War Thunder

 PC
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3.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1908 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 590 out of 1908
  2. Mixed: 203 out of 1908
  3. Negative: 1,115 out of 1908

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  1. Shawsy94
    Jul 18, 2017
    4
    Good idea, poorly executed. The realism is nice but when paired with some of the more moronic game mechanics it creates a truly frustrating experience. The spawn points system in ground forces realistic battles is possibly the worst thing they could have done. Spending 5 minutes in a queue for a game then getting one shotted after 30 seconds and finding yourself without enough points toGood idea, poorly executed. The realism is nice but when paired with some of the more moronic game mechanics it creates a truly frustrating experience. The spawn points system in ground forces realistic battles is possibly the worst thing they could have done. Spending 5 minutes in a queue for a game then getting one shotted after 30 seconds and finding yourself without enough points to spawn a new vehicle is a fast route to a rage quit that punishes new players and teaches them nothing.… Expand
  2. Madvaug
    Oct 29, 2020
    0
    Unplayable, deleted before installing. Stupid ads. Not interesting, irritable, forget it.
  3. sirdezzy
    Nov 18, 2020
    0
    Used to be a nice game. Now it is complete unbalanced garbage. its also full of clans who just exploit the map with cheap tactics. Clans should be forced to only play each other, so they can bore each other by sitting on the edge of the map.
  4. Chris-
    May 15, 2021
    1
    Ive been playing on and off for serveral years and in my opinion it's only getting worse.
    Gaijin has jumped on the funny EA *we only want money* train and it shows ingame.
    New tanks new premium stupid battlepasses only veteran players can make. premium time that costs a fortune and a Forum driven by players, there is no development team that even listen to the players the only listen to    Ive been playing on and off for serveral years and in my opinion it's only getting worse.
    Gaijin has jumped on the funny EA *we only want money* train and it shows ingame.
    New tanks new premium stupid battlepasses only veteran players can make. premium time that costs a fortune and a Forum driven by players, there is no development team that even listen to the players the only listen to what you can put into the game. the game is on it's knees it's barely enough players to play in the morning and the max total players playing at any giving time is around 100 000 and that it split by arcade Tanks/boats/planes, realistic battles Tanks/boats/planes and simulator battles tanks/boats/planes. and then there is the "Tiers" 1-10 and every tier is splitting the players up EVEN more.
    And not to talk about the absure prices to repair one of your tanks/ships/plane. if you are a good player and kan make 3-7 kills per match you will get around 50-120k silver a round some of the tanks/boats/planes costs 45k+ to repair so if you have a bad player that barely make a kill will never have enough of silver to repair..... and then there is the mods..... banning players from chat because they asking when the game is going to be better...... if you see this DON*T PLAY THIS I rather actually go back to a **** game called World of tanks instead of this..... it's just getting worse and it's stupid how gaijin think they can still go on the money train and never make the game better.... it's all about money and Honestly DON'T even bother playing it.......    … Expand
  5. inqus
    Apr 29, 2020
    0
    Игра помойка:
    1) Все делается для усложнение прокачки и вытягивая с игроков доната.
    2) Нет вменяемого античита, баны дают по реплеям - это бредово.
  6. LQS
    May 18, 2020
    0
    Grindy as hell, literally, play as another casual meh game if you like, don't commit, and don't buy premium! You'll regret later down the line if you did.
  7. Pimmelschilz
    Dec 23, 2020
    0
    The overall idea of the game is quite good:Having large scale multiplayer matches with tanks, planes and ships througout many decades sounds fun. Unfortunately, the game does not have any matchmaking. After being lured into the game by playing against bots, you are thrown into the shark tank and play against players with 10,000 hours of playtime. You will last 2-3 minutes until being tornThe overall idea of the game is quite good:Having large scale multiplayer matches with tanks, planes and ships througout many decades sounds fun. Unfortunately, the game does not have any matchmaking. After being lured into the game by playing against bots, you are thrown into the shark tank and play against players with 10,000 hours of playtime. You will last 2-3 minutes until being torn apart. If you have the endurance and frustration resistance to play 3000 games until you can compete, then congratulations. If not, make a bigbow around this. You won´t have fun.… Expand
  8. PathfinderFox
    Apr 10, 2020
    4
    2400 hours gameplay on ground and air battle

