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
  31. 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
  32. Ciemnoczarny
    Jan 12, 2014
    3
    +physical model of flight and damages,
    +quite realistic airplanes performance [in realistic and historical mod] (specific for each plane, it makes player closer to real, historical technical specification of each plane) - some mistakes are still there, but I hope they will be solved during game progress.
    +graphics/sound, - bad research model (after last patch), - bad economy model -    +physical model of flight and damages,
    +quite realistic airplanes performance [in realistic and historical mod] (specific for each plane, it makes player closer to real, historical technical specification of each plane) - some mistakes are still there, but I hope they will be solved during game progress.
    +graphics/sound,

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

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

    Thank you for attention    … Expand
  33. TheNewYorker
    Feb 14, 2014
    0
    This game will forever be in "beta". Developer Gaijin relies on funding by an impossible grind where you are forced to fly certain planes in an esoteric order, and to do that you will either be stomped a lot or pay. The more they patch it, the more bugs get introduced, could have been a good game. Get Wings of Prey instead.
  34. Michael_J_Wall
    Jun 1, 2014
    0
    This is a good game and its very addictive, but STAY AWAY its a money grabbing cash cow. Don't even consider playing you will end up spending far more money in a few weeks than you would normally spend in a few years on computer games. These types of games should be banned, what ever happened to paying an up front £39.99 for a game then play for as long as you like. Something should beThis is a good game and its very addictive, but STAY AWAY its a money grabbing cash cow. Don't even consider playing you will end up spending far more money in a few weeks than you would normally spend in a few years on computer games. These types of games should be banned, what ever happened to paying an up front £39.99 for a game then play for as long as you like. Something should be done about this very worrying trend of paying more & more to play.
    People will argue that its free to play but what they don't tell you is that if you want cool things in the game and to be able to compete with other players you will have to start regularly paying money to the developers & they constantly bring out new missions & campaigns that have to be paid for.    … Expand
  35. LindoWicker
    Aug 1, 2021
    1
    £57 if you want to buy one plane, thats the price to avoid grinding for one plane.

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

    Because the jets are so expensive it take literally months to earn 1 jet and months to get all the mods.
    So people ignore the objective and concentrate on getting the most kills - sometimes shooting through allies to get a kill.
    In essence Great game/Awful Developers and community.
    What makes the game even more of a grind is if you don't get a lot of kills in a game, you actually lose points to fix your planes.
    I've been stuck 600k now for ages. so whilst a might have a couple of good games if I have a few bad games I basically don't advance. SO even in a few years where I earn enough research points to get a new T5 plane I sure as hell wont be able to afford it. Well Done Gaijin; you turned a pretty good game into a grind fest that really isnt worth playing anymore.    … Expand
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. Mechanist
    Mar 1, 2017
    0
    Awfully unbalanced game. Toxic community. Endless grind. Horrible mechanics: Shoot through terrain, long distance one shot kills (killed driving a Tiger II by inferior tank). Endless camp fest on some maps. Arcade mode is ridiculous, GTA V is a better "simulator" than this game.

    Don't to pay for it! You won't win either.
    Even better: stay away from this garbage made in Russia!
  39. FrankDrebin
    Mar 31, 2019
    3
    I'm play "Realistic" "(A loose term with regards to this game)

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

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

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

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

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

    So much potential....squandered.    … Expand
  40. Pbs
    Dec 20, 2013
    0
    Version 1.23 War thunder was a really promising game.
    Version 1.27 Things getting worse
    Version 1.29 Beginning of the End
    Version 1.37 Rest in peace, WT. Rest in peace...
  41. ChaosLord
    Mar 4, 2014
    0
    This game f-ing horrible, from the ridiculous grind (where even worse than WOT, the only way to use "free experience" is by paying), the obnoxious russian bias both in air combat and ground combat, it feels like the developers are compesating for something, with russian planes that were a piece of crap in the war being the most undertiered, over armored, best armaments, best speed,climbingThis game f-ing horrible, from the ridiculous grind (where even worse than WOT, the only way to use "free experience" is by paying), the obnoxious russian bias both in air combat and ground combat, it feels like the developers are compesating for something, with russian planes that were a piece of crap in the war being the most undertiered, over armored, best armaments, best speed,climbing and turning compared to other nations and the developers could care less, they will just ban you for stating the obious bias.What else we got, oh right, an cannon centric game where mgs are the most useless weaponry out there, 7.7 feel like BBs and 12.7 even with incendiary ammo fail to do any damage to fighters ( God forbid bombers then) while cannons tear wings and tails in one salvo at best ( unless you deal with horrible networking where all you get is sparkles from hitting an enemy).

    Then we have bombers being **** carrying small loadouts ( unless american or russian), vulnerable, slow and incompetent AI that even with maxed crew can't hit a plane 100 meters behind it and don't forget that if they fire, from the constant "gunner unconcious" to reloading a mg which take more than one minute( even more than BOMBs!).Then you flight models and damage models, some planes downright suck at flying, can't turn, climb or throttle, you are easy picking while there are plenty of UFOs out there (especially russia) that also have a generous DM, granting the ability to soak ridiculous amount of bullets and sometimes cannon shots( just take a look at youtube, it is filled with evidence on it), for instance japan has piss por armor and equipment, can't dive well, can only turn fight good at low atitudes with Zeros( their fighters also suck, with exception with the first one with its UFO nature), can't take one shot from anything and have guns constantly jamming while the glorious slavs with their wooden planes can take any punishment, have miniguns that hardly jam.Another point, this game is very anti-german just like WOT, germans have horrible planes that can only BnZ if you dare try making any turn your plane loses all control( not only that but germans have horrible early tiers, if not one of the worse) while any one faction can with no problem BnZ and turn fight ( lets not count the Stuka and its paper mache tail).

