Same for me, I meant tomorrow as well, as I believe it’s included in the challenge. I’ll be partying with family through the day and night as well haha. Happy new years to you as well and absolutely hit me up in game tomorrow and we’ll make it happen.
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Groovy!!! Thanks and I’ll see you tomorrow. Happy New Year!!!
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Sale ends in less than 24 hours for anyone still wanting to purchase a sale pack. The Christmas camo tasks will also end at the same time:
End of Sale/Christmas camo Countdown timer:
2025-01-02T11:00:00Z
(This timer auto adjusts to your device’s local time and date.)
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Just a follow-up on the capture point trick. I played a game jut a little while ago where I got to a capture point early in the match and stayed there defending the point. I sniped a couple of enemy tanks and got kill assists even. It was a longer than normal battle as well and I stayed at that point. We won the match and since this was the Challenger, I thought I would finally get a qualifying win for the holiday skin. When the game was over, my activity was 16%. No joke.
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Dangit…ty for sharing the details. MAYBE it needs some “real” activity first, and then multiplies it? OR perhaps it needs to be a capture zone forward/near the action. I hope you can still get some more of the camo’s in time 🙏
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I really would like to grab the A-5 on sale on Xbox but if it’s leaving the store before our sales even start it won’t be possible will it?
I played several games with Alchemist and we tried several things. I tried staying after capturing, I tried staying with other team members and none of it increased my activity percentage. Only being directly engaged counted. This may be something they changed because I have done games where I stood in one place as anti-aircraft defense and gotten high participation. I did that to get the Abrams skin and it worked. With the Leopard and Challenger I tried that and only got 32%. Even playing with him, our team won game after game after game and only once did I get over 70%.
I have managed to get the aircraft done and the Abrams. The T-80 I purchased. The Leopard and Challenger are impossible for me. No matter how many battles I do, I can’t succeed in getting the skins and time is pretty much out. It really irks me, especially when I see other players running around with the skins I am trying to get. I have no idea how other players can win missions the majority of the time in these high tiers.
To add insult to injury, I posted a “Happy New Year” message in Live yesterday, like dozens of others. However, mine was pulled. I really got the snail mad at me somewhere along the line. lol
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I left Live.WT, as well as many others, after the nefarious 2022 change of rules…
Before, Live.WT was incredibly populated and lively. It was basically War Thunder’s social media hub.
But, after the change of rules, it’s limited to a skin catalog and screenshot circlejerk portal.
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Well, I wasn’t able to get the Leopard or Challenger. I played until 2 AM and couldn’t get a qualifying win. I could get up to 69%, literally, but was never able to break 70% in any win. The losses would consistently above 70%. Having been playing these vehicles since the 26th, not getting three qualifying wins seems statistically unlikely. Not sure who I got angry at Gaijin.
Anyway, it’s time to walk away from the game for a while. I don’t see a point in playing if I can’t get what I want no matter how hard I play. I’ve got other games that are a lot less frustrating and don’t place goals out of reach for casual players.
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Yeah I think only win without percenteg would be much better as “Gift for Christmas” but yeah feels bad man I skipped M1 KVT skinn just for that reson of 70%…dont wanna waste my time on that BS
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Took me just 5 battles for the 3 qualifying wins to get the Challenger xmas camo. Prior to that, I had NEVER played at such high BR (10 +, only Assault mode). So it can be done, you just got very unlucky.
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I’ll be the first to admit that if I didn’t have bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all. :)
The point that really irks me is that I paid full price for these vehicles and I’m not allowed to get these skins without going through hoops that others don’t need to do just because they didn’t buy the vehicles until now and only paid half of what I did.
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The activity % depends on only two factors: your score and your time alive.
If your time alive is too short, your activity % will be low.
If your score is too low relative to your time alive, your activity % will be low.
It’s that simple, nothing else matters. If you can’t reach 70% activity it means that either you die too quickly (your time alive is too short) or your score is too low to get 70% activity.
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I agree completely. All previous buyers should have gotten these skins as gifts now, no strings attached. Not the Christmas spirit from Gaijin, just so miserly of them.
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Arcade battles are usually short, especially at higher BRs.
The problem here is, that the devs kept the 70% activity requirement for many tasks and challenges. But the activity % formula was changed in 2022 to the current format. With the previous formula, it was easy to reach 70% activity, currently you have to aim for at least 3 kills (or other actions that give you similar score). With the previous formula, even 1 kill was often enough to get 70% activity. So all tasks became much harder and unfortunately, the devs never adjusted this value for tasks and challenges. In my opinion they should reduce this requirement to 60%, but it’s not up to me.
Most players on the forum don’t play Arcade, so they don’t see this problem. In Realistic battles, everything is slower, so you have more time to reach higher activity % value.
I actually changed my playstyle, when the devs changed activity % formula in 2022. I always try to stay alive in battles and play more defensively than before. It works very well, but it takes time especially to learn maps and positions.
You can check my YouTube Ground Arcade playlist, if you want to see how I play nowadays:
It works very well and I really enjoy playing this way. At the end of each video you can check the post-battle screens and see my battle activity % there.
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this sucked btw because vehicle activity is calculated in the most braindead way possible. you can be alive for a whole match and get like 60%
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Believe me, I was trying as hard as I could with that in mind. But, when most wins are coming in below 70% and losses are over 70%, it gets very frustrating. Removing the “win” stipulation and sticking with just activity percentage would have been better for me.
There are good players, and I’m not one of them. I play for fun and stick to arcade to keep out of the real players’ way. I’m a history enthusiast that likes playing with planes and making skins. That’s it. I don’t have the reflexes, eyesight or anything else that will allow me to compete with regular players. I suck and I know it. So, should I be kept from getting a skin for a vehicle that I paid full price for just because I am not as good of a player as everyone else? If that is the case, there are other games that I can play that don’t think that way.
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Hmm, I actually got the 3 wins at 70% or higher from 5 matches in Arcade, and I was not very good in these matches. So I would not blame Arcade.
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we don´t know right now. i mean the F104 TAF is gone for like 2 months in any other store but we xbox players can still buy them. you can just only hope that the A5 is on sale in probably a week. but i can promise you, the pack will still be available when the Sale starts but nobody knows if the pack is even on sale.
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