You don’t have to watch the official streams to get drop% , you can watch any of the affiliated streamers as well during any day of the week.
The participating streams are listed in this filtered search: (https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/war-thunder?filter=drops)
There was a glitch on Twitch yesterday when watching % wasn’t being updated - it was suggested there was some big event in Brazil that was overloading the poor wee system.
But it all came right after a bit.
Much better being able to watch at a time that is reasonable for my time zone than having to wake up at 0300!! :)
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Wait is the su27 skin fictional too?
I think it’s semi-historical if i have understood things correctly.
( Sukhoi Su-27P - Russia - Air Force | Aviation Photo #2321954 | Airliners.net )
But you’ve never done either a historical or semi-historical skin in Twitch drops, so unless something changes… Invisible.
I know, you can see it yourself, and others can if they select fictional but… At least in ground, it just seems riskier to turn on fictional skins (why give the enemy any more camo) and there’s also a non-zero risk in your own tank looking different on your screen than the enemy sees if you run a fictional camo on yourself.
Fictional camoes are fine for streamers and people playing tournaments live but if given a choice I’m running with all fictional settings off, so at the moment neither of these (actually historical) camoes has any value.
I have no idea how the team chooses how to categorize the in-game skins, i have no connection to that at all and zero insight into that side of things.
But according to the War Thunder wiki for when users create their own camouflages for War thunder Live the classifications are like this:
So i just assumed going with that information that it would be Semi-Historical. But i don’t actually know.
@Stona_WT Care to clarrify?
I assumed that about the Panther camo, but no. And it’s called “212, 6th Panzer Division, Rhineland, 1945”, and it is a historical camo for Panthers (of course the Panther F never saw active service, but plenty of vehicles have “historical” camoes from other vehicles in the same family now).
We had back then.
Good point. Yeah, I’m sure there’s a couple more I’ve forgotten… I was thinking more tournament camo box camoes, which are all appropriately fictional. But most of the Twitch ones have also been fictional. But that’s just a good reason why these two should be changed to at least “semi-historical”.
Update: Panther F camo has had its “fictional” tag taken away, but not replaced with another tag. So apparently now it has no tag on it at all, so I’m not sure if that means it displays under default settings or not.
Many Battle Pass vehicle’s special/limited camo from the BP itself have the same thing: camo without a tag at all.
I am not sure if these show up in a battle with the “Fictional” camos turned off in a player’s settings. But just wanted to share that there are more examples lacking tags if that helps with testing/checking.
If you like, I could do a match with you and we could test to know exactly how it works. Send me a DM if you would like a hand 👍
So they did away with the historical/semi-historical distinction a while back. The options menu now only has the option to go with “any” or “except fictional” (the default). So it stands to reason anything without a tag shows up for others.
I remember seeing the unpainted skin on another player’s Chinese P-51C which was a BP skin, the default unlockable/GE skin are also no tag.
For detail, the M60 skin is historical, the Leopard I one is semi-historical and the STB skin is fictional
Thankfully today it seems Twitch has its sh-t in order.
Just to reiterate for anyone who doesn’t know/remember, you can watch any of the streams listed through the link from Necronomica:
(I am not sure if it is always the case for drops outside of the main/official channels. But for this round of drops, these participating streams do work 👍 )
