Battle Pass Vehicles: SB2C-5 (Thailand)

Official News, Development Blogs and Updates
84

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.

3 Likes
85

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.

2 Likes
86

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.

3 Likes
88

this made me feel like this season’s ship reward is actually good even though i never play naval

3 Likes
89

It’s the low-level reward. The last BP was an Air one so this one will be a Ground vehicle - they alternate.

90

this may or may not become my most played vehicle (i fuking love sb2cs)

91

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:

  1. The same way JP lacks a prop strike fighter to fulfil tasks, the US TT offers just B-17s, B-26s, PB4Ys and the Mariner as rank III bomber. All highly unsuited to fulfil special tasks like killing 80 ground units with a bomber in a reasonable time frame. A Helldiver with gun pods would makes this rather easy for US players.
  2. So whilst US teams in Air RB suffer due to high popularity (=high number of rookies) and drag their BRs artificially low, we see the same aircraft in other nations with a higher player skill on average - whilst keeping the low BR caused by US players and being rank III.
  3. That means that we see undertiered stuff like the P-51 C as rank III premiums outside the US tree allowing to fulfill them tasks with rank III requirement, benefiting from too low BRs caused by US players, but for them it is just a rank II aircraft.
  4. Noteworthy: The B-26B sits at 4.3 in Air RB, the identical French TT version has a BR of 4.7. Imho the only prop with having different BRs in different trees.
5 Likes
92

Hope it gets the gunpods too… 😇

It’s not like the yanks are short of aircraft…

94

Next Battle P̶a̶s̶t̶e̶ Pass Leak:

image

8 Likes
95

Its really not a sustainable model for a game like WT that uses a very limited pool of real life vehicles, gaijin will either have to lock some really cool and unique vehicles behind the bb to make it worth it but waste their potential as tech tree/premium vehicles, or they could add copy paste and uninteresting vehicles to the bb making in not worth getting.

96
1 Like
97

Solid choice.

98

Does this mean we get an update cockpit at least?

Copy paste at visual IFF tiers is going to be sooo much fun.

I love playing IFF roulette with B25s. Now we’re getting helldivers as well to the pile.

5 Likes
99

Given that there are a plethora of prototypes missing from this game that can me used as premiums etc WTF do we keep getting CP shyte?

What was the last unique WW2 era flying machine, I think it was the twin engine Fokker and that was ages ago. My interest in this game is dying thanks to the incessant grind, CP and crazy high event targets.

Remember when we got a unique Stringbag and Hurricane for doing next to nothing (both more unique then this) and when an event task was assists or base bombing. Or when a Japanese or Italian tree only had Japanese or Italian vehicles? Those were WTs glory days.

2 Likes
100

I bet the subtree will have more copies than unique vehicles.

101

Well, sorry to break you this, but they cut the vehicle reward into a random box of low-tier vehicle of previous BP like 2 seasons ago, that means naval will get a short end of the stick with the random box again.

1 Like
102

Because in-service equipment is preferable to one-off and/or un-used prototype *boo-fantasies.

103

And remember: tk is a tk no matter the circunstances. Lol

2 Likes
104

so many prototypes exist, both from existing trees or for introducing new ones… And we get yet another reskin

4 Likes
105

For me, it fits the game’s entry criteria for vehicles because it is historical but yeah we did not need this, so much more other battle pass candidates

1 Like