War Thunder

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3.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1908 Ratings

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  1. butseriously
    Nov 26, 2016
    0
    The negative reviews are accurate. Impossible research tiers. Could take months at top tiers to get next vehicle, & it gets to the point where you can't afford to repair, which is frustrating when the gameplay is getting you killed 1/2 - 2/3 of the time.
    DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS GAME.
  2. tamanade
    Sep 13, 2016
    0
    update........8 months ago i described this game as "terrible game,terrible gameplay, pretty graphics,.indifferent devs who just want your money so make the free to play stuff such a grind that you will either quit or spend money to win.
    it has no balance, loads of bugs (that the devs don't want to hear about) massive russian bias (it's a russian made game after all ) the only plus this    update........8 months ago i described this game as "terrible game,terrible gameplay, pretty graphics,.indifferent devs who just want your money so make the free to play stuff such a grind that you will either quit or spend money to win.
    it has no balance, loads of bugs (that the devs don't want to hear about) massive russian bias (it's a russian made game after all ) the only plus this game has is it looks good and thats it!
    AVOID this game it is just terrible !" well i have just given it another go (hoping against hope it had improved) welll sadly it has not in fact it may actually be worse!! shame really but just as before AVOID THIS GAME IT IS TERRIBLE!!!    … Expand
  3. 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
  4. ted_isted
    Aug 12, 2016
    0
    War Thunder was once great, And the single player missions are still fun to do every now and then. But online gameplay has been destroyed over mixing very high rated players with very low rated players. And they have turned the game into a buy to win. It used to be anyone could win and get upgrades as long as they worked for it, Now it takes a free to play player forever and ever. And youWar Thunder was once great, And the single player missions are still fun to do every now and then. But online gameplay has been destroyed over mixing very high rated players with very low rated players. And they have turned the game into a buy to win. It used to be anyone could win and get upgrades as long as they worked for it, Now it takes a free to play player forever and ever. And you now get burned out long before you ever get any upgrades or new planes. And to add insult to injury the game packages they sale are way overpriced! This is why I hate any online gaming scenario! Because in the end the greed of the devs always destroys the game for the players. And to add more insult to injury many players are using aimbots while Gajin continues to deny aimbots exist. And any member that mentions this will get attacked by several fan boys. You even get threatened of being banned for mentioning it. So it's safe to say War Thunder has been completely destroyed by it's own developers. You don't take away everything from the player unless they pay for a overpriced package! And you don't call the people who play and support your game liars and threaten them simply for pointing out about aimbots! So it's safe to say War Thunder has been completely destroyed by it's own developers. The players become less and less each day. Eventually the snake will eat it's own tail unless Gaijin finally decides to get their heads out of their own sphincters.… Expand
  5. 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
  6. spectralknight
    Aug 9, 2016
    7
    What I am going to say here is strictly related to my opinion.

    What I like about this game, features that are good: -Tanks are built to the smallest detail as well the airplanes; -Graphics and everything related to visuals of vehicles and maps; -The developers seems to work for their game and we often receive updates, events, vehicles, new items and features; -Sound; -It is a good    What I am going to say here is strictly related to my opinion.

    What I like about this game, features that are good:
    -Tanks are built to the smallest detail as well the airplanes;
    -Graphics and everything related to visuals of vehicles and maps;
    -The developers seems to work for their game and we often receive updates, events, vehicles, new items and features;
    -Sound;
    -It is a good game for airplanes as well for tanks also I heared that they will add battleships in the near future;
    -Gameplay, controls, movement of vehicles and everything related to parts damage which is a good ideea and makes the game different and special in some way compared to other games of this type...also you have an interesting kill-cam after you are destroyed showing how your tank got damaged totally(for ground forces);
    -Various game-modes and large maps;
    -It's free and is not pay2win at least for Ground Forces;
    -World War II Theme;
    -Active and friendly community;
    -The game is populated. You find easily battles and time of waiting in queues for playing are small. This could sound weird for being in the list of positive features but the number of players in a game is an important feature that keeps it alive;
    -Very good optimization and performance;

    What I don't like about this game, features that ruin this game:
    -Silver balance is almost non-existent...I don't know how Ostwind for example which has been built on Panzer chasis has a max repair cost of around 9000SE and a Tiger II or T54 has less repair costs. Because of this when you play with some vehicles or on certain tiers you have 80% chances to keep loosing SE every match...in this rythm you can make the performance of reaching 0 SE in your account if you don't play with other vehicles that can bring you some SE(or buy premium);
    -BR is a problem...not for every vehicle but for some and this makes this game unbalanced at some points. This in combination with SE unbalance problem could be very frustrating;
    -Russian tanks and planes have a little advantage over other nations and when I say this it's not because their vehicles are OP at all it's just because of BR which in some cases is very low for some good russian vehicles and some of their vehicles are less expensive at repair costs. This problem is not available for all russian tanks but it is for a part of them. So Russian vehicles have a little advantage over some nations but not a huge one.
    -Minor glitches;
    -Sometimes I have the feeling that the developers don't listen to the voice of community;
    -Matchmaking is sometimes stupid as long as you play IS-2, Tiger II and you face T-54 and Leopard I for example;
    -One Shot Kills could be ridiculous sometimes;
    -RP ammount per battle even if won are terrible at least on high tier;
    -Maybe some airplanes on Ground Forces battles especially the ones with rockets;
    -It is the game where you can loose over 10 times in a row, I dont know how this is possible;
    -Some vehicles are OP and others are useless;
    -Airplanes are pay2win as long as the team with most players that have more slots and airplanes to respawn wins;
    -You have to choose between spending money or playing hundreds of hours;

    Of course maybe there are another pro and against features for this game but in my opinion those are the most important. Sadly I don't know why but I have a feeling that developers are trying to make this game balanced with some things that are from WoT and I started playing this game just because I didn't liked WoT system and balance but glady at this point WT is not entierly WoT and I hope it won't become. As an overall I recommend this title. It is free to play and is surprisingly good for a free to play(you don't find often a good free to play game). If you like tanks or airplanes and look for a game related to this you should try War Thunder. The World War II theme for this game is amazing I think is the best WWII vehicle based game around. It is worth a try and as long is free if you don't like it you can just uninstall it. The game had and still has potential but it needs some improvements and a little more balance (at least for BR and SE) as well. I could easily not recommend this but as long as I played it so much and I have over 700 hours in it I will choose to recommend it. (Score: 70/100 for me)    … Expand
  7. Lone_Wolf_Sones
    Aug 7, 2016
    8
    After having played this game for....1,415 hours; if steam is to be believed...I still haven't grown tired of it. Each match feels different from the last. The game has evolved considerably since I first started playing. I can remember when each nation only had a handful of aircraft. Now the game boasts over 300+ Unique aircraft (Guiness World Record). And the game also now has tanks forAfter having played this game for....1,415 hours; if steam is to be believed...I still haven't grown tired of it. Each match feels different from the last. The game has evolved considerably since I first started playing. I can remember when each nation only had a handful of aircraft. Now the game boasts over 300+ Unique aircraft (Guiness World Record). And the game also now has tanks for Russia, Germany and the US. They just added a few premium British tanks as well.

    WarThunder has a variety of modes to appeal to a variety of different people. Arcade is a good mode for quick matches. Realistic battles are more challenging and remove aim indicators. And full sim battles are particularly intense in that your view is restricted to the commander or cockpit view.

    The vehicles all have distinct characteristics and models and perform differently as a result. You can go a whole match without scoring one kill and still come out on top of the leaderboard if you play the objectives. If you manage to belly land your plane after sustaining critical damage your rewarded for it. If you take a lot of hits your rewarded for it with an adamant reward. Playing in a squad and assist your team mate killing a tank; your rewarded for it. This is in stark contrast to a game like WoT. In WoT you get one spawn, and when your vehicle's HP pool is depleted thats it. In WarThunder you can try to get back to base in your plane. Or you can repair your tank in the field if you have the repair module unlocked. You aren't just given a static 'death' animation once your HP is depleted as you get in WoWP.

    It also needs to be said that the tanks have evolved quite a bit in WarThunder. With changes like ground deformation you see your tank's tracks sinking into the ground. And if you get into 'muddy' terrain. Your tank becomes covered in Mud and ends up bogged down. The new Dagor 4.0 engine allows for fully destructible environments.

    WarThunder also has a great customization system. You can put decals on your vehicles, adjust their camo, and on tanks you can even adjust how worn that camo is. Or you can load up the texture in photoshop or another program and make your own skins.

    WarThunder has a lot to offer especially for being a free game. People have criticized its microtransactions and premium vehicles. I think its important to distinguish that WarThunder is a free to play game. Your not paying $60 and another $50-60 on top of that for a season pass. Any free to play game needs to be monetized in some way. Its how the developer makes money off said game. The premium vehicles aren't pay to win either as some might suggest. In fact a fully upgraded stock tank tends to be better statistically than a premium of its tier. The only real advantage premium vehicles have is that they have greater credit and XP earning potential.

    You may find yourself coming back for more and more. I know I have. Especially when new vehicles are released. Like the recent addition of the B-29. What are you waiting for? Go download the game; and see you in the skies and on the ground!    … Expand
  8. familiadaza
    Jul 28, 2016
    0
    This game its garbaje, DO NOT EVEN TRY IT BETTER GO PLAY MINE SWEEPER INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR PRECIOUS LIFE WITH THIS UNBALANCE GAME.

    This is just a sad creation that shows the worst side of humanity.
  9. t3caz
    Jul 18, 2016
    0
    it is one of the pay to win games!! matchmaking is a joke. it can match you when you have tier 2 tank and your opponent have tier 4 tank. You can never 1-1 with this matchup.
  10. iNERSiA
    May 4, 2016
    9
    This game deserves a solid 9/10... There are a few minor issues/flaws that need polishing but none the less its an outstanding game! Most negative reviews on here are from people who have played a couple of games in "Arcade" mode and then feel its justified to write a **** review on the game! My review is based solely on "Ground Forces" as that's where I spend most of my time with WarThis game deserves a solid 9/10... There are a few minor issues/flaws that need polishing but none the less its an outstanding game! Most negative reviews on here are from people who have played a couple of games in "Arcade" mode and then feel its justified to write a **** review on the game! My review is based solely on "Ground Forces" as that's where I spend most of my time with War Thunder. I have played this game for 5 years now so I think my review is justified.

    Do not play "Arcade" battles in ground forces, you will be deeply disappointed as its all about super fast tank, drifting tanks, shell drop indicator (shows you exactly how much your shell will drop over distance so always guarantees a hit and penetration) and shooting at player name tags (You can see a player name tag across the map)... so in short there is absolutely no realism or strategy involved in "Arcade" battles, but then again that is why its called ARCADE BATTLES ffs, and that is where most people base their reviews on!

    Now "Realistic" and "Simulator" battles is where the game shines! The tanks travel at realistic speeds, they don't drift, no shell drop indicator (so you have to judge for yourself how much your shell will drop over the relevant distance *GASP*), and no player name tags (so you have to spot a tank with your own 2 eyes all on your very own *GASPS some more*). Realistic and Simulator modes is all about understanding your tank and knowing your opponent weak points when you run into him (his reload speed, armor thickness, weakspots, ammo rack positions etc) and its about patience, if you going to run around the map breaching cover everywhere you go you are going to get shot by someone sitting in cover probably well camouflaged and he is going to snipe your engine bay, stalling your tank, setting it on fire and then land 1 more shot on your ammo rack and *POOF* you are out of there... then you going to sit back and cry about campers or how biased the game is or how you can shoot another tank 8 times without killing him and he hits you dead with 1 round and then you going to b!tch about the game is broken etc... But bottom line is you just don't understand tank warfare or where to hit another tank for a critical shot. Realistic and Simulator modes are as realistic as you're going to get in this game genre, you just need to put a bunch of hours into the game to properly understand tank mechanics and tank warfare and not b!tch about the first person who shoots you from a distance and kills you with 1 shot because that is completely possible even in real life...

