******Official War Thunder Thread*******

SarGara said:
Question time!

When i first started playing years ago now (cant remember when) I was able to customise my KV2 so that all 4 decals made the tank appear Red by stretching/zooming them massively:
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I tried to edit one of the decals but now its not letting me stretch/zoom the last one in the same way it was previously??
Why is it I can have a stretched/zoomed decal on a tank working perfectly but now cannot reapply the same thing. How do i get this back? :(
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They stopped people stretching the decals as people were using it to make their tanks look burned out for simulator battles, may have done the same!
 
Ok that's fine but if it was to prevent an exploit why have they not removed it from existing tanks!? By that logic those who were exploiting still can as their stretched decals will still be applied like mine is surely?

Annoying!
 
Boycey0211 said:
They stopped people stretching the decals as people were using it to make their tanks look burned out for simulator battles, may have done the same!
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Oh yes Mr Boycey, it was totally because of people making their tanks look wrecked, and nothing at all to do with making rude slogans on their planes from the "Panchito" decal! :D

(I was about to linky the paintjobs on my planes, but then realised I'll probably get a hefty suspension for it - so just fly with me if you want to know what I'm on about!)
 
I think I'm a bit... fed up, with War Thunder to be honest.

The underlying game mechanics haven't changed or adapted much (hardly at all) since I started playing. Certain things are largely broken, and end up spoiling certain aspects of the game, and no matter how many complaints, or helpful suggestions that are put forward on the official forum, Gaijin simply do not listen to their player base.

Instead, they seem far too busy on filling their game with premium one-off tanks and planes, and adding tier 5 stuff (Hunter and T92?!?) which most people will never own due to the ever-increasing massiveness of the grind, and are therefore only in as blatant cash-grabs. :(

The game can be fun at times, but the matchmaking is still ridiculously broken. I don't really want to be fighting biplanes when I have 20mm cannon armed fast monoplanes, and neither do I want to be facing BR 4.3 planes when I have a BR 3.0 lineup (which happens far more frequently than it should)

And sadly, gone are some of the "fun" elements of the game, in favour of pseudo-realism.

Gone is the LA-5 of the Red Bull Air racer days, where its' roll rate was less than 1s for a full 360 roll, and you could dance around the skies laughing in the face of your enemies.

Gone is the Troll-tastic H6K of doom, and its' ability to cap airfields whilst shredding biplanes with its' 20mm rear cannon while absorbing thousands of 7mm bullets whilst laughing gloriously.

Sure, some of this kind of thing died in favour of balance - but with it, some of the fun got killed too. I'm not entirely convinced that Gaijin knows how to create a 'fun' game - some of the fun seems to have come along almost by accident, rather than by design.
Daily login rewards? Rewards which REQUIRE you to have the full game client installed, so that anyone on holiday or not able to access their PC for a short while loses out on any decent rewards? (And the less said about that garbage, the better. Remember x5 XP weekends anyone? Ha!)

British tanks. One last hurrah, one final grind some way up the tech tree, and then that may be the end of my War Thundering exploits. Hopefully they won't be too diabolical to play, and I do look forward to sending 17pdr shells into smug T34's and wrecking them so hard! :D
 
I have to agree with you there Matt. Between a mix of parental obligations and losing a bit of interest, I don't play anywhere near as much as I once did.

I still enjoy playing some RB, but that is about it. Tanks have yet to appeal to me, which hopefully the introduction of British ones will help, but I am probably going to try some other stuff soon. Liking the look of a few things but I just don't quite get enough time to delve into something as much as I would like to thanks to long working hours and being a dad.

Still enjoy it though, just not quite as much.
 
I think the main problem stems from the MM, its infuriating when we all get gimped by it and personally that means that I've had my good streak for the day so I may aswell just go play something else.

That and the broken ballistics, broken driviability models, same old stale maps and as mentioned the grindfest.

Think I'm going to play planes a bit more as I've neglected them, but even they bore me at high tiers
 
Played last night in my Meteor a fair bit and got some great MM time after time, only played Hokkaido twice out of about 10 games?! Mainly went up against Germany and RU.

Wowzers, what have they done to the Ho-229?! NEVER fight that thing in the horizontal or try to loose it in a dive, doesn't work ;) I really suffered at the hands of Ho-229 pilots until towards the end.

I think I started to figure out how to play against them though. I had a great time in a 1:1 with a ho-229, we were fighting on Norway for about 5 minutes after I killed his AR234 wingman. I found the best way to approach was head-on since clearly the Ho-229 can't make small adjustments with rudder too well (does it even have rudder controls?), so we did this a couple of times but my poor joystick aim meant that I couldn't end it early. We both ended up just above sea level with our engines damaged and very limited thrust and got into an interesting couple of minutes like this until I managed to nail him by pulling up out of the circle and diving straight down onto him. Unfortunately my engines then packed up and I ditched/crashed.
 
Just thought I'd have a nostalgic browse....

Remember when War Thunder used to be fun like this?

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And it gave you rewards like this?



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Yep that's 46,000XP from a single battle. :D I miss version 1.35

Thinking about completing the grind for the Ferdinand, then that's me out of playing high tier German tanks.
 
FirebarUK said:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/827

Ooooooh yes! Firefly, Achilles and Black Prince. Firefly at Tier 3 ;)
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Loving the look of the A13! I'll definitely purchase that. Not sure on the Achilles though, the American M10's turret rotation speed was rage worthy.

How will it work out of interest? With them only releasing 4 premium tanks ahead of the normal roster, will you only be able to enter battle with 1 tank in your roster and then have to quit to hanger when that 1 tank is dead because you have nothing else from that nation to continue with?
 
I gave up on the game when they nerfed the premium Typhoon mechanics, the British line up was neutered and I couldn't be bothered with the grind on the other nations to get a competitive line up again.
 
ci_newman said:
I gave up on the game when they nerfed the premium Typhoon mechanics, the British line up was neutered and I couldn't be bothered with the grind on the other nations to get a competitive line up again.
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Theyve buffed it back up again, I was annoyed too.

Brit line is as good as it used to be at 3.7 IMO, despite the stealth nerfs they seem to have gone back the other way
 
Wait, when did this change? :D

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Ohhh British 3.7, how sweet you are....

(Sadly, just to rub salt in a bit, the Hurricane MkIIC now has a BR of 4.0, so that's best left out of your lineup to avoid hitting lots of 5.0 planes)
 
matt_fsr said:
Wait, when did this change? :D

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Ohhh British 3.7, how sweet you are....

(Sadly, just to rub salt in a bit, the Hurricane MkIIC now has a BR of 4.0, so that's best left out of your lineup to avoid hitting lots of 5.0 planes)
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Problem is the handling has been greatly nerfed over time. It's horrible to fly now and you really really feel the lack of power in the Allison engine. Mind you, I'm talking about RB.

I remember when the Mustang Mk1A had a ridiculous flight model, it handled like a dream and you simply couldn't stall it. I got *so* many kills with it back then it became my most popular aircraft. I think stat wise its still the plane I've spent most time in.

I picked up the Seafire with the contra-rotating propellers the other day (Seafire FR.47). Disappointed :( https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/263540-seafire-fr-47/
 
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