What happend to the Carrier Ship crews?

I havent taken off or landed on a carrier a long time now using test drive , so i just did and looking at the carrier i remembered something.
I remember few years back when we played carriers there used to be a ton of crew members on the side of the landing board , and there was also a crew member who would like check on the plane and the nrun back bend on his knee waiting you to leave. There was also plenty of crew on the balconies etc.
I cannot be delusional , since i even looked it up and not even AI has source of this
It was honestly a detail that i really liked in the game , i used to shoot the crew with my machine gunner xDD.
Do you remember this? I wish to see it coming back , we anyways got a bunch of unwanted things , why was this gone in the first place.

This is what carriers look like now. Empty

Just to compare here are some screenshots from only a few years ago videos , you can clearly see there is some crew scattered arround looking
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And on this one , yes i know its poor quality picture , but you can also there is a crewman standing on the side of the landing board
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you right, they used to exist, is it just on the new test drives? what about on some of the older missions that had them like the midway and other pacific missions?

i will have a look

They have the people on the Normandy map Carriers. As for the test drive maps, they just have those models. It’s a shame really. Those would be really fun to play on Naval. I’m actually currently working on a video about all the Aircraft carriers in War Thunder (WW2 era) right now.

apparentley i tried playing single missions with a friend those on corporate mode what its called aaaand , we just get this message No available vehicle , even though we both have the mission

You can still see them on the carrier takeoff and torpedo bomber tutorial.


Still, it’s very sad you don’t see them a lot.