    Outdated graphics came from 2015, especially the cloud chartlet
    Bad game balancing, the server forced people with no gameplay experience to play with 100lv with premium vehicles
    Only one game mode ( capture point and defend)
    Too many bugs and magic
    Vehicles problem are unrealistic ( challenger mk2 and oh-ho)
    Bad server connection
    Bad map design
  9. Heinrich01
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    Played the game for more than 100 hours, started playing it 2 years ago, but I stopped because it had to many bugs, like for example the game would teleport my tank to another place, my airplane would suddenly crash, it could not be a problem with my internet because when I started playing those bugs didn't happen, they started to happen after sometime. Then I decided to play again lastPlayed the game for more than 100 hours, started playing it 2 years ago, but I stopped because it had to many bugs, like for example the game would teleport my tank to another place, my airplane would suddenly crash, it could not be a problem with my internet because when I started playing those bugs didn't happen, they started to happen after sometime. Then I decided to play again last month, and it disappointed me to find out that after 2 years, after adding more content, more nations, more tanks, ships and helicopters, they did not fix the same bugs that the game had 2 years ago, whats the point of having good graphics, or lots of vehicles if they don't fix the most annoying bugs ?… Expand
  10. d733
    Oct 16, 2021
    0
    Unfortunately, this game suffers from a lack of aware development. Features are released in half baked states and the publisher actively implements harmful mechanics which are designed to make the game more frustration to play. Between repair costs and the now expiring consumables (which of course gaijin sells for $2 a pop), the game is quickly becoming less and less like one that is funUnfortunately, this game suffers from a lack of aware development. Features are released in half baked states and the publisher actively implements harmful mechanics which are designed to make the game more frustration to play. Between repair costs and the now expiring consumables (which of course gaijin sells for $2 a pop), the game is quickly becoming less and less like one that is fun to play. The core gameplay loop was fun but those days are over now.… Expand
  11. Swaggame
    Nov 19, 2020
    3
    As others have pointed out: early gameplay is very hard, since you are not familiar with the battleground, plus as a beginner you are likely to be one-shotted by players with higher tier vehicles. It takes forever to grind out a decent tank/ship/aircraft. The graphics aren't the best either, and the fallen trees submerging into the ground are ridiculous. But what really bring my score downAs others have pointed out: early gameplay is very hard, since you are not familiar with the battleground, plus as a beginner you are likely to be one-shotted by players with higher tier vehicles. It takes forever to grind out a decent tank/ship/aircraft. The graphics aren't the best either, and the fallen trees submerging into the ground are ridiculous. But what really bring my score down is the fact that every time I turn my PC on, this b1tch needs to download something, like a gf who wants to buy something at the shop every time you get near it. Sometimes it's just 100 MB, other times 4 GB. Could you cut back on that Gaijin?… Expand
  12. AresRules
    Jan 22, 2021
    2
    I began playing War Thunder in Dec. 2016. I left for over a year when an update reset my consecutive login days from almost 900 days to 1. I returned in October 2020. Another major factor in leaving is not easy for me to explain since I don't know much about computers. It often seems when facing a low level player or another squadron's player, my tanks are being nerfed and the enemies areI began playing War Thunder in Dec. 2016. I left for over a year when an update reset my consecutive login days from almost 900 days to 1. I returned in October 2020. Another major factor in leaving is not easy for me to explain since I don't know much about computers. It often seems when facing a low level player or another squadron's player, my tanks are being nerfed and the enemies are buffed. Soon will learn how to record battles and will post them for the others to see. I find it frustrating that I spent so much time and money on a game that cheats against the players.… Expand
  13. mrFox11
    Apr 26, 2021
    0
    В этой игре ужасно всё. Начнём с начала
    - Баланс. Комментарии излишни. Просто не удивляйтесь, если вы на танке времён Второй Мировой ВДРУГ встретите вражеский танк 50-60 годов. Привет всяким итальянским Фиатам и французским EBR'ам.
    - Баги. Некоторые из них существуют ещё со времён бета теста. Фиксить их разработчики и не чешутся, потому что нафиг надо. - РПУ. Многие будут говорить, что    В этой игре ужасно всё. Начнём с начала
    - Баланс. Комментарии излишни. Просто не удивляйтесь, если вы на танке времён Второй Мировой ВДРУГ встретите вражеский танк 50-60 годов. Привет всяким итальянским Фиатам и французским EBR'ам.
