If you want to keep them, then Yes :)
Okay, thats the Ente side, but were is the plane reward for the German Empire?
Just asking for an friend
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The “Customer” has been asking for historical matchmaking for years
Do you know what would happen the same hour historical matchmaking was added? Half the playerbase would quit and start protesting how unbalanced it is
The Zeppelin is very unlikely to come in this event, as it has been essentially hard-denied aswell. There is no point in asking again and again
Could we see a re-run with this test for remembrance day, with other WW1 vehicles as rewards ?
That could be a way to add more WW1 tech
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Everything is possible, it all depends on how busy the dev team is at the time as well as how much interest there is from the community.
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Well, the Zeppelin isn’t coming sadly, now that it has been game, I think we can suggest vehicles of it class, which would be nice.
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Germany has 3 tanks as their reward vehicles for the event.
Britain 1 tank and 1 plane
France and Russia 1 ground vehicle respectively.
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I wish to see Austrian & Ottoman Empire vs the Italians next time round
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That would be quite nice but it seems unlikely
Remember that there are significant costs for these events without the expectation of any return since you can’t buy any of the vehicles themselves with GE
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Well, you can buy Stars if you missed one for 599GE each as currently
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On the bright side, this makes it easier to introduce a permanent techtree Zeppelin once WWI is inevitably added some time down the line of the games life. Just a simple port from the event, rather than having to make new textures and turn the old (current) rewards into specific named tanks.
I’m hopeful that this event will show Gaijin just how much money people would be willing to spend if we had permanent WWI. I know a lot of people that just bought all the points so far and plan to buy all others, and some that picked up the game again because of how excited they are about WWI content.
Even if it’s not confirmed yet, this at least proves there’s nothing preventing it in the future, and I’m sure Gaijin won’t let the game die when there’s still money to be made.
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The discrepancy between the name of the nodes and the actual textures is kind of funny:
Some extra textures made it over w/ the reload ammo, bayonets, and grenades:
Nothing really indicating that when some of the most viable ground vehicles are being locked to event-unlock-into-techtree like the IS-2 No.321.
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Cough rank IX event cough !
Nothing guarantees it, but when a whole era of aviation and tank design is missing to profit off I’m sure the game won’t die before it’s sucked dry.
So I think the question isn’t if, but when.
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They refuse to consistently add WW2, Cold War and Korean War content, what makes you think that they would invest into the least popular era when it comes to vehicular combat games?
Yeah everything come from somewhere with gaijin and that mainly through the April fools event, remember how they tested modern tanks and helicopters with the rank IX event. The same could be said for this WW1 event too.
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But they still add it. They seem to try and stretch out the content of the game to keep it alive as long as they can, so it’s added at a slow (I’d probably still agree if you argue it’s too slow) rate, but they do add it.
WWI isn’t unpopular in general, just awkward when it comes to vehicular combat games like War Thunder. But if you don’t have to conform to historical match ups and instead have War Thunders BR system it becomes functional, and the event proves there’s tons of players that have fun with these vehicles, even with their RB performance outside of the event mode, so there is clearly money to be made.
Then there’s aircraft, where WWI is some of the most popular air combat in general and War Thunder could be the most widely accessible WWI air combat game with the simple controls, no need for special controls like sticks, VR or headtracking and on top of that the overall scale of the game and the options to progress from the very first military aircraft to the most recent.
I’d say “No WWI” is like “Nothing past the Korean war”, “No premium jets” or even “No submarines” where they confirmed in a QnA that they are planned some point.
They could even be doing this for infantry on the off chance their April fools announcement was more than just a quick joke, though this is the one part where I’m not quite sure how exactly they’d implement it into a vehicular combat base game.
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Would there be any opportunity to received the Zodiac Decals for GE ?
like 500GE each or something
There already are plenty of WWI plane games that are extremely simple, both in arcade and realistic flavours. Most of them aren’t online though, because, believe me or not, there isn’t much demand for it.
If they truly are testing the waters for WWI here, which I doubt for a couple of reasons, the result that they are most likely to get is that most players do not enjoy that kind of gameplay, even with tanks with buffed mobility.
I thought it had been established by now that they aren’t testing the viability of player controlled infantry. What they are testing is AI infantry and perhaps some kind of dynamic battlefield system tied to the infantry.
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