    There is far too many to say, but to resume, this is a scam game, you pay to progress( sometimes it is the only way to get good planes), you pay for "backup" planes( the same op plane can be used twice), you'll suffer at the frustating mechanics as g-force in every turn making your scream go black and losing your target, you'll be ramed all the time by friend and foe, but the worse part is the without a doubt the before mentioned balance, it is just so bad you'll start to see every slav( count WOT with its "Stalin was benevolent" crap) as some sort of brainwashed loony.

    Do a favor, stay far away from this time consuming, frustating scheme    … Expand
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. OutOnTheOP
    Jun 19, 2017
    1
    I will start by saying: I made a metacritic account for the sole purpose of commenting on this game. This should tell you a bit about how strongly I feel about this game.

    What do I feel? That it is a steaming pile of garbage. The developer clearly has no interest in making an enjoyable experience for the user; they obviously have intentionally made the game as frustrating as possible    I will start by saying: I made a metacritic account for the sole purpose of commenting on this game. This should tell you a bit about how strongly I feel about this game.

    What do I feel? That it is a steaming pile of garbage. The developer clearly has no interest in making an enjoyable experience for the user; they obviously have intentionally made the game as frustrating as possible for anyone who doesn't dump literally hundreds of dollars into premium content.

    Not only that, but the developers are clearly ridiculously nationalistically biased: their russian KV-1 and T-34 tanks are nigh invulnerable. I have recently discovered that the Tiger IE is SIGNIFICANTLY easier to kill in-game than either of these soviet cheat machines. The in-game garage claims the Tiger has 102mm un-sloped front glacis armor for an effective thickness of about 104mm, while the T-34 has 45mm armor sloped at 60 degrees for an effective thickness of about 78mm. IN-GAME stats tell you the T-34 SHOULD be easier to penetrate. This is a filthy lie. In actual combat experience, I have found that not only is the Tiger easier to penetrate there, but the T-34 lower side plates (a measly 45mm without slope for a mere 45mm effective thickness) are immune to square-on shots from the side at literally zero distance from shots with (allegedly) 145mm penetration value, bouncing about 90% of even those shots. The in-game stats tell you everything is "realistic" and should be fine. The in-game stats displayed to the players are lies. From dozens, if not hundreds of in-game experiences, I have found that shells that are rated at 145mm penetration at 100m range cannot penetrate the "45mm" lower side armor of the T-34 when the barrel it literally touching the T-34.

    Worse, the Tiger is a Battle Rating 5.7 that costs 250,000 in-game credits (IE, tons of grinding), while the T-34 is a Battle Rating 3.3 that costs a mere 10,000 in-game credits. This is where it is worth explaining Battle Rating. BR is used in-game for match making. In theory, the BR is a numerical representation of overall effectiveness, and is theoretically used to build balanced fights in-game. This is a dirty lie. Remember how the T-34 is a BR 3.3 while the Tiger is a BR 5.7? This means the T-34 is not only more powerful than the Tiger, but it gets to fight far weaker opponents than the does the Tiger.

    This same trend repeats with the soviet BT light tanks and KV heavy tanks. Everything soviet has grossly over-performing stats for the Battle Rating and price they are assigned, so they get to pretty much baby-seal-club everyone else.

    If you want to play as soviets, you'll have a good time (assuming you enjoy tedious, repetitive gameplay where no skill is required of you because you are literally immune to 95% of what your foe can throw at you), but if you want to play any other nationality it is a massive exercise in frustration.

    The folks that complain about "russian bias" are not just butthurt because they lost a match. They are frustrated because, while they might write off as bad luck a few weird occasions of shells bouncing off targets they should kill, when they notice that the russian T-34 and KV tanks consistently, over hundreds of examples, bounce everything thrown at them, they know there is a balance issue. Particularly when they also notice how easily tanks that are supposedly much better armored die to the same weapons regardless of careful aiming for weak spots.

    Why did I give this a one star instead of zero stars? Two reasons: first, the game is beautiful (though frequently glitchy, including flickering textures). Second, the core mechanics of the game are excellent. It *COULD* be an excellent game, if only gaijin could be bothered to actually put some effort into balancing the game to make it enjoyable. Gaijin could literally turn this from a one-star game into an 8-star game in an hour- by simply removing every soviet tank. (of course, they could also go up to 8 stars if they *fixed* the soviet tanks, but that would take far longer than an hour).