    - Баги. Некоторые из них существуют ещё со времён бета теста. Фиксить их разработчики и не чешутся, потому что нафиг надо.
    - РПУ. Многие будут говорить, что у меня шиза, что я всё придумываю, что эту механику давно отключили, но сколько я играю, столько и замечаю, что нифига её не отключили. Более того, она вам всячески постарается помешать затащить и без того сложный бой. Запомните - от вас и ваших союзников ничего не зависит. Исход боя уже предначертан. Поэтому не удивляйтесь, если от множеств попаданий по вражескому самолёту вы увидите такие надписи как "повреждение средней стойки шасси" или "повреждение закрылка". Вы не собьёте противника до тех пор, пока игра сама этим не распорядится. То же самое и в танковых боях. Вы уверены, что пробьёте эту Пантеру подкалибером? Не-а. Вы не пробьёте её. Игра всё спишет на мифический рикошет, на баг, на что угодно, но пробития не будет. Когда вдоволь настрадаетесь, МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ, данная механика станет на вашу сторону и поможет вам.
    - Топы. Здесь постараюсь быть лаконичным. Просто возьмите F-104 Starfighter и попробуйте повоевать против всяких МиГов, Фантомов и прочих. Сразу увидите что к чему.
    - Графика. Казалось бы, за графику я мог бы подрисовать единичку в оценку к игре, но нет, я не буду этого делать. Объясню почему. Вернёмся снова на землю. Попробуйте включить и выключить траву в прицеле. Да и не только в прицеле, а и вообще. Чувствуете разницу? Верно. Чем хуже у тебя настройки графики, тем виднее тебе противника. В то время, когда я хочу насладиться ультра настройками, меня вполне может выцелить какой-нибудь нубик с минимальными настройками графики, которого я бы даже в упор не разглядел. Разрабы подыгрывают "бичарам"?
    В общем, игра для тех, кому некуда девать свои кровные. Никому не советую.    … Expand
  14. aNoob
    Apr 8, 2021
    1
    After 400hrs fiddling with this "russian simulator". Here are some points i would like to note:
    _It'll be fun if you're a noob that keeps dying. Why? Because the "supreme russian balance" algorithm which takes K/D raito into account will group you with generally decent players. If you're playing like what you should in any other games, then **** you, carry these noobs. It'd be ideal that    After 400hrs fiddling with this "russian simulator". Here are some points i would like to note:
    _It'll be fun if you're a noob that keeps dying. Why? Because the "supreme russian balance" algorithm which takes K/D raito into account will group you with generally decent players. If you're playing like what you should in any other games, then **** you, carry these noobs. It'd be ideal that maintain K/D ratio of 1 or lower.
    _More fun if you pay tribute to glorious mother russia, frequent downtier for you, shots have more chance to KO instead of leaving your enemy struggling
    _Absolute fun if you pay even more, skipping the "gulag" grinding proccess.
    _Yet, for real issues like: ultra-low graphics, invisible obstacles, **** latency that causes the one who shoot first miss, unbalace BR. Gaijin has no intention to tackle them. Even worse, recently they keep adding irrelevant contents and slowly change the game into a mere FPS game but sucks hard. In short, the game has turned into a pure pay2win game that keeps accumulating issues.
    _It's worth noting that all the high score reviews here either paid or from people who've paid tributes to gaijin.
    P/S: 1 point for trying to keep a dead game alive since 2015    … Expand
  15. Astro99
    Jun 25, 2021
    0
    Das Game ist absoluter Dreck. Man merkt diesem Spiel einfach an dass es FreeToPlay ist. In fast jeder Hinsicht. Absolut nicht zu empfehlen. Schmutz.
  16. Farflame
    Sep 1, 2021
    0
    Game is good but it's destroyed by an incompetent, greedy and nasty company in Gaijin. If you ever need any kind of customer support, god help you. It's full of cheats (aimbotters) and Pay-To-Win fanbois. Unless you're willing to spend a fortune on P2W gold, you're going to lag far behind. And those guys can do whatever they want, so long as they keep paying. They can cheat, accuse you ofGame is good but it's destroyed by an incompetent, greedy and nasty company in Gaijin. If you ever need any kind of customer support, god help you. It's full of cheats (aimbotters) and Pay-To-Win fanbois. Unless you're willing to spend a fortune on P2W gold, you're going to lag far behind. And those guys can do whatever they want, so long as they keep paying. They can cheat, accuse you of cheating, team-kill you, whatever, so long as they pay their money. Shame, used to be a good game.… Expand
  17. Ki43Hayabusa
    Oct 31, 2021
    0
    Without a doubt one of the worst games I have ever played ...
    A game reserved for masochists who like to suffer.
    And yet, this game has incredible potential, sadly shattered by totally repetitive and uninspiring gameplay, CATASTROPHIC matchmaking, pickup mapmaking and an outdated physics engine. Some flaws in the game's design, such as spawns (especially in planes), or the way the    Without a doubt one of the worst games I have ever played ...
    A game reserved for masochists who like to suffer.

