Basically just getting tired of seeing American artillery in basically every other TT. (Russia and Sweden some how not getting them yet)
Like i get that there’s a gap that these pieces do fill with these nations. But Is there really no other options that could at least lead to some diversity?
(The main 3 im talking about are the m44, m55 and m109 as of now)
They’re easy to play on arcade
I think most people agree that:
#1 Every nation should get a vehicle of some kind
#2 Unique vehicle models cost time and money
So if you make one vehicle model and reskin it for multiple nations you can fulfil #1 while avoiding #2
However
You have technically not spent any effort on developing the other nations except as an afterthought.
Nations that get too many “copy and paste” and not enough unique vehicles may feel side-lined.
Why US artillery? Because until now it was essentially the last untapped category of US export land vehicle that could be added to several nations at once.
SHOULD
Why? This doesn’t make any sense your saying that USSR and Sweden need SPHs, when they’ve had their own domestic ones for years?
Tbf Sweden could get even more domestic ones lol wouldn’t really bolster any of the lineups, besides the nations getting the M55 already had a 4.0 tank being the M44. I personally would’ve preferred seeing more domestic SPG’s for nations but oh well.
I will look foward to the German 600MM artilitery then
man im so happy i got some french in my american tech tree
Out of those I only have the M10 researched. Thankfully I was already at 7.7 when they started adding in the copy paste beginning with the m36 and the 105. So I have none of them researched.
Also reminded me lf this I made for another thread.
Laziness not obsession
Clearly shows Gaijin is extremely understaffed to keep all 10 nations in the game happy with unique additions. Grinding through mid tiers of some minor countries is such a pain, solely because of all the copypaste vehicles.
they outsource a lot of modelling and texture work
If they don’t add it to all nations who used it, then we get the usual forum “Where’s the [vehicle] for [nation]” posts?
Might as well get ahead of them and add them now
Time Yes, Money, should not be any problem with the amount of Premium vehicles i see in every BR.
NB.
it would take very little time and effort to make the German Arty.
Wespe is a PzII chassis, with basically the superstructure of a Marder, with the 105mm;
Hummel is basically the Nashorn with a150mm gun;
I’m all for M44/M55 spam, but it’s criminal we don’t have Wespe, Hummel, M7 Priest and the others.
can we agree on only US getting the m44? the others can get their domestic vehicles
Should’ve told those nations in the 'Nam era and Cold War not to buy American SPHs and should’ve built their own domestic ones so that people wouldn’t complain about Copy/Paste vehicles in a game 60 years from when they were built.
Hell, when we finally get 5th gen in the future, every nation will have an F-35 Lightning II except for China, Russia and India because everyone bought F-35s.
Its the same situation: While we have the Hummel and Wespe to think about for Germany, its a fact that Germany operated M55s. If Gaijin wanted to add domestic vehicles we would’ve had the Hummel and Wespe already.
As for some other countries, I can’t really think of contemporaries to the M55. As far as I am aware, the USA and USSR are the only nations that made 203mm SPH.
If we talk about the M44 filling in spaces:
While Germany can fill it in with the Hummel, England doesn’t have a 155mm armed Howitzer to fit that space. The Sexton and Bishop use 83mm guns so they’d have to be in a lower BR because 83mm HE is useless against anything above 2.0.
And the Priest uses a 105mm Howitzer which will put it at most 3.0. France has its options at least.
Russia should get its SU-14-2 model (used a 203mm Howitzer as well and was armoured, could be at 5.0 easily.)
Honestly I do not mind copy/paste, I mind copy/paste at the cost of domestic vehicles where applicable but lets not kid ourselves, the Wespe, Priest, Sexton and Bishop are NOT filling in a role the M44 and M55 are, their guns are too small and cannot be relied upon.
They have other designs providing that mechanic for them, especially the Soviets.
Sure there are. And they will come to the game. BUT.
The copy-paste allows Gaijin to give several tech trees access to the artillery mechanic without having to model several unique SPHs at once. This way, the famous ones can come one at a time and be a headline addition to individual updates.
For example, “Update Whatever Whatever” will have the Hummel, then six months later “Update What Other Ever” will have the Sexton, and so forth. This way, instead of “wasting” all of the cool designs in one update, you get to stretch out their introduction over a longer period of time, while still giving every tech tree parity in terms of mechanics.
Drip feed content industry works in predictable ways. If you understand the incentives, the rest is fairly straightforward.
If a vehicle exists, it will come to the game. I don’t see why it would not.
I’d replace British M44 with domestic (and Canadian) stuff like Bishop/Sexton. Then again, just had my first game in M55 in the German tree and it’s working out well so far, so idk, lol.
and this sucks a LOT! why tf do i have to grind another garbo copypaste sph when i play france? germany? china? why even have techtrees in the first place if we just get shitty copyslop
