Lets talk about the state of Germany

Machinery of War Discussion
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Occupation is not the same as colonialism, and anyway I did my best to draw some connection that gaijin could come up with, I am not saying such things are good, what I am saying is I am drawing some kind of connection to not just the tech but also the user nation.
Frankly I am confused why Hungary is part of Italy, my argument is that just saying germany made it so they should get it is a bit of an over reach here considering you have a vehicle of this class already the PUMA, I would love the Italian M109 more than the Palamaria personally because I just like the 109 more, maybe they could add it as an event vehicle, but that is a discussion for another time on how they implement that.
Considering the only top unique vehicle Hungary does add to Italy since they were rather lazy to add their version of the T-72 with unique ERA placement, I am not a specialist on hungarian vehicles so do not quote me on that. On the KF41 thread someone mentioned giving the KF31 to the German tree which would be fine since while yes they did not buy it, it as far as I know was not exported and it would still keep the very tiny uniqueness the Hungarian tree has in the current form which sadly is most likely nearly the final form. There should be some reason to grind through a tree and if that can be negated by making it an end of the line vehicle for now after the PUMA because it is broke and is lacking spikes, which I feel like are only really being tested rn so thus not given to other nations for now.

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I understand that but the issue remains that Hungary barely adds anything unique and part of what it does add at lower tiers, is either quite weak and a joke (the car, tho still will be a fun thing to mess around in).
Gaijin decided to not add the Hungarian modification of the T-72 instead of using their favourite brand of pasta the T-72M1, which has been splattered onto now 3 trees, hopefully in the future they make them more unique with modifications the nations made to them. I play high tier so to me the WW2 vehicles while neat are not much of a though when going through a tree, I understand that the german mains want a working top tier IFV since the PUMA is in a sorry state.
Maybe they will add the Aussie KF41 to germany, personally I would love an event about failed bids called “Rejected, Return to Sender” or something clever like that, in this way Gaijin has an incentive in the way that this can make people use the market more and it adds what people want to trees for nations that created the vehicle, I would also love seeing the smaller Lynx being added to germany the KF31, thus not cutting down of the minuscule uniqueness the Hungarian line offers, granted sure it will take more time in that form, but a dev already stated that germany will not get it (do correct me on this if I am wrong, I missed the ru stream tho from what others have told me), it was even said that the PUMA will get spikes in the future, but rn the spikes are broke and so is the PUMA so why should they combine two broken things. I feel like instead of demanding the KF41 people should try and make gaijin fix the PUMA faster and think of a way that Gaijin could be enticed to add the Lynx to germany.

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That just further illustrates my point actually.

War Thunder has grown massively, massively fast. There has been so much focus about adding more and more stuff, that the old system - which was functional for what the game used to be - is beginning to crack at the seams.

Italy should never have been an independent tree. Gaijin is implicitly admitting it by pairing it with a subtree with questionable links, since the Axis period is much shorter than the time when they were on two sides of the Iron Curtain.

In fact, we should have moved past nation-based trees a while ago in my opinion.

I know it’s good for marketing to have more countries in the game, but there are ways to do this without setting yourself the impossible task of giving ten (and maybe more in future) different trees a viable lineup at as many BRs as possible.

This is the root of more issues of WT than people realise, from compression to balance to the matchmaker.

What led us here was a chain of suboptimal, ad-hoc business decisions. Placing the KF41 in the Italian tree exclusively is another one of these business decisions, therefore arguing about the pretexts is useless: you’re focusing on the finger and not the moon.

Well, it’s the criterion used for many other vehicles in game. Although again, Gaijin sets up and undoes its own rules as it sees fit. But you can’t be shocked when that arbitrariness upsets people.

You’re basically saying that it’s fine for them to get a lazy unique selling proposition for Hungary with the KF41, because they were too lazy to give the subtree a non-copy paste version of the T-72? I don’t think that’s a reasonable expectation to have, mate. These are both questionable things they’ve done.

The Toldi and Nimrod would make it more unique. And having an exclusive on the 2S1 as well as the KF41, if that really was the idea.

No matter how you slice it, their implementation is not internally consistent.

I swear I will never understand this argument. Why? Why do we pretend that progressing through a tree is a chore, when it’s literally just playing the game?

Fiat 6614. R3. Freccia. Zrinyi in the tech tree. Turan. These vehicles exist. Are they not worth unlocking? Do you really think the Italian tree is boring? And this boredom is somehow remedied by just one vehicle?

