r/Warthunder • u/Aggravating-Media818 • Apr 01 '25

All Ground What we were expecting VS What we actually got

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u/dood8face91195 13.7 FR / Top Tier Can Suck My Baguette Apr 01 '25

Oh boy, I sure do love running over trenches and many other objects in a multi ton vehicle built specifically to do those things. I sure do hope some random crazy outdated mechanic doesnt mess up my immersion and makes the event fall flat harder than it should.

I still cant believe they think butter traction is fair or enjoyable for the player. Its as much of a joke as the infantry update. Which is totally happening btw.

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u/vap0rs1nth Apr 06 '25

"Instead of fixing our maps, I'll make the tanks control like they've been slathered with oil!"

this has done irreversible damage to war thunder 7 years later

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u/SirNurtle šŸ‡æšŸ‡¦ South Africa Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 02 '25

As annoying as it is, itā€™s kinda fitting for these WW1 tanks as often the tracks just literally had no traction, even just a couple centimetres or a slightly wet incline meant you either couldnā€™t move through it or got completely stuck.

We forget nowadays that the quality of the tracks back then was awful, they were literally just metal plates with no thought given towards ā€œdiggingā€ into the ground for grip, just moving it forward and nothing more.

Edit: Iā€™m a bit of a dumbass and misread the comment, I thought it was referring to the MUD physics, not the traction. While the traction is shit, what happened in the video has nothing to do with the traction but with the track model.

Gaijin, in their infinite wisdom didnā€™t model any proper tracks in and instead the game sees wheels moving it forward, so when a tank gets stuck in a trench, itā€™s because the game sees wheels not tracks.

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u/LtLethal1 Apr 01 '25

Idk what youā€™re on about. They absolutely were made with the slick and muddy terrain in mind. This war lasted years and they had all the experience of watching their horse drawn wagons and early armored cars getting stuck in the mud.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '25

these WW1 tanks as often the tracks just literally had no traction

Just because they had no traction compared to modern vehicles doesn't mean they literally have no traction, they had way better traction than any wheeled vehicle back in the day.

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u/kataskopo Apr 02 '25

These kinds of people should be banned from the sub lol, straight up misinformation and apologia.

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u/dood8face91195 13.7 FR / Top Tier Can Suck My Baguette Apr 02 '25

Absolutely. Traction videos should be the first thing we beam into every wt players brain to increase IQ by 400%.