<_< First - I am not a buyer Second - I hate P2W just as much as you do Third - the reason I told you to read what I wrote carefully is because I made a distinction between P2W and pay for cosmetics - which you somehow failed to notice twice.

To be fair, these changes were in development for around a year minimum.

Competitive doesn't necessarily mean eSports level. Many games have a "casual" and "competitive" mode. In casual you play for fun, in competitive you earn ranks or a rating. In some games competitive mode offers special rewards.

The devs have probably made the probability low enough so that it's cheaper to buy 1 million crystals from the Shop than try your luck with containers.

It's already simple. The thing is just extremely slow and buggy.

Area denial Picking off high value targets (flag carriers, player on full supplies, Isidas, etc) Supporting teammates in brawls It is 1 out of 3 long range turrets after all, make use of the range

Notice how I wrote "maybe" in italics.

I guess removing OP and frustrating mechanics is a bad thing. Go figure.

Except you very clearly wrote "pay2win." You can't say one thing and then say you said another.

explain how skins are p2w

Name a reason to use it over Hunter and Viking besides catching golds.

Seriously use ur brain(if u have) and read what I said carefully.

Hunter M1 does have greater acceleration than Viking M1. https://en.tankiwiki.com/Hunter https://en.tankiwiki.com/Viking Look at the power statistic.

How do paints affect your performance in battle? P2W stands for pay to win, not pay to look pretty.

"Non-team" players is putting it lightly.

Putting things in Shop ≠ P2W P2W is when something that is not easily accessible to free players is offered to buyers. For example, being able to MU M0 equipment to M1 from the very start of the game. P2W is not when something is easily accessible to both F2P and P2P players. You can buy drones in the Shop - but you can also buy them for 20k crystals, which is nothing. You can buy batteries in the Shop - but you also get them through mission chain rewards and in the garage. The old premium account paint was P2W, because only buyers could obtain it and it offered a pretty significant advantage in battles.

Don't know. You should probably ask the wiki editors, they might have access to that information.

Name one "tiny" map in the MM rotation. The only maps in the battle list where Shaft is at a disadvantage are maybe Iran and maybe Red Alert. Everywhere else is does fine. You don't need a map like Highways to play well with Shaft.

Yes

It increases the range of max damage, not maximum range. That means you will do full damage at the end of your stream, but the range of the stream won't actually be any greater than stock.

No, skins do not provide a player with a free M3. I am not talking about existing XTs.

If I am reading this right, you will be able to equip an XT skin even on M0/M1/M2 equipment?

without both

My problem is that they are superfluous. They add literally nothing to the game. Only players with plenty of crystals to spare can afford to use them constantly. For everyone else the cost is just not worth the benefit. It seems a lot like a P2W situation, even if the benefits from the drones are relatively minor.

Shaft can one-shot mediums now.