It was an april fools joke.
As we have already mentioned in the article and the very post you quoted, WW1 aviation will be a key part of Aces of Thunder currently. Beyond that, we have 7 vehicles currently obtainable in the ongoing event in War Thunder currently.
The event is focused on the German Empire and Triple Entente (Great Britain, France, and Russia).
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I’m highly doubtful without anything for it comings from the datamine.
Really more than anything this event has shown great war era does not fit in the game.
Every reserve biplane would dominate them so they need their own separate pool to play in, even on the weekend you’ll sometimes get minutes long queues for low tier air and I see little chance that’d stay populated more than a week after the initial interest wears off and people move on
Those planes cost just as much to model as any other one for something any rank I premium could grind every single one out in an hour and then move on, I find it unlikely even adding a single one to the tech tree would ever break even to say nothing of entire trees of them.
And as much as I don’t care for how grindy and monetized this game is I don’t fault them for continuing to invest in other revenue streams rather then putting all their eggs in a 12-13 year old basket.
Potentially cannibalizing sales of a new paid title they are spinning up for the sake of adding content to a F2P title does not make sense from a business perspective
So I’m content with the 7 free vehicles this event will give me.
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But that just it, imagine if these were modern tanks during the rank IX event, then you have to play a sim only game separate from war thunder just think of the reaction. Why should WW1 be treated differently ?
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WW1 doesn’t really have a place in War Thunder unless a major overhaul of the BR system takes place. It is what it is.
The event is nice, but only because you don’t have BT-5s and Pz.IIIs shredding you.
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But WW1 is already here tho that the thing, why stop with one aircraft when others are already modeled and can be built around them.
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M22 and Stuart would hard stomp everything. Same with M2 medium
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Couple of things here:
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Events are not a guarantee that something being tested will 100% come to the game. Because modern vehicles did, does not mean everything will.
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For many years even before that event, there was a clear drive and demand in the community for the game to evolve upwards into the modern era as a natural progression of the games timeline. You could not actually obtain any vehicles during that actual event to use in the game. Here you can.
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Well they gotta advertise the other game, and that’s how they’ve decided to do it. I don’t think they’re going to change their opinion just because we request the same over and over again.
I’m actually really thankful for having the chance to unlock the vehicles they let us, asking for more is just…eh…
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Yeah but the thing is you keep missing the point of the question, will we see WW1 air content/more ground content come to War Thunder in the future?
Not talking about Aces of Thunder, we know WW1 aviation will be present there but since it is separate from War Thunder players will be locked out of that content if they cannot play a VR only game for various reasons, that’s a massive amount of the playerbase.
We have seen with this event that WW1 itself can work (obviously with tweaks to it) and that players actually want this in War Thunder. The tanks would work well in their own WW1 gamemode and the aircraft work well currently but would also benefit from their own gamemode or adjusted BR’s.
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The question has not been missed, in fact we have answered it with everything that we have announced so far several times now. Right now we have a WW1 event taking place where you can obtain 6 ground vehicles and the H.P.12 bomber. Beyond that, we have announced that WW1 aviation is coming to Aces of Thunder. There is nothing further than that to talk about.
What’s going to happen with the whole modern infantry thing?
So answer me this, is this WW1 and can be played in normal game modes within war thunder ?
Stop flagging me
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Im not going to go round and round in circles with you here. Please stay on track.
With all respect I think the only thing you’re going to achieve is irritating the staff.
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It’s called having an option m8 if they want to choose to split the player base once more than it’s on them, not us
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Unless you want a -1.3 BR to put the ww1 vehicles on, there really isn’t any real way to incorporate them into normal RB. Especially for ground.
Current event vehicles already show how heavily the ww1 designs struggle against even the weakest interwar designs.
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New game modes done, which I thought you guys like to moan about