Basically title,
We have the mine protection modification but no real reason to bring it and the game mechanic for ammo boxes can also be used for placing mine’s if they just copied and pasted their code.
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Or just remote minelaying vehicles, or air dropped minefields.
After that , we could also bring more modern rocket launchers etc etc.
I can allready imagine fps drops when minefields are detonated by bombs etc…
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I don’t think we will ever get them.
The only sensible use would be marked minefields, but mine protection on vehicles is just for increasing crew surviving likelihood, so even those vehicles wouldn’t be able to go through a minefield, unless they would be specifically equipped to deal with it, but then their combat effectiveness would be close to zero.
As for individual mines dropped somewhere randomly, good luck noticing them. They would be extremely frustrating and almost impossible to predict, imagine just driving somewhere and suddenly hitting a mine you had no chance spotting from a tank.
It is even worse version of a hidden man with rpg.
The reason why there is such modification is probably just to serve the same purpose as add-on armor to slightly increase protection.
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I mean it wouldnt be the first thing that randomly kills you that you cant see.
I reckon they’d be cool… Could be a reason to add minesweepers and flail setups.
Sure, because CAS isn’t cancer enough, let’s add mines too…
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planes can drop mines too you know… Why not both!
Personally I hope we don’t get mines in ground forces. There’s enough unseen things that get you killed already.
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Yeah, if there would be mode fit for that which it isn’t and the only new modes/mission added to WT are the temporary ones for events.
Nope, there is a mode for it already.
We have specific vehicles with mine protection, let’s say you’re playing a Merkava Mk. 3 which majority has mine protection, you pass by one, minor damage, just a repair needed.
Someone else is playing on a vehicle that doesn’t have any of this protection, maybe a Leclerc S1 passes by a mine, it’s destroyed as some rounds are positioned on the hull, the same guy dies.
War Thunder is so unrealistic that modern and alternative antitank weapons are not suitable to the game at the moment without some parties taking advantages of others.
AFAIK mine protection IRL generally stops people inside the vehicle from being killed/maimed rather than stopping the vehicle being damaged.
In WT it would, of course, become stalinium that protects against everything!
can we have ied’s too?
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no
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God I fucking hope not.
What could we add that adds to the cesspool of GRB along with CAS and drones? Oh, I know! Landmines…
only after we get Toyota lineup for middle east.
Hope not
they do have some epic vehicles
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There is such a reason. Mine protection, by increasing thickness of bottom plate, decreases chance of overpressure by HE shells (such as 3OF26) when fired under the vehicle / on the in-side of the road wheels.
I hope we never get AT mines as a gameplay mechanic. That would be incredibly unfair and absolutely zero fun to play against.
DPICM artillery and smart cluster bombs are also in the same boat. Both should not be added to the game, full stop.
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