Infantry and Expanded Tech Trees in War Thunder!

I don’t believe infantry would be playable, it’d change too much. I think in the trailer they show it from the soldier’s POV because the models are so detailed you can kind of just do that and make it feel as if it was a FPS, at least that’s my take.

I don’t think it’s a good idea. GRB has it’s own issues, and infantry won’t solve them.

Also, enlisted literally exists and is more setup for infantry.

I see cause to riot if we get infantry before completed models and corrected terrain hitboxes - to name a couple of things.

We’re going to get even more tech trees whilst still having the same RP economy as we did 10 years ago with less than half the nations, half the tree size, no naval and no helicopters?

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If it would be true, we would have DCS type of optimalization (non existant), but the POV could have just been shown for hype

  1. it doesnt need to go to GRB, it can come as a new gamemode, but hoping for a new gamemode in this game is like hoping for something almost impossible.

  2. enlisted exists yes, but enlisted isnt fitted for modern combat, doesnt have modern stuff modelled, if you would want to have all the planes, tanks, and infantry modelled, to the war thunder accuracy, or even close, it would take years, all the radars, a2g weapons. whereas if you would want to create modern playable infantry in war thunder, you would just need to develop better maps (thus GRB cannot be used as its not fitted for infantry at all) and well, infantry, something that we “had” in the 2024(?) of april

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I honestly believe they’re on the prototype phase of testing infantry (as AI NPC units), WW1 was a fairly easy way to test basic functionally. Infantry could be integrated into GRB or be part of a new game mode.

That’s just speculation on my part though, I’d much rather see fixes to the main game before infantry or other mechanics are introduced.

But I’m all in for a new game mode revolving around infantry.

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Honestly I think they plan on making infantry playable. The trailer had a very large emphasis on FPS perspectives and a considerable amount of infantry vs infantry combat. I’m not sure they would make such efforts to show such things, only for all that action to just be AI vs AI. We’ve also seen in the WWI event just how underwhelming AI infantry actually is, with a minimal impact on gameplay, akin to the static AI emplacements in Air RB like Howitzers or AAA. I genuinely doubt they would make such an advanced teaser just for a mechanic similar to that.

All that and just the way they announced it makes me believe its going to be playable, as they compare it to Ground, Naval and Air vehicles and gameplay.

“It’s time to see war from a completely new perspective. You’re already familiar with the devastating power of machines — on land, in the sky, and at sea.”

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This is really awesome news . . .should be great, look forward to it

For Russians they just play tri poloski in their ear

No, it’s an alarm clock with A-10 gun run noise

Ah, yes. Add more content instead of actually fixing the base game including the oodles of spaghetti code that still causes issues to this day because fixing the game properly is too much hassle.

Why am I not surprised.

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nah thats not american enough to beat out America F yea

Indeed also they mention tech tree ai infantry would not need a tech tree.

Maybe the Point of the Event was to Test how infantry would React to a Warthunder battlefield

Also interesting how the Event vehicle’s are in the actual tech Tree and not on the side
(Like the Maus and Tiger 105)

Maybe gaijin Plans to also go into WW1 basically competing with battlefield 1,5 all the way to bf2042

they in the tt because they arnt premiums IIRC only certain types of event vehicles are on the side like things from tournaments and stuff

The Abrams not being invincible doesn’t count as spaghetti code buddy

No but it unloading the SABOT when being ammo racked is.

Just conceptualized infantry TT around inf squads. Interestingly aircraft secondaries would likely work well for squad loadouts.

Link to wt-reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/1juhdu4/infantry_ground_tt_concept/

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It’s gonna be April 9th in a few hours. When is Gaijin gonna do the April Fools event?

It’s already came and gone.

those arent event vehicles either