Last War:Survival

I continued to play the game longer than I should have, hoping to see some change. Unless you’re spending $500 a day on this game, you’re just going to be farming repeatedly and getting defeated by people who buy out the store every day. In fact, I don’t doubt it if every server had developers in it to convince people there’s some kind of competitive nature to this game, there isn’t. I find it hard to believe that anyone would spend these ridiculous amounts of money just to get a false sense of accomplishment. It’s entirely pay to win, every week the entire server gets demolished by the top 10 players. I can’t even get shards for the hero’s that I paid for. It’s a slow burn until you realize how pointless it is to even try to keep up, we got guys who’s power level is 4-5 times higher than mine and I must’ve spend around $500 already. I still don’t have a base skin. I still don’t know HOW to get a base skin without spending $400 immediately. Winning the arms race gives you one shard. I’m level 28 on my server and I’m so far behind that’s it’s pointless for me to even keep playing. You can’t even rally against the strongest players and I’m only half way into season 1. Frontline breakthrough is fun for a while and then it becomes a pain, the difficulty of it is near impossible on mobile, you need a PC to beat it, it becomesb more stressful than fun. This game is fun until you reach level 18. Goodbye.

If I had to say, there was anything wrong with this game, it would only be to say that it’s addictive. I’ve been playing every day for over a month straight and I love it. While you don’t have to spend money. It certainly helps. And it’s strangely satisfying to be able to destroy an enemy’s base, or to successfully defend your own base. Building up your characters is not like a kids game. It takes time and effort and you should have a basic knowledge of the game. That being said it takes a few days to really get a feel for it and since you have to constantly fine tune its definitely entertaining. Not overly complicated because anybody can play this game. As long as you can read and pay attention. It’s got a built-in translator, so language barriers are no problem. When I first joined, I joined the largest Alliance, of course I won’t call out their name or dox them. Let’s just call them United we Simp. I was brand new and they invited me to their alliance, and then immediately kicked me out because I made a mistake which was really innocuous, but they were drunk with power and petty. Then I found another alliance, which is mid-level and we’ve been building ourselves up ever since these are the people that really appreciate the game and are nicer, easy to get along with and fun. I think the key is to find an alliance where the leadership more egalitarian rather than power tripping. I really like is that I have befriended a group for my alliance and we’ve become pretty good friends here talking and chatting about the game. I would recommend buying extra queue-type items that speed up your growth. Definitely a 10 out of 10 for you brainy types.

I rated 4/5 stars for the reasons in my title otherwise it would be 5/5 stars. The game updates far too often. I am all for games being updated regularly but every day I open the app, wait 10-15 seconds for it to load only for a message that reads “update requires restart”. That is literally once a day. The day of writing this interview there were 3 updates. Again I am all for regular updates and am grateful the game is actively supported by developers but don’t roll out updates that fix one thing and break another. I would say probably 2 or 3 days a week there is 2 updates in one day. My other issue is that the gameplay in the advertisements represents probably 1% of the gameplay that you actually engage in. This isn’t my biggest complaint since the other 99% of gameplay is world building which I find to be entertaining as well. I like that the game is probably about 90% afk, I think that is the preferred gameplay for mobile games. Progression is pretty slow but rewards logging in and doing dailies so I enjoy that aspect of the game. The game is a little bit pay to win in the sense that you start with 1 research lab and 1 construction crew. You definitely need 2-3 of each to have steady progression. I don’t necessarily see this as pay to win simply because I don’t believe games should be 100% free. I haven’t seen any advertising in this game so I don’t mind shelling out $10 for the entertainment the game provides which also helps me progress in the game.