>No arcade-y tank games in modern era
Gaming is dead.

I'm hoping Gunner Tank PC is more arcad-y than sim.

>>713413943
>Gunner, HEAT!
You know it won't be. It's a fucking milsim game.

>>713413895 (OP)
been meaning to pick up panzer knights, but waiting for a discount.
Wishlist shows a whole 4% but I mean like, 20% or so

Dunno how arcadey it is, but I think it's not supposed to be too much of a simulator experience

>>713413895 (OP)
war thunder arcade mode

>>713414053
Faggot

>>713414048
>Animgook slop toon
>WWII
Aggressively gay

>>713414260
well why don't you post something, wise guy

>>713414302
I can't. There's nothing good currently in existence. That's kinda what I was saying in the OP, dumbass.

>>713413943
You can play it right now, they want to be a milsim that's slightly easier to control than the usual milsim (kind of)

>>713414414
I hope you find peace anon

>Move two meters away from your cover
>Get destroyed by 250usd temu drone
Sorry to break the news but tanks are officially ogre guys

>>713414048
Think a singleplayer World of Tanks campaign, but remade by a Chinese student

>game is meh but your dad got it for you as a present as a wee child and it became a vital part of your childhood in your path

>>713413895 (OP)
No one is gonna take my babes...and live

I liked the Rhino and the Goliath

>>713414553
>>Move two meters away from your cover
you don't even need to do that
the temu drones will come to you in grain trains or home kits on the back of trucks kekw

>>713414553
>Effective tank-on-tank warfare has become the realm of fiction
Then there should be more videos games about it.

>>713414610
Nothing will ever be this kino or cool or aggressively STRAIGHT ever again

>>713414008
>ghpc
>milsim
You are a retard

the funny thing is... this game archetype would work RIGHT NOW, it'd be battle royale or whatever but the general theme and concept would work 1 to 1 and it would probably be huge. tounge in cheek humor with post apocolyptic tank battles (WITH DIFFERENT CLASSES?) dude that would work, would it not?

>>713417116
Only as long as they can shove woke talking points and gay flags into it.

>>713417116
you know, I could see it working. you could go nuts with different tank types and designs, and how they work in a team shooter

Get to work and make your own tank game.

>>713414414
Vidya won't fix your depression

>>713418186
Name five modern good arcade-y tank games currently in existence.

>>713413895 (OP)
there's project cw which supposedly be arcadey
but both wargaming and its playerbase are turbo unfun so don't expect anything good out of it

>>713414545
>>713418186
he's right though and you're both fucking stupid.

There needs to be another Battletanx.

>>713418793
>another Battletanx
Never ever gonna happen.

>>713414008
>milsim
>the AI is braindead that you have to tard wrangle to do simple tasks
Everytime.

>>713413895 (OP)
2 of the 3 friends I used to play this game splitscreen with are dead and the 3rd cooked his brains on benzos
I'm goin to bed /v/

>>713419243
Sorry for your loss anon, pick less druggie friends.

>>713419567
we were 8 years old when we played it, none of us had done drugs yet

>>713419243
shit sucks man, don't make the same mistakes

>>713419625
Pick. Less. Druggie. Friends.

>>713413895 (OP)
War Thunder?

>>713419880
don't say that or he will reee at you, even though he has never played it kekw

>>713419880
I don't want multiplayer only sloppa

>>713419948
>i want to kill mindless bots because i suck
yeah we know dude

>>713413895 (OP)
https://www.tankionline.com
my boomer dad has like 1000+ hours in this

>>713419991
>Dude, playing with cheating IRL faggots is better than a single player campaign!!!
You're not a real gamer.

>>713420215
>everyone better than me is cheating because i suck
yeah we know dude

>>713419948
Pretty sure WT has some PvE shit if you're afraid of being actually challenged.

If anything the real problem is the lack of tank sims. WT on simulator mode (which has been ignored for years) is still quite arcade. I guess GHPC and maybe Spearhead 2 will fix that.

>>713419820
>Just predict the future
Okay, I predict I will put my balls on your face in about five seconds

>>713420275
>Multigoyer yappin'
Yeah, okay kid. Whatever.

>>713419991
he could simply play a nation that regularly goes against German mains. It's basically the same thing

>>713420348
>zoomer can't read and has balls full of microplastics
yeah we know dude

I'd honestly recommend Sprocket, even in its barebones early access state (there's like 10 scenarios, a custom battle maker) it's probably still the most fun I've had out of a tank game.
Making your own tanks is fun, and the combat is basically a jankier WT tanks RB.

