I don’t know why exactly it was removed for new players, but if it was for censshippurposes it doesn’t work at all since there will always be some way to exploit decals. Now it just limits for example players who like to play custom community simulator matches where coordination and communication is a key and numbers would largely help with recognizing who is who.
Not only should the old ones get back, but also new ones are loooong overdue.
Instead we keep getting almost identical looking unit atches that one never sees on a vehicle. Or strange stickers with otherwise cool drawings but white borders that look like stickers from comic magazines… = /
Imo actual number editor as a single sticker would be fantastic (it might lead to some… issues (as with any time anyone gives players any agency), but I rather have this and be able to give my tanks (and planes) proper numbers and them be nicely mirrored without reserving to use the likes if “44” and “101” (plus it takes more sticker slots and even with prem it not enough))
THIS! It’d be so awesome and I doubt it’s hard to make! I appreciate the current single numbers we’ve got for each nation but they should go further. War Thunder’s customization system needs a rework.
They were removed because players started using them to create the Z emblem from an ongoing war, and they didn’t want an influx of new players to flood the game and use the symbol, hence them removed them from new players to avoid them being used for political reasons (at least that’s how I understood their explanation, although the Z emblem being the reason was not specified and they just said it was because of several laws that were passed in multiple countries.
But that’s just how I perceived it, I could be completely wrong about the actual reason but I remember reading something about it and that was my takeaway.
I feel like making everyone pay for this was a very bad decision by the company. You still see quite a lot Z O V markings, Russian and Ukranian flags (which was the reason why flags cost GE btw), and in general quite a lot of political stuff.
The truth is I don’t know how they can combat this.
Well, the flags aren’t the same, as they are used for all kinds of reasons, but honestly they could have just changed the #1 decal to be unusable for the purpose
Yeah I’d love to have the capability to make bumper numbers.
Maybe , idk actually banning people who trying to bring politic into the game and griefing just because other player have a mark on their tank that you didn’t like ? Yeah , why not that ?
Number and letter should be in the game , politic in real life does not play a part in deciding should they be in the game or not. Even if people trying to tk or griefing their teammate over it , they should be ban
The issue with it was that some countries introduced laws banning certain symbols, including just seeing them present in a game
We already do that.
Sooo , can I know the reason why we are not getting them back ?
Some numbers like ‘88’ ‘69’ and so on…those crap that 10 year old players put on thinking it’s funny. IMO, Ima take a break from WT and play CTS for now…
How would I know? I’m just a GM and know as much about development as everybody else sadly…
I mean i understand but you know , they put whatever they want. It is the player freedom after all but I don’t think that the reason why gaijin gatekeep the number and letter decal
Damn , unlucky. It is what it is I guess , with the current situation I don’t think we be seeing them anytime soon
Letters–we shouldn’t keep (the Z) and IMO the numbers were OK IG :>
they were using the numbers to make the Z symbol, saw someone with it the other day actually, I reported them for it, too (I think, cant remember if I did or not but I think I did)
I mean if we didn’t keep it , then the goal of “Not bringing politic in” would pretty much be pointless. Removing any letter because of real world event and some player belief is cringe when considering Gaijin themself really does not like to be affiliate with any of those thing. That is one of the many reason why we are not getting number and letter back. Simply because people can’t figure out how to disable other player decal or just ignore them