    People also complain about how the BR system is broken and the matchmaking is broken, those people are just idiotic beyond belief... Its Simple actually. If you've got 5 tanks in your line up, lets say 4 of them are tier 1 and 2 with BR 1 - 4 and your last tank is a tier 4 with a BR of lets say 7 for arguments sake, the game will only match you up with your highest tier tank which means your tier 1 and 2 tanks are going to face tier 4 tanks because you have a tier 4 tank in your line up and then complain about the matchmaking being broken and ask "How can a T-50 vs a Tiger 1H, the matchmaking is broken!! fack this game!!" but you were the one who put your tiny T-50 against a Tiger 1H by not understanding the matchmaking system. I will let you in on a secret, to beat the problem, make sure all the vehicles you take into battle are of the same BR. so don't take a tier 1 tank into battle with your tier 2 or 3 tanks because you will have a hard time, its really that simple! keep your vehicles in your line up at the same BR and you wont have a problem.

    Now that I'm done ranting on about stupid people... The game itself is great, its a free game but definitely isn't pay to win in any sense, but it is pay to progress faster than the free players as your gold eagles you buy only help you with research points and to buy premium tanks, there is no premium ammo to buy or any other nonsense that gives you an advantage over other players except for researching stuff faster than them. the graphics and visuals are outstanding and a brilliantly optimized game which you could probably run on your toaster, the sounds are brilliant, no generic sounds carried across vehicles, they all have their own unique sounds when it comes to engine and cannon fire etc. It's an all rounded brilliant games with a few rough edges that still need polishing out but its nothing game breakingly bad, most people wont even notice them... I would recommend this game to anybody who is a fan of realistic warfare and a fan or WWII era machines as this game is historically accurate and it really is one of a kind... Its a free game and extremely good, give it a go, but you need to put a bunch of hours into it to understand the game properly! and not jump ship after a few "Arcade" battles and then criticize the game for being a heap of **** because "Arcade" mode is a heap of ****    … Expand
  11. Joe319
    Apr 18, 2016
    6
    I gave this a 6. I'd of given it a 10 but War Thunder is a game that so many players and myself, have noticed an obvious Russian bias. Take a Russian T-34 as an example. You'll have a heavy tank using your best armor piercing ammo and and so many times, you'll hit them and it'll just bounce off or do little damage and even the times you are lucky and do critical damage, they'll still beI gave this a 6. I'd of given it a 10 but War Thunder is a game that so many players and myself, have noticed an obvious Russian bias. Take a Russian T-34 as an example. You'll have a heavy tank using your best armor piercing ammo and and so many times, you'll hit them and it'll just bounce off or do little damage and even the times you are lucky and do critical damage, they'll still be able to fire at you, meanwhile they'll hit you with a direct shot to your front armor with 1 round and either blow you apart, or disable you where you can't fire back until you repair. Even hitting them with a side shot gets the same results. It wasn't until yesterday that I learned that Gaijin is a Russian company so that explained it all and why their admins are very touchy whenever you bring this or any other criticisms up.

    It's a great game to play, I just wish it was on a level playing field. I do get the feedback that there's a favoritism from the German Tiger tanks but I haven't seen it. Although I have been using American tanks mainly for the past several months, when I do use the Tiger or even the Tiger II with the 105 mm cannon, I get the same results. Obvious from Gaijin that if you pitted a T-54 against an M1 Abrams, we'd probably get the same results. And how about their ZSU-57 anti-aircraft gun. I've used heavy armored tanks and blown up by them with ease. If the Russians would've gotten the same results in real life, seems to me their whole armored divisions would be made up of nothing but ZSU-57's!

    For those starting out, choose the Russian tanks. You'll be happier!    … Expand
  12. Shadow1
    Apr 14, 2016
    10
    Direct competitor World of Tanks , but Wot better than WT . In World of Tanks more tanks than in War Thunder , but in War Thunder there is also planes and will be soon ships . War Thunder realistic than World of Tanks , but World of Tanks has got funny and interesting training room and the company commander fighting . World of Tanks better than War Thunder , but War Thunder is a good gameDirect competitor World of Tanks , but Wot better than WT . In World of Tanks more tanks than in War Thunder , but in War Thunder there is also planes and will be soon ships . War Thunder realistic than World of Tanks , but World of Tanks has got funny and interesting training room and the company commander fighting . World of Tanks better than War Thunder , but War Thunder is a good game too and War Thunder better than Armored Warfare . 7/10 .… Expand
  13. 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.
  14. brian103181
    Feb 29, 2016
    1
    I was sucked into this game as one of the few downloadable Mac flight sims available...

    The game can not balance the games out. That means there will always be someone who can slaughter everyone else. I really feel if someone who worked at Gaiijin actually played the game they could make it better. If you want to waste a year or more time playing this game to play with the top    I was sucked into this game as one of the few downloadable Mac flight sims available...

    The game can not balance the games out. That means there will always be someone who can slaughter everyone else.

    I really feel if someone who worked at Gaiijin actually played the game they could make it better.

    If you want to waste a year or more time playing this game to play with the top planes... Be my guest...

    Gaiijin if you are listening. Fix your battle rating on the US planes! The Sabre F2 should be the ONLY BR 9.0

    The Sabre F2.5 is a turd along with the A5 they should be7. The F9F's should be 7.7 and the F2H should be 7.3 again!!!! The F80 should be 7 The P80 6.7 The F84 F6.0    … Expand
  15. Thatguyy
    Feb 26, 2016
    10
    Great game with amazing graphics. Personally i don't like planes but tanks, the game has both so you can play both of them in the same game. Air events are a fun thing that will shift the balance very quickly.
    The developers have a great sense of humor. With my little ponies, walking tanks a potpie tanks during April the first!
  16. Wyv
    Feb 5, 2016
    0
    The game, after 10 patches, gets worse and worse. Gaijin is ruining a great game. It is not realistic, it is not balanced and it is not historically accurate. I wasted more than 600 hours on it. Premium planes are OP and made by adamantium. Pay 2 win, friend fire, teamkillers, poorly optimized (from 110 fps to 40 in a patch), they only care about the money they can make from selling OPThe game, after 10 patches, gets worse and worse. Gaijin is ruining a great game. It is not realistic, it is not balanced and it is not historically accurate. I wasted more than 600 hours on it. Premium planes are OP and made by adamantium. Pay 2 win, friend fire, teamkillers, poorly optimized (from 110 fps to 40 in a patch), they only care about the money they can make from selling OP stuff. This game is disgusting. The only good thing is the graphic.… Expand
  17. Daniel0745
    Jan 30, 2016
    10
    I have been playing this game since Oct 2015. I have greatly enjoyed my time and have encouraged everyone I know that games to pick it up. The beginning when you are trying to figure out what to update and research can be confusing so I would advise checking out the youtube videos gaijen puts out that explains a lot of the early need to know info.
  18. SarudeDankstorm
    Jan 18, 2016
    8
    For a Free to Play game, War Thunder is extremely well polished and very fun to play. I have mainly played the tank portion of the game, and after 20+ hours I am impressed. There are plenty of tanks available and they are relatively balanced, although there definitely is a pro-Russian bias in both tanks and airplanes. Although some factions have a tough time starting off initially, onceFor a Free to Play game, War Thunder is extremely well polished and very fun to play. I have mainly played the tank portion of the game, and after 20+ hours I am impressed. There are plenty of tanks available and they are relatively balanced, although there definitely is a pro-Russian bias in both tanks and airplanes. Although some factions have a tough time starting off initially, once you invest some time into War Thunder you will fine a brilliant game, only slightly tarnished by microtransactions.… Expand
  19. Willmack
    Jan 5, 2016
    0
    well today i was banned from Warthunder for talking about the american elections no abuse just a friendly talk on who might win it was only about 3 to 5 lines of text. Well bam 2 day chat ban for talking about unrelated topic in Warthunder and a 1 day game ban based on "political spam" o.0 so cant play warthunder for 1 day and a 2 day chat banned well now we know what GAIJIN is truely likewell today i was banned from Warthunder for talking about the american elections no abuse just a friendly talk on who might win it was only about 3 to 5 lines of text. Well bam 2 day chat ban for talking about unrelated topic in Warthunder and a 1 day game ban based on "political spam" o.0 so cant play warthunder for 1 day and a 2 day chat banned well now we know what GAIJIN is truely like just a warning to anyone. And before you say it that i shouldnt talk about political topics in a game well i do have the right to freedom of speech and so does everybody else for that matter… Expand
  20. asdfasdfsd
    Dec 27, 2015
    0
    nice graphics for a free simulation. that's all that there is to it.

    now the negative points in short: **** community, **** gameplay, **** balance, **** mods/supprters/developers, **** premium (as in op and expensive as hell) and buggy as hell. it gets worse with every update and gaijin seems to care less and less. details: -**** community: friendly fire is the war thunder way to say    nice graphics for a free simulation. that's all that there is to it.

    now the negative points in short: **** community, **** gameplay, **** balance, **** mods/supprters/developers, **** premium (as in op and expensive as hell) and buggy as hell. it gets worse with every update and gaijin seems to care less and less.
    details:
    -**** community: friendly fire is the war thunder way to say hello. also you have to pay for the repairs yourself. also you can't disable friendly fire. also, reporting friendly firing teammates will make your team a lot weaker than it already is after all the quitters left. also there is no way of joining a normal game later. so you're pretty much **** if you have an **** on your team. i usually have 2.
    -**** gameplay: wow, cool, as if camping and sniping for hours without end in other games wasn't boring enough, you can now do it in a tank that takes 5-60 seconds to reload after every shot depending on how **** you are. **** yay.
    yay king of the hill mode, like i haven't seen that one before. yay domination, something new. yay, there is literally nothing interesting in this game, except if you like to drive 10 mins with a tank at 15mph to try to flank the enemy just to get one-shot.
    also: one shots. you'll get one-shot all over the place, doesn't matter if the enemy is right in front of you or a mile away. you'll get one-shot through buildings, the floor, debris, dead tanks, and even ricochet from a friendly unit.
    -**** balance: t34 best tank in the world. world war winning tank with stalinium armor and cryptonite ammo. nuff said. the russian bias is real - who would've thought it, it's a russian game after all.
    interestingly gaijin writes about tanks at level 1.0 ("battke ranking") that are able to deal with tanks at level 3 (which is true). but they dont change the level of that tank. nope. seems about right.
    also tank levels seem to change with every day passing and depending even of game type you're playing, but you cannot look up the real facts, when that very tank has what level, so that after you made a decent team and joined a game, you see that the levels are all over the place and your once balanced team suddenly has one very high level member and you now have to fight other players that have way stronger units, not as if one-shotting wasn't a huge issue anyway, now you cant even retaliate.
    -**** supporters/mods/developers: there is actually a forum where you can post all your bug reports just to have them ignored. yay. each update comes with new bugs. yay. old ones rarely get fixed. nay.
    -**** premium: how about you pay a **** of money to get great units to fight real **** ones? great, isn't it? you're invincible and can one-shot everybody for some cash. also, you can buy the whole game for millions of dollers. awesome. some people actually grind all the stuff for years on end. yeah, **** them, amirite gaijin

    also who the **** came up with these ideas:
    spawning points are not possible to get artillerized, but can very well can get bombed.
    airplanes should start out being built out of wood, so that you catch on fire the first 100 times you fly it until you have researched the last def-upgrade. same applies for tanks, except there you can't upgrade you def normally, but fire extinguishers aren't available from the start either. also you cant repair your tank from the start either, everything has to be researched
    you can help your squadmate repair, but not your other teammates. it's also not possible to repair a tank if you havent made that specific upgrade, even if your squad mate has the same tank as you do and is around to help but you cant start repairing.
    fires cant be put out under water
    your crew drowns literally in 3 seconds
    maps usually look like each team just came from their respective base to the battle, still you start out with tanks all over the place, srsly, noone drives a tank backwards to battle, not even the ai, not even 90° tilted. also you spawn on/in eachother which gaijin only could solve by making your tank impervious to damage for some time at spawn - great, but useless against all spawnkillers and "traffic jams" at game start.
    if your tank's tires/chain is damaged your crew immediately refurse any orders for a second and stop driving to start repairing it asap. nice feature, right? nope, you cant hide like this from enemy fire, you cant put your tank in a more favourable angle to the enemy fire. you'll have to wait 4 seconds to be able to do anything. also, crew doesn't give a damn if literally everything else is destroyed, but hell brakes loose if the chain is loose.
    killing ai will not give you any points whatsoever for researching your already very weakly starting new units, so that it's even more of a pain to try and use new units. also, most matches have like 50% ai, which makes for very boring , since not very intelligent, play.
    (this review had to be shortened)    … Expand
  21. liakyh
    Nov 25, 2015
    5
    Gaijin's modelling of vehicles and damage are second to none. It's too bad that game balance is non-existent, while the entire player experience is characterised by minute and incremental progress, and much frustration, designed to milk money from the player at every step to lessen the pain.

