnallmacaodh3220]

They should have let Obsidian run with it..... I left when My.com took over and haven't looked back.

[@Internet_Guy99]

i tried to get back into it a while back but its just sad whats happened to it

[@WarCry3R19]

dont try it, you will disappointed from the game, its totally screwed and a wot clone in many things

[@sleveille4]

i'm sorry Jingles, but first iterations of AW were way more than "WOT with modern vehicules", it had it's specifics, and players were happy about that. The moment they started to go away from that towards "WOT with modern vehicules" players started to leave. They continued and increased toward that change by letting Obsididan go, and thus the players left even FASTER. player don't want a "WOT with modern vehicules". They are proving it since AW is released. go check the steam forum of the game, where My.com can't ban / mute as easily as they can on their own forums, and take the temperature.....

[@GervasitorSpaceman67]

Well the thing is players don't want a WoT clone in western countries. If my.com didn't belong to mail.ru, we might have two different games, with obsidian maybe still developping AW for the NA and EU servers. However, the playerbase in Russia and eastern countries is large, and it is the main source of income for the company, and those players wanted a WoT 2.0 where they can play the T-14 armata, so that is what mail.ru gave them. (On a side not WoT is very popular in those countries, so this was the population they targeted, as it would give them more money to have a part of that population, rather than to develop a game for western countries).

[@sleveille4]

maybe so, but the game never really struggled in RU from the beginning, and it didn't got better (as far as the player base # is concerned) since those changes started. Meanwhile the game is pretty much dead on NA and EU isn't far behind. so even from an economical POV it doesn't make sense, and it makes even LESS when you consider how much a NA / EU player is willing to invest in a F2P compared to a RU player. they had THE game to catch all the player fed-up with WOT BS, it looked like the game was tailor made to avoid those. this gave them an almost guaranteed player base. and they just pushed them away.

[@chaz8758]

Players were leaving before then, NA server has always had lower numbers than EU in comparison to the population. OE were still the devs and getting lots of abuse for the game not being what players wanted, it was not a sudden down turn when the direction started to change (NA are not as into tank games as other places)

[@GervasitorSpaceman67]

Well, I didn't look into numbers, but if you say so, you're right, this was definitely the game that would get all those players that played WoT because there was nothing else to play, and really nowadays I just play WoT from time to time but I just can't stand more than an hour of gold spamming, RNG, and stupid teams. So yeah, my.com did it wrong, let's hope they realise it some day and give it back to OE, dreams can become true, can't they ? :p

[@KomandantMirko]

downloaded this game 2 weeks ago to check it out after a year or so of not playing there were like 15 people total in queue. on a weekend.

[@alfadasfire]

yeah, sad but true, hardly anyone plays anymore

[@liutaurasgrybauskas8377]

KomandantMirko That's actaully enough to find a game in AW :)

[@Qardo]

It is because My.com never marketed the game. Still not putting any effort in the marketing. Personally My.com lost my interest with AW because they basically sabotaged Obsidian Studios. Who were originally making it. And Obsidian had a good idea. Yet My.com were not giving any support for it.

[@samtenthije2419]

Most people are in the PvE queue, that's the main game mode of AW

[@MyHentaiGirl]

Sam Ten Thije flipping hell, i wait like 5 min for a damn match every time it just not fucking worth the time

[@tambarlas5248]

BIggest problem with AW is they just can't do wheeled vehicles right. Always end up doing doughnuts when I simply what to turn. Unending missiles = jammed turrets do not help.

[@DonJohn87_YT]

The fairly recently updated wheeled vehicle handling was ok, though I agree it should still be improved. The game has a lot bigger problems than that though

[@jonathans3971]

That's probably my fondest memory of AW, how any wheeled vehicle going over 40kph was harder to control than a kitten on crack. The rest of the game, unfortunately has faded into bland, unbalanced mess

[@1stpogo]

I stopped playing this when My.com took over, still not sure if I would want to try it again.

[@jamesmaclennan4525]

I felt the same way and nothing in this video has changed my opinion.

[@ChrisPBolsak]

Yeah, really not that bad surprisingly

[@Pcwarmachine]

Well technically since they were the people who paid for the game to be made in the first place, they were always in charge of the direction of the game. I am pretty sure it was always their intent to get the game to a certain level of development and then take over from Obsidian. And I am pretty sure the people at Obsidian knew this. So the only people who were surprised at this, was Jingles and you guys. :P

[@garethfairclough8715]

It's worse than ever. ATGM spam to the max.

