War Thunder's Event Problem

War Thunder's events might just be what I hate most about it. Mostly because it takes all of the issues that already exist within the game and makes them exponentially worse for weeks. It's usually around this time that I drop War Thunder for a while until the event is over with, after playing the event for a bit just to see how bad it is. The Merkava Mk3D is certainly a very fun tank, but I don't know if it's worth the massive headache or carpal tunnel you're likely to get.

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[Huawei-zhkv]

Next update bug fixes:
-removed Gaijin

[alientitimilk]

You’d honestly have a better chance of getting these vehicles by becoming a war thunder content creator and requesting them from the cc program than actually grinding them out in-game

[CollinTheSav]

As a full timer working a dead end job with a possibility of requesting non stop overtime, I appreciate you bringing up the time devotion component of the events that involve crafting.

[PNolandS]

The community: Gaijin, no more crafting events! They're tedious, time consuming, and you can't even get all the vehicles!
Gaijin: Coming up; Crafting 2: Electric Boogaloo.

[DerpyTurtle]

Imagine grinding for hours only to loose repetitively and not win a 1.0 piece of German origami with a crap 37mm

[stuart_scout]

0:01 Here we see two tanks mating during mating season in Port Novorossiysk. The male fazes into the female while she waits for him to release his sperm into her. After they mate, the two may never see each again for quite some time. I'm David Attenborough for National Geographic.

[Cheezymuffin.]

Event vehicles:

Russian heavy
Russian plane
Small nation vehicle
Iconic ww2 vehicle. (Especially german, I am talking to you entire Puma line)

It's such BS that mass produced vehicles like the M8 greyhound, Puma series, BA-11 and this time, the german halftrack, are so hard to get. I will bet my ass they will introduce the halftrack with pak-40 one day, for 2.0 or something making it OP as fuck, and very cool looking, just for it to be in another stupid fucking event.

Just make it a premium dammit, I honestly wouldn't mind laying down 5 bucks or so for a fun iconic ww2 vehicle, instead of having to do this event garbage.

[s-triumf]

I've already got the merkava but I agree with everything you've Keep up the good work!

[IKMS]

"So that minor nations have more to fill their tech tree"

Also Gaijin: adds a new vehicle to those tech trees once a year. And it's always a new fucking Sherman. Brilliant.

[Andi-vhtk]

Did you fail to protect a choke point for 3 seconds? Congrats, your getting spawncamped

[thearbiter]

If I recall, it was literally mathematically impossible to build more than one Object 279 without buying additional parts. You could, in theory, build four of the three major components of the Object 279, allowing you to get one 279 and one of the smaller vehicles, but that's if you played for four hundred minutes a day and RNGesus smiled on you with the random part crates.

[sheldon]

Gaijin Developer: So we've got the same ol' issues that the community has been asking us to fix for several years. Examples include ghost shells, useless and expensive bombers, revenge killing, maps centered around spawn killing, terrible servers, BR compression, multiple nations having the exact same tanks, revenge killing and naval battles still being near unplayable if you're first starting it. What should we do about these issues?

Gaijin Employee: Do an event on our server that exploits these issues to get people to spend more money on our game even though the games already barely grindable enough as it is?

Gaijin Developer: Give this man a raise

[mollusk]

This is why I love Spookston, I think he speaks for the community as a whole and takes the time to put himself in our shoes for the event just to relate more with the regular palyers

[clippedwings]

My biggest problem with events is that there is way too little time to do it. We're talking a grind that takes a casual player like 2 months that only lasts for a week or two that someone can only get if they devote literally all of their free time into the game unless they want to spend money, and in my opinion, it's a waste to put resources into vehicles that will then never be unlockable again, and furthermore, it just seems unjustifiable that such cool, unique vehicles are only ever available for such a short time. I've been wanting the Grumman F-11 ever since supersonic jets were announced, I couldn't get it, and now I will never able be able to get it. It's probably the 3rd biggest reason I quit War Thunder.

[Pain-wwne]

The only reason why these crafting events exist are to make some Money.

[kapuljak]

U deleted me today in your t114 and my friend as well, btw nice vid

[gafeleon]

I like something WoT blitz has been doing for the last 1-2 years, for starters they have 2 special events per year, an april fools one and a halloween one in which they change some mechanics like less gravity so that tanks jump as if they were on the moon or they have special abilities like turning invisible or double shots and they're available for 2 weeks, but through the year, every two months during 2 weekends a random special event comes back without any special prizes just the game mode

Also events tend to reward winning and high scores overall more than individual actions during each game so players tend to play about the same during events (although there are slightly more tryhards and a bit more toxicity)

Edit: the low tier special tanks are also pretty easy to get, some are new, but others are basically skins with slightly different stats for existing tanks, that might be harder to implement for war thunder with the whole lineup thing, but another T-34 (1941) with a special skin or minimal field modifications wouldn't break 3.7 for example or a special BT-7 or T-70 wouldn't alter tier I

[sharkslay]

Diddnt expect to see prop blocking in war thunder

[masol]

Hey spookston, if you're in a 10.3 battle and your ping reaches 999... Do you begin to experience jet lag?

[SaltySwede]

After Operation S.U.M.M.E.R. 2020, I've decided to just not bother with events. Period. I actually had some hope for the special tasks events due to my experiences with Operation H.E.A.T. last year being some of the best I've ever had in War Thunder. My freaking M4A3 (76) HVSS review wouldn't have happened were it not for how much fun I had using it during that event! Then 2020 rolls around and Gaijin made the only event type that was actually any sort of fun for me and made it just as tedious and frustrating to drag myself through as every other event. Another problem is that they have so many events! One month you'll have an event, then about two weeks after that event, a major patch drops. Another two to three weeks after that patch, we get _another_ event! I bet in a few weeks after this crafting even finishes, we'll have another major patch. Nothing feels special because they throw so much different crap at us.