    Short version: don't even bother. It's not worth your time, much less your cash.    … Expand
  47. KolaySerga
    Dec 8, 2020
    0
    Забагованый кусок кала. Худшая игра мира из когда нибудь созданных. Хуже игры просто нет.
    Просто помойка. Донатная помойка
    Разрабатывают её криворукие идиоты. Игра гавно - потому что она русская. Если её продадут то есть шанс сделать норм игру, а пока она у юденцовых игра просто хуже и хуже.    Забагованый кусок кала. Худшая игра мира из когда нибудь созданных. Хуже игры просто нет.
    Просто помойка. Донатная помойка
    Разрабатывают её криворукие идиоты. Игра гавно - потому что она русская. Если её продадут то есть шанс сделать норм игру, а пока она у юденцовых игра просто хуже и хуже.
  48. LoliPoltergeist
    May 19, 2014
    3
    War Thunder, I've been around since before patch 1,25 and I came to learn more people (Alpha testers, Mods, devs, Gaming masters, users, historical consultants etc.) than most people in the game. Initially when I stumbled across War Thunder I instantly fell in love the with idea of an all-out combat 'simulator' and as such I signed up and was surprised by the small user base. I learnt whyWar Thunder, I've been around since before patch 1,25 and I came to learn more people (Alpha testers, Mods, devs, Gaming masters, users, historical consultants etc.) than most people in the game. Initially when I stumbled across War Thunder I instantly fell in love the with idea of an all-out combat 'simulator' and as such I signed up and was surprised by the small user base. I learnt why it had such a small user base really quickly; Gaijin's inability to tackle problems and find solutions in a sensible amount of time.
    Where should I start? Let me do it at with the current existing game modes (Patch 1,41), currently there are 3 game modes; Arcade Battles (AB), Realistic Battles (AB) and Simulator Battles (SB). Tanks have gone into OBT and now all are free to play them, however currently tanks are separated from planes (Why? In the CBT you could play both tanks and planes together) however both tanks and planes have the same type of game modes.
    Let me start with the positive sides of War Thunder, nice graphics (For both planes and tanks), detailed tank/plane models, mostly accurate tank/plane models, some real life based settings and the massively improved Custom Battles. However right here is where I have to stop, there are just too many negatives that plague this game as of late. Currently the Battle Rating (BR) system (The MatchMacker uses the BR to fill games) is completely messed up, a Meteor F3 has a BR of 6,7 whilst it's German counter-part the Me262 has to enjoy fighting Korean era Sabres. You can see this across all the tech trees of all nations, e.g. the F4U Corsair (Late war plane) is rated at a BR of 3,3 and it enjoys fighting early war planes, am I the only one that finds this ridiculously stupid? Then there are other things such as repair prices of planes (My God take a look at the N1K2 for Japan and it's BR whilst it's US adversarie the F6F enjoys a low repair cost and low BR) as well as the damage output of all cannons of all planes/jets. Things like these, the fundamental of the game are broken, they broke it with this patch, previously it worked half fine however now it's simply broken which is just sad considering how much time I invested into the game.
    Now there is another glaringly obvious problem (Not the rotten community) but the corrupted, underage and childish moderation team. One might ask, well how do you know that they are corrupted? Can you show us evidence of this? Go and ask some of the older players that stopped playing the game (Guys from A01 for example) and they can tell you all about the lovely PayPal payments that some moderators received (There are even YouTubes videos about it). The Mods and GMs ban based on the players they dislike that is always fun is it not?!

    So how do we conclude? Well it's rather simple, don't touch the game until its major fundamental flaws have been ironed out and the moderation team has been subbed out for a more mature one.    … Expand
  49. Leplivo19
    Mar 17, 2021
    0
    This game is just awful, Gaijin couldn't care less about the game and the community, Germany players just whinning and crying everywhere about Germany suffers even though it's the best nation in the game with 70% winrate and they still get buffed and get new op tanks. There is no simulation or realism in this game, just 2 modes called Realistic Battles and Simulator. This game is the mostThis game is just awful, Gaijin couldn't care less about the game and the community, Germany players just whinning and crying everywhere about Germany suffers even though it's the best nation in the game with 70% winrate and they still get buffed and get new op tanks. There is no simulation or realism in this game, just 2 modes called Realistic Battles and Simulator. This game is the most broken game on the market that is still not being fixed after 8 years of it's release, I don't recommend this game to anyone, if you like playing with modern tanks then it will take you years to do so unless you spend a lot of money in this game which is not worth it. I have 2,000 hours in this game and I completely regret wasting it.… Expand
  50. 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 $$$
  51. Haineko
    Jan 27, 2014
    5
    Used to be good, but now the research trees have been **** royally.
    Unlocking anything beyond Tier 2 is tiresome and time consuming, trying to fly a stock plane against fully upgraded ones, which you have to do all the time, is painful and brings you to the brink of just uninstalling.'
    Going from Tier 1 to Tier 2, or Tier 2 to Tier 3, is going to give you a kick in the teeth, as your    Used to be good, but now the research trees have been **** royally.
    Unlocking anything beyond Tier 2 is tiresome and time consuming, trying to fly a stock plane against fully upgraded ones, which you have to do all the time, is painful and brings you to the brink of just uninstalling.'
    Going from Tier 1 to Tier 2, or Tier 2 to Tier 3, is going to give you a kick in the teeth, as your amazing planes, fully upgraded, from the last Tier, are now useless, and you also have a just as useless new, higher tier plane.

    This game used to be fun (still is fun at most times) and something I'd love to sink some time into, even on my own. But nowadays.. Eh, not really. The balancing is horrible, the progression is horrible, and if you want to be in a good plane, you have to play Russians.

    P.S: All of this is in regard to Arcade battles, not Realistic or Simulator.    … Expand
  52. Jane_Air
    Dec 18, 2013
    2
    Don't like this game at all. Arcade mode is poor and others are complicated for me. Interface is awful!!!!! Girls would not like this game.............
  53. Alsmir
    Jun 16, 2014
    0
    Once a very interesting game that continues to get worse and worse.

    The worst problems are: Completly messed up matchmaking. The system that used to be clear and simple got replaced and now we have MM based on BR (battle ratings) of each plane. The spread is way too big and on top of that we have ridiculous modifiers. For example players that perform really well in a couple of games    Once a very interesting game that continues to get worse and worse.