[@Pcwarmachine]

No doubt, but it's not like when Obsidian was doing the updates they had it all setup perfectly either.

[@scruffycavetroll7547]

Releases on steam...does not let people use their same account. Garbage publisher nothing more than a cash grab. Most of the beta players are gone..steam came way too late. Too bad this had potential. War thunder will most likely put modern tonks in it. Small Team sizes are because there is no one playing. And the queue display showing the players and tanks just caused people to pick another tank to be top tier.

[@Aaaaaron320]

Warthunder now (last few month has modern tonks indeed. B)

[@1Fye]

R.A. Warthunder is also starting to go into the shitter after their bias was called out by the community

[@andrewblackmore3150]

Stopped playing when they started screwing over PVE players, trying to force people into PVP by not letting us earn reward tanks during various events. Alot of people went to AW because of the PVE and were told we were going to be treated equally, then got fucked over. Silent Stalker turning into a massive dick didn't help either.

[@SirGEMZOL]

I when to Aw for the PVP and see the same happen with pvp player being force to play Glops. That why I have left AW eu and gone over to the Ru server. Cant stand how Silent Stalker and how He think he is the boss in AW. I have a said "lets use play what we whant in the game and give it event that suit for everyone" But if you liked PVE ...try the new spec op "isane" mode in PVE you will realy like it I think :)

[@singularityraptor4022]

This had great potential.......sad....

[@axel995r]

Do not get tricked into thinking My.com fixed AW, they didn't, the PVE is still hilariously broken, the AI isn't smart they're just moronically overpowered, spamming ATGM's at the front of your Chall 2 MBT and shaving off all of your health and destroying all of the crucial modules and there's no fucking way to counter it because My.com think that modern APS systems require a massive arming distance to work and also that the fronts of modern MBT's fall apart like tissue paper when hit by an ATGM, so if you try to play PVE don't do it in sth that relies solely on it's armor to survive, and as for the PVP is concerned, well the queue is still like 5-15 minutes depending on when you decide to play, so that's not really much better...it was a good game while obsidian was developing it, and my.com killed it in a pretty spectacular fashion.

[@Sreven199]

Aleksa Ristic I've worked a way around this. At least in the Leopard 2 line The main weak spot on an MBT is the turret ring right below the gun. Center mass. And guess where the AI aims? Center mass. So I realized that... You could just point the gun down when you're not shooting... And that weak spot disappears. Which will make your gun yellow, or break it occasionally for 8 seconds. But it's much better than losing 1500 health to a swing fire. When I started doing this, I actually started to block ATGMs.

[@Nyctasia]

Maybe you need to learn to play better and not expose your vehicle so much as it is quite possible to survive most games in the Challenger II, Leopard II or M1 top tier tanks.

[@axel995r]

Well please do teach me master...I'm not talking about surviving, I'm talking about fulfilling your role as an MBT and tanking dmg for the team...it is impossible, even if you always keep the front of your tank pointed at the enemy the ATGMs, mostly from T-15's, will fucking demolish you, if you wiggle the tank, move it around point the gun down, whatever, you will still get penned like 70% of the time because the AI does not miss no matter what you do, which renders MBT's completely useless, if I wanted to hide around the map and snipe enemies I wouldn't have taken a fucking MBT into a battle you fucking genius. And pointing the front of your MBT towards the enemy isn't exposing yourself, it's what the fucking thing was made for in the first place...

[@axel995r]

Nyctasia well you missed my point by about a mile but whatever...I was just trying to state that the ATGMs are op because no I'm sorry but you should not get penned almost every time through the fucking front by the T-15, modern mbt's are good enough to withstand a decent no of hits and not have a vast majority pen it, so it is a stupid cheat by the devsto make the game artificially more difficult, and that way they made mbts more or less useless in pve

[@Nyctasia]

MBT's are far more survivable than any other type of vehicle still. Are the missiles OP? Test data that is available suggests a lot of the most recent ATGM's will disable a vehicle with one or two hits, which in turn conflicts with the claims that the defences will negate 80% of all ATGM strikes. These weapons are meant to attack from the front mostly, though some are top attack types in how they function and are designed to have a pretty good chance of taking out a vehicle, so accepting a large number of incoming rounds is to invite severe damage at least. As in the real world, the best option is to either avoid being hit or limit how many times you are hit. The present situation does make the game harder, though few complained when all the AI vehicles with an ATGM as its prime weapon couldnt even fire them for ages! We know too little for sure about modern vehicles to be sure how they would fare in actual combat, but we do know than all of the export T-72's failed to knock out a single western MBT in the Gulf Wars, and were themselves almost always knocked out with a single hit.

