So does this mean, when being shot at by an SAM the aircraft can lock onto the missile and shoot it down before the missile hits them?
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I’m disappointed - but not the least bit surprised - that Gaijin is introducing so many potentially game-wrecking changes to Naval Arcade. I could see maybe changing one thing, but three rather significant changes like this? This cannot possibly result in a good outcome.
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It doesn’t matter what you write here, because there are no devs on this forum anyway.
That’s why I’m not surprised to see this statement:
You have to remember this part was first written in Russian and then translated to English by Stona. This was clearly written by a person, who never saw these topics:
- New ARCADE aiming
- Aiming system in Arcade Battles
- From dev-stream - aiming is now complete made for noobs
And many additional comments in other topics about the next major update changes.
If you actually look at the other place:
- «Атака шершня»: улучшения и новые возможности! - Новости и обновления - War Thunder — официальный форум
(I use Firefox which has a very nice feature: when you press menu button → translate website, it will translate everything real-time and the forum will still work fine. This feature works much better with the new forum than Google website translate)
It looks like all the players who talk there are Naval Realistic players, so they don’t care about this Naval Arcade change. No one there is criticizing this aiming change. I also checked topics from last month on the Russian forum and I don’t see any discussion related to Naval Arcade aiming change. I haven’t noticed a single topic about this!
This is why the devs don’t see any problem with this change. This is exactly why you see statements like the one quoted at the beginning of my post.
I always wanted at least one developer (by developer I mean someone who actually makes development decisions) to be on English forum, read topics, talk to players here. But given the way this company operates, that will never happen. Which is a shame, but I also understand they already have a lot of feedback on the Russian forum about many different things. This is also not a small game with 1000 of players, where it’s relatively easy to communicate with them. I understand this, but at the same time I think it’s a missed opportunity. Especially when I look at many changes to the Naval game mode that have happened over the last few years, and honestly I think they have made the game mode a lot worse. But in War Thunder there is no real way for us to give feedback about them to the developers.
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I want to know if the new hydroshock abilities will be added to bombs? On 21 July, 1921 General Billy Mitchell proved that bombs detonating in the water close aboard the target warship could split plates as this tactic was used to sink the Ostfriesland. Six 2,000-lb bombs were dropped, four of which detonated in rapid succession, three of them close enough to rip hull plates and none of them were direct hits. Bomb aiming points were for the water next to the ship.
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true words very well spoken!
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