Anyone else want a game mode where you don’t know if the tank is dead? My idea is essentially that the game does not tell you if you damaged something (using the x-ray thing in the top left, red words saying that is inoperable, saying critical hit, killfeed, ect.), or even if you hit something. Being shot at and penned would be the exact same, but your attacker would have to decide (through knowledge of where you were hit and what you tank looked like) if they thought you were operational. If they misjudged and you were operational, you could shoot back at them/drive away. In my idea, shooting down an aircraft would tell you if you killed them, but otherwise all rewards and things other than capping zones would only be shown after the battle was over. Obviously this would require a lot of graphics changes so that you could see if a tank was dead without being painfully obvious, but this could be done easily. Maybe only certain countries have access to this mode, or only certain tiers. I think that this would be really fun if implemented! It could have the ability to be super trolly, but at this point that is part of War Thunder. I hope you like my idea! Other than things mentioned, the game would function like normal ground RB or Sim battles.
The issue with basing an entire game mode off of real life would be its not as fun as it may sound. In war thunder you can get shot break down and still be able to fight. In real life though simply losing a track or having your barrel destroyed would count as a combat kill there is no repair your tank in the Mia of a battle irl.
And losing half your crew irl would cause the other half to abandon the tank until the tank can be recovered later. Trying to make war thunder more “realistic” may seem good on paper but for gameplay it would be a nightmare.
Now imagine what your suggesting gets put in place you shoot a guy and think he’s dead then you or your teammate drives passed only to get shot in the back by the guy you both thought was dead. It’s just gonna cause more problems that should be avoided
But don’t get me wrong I’m not saying it’s a bad idea but for a game like war thunder it may be a bit too realistic for this style of game.
As event maybe, as game mode not really. Even SBGF doesn’t have that.
Thats not real life gamemode, thats no hud mod. Real life would mean you cant repair your tank in field which mean that everyone would just shoot your barrel and call it a day…
If you don’t know if a tank is dead then put a round into it or just fire your MG.
Oldest trick in the book to cover a tank with black decals and hide among other dead tanks.
This sounds like a half-baked idea in protest against the very much stupid ability to echolocate people through smoke clouds with machine guns.