[@yanlou24]

Jingles I think you've forgetten to mention one major grip from players about pve and that is the atgm spam, which still hasn't been sufficiently fixed yet, this fact actually creates alot of frustration, especially when your hit in a weakspot from across the map with pin point accuracy, even with the supposed reduction in AI accuracy in the recent patch, it hasn't really helped.

[@dennisfxd]

Not to mention, your gun/gun breach will be dead in few seconds after you got spotted by the AI missiles boats. Oh, also don’t even bother to play any light scouts, cause AI elite lieutenant tanks have basically the max view range of the entire map, there is no out-spotting in PVE, that’s why in high tiers PvE, people just play boring turtle tanks.

[@Lv-sl3rm]

Honestly as far as the sponsorship goes, eh personally I don't care. However this has failed in making me want to get back into the game. My.com will REALLY have to try to get a lot of the people that left initially from them removing Obsidian from development back. Frankly I don't think they've done that yet.

[@chaz8758]

People were leaving long before OE went, there was already a population problem on the NA server (even during Alpha and closed Beta there were less NA players per population than there were EU players)

[@marsluco1917]

I'm sure OE getting fired didn't help though

[@chaz8758]

For some it was the reason they stayed, many people actually wanted a modern WoT clone. AW was losing players long before OE and Mail.Ru ended their relationship. There were already calls to merge EU and NA servers by NA players, some had already left the NA server and started again on EU server or just left.

[@steelwarrior105]

Jingles, you kinda sound like you are reading a script. I know this is sponsored but you sound like you have someone standing behind you with a shotgun

[@nspence2854]

SteelWarrior115 a lot of his videos are humorous and he's laughing and joking throughout the videos but I think this one comes across as a little different because of its purely informative tone.

[@pallegantzhorn3742]

I thought it was very informative and understandable, remember hes an old guy. they cant all sound like young hipsters :)

[@sleveille4]

that's a my.com sponsored vid, of course there are 2 russians with AK-47 behind him while he speaks.

[@FubukiKai]

Not just the mechanical sound, but a lot of it doesn't sound like things Jingles would say... And that saddens me.

[@cn.st.182]

SteelWarrior115 didnt notice anything to that effect, I think youre projecting.

[@KGWyzel]

While their steam release is fine and dandy... the lack of an Account Migration from My.Com to Steam negates any reason for me to give this game another chance. They've been working on the steam release since November of 2017 and they've YET to implement Account Migration given the amount of discussions on the Steam Community are any sign. They can pony up all the free crap they want, but I spent 30 smackaroos on a MBT-70 and Early Access (My mistake) and they still don't have account migration? Screw. That.

[@REgamesplayer]

Worse yet, it is region locked.

[@Nila9579]

Stopped playing shortly after my.com took over and ruined the menus, as it seems a lot of other people did based on how much worse the wait times got. Not to mention the bugs that still havent been fixed since Obsidian left.

[@seantaylor2683]

They also ruined the incredibly satisfying sound when opening supply crates and I feel like the rewards from them felt reduced as well

[@weko6273]

I love you, jingles

[@daanloman61]

Yesss this game again, thx jingles

[@Tentacl]

Eh, dead game is dead. Also, I even reinstalled when it was launched on Steam, and guess what, we old players can't migrate accounts, still chained to that My.com crap. I already have premium tanks in both US and EU servers because the US server died first, not again. Not returning. WT is going for modern tanks anyway, no way this roadkill can compete.

[@M4CB]

Tentacles I hope it can compete. Competition is good for us.

[@SakuyaFM4]

I've seen Korean War era tanks, but are they really? If so, I'm gonna go play more War Thunder. I think I saw the STB-1 in the tech tree.

