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2 February 2017 Development

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Hi, soldiers!
Welcome to the Developer Q&A section, in which we’re going to publish our most exciting development plans and explanations about how the game mechanics work. Simply and concisely.

Read more in the Feedback and Developer Answers Compilation sections on our official forum.

Aircraft

Are there any plans for new top aircraft for Japan such as the J8M (Navy version of Ki-200), P-2J Neptune or the Mitsubishi F-86F-40 Sabre variant?

Not within the next patch. Later, it is possible that we may add some of these aircraft.

What do you think, does it make sense to limit the dive speed of aircraft in AB with flutter speed? It’s just that a Yak-3 diving at 800+ or a Cobra at around 1,000 km/h kind of sucks.

It already works how you described in AB, the aircraft’s speed in a dive is limited by its maximum indicated airspeed, at which in RB the aircraft is destroyed. For the Yak-3 this is around 720 km/h indicated, while the true speed might be closer to 900 km/h.

Ground vehicles

Is there a change or increase planned for the ‘assortment’ of aircraft for tank AB? Particularly for fighters and bombers.

Yes, we have plans for this. I don’t think you’ll have to wait very long.

Are there plans to continue supporting expanding the Japanese Ground Forces tree with new machines in the future after the CBT has concluded? Such as ST-A3 and ST-A4, Heavy tanks (O-I Family), Armoured cars, ATGMs, SPAAG and perhaps more Premiums?

Yes, we plan to expand the current tree for Japanese ground forces, primarily the addition of ATGM’s, which are missing in Japan, and of course, a top SPAAG.

Are you considering the possibility of adding a SPAAG based on the BTR-152 in the 5.0-7.3 BR range? (The USSR has a severe lack of anti-air vehicles there, especially rapid-firing ones capable of effectively shooting down agile fighters)

We have plans for a SPAAG based on the BTR-152, but I don’t think it will be at such a high BR.

Why are many vehicles in the game ‘balanced’ based on whether they have APCR shells? You yourselves know that the presence of APCRs provides the vehicle a disservice: they provide a minimum advantage in terms of ammunition assortment, which becomes a reason for an unjust increase in BR.

That isn’t always the case. For many tanks, APCRs provide a significant increase in their ability to knock out targets that were previously invulnerable to them.

How soon will the Pz.Bfw.VI (P)’s battle rating be reduced in Realistic Battles? Many topics and suggestions have been created about this. Many reviewers that work with Gaijin have spoken NEGATIVELY about this vehicle, and with each new patch the situation for the Tiger only worsens, as the number of vehicles of other nations that end up in the 6.3-7.0 BR range is growing FAR more actively than the number for the 5.0-6.0 range. Porsche’s lead Tiger is poor and getting even worse – so why hasn’t its BR been changed?

It’s possible that this will be changed during the next BR change and economy recalculation.

There is a Type 60 SPRR. This SPG has two configurations – marching and battle. Will the marching configuration be implemented? It can still fire in this configuration, incidentally.

We don’t currently have plans for this.

Will there be any changes to the repair mechanics? It looks frankly absurd when damage dealt by a high-caliber 122 mm cannon is repaired more quickly than the cannon reloads. Especially in Simulator Battles.

We arrived at the current repair speeds, including for SB, based on the results of reviews in part from players themselves. Initially, the time was much longer. We have no plans to change this.

Dear developers. When will a turret be able to drop ONTO the ground after being blown off by a shell explosion? When it just falls through the texture, it sort of looks bad. Many patches ago now, you said you’d enable this feature when the game was released, but now there’s no sign of it. Are there problems with it?

There are certain difficulties with this, but we still plan to implement the feature.

Will we see more Chinese tanks as premium / event / reward vehicles for the Soviet tree in the future such as Type 58 and Type 59? Or will there be a separate Chinese nation tree in the future?

It is possible that we will add other tanks of the Chinese nation in the form of promotional or premium tanks.

Will the 7.7mm (303) Browning aircraft machine gun (British and American) sound be updated? It is currently the oldest aircraft gun sound still remaining and sounds somewhat out of place compared to the others.

Work on the sounds in game is ongoing. So it is possible.

What possibility is there to see more novel but unique (such as opening cockpits that we already have) features for aircraft like Drop Tanks, Folding Wings (Naval Aircraft), RATO, Landing lights and working tail/nose wheels when taxying on the ground?

Yes there are several features we’d like to implement for aircraft. First of all - we will continue creating operating canopies, secondly we are working on animated chassis parts, thirdly - a more realistic bombsight, as for the visuals - we’d like to add exhaust stack flame.

Navy

In recent naval tests, I noticed that the rangefinder in the scope doesn’t show a distance of more than 3,000, which means you can’t fire further than that either. It feels like the shells just won’t fly farther than that – is that an intentional limitation?

