War Thunder

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3.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1908 Ratings

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  1. Fastpoose
    Feb 7, 2017
    4
    Got hooked for a good few days, paid up got some cool planes, got hooked for a few weeks, saved and slogged for a Lancaster, got hooked for a few more days, then realised...holy cow this is boring.

    Play have some fun, but don't waste too much money on this one ;)
  2. epicfester
    Oct 24, 2015
    4
    After being away from gaming for a few yrs then giving it a try, I still think IL-2 1946 owns this game. Flight sims take so much time to master but in this one you need to just buy planes $$$
  3. Brenn3r
    Dec 20, 2013
    4
    This game had a lot of potential last year, but the developers have ruined it.
    +good graphics
    +different game modes
    +a lot of planes
    +really nice mouse aim
    -grind
    -pay2win
    -no end game content, just endless grind
    -grind again with new economics and progression system
    -matchmaking and balance
  4. LaughingSam
    Jun 8, 2014
    4
    A great game but a terrible f2p model. It could be much better if the microtransaction system was less blatantly greedy. Personally I found it very frustrating trying to get into, and issues with matchmaking ensure that you'll feel it if you havent spent any cash.
  5. krj38
    Apr 18, 2015
    4
    This opinion pertains to the arcade tank mode only.
    The game is great, it really is. The tanks feel great and battles can be intensive and exciting. The tank,s oh, the tanks are just awesome: the damage model works perfectly and forces you to know and exploit the various tanks' weaknesses. So, why do I give the game a 4? The experience is underwhelming. Ignoring the fact that people who    This opinion pertains to the arcade tank mode only.
    The game is great, it really is. The tanks feel great and battles can be intensive and exciting. The tank,s oh, the tanks are just awesome: the damage model works perfectly and forces you to know and exploit the various tanks' weaknesses. So, why do I give the game a 4? The experience is underwhelming. Ignoring the fact that people who play this game just can't seem to comprehend the importance of capturing the points, the matchmaking system in the pure f2p mode is just awful. So, now I have 4 tanks with the following ratings: 5.7, 5.3, 5.0, 4.7. As the game considers only the highest rating and looks for player with a +/- 1 rating, well, I get obliterated all the time by 6.0 to 6.7 tanks. Add to that the enormous maps (whose design is great, by the way) and realistic speeds of tank and what I get is the following experience: it takes 2-3 minutes to get to the action with the super-heavy IS-1. And then you get blasted to smithereens by a 6.7 Tiger. Then you can respawn and take another 2 minutes drive to get blasted again. Sounds like fun. It would be okay if prices of new tanks (that is, the research price) wouldn't; be that high. It appears that I reached the limit of playing for free. My next tanks costs 100000 research point. Considering all the negativities I described above, this means in the best case scenario 50 boring, useless battles. This is very disappointing, the fact that such a great game got ruined.    … Expand
  6. SPARTACVS
    Mar 4, 2015
    4
    The game has great potential and is fun in many aspects but is downed by many negative points.

    The main problems are that the developers are bad when it comes to management. They obviously don't know where they are going resulting of things being redone all the time and a lot of annoying things in the game. Also, they don't listen much the community. They implement things that hasn't    The game has great potential and is fun in many aspects but is downed by many negative points.

    The main problems are that the developers are bad when it comes to management. They obviously don't know where they are going resulting of things being redone all the time and a lot of annoying things in the game. Also, they don't listen much the community. They implement things that hasn't been asked and don't some that are asked. There's a big gap between the game and historical accuracy for no reason. They have a bias toward their nation (Russia). The community is average. Finally, the price of what they sale are very high.    … Expand
  7. Bobsi
    Apr 20, 2015
    4
    My review at a glance:
    Pros:
    - Good graphics - Very good sound - Simple, yet precise controls - Many different planes to fly -Three different gamemodes / difficulty levels (Arcade, Realistic, Simulator) Cons: - XP gain (to unlock more vehicles) is extremely low, UNLESS you spent quite some real money (especially painful when trying to research vehicles higher than Tier 3 (out of    My review at a glance:
    Pros:
    - Good graphics
    - Very good sound
    - Simple, yet precise controls
    - Many different planes to fly
    -Three different gamemodes / difficulty levels (Arcade, Realistic, Simulator)

    Cons:
    - XP gain (to unlock more vehicles) is extremely low, UNLESS you spent quite some real money (especially painful when trying to research vehicles higher than Tier 3 (out of 5))
    - Matchmaking is often unfair
    - You can't fly all planes / drive all tanks in Simulator difficulty anymore

    Why only 4 points then:
    This game used to be good, until:
    - Matchmaking got screwed up. Vehicles now have a "battlerating" which often has very little to do with its performance / historical era. So it can easily happen you are facing Korean War jets while flying a WWII propeller plane. You are also highly likely to face post-war tanks in your 1943 models, which means your skill doesn't really matter anymore, you're highly likely to get wrecked (literally). This ruins the realistic approach the game would like to have.
    - A few months ago you used to have a x2 XP bonus for the first victory WITH EACH OF THE 5 AVAILABLE NATIONS (USA, GB, Russia, Germany, Japan). (Similar to World of Tanks.) This motivating system was recently replaced by daily log-in rewards. They are extremely less powerful than the old boost, and those rewards even expire after 3 days. They do stack, so you can use them all at once, but their outcome is highly diminished upon stacking.
    - Pay-2-win slowly but surely gets more and more.

    Conclusion:
    Right now I would not recommend this game. It used to be a fun game, so two years ago I would have praised it and advertised it. But today, even more with the latest developments, I fear there's little point in playing it for fun. Unless one is willing to pay a lot of money...

    Still, PLEASE read other reviews too, because they will vary from mine! My point of view of course is different than other players'! Keep that in mind when considering whether to start playing War Thunder or not.

    But I got of the worsening changes. (I'm not tired of the gameplay though. So if one is able to forget about all the issues there are, this game can be great fun.)    … Expand
  8. solidmclovin
    Sep 26, 2015
    4
    Gaijin really don't know what they're doing at all. I started playing 2-3 years ago, and even back then they didn't know what they were doing, but at least they seemed like they were trying. They listened to the community sometimes, but now... too many bad changes and patches that don't seem to be letting up any time soon. Now they refuse to listen to the community. Even going back andGaijin really don't know what they're doing at all. I started playing 2-3 years ago, and even back then they didn't know what they were doing, but at least they seemed like they were trying. They listened to the community sometimes, but now... too many bad changes and patches that don't seem to be letting up any time soon. Now they refuse to listen to the community. Even going back and playing the old planes isn't fun for me. The matchmaking changes have been horrible, and (as much as its overstated sometimes), there's a debatable Russian bias and they straight up retcon history sometimes.

    I love the game to death, but as long as its in the hands of such an unorganized and dysfunctional development team, that won't be happening any time soon. This game is the epitome of one of those FPS's that seem promising for the first few months, and then you realize how much of a grind it really is.

    It's not even just the fact that it's a grind, it's not about taking forever to unlock planes, it's not about the fact that it will take the average user about a year to get their first jet, because it's possible to have fun in this game without jets. In fact, jets are one of the most unbalanced and un-fun parts of this game, besides ground forces. The early tiers are some of the most fun, in fact. That's why you so often see players with about 100 hours or less giving WarThunder positive reviews, yet as you go up through the hours, most of those players start giving negative reviews.

    The real issues lie in the dev team's unwillingness to listen to the community, their horrid, horrid, HORRID mod team who watch over their forums like hawks and strike down almost all criticisms of the game with impunity, it lies in the fact that they've made some painfully obvious cash grabs in the game, like making it so you have to pay for country flags because "teamkilling was an issue." We offer criticisms and ways to fix the issues, they give us bans, longer grinds, and horrible BRs.

    The dev team's unwillingness to not only fix the FM issues, but even their complete failure to acknowledge them, means that the game is doomed if it continues on the path it's currently on. BRs are complete trash, if you aren't flying the flavor of the month plane then you might as well not be flying. If you're not driving a Russian tank, you might as well not be driving.

    Now, because of Gaijin's failures, hundreds of veterans like me are jumping ship. Not because we don't care about the game anymore, but because Gaijin doesn't. Most bad reviews of this game are from players who has played for a long time, and most of the good ones are from complete new users who are still able to enjoy the game before they realize how truly bad the situation is.

    I'm also pretty mad at the fact that Japan gets **** over soooooo much. Germany has been getting pounded on, or at least was last time I played, Russia has always had curbstomping abilities over the other nations, and the US flip flops depending on the tier. British are just everywhere. I personally stopped playing consistently about the time when ground forces started having the issue with the foliage, where you would be at a severe disadvantage (and I'm talking gamebreaking severe) if you kept your grass/foliage on. I have logged on a handful of times since, but only for 2-3 rounds and then I just get tired and sad. I want the game to be good. The sad thing is, though I have been playing for 2-3 even back then and through the years, I can never truly say the game has felt completely good. There have always been a number of broken FMs, the economy has gone through various levels of **** one nation is always curbstomping another, etc.
    Gaijin's PR is horrible, especially with their whole "guys, don't judge, we're still in Beta" excuse which has been **** bull**** ever since you've been able to pay to get ahead in the game. It's been bull**** ever since they started using it as an excuse to disregard their personal flaws and using it as a way to completely shift the blame from them over to the community. It's been bull**** because most games in beta survey the userbase, asking for feedback, while Gaijin denies feedback at every opportunity. Ever since their PR team straight up quit the subreddit, calling it a "toxic environment", most likely due to the fact that they were unable to control what was said (unlike their forums, where they have total control and use that control freely), there was no hope for their PR team. A development team that will readily call their community, who offers criticisms and only wants to help the game get better (though I do concede that a lot of the players will get pissy after a bad patch, but who can really blame them?) isn't fit to run a game.

    I really do want this game to be good. But as long as it continues on the path it's currently treading on, I will not recommend it, or play it.    … Expand
  9. Devorlast
    Sep 26, 2015
    4
    The game would be fun if it was run by some other studio, as is the development team is pushing it towards P2W. There is a total disregard of the player base, changes that are proposed by the community not only are not implemented, they are actually changed for worse. Currently only certain groups of tanks are playable at all, most of the other ones will be matched against machines thatThe game would be fun if it was run by some other studio, as is the development team is pushing it towards P2W. There is a total disregard of the player base, changes that are proposed by the community not only are not implemented, they are actually changed for worse. Currently only certain groups of tanks are playable at all, most of the other ones will be matched against machines that are years more advanced. So if you would like to see how would it feel like to take a WW2 tank and bring it to North Korean war than go right ahead, assuming you can stand the ~300 hours of grind it will take to get those tanks unlocked anyway. Planes can be fun but suffer from the same matchmaking problem, later models might even end up fighting prop vs jet... Overall there is a lot of good things in this game but as an online game that is driven by its developer currently it has a very grim looking future as player base about had it.… Expand
  10. AlmostHistorian
    Jan 29, 2017
    4
    The epitome of Russian bias against everyone but the Russian lines. The BR rating system is broken and the way you upgrade your vehicles depends solely on how much you pay and even then you don't have a guarantee of reaching the top. My advice, avoid this game at all cost.
  11. Shawsy94
    Jul 18, 2017
    4
    Good idea, poorly executed. The realism is nice but when paired with some of the more moronic game mechanics it creates a truly frustrating experience. The spawn points system in ground forces realistic battles is possibly the worst thing they could have done. Spending 5 minutes in a queue for a game then getting one shotted after 30 seconds and finding yourself without enough points toGood idea, poorly executed. The realism is nice but when paired with some of the more moronic game mechanics it creates a truly frustrating experience. The spawn points system in ground forces realistic battles is possibly the worst thing they could have done. Spending 5 minutes in a queue for a game then getting one shotted after 30 seconds and finding yourself without enough points to spawn a new vehicle is a fast route to a rage quit that punishes new players and teaches them nothing.… Expand
  12. Floglor
    Sep 16, 2018
    4
    There is battle rating system in this game, which used as balancing component. This means that if you are driving a vehicle with a combat rating of 4.0, you will be put against more or less the same. But! When I was playing at 4,7, I was constantly losing battles against 5,7, which are dramatically higher. Even if I could penetrate some tanks at higher ranks, sometimes there wereThere is battle rating system in this game, which used as balancing component. This means that if you are driving a vehicle with a combat rating of 4.0, you will be put against more or less the same. But! When I was playing at 4,7, I was constantly losing battles against 5,7, which are dramatically higher. Even if I could penetrate some tanks at higher ranks, sometimes there were situations when I turned more slowly than others drove through the horizon.

