Yes, which is why the addition of spall liners is a step in the right direction. It will slow the pace of combat down due to the reduction of one shots. The issue at hand is currently their haphazard introduction and Gaijin’s refusal to restrict smaller maps at high BRs.
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Adding AI puts strain on the servers, they could add more hazards like minefields and use those to split areas of the map to prevent easy traversal. A “rush” style game mode where you attack and hold attack and hold could be interesting to see on a larger map where outflanking would be restricted and the battle would remain dynamic due to the constantly moving battle area.
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I agree, and maybe add a tank with a mine clearing ability. Or a modification to mine clear
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They will if the game lasts for longer than 15 minutes like they do IRL missions and battles.
Modern tanks can go ~300 miles without refueling it’s not going to be a thing we see in WT
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If you’ve ever flown low and slow over the air maps, each one is literally a hundred square kms of perfectly good, realistic terrain that could be used for ground games that could enable full combined arms battles far better than the cartoonish, curated maps designed, yes, for CoD style deathmatch.
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Most tanks don’t parade around the battlefield, but move in short fast bursts, and then spend most of the time idling. Tank engines burn a lot of fuel even just idling.
OPs suggestion is for something like Ground EC, where you could spend hours in game and fuel would become an issue for some tanks (like M1s).
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Yeah, it would also be a confusing nightmare, and do also consider all those air maps are low poly in graphical fidelity. Just like the rest of the ground maps once you get outside of spawn and the ground battle area of the map. It may not look like it’s graphically low. But it is and for Gaijin to make this fully work for higher graphics is both going to take a toll on your hardware and the game engine. For something that large. However, if we are going on the theoretics then it is something that should be done for World War mode if Gaijin adds voice chat and an in-game chat translator other wise it doesn’t work that well.
It just isn’t cluttered with crap like little rocks and someone’s laundry. The generic procedurally generated terrain on the airmaps will be much easier on client and server hardware than the artsy ground maps. The pretty detailed maps are nice, but we don’t play the game to virtually sight see.
Yes, more like EC and WW mode where you are fighting large scale battles with hundreds of units instead of just a dozen.
Yeah no one is going to play an hour long War Thunder match
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Well, people do already. It’s called Simulator EC.
Besides, EC mode allows players to drop in/out whenever, so they don’t have to stay that long if they don’t want to.
I think Ground EC would be pretty rad
Is that not it?
I would be the first to play 1 hour games. I been playing from long ago and every time I thinked “what if in reality this game become more a simulator than a tanksCOD?”. Not everyone like the hardcore sims but i do, and for me? coming home after a long day of work log in and playing a good match with strategy caring about my teammaetes and on a big*ss map is the better thing Gaijin can do after the 2A7V and DU Abrams fiasco. So yes I prefeer 2 matchs of 1 hour per day, than more or less 45 matches of 3-5 minutes and 3-5 matches of at best 10 minutes per day because in these 40 matches I feel nothing, no one care about his teammate, everyone going “YOLO”, everyone dying and leaving at the second minute of match… . This game is a COD but with tanks… and other vehicles who in top tier just make the situation worse… . I pray for Gaijin adding a proper “simulator mode” in the game for those who love REAL sims experiences. (And nothing to say about tank interiors, it could be extremely good if they add it )
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Currently we only have EC mode in Air Simulator.
What I would like to see is an EC mode in Air realistic, and possibly a similar concept for Ground battles.
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Sure there can be a side game mode for games of that length.
Yes you are a minority of users.
And?
Some prefer to have nicer graphics while they play the game, i get what you mean but I’m having difficulty seeing how it can be executed without one of the cons.
And this proposed game mode could not replace Ground Realistic Battles.