I didn’t get a chance to post abt this earlier, some news out of WT Mobile: [Coming soon] Four Huge Ships and a Sub - War Thunder Mobile - Online Military Action Game - Play for Free
Their own upcoming major update will be moving them firmly ahead of us in surface ships, they’ll be making playable the battleships USS Iowa (BB-61)
Tirpitz( in 1944 refit )
Stalingrad BC
and HMS King George V( in 1945 refit )
As I always do when these ships appear, a reminder that the ever-relevant 2.7.0.55 leak included both Tirpitz
and Stalingrad BC
as well as the Pvkv IV devblogged a few days ago
and perhaps some other vehicles we’ll see this update.
We’ve also had ships added here that first appeared in Mobile, the aircraft carriers USS Lexington(CV-2) and HMS Illustrious(87) which were implemented in update Apex Predators first appeared in the files of War Thunder: Edge, the test-phase beta game now called WT Mobile.
Since vehicle models have historically been shared between both games, we can probably use the appearance of those ships not present here to predict what form( refits, etc. ) they’ll be in once they are.
One conspicuous absence from the devblog is IJN Yamato, which is - like the above battleships - already present in WTM 's files and progression line
It was also mentioned by name by Bvvd in an
interview w/ 4gamer.net, where he stated that the ship is planned to appear in WT:E( now WTM ) before it comes here. W/ so many of the ships close to her level now appearing there, it seems like it won’t be too long before it does - but the wait for her to come here after that is still indeterminate, as is the one for the other not-in-WT ships present in Mobile.
What I’m waiting for is to see whether we’ll have some of them( top-BR and not ) added to WT before Yamato becomes playable in WTM, or if that wait is applicable to all WTM naval vessels as well her.
If this is considered " low-level ", what 's a " high-level " one going to be ?
Whoever made up this leaklist probably got it from the old american aviation roadmap:
Though w/ the increased use of foldering planned for aviation and ground next update, it 's not impossible we could see old " redundant " additions make their way into the game - we’ve seen that some( possibly all, but we haven’t seen them all ) are modelled and ready to go, like the A-20A from 2.7.0.55
Though it 's no more likely to see these aircraft this update than it is in subsequent ones, if ever.
Abt these, the romanian Pz.35 appeared alongside the O3U-1 in a similar situation a few months ago, on the repcost streamlining spreadsheet. It had previously appeared in the update Fire and Ice RU devstream, but obviously was not implemented then. A loading/interstitial screen exists in the files, along w/ a statcard image for it
The A6M5(PRC) was one of the many aircraft long sat in the files prior to the implementation of UHD textures, and can even be made to appear ingame in certain circumstances: in the Mission Editor for CN aircraft, it can sometimes be selected as an enemy fighter under the AI control.
As for the O3U-1, while it might point to the addition of further american ships it may also be safe to speculate it 's for the USS Wyoming(BB-32), to replace her low-detail UO-1 props 's w/ a player-usable aircraft.
