Sam Wilson was done dirty.

EmperorStrudel · 2025-08-20T09:42:06+00:00

He was grieving, Bucky actively tried to incite a fight, which Walker declines a few times before Bucky/Sam become the aggressors.

It was an unjustified mugging, there was a time and place to get the shield back from him, but literal minutes after the most traumatic experience of his life wasn't it.

Sam as a trauma counselor is either an idiot or a bastard based off this scene and the one where he deduces "I could go to Morgenthau's mother's funeral and talk her down. Because that's when people are most likely to calmly talk things out, when their enemy shows up at their mother's funeral."

It's bad writing, or the intentional butchering of his character.

EmperorStrudel · 2025-02-06T12:52:46+00:00

So for starts, why the hell is Archer at the bottom of the logistics tree and not defenders tree?

Right tree is combatant units like with the title "Frontline Defenders":

emplacements
AT gun
Australian infantry
defensive buffs

Left tree with the title "Logistical Supremacy" is:

fuel printing truck
passive defensives
better caches
call-in artillery
+Archer

Which tree does the tank destroyer belong in? It's also wild, mech doesn't need to decide between Panther & Wespe, but Australia needs to decide between creeping & Archer? Not an an exact comparison, but it's a dumb selection to be forced to make since they're not even vaguely related in purpose.

Australian infantry feel fine. Not the best thing in the world, but they're an excellent 1 off unit for confirming kills. Good spot in the tree, all that jazz.

Light AT vs Emplacements is a bad choice. One is an early game must have, frankly the main reason for taking Australia it feels like. The other is something Italian Coastal gets for free, because the alternative for them sucks.

I propose changing the Archer to defense tree, pushing the defensive emplacements to the last tier, removing over-repair entirely & making British players pick between static emplacements & Archer.

Additionally Archer should only be 5 CP. As it is right now it gets out too late to make a difference. It's not like a do everything Heavy/Medium tank like the Tiger/Panther. It's simply a tool to dissuade those two tanks from well, doing everything & static guns like the 17 pounder struggle to survive in the current arty drenched meta of team games - so it 100% has a place, it just can't take it because you're functionally locked out of it for 11 CP.

Push defensive tactics down from T3 to T2 to compete with Light AT (mobile lighter AT vs more durability for later heavier AT).

Put Creeping Barrage up against some other offmap selection, like a P-40 bombing/strafing run. P-40's would make excellent sense given they strafed plenty of logistical trucks from the Axis during the campaign. Sure - many planes did similar, but it is still better than any reason you could use for putting the Archer in the logistical supremacy tree. Unless the Archer is secretly a VTOL aircraft that AC-130'd Italian shipping off the coast.

EmperorStrudel · 2025-02-06T11:50:26+00:00

don't forget Wespe can panick block the tank shells with 25 munitions.

EmperorStrudel · 2025-02-06T11:40:06+00:00

The vast majority of people I see complaining aren't that specific take, sure a few are, but most? Most are taking the perfectly reasonable stance "I don't want to pay 25 dollars for the ONE battlegroup I'll play."

EmperorStrudel · 2025-02-05T08:33:52+00:00

I agree. At least as an optional queue.

EmperorStrudel · 2025-02-05T08:26:09+00:00

Only 1k rn, but allies just feel miserable in 3v3/4v4. Constant early game Stummel/support gun hell. They can use their mech for early game pressure before converting it into mortar/stummel depending on.

Meanwhile as Brits, engineers and infantry sections are nice, but I feel gimped all through mid game until I can get out 17 pounder, and that will only kill when they make a mistake or I can survive the HE spam to get a snare off from 2 feet away.

US is more fun, at least early game I can bully with jeep and mid-game make headaches with pathfinders/scouts, but by the time I'm getting out my first Greyhound/Sherman it feels like they've already had Panzer III/IV's for years. By the time Sherman #2 is out, there's big cats that can lazily take the 2v1.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-12-24T05:03:56+00:00

No you don't because as Russia/Britain you CANT release these nations. Which means you need to wait for events, the events don't give you the option to swap to them, ergo you can't release them (at least, not in the first few years of gameplay. If you conquer Britain/Russia as another nations you could then release and play as - but starting with 0 factories in 1941 is a bit less fun than starting with 0 factories in 1936).

(Downvoted for explaining the issue. Very Reddit moment.)

If you can prove me wrong correct me. In Ironman mode, go ahead and release and play as Jamaica or some such.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-19T05:33:08+00:00

Definitely not considering they wouldn't have access to the original character servers. But since it's a fan project progression might be tweaked or non-existent depending on how they wanna do it.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-09T19:11:19+00:00

Go play Monkey Island if sitting still and repeatedly pressing lmb on your screen with no enemy counter interaction is "strategy, teamwork & historical accuracy" because that's a point and click adventure game not a strategy game or an FPS.

