What are Collector vehicles?
- They are like any other regular tech tree tank, but they are obtained differently via the Collector Vehicles tab:
- To unlock a vehicle you need to research its specific tier in its related Nation tree.
- Example: To unlock all German Collector vehicles up to Tier V, you need to unlock at least one Tier V vehicle in the German tech tree.
How changes will be applied upon patch release
- If a Collector vehicle leads to a vehicle that remains in the tech tree and said vehicle is not researched, the next and the previous vehicle will be unlocked.
- Example: If the Jagdpanther II is researched, the Jagdtiger, Jagdpanther, and all other vehicles leading to it will be researched automatically after patch release.
- If a collector vehicle is owned before the patch, it stays in the garage (no changes).
- If a collector vehicle is not owned but researched, it remains purchasable.
- Blueprint fragments for unresearched (soon to be) collector vehicles will be converted to their respective amount of universal and national blueprint fragments.
- The required amount of blueprint fragments depends on the vehicle tier and can be found HERE.
- XP earned with the collector vehicle will remain with the vehicle.
IMHO, the Collector Vehicles should have been placed in the Tech Tree in the same manner how the Premium Vechiles are now displayed.
Thus NOT HIDDEN from it, behind a “button” and a new UI window.
That way it would have generated much less fuss among the player base, then how it has been implemented now.
It would be wise for WG, which they are not IMO, if they’d change the Collector Vehicle UI and implement them in the same way as the Premium Vehicle are implemented in the tech tree.