War Thunder 1.53 update: British ground forces

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I haven't played for a while now but I think I'll jump back in and give the Brits a try.  The destructible terrain looks like it'll be fun as well.

[W8taminute]

Oh boy new toys to play with!

[Nefaro]

I read that the four Brit tanks are all Premiums.  They don't have the regular unlock tiers in yet.

I only do the aircraft side of WT anymore, so I don't know the finer details.

[WallysWorld]

Thanks for posting this. I haven't played it for a long time, but I'm updating now.

[Nefaro]

There was some other hubbub about their game engine being changed .. or modified.   ???

[Dammit Carl!]

Jingles made mention of some new features; most importantly the reducing/removal of the "low," graphics setting which allowed people to remove or reduce a lot of the foliage and thus, see other tanks better for that critical first shot.

I had no time to play around with this component, but as a person whose PC can't push the graphics envelope, I had to play with low settings in order to just have a framerate that was competitive.  Have to see how that is now, I guess.

Two maps have destructable buildings now (again, seen via Jingles' video) which just elevates War Thunder to all new "cool," levels for me. 

Pity about the very slow roll-out of British ground forces as only having 3 playable countries/factions was wearing a bit thin.  But, I guess they are trying.

[Nefaro]

Well... there is a full British aircraft line.  They even added the Hawker Hunter. *wink wink nod nod*


Although, if I'm flying without premium, I'll probably be doing Realistic Battles in P-51s, P-38s, Yaks, 109s, and Zeros.  Gains past ~BR5 are questionable without it.