You know, this event has got me thinking about why War Thunder is an enjoyable game for people of all ages - young and old. And that’s because of realistic and sim battles. These modes require you to hone your senses, it’s not just about being some sweat that can flick the control faster than another. In this game, your reflexes are always going to be limited by the vehicle you’re controlling. Hence, it levels the playing field between zoomers and boomers in that regard. What actually matters is:
Sound: It’s important to use sound to your advantage. You can locate enemies via the sound of their engine and sound of their gun firing. You can hone this skill to the point that you can identify types of vehicle and even the exact vehicle type by the sound of their engine, and also how far away they are.
Vision: The game isn’t going to point the enemy out to you, you need to use your sight to locate hidden enemies, locate where the enemy are going, to read the battlefield in general.
Vehicle knowledge: You can’t rely on some green cross to tell you where to shoot. And you can have all the reflexes in the world, but it won’t matter if you don’t know where to shoot. This game values the skill of knowing each vehicles characteristics, including armor values and armor weakspots. But not just that, the game doesn’t rely on some rubbish health bar system, so knowledge on where internal modules, crew, and ammo are is also important.
In other games and during this chasing the brothers event - none of the above really mattered apart from shooting the couple of weakspots in the armor. I could listen to music, I didn’t have to use my senses. It was mindless, it had no character, it was dull, it was life draining. So I thank Gaijin for showing me why RB and SB are what make this game what it is, and why I love them so very much.
I don’t get how I am being entitled for asking for a chance to win vehicles like the E-100 and Is-7 which where two of the main reason I joined so I could have those vehicles and the Maus to which I believe at this point should just be put back in the TT but aside from that how does me wanting a chance make me entitled?
Honestly HansVonGroeble you are the one that sounds like they are entitled cause you probably have those vehicles and don’t want to lose the edge you have on people who have never seen the vehicle before.
"Oh, I’m highly confident I’m of more importance than you "
I really doubt that.
What are you blabbering about getting enjoyment from telling people they can’t get something? Where was that said? Who said that? What are you talking about???
This got nothing to do with the IS-7 or Object 279 itself. Plenty of techtree vehicles who got a similar cycle.
This is how almost all online games work: You either played it when you could get particular cool things or you’re out of luck for these particular things.
honestly Is7 should have never been made a event The only event vehcles should unique prototypes thats my sentiment things like sturm tiger that are niche should be sqaudron vehcles IS7 shouldve been a tech tree tank honestly event vehicles are very uncool in my opinion preferbly everything should just be a sqaudron vehicle thats a prototype like F15 STOL should not be a event but a sqaudron it allows everyone to get a piece of the pie
I only have the Maus. I’m also one of the people who doesn’t like that it’s not in the tech tree anymore. Mostly because the official reason makes no sense looks at Ho-RI and because it was in the tech tree to begin with. They should just folder it with the King Tigers.
Also, there is no edge. The IS7 in particular can be killed by anything it can meet with either HEAT or APFSDS. HE and planes too, but those are the weakness of everything…
I have the same sentiment about the R2Ys. At least it got me to grind the japanese air tree.
i find event vehcles to be toxic honestly as there usally good or blatantly OP for example object 279 a very op tank that most cant do anything against
“Plenty of techtree vehicles who got a similar cycle.” is not, in fact, a sentence. It is lacking a verb. You bleating “yes it is” just shows you weren’t just rage posting, you also don’t understand the language. Glad we cleared that up.
You were the one who began this by saying “nobody of importance” thinks that newer WT players should have any rights. Never mind the immediate TOS-violating stoop to casual profanity before everyone else on your return here this week. You say people should engage with your arguments but you don’t have any… even three months away to stew about it you haven’t even thought of one more cogent than “but meh premiumzz”… you’re still just rage-posting. Your “arguments” defeat themselves by saying with every line you write that you are contemptuous of other players, their game, and the company that made it. Really, “the other side” here wins just by letting you talk dude.
But y’know, you just keep digging: now you talk about other games’ practices with time-gated cosmetics as if WT vehicles ARE cosmetics. But anyone who plays this game and enjoys it, who really enjoys it, knows that’s not the case with War Thunder. The designers of this game wanted a game with vehicles with unique identities that told a story, that evoked history through physical differences in play. The Yudintsevs have said that, over and over again, for over 12 years. That approach is what makes the game unique and has helped it survive this long. To suggest vehicles are just equivalent to LoL or Fortnite time-gated cosmetics, and we should all treat them as such, is such a slap in the face to THEIR vision; that’s what some of us are arguing here, for the company’s vision and against your reductionist, consumerist view of WT.
But really, no one here has to argue against someone whose vision of the game is so different from its makers’ vision or that of its playerbase, to be on the right side here. We just have to let you yap, to show that you just simply don’t get this game at all. And sadly, maybe you never will.
EDIT: So this was shadowbanned. In May 2025, 15 months later. Sure, I don’t mind throwing this to the mods. The only question here is, are there going to be any consequences for people who abuse these community moderation components of this forum to silence people they don’t like? Or is this shadowbanning of old posts just to increase the numbers of complaints about active, contributing members going to continue?
Tbh event vehicles did gain a sort of collector value over the years.
Only way to satisfy both sides is to introduce a system where getting all old event vehciles is possible, but with a catch that only allows you to get a certain limited amount of vehicles in a given amount of time with some (the rarer ones) being harder to get than other
That is an entirely different story. I don’t see a reason for this tank not to be added alongside of all other soviet cold war heavy prototypes. There is a stupid amount of them left to add
