Infantry in War Thunder: what are your expectations?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/1naab8h/comment/nct02vq/

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thank you gazebo

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I’m not as perplexed by the Enlisted competition as others are btw. To my knowledge Enlisted is published by Gaijin but not developed by them. It is possible they’ve simply decided to go all in-house.

The questions I have are, rather, the following.

  1. It seems like infantry will be a separate game mode. In a way, that is a gutsy move for an MMO that already has so many game modes. Are they very confident in a playerbase increase that’ll keep lobbies populated?

  2. Was this something they had in mind a long time ago, or did it only come about (relatively) recently?

  3. Airplanes also have their own game modes (four in fact) but they can be used in all other game modes. Will infantry have a similar set up, where it has its own mode but can also be used in ground, or will it be fully segregated to its own mode?

  4. If playable infantry is segregated to its own mode, will ground arcade/realistic/sim/assault receive ambient AI infantry like we saw in the Great War event?

  5. Will infantry join the event cycle, and if so, how?

  6. I think it’s a given that new maps will be needed for infantry, both because of size and because you would need to model interiors too. What degree of cross pollination can we expect between the map pools?

Lots to think about.

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I’m not dreaming. The datamines and leaks confirmed its coming.

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Were the leaks and datamines before April or later?

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As long as they have names I am all for it.

Would be good to see my main man Tetsuo popping off.

Playing as a troop transport would be cool. :)

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As aircraft are at this time the only vehicle that can be player controlled over all three modes, will there be a chance to do the same for infantry ? I know it is stretching the definition of infantry but could we have airborne troops, parachutists, helicopter drops, along with Naval forces such as combat divers, maybe the Italian frogman, explosive speedboats, mini subs.

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Later on, and again recently a week ago or so

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The most logical way i see War Thunder adding Infantry, is as AI infantry deployed by APC’s and IFV’s. For balance reasons thanks to the placement of some vehicles it would be rank locked like scout drones are

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I don’t want infantry. Nobody does. Literally nobody asked for infantry

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You really want modern enlisted in war thunder lmao. They can make a new game with modern infantry if they want but I do not want it in war thunder. War thunder is a vehicle combat game and it should stay that way

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Quite a few people do though. At the very least in the form of a.i. that APC’s and heli’s can use. Besides, we have naval that’s still getting updates even though it has the worst balancing and player count.

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A huge majority of WT players don’t want playable infantry. The want them added as an asset for vehicles. If you check any comment section on YouTube videos talking about it or go through infantry threads in the forums, you’ll notice most people asking for infantry to be A.I and deployable from IFVs and Helis. Even with the addition it’s been said that it’ll be a separate game mode so it wouldn’t even affect the base gameplay.

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i doubt there will be infantry, the engine used for this game is old and wonky

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Thing is, it’s not a thread about wanting infantry to come or not, since leaks/datamines confirmed it’s coming anyway. Else this thread would never have seen the light of day.

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If you want to know what it’ll be like, it’s probably gonna be similar to enlisted which is also made by gaijin

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You really want AI infantry ruining ground battles? They’ll either be too weak or strong. Either way, the AI infantry would be really annoying.

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If the AI infantry is in a separate game mode j would be fine with it. I just don’t want them in GRB

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Still, if gaijin really decides to do it I think they’re quite foolish for thinking like this. And the infantry gamemode would die like naval

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Technically, it isnt “made by Gaijin”, but published by them (until the actual studio was brought into the fold of the Snail, but that besides the point of the foundations)

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