    And yet, this game has incredible potential, sadly shattered by totally repetitive and uninspiring gameplay, CATASTROPHIC matchmaking, pickup mapmaking and an outdated physics engine.
    Some flaws in the game's design, such as spawns (especially in planes), or the way the game displays enemies, are so annoying and stupid that you end up wondering if the programmers have ever played their game. .

    Add to that a progression of a length and a wearisome pain, all the faults of free to play games and programmers who refuse to listen to their community and you have a bad game, punitive and frustrating ...
    The icing on the cake, an endless number of bugs and cheats that spoil the game. Don't throw any more, the yard is full!

    There are still very nice graphics and sometimes realistic ballistics, but that's not enough to make a good game.
    It's really sad, because War Thunder has elements that could make it a real gold nugget.

    Gaijin, or how to turn    … Expand
  18. Fukthsgame
    Nov 5, 2021
    0
    The game feels like facebook- just a hate engine thats only fixed when you put money in! Gayjin is the worst!
  19. kaisergray94
    Jan 26, 2022
    0
    First off the fact that Gaijin literally sent hundreds of fake ass 10/10 reviews to hide the unsatisfied mess that is the playerbase's general attitude should say everything u need to know. But I will give the review anyways... So as we speak I exited the load queue in this pisspoor game, dont matter because the game loads you into a game anyways regardless if u canceled que. Spawned me inFirst off the fact that Gaijin literally sent hundreds of fake ass 10/10 reviews to hide the unsatisfied mess that is the playerbase's general attitude should say everything u need to know. But I will give the review anyways... So as we speak I exited the load queue in this pisspoor game, dont matter because the game loads you into a game anyways regardless if u canceled que. Spawned me in all my vehicles all while I had already minimalized the game to make this review. The game is not that hard to hack or cheat in small ways like say making your ammunition ignore collision with objects making it possible to shoot through rocks, terrain, and buildings that normal players cant shoot through in tank realistic mode, I have seen about 3 of these in a single day. There are many many bugs that Gaijin refuses to patch or fix, the maps are just outright awful. They keep taking away things that used to be free or awesome features from players, for example it used to be possible to paint your entire biplane red. Not only have they removed that feature but removed the players paintjobs they (when it was a thing) spent hours painstakingly making it just right why?? Because the Gaijin devs according to what they told me, quote "realized they could just charge people for it and then remove it". This game was very fun back in like 2015 or so, every few years I come back to see if Gaijin finally improved things, but the reality is it just gets worse every time. Avoid this game! I imagine everyone would avoid it if there was a game that filled in the niche better.… Expand
  20. Panfry1712
    Feb 22, 2022
    0
    I'm looking forward to playing this game to kill time.But signing up for this game is very difficult even with the correct password.In the end,I couldn't play well.It's very annoying
  21. qwerty24
    Mar 6, 2022
    0
    i have played this game for 7 years now it sucks its unbalenced and they keep adding modern stuff like the maus is at 7.7 facing coldwar tanks and the me 262 facing coldwar jets gajin never listen to the coumunity and they never fix the game DECOMPRESS THE BR
    i hate it now it was fun when the game was ww2 i dont recomend it
  22. KettleEngine
    Mar 9, 2022
    0