[@iglidor]

Jingles, NO. YOU were not in minority in your wishes for AW to be something more then just another tank game. A lot of people were excited with Obsidian behind wheel waiting in what way will they awe us this time like in many of their previous games. I did give My.Com chance after they stabed Obsidian in their back. I waited for their glorious 2.0 balance update where they were promising to fix everything (now that they got rid of dead weight that was slowing them down) and how everything will be amazing. Then they delayed. And delayed. And delayed. Then claimed that they never promised anything in first place. Then delayed again. And only then released half-assed patch that fixed 10 problems and caused 20 new ones. So no, thanks. My.Com/My.Ru showed exactly how much they care about players and so I care just as much right back at them. Not at all.

[@RedXlV]

He might well be in the minority when you consider that the Russian audience is the primary target. I have no idea whether Russian players had any interest in Obsidian's attempt at RPG elements. The EU and especially the underpopulated NA servers are clearly afterthoughts at best to My.Com

[@timzink5408]

Thanks Jingles...did what you said...now I need to go play it some more.

[@Methylimidazol]

Now that really sounded like advertisement.

[@Noodles3535]

I think that code still works, there not 1,000 NA players left in the game

[@Wabeeninc]

When u put your hentai on pause cause jingles uploaded a video with Caribbean in the title

[@jack-jackalan23-35]

Thank you for the code and the great content. I find the information you give out EXTREMELY helpful. Cheers.

[@theenigma6160]

Can't wait to see more. Everyone thought it was gonna crash and burn.

[@NeoAcario]

1160 views.. and code still worked. Nice

[@dasbubba841]

You might not even use it though.

[@woodenscrotum7892]

Literally nothing wrong with advertising, Armored Warfare used to be plagued by this. However, it is being pushed by a team far far more incompetent than Obsidian, from a game that is essentially dead. I wouldn't keep my hopes up.

[@Tankdestryer1]

For that first cap point, every battle I have done, me and my team have done a reverse slope defense. That way any tanks coming up we are able to engage whike if they engage us they are firing at our turrets.

[@wen_tnuocca6923]

You finally did an Armored Warfare video. Thanks Jingles.

[@Matsumoto77]

What? Armoured warfare? WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE U DONE WITH THE REAL JINGLES!?! OH AND A SPONSOR?!?? N-NANI?!??

[@Bloxx280]

Creeder Thats what i was thinking :D

[@weko6273]

armored warfare*

[@Megaterremoto88]

idiot

[@Matsumoto77]

I’m Canadian ok that’s how we spell it

[@TyLockton]

Spelling depends on the country of origin of the speller. Don't be a douche.

[@RussianRainbow]

*1.5k views* *Tries code anyway* *"Code has been activated successfully"* Nice.

[@combatmikearms]

Dan_The_ Man its gone already

[@Feril1]

Yup 4.5k views already gone.

[@ColOddball27]

Got on to re installed to take see what I can do, 2 People in queue can't even get a PvE game

[@Sleepy.Time.]

what if someone made a tank game and no one cared...welcome to Armored Warfare

[@gijsvandergracht8000]

cool, thanks for the video, jingles. Ill download AW again and give it a shot again! :) good vid

[@rustybulletstmm]

My.Com has to pay jingles to make him play a game that they killed. I wonder why?

[@chaz8758]

Amazing that people have for years asked for advertising - and when My.Com do some - it is paying people to play lol

[@rustybulletstmm]

chaz8758 Well they are a Russian company after all. So it works.

[@Warlock572]

Shame the North American server is totally dead. This was a good game. R.I.P.

[@rewesicherheitsdienst1018]

Can't you switch to EU? The Ping shouldn't be that bad

[@robb.c.7407]

lol

[@Warlock572]

You can play on any server. BUT there is no account transfer system. I'd have to regrind every line and any special/premium tanks would have to be bought again. Nobody is going to do that.

[@denniszaidman2089]

And they will never add the option to transfer, for them it would be admitting failure.

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

PVP is dead. PVE still has enough people.

[@richiesaurus_rex4741]

Cheers for the promo, Jingles! Love the videos mate, watch them every morning before work haha!

[@robbleeker4777]

The game showing you HOW MANY other players are waiting and in what tanks, used to be in WoT at the beginning too

[@ThePzrLdr]

There is no player base to speak of. Waiting 20 minutes in queue has put everyone off. It's a waist of time. To bad, it had promise at one time.

