We need an update just for bug fixes and game improvement please

Having new vehicles and mechanics is great but the game blatantly needs repairs and expanding.

Just to clarify this isn’t a War thunder bashing thread, I and many others genuinely like the game but for me personally my interest is waning due to the sheer amount of blatant issues the game has been suffering from for years now. Some are so blatant it’s as though they’re slapping you in the face as soon as you switch the game on.

Bugs such as:
Airfield defenders that stay crashed on the runway after landing and repeatedly glitch out. If you’re just spawning in half way through the match this looks terrible. It won’t exactly give new players confidence.

Airfields with non working AAA defences allowing players to strafe those taking off with zero punishment.

Game lobbies can show they’re full of players but are empty when you join completely wasting any booster you may have activated.

Fuel gauges on most aircraft do not work properly (very important for sim). Some cockpits are ancient and you can almost see the pixels in front of you.

Aircraft spotting is atrociously bad, aircraft can de-render from directly in front of you and turn invisible against the clouds, ground clutter and at times even a clear blue sky. It’s easier to spot the contrails from aircraft than the giant aircraft itself and oddly it’s easier to spot an aircraft from a distance than when you close the gap to them. Figure that one out.

Ground textures/pop in (possible poor Ps5 optimization only): Entire buildings can pop in from only a couple of miles away… I’ve never played a game with such poor rendering. The ground textures at times also look like they’re from the Ps2 era, this can be especially seen in maps such as 38th parallel from the airfield runways. Jungle is another hideous map.

Controls lock up: At times on the runway your controls can completely lock up (except zoom oddly) with no fix other than to restart the game.

Now for game improvements. This game has massive potential but the gameplay at this point is completely stale. We’ve been playing the same game for years now with zero gameplay changes, in some areas you’ve actually REMOVED popular game modes for absolutely no reason.

Bring back historical events and historical enduring confrontation especially for Simulator battles. Make it work on a rotation and bring back the leaderboards. Make the objectives in game actually mean something to affect the battle outcome/help or hinder your team. Destroying a factory could limit the ammunition an aircraft could carry or create timers to respawn if you’re shot down. Make us actually want to destroy/protect objectives and as a side note this will also give attackers a new lease of life.

Give ground battles some actual objectives other than “capture the point”. Make one team defend an area while the other team has to destroy the buildings/camp within. It’d also give the large HE lobbers some new life. Give us ground enduring confrontation with objectives that move the front line like with air EC. Convoy protection missions, base defence/destroying missions, capture zones that actually mean something like high grounds and bridges etc and make the maps large enough to cater for it all.

On that subject STOP SHRINKING MAPS. Remove the barriers that have been put in place for god knows what reason and let us flank again. Being spoon fed directly into the mouth of a Tiger II whilst you’re driving a faster tank that has minimal chance to frontally penetrate said Tiger is not fun. Open the maps and let fast tanks actually do their job.

Speaking of fast tanks fix your game balance (SB mode). Time travelling light tanks/armoured cars should never be able to melt through the frontal armour of the heavy tanks they face unless they’re a tank destroyer. Heavies sacrifice speed and general mobility to be able to take a punch especially in the case of the Tortoise or Jagdtiger and yet they’re forced to fight futuristic HEAT and HESH lobbing zippy fast tanks. Open the maps and make light tanks have to flank like they’re supposed to.

Also fix/balance APDS damage. If APHE isn’t going to be realistically and historically nerfed then there’s no excuse why APDS has to “realistically” suffer the way it does. Make the spall cone considerably larger to allow tanks to more consistently one-shot those they face with frontal penetrations. As a disclaimer I don’t like this approach but if we’re going for fun over accuracy as with APHE then this is only fair. Having one side fighting with “realistic damage” against the other with one-click delete rounds is horrendously unbalanced.

TL:DR we need an update based solely on game improvements and bug fixes. Each new update filled with shiny new toys is just allowing the cracks in your game to mount up and the whole thing is beginning to feel stale. Fix and build on the foundations of your game, stop ignoring it.

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there is a giant pop up with bug fixes when you start the game not sure how you missed it

Expert opinion of someone with 17 games played

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The bug fixes we’re drip fed with are doing almost nothing in comparison to the massive issues that haven’t been fixed for years.

