No tanks :)
ahhh I remember that old hangar I started on my old account not long before they changed it
What I miss most is the graphics.
Droplets on your canopy, oil splatters, visible holes in your left wing and tail section. Bullet holes.
Where did all these go?
Earlier today I had a dicey match-up where I managed to take down a bomber and I thought I got away safe. My plane doll showed a red pilot - I was shot directly, and yet there was no immersive, visual feedback. If I had had my HUD off, I’d have had zero idea my pilot had a 7.7mm sized hole somewhere on their body.
Where’s my bullet hole through my front windscreen?
I think that they were in the game as late as 2020 when I first started playing, but they’ve since disappeared. Did they also remove your screen looking dirty when flying behind a plane with an oil leak?
Play the old Birds of Prey or Birds of Steel games on older consoles. Both were devoloped by Gaijin, and look very similar to early War Thunder. Their sounds were also much better in cockpits, with the engine feeling much more powerful and louder.
I occasionally see a tiny bit of darkening, but it fades/disappears every quickly.
a year or twqo ago I got hit in my f6f directly to the bulletproof windshield and it destroyed most of it, just a big hole where it used to be
I’m guessing that’s early 2014, not that long before tanks were implemented. I seem to remember the Boomerangs and that D520/D521 to be very late additions to the “Special” planes section just before tanks . . . . iirc.
Yeah, it was good times, a simpler game. 5 nations, 5 tiers . . a player could manage to work all 5 nations with the old Daily 2x . . . it was a good time to start the game, for me anyway.
Ahhh yes when the game wasn’t trash!
Lets avoid sending the same message in multiple threads around the same time. That can be seen as spam.
Lets cry about it together. Hold me…
Came in 2017, last time anyone would remember this game for what it was.
Have in mind that the 1st IL-2 game had amazing sound effects of enemy bullets / shells passing your cockpit / aircraft; u could even distinguish between calibers. So a 30 mm mins shell sounded similar to a very angry hornet…
One thing I won’t forget is the Vickers Wellington B Mk.X being up at 5.3 BR, now that was a slog to elite back then.
Hmm, this would’ve been after april 2015 going off the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) line.
I’ve got a bunch of old screenshots I found recently in an old hard drive & off FB.
My old forum PFP, taken in late 2014,
Old Karelia, just after Steel Generals when this M4 was still BR 4.7,
Two spitfires (Sea Spitfire) screenshots,
E, Missed the Seafire heh oops…
Showing a relative off the Horton Ho 229 model,
Being impressed by the weather back then,
Battle Rattings were just horrible years ago, an Immediate post war aircraft from 1946 facing a 1955 variant of a tried & trusted Korean war fighter,
Ohh joy what a splendid day, old Australian internet was horrible for my area, anyway I waited to spawn for 23 minutes only to be greeted with this, an unavoidable collision & flak from the team for spawning only at the end,
USAAF A-20G attacking Kriegsmarine submarine pen Norway 1943,
USN F6F-3 Hellcat from USS Bunker Hill CV-17 fighting Imperial Japanese aviators over Pacific islands,
Some of the Thunder League skins I was about to unlock (got three others & the P-51A (was playing with over 700 ping then, couldn’t get tanks ones if I tried so I missed out on the M24TL),
Boyy you playing with fire
I miss in the old vids where you could see little clouds of debris flying off an aircraft when they were hit
not sure if its still there but if it is its way less noticeable now
People need to lighten up and enjoy life…If we can’t all have fun together than what’s the point!
but the to battle button is already on top :)
Played it when it was on the right
Old times when game were actually better