I’d rather see this as a teaser for more modern Enlisted content than for infantry in WT.
The devs have always said that WT would remain a pure vehicle game to maintain its low age restriction.
Doubt i’ll change anything regarding my spending on the game either if that’s the case, no game needs 50 years of content to grind, complete joke.
do people forget how wt ai is either a unkillable god or doesnt even understand how to move? AI infantry would suck
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but that would make it hard to build a tech tree around it which would be bad for the snail
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CRSED i think, it was originally cuisine royale back when it first released or something
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Oh yea, thats the one.
Wonder if it would be possible to kinda splice those games together sense iirc cuisine was able to have alot more damage options and weapons while enlisted focused on more of an a.i. portions and be a “realistic” fps.
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There are plenty of ways to ensure that A.I infantry won’t be overpowered. The Infantry we had in the WWI event worked just fine and took like 1 or 2 shots to kill. The only “unkillable god” AI I’ve encountered were tanks in assault arcade and that’s because the devs choose to use tanks with the best frontal armor values and aimbot accuracy (which makes the game mode near unplayable btw). The AI convoys in heli PvE are buggy because the maps are absolutely massive, and the pathfinding nodes don’t match the terrain in some places. AI planes crash cus they’re just kinda dumb.
They don’t need to build a tech tree around it. They could just make the weapons/cosmetics match the BR and give the appropriate vehicles the option to spawn with them. They’d be more like modifications and weapon loadouts for vehicles rather than an entirely new tech tree.
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Another thing to add, theoretically with the addition of A.I infantry, we get a HUGE selection of vehicles that would be useful in the game. Gaijin could take a break from adding top tier vehicles before we run out and start adding these instead.
Seen below is just small example of what could be added to the US tech tree alone for ground vehicles.
Lighter vehicles would be used for scouting and transporting troops and/or supplies using their extreme speed and agility, reaching parts of the map well before other vehicles. Some may even have a limited anti-tank capability. These vehicles could battle each other using machine guns, grenade launchers or even the dismounted infantry, giving players a niche but fun alternative to the current gameplay loop.
There are tons of helicopters from all countries that could be added, many of which wouldn’t even need to be full modeled, since a few of the airframes already exist in the game. For example, the MH-60L DAP being used as a base for the UH-60 or AH-6M being used for the MH-6. The unarmed versions could exist in a folder before the armed counterpart, meaning that players must grind by completing infantry support objectives before being able to use attack variants. Though unarmed, dedicated transport helis like the MH-53 “Pave Low” or SA 321 “Super Frelon” would benefit from their huge carrying capacity, being able to complete multiple infantry support objectives during a single sortie, like capturing objectives, resupplying friendly infantry, resupplying vehicles, CASEVAC, or any other theoretical objectives. This playstyle would be high risk, high reward, and tons of fun.
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with the size of the maps these would be useless
it said in the “devblog” about a TT with weapon gear and so on that is more for FPS then AI
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The size of EC maps would make those extremely useful. Especially in helicopter PvE.
As far as for the for the tech tree thing, I really hope they don’t make an FPS type thing. At that point I’d have to agree with the people saying to just play enlisted. Playable infantry 100% does not belong in war thunder.
The KA-8 😭🙏🏽
We don’t talk about the KA-8 😤
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Don’t give them ideas dawg.
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the zeppelin from the ww1 event used the mechanics of the submarines just in the air.
It was a partial submarine test, there’s still things slowly going along
multicrew in war thunder would be fun, and horrible since you basically need friends to have a competent crew
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War thunder player’s hardest challenge, getting friends
could be a squad only gamemode
Making it a separate game mode what make all the complaints invalid. It’s the best move tbh.