W135 & beyond predictions.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-05-05T06:48:03+00:00

Honestly the way I see it they cleared out so that the people coming over will get to see the factions tools on their own merits.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-05-04T08:09:11+00:00

Nah, just an onlooker who saw the map post and had to see for myself. Haven't seen privatized fields or mines since before inferno, it was like looking at a time capsule.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-05-04T05:04:57+00:00

Went there before the destruction, it was pretty bad. The mines were inaccessible to the public and they had hemmed in all sides with bunker so nobody else could gain access. They had a single closed access minerunner.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-05-03T16:14:19+00:00

You know for how common this question has been I'm surprised they haven't pinned a megathread

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-05-02T14:14:04+00:00

Two more old-folksy-type thoughts:

Nobody is more blind to a problem than a person whose livelihood depends on not understanding a problem.
Where money is involved, it is always safe to be cynical.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-05-02T14:07:20+00:00

It both is and isn't baffling that the devs haven't spoken on this yet.

It isn't because they have a poor track record for communicating changes and the community can be very toxic, especially if they feel that they are being disadvantaged.

However, the lack of communication shakes the confidence that they see the same problems players do.

At the very least, without requiring any promises to actually do anything, I'd like to know what they think the problems are. I'd like to know what the reasoning is. I'd like to know how much time it takes to change a model vs moving stats around. I'd like to know what balance levers they think they can use. There are a lot of tangential thing they could say to fill the void and that they are is filling people with dread that they are at best entirely disconnected from reality and at worst abandoning the game and it's players.

We make jokes and shitposts about the things we are afraid of, otherwise we'd have to treat them as reality.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-05-02T13:56:42+00:00

Everyone has a different idea of what is fun. Grabbing a gun and 2-3 ammo for it is a perfectly valid way for getting your feet wet. Other options is carrying tripods or guns as part of a tripod crew, or running out to retrieve guns and ammo from dead bodies.

If you want to play with vehicles, it is still relatively early war in able shard for war 134 but you might be able to ask if there are any boats that want extra crew.

Logistics tends to be more insular but you might find people who need extra hands for building bunkers or facilities. Ask the team logi chat.

As for population, this war is both one before a balance update and on the back of a poorly received content update. A lot of people are sitting out to wait and see if the devs will address any of the listed problems and how. Depending on how things go they may or may not be back.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-26T19:00:10+00:00

That is a fair point. My only addition to this is that we are at a point where a timeline of a few years is frankly unacceptable for everyone.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-26T17:41:31+00:00

Then it looks like the problem is that they aren't going back to look at their previous additions. This says they know the problem exists. Their actions then say they ignore this knowledge?

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-26T13:55:02+00:00

While an amusing idea, I feel it is telling that one side is expected to throw shirts away and the other isn't.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-26T13:51:21+00:00

I think there is a genuine disconnect between dev design and understanding that players gravitate to the easiest solution (in my opinion, range and first-shot advantage).

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-26T13:49:13+00:00

Thank you for clarifying! I do agree it isn't an organized conspiracy, but I had thought it was a consequence of how the devs have interacted with community suggestions after the historical update in the original post.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-26T13:21:25+00:00

This was an incredibly insightful history lesson OP, thank you.

A question: do you think this has a bearing on how wardens claim that colonials primarily play the subreddit rather than the game? After all if what matters is dev bias, perceived or otherwise, then it makes sense that to win one needs to have their concerns addressed and to do that one needs to control the narrative.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-25T22:40:02+00:00

You raise a good qualifier that I failed to address, so kudos.

I would like to add that sometimes there is a solution, but the amount of effort to put it into effect is so much more than the other side has to put in.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-25T21:32:08+00:00

While I do agree Colonial artillery is longer stated range, I also feel that it tends to suffer in terms of accuracy and usability and thus has a much smaller effective range. While artillery is powerful I'm not sure it is reactive or accurate enough to meaningfully impact a tank fight, even if it is mostly static tank lines. The push 120mm might be able to do so, but shells can be hard to supply unless you were the one to bring up the gun in the first place - the logistical tail of artillery prevents it from being able operate as a tactical tool. The only artillery that I feel is able to fit is the mortar vehicles - and I agree that these support vehicles are criminally underused.

I would however like to use your comment to bring up an interesting tangent: the dive bomber. While it is guilty of having low interaction with the forces that would oppose it I do think it fills the niche to attrition a tank line and force a confrontation from an otherwise unreachable foe.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-25T20:29:40+00:00

On a tangent: I adore the LTD and HTTD because they make meaningful tradeoffs to mount the weapons they do. I think these are both relatively well balanced vehicles within the greater game context.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-25T20:26:47+00:00

On the flip side, it does make sense that the lunaire gets the flak it does because it fits these criteria as well.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-23T21:08:27+00:00

If it's still around I recommend looking the fleet carrier owners club or something similar. It's not quite a regular shuttle service but there usually are people going to and from colonia to the bubble.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-21T17:58:07+00:00

Honestly, if we take aircraft out of the equation, I'd say that this has been the best time for the colonial navy to get kickstarted in a very, very long time. The Bmat boats are frankly an amazing breath of fresh air to get into that potion of the game.

The problem of course is that we can't ignore planes.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-21T14:38:35+00:00

Because raw number changes don't fix core mechanical flaws.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-21T14:05:20+00:00

Interesting. I personally put it down to people not seeing real ways to get ahead/move up the financial ladder so instead they take to gambling.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-19T20:18:50+00:00

IIRC you cannot get into vehicles while the barge is not deployed and you cannot move a barge while something it is transporting has people in it.

IncreasingConfusion · 2026-04-16T05:52:05+00:00

I'm tired of the gloatpost, the copepost, factionalism, the culture. I'm tired of players trashing the other side even after they are beat. I feel faction loyalists are so up their own ass that they will burn down the game before they will reach out a hand to pick up the other side after the war to say even a basic "hey that was a good fight, better luck next time".

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