CM Covert Disclosures No.4: Information & Q&A with War Thunder Game Director, Viacheslav Bulannikov!

Is there any plans to introduce tanks only game modes?

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Who would’ve thought that if you keep adding better and better planes with more and more capable air to ground ordnance and FnF helicopters yet not a single better toptier SPAA, the balance will shift in favor of aviation and helicopters?

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Nothing new on M735 recalculation??

As an occasional naval player, decompression would be terrible for naval. It is already hard to get into naval matches, especially arcade or low tier. The mode doesn’t have enough players to allow for decompression at the moment.

Dont expect anything to happen really, majority that had that round got another instead.

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low tier is not what needs the decompression, its not hard to find matches at high tier, especially with multiple servers selected, it is hard to do much against ships MUCH MUCH stronger than yours tho. better games are worth the extra time it would take.

also, solving problems such as this and the map/spawn locations would bring more players back to naval, helping to alleviate the issue.

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Asking for Soviet top tier jet improvements: Currently regarding statistics US aircraft are in the lead with Soviet aircraft slightly behind, though not significantly enough to where they require better weaponry. From looking at the preliminary data, the addition of advanced weaponry as suggested by players would tip the scales drastically in the other direction, here we’re talking about the RVV-MD close-range missile. Also brought up were R-77-1 medium-range missiles, though regarding energy these don’t differ much from the R-77 already in the game.

So are we using winrate to calculate this? Why not break out the actual data being used to make this assumption?

Is Gaijin considering mitigating factors? Average player level, RP vs GE used to obtain top tier vehicles, overall average number of games of the players flying each vehicle, etc.

We all see how many sub level 100s are in F15s, clearly having GE’d their way through the TT.

If less skilled players are still beating players that are, on average, more skilled… would that not suggest that the American air tree is vastly superior?

A lot of us realize that the real data is that - the favorability of the US tree, both based in idealism/sentiment/desirability and the IG superiority of the tree, makes it the most common tree for new players. They will sink money into the tree, moreso than they will others. Naturally, giving them an advantage will make them more inclined to spend more money then they would if they were more likely to lose games. Simple BI always points to incentivizing consumers to your largest revenue source, which in Air, is undoubtedly the US tree.

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and in the rest (AB, RB) it will be possible to hide it or leave it at the player’s discretion.

You are kidding.

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Stug IV, when?

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Also ik new nations arent the focus but subtrees, I really hope Yugoslavia becomes separate nations and doesnt get its nations ripped apart into different subtrees.

Just roll back to the old version, and scrap the new entirely.
Unless you manage to redevelop the new one into the old-

It is simply worse than what we had, and no amount of reworks can fix that.

The idea that we “can’t go back” is just stubborn devs.
Scrap new entirely, and you don’t have to maintain it.

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well id also consider unlike tanks air rb is mixed 90% of the time so winrate is usually individual based not nation based

YF-22 or 23 please

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R-27R & R-27T replace with R-77-1 on MiG-29SMT 9-19 and decompressed max battle rating to 14.0

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I believe another russian & chinese 4th gen fighter aircraft armed R-77-1/RVV-SD in the future

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  • MiG-29KR (9-41)
  • Su-27SM2
  • Su-30SM
  • Su-30SM2
  • Su-35S
  • MiG-35

Export model of the R-74 ?

Not forgot R-73M/R-73M1

Yeah, I’d imagine they’re not using winrate at all, rather average frags and considering revenue into their viability analysis.

Now if they considered average frags, using average games and average player level as a modifier, it would very likely show that nations outside of the US TT have more average games and a higher level on average per frag.

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if we are getting spaa’s that can counter the KH-38MT’s and their respective carriers, it would only be fair for other aircraft to get similar weapons. If this does not happen , it will be something like:
You can only use russian CAS in most situations.
NATO CAS will be utter useless if there is an spaa around.

Don’t get me wrong. I would love to see gaijin give some love to other countries spaa line. My point is that if we get spaa that are able to counter the KH-38MT then the AGM-65 (for example) will be useless.

GRB is not the only game mode.

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No it’s got to be a reference to the Hawker Tornado.
I would be so hyped for that.

A: According to our data, the balance at the top ranks of ground battles is noticeably shifted towards aviation and helicopters, and this balance has become even worse with the introduction of top aircraft this year. The situation where aircraft can attack tanks from a safe distance with impunity makes gameplay more boring for aviation and less fair for ground vehicles, a similar situation is with helicopters equipped with long-range fast ATGMs, or “fire-and-forget” ATGMs. The most important acknowledgement from gaijin in this entire post… Increase the spawn costs simple.

This entire answer is criminal. People have only floated the idea of the R-73M, no one has demanded it. I think we’d all prefer the R-73 was just fixed in the first place.

IF we read really carefully, what you’re saying about the R-77-1 is that it’s energy doesn’t really differ much from the R-77 in game. You neglect to mention the rest of the aerodynamic effects. Are you telling us that you’ve modelled the entire missile and it really isn’t as good as we all think? Do you have “sekrit dokuments” to prove this? (jk)

If we aren’t getting R-77-1 or R-73M anytime soon, then please fix the flight models of the Flankers, fix the gyro and tracking issues of the R-73, and buff it’s IRCCM a little bit more too please.

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