What do you People think about the upcoming & Announced Content?

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for upcoming updates, i mean:

Normandy;

Moscow;

My Personal Thoughts.

i’ll start by saying that… i’m a bit confused about what have been showed, and i’m partially happy, but at the same time, a bit disappointed.

and i’m aware that those contents are not out yet, but you know something is not right, when it doesn’t fully convince you. maybe it’s just me.

anyway, don’t get me wrong, this is not a rant post. quite the opposite. i just would like to see the others opinions as well. after all, that’s what makes this game ( i think ).

anyway, i’ll cover the main aspects.

for normandy,

P-47D-28 Thunderbolt & FW 190 A-8

i don’t know what to say about this one, i guess it’s good. people loves to play with fighters. and as far as i’m aware, this one have bombs and rockets. perhaps something new it’s always good to see.

and no needles grind involved. :smiley:

USA | 90th Infantry Division, 358th Infantry Regiment & German | 352nd Infantry Division, 352nd Pioneer Battalion

Flametrooper Class Type 2?

if that’s the case, it’s going to be something that i don’t really like. because it force players using those classes, just to unlock the ability to send them to the accademy, and get rid of those flametroopers stacking in the rear.
now, the current pain is double because people that will reach lvl 28, will increase chances to get type 2 flametrhowers and waste orders and somewhat forced to play them, or ditch them.

i have this strange feelings looking on how currently things works.

The M2 flamethrower & Flammenwerfer 41

i think it’s nice to have different variations of flametrhowers. perhaps they might work differently?, and have different play styles with it. adds details too.

USA | M1A1 Thompson & Johnson M1941

i’m sure a lot of people were waiting for these as well, finally, some good 'ol american weapons.

USA | 2nd Infantry Division, 9th Infantry Regiment & Germany | 5th Parachute Division, 5th Pioneer Battalion

new battalions, that’s great. but the 5th parachute division just like the 3rd, does not have paratrooper uniforms :frowning:

Gewehr 41 & Germany | Beretta M38

this, is where i got little disappointed. more italians weapons? eh… i hope that it’s for a good cause.
weather the G41. well, i guess it’s good, but considering that people can unlock the G43 quite quickly, i don’t know how good those first can be. we’ll see.

USA | 6th Armored Division, 68th Armor Regiment & German | 12th Panzer Division, 12th Panzer Regiment

at least we don’t have to grind them. that’s neat.

and lastly, for the normandy campaign:

M24 Chaffe & PZ III M

the M24 really blowed up my mind. it’s really incredible, and very awelcomed.

can’t say the same about another PZ III variant.
the problems with the germans for the entirety of the game, their tanks are going to be 60% of their time PZ III variants. the three variants in moscow, and now on normandy, two variants?. making a prediction, tunisia campaign will also have a PZ III . as such, PZ IIIs are going to be everywhere.

don’t get me wrong, those are somewhat fine machines. but i can’t really stand a merely PZ III M over normandy. this last it’s going to be very bad against shermans and jumbos. perhaps i was expecting something different… like, a Stug III StuH? something not exreamly overpowered, but something that follows the typical rule of, can be penned by everyone, and Can pen everyone. thingy. but considering that the jumbo is still a thing, at this point include a tiger/panther and screw even more the balance of tanks?

i don’t know, i’m perhaps confused, and i don’t really understand certain things.

anyway, moving on in the list;

Moscow:

USSR | 166th Infantry Division,195th Communication Battalion & German | 3rd Infantry Division, 3rd Communications Battalion

i’m not sure what it changes from the already present squad, but hey, more variety, i guess it’s good. but don’t know how much too justify regrind again.

ZH-29 & АВС-36

more semi automatic guns, i personally love those. more variety of rifles :smiley:

new airplanes

the rocket И-16 Тип-24 for the russian, and the Bf 109 E-7.
new content. so yeah, hurra :smiley:

USSR | 50th Infantry Division, 49th Infantry Regiment & German | 6th Infantry Division, 6th Anti-Tank Battalion

you already know what i think about those new squads.

but hey, they comes with GrB-39 and PTRS 41. so after all they are worthed to take a shot/try them.

USSR | T-50 & Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. J

oh boi… where do i even start with those two.

i’ll start by saying that the PZ III Ausf J, it can be a welcome one. but… Another PZ III ?
for at total of 3 pZ III in the moscow campaign a bit weird.

and than, the T-50.
i suppose someone really didn’t care about balance. and i’ll explain why.

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a T-50, has around 40 MM of armor. as such, the PZ II, the PZ III E, the PZ III B ( delete this one already ) AT guns and anti tank rifles cannot and are not capable of penetrating a T50. i don’t really know who thought this out, but it’s like introducing a tiger II in normandy campaign. the only tank that could penetrate this last, would be a jumbo. but even there, it would struggle.

so the only way for the german faction to penetrate the T 50, would be by explosive packs,GrB-39, PZ IV, and PZ III J or planes.

and from what i have seen, not many people have those vehicles and aircrafts outside explosive packs.