    The worst problems are:
    Completly messed up matchmaking. The system that used to be clear and simple got replaced and now we have MM based on BR (battle ratings) of each plane. The spread is way too big and on top of that we have ridiculous modifiers.
    For example players that perform really well in a couple of games in the row will get matched against opponents with better planes. No, you won't get matched agains more skilled players, but rather vs more powerfull planes. Similarly, after a few bad games you will get enemies in weaker planes.
    The system is basically rewarding bad players and punishing good ones.
    It's not unusal to see players crashing their planes on purpose to eventually get matched against really bad opponents and dominate them.

    Secondly, money-grabbing system.
    It gets more and more ridicculous. The grind keeps getting worse and playing without premium account that speeds up your progression gets pointless after a certain level. We also have premium planes. Those can only be obtained with rl money. Way too often when they get released they offer incredible performance with low Battle Rating. The only downside, seems to be their price. Then, a couple of months later, their stats get significantly nerfed. But don't worry, there's new premium plane available - limited offer - great performance, great cost.

    Russian bias.
    Russian developers work really hard on making russian airforce the best one available. Realistic approach towards plane's stats is only used for other nations.
    Some tech trees (Japan) aren't completed and require a lot of work, but devs keep on adding new overperforming russian planes. It's been like that since the game got released so it doesn't seem like anything's going to change.

    Lack of communication between devs and players.
    Appearently devs have a clear vision what they want to achieve with this game. Player feed back is irrelevant. Positive feedback is allowed, neagative one - not.
    Mods go as far as removing posts, editing them, bannig people and locking+deleting threads that contain the posts they'd rather not see.
    Latest bigger patches (1.37, 1.39, 1.41) that brought many negative changes caused a lot of pople posting it on the forums. Needless to say, all of the official topics where ppl discussed changes got deleted because there was a lot of negative feedback.
    Asking (politely) why my posts got edited to the point where no longer made sense got me a warning - without any explaination.

    I strongly advise to stay away from this game.    … Expand
  54. Utheriz
    Jan 17, 2014
    0
    This game has nice graphics yes but the gameplay is terrible. It is so unbalanced and such a scam. Its not f2p its p2w (pay to win). Even after this its a graphically nice game but the logic and balancing is just terrible and they just make it worse. Not to mention such a waste of time. The amount of time you have to put into it, its not worth the "fun" your supposed to have...

    I    This game has nice graphics yes but the gameplay is terrible. It is so unbalanced and such a scam. Its not f2p its p2w (pay to win). Even after this its a graphically nice game but the logic and balancing is just terrible and they just make it worse. Not to mention such a waste of time. The amount of time you have to put into it, its not worth the "fun" your supposed to have...

    I love ww2 era history but this is just a big money scam and a waste of time.

    There is no ingame options to change graphical settings and not much towards any hardware configuration in game. Even for a beta phased game this is a must have instead of closing it down and changing settings on the launcher.    … Expand
  55. metacritiq
    Nov 18, 2013
    5
    It's okay, I can play for about 30-60 minutes at a time before getting bored. The community is a lot of angry children with neckbeards "omg my team sux!" kind of comments. The planes are diverse, lots of customization can be done, guns, paint, upgrades, ammo, etc. Can play as bomber or fighter or both in the same round. World of Tanks is more thrilling gameplay for me.
  56. Opmouse
    Dec 10, 2013
    3
    Some good elements but the fun ends quickly when you are constantly getting destroyed by your own team-mates or suddenly have your pilot knocked out without any apparent reason. Needs a lot of polish to controls, menus, and general game play.. Too often will you rage quit this game because sudden death that occurs without explanation or without any apparent warning.
  57. LaughingSam
    Jun 8, 2014
    4
    A great game but a terrible f2p model. It could be much better if the microtransaction system was less blatantly greedy. Personally I found it very frustrating trying to get into, and issues with matchmaking ensure that you'll feel it if you havent spent any cash.
  58. 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
  59. dmctrollz
    Dec 14, 2013
    5
    I have been playing this game for a few days and have loved it... until now... When i wanted to play full real battles mode i started the tutorial to find that the tutorial is TERRIBLE... your taking off in a field and there are houses all over and it does a terrible job explaining what to do. And when you have to try and get off the ground which is a realer hard part, it doesn't say whatI have been playing this game for a few days and have loved it... until now... When i wanted to play full real battles mode i started the tutorial to find that the tutorial is TERRIBLE... your taking off in a field and there are houses all over and it does a terrible job explaining what to do. And when you have to try and get off the ground which is a realer hard part, it doesn't say what to do, it only says "Time to get in the air!" I have been raging over this tutorial for like 20 minutes now, and i'm so close to quiting.. I seriously minimized the game, made an account here, and wrote this review because i'm so pissed. Get the game if you want, but be prepared to get extremely pissed off.… Expand
  60. Synd
    Dec 19, 2013
    6
    It was a good game, but think twice before spending money on it. It seems Gaijin became more greedy, no surprise if you follow their other game, Star conflict.

    With the1.37, Gaijin implemented a MatchMaking very punitive for the low tiers. It's sad, because this new MM reminds me World of Tanks. Oh, and more level grinding, too. You should take a look at the official forum and see how    It was a good game, but think twice before spending money on it. It seems Gaijin became more greedy, no surprise if you follow their other game, Star conflict.

