The spade always makes me think of the Ace of Spades and flying planes makes me think of Flying Aces, so I always refer to it as acing with my son. We have 3 accounts between us, 1 XBOX account, 1 Steam account and I only play on my log in stand alone account anymore. I agree some of the mid to lower ranks have the best game play and are way less sweaty. I haven’t gotten into the helicopters much yet, but I will. I used to love to play Battlefield 2 and the heli’s were huge for me.
I plan on completing the tech trees, but not spade nor ace.
I only intend to spade my favorites.
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I have an XBOX account that I played for about 2 years, but now I’m on PC with a download stand alone log in account. My son plays on his Steam account and every once in a while i get on his rig and play. I’m immediately bothered by how much he jumped around in the tech trees with his choice of spading and just researching and never slotting vehicles just to get the next level in order to obtain some jet. I can easily drop down into the lower ranks and spade vehicles pretty quick with my experience. I know what you mean about the vast number of vehicles available and I also have to drop back to research, add and spade new vehicles to keep my tech tree complete. I do find myself dropping down to the lower ranks to play for daily tasks, especially when I happen to get a new camouflage for an older tank. It’s hard to tell which tanks were the best by looking at your own service record. A low number of kills may mean that you spaded relatively quick thus meaning it was OP. Or it may mean that you could have benefited from a booster on a rather grindy vehicle. Sounds like you’ve got some great vehicle line ups. We should squad up some time.
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I’ve come quite a few players that favor the Germany or USSR tech trees. I was really impressed with their vehicles and planes early on, but there is so much “Cross Mojination”, to quote Austin Powers, with all the captured premium vehicles and planes. I really have enjoyed playing all the different nations and their tech trees. Some are definitely more grindy than others and have armor disadvantages, but worth the experience. The only camouflages that I had gone for in the past were the awarded ones. Now I consider buying the community created ones that you can preview in the hanger. I like the ones that come in the award crates, I don’t really mind buying the key as long as I get something quality. I really obsess over the decals. As soon as I saw that there were occasional holiday decals in the news section and also the monthly task related decals, I was hooked. Now I have a YUGE collection of decals and decorations. I’ll probably start collecting the foliage camouflage decorations next. I’ll probably start with the ones I can get in the Warbond shop. Hit me up if you want to squad up in German tanks some time, I’ve got the Maus.
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Cool. That should come quite easily as you play more with your favorites and the spading just happens quickly and organically. Researching and slotting everything in all the tech trees can still be a grind, but that is the reason to jump on everyday so that you can get those free boosters every time you log on. It slows down the higher you get, but when you’re having fun and playing well it passes by surprisingly fast.
I’ve spaded every researchable prop in the game. Now (slowly) working my way through spading ranks 5 and 6.
That said, I always find myself going back to props after a handful of games in the compressed mess that is 8.7 — 9.7. Hopefully purging the bots will help, but routinely finding myself in a 8.0 or 8.3 plane in a 9.0/9.3 game is…rough. There are not many full uptiers in a prop game I can’t punch my way out of, but the technological compression that occurs between 8.0 — 10.0 is bonkers and can quickly become very unenjoyable.
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I have had a very similar experience to you. I religiously made sure i spaded every vehicle before moving onto the next. That all changed though when Gaijin removed a bunch of the Russian SB planes with little to no notice. Ever since then i was just racing to research as many vehicles as possible before other vehicles got culled and became more of a collector. In 2013/2014 it was just planes. Now i have 1634 vehicles of which only 912 are spaded. Of all of them, i have only completed one tree… Russian Blue water and I’m 1 ship of the same for the Americans.
I don’t grind for new vehicles so much any more as I never really got into jets or modern tanks. I’m much happier in the 4.0-5.7 br and mainly looking at BP targets. I still get new vehicles every so often even though I’m earning a fraction of the potential RP by using lower tiered vehicles.
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Same, but then Gaijin heinously removed the Panther II, Flakpanzer 341 and Tiger II10.5cm kWk, and as a German this just isn’t my Nation’s Tech Tree anymore since that mutilation. Should I succeed with my plan to obtain the IS-7, I will move on to the E100, it does get Coupons sometimes and the Market is capped at 2000GJN.
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and when you have those vehicles others will come out , and when you have those others there will be more and more , you will never finish , believe me , play for fun or you will burn .
Someone who has all the tanks and planes tells you, you stop playing for 6 months and you are already missing 5 or 6 vehicles per country, it’s crazy, it’s not worth it.
Someone tells you that if he could… he has already told you, he would sell you the panther, tiger 105, coelian, is7 (I don’t have the e100, it resisted me the 2 times I had the opportunity to get it, the Last time I was 5 positions away from having it) and all those junk that I don’t use and that most of them are useless.
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This reminds me of the Absurdist approach to life, like Sisyphus whose entire life became the task to roll a big boulder up a hill just for it to roll down again, over and over. So in the end, all he could do was smile and be happy as the ultimate defiance against the forces who condemned him to this existence.
But I do not like this approach, it still feels kinda submissive and defeatist. Great minds of the Existentialist approach like the great Friedrich Nietzsche however are much more to my liking. I try to set my own conditions, goals and reasons. I determine my path. And I think everyone should have the liberty to do the same.
War Thunder is Absurd. There is Russian Bias, inconsistencies with vehicle implementation standards, (Yak-141 or M1 KVT okay but 3 Germans not), Vehicle gatekeeping etc. I am not gonna chuckle and grind on like Sisyphus in an absurd reality.
Thus my goal of Vehicle Ubiquity is so central to me, because it would allow all players to follow their own path, be it to Ace a TT, have a purely SPAA based lineup, or to collect all vehicles.
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Nice! That’s quite an accomplishment to spade all the prop planes in the game. I’ve only experienced the jets in ground arcade games, but I find them pretty fun. Of course you can’t get up tiered when flying jets in a ground arcade game, but I have been up tiered in prop planes in air arcade.
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I imagine I will have some of the same issues soon enough. I do find the upper battle ratings rather sweaty at times and not very fun. That’s when I also fall down to lower tiers and enjoy the game play.
Isn’t the IS-7 one of the most expensive vehicles on the market place right now?
Yes, but Lootboxes mostly lower the Market price temporarily, because there are still people who get stuff despite the abyssmal droprate, with some players selling. Last year the IS-7 dropped to “just” 1150 GJN that way.
Of course there is no telling what will happen this time, because the Object 279 for example hardly dropped in market value when it was in boxes this April. Not sure why the price saw little to no change there.
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I hate loot boxes, I never get anything good. Wait a minute… are we talking the boxes entitled by the battle pass season or are we talking the ones that you can buy while in the hangar? I never get anything on those, always some lame wager or some silver lions.
I mean those Summer Boxes. The trick is not to play them while letting others gamble, some of them do actually get something and maybe sell it, causing the Market Price of that item to drop temporarily.
Remember my plan to use such a Lootbox price drop to get an IS-7?
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Even just unlocking all the vehicles in a single tree is a massive chore already.
Yeah a buddy of mine spades every vehicle he plays ground and air. He has completed just about every ground tech tree for all nations. Now that is something I will not do!
I’d like to play together! German 6.7 is my favourite to play, but I’m fine with every br between 1.0 and 7.7, and I too have the Maus 😁
Not so much Aceing, but I’m obsessed with spading my vehicles. I play strictly air, and this is what my nations look like.
Besides sitting back and admiring my completed air tiers, I love the diversity of upgraded planes I have available to complete tasks with, or just to enjoy flying them.
Also, a result of taking my time spading through the trees, is completed crew lineups. 😎
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