CM Covert Disclosures No.2: Keeping You Updated!

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[Golden_Tomcat]

Awesome thank you for the Transparency ♥

[Ziver33647]

After so many delays, I’ve completely lost hope that the new nations bonus will even be worth it.

[putcheeseonit]

Good.

[LtJota]

I think you don’t understand the problem. There is no point in raising an airplane that was previously at 13.0 to 13.7, if you raise the one that was at 12.7 (without FOX III missiles) to 13.0 so that it continues to face, under unequal conditions, what it was already facing before…

The realistic air battle mode is worse than ever… The games barely last 5 minutes. What kind of joke is this.

I think it is, together with the decision you made to make ground battle maps for tanks above BR 8.7 increasingly smaller and flatter (vehicles designed for combat at no less than 2 kilometers, btw), the genius of this year.

Why is someone going to put in the effort to develop a branch to the end, if the TOP TIER battles suck?

If you listened to the community, this game would be eternally unbeatable.

As a suggestion, improve the mechanics of flares and chaff, to avoid missiles in both ground battles and air battles.

And expand the maps in ground battles, which is ridiculous. WT looks more like CSGO every day. Tanks kill each other with knives, come on man.

[KotyanTheGreat]

Let’s cut to the chase! The next two event vehicles will be a vessel (Alcione) and aircraft respectively, quite high tier. These two will both be analogs to vehicles we have in the tree already.

but on the other hand having already existing vehicles in the tech trees as event vehicles may to some be less appealing if someone already owns them.

Really???

Sorry - but it`s poor excuse.

For example, a marathon. Let’s take Italy - the top small fleet and WT forum.
First:
Alcione - yes, even SAME! but old

Alcione Class,Torpedo Boat, Alcione (1941)

poll [Alcione] In the early 30s the Regia Marina needed to replace the old destroyers used in the First World War, so he decided to build a series of Torpedo Boats that were faster to fulfill the escort and patrol tasks. 32 Torpedo boats of the Spica class were built, divided into 3 other subclasses Alcione, Climene and Perseo. The torpedo boats of the Alcione class constituted the most numerous class of the sub classes of the Spica class, the Alcione series consisted of sixteen units. The sta…

+/- like Japanese torpedoboat - and in tree easy added another serie (Ciclone. Orsa, Ariete etc).

Spoiler

Or sistership Alcione - with very different variant weapons.

Another - frigate Luigi Rizzo.

Luigi Rizzo Class, Frigate, Luigi Rizzo F596

poll [01] The “Luigi Rizzo” class was made up of 4 units, Luigi Rizzo, Carlo Bergamini, Virgilio Fasan and Carlo Margottini, the four units bore the names of as many famous sailors of the Royal Navy decorated with a Gold Medal for military valor. Initially classified as “Type 2 fast corvettes” and later classified as frigates, they were the first escort units in the world to embark an anti-submarine helicopter and entered service between 1961 and 1962. The construction was entirely in steel,th…

Battlepass - really Mariner best choice?
Of these gorgeous offers - only Mariner???

List of Previously Suggested Ideas - USA Aircraft

A reference archive of previously suggested threads related to American Aircraft. This thread is a document for everyone to see and check before they create a double post on an already discussed idea. IMPORTANT: If you find something previously suggested/discussed that is not on this list and should be, please PM the Suggestion Moderators and let them know! To make is easier to find a suggested item, use the Ctrl+F function to quickly locate something! [Jtq8UOn.png] U.S.A. - Air Forces [Jtq…

If nees minimum 3d work - then FM2 is the best choice.

General Motors FM-2 Wildcat

poll [image] General Motors FM-2 Wildcat Naval Fighter    Hello! I’d like to introduce an FM-2 Wildcat as my other suggestion for War Thunder. I am surprised this aircraft isn’t in the game despite being the most produced Wildcat variant, with 4,437 for the US Navy plus 340 for the Royal Navy. The FM-2s were delivered overseas in the Atlantic and Pacific to serve on escort carriers where the F6F and F4U fighters could not operate. In one case, the FM-2 Wildcats took off from the escort…

Or most powerful serial Avenger

General Motors TBM-3 Avenger

poll Reposting and revising from my original suggestion in old forums. [image] General Motors TBM-3 Avenger Torpedo Bomber / Naval Aircraft / Light Bomber   Hello, I’d like to re-introduce and suggest General Motors TBM-3 Avenger, a final major modification and the most produced variant of the Avenger during World War II. I had a difficulty in researching and collecting high-quality information on the TBM Avenger due to the lack of historical documents in public. If the information is …

[LostPlayer2023]

Is it possible for top tier to put them into their own bubble so planes without ARH missiles don’t face them. Getting spammed by ARH missiles is really annoying and for planes with only SARH missils its really impossible to do a 1v1 or even a 1 v (More players) cuz the teams are somehow useless.