    With the1.37, Gaijin implemented a MatchMaking very punitive for the low tiers. It's sad, because this new MM reminds me World of Tanks. Oh, and more level grinding, too. You should take a look at the official forum and see how this patch is disastrous.    … Expand
  61. 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
  62. 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
  63. 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
  64. MBCuss
    Oct 10, 2013
    7
    There are many pros and cons to this game. The pros would be the battle types along with maps. The planes handle well with keyboard and mouse but not perfect. Joystick is best when doing for real battles. There are a large verity of planes for all kinds of players. They are adding ships and tanks but that will not be for a while. Tanks probably by December. The cons are what lot of gamesThere are many pros and cons to this game. The pros would be the battle types along with maps. The planes handle well with keyboard and mouse but not perfect. Joystick is best when doing for real battles. There are a large verity of planes for all kinds of players. They are adding ships and tanks but that will not be for a while. Tanks probably by December. The cons are what lot of games face. The match making is a little bad but is ok most of the time. There are some control problems. Also there are some planes that are very unbalanced at high tier and low. For example Russia has a tier 8 fighter that has a 40mm on it that can one shot any bomber almost. This is good if you like historical authenticity but bad in some game modes. These are all fine problems which you can easily get over and in time they will have little effect on you. The Worst problem is ranking up. It takes along time to get jets unless you pay for xp conversion and a premium account. So it will require a lot of time. It is not pay to win however because you can shoot down just as many fighters as the people in premium planes. It is based on skill rather than money. The only pay to win is crew. If you buff your crew with say max gunners you can shot down many players fast but still if they enemy players are good they will know what angle to attack form in which they take almost no damage. Also again some fighters can one shot bombers by taking out wings. Not a lot of fighters can one shot but there are some which in a good pilots hands could make some go 10 and 0. Overall good if you invest time and effort into this game and practice you will overcome these problems. Hope I see you on the battle field.… Expand
  65. 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
  66. ivan7788
    Nov 30, 2017
    8
    Update: Even after the "fix" lowering RP and SL the game still broken because in the end the player earn a lot less per kill and won battle, pretty evil politics gaijin!
    1. The game has amazing graphics and a lot of potential.
    2. The multiplayer aspect is based on unbalance in order to cause player frustration and push player into getting overpriced (average 40-70 euros for a pay to win    Update: Even after the "fix" lowering RP and SL the game still broken because in the end the player earn a lot less per kill and won battle, pretty evil politics gaijin!
    1. The game has amazing graphics and a lot of potential.
    2. The multiplayer aspect is based on unbalance in order to cause player frustration and push player into getting overpriced (average 40-70 euros for a pay to win tank) pay to win premium vehicles.
    3. The game is handled by a rigid and agressive customer service and forum moderators.
    4. The game makes you believe that bounces, ricochet and stuff like that is handled by physics until you realize that a 88mm shell bounces of a 2mm thick AAA "armor", wich proof that there is no physics but ramdomness.    … Expand
  67. Fastpoose
    Feb 7, 2017
    4
    Got hooked for a good few days, paid up got some cool planes, got hooked for a few weeks, saved and slogged for a Lancaster, got hooked for a few more days, then realised...holy cow this is boring.

    Play have some fun, but don't waste too much money on this one ;)
  68. 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
  69. Lil_Meerkat
    Jun 11, 2014
    5
    Probably the most realistic flight-sim game available for the WW-II era, and free to play, so as a simulator it's pretty good. But as a game it kinda stinks, since game-play is totally repetitive (go into battle; shoot things down; get shot down; repeat; see the same map; use the same planes; repeat again; get bored; repeat again again) and since imbalances in favor of certain nations /Probably the most realistic flight-sim game available for the WW-II era, and free to play, so as a simulator it's pretty good. But as a game it kinda stinks, since game-play is totally repetitive (go into battle; shoot things down; get shot down; repeat; see the same map; use the same planes; repeat again; get bored; repeat again again) and since imbalances in favor of certain nations / airplanes are never addressed by the developers. The community of players is rapidly learning to shut up about the game's weaknesses, because negative feedback leads to immediately falsified records which support bans or similar control-the-community measures. Try to submit a bug report? Get banned! Ask in public why you got banned? Get banned again!

    Wait? What about money? Can they ban you if you paid something? Yes. See, War Thunder claims to be in perpetual Beta, but it'll take your money! And then change the game so that the cool new plane you just bought is no longer half as effective. Pay at your own risk ... a funny but futile attempt by members of a rather non-market-oriented culture to create "market friendly" goods, by DEMANDING that the market be SUPPLIED with their product. See, supply-and-demand? Right ... you silly Russkies, that's NOT how it's supposed to work!

    I think it could be a great game because it has such a great simulator-engine running behind all the airplanes. But because the people making the simulator don't know how to make a decent game, the only thing they've got is an excellent simulator masquerading as an annoying game that will slowly die because of their dreadfully abusive attitude toward their player-base. Pay money? Get banned! Oops ...    … Expand
  70. 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
  71. OhioGamle
    Jan 23, 2018
    1
    An interesting setting ruined by bugs and sadly the company itself. They have little interest in fixing problems but as long as whales keep giving Gajin their teets they won't change anything.

