New Mechanic: Ammo Boxes

Together with some long-anticipated vehicles and improved visual effects, the Firebirds update brings a new mechanic supported by votes from War Thunder players. Today we’d like to talk about ‘ammunition boxes’ and how to use them.

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#WarThunder

[WilliamBurnett]

I really like the tactic when you tell us there is technical maintenance in the morning so we know the update is dropping

[Phantomenace]

For the sake of my expiring premium time, give us the update

[CatWerfer]

I think people are forgetting how buggy patch day can be when they rush updates, I'm glad they're taking their time to work on these QoL changes.
Though this better mean that the time spent is actually being put into making the game polished and not just an excuse to feature cram.

[ThaiFighterYT]

Now let Utility Helicopters drop them Ammo Crates!

[donr]

Again, a new mechanic that proves that WT is not a team game, but a game that happens to have teams in them.

[The_Gabinator]

I think this is a great addition for AA, but I think adding it for ATGM vehicles is a really bad idea. They'll be able to camp in some bullshit hulldown spot in the back of the map for even longer now.

[enfermeiroPsico]

I think it's very important to have ammo boxes in the game, but the support vehicles could get one for themselves, and another one that our teammates could use. So that this class of tank would complete their role as support, just like in other games.

[Gunner_]

I personally think it would be better if you couldn't reload from your own ammo box. It doesn't make sense that you would be able to carry extra ammunition without already having it. Plus it would add another means of teamwork if you had to use someone else's ammo box.

[Its_SaberHG]

We got engineers from Enlisted in War Thunder

What's next, rally points?

[lik]

The OTOMATIC is getting some more APFSDS with this one 🔥🔥

[Prime]

There should be a version of the ammo boxes that teammates can use, to encourage teams working together. Maybe even dedicated support vehicles in the future like the early Half-tracks for early war and the AAVP7 for letter time periods as Exp.

[stingdeath]

Aw man i wanted to be able to supply teammates.

[Danknic]

The fact you can't use other peoples boxes is already a bad idea when you could just add this to specific vehicles as well as a long ish cooldown as it would be a good team play mechanic

[szonator]

We getting GTA VII before firebirds update 😭

[warriorhc]

Tbh, instead of this, ammo exchange boxes would have been better, so teammates(in the same vehicle) could give you some ammo if you run out. They could have also added a request button, like "Request Repair".

[YourWaterDispenser]

and here i thought war thunder would have support vehicles

[bocktordaytona]

Would be cool to Been able to airdrop this boxes for "some" aerial vehicles lets say a: twin engine plane wich as base takes a transport plane: Lockheed electra B 34, Fw 200 cóndor... and so on to drop with a parachute on ground battles in order to allow allies to use them.

And also with transport choppas like the Huey or Mi 17... to put boxes but again for you or friendly vehicles.


Maybe a bigger box on a pallete with a net or with a deflated parachute on top to indicate players that is actually a refill point for them.

And if we go crazy?

Make them availeable for enemies to refill the ammo or make them highly explosive also.... in that case not every enemy dude on the map will shot them at sight.

[NotADeathLeaver]

Make the boxes as big as the ammo inside would be. Or maybe like 3 different sizes for different types of ammo. Like a small box for ammo shells like 12.7mm round and 20mm rounds etc. And then a bigger box for like big 152mm round and atgm's. And an even bigger box for things like spaa missiles. For example the TOR M1 ammo. And make the explosion of the ammo and blast radius/damage depend on the size of the box.

[mrimdumb]

This seems like a very good mechanic that opens up reasons to add in more, less armed, logistic vehicles like a supply truck with .50, maybe those custom up armoured gun trucks from Vietnam America?

Also, considering we have drones we can spawn, maybe if we get enough points, a supply truck could be spawned in, one we can control.

These two could carry or dirrectly resupply friendly tanks which could changed the gameplay more, allowing people who didnt get a lot of points killing, to giving them points by resupplying.

Basically, I love this feature and the possible outcomes, new vehicles and gameplay it could provide!

[TwistedMinute]

We Load the ammo into the vehicle before We run out of loaded We take a box of ammo out of the vehicle we do not have or did and saved it as reserve And reload the ammo back into the yea makes perfect sense