bad words get autoflagged. and i think that includes abbreviations of the f word. i had posts being autoflagged for using the word “Ship” to replace a word with one different letter.
i had the expression “shippy weather” autoflagged which i was in no way aware of being a bad expression since its basically used like an everyday conversations no? So, nooo dont go crazy mods, its Bad weather, of course. Maybe even very bad if weather is allowed to be very bad.
Quack is not a bad word.
Oh that was what was flagged? I thought it was “duck” to replace something familiar. In that case :-D
I was initially a detractor of the aiming changes. And I will freely say that Gaijin has made mistakes with Naval and point out that they continue to sit on bugs like breach repair and the aiming glitch.
…but Naval seems to be more active now than it has been, maybe the changes were a good thing for the game overall. Permanent Naval EC sure is.
So yeah, Naval isn’t dead even if Gaijin makes me want to slam my head into a wall sometimes lol.
On the individual vehicle stats on Statshark, yes, I thought EC is probably in there. Because those are just the sums of everyone’s service record so whatever Gaijin puts into service record will carry through. But thanks for checking, I couldn’t be bothered.
The stats on “player-games” and “unique players” which came back to Statshark this month are from a different source altogether. That’s why they went away for a year (cough Pluspy cough). One of two things is true:
The naval mode suddenly lost nearly a quarter of its audience, all in just the last couple months, compared to a year ago, while the rest of the game GREW by nearly a quarter in that same year; or
The “player-games” and “unique players” stats on Statshark this month aren’t counting ECs and the other submodes (as StatShark’s owner has said in the past they don’t)… in which case they’re not as much use as they were before for evaluating the naval game’s relative popularity (or Air RB for that matter), or the popularity of a BR, or that popularity of the mode compared to a year ago, without knowing how much difference it would make if EC were counted in.
Personally I think #2 is more likely and EC is making up that missing quarter of games that are not in that table this month. Even if that were true though, naval continues to dwell somewhere around 2% of the entire War Thunder PvP experience.
I have to agree with you. EC games seem to always be populated at any time of day I log in. The mode is definitely a better fit for naval gameplay than the domination/ocean circle of Random Battles. I would bet that it’s not being counted, online discussion of Naval seems to be more popular now than ever too, it would be weird if the online engagement was growing and the playerbase was shrinking
Nonsense. Game stagnated over a year. Its average online lower than in 2024.
Except Naval EC games are in those numbers.
but you can get most BP tasks done in a single map, I don’t have to just reroll Rock any more
they forgot to put the nuclear thunder bombers up to 9.3 to stop people using them in naval
They forgot to return early jet bombers for every nation to the naval battles. But added premium jetbomber to the Germans on 6.7.
AA is too weak, despite the amount of time I spent unlocking them (Tu14 lol) it seems better without them in the current state of the game.
Realistically you only get to spawn an interceptor after you loose a ship to a bomber, and there basically no gains for running a CAP so nobody is going to do it (no way to count the number of planes that didn’t spawn because you were up there too), and you gift a kill when you jump out in most cases (no concept of a successful interception, since it’s not phased like in GAB)
Some nations still need a jet with crappy AAMs tho, and the Italian g91 pre even has the pylons - but maybe we’ll see some planes return if the variable BR system is applied to them in the future
There is f-84f on 8.3 mate. Its more capable than IL-28 or TU-14. And PE-8 or B-29 could do job better. So there is no point gatekeeping them, considering they serviced with those ships in same years.
Yes, that’s my next unlock for air so I’m thinking they’ll increase it when the H39 gets added :) right now it’s in a niche like the A2D
oh gawd not the ar234, the slowest jet bomber in the game!
So true yet no one cares, also why are topics about killing off naval popular with players who don’t play naval ?
Because they find it ‘slow and boring’ for their tiktok rotted brains.
They need the dopamine and need it now.
Tomorrow nothing gonna change. But Weraboo will be furious.
Do vegetables (Everything Gen Alpha) need dopamine ?
I’d argue a boot to the head, personally.