Next Major Update - Rumor Roundup & Discussion

[TD_SEB]

Very true, thats been a very long time coming

[KhorneFlakez1337]

Because we all love the NATO hump and Gaijin doesn’t like the idea of disabling the safety restrictions that prevent further gun depression in that area irl

[Aidar_20_qe]

damn, thanks. Germany received first F-35 fighter jet in September 19 2026. News article: https://ac.nato.int/archive/2026/germany-receives-first-f35-fighter-jet-.aspx
but its only F-35A tho, so probably no F-35B and F-35C.

So thats a good news, if we’re about to get 5 gen F-35’s in december major update

[Pipimer]

received the first from the factory, they are still in USA, it will take same time to go to germany

[Aidar_20_qe]

DHL delivery to Germany before war thunder major update?

[KhorneFlakez1337]

Germany never ordered Bs and Cs lol

Britain, Italy and Japan have Bs and the USA has Bs and Cs, the other trees would only get As

Oh, and Israel would get the F-35I, rather than the A

[THEPolishThunder]

@Pipimer

first why not allow the gun go a little lower?

Because Gaijin

[_Renzo]

Welcome to the Leo 2 experience.

[Pipimer]

Also its missing Μ830A1 and the smokes pop wrong, and they have removed some spallines but thats an existing issue

[Deathmisser]

English please

[KhorneFlakez1337]

I’m always jealous of MBTs and light tanks that get HE-VT or that HEAT MP shell.

It’s so fun to slap aircraft with those shells lol

[EpicChicken22]

@TheElite96

Q: Where did the giant list on the OP go?
A: It was severely out of date and was removed.

This is very off topic, but what is the OP and what purpose did it had?

[KhorneFlakez1337]

Spoiler

@TheElite96

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this is the OP

It’s the “Original Post”, the first post of the thread

[Aidar_20_qe]

@Smin1080p_WT new Nuclear Escalation gamemode RP earnings too small, not equal to Air RB. I like this gamemode. Any plan to increase RP earnings for this mode in October major update?

Also what if you place Tank and Anti Air players on this map too?

[KhorneFlakez1337]

@Aidar_20_qe

new Nuclear Escalation gamemode RP earnings too small, not equal to Air RB. I like this gamemode. Any plan to increase RP earnings for this mode in October major update?

They really should increase the rewards in general. the rewards currently seem to be balanced around nukes. I know the mode is called Nuclear Escalation, but having almost everything revolve around nukes makes the mode feel very shallow.

Unless you are spamming nukes, you aren’t really doing anything impactful…

@Aidar_20_qe

Also what if you place Tank and Anti Air players on this map too?

How exactly would that work? What would these players even do?

[Aidar_20_qe]

@KhorneFlakez1337

How exactly would that work? What would these players even do?

They would play same way as they do in Ground Realistic Battles. But probably they need more Anti Air bots to cover them. Yeah, that would cause some balance issues

[KhorneFlakez1337]

There is no way to balance that, the entire playfield would get erased by a single nuke

[Pipimer]

Also arent the rest of leopards missing DM12A2?

[KhorneFlakez1337]

Yeah, they only have DM12A1 in-game

[TheDidact99]

@Pipimer

first why not allow the gun go a little lower?

Welcome to the Leo gang, you’ll get used to it :)