1.97 Rumor Round-Up and Discussion

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24 minutes ago, Shad0wChaser said:

Am I the only one hoping for interwar/pre-WW2 content this update? lol

I love such content too, but unfortunately these vehicles are considered as "grind and forget" by most of players, while they are quite fun. 

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4 minutes ago, _Condottiero_ said:

I love such content too, but unfortunately these vehicles are considered as "grind and forget" by most of players, while they are quite fun. 

I consider Medium and heavy bombers grind and forget 

[Shad0wChaser 33]

1 hour ago, snake271 said:

Yes

 

Oof, clearly I wasn't 

[WT_CT_Center 2,395]

Id just like to congratulate everyone on getting to the 45th page even though 1.97 is still over a month away and we haven't seen a single dev blog for the update.

I'm proud of every single one of you 

[TheAntiAirGuy 2,131]

1 hour ago, WT_CT_Center said:

Id just like to congratulate everyone on getting to the 45th page even though 1.97 is still over a month away and we haven't seen a single dev blog for the update.

I'm proud of every single one of you 

Thanks 

At least we're keeping this thread alive and worthy of a look from time to time, instead of acting dead till the first devblog

[Smin1080p_WT 60,444]

1 hour ago, WT_CT_Center said:

Id just like to congratulate everyone on getting to the 45th page even though 1.97 is still over a month away and we haven't seen a single dev blog for the update.

I'm proud of every single one of you 

 

And we haven't even had a Mirage spam outbreak yet!

 

Oh...

[Cedjoe 5,482]

3 minutes ago, Smin1080p said:

 

And we haven't even had a Mirage spam outbreak yet!

 

Oh...

An easy way to prevent it would be to publish its devblog 

[SasquatchFox360 1,006]

4 minutes ago, Smin1080p said:

 

And we haven't even had a Mirage spam outbreak yet!

 

Oh...

Thank goodness last time was annoying 

[warhammus 68]

We just give up. That's why, there is no spam.

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1 hour ago, WT_CT_Center said:

Id just like to congratulate everyone on getting to the 45th page even though 1.97 is still over a month away and we haven't seen a single dev blog for the update.

I'm proud of every single one of you 

 

Many more pages than 45 for me 

[MERTRAL 1,685]

8 hours ago, Smin1080p said:

 

And we haven't even had a Mirage spam outbreak yet!

 

Oh...

i smell something.

 

[Stavroforos 15,367]

Getting the first dev blogs a week earlier than expected would certainly be welcome :P 

[Serpiko82 7,875]

Isn't the recent trend to start the devblogs season with a new bundle announcement on a Friday/Saturday? 

[Cedjoe 5,482]

1 minute ago, Serpiko82 said:

Isn't the recent trend to start the devblogs season with a new bundle announcement on a Friday/Saturday? 

True but I’d bet on next Friday.

[Whiskoof 1,506]

Did i saw the M. word ?

 

Edited February 6, 2020 by Whiskoof

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21 minutes ago, Serpiko82 said:

Isn't the recent trend to start the devblogs season with a new bundle announcement on a Friday/Saturday? 

I doubt we will see anything until WWM finally ends. So probably on the next week.

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1 hour ago, Whiskoof said:

Did i saw the M. word ?

 

 

magazine2? 

[MERTRAL 1,685]

Can I have the M-word pass ?

 

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Any idea what nation will get the traditional twin engine fighter this update? 

 

Edited February 6, 2020 by irisarribase

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2 minutes ago, irisarribase said:

Any idea what nation will get the traditional twin engine fighter? 

 

 

There are still American ones I'm hanging out for.

[Cedjoe 5,482]

https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/476359-qa-answers-from-the-developers/

[gszabi99_HUN 10,176]

@magazine2 https://warthunder.com/en/news/6575-qa-answers-from-the-developers-en

 

Plane chaff/flare system planned.

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Do you have any plans to add countermeasures for aircraft that had them? According to “Phantom FGR Mk 2 Aircrew Manual - Weapon System Second Edition” the FGR.2 had a Chaff/Flare system introduced with Mod. 855. MiG-21SMT could also have a retrofitted countermeasure system too.

Yes, we plan to add defense systems for aircraft - such as flares and radar warning systems - which were equipped with them in real life.

 

ZSU-23-2 Yenisei planned.

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After “Shilka” we are waiting for ZSU “Yenisei”. Almost all other nations already have such vehicles. Is it still planned to implement this vehicle?

Yes it is still planned.

 

Tank MGs on the backburner.

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Some tanks are still missing functional hull mounted MGs. In addition, some low-mid tier Japanese and German tanks don't have their AA MGs mounted on the roof, whilst most American and Soviet vehicles do. Are you still working on making MGs functional for all vehicles? Do you plan to bring Japan and German tank mounted Anti-Aircraft MGs more into line with the Allied ones?

When adding machine guns, or rather when “reviving” them - we first of all included the most necessary and useful ones: coaxial with a cannon and anti-aircraft guns. Offensive machine guns also had very low efficiency in real life due to poor visibility and small sectors of fire and in the game they appeared as an exception on the vehicles that don’t have any other machine guns. The latter refers to German SPG’s or Japanese tanks which had a rather strange design without a coaxial machine gun. As for anti-aircraft machine guns of rifle calibre - their efficiency in the game is quite low as well as against aircraft as against ground targets. Therefore the priority of adding them to the game is quite low and we often have higher priority tasks but we will continue to add them when possible.

 

More Chinese SPAA in 2020.

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The Chinese Ground Forces tree could really use some more attention for its low tier SPAAG’s and also its top tier in general. Are there more unique vehicles planned for this tree in the coming year?

Yes, the Chinese ground forces research tree suffers from the lack of decent anti-aircraft guns, at low ranks as well as at high ranks. We understand this and several models of the Chinese SPAA are already in the development and will be added during this year.

 

Italian or French naval tree in development.

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With update 1.95, we saw the arrival of the Swedish air tree and the start of a Ground Forces tree, but do you have any long term ideas about any form of Swedish/Finnish/Scandinavian Naval tree?

At the moment another nation’s fleet is in the development and it is too early to talk about the Swedish naval tree.

 

More squadron vehicles.

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Do you have plans to introduce new Squadron vehicles? Most people have most of them by now.

Yes, we have plans to add squadron vehicles on a regular basis.

 

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I've added, from here to main post:

 

-Swedish Hunter 

-Aircraft flares and radar warning system

-Developing missile battle system beyond visual range

-ZSU Yenisei 

-Chinese SPAA planned

-Swedish helicopters "most likely"

-Added new section "Other helicopters" with Mi-24 Superhind and Denel Rooivalk as not excluded as a possibility

[Cedjoe 5,482]

1 minute ago, gszabi99_HUN said:

Italian or French naval tree in development.

They're talking about only one fleet being WIP so I would expect it to be the Italian one (unless it's already ready for next update and they started working on the French navy... which is very unlikely).

[Stavroforos 15,367]

I would hope he means Italians are ready to go and that they're working on the French one, but I think realistically we should only expect Italian navy.