i have seen alot of nukes in my time in warthunder, but many times players dont play with headphones / game sound which makes it nearly impossible to know if there is an enemy nuke and prepare to maybe try to shoot it down, same goes for players in a plane doing cas, which dont get the siren unless very close to the battle field, so why not add a VISUAL mark that warnes players like the siren, only that this time it can be heard around the entire battle.
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Personally I think a lot of players do use a headphone or at least speakers to hear the game. People do have said devices, they not shooting down an aircraft is purely their own problem, not something that the game should fix.
I don’t think that will work on War Thunder, one of the game’s core mechanic is the use of your ear to detect things you can’t see, so should headphones be part of the EULA? Definitely no, I’m joking.
But markers “screaming” that there’s a Nuke carrier inbound, also a big no, unless if it’s exclusive to ground arcade battles, in my opinion this shouldn’t be a feature.
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I dont think anything should be added. You are choosing to hurt your awareness.
Next we can add some sort of announcer that will inform you of not only nukes but enemy airplanes and helicopters as well. Maybe wven UAVs.
Hell, next we can replace tanks with infantry to allow much better freedom of movement across the small maps were getting, infantry will also add vertical movement and will allow for many more gamemodes to be implemented.
Surprise, youre now playing Call of Duty.
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What’s wrong with the Icon? There are players that have poor hearing and still play, players who don’t use headphones, players who are use potato equipment’s etc…something like this would help a lot.
Its further arcadization of the gameplay for no real benefit. We already have siren, and also chat (which, okay that one hinges entirely on teammates).
Okay so if theres a person who lost both his arms and legs in freak lathe accident but he really REALLY wants to play warthunder, should he adjust to the game as it is, or should the game adjust to him at expense of EVERYONE ELSE?
It doesnt matter what the adjustments are, question is whenever said person should adapt to game as it is.
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I wish there was a way to know there’s a nuke while you are in a plane. The siren only plays near the map center and if you’re circling around it hunting for CAS, you have no way of knowing, unless a teammate says something about it
Have you considered competing in the Olympics with your jumping to conclusion ability?
Absolutely but unfortunately i cant attend as theres scheduling conflict with Jerkmate World Championships.
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comparing someone with bad hearing with someone with no arms or fully disabled sounds silly. Common sense they can’t play WT, as for the other, I’ve met players with bad to no hearing who play WT here.
So the reason you don’t want this is because it makes the game feel more arcadish lol valid reason to not want it, but still ain’t enough to stop such a suggestion. What “other” reasons do you not want this icon? How will it affect ground gameplay in a negative manner? So far I do not see this affecting Ground Battles at all in any negative way.
In real life events, if there were a nuke warning, not only will we get sirens but also warning messages on most devices. Having an icon on our screen would be no different imo.
war thunder aboutta be a cod lobby
it already is
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half way there xD
I actually offer eagles for any teammates to shoot down nukes lol some actually j’d out to spawn a jet
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Ad Absurdum even?
Nothing like checking my iPhone for nuke alert while driving IS-3, duking it out with a Maus.
It significantly reduces survivability of a nuke carrier if CAP is present by ensuring CAP player knows nuke has spawned 100% of the time.
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Radio broadcasts. A form of alerting players as well. Almost every vehicle had some sort of radio communication, including air crafts.
Also increases other friendlies to escort the nuke. I seen many J out to get on a jet just to escort, along with enemies doing the same just to take out the nuke.
Its further arcadization of the gameplay for no real benefit
Okay so if theres a person who lost both his arms and legs in freak lathe accident but he really REALLY wants to play warthunder, should he adjust to the game as it is, or should the game adjust to him at expense of EVERYONE ELSE?
It’s not unreasonable to include accessibility options, there are a lot more hard of hearing individuals than those that are quadriplegics. Any sort of introduction of a visual nuke alarm wouldn’t be at everyone’s expense because everyone would receive the same nuke alarm. It would be akin to the feature where spawn-campers are highlighted on the map when they enter the spawn zone, you could just as easily hear the enemy engine sounds from the spawn but you have a visual indicator placed on the map.
In this instance you would be able to hear the nuke alarm but a visual indicator would still be very useful to not just the hard of hearing but generally as well.
options, as optional, is crucial here - such option can not however present actual gameplay advantage over people that play normally. I should not be put at disadvantage just because someone has poor hearing.
except at the expense of player who got the nuke as it would automatically inform any enemy aircraft with 100% accuracy about his presence, eliminating any option for the nuke to sneak up on the battlefield.
except with nuke alarm, you turn this logic backwards - now you tell the air spawncampers that theres a nuke sitting on the airfield, waiting to be shot down. you are helping the players that already have the advantage and making the game harder for the player whos in disadvantaged position.
thing you can do without nuke alarm alerting enemy CAP planes about incoming nuke.
also escorting nuke is pointless - enemy CAP can just suicide rush the nuke carrier ignoring the escort all together.
What helps nuke is stealth, and fighter planes either taking the attention of enemy team on themselves, or achieving air superiority.
That is also an argument to have an icon pop up warning you when an enemy is nearby.
You cant hear the engine in those cases either.
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