    In an ideal world, the staff at Gaijin responsible for modelling the vehicles and ensuring the    Gaijin's modelling of vehicles and damage are second to none. It's too bad that game balance is non-existent, while the entire player experience is characterised by minute and incremental progress, and much frustration, designed to milk money from the player at every step to lessen the pain.

    In an ideal world, the staff at Gaijin responsible for modelling the vehicles and ensuring the accuracy of their in-game performance would be poached by Valve, who actually know how to run a micro-transaction based game without ruining player experience for majority who are less-loaded.    … Expand
  22. homer4president
    Nov 23, 2015
    8
    Progression system is very tedious once you reach higher levels but, I enjoyed the game. Beautiful graphics and plane models. Best flight simulator in a while!
  23. Hersir
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    It all started out good with War Thunder - we could see nice graphics and sounds, devs chatting about how they're going the realism way unlike World Of Potato products plus having planes, tanks and ships in one single client instead of the aforementioned World Of Potato division into three different games...
    But things change and War Thunder has gone the bad way:
    - 1. Community    It all started out good with War Thunder - we could see nice graphics and sounds, devs chatting about how they're going the realism way unlike World Of Potato products plus having planes, tanks and ships in one single client instead of the aforementioned World Of Potato division into three different games...
    But things change and War Thunder has gone the bad way:
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    1. Community management is terrible. All those talks about forum dictatorship are true - even objective criticism is not welcome there. CMs allow themselves mocking comments like "win" in regard to the questions like "What should I do on Me.262 versus far more advanced post-war jets" or "just donate" and etc.
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    2. Economy/research has turned into a disguised cash grab. Unlocking mid- and especially high-tier units requires a lot of grind forcing you to donate if you want to skip it at least a bit. Worst thing is that from patch to patch the research efficiency keeps droping.
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    3. The praised historical and realistic focus of this game is mostly gone. Some historical units like A-26 or BTD-1 are premium only while standard unit trees got DOZENS of prototypes and 'paper planes'. Also get ready for things like 1944 German planes fighting post-war aircraft they never met IRL. And they're doing it based on self-determined 'battle rating' of those units for the sake of 'balance'...
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    4. ...Which is by the way pretty broken despite they chose not to be bound by historical limits. You could see things like F-2H Banshee jet with 4 cannons and a thrust-to-weight ratio of War Thunder's TOP JET, MiG-15, fighting piston engine planes... That was fixed not so long ago, but it is just one example, many others remain.
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    5. Game is losing player base, new content is added pretty slowly, problems aren't solved and the general dynamic of things is negative.    … Expand
  24. 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.
  25. Rouce
    Nov 9, 2015
    5
    The grind is unbearable. And this comes from someone who has been using a premium vehicle and a vehicle with a talisman most of the time. (both grant 200% faster grinding) I've also always used all the boosters from the daily gambling, bought a veteran day and used it extensively. And still.. The grind is soul-draining. And I'm nowhere near the high-end stuff regardless of playing the gameThe grind is unbearable. And this comes from someone who has been using a premium vehicle and a vehicle with a talisman most of the time. (both grant 200% faster grinding) I've also always used all the boosters from the daily gambling, bought a veteran day and used it extensively. And still.. The grind is soul-draining. And I'm nowhere near the high-end stuff regardless of playing the game for months now.

    Y'know if a F2P game is a cashcow when the grind is even unbearable when you pay real money. ;)    … Expand
  26. LoneWolfSones
    Nov 8, 2015
    8
    After having played this game for....1,415 hours; if steam is to be believed...I still haven't grown tired of it. Each match feels different from the last. The game has evolved considerably since I first started playing. I can remember when each nation only had a handful of aircraft. Now the game boasts over 300+ Unique aircraft (Guiness World Record). And the game also now has tanks forAfter having played this game for....1,415 hours; if steam is to be believed...I still haven't grown tired of it. Each match feels different from the last. The game has evolved considerably since I first started playing. I can remember when each nation only had a handful of aircraft. Now the game boasts over 300+ Unique aircraft (Guiness World Record). And the game also now has tanks for Russia, Germany and the US. They just added a few premium British tanks as well.

    WarThunder has a variety of modes to appeal to a variety of different people. Arcade is a good mode for quick matches. Realistic battles are more challenging and remove aim indicators. And full sim battles are particularly intense in that your view is restricted to the commander or cockpit view.

    The vehicles all have distinct characteristics and models and perform differently as a result. You can go a whole match without scoring one kill and still come out on top of the leaderboard if you play the objectives. If you manage to belly land your plane after sustaining critical damage your rewarded for it. If you take a lot of hits your rewarded for it with an adamant reward. Playing in a squad and assist your team mate killing a tank; your rewarded for it. This is in stark contrast to a game like WoT. In WoT you get one spawn, and when your vehicle's HP pool is depleted thats it. In WarThunder you can try to get back to base in your plane. Or you can repair your tank in the field if you have the repair module unlocked. You aren't just given a static 'death' animation once your HP is depleted as you get in WoWP.

    It also needs to be said that the tanks have evolved quite a bit in WarThunder. With changes like ground deformation you see your tank's tracks sinking into the ground. And if you get into 'muddy' terrain. Your tank becomes covered in Mud and ends up bogged down. The new Dagor 4.0 engine allows for fully destructible environments.

    WarThunder also has a great customization system. You can put decals on your vehicles, adjust their camo, and on tanks you can even adjust how worn that camo is. Or you can load up the texture in photoshop or another program and make your own skins.

    WarThunder has a lot to offer especially for being a free game. People have criticized its microtransactions and premium vehicles. I think its important to distinguish that WarThunder is a free to play game. Your not paying $60 and another $50-60 on top of that for a season pass. Any free to play game needs to be monetized in some way. Its how the developer makes money off said game. The premium vehicles aren't pay to win either as some might suggest. In fact a fully upgraded stock tank tends to be better statistically than a premium of its tier. The only real advantage premium vehicles have is that they have greater credit and XP earning potential.

    You may find yourself coming back for more and more. I know I have. Especially when new vehicles are released. Like the recent addition of the B-29. What are you waiting for? Go download the game; and see you in the skies and on the ground!    … Expand
  27. Treo535
    Oct 31, 2015
    0
    This is about the tank side of WT only. Tries to be a bit more of a simulation than World of tanks, which is refreshing, but totally fails at everything else. In tiers 1 to 3 it has to be one of the least balanced games ever made, why they have even included german and american tanks in the game is beyond me! Maybe because the "god mode" T-34 needs cannon fodder. Also, while in theoryThis is about the tank side of WT only. Tries to be a bit more of a simulation than World of tanks, which is refreshing, but totally fails at everything else. In tiers 1 to 3 it has to be one of the least balanced games ever made, why they have even included german and american tanks in the game is beyond me! Maybe because the "god mode" T-34 needs cannon fodder. Also, while in theory beeing a free to play game, it's very much pay to win.
    Strongly recommended to stay away from this heap of manure.    … Expand
  28. 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 $$$
  29. Maurise
    Oct 22, 2015
    10
    I think, that is an epic game. You can choose so many of aircrafts and fight with them, that i give it 10 out of 10. The graphic is super and the sounds too. In the most airplanes you can get into a detailed cockpit. The best is, that you can choose that realistic mode you want to fly and there are so more thinks in the game you can do. The feeling of your first jetfly for that you spend aI think, that is an epic game. You can choose so many of aircrafts and fight with them, that i give it 10 out of 10. The graphic is super and the sounds too. In the most airplanes you can get into a detailed cockpit. The best is, that you can choose that realistic mode you want to fly and there are so more thinks in the game you can do. The feeling of your first jetfly for that you spend a lot of time and kills is so great, you want more and more. And the air mode is so much better than in other games like world of planes. To the tank mode i can not speak so good. There are thinks that in my mind not so good like air, like fairness of spawn points and other. But the artillery fire, you can order, and the air events, you can get for kills, make the game more exciting. Who want not to kill the guy that you kill before with an one thousand kg bomb on his face?

    Conclusion: A game you can play for long time, where to get a top tier vehicle in round about 2 month, if you play 2 hours per day and don't pay, money realistic is.( i get it in these time my first jet)
    So, if you want a fly-simulator game for nothing and against real players in the World War Two, is that what you like play.

    Ps. Sorry for my bad english skills, but im a child and learn the language at school, so put your inside grammar-natz* away and enjoy the day, where you read these kind of poo. :)    … Expand
  30. 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
  31. desperx
    Oct 12, 2015
    0
    Very bad game. Planes fly like on rubber and one shooting each other, very boring and very quicky. Flight model is joke. Grind and pay2win is very real too.

    Tanks are even worse, tanks drifts like in NFS, one shotting each other completelly random, there is no skill in this game only luck, you have better luck if played russian tanks (also planes). I am kind of dissapointed, it    Very bad game. Planes fly like on rubber and one shooting each other, very boring and very quicky. Flight model is joke. Grind and pay2win is very real too.

    Tanks are even worse, tanks drifts like in NFS, one shotting each other completelly random, there is no skill in this game only luck, you have better luck if played russian tanks (also planes).

    I am kind of dissapointed, it wasn't bad game few years ago but they didn't make any progress with content, the gameplay is still same crap.

    You can be suck in with pretty graphics and easy to play controls which 5 year old child can play with you. But the game is really dumbed down version of competitions for 4-6 year old who think that one shoting everything is best fun ever.

