Today I get home from school and see war thunder just announced infantry but I was wondering if this is the April fools update because my brother also told me that the April fools update is ww1 tanks but with the trailer being released the day before April fools makes me wonder if it was meant to be the April fools and if the ww1 tanks was just a cover for them releasing the trailer early
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Yes it appears that we are getting infantry in war thunder. We are running out of vehicles that can be added so its a natural progression
the trailer was for the actual future of war thunder. our coaxial machine guns are about to become very damn valuable.
the april fools event appears to be WW1, so landships and fokker dr1.
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If it is the actual case -
- Enlisted exists
- There is a reason why we don’t play it.
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I also play enlisted. but I do also want to be able to drive my mates into battle in the back of my warrior and give them fire support
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I’m joining to your question
And also wondering if its just an april fools thing
Or infantry will actually stay?
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infantry appears to be a legit test to be added into the vanilla game. ww1 is the event for the first of april
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Wait
If we start off ww1…
Why we’ve seen footage of modern combined arms? Im kinda confused
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it was in typical gaijin nature a bit of a mess of an announcement. Infantry is the new playstyle being tested, most likely for mixed battles (Ground arcade and realistic mode)
WW1 is the event most likely to be an advertisement for gaijins new game “aces of thunder” which is a VR war thunder with WW1 fighters
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So you think they’ll actually keep up with the infantry thingy after the event?
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Although true WW1 Warthunder would be fun AF 8)
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yh cannot wait for the asset rework to make every building on Normandy/North Holland/Aral Sea etc. to have full interiors for infantry and servers capable of handling that + a lot more players joining as infantry so a lone squad doesn’t roll up on a Tank Batallion
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They might add an entire different mode for that
That limits both infantry and vehicles
It’s not that difficult to think through honestly
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I hope it’s fake. I’m OK with ambient infantry. I hate enlisted though and this attempt to try to merge the games is not what I would enjoy in WT. I’m here for the vehicle combat. There are plenty of other games that do mixed vehicle-infantry way better.
War thunder still regularly hits 200k concurrent players, so if infantry is real, Gaijin is taking a massive risk.
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Maybe finally the developers will make every bow gunner’s machine gun have a trigger to shoot.
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that is what they have said
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its april fools.
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That is what the WW1 mode appears to be. It makes sense for the ww1 mode to be there as gaijin has just made a LOAD of ww1 assets for “aces of thunder” so it will advertise the game and also test to see if ww1 aircraft can work well within war thunders more casual gameplay compared to aces.
as the devblog was postedthe day before april fools we cant assume the infantry is a joke, we wont know for maybe a week
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Yeah, we have had infantry for an event once before, and submarines twice. I don’t see any reason to think this is any different.
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Are you sure?
The infantry is just a joke, a temporary event for April 1.
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wasnt april fools here in the west. update drops in 3.5 hours, enjoy the ww1 vehicles and we will see where infantry goes
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