[@ThePzrLdr]

Ok Jingles, you got a friend to re-download the game and take a second look at it. After a day of play he told my group to check it out. He loved it and said the queue time has gone to zero. So, I reloaded the game and spent 2 days with my friends playing. I eat my words, Armored Warfare is back. It is all you and my friend said. The fun has returned, queues are indeed zero or near zero at every tier and I am at 8. And it's challenging too.

[@sternencolonel7328]

I trew AW away a couple of month ago, didn't enjoy the ATGM spamming fest anymore. I just reinstalled AW via steam and guess what, there is no option to login with my already existing account, what a stupid game.

[@gauthijm]

Great Video Jingles!

[@jamesprice4668]

"Everyone want's a slice of that World of Tanks pie." "It's a very big and fat pie." -MightyJingles

[@johnwolf2349]

Oh, so this is just confirming what I'd already feared and it's just a WoT clone, which is exactly what I was afraid of. Maybe we are the minority, but I've now decided that it's truly not worth my time to check it out again.

[@rmpll]

lol i already got a type 59 xD

[@ZGuy0fSci]

Looks like someone knows their wheay.... :3 (if one is to spend time on a broken game, lolz)

[@Kingsquad2011]

He dew no dawae

[@gfr9109]

Is that a non-Jingles meme? Quadruple shift in the salt mines.

[@silkaverage]

lets hope its better than the t3 IS-7 they gave away, man that thing sucks, slow to aim, slow to move and slow to reload but bugger me you obliterate anything that is unfortunate enough to remain stationary and congrats on getting the type 59

[@rmpll]

wat I already have it. the is7 is fun. the lav is also fun ^^

[@godofdun]

I'll have to try this one again, thanks!

[@GervasitorSpaceman67]

"Beat the rush, pause the video ..." Damn Jingles I was so hypnotised by your voice that it was actually a good thing you said it, otherwise i would have watched the whole video before trying to enter the code on my.com. It's great to see you playing AW again :)

[@SpeedyCraft51]

#bringbackobsidian

[@dasbubba841]

It's not going to stop the rot that has set in.

[@onebigfatguy]

Not true. Sweeping changes are what's needed in AW after the cancer injecting that FAIL.RU and MOB.COM forced into it started to actively kill the game.

[@valtterivatanen]

8:00 WoT did that 3 years ago and removed it :D

[@kv-5]

Yeah I think there was a (prohibited) mod that increased your chances to get into a toptier match with the help of these numbers. Simplest thing WG could do to fix that was to just not send the info about the number of tanks on each tier in the queue to the client anymore.

[@jonathans3971]

I just don't see how its a selling-point that the game will tell you that it's pointless to queue in a tank of your choice...

[@vanisshen4467]

Got it as soon as I found out it was released on Steam, downloaded it in a night, only to get stuck at authentication error and uninstalled.

[@chaz8758]

That happens at times, during Steam release there was an issue for a little while but solved (it was a patch released just before Steam release that broke)

[@claytonwhitman1608]

Hey, I got mine! THANK YOU Jingles and MY.com!

[@Bloxx280]

SOMEBODY TOUCHA MA WORLD OF TANKS!

[@avrahams1]

They've ruined AW a long time ago - you just need to go to the forums and see EVERYONE complaining about how fucking OP missiles are in PvE. Doesn't matter what you drive, you might think your T90 has a lot of composite armor at the front, specifically meant to counter shaped charges... just you wait till 10 pinpoint accuracy wire guided missiles hit your small frontal weakpoints from 1km away. Of course, you also won't spot whoever's shooting you cuz they're 100% invisible, so you just stand there and take the damage.

[@chaz8758]

Its not as bad as they claim, many who moan are those they run forward into a barrage of missiles then blame everything except the keyboard chair interface. The issue in PvE is the number of ATGM spammers spawning at the same time and same location - so you are faced with three FV438 or Weisel TOW, multiple Bradleys, Merkavas or T15's, PL-01 or BMP/D - that just fire ATGM even if they have other types of rounds or other weapons. The ATGM as not as accurate now and I can sit and watch a Swingfire head towards me, duck behind cover and carry on - only in my squishiest vehicles do i get taken out quickly (two Swingfire or TOW to a Wiesel and you are gone before seeing anything)

[@thakori]

#pvelivesmatter

[@Nyctasia]

Most of the complaints are from people who as you say, rush forward in the Challenger II expecting to be totally invulnerable and then whine and cry about their team and the game mechanics when they die quickly. These same people rush the corridors on WoT and die in much the same way, and do much the same in WoWs, although I would never have believed anyone would create endless corridor maps for a naval warfare game!

