I mean, they could have held the event without the possibility to keep any of the vehicles, so them letting us keep some of them already is pretty generous.
I get that you are disappointed, I would feel the same if I cared as much about WWI as you. To be honest I am surprised that they even let us keep the H.P. 12, but since that one is a bomber Gaijin probably figured that it would be a more viable vehicle in actual gameplay than biplanes that get outperformed by reserve planes.
The fact that they cranked up the tank performance just for this event feels like a rather big indicator that they do not think WWI content would be well received by most players.
And well, this being an April Fools prank really makes it feel like they actually don’t have any intention to introduce proper WWI content to WT.
Yep I mean we got the,
Spad S.XII (modeled in game)
The Came (Reserved for AoT)
H.P.12 (modeled in game)
Fokker D.VII (modeled in game)
Fokker DR.1 (Reserved for AoT)
Zeppelin (modeled in game)
That’s enough for making a CBT style tree and a mode for it
@Smin1080p_WT So what happens if Aces of Thunder flops and crashes ? That’s WW1 content gone wasted on a product that no one will play because guess why, We already have aces of thunder it’s called Sim battles !
Where’d they do that? At least for speed and armor it seems accurate, while armament has always just been Gaijin’s calculations rather than actual sources.
There, from the news post
Ah, so the event uses arcade mobility. Guess I’ll have to test the reward vehicles in RB too.
Still, I don’t think being slower is much of an issue if at the ranks where WWI could be added everything else would be slow too. Same way how 40kph medium tanks are decent at lower tiers, while at top tier anything below 70kph is considered slow.
I even wonder why they did this for the event, where it’s really easy to decrease player count per game and make the map a bit smaller to work with realistic speeds. They probably just don’t trust player attention spans…
Aces of Thunder will be pretty different from sim no? You can actually manipulate the switches and stuff with your hands on VR iirc, so it would be like historical VTOL VR
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Yeah, I think Aces of Thunder absolutely has a right to exist, but it shouldn’t really block War Thunder from WWI if they could add it to both.
I’d even argue there’s already WWI flight sims to compete with Aces of Thunder, while War Thunder still has no proper competition and adding WWI could make it even more difficult for future competition to get a chance.
Yeah Flying circus has over 15 fully modeled WW1 aircraft over 4 modules, where war thunder will have one odd ball of a bomber just doesn’t make sense.
Not only that but you also splitting the player base even more over three games now.
As I say I don’t want to move games to play WW1 when WW1 is now here
Well, you may think that the vehicles being as slow as they were back then would be an issue, but most people I know in WT evade low tier gameplay exactly for that reason. They don’t like the slow movement.
The A7V had a top speed of 15 km/h on roads and almost 7 km/h on dirt, for the Mark V I cannot even find a road specific top speed, only a general top speed of 7 km/h.
For reference, the Churchill 1 has a top speed of 21 to 28 km/h and that already is way too slow for most people. The Maus has a miserable top speed of 18 to 20 km/h, but people put up with that because the Maus is the Maus. The TOG II has the lowest top speed in WT afaik, at 14 km/h, but that still is faster than the WWI tanks on dirt.
Worse than a T95 lol
I don’t think Aces of Thunder blocks War Thunder from getting WWI content.
Gaijin and majority of WTs playerbase blocks WT from getting WWI content.
Similarly Enlisted doesn’t block WT from getting infantry, other factors (such as age restrictions and gameplay concerns) do.
This begs the question, if they are really adding infantry, could it be possible that the gamemode somehow has a different age rating? Is it even possible to do that?
“Please be aware that the SPAD S.XIII (France) cannot be obtained as an event reward. You’ll be able to fly this fighter in Aces of Thunder soon™!”
That’s called blocking my dude to sell another product
Players being unable to engage in human to human gunfights will probably satisfy the ESRB and other such agencies enough
There were at least like 4 scenes in the trailer of shooting at ppl through a rifle scope
Mate, they aren’t adding Battlefield-like gameplay. They are adding AI soldiers as targets. AI soldiers that just get knocked out when hit by 155mm HE
These age rating agencies have some weird rules and standards and factors like the game being third person, there being no blood and/or gore, players not controlling individual characters, etc all seem to be things that help achieving a lower age rating
@joshje100 This what annoys me more
Both at the same BR’s and both can easily find a slot within the tech tree.
So it’s not a matter of if anymore