>>713420348
It's funny because multiplayer-onlyfags will admit that most multiplayer games are absolutely infested with cheaters from shithole countries and complain about how anticheat does absolutely nothing while being invasive, then in the same breath call you a shitter for not wanting to play multiplayer games because of the cheater issue. Just don't engage with multiplayer-onlyfags, they're almost always dishonest people.

>>713420467
T R U K E

>>713414139
Not an argument.

>>713417214
Honestly, let them
I'll just roll up in my tanks with the clan tag [Nail Jiggers] with decals matching an aesthetic of roughneck tools and railroad jack spikes laced with barbed wire and a rusted iron color pallet.
No one would ever know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORGIt14h2Yo
I wish I could've played this when it came out, but I never owned a DC back in the day

>Aircraft or armor vehicle video game
>>>Never a pilot ejecting from a spiraling aircraft or a tanker on fire crawling out of a destroyed tank or a crew abandoning a disabled vehicle

Game designers don't even fucking try anymore.

>>713420441
>picrel
Thanks, I hate it, I now have claustrophobia

>>713420297
But WT's PvE is picking a spot to sit on for half an hour while point and clicking on tanks that only move forward

>>713420441
Looks like silent UE sloppa

>>713413895 (OP)
>>713414260
>>713414414
>op begging for recommendations but screaming and crying when given one
Sorry nigga they're all anime lol

>>713420754
just like terrain deformation, it's a lost art. I have extremely slim hope that that new donkey kong game might bring back interest in the mechanic.

>>713420831
You think that's bad? Pic related. it's a 3 man crew
>>713420940
Unity sloppa actually.

>>713420996
Maybe try recommending things that AREN'T shit? Huh? Did you ever think of that!?

just play war thunder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBSDtud2qJM

>>713420831
You can make more spacious tanks, pic related. Your imagination (and in the scenarios a weight limit, though that is cumulative ie. If you have a 100t limit and a <20t tank you spawn in with 4 AI team mates) is the limit.
Now you've given me the idea to try making the extreme opposite, an absurdly spacious AFV. An RV but it's a tank.

>>713417116
>battle royale
Kill yourself

>>713413895 (OP)
World of Tanks
But why you would want to play that is beyond my understanding.

>>713420441
>our gunner casualty rate is 100%, sir
<because of the enemy action?
>no, sir. It's because the gun's recoil turns their heads into ketchup after every shot

>>713422194
The game doesn't actually let you put the crewman's head behind the gun, fortunately for him (or unfortunately since it means he has to continue being alive in the Claustrophobia 5000). You have to make sure that nothing blocks the recoil, or traversal of the gun; it can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
It's why the gunner in >>713421045 is barely visible, they're lying nearly flat against the floor of the TD since you can't have them be inside that yellow arc indicator.

>>713421201
maybe try killing yourself you ungrateful faggot

>>713413895 (OP)
World of tanks is right there

outta the way, nerds

>>713423262
I remember the demo for this, it ruled
>>713423024
I tried this and it's clearly a labour of love but I'm too dumb for turn based stuff

>>713413895 (OP)
Those games been absorbed by hijacking a tank in the GTA series. It's always fun.

Anyone remember Recoil?

>>713414604
super cool soundtrack
also
>be me 10yo
>can't get into the controls of the game
>starts to play around the mission editor
>pick the campaign maps and delete all the enemy forces
>the game doesn't have any protected campaign maps backup
>proceed to win the campaign shooting to radar and defenseless installation
>still felt good

>>713413895 (OP)
We don't need modern era arcade tank games.

>>713424630
We don't NEED anything but I would like more tank games.
Wasn't there one that was like Bomber Crew but for tanks?

>>713427280
Yep
https://store.steampowered.com/app/814740/Armored_Battle_Crew_World_War_1__Tank_Warfare_and_Crew_Management_Simulator/
>early access
>mostly negative

>>713427641
Aw
I think you could make something good that's based on the interwar "landship" tanks and their crews.

>>713413943
It's a stiff scenario sim with no game element.

posting this overlooked kino

>>713428874
This, this is the best one there is.

>>713423981
what the fuck. why do i have memories of playing this?

>>713413895 (OP)
That surprises me if true. I know a game-dev course that includes an arkadey tank game in like step 2. I'd have thought there'd be a heap of indies just because of that.
>inb4 "I meant AAAs"
Then you might as well have said >No worthwile games in modern era. And I wouldn't hold my breath.

>>713421045
>3 man crew

I spent SO much of my childhood building custom maps for this shit.