    It's not all. Lions and eagles. Game constantly turning into the P2W arcade when you see camouflage bushes for dorrars, which can hide your vulnerable zones, and P2W tanks, which are put lower in that BR gauge, than it needs to be, because you need to win when you are paying, right?

    Lions. When you've already got the amount of exp to get a tank, you need to win so much more to get the lions to buy this tank. You do not like it? Pay for it.

    Aircraft are allowed to participate in tank battles. They get more for killing and for them the game gives more lions. I thought then that I go into the tank mode of the game, but it turned out to be a mistake.

    I'm not talking about airplanes, because I've played enough in this mode, and the game on them is not very interesting. Also in aircraft mode very much decides the amount of money invested in the game. For example, a paid aircraft destroyed 100 enemy aircraft in a mode against bots, when the second after it shot down just 38...    … Expand
  13. Zungrix
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    The game engine and the visuals are the only interesting things in this game.
  14. itsselixio
    Mar 1, 2019
    4
    mensen zeggen dat het een goede wo2 simuator is op dat aspect doet het zn ding maar de mensen achter het spel willen al je geld uit je zuigen met microtransacties het verbaasd me dat dit spel niet door EA is gemaakt. ik weet dat het een free to play spel is maar als je kjkt naar andere spellen kun je ook gewoon skins of andere dingen die niet de gameplay of het progresie systeem beinvloeden.
  15. Zan93
    Feb 14, 2019
    4
    This is best tank simulator ever loads of fun. But matchmaking is ****, 1.0 match is too high.
  16. Charliequin
    Mar 12, 2019
    4
    This game is one of the best vehicle simulator games on the market, but it's biggest drawback is that it isn't very fun. It takes several minutes to find a multiplayer match, and the matches start off with 5 to 10 minutes of simply taking off and climbing to altitude. While that's realistic, it's not really very fun, and can be really frustrating when you want to practice your skillsThis game is one of the best vehicle simulator games on the market, but it's biggest drawback is that it isn't very fun. It takes several minutes to find a multiplayer match, and the matches start off with 5 to 10 minutes of simply taking off and climbing to altitude. While that's realistic, it's not really very fun, and can be really frustrating when you want to practice your skills only to have 10 to 15 minutes in between very brief encounters with other players.
    In stark contrast, there is arcade mode, which is an absurd hodge-podge of planes killing each other and exploding, which can be fun, but quickly it becomes apparent that there's not really any skill to be developed there, and it starts to pail in comparison to a more skill based or realistic experience.
    The game's flight mechanics and graphics are genuinely very good, but unfortunately the game is much more likely to leave you frustrated that you have to spend another 15 minutes waiting to be shot down immediately, or to not get any points for shooting down a plane because the pilot bailed out before you could seal the deal. It would be a truly great game if the devs came up with some new mission styles, or tried to bridge the gap between arcade and realistic modes, but it doesn't seem like they will. The main positive is that it's a free to play game, so you won't be out $60 unless you decide to try premium.
    All in all, the game just seems like a big waste of potential, and it has been around long enough to indicate that the devs likely won't be making any changes to the match making or gameplay, but are consistently and solely focused on adding more vehicles.
    I'm a lover of airplanes, and I truly wish I could give this game a better score, but I just find myself ending all of my matches either disappointed, frustrated, or both.    … Expand
  17. Gamedude051
    Feb 26, 2020
    4
    O sistema de progressão é terrível um lixo de verdade fora isso eu daria um 10
  18. PathfinderFox
    Apr 10, 2020
    4
    2400 hours gameplay on ground and air battle

    Outdated graphics came from 2015, especially the cloud chartlet
    Bad game balancing, the server forced people with no gameplay experience to play with 100lv with premium vehicles
    Only one game mode ( capture point and defend)
    Too many bugs and magic
    Vehicles problem are unrealistic ( challenger mk2 and oh-ho)
    Bad server connection
    Bad map design
  19. chusoman
    Aug 3, 2023
    4
    as simulator is the best available, as whole game, is a **** the studio turned a free to play game in a pay to win game without decorum, non-premium players lose half the prices with the same repair, armament, and crew replenishment costs, the premium vehicles are insanely pricey for a virtual good, skins are made by community and sold by the company, the matchmaking is broken, premiumas simulator is the best available, as whole game, is a **** the studio turned a free to play game in a pay to win game without decorum, non-premium players lose half the prices with the same repair, armament, and crew replenishment costs, the premium vehicles are insanely pricey for a virtual good, skins are made by community and sold by the company, the matchmaking is broken, premium vehicles are slightly better than free vehicles even in the same model. IDK, there are lots of things that are broken in the game, and executives are trying to squeeze the community with **** content.… Expand
  20. THGodFather
    Apr 6, 2021
    4
    this game is awesome and all but it does not matter if you cant play because of its INGAME downloading witch raises your PING and PacketLoss every time you see a tank with marketplace CAMO in every match there is.
  21. aaty
    Jul 11, 2022
    4
    anybody tried dlss in this game? It makes my eyes x_x . Its good to make battles with modern tanks but why tf russians are so freakin strong?? That game literally a russian propaganda fr
  22. Remiw
    Dec 17, 2022
    4
    What's the Point Of Grinding when You can just Buy Top tier vehicles for 60 Dollars? The Game Tries to make you spend money on it at every turn. If you want to Grind the Game Without Buying Premiums It might take years to do 1 Tech tree. And if you do Buy Premium you can only hope The Developers won't Nerf it to the ground for it to be Unusable.
  23. RickGrimesTheGo
    May 21, 2023
    4
    very boring and lackluster gameplay some good ideas but its not there and the countless bugs don't help
  24. The_Clear_File
    May 19, 2023
    4
    This game is like this in a word.
    "Game hostile to users"
    They said that they make games by reviewing and researching real-world data. It's a lie and a comedy. Except in some countries (*cough*Russia*cough*), most of the performance and wrong vehicle in reality that users find difficult to understand appears, causing despondency and anger. For example, Japan has never had an f16 but    This game is like this in a word.
    "Game hostile to users"
    They said that they make games by reviewing and researching real-world data.
    It's a lie and a comedy.
    Except in some countries (*cough*Russia*cough*), most of the performance and wrong vehicle in reality that users find difficult to understand appears, causing despondency and anger.
    For example, Japan has never had an f16 but it does or Italy's Ariete MBT's armoured material is expressed as having none just because it's confidential.
    And you should be very good at this game or subscribe to premium benefits.
    Or most of the time, when you look at the results window after the game, you make a little bit of money, or you lose money.
    Other than this, there are some minor bugs and errors in each patch, some unbalanced game maps, some developer who forgot this was a game, but it's fun to watch various war machines come out and fight each other, so it's a game that's good enough to get 4 points.    … Expand
  25. E__z_k
    May 24, 2023
    4
    Cela fait 5 ans que je joue à ce jeu et ça commence à devenir de pire en pire" -L'économie qui nous fait perdre de l'argent même si on fait une bonne game. -le br qui nous fait croiser des chars de la guerre froide alors qu'on se bat avec un char de la WW2.

    - Le système "anti-triche" qui fait tout sauf bannir les tricheurs.
  26. ogower
    Aug 10, 2014
    3
    This game is fine while you arte running around in the reserve vehicles. However, as soon as you earn enough to get another vehicle you are suddenly plunged into games against tanks you cant penetrate and planes that are faster, turn tighter and are better armed, with no clue as to why the maps are suddenly huge, taking hours to get anywhere. Add to this the crazy long wait times and theThis game is fine while you arte running around in the reserve vehicles. However, as soon as you earn enough to get another vehicle you are suddenly plunged into games against tanks you cant penetrate and planes that are faster, turn tighter and are better armed, with no clue as to why the maps are suddenly huge, taking hours to get anywhere. Add to this the crazy long wait times and the unexplained research and crewing systems and you have something not worth persisting with.… Expand
  27. Ciemnoczarny
    Jan 12, 2014
    3
    +physical model of flight and damages,
    +quite realistic airplanes performance [in realistic and historical mod] (specific for each plane, it makes player closer to real, historical technical specification of each plane) - some mistakes are still there, but I hope they will be solved during game progress.
    +graphics/sound, - bad research model (after last patch), - bad economy model -    +physical model of flight and damages,
    +quite realistic airplanes performance [in realistic and historical mod] (specific for each plane, it makes player closer to real, historical technical specification of each plane) - some mistakes are still there, but I hope they will be solved during game progress.
    +graphics/sound,

    - bad research model (after last patch),
    - bad economy model
    - it is still beta and it seems that it will stay like that for a long, long time...

    I'm giving low rate only because of research/economy model which is very annoying now.
    Anyway, it is F2P game so all of us can check it and decide if it is worth of playing and paying for premium content or not - that is positive side I guess.