The shells do fly much farther of course, it’s just that the rangefinder doesn’t provide a ballistic solution for the angle of elevation at distances greater than 3 km. This is a temporary issue that wasn’t particularly problematic for boat skirmishes with automatic cannons, but has become important on large and open maps.

General

Do you plan to divide the pilot’s hitbox (and possibly the tanker’s) into deadly and critical zones, so that when you hit them (for example in the head or torso) it would be a one-shot, but when hitting an arm or leg – it would reduce the states of the pilot\tanker? On top of that, right now killing someone by hitting them in the foot makes one think of the mythical Achilles and his heel.

We don’t have any such plans at the moment. It is to imitate this divide that tankers don’t die from any impact, but only from a threshold impact or several small ones that break the threshold together.

The War Thunder Team

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JokerEndsYou666

2 February 2017

hello can to put sturmtiger in war thunder?

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Colonel_Hogan2

2 February 2017

It would be so fun to play

HardeKern

2 February 2017

yeas Sturmtiger needs to crush the freaqin OP Noob ATGM;s!

WIZARD

2 February 2017

Are you planning to add wwII Yugoslavia flag? There is a flags of some other countries that existed during the wwII so it would be nice to have this one also.

dodo01nl

2 February 2017

hey Gaijin, I know I've asked it before on the shooting range. But can you maybe make it so that if you're capturing a zone, that you'll get points based on how long you've been in the cap circle? Because it happens quite often to me (and I'm pretty sure I'm far from the only one) that I have been capturing the zone for quite some time, just to get killed at the very last moment. And then once the zone is captured, you don't get any credit for it at all.

mrpb5525

3 February 2017

Yeah no kidding! also make a incentive to make the fighter pilots actually protect the bombers! they wont if it is just a suggestion!

grekos95

2 February 2017

any plans for german m47 or any other bundeswehr tanks?

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CptSlyPT

2 February 2017

Germmany needs a 7.3 and fast

Vand3rz

2 February 2017

And DDR tanks (just because I love Cold War Soviet tanks, Bundeswehr is still no. 1).

ThugStug

2 February 2017

Is this StuG IV every planned? It could be a sub-tree of the StuG 3 g.

Dauntless262

2 February 2017

I have been wondering this myself. Maybe as a premium? Or could they be waiting to give it to a future Italian tree? (I know the Italians never actually used the StuG IV, but then again neither did the Japanese use the Tiger)

MagicalPowers

2 February 2017

I'm 99% sure that they said no to the StuG IV unfortunately.

GreenAid

2 February 2017

What about Japanese gun sounds for Japanese tanks? Any plans about that?

Miguel2198ESP

2 February 2017

I want to hear new sounds for them too, they sound like the germans

cereal_killa

2 February 2017

We also need minefields to protect spawns in Ground battles where your team can see where to go to avoid the mines but when enemys come to spawn camp they will be destroyed. Idk just something, anything at all to deter spawn camping. I know we get a few seconds of invulnerability but when there are multiple enemies at your spawn a few seconds is worthless at the most you can take out one enemy tank before they destroy you and thats with a good shot.

Fliegel

2 February 2017

Repair times use to be really long and that was frustrating yes. But that doesn't mean that the opposite extreme is better. Especially when now damage model is much less lethal, the frustration just transferred to the attacker. Especially if he has to use solid shot and snipe each member with reload time not much faster than crew agile switch. That leads to truly bitter moments when the attacker lose even if outplayed the target.

KapitanSolovey

2 February 2017

Yeah I wish they would've said something about World War mode, and also about the much requested BR re-evaluation. Especially for the U.S. I'd much rather have them fix what they already have rather than create new things that'll eventually get nit-picked by the community over and over again just creating even MORE work. But I suppose I can't complain that they're working on stuff that'd still be essential

FrizFreleng

3 February 2017

Yes. Fix your game, Gaijin. Fix the arcade bomber spam. Fix the invisible tanks. Fix the wonky damage modeling in air and ground forces. Fix the wonky RNG that allows you to one shot everything one day, and shoot cotton balls the next. Fix the ahistorical ammo issues, and the erroneous armor values, and decide for good whether HEAT-FS should be buffed or nerfed or both and then stick with it. Please please create an entire patch devoted simply to fixing the content you already have.

Boamere

2 February 2017

Are the brits going to get the chieftain mk 5/4? As brits only get one competitive 8.0 currently

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squidtaylor

2 February 2017

Hope they do. Although the Chieftains good you have no other real competitive tanks to hope in if you die in the Chieftan.

Oberstleutnant_L

2 February 2017

squidtaylor, Well, there is the centurion mk10