Basically, it can be used only to spawncamp, thats it. Just a very long series of actions to spawncamp an enemy that did not notice your snorkel above the water.
It was removed because the M113’s amphibious capabilities weren’t really there.
Everything after the A1 was far less capable of it; not to say it couldn’t, but 5km… isn’t exactly worth it.
Most rivers on the map that Gajin lazily didn’t bother setting up had very calm waters. Instead, just used the ocean, aka “rivers,” but they’re actually just the ocean in disguise. So 5km in any variant after the A1=you drowned.
In terms of the Ka-Mi, Gaijin cannot be bothered to improve Japan WW2 ground—too busy selling people $80 packs for a copy-and-paste MBT. (Also, yes im being critical, Gaijin. Cause it’s the hard truth: Japan is heavily neglected).
It could take 20 or 30 seconds to set up. After all, repairing a tank only takes a few dozen seconds in the game, so I don’t see a problem with that.
Keep it on the down low, but you can just drive through there normally, as long as you aren’t in an L3 lol
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A wrecked engine takes just a few dozen seconds to repair in-game. What’s the worry about fitting a snorkel kit? Haha. That’s the kind of compromise on realism people can understand and accept.
the entirely of the map is too big, like currently there are 4 different maps based on port novo, each of which is a different area (i think like 2 of those maps dont exist in rotation anymore/at the moment), its also 2-3km across the bay from edge of playable area to other edge of playable area
“Unpopular”? Yeah, I wouldn’t call Japan “Unpopular”; popularity has nothing to do with it.
It’s more the fact that when Japan is depicted in most media, in terms of Tanks and such, it’s always shown with worse equipment, and rarely have we seen later-stage Japanese equipment that was far better.
Case examples: Ho-Ni I and Ho-Ni II.
The few instances of a Ho-Ro.
The Chi-He, Chi-Ha “Kai”, etc.
Hollywood and other equals just don’t bother. Documentaries also do the same thing. It’s simply a case of people having this idea that Japan is just crap, bad, inferior, etc. When in reality, they weren’t. Just slow to adapt, or lack the technology to do so.
Aside from that due to a lack of a lot of equipment in the game. It doesn’t fulfill much of what someone would like.
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The difference is how water works in the game; it’s a Register hitbox. Once a vehicle passes below this specific line, it sets off a timer to “Drown,” aka slowly kill the crew.
You need to look at this from how a game reads this stuff. Reality is, trying to implement this idea would be a massive pain in the arse to even do cause it requires the Snail to figure out how to redo the entire way you die in Water, which also means completely redoing how you die on a map. Since both are the same system on 2 different timers.
Unpopular as in not many people play it in war thunder… Didn’t need the paragraph
As does other actions like replacing a track, fixing a transmission that took a massive main caliber slug to it, and so on… Yet all of such takes 20~40 seconds.
Again, this is a restriction already ingame for amphibious capabilities
What is a restriction?
Vehicles are amphibious ingame if they’re independently amphibious with little prep required.
Anything that needs a long prep time installing equipment, equipment usually carried by other vehicles, aren’t amphibious ingame
Which would cover wading prep as well
There are various vehicles in game that carry their own wading equipment on board, are you saying that the general existence of vehicles that require support equipment should invalidate the capabilities of other vehicles that are meant to have on-spot fording capabilities?
Off the top of my head there’s some vehicles that carry equipment for fording shallow water, some of the T-80s for example.
But the deep-wading snorkels from the original post though, for driving completely underwater, can’t think of any off the top of my head. Those are pretty bulky, and impractical to carry around all the time
Either way though, still unlikely to happen ingame
vehicles that have true on the spot wading capabilities already can in game
also deep wading snorkels just wouldnt be interesting at all, spend 30 seconds putting snorkel up, now you cant shoot and probably cant even rotate turret depending on tank, then drive through water extremely slowly, then when you get to the other side you gotta spend another 30 seconds disassembling the wading snorkel, and only then can you do anything normal
doesnt exactly sounds practical, useful, or fun
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You never heard of the Tauchpanzers & Schwimmpanzers?:
I have, but I hadn’t seen these particular versions before. Thanks for sharing! They look pretty cool.