Love It Or Hate It: War Thunder

Do NOT play this game. I love it so much it is hard to stop playing. it is hard to stop playing because I get so frustrated that the ballistics they show you (that are mostlyh accurate) never happen. Stuff you should be killing doesn't die. You die instead. EX. I just shot an M4 105mm Sherman in the side with my m4 105mm Sherman. he didn't die..but he killed me. Yes, yes, I know that is combat...COULD happen. But to me it happens 90% of the time. I had a JPZ IV 75 l70 gun..penetrates 189mm armor. I shoot tanks with half that, at all angles and it bounces off. My 122mm JS2 gun...bounces off t34's with 45 mm armor, yet his crappy gun kills my JS2, one of the best end of war tanks. It goes on and on and I am not exaggerating. I was an armor crewman in the US army and this game is beautiful, when it works right it is incredibly fun, but it upsets me so much because it SHOULD work all the time and it just never reaches its potential. I always play 'just one more game' hoping I can actually kill things I hit, like they kill me, and it doesn't happen and I get pissed more and more. Don't even start with the matching system. 90% of the time I am matched with tanks well above my level, but NEVER below my level. I don't know if I am on some shitlist of theirs or what, but it is unfair and it sucks ass. I am going to delete the game because it just pisses me off too much and won't do as promised.

Like it but kind of tired - it can be quite repetitive.

SUPER SHIT! All rushit games suck balls, not find any good yet.

Well the game is pretty bad. You should get the hint when they put bi planes against single engine dog fighters and jets...yeah...because that is fair. They have HUGE balancing issues and to make up for it, if you like bi planes, you would want to stick to ONE nation (Japanese) because of the faster turn time. Turning and fire power is what wins the game, the slower the turn, the deader you are unless you are a bomber. You can find a decent dog fight here and there, but majority is cash shoppers that "zoom and boom". They pic the fastest fighter, zoom higher than you, drop in full kenetic energy and 2 shot you.
In the event you are skilled like me, and you can survive and shake people off, and then swing back on them to open fire, you will see the fail in this game. As you fire off round after round and see the +10 + 5 + 15 + 13 and you get coins for "damaging". Which is nice, but you will soon realize that its like shooting a brick wall with a BB gun, just toying with the other player and you will sit there firing all day long no death. Meanwhile you will get 2 shot. This is due to rank 4 in rank 1 and 2 matches etc. Higher armored hulls vs your top fighter = bad. Throw all this in a pot and yes, you can have a "cool dog" fight, but it feels stupid and un balanced MAJORITY of the time. They have not installed a "bi planes vs bi planes" mode. They have not installed a bamanced tier mode. They charge a lot. They have not installed a WW2 mode.

Well the game is pretty bad. You should get the hint when they put bi planes against single engine dog fighters and jets...yeah...because that is fair. They have HUGE balancing issues and to make up for it, if you like bi planes, you would want to stick to ONE nation (Japanese) because of the faster turn time. Turning and fire power is what wins the game, the slower the turn, the deader you are unless you are a bomber. You can find a decent dog fight here and there, but majority is cash shoppers that "zoom and boom". They pic the fastest fighter, zoom higher than you, drop in full kenetic energy and 2 shot you.
In the event you are skilled like me, and you can survive and shake people off, and then swing back on them to open fire, you will see the fail in this game. As you fire off round after round and see the +10 + 5 + 15 + 13 and you get coins for "damaging". Which is nice, but you will soon realize that its like shooting a brick wall with a BB gun, just toying with the other player and you will sit there firing all day long no death. Meanwhile you will get 2 shot. This is due to rank 4 in rank 1 and 2 matches etc. Higher armored hulls vs your top fighter = bad. Throw all this in a pot and yes, you can have a "cool dog" fight, but it feels stupid and un balanced MAJORITY of the time. They have not installed a "bi planes vs bi planes" mode. They have not installed a bamanced tier mode. They charge a lot. They have not installed a WW2 mode.
"Tanks and planes YAY" NO! It is false. Tank mode is SEPERATE AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WIHT PLANES. There is a AIR STRIKE CALL that works like a CALL OF DUTY SKILL, where, at certain points, if you have it equipped, you can call an air strike (like a dog strike in CoD) you leave your TANK (yes leave it sitting there parked in the field) and are teleproted into a airplane. You do not chose the plane, it is just a PERK plane used. You have about 20 seconds to GUN, not bomb, but gun the enemy down getting more of that useless +15 +20 pointage. You can ram, everyone tries, it does nothing to tanks....I see so many fail people say "YOu can have real sky battles and tank battles!" no, not working as intended. They have yet to fuse the two game modes entirely. Your planes you use and build ARE NOT used in tank mode. And vice versa.
Stay away, they are not changing any time soon. Go with Star COnflict; WAYYYY better balance and over all game experience.

