We're pleased to introduce a couple of new units that have arrived from our tank restoration and modernization factory.
Up-to-date information on the PTE and basic version the game: Between December and April, we significantly changed the base game and launched open testing to determine the reactions and preferences of a wide audience.
We've currently received over three thousand completed questionnaires on all changes in the test version. Overall, we find these reviews to be positive (70/30). There are clearly unsatisfactory aspects of the PTE, which our team will be working on in the near future, but we're already seeing the interests of two opposing audiences in our game: vanilla players (the base game) and tactical players (increased lethality and strategic focus lovers).
Our goal as a developer is not to choose between one group of people and another (or, worse, create a Frankenstein and tear the audience apart), but to provide equal opportunities for both target audiences to access our game.
Therefore, the best, safest, and most secure changes (those that don't affect the original game's audience) will gradually be transferred to the original (arcade) version, while the test version (hardcore) will continue to grow and diverge from the arcade version in favor of deeper tactics and lethality. PTE has several months of updates and new experiments ahead of it, until the time comes to make a decision on the future of both versions. Sincerely, the Steel Balalaika team.