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War Thunder: Latest Patch Brings Host of Changes
SBFord
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The latest War Thunder patch has been deployed that adds new planes, new combat maps, Direct X 11 support and, most significantly, a new Progression System. Under the new system, players will have the ability to choose which plane to unlock next as they progress through levels and what modifications they wish to research for it.
8 new maps provide diverse combat scenarios, and all of the game locations got a serious visual overhaul thanks to updated render with DirectX 11 support. Test-flights are much improved now: players can chose different missions, the skill level of AI-opponents, time of the day, weather effects and many other parameters.
And, with the upcoming addition of Ground Forces Expansion, every player will be researching tanks and other vehicles from the beginning, regardless of previous experience with War Thunder. To read the official developers diary in full on the new system: http://warthunder.com/en/news/350/current/
Read more at the provided War Thunder link above.
Check out the video below for more details about the update.
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It wouldn't have been so bad if this is how it released and this was all we knew. I personally really like the freedom we had before that we would simply unlock a complete tier then pick and choose which plane we wanted or skipped the tier all together and grind up to the next one. Now we are forced to unlock planes we do not want so that we can get the next one in line. In fact this is one of the things I really hated about WoT. If I had unlocked a high tier in one line I had to regrind down another line if I want suddenly wanted to play that style at the higher tier. A huge point for me was I didn't have to do that, I could play fighters and unlock the higher tier and then get a nice bomber and skip all the crap ones.
Oh wait forgot I can still get any plane I want...I just have to pay for it with real world money now. Quite the money grab switch they made.
Planes from 1945 versus planes from 1941.
Guess which ones win consistently?
Yes, you can pick which plane to research, but most of your RP does NOT go to that plane. And as stated above, the game has gone the way of WoTs. Grind each plane/tank in order to unlock the next one. Even if the plane you need to unlock to get to the one you like really sucks.
And if your not on a premium account using a premium plane, the RPs are laughable. And even then their pretty bad.
1.37 = fail.
how do i +1 this?
Patch 1.37 has broken the back of this game for myself currently, and it's a second strike since 1.29 and the economy fiasco (but that was still closed beta) game changes on this scale should NOT happen in what is a "open" beta/soft launched" product. if this had been their "intent" from the start, why has it taken this long to implement?
truly, an NGE moment.