    Overall, unless you want to pay through your nose, expect nothing, especially customers support.
  72. Sakariiii
    Mar 26, 2018
    3
    If you value your sanity avoid this game like the plague. The engine itself and visuals are excellent, there is no denying that. But the nature of the game is one that requires a fair bit of skill, if you fail to play to the strength of your aircraft you have no chance of surviving. However, the problem is that the majority of players are absolute buffoons. If you play a country like theIf you value your sanity avoid this game like the plague. The engine itself and visuals are excellent, there is no denying that. But the nature of the game is one that requires a fair bit of skill, if you fail to play to the strength of your aircraft you have no chance of surviving. However, the problem is that the majority of players are absolute buffoons. If you play a country like the US for example, it's virtually a guarantee that 90% of your team will die a pointless death within the first 10 minutes of the match, leaving you alone as the soul player who played to your air-crafts strength (in this case boom & zoom combat) trying to compete with 10-15 enemy aircraft left alive. Put short, the game is only balanced when the players of each nation have above average skill levels. If the teams are average or worse (80% of matches) the nation with the best maneuverability or climb rate will win. Not even a skilled player can beat 10 other aircraft that are all after him reliably and so no matter how well you fly, you are completely reliant on your team performance. This also works both ways, if you get lucky and have a decent team, the enemy team will all die in minutes leaving 10 aircraft to chase a single enemy. Put frankly, matches are black and white, they rarely if ever wind up being close. It's almost always a total wipe out or a crushing victory, and that is impossible to predict and has nothing to do with how you fly.
    The game has also begun to become pay to win, there are now premium aircraft that are flat out better or have an unfair advantage (such as a higher spawn altitude) than their non premium versions.
    If you must play warthunder, stick to solo play or custom missions with friends. The Moba aspect of the game is hopelessly unbalanced and has next to nothing to do with skill.    … Expand
  73. Mimuless
    Oct 3, 2020
    0
    Total trash game completely pay to win, you can grind the game for months and be tier 5 or pay £50 and get to max tier, don't download its a waste of space
  74. Yuri_Andropov
    May 18, 2021
    0
    Lack of development for Airplane modes. Stupid Airplane game modes can't be turned off if the player dislikes them. Example: you have a fast jet and the mode Airfield Domination wants you to land/strafe an airfield with 700+ km/h...
    Shiny new 3D models once and then with made up physics.
    No real balancing efforts/mechanics for Arcade mode. Air "Realistic" Battles are just repainted    Lack of development for Airplane modes. Stupid Airplane game modes can't be turned off if the player dislikes them. Example: you have a fast jet and the mode Airfield Domination wants you to land/strafe an airfield with 700+ km/h...
    Shiny new 3D models once and then with made up physics.
    No real balancing efforts/mechanics for Arcade mode.
    Air "Realistic" Battles are just repainted Arcade Air Domination Battles.
    Planes have their own mode since release 2012 but the company is unable to provide this for Tanks despite the player numbers going up.

    Bad balancing attempt via repair costs(if you fail you get punished double).
    Airplane only modes exist for years but no Tank only mode.
    Tank mode is always with airplanes/Helicopters than kill you out of thin air. Gets worse the higher you go. This is one of the reasons why I stopped playing Ground Forces.
    Naval mode is boring, going to the dentist is more fun.
    "Events" are never fun.
    Lack of PvE/Coop modes for chill game.
    Made only PvE mode ridiculously harder in order to force players back into Ground mode.
    The higher the Battle rating you come, the less fun the game becomes.
    Introduced more and more guided missiles and higher Air battles remind more an more of Ace Combat, except Air Combat is fun.
    Bugs: Invisible tanks, planes, trees with buggy large collision boxes... Immortal Airfields. Failing hit registration for Air and Ground battles. Disconnects, crashes.