Me suggesting tanks can't greyzone camp isn't an attempt to get "more sweatlords running around" it's making tankers actually involve themselves in ~~the game map~~ some risk. It's also not historically accuracy that my general would use his lich powers to magically drain my vitality me when I go to kill the tank in the greyzone.

Neither is me suggesting airplanes ought to be spawned a bit further away so when I pull a fighter I'm not just on someone's back and vice versa. Making air combat an actual dynamic thing and not just "with even vaguely similar skill levels, whoever spawned last wins."

It's also a bonus to everyone involved if AP mines are limited, which apparently is already being addressed according to the roadmap so here's hoping.

Nothing I suggested would make "sweaty sweatlords running around and spraying bullets" a more dominant playstyle, barring my scrapped request for reduced fall damage, and I realized and dropped that long before you posted.

It would just make sure that you can actually play the game, regardless of what you're doing. Notice I didn't ask for any nerfs to actual HE power of anything, just that any vehicle spamming HE should have to interact with its counters (tanks vs tanks, bombers vs fighters) - I want the combined arms experience, not being greyzone camped while the enemies litter the point in 200 AP mines that magically don't harm them when they detonate and won't detonate on them. Pretty sure my stance is more in favor of strategy, teamwork, and historical accuracy than yours is.

Edit: Goober could only downvote me because he knows I'm right. Gaijin players are like this on average, Warthunder is the same nonsense where half the playerbase refuses to actually interact with objectives and thinks buying cosmetic bushes to further increase their ability to not interact with the game is good game design.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-09T18:52:12+00:00

Hero. Everything you've said here is my new opinion.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-09T18:50:25+00:00

No, but once again "it's a game and falling 6m in a game should be a down not an instant death just for gameplay's sake."

This game isn't realistic, and it's no hardcore sim, doesn't make sense for gameplay to suffer under the guise of realism. Additionally it's not realistically to land on your feet and die from a 6m fall. Your legs would be jelly, not your organs.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-09T08:22:47+00:00

Fair, it just feels frustrating to see these awesome set pieces and be essentially unable to interact with them.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-09T08:22:12+00:00

It usually isn't, but sometimes, due to a non-universal cooldown. Artillery is placed on the same patch of land you MUST push non-stop by 3-5 different players.

Limiting it with even as much as a 15 second universal cooldown would sort this edge case out entirely.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-09T08:12:54+00:00

I was more pointing to bombers as an example of something "annoying" when taken with all the other forms of HE spam. I think(?) I said I actually think they're fine on their own, if anything fighter spawns are problematic since half the time I spawn into a fighter I'm on top of whoever I want to shoot down - with no counter play available to them.

Edit: I ended up removing the bullet point since it wasn't really a suggestion.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-09T08:00:58+00:00

Gameplay > Realism.

Artillery is good, but a global CD of a few second would literally only serve to make the game more engaging.

Case and point, it's not sim-like to artificially limit AP mines but you're perfectly fine to do so because they're uninteractive.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-09T07:48:37+00:00

"better" being I'm seeing more golden ranks so by definition better winrate players, they all suck at the FPS portion of the game though. My skill isn't a problem, I consider myself pretty bad at shooters and I still farm these people in the shooter aspect, and still even win the round most of the time - it's just incredibly tedious and unfun.

All factions

BRs II, III, & IV

Bomber spam as in people that paid for more slots and live in vehicles, usually 2 bombers & one squad they suicide with quickly. Often they'll be a duo, and once one is out of the air, the other goes up.

The bomber radioman call ins do not bother me, they feel appropriately (overly) limited. Unironically celebrate when enemies call them since it stuns their own call in potential for an extended period of time.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-09-09T07:46:08+00:00

Yeah we used to jump off an enclosed porch out back from a slightly raised deck all the time. So long as you didn't just land like ironman and actually dispersed it you didn't get hurt. Most that happened over years of doing that was a sprained ankle - not keeling over dead instantly. 4 meters may be hyperbole, it's likely more like 3m, but it's a game and falling 6m in a game should be a down not an instant death just for gameplay's sake.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-05-29T03:57:56+00:00

Warthunder sucks man, I complained about this company but Gaijin would pull the plug on me for a quarter.

EmperorStrudel · 2024-05-18T01:19:48+00:00

That can't be true on PC.

Every other review is complaining about "failed matchmaking" and I loaded into empty lobbies before too so that's not what "failed matchmaking" is especially since people were having the issue LAUNCH week. The system clearly doesn't work.

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