The wiesel 1A4 still has NVD reserch modification for it’s driver. other than that it’s absent.
I only say this is that I am in an odd situation.
I grinded a Squadren vheichal to finnaly play night battles. that being the Bhishma TWMP.
and finnaly after 33 battles I finnaly got one. the thing is, alongside that tank I bring the Centurion Mk 10 FV 4005, Conway, and FV4202. when I spawned in as the Centurion I had sightvision in both my sights and everywhere.
But it was dark for the Conway.
The Wiesel 1A4 has Gen 3 Thermals 😉 That’s why there is still a modification. Also, TVD modifications are colored white, while the old NVD modifications were green.
You can also hover over the modification to see what it unlocks.
Also also, if you hover over a sight in Xray view and it will now tell you which generation NVD/TVD it is. That was added very recently.
Wiesel 1A4 Gunner Optics:
Wiesel 1A4 Driver Optics:
Yes, that is the driver optics. Driver = NVD, Gunner = TVD. Very few vehicles have Driver TVD’s.
Look: If you go to the Wiki, the “NVD” modification is white, not green. Again, that means that the modification unlocks TVD devices, not NVD. It already has NVD’s before you unlock the modification (for 3rd person and the Gunner at least), where before you had both a NVD modification and a TVD modification: Wiesel 1A2 | War Thunder Wiki
Germany only has 5 vehicles with Driver TVD’s, and they are all Gen 1 anyway. Very very few vehicles have Gen 2+ Driver TVD’s.
this was very informative. thanks
Found the post about the TVD modifications (change was implemented after this post, but it explains what happened.)
So, nothing “lost” NVD’s, only “lost” the modification that was required to unlock them. It was a good change, less modifications to research (though, they probably raised the RP cost of the other modifications, keeping the total RP needed to spade a vehicle the same.)
Another caveat, this post after the one one above, says “In the future NVD modifications will no longer be added on vehicles with a low Battle Rating.”
“Modifications” should mean something you have to research, “Devices” means something that a vehicle can use.
So, I am not sure if the information is unclear, and they did ONLY mean actual researchable Modifications, OR if they actually meant that NVD Devices will no longer be added to low BR vehicles.
It looks like they might have meant “Devices” because the Fox does not have any TVD’s, not for Gunner, nor Commander, nor Driver. So the most likely explanation is that they used the incorrect/imprecise word for this post.
Night battles in arcade modes would be cool
