Battle Pass Vehicles: SB2C-5 (Thailand)

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

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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.
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Hope it gets the gunpods too… 😇

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

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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.

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Solid choice.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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

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Agreed - i guess in the next 10 years i would not exclude to see BP stuff like this:

[Approved] NC-1 X-Wing - Approved Starships - Star Wars RP: Chaos

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I’d rather not have unique aircraft, ships, or tanks be locked behind what would eventually become a massive paywall. Sure, it’s not much incentive to grind it, but that also saves special and unique vehicles for more people to be able to enjoy.

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The US has plenty of aircraft they can use. This doesnt have to be tit for tat with vehicles

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there is A LOT of interesting vehicles that could be added, just take a look into suggestions on the forum
problem is - gaijin would rather copyslop some american plane with a different livery instead of actually putting in the effort to add something new

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The bigger the game gets the more money it costs to sustain it.

One way to achive that is C&P, P2W and trying to make people spent money on grinding.

But that makes the game worse and in the end it’s just means people are going to quit.
Which just enforces the previous behaviour and the game ruins itself.

The gameplay is very repetive and the sole motivation factor is grinding modules and vehicles instead of playing for fun.

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