[@thakori]

That's actually very true. Playerbase has around 90% average winrate in pve and there are still tomatos complaining how it is too hard. :-))))

[@chaz8758]

Just been playing again and facing these deadly massed ATGM's from the AI and in my MBT's, LT's, AFV's and TD's (tier 6 to 10), I seemed to win most of my matches despite multiple hits (many many hits in some vehicles). The only ones I was totalled by insta death was in my VBR and Wiesel HOT (which to be fair have such small hitpoints and thin armour a sneeze next to them would kill them)

[@michaelspielman4801]

well that code didn't work says I already used and I never used it o so as normal another failed promise by the company

[@RonMcGarvey]

Thanks Jingles for the info about AW. Looks like I should install the updates and start playing again!

[@onebigfatguy]

The game is dead. Nothing more then this needed to be said. And the fault for this game's death lay's firmly with My.Com/Fail.RU

[@Endkeeper]

they reduced the battle size becouse the game is dying...

[@floppymcdankus2905]

nope it was because the player base was too split between PvP and PvE so in order to keep the small PvP player base happy they lowered the battle size, it is dead on the NA servers however I think that the player base has gotten bigger since this video not by much though. However, the game is still fun and rather alive if you play PvE

[@akeverday7]

I had a really fun thing where when I tried to go back to this game, all of my tanks and progress were wiped. Uninstalled it immediately. and finding a full game is impossible anyways

[@riwanramli7604]

wow i did not know AW is better than the last time i played it a year ago. good to know and thanks for the codes.

[@ZGuy0fSci]

*So still not by its proper/true Developers again, Obsidian, and ATGM's / Coop PvE not fixed? m'kay.* But I'll see what's in the video even if we collectively as a community have stopped caring about AW... ;''3 The last time a short few months back while "extras" were going on I tried to play some games. Safe to say that all the worse with a bad teammate or two along with the ruined "Spotting" system, and the ATGM spam-hell, that the "Progression" system was also just as fucked up. That with both Prem Time AND +100% 'Event' AND Plat. Boosters getting past Tier 5 you might as well have been going for what would be or been your Tier 10 prior from tier 7. Yeah..... "no tanks," no thanks. As for the "It's too easy" vs "Making it more hard" fallacy of logic, *It's good and fine for something to be "Easy" such that it is Fun and Meritocratic.* If you make something "Hard" for the wrong reasons and in the wrong ways, you simply make it stop being fun to play due to it not being Player Determinist in design due to RNG... *(if things are decided by bad mechanics and rng, it isn't fun or good to play.) Coop Mode is and was meant to be there for Fun and as a way to grind tanks for their use in PvP, with Player v Player "Clan War" type modes being where the fun kinds of 'hardness' was to be found. Still, if they restore the bad parts while adding new good parts, we can wait and see I suppose. *watching end of video...... (sigh)* So the lack of Respawns + to a minimum degree of RNGism if you take damage, + no resupply of Consumables. Yeah no thanks, if I want to play a bad tank game I'd kept playing World of Tanks, Thanks. ^-

[@ZGuy0fSci]

Speaking of that "700mm of armor penetration" have they fixed that issue where 10mm of very sloped LIGHT Tank armor on the Expo was bouncing as if it were 200mm thick? While your 500+ thick front armor failed to block anything on randomized occasion from the bots? lolz.... fun times. (cuz that needs/needed fixed, along with the broken ATGM issue and weakness of ACs)

[@NeverLucky1765]

ZGuy0fSci yea... no that’s still a problem.

[@chaz8758]

Progression is easy, much easier than WoT, never had no problems fully unlocking tier 6 or above and I do not have a prem account(only use a few 24 hour prem days that you get for free during an event and I have a day off). Stack boosts, insignias and prem and you can make a huge amount in XP and credits (and the boosts, insignias and prem time are all available for free, for logging on - for completing the easy daily challenges). At the moment GLOP's is the best way to earn, but PvE is the easiest. Not got no problem with the RNG, there are the odd confusing bounce but not often, pretty much I hit what i aim at, where I aim.

[@christophervanoster]

Haha jingles, console version of world of tanks has several ai battles, plus something called war stories where you take part in imaginary stories that are fun to play. Like stealing a tiger prototype or stopping the Cuban missile crisis. Also, we have a mm table showing the amount of people in each tier in the queue, and how many people in each class. Boom, console wot>pc wot

[@Epicredeemer]

what else is new?