Well the game is pretty bad. You should get the hint when they put bi planes against single engine dog fighters and jets...yeah...because that is fair. They have HUGE balancing issues and to make up for it, if you like bi planes, you would want to stick to ONE nation (Japanese) because of the faster turn time. Turning and fire power is what wins the game, the slower the turn, the deader you are unless you are a bomber. You can find a decent dog fight here and there, but majority is cash shoppers that "zoom and boom". They pic the fastest fighter, zoom higher than you, drop in full kenetic energy and 2 shot you.
In the event you are skilled like me, and you can survive and shake people off, and then swing back on them to open fire, you will see the fail in this game. As you fire off round after round and see the +10 + 5 + 15 + 13 and you get coins for "damaging". Which is nice, but you will soon realize that its like shooting a brick wall with a BB gun, just toying with the other player and you will sit there firing all day long no death. Meanwhile you will get 2 shot. This is due to rank 4 in rank 1 and 2 matches etc. Higher armored hulls vs your top fighter = bad. Throw all this in a pot and yes, you can have a "cool dog" fight, but it feels stupid and un balanced MAJORITY of the time. They have not installed a "bi planes vs bi planes" mode. They have not installed a bamanced tier mode. They charge a lot. They have not installed a WW2 mode.
"Tanks and planes YAY" NO! It is false. Tank mode is SEPERATE AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WIHT PLANES. There is a AIR STRIKE CALL that works like a CALL OF DUTY SKILL, where, at certain points, if you have it equipped, you can call an air strike (like a dog strike in CoD) you leave your TANK (yes leave it sitting there parked in the field) and are teleproted into a airplane. You do not chose the plane, it is just a PERK plane used. You have about 20 seconds to GUN, not bomb, but gun the enemy down getting more of that useless +15 +20 pointage. You can ram, everyone tries, it does nothing to tanks....I see so many fail people say "YOu can have real sky battles and tank battles!" no, not working as intended. They have yet to fuse the two game modes entirely. Your planes you use and build ARE NOT used in tank mode. And vice versa.
Stay away, they are not changing any time soon. Go with Star COnflict; WAYYYY better balance and over all game experience.

Well the game is pretty bad. You should get the hint when they put bi planes against single engine dog fighters and jets...yeah...because that is fair. They have HUGE balancing issues and to make up for it, if you like bi planes, you would want to stick to ONE nation (Japanese) because of the faster turn time. Turning and fire power is what wins the game, the slower the turn, the deader you are unless you are a bomber. You can find a decent dog fight here and there, but majority is cash shoppers that "zoom and boom". They pic the fastest fighter, zoom higher than you, drop in full kenetic energy and 2 shot you.
In the event you are skilled like me, and you can survive and shake people off, and then swing back on them to open fire, you will see the fail in this game. As you fire off round after round and see the +10 + 5 + 15 + 13 and you get coins for "damaging". Which is nice, but you will soon realize that its like shooting a brick wall with a BB gun, just toying with the other player and you will sit there firing all day long no death. Meanwhile you will get 2 shot. This is due to rank 4 in rank 1 and 2 matches etc. Higher armored hulls vs your top fighter = bad. Throw all this in a pot and yes, you can have a "cool dog" fight, but it feels stupid and un balanced MAJORITY of the time. They have not installed a "bi planes vs bi planes" mode. They have not installed a bamanced tier mode. They charge a lot. They have not installed a WW2 mode.
"Tanks and planes YAY" NO! It is false. Tank mode is SEPERATE AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WIHT PLANES. There is a AIR STRIKE CALL that works like a CALL OF DUTY SKILL, where, at certain points, if you have it equipped, you can call an air strike (like a dog strike in CoD) you leave your TANK (yes leave it sitting there parked in the field) and are teleproted into a airplane. You do not chose the plane, it is just a PERK plane used. You have about 20 seconds to GUN, not bomb, but gun the enemy down getting more of that useless +15 +20 pointage. You can ram, everyone tries, it does nothing to tanks....I see so many fail people say "YOu can have real sky battles and tank battles!" no, not working as intended. They have yet to fuse the two game modes entirely. Your planes you use and build ARE NOT used in tank mode. And vice versa.
Stay away, they are not changing any time soon. Go with Star COnflict; WAYYYY better balance and over all game experience.

Sorry Jason but you lost it with this one...lacks realizim, well it IS a game but it has far more realizim that you give it credit for, the only thing i can think of is the possible times in tank battles where tank physics are a bit derpy BUT on the whole it has a briliant simulation mode.

Saying that i just can't get into it.
I know there are a fair few problems with how the game matchmakes and then there is the fail developpment choices the seem to be making(sim battles in arcade maps)

Jason Winter, oh dear god the mistake you've made by saying "lacks realism"... you have no idea. Why would you do that ? Did you even try landing a plane on simulator difficulty ? Anyway it's just a f2p game, but one that pays much more attention to detail than WoT. This game never wanted to be a simulator, but it still does a good job at it ! And they also do not neglect actual history, look at their news page ! So much you can learn, the historical events are awesome. WoT is just arcade, a game. WarThunder is SO much more. The devs clearly put their hearts into the game.

WT is a friggin yay all the way, there's so much options and so much to do in just one free game ! And they're not even done with it yet, so much huge updates to come. Never in my years of online gaming since 1999 have I came across a free game like this that I actually spend money on because I feel they deserve every penny and I want it to go even further.

"Cons: Lacks realism, localization is iffy."
HAHA! U so funny!

Lacks realism? obviously you know nothing of tankery or planes. how the vