Hoje vamos falar de novos decalques, lógica de aplicação de camuflagens em veículos e categoria de favoritos em decalques e decorações!

Gestão de camuflagens

Recentemente temos vindo a trabalhar no processo de escolha automática de camuflagens em batalha, e estas alterações vieram diretamente das sugestões. Vocês sugeriram que as camuflagens do mercado pudessem entrar na lista de camuflagens selecionáveis automaticamente e pediram ainda a possibilidade de excluir algumas camuflagens.

Hoje vamos cobrir ainda outra melhora. Temos a certeza que cada um de vós tem a própria camuflagem favorita, quer seja uma que tenham comprado, quer seja uma que tenham ganho em eventos ou streams. Todo o mundo quer vê-las em batalha. Anteriormente, podiam trocar para uma camuflagem diferente antes de entrar para a partida, mas no calor da batalha, selecionar uma camuflagem torna-se algo secundário.

A vosso pedido, refinámos o sistema de seleção automática de camuflagens. Agora podem designar qualquer camuflagem como padrão. Vamos a um exemplo prático: Forest1 é a camuflagem padrão, mas também têm Forest2 e Winter1. Se selecionarem Forest2 como padrão, ela será automaticamente aplicada, mas se entrarem num mapa de inverno, Winter1 continua a ser aplicada.

Se a vossa camuflagem padrão for válida em qualquer mapa, será sempre aplicada, mas se não for válida, será aplicada a alternativa. Agora já não vão precisar de perter tempo nem ter de se lembrar de mudar de camuflagem!.

Favoritos!

Ao longo destes anos adicionámos inúmeros decalques ao jogo. Temos cerca de um milhar à disposição, e todos os meses adicionamos mais decalques especiais. Vocês também já devem ter uma coleção considerável, e provavelmente têm os vossos favoritos que gostam de usar em todos os veículos. Vocês pediram-nos para separar os vossos decalques e decorações favoritas, e com a atualização Heavy Cavalry vamos adicionar essa mesma funcionalidade! Agora vamos ter o novo menu Favoritos para os decalques e para as decorações. Basta clicarem no ícone de Favorito para adicionar a decoração à lista.

Decalques e decorações em sistemas SAM

Os sistemas SAM são parte integral das batalhas de alto nível, e como tal, todo o mundo vai querer customiza-los. Anteriormente só podiam aplicar decalques e decorações no veículo principal, enquanto os auxiliares ficavam meramente espelhados. Na próxima atualização, vão poder customizar estes veículos! Dêem-lhes aquele toque de mestre!

New Decals!

It’s been a while since we’ve routinely added new decals to the game on a permanent basis, but in the Heavy Cavalry major update we’ll start to add decals for nations that currently don’t have any, or have very few. Below are some examples of what we’ve been working on.

French Navy

Like most navies, markings directly applied to ships are relatively uncommon, so for the French navy we’ve used their badges for inspiration here. In the 1930s, French naval traditions led to the creation of individual pin badges for practically every ship in the fleet, that would be worn by the crew of each vessel. The creation of these badges were not particularly standardized, which led to many unique and interesting designs being created, often drafted by members of the crew themselves.

As these emblems only existed as pins, or in some cases Tape de bouche (Gun muzzle covers), we’ve created the decals in more of a “what if” style, taking the original emblems and giving them a hand-painted look, like how they probably would’ve looked if they were historically painted onto ships. This is a somewhat new approach for us, so let us know what you think!

Japanese Navy

Prior to the Second World War, Japan painted names onto the hulls of its destroyer class vessels. This practice was limited to destroyers, and featured the name of the ship in large katakana characters on both sides of the hull. Most names of this period fell into two primary classes: 1st Class destroyers (over 1,000 tons) were named after the weather, wind, tide, current, waves, moon, seasons, and other natural phenomena, the less common 2nd Class destroyers (600–1,000 tons) were named after plants. An outlier here was the Mutsuki class, which contained 12 ships all named after a calendar month.

After Japan joined the Second World War, they scrubbed the katakana names from the hull sides, as it was of course not particularly wise to telegraph the exact name of the ship to the enemy. After the war, the newly formed JMSDF returned the tradition for its surface fleet, but painted the names in hiragana, as a deliberate symbolic separation from the IJN.

We’ve included a few examples for ships we have in the game, both of the WW2 era and post-war. In some cases it was quite a challenge to accurately recreate the names, as photos of the time are often not particularly clear when it comes to the finer details. Regardless, we’ve done our best to faithfully recreate these markings for you to unlock and customize your vehicles with, we hope you like them!

Hungarian Aircraft

Following the Hungarian additions from the last update, we’ve added some decals for their air forces as well. Several of these come from WM-21 squadrons, a particularly nice one is the chief, which could be accurately recreated thanks to a detailed photo in an old Hungarian aviation magazine.

We’ve also included the famous wasp emblem of the 1/1. Vadászszázad. Interestingly though, even though the emblem was clearly a wasp, the official nickname of the squadron was “Dongó” (Bumblebee). Because of the wasp emblem (which was likely chosen as it was more aggressive than a bee), even in 1940 the squadron began to be called “Darázs” (Wasp), which makes using the correct official name in relation to the emblem seem like an error funnily enough.

We’ve also included the dive bombing eagle of the 102/1 fast bomber squadron which operated the Me 210C, and the “Pöttöm” inscription, which means pint-sized or tiny. It’s uncertain whether this was the pilot’s nickname or an affectionate moniker for his Fw 190 F-8, this one’s a little mystery...

That’s not all though, among examples listed above, the update will include more decals for the Italian Army and Navy, the Chinese Army and Air Forces, and the Indonesian Air Forces! In future major updates we’ll steadily add more decals for nations that are missing some options as well.

That’s all from us for today, customization is an integral part of War Thunder, so we hope you like these new features and be sure to check out all the new decals when the Heavy Cavalry update releases!