[Slaaneshgod]

this was a great post. thank you for sharing this with us and giving a bit more clarity on a feature many of us have been eagerly awaiting.

[Mad_Wizard]

Nice new profile features and damage models. I hope the bonuses for new nations will give some oportunity to grind faster new units for veteran players, otherwise will be unfair. I think players who dedicate more time and effort to the game need to be reward.

[Slaaneshgod]

agreed I really wish even vehicles would be available for GE later like maybe a year or 2 after an event. be a good way for gaijin to make more money too.

[Mad_Wizard]

Yeap, good for gaijin and good for players. Nice sugestion bro!

[BleedingUranium]

Thanks Oxy, these updates are very much appreciated!

 

@Oxygen_Thief_WT

It does bring up an interesting point though about event vehicles, we talk about this a lot internally. On one hand having entirely unique event vehicles is great, but if we do that frequently we’re locking those vehicles out of being placed in the tech tree, but on the other hand having already existing vehicles in the tech trees as event vehicles may to some be less appealing if someone already owns them.

Generally for these we like to go with interesting modifications or historically significant examples of existing vehicles, or even just a vehicle that would give a good representation of what high tier gameplay for a certain nation would be like for players who aren’t there yet. So in tandem we don’t lock something unique out of the tree, while also offering an alternative to something that exists already, so it still offers something new, especially for players that don’t have everything unlocked yet.

As someone who would prefer no time-locked, missable content in the game whatsoever (I realize that’s an ideal, not a realistic wish) this seems quite reasonable to me. I didn’t go unnoticed that after the low-tier tank slot was removed from the BPs, we suddenly got an influx of low-tier tanks in the regular tech tree over the next few months. The rest of the vehicle selection has been pretty solid and reasonable too. :)

 

@Oxygen_Thief_WT

refinements to helicopter damage models

This all sounds very good, and while I realize the “most affected” vehicles are being covered first (helis, high-tier tanks) I do hope it comes to regular aircraft and lower-tier stuff in the future.

One major element that would help here would be to make aircraft weapons damageable. It’s very odd that weapon damage is such a core part of the ground/naval gameplay loop, yet it’s literally impossible to knock out aircraft (including heli) weapons; putting a 20mm shell right through a P-47’s quad .50s does… absolutely nothing to them. This is especially odd as they’re already modelled as modules.

Enabling this would help with air/ground interactions, and would add something to air combat that really should have always been there.

 

@Oxygen_Thief_WT

Actually maybe some of you remember, after the last major update squadron RP broke for a day, and that was due to live testing the New Nation Bonus, it created some kind of conflict and had to be turned off and parts of it rewritten, which is part of the reason for the extra delay.

Examples like this are a great way to emphasize these things to the wider community. :)

[KhorneFlakez1337]

@Oxygen_Thief_WT

It didn’t stop there however, and we recently increased the max BR for air battles up to 13.7, decompressing a bulk of aircraft in the 10.0+ range, and moving all of the FOX-3 capable aircraft up a fair amount to give the earlier aircraft some breathing room.

Just split up the matchmaking up, so FOX-3 capable aircraft can only be matched against other FOX-3 capable aircraft. There is no point in letting them fight aircraft that aren’t capable of carrying that kind of missile.

[KhorneFlakez1337]

This.

No Gaijin, SL crates aren’t a good system for that.

[war_Tinder]

Exactly. SL crates are predatory, bad, greedy, and overall an awful system.

[KhorneFlakez1337]

I have no problem with SL crates themselves tbh, but them being the only source for old event vehicles is absolutely disgusting

[war_Tinder]

Yeah that’s the bigger issue.

[Panocek]

@Oxygen_Thief_WT

If you have the time please do make sure to report any issues you run into, personally over the years I’ve found that for every 20 or so people that encounter a bug only one person ends up actually reporting it

As IT technician its issue I’m all too familiar with. However, when it comes to WT bug reports, they often feel like they fall on deaf ears, stuck as “open” without hint of Gaijin activity, or are slapped as “acknowledged”, with not much else happening. That doesn’t really encourage to do bug reports when snail gonna snail anyway.

[JebJacobi1nOnly]

Does this mean we could see events with old event vehicles returning or Re-Run Battle passes? to get old vehicles?

[Noveos_Republic]

I’m pretty sure they can’t be sued for that. Not like that got sued when the event lootboxes came out