    Stay away of this pile of ****

    When you play russia tank like as IS 3 you shot and kill everything but if you play german tank you see +1 hit, +1 hit, +1 hit, +1, then the noob finaly turn gun on you and boom you are dead. Lol.    … Expand
  32. Revikk
    Oct 3, 2015
    5
    The graphics are great, but unfortunately is the only purely good thing about this game. The company markets it as a "historically realistic simulation", which is not true. The economy is terrible grinding, flying models are wrong, ground forces are unrealistic (korean war tanks fighting ww2 tanks?)
    The worst part is the way users are treated in the forums. I started playing but these    The graphics are great, but unfortunately is the only purely good thing about this game. The company markets it as a "historically realistic simulation", which is not true. The economy is terrible grinding, flying models are wrong, ground forces are unrealistic (korean war tanks fighting ww2 tanks?)
    The worst part is the way users are treated in the forums. I started playing but these things drove me away. There is a lot of frustration. It is fun for 1 or 2 matches, after that... it is frustrating. Try it and get a tranquilizer beforehand. And if you have any problem with it, do not waste your time in the official forum.    … Expand
  33. Xeno72
    Sep 29, 2015
    0
    This is a good game. However, I have proven it for false advertising, and have contacted BBB. A game bonus that is to last for over a day was only allowed once on several occasions for only one time. Since my complaint filed, I have been kicked out of game and the only way I could get back in was changing my password. Well now a counter to that has been implemented by War Thunder hasThis is a good game. However, I have proven it for false advertising, and have contacted BBB. A game bonus that is to last for over a day was only allowed once on several occasions for only one time. Since my complaint filed, I have been kicked out of game and the only way I could get back in was changing my password. Well now a counter to that has been implemented by War Thunder has made sure that even my password change won't allow me back into the game. They are ripping people off, and I highly recommend NOT giving this game and Gaijin a single dime. They think, apparently, that they are above law, and to prove my sincerity, my complaint ID with BBB is: 10820803. Also, my virus protection showed from their download a high-risk file: SAPE.Heur.9C040 or SAPE.Heur.9CO4O, and I let my virus protection people know about it.… Expand
  34. 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
  35. dave1207
    Sep 26, 2015
    0
    Gaijin is the worst thing that happened to War Thunder. They have zero respect for the players and don't care about the feedback. The forums are dictatorship. Save yourself from the madness.
  36. 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
  37. bilsantu
    Sep 26, 2015
    0
    Gaijin is the worst thing that happened to War Thunder. They have zero respect for the players and don't care about the feedback. The forums are dictatorship. Save yourself from the madness.
  38. Mortiferum
    Sep 1, 2015
    1
    Well its okay but... the historical in this game is ****
    e.g. a Panther from 1941 - 1942 fight against tanks from 1944 - 1945 and that is really silly.
    Or the other sing is that planes from 1945 fight against post war planes from 1945 - 1950's

    Well i giving 1 point because the grafics and the engine is awesome i dont really have an high end pc but i can play this game with high grafics.
  39. Tvink_DeSeRtoda
    Aug 29, 2015
    10
    Отличная игрушка, перечислять её плюсы много бесконечно! всем советую поиграть в неё. Разработчики молодцы!
  40. Schweehog
    Aug 26, 2015
    7
    I have over 1,450 hours in this game so when you read my review it is in no way from a 'novice' or new player. (While the game mechanics are the same this review will be mostly focused on the planes side of War Thunder.) To put it simply; War Thunder is a free to play WWII flight game. Game is a key word, if you are someone coming from flight simulators you will not enjoy this game. TheI have over 1,450 hours in this game so when you read my review it is in no way from a 'novice' or new player. (While the game mechanics are the same this review will be mostly focused on the planes side of War Thunder.) To put it simply; War Thunder is a free to play WWII flight game. Game is a key word, if you are someone coming from flight simulators you will not enjoy this game. The game runs on a progression mechanic; you unlock new planes and modifications for them as you play. Better planes fight the other better planes so long time players can't use their fighter jets to destroy your biplanes. I won't list all the positives, but a small sample include the easy to pick up control scheme and stunning graphics at a low load on your computer. (While this game isn't minesweeper, it can run on almost any pc and if you play any other 3d games I guarantee this will run on it.) However, the negatives may outweigh the positives for some people.

    The main negative to this game is the pay to progress style of grind. It is technically possible to get every plane for every nation without paying a penny, but in the same way that it is possible to swim across the Atlantic. I must emphasize that this game is not pay to win, it is pay to progress. If you are the type of person who would want to get every plane for every nation or even every plane for one nation, you would probably end up spending more than if this game cost $40 up front and did away with the "F2P" pay to progress style grind. As I stated in the start of this review I have over 1450 hours in this game and I would say that I only have 90% of the planes. (And I even went the pay to progress route!)

    With that said it is free to play, so give it a try and see if you like it. If you don't care what plane you are flying and just like the game itself, you might like it. If you are the type who would play just to fly some of the cool planes like the B-17 or P-51, don't waste your time and money.    … Expand
  41. 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
  42. Mrbi9man
    Aug 2, 2015
    10
    There are no other game like this one! One of the best session MMO games and best WWII themed game! Different modes for everyone, different game options... like dualshock -go grab and play, like serious sim games - welcome to the sim battles! every platform for everyone!
  43. Carl_Wright13
    Aug 1, 2015
    9
    Great game, much better than anything war gaming can produce. Air battles are great, especially with a joystick. Ground Forces is a little shaky but is still pretty good. Overall great game. I also tested closed beta
  44. jurapura5
    Jul 25, 2015
    8
    Well after playing for hundreds of hours i want to say the game is very fun its easy to learn but hard to master also the game has some problems.The reason why i like this game is becouse it dosent require you to pay money.Its has air planes ,tanks and ship that are yet to come.It allows you to bring several tanks and aircrafts into a battle but the game has many balancing issues in lowerWell after playing for hundreds of hours i want to say the game is very fun its easy to learn but hard to master also the game has some problems.The reason why i like this game is becouse it dosent require you to pay money.Its has air planes ,tanks and ship that are yet to come.It allows you to bring several tanks and aircrafts into a battle but the game has many balancing issues in lower tier planes.For example Tier I and Tier II are combined so the tier II have beter speed and guns but turn speed is smaller so there is no way to shake a lower tier aircraft.Also the russian are kinda best i know becouse if you take like Tier II aircraft like P-40 or what ever russian YAK will destroy everything but in general the game is fun and enjoable expiriance you should check it out.… Expand
  45. Legsikcz
    Jul 21, 2015
    6
    War Thunder is a one of the best Free2Play games with the awesome graphical representation and models of tanks , planes and ships. Great visuals, awesome sound design and amazing soundtrack. There are 3 types of battles: Arcade , Realistic(Historical) and Simulator. You can play Multiplayer , Singleplayer or CO-OP. This game is not pay2win game , you can buy premium account and premiumWar Thunder is a one of the best Free2Play games with the awesome graphical representation and models of tanks , planes and ships. Great visuals, awesome sound design and amazing soundtrack. There are 3 types of battles: Arcade , Realistic(Historical) and Simulator. You can play Multiplayer , Singleplayer or CO-OP. This game is not pay2win game , you can buy premium account and premium planes , tanks and speed up research of planes and tanks or decals... But now this game is really unbalanced and broken. Russian planes and tanks are unrealistic and op in all types of battles, Britain planes are underpowered and American tanks are easily penetrable by other tanks. In last update(1.49) was add new penetration model which is broken and surprisingly made Russin tanks op.… Expand
  46. djeaux
    Jun 5, 2015
    1
    I wish i knew if this was a game or not. The bit torrent system took nearly an hour to install the base game through DSL & as soon as I started the game, it asked if I wanted to download better graphics. After an overnight torrent session, I still have 5 hours remaining. I really don't like an uncontrollable torrent client running on my PC, especially when it comes from an "ru" domain. TooI wish i knew if this was a game or not. The bit torrent system took nearly an hour to install the base game through DSL & as soon as I started the game, it asked if I wanted to download better graphics. After an overnight torrent session, I still have 5 hours remaining. I really don't like an uncontrollable torrent client running on my PC, especially when it comes from an "ru" domain. Too many red flags (pun intended) in my mind. Uninstalled.… Expand
  47. dennisr48
    May 21, 2015
    5
    I've spent quite a few hours and a fair amount of money playing War Thunder and it has a lot going for it. Amazing historical details and the maps are great. I have only one big beef and that's the match making system. In some games you are pitted against tanks that are several tiers above you. This is really annoying. Your can hit them multiple times only to see your rounds bounce offI've spent quite a few hours and a fair amount of money playing War Thunder and it has a lot going for it. Amazing historical details and the maps are great. I have only one big beef and that's the match making system. In some games you are pitted against tanks that are several tiers above you. This is really annoying. Your can hit them multiple times only to see your rounds bounce off like ping pong balls while one shot from them and you are toast. It does not happen every time but enough to make it really annoying. I just wish you have some control over preferences so you could stay in matches where the tanks are balanced or at least within one tier of each other.… Expand
  48. 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.
  49. Anitrex
    May 9, 2015
    10
    Switched from World of Tanks to War Thunder when they added tanks to the game. Best decision i ever made in my gaming life. Just give this one a try if you like World of Tanks. I assure you tank combat in War Thunder is 10x better. The progression system is a bit confusing at the start but once you figure it out you'll be hooked to your computer screen hours on end.
  50. CorbanDallas2
    Apr 28, 2015
    0
    awful game..... seriously....
    promotes itself as a 'simulator' yet pits light tanks from the early 1930's with late WW2 tanks. played this game for a few hours, maneuvered carefully around the battlefield, flanked the enemy.. aaaaaand sat there firing away at an invincible tank only to have it turn around and fire 2 shots at me to kill me.. in 6 games my shots 'hit' approximately    awful game..... seriously....
    promotes itself as a 'simulator' yet pits light tanks from the early 1930's with late WW2 tanks. played this game for a few hours, maneuvered carefully around the battlefield, flanked the enemy.. aaaaaand sat there firing away at an invincible tank only to have it turn around and fire 2 shots at me to kill me.. in 6 games my shots 'hit' approximately 50times.... and didnt score a single point.... because you start the game with a tank that belongs in WW1 era against tiger 1's and 2's...
    disgusted....    … Expand
  51. Schauffer7
    Apr 22, 2015
    0
    War Thunder is a game that, given the opportunity and some decent developers, could take off like a rocket. And right their the problems start. Developer Gaijin, who also made the hit game IL-2 Shturmovik, has bitten off far more than they can chew. With their small development team, Gaijin simply can't, or choses not to, invest more effort into their game.

    Grind: The grind to get new    War Thunder is a game that, given the opportunity and some decent developers, could take off like a rocket. And right their the problems start. Developer Gaijin, who also made the hit game IL-2 Shturmovik, has bitten off far more than they can chew. With their small development team, Gaijin simply can't, or choses not to, invest more effort into their game.

    Grind: The grind to get new vehicles becomes almost unbearable once you hit the third tier of vehicles. Even with a premium account, you can expect to play at least 25 matches to earn a single tier 3 plane. And as you can probably guess, tiers 4 and 5 are horrendous. My recommendation? Up the number of research points by at least 5 times the current amounts, and then for free accounts. Premium accounts should be done at roughly 10 times the current rate.

    Micro transactions: Buying a premium plane simply is not worth it. Half of them do not even have the proper loadouts, and most never flew, or flew sparingly as test aircraft only.

    this game is not worth your time. Stick with actual simulator battles by a committed company, not one merely in it for the money.    … Expand
  52. 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
  53. 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
  54. TheMadGolem
    Apr 14, 2015
    0
    I know alot of the game is great but what I find a letdown is this. in patch 1.47 (the current patch as of Feb 2015.) The Devs Just F**KED the game up. This lead to the anger of the community and the forum admins banning everyone making it worse. Many people have quit the game as a result of this.
  55. BlackVoid
    Apr 14, 2015
    0
    There is no invert mouse when looking around only for controls.
    Unplayable.

    There is no invert mouse when looking around only for controls.
    Unplayable.
  56. Aquila
    Apr 14, 2015
    0
    The game have good aspects like graphics are very good and just the game itself, flying and tanking is fun. But it gets often overshadowed by the issues in the game (see list below).

    It seems the devs don't know how to do it exactly right, for just 1 example they just changed the perfectly working mouseaim system over night and made the game unplayable all of sudden. Then change it back    The game have good aspects like graphics are very good and just the game itself, flying and tanking is fun. But it gets often overshadowed by the issues in the game (see list below).

    It seems the devs don't know how to do it exactly right, for just 1 example they just changed the perfectly working mouseaim system over night and made the game unplayable all of sudden. Then change it back because of the massive feedback. Its typical in the past the devs do 1 step forward and 1-3 steps back. Its like the game is a test server. It is in beta for a very long time, sometimes ground forces even feels like alpha. At this rate it seems the game is forever in beta. And potential is a meaningless word in the present.