>>713423040
World of tanks is dying
WG is currently squeezing the maximum value out of the few remaining whales
Absolutely no meaningful updates for years and the only thing changing is how much lootboxes are they going to push

>>713417116
>dude that would work, would it not?
It would absolutely work and probably make millions, but there is no gay sex or black people involved so it will never be made

Some of you guys must've played this back in the day.

>>713430189
I love making tankettes. At some point you're playing Twister with the crew's bodies to make them fit.
This one's an earlier one of mine, you can tell because it's actually kind of roomy compared to the others I've posted.

>>713430569
so how much content is actually in the game? can i literally design whatever kind of dogshit i want or are there hard limits to for example how many wheels your tank can have or how many cannons it can carry?

>>713428874
very short game but also very fun
if an indie made a modern version with working online matchmaking/dedicated servers I would cum

>>713430673
So there are some hard limits - currently you can't have more than one set of tracks and just wheeled designs aren't possible (at least in vanilla -both are on the dev roadmap and I think some people have made mods for both, but it's very much in progress).
Multiple guns is fine, pic related carries a 90mm and a 76mm secondary (it also weighs nearly 99 tons due to the amount of armor on it) The latest update added the ability to 'link' guns so they're both controlled by the same crewman.
There's no round variety yet, just standard APHE so far. You can modify the caliber and shell length (aka the amount of powder). There's also not really any different armor types, it's all one kind.
Like I said, there's weight limits for the scenarios plus a number of 'eras' (WW1, interwar, early war, midwar and late war) that determine things like available engine power, suspension, cannon power etc.
Your best bet to see what's possible is to look on the >reddit or on youtube.
Disclaimer that the game is still in early access and EARLY, like 0.2 and it's a sole dev I think.

>>713422348
How is the gunner supposed to leave the cabin?

>>713421045
>>713430569
>>713431379
Can't wait for this to get MP. It's fun to fuck around but I really need to test my designs against friends.

>>713431525
leave?

>>713431379
Game looks a lot better than it did 3 years ago. Maybe it's time to let the autism free yet again.

>>713431613
True warhammer moment

>>713431525
Through the hatch on the top, simple.
>>713431610
Multiplayer would be a nice bonus, but I really hope that Hamish focuses on singleplayer first. Plus there's that other tank building game that's already out and has multiplayer, I forget the name but patchbits recently covered it.
>>713431642
Oh yeah, if you've been away that long you'll have missed geometric internals, it's a game changer.

>>713431379
you know, i am kind of being sold on the game. and its only 12 bucks on steam.

>>713431727
>if you've been away that long
I have because in the period I've played since release till 2022 my tanks were broken by updates at least half a dozen times. I didn't want to play the game if I knew another update would fuck me over.

>>713431785
For $12 even being Early Access and not guaranteed to be completed, there's enough in it to have fun with.
>pic related
These are all pre-geometric internals I think, so the one key change is that whatever you make, dudes have got to fit in there. But there's no requirement for the dudes to be comfortable.
PLUS with the components and internals you can make open topped vehicles as well, or open front, whatever.

>>713432153
Oh yeah, that'll happen. My approach has just been to say if a tank design gets busted due to an update, I'll just make a new one. You gotta be like water, but I understand as well if that's a problem.

>>713414568
sounds based. Would prefer warthunder but that works too.

>>713432240
>the double turret
oh im gonna have lots of autistic fun with this

>>713432358
I spent a fair bit of time on that Pershing so I kinda lost interest when the next update broke it. Has there been a proper mantlet designer added or do you have to still nigger rig them if you want custom mantlets?

>>713413895 (OP)
Honestly this sort of low-story arcadey mission based game is almost entirely gone. Very few of them are getting made. It doesn't fit the modern genre meta. Some of those ideas have been converted into roguelites but that's about it.

>>713432560
I miss being able to turn on a game and have fun

>>713432382
That IS a pre geometric internal design, but then also without trying for myself I don't see why it wouldn't still be possible, as long as each turret still has the space for the gun/crew.
Before geometrics each compartment/turret had a certain volume and you needed enough volume to fit crew, ammo, gun etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTP5h4mHIu4
Ah okay, this guy makes an oscillating turret with geometrics (basically one turret mounted to another) so yes that should be doable.
>>713432453
>mantlets
You're still picking from a fixed list of mantlets, BUT there's one that is basically just a single horizontal rod, so if you wanted to make a custom mantlet I think you could do it that way?

>>713432369
So play warthunder

>>713432682
Games that offer that are almost entirely roguelites and often in them the start is slow and not all that fun.

