It is classified as a bomber and this is important for daily quests due to its requirements.
Japan air has serious disadvantage because of strike craft. This BP could improve this situation for Jap’s fans. Instead, another bomber was added, and there are already quite a lot of usable rank 3 bombers.
Imagine that the Soviets were given another Il-2, while already existed ones are enough.
I have to imagine the battlepass isnt a big revenue generator anymore. I agree that there is not much in terms of unique content within it. I think the last interesting vehicle, at least in my opinion, was the PT-76-57 and the LVT-40. Both great, both fun. But it has felt mostly copy and paste.
I dunno . . . I kinda like this one myself . . . ☻
Yes, that’s a copy paste, but the SB2C-5 at rank III is great to do the “Destroy a specified number of player vehicles using an aerial bomb with a weight less than 120 kg” kind of task.
One of the additions of all time
I want my British P-51 tho since it was the most used in the export market
What a disappointment. Could’ve just given Japan yet another Ki-27 instead of an entire copypaste tree and a copypaste BP reward, enough said (though it wouldn’t have changed much).
Additional note: Hell, you could’ve even added the HTMS Thonburi! Something actually unique for Thailand, as well as the aforementioned ground vehicles! But nope, we all know that’s never gonna happen.
They better not
I do agree about that
North sentinel island BP when?
I’m so tired of copy/paste as BP
Everyone complaining about copy past is unfounded. The fact a lot of the world buys imports from other nations and dont have a robust military industrial complex. Its why you see a lot of countries with russian, american, brittish, german, and french tech
this is the biggest joke in the wt history
This is the unfortunate truth. The only real saving grace is that it’s premium, and honestly, flying a premium helldiver around will be plenty fun.
I would rather have some randomized copypastes in the BP to dick around in (or sidegrades a la centurion mk5/1) than them lock away things…again…
I’m still pretty upset about the M6 Mutant, and I missed the sturmtiger from the aniversary event.
Being as I have literally only just bothered to get level 75 on the current battle pass in the last 10 minutes, you can clearly see my enthusiasm and engagement for the Battle Pass is waning severely. Seeing that this is just copy paste vehicle yet again, I am seriously considering giving up on the BP in future. As a paying customer, take note Gaijin.
Wouldn’t a Thai Firefly been a much better choice? Japan needs strike aircraft far more than another Rank 3 bomber to join the Ginga, B7A2/Homare, G5N1 and Ki models. The Firefly is far from OP but it could help the Japanese player complete missions. There’s one sitting in Thailand’s air force museum today.
this made me feel like this season’s ship reward is actually good even though i never play naval
It’s the low-level reward. The last BP was an Air one so this one will be a Ground vehicle - they alternate.
this may or may not become my most played vehicle (i fuking love sb2cs)
This is technically correct. But i would say that “robust military industrial complex” is either rooted in geo-strategical issues (=money plays no role) or in the financial ability (or political willpower) to pay the exorbitant R&D costs of newer weapon systems.
But the main issue with c+p hardware i see is that gajin is sacrificing immersion for pure economic reasons.
This BP Helldiver was never used with WW 2, but it will face actual WW 2 aircraft - if we see a lot of c+p aircraft like 109s & P-51s in both teams the sole purpose of nation variety is gone.
Nation variety means for me to face enemies with different conceptual approaches than your flown nation.
This variety reduces over time, but stuff like a Thai or French Helldiver (and like most props in the CHN tree) were not available in WW 2. This kills the remains of immersion quite effectively.
Besides that:
The US version is rank II - and the same aircraft is at rank III in the French and JP tree. US mains have no chance to use this plane for any task with Rank III requirement…
Edit:
As i saw 2 generic replies like “USA has enough planes” it looks like those guys missed some underlying issues:
