I’ve had this concept for an alternative to sub-trees, it goes like this:
Every nation would have thier own tree, regardless of how many vehicles they have, and they would be seperated by major and minor trees. Every minor tree would be tied to 1 or more major trees, and you can put vehicles from minor trees in your major tree lineups, if that makes sense. Taking East Germany as an example, you’d have to play Germany and/or Russia to about rank 5 (which is where most East German vehicles would start appearing likely), and then you’d be able to start playing that minor tree as well. This is already kinda in the game, with having to unlock tier 4 for America (I think?) to be able to play with Israel.
Not a very detailed explenation, but I hope I’m getting the idea across. There are a lot of nations that don’t have enough vehicles for a full tree, but would get only a fraction of their vehicles if added as a sub-tree. This way you could easily add every vehicle a nation used without clutering existing trees a ton, and you’d also be able to research a single nation per tree, instead of several at the same time, though that’s more of a personal thing.
To go allong with this, I’d give massive research discount on full copy-paste vehicles if you have already researched one of them.
The older better damage models where tails didn’t fall off. Cockpit damage and oil on the screen as mentioned earlier, the old sound for the Tempest and 190D where you can actually hear the engine from the cockpit and did they remove the turbulence when behind aircraft?
Also the older external aircraft sounds where each aircraft actually sounded like they did in reality instead of the generic sounds they make now.
Historical matchmaking and historical EC! Give this game some of its immersion back! Also the old one spawn team deathmatch for sim.
Oh and the older 190 flight model where it had a nastier stall but was far more dynamic to fly. Don’t forget replace some of the new flight models with the older ones that actually stall correctly…
Having it work as sub-nations would help a lot when it comes to faction battles. That way we can have a US-UK/France VS USSR-Germany that makes sense. It’d be interesting to see more alt-history stuff that I might make a whole thread about.
War Thunder was an aircraft game and it was good we didn’t have constant premiums needed to progress through the ranks. The flight models were well detailed you could very much tell the difference when flying a Spitfire and a 109 the nuances.
Tanks were great in the beginning but now…Sorry tank combat is some of the worst and the game is hugely imbalanced…Top tier SAMs sure lets just exclude 3 nations from that… And it isn’t the first time some nations haven’t ever had competitive or meta vehicles. Name me another game that handles new additions like that…Oh here guys we are adding this M4 with red dot and laser sight very cool right…Oh but only to 3 nations the rest of you can keep using those WW2 bolt actions…We will get to you eventually.
He seems to be the current self appointed forum superstar. I’ve been subjecting myself to these forums off and on for years; they come in phases. I miss the old ones lke Dodo_Dud or Stavroforos. They at least were interesting.
I would like to see more Boxes like the Battlepass one. Just a few otherwise unavailable vehicles with nothing else in it, so we 100% get a vehicle out of it.