>>713419948
Play Enlisted you will be mostly killing bots. And there are custom matches with only bots.

>>713431692
A tank where its crew members are fused into the steel seems cool and horrifying, now that I think about it

>>713432771
I don't want to anymore; I already have 2k hours in that dogshit game.
I want arcadey singleplayer with story but I do enjoy the realistic ballistics of warthunder.

>>713432701
>just a single horizontal rod
Can structures be attached to it? If yes then custom mantlets should be possible. Back in 2022 I had to use a second turret as a mantlet to build up a structure around the gun and pretend it's a mantlet.

>>713433039
You can attach stuff to the mantlet rod including an "addon structure" that's just a new 3D shape, yes. I think that's the intent of the 'bare' mantlet?

>>713433559
Sounds good. Might be a good time to come back then.

>>713433038
I get why they don't, because it would kill their profits I imagine but fuck me a "War Thunder singleplayer" that's just WT Ground RB with a campaign and slightly smarter bots would be the ultimate game.

Is this one any good?

>>713433962
I've heard it got rushed out and is kind of jank, so it might be worth waiting for a sale or for them to fix it.

>>713431610
Ramshackle is the one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfSQPCI4QQ
>>713433962
I've heard it got rushed out and is kind of jank, so it might be worth waiting for a sale or for them to fix it.

>>713434009
>>713434126
Fucking hell, I dumb and double post
Have the Smooth Lee as recompense

Guess the game.
It's Battlezone (1980)

Here u go
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343070/Call_to_Arms_Panzer_Elite/

This game dominates most of my PS1 memories and yet I've never seen it mentioned here even once. I used to love trying to get as far as my kid brain could manage. Most of my attempts ended on the city at sunset level due to either the last gauntlet of enemies or letting the convoy escape (instant loss condition.) I remember getting to the forest level that comes after only once back then and that one was a swift kick in the head from the distant bunkers that would nuke you from outside of render distance. Good times.

>>713413895 (OP)

>>713428874
>American box art
>vs original box art

>>713435186

>>713434364
I should watch this anime.

>>713436418
Girls Und Panzer is one of the better shows I've seen. Highly recommend it, though with the caveat that it's a "sport anime" where the sport is tanks rather than being any military thing. (Think mighty ducks, air bud, cool runnings etc)

>>713437146
So it errs on the side of slice of life, rather than combat. I think I can live with that.

>>713414048
I pirated it, 7/10 would pirate again.

>>713437146
>>713437262
You also need to have significant suspension of disbelief because these girls use tech that is basically magic to allow them to engage in full-on tank combat with no injuries. Fun anime though. Dream Tank Match is also a really fun arcadey tank game.

>>713437367
Oh, so it's not like video games or mock battles or something? Interesting.

The girls und panzer vidya is honestly great arcade fun. Recommend it to everyone

>>713414664
Landing a shot with that beast is devastating. Insta-kills mototank and rattlers, IIRC.

>>713413895 (OP)
>No arcade...in modern era
There's your problem, at least in the West.

>>713437783
My only wish was that there was a setting to turn off the auto ranging/height adjustment on shots. Lining up and ranging a target is fun! I don't even care if you give me the range automatically, let me aim up or adjust for drop!
Also a PC port

>>713414553
Quantum Radar and ESW systems will definitely bring them back. Air and ground regularly have eras where one dominates the other until something new develops that puts one over the other until something else comes along to turn it upside down

>>713437367
You mean a Hetzer can't push up a Maus without getting crushed IRL?!

I played a lot of Battletanx when I was a kid, especially the co-op. I remember the Goliath level where I'd just go around autistically destroying every single building.
There were also levels I'd play over and over with the fenced off areas that would give you a free nuke you had to gamble for with the teleport powerup with limited uses. I haven't played it since I was probably 7 or 8. Considering it's a 3DO game, I can't imagine it holds up too well, so I wont go back to it like I did with Army Men: Sarge's Heroes, which I had good memories about, but the game is super ass playing it again in my 30s.

>>713437783
Dream Tank Match has changed...

>>713413895 (OP)
There's that Tankhead game, only available on EGS, though.

>>713413895 (OP)
I can remember every single sound effect from this game still

>>713439043
>only available on EGS
May as well not even exist. Imagine agreeing to that exclusivity deal.

>>713439195
Yeah, it's a crying shame. Maybe it's available to pirate, haven't checked.

>>713438504
It's okay, but the tracks and aiming should be separate but they are tied together so it just doesn't feel that good control. some kind of Duke Nukem 3d controls would have done wonders for this game.

