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

[BBCRF]

@Merf_HD

As the charts in the MiG-29 handbook say the thrust should be 7800kgf per engine (so 500kgf channelloss per engine)

In fact, the thrust should be 7200kgs

[MommyDommyEnjyr]

@skilz2kil

kh38 is great, but its not the only offender - if they did that they would need to remove all the tripple pylon mavericks as well as they have been equally as oppressive for grb for a much longer time.

mavericks yes I agree now that they fixed them for the most part so yeah I would argue the same tbh. I dont mind them being removed but added back at a later date

[foxmeup]

you don’t have to avoid 3 billion arh launched early game and it’s not well known so there are more good players and less mindless bots.

[Lulzwhat]

@House_of_Schmidt

Yeah the match times are just super short. It’s funny because years ago Gaijin said they were aiming for a 20 to 30 minute average match time like other PVP games.

Well it’s easy to achieve - just give a damn respawn is air rb. But it’s Gaijin…

[Lulzwhat]

So, how is that affect battle duration? Can you give a clear answer?

[AlvisWisla]

Dude, Pantsir being weak has been known since it was released.
And yes, F-15E is physically unkillable by Pantsir in War Thunder when played even semi-correctly; You’re more than welcome to face me in your Pantsir [if you have one] and lose despite having advantage.

War Thunder needs Python 5 SPYDER since the time of Pantsir’s release, and SPYDER is superior.

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@magazine2

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.

The R-77-1 is 40% superior to the R-77

[Kmdo_Peach]

@magazine2

less fair for ground vehicles, a similar situation is with helicopters equipped with long-range fast ATGMs, or “fire-and-forget” ATGMs.

LMFAO, lol even. FnF missiles are complete crap. 0 pen on the front of a Namer last night.
Situation with the these hyper-long-range AGMs is NOTHING compared to Vikhrs or PARS LOL

[CREELAST]

They just don’t wanna admit that mavericks lock a moving target at the same distance as the kh-38mt, if russia get a counterpart to the mavericks they complaint, meanwhile mavericks are with us since years.

[foxmeup]

so that missile carriers are even more powerful? It won’t change anything and only make player take ground ordonance to bomb airfields.

[Mathll]

As a french sailor, we use this term to describe a strong period of wind, the only traduction in english is gust but in the way we use it is a bit stronger

[WalletWorrier]

Don’t get my hopes up

[ceh66563537]

Q: APCR is generally seen as a weak round, making it almost always redundant when another round is available. Do you have plans to make this shell more functional to give it a stronger place in the game, either with more reliable damage or angled performance? The round often doesn’t feel fun to use.
A: We increased the damage of APCR shells several years ago, practically equalizing it with identical APDS shells in energy. The poor performance of APCR against sloped and spaced armor is their design flaw due to the lack of a jacket and armor-piercing damper in the hard-alloy core. APCR overall is more of a specialized shell for defeating heavily armored tanks without sloped armor in situations where it’s more difficult to use a more versatile shell.

didn’t even address the formula that makes few of the APCR rounds underperform penetration wise, 76mm M93 for the M1 series guns is missing about ~60mm of penetration at 0m at flat angles and the 105mm T29 APCR for the T5E1 and T5E2 guns is missing around ~90mm of penetration against a flat plate at point blank.

[skilz2kil]

look it do be like that - MavD’s can track targets at basically the same range but have 3 per pylon, the point range really does not matter in grb basically at all - sure they are slower but the extra payload more then made up for it. And on top of that they are always mounted on vastly superior multirole platforms which don’t sacrifice basically any air to air capability while taking them.

[MokaMoki]

I guess, in regards to Soviet/Russian top tier aircraft, it really depends on the mode too. I dont play much top tier air these days but I do play a lot of sim and the Su-27 and variants can definitely hold their own. Do you give them a flight model change that will be seen in both modes? That’s a little harder to justify.

[WalletWorrier]

It more translates to something like “squall” or “gale”

[Necronomica]

I think you are misusing the word “within” here. within means less than in this case. In your replay history for today in air RB you do not have a single game that is less than 5 minutes and most are around 7 minutes with several at 12+ minutes, i would make a guess that your average is around 8 minutes per game for todays games.

So while your general point of “the games are to short” might be subjectively correct, your previous statement of

@Lulzwhat

Battle ends within ~5 min on every map in 95% of cases.

is just factually not objectively true.

[SidLol]

If it accords to “extreme”, sure, I can understand, I dont speak french fluently, sorry if I said something that sounds wrong. 😅

[joshje100]

Yeah it’s disappointing. Was hoping to see something about the MFD improvements with TGP MFD controls that Smin hinted at or some cockpits being fixed but sadly not

[MokaMoki]

@magazine2

In turn, there are plans to add new capabilities for aircraft. And while we do not consider anti-radiation missiles (ARM) a priority and necessity, more advanced capabilities of ESM from on board an aircraft, i.e. more accurate determination of the active radar position, are in our fairly close plans.

“We wouldn’t want to add anything that could counter the ridiculous BS the Pantsir gets away with.”