im just gonna play enlisted and dream what could have been
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So they forgot to actually balance this… ?
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Had a similar experience. Played three games on the German side and won a very decisive and easy victory every time.
The St-Chamond is very meh. One, sometimes two frontal penetrations are enough to kill all crew members sitting together in the front section easily. Also, the A7V is just incredible. Those are definitely part of the reason, but I think the main issue is the Mark V. At least the German version seemed to have some oddities with the guns. I could only aim down the scope with the right cannon, which also seem to be the only one that can fire straight forward (not sure if historically accurate).
More importantly though, the Mark V needs to be a little angled. It is very, VERY difficult to kill when angled. Yes, the two crew members in the front will die quickly and you won’t be able to move, but you can eat literally dozens of shells and have all the time in the world to fire back. My guess is that most Entente players aren’t utilising this properly.
I doubt we’ll see any balance changes for such a short event, but in general the Mark V guns need to be looked at after the event. Some quality of life changes to aiming would be nice. I will check later if there’s something in the controls I missed.
Speaking of balance, the zeppelin is very cool in concept, but it dies to a couple of machine gun strafes from planes. I died in seconds and couldn’t even test it properly :(
All that said, this is an incredibly fun event, and to anyone worried about the grind, it is not the same as most other point-based events. You should be able to do it in 2-5 games per day or so. Also in case you missed it in the post, you can get 500 points max per match for killing enemy infantry. 5 points per soldier.
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I know we get to keep the vehicles—but where are we actually supposed to use them? If War Thunder ever splits into WW1, WW2, and post-war eras with separate tech trees, then maybe. But right now? They’re just meme tanks. They can’t do much, and you can’t even troll with them—any reserve tank can one-shot you without breaking a sweat. Even 1.0 planes melt you like butter.
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Im glad we keep the vehicles. You bet I’m spawning a landship to godmode hunt
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We need Arcade mode for the great war event.
I’m afraid the lack of inclusive modeling of the event in terms of mode diversity, may set a bad precedent that puts players of certain game modes in a disadvantage.
The low velocity of the tank guns are not friendly to everyone not used to them with manual aim (lack of aim cursor).
Yet, the topic of World War 1 is significant, there will be lots of people who will want to experience this tragic, yet important part of history.
As far as I know, the KV-7 event for the IS-7 draw, was based on AB modes, so were majority of the events.
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no we need to be able to play infantry as advertised
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pretty sure ill have enough fun with atleast the german stuff or multiple cannon stuff at 1.0
both*
Since this game is all about suffer,
Yea
Lets suffer
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the only thing they are testing with this is the air ship
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if youre not pleased then dont be. im sure some of these vehicles in this event can easily kill other 1.0 vehicles
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least balanced event, least rewarding feeling, ai soldiers feel too strong regarding thier pulletproofness, he shell make to less damage againts soldiers, needs direct hits
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What they testing is a new mechanics for planes(mostly crashes), which does not include zeppelin and infantry as AI to make battles more realistic. So if everything goes well. at November-December we’ll see an update with it.
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Where did they say this?
Also April fools so lmao
Keeping the fighters reserved for another game to either download or buy was not the right call here. I don’t want to play Aces of Thunder and WW1 fighters have long been requested for WT. Disappointing call, Gaijin.
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Limited-time vehicles being underpowered meme tanks is fine. It would be unfair if they’re OP and unobtainable.
No shot we’ll get a separate WW1 BR range in my opinion. The devs struggled to find 6 unique tanks for the event and had to copy-paste two of them because there are very few vehicles suited for the game. Vehicles of the time were mostly armed with machine guns to my knowledge because tank-to-tank combat was basically not a thing until WW2.
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well legit skip for me since I cant actually get anything of use to me (no us rewards)
They could go down to BR 0.0 and have 0.0-0.3-0.7 bracket.
This would not apply to only WW1 tanks, could be existing tanks in the game.
There are also several interwar tanks that would qualify that aren’t in the game.
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