Only a tiny number of preproduction Or what could really be considered preproduction Zero’s Were built before the war that did not have a hook for carrier landing.
The fact that they have removed this from the 0 as a way to rationalize giving it an air start is completely ridiculous Now I know that’s consistent with a lot of how content is added to the game it doesn’t have any bearing on historical reality but I think the frustrating thing for me personally is they could have simply added anyone of the Oscars As a tier one or two aircraft and kept the Zero on the carrier so that the Japanese could have an air start fighter.
I don’t understand personally why having an air start fighter means that you can’t have it land on an aircraft carrier as well but apparently that’s part of the decision making process here.
It just baffles me that what is quite possibly the most famous carrier fighter of all time cannot actually land on an aircraft carrier and get repaired like it used to be able to.
The game does not say this is an A6M2 model 11, only 65 of which were built, in fact the game goes on about abbot this being a carrier fighter, which would mean it must be a A6M2 Model 21, and thus should be equipped with a hook…
It does not say it is one yet it is one. It is simple as that.
Again the devs did not notice it at first and thus the UI mistakely mentions it beeing a carrier plane.
Why the devs did not change the discription is beyond me exept for pure they dont care.
I think it probably depends a lot on what you want it to be is how you’re interpreting this I want it to be carrier capable because I want it to be able to land and repair my plane like I used to.
Why would they write other than it being a carrier aircraft.
I know the game doesn’t really follow history very closely we have tons of weapons in this game that didn’t actually serve or almost never served.
This zero is featured in all of the campaigns that we have to do with the Japanese, but the only campaign that we have in the game that had anything to do with the Japanese Navy is the one in the pacific, the Burma Theater, and the theater in the Far East didn’t have Navy aircraft in them for the most part it was an all army affair so you really shouldn’t see zeros in the Far East or in Burma but they’re featured prominently along with all the other Japanese Navy aircraft in theaters they never performed in operationally.
What all of that means if with regards to the game is that it really just comes down to what they want and why as far as adding something or not.
Why they would want to A carrier fighter for Japan that could not land on a carrier makes absolutely no sense to me.
There’s tons of planes in War Thunder for the Imperial Japanese Army that they could add very easily Why they haven’t is also beyond me.
I am happy the Zero can air start I’m happy that tier one and Tier 2 have a Japanese plane that can start in the air because not being able to start in the air put them at a big disadvantage when all of the other American or allied aircraft basically start in the air.
But out of all of the silly things in this game that are completely unrealistic from a historical standpoint this is probably 1 of the biggest ones as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t think we can go by what the picture or the model are suggesting to us because the models have the wrong paint for one thing I think it really just comes down to interpretation clearly it wouldn’t have written that if they didn’t actually intend for it to be a carrier aircraft That’s how it started in the game Why on earth would they add a zero to the game to launch from aircraft carriers with a description describing that action and get that part wrong?
I think what we clearly have here is the fact that lots of people were complaining that the Japanese were suffering because they didn’t have an air start and they simply just made the Zero air start and took away its ability to land on an aircraft carrier instead of adding an Imperial Japanese Army plane like any version of the Oscar that they have in War Thunder
I think it’s pretty clear that they simply forgot to add the hook They intentionally built a carrier fighter to work off of aircraft carriers in the game that they came out with for the why would they intentionally model a model of the zero that was incapable of doing that it seems much more impossible it’s really that they simply forgot to have the hook.
But if you’re looking for a way to rationalize it not being carrier capable because that’s what you want I suppose this is as good an argument as any.
Although why you wouldn’t want that seems beyond me.
I think we can have both air start and carrier landing because we did for years before they did the big mashup.
