War Thunder: The Great War!

Just played the Entente for today’s star and won with over 5000 mission points. ^^

But what was more interesting about the match was that the spawn directions were switched. The Entente spawned in the north and Germany in the south.

Perhaps this is a little balance fix?

I was really disappointed in the infantry aspect of the event, their presence is purely aesthetic.

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It isnt actually you can actually die to then

I meant having a more meaningful impact, it feels like most of the time they do nothing but stand around and not push objectives. The event is just team death match when it could’ve been something else more special, an Operations style game mode from BF1 would’ve been so much better.

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Overall I like this event. It is not as grindy as most events.

Today it took me three matches to unlock both stars and I really like this variant of the Flanders map.

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Turns out swappping sides did absolutely nothing and actually made it worse for Entente becuase the A7V can still lob behind cover while the Chamond with the velocity buff has to expose itself

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Hope this event can finally get Gaijin to address the traction, having tanks designed to cross trenches be unable to cross trenches is the most absurd thing, peak example of how poorly designed this game is.

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the entire physics is broken

Am I alone having mostly bad weather in this event? Most battles are with overcast sky, so the visibility is worse than it could be. Sometimes I even get night battles, although I have this option disabled. I see content creators on YouTube posting Great War battles with bright weather, I cannot remember the last time I had a battle like this.

I think people realize how bad the WW1 mode is compare that you get shot beyond distance not to mention a pen is not fatal to get the op team killed.

It’s intentional. WW1 was muddy and rainy. This is the way.

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Thanks to Gaijin for doing their utmost to ruin this event for Arcade players with eyesight health issues.

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can we get information on why console players get access to the planes most pc players want too?

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Yeah, but they keep making it worse.

Everyone can keep the H.P.12, it’s one of the rewards flr the Entente. It’s the SPAD S.XIII, Fokker D.VII and the Zeppelin we want but can’t keep

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oh ok, i never noticed.

Since the St Chamand was so hyperbuffed it makes no fun. Everyone just sitting back and is hiding / sniping. Op gun + op shell with double the pen everyone else has + buffed reload…jesus who decided this? Traversing the no mans land is impossible now, Chamond snipes you from 1000m away.

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Exactly. Would like to see more weather effects in the future like fog, sandstorms, blizzards and thunderstorms with lightning.

Any chance we can get the Great War map into regular map rotation? With some tweaks it could be used for more tiers. I think it would be a fun map to play with other vehicles.

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Im fairly confident I can go to a Home Depot or a Lowes and buy a lawnmover with more horsepower than what these planes have. They have no power. The fastest you can ever get them to go is the moment they spawn. After that, its all speed and power bleed. Which seems wild when some of them like the Spad XIII had 150-300 hp engines. Like sure, all know they’re not fighter jets but they shouldn’t be a hair away from stalling with every slight turn.

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Really? It’s a near completely flat map with next to no cover besides a few buildings more modern stuff would just shoot through. That sounds like a spawn camping nightmare of an idea.

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