Tyr

Already best tank shooter out there.

"Slow" and "methodical" game play means "Watch your team hide in a bush for 15 minutes". With no respawn credit system, gameplay revolving around hiding in bushes so you are invisible, and queue times taking about 6 minutes per match, this game has nailed the "slow" but has very little idea what "methodical" means. The game's already heavily timegated with absurdly powerful tanks locked behind lootbox style rewards or hundreds of matches per tank. The game will put you, as a new player, in lobbies with these tanks and players that have already spent weeks of their time in beta tests to "grind" out all the good stuff so that they can be rewarded for their free bug hunting by feeling powerful and one-shotting you. One great example, I go in with one of the free tanks, "Ark". It is listed as maximum fire power. It shoots a single shell every 8 seconds for an average of about 250 damage (definitely got the "slow" part of the gameplay down). It's my second game. Out of the 8v8 starting team size, it's down to a 6v1. Me and 4 other players make our way to the capture site, which is the game's way of preventing stall-out games because they know the entire gameplay loop is "hide". Four of us are machinegunned down by a single tank shooting a 400 damage round every 1.5 seconds with seemingly no reload necessary. It took all five of us hitting him one or two times over the course of 15 seconds to destroy him, while he took out five players with full auto. The only positives I have to say about the game are the tutorial is straight forward and clear, and the visuals of how the game portrays armor vs your penetration are intuitive. But the map looks terrible, the bushes that are the only actual gameplay mechanic present look like asset flips, and the tanks have very little in terms of defining features outside of "that's a heavy tank with squares on it, and this is a heavy tank with rounded edges on it", especially for new players once you introduce the cosmetics that completely change the tank appearance so that now the heavy tanks are indistinguishable from the bushes they're sitting invisible in. It's just straight up not fun, and it's exactly the type of lazy, cash-grab power fantasy PvP game that needs to die off. It's made for the people who were beta testing, and the people who want to sit through weeks of 5 minutes queues and 15 minutes of hide and seek. It's Early Access with a paid in-game currency, which should tell you all you need to know.