[@theelderkine]

I like the crews from War Stories as well.

[@CubeMasterTV]

always these console peasants :D

[@hamsternchips]

Yah and on console WG pays you to play, and every tank comes with a young hot Russian girl.

[@rnukes]

We are also getting armoury warfare in a couple of months

[@FirestreakRodimusPr]

In hindsight, the two biggest mistakes made in AW, were trying to mix WOT's gameplay with OE's incredibly faithful and accurate vehicle representations ie. Swingfire dominated until it was nerfed into oblivion.

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

Swingfire is OP as fuck again.

[@seregarublev8915]

I still play with a small group on console, the Swingfire is still what kills us most. Lol

[@meesguyy]

Armoured warfare brought me to your channel. I saw an ad for it a while ago in 2015 very shortly after the open beta was released. I played for a bit and eventually saw an article on the game news. It was your ‘how not to suck at armoured warfare’ video and I really enjoyed it. I looked further into your channel and enjoyed your world of tanks videos, the first of which was the good, the bad and the ugly big stupid heavy tank edition. I loved the sense of humour in the video and the game looked fun. So if it weren’t for armoured warfare, I probably would’ve never heard of world of tanks or your channel, and I still play this game after almost 3 years and it is still fun and enjoyable

[@cameronboyce4695]

Jingles, If you have My.com's ear could you pass along the suggestion to merge the NA and EU servers? The NA servers are so desolate that you could of found more life in Jonestown. I would like to be able to get back on and play the PvE, but when the wait times are 5-10 minutes before it kicks you out of queue; it isn't much fun. I understand the i could make an EU account, but i would not have all of the progress that i had made.

[@chaz8758]

The NA server is used by more than just NA players - even from different parts of NA the ping gets unplayable to the EU server I am an EU player in the UK who gets a ping around 120 to my NA account which is playable - but many players on the NA server get pings of 300 odd on the EU servers)# When Obsidian was the developer they did merge the EU and NA server for a while and all it did was make the game unplayable for both (game server on EU and test on NA)

[@GeekBoy03]

Star Trek Online has a server farm in one location for the whole world

[@Felsmukk]

I feel so bad for Armored Warfare. It could have been such a good game if it wasnt turned into a WOT clone

[@josephalinak]

Thank you Jingles :)

[@serafine666]

I can honestly say, Jingles, that I went through the entire thing successfully on my first try. And it wasn't a particular challenge.

[@crazedbadger100]

5v5 is so dumb and the player base is so low on Na is not even worth playing this game once they took over they ruined this game and now its all most dead i wanted this game so beat wot but it failed to do so

[@Epicredeemer]

WOOHOO!!! Jingles did the new AW update!!! An no, it's not dead yet

[@dillydoetv6132]

Might check it out! My issue with this game that killed it for me was that it was obvious that the match maker would pair you up against insanely good teams in pvp... Having 5 vs 5 should make this easier and not so much one sided match making seal clubbing... I was just getting into game after game where the other team would obliterate us and I was always top 3 among the team... I can handle 5 vs 5... I also have to check out WoWs... I've been playing yugioh duel links and its obvious that they mess with the starting hands.... Hate when games mess with your chances to win, they need to randomize that...

[@Kev5565]

Just started playing this again after having problems with it about a year ago, I'm loving it now, I play with 2 mates on pve at the moment and as you say it's relaxing and sometimes difficult but a nice change from pvp. This game needs publicity as it is a good game and is only a bit short on players some times. Great video and keep up the good work. Subscribed.

[@VonKol]

....and the best part of AW is a good player base. I have run into 1 A-Hole in 4 months of playing! Kudos to good gamesmenship to the players....a well deserved huzzah!

[@tete-fg4ut]

Sorry first video from you i had to downvote. Sounds really forced and like youre reading this from a pr scrip from my.com

[@markbrown3587]

Completely agree, I have thumbs upped hundreds of videos but I can't do this one. I am glad you are making ends meet but I am afraid this sort of pay without your opinion will cost you subscribers in the long run.