    My list of issues:
    - Bugs. For 1 example like that you can shoot trough houses or objects, still possible here and there (and many more bugs).
    - Physics and collisions still VERY wonky. Garry's mod or HL2 had A LOT better physics in 2004.
    - Invisible tanks
    - Any sort of low quality setting advantages (ULQS or grass and trees)! Even in AB tanks i managed (testing reasons, i play without ULQS) to get an advantage because you can see the tank weak spots a lot easier. Big reason why RB/SB is unplayable in a competitive manner unless you can bear ugly graphics.
    - Cap balance and map design like Mozdok and Karelia is very poor.
    - Planes/bombers vs tanks they don't add anything in AB, just frustration. When i get bombed i cry, when i bomb i feel dirty. And in RB or SB they feel overpowered if you know how to fly. Planes usually top the SB score list (and RB). Like a month into the no marker events and you still get spawn bombed with bombers/attackers spawing right into a dive on an open spawnzone of player tanks, simply said you spawn you die... 100% ridiculous.
    - Gamemode design like Break with respawns and respawns in general, its to spawnkill or spawn and free kill. Can't turn side/back to the enemy spawn point at all times. For AB it is not all that bad but for RB and SB it feels ridiculous.
    - BR's or Matchmaker. Facing teams FULL of IS-2's and TigerII H in my max 5.7BR setup, you have almost no chance. Or the enemy team has 2 IS-2s and our teams highest BR is 5.7. Or in GFSB 1 team is all aircraft.
    - RNG bouncing on slopes. I saw Phlydaily bounce with his Zis-30 (122mm pen) on a locust with 26-32mm of effective armor not too far away just because of the RNG mechanic.
    - DM's (damagemodels tanks and planes) and FM's(flightmodels for planes). Penetration effects still at bit weird, armor holes, sparkles(planes). And including gunbarrels breaking too easy and the lack of spalling.
    - Economy. Don't like Wagers (do like daily rewards), they are too random, you are bound to do a task not to play how you want, and sometimes don't even recommend playing for the win but to do your task instead. RP and Silver gain feels too low. I can imagine a (new) f2p player is looking up an endless mountain to climb, could scare him away. Even with premium it is going slow.
    - Repetitive. In a similar fashion like WoT with AB battles(arcady gameplay), its not like "Hey im gonna play some arcade planes for half a day". Games are just too chaotic in AB. Repetitive with RB because of downtime with takeoffs, return-to-bases and travel times. But RB still is a decent game mode.
    -Killstealing or rather the reward system, Killstealer goes away with all the credits+RP with 2 bullits taking the kill while you just shot your entire ammoload on the target crit it and set it on fire.
    -Pay2win or Pay2faster. Because you will have much better results (and stats) if you lets say unlocked everything with golden eagles. Not a huge issue because most people do not spend into this, but still makes the game worse. With Ace crews, training crews to the max instantly, skipping stock vehicles which are terrible (unlocking modules with gold) and playing any favor of the month at will.
    - There is more things i forget in this list that drives me away from the game instead of attracting me to it. Like teamkilling (not the game's fault but it is still annoying).    … Expand
  57. angeliux77
    Apr 8, 2015
    10
    Muy buen juego en la tematica y variedad de juego desde el arcade hasta el simulador,eltener en tierra aire y ambos es muy bueno los graficos y la simulacion.
  58. CoSm1c_gAm3r
    Apr 6, 2015
    5
    There is no proper editor when I could make for example 2 vs 2 with choosing airplanes for me and enemy. I cannot make mission where I would have to destroy for example 4 tanks.

    Missions for single player and dynamic battle are just retarded. Enemy see only my airplane. They act like swarm. That is the worst **** in this dumb game. Maybe for multiplayer it is playable but then there is    There is no proper editor when I could make for example 2 vs 2 with choosing airplanes for me and enemy. I cannot make mission where I would have to destroy for example 4 tanks.

    Missions for single player and dynamic battle are just retarded. Enemy see only my airplane. They act like swarm. That is the worst **** in this dumb game. Maybe for multiplayer it is playable but then there is controls that allow to use mouse with lots of assist so even worst retard can play. This game is made only for MP and is forcing to play MP and allows uneven combat where only simulation can be played in MP with decent fun. But as for me there is no fun in this game because I wanted to create my own missions and have fun and develop my skills. But no this game is forcing players to go into MP straight to boring battles.
    Biggest turnoff is lack of proper mission creator where player could build his skills instead game forces everybody to go and play in MP and any SP modes are retarded making AI swarm player.
    It is retarded when on my tail I see all enemies while my wingmens and other airplanes try to destroy that swarm AI. This looks simply retarded and that game is worth 1/10 just for good engine and good simulation in simulation mode.    … Expand
  59. innervizionman
    Apr 1, 2015
    9
    Игра на твёрдые 9 баллов ,удивляет проработка всех деталей игры ,начиная от кокпитов самолётов и до звуков выстрелов , всё сделано на высшем уровне ААА игр. Помимо хорошей графики и оптимизации большое разнообразие игровых режимов,удобное управление,много контента. Без сомнения игра уровня ААА проектов. 10 баллов не поставил только из за небольших шероховатостей физики в наземнойИгра на твёрдые 9 баллов ,удивляет проработка всех деталей игры ,начиная от кокпитов самолётов и до звуков выстрелов , всё сделано на высшем уровне ААА игр. Помимо хорошей графики и оптимизации большое разнообразие игровых режимов,удобное управление,много контента. Без сомнения игра уровня ААА проектов. 10 баллов не поставил только из за небольших шероховатостей физики в наземной составляющей игры.… Expand
  60. Bagelsofdeath
    Mar 16, 2015
    10
    People complained about the cut scenes in the campaign, this is an easy fix. Don't play campaign. If you don't like the cut scenes then just play multiplier, at first your going to find everything difficult, trust me with practice and a little effort, you can fly these planes like a champ. I found War thunder to my funnest personal retreat from my insulting "friends" and obnoxious habits.
  61. zCosmicCorvus
    Mar 16, 2015
    0
    I have one honest opinion of the game. When you get it on steam, and you find the game and hope it's actually good, this game was better when it was downloading.
  62. Memlink_Dermlet
    Mar 9, 2015
    8
    If you really enjoyed playing red orchestra ostfront 41-45 then you will love the tank battles in this game. Red Orchestra 2 while great for its infantry gameplay after the developers patched it does not have the number of tanks as its predecessor. While this game does not have the realistic interiors red orchestra or Darkest Hour had it does have some beautiful models. There is a tonIf you really enjoyed playing red orchestra ostfront 41-45 then you will love the tank battles in this game. Red Orchestra 2 while great for its infantry gameplay after the developers patched it does not have the number of tanks as its predecessor. While this game does not have the realistic interiors red orchestra or Darkest Hour had it does have some beautiful models. There is a ton of information on each tank such as their armor thickness in spots, angle, the penetration of certain ammo at distance and the locations of crew and critical spots like ammunition storage. Something you had to wiki in red orchestra to find out. Its all here.

    Most complaints about the tank battles are that they are slow, which is true. They are like red orchestra and I love it. Knowing a stewart won't penetrate my 50mm pzIII J unless he's 100 meters is the stuff you will be focusing on in realistic and simulation.

    The graphics are beautiful, the tanks grinding up a hill and changing gears sound wonderful. Top notch sound all around. WW2 is a great setting since so many different tanks were fielded compared to today. The maps are also very large but then again engagements are long range.

    I have limited experience with the airplane aspect of the game on account of wanting to do the simulations but not having a working joystick. From what I saw using the mouse and keyboard in the tutorial this game is on the level of arma. There is a button to just turn the engine on, flaps for take off, and a lot going on. Definitely room for some Red Barrens to rule the sky here. But if that scares people the arcade mode is more than accessible with the mouse and keyboard.

    Thats one great thing, it has stuff for quick less demanding games and stuff for people who are more enthusiast like myself. All on a great engine, I have had no crashes and only one of about 50 tank games disconnect.

    The menus are a bit confusing. You have to research and then purchase upgrades. Research uses its own currency and purchasing another. Same goes for tanks. There is premium money used for quicker upgrades and research or for buying bundles or a subscription. I have to say I really like the subscription model. Basically you put money in your steam wallet and then use steam to buy the currency which can be used for anything including a subscription. This means they don't have your info and you do not have to worry about recurring payments like I did in planetside once.

    The crew training is a little confusing. It would appear that you can only train crew for a certain tank and once you move them to another they start from scratch. This seems to make switching tanks in and out of your line up punish you.

    All in all if your looking for a pure simulation sorry, but if your looking for something close enough to the above mentioned game this is it. Like I said I have limited experience with the airplanes. Try it out, its free.    … Expand
  63. 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
  64. Tietokone145
    Feb 21, 2015
    5
    Good game with only 1 bad thing about it...
    the DEVS..
    They keep f**king everything up and then they make the mods punish the people who don't like the changes...
  65. randomiam
    Feb 17, 2015
    9
    best f2p game ive ever played, i managed to get to t4 in all nations before the grinding started feeling pointless.
    and i have never encountered a paywall in this game
    realistic is where its at, you can watch ww2 tank och plane documentaries and learn strength and weaknesses in yours and your enemies tanks and planes, and with the amount of vehicles already in the game and more being    best f2p game ive ever played, i managed to get to t4 in all nations before the grinding started feeling pointless.
    and i have never encountered a paywall in this game

    realistic is where its at, you can watch ww2 tank och plane documentaries and learn strength and weaknesses in yours and your enemies tanks and planes, and with the amount of vehicles already in the game and more being added almost every patch there are thousands of hours to be played in this game.

    after i bought 1 years premium my only real grind is for silver lions (ingame currency) for late tier tanks and planes, they can be bought but are expensive and seldom worth it.
    but with console players on the same servers as pc players you are guaranteed some easy kills and there are other methods of farming as well.

    i recomend this game to players that likes plane games, even though you are new to flying games arcade mode is a good place to start, with high number of players in a small map with multiple objectives and multiple spawns with your different crews and planes.

    gaijin also holds golden eagle event where you can get a few hundred golden eagle (the real money ingame currency) so you can get premium days for free.    … Expand
  66. Ashifkillz
    Feb 8, 2015
    9
    First off new players need to understand that this game is still updating in a major way. I've played this game since it was in early beta and it was pretty decent back then. Buggy but playable, over the months the game as gotten far better in every way. Wait times are no longer 3 minutes but near 30 seconds in arcade mode, maybe 1 minute or so in realistic mode.

    As for gameplay the    First off new players need to understand that this game is still updating in a major way. I've played this game since it was in early beta and it was pretty decent back then. Buggy but playable, over the months the game as gotten far better in every way. Wait times are no longer 3 minutes but near 30 seconds in arcade mode, maybe 1 minute or so in realistic mode.

    As for gameplay the game is divided into multiple parts.
    Arcade mode for beginners or people that are casual.
    Realistic for the average player with limited respawns, realisitc controls and realistic damage.
    Simulator mode for the hardcore that know what they're really doing.

    Tank mode is also good but still very buggy. Same arcade, realistic and simulator mode applies for this.

    Pros:
    Very functional flight mode
    Great graphics for a free game
    Paid items that are not too over powered
    Updates come monthly or so

    Cons:
    Tank mode can be really buggy
    Community can be frustrating at times
    Introduction of cross console with PS4 really makes a bad feeling for both ends with their different controls and play styles    … Expand
  67. Game_Fanat1c
    Jan 27, 2015
    0
    My background: Thousands of hours playing virtually every flight game ever made. USNF, Falcon 4.0, IL2, etc, RPGs, FPS, MMOs.

