Can we get an estimate on when the Nuclear Escalation mode will launch again?
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Each new era requires significant time for tuning and polishing. In the case of the WW2 era, this will definitely require a new mission, with different objectives, distances to mission objectives, and a different frontline. Essentially, each new era is a separate minigame.
We’re optimistic that we’ll be able to create and test another “Vietnam” era during the summer, and only then will we consider implementing earlier aviation in Escalation. Therefore, it’s unlikely to happen before the fall.
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Thank you very much for the update.
If you dont mind me asking, What is the current roughest estimates for the testing schedule of this mode. I know that changes and balance take time, after this round of testing concludes, aproximately how long would be waiting in months for the next round of testing?
Secondly, After this mode has reached a sufficient point for the Development team to be satisfied, Is there any possibility of something akin to this coming to Different time periods? Interwar, early war, late war, ect. I think it could be extremely interesting as a way to better implement the usage of the existing bomber aircraft within War thunder, along with allowing different options of playstyles for other existing aircraft like the strike aircraft or Fighter aircraft. Allowing for a more rewarding gameplay experience for those who enjoy differing playstyles.
Thank you very much for your time. This mode already has been quite enjoyable, even with its issues. I quite look forward to the end result
The next question to be answered was regarding the Eurocanards getting antiship missiles, and Bvvd has since gone awol and stopped answering questions, coincidence?
this is what dev said so yes
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Hopefully we will see more stealth munitions to be used within the mode at some point. JASSM, Storm Shadow, and Taurus would be great to use now that munition RCS is somewhat being modelled.
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I feel like the Eurofighter may be a bit underpowered by only holding two HARMs. Will this be changed in the future?
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The map’s combat space is minimal, as little as you could feasibly get away with whilst pretending to serve a viable product. You’ve introduced it to aircraft that should be engaging at significantly longer ranges than this, yet haven’t bothered to develop strategies to expand the map size and combat space.
Which also contributed to the detrimental nature of the BUK sam system in this mode. The scale needs to be increased, and we recall how poorly the scale of the Falklands was handled, I don’t exactly believe your claims of distances. Optimisations must occur in this space, especially as these distances limit minor nation ordnance. We have not seen storm shadow nor scalp, nor RBS 15 Mk4 (Sweden’s most notable stand off munition).
You lot have yet again provided us the minimal viable product, and had to go on a crusade against critique to try and convince folk you know what you’re doing. How many times are you going to do this when the action comes across malicious? For such modern platforms that carry such modern ordnance, map scale needs to be resolved.
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These are some great changes, but I’m curious, are there any plans to implement nuclear weapons for tech tree vehicles that you can bring into the game? Being forced to use default nuke carriers really kills my desire to use nukes in the first place, even with the upgraded vehicles for higher BRs that have just been recently implemented.
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Since you mentioned munition RCS are in your plans. Are there any long term plans to add RCS to A2A missiles in Air Realistic Battles to reduce the reliability of using ‘MCM’ or Missile Counter Missile as a primitive form of ‘forcefield’ to protect yourself?
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For the future of NT, will we see major air battles that took place in the cold war/Modern Age, for example Korea, or Operation Desert storm ?
BVV_D will we see event vehicles or exclusive rewards coming out of the next public test?
Marte-ERs for the EFT would be good
Will low tier players be able to access this time?
I believe that’s the only variant that was fitted on the EFT so yeah. I just didn’t specify variants of anti-ship missiles for each eurocanard and just used the general names.
there is also a photo of RBS15 on an EFT
So certain br ranges can either be uptiered or downtiered? Is there actual maximum players in top br limit similar to RB?
will we someday get an era in the earlier cold war (i.e 1950s), with the B-52H and Tu-95M returning (unobtainable, just in Escalation itself)?
You lot can pry that from my cold dead hands, I want just one thing nice on Gripen before it’s given to pommies.
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Marte-ER would be fine.