Work-In-Progress: New Decals and QoL Features

[WanderingGhost]

@Stona_WT

Roundel Roundup

Some of our roundel decals were quite old, many of them were in the game before War Thunder was even publicly released! These older roundels were significantly scratched and weathered which didn’t look too great.

We’re currently in the process of updating these older roundels to make the weathering much less prominent and reduce the scratching to make them more suitable for use as actual roundels. There’s quite a few of them to get through, but we’re hoping to have these roundel updates completed by the next major update, though they may arrive later. Here’s a few we’ve finished already, you’ll definitely see the difference!

Instead of getting rid of them - can you just add the ‘cleaned up’ variants as alternatives? I go way back in this game - and honestly, I miss when you’d have things that look a little more beat up but as you got upgrades it’d look newer. Maybe even add a new category for ‘weathering’ in customization incase we maybe want to make our vehicles look a bit more war torn and used. Maybe even creates an option for Halloween to make things look more ghostly and like ‘zombie’ vehicles (applying weathering, battle damage, and effects/coloration over any other skin you use). But maybe I want my tank to look like it’s been on the road and all for a couple months without a fresh coat of paint and all, or like my plane has come off an airfield that’s been under fire for so long ain’t no one worried about painting and cleaning the thing just keeping it in the air to deal with planes.

[CamVPro]

Great update! be nice if each decal had a wear slider, but getting rid of the horrible scratching on loads of the old decals will be great regardless!

[Necronomica]

@WanderingGhost

Maybe even add a new category for ‘weathering’ in customization incase we maybe want to make our vehicles look a bit more war torn and used.

This already exists for ground vehicles in the customization menu. It would be neat to see for decals and other vehicles as well though :)

If you want to create a suggestion you can do that in the suggestion section here on the forum. That section is however pre-moderated and only posts that follow their rules and guidelines will get posted and it can take a couple of weeks for a post to get reviewed for publication. If it gets accepted and made public it then has a chance to get sent to the developers as a suggestion later on.

[da12thmonkey]

@Stona_WT

We’re also aiming to add some newer versions of existing roundels, such as adding modern variants of the roundels used by India and the Irish Air Corps (which previously only had their WW2 era variants).

Chance for a proper Australian Army + Navy kangaroo roundel?

examples from Wikipedia

File:Roundel of the Australian Army.svg - Wikimedia Commons

File:Roundel of Australia – Army Aviation.svg - Wikimedia Commons

There’s an unofficial makeshift hand-painted kangaroo for captured vehicles in the Britain>>>Tanks category,

But not the proper red or black ADF version like the one that has been used since the Vietnam War period right up until today on Australian AFVs, helicopters and ships

The Australian Army gave an overview of the development and history of the Kangaroo insignia on their social media Part.1 and Part.2

[Gridt]

Finally, us Fightin’ Irish are getting our current roundel

[Seboyin]

Yippee! In June I suggested to include the Uruguayan roundel! That’s great!