Dear players,

Another round of questions and answers, with War Thunder producer Vyacheslav Bulannikov!

Armament

Q: Is there any chance of a “tank” aiming system for SB not just for boats, but for destroyers as well? By this I mean a system where there is no forced target locking and where the player has to manually set the armament’s angle of elevation, relying only on the range finder, and at this distance (set in the sight) rear and frontal guns will converge horizontally. The advantages of this aiming system have been demonstrated previously in RB:

– It allows you to aim at a half-sunk ship 6 km away rather than automatically firing on a fresh enemy 3 km away that is blocking it in the sight.
– It will also eliminate stupid situations where you can’t continue firing on a ship that’s suddenly hidden behind a smoke screen (and not actually vanished into thin air), when the rangefinder starts showing 9800 instead of 4000. – – And when you fire in that direction, seeing shells sailing right over it, even though a couple of seconds before the ship was swallowed by the smoke, I could see the flashes of my hits.
– You could also quickly turn main armaments on approaching torpedo boats for direct fire without trial shots.
– You would have a chance of firing main armaments on the torpedo bombers advancing on your ship.
– You could also fire on any object (i. e. tank) on land.

A: For the moment, we think that the current aiming system in AB and RB for large ships with long-range artillery when firing on above-water targets suits our needs. Firing on air-borne targets does need further adjustment, and this is in the pipeline. We looked at many options and chose our current system because it is easiest to use in most situations and in general it isn’t much different from the system proposed above (requiring the range to be entered every time without auto selection) in the case of RB mode. It’s possible that we may decide to allow players to choose between the current “arcade” aiming system and a “realistic” aiming system in RB.

Dear players,

Another round of questions and answers, with War Thunder producer Vyacheslav Bulannikov!

Armament

Q: Is there any chance of a “tank” aiming system for SB not just for boats, but for destroyers as well? By this I mean a system where there is no forced target locking and where the player has to manually set the armament’s angle of elevation, relying only on the range finder, and at this distance (set in the sight) rear and frontal guns will converge horizontally. The advantages of this aiming system have been demonstrated previously in RB:

– It allows you to aim at a half-sunk ship 6 km away rather than automatically firing on a fresh enemy 3 km away that is blocking it in the sight.
– It will also eliminate stupid situations where you can’t continue firing on a ship that’s suddenly hidden behind a smoke screen (and not actually vanished into thin air), when the rangefinder starts showing 9800 instead of 4000. – – And when you fire in that direction, seeing shells sailing right over it, even though a couple of seconds before the ship was swallowed by the smoke, I could see the flashes of my hits.
– You could also quickly turn main armaments on approaching torpedo boats for direct fire without trial shots.
– You would have a chance of firing main armaments on the torpedo bombers advancing on your ship.
– You could also fire on any object (i. e. tank) on land.

A: For the moment, we think that the current aiming system in AB and RB for large ships with long-range artillery when firing on above-water targets suits our needs. Firing on air-borne targets does need further adjustment, and this is in the pipeline. We looked at many options and chose our current system because it is easiest to use in most situations and in general it isn’t much different from the system proposed above (requiring the range to be entered every time without auto selection) in the case of RB mode. It’s possible that we may decide to allow players to choose between the current “arcade” aiming system and a “realistic” aiming system in RB.