[@psichothekiller]

The steam release was a failure, the game is no better than it was years ago, this patch ruined PvE with even MORE missile spam, if that was even possible. But they have managed it somehow. Not really gun to play, "Insane mode" is just more cheating bots that make you say "Thank f***ing god for not a rocket spaming tank". Insane mode is 95% PL01, T15s, and Armatas firing ATGMs. It's not woth playing, even for the "free" cammo

[@blazethunderwind3666]

Thanx Mr.Jingles, it's a good boost

[@Creeperjr5]

I heard cheering from the Armored Warfare division of the salt mine, seems our Evil Gnome Overlord has blessed us with our annual Armored Warfare video, very close to our annual War Thunder Video.

[@Johnnyynf]

Why I feel that the game not look as good as it was.

[@Liverpoolfcforlife08]

Seriously Jingles, this game is dead on the European sever. Never more than 50 people in que and crap pve, seriously has anyone even listened to the Caribbean crisis script, it's pure garbage. My.com are money grabbing gits and only care about the Russian sever as that's where they make there money. All hope was lost when Obsidian got shafted by greedy devs ......

[@shieldmate7444]

'Unlike WoT and WT there are modern vehicles in Armored Warfare...' *shows T-62 an Chieftain mk 10, both of which are in War Thunder.

[@calliberjoe]

and m1 abrams

[@telecleez]

Cool I was hopping they'd do something like this for a long time. Guess I'm gonna have to go back and try this again.

[@djskizzy1]

NOT ENOUGH CODES! 30mins after you posted this, the code was already unredeemable.... They should have given you more than this....

[@MCallsen]

He should have simply NOT made it a race again. Use a drawing site - but yeah repetitive errors "gifting".

[@garethfairclough8715]

Yeah, mate, no. Not going back to that shitfest of a game.

[@sikarin1]

Yeah I feel the same, I play less and less of that shit game (wot) with 50% RNG and premium ammo/unbalance tank. Also more boring gameplay(because less stuff), from gameplay mechanic perspective.

[@miskatonic6210]

Next you want to tell me the competition is better *lol* The competition is a lot worse - and has a way more toxic, braindead community.

[@jukahri]

+Sirion the competition *has a community* . AW is dead, nobody is playing PVP anymore, it's even worse than War Thunder sim battles.

[@Armchaiirwarrior]

Well, show me a game with average to large population that doesn't have "rotten apples" within them, everyone is nice and helpful.

[@garethfairclough8715]

That argument might hold water, if AW actually had a population.

[@Straswa]

Nice vid Jingles!

[@aonduine7473]

Loved the video as always, glad Armored Warfare is trying to come back, been playing a bit myself lately as well.. the changes since I last played have been great. I had much of the same complaints as you when I first played.

[@megamihestia4049]

That pve mode in WT is so spectacularly poorly designed and balanced that it is almost funny. In regards of co-op mission Gaijin has a long way to go.

[@jukahri]

Yes and no. Like WoT, they don't need a pve mode, as they have a playerbase, and they're probably not too fond of splitting their playerbase in two by adding it (therefore increasing the queue times).

[@andysutton2361]

Can you do more Armored Warfare videos? I really enjoyed the two you did about the Challenger and the T-80 ages ago, I really like the brief history you do of the tank

[@jaakko222]

Totally forgot about this game maybe is should download it again and have another try

[@einherjar3491]

What about a new Amored Warfare video? It's been two years

[@Venom2U]

Jingles, I have mixed emotions about this vid. On one hand this is your source of (added?) income. So I can’t fault you for taking a gig that pays REAL MONEY (and doing it well). Certainly KZbin isn’t what it once was. So from that aspect I completely understand and I applaud you. However; I WISH it hadn’t been My.Com that reached into their wallet for your services…….. I seriously think My.Com doesn’t deserve the exposure you bring in the market. The terrible reputation My.Com has is in my opinion well founded. Maybe that will change in the future, who knows. I just wish it had been someone more worthy of your viewer base………..

[@stupidsmartmonkey]

I miss armoured warfare videos. Keep up the great work

[@HeeroYuy911]

Thanks for the code Jingles :) Love your videos.

[@temojin9489]

I like the change to team size (beyond it being used to reduce queue times). It makes each person have more potential impact on win/lose. The issue I had AW though was more about how weirdly I didn't sense impact, whether it be me shooting a target of someone hitting me. I have wondered if WoT were to create a 5v5 or 7v7 mode, rather than the grand battles, if it would diminish frustrations from being among 14 happy strawberries.