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War Thunder is getting infantry combat (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Oh no, it's going to pull me back in isn't it? War Thunder is finally adding infantry combat to its roster of war games in a future update. Testing is due to begin this month, being spread across stages for an eventual full roll-out during next year as the mode is still under development.

Interestingly, they're taking some elements from another game they publish called Enlisted, with you controlling a squad. They said you control a single soldier, but you have "full tactical control over the entire squad" and they will automatically follow you and assist in all combat situations.

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago

See, I've always kinda hoped they'd do more combined arms stuff. But I'd rather they kept to the ww2/early cold war stuff with it. Or at least started with that

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    [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    If it wasn't so predatory, it could be an amazing Planetside 2 successor.

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I don't know. I have a love-hate relationship with that game. I can't stand playing most online PvP games anymore so I play their PvE mode and it is obvious that this mode doesn't get any attention by the developers even for the most basic things.

    On one hand it does fantastic land-air battles when the game doesn't screw you over. On the other they can't be bothered to follow one of the most basic rules of game design that is to make sure the players don't get spawned into an unfair, instant-death situation, let alone trapping them in a spawn-death loop. Whether you survive past your ridiculously short 3 second spawn immunity or not is purely a dice roll in that mode.

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