In Conclusion;

so yeah, i’m exited for the new additions, but disappointed as well for others.

keep in mind, that those are my opinions. as such, i will not tollerate offencive thoughts or negative comments against mine, or any other person’s comment.

you have been advised.

anyway
what about you people?

cheers.

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They will. New flamethrowers have longer range and higher damage on cost of faster fuel decrease. I personally can’t wait to get my hands on flamethrower with 30m range (range we have now is pretty good, but that will be even better)

But overall my feelings are similar to yours.
I’m kinda dissapointed with the choice of new armored vehicles (Keofox even confirmed Germans getting Panther…) - we keep getting tank after tank. Where are the tank destroyers? And APCs? Those would hype me much more.
I like that new premium squads will not support automatic weapons meta. That’s a small step into the right direction imo.
Don’t forget that in that update we will also get new Invasion maps for all campaigns - that’s really great news.

Overall - we will see. Maybe they have something more to show us in another devblog?

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They made the campaign longer for the new weapons, does this mean we will still have the British weapons in Normandy used by the US forever and not as a test…

I always thought when new US weapons are introduced, they will just swap the already existing British weapons.

Has the dev said anything about this

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unfortunately, no.

the only thing we managed to discover through a live,

is this:

others things, we don’t know them.

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I agree it is a bit pathetic to make us grind for the Tommy gun we’ve all wanted in the Normandy campaign, they should just do a weapon swap with the Sten it would make alot of sense, it is utter dog water they would do this kind of stalling, I am currently 2 levels off getting level 26 so it doesn’t bother me to much, but for others on the other end might see this as bs move to try get people to sink money into the prem acc or elite pass to progress faster, the M3 grease gun is just not viable against other factions autos as it is to slow, sten has an ugly spray pattern, the M2 Carbine is just as unusable, “testing weapons” doesn’t feel like a viable excuse anymore but a lazy attempt to try milk extra money from us at a time where we feel like it is needed the most, why do us Normandy ally players like this man… what is it around 120hrs to get the tompson? seems legit to me boys anyway, man im so fustrated “sorry for the rant bois”

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when it is not needed sorry for the typo just woke up to this lololol

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i mean, i asked for opinions, and you just delivered that.

so, there’s nothing to be sorry about ^^

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haha cool cool, :slight_smile:

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I am really scared of that T-50 …

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T50s aren’t real, they can’t hurt you.

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great…

i didn’t talked about those because they are pretty vague, and the only information that got stuck me in the head, was the thingy that the americans could win if they shoot down all the baloons.

how germans are supposed to stope them? you know, tanks and planes are a thing. so i didn’t talked about them because those are vague and more complex than what have been shown in the other posts that i mentioned. those, are somewhat pretty straight foward.

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I overall like this update! It seems well balanced (mostly) and premium squads are seems alright not broken but not bad by any meaning, new content is always great some people already finished the content we have right now.

Forgot to mention the Thompson that was the number one request/ where is this gun so people will grind and play the game more now that they have big clear target.

I kinda changed my mind about tank balancing so I don’t see the T-50 as too much of a big deal but it will be the best tank in the campaign 100%.

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The M24 being added is a big problem for me- after all of the backlash the jumbo got for being anti-historical, they decided to add something even more extreme?

It looks like the start of the slippery slope War Thunder got where the devs keep pushing the boundary of what’s an acceptable addition to the game.

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well, to be honest, an M24 is less extreame than a jumbo :confused:

but i do get your point.
and i can somewhat agree to it.

not sure, but the same could be said about the t50… according to wikipedia, ( which i don’t fully trust but it’s roughly truee ) only 65-69 were built, and the majority were deployed to Leningrad. not moscow.

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Keofox said they will work on “by year” way from now on which is kind of concerning but I prefer it over campaign for every battle.

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I would buy “by year” if it meant something saw action no later than the end of the battle in question

The Chaffee wasn’t even in the same hemisphere as Normandy until months after D day.

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I would agree with you if this game wouldn’t need new content every few weeks/months to keep it live this all campaign atmosphere really complicate stuff…

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The campaign system is completely unsustainable and unless they’re stalling to be able to roll out a solution they’re just making matters worse in the long run.

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Yeah I’m feeling this Vibe to Shanghai_Shrek, even the grind for the Thompson is just to much, sorta puts me off the game atm, hope they rework the campaign tree as it makes no sense whatsoever

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I’ve been saying for months, drop battle-based campaigns altogether and move to a true year bracket system with cross-nation matchmaking instead of trying to move to a hybrid that’s the worst of both worlds.

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