Topic had to be moved, so here’s the OP:
I understand that the trend has been apparent for a few years, but to have it officially stated is immensely disappointing. I play top-tier AND low-mid tier. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t continue to expect WW2 vehicles IN THE MAIN TECH TREE. Where’s the Luchs? The A6M8 and Ki-64? I could go on…
I left a post under the video. I’d be curious to hear what others think.
Please also feel free to discuss your favorite WW2 vehicles that haven’t been added
As I said in my posts on the original topic. I’m here for the WW2 stuff primarily, so to hear this news saddens me.
Stuff like the Bishop, Priest, Sexton(been really wanting these 3 after they started to do SPH C&Ps) or more Sherman and Lee variants(and missing lease-land), or even BeNeLux low-tier/WW2 era tech.
I really want the Ki-93 as the mix of the 57 mm gun and bombs would be perfect for low-tier CAS, something Japan really needs more of
“Focus” doesn’t mean exclusion. War Thunder is still supporting WW2 additions.
However, I feel when they finish their focused areas they should start picking vehicles that will look random.
I want more P-47s as the prominent example.
There are some weak trainers I want.
I would love HUMVEEs and other trucks equipped with lower caliber weapons.
This year, 36 new low-tier vehicles were added to the game. Of these, five are vehicles from the “Great War” event, and another five are new Mosquito, some of which are C&P. To this number, we must add two vehicles in this update. It’s truly appalling. An average of 40 vehicles are added per update, and there are only four of them. That’s an average of 160 vehicles, and only 33-38 vehicles are low-tier.
For a player like me, who is not interested in the highest-tier (it doesn’t give me any pleasure) and has closed his wallet with gajin, there are even fewer new low-tier vehicles.
Hasn’t this been the case for awhile now?
Focusing more modern vehicles while adding WW2 vehicles here and there.
This was already evident, and now we have confirmation. The game’s developers literally believe there are too many WWII-era vehicles. This means we probably won’t see any more vehicles from Finland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, Sweden, China, Italy, Hungary, or other smaller nations from WWII.
Well, we will see at least one unique Belgian vehicle in the near future, but not by any Gaijin initiative
And that’s the big issue, we need user models to see these WW2/low tier, but there is no guarantee they’d be added as TT, iirc majority of the user models are unobtainium, when new TT examples are the big want.
Gajin has already demonstrated its abandonment of WW2-era vehicles. Japan is a prime example. In three years, only two vehicles were added: the B7A2 Battlepass and the Ki-48 event. Two planes and zero tanks in three years is a disastrous result. The last Japanese WW2-era tank was the Ka-Chi Battlepass, which appeared in 2021. Now, Gajin has confirmed that it no longer wants WW2-era vehicles.
I’m exhausted. For almost two years, I’ve written about 200 suggestions, 95% or more of which are for World War II vehicles. Now I know it was a waste of time, because “War Thunder has too many such vehicles.” I’m giving up writing any more suggestions until the end of the year.
I think Sweden still has several WW2 vehicles that should be added to the main tree, not premiums or event-only. There are real gaps in the early–mid ranks, and these vehicles would genuinely strengthen Swedish lineups:
And for the vehicles already in game, Strv m/40, m/41, and m/42 need smoke launchers. They had them historically, and adding them would improve survivability and bring them in line with other nations’ WW2 tank line-up
Also, i need a Tech-tree Landsverk Lynx.