Hello forum, today I wanted to talk about a topic I may have brought up one to many times, because for the past 9 months there has been something bugging me and other players regarding Italy’s customization for it’s high rank vehicles, and I want to discuss this in the most proper and respectful way towards the developers regarding this issue.
On September 10th, 2024, the update 2.39 ‘‘Dance of Dragons’’ released to all players, and with it Italy received a new camouflage option for it’s late war vehicles, however the pattern was not as some people expected.
The Main Issue
At first glance someone who may not be too familiar with high rank Italian vehicles, might think this is just a NATO standard three-tone CARC:
However this is inaccurate, since this is a pattern similar on Dutch high rank vehicles:
This was forwarded to the Gaijin.net report system, where a player pointed out the inaccuracies of the current pattern.
Community Bug Reporting System
However the response was that there was no change needed, as they used this as their reference for the pattern:
Which by all means is not incorrect, but it does not resemble it in the slightest, since in-game the green is way darker, and the brown is way too saturated.
The Solution
Before the update Dance of Dragons, Italy did receive a ‘‘refinement’’ to their previous pattern, because in update 2.33 ‘‘Air Superiority’’ all post-war Italian vehicles were given a new pattern:
(Image Credit: ODST_Parker on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/18jgdz0/it_seems_gaijin_has_updated_italian_camouflages/)
And this was the closest we have been to the accurate pattern, however as said before, Gaijin decided to change this to no one’s notice.
I proposed about 9 months ago, around 14 days after the update, that for variety, Gaijin reverted the old camouflage back, and kept the new one for other people to enjoy:
My Proposal from 9 months ago
Here are some examples to the pattern in some real life scenarios:
(Image credit: Contract for the modernization of Italian Ariete tanks - ВПК.name)
(Image credit: Assegnato al CIO il contratto per la produzione di serie dell’Ariete C2 – Analisi Difesa)
(Image credit: B1 Centauro Draco)
Would you like this to be taken into consideration?
- Yes
- No
Once again, to the developers, I know this is a very nitpicky observation, but I have grown rather tired of having to rely on user made skins to have a somewhat more accurate pattern from the one in game, and I apologize for pestering some of you with this.
And I understand if it is not possible at the moment, as I know game development takes time, not everything can be done in the blink of an eye, specially with the developers being very busy with the fixing some issues with release of the ‘‘Leviathans’’ update.
But if this does ever catch your attention, I hope you take this into consideration, and I understand if you don’t want to.
Thank you for your time!