I’ve been playing War Thunder only in simulation before 2015, I left it for a few years. 6 years.A few weeks ago I bought a computer and connected my PS4 account and the simulation mode, which is the only thing I play, is in decline.
They did absolutely nothing but make the game worse, the points are no longer visible, planes that blend into the ground…
Not to mention the historical battles, they no longer exist, now it’s EC which is not bad, but everyone against everyone? 🤣
You can no longer distinguish planes in the air, not to mention the AI is completely broken, even the anti-aircraft guns don’t work…
With the potential that the game has, what a way to let it die…
Even here on the forum, our old messages are gone… what a mess Gaijin 🤷🏻♂️
Forgive my English, I’m Spanish.
Of course. It’s Sim.
Never observed this once.
Only in a few setups. Note you can chose which room to join, so you have control over what countries, what map and what BR you play.
Of course. It’s Sim. Use communication, visual ID and higher up RWR and IFF. And -very important - communication.
Here however I agree completely. AI is a mess in several aspects.
Not visible points and markers on planes kinda is the idea of sim buddy.
And never seen a plane blend into the ground.
Do you need visual markers in your daily life?
Think they might have meant the same plane being on redfor and bluefor, even at prop brackets (“Is that a russian b-25, chinese b-25 or american b-25? If I boom and zoon it in a head-on, will I get massive teamkill penalty? Or do I risk approaching slowly hoping for the blue tag to show up and pray it didn’t show up because it’s an enemy and not because I’m too far out. Oh, also cannot rely on camo because they’re all black silhouettes at ranges they cannot shoot back”)
And - most importantly - communication. ;-)
Companion flight without hud, with flight sensitivity at 100% etc… etc… I don’t need any marker.
I could list one by one all the flaws and errors that exist in the game 6 years after I stopped playing. Starting with the useful actions lol the economy, the AI, the graphical problems etc…
But come on, you don’t have to be very smart to realize that.
Yep, as you’ve noticed, not only no improvements, but things that used to work have now been broken. It should have been easier to simply stand still, but somehow Gaijin managed the two steps backwards without any steps forward.
Well, the BR rotation is an improvement, but actually that was a result of player suggestion, although to be fair they did at least listen.
Exactly, it’s not that it has improved. It’s that it has gotten worse.
You can now see an enemy point better than when the plane is rendered. It blurs with the trees.
Aircraft carriers are absolutely useless, and they stutter when you’re on them.
The smoke from anti-aircraft explosions is now gone, instead it’s StarWars lightning.
Gaijin was all about moving forward, not backward, you had a lot of mechanics that worked perfectly, plane rendering being one of them and now you broke it.
And many other things, there has been no improvement in 6 years that I have not played. INCREDIBLE. The level of neglect.
I remember the ground attack with planes in the past, you had trucks, anti-aircraft guns in sandbags, I remember the random anti-aircraft batteries around the map, shooting at you from cities and giving away your position. now everything is armored even flying in tier 2/3
And in a specific place, before you could be flying over an enemy sector and suddenly the anti-aircraft would fire, filling the sky with smoke and giving away your position…
All that immersion disappeared, what happened Gaijin?
Not to mention the anti-aircraft shells, what the hell is that with the brightly colored shells crossing the map? Before you saw the explosions near your plane and they made the cabin shake, all that is gone.
I remember seeing soldiers with flags on the aircraft carrier giving you the order to take off, they eliminated it.
Where are the oil marks on the cabin windows, the impacts of breakage in the cabin glass? The water drops when entering the clouds. They removed many things
They removed so many good things from the simulation mode that it’s ridiculous today, like those little colored lights at the airfields.
I can put so many things, but it’s really disappointing to see your favorite game 6 years later go backwards.
I look at old videos and see that the changes were for the worse, removing mechanics and things that worked.
An example of this is this.
War thunder Before, much more immersion than currently.
Minute: 4:57 Impacts in the cabin
Minute: 5:25 sound of shells passing near the cockpit
Minute: 9:46 Anti-aircraft explosions near the aircraft, sound and vibration.
Minute 32:52 Old airfields without colored lights.
In this video there is no squid splashing in the cockpit, “Oil” but all those things that gave it immersion disappear…
Sad, just like the current mechanics of economy and useful actions.
Yeah, really sad to see this old things…
I guess this is called “progress”.
More planes, more grind and even more planes. Quality just couldn´t keep up with the mass of new stuff.
Sim is dead and forgotten since years.
I didn´t even grind the Eurofighter yet.
If you want to play WWII stuff, move on to IL-2.
You can forget the mode, but why did things that were good get worse? The bullet impacts on the windows, the oil splattered on the windows, the random aaa’s on the map in cities Fired by soldiers that you could shoot down with 7mm caliber, the anti-aircraft guns with that trail of smoke that gave away the position…
Why did they remove all that? I can’t understand it.
The old aircraft carrier with soldiers running around the deck, and especially the old airfields without those crappy colorful lights…
You can forget the way, but don’t fuck up what was right.
Currently sim:
Fighter planes against bombers abusing airfields without AAA
Gaijin brings back the good old days to simulation mode and adds all the immersion you took away from the mode
And another ‘used to work properly:’
“Defend the surveillance aircraft failed,” when enemy shoot it down, followed 5 secs later by, “Defend the surveillance aircraft mission achieved.” Tickets are deducted from the appropriate side in both cases.