Do me one favour, join a Simulator battle that has been running for about an hour and don’t even take off but look at the runway. Observe the broken AI uselessly glitching out on the ground. This is a small bug compared to the rest but it proves the point that the devs aren’t barely doing anything to fix the blatant issues the game has. This particular bug is staring you straight in the face and it has been this way for years. Still not fixed.

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They’re working on an AI overhaul, these can take years.
They’re working on new SPAA this year period.
They do bug fixes constantly irrelevant of major updates.

If you alt-tab during loading, this bug could occur with custom controls. It’s fixed by alt-tabbing again once in-game.
Cause the game loads your custom controls each time you load or make the game priority screen.

Historical EC would be the most dead game mode.
Realism > history.

There’s literally only ~3 maps out of 40+ that “shrunk”.

I along with many appreciate the tiny bug fixes but it isn’t enough, the game is a mess. The dev’s clearly prioritise adding new shiny toys to the game over actually putting the time in to fix and actually genuinely improve their product.

Think how much time is takes to model one copy/paste aircraft (they’re all modelled from the ground up remember?) when they could’ve taken that time to fix some of the many complaints people have made. The control lock-up bug occurs for me on Ps5… I can’t alt-tab out of it. It’s literally a game ender and was mentioned years ago… still not fixed.

The fact this bug still runs rampant tends to give me a sour taste when I read the “we fixed it!” reports and what they “fixed” at times was adding 20 rounds extra to a particular gun…

If the devs did what people have asked for (and the game desperately needs) then you would already have the new SPAA and the AI overhaul. Instead we get copy/paste vehicles and new sounds that nobody asked for with the added downside that each new update comes with shiny new bugs as well.

Historical EC has already been a game mode and it most certainly wasn’t dead. It definitely wasn’t in Simulator mode, the historical battles (Battle of Britain etc) were also always full. Especially when they had the leaderboards and prizes for the top 10%. People have been asking for Historical EC’s to return ever since they were taken away. People also loved the Historical tank battles.

Off of the top of my head: Ash river, Abandoned factory, Japan, Mozdok, Tunisia and I’m sure there’s plenty more… although the map may not be smaller they’ve gone out of their way to make the battle areas in maps stupidly confined like the abortion that is Eastern Europe as well.

As for the rest of the larger maps (speaking from a sim perspective) where are they? I can’t remember the last time I played big Alamein, or Fields of Poland, or the large Port map that I refuse to spell as I’ll butcher it. You barely even see Volokolamsk any more. Here, have Poland and the atrocious Italian map non stop.

@dannaryan
Devs don’t prioritize adding new vehicles over anything else.
That’s not how game development works.

Abandoned Factory, Japan, and Tunisia are the same exact size they’ve always been.
Fields of Poland nor big Alamein changed size either.

Then why are there no important bug fixes and why has there been no innovation in regards to game modes? People have been crying out for updated/expanded versions of the current modes for years and zilch. Enduring Confrontation is just a broken now as it always was.

Some airfields still don’t have AA defences working properly or at all.
Airfield defenders that smash onto the airfield and sit there glitching all game.
Convoy missions with broken overpowered AA defences even in WW2 tiers.
Objectives that don’t spawn in.
Bomber escort missions where the bombers circle all game until they’re killed.
Aircraft carriers that sail outside of the map.
Glitched player lists that show a full room when at times only 3 people can be playing.
Runway lag that causes your aircraft to bounce and glitch until you retract your landing gear.
Broken cargo ship damage models that can be “alive” with 0% of the crew alive making objectives broken.

That’s just one game mode and the bugs I can think of right now and I’m clearly not a dev nor bug tester. I won’t go into aircraft with ancient models/cockpit models and flight models nor the cockpit instruments that always used to work but now don’t.

However what do we get with each update? New aircraft, copy/paste aircraft that are supposedly developed from the ground up and new tanks. Then what are the bug fixes after this? Fixing bugs that came with the new aircraft because they were added to the game in a broken state.

You can’t honestly tell me that fixing and improving their game is a priority for them. Concerning bugs like those I’ve listed have been reported for literally years and nothing. But we sure got that Typhoon and Rafale though.

It’s a Hungarian company.

Sajnálom, but we don’t do maintenance here, it is too much of a westerner philosophy and we all know the west is decadent and falling behind.

In this sacred magyarföld, we look solely to the future and innovation at all costs!