What Italy lacks is quantity, I don’t see anything wrong with quality or interesting designs…

I’m pretty much the opposite to your preferred playstyle, I only play WW2 stuff, so for me this isn’t a “personal” thing. I won’t be playing the KF41 no matter what tree it shows up in. I’ve only been following this discussion in the context of being interested in the upcoming update. I love the game and it’s interesting for me to follow stuff that happens even in parts of the game that I don’t play myself.

Like I said, I think the core of the issue here is the way Gaijin goes about doing stuff like this. For example, if you really need to arm-twist players into playing Italy by dangling the KF41 prize… that means there’s a game design issue. Arm-twisting is not a reasonable fix for poor game design.

Yeah.

War Thunder is pokemon for machinery of war. Even more so than balance or gameplay (god knows we need new game modes), the emphasis is very much on “catching 'em all”. For that reason alone I am a lot more open to paper vehicles and blueprints than players of this game usually are, but I wish it was done under consistent standards.

That is precisely why it’s not surprising at all that exclusivity clauses get people up in arms.

The reason the Puma doesn’t get fixed, by the way, circles all the way around to what I said at the beginning. When the priority is always adding more stuff, fixing old stuff becomes deprioritised.

I think people were fine with it showing up in the Italo-Hungarian tree first. It’s only when it was ruled out even long term that frustrations boiled over.

I think they’ve been trying. There are vehicles whose errors were correctly bug-reported in 2019 and that are still waiting to be changed.

Maybe once Gaijin runs out of vehicles to add, they’ll go back and look at all this for real.

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Unfortunately, no version of the PUMA that comes with StrikeShield APS. And since your enemies are constantly slinging missiles at you from 6km away, I would much prefer having Hardkill APS above anything else.

Also uniqueness is a joke now, why should Hungary have exclusivity? What about uniqueness of Germany/US/USSR? At least Hungary has uniqueness with the lower tiers unlike the major nations who have had so many vehicles given away for free to other nations.

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I keep insisting, for 2 years I have the same feeling.

Gaijin is purposefully discouraging the mass of German players from leaving Germany to consume in other Nations. Taking things from Germany and giving better things to other nations first. He first did it with Sweden and now with Italy.

I’ll ask gaijin for the hundredth time, I hope I’m lucky:
Gaijin, what are your plans for the German tech tree in the future? (next two years) I’m sure you have a roadmap (subject to change of course). Tell us.

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I think they will just do German tree on top tier unplayable. It’s coming to this

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I think it’s time for us (Germany mains) to start organizing a way to reach the devs since our voices are always unheard or fall on deaf ears. The devs have no excuse for gimping or giving Germany doa vehicles.

USSR and USA get everything on time from ships to air and ground except for Germany, which is always two updates behind. From Mig21bis to F4f, Germany mains don’t deserve to play other nations to play German Vehicles :eyes: (Sweden).

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agree

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not even the SKIN we got to the pso

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The tornado should get the amraam and the asmraam this update and go to 12.0 to test the aams but gaijin hates britain

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The problem is not that germany got it is that france should have got it too

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And if germany got the 2a7 italy would get the 2a7 making theirs mbt problem better even if the tank would be a 2a6 with better termals

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France should have gotten the df105 aswell without a question. Hope when they add the marder with the clovis turret they will add them for both nations and the df105 for france aswell. Both nations should have both vehicles

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I might not German main but I also want to help at this too it just unfair RU just getting too much

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Italy or hungary doesn’t have a standard 2a7. Hungary has the 2a7V which is to modern for war thunder right now. This tank would be better than the sep3. Italy ordered some german leopard but they would be 2a7Vs or 2a8s which would be much better aswell

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The only thing Italy needs now is an MBT at the top level (just in terms of competitiveness) and that’s just what they’re not getting. Germany needs a new MBT. PSO is a 70 ton meme. The next reasonable step was a 2A7 for both nations.

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2A7V is too modern but the T-90M and T-90M obr. 2020 are fine? And what’s the problem with 2A7V being better then sep3?

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That they should be added at the same time and ton of tanks are missing in between these leos for germany like the leo2EX, the TVMs, the leo2A7, the leo2a7+, the Leo2revelution and so on.

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2a7V isnt that modern (and i woldnt care if it come the 2a7 and 2a7v to the germans and 2 2a7v to the italians they need decent mbts) its a leo 2a7 with armor what i think should be in the game the 2a7 should had come 1 year ago and the tank is from 2016 the bvm is 2015

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The tanks are missing because gaijin said fuck you to germany for 2 years

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Why do we need all those tanks? I can assure you nobody would be mad if they just added 2A7V after the 2A6 and make the rest event/premium.