Oh, so it’s not the vehicle, but a player issue.
Crazy; perhaps Gaijin could make the effort and attempt to solve the actual roots of the issue, instead of just changing BRs, which 1: Does not fix the problem. Thank you for enlightening me on what I already know.
Aside from that, it’s probably the reason why the Ho-Ri is about to go bye-bye, a vehicle that still has several historically accurate replacements that were in an early stage to eventually get there.
3, in fact, which all fulfill the same 3 aspects that the Ho-Ri proto and product fulfilled in one vehicle.
Ho-Ri I->Ranged Support.
Ho-Ri II: Defensive Support.
Ho-Ri III->Spearheading and breaking the enemy’s ability to zerg rush you. Oh, and Anti-Air support? Which makes me chuckle.
Better and extensive tutorialisation would ameliorate the issue. It would not solve it though, because a new player is not necessarily willing to commit to an explanation of complex concepts. Still, I’m 100% in favour of that.
However…
This is a F2P MMO. Objective #1 is to keep lobbies populated with free players while monetising the others. Full lobbies are the conditio sine qua non for a game like this. So it is 100% in their interest to balance by player statistic. In their perfect ideal world, every player and every vehicle is always at around 50% WR (and chosen metrics of SL/RP gain).
This being a PVP game, if you balance vehicles in any way other than player statistics, you will just get a lot of frustrated players who’ll quit the game early on.
Nah it has nothing to do with player competitiveness, it’s because of the game’s USP which is selling (the illusion of) realism. They got misled by Mai Waffentraeger about the Ho-Ris and they eventually gave up on giving them more grounded remodels/replacements. Germany never got true replacements for its three removed vehicles and it’s been 7 years now. Safe to say Japan will never get these replacements either.
I’ve said it many times before that I am strongly pro “paper” vehicles in the game so long as they were real projects worked on by real engineers (admittedly both Ho-Ris as well as the Panther II and the Tiger II 105 would need extensive remodelling to fit even that description, while the Coelian basically fits it). Alas the devs disagree.
Just makes me so sad to see these vehicles gone. Even if the Ho-Ris at least I have secured, it is unfair that I get to play them whenever I want, while newer players will simply never, ever have access to that experience.
hey just a bit off topic but on the same ish topic of adding and removing vehicles when are the british navel line getting a the HMS lion class battleships in game as the current top tier battle ships only have the shitty 15 inch guns but the HMS lion has 16 inch ANNNNNNDDDD by your guys logic for navel of the hull being laid down and 2 hulls where laid down but then suspended and later scraped
This is one of the worst decisions for Japan, ever. The Type 75 and Type 99 are 155mm HE slingers, not a casemate SPH that has 200mm of pen. The worst thing is that there is not good replacement that will likely be added. The O-1 is said to not have enough technical information, and the Ho-Ri 2 and 3 are almost certainly not going to be added. September 1st will be Ho-Rible day
I got a full uptier, and my ping got to almost 200 lol, classic snail.
Rest in peace Ho-Ri, you served me, and millions of players well🫡. Gone like a true Samurai, quietly in the night.
I don’t think that’s quiet how Samurai are supposed to go out…
Regardless another unique part of Japans tree gone only to leave a gapping hole in the TT under the idiotic excuse that a paper armoured HE derp gun “fills the same role”.
Poetic/Artistic License, I had to make it be meaningful, even if it meant being historically inaccurate.
Nonetheless, a Ho-Rible day for War Thunder and the Japanese Tech Tree.
I got mine like aug. 2nd so I was sadden by the news and also said because I like playing Japan, I main it, its the best. and the entire month the games were full of teammates what expect the tanks to play like another nations and were tarrable and I could play top tier becauce it was just a “FUJI” fest and they left after one death.
Several folks within the staff believe the blog also implied that the Type 75 and Type 99 were supposed to be their replacements; the announcement of their removal had a lot of backlash. Although CC’s many at least simply scrolled past, some seemed more critical about it, since Japan really doesn’t have any proper replacements in game, at least that can fulfill the role that they did, which surprisingly helped a lot for German and other axis teams, since it was a mixed bag vehicle, not a jack of all trades but it simply did what the Ferdinand and Elephant fail to do, but also does it more aggressively, as well able to engage at range. It simply was a good vehicle. Do that with the 99 or 75, and you are dead within 2 seconds.
You also have 3 new, more historical replacements all suggested on standby, but knowing how long it took for Japan to get anything, and im not counting ships once again. No one plays that lord awful failure of a game mode. Unless you are coastal.
But strictly on the tank and plane side.
The time between when we actually get a Japanese aircraft or tank, you are a skeleton by the time it arrives.
