Having played the planes in the event and playing reserve tier ARB afterwards I struggle to see why the SPAD and Fokker should stay.
Even the worst reserve/1.0 planes are way better than those WWI fighters. Each turn burns most of your energy, your top speed and climb rate is miserable and your guns are weak and have a very low rate of fire.
The H.P. 12 feels way better to fly and is at least somewhat useful in GRB.
And? It’s an ez event with ez rewards.
Let it be, there’s some who want them as cute little collectables.
(Also they’re not copypasta, since that tends to be your own concern a lot of the time)
Well, they don’t operate that way. I would have loved to keep vehicles from Mad Thunder as reskins, but that’s just part of the April Fools events.
It’s already a miracle that we get to keep some of the vehicles, they could have just hosted the event without any vehicle rewards and the people asking for WWI vehicles would have been even more disappointed than they currently are.
There really is no point in keeping the Fokker, SPAD and zeppelin other than pleasing the couple of people that so desperately want to keep them and that simply isn’t worth the effort to maintain these two planes and to model the zeppelin properly. Not to mention how much of a burden players using these vehicles would be for their teams…
Both have pros and cons. I found the Allied ones have better MGs. Well, the German planes flew better(then there is the Zeppelin…).
Oh, and of course, a plane built 10-20 years later would be better, it would be like comparing the current 1.0 to stuff built 20 years later and saying they have no place in the game then.
God Gaijin please let us keep the map, it looks brilliant. It all looks straight out from Battlefield 1. Genuinely the most beautiful map you have made yet.
1.0 is the baseline. It may be unfair to compare WWI planes to later planes, but the WWI planes would get a 1.0 BR as well, so other 1.0s (up to 2.0s even) are what these WWI planes have to compete against.
René Fonck, the best ally Ace of WWI, flew a SPAD. He had 75 confirmed kills (vs 80 for the red baron), so he wasn’t far off (especially since with the unconfirmed kills, both pilot are in the 100s, so who knows~).