Could be anything, really.
Though “wildcard” would to me hint at some kind of unique asset, like rockets or high caliber “derp” weaponry. Or some other mechanic
I also think we can safely rule out anything from Sweden or USA, since the current BP tank is Swedish and the next BP aircraft is US.
@Bruce_R1 @Get_HeshED Could you two write me a PM or one of you Open a thread on this? Because I am aiming for the Ka-Chi in a Lootbox and maybe also the Ersatz M10 although they are in separate Boxes to my knowledge. Currently I have around 18.7 Million SL and around 97k GE for SL conversion. Ka-Chi is top priority, followed by Account Only vehicles in general.
I did some math and buying enough GE for SL conversion (starting with zero SL) to get 1000 boxes would cost me around 684€ each. And considering that I am currently going with 250€ bi-monthly (500€ total per month) on the market for the E100, those lootbox preparations are on ice.
Isn’t the GE to SL ratio rather poor, and one of the least efficient ways to earn SL?
I think you’d do better by buying large SL boosters and playing a premium naval vessel like Frank Knox.
I can semi-consistently earn a million SL each game this way
It is, but how realistic is it to make like 10 Million SL per day? For the best results of dropping a specific vehicle, you need many tens, if not hundreds of millions of SL. With Premium time (which I do not always have) and a fun vehicle, I make around 40-50k SL per Match.
I am exactly of the same opinion because the price for Moderna 300gjn or Object 279 -700gjn is simply too high. They could give you a choice of several tanks, then there would be a choice, but only for the account without the possibility of selling. It would slightly reduce prices on the market and would also allow new players to get a tank they haven’t had the opportunity to get.
The Inflation is so extreme, I got my Moderna for around 70 GJN after the Event and the 279 for 145 GJN.
We really need something like annual reruns to atleast temporarily deflate the Market prices.
how to ruin your own trolling attempt in 2 easy steps
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Why not have event vehicles function as a sort of “early access” to them? You play the event, you get the vehicle right now. Or skip it, and it gets added to the tech tree, say, 2 years later.
This way you can keep both, though the marketplace integration might be a little weird there.
Why not to make it over way around? Add unique vehicle as event and later introduce its analogue as a regular vehicle.
you really didn’t decompress anything, you just moved stuff up to make room for new batch of premium vehicles. So, how long before we start seeing annoucements for preorders of new 80-85$ premium planes in 13.0-13.3 BR range? Next week? Two weeks? There’s a reason why this was so unbelievably rushed and why some of the changes are really sketchy.
… and it only took 6 years. Round of applause.
And how about the wallhack you implemented for helicopters that allows them to shoot rockets/ATGMs through trees? That’s going to stay in game forever, right?
so, it has been promised 14 months ago, it still isn’t here, it won’t be here for “several weeks” (which likely will translate to several months at least).
Remember when Gaijin added rank5 naval and changed bluewater TT so it effectively increased grind to just a single end of line vehicle by something like 40%? Gaijin had absolutely no problem with that and it took them all of 30 seconds. But decreasing grind even by 1% means dragging your heels for more than a year first? Really classy.
And why not do some placeholder solution first? Permanent 3-10% booster based on number of maxed nations? Or just a bunch of normal 10% boosters given each month if player has maxed nation(s) as at least token gesture?
I could be overestimating a bit, we would need much larger sample to determine it more accurately. I’ve opened around 4000 of these so far and i’ve just shared my results.
So you can point at 20 actual vehicles or coupons you got over those 4,000 boxes? I mean that is a pretty big sample. I could just be the one who’s been unlucky (or I’ve overcounted my boxes, my record keeping across all six times wasn’t perfect, but it was certainly a lot more than 1,200).
SL crates are not a reliable way to get old vehicles and they aren’t a good system to provide access to otherwise unobtainable vehicles either.
The people that got these vehicles a long time ago aren’t getting screwed over by them becoming available through new means. They aren’t losing their vehicles, the vehicles aren’t getting nerfed through this and their “work” to obtain them isn’t being undone.
People that held onto vehicle coupons had more than enough time to sell them and people that bought vehicles like the Obj 279, 292, AMX-50 Surblinde, B-I, etc for ridiculous prices should know that these vehicles could return at some point. War Thunder vehicles are not an investment, they have no real world value.
Making previously exclusive content available to everyone that missed their chance to get said content isn’t something unusual either. In many such cases the people that got their hands on this content through their original events often get exclusive cosmetics in return when their previously exclusive content gets brought back.
Nobody said that getting access to previously exclusive vehicles should be easy either. There are more ways of making them available again than just slapping an SL/GE price on them. The events could be repeated, new events with new challenges could be created, etc.
Did you even read what you just said? Not only do vehicles in War Thunder have no real world value and as soon as you get them on your account they don’t even have any pretend value through the market, it isn’t hard or challenging to obtain them through SL crates either.
It. Is. Just. LUCK.
You don’t “earn” them through crates, you either get lucky or you don’t. That’s even worse than making them available through events again, if we apply your own logic to this.
Yes, here is the list:
It’s actually 23, not 20, but i opened a bit more than 4000 of these, i don’t remember exact number. So it should be more or less 1:200
so about event vehicles does this mean we won’t be getting any unique and competitive event vehicles anymore? or is this post just explaining how you guys have been deciding event vehicles for the past couple of years? as i would like to still recieve unique and competitive event vehicles as those i find alot of fun to grind and play, and it would be dissapointing to only get variants of exisiting tech tree vehicles
Event vehicles can be competitive without being unique and they can be unique without being special vehicles that don’t exist in any other form.
Stuff like the Churchill Crocodile, Matilda Hedgehog, the upcoming PBM-5A and Sholef, etc all are unique in the sense that they offer something that their existing counterparts don’t do.
Just because a vehicle shares the hull/frame with an existing one doesn’t mean it cannot be unique. They didn’t say all future event/BP rewards would exclusively be reskins with special names like the Tiger Tiger or the Kingcobra Airacobra.
Honestly if they do event reruns using the current standard event score system i wouldn’t mind. Its fairly balanced in terms of players time and investment.
Tho i would say loot boxes are still better then crafting events themselves as a method, since you at least got useful stuff for them , not to mention having boxes running alongside score events means i can use any boosters earned and make up a fair bit of SL or grind since i am playing extra around those times so its a nice QOL having score event and loot boxes be available.
A bad luck protection mechanic wouldn’t be bad especially if it carried from event to event, lets say it goes like this:
every 100 boxes u don’t get a vehicle cupon of either kind you get a piece of a common cupon
6 pieces make a cupon you can combine into a random cupon(for a random unowned common vehicle from then current loot box pool) or a piece of a uncommon cupon,etc.
It would need some changes to the vehicle rarity , namely the 1% drop chance vehicles like IS-7 should get their own rarity level jus tin case.
I’m not saying SL crates should disappear or shouldn’t contain coupons anymore. I get where you are coming from and I do agree that bad luck protection would be good, but with the usual price (60k per box) you still would end up spending way too many Silver Lions, if you have to collect 6 of these coupons to just get one vehicle, especially if there are rarities involved and the rarer ones cost magnitudes more coupons than the more common ones.
About the crafting events, yeah, those should probably be reworked into regular score events instead of being rerun.