Chinese flags everywhere

[Drakey Fenix]

Have anyone else noticed that in the past 2 years many tanks and aircraft have been plastered with the Chinese flag? What's that about? It's completely fine, but I just find it weird since you never see this kind of spam with any other flag. It's just everywhere these days. In 9 out of 10 battles I see at least one Chinese flag if not more. Does anyone have a theory about this or am I just over-analyzing the situation?

[fruitbowl]

Yes, I noticed this a while ago. No clue whats it about. Thought maybe the flag came with a chinese premium or something but I never looked into it.

[76561198315424152]

Didn't they close down war thunder in china? Or did i remember that wrong. Anyhow guess Chinese players found a way to play still

[Drakey Fenix]

Originally posted by Tidsloop:

Didn't they close down war thunder in china? Or did i remember that wrong. Anyhow guess Chinese players found a way to play still

I very much doubt that it's strictly Chinese players that are using that flag. Not with this many flags appearing in every game.

[76561198315424152]

Originally posted by Drakey Fenix:

Originally posted by Tidsloop:

Didn't they close down war thunder in china? Or did i remember that wrong. Anyhow guess Chinese players found a way to play still

I very much doubt that it's strictly Chinese players that are using that flag. Not with this many flags appearing in every game.

Not strictly but i for one only got the (500 eagles) flag of my own country...

[dLFN]

Almost a fifth of the world is Chinese.

[Futuristic Hexagon]

Originally posted by Tidsloop:

Didn't they close down war thunder in china? Or did i remember that wrong. Anyhow guess Chinese players found a way to play still

You're thinking of the PRC Client run by Gaijin's partner for that, Tencent. That one had no connection to the international client we have here, and was usually 2 years behind on updates, being only different in (1) having a chinese tree, and (2) censoring country names/flags and in some cases roundels. It did not play in matches with us.

When you do see PRC players, they're usually playing here through a VPN.

[76561198315424152]

Originally posted by Futuristic Hexagon:

Originally posted by Tidsloop:

Didn't they close down war thunder in china? Or did i remember that wrong. Anyhow guess Chinese players found a way to play still

You're thinking of the PRC Client run by Gaijin's partner for that, Tencent. That one had no connection to the international client we have here, and was usually 2 years behind on updates, being only different in (1) having a chinese tree, and (2) censoring country names/flags and in some cases roundels. It did not play in matches with us.

When you do see PRC players, they're usually playing here through a VPN.

Yeah alright, i knew it was on a completely separate arena, but did they close it down tho? If they did, many of the players on there likely went over here to play

Simple as a VPN, alright. Good good.

[Wolfsmaul-GER]

lots of actually chinese players but i also suspect some do it for the joke or edgy political reasons like the 'Z' symbols

[Drakey Fenix]

Originally posted by Tidsloop:

Originally posted by Futuristic Hexagon:

You're thinking of the PRC Client run by Gaijin's partner for that, Tencent. That one had no connection to the international client we have here, and was usually 2 years behind on updates, being only different in (1) having a chinese tree, and (2) censoring country names/flags and in some cases roundels. It did not play in matches with us.

When you do see PRC players, they're usually playing here through a VPN.

Yeah alright, i knew it was on a completely separate arena, but did they close it down tho? If they did, many of the players on there likely went over here to play

Simple as a VPN, alright. Good good.

Interesting that these Chinese players are willing to risk their livelihood just to play War Thunder.

[Zeno]

Originally posted by Tidsloop:

Didn't they close down war thunder in china? Or did i remember that wrong. Anyhow guess Chinese players found a way to play still

So are they all patriots now or what ? Whats the point of putting one's country's flag on a vehicle in the first place. It's a video game, no one is doing their country a " good deed " by slapping a flag on their vehicle, what a joke.

[76561198315424152]

Originally posted by Tiran:

Originally posted by Tidsloop:

Didn't they close down war thunder in china? Or did i remember that wrong. Anyhow guess Chinese players found a way to play still

So are they all patriots now or what ? Whats the point of putting one's country's flag on a vehicle in the first place. It's a video game, no one is doing their country a " good deed " by slapping a flag on their vehicle, what a joke.

What do i know. maybe it's to say "hi I'm from china", maybe to find people from the same country to play with or a thousand other reasons. Some are patriots , some like their flag cause of the colors or it reminds them of their childhood or good times, sport events, some wanna confuse Tiran.

[Labdog]

Social credit does not grind itself.

[CaptainSpacetime]

what br is this at? don't think i've seen many or any chinese flags at the ww2 level

[Idouts]

Originally posted by dLFN:

Almost a fifth of the world is Chinese.

Unfortunately.

[Cryptid]

An interest in numbers, I've seen this in other games.. and in those games when it happened the mass cheating began to really take off.