    Suspect payed Forum users that act as undercover moderators, that being said the Forum moderation is feces. Company buys likes for their Youtube videos.    … Expand
  75. 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
  76. ryanrennoir
    May 5, 2018
    0
    The game economy is trash, balance is trash, server(lag, ect) are juste bad, the game mode are borring ( sim good luck to find a game, air rb borring , air ab supid ,tank rb waste of money each game , tank ab supid) it's free until rank 4 (br 6.7) after that gl to make money for most player need to pay of farm A LOT of game low rank
  77. DBomb73
    Jun 8, 2019
    0
    Gaijin Entertainment uses a Fixed-Number-Generator which means they're Sociopaths. Everything humans touch turns to crap. So Mankind extermination is the only solution.
  78. Misanthropist73
    Mar 19, 2019
    0
    Gaijin Entertainment are Sociopaths. They use a Fixed-Number-Generator, which defeats the whole purpose of competing.
  79. idSoll13
    Nov 18, 2020
    0
    Донатная помойка в которой разрабы не могут починить ничего, они могут только сломать то что работало. В игре полно читеров и разрабы не делают с ними абсолютно ничего! Снаряды пролетают под землей (и килл кам даже не стесняется это показывать), турбо бои которых даже картоха не видывала, клиент постоянно вылетает во время боя. Очень жалею, что потратил на это уныние время и деньги. ЕслиДонатная помойка в которой разрабы не могут починить ничего, они могут только сломать то что работало. В игре полно читеров и разрабы не делают с ними абсолютно ничего! Снаряды пролетают под землей (и килл кам даже не стесняется это показывать), турбо бои которых даже картоха не видывала, клиент постоянно вылетает во время боя. Очень жалею, что потратил на это уныние время и деньги. Если вы еще не играли в это, то рекомендую обходить стороной.… Expand
  80. eva3si0n
    Jan 5, 2023
    0
    Terrible optimization for macOS on ARM. If the game itself comes with a high graphics preset in native resolution on the base M1. Then the very launch of the game is a real torture. On Ventura 13.1, the in-game and system mouse cursor are constantly duplicated, the FPS in the hangar drops to 25-30. And the game process can nail the work of the OS itself, even completing the process inTerrible optimization for macOS on ARM. If the game itself comes with a high graphics preset in native resolution on the base M1. Then the very launch of the game is a real torture. On Ventura 13.1, the in-game and system mouse cursor are constantly duplicated, the FPS in the hangar drops to 25-30. And the game process can nail the work of the OS itself, even completing the process in Resource Monitoring will not help in any way. It is better on macOS to bypass this underproduction… Expand
  81. Drastic_drugs
    Jan 7, 2022
    0
    Унылейшая донатная дрочильня. Полнейший pay-to-win. На высоких рангах через одного играют с читами, разрабы ничего с этим не делают. Физика уровня 1999 года, оптимизации нет, много лагов.
  82. BootyBang
    Oct 6, 2021
    0
    За рекламу с монгерштерном, совсем конченые...
  83. Grandhatred
    May 23, 2021
    0
    **** game, u can't tell me with a straight face that churchill can survive a shot of kv2 in the face turret in less that 100 meter, never give ur money to this ****ty developer **** trash and gaijin like we will give u 1 good match where u able to kill 4+ enemy then give 4+ ****ty match where i die even before notice what happening
  84. Ingvar_Alighier
    May 22, 2022
    0
    Одни читеры, собственно ничего не изменилось за столько лет!
  85. BigPuch
    Jun 30, 2022
    2
    Игра помойка.
    Проще перечислить плюсы игры, ибо минусов у неё крайне много.
    Плюсы: Хороший звук, пушки стреляют как надо, сочные взрывы, а по звуку двигателя можно определить какой танк к вам едет. Приятная графика, красивые модели танков, а в общем ничего особенного. Хорошая физика, конечно, между колёсным танком и гусеничным разницы не много, но она ощущается. Минусы: Всё остальное.    Игра помойка.
    Проще перечислить плюсы игры, ибо минусов у неё крайне много.
    Плюсы:
    Хороший звук, пушки стреляют как надо, сочные взрывы, а по звуку двигателя можно определить какой танк к вам едет. Приятная графика, красивые модели танков, а в общем ничего особенного. Хорошая физика, конечно, между колёсным танком и гусеничным разницы не много, но она ощущается.
    Минусы:
    Всё остальное.
  86. InsolentDuck
    Feb 25, 2021
    2
    he people who advocate for this game, content providers on You Tube, are lied to and deceived on a routine basis, given something that hasn't been released yet to do a video on it, but things are different about what gets released. Or announce they are told there is something that will not be changed in the game, cause the developers told them so; Several weeks later the oppositehe people who advocate for this game, content providers on You Tube, are lied to and deceived on a routine basis, given something that hasn't been released yet to do a video on it, but things are different about what gets released. Or announce they are told there is something that will not be changed in the game, cause the developers told them so; Several weeks later the opposite happens... The content providers are again apologizing to their audience... Gijien probably gets a good laugh, when they crawl back for more.
    -- Nobody gets gamed, more than the gamers. Being experienced, and having 80% trash happen for 20% decent games, even if you lose... Turns into the average, especially if you spend money on the game. It's like a mode gets turned on, because you will be trying, and not leaving soon.
    -- One of my favorite episodes: There was a type of tank that was killing me every time, for about ten games in a row...once, got me at the beginning of a game point blank as I came around a corner, before I make it four hundred yard... I was about 1,600 yds to that teams supposed start point... Oh, guess which typed of tank was on special that week?
    -- Caught them using a player's gamer tag, that wasn't in the game. He was a friend in a group, all chatting while we were in the game - he was playing Rocket League. HIs status on Xbox verified that, on friend's list. Have check this out on PC and Console. So while you are off, AI may very well be using your tag. Any blacklisting, or complaints people lodged in the game, about you using aim bots or whatever, you'll never see or hear of. Isn't that lovely?
    -- When it's "Whales night out", you will find yourself repeatedly on maps that allow the other team to limit your travel to one area, where the team is surrounded and destroyed... usually by people in a squad, in voice communication with each other, seal clubbing a multiplayer team who have no idea who the others on the team are (or even if they aren't bots), limited to stopping and typing on the keyboard for communication. I ran simulators in a previous life, and know being gamed when I see it, I used to do it to people.
    -- Great graphics and some hard work done on the game, too bad the ethics seem to not be there. I can't imagine the incredibly large customer base they would have, if honest and fair were the biggest compliment this game got... and people simply didn't leave.
    AI is used heavily in the game. AI can look at all your teams behavior and habits, and counter accordingly. This game and World of Tanks have a relationship with the Russian Military - WoT even has had it's logo on the side of Russian Tanks in International Competitions - and they are collecting data for them. They are Russian Companies, so saying no may not be an option. For some of you wondering how these games can be so broke and full of "cancer", and still survive financially... Wonder no more. It is a data gold mine, and behavior experiment also worth it's weight in gold. A great platform to test AI's ability to come up with an Order of Battle on the fly. So understand this going in.
    Basically, you will be dealing with Carnies at the State Fair... Cool game, Technically speaking.
    Also, people can dumb down the graphics in settings... So much for not allowing cheating.    … Expand
  87. DEA765
    Jun 30, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I would love the game if it had just Tank mode. Bombing and Air-strikes have ridiculously made playing Tanks unplayable unless you are a pay to win player. You get bombed so much you can't even fairly combat against enemy tanks. If you are in a good fighting position they will just drop an air-strike right on you. It has made me hate the game and become totally frustrated. I am just about to delete this game and stop playing all together. The game play sucks now. Pay to win players have an extreme advantage over you. Blows… Expand
  88. defenz
    Aug 9, 2021
    2
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  89. MaximH04
    Jan 15, 2022
    3
    In this game u CAN hane fun. The Problem wiht the game is, that it is so unbalanced. I fought with a Tank from the 2nd world war against an cold war tank, that can penetrate u even across 2000 meters, or something. There some moments where u think: this game is awesome and i am not gonna stop playing it. But this doesnt hapend often. I have played it a lot and there are good moments, butIn this game u CAN hane fun. The Problem wiht the game is, that it is so unbalanced. I fought with a Tank from the 2nd world war against an cold war tank, that can penetrate u even across 2000 meters, or something. There some moments where u think: this game is awesome and i am not gonna stop playing it. But this doesnt hapend often. I have played it a lot and there are good moments, but most of the time it is unejoying. I was playing airplanes, i tried to level them up and get new ones, but all of the time i get shoot down by some japs, because they are turning way more faster than other ones. While playing tnaks there is a chance to kill an enemy wo is way more better than u. But in the Skys of fck Thunder is no skill. There are only planes, fliying great circles all the time and the vehicle with the better stats is winning. One is the other mayor problems is getting new vehicles. At the end of the round u will get the Money (Silverlions [SL]), But u have to pay repair costs. An example: I am playing the 4.0 Battlerating BF109 F4. Most of the time i dont kill anything but sometimes i kill someone. Without boosters this will give u 2000SL. When u are unlucky and u are get shot down without a second kill. They u have to pay 4000SL for the repairing and in the case of that u will lose money every battle. I played airplanes a couple of days. before i started o had 70000SL, after playing some days i only got 30000SL left. Because this nowadays its about grinding. Getting modern tanks an planes is impossible becasue ??? (idk ASK GAIJIN). The game is getting worse with every new update and every single day of the excisting of it self.

