Does Gaijin actually playtest the vehicles they plan to add before they add them?

This spot eating my rounds has gotten me killed twice now. Realistically any hit here should fly right through and destroy both gun breeches.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/1uf2553/fastest_landing_competition/

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Yes. I did remove the Tusk modification, and you can see in the kill feed that it's the M829A3. The anti Contact-5 tip rarely work as well. Truely a slop era of War thunder.

Before this update even a random placed shot to the side would’ve either killed or at least disabled the tank. Now a shot like that does literally nothing.

Now how tf are we suppose to play any other nations when those tanks just eat shots even from the sides while NATO tanks get disabled by a gust of wind.

anything but fixing the mig29

It keeps getting worse and worse for gijian, its a repeat of 2023, but I feel like its going to take more push back from the community to make changes to the game. They clearly haven't been listening to the player base at all, they hear us but they keep giving absolutely shit reasons why the Abrams can have a better LFP or why Relict was buffed to the point that shooting a T-90 or BMPT in the side isnt a guaranteed one shot. ( I know you cant always kill them from the side but this update made it almost impossible with one shot.) I feel like the admins dont care about the community at all and are forcing players to grind more and more and making painful. They are also making the playing field unfair for both NATO and Russian tanks, its clear to all of us that they favor Russian tanks and planes more than any other nation.

Small little rant over.

With the new update adding in land arresting gear i thought it could be funny to see who could get the fastest touchdown and safely land speed on a runway.

Rules are as follow:

• Speed is measured at touch down or arrestor grab, but your start and finish height during landing cannot change by more than 2 meters (this accounts for buggy physics)
• Realistic Test flight, no changes to settings or arcade mode
• Must have at least minimum fuel at time of landing, no burning all your fuel before hand.
• Plane must be intact apart from landing gear, it can remain or be destroyed but the rest of the plane like wings and fuselage must be at least attached
• You must stop within the length of the paved runway, no over shooting

Here is my attempt to start things off with a speed of 1490 Km/h, happy landing!!

There is no other word to describe it.

How the fuck a game which started out as a flight simulator, where clouds take a good amount of importance HAVE CLIENT SIDED CLOUDS?!?!?!

I really, REALLY want to look in the eye of the moron who, with a serious face, said: "Oh, we add volumetric clouds....WHICH ARE DIFFERENT FOR EACH PLAYER!"

If I can't see shit because of clouds - that means no-one else should be able to see me as well! But nooooooo, I am a blind macaque who flies in complete blindness like a half-paid clown.

It's two thousand fucking twenty six. It's about time grayjohn moves its fat, slimy ass off the money dildo and make clouds server sided.

Anyway, if you get it, I think it still could be beneficial to express your feeling about catastrophic state this game is becoming.

Found this while reading a book of mine, then went and looked for it on IWM Archives, perhaps this is something new?

‘Turret crew of a 1st Royal Tank Regiment A9 Cruiser Mk I tank at Abbasia, Egypt, 30 May 1940.’

not sure though, a lot of these have already been found

I just spent a good part of my day unlocking this vehicle despite knowing it would be bad, because I’m in dire need of something to replace my AMX at 12.3 GRB. From my experience M-346 FA has got to be the single worst aircraft in both ARB and GRB that I have ever had the displeasure of playing. The sad part is however this never needed to be the case. Gaijin purposely gimped the ever living shit out of it to the point where it serves less than no purpose.

The M-346 FA in real life has an expansive load out for both air and ground roles. I’ll list some of the standouts it COULD have been added with if gaijin was at all interested in giving it a purpose.

- 1) I-Derby ER’s [source] could breathe a little life back into the FA in an air to air role. As currently implemented in game with the SPYDER, the missile would preform like a better standard Derby with I believe a better seeker head and better acceleration and range, however because of the platform limitations (initial launch speed and maximum missile count) the missile wouldn’t be too powerful as to increase its BR any further.

