Hi I am a ground RB main and play air RB occasionally. Recently I have been wondering what the next major ground update would be as for the last 1 year we have not have a major ground update… Yes there have been things left and right but most of them have been new spaa or artillery pieces of which we already have way too many for me to care about them.
As of late February 2025, we have been receiving an air update after air update continuously… From f15 then gripen then arh missiles to eurofighter and rafale. It feels like every update is just focussed on aircraft and very little time or consideration for ground stuff.
And it is not just limited to air rb either… We now have ground strike aircraft that have fire and forget missiles that outrange all current top tier missile spaas.
It would be more bearable if they added more ground stuff parallel to air stuff but that has not happened… There are so many things that could be added that would not even break the balance of the game… Like more light tanks for top tier like the boxer tracked 120mm or vextra pole 120mm and a ton of awesome vehicles that have even been passed to developers but we don’t have them in game yet.
There is also more modern stuff like dm73 and m829a3 or the 105 m428 sword apfsds projectiles. Or HE rounds for nato tanks. or even low tier stuff like long awaited stug 4 that we never got. Maybe new subtrees for existing nations (I don’t see any point in adding new TT cuz no one grinds them.)
With the next update also being mostly an air focussed one, I am not feeling like playing the game anymore bcoz there is not much there to it anymore as a tanker… I play the game for fun and not for grinding TT. I have germany and france grinded and britain rank 4 but I am just not feeling like any new stuff is being added for me to get excited about.
Now I am thinking about leaving the game. Am I the only one?
We all say we will leave but our craving for tanks, that only war thunder has always brings us back, i mean where else can i play as the pbv 302 crew?
War thunder has the total monopoly on SPAA vehicles and most tanks from minor nations. so in short, we all stick around untill the very unlikely things happens, either the game swings in the direction we want impossible, or, another team of developers makes a game where you can play as a pbv 302 for example-
TBH I think they’re slower to release ground because they have a lot more moving parts and details to get right in animation than a fixed wing aircraft. They can even fudge the cockpit details and delay updating them for later if they need to so air updates are just cheaper. Ground vehicles are chosen based on how much copy/paste they can do with them since that’s the only way they can get more value out of the expense of modelling a ground vehicle. Something really unique looking will have to come as an event vehicle to justify the cost.
Ya but like we should have stuff like Boxer tracked 120mm which is not all that different from a regular boxer just with tracks and new turret or the vextra pole which is even easier… A modified leclerc turret on vextra wheeled hull both of which we already have in game. Or better darts… like 105mm apfsds m428 sword with comparable performance to the m900 shell
Honestly I think a dedicated team could make a better version of this game with all the slop-content trimmed off it and maybe 40-50% the graphical fidelity and with the right monetization, catch up and surpass Warthunder’s vehicle lists in not too much time. There’s a lot of detail and mechanics in warthunder that no one would miss if you didn’t have it and players would much rather have a game that doesn’t let monetization and bad map design spoil the game so badly.
A ground focused update would be good. I do want better A2G loadout options on the typhoon. It’s underperforming quite a bit in that regard. Also more A2G radars and more loadout options like CBUs and ARM would be good
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Honestly. The main change I want for ground is for them to fix what has already been added and add some decent maps
Changing the running gear and the turret both is essentially making a new vehicle. The scimitar at least saved the team work making the Fox turret, for example. If you can’t recycle the turret or the running gear, nothing else matters.
Because when a plane flies, there are no wheels turning, suspension bobbing, no radio antennae waving about, it just moves. Ground vehicles are a lot more work to make because of how animated their components are, as I said.
ummm jets have afterburner animation landing gear animation bomb release animation missile fire animation and cockpit modelling and animation too.
they don’t have to model the tank’s interior
Interior doesn’t have to be ready at launch, they’ve delayed making cockpit interiors plenty of times before. Afterburner can be taken from other planes, they don’t make super-custom burner anims for each engine. Landing gear and bomb bays are hard to recycle from other planes, but they also are only used for a small amount of time when flying so there is less of a need for it to be perfect vs a running gear suspension.
I would say if you are right, then why wouldn’t Gaijin be chomping at the bit to make lots of ground vehicles? If it was so easy I’m sure they’d love to be making lots of money like this.
I don’t think the vehicles are the problem .Its the game itself.The vehicles don’t offer any protection. you get spotted and your breach is destroyed, that’s the game.I’ll let you decide how much fun you think that is.
It’s because of other air battle players, Su-34 could have Grom-1, they said would be too overpowered in air battles, they don’t added it. I haven’t see a ground battles player opposing to addition of an weapon when they already have to deal with infinite others.