I am worried about size and detail of the map too big and too detailed would be bad for 90% of players. You could brake it up and have infantry zones and vehicle zones both can cross into each other. But running into a open field will be bad for your health as a trooper so GTAing a car might be smart if you have to go to the other zone.
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Am I able to signup for access with a steam account? Not quite sure how all this works…
Nvm, I got it figured out!
If WWI mode ever comes back there’s a chance!
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There still around to this day the UK military has more horses then tanks
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I think I would enjoy the whole thing a lot better if there were no drones . .
like really . . .
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Just cause you may not want it or a small group of people don’t want, doesn’t mean it can’t be added. Just cause it’s added doesn’t mean you got to play it. So if your done belly aching over this you can ignore it. Cause idk how this game mode effects you in anyway if you don’t play it but others will.
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I want to ride a bicycle up to a tiger and slap it with sticky grenades myself.
Most fun I had in Heroes & generals was doing just that. Bicycle cavalry hunting tigers shelling the city.
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Me when I read a new War Thunder news item about infantry gameplay.
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I feel like Drones will be a top tier equipment when infantry is done so it wont be an issue.
You likely will get an E-Bike plus an RPG.
I made a discussion post about different mobility equipment strange and useful people can make posts out of them. FYI military motorbikes are quite because they get mufflers civilian bikes don’t have them for safety there are reports of Russian motorbike squads not being noticed seconds before it being to late because you hear very little. So in game these vehicles can be useful as a trooper equipment.
Also Rocket Man!
I came to war thunder for combined arms
Infantry is part of that.
Sorry, but its something that the vast majority of the playerbase wants.
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Pass. I signed up for it when it’s first closed beta was on and didn’t get in, I am too busy grinding more important things to bother with this now.
Like the idea of no AI troops following you though, that’s a step in the right direction.
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Would there be pistol bias due to the fast aim time?
Horsies
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Umamusume
Blatantly false. Whether you admit it or not, you are not representative of the community. The wider community sentiment is definitively against this mode.
Most players are apathetic and uninterested; this is the silent majority of War Thunder players. There is a heavy bias against the expression of opinions by this group; people scarcely engage in conversation to express indifference. Conversely, those with strong opinions (both for and against) are equally disproportionately overrepresented in discussion. Have you realized this pattern?
You would think, then, that support and opposition would be similarly prevalent, right?
Look at what people are saying, everywhere. Across the WT forum, across Reddit, Discord servers, and other Western forums. There is a wealth of opinions against the coming infantry mode. Some are cynical of Gaijin’s implementation of the mode, others state the identity of War Thunder as a vehicle game, but above all, there is the indignation of Gaijin’s diversion of money, devs, and attention to something few wanted. The embitterment from the neglect of the aforementioned attention, devs, and money for tanks, aircraft, and ships, for balance, for maps and modes, for the already existing game ignored, for the thousands of bugs and details forgotten by corporate.
You justify yourself by saying “players joined for combined arms”. It is very telling that you need to resort to vague generalities, abstraction of reality, and false equivalence (of infantry to the greater idea of combined arms). You dare not expand on the specifics, for any view of the facts contradict your narrative.
We the players of War Thunder joined for exactly what it is: a realistic simulator of tanks, planes, helicopters, boats and ships. Is there an overlap with infantry? Of course, it is a war game. But most of us didn’t join to play as little Timmy with his M4A1. If I wanted “combined arms” with infantry, I would be playing Battlefield, Squad, or Arma 3. No, We joined for the steel beasts of war, armored and armed with the most powerful weapons on the frontlines. We joined for the history of research and development of military vehicles, from historical icons to modern tech angels of war. Is it wrong to ask for a continuation of these principles?
The zeitgeist of the present day, and certainly throughout the past multiple years also, is a rejection of Gaijin’s abuses, and the necessity of reform. Those who claim to see otherwise are only blind.
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there is also alot people that are for infantry as well, you are not representing anything either, your seem to be ignoring that fact, its mixed reactions, it always gonna be like that, people where against tanks when tanks got added, people where against naval, people are against infantry, people are against this and that, calling people “blind” for wanting infantry just kinda prooves you aint speaking for the community either, you will not be forced to play infantry, you have all the other options still avilable
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you’re also not a representative of the community lmao. surface ships, submarines, helicopters, infantry are all parts of combined arms warfare and war thunder is a combined arms game. It was never a matter of if these things will come, it was WHEN will they come. That time has come now whether you like it or not. It’ll be a separate game mode as prior stated in dev logs and with that, nobody is forcing you to play it. People made the same complaints about naval and how nobody will play it, which tbf, not many do, but its a very niche tism where most play WoW instead.
I do not doubt that with the coming infantry game mode that it will open new ways for gaijin to produce copy paste and paid content, but it’s a free to play game, they gotta do something somewhere. The main thing is just how much these things cost. top tier aircraft and tanks are the price of AAA games, if that happens to literal guns, then people can riot about it but for now we have yet to see if that is the case (it will likely be the case) but again, nobody is forcing you to pay for this stuff, let alone play the game mode.
Infantry is going to be truly something different for the game and I personally welcome it, as long as its vastly different to enlisted because that game was truly attrocious, it holds absolutely nothing to the games that came before it such as Heroes and Generals, Red Orchestra, and other rising storm games.
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