Yeah just funny to see people crying for uniqueness, crying for new modes ect and when one arrives they say it’s a waste of time and no one wants them because it hasn’t got the same stats as an MBT.
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Precisely. WWI aviation should not be restricted, in full or in part, to a different game, especially when the other game is a VR game. I have a headset, but I hardly use it because I prefer standard PC gameplay. I would much prefer to fly it in third person with mouse aim, as I do with all my other planes. It would be especially fun to goof around with them in custom battles. And flying them in the event made me think, “wow, this is a new arena for air combat compared to what I’m used to, with everything being so slow and close in…I want more of it!” And the models look so good that it’s an utter waste that they won’t be staying.
Perhaps it’s me coping too hard, but reading through the replies, Smin’s words technically do not contain a hard denial. Every time someone asked him, “is there a chance of more WWI content coming to the game in the future?”, Smin would reply with two factual statements from the event page:
- There are seven WWI vehicles obtainable in the event, and
- WWI Fighters can be played in Aces of Thunder
Both of these are true, but they do not answer the question asked. Further, the second statement, that WWI fighters can be played in Aces of Thunder, does not exclude the possibility that they could appear in War Thunder in the future. Smin’s words do not contain a clear statement that they will not appear in War Thunder at some point. Also, I believe his continued evasions of the question, such that he avoids at all costs saying the words “More WWI aviation will not come to War Thunder”, is enough to be somewhat suspicious.
Again, it may just be excessive cope, but I really hope that it’s the case. At the very least, I wish we could get a clear answer on the issue. It may not be possible to get such an answer, however, if my hypothesis is correct, and he is being evasive because he wants to avoid revealing too much.
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Has it happened yes. Is it often. No.
If there is another event it isn’t going to be an AF event.
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Gaijin needs to change the hit boxes for AI infantry. APHE rounds from WW1 tanks does nothing to them.
Having thought about this for a bit, I will admit that it is unusual for the reward vehicles to be placed in the tech trees, rather than in the premium/event/squadron column.
However, this leads me to believe that there may either be recurring WWI events or a special WWI mode in the future.
The reason why the tanks and the H.P.12 are being given out as vehicles useable in other modes very likely is that, as many of us have mentioned before, the fighter planes (and the zeppelin…) really are that much worse than almost all 1.0 planes, to the point that Gaijin figures that these planes only make sense in a purely WWI limited environment.
That wouldn’t mean that these planes would remain unplayable, just that they would only be playable in an environment where they actually make sense. This would also explain why the zeppelin, while feeling very half-baked, has a bouyancy mechanic tied to it.
So, I suppose I gotta admit that I may have been wrong about how viable and likely WWI content would be in WT. I will maintain however that the zeppelin and the WWI fighter aircraft do not have a place in WT outside of an environment that is restricted to WWI only.
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Oh, APHE does knock infantry out, it’s just hard to hit them and you don’t get any feedback for knocking the troopers out, only for knocking the gunners out.
still waiting for my flying ponys with laser guns, modern day nuclear submarines and 2077 tanks if that was the case.
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Where are my Mad Max SPAAs and exoskeleton marines, huh?
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There’s a player that’s actually been able to keep the SPAD from the event and take it out into battles.
Here’s the server replay for it
https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/324825357237547819
I still don’t know if that’s supposed to be a joke or if gaijin really plans to Merge enlisted and warthunder
And tech trees will be fun best case scenario I am fighting t90m and 2s38 with k98k and magnetic Mines
And worst case scenario I am stuck with pistols for the first 50 matches
we should be allowed to keep all the aircraft. They will not be meta at all but if we have to endure the garford we should get reparations in the SPAD, fokker, HP and Zeppelin
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They don’t. Enlisted is rated 18+ and War Thunder is rated 12+
12+ is already a stretch with gamling and other stuff in it
So maybe gaijin wants to ditch that
They definitely wouldn’t want to ditch that.
Seeing as WT has a lot of gambling and basically its own captive crypto market it should be an 18+ game.
I do also think merging the two games together will help the staleness of WT while getting Enlisted off of the borderline of being a dying game
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That 's related to submarines imo. The control scheme is similar to the one used in Battle of the Atlantic.
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That’s a content creator, Walv!s (ingame name Walv1s, you can find them through the squadron search).
Content creators can request test drives for vehicles.
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Ok, suppose the age ratings thing was out of the question, how the heck would they merge WT and Enlisted and what about the April Fools event makes you think that they would attempt to merge the two games?
Yea that’s my take also
Enlisted is on life support and merging the two games would be the best Outcome for enlisted instead of just Being thrown in the trash including all development time and players invested time and money
What it means for warthunder is everyones guess
But probably we will get another helicopter/plane/cas situation