I don’t see any WW1 mode every to get added to the game.
Simply because of how the games economy is structured.
Gaijin makes money by selling Premium time and 60-70€ premium vehicles.
So adding WW1 and interwar vehicles would be zero profitable for them.
Unless they sell the game mode as a 60€ pack or you can unlock it after grinding to some higher ranks or something.
Since they are already making the models for WW1 aircraft for Aces of Thunder they can easily port them over to War Thunder since they will both be running on the same game engine and Aces is just War Thunder but working VR so it wouldn’t cost them much to do it.
Well that would work.
Sounds like the only way to improve WT nowadays is for Gaijin to make other games and then re-use the assets 😄
If Aces of Thunder sells like hotcakes because of the WWI aircraft, it’s bound to mean something. Gaijin would likely see it as a signal not to waste the opportunity to expand on this success by bringing full WWI content to War Thunder. It could open up an entirely new era of aviation/ground gameplay and potentially attract a new audience interested in the early history of aviation and ground vehicles before the 1930s.
Well then, looks like the April Fools event this year will be WW1 with aircraft, tanks and infantry for testing.
We’ll have to wait and see what exactly it is like but god damn I have hope
Since we now have some WW1 tanks in the TT’s now as rewards I think in the future any more WW1 vehicles are going to be added just at the start of the TT’s rather than in separate WW1 TT’s. Seeing this I put together a simple WW1 British aviation TT as rank 0 with 0.0-0.7 BR’s.
Planning on making some more for other nations such as Germany, France, USA etc with the aircraft each nation used throughout WW1 when I have the time to.
+1 I’ve been loving the event, so I’d love more.
Why stop there? How about a 1939 to 1953 like before missiles became a widespread thing, that could also be fun?
Yes please, I want to see the Sopwith Camel Biplane. +1!
The little known “hamilton” or “oakland victoria” tank, a competitor to the ford 3 man tank. It was intended to house a 37mm gun in a rotating turret
Probably the stangest american design of the time that saw any production
DEV add simply a ww1\interwar event in simulator! top event ever
Another option to implementation is rank 0 as show this picture (as several people have already suggested here):
Practically the possibility to do research from rank 1 to rank 0, whoever wants to (reverse research - from more modern to less modern). Rank 1 remains the starting tier, so research will not be extended for those who go for more modern machines. The advantages over what is proposed in this thread are that all vehicles remain in their own folders and no additional folders are needed that can be used for other types of machines such as submarines.
This is a much better implementation. Had exactly this in mind when I was playing. Rank 0 alone, though, would probably need new maps. Most of the ones we have in rotation currently are terrible. Not only in aesthetics, but also gameplay wise with the ww1 vehicles. Already hate when this happens in-game, you’re in early 2000 with a pz3 and it just kills any sort of interesting immersion.
I’d like to suggest the possibility of adding an official, permanently available campaign mode for Ground Forces, focused on historical battles. Below are key reasons supporting this idea:
Thank you for considering this proposal. We appreciate your time and dedication to War Thunder!
+1 I wanna see more atrociously bad doohickeys to goof off in when playing custom battles
Took a while but I finished some possible TT’s for American and German WW1 Air TT’s.
Going to be doing one for France soon (hopefully if I have the time).
Oh no compression for WW1 also ))
Decided to make these two into official suggestions.
Finally got the first one approved.
More or less for me I would like to see more maps in the designated era because that would provide the excuse to add the old tanks. The WW1 tanks don’t play that poorly they got the bio robot armour and they got a strategic gameplay eco system
With the addition of Infantry mode, a WW1 mode doesnt seem that far off.
