You know how they have that yellow diagonal ribbon on a tank’s tree icon to indicate that it was newly added in a recent update? I’ve always liked the idea of slapping a ribbon of a different colour (say, red) on tanks/planes/ships that are either incomplete, erroneously modelled, or were worked on by real engineers but never came together completely. This could give you more leeway to add plausible but “paper” designs to fill gaps (say, the P43 Bis for the Italian tech tree) without descending into WoT madness, while indicating to players what vehicles are less historical than others.
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I’d like to see them lean into the customisation side of things when making event vehicles unique. It would be nice to have more variants of tanks dressed up like the Tiger Ost/West, IS-2 No.321, etc.
I like the idea. A personal wish of mine would be the proposed Jagdtiger with 12.8 cm L/66 (plus potentially a stereoscopic rangefinder and the Sla.16), though I’ll admit that would require Gaijin expanding the game’s scope to include paper designs completely. Which I would love to see happen because it opens the gates to so many interesting vehicles, many of them conventional WW2-era ones… the O-I, the P.43 Bis you mentioned and so forth.
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You’re gonna love this… (Never mind, looks like it’s old news to you already! Ah well, something interesting for this thread at least)
Thanks to @gszabi99 for the datamine.
Not a bad idea, I’ll be happy with any marking method under the sun if it means Gaijin brings such vehicles to the game.
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The recent WW2 packs were amazing. Can’t wait for late war equivalents to come around a few years from now.
I do. I still would have preferred something like “Tiger Ausf B Pre-Series” and “Serienturm” or “Production”, something like that, but this is undoubtedly much better than before, and at least it’s not actively misleading people about the history of the vehicles!
Yes. I think Naval is proof that the concept is solid, because there is paper and then there is paper. The stuff we get in Naval is very grounded - real engineers worked on these projects, the components are not made up by the company, etc - while still being speculative.
After I finish my Jagdtiger Sla suggestion, I’ll see if I can bug report any of the inaccuracies that are there for the Jagdtiger we have in game already.
I love the idea of affordable “line up” packs. The US and British ones have several historical issues though.
The British one is called Overlord, but only one of the vehicles actually served in that operation - the Firefly. The Avenger never left Great Britain during WW2 and only had a very brief service history in BAOR after WW2. The Crusader AA Mk II also never left Great Britian, is was declared unfit for battle and was reserved as a training vehicle. The actual in service SPAA was the Crusader AA Mk III, very similar, but different machine. What I would have done:
- Sherman IIA (M4A1 76) at 5.0: The British used them and a very low effort addition. Simply copy-paste the US one and then have cosmetic differences.
- Firefly IC Hybrid at 5.0: Just copy-paste the Italian one, and again, just have cosmetic differences.
- Crusader AA Mk III: Minor model differences on the turret and hull. Such as radio antenna in the hull instead of the turret, counter-weight between the 20mm guns, partial open-topped turret with a parapet.
That’s 3 “new” British vehicles, that could have had copy-pasted tech tree versions added too.
The US one is Pacific themed. We have a Korean War Sherman dressed up as a WW2 one and we have an incredibly well known Canadian Skink fighting the Japanese in the Pacific (sarcasm). When in reality the US had nothing to do with the Skink, had no interest in the program, and it only ever saw service with Canadian forces in Europe.
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