    OVERALL I SAY THE GAME SUCKS BECAUSE: 1. Totally Anti-American. 2. Totally Russian propaganda. 3. STEAM censors posts for $$. 4. No diversity. Only a handful of massively overpowered planes that EVERYBODY plays. Soon boring... 5. No sense of being part of a    My background: Thousands of hours playing virtually every flight game ever made. USNF, Falcon 4.0, IL2, etc, RPGs, FPS, MMOs.

    OVERALL I SAY THE GAME SUCKS BECAUSE:
    1. Totally Anti-American.
    2. Totally Russian propaganda.
    3. STEAM censors posts for $$.
    4. No diversity. Only a handful of massively overpowered planes that EVERYBODY plays. Soon boring...
    5. No sense of being part of a bigger battle or any importance whatsoever to what you're doing.
    6. Teamplay. What team play? You'll truly learn to hate your teamates.
    7. Unlocks and level ups are a rainbow chase with a pile of poo at the end.
    8. Matchmaking system designed to favor Russian planes and Russian IP Addresses. If you see a player with 1.3 BR higher than everyone else, 90% of the time he is either a) playing Russian planes, or b) his name is Yuri or Aleks or Rus11223 or something- you’ll get the point just play and see…

    First things first- the Russian developers of this game are totally anti-American. They screw USA in every way possible. Seriously, their treatment of American planes is nothing short of propaganda. Yes you CAN do well in USA planes, maybe get 3 kills per round, but if that's your skill level, you'll get 9+ kills per round in anything else. The game is designed to favor Russian dogfighting and NOT Boom n Zoom (USA). BnZ gets punished by lower Activity scores (which is HUGE), silly stupid hit to kill ratios like 10:1, where other planes get 2:1 hits per kill. One game recently as USA I got 47 hits and ZERO kills. And that kind of thing happens ALL THE TIME. ITS JUST STUPID HOW THEY SKEW THIS GAME TO FAVOR RUSSIA AND SCREW USA. And BTW, while you're 'Zooming', dogfighters are stealing your every kill. Kills BTW get ALL the points. So you really don't get crap playing USA in this game and the Russian developers like it that way. Yes, you CAN play USA well, but no matter what your skill level, you'll get 10x the points with ANY OTHER NATION.

    WORSE The developers at Gaijin are TOTALLY fascist. In the forums they've locked and deleted literally THOUSANDS of threads complaining about stupidly negative treatment of USA, and block users from posting if they ever said anything even remotely critical of the game. DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY! YOU'RE ONLY SUPPORTING FASCISM AND CENSORSHIP! YES, REALLY.

    I suggest you just play the game for FREE, take their resources(karma!), and learn FOR FREE what the community is like (CRAP) seriously the worst MMO environment ever. You will learn to totally hate your teamates as they are NEVER there to help you out when your smoking with an enemy on your tail, they'll just fly away, but if you have an enemy on fire, your entire team will INSTANTLY DROP EVERYTHING to put the last bullet in and steal your kill. Yeah. It's like that. And the Russian developers like it that way. Say anything about adjusting the points rewards system to favor teamwork and your post will be deleted and you'll be banned permanently.

    BTW, THERE IS NO CONTENT AVAILABLE THAT IS WORTH PAYING FOR. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PLAY RUSSIA AND YOU AUTOMATICALLY WIN. The very first Yak 1 has a 20mm gun, which is like a 500mm nuclear death star ray or something. The difference between 50 cals (12.7 mm mgs used by USA) and 20mm canon (used by Russia) is so TOTALLY EXAGGERATED, simply to favor Russia- to an absolutely stupid degree. Russian guns of equal caliber are more powerful, and win every head-on, their planes don't catch fire, they have massive hit point buffs and resistance to crits, they win EVERY collision ramming conflict and use it as a cheap shot easy win. If you want to win, just play Russian Laggs = auto win. Or German 190s, or Spitfires (if you want some variety), JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. BUT DON'T BE SO STUPID TO ACTUALLY PAY THEM MONEY FOR CRAP THAT DOESN'T HELP ANYWAY. Lagg/Spit/190 = auto win, and they're FREE. So basically EVERYONE is playing the same 3-5 planes = BORING.

    Oh yeah- anyone who tells you it's more balanced in RB is full of crap BC nobody plays RB, everyone plays Arcade = faster points/unlocks, more action, no 20 minute waits just to get instantly critd and game over no points, by players with every exploit mastered with thousands of hours gameplay. In Arcade which you WILL play 99% of the time JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, the three planes noted are so massively superior its silly.

    AGAIN, DON'T BUY ANYTHING. Don't give em your money just to chase higher levels and jet unlocks. THE LOWEST LEVELS ARE THE MOST FUN ANYWAY!!! Everyone who unlocks the later game jets agrees the gameplay is no fun. So you gave em all your money, just to unlock planes that are really just a disappointment. When you could have just played the very first level Yak 1 with a BR 2.0 and AUTO WIN.

    Play the fist Yak, Lagg, 109, or 190, or Spitfire and automatically win. And you can learn all this very soon, and FOR FREE. MOST IMPORTANT DO NOT SUPPORT THE PROPEGANDA AND CENSORSHIP BEHAVIOUR OF FASCIST GAIJIN DEVELOPERS.    … Expand
  68. neemz
    Jan 12, 2015
    0
    An extremely frustrating game with a large number of pay to win features. Fun to play for free for a few hours, but definitely not worth wasting any money on.
  69. KidPaul
    Jan 5, 2015
    1
    This game got nothing going for it atm, except the graphics that are good.

    The driving, damage and flight modules are a joke, if they are broke the will not fix it unless it is a Russian tank or plane under performing, then they will turn it into the beast asap. meanwhile a really bad design decision on the tiger tank had to wait 4 months to be fixed, i mean it only toke the dev 2 days    This game got nothing going for it atm, except the graphics that are good.

    The driving, damage and flight modules are a joke, if they are broke the will not fix it unless it is a Russian tank or plane under performing, then they will turn it into the beast asap. meanwhile a really bad design decision on the tiger tank had to wait 4 months to be fixed, i mean it only toke the dev 2 days to screw it up in the first place but fixing it was something that had to be done by expert. yes historically all Tigers fought with headlights on comrade, completely historically accurate, infact all german tanks came with builtin headlight anti-gun depression.... Oh this Sherman tank do not have this thick armor here it has to be fixed... wait we did something wrong, read wrong paper comrade we will fix it eventually... The Tiger and the armor "fix" on the captured German Sherman was just two example of one of the biggest problem with Gaijin and is the next point in this review.

    Extremely Russian bias, yaks, yaks, laggs and more lagg every patch. for other nations they will release one plane and then you have "modules" for it so can only fly it out once. but for russian the will make exceptions and will seperate it into different planes even thou it is the same plane except a gun change... just look at all those yaks and you get it. the German will have one plane with "modules" instead.

    The community is a joke with abusive moderators and a community manager that would have been fired if it would have been any other company. just look at the German tanks snafu, where the community manager called the community a bunch of whining *****. for being right, yes the community was right Gaijin had to revert their change eventually or trademarked soon. side note apparently the Russian forum section is ok with none abusive moderators but do not know if that is true so no plus for that.

    Nope that is not your kill. kill stealing is something you will find in all games but in this game it is amazingly bad. a player can take out basically everything on the opponents plane or tank and you can just roll in put a few round in the enemy and get a free kill. I have it done to me and have it done to other people, it is just that the system for kill counting is so bad you just abuse it to the max.

    Production server is beta server, beta server is basically alpha testserver, yes they are not runing a finished game on the, infact atm they are running a paywall "closed beta" on the production server. yes you to pay to get access to all the American tanks in an effort to "test" tanks before they are released in the public every other few day, ehh no weeks, no wait what did we promised them new tanks every other few days. hahahah stupid community shut your mouths we do not care what we promised you, we decide what you get so **** you. yhea that is the response from Gaijin when people ask what happen to the American tanks that is behind a paywall.

    Basically this game was ok back in the days like way back, but with every patch they just add more frustration and fix less and now im not supporting them anymore. im gonna wait for my premium to run out and then bye bye gaijin.    … Expand
  70. 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.
  71. 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
  72. rolly4119
    Nov 19, 2014
    6
    In comparison to World of Warplanes, War Thunder is certainly well and far apart from the arcade action of World of Warplanes. It is a really beautiful game and the most endearing feature is the fact that all around the graphics are gorgeous and the sound is terrific. There certainly is a good sense of immersion in the game and the game has multiple modes and more realistic modes such asIn comparison to World of Warplanes, War Thunder is certainly well and far apart from the arcade action of World of Warplanes. It is a really beautiful game and the most endearing feature is the fact that all around the graphics are gorgeous and the sound is terrific. There certainly is a good sense of immersion in the game and the game has multiple modes and more realistic modes such as campaign, Realistic and Simulation. However...

    What this game doesn't tell you is that there are certain things just are just huge turn offs and you don't readily find this until once you've played a bit. The biggest detractor is that as a Russian developer, there is an easily noticeable bias towards Russian planes. This game is flight sim-ish in its approach however you'll quickly start to realize that that for some reason Russian planes seem to have physics defying flight models similar to UFO's and that it takes a lot more to effort, work and firepower to shoot down a Russian (even a slow moving Russian bomber or outdated bi-plane) than it is for you to get shot down by them.

    The other major detractor is the bias towards mouse based flight controls. Joystick users are left to fiddle with a complex array of attributes to get their own joystick working, where as mouse users have an easier time executing maneuvers. Whats more, every patch you'll need to rework and find what flight models of planes that were working fine, no longer flying right.
    It still is a great game and I do recommend playing it. However if you are a hardcore flight sim enthusiast with a love of historical accuracy you'll be disappointed after the initial marvel wears thin.    … Expand
  73. iLikeSchnitzel
    Nov 17, 2014
    5
    First off, this is a review for the Realistic/Simulator aviation node as I dont play Arcade and barely touch tanks.

    Warthunder is a decent flight game with very nice graphics and inconsistent but mostly good sound design. Now there is a reason why I dont call it a flight simulator, because it really isnt. Damage simulation and impact on flight-performance are semi-simulated at best    First off, this is a review for the Realistic/Simulator aviation node as I dont play Arcade and barely touch tanks.

    Warthunder is a decent flight game with very nice graphics and inconsistent but mostly good sound design.
    Now there is a reason why I dont call it a flight simulator, because it really isnt. Damage simulation and impact on flight-performance are semi-simulated at best with the damage model being very simplistic. Wind effects are poorly implemented (like flying in prop wash) and generally a lot of 'Simulator aspects' you find in a real flight sim are not really modeled, for example control loss through compression isnt modelled at all.

    Nontheless it is a good game for people who want to take a quick glance at the world of flight games without spending a penny.

    The major issues atm are:

    Balancing: Most simulator players want somewhat historical match-ups. If I take a Hellcat I wanna fight the Japanese over some Pacific Island, right? Now lets look at the Hellcat in game. The Hellcat is modeled after one with 1944 modifications, so farely late in the war. Nontheless its Battle Rating (the magical number determining what it goes up against) is lower than that of the first Zero from 1941. Hmm. Its actually so low you will never run into any 1944 Japanese Fighter. What you end up facing instead may often be aircraft like an I-16, a 1939 pre-war soviet early monoplane. And guess what? Neither is that historical nor fair, because you might have figured, the Hellcat is far superior. Now there is historical events to enjoy historical matchups, however only one per day and about 40% of them are horribly broken, unfair or have wrong aircraft (example P-40E in the carrier battle of Midway)

    Inconsistency: There is a lot of different teams working on different stuff and there seem to be next to no guidelines on what to implement. One aircraft has control stiffening at high speed, the next one doesnt. One aircraft has realistic G-limits, the next one doesnt. Very few aircraft have Mach-numbers modeled, most dont. One aircraft overheats like it should which rather instantly kills your engine (for some reason), the next one doesnt although it was known for overheating. Inconsistencies like that can end up deciding the fight, which they really shouldnt.