>>713420441
I'd like to, but

>>713440957
Retard, scroll down a few more pixels and you'll see he's been updating constantly.

I miss playing Dream Tank Match with the bros.

>>713440957
Huh that's weird

>>713413943
Lol
Lmao even

>>713440957
Fore whatever reason the page didn't updated that since .127 release, were in 2.32 or something now. I'm just waiting for the cold war tech tier. It's been in the game files for a time now.

>>713443152
>cold war
I feel like you'd need more stuff in it before moving to cold war? Like multiple ammo types, different kinds of armor, fire control/stabilization, rangefinders, etc.

>>713413895 (OP)
>TRUKE DEPLOYED

>>713413943
Why would you think that? It's like one of the most sim tank games out there.

>>713419880
Possibly one of the most unfun games ever. The actual models and tank mechanics are great but EVERY other aspect is fucking awful to the point where it becomes such a chore to play.

>>713420441
>>713440957
He actually makes significant updates fairly often for a one-man operation. Not really worth the money yet but at this rate it'll be the best tank sim on the market in a couple years.

>>713413895 (OP)
>arcade
here that is actually arcadey

>>713443346
Yeah, it's gonna take a while. There's also the mention of shell editor, so might come after that's off from alpha.

>>713420441
Damn sucka, now I don't feel so bad when I try to crumble my driver in a short hull.

>>713422348
You can, you just need to move it faraway enough so there's a clearance for the shell casings.

>>713417116
It was called hawken, it was great but ruined within a month of release by bad greed based mismanagement.

Ironically if they had been less greedy destroying the game with pay to win shit they wouldn't have ruined the gameplay and would have ended up making more money in the long term

>>713444863
I remember playing the demo and getting my ass kicked. is it that difficult, or was it just my child self being bad at video games?

>>713413895 (OP)
You're supposed to play Renegade X or Planetside 2. Renegade X is active during peak UK hours, so 5-10pm or whatever

>>713445559
>Ironically if they had been less greedy destroying the game with pay to win shit they wouldn't have ruined the gameplay and would have ended up making more money in the long term
its wild how many companies this applies too. if they would just make a game with good gameplay that was worth playing, THEN they could roll out cash shops, cosmetics, whatever the fuck they want, and make even more money long term.

It usually gets 64/64 , especially during weekends

>>713432701
You don't need to fit people inside the turret for it to work. You can assign roles regardless of the crewman's position inside the tank.
I've been experimenting with crewless turrets and trying to fit a large 120x615 main gun that won't take 8 seconds to reload.
Everyone is located in the hull side by side to the driver. Works perfectly (when the trunions are not randomly moved back whenever I'm reloading the tank).
Also we need a way to assign priority for the ammo racks, I spend an entire night troubleshooting why my 120mm maingun (which usually took 7 seconds to reload) now needed 15 secs. Only to find out that the retarded loader was grabbing ammo from the storage rack near the driver and not from the ready rack behind him.

>>713445559
Gooks are just really, really good at mismanaging great franchises into destruction, see Kingdom Under Fire.

i'm looking for something really arcade-y
and not just "not realistic enough for the autists" thing, something closer to twisted metal kind of vehicular combat

>>713419993
isn't that really old now?

>>713445690
the latter.
I would say average difficulty for games at that time.

Mechwarrior Online (MWO) was quite fun couple of years ago. I guess now it's a husk of its former self, but if you got to experience it pre-clan mechs and during clan mechs, I think you got to experience some of best online tank/mech battling (since I doubt earthsiege ever had very active multiplayer playerbase?)

Honorary mentions for singleplayer experience would be Interstate 76 and Interstate 82 , amazing car combat games

>>713446145
If you don't mind anime girls >>713441182

>Could have sworn BattleTanx Global Assault was on the switch
>Turns out it isnt

The Tomorrow Falls beta was glorious, but the game was cancelled. An absolute travesty I'm still mad about. The Fractured Space devs can't get a break.

>>713450176
why did they cancel something they already had a beta for?

>>713450259
I don't know. No reason was given. The beta worked well; it's not like it was a fundamentally broken mess or otherwise shit on by everyone like Hyenas or something. My best guess is that higher-ups at publisher Wargaming (World of Tanks, etc.) decided an arcadey tank game wouldn't be a good business move and perhaps wanted to adapt the core of the game into a different genre. It would be a colossal waste if all that are and code were just mothballed. I don't remember there being any juicy info about it in the beta test discord for it, either. Just this announcement on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/games/2023130/announcements/detail/3660900859073520315

>>713439043
I played this and it's utter fucking shit not even worth my time pirating it