    IF U WANT TO SUFFER GO ON! PLAY IT
    IF U WANT TO HAVE FUND PLS NEVER DOWNLOAD WARTHUNDER OR OTHER **** FROM
    GAIJIN LIKE ENLISTED    … Expand
  90. Dddprime
    Mar 5, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Repair costs are irritating af . They get greedy with every update and increase repair cost . New players just stay out coz the grind will be ****… Expand
  91. szczotekyt
    Mar 12, 2022
    1
    lm like pancakes and that game isn,t pancakes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
  92. PotatoAim_Noob
    May 22, 2023
    0
    Bad economy - impossible to progress faster than a snails pace, have to pay for premium account and overpriced premium vehicles to earn enough to progress at a normal rate at higher tiers. Premium vehicles (especially Russian/Soviet), normally have combat advantages over there tech-tree counterparts, and the vehicles of other nations at the same tier
    Greedy company killing the game    Bad economy - impossible to progress faster than a snails pace, have to pay for premium account and overpriced premium vehicles to earn enough to progress at a normal rate at higher tiers. Premium vehicles (especially Russian/Soviet), normally have combat advantages over there tech-tree counterparts, and the vehicles of other nations at the same tier
    Greedy company killing the game
    Blatant bias towards Soviet/Russian and Chinese vehicles in-game
    Gaijin also does not care for community feedback unless it suits them, will blame community for their awful decisions and changes that they are trying to make to milk the player base of all their money
    (I have almost 2,000 hours in-game)    … Expand
  93. Brenn3r
    Dec 20, 2013
    4
    This game had a lot of potential last year, but the developers have ruined it.
    +good graphics
    +different game modes
    +a lot of planes
    +really nice mouse aim
    -grind
    -pay2win
    -no end game content, just endless grind
    -grind again with new economics and progression system
    -matchmaking and balance
  94. 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
  95. 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.
  96. Brosman
    Sep 4, 2013
    8
    I'm kind of suprised this game is on Metacritic since its still in Beta. That fact aside, it is incredibly fun to play and is absolutely stunning to look at. This is one of the most impressive looking games to ever be made. Flying is one of those things that is easy to learn yet hard to master, so everyone can play it but those who put in the time to get better can give themselves anI'm kind of suprised this game is on Metacritic since its still in Beta. That fact aside, it is incredibly fun to play and is absolutely stunning to look at. This is one of the most impressive looking games to ever be made. Flying is one of those things that is easy to learn yet hard to master, so everyone can play it but those who put in the time to get better can give themselves an advantage in combat. Planes all handle differently and have different roles which gives this game great strategy features. Planes have just enough customization options to give you plane personal flair without going overboard, and every plane levels differently. Now the problems i have with it i dont really want to effect the score given its beta phase but ramming is a major issue. I think if the devs could solve the problem of other players who use ramming to either a) dont know how to shoot or b) are trolling this game would improve a lot. Also, IMO, i think that the game should be more details on how you got shot down. Its hard to learn from your mistakes when you dont know what happened to your plane. Sometimes it tells you (like when you have a fuel leak) somtimes it doesnt. I just find it annoying to be fine and then suddenly your plane loses control and crashes. Overall i cant give this game over an eight simply because its an unfinished product, and i i wont let some of its problems effect its score because of that fact too. I cant wait for them to expand the Beta and get ground and Naval combat in the game.… Expand
  97. 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
  98. punch3870
    Nov 30, 2013
    1
    i have spent 25 minutes, just trying to get into the game. 13 minutes went to waiting for the stupid thing to download the patch. 10 minutes went to some stupid thing called an outdated video driver. 2 minutes went to being speechless.
  99. 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...
  100. 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
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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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