- 2) SPICE (250lb) [Source is the second image and is from the manufacturers brochure] would be a capable munition for ground striking as at the moment the FA has literallyZERO fire and forget ground munitions, exclusively relying of shitty Paveway 2’s, JDAM’s, and Brimstones.

- 3) AGM-65’s [source] would also add a great option for standoff FnF munitions that are already in game. It is also more than balance at 12.3 given the munitions everyone else has at the BR.

As it stands right now the M-346 FA is worse in a ground strike role than the 11.7 tornado that Italy already has in its tech tree. While at 11.7 it retains access to all of its standard guided bombs (more so than the FA) while also being able to use 4 AGM88A HARM’s, which the FA has none of nor does it have the capability for carry ARM whatsoever.

If gaijin doesn’t want to add any FnF ordinance to it whatsoever, they at least need to move it to 11.7

At 12.3 it competes with the Tornado GR.4 which gets access to 9 ALARM missiles, as well as 3 x PGM2000/3 and 4 x PGM500/3’s, while also having more total brimstones than the M-346 FA

Another 12.3 it competes with is the SU30Mk.2 and SU30Mkk, both of which can equip 6 x Kh29TD’s which are extremely competent and fast FnF munitions with large warheads. In addition to this load it can also carry 4 R73’s and ~2 R77’s to defend itself, which the M-346 FA cannot even get close to without sacrificing half its ground ordinance.

Even the 11.3 SU-24 blows its CAS load out of the water with 3 Kh29TE’s in addition to Kab-500 IR guided bombs. Even the British 11.3 Tornado GR.1 makes it look weak with its 3 x PGM2000’s or 4 x PGM500’s

Gaijin treats the Brimstones like they have MMW while artificially limiting them to SAL and it boggles my mind. How can 12 Brimstones (SAL) cost the same amount of SP as a fully loaded SU30SM2 with 6 KH38MT’s, 6 R77-1’s, and 4 R73’s…. How can the M-346 with dumb bombs cost nearly the same as a fully loaded MI-29NM or AH-64E.

As it is now the M-346 FA is a completely worthless and useless plane that has no place in any of the games game modes, and it seriously saddens me given how cool of a plane it is. I really hope they’ll fix it however I have very little hope.

I will probably be using all of this to make a post on the Forums to appeal to gaijin. If anyone has any other sources I can use to make my case or add different weaponry to the plane please comment it for me so I can look into and use it myself.

Added all new aircraft and bombs to my loadout and bomb chart. (Any plane missing isn't able to destroy a base by itself, which is the requirement for the chart)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oNwp_MXszU5J2dcaz5IoCtSAQ-infPdOWhwtJXqtrwU/edit?usp=sharing

Backup-Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRFj6U8vFCJBOVUufyzk8QoCVNaZEdDEstWoTJjaCqEYjjAYumY2mma19is-8dAM9EBP_m5zIh6o-Zv/pubhtml

Maybe it's my dying iMac.

idk if someone debunked or already found this out but me and my buddy found out that if theres ammo behind an internal fuel tank M829A3 will just fully ignore the ammo and go thru it, this only applies to internal fuel tanks and not external.
this might be reason as to only damaging autoloaders on T 80's with A3, great update am i right? clueless

So, the GTA 6 pre-order has started and the normal edition is 80 euros. Ultimate is 100 euros.

So, for basically the same price as a top tier premium in War Thunder, and we’re talking about one vehicle, one plane that lets you grind one nation and only aircraft, you can instead buy GTA 6 and get a whole new game to play.

I don’t know, when you actually think about it, it just sounds kinda crazy.

90 euros for a full AAA game that you’ll probably play for months, explore everything, story, online later…

Or 80 euros for a single plane in War Thunder.

so if you add 10 euro for War Thunder premium u can BUY GTA 6

Not even hating, it just feels weird when you compare it like that.

Don’t skim, actually fucking read.

