Yeah, sadly most people want the easy way
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On the one side, you can’t really blame them, as winning is more fun than losing.
On the other side, it is kind of sad that most players will not even consider playing something that isn’t meta. A lot of people aren’t willing to try stuff to see if they enjoy it, despite it not being the perceived as the optimal way to go.
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Just talking about planes nearly everyone has options for aircraft but some nations would be pretty much all C&P from other nations but it being WW1 and low tier it wouldn’t really matter. But some nations would have to be skipped though since they either did not have any aircraft during 1914-1918 or simply did not exist.
US - Nearly exclusively used British and French aircraft. Only 1 US fighter saw service in WW1, the De Havilland DH-4.
Germany - Had their own aircraft.
Russia - Used license built British and French aircraft. Did make their own planes though, the Sikorsky S-16/20 fighters and the Ilya Muromets heavy bomber.
Great Britain - Had their own aircraft.
Japan - Had only 1 bomber at the end of 1918. (I think could be skipped like I said above)
China - No aircraft between 1914-1918.
Italy - Had their own aircraft but also used a lot of French aircraft.
France - Had their own aircraft.
Sweden - No aircraft
Israel - Didn’t exist during the time.
It would cover most of the major players of WW1 apart from 2 which would be tricky to place. The Ottoman Empire used exclusively German aircraft but would be tricky to place into the game since Turkey isn’t a nation in-game and there isn’t really a clear choice of where it should go. And Austro-Hungary would also be hard to place. It could go to Italy since Hungary is there but they were on opposite sides of the war, so the only other option would be Germany but since Austro-Hungary used German aircraft there wouldn’t really have a point there.
But overall I would absolutely love to see the WW1 aircraft. I don’t care if they are bad I find the birth of combat aviation to be interesting and cool. They are such an important part of military history and should be included in War Thunder.
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Tbh I pick stuff purely based on how it looks, anyway I’m too bad to take advantage even with meta stuff
Indeed, “C&P” would be more common during WW1 as interwar is where most nations start making stuff.
But even then half the nations either used the Mark and/or FT or built their own versions on them.
Like most nations might have something obscure but there’s no guarantee it’ll be good ex:
This thing, might work as an SPAA at best
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Is this made by Italy?
BeNeLux would shine at interwar/WWI era stuff.
Same goes for France, Italy, Japan, China, Mongolia, Britain, Germany and more other tiny countries.
WWI can be merged with interwar IMHO, since most stuff isnt really that big of a powercreep.
Although… (NOT BIASED AT ALL, this is just a fact) the Netherlands produced a few of the best interwar planes of its time, with the majority being exceptionally better than the rest, E.G. Fokker G.1 , D.XXI, etc… So not all interwar stuff should be combined with WWI. But a lot of nations you talked about do have in fact more than you think…
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With interwar stuff yeah but for WW1 Japan, China, Sweden didn’t have many if any planes that were armed.
As we said in DM we could make two new nations and call them the Entente and Central powers, that way everyone won’t be left out but also be a way to limit their game modes too
If we are limiting to just WW1 many nations would struggle but if also add interwar at the same time we wouldn’t have as much issue as most early interwar vehicles are about equal to WW1 vehicles or at worse later ones.
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these skins are visible in the cdk?
No.
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Adding new nations just for WW1 seems kinda weird imo
could as well fit them in the current nations
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True but as I say at least nations like Italy or the Ottomans could have a place for WW1 instead of just having one aircraft. But also it free us up for having proper tech trees too
Plus don’t forget AoT have separate nations for WW1
Ok but then why is it German Empire and not Triple Alliance?
And I don’t count others games as an argument
Because I’m not that good of a edit monkey if you want to edit it more then that’s up to you,
Well it was War thunder reason not to add the fighters.
Like literally this game has content from Wings of pray lol
I hope gaijin correct’s the cockpit’s of the F-4’s
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/HvpHtduO1zxh
it’s been accepted for quite a while, and will be a nice addition for sim players rather than using the current F-4C stuff (which makes it a bit more clunky and less visibility)
Cockpit issues rarely get fixed. I made a list of all the ones I found and it’s actually really bad.
Broken HUDs (+HMDs + Cockpit MFD Issues)
There’s 100+ issues with only a handful of them fixed.
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