    it is a horrible game that is barley finished and constantly begs you for money as well as making it borderline impossible to obtain the modern era stuff without spending like £60 and even when you do spend it you will need to constantly spend even more money on the game. just don't even bother downloading this unfinished abomination.
  23. MurZur
    Apr 24, 2022
    0
    The game is very difficult to master, a large number of buttons that will have to be pressed when playing on various classes of equipment, the presence of sick maps where it will be boring to play, since there is a button to exit the battle))
    On the plus side: a large number of game mechanics, graphics of the level of 2022, a huge selection of different equipment, you can have fun with    The game is very difficult to master, a large number of buttons that will have to be pressed when playing on various classes of equipment, the presence of sick maps where it will be boring to play, since there is a button to exit the battle))
    On the plus side: a large number of game mechanics, graphics of the level of 2022, a huge selection of different equipment, you can have fun with friends, large online ~ 100.000, everyone can play differently (stand in the bushes on the edge of the map, go around from the side, on floating tanks you can swim across a river or lake and go to the rear or just cut across the middle of the map)

    Гра дуже складна для освоєння, велика кількість кнопок яке доведеться натискати при грі на різних класах техніки, наявність хворих карт де буде нудно грати, благо є кнопка виходу з бою))
    За плюсами: велика кількість ігрових механік, графіка рівня 2022 року, величезний вибір різної техніки, можна весело провести час з друзями, великий онлайн ~100.000, кожен може грати по-різному (стояти в кущах на краю карти, об'їжджати з борту, на плаваючих танках можна переплисти річку або озеро і заїхати в тил або просто рубається серед карти )    … Expand
  24. YamiNoTsubasa
    May 24, 2023
    0
    Wort pay2win game ever, developpers do everything to dry out the player wallet. Paid skins are ok, it's a free to play game, but paid tanks to skip the world war II era ? Paid tanks to grind the previous ones becauses they are bad ? Gaijin create the balance problem, then sell the solution. The economy is so bad, that if you play withouth premium account, after rank 3 you won't get enoughWort pay2win game ever, developpers do everything to dry out the player wallet. Paid skins are ok, it's a free to play game, but paid tanks to skip the world war II era ? Paid tanks to grind the previous ones becauses they are bad ? Gaijin create the balance problem, then sell the solution. The economy is so bad, that if you play withouth premium account, after rank 3 you won't get enough money in a battle to pay your repair, even if you win ! Ammo have a cost, repair have a cost or a timmer (and not 1 hour timmer... more like a day timmer), tanks are absurdly priced too. Not premium ? Enjoy getting 1k or less money per game, and buying a tank that cost over 150k, and it's only rank 3... Oh and better, it's 150k for a tank, but you need to "train the crew" to use it, add another 30k or more...Add to this a stealth nerf (reveserd, but still they tried to do it...) to base money multiplicator to have player win even less money... You got the gist, avoid this game for now, wait until it's all green again.… Expand
  25. 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.
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. WilliamZHL
    Dec 25, 2013
    1
    patch 1.37 destroyed a good game.

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

    i had a lot of fun in the game and i paid premium account, but now they are like day time robbery
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

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