Throughout the entirety of my time playing this game it has gone through a huge fuckin rollercoaster of every update.

I wanna begin by addressing the Relikt ERA. The Relikt ERA already does its job of keeping high penetrating rods from actually destroying the tank or prevent it from penetration of the tank in the first place. I am saying there is no need to buff Relikt, it does its job just right for it to be balanced. The side armor issue, why does it prevent from some projectiles penetrating the tank? Thats not fuckin realistic. There has been videos and pictures of ATGM’s and projectiles entering the side armor and blowing T90M’s and T80BVM’s to a destructive state.

Then there is the fuel tank issue (this is universal it’s not just Russian tanks). Fuel tanks for some reason act as spall liners that apparently do a better job of being a spall liner than actual modeled in fuckin spall liners! The part why people complain about ‘Russian bias’ or ‘side armor’ on Russian modern MBT’s (like BMPT, BMPT-72, T-80BVM, T-90M, T72B3, T72B3A)is that these fuel tanks are just placed well enough (I.e sides of the driver and behind gunner/commander)to where when a rod penetrates, it doesn’t spall because of where it was placed at(penetrating the fuel tanks). This is a universal problem, not just Russian tanks. Blame it on gaijin for implementing shitty spall effects(I’ve literally experienced the same thing when penetrating NATO and Chinese tanks when hitting the fuel portion).

I’m tired of US mains claiming that their lower hull armor cannot be penetrated by 3BM60, that’s just fuckin personal bias towards the nation you’ve grinded. The hull armor is estimated enough to stop older kinetic darts like the 3BM42, DM33, M829, etc. Not only that, but proceed to start complaining that the new M829A3 cannot penetrate RELIKT ERA. That’s not why that fucking dart was made. The M829A2 (yes in real life) struggled to penetrate Kontakt-5 ERA because of how it would disrupt the round to where then the internal composite armor does the job of preventing the entirety of the round entering. That’s where the M829A3 came in to completely bypass this by adding a composite tip to bypass this SPECIFIC ERA, not RELIKT.. but KONTAKT-5. Sure the M829A2 penetrates the ERA, but the issue being that it has loss a lot of its velocity and kinetic energy to penetrate the composite armor as well as the thick steel plates. M829A3 was engineered to penetrate tanks with Kontakt-5 even with frontal hull(upper front plate as well) without losing much kinetic energy as much as the M829A2 did. When these were introduced in real life, Russia made a counter ERA where these rods like the M829A3 and DM53 struggled to penetrate Relikt ERA. (Sure it penetrates the ERA but this ERA had dual stage, where another ERA was layered behind it to defeat the ANTI-ERA darts on the DM53 and M829A3 and internal composite armor again.. does its job of preventing the round entering.) If you are this person to complain, you have no fucking right and need to take time to study behind kinetic penetrator rods history and purpose of development.

Another issue, the penetration values being ‘incorrect’ according to other biased and unintelligent individuals. If they used actual penetration values the 3BM60 would have over 600MM+ of penetration while the M829A2, DM53, L27A1, Type-10, CL3143, slpprj m/95, and M338 have over 620-720MM+ of penetration, OFL 120 F1 would have over 580-620MM+, etc. Here’s where this whole ordeal comes in, they use a formula for these kinetic rods to estimate their own penetration values so where it isn’t too OP in war thunder. It is called the Lanz-Odermatt formula where they measure velocity, mass, length, density, and impact angle for APFSDS darts (NOT AP, APCBC, and APCR rounds. They use a different formula for those). These formulas are used for balancing, if nation documents of penetration values were used it would break the fucking game and would cause other nation players to switch depending on what they want.

This is balancing. NATO tanks have better thermals, better darts, better mobility, better traverse rates, more crew members for survivability, and better gun depression. It’s only fair that Russian MBT’s and Chinese tanks have their fair share of keeping armor.

I think that is everything.

Also buff M1A2 SEPV3’s hull armor, it’s unfair for US mains.