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

[Kmdo_Peach]

@magazine2

we do not consider anti-radiation missiles (ARM) a priority and necessity

here :/

[XxBLAZEFIRExX]

@magazine2

and adding new types of vehicles

Do you actually mean new types of vehicles or is this just a bad translation of saying youre going to be focusing on adding new vehicles?

[Lulzwhat]

@magazine2

Q: AI Ticket bleed is detrimental to Air RB as the game can end without direct player input (and some AI aircraft are more effective than others). Could the impact of AI aircraft be capped to a certain amount of tickets? That way players would have to actively end the game themselves.
A: A5: We monitor the average time of game sessions in different locations, and if it stands out in one direction, we adjust the logic in the mission. However, in our experience, very few game sessions in ARB end with the destruction of ground vehicles, and after adding the logic of AI attack aircraft, the average time of missions in which this logic was added increased, not decreased, since players began to spend time hunting for such AI targets. However, we do not exclude the possibility of bugs with asymmetric ticket bleed due to AI actions, so if you have specific examples of such problems, we’d be grateful for a completed report here.

@Smin1080p_WT @Stona_WT @magazine2

This is joke or what?

Air RB is dumb circus now. Battle ends within ~5 min on every map in 95% of cases.

[F14_Remover]

@magazine2

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.

USA player moment. Imagine having F-15C, F-16C, F-15E with AIM-120 and only being “slightly ahead” of soviet top tier jets, lol. Lmao even.

[Stona_WT]

@Lulzwhat

Air RB is dumb circus now. Battle ends within ~5 min on every map in 95% of cases.

You just made the data up.
Please provide evidences for 95% of Air RB battles ended in 5 minutes. Waiting for links.

[Giovanex05]

@magazine2

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.

How tf is boat27sm slightly behind the F-15E in statistics?

Still solution is not better weapons but adding jets actually from the 90s instead of poorly attempted upgrade programs. MiG-29M and Su-27M first two that come to mind.
Same thing for other countries (basically all apart from the ones that have F-15s) that currently don’t have a real meta aircraft

[Dziamdziak12]

Of course, there is not even the slightest mention of the simulation mode to which any changes would be most welcome.

[Mathll]

@magazine2

Q: War Thunder is constantly expanding with new vehicles from other nations, which are implemented into nations already in the game. But are there any plans for separate standalone nations in the future in addition to the 10 already present in the game?
A: Yes, we have plans for separate new nations. But next year, we’ll focus on filling the gaps in existing trees, including adding subtrees of other nations to them, and adding new types of vehicles

New types of vehicles ?

[AlvisWisla]

@magazine2

2025 Plans

In the near future, we’re going to be revealing some information about our plans for upcoming vehicles in 2025, this will primarily be about top tier SAMs for all nations. We’ll be working with the devs to produce an article with information on this, so keep an eye out for it in the future.

Very nice.
Though no explicit statements on improving the atrocious AI from ~2010 currently in-game.
Still working on the last 4 nuanced statements not in official dev blogs.

@Sweedish_Gunner

THANK YOU. This will hopefully lead to fixes but hearing a dev say it feels at least somewhat gratifying, even if it doesn’t stop me getting wiped out with impunity by CAS.

I hope that the content from Hunter and Cavenub helped other players play CAS better, as well as the advice I’ve given to others.
CAS is unkillable, and it’s been 2 years in the making on making WT’s statistics prove that.

[AlvisWisla]

@Giovanex05

How tf is boat27sm slightly behind the F-15E in statistics?

Cause the Su-27SM is superior to the F-15E WVR, and not identical [just similar] in BVR.

[AWACS Ghost Eye]

Long ranged SAM(corp-level), engineering vehicles/ARV, and armed drones probably. SEAD or submarines as well.

NLOS ATGM is a possible candidate but the only few options are AFT10, or hafiz and magach pereh.

[BalticSAS]

Take of the year right here

[House_of_Schmidt]

He’s definitely being a bit hyperbolic but ARB is an EXTREMELY short game mode right now and for Air, there’s really nothing longer form outside of Sim.

It’s either a 5 to 10 minute match or a 1 to 2 hour match.

This is a MAJOR issue with upper tier Air.

The current game modes are very limiting.

[AWACS Ghost Eye]

What looking at numbers for analytics and only thinking for the bigger one does to a job, shouldve studies global politics to smartly word the messages lol

[F14_Remover]

This is one of the opinions of all time for sure.

[SoloWing_Makarov]

@AlvisWisla

and similar in BVR

Ah, yes, the AIM-120A having little to no air resistance, and R-77 having way too much resistance because gaijin thinks that fins are air brakes.

[RunaDacino]

“Vampires, Meteors and Banshees facing A.I CL-13 sabres flying at 1000 km/h that a f86-a5 can barely catch while completely redlining the airframe for multiple minutes is not a bug. Make a suggestion.”

Make a suggestion.

Sits in pending hell

[Giovanex05]

@SoloWing_Makarov

Ah, yes, the AIM-120A having little to no air resistance, and R-77 having way too much resistance because gaijin thinks that fins are air brakes.

R-77 is the least of the problems, if they would be fired by a good radar with good updates and at good speed and altitude they’d be fine. Problem are the aircraft themselves

[cortbowan]

Just leaving a heartfelt “Thank You” here :)

Looking forward to the Top Tier SPAA additions to deal with CAS properly :)

[AlvisWisla]

@Giovanex05
Outside simulator, I’ve had no issues with R-77s and R-27s. In simulator I have had issues with R-77s, but not to the point where they’re objectively dissimilar.
People thinking similar = identical need to grab a dictionary.

And yes, the F-15E’s dogfight performance is sub-par, slightly below that of even Mig-29SMT because the F-15E weighs over 15,000kg EMPTY while needing more fuel than other aircraft.

@BalticSAS
I test every jet extensively in dogfight performance cause I do 1v1s [this is exclusively in relation to WVR statements].
F-15E’s dogfight performance is closest to Mig-29SMT, and SMT out-rates it ever so slightly.
Refer to the above portion for my experience with R-77s so far.

It’s okay to have different experiences, it’s not okay to dismiss peoples’ experiences and demean them.