YMMV / Armored Warfare

• Broken Base: The game has been experiencing some growing-pains as the devs try to balance the game.
  • Either the people who play SPG are skilless cowards who play the class because it's "risk-free" or they're just supporting their team from behind with selective fire. May God have mercy on your sanity if you happen to read an debate about this subject. The reason why the class is a massively divisive is because in similar games like World of Tanks, many player have experienced getting one-shotted or badly damaged by hidden SPG players from across the map with few means of retaliating or avoiding fire. Obsidian Entertainment has added several balancing features like giving everyone Spider-Sense to dodge incoming fire or providing SPG classes with illumination flares to reveal hidden camping players. That said, it will take some time before the fandom can decide whether or not these balances actually work.
  • Patch 0.15 brought a rebalance as to how Rate of Fire Upgrades work and how it affected certain categories of weapons. Specifically, it switched from a stacking multiplicative bonus, to an additive stacking bonus, reducing the overall Damage Per Minute (DPM). Furthermore, only single-shot cannons received a reload bonus from Rate of Fire Increases, while ammo-clip fed guns and all ATGMs simply have their re-fire time between each shot decreased by such boosts and not their reload times. Players were split on whether this improved the game by reducing Rate of Fire cheese builds and convince players to use alternative retrofits, or disagreement with the fact that it hurt auto-cannons and ATGMs, forcing players who prefer such vehicles to spend large sums of in-game credits to change retrofits and crew skills to focus on accuracy and damage.
  • PVP vs. PVE. The debate between the hardcore players of either is heated to say the least, and occasionally devolves into insult throwing, often on whether the game should favor one or the other.
  • Balance 2.0. The playerbase is split on whether the changes to game mechanics will result in an experience undistinguished from World of Tanks, or break from the current MBT-centric gameplay.
  • The announcement that Obsidian Entertainment will no longer be developing the game, with all development being handled by My.com/Mail.ru instead, due to the abruptness of the announcement, the timing of the announcement during public play testing for Balance 2.0, the lack of clarity on the game's future as well as the goodwill Obsidian has with the game's Western playerbase.
• Demonic Spiders: The Terminator family of vehicles (including the T-15 HIFV) at high tiers. They're equipped with fast-firing autocannons that can shred light vehicle in matter of seconds, while heavier tanks must contend against a volley of four hard-hitting guided missiles. The catch is that unlike other Tank Destroyers, their MBT-based hulls gives them exceptional protection and HP pool, which is further augmented by effective APS modules (the T-15's APS can knock out high velocity cannon shells, not just missiles). This, combined with their surprisingly decent mobility, makes them extremely dangerous targets without obvious hard counters.
• Draco in Leather Pants: The Project Liberty Militia and National Patriot Activist Army are disturbingly popular with players who agree with their ideologies, despite both factions routinely targeting civilian populations.
• Fandom Rivalry: The community currently has an strong bias against players from World of Tanks and War Thunder due to their pessimistic, but inciteful forum behavior.
• Fan Nickname:
  • The M551 Sheridan is also known as the Carrydan.
  • The M113 APC also has a few. Including "Fighting Shoebox", "Armored Footlocker", "Angry Box". For the Warhammer 40,000 and Dawn of War fans, it's also known as "Rhino", "Razorback", or "Predator" tank^Explanation The Rhino chassis in Warhammer 40,000 is heavily inspired by the M113, including it's versatility and many variants. The M113 being a troop transport with some firepower, is akin to the Razorback variant, while the use of an Autocannon, being the main weapon, is similar to that of the Predator Destructor MBT Rhino variant., and "METAL BAWKSES".
  • The plane on River Point has often been nicknamed Kenny. Because... ya know... it always dies.
  • The vehicle known as the rather hard to say Begleitpanzer 57 is sometimes semi-affectionately known as the Bagelpanzer or Beaglepanzer.
  • The XM800T is a "Baby Bradley" or similar, based on the family resemblance. Because its full name is the XM800T ARSV, it's also sometimes known as the Arsevee.
• Game-Breaker: Main Battle Tanks as a whole has been deemed to be overpowered due to their fantastic armor, strong guns, and respectable mobility for much of the game's life. The devs have tried to mitigate this multiple times by nerfing MBTs and buffing other classes to various degrees, but MBTs remain the most popular class.
  • Terminators become this in player hands for much of the same reasons as in the Demonic Spiders entry above. Expect an aggressive Terminator player to rack in twice as much damage dealt than the rest of the team combined.
• Glass Cannon: The Chieftain Mk.5 barely has any armor for its hull while having an reinforced turret, and it also boasts an mildly powerful gun. As a result, we have an MBT with a glaring weakspot that limits it's brawling ability. As such, a lot of people use it as an hull-down sniper.