Yeah, you can only do that for flags that aren’t already a “main” techtree flag. For example this means you can turn Germany into “Kingdom of Italy” if you have old italian planes, but you can’t turn Britain into France if you have the the DB-7.
Basically you can use all the national* flags of vehicles you own in a nation, aside from these:
*Flags are limited to national flags only, navy or military flags don’t count aside from the WWII German war flag that’s still the default for the tree for whatever reason.
I think it’s mainly concerning because even from a PRC perspective, ROC was definitively China during WWII.
This means there is no way to accurately represent WWII China, there is no way for people from modern day ROC to represent their nation and by just defaulting to PRC from the start this also discredits the 1.5 million PRC soldiers that died in the Chinese Civil war as well.
Neither side profits here at all, when one is erased the people that fought for the other are trivialized, it’s just an overall bad decision.
Still think they should lock all variants of a nation’s flag to just its home tree.
Over just the flag used before custom flags were added.
So nations that have a home as a sub-tree or just changed their flag during WTs time would have one nation whose flags are usable in. Over being able to use pre-tree/sub-tree addtions to make other nations fly the flag of a nation that has a home. (would also help with the tree/sub-tree confusion issues.)
Yeah, though it is funny to see Gaijin not limit national variants like the Kingdom of Italy. If we somehow had a modern German vehicle in another tree it could be changed to Germany.
I did try to give my own take on an improved version a while ago. Mainly I think this system would’ve been the perfect chance to properly define what nation goes where since there’s nothing like that in game yet.
As a Chinese person, I do think the ROC flag should be included—it was indeed a regime that cannot be overlooked in our history, and even the current CCP regime was nominally subordinate to the ROC at that time. However, given the current political climate, to avoid being exploited by those with ulterior motives, I would prefer to add the notation “(1911–1945)” after the ROC flag.
I’m not Chinese so my opinion will probably be very misunderstanding and do correct me if I’m wrong.
With that being said the CCP and ROC are not the same, weather or not Taiwan is or isn’t apart of the mainland putting them under the CCP flag could be interpreted in a wrong way. Personally i find it as a cheap excuse to add American vehicles to China which is dumb, the AH64E for China should not be able to carry JAGMS or DCIRM yet it does in game, not to mention the best Abrams in game going to china when it could’ve just been added to the US.
You can think of it as the CCP and the ROC being in a predecessor-successor relationship. The CCP defeated the former ROC regime in the civil war and became the current government of China, while the ROC was the government of China before 1945. Before that, the government of China was the Qing dynasty. As for the AH-64E issue, all I can say is that it’s a clever little move by Bvvd—it shuts up Chinese players who complain about not getting new vehicles, prevents China from getting anything stronger than Russia, and at the same time stirs up conflict between Western and Chinese players. Of course, if they really can’t come up with a reskinned vehicle that will silence Chinese players while still keeping China’s vehicles weaker than Russia’s, they’ll just poison the new Chinese vehicles. The J-15T this time is a perfect example—I personally prefer to call it the Bvvd-15T.
Its interesting you acknowledge the AH64 issue in that way, i do 100% agree it stirs issues with western players and eastern players in regard to fictional buffs.
Quiet literally removes the purpose for top tier ground in the US tree, just go for china and get the same thing with a better lineup, oh and god forbid japan getting VT4 but when american mains dont want the abrams in china its just swept under the rug…
The dutch and UK 64ES can carry them and have tested them which would make sense to have in game just without the DCIRM.
It is the same Oplot-M they trialed, but probably only by coincidence because Gaijin just used the Oplot-T model and Pakistan just so happened to trial the tank that tested the Oplot-Ts new A/C and APU.