    Overall its a decent game. Nothing spectacular, but there are no real alternatives, so for now its probably worth a shot.    … Expand
  74. 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
  75. agapito37
    Nov 1, 2014
    0
    War Thunder has a fake free to play system where if you dont pay you are worst than the pay to win players. This is dont by adding fake non realistic planes with overpowered stats and secret boosted multipliers that make them invincible in combat. Also the matchmaking is tricked, if you play as a f2p you will always have the worst battle rating of the match and enemies will have theWar Thunder has a fake free to play system where if you dont pay you are worst than the pay to win players. This is dont by adding fake non realistic planes with overpowered stats and secret boosted multipliers that make them invincible in combat. Also the matchmaking is tricked, if you play as a f2p you will always have the worst battle rating of the match and enemies will have the higher. This make planes battles very difficult to win but impossible for tank battles as you cant pierce the enemy.… Expand
  76. 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.
  77. nov141
    Oct 30, 2014
    8
    Despite the best efforts of the developer, this game offers a surprisingly accessible and fun experience of both WW2 ground and air combat. Players that are joystick-averse can still easily participate as the control schemes make mouse control intuitive and effective (especially when it comes to precision aiming), and simulator-shy pilots will enjoy the relaxed flight models and fastDespite the best efforts of the developer, this game offers a surprisingly accessible and fun experience of both WW2 ground and air combat. Players that are joystick-averse can still easily participate as the control schemes make mouse control intuitive and effective (especially when it comes to precision aiming), and simulator-shy pilots will enjoy the relaxed flight models and fast combat found in arcade mode. Those looking for more realistic representations can participate in realistic battles, which have more accurate physics for the aircraft, or simulator battles which lock you into a cockpit view and require joystick usage to play, keeping everyone on an even playing field.

    Nearly every iconic aircraft is available from the five major nations of the war (with some French and Italian additions), alongside many more less-known machines. Players can fly fighters, bombers, ground attack aircraft and the timeline ranges from pre-war biplanes to Korean-era jet aircraft. Matchmaking ensures that aircraft will generally meet comparable aircraft, preventing jets from engaging biplanes.

    This game is not without issues - constant patching by the developer often breaks established areas of the game while fixing other bugs, and tinkering with the matchmaking system based on player statistics has created a incomprehensible and illogical rating of various aircraft (identical models being ranked differently, for example) that can often prove frustrating for players.

    Ground forces gameplay is still in its infancy, currently featuring many tanks but only from German and Soviet armies, with some severe balance issues due to the nature of armored warfare - some tanks simply lack the capability to consistently hurt other tanks, but still can find themselves matched against one another.

    Free to play business model and the customer support are the final major negatives concerning this game. For many players, especially on the lower end of the skill spectrum, the game may prove to have too much of a grind. New planes need to be unlocked through experience, bought with money, and then flown in several missions to unlock "upgrades" which simply bring the plane up to the stock standard. At lower levels this is merely annoying but with higher level planes the process can take a long time, which practically begs for purchasing of premium currency or experience boosters. Much of the discussion concerning any of the game's problems is shut down immediately on the game's official forums, and the support staff act in a very authoritarian fashion even in the face of obvious bugs, denying any problems.

    This all goes out the window though once you play and manage to be the last plane in the air after a brutal furball, or outmaneuver a skilled opponent to achieve a killing snapshot on his aircraft. Just remember that the "end-game" content shouldn't be the goal - fly the aircraft that look cool, fly the aircraft that are fun to play, and ignore the rest of the grind.    … Expand
  78. Frank1492
    Oct 16, 2014
    7
    Pretty good game. I'm an actual pilot and can say that the physics and whatnot are *sort of good without being too hampering for people who don't have any real life experience.

    Problems include lack of dynamic game play as far as objectives are concerned. Bombers end games in about 5 minutes and flight models for russian planes are unrealistic (its a russian game dev after all)    Pretty good game. I'm an actual pilot and can say that the physics and whatnot are *sort of good without being too hampering for people who don't have any real life experience.

    Problems include lack of dynamic game play as far as objectives are concerned. Bombers end games in about 5 minutes and flight models for russian planes are unrealistic (its a russian game dev after all)

    anyway, while there is a lot left to be desired, its free, and I've played a ton and had fun. They can fix a lot of the problems fairly easily so there is potential for this score to get up to an 8 or 9.    … Expand
  79. 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
  80. Gadgetlan
    Sep 28, 2014
    9
    Excellent graphics, good immersion, and servers work well. Should be more maps, but the game is still on beta. To be a f2p game is an amazing game. Try it
  81. corey2444
    Sep 26, 2014
    0
    DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY ON THIS GAME!! I had a name that was offensive to the Russian moderators and they decided to ban my account. They gave me instructions to update my profile and send the a PM indicating I changed my name and to ask to be reinstated.

    After changing my name I discovered they also banned me from all forum privileges, so it's impossible to get reinstated. In 3 weeks    DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY ON THIS GAME!! I had a name that was offensive to the Russian moderators and they decided to ban my account. They gave me instructions to update my profile and send the a PM indicating I changed my name and to ask to be reinstated.

    After changing my name I discovered they also banned me from all forum privileges, so it's impossible to get reinstated.

    In 3 weeks time I had spent $160 US dollars. I had had the account for just over 3 weeks. My name from day 1 had been "commie_bastards". They took my money on 3 different occasions with this in game name.

    After they felt they got enough money out of me, they decided to ban me and prevent me from logging in or posting.

    It's like going to a store and buying something. Right after you check out, they take the items back and keep the money. When you complain, they stuff a sock in your mouth. That's the best way i can describe it.    … Expand
  82. punk
    Sep 24, 2014
    8
    Until update 1.37 I would give 12 out of 10 and walk away, but this whole research point thing made the game worse, you need to play a lot to get new planes, but still the gameplay is awesome. Anyone can find his sort of battle: arcade for beginners and for players who are just looking to have fun, historical battles for thoose who wants some more challenger or want to relive the events ofUntil update 1.37 I would give 12 out of 10 and walk away, but this whole research point thing made the game worse, you need to play a lot to get new planes, but still the gameplay is awesome. Anyone can find his sort of battle: arcade for beginners and for players who are just looking to have fun, historical battles for thoose who wants some more challenger or want to relive the events of WW2 and realistic battles for real pros. All in all it's a great game and I love it, but it's becoming a pay to win game, that I hate.… Expand
  83. ManMeinAuto
    Sep 1, 2014
    0
    As one of the few fellower of about 2 years, I'm heavly disappointed in the current meta game. No promises were hold, no improvements were done to fix the broken balance related match making. No
    critical and constructive feedbacks are welcomed.

    Gaijin is really a terrible company.
  84. StevetheBandit
    Aug 30, 2014
    7
    War Thunder: A "free-to-play" combat flight sim. Only it's not free-to-play.

    Don't get me wrong, it's a good game. The graphics are amazing and the planes look great. The audio is also very clear and realistic. Now the problem came in patch 1.37. The new godawful technology tree ruined the game for many used to the previous 20-tier tree. I also didn't enjoy the Tanks update. The thing    War Thunder: A "free-to-play" combat flight sim. Only it's not free-to-play.

    Don't get me wrong, it's a good game. The graphics are amazing and the planes look great. The audio is also very clear and realistic. Now the problem came in patch 1.37. The new godawful technology tree ruined the game for many used to the previous 20-tier tree. I also didn't enjoy the Tanks update. The thing is that the maps for tank battles simply aren't fun, along with the high system requirements (even if playing on low or minimum graphics).

    Overall, it's a good game. Really fun if you progress through one nation and then start another and get really good because you're experienced.    … Expand
  85. Genelegasse
    Aug 26, 2014
    0
    Makes no sense. Tells you to land for ammo and what have you if you land its a automatic crash and fail... No tutorial of any kind? Completely confused in this entire monstrosity of a **** things on the ground in the air nobody knows whos shooting what. It's a globby mess... I would advise something more organised.
  86. Tevinter
    Aug 24, 2014
    0
    Normally I would of given this a 10/10 but the Moderators and the creators Gaijin have ruined this game to the point that it is sickening. Secret police style banning and removal of anything not praising the game, the sickening bias towards Soviet arms and the slow nerfing of germany. A constant lock of Russia/Germany, nothing else.
  87. kokolas2000
    Aug 16, 2014
    10
    The best game i have ever play because it has got very good graphics and gameplay !I think that this is the best simulation game that it discovered ! So try it and u will play lots of hours and u will catch yourself get stucked with it!Play for ever !Have fun ansd keep safe lalalalalalalalalalala!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ps:Nick(in warthunder:nickolas.zaf)!ha
  88. AltTab
    Aug 10, 2014
    9
    Great game. Wonderful graphics (if you have a good computer).
    Easy to play (in arcade mode) Hard to master (in simulator mode). Not dependent of any joystick or similar, but it can make you enjoy even more.
    IMPORTANT: its a Beta game, so there is balancing and bugs to be fixed, yet we just see a great game becoming even better. True-F2P or P2W? Definitely a true Free to Play game. All    Great game. Wonderful graphics (if you have a good computer).
    Easy to play (in arcade mode) Hard to master (in simulator mode). Not dependent of any joystick or similar, but it can make you enjoy even more.
    IMPORTANT: its a Beta game, so there is balancing and bugs to be fixed, yet we just see a great game becoming even better.
    True-F2P or P2W? Definitely a true Free to Play game. All premium planes aren't necessary going to make you better. E.g. (Premium planes are captured planes of other nations or planes/tanks that did not pass from the test flights/drives, all will face planes according their stats)
    About who is complaining about the update that ruined the game. Yeah I agree a little bit, but the game went a lot better in the mean time. It's a Must Try.    … Expand
  89. 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
  90. Cyberex8775
    Aug 5, 2014
    10
    One of my favourite games ever! Played for a few years and never got bored. Best free simulator ever!!!!!!! Those guys with low reviews are just trolls or suck at gaming. Not a pay to win, and balanced planes!
  91. FailT
    Aug 3, 2014
    0
    0 ingame balance. Epic fail matchmaking.

    Everythin "op" from nation A gets swiftly nerfed, everything "op" from nation B remains the same no matter what.

    Critisism earns you a forum ban.

    It looks pretty and that's about it.

    Nothing else needs to be said.
  92. XxMcFlyxX
    Jul 27, 2014
    10
    I have played a lot of flight simulators and this one is the best. I can't wait to see how this game pans out after oculus rift comes out.

    I like to point out that people cry about how this game matches you up with higher tier planes/tanks (VERY RARELY), they don't understand that this game takes in BATTLERANKS of the vehicle, not the HARDCODED tier. This prevents players from using    I have played a lot of flight simulators and this one is the best. I can't wait to see how this game pans out after oculus rift comes out.

    I like to point out that people cry about how this game matches you up with higher tier planes/tanks (VERY RARELY), they don't understand that this game takes in BATTLERANKS of the vehicle, not the HARDCODED tier. This prevents players from using highest planes in Tier X vs the lowest planes in Tier X which helps balance significantly.

    Another thing I want to address is that there are also people crying about how a specific faction's guns are a bit weaker. Ex. 3 Cannons Japs vs 4 Cannons Fw190. Despite historical accuracy, this is a great balancing decision. Using the above example. Fw190 is an energy fighter which requires a complete different style to fly (aka boom and zoom), which means that the window of triggering is only a fraction of a second. On the other hand, Jap Zeros are turn fighters which means they will have more time on target, therefore slightly less fire power to even out the playing field.

    I rarely give games 10s but I think this game deserves every single score of mine. Developers are CONSTANTLY adding more features and new vehicles with World War Mode coming soon (Don't quote me). It is a mode where everyone fight in different threaters of wars which influences each other (i think, not many details are out).

    Keep up the GREAT work Gajin!!!

    Note: This game is by all means NOT a P2W, Strict battle rank system ensures you will rarely be out guned because panzer 2 vs Tiger 2. Progression is VERY reasonable.    … Expand
  93. 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
  94. ViperShift
    Jul 22, 2014
    10
    This is a free to die game and verry expensive to win, about 200€ to start. However is the verry best flight simulator of WW II in multiplayer on-line (MMO) mode.
  95. azmyth
    Jul 22, 2014
    7
    Pros:
    Beautiful graphics
    Relatively accurate historical combat Fun to play, very satisfying when you win Lots of aircraft/tanks to chose from and they are always adding more Teaches you about history Cons: Extremely steep learning curve - When you start out, you are thrown into combat against everyone - pilots with 1,000 hours under their belts and pilots who don't know the    Pros:
    Beautiful graphics
    Relatively accurate historical combat
    Fun to play, very satisfying when you win
    Lots of aircraft/tanks to chose from and they are always adding more
    Teaches you about history

    Cons:
    Extremely steep learning curve - When you start out, you are thrown into combat against everyone - pilots with 1,000 hours under their belts and pilots who don't know the controls yet. Seeing as how you'll start as the second type, you will be slaughtered for the first 20 hours of gameplay unless you are experienced at flight sims already. If you want to be good, you've gotta learn a lot of maneuvers, energy retention, different aircraft types, etc.
    - Reasonably priced for the most part. You get a fair bit for your money, unlike Wargaming's model where each premium vehicle can cost $30-$50. If you wait for sales, you can get a good premium plane for $5. Free players aren't penalized in the actual game, they just earn less money for victories and unlock new planes more slowly.

    Although my review seems pretty critical, I should emphasize that this is probably still the best WW2 combat simulator out there, and it's the most fun I've had playing a flight sim of any sort since Star Wars: Tie Fighter.    … Expand
  96. Segador
    Jul 15, 2014
    0
    The perfect example of a potentially excellent game killed by the Devs. Every patch the developers delivery a worse gaming experience and increase the grind. Bugs are left untouched for months or never fixed. Community is largely ignored. Moderation deletes any post critic whit the game or the Devs, even constructive criticism is banned. FM and DM are a joke, the majority beingThe perfect example of a potentially excellent game killed by the Devs. Every patch the developers delivery a worse gaming experience and increase the grind. Bugs are left untouched for months or never fixed. Community is largely ignored. Moderation deletes any post critic whit the game or the Devs, even constructive criticism is banned. FM and DM are a joke, the majority being placeholders who never get realistic FM.… Expand
  97. 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
  98. cylian3
    Jul 7, 2014
    0
    I tried to like this game. I really did. But there is so much rubbish you have to deal with, I have a hard time believing anyone can truly enjoy this game without spending a bucket-load of cash into it. Including investments for joysticks and a 3d visor to make the first person view have any viable elements of enjoyment.

    To begin with, the matchmaking. You level up a certain faction and    I tried to like this game. I really did. But there is so much rubbish you have to deal with, I have a hard time believing anyone can truly enjoy this game without spending a bucket-load of cash into it. Including investments for joysticks and a 3d visor to make the first person view have any viable elements of enjoyment.

    To begin with, the matchmaking. You level up a certain faction and the higher rank you get, the more planes you unlock. And on these ranks they have built the MM to be 2 ranks each tree. As in, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 and so on. Sure, it may be a bit of a pisser to know heads on that you are gonna meet people that are one higher rank than you.. But the kicker here is you have a possibility to meet people from other ranks as well. Including a tier above you. Say, you're level 7. That makes you eligable to meet planes in the ranks of 9-10. And the same goes for lower planes at 5-6 being able to meet you. It would be an acceptable pool bendage if this game had some problems with the MM waiting time.. But it doesn't. The longest I have EVER waited is about 35 seconds which begs the question as to just why they allow imbalancement like this to exist when It is very clearly not necessary?

    The second disappointment is the balance. There are several factions/teams that are essentially just different countries which you gain rank in by participating in battles and gaining XP to unlock planes and for some reason, there are these huge gaping areas of designment neglect. Just an quick example would be the fact that the faction Japan got about 20-25 planes whereas Germany has about 50-70. This creates some pretty big gaps on how faction players in Germany have to pout out 5 times the amount of cash of constantly buying new planes in order to reach the ones they want whereas Japan's player hoard so much money, they can't possibly spend it all unless they jump to another faction. The overall stat balance of all the planes is down the toilet too.

    At most early stages of the game, England has an absurd amount of more superior planes in terms of everything be it manouverability/turntime, firepower/mass per second or raw speed/max rise and nowhere does this grow more apparent when the waiting time for US is 4 seconds, and the wait for England pushes at 35+ seconds around the ranks of 2-7. It has been like this for months and I fail to see any design philosophy that justifies it. Especially now since these problems have persisted through-out the beta and onto the official release.

    Third fault that personally lets me down the most is the neglect of Bomber planes. They are huge, clumsy, downright impossible to do ANY kind of dogfighting in (Manouver to hit enemies with the front guns of your plane) and they are designed to do one thing and one thing only. Go from A to B and drop bombs. Why is this a let-down to me?

    Because the developers figured a couple of months ago to majorly nerf not only the explosion radius of your bombs (rendering any load below 500lbs to be extremely unreliable/requiring needle-precision or close-range dive drops) but also neglect their overall ability to function by nerfing their gunners (Guys sitting in the back fending off planes on your tail). They are now almost completely useless except against straight-flying very light enemy planes that are almost at blank range behind you. The decision to seal the crate shut, effectively burying bomber planes when they were already at an underwhelming position with massive outcries by the community in protest will be a developer standpoint I'll never be able to understand.

    But the nerf wasn't just global. There are several specific plane models have been made incredibly vulnerable, like, take 5 shots to your tail (the most attacked direction from behind) and you will crash & instant die from not being able to steer, leaving the rest of the plane useless.

    Another example of this pure neglect would be how one of the game tips at the loading screen prompts bombers to fly high (achieve great height) to avoid enemy planes. Great philosophy. .Just one problem. A rank 7 bomber can have a maximum height of 8500 meters. Pretty impressive, right? Wrong. There are level 1 fighter planes that can reach up to 9000 meters and 5-6 rank fighters that go above 12000 meters. Once you take a stern look at the situation bombers are in and people that spent so much to try to be helpful to their team get smacked across the face so hard, It's enough to make you depressed.

    Fourth and last. (Yeah, I can keep going but the character limit prevents me from doing so.) Manouverability in this game. Even the most nimblest of planes utterly STRUGGLE to shake off very clumsy enemy planes off their six and nowhere does this get more annoying when you are playing with a couple of beginners, leaving any situation where someone fires at you from behind a death sentence due to teamwork neglect (no wingman) because of all the new players Steam are pulling in.

    RIP War Thunder    … Expand
  99. TheDireWolf
    Jul 3, 2014
    10
    This game has been plagued by people complaining about the economy and research system because "it used to be better". However, if you look at the game ignoring how it used to be, it is fantastic. Great graphics, a huge number of vehicles to play with and customize, loads of beautiful maps and a dynamic, exciting battles. Many people also complain that the game is pay to win yet I findThis game has been plagued by people complaining about the economy and research system because "it used to be better". However, if you look at the game ignoring how it used to be, it is fantastic. Great graphics, a huge number of vehicles to play with and customize, loads of beautiful maps and a dynamic, exciting battles. Many people also complain that the game is pay to win yet I find once you get a decent amount of experience and build up your skill it gets easier and easier to progress. I can't wait to see how the game will turn out to be when finished.… Expand
  100. Goofy_Canuck
    Jul 2, 2014
    6
    I initially heard about War Thunder from my adult son who plays it on PS4. I have found the PC version very enthralling. The graphics are amazing, and as I am not a very skilled gamer ( I mean, I can't even successfully complete the take off tutorial. I can only imagine how much I would suck at the landing one), I found the arcade realm to my liking.

    Parts of the game play are    I initially heard about War Thunder from my adult son who plays it on PS4. I have found the PC version very enthralling. The graphics are amazing, and as I am not a very skilled gamer ( I mean, I can't even successfully complete the take off tutorial. I can only imagine how much I would suck at the landing one), I found the arcade realm to my liking.

    Parts of the game play are entertaining for me as a mature game player. I enjoy bombing, but unfortunately, chose the Germans, and find that I continually get shot down. It's to the point that I basically just want to crash my plane if someone attacks me as there is no way I can shake off any plane that starts shooting at me. So much for my "ace" gunners. Sometimes it's fun to see how long I can last being chased and shot at, but at other times it's very frustrating.

    Each game starts with me having to wait to get into an arcade game. The waits are generally less than a minute. No complaints in that respect. Once the scenario is presented, I choose the plane I want to use. Then I take a break. I go get a refreshment or go to the bathroom, check my email, etc. The plane flies on its own, basically on auto pilot. After a while, I check back in, aim my plane for a target, and hope I get a chance to unload my bombs before the advanced players on my side have already eliminated the target or that someone on the opposing team decides to attack me.

    One thing I find frustrating in the arcade play is that there is no teamwork. Everyone does their own thing. There is a chat feature that is useless as I have no idea who the other players are. There's always some bossy player telling the team to "Shoot down so and so" which is totally meaningless as I have no idea where that player is in the environment, nor do I have the ability to shoot them down. It would be nice as a bomber in the game to have an fighter escort, but that will never happen. I just do my own thing and assume that everyone else does the same. If you're looking for team player interaction, then this game isn't for you. There is something about squads, but that must been in the other game types. As for me, I'm OK with that. I just want to bomb targets. I don't want to have to answer to the clan.

    I think I will enjoy the game as something I can do once in a while. I made the mistake of investing about $250 into the game...I know...I'm stupid. I put the money into upgrading my planes and crews...and It turns out it was all pointless. It was totally compulsive purchasing. Please don't tell my wife. I just justify it as part of my "entertainment budget". I think though, that I will have to lock my credit card away whenever I play because it is just so tempting to want to spend some gold to unlock the next wonder plane rather than wait for it.

    In reading the reviews, I didn't realize the bias towards Russian planes. I was getting suspicious about this as I could not believe how many times I've had one of my wings blown off by a single shot. Or as I mentioned, how crappy my German planes seem to perform compared to lower level Russian and American aircraft. It's all starting to sink in now, though.

    I have nothing to comment on about the customer service or forums as I haven't had any involvement in those aspects of the game. I don't get why people would complain about an F2P game in the first place. If you don't like it, find a different game to play. Gaijin isn't obligated to make your free gaming dreams come true. There is no F2P player rights manifesto or good practice guide. Play any game at your own risk.

    Overall, I think I will continue to play from time to time, but I definitely won't be spending any more money. on it. I can see how duped I was to lay that kind of cash down on a game that will be perpetually Beta. I don't think it is fair to call the game P2W, as investing money doesn't seem to guarantee that you will be any more skilled at playing or any more likely to win. I am living proof of that.

    I think people have to realize that there is no truly F2P online games. Gaming companies have to make money, and in-app purchases are part of the business. Obviously, the better companies are skilled at getting players motivated to buy features or gold or whatever. Take Candy Crush for example. So, I think Gaijin offers enough F2P gameplay in War Thunder. I don't think that my investment did any more for my in game advantage other than giving me the feeling that I had suped up my planes and my crews. I've played other games where P2W is a definite factor.

    Regarding game performance, I have not encountered any bugs that others have mentioned. The game runs smoothly. It hasn't crashed yet. I still enjoy the challenges of playing and when I get frustrated by constantly being shot down, I exit, remembering that it's just a game.

    So, my advice is play for free. Enjoy it for what it is Don't expect to have an elite gaming experience. Don't spend money on it ever. It's a total waste    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
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  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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