    Thank you for attention    … Expand
  28. Rex_Ursus
    Sep 12, 2013
    3
    I was mislead in thinking that this game was a simulation when I read it won a 'simulation of the year' award. So I gave these people a good chunk of money thinking that it is a good simulation. It is not. It is a terrible simulation and a poor game.
    There is nothing historical about it as they claim you end up in a battle with a Spitfire MkI in the Korean war fighting Russian    I was mislead in thinking that this game was a simulation when I read it won a 'simulation of the year' award. So I gave these people a good chunk of money thinking that it is a good simulation. It is not. It is a terrible simulation and a poor game.
    There is nothing historical about it as they claim you end up in a battle with a Spitfire MkI in the Korean war fighting Russian pilots and planes.
    If you like to play with a joystick don't get this game. You are outmatched by their mouse aim system, that is accurate but wobbles all over if played in Historical Battles.
    I asked the developers when they are finished with the beta and was told that War Thunder is a perpetual beta.
    The Gaijin company is a very poor company with a bad attitude towards its customers. They are rude and dictatorial. They censor the forums heavily.
    This game has or had potential. It is about 33% of what I would like to see. I therefore give it a solid 3 out of ten and the graphics are very nice. Otherwise I would give it a zero.    … Expand
  29. Opmouse
    Dec 10, 2013
    3
    Some good elements but the fun ends quickly when you are constantly getting destroyed by your own team-mates or suddenly have your pilot knocked out without any apparent reason. Needs a lot of polish to controls, menus, and general game play.. Too often will you rage quit this game because sudden death that occurs without explanation or without any apparent warning.
  30. death_above
    Dec 24, 2013
    3
    War Thunder started in 2012 with good intentions. Great graphics and clouds lots of clouds. I played it through 3 major upgrades(patches). Each patch version has degraded the original game. Lately they have consolidated the competition levels and increased the dollar cost of playing while nerfing plane and bomb performance. What was a fun game has suffered a greedy makeover. Players areWar Thunder started in 2012 with good intentions. Great graphics and clouds lots of clouds. I played it through 3 major upgrades(patches). Each patch version has degraded the original game. Lately they have consolidated the competition levels and increased the dollar cost of playing while nerfing plane and bomb performance. What was a fun game has suffered a greedy makeover. Players are up in arms. If you haven't already bought into this game avoid it. There will be better games soon.… Expand
  31. anakingodx
    Nov 12, 2014
    3
    My score should probably be high but I don't believe that the developers deserve anything positive anymore. Before 1.37 the game was very well balanced and fun showing the new approach and the company that cared for its users unlike World of Tanks/ Warplanes/ Whatever they have now. In 1.37 they basically turned the game into a massive grind (in hope that more people would spend realMy score should probably be high but I don't believe that the developers deserve anything positive anymore. Before 1.37 the game was very well balanced and fun showing the new approach and the company that cared for its users unlike World of Tanks/ Warplanes/ Whatever they have now. In 1.37 they basically turned the game into a massive grind (in hope that more people would spend real money on the game). When the update came out, everyone was outraged and there were tons of posts showing this. Gaijin decides to start locking lots of posts and many were ignored. I actually stated that I was unhappy with the way that Gaijin and the forum moderators responded to this and made a topic which discussed this. Then, I am told that I am not allowed to criticize the moderators. The game is still fun when playing a battle of 2 but it is too time consuming to get further in the tree. The ground forces was supposed to bring hope back to the game. The arcade of tanks was actually reasonably fun but the promised combined battles (planes and tanks) were bitterly disappointing. Another tool, the CDK which was to bring custom missions to War Thunder was another hope that became a disappointment. Gaijin attempts to block every single attempt to circumnavigate the grinding, requiring you to have a plane to fly it in a mission. The poor explanation and instructions of the tool are another drawback. Whatever you do in this game, don't spend money (real money) on this game as Gaijin needs to be taught a lesson.… Expand
  32. LoliPoltergeist
    May 19, 2014
    3
    War Thunder, I've been around since before patch 1,25 and I came to learn more people (Alpha testers, Mods, devs, Gaming masters, users, historical consultants etc.) than most people in the game. Initially when I stumbled across War Thunder I instantly fell in love the with idea of an all-out combat 'simulator' and as such I signed up and was surprised by the small user base. I learnt whyWar Thunder, I've been around since before patch 1,25 and I came to learn more people (Alpha testers, Mods, devs, Gaming masters, users, historical consultants etc.) than most people in the game. Initially when I stumbled across War Thunder I instantly fell in love the with idea of an all-out combat 'simulator' and as such I signed up and was surprised by the small user base. I learnt why it had such a small user base really quickly; Gaijin's inability to tackle problems and find solutions in a sensible amount of time.
    Where should I start? Let me do it at with the current existing game modes (Patch 1,41), currently there are 3 game modes; Arcade Battles (AB), Realistic Battles (AB) and Simulator Battles (SB). Tanks have gone into OBT and now all are free to play them, however currently tanks are separated from planes (Why? In the CBT you could play both tanks and planes together) however both tanks and planes have the same type of game modes.
    Let me start with the positive sides of War Thunder, nice graphics (For both planes and tanks), detailed tank/plane models, mostly accurate tank/plane models, some real life based settings and the massively improved Custom Battles. However right here is where I have to stop, there are just too many negatives that plague this game as of late. Currently the Battle Rating (BR) system (The MatchMacker uses the BR to fill games) is completely messed up, a Meteor F3 has a BR of 6,7 whilst it's German counter-part the Me262 has to enjoy fighting Korean era Sabres. You can see this across all the tech trees of all nations, e.g. the F4U Corsair (Late war plane) is rated at a BR of 3,3 and it enjoys fighting early war planes, am I the only one that finds this ridiculously stupid? Then there are other things such as repair prices of planes (My God take a look at the N1K2 for Japan and it's BR whilst it's US adversarie the F6F enjoys a low repair cost and low BR) as well as the damage output of all cannons of all planes/jets. Things like these, the fundamental of the game are broken, they broke it with this patch, previously it worked half fine however now it's simply broken which is just sad considering how much time I invested into the game.
    Now there is another glaringly obvious problem (Not the rotten community) but the corrupted, underage and childish moderation team. One might ask, well how do you know that they are corrupted? Can you show us evidence of this? Go and ask some of the older players that stopped playing the game (Guys from A01 for example) and they can tell you all about the lovely PayPal payments that some moderators received (There are even YouTubes videos about it). The Mods and GMs ban based on the players they dislike that is always fun is it not?!

    So how do we conclude? Well it's rather simple, don't touch the game until its major fundamental flaws have been ironed out and the moderation team has been subbed out for a more mature one.    … Expand
  33. cononda
    May 24, 2023
    3
    I stopped playing the game 3 weeks ago. Now the community is rebelling about the abusive economy. I think it goes further than just the economy, the research, the gameplay, the lack of game modes and innovation. There is much more that has not evolved in the right direction. I hope Gaijin will start to talk with the community and find I way, but I am not optimistic knowing the way theyI stopped playing the game 3 weeks ago. Now the community is rebelling about the abusive economy. I think it goes further than just the economy, the research, the gameplay, the lack of game modes and innovation. There is much more that has not evolved in the right direction. I hope Gaijin will start to talk with the community and find I way, but I am not optimistic knowing the way they went till today.

    Below my old review:
    Why I can recommend it? Just try the game it is free.

    Be aware that if you want to play top tier planes, tanks or boats this game might not make you happy. The way to get there is incredibly long and the balancing is not very polished (Usually a re-balance of OP stuff leads to a new long unbalanced time period with new OP stuff).

    As others have said in their reviews you can still have fun with this game, especially at lower tiers.    … Expand
  34. 2ezhi
    Dec 5, 2014
    3
    The game is fun to start, looks good, but it is getting boring after a short time. If you don't want to pay a lot of money advancement is veryyyyyyyyy slow. Matchmaking system is driving you crazy cause it puts you against much stronger opponents if you play good and is not rewarding. Gaming that must be fun turns into stressful experience.
  35. idontcarefs
    Aug 14, 2015
    3
    As said before graphics are amazing, sound as well, maps are fantastic. The problem is that you'll notice that the game is a Russian redemption for the WW2. If you play american or russian tanks you'll be matched in the same team in Realistic mode vs the germans, then if you play German just don't worry for losing every time, and getting one shot killed. I play German and Russian tanks andAs said before graphics are amazing, sound as well, maps are fantastic. The problem is that you'll notice that the game is a Russian redemption for the WW2. If you play american or russian tanks you'll be matched in the same team in Realistic mode vs the germans, then if you play German just don't worry for losing every time, and getting one shot killed. I play German and Russian tanks and of course I notice a ridiculous difference.

    I guess the designers made the game like this, to experience how would it feel if Russia could win the war in 1 month.    … Expand
  36. Will73
    Sep 1, 2018
    3
    I am ambivalent about War Thunder. In many respects it's the best WWII Sim out there - by far. However it's run by one the biggest **** companies out there. Gaijin is interested in $$. They don't care about their player base and their support is absolutely appalling. Their matchmaking is a disaster and tanks are just frikken broken. Their servers are extremely limited and complete trash.I am ambivalent about War Thunder. In many respects it's the best WWII Sim out there - by far. However it's run by one the biggest **** companies out there. Gaijin is interested in $$. They don't care about their player base and their support is absolutely appalling. Their matchmaking is a disaster and tanks are just frikken broken. Their servers are extremely limited and complete trash. Couple all that with an incredibly toxic player base (lots of cheating and exploits) and you have one very frustrating experience. I cannot recommend this game and would never recommend anyone play it.… Expand
  37. Vosacht
    Dec 2, 2016
    3
    After last changes, I am totally hate this game and did not recommend to play now.
    Broken damage system, a cheaters and an old bugs. With an each new patch, even worse.
    When I come here from the other popular tank game, I hope this is the hardcore, more realistic game, about oneshots, marksman skill, tactics. But now It has nothing with realism and historical accuracy, just another    After last changes, I am totally hate this game and did not recommend to play now.
    Broken damage system, a cheaters and an old bugs. With an each new patch, even worse.

    When I come here from the other popular tank game, I hope this is the hardcore, more realistic game, about oneshots, marksman skill, tactics. But now It has nothing with realism and historical accuracy, just another arcade game pretend to be a sim.
    The balance was never great, but now, when a WWII tanks fight against a Cold War beasts – its absolutely broken.
    The damage model in current state – is ridiculously unrealistic.
    That feeling, when you make direct hit with the soviet 122mm AP shell, and an enemy doesnt blow up sometimes… Often, only possible way to make a frag with the HEAT or the APDS – looong killing crew, man by man.

    And of course, an old bugs doesnt fixes, many cheaters in the game, but when you tell about it, you just get a ban, hard to play without donate at a top tier... Each new patch just add a new models, and a stupid changes, developers doesnt listen community and do not make the game better, do not improve the gameplay, just make a money.

    P.S. "We are all just waiting for a similar game so we can drop this one like a dead baby. I can't wait for Gaijin to die honestly. Or at least for them to restructure their dev team. They don't care, they don't listen." – from the official WT forum.    … Expand
  38. Sakariiii
    Mar 26, 2018
    3
    If you value your sanity avoid this game like the plague. The engine itself and visuals are excellent, there is no denying that. But the nature of the game is one that requires a fair bit of skill, if you fail to play to the strength of your aircraft you have no chance of surviving. However, the problem is that the majority of players are absolute buffoons. If you play a country like theIf you value your sanity avoid this game like the plague. The engine itself and visuals are excellent, there is no denying that. But the nature of the game is one that requires a fair bit of skill, if you fail to play to the strength of your aircraft you have no chance of surviving. However, the problem is that the majority of players are absolute buffoons. If you play a country like the US for example, it's virtually a guarantee that 90% of your team will die a pointless death within the first 10 minutes of the match, leaving you alone as the soul player who played to your air-crafts strength (in this case boom & zoom combat) trying to compete with 10-15 enemy aircraft left alive. Put short, the game is only balanced when the players of each nation have above average skill levels. If the teams are average or worse (80% of matches) the nation with the best maneuverability or climb rate will win. Not even a skilled player can beat 10 other aircraft that are all after him reliably and so no matter how well you fly, you are completely reliant on your team performance. This also works both ways, if you get lucky and have a decent team, the enemy team will all die in minutes leaving 10 aircraft to chase a single enemy. Put frankly, matches are black and white, they rarely if ever wind up being close. It's almost always a total wipe out or a crushing victory, and that is impossible to predict and has nothing to do with how you fly.
    The game has also begun to become pay to win, there are now premium aircraft that are flat out better or have an unfair advantage (such as a higher spawn altitude) than their non premium versions.
    If you must play warthunder, stick to solo play or custom missions with friends. The Moba aspect of the game is hopelessly unbalanced and has next to nothing to do with skill.    … Expand
  39. FrankDrebin
    Mar 31, 2019
    3
    I'm play "Realistic" "(A loose term with regards to this game)

    Visuals are great. Aircraft modelling is good. Handling of the aircraft is realistic enough to present challenges, but not so complex to be unmanageable for a new player. The historical aspect of the game is sadly lacking. When one hears the term "realistic battles" one expects to see aircraft operating in their specific    I'm play "Realistic" "(A loose term with regards to this game)

    Visuals are great. Aircraft modelling is good. Handling of the aircraft is realistic enough to present challenges, but not so complex to be unmanageable for a new player.

    The historical aspect of the game is sadly lacking. When one hears the term "realistic battles" one expects to see aircraft operating in their specific theatres against their historical opponents. Realism is not Japanese and German planes flying side by side over European maps, or facing Russians in your Spitfire or indeed "mixed" battles with all nations side by side. There is a specific, simplified mode for this type of battle in the game, "Arcade mode" yet it seems arcade mode has crept into the realistic and is there to stay.

    Team balance, seems to be a major issue. I play all factions with decent k/d ratio and consistent wins in Axis aircraft. In fact it seems very hard to lose as an Axis player in most tiers. The substantial diference in climb rates for US aircraft to axis doesn't lend to an equal footing for air combat. This is more than a simple "sideclimb more" issue. I'd suggest an airspawn for more allied fighters, as it appears a large portion of players on the allied teams simply don't bother trying, knowing they won't get any form of altitude or energy advantage. Makes it hard when you are the only person who does climb, you watch your team die, bag one or two then die yourself against 5-6 opponents. It also removes the fun from playing Axis. Essentially you are racing to get a kill before the entire allied team folds like origami. Like playing god mode, bit of a novelty for half an hour, then repetitive and annoying. Where is the challenge?

    IMO, this game is devolving rather than improving. Rather than address balance issues, it seems developers are more interested in marketing new aircraft tanks etc... than addressing some fundamental flaws in the game. I understand a large part of this is making the game profitable, but at the same time, players are departing for IL-2, DCS and other simulators.

    So much potential....squandered.    … Expand
  40. Grewtanker
    Aug 20, 2019
    3
    Graphics: Okay i guess, i tend to play on lower settings so i don't really care.
    Gameplay: Okay i guess, i just don't like it when aircraft derps out on slower machines, also, the thing which is the worst aspect of the game in my opinion is grind, man oh man is it long, it takes like 2 hours non stop to grind for a lowest tier vehicles, for comparison in world of tanks it takes 1 hour    Graphics: Okay i guess, i tend to play on lower settings so i don't really care.
    Gameplay: Okay i guess, i just don't like it when aircraft derps out on slower machines, also, the thing which is the worst aspect of the game in my opinion is grind, man oh man is it long, it takes like 2 hours non stop to grind for a lowest tier vehicles, for comparison in world of tanks it takes 1 hour MAX, i can't even imagine how much it takes to do so for highiest tier vehicles, and the super long grind is the main reason why i'm still stuck on tier 1 for german tanks, and barely made it to tier 2 with german aircrafts, after putting 50+ hours to the game according to steam
    Paying services: I don't know what about credit cards, but mobile payments, boy oh boy are you in for a treat, when you find out that processing fee is nearly twice the thing you actually want to purchase (at least for cheaper items), in world of tanks there at least is no such fee for mobile payment
    The game used to be neat little game, even though it's ads were annoying, but this game lost it's charm over time.
    3 from me    … Expand
  41. Swaggame
    Nov 19, 2020
    3
    As others have pointed out: early gameplay is very hard, since you are not familiar with the battleground, plus as a beginner you are likely to be one-shotted by players with higher tier vehicles. It takes forever to grind out a decent tank/ship/aircraft. The graphics aren't the best either, and the fallen trees submerging into the ground are ridiculous. But what really bring my score downAs others have pointed out: early gameplay is very hard, since you are not familiar with the battleground, plus as a beginner you are likely to be one-shotted by players with higher tier vehicles. It takes forever to grind out a decent tank/ship/aircraft. The graphics aren't the best either, and the fallen trees submerging into the ground are ridiculous. But what really bring my score down is the fact that every time I turn my PC on, this b1tch needs to download something, like a gf who wants to buy something at the shop every time you get near it. Sometimes it's just 100 MB, other times 4 GB. Could you cut back on that Gaijin?… Expand
  42. sajtburger
    Jun 19, 2023
    3
    Will consume your soul, and your cash.
    Save yourself until you can.
    Once you start to play, there is no back.
  43. MaximH04
    Jan 15, 2022
    3
    In this game u CAN hane fun. The Problem wiht the game is, that it is so unbalanced. I fought with a Tank from the 2nd world war against an cold war tank, that can penetrate u even across 2000 meters, or something. There some moments where u think: this game is awesome and i am not gonna stop playing it. But this doesnt hapend often. I have played it a lot and there are good moments, butIn this game u CAN hane fun. The Problem wiht the game is, that it is so unbalanced. I fought with a Tank from the 2nd world war against an cold war tank, that can penetrate u even across 2000 meters, or something. There some moments where u think: this game is awesome and i am not gonna stop playing it. But this doesnt hapend often. I have played it a lot and there are good moments, but most of the time it is unejoying. I was playing airplanes, i tried to level them up and get new ones, but all of the time i get shoot down by some japs, because they are turning way more faster than other ones. While playing tnaks there is a chance to kill an enemy wo is way more better than u. But in the Skys of fck Thunder is no skill. There are only planes, fliying great circles all the time and the vehicle with the better stats is winning. One is the other mayor problems is getting new vehicles. At the end of the round u will get the Money (Silverlions [SL]), But u have to pay repair costs. An example: I am playing the 4.0 Battlerating BF109 F4. Most of the time i dont kill anything but sometimes i kill someone. Without boosters this will give u 2000SL. When u are unlucky and u are get shot down without a second kill. They u have to pay 4000SL for the repairing and in the case of that u will lose money every battle. I played airplanes a couple of days. before i started o had 70000SL, after playing some days i only got 30000SL left. Because this nowadays its about grinding. Getting modern tanks an planes is impossible becasue ??? (idk ASK GAIJIN). The game is getting worse with every new update and every single day of the excisting of it self.

    IF U WANT TO SUFFER GO ON! PLAY IT
    IF U WANT TO HAVE FUND PLS NEVER DOWNLOAD WARTHUNDER OR OTHER **** FROM
    GAIJIN LIKE ENLISTED    … Expand
  44. D4mbra
    Aug 17, 2022
    3
    Игра ужасна как по логике так и по комьюнити
    Если с багами смириться можно, то с игроками нет
    Мы вечно испытываем боль от тиммейта к примеру из Англии которому даёшь инфу и он вместо того чтобы понять пишет ингеаш плеазе (ну не тупые ли?) Самый лучший вариант играть в эту игру это играть без чата и без тиммейтов тогда игра будет не помойкой    Игра ужасна как по логике так и по комьюнити
    Если с багами смириться можно, то с игроками нет
    Мы вечно испытываем боль от тиммейта к примеру из Англии которому даёшь инфу и он вместо того чтобы понять пишет ингеаш плеазе (ну не тупые ли?)
    Самый лучший вариант играть в эту игру это играть без чата и без тиммейтов тогда игра будет не помойкой
  45. CrimsonEon
    May 21, 2023
    3
    Warthunder devs have been nothing but greedy and it's finally come to bite them
    710 hours in the game, and I'm hardly even close to finished, the grind is horrible, it's time to move on.
  46. Tawret
    May 22, 2023
    3
    War thunder is genuinely a great game. With well designed models of the machines of War and cooperative online battles it would be criminal to assume that the game won't do good. However there is one major flag with this game that the community cam no longer bear. And that is the blatant disregard for the players time and community well being. Gaijin entertainment has proven they are outWar thunder is genuinely a great game. With well designed models of the machines of War and cooperative online battles it would be criminal to assume that the game won't do good. However there is one major flag with this game that the community cam no longer bear. And that is the blatant disregard for the players time and community well being. Gaijin entertainment has proven they are out of touch with the community by continues making one of the most complaint problem in the game even worse, the ingame economy. In war thunder you progress with Silver Lions and Research Points. You will receive RP (Research points) and SL (Silver Lions) through in game activities such as getting a kill, an assist, capturing the objective, hitting enemies and critically hitting enemies. Its easy to get the in game currency in war thunder however the amount you earn is what is the issue. In later tiers you have to start worrying about the repair cost of a vehicle you use, the repair cost being the SL you have to spend to repair your vehicle to be able to use it again in your next game. There are some vehicles in this game that are not worth using because of the risk of loosing the money you made in the one game because you were destroyed in that very expensive vehicle. So your progression is bound to stagnate. There is a premium currency as well called Golden Eagles. Now GE (Golden Eagles) can be used to purchase premium vehicles, cosmetics, loot boxes, crew slots, Crew XP, Modifications, SL, convertible RP, Event Missions, the Battlepass... you get my point. GE is not easy to obtain as a F2P player as the only way you get them is via login bonus rewards or Golden wagers. Wagers in this game is very difficult to complete as you're tasked with needing to score a ridiculous amount of kills 10 times in a row without failing 3 times to receive the maximum reward. Those are standard SL wagers. The premium wagers are setup to make you fail with the neigh on impossible requirements to get the wager completed.

    The in game economy recently got scuffed further with another update to it that nobody in the community wanted. Some vehicles were given a better SL reward to loss ratio but for the majority of the affected vehicles it was made worse. The community complained on the forums and on reddit to no avail.

    The community has no rallied against Gaijin entertainment with the demands to fix the economy. Only then will they stop review bombing War Thunder. Clock is Ticking Gaijin. I still love this game but if you value your time and sanity do not play this game as it will suck you and your wallet dry in the current state that it is in.    … Expand
  47. Gunitz
    May 22, 2023
    3
    Not worth your time, too much grind, too terrible, terrible economy, terrible game mods stale as hell, i will come here and change it if they revert this:

    You don't get points for taking off/landing anymore. You don't get points for being in combat/dogfight with ennemies around you anymore. You don't get points for ricochets anymore. You don't get the daily x5 anymore. You don't get    Not worth your time, too much grind, too terrible, terrible economy, terrible game mods stale as hell, i will come here and change it if they revert this:

    You don't get points for taking off/landing anymore.
    You don't get points for being in combat/dogfight with ennemies around you anymore.
    You don't get points for ricochets anymore.
    You don't get the daily x5 anymore.
    You don't get the daily x2 anymore (that used to be x5)
    They gutted the gains multiple times.
    They added a soft lock to how much gains you could make in a single mission.
    They gutted the missions from 55 minutes to 25 minutes max.
    They removed gold rewards for completing tutorials
    They removed gold wagers
    They decreased gains from victories from 20% and added 20% to losses (this is bad for anying with a positive win ratio)
    They gutted sim rewards
    They gutted the rewards linked to activity in battle
    They ruined helicopter EC and made them even harder to grind
    Made assists overall harder to get
    The battle passes have 3 vehicles instead of 4, you can't just sell the first vehicles anymore without having to grind even more.    … Expand
  48. TecunGT
    May 22, 2023
    3
    This is a game with great potential that has been made worse with each update. The grind is awful, and recent changes has made it even worse. You will have to spend hundreds of dollars to get the vehicles you are interested in and even then the grind will drive you crazy. The publisher has made it clear that it has no interest in making the game fun, so avoid it and spend your money elsewhere
  49. zuk_boi
    May 23, 2023
    3
    Best military sim game for casual gamers by far, but if you're not willing to pay an equivalent of a dozen AAA games, you're not going to enjoy it.
    Massive favoritism (10 nations but only 1-2 get true value for money), no listening to player feedback, and overall every textbook bad business practice.
  50. Jagdpanzer38t
    Jun 27, 2023
    3
    It's called Grind Thunder for a reason. Grind is insane even with a premium account. Progress really slows down after rank 3, and moves at a snail's pace after rank 4.

    Want to drive around in tanks only? Well too bad, have fun being s*it on by aircraft. Aircraft has their own air battles only mode. Ground vehicles don't get that and instead gets picked off by players that can spawn in    It's called Grind Thunder for a reason. Grind is insane even with a premium account. Progress really slows down after rank 3, and moves at a snail's pace after rank 4.

    Want to drive around in tanks only? Well too bad, have fun being s*it on by aircraft. Aircraft has their own air battles only mode. Ground vehicles don't get that and instead gets picked off by players that can spawn in them and fly for the duration of the match in a mode called "ground battles" lol. "Arcade battles" is less of a problem in that regard as air time is limited and most air players are bad as they don't fly often but it really plagues "realistic battles".

    Too bad as this has potential be a good game...    … Expand
  51. Voldie
    Aug 11, 2016
    2
    This is very good flight/tank simulator – if you're not playing mid/top tiers.

    Matchmaking is horribly broken – 4 our of 5 matches your team is spawnraped, no matter what you do. No spawn protection at all. If you're not paying for premium account (which is not that cheap) – you will end up without money, waiting for your tanks to be repaired for free (higher tiers tank repair is    This is very good flight/tank simulator – if you're not playing mid/top tiers.

    Matchmaking is horribly broken – 4 our of 5 matches your team is spawnraped, no matter what you do. No spawn protection at all. If you're not paying for premium account (which is not that cheap) – you will end up without money, waiting for your tanks to be repaired for free (higher tiers tank repair is costly).

    Not mentioning there is no penalty for kamikazi bomber runs in tank battles – and there is usually no AA in tank battles, as playing AA is a huge pain in the ass and is not profitable. So even when your team is winning, get ready to be crashed into by yet another kamikazi moron.

    And yes, higher tiers are pay to win. Or grind for months to win, which is basically the same, as time is money and you have to dump A LOT of time to get there for free.

    I've started with it several years ago, it was fun to play and level up, got up to Russian jets, then abandoned. Some time ago decided to give tanks a try – and oh boy, did they ruin the game.

    R.I.P. Warthunder.    … Expand
  52. joefresco
    Aug 24, 2013
    2
    The keyboard/mouse flight controls are dumbed down and frustrating no matter which scheme you choose. Even trying to tweak to a custom scheme does not satisfy. Attempting to play around with the controls in tutorial mode was a no-go since the tutorials quickly restart if you do not achieve the objective within a set time. The UI is a cluttered mess. I had absolutely no fun trying toThe keyboard/mouse flight controls are dumbed down and frustrating no matter which scheme you choose. Even trying to tweak to a custom scheme does not satisfy. Attempting to play around with the controls in tutorial mode was a no-go since the tutorials quickly restart if you do not achieve the objective within a set time. The UI is a cluttered mess. I had absolutely no fun trying to get into this.… Expand
  53. LittleHooah
    Oct 21, 2015
    2
    Was a good game until 2015 came. The whole project is run by monkeys that are literally ripping apart the community and the game without hesitation. The game overall looks good and has plenty of vehicles but the company is THE MOST UNPROFESSIONAL i've ever seen: they're telling lies within the "news", they're actually putting into the game things that the whole community is asking ... butWas a good game until 2015 came. The whole project is run by monkeys that are literally ripping apart the community and the game without hesitation. The game overall looks good and has plenty of vehicles but the company is THE MOST UNPROFESSIONAL i've ever seen: they're telling lies within the "news", they're actually putting into the game things that the whole community is asking ... but the opposite; and they're enforcing all that with misinformation, misleading and wild banning over the forums.

    DON'T and i repeat, DON'T spend 1€ into the game. Play it if you like, until the paywall and grind is so high that you'll be forced to stop, then leave. Don't never ever think to go and actually "care" about the game by browsing the forums or participate at the "events" they'll eventually organize, 3/4 of them are just a trap and you'll feel fooled and ripped off at the end of them.

    If you like actual WoT style gameplay that's the game for you, with a tons of bugs ofc but hey ! From patch 1.53 onward there will be invisible tanks, camos, pay-to-win "skill" to see the enemy tanks and pay-to-win qualifications to boost that skill. You'll find absolutely no real "simulation" into the game (apart from the good 3D models): all the hidden "numbers" in the code are just arbitrary like a lot of the things in the game. You'll find that almost all the russian tanks perform "extremely well" without a real reason (the game is russian).

    TLDR: it's a trap run by freaking mongoloids that is sinking thanks to their incompetence. Stay away.    … Expand
  54. Vunguard
    Jan 26, 2014
    2
    This is a game that makes me want to cry with frustration, because every fiber of my being WANTS to like this game. To get some perspective, I am a long term flight sim fan who has played everything from Air Warrior to Aces High to IL-2 Sturmovik to the old Jane's sims and more. I LOVE flight sims and at first glance this one looks to be everything I could ever want. Healthy stable ofThis is a game that makes me want to cry with frustration, because every fiber of my being WANTS to like this game. To get some perspective, I am a long term flight sim fan who has played everything from Air Warrior to Aces High to IL-2 Sturmovik to the old Jane's sims and more. I LOVE flight sims and at first glance this one looks to be everything I could ever want. Healthy stable of planes? Check. Wonderful physics and plane handling? With one or two low-tier examples, checkaroo. Well-detailed? Holy mother of heaven this makes IL-2 Sturmovik look like a mod of the original source engine and runs amazingly well. Mission structure? While I'm not a big fan of furballs, it does them well and I can respect how it has it set up, so call that a check. The levelling system, while in need of tweaking, is still a decent enough system that takes the general World of Tanks/Warplanes formula and makes it a little less unpleasant when an un-liked vehicle stands in the way. They had literally everything going for this game, but it slips up on one little detail but one so vital that they basically slipped and fell into a pit of poison tipped spikes: the camera.

    I am utterly convinced that deck chairs have gained some semblance of sentience, because sweet mother of Heaven, there is no other explanation for how atrocious the camera was designed here. See, the issue here is that the camera was designed for a mouse and keyboard interface, which is nice and all but you need to also have a system that functions for the joystick and game pad crowds--the former of which will be HUGE groups attracted to this. So why it is that they've been given the cold shoulder BAFFLES me. Your common flight sim uses a hat-switch-based system to turn your pilot's head in each of the forward directions with the forward hat button being for up and forward and another button to act as an upward modifier and--if you really want it--another for down. This is a simple system that covers all of the appropriate directions and gives you a perfect spherical view within your cockpit, barring any obstructions that the actual plane would have had. So instead what joystick users have is a bizarre thing that tries to make a hat switch mimic a mouse, removing the entire rear-right quarter of your view, a fair chunk of the left rear, severely limiting the up-left/right views, and most criminally of all, doesn't even have a forward-up view. I sat down and compared it to IL-2 Sturmovik's camera (which eschews the direct rear just to show that it's your character looking over the shoulder) and it is missing seven head directions! Seven!

    For those who are not privy to flight sims, this basically leaves you wildly open to enemy attack--you don't know where the enemy is coming from and as such can not react quickly enough when, say, an enemy is diving on you from an angle behind you. And these are COMMON situations. Hell, I have a hard time keeping track of planes that I'm chasing at times. As such, I am utterly incapable of effectively fighting because I'm always getting mulched by assorted pilots hitting me in one of my far too numerous blind spots.

    There are a few other little problems, such as the sort of 'advisor' in the radio chatter being a touch grating and some of the early biplanes being a bit heavier-feeling than they should be, but all that pales in comparison to the simple fact that this game should have been glorious, and instead found itself murdered by such an easy and proven portion. All they had to do is throw in a hat-based system alongside the mouse-based one, that's it! I have nothing against mouse pilots, there are some good ones and I respect anyone that can do it, but as a game designer you need to think of all the factors! I'm not about to relearn how to fly for one game and when the people playing tell me that that's the only way to properly experience the game, then my response is that I'll find somewhere else to fly.

    I hope to God that someone gets their brain in gear over at Gaijin Entertainment gets their brain in gear and fix this, but as of right now my only emotion around this game is pure exasperation and rage. This game should have been one of my favorites, instead one tiny aspect has shattered the whole thing. It is a very good thing that this game isn't a physical copy, otherwise I'd have to explain to my plumber why there's disk parts in my garbage disposal.    … Expand
  55. czg
    Mar 10, 2014
    2
    This game is a ripoff. Micro-transactions are actually rather 'macro'.
    If you want to get your crew a bit better you may try to gain experience, but that comes so thinly that after days of fights you may at best progress 1% towards one fully upgraded crew. And you need more than one crew to play. Then there is the experience where free XP can only be used for progression after you pay    This game is a ripoff. Micro-transactions are actually rather 'macro'.
    If you want to get your crew a bit better you may try to gain experience, but that comes so thinly that after days of fights you may at best progress 1% towards one fully upgraded crew. And you need more than one crew to play. Then there is the experience where free XP can only be used for progression after you pay Golden Eagles, which can be obtained for cash only. (unless you are BFF with the developers)
    So I thought £50 would get me neatly ahead. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It was gone in a level or two; I was still stuck with crap planes. But, hell, you can get an F-86 on the end, and I'm no quitter, so I've payed again and again... and I ended up on blowing around £200 on a game that was actually a crappy flight sim.
    Okay at this point you will say that it's just because I am a crap gamer. Which could be true, however the crap community, the returning frustrations proved otherwise. After 3 months one supposed to show some progress after all, shouldn't he? But then, after getting really upset at the game I have uninstalled it. Then, after 4 months I thought I would give it a last try, I would just log in to check my account and see if anything changed for the better. And this is what put me off of this scam forever.
    My crews plane skills were gone. Basically all the planes that I purchased were suddenly non-flyable, unless I spend another £50-100 on purchasing new skills. Due to the constant modifications and 'perpetual beta' all the progress I had were annulled.
    I've learned my lesson. Coming from Hungary I know it's a well-established Eastern European ripoff. You'll end up paying thrice. The 'perpetual beta' is the perfect excuse to constantly hinder players in any progress and rip them off with the promise of better content that will never materialise.
    Do not spend a single dime on this game. It is a ripoff and a scam. Rather try Guild wars 2 or SWtOR; or buy Flight Simulator, X-Plane, or Lock-on Modern Air Combat; all of them way cheaper and better both as games and simulators.    … Expand
  56. Jane_Air
    Dec 18, 2013
    2
    Don't like this game at all. Arcade mode is poor and others are complicated for me. Interface is awful!!!!! Girls would not like this game.............
  57. BravoZulu
    Jul 14, 2014
    2
    Only OK as a casual game. It is BETA (yet people still spend money). They tank portion is not too bad. The flight portion leaves much to be desired. It should only be marketed as an arcade level game. There is absolutely nothing "realistic" or "simulator" about the game. The physics are completely made up. They use a plug and play model to set aircraft capabilities. There is nothing in theOnly OK as a casual game. It is BETA (yet people still spend money). They tank portion is not too bad. The flight portion leaves much to be desired. It should only be marketed as an arcade level game. There is absolutely nothing "realistic" or "simulator" about the game. The physics are completely made up. They use a plug and play model to set aircraft capabilities. There is nothing in the game that even remotely resembles a flight model, or physics engine. Could be worse, but definitely not anything like they try to claim.… Expand
  58. Avatarass
    Jul 24, 2014
    2
    I have been playing since version 1.27 (circa March 2013), and so far the game went from great to horrible.

    First of all, Gaijin's development circle is bogus, for almost 2 years since the game went into "Beta" (the term Beta is used for marketing purposes here) the game only added around 150 planes, most of which are versions/copies of others. So whenever you hear about all the    I have been playing since version 1.27 (circa March 2013), and so far the game went from great to horrible.

    First of all, Gaijin's development circle is bogus, for almost 2 years since the game went into "Beta" (the term Beta is used for marketing purposes here) the game only added around 150 planes, most of which are versions/copies of others. So whenever you hear about all the numerous planes in this game, it's a lie.

    Second of all, the updates are a nightmare, every update brings 1 or 2 useful features (that should have been taken care of during the conceptual stage, but whatever), but will always break something for sure. Multiple examples since March of 2013 to now would be, increasing place costs 10 times while reducing income by 2, making bomber gunners irrelevant, making bombers either structurally similar to pillboxes or paper kites, changing increasing rank of a plane while nerfing its performace at the same time, introducing JIP (Join in Progress) system that wasn't properly set up and brought chaos to the game, introducing new physics that cause tanks to fly over the skies, etc, etc, etc. A lot of "ninja" changes too, and those are big as they usually affect plane performances in a huge way, but they aren't mentioned in the patch notes, so you have to test every plane before figuring out what they did. Some planes even get broken, possibly on purpose. Several times some planes' flight models were altered with over performing ones, exactly when the game introduced premium models of those planes. By the way, B-17 was a flying pillbox for over 1 year, only in July of 2014 it got fixed. Horrible.

    The third major problem is their balancing in the game. Apparently they are using some sort of statistical plane performance system in the game, what this does basically, is increasing price and matchmaking rank (BR) overtime, if the plane does really well in the game. This would sounds like a good idea, except it doesn't work. Me-262 (1944) has matched against Sabres and Mig-15s for years now, and they don't want to fix it, and trust me when I tell you this, 262 doesn't even come close in terms in performance to Korean jets. Some post-war props with amazing performance are tiered lower than 1944 German fighters, even some jets are. They don't seem to fix that, as some of the issues has been around literally for over a year.

    The forth major problem is how Gaijin is treating it's customers. Silent post removal, ban hammers, forum bans, and so on, apply to everyone who dare to criticize the game. This is almost as bad as Infestation: Survival Stories in this sense. They don't want to listen to the people, simple as that. There were multiple non-trolling threads on the forum by people who are familiar with airplanes, and who offered to fix the balancing of the game for them, but Gaijin doesn't seem to care. In fact today, July 24th 2014, they introduced the new update that made the game even worse. All the problems with the balancing, and all the problems with plane tiering got multiplied, as planes that were under-tiered and over tiered got tiered even lower and higher respectively. How is this even possible? They reverted the changes 2 hours later, after a huge backlash on the forum that even they couldn't hide.

    Overall, the game started great in 2012, got better around March-May 2013, combined with web-ads that they got running at the time, the game had huge player base of over 70k when I started playing back then. By the time 1.35 arrived in mid summer of 2013, the player base got reduced to only 30k. With the addition of ground forces, the game was able to jump to 100k at peak time, and was able to hold that number for a wooping 2 days. Right now there's only 50,000 playing daily during the peak time, and according to Steam data, the number is on downward slope.

    As of now the game is history, only players who invested too much time and money like me keep playing it, it has nothing to offer to the newer players. Games like IL-2 Battle for Stalingrad and upcoming Armored Warfare might have a better chance. The developer is trying to push for the Naval combat now, but I seriously doubt they can beat Wargaming. I wish they would focus on problems that the most players (the air force players, the original crowd) are concerned with, as they are still the core of the game, but it just doesn't happen.

    Right now, I will score it a 2, for old times' sake. The game still has fun air combat gameplay, but it's just not worth getting into with all the frustration the developer gives you.    … Expand
  59. WilhelmCanary
    May 22, 2023
    2
    After playing for years I have recently uninstalled the game. I have played both World of Tanks/Warships and this game. The devs of these companies seem to be competing with each other to see who can be the most toxic towards their playerbase. I for one am now done with both games and unless the toxicity of the devs changes for both will likely never return. The gameplay is great, theAfter playing for years I have recently uninstalled the game. I have played both World of Tanks/Warships and this game. The devs of these companies seem to be competing with each other to see who can be the most toxic towards their playerbase. I for one am now done with both games and unless the toxicity of the devs changes for both will likely never return. The gameplay is great, the abusive psychological manipulation of players by the publisher/devs is the worst I've seen.… Expand
  60. wagewars
    May 11, 2015
    2
    Great graphics if you know how to manage shutter and frame skipping. Great learning for WWII vehicle fanatics. Horribly short air engagements that resemble stepping on a land mine. Poof!! You died. You must be a noob! If you spend $30, then you can make people go poof until you go poof! Lame.
  61. robert1234545
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    I have played their ground arcade game for some time and it's disappointing. 1941 German Tiger tanks constantly face 1944 and even post war tanks from the soviet union and the USA. Extremely disappointing and unfair game in general. German tanks never get to fight the tanks they historically faced and get constantly obliterated.
  62. HerraPoro
    Mar 6, 2016
    2
    Great game, but unbalanced to favor russian tanks and Gaijin dont seem to have any intentions to balance the game. Also "free to play" can be questioned, while most of the premium tanks cost almost 50e each meta game have been made impossible to reach whitout subscription or spending money on golden eagles.
  63. Chin-Chin
    Sep 11, 2016
    2
    Broken piece of sh*t. It used to be the best WW2 plane/tank game on Simulator, Historic and Arcade mode. But in last year it went to s*it. It's grindfest so they can force you to buy premium currency. Broken Damage models, and yes, Bias is a thing there. Matchmaking is putting way weaker tanks/planes against stronger/higher ranks. Researching modifications, without which is your tankBroken piece of sh*t. It used to be the best WW2 plane/tank game on Simulator, Historic and Arcade mode. But in last year it went to s*it. It's grindfest so they can force you to buy premium currency. Broken Damage models, and yes, Bias is a thing there. Matchmaking is putting way weaker tanks/planes against stronger/higher ranks. Researching modifications, without which is your tank useless, takes ages. But don't worry, you can always use our premium currency. Gaijin is even d*ck to their community, censoring forums, setting higher prices of premium packages so they can have "discounts". I don't even. I'm just disappointed. I feel sorry for them.… Expand
  64. zxcq544
    May 25, 2018
    2
    You can play for free until rank 3, those are T-34-85 and Tiger 1. Then vehicle repair cost becomes very high and you have to pay to keep playing.
    So basically you are not allowed to play M1 Abrams, Leopard 2K and T-64B for free. Which makes this game stupid.
  65. Bergebis
    May 20, 2023
    2
    The game is alright through mid ww2 vehicles, but after that, the developer has gated everything behind two different grinding gates: 1) In game economy - this has slowly been nerfed into the ground, and even premium players need a 2-3.0 KD to break even in game, and 2) research grinding - which has been slowly nerfed by adding new vehicle variants you are required to research andThe game is alright through mid ww2 vehicles, but after that, the developer has gated everything behind two different grinding gates: 1) In game economy - this has slowly been nerfed into the ground, and even premium players need a 2-3.0 KD to break even in game, and 2) research grinding - which has been slowly nerfed by adding new vehicle variants you are required to research and increasing vehicle research costs.… Expand
  66. GrumpySarcasm
    Jun 20, 2023
    2
    This game has 2 types of updates:
    1) New vehicles that you can buy.
    2) Half-baked functionality that makes the gameplay worse.
  67. Kassu
    May 26, 2020
    2
    I have been playing this game for 5 years now and I am sad to say that while this game is fun and interesting offering something different than most other games it has multiple flaws with it. First of all the game has numerous bugs, game design and balance issues are not addressed or are handled with absolute no regard of what it is going to do to the game. Bugs, a lot of them, are justI have been playing this game for 5 years now and I am sad to say that while this game is fun and interesting offering something different than most other games it has multiple flaws with it. First of all the game has numerous bugs, game design and balance issues are not addressed or are handled with absolute no regard of what it is going to do to the game. Bugs, a lot of them, are just left alone for months years or not fixed at all and this includes even some game breaking ones for example armor penetration when you shoot at someone and you should be able to penetrate their armor with ease it just either bounces or does not penetrate or vice versa when you are supposed to be able to withstand a hit from someone and it just goes straight throw. Then there is also the occasional disappearing shot where you fire your gun and the shot just goes into the void doing nothing. This has been going on for the entire time I have played the game so about 4 years.
    The game design is pretty much done by a 3-year-old since in most cases the map design encourages the players to spawn camp instead of playing the planned objective just because you are either able to shoot straight into your enemies spawn from your own spawn or their spawn is closer and easier to get to than the actual objective. In most maps where the layout is like this the side who gets to spawn camping first usually wins. In the air on the other hand playing as a bomber and trying to win by destroying the enemies bombing targets just does not happen since first you have to take out the primary targets 3-4 of them and for most bombers that takes between half or the entire bomb load they can carry (Only 2 bombers in the game have their real max bomb load the rest can only carry about between a third to half of the real one) then you have to make it all the way back to your own air field to rearm while the entire enemy team and their mothers are pretty much right on you trying to shoot you down and in most cases this is exactly what happens. After that they expect you to repeat the same trip to enemy bombing targets 3-5 times per player in order to destroy the remaining bombing targets. Needless to say that does not happen. So now the bombers are close to useless and don't really help you win the match.
    Game balance is mainly handled in game by something called battle rating or br and has some problems of its own. The way it works is that when you get into a match you can not be put up against vehicles that are over 1 br higher than lower than your highest br vehicle the thing is that because the top br is limited to 10.0 and the game vehicles range from vehicles from the 1920's to modern it causes a lot of brs to become cramped because they are trying to force vehicles into that narrow window and this results in vehicles being put up against something that they just simply can not compete. For example the br 5.7-6.7-7.7 is a good example since vehicles at 5.7 are relatively balanced against other vehicles of their won tier and even against some lower br vehicles but as soon as they encounter vehicles from 6.7 it all goes down the drain since in most cases they are better armored and armed to a huge extent and the same happens when 6.7 meets 7.7. 6.7 is dominated by heavily armored tanks that rely on their armor to stay alive but at 7.7 they go up against post war main battle tanks that will penetrate them in most cases at the thickest point easily. And this type of balancing goes on all the way to top tier 10.0. Another way they try to balance a tank because it just won't fit into their br system is by making its repair cost higher and this is to the point that some vehicles are just not meant to be played. Some vehicles have their repair cost set so high that in order for you to be able to afford get killed in one you will have to pretty much carry your team through the entire match and I am talking about multiple kills, assists and capture points or bombing in order to just be able to pay the repair cost. Just sometimes do they decide that balancing something means changing its statistics and in most cases they will either nerf it to oblivion or buff it to the point where it will make anything it faces wonder why are they even trying to compete against it. And then there are the vehicles they won't even touch and in most cases they are either event or premiums and are just simply OP but it is to the point where most people just ignore them because Gaijins biggest flaw which is not communicating with the player base which my friend made into a dialog.
    TL:TR
    Gaijin : New sh*t comrade
    Players: I want the game to be optimized a little bi-
    Gaijin : NEW PREMIUM BLYAT!!!
    Players: No ı want the game to be more stabil
    Gaijin : TIER 7 TANKS OK!!!
    Players: No it needs more time game is ba-
    Gaijin : BLYAT!!! YOU BUY PREMIUM!!!
    Players: Fix the f***ing ass of a combat system of Aır RB and Ground battles as a whol-
    Gaijin : Free Abrams?    … Expand
  68. Spinflight
    Oct 21, 2019
    2
    Verges on being Axis propaganda. A Wehraboo paradise even if you pay for premium vehicles and time. In fact the premium British vehicles are even more appalling it appears than some of those in the main tech tree.

    There is lots to recommend.. Excellent graphics, a detailed and realistic damage model, lots of vehicles to choose from and the grind requirements aren't too extreme. Crew    Verges on being Axis propaganda. A Wehraboo paradise even if you pay for premium vehicles and time. In fact the premium British vehicles are even more appalling it appears than some of those in the main tech tree.

    There is lots to recommend.. Excellent graphics, a detailed and realistic damage model, lots of vehicles to choose from and the grind requirements aren't too extreme. Crew levelling is nicely done, though it makes little if any difference due to the apparent complete indifference towards British kit and players.

    I've played the British forces up to Tier 3 for naval, air and ground. Played it for several weeks expecting to find good vehicles and bad, some sort of overall balance or playstyle that works. But there isn't one, the Brits are merely there as food for the other nations. Outflank an axis tank and put 5 rounds into their flank, only for them to one shot you in return. This is the hard rule rather than the exception. Naval sees your frigate being outgunned by axis ferries ( yes really!) and the only highlight of the air tree is the numerous marks of Spitfire... Who therefore carry just enough ammo to not pose too much of a threat to the opposition.

    Great potential, particularly for combined arms battles, let down by clearly biassed balancing which results in it being a painful and expensive waste of time. Avoid entirely if you prefer to play British forces.    … Expand
  69. Kami7131
    Dec 4, 2019
    2
    The drawing is traced as a ruler. It would not be desirable to come into game in the second time. It boring.
  70. BigPuch
    Jun 30, 2022
    2
    Игра помойка.
    Проще перечислить плюсы игры, ибо минусов у неё крайне много.
    Плюсы: Хороший звук, пушки стреляют как надо, сочные взрывы, а по звуку двигателя можно определить какой танк к вам едет. Приятная графика, красивые модели танков, а в общем ничего особенного. Хорошая физика, конечно, между колёсным танком и гусеничным разницы не много, но она ощущается. Минусы: Всё остальное.    Игра помойка.
    Проще перечислить плюсы игры, ибо минусов у неё крайне много.
    Плюсы:
    Хороший звук, пушки стреляют как надо, сочные взрывы, а по звуку двигателя можно определить какой танк к вам едет. Приятная графика, красивые модели танков, а в общем ничего особенного. Хорошая физика, конечно, между колёсным танком и гусеничным разницы не много, но она ощущается.
    Минусы:
    Всё остальное.
  71. InsolentDuck
    Feb 25, 2021
    2
    he people who advocate for this game, content providers on You Tube, are lied to and deceived on a routine basis, given something that hasn't been released yet to do a video on it, but things are different about what gets released. Or announce they are told there is something that will not be changed in the game, cause the developers told them so; Several weeks later the oppositehe people who advocate for this game, content providers on You Tube, are lied to and deceived on a routine basis, given something that hasn't been released yet to do a video on it, but things are different about what gets released. Or announce they are told there is something that will not be changed in the game, cause the developers told them so; Several weeks later the opposite happens... The content providers are again apologizing to their audience... Gijien probably gets a good laugh, when they crawl back for more.
    -- Nobody gets gamed, more than the gamers. Being experienced, and having 80% trash happen for 20% decent games, even if you lose... Turns into the average, especially if you spend money on the game. It's like a mode gets turned on, because you will be trying, and not leaving soon.
    -- One of my favorite episodes: There was a type of tank that was killing me every time, for about ten games in a row...once, got me at the beginning of a game point blank as I came around a corner, before I make it four hundred yard... I was about 1,600 yds to that teams supposed start point... Oh, guess which typed of tank was on special that week?
    -- Caught them using a player's gamer tag, that wasn't in the game. He was a friend in a group, all chatting while we were in the game - he was playing Rocket League. HIs status on Xbox verified that, on friend's list. Have check this out on PC and Console. So while you are off, AI may very well be using your tag. Any blacklisting, or complaints people lodged in the game, about you using aim bots or whatever, you'll never see or hear of. Isn't that lovely?
    -- When it's "Whales night out", you will find yourself repeatedly on maps that allow the other team to limit your travel to one area, where the team is surrounded and destroyed... usually by people in a squad, in voice communication with each other, seal clubbing a multiplayer team who have no idea who the others on the team are (or even if they aren't bots), limited to stopping and typing on the keyboard for communication. I ran simulators in a previous life, and know being gamed when I see it, I used to do it to people.
    -- Great graphics and some hard work done on the game, too bad the ethics seem to not be there. I can't imagine the incredibly large customer base they would have, if honest and fair were the biggest compliment this game got... and people simply didn't leave.
    AI is used heavily in the game. AI can look at all your teams behavior and habits, and counter accordingly. This game and World of Tanks have a relationship with the Russian Military - WoT even has had it's logo on the side of Russian Tanks in International Competitions - and they are collecting data for them. They are Russian Companies, so saying no may not be an option. For some of you wondering how these games can be so broke and full of "cancer", and still survive financially... Wonder no more. It is a data gold mine, and behavior experiment also worth it's weight in gold. A great platform to test AI's ability to come up with an Order of Battle on the fly. So understand this going in.
    Basically, you will be dealing with Carnies at the State Fair... Cool game, Technically speaking.
    Also, people can dumb down the graphics in settings... So much for not allowing cheating.    … Expand
  72. Heinrich01
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    Played the game for more than 100 hours, started playing it 2 years ago, but I stopped because it had to many bugs, like for example the game would teleport my tank to another place, my airplane would suddenly crash, it could not be a problem with my internet because when I started playing those bugs didn't happen, they started to happen after sometime. Then I decided to play again lastPlayed the game for more than 100 hours, started playing it 2 years ago, but I stopped because it had to many bugs, like for example the game would teleport my tank to another place, my airplane would suddenly crash, it could not be a problem with my internet because when I started playing those bugs didn't happen, they started to happen after sometime. Then I decided to play again last month, and it disappointed me to find out that after 2 years, after adding more content, more nations, more tanks, ships and helicopters, they did not fix the same bugs that the game had 2 years ago, whats the point of having good graphics, or lots of vehicles if they don't fix the most annoying bugs ?… Expand
  73. Pagaille21
    May 21, 2023
    2
    The game has simple gameplay modes - same ones we’ve been doing for 20 years. The sound design is incredible due to recent updates. Damage modules of the tanks isn’t consistent. Get used to hearing your teammates whining. This game costs you time and money to play. It takes a part of your brain. It’s not worth it. Avoid. The recent economy changes made this worse
  74. AresRules
    Jan 22, 2021
    2
    I began playing War Thunder in Dec. 2016. I left for over a year when an update reset my consecutive login days from almost 900 days to 1. I returned in October 2020. Another major factor in leaving is not easy for me to explain since I don't know much about computers. It often seems when facing a low level player or another squadron's player, my tanks are being nerfed and the enemies areI began playing War Thunder in Dec. 2016. I left for over a year when an update reset my consecutive login days from almost 900 days to 1. I returned in October 2020. Another major factor in leaving is not easy for me to explain since I don't know much about computers. It often seems when facing a low level player or another squadron's player, my tanks are being nerfed and the enemies are buffed. Soon will learn how to record battles and will post them for the others to see. I find it frustrating that I spent so much time and money on a game that cheats against the players.… Expand
  75. defenz
    Aug 9, 2021
    2
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  76. Poloto38
    Jul 7, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. From 2013 until now, there are still many bugs that the developer still can't fix, too hopeful for a most anticipated game.… Expand
  77. WannaBe_pilot
    May 21, 2023
    2
    A solid 2. I have 1800+ hours on this game, and as good as it is gameplay wise, I couldn't help but wonder, for how much longer will I be taking Gaijin's **** as if it's nothing? Every single update, something gets worse in the game. They add modern new vehicles, use them in advertising, but then it turns out that you have to play for 1200+ hours to get to those vehicles. That's roughlyA solid 2. I have 1800+ hours on this game, and as good as it is gameplay wise, I couldn't help but wonder, for how much longer will I be taking Gaijin's **** as if it's nothing? Every single update, something gets worse in the game. They add modern new vehicles, use them in advertising, but then it turns out that you have to play for 1200+ hours to get to those vehicles. That's roughly how long it took me to complete TWO branches in US air tree (there's 5 branches). Company actively DISCOURAGES players from playing their game by utilizing a system of repair costs, it's very hard or almost impossible to progress past rank V without some weird shenanigans, or a fat wallet. Last economy update that came out on may 16th was a last straw for me and for many other players. Developers have completely isolated themselves from their player base, they only listen when **** hits the fan, and that's rarely happens. If you value your time, money and want to have fun, AVOID WAR THUNDER. Developers have made it clear over the years that the only thing they care about is PROFITS, even if that means losing potential buyers or killing their game entierly.
    Sincerely WT player.    … Expand
  78. mrtubtubs
    May 21, 2023
    2
    Most predatory business decisions you can find in any game on the market, ever. Grind is UNFATHOMABLY long. 1700+ hours and I have top tier in a SINGLE TECH TREE on a single nation, only using premium time without premium vehicles. Took about 700 hours to do so. The game is only ever advertised with modern vehicles, yet the time sinks to reach them are a complete joke. If you actuallyMost predatory business decisions you can find in any game on the market, ever. Grind is UNFATHOMABLY long. 1700+ hours and I have top tier in a SINGLE TECH TREE on a single nation, only using premium time without premium vehicles. Took about 700 hours to do so. The game is only ever advertised with modern vehicles, yet the time sinks to reach them are a complete joke. If you actually value your time and money, stay as far away as possible from this game. Every 3 months an update is released that only worsens rewards and punishes the player more, elongating the grind. Save yourself, go somewhere else.… Expand
  79. w0ofle
    May 22, 2023
    2
    this game is no longer about enjoyment or fun, it's just purely about profits. things have gotten bad
    to the point where grinding out a full tech tree within a year is difficult. and that's for the people who spend money on fancy tanks with high multipliers. I try to enjoy this game but that's hard to do nowadays with how the have the economy. I no longer can just unlock stuff by playing    this game is no longer about enjoyment or fun, it's just purely about profits. things have gotten bad
    to the point where grinding out a full tech tree within a year is difficult. and that's for the people who spend money on fancy tanks with high multipliers. I try to enjoy this game but that's hard to do nowadays with how the have the economy. I no longer can just unlock stuff by playing my favorite tank or plane I have to use something high tier if I want to unlock something in a reasonable amount of time. even then its a challenge to enjoy something when I am forced to use a premium just because I don't want to wait a few weeks to unlock something in tier 7 or 8 I cant unlock things in 4-6 tiers either withought putting in such unreasonable hours it becomes a part time job. I just cant play this game anymore. I shouldn't be forced to pay the game for dying either. I would lose money while playing the french. Why? I am being caroled into buying a premium just so I don't sink into the negatives    … Expand
  80. dragman1991
    May 23, 2023
    2
    I have "Old guard" title in War Thunder. This means "Joined the game in 2013 or earlier".
    And I have wintessed this game going down constantly despite new nations like Italy, France, new modern planes like F-14.
    Disgusting greed, predatory mechanisms to drag as much money out of wallet as possible, weakening games economy has made this game far from what it aims to be - best military    I have "Old guard" title in War Thunder. This means "Joined the game in 2013 or earlier".
    And I have wintessed this game going down constantly despite new nations like Italy, France, new modern planes like F-14.
    Disgusting greed, predatory mechanisms to drag as much money out of wallet as possible, weakening games economy has made this game far from what it aims to be - best military simulator for everyone. This, in its current shape, is shadow of it dreams to be.
    Servers are dying at least once a week. Anti-cheat is not making the game free of cheaters. Tanks/planes are matchmaked in way player simply needs luck to get such match where his tanks and skills matter indeed.
    Game stakeholders are disrespectful to their community. They force moderators on Reddit, Steam, War Thunder forums to delete posts that, in civilized way, critisize the game.
    Game stakeholders are disrespectful to their content creators since their voice is neglected, ignored.

    If you want to play mil simulator, this is not good choice. Even World Of Tanks is less greedy, less broken, less disrespectful for its community. And its top tier is way more fun than 8.0-11.3 battle rating in War Thunder.

    If you want to spend money on game to get tanks, this is not good choice. Even with that you need to be above average to earn any money.

    Save your soul and money.

    Best regards,
    Player with 10 years of experience,but no more.    … Expand
  81. Yippee_
    May 22, 2023
    2
    Incompetent devs and higher ups. Think the players want everything even though they're greedy and ruin the game for F2P players and even now the paying ones.
  82. Clammytruck6765
    May 22, 2023
    2
    Predatory monetisation to the Sky.
    Shame on Gaijin. Ruined a fun game.

    STAY AWAY FROM THIS THING, IT WILL PUNISH YOU FOR PLAYING, TRYING TO MAKE YOU MORE FRUSTRATED AND PAY MORE. AND THAT, WILL NOT BE ENOUGH.
  83. Ravsamal
    May 23, 2023
    2
    They only wants your money. Bad economic. You can play only in lowest grafic settings to see enemies . Bad servers. Ultra high prices. Bad maps. No balance. Good game onl on low tier levels.
  84. GhostCoffee
    May 24, 2023
    2
    The game itself has promise, and this promise is what keeps people playing, there are wonderful information and historically (somewhat) accurate veichles, BUT the game is a cash-grab, the developers keep raising the price for "Premium subscription" which is the only way you will get any enjoyment in the long run, the game is HEAVILY focused on grinding, you need to do well to even stand aThe game itself has promise, and this promise is what keeps people playing, there are wonderful information and historically (somewhat) accurate veichles, BUT the game is a cash-grab, the developers keep raising the price for "Premium subscription" which is the only way you will get any enjoyment in the long run, the game is HEAVILY focused on grinding, you need to do well to even stand a chance at progressing to better veichles, and even when paying insane ammounts compared to other subscription based games, you will still be grinding for ages.
    Developers keep making it harder to earn currency to progress, and keep the price for paid content unreasonably high, and have for years ignored the playerbase and their requests.
    At this state i cant give it anything higher than a 2, or even reccomend it to anyone expect machocists    … Expand
  85. SomeRandoReview
    May 24, 2023
    2
    The game is fun but the economy is annoying especially in top tier that is why I just completely avoided playing it and started going back to 4.0. also the reviews from steam got removed and went to off topic while a positive review on how to make butter chicken is still there.
  86. Troytrhu
    May 25, 2023
    2
    FIX THE ECONOMY Today's Economy
    made to spend 1000 to 2000 thousand hours in the big nations, greedy game, the game is unbalanced, the matches are unfair, and the premium packs and also the premium subscription is expensive for most people, (DOLLAR BASED FOR ALL COUNTRIES THAT HAS MUCH LOWER INCOME) each premium vehicle costs around 60 dollars, weak or unbalanced team, MATCHMAKER puts    FIX THE ECONOMY Today's Economy
    made to spend 1000 to 2000 thousand hours in the big nations, greedy game, the game is unbalanced, the matches are unfair, and the premium packs and also the premium subscription is expensive for most people, (DOLLAR BASED FOR ALL COUNTRIES THAT HAS MUCH LOWER INCOME) each premium vehicle costs around 60 dollars, weak or unbalanced team, MATCHMAKER puts NEWBIES against VETERANS, and it becomes a mess, they don't care if the game is x or y is healthy, even psychologically. CAS air strikes mostly with premium vehicles take you out of the game easy, helicopters shooting early, mid and late game. it became another problem that is not balanced, revenge drones.    … Expand
  87. duckteller
    Sep 21, 2013
    1
    Another Russian pay to win game just how freaking fabulous is that?

    They simply copied the greedy wargaming games down to a tee business model and all even nailed the website it really is pretty hilarious and make no mistake about just because there's no gold bullets or other insane whale extravaganza this time around does not make it any less of the same old pay to win core mechanics    Another Russian pay to win game just how freaking fabulous is that?

    They simply copied the greedy wargaming games down to a tee business model and all even nailed the website it really is pretty hilarious and make no mistake about just because there's no gold bullets or other insane whale extravaganza this time around does not make it any less of the same old pay to win core mechanics to the bones so this will without doubt make the pay to win crowd a bunch of sad little whales.

    The imbalance between tiers nations gold planes premium accounts is at the very best incompetent at worst it's the same old you'll get so frustrated getting owned by horrendously overpowered whales that you'll pay up in the hope that the game will even out for a while or get better sometime down the road but it wont I promise you as it is in fact broken by design as generating maximum profit is what pay to win games are all about while hiding out under false pretences.

    It's quite funny how they get away branding these games as MMOs when all they are is first person shot em ups only close resemblance they ever had to any MMOs is the massive grind and the price point is straight up fairytale like now take Guild Wars 2 a real MMO that you can do for like 40 bucks which is a very fair price point while you'll have to pay infinity more for this half baked copy pay to win title if you don't like to waste double infinity time as whale fodder that is and yes you the player happen to be the actually game content remember thou it's just a money game in the end and that's no fun.

    One XP point granted for single player missions.    … Expand
  88. No5k1ll
    Jul 26, 2023
    1
    Personally, I played War Thunder because of the tank battles. The tanks are actually a lot of fun, and especially in realistic battles, War Thunder stands out from WoT (World of Tanks).
    BUT the aircraft in tank battles ruin the balance, and it's just not enjoyable. Tank battles are broken because of the aircraft, and I wonder: Why isn't there a Tanks Only mode? Why?
    Gaijin! Give us a    Personally, I played War Thunder because of the tank battles. The tanks are actually a lot of fun, and especially in realistic battles, War Thunder stands out from WoT (World of Tanks).
    BUT the aircraft in tank battles ruin the balance, and it's just not enjoyable. Tank battles are broken because of the aircraft, and I wonder: Why isn't there a Tanks Only mode? Why?
    Gaijin! Give us a Tanks Only mode at last!
    It's not fun to fight against aircraft, and I don't want to do that; otherwise, I wouldn't choose tank battles.
    There are more criticisms too, as the progress in the vast research trees is very slow, especially without a Premium account, making the game feel more like Pay to Win.
    For these reasons, I can only give the game a very poor rating.    … Expand
  89. Yoh-lo
    Dec 2, 2013
    1
    Fun game, nice graphics, well optimized but let down by expensive pay to win content (crew training, qualifications) which are a must-have in higher tier games. Good for maybe 20-50 hours, any more and you will need to choose between paying or losing. Pretty abusive community/staff too.
  90. Usser
    Oct 14, 2014
    1
    Game is Pay2win
    Game is Slow and have no point
    You need 100000000 years to achieve something
    Mods have no idea what they doing and don't know EULA
    Game is bugged as hell
    Gaijin ignore what say players
  91. mdog73
    Aug 30, 2013
    1
    It is visually nice, but there are some flat out game breaking bugs that they refuse to fix. They have good ideas, But poor implementation. This game needs alot of work and has great potential if they do not get greedy. It's clearly in beta phase, perhaps only 20-30% done. I still hold out hope that this can be a great game, right now it is subpar and would not recommend it to my friends.
  92. RustyJames
    Mar 18, 2019
    1
    Absolute garbage!
    No balance, no maps, no gameplay, no fun, no customer support, no future. Just a grindfest, pay-to-win, tons of bugs. Waste of time, even if you invest 1000hrs, you won't unlock even 1 nation.
  93. punch3870
    Nov 30, 2013
    1
    i have spent 25 minutes, just trying to get into the game. 13 minutes went to waiting for the stupid thing to download the patch. 10 minutes went to some stupid thing called an outdated video driver. 2 minutes went to being speechless.
  94. WilliamZHL
    Dec 25, 2013
    1
    patch 1.37 destroyed a good game.

    It cost over 500% more to get a new plane. It takes over 200% more time for a new plane

    i had a lot of fun in the game and i paid premium account, but now they are like day time robbery
  95. antjay
    Dec 26, 2013
    1
    Recent patch has turned a once fine FTP game into an horrendous grind Broken matchmaking compressed tiering systems and very miserly reward for effort have turned it into a strictly pay to progress exercise.
    Blatant greed on the part of the developers have turned this once brilliant game into a cynical money making exercise
  96. MercyKilling
    Nov 29, 2014
    1
    It's got pretty graphics. That is literally the only good thing I can say about this game. Flight models are completely broken for most planes, damage models for both planes and tanks are completely fubar....constant stealth nerfing of match rewards to slow progress to a crawl thus forcing people to pay to progress at a reasonable rate....no. This game WAS good back at patch 1.26 andIt's got pretty graphics. That is literally the only good thing I can say about this game. Flight models are completely broken for most planes, damage models for both planes and tanks are completely fubar....constant stealth nerfing of match rewards to slow progress to a crawl thus forcing people to pay to progress at a reasonable rate....no. This game WAS good back at patch 1.26 and 1.27...but here at patch 1.43 it's utter feces. Would not recommend to my worst enemy.… Expand
  97. LindoWicker
    Aug 1, 2021
    1
    £57 if you want to buy one plane, thats the price to avoid grinding for one plane.

    Because the jets are so expensive it take literally months to earn 1 jet and months to get all the mods. So people ignore the objective and concentrate on getting the most kills - sometimes shooting through allies to get a kill. In essence Great game/Awful Developers and community. What makes the game    £57 if you want to buy one plane, thats the price to avoid grinding for one plane.

    Because the jets are so expensive it take literally months to earn 1 jet and months to get all the mods.
    So people ignore the objective and concentrate on getting the most kills - sometimes shooting through allies to get a kill.
    In essence Great game/Awful Developers and community.
    What makes the game even more of a grind is if you don't get a lot of kills in a game, you actually lose points to fix your planes.
    I've been stuck 600k now for ages. so whilst a might have a couple of good games if I have a few bad games I basically don't advance. SO even in a few years where I earn enough research points to get a new T5 plane I sure as hell wont be able to afford it. Well Done Gaijin; you turned a pretty good game into a grind fest that really isnt worth playing anymore.    … Expand
  98. ice05
    May 21, 2023
    1
    Worst grind via any game, horrible economy. Classic story of greedy company who killed a game.
  99. Chris-
    May 15, 2021
    1
    Ive been playing on and off for serveral years and in my opinion it's only getting worse.
    Gaijin has jumped on the funny EA *we only want money* train and it shows ingame.
    New tanks new premium stupid battlepasses only veteran players can make. premium time that costs a fortune and a Forum driven by players, there is no development team that even listen to the players the only listen to    Ive been playing on and off for serveral years and in my opinion it's only getting worse.
    Gaijin has jumped on the funny EA *we only want money* train and it shows ingame.
    New tanks new premium stupid battlepasses only veteran players can make. premium time that costs a fortune and a Forum driven by players, there is no development team that even listen to the players the only listen to what you can put into the game. the game is on it's knees it's barely enough players to play in the morning and the max total players playing at any giving time is around 100 000 and that it split by arcade Tanks/boats/planes, realistic battles Tanks/boats/planes and simulator battles tanks/boats/planes. and then there is the "Tiers" 1-10 and every tier is splitting the players up EVEN more.
    And not to talk about the absure prices to repair one of your tanks/ships/plane. if you are a good player and kan make 3-7 kills per match you will get around 50-120k silver a round some of the tanks/boats/planes costs 45k+ to repair so if you have a bad player that barely make a kill will never have enough of silver to repair..... and then there is the mods..... banning players from chat because they asking when the game is going to be better...... if you see this DON*T PLAY THIS I rather actually go back to a **** game called World of tanks instead of this..... it's just getting worse and it's stupid how gaijin think they can still go on the money train and never make the game better.... it's all about money and Honestly DON'T even bother playing it.......    … Expand
  100. JG1_Tomas
    Oct 31, 2014
    1
    This game has nice graphics and thats all. It is probably excellent for beginners or kids, but for experienced gamers I recommend: Rise of Flight, IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad, DCS or Cliffs of Dover with Team Fusion patches.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Jan 25, 2017
    87
    One of the cornerstones of War Thunder is that player’s skill is more important than his wallet. Premium vehicles offer no combat advantages, there is no “microtransaction-only” ammo or consumables, so no amount of cash will buy you a spot on the top of the food chain. [Issue#216, p.56]
  2. GRYOnline.pl
    Jan 13, 2017
    75
    The official launch of War Thunder reminded me why I like this game so much. It's adorably chaotic - in contrast to the reliably designed World of Tanks. That's why it can be really fun and frustrating at the same time. There's tons of great vehicles (and the planes are superb!) and a difficult simulation mode, but there are also balance and technical issues.
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  3. CalmDownTom
    Aug 14, 2014
    90
    Overall the War Thunder tank battles are great even at this early stage.
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