Ever played Enlisted?
Yes. Its not vehicle centric, the A.I troops are extremely buggy, it doesn’t have nearly as many vehicles, and the setting is confined to only WW2 era battles. If enlisted had Bradley IFVs, utility helicopters, and fighter jets, we wouldn’t be advocating for an A.I infantry mechanic for war thunder. As many people have already clarifed multiple times before, this suggestion is for A.I infantry to supplement vehicle gameplay. No one wants to play as infantry, as suggesting Enlisted would imply.
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Exactly. No one wants to play as infantry. What we want is a GHPC style prop infantry that can interact by using small arms, and MAYBE give them AT weapons such as recoilless rifles and ATGMs.
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…and MANPADs.
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They think we wanted playable infantry rip to all our hopes
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Dont worry. Its only 1. april. But I must say that it looks like a lot of fun.
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we got april fooled
This april fool. Could be a good infantry technology demonstrator. Though I’m not in the same boat as Gaijin. That we should have full control FPS infantry system like Enlisted.
just A.I control troops (bot) like Infantry in GHPC would do.
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From the event (WW1) news page
So, the AI infantry for regular WT is still on the table
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Ngl, infantry in the ww1 event sucked. For some reason their hitbox were weird and they didnt do much. The only thing that worked was the mg nest.
Yeah, the hit boxes were a lil wonky but it’s nothing a bug fix won’t fix. They actually rushed objectives if friendly tanks pushed. I had one kill me with a grenade when I got too close to a trench. Biggest problem I had was getting killed in spawn before I could even interact with them.
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Did they actually push with tanks? i thought they only went when capturing a point (and randomly)
yeah they pushed when you took it from the enemy team
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Apparently, players have been asking about this feature for helicopters for about 6 years. Seems like they’ve been purposely ignoring the idea.
Well who knows, only time will tell us.
Remember we got a sussy trailer and the infantry leaks.
It could be a infantry update for WT (just like GHPC) or an update for Enlisted.
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I hope so. This whole dying to CAS and spawn campers thing got old years ago. I don’t want to be forced to choose between using helicopters in ground or using them in a monotonous game mode like heli PvE. Don’t even get me started on ground assault arcade.
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I agree only if they are an NPC Bot unit that can dig in and hold a position or cap points.
They can’t be playable individuals. They count as one item.
IFV and Choppers gain value and so does every anti personnel machine gun in the game.
The infantry can be reloaded from the chopper helipad, yes make choppers with transport capacity increase in fun value and give their 7.62mm guns targets.
The limit on MANPADS is measured in some way, like one per infantry section. Grenade launchers don’t count.
Perhaps a choice has to be made when selecting the type of infantry support weapon. Anti air, Anti tank and mortar as anti infantry, hazardous to lite armor.
The number of bots in a squad could be fixed to 10 men regardless of the transport capacity for easy balance. Until gaijin could flesh out the historical troop choices.
Tank tracks become a weapon.
I’ve made old posts on Reddit about this before and hoped someone else would champion the idea. It will never be full RTS but why not hybridise some of those features for infantry.
It was still awesome battle field dressing compared to the sterile environments War Thunder normally has.
Vietnam chopper squads with M72LAW ,M60 and M702 grenade launcher would be cool
APC’s with deployable mortar crew would be awesome
Laser designator teams for special forces.
If they just start out with a generic 10 man squad for everyone then add historic loadouts later it would be awesome.
Then remove the spotting mechanic for making it cheaper to spawn CAS.
I don’t want to play as troops, I just want NPC sections for my chopper and IFV’s to deploy.
Troop options include:
*ATGM squad
*MANPAD squad
*Mortar Squad
*Grenadier squad
*Special forces, Sniper & laser designator squad
They could be generic or historical.