Combat helicopters are coming to War Thunder in the next update

just make battlefield clone already!

i would love that. i like tanks, but this huge maps have so much potential. and of course its for linux and with VULKAN it runs great

Finally, something I can identify with.

Uhm , two things :
1. The game start you out at WW2 tanks. Exactly at what tier are they going to be available ? Aka how much grind to play them ?
2. Weren't they working on boats at one point ? Did that get scrapped alltogether ?

Quoting: razing32Uhm , two things :
1. The game start you out at WW2 tanks. Exactly at what tier are they going to be available ? Aka how much grind to play them ?
2. Weren't they working on boats at one point ? Did that get scrapped alltogether ?

No idea about 1, but since some of the tanks in game go up to the 70s and there is talk of early guided missiles, I'm sure they'll fit them in somewhere. It's not like anybody with a life can ever reach them... Seriously, I've been playing WT for 5 years now and I barely have 3 tier 4 machines...

Boats are still "in testing", aka. pay to play. They keep introducing bigger ones - Corvetes and Destroyers are current biggest, but who knows how far will the tree reach.

THe Vulkan renderer is still not official and I get crashes and composer issues on my NVIDIA 1080ti. Still needs work and needs to be official option in launcher...

Quoting: razing32Uhm , two things :
1. The game start you out at WW2 tanks. Exactly at what tier are they going to be available ? Aka how much grind to play them ?
2. Weren't they working on boats at one point ? Did that get scrapped alltogether ?

In a video by phlydaily they were at 9.0br so it should be tier 6, that means quite a grind, but as long as you focus on only one nation and you don't try to research everything in a tier before going to the next one beside the required ones (usually 6 vehicles) it's tolerable. (ps early tanks in the game are from before WW2). Boats are still coming, I'd say they are almost ready so just a few more months.

Helicopters were already deployed in a test on last year 1 April, and worked fine... it was delayted as they were fixing some issues, creating more units and balance then... but most of the work was already done as it reuses most of the planes features. They were also adding modern tanks, as having helis vs WW2 tanks was too much a joke, they needed to add modern tanks before the helis. So that also means that helis are tier 6, before that you didn't had any helicopters.

you will have to make your way to tier6, but probably there are always some premium helis, if you are in hurry, you will have to pay some money.

Boats are in beta, i play several times on weekends, its more fine-tuning, create more maps and boats. it takes longer because it requires many new features and new game modes... many fine tuninig and tests, like they said, boats are harder to make fun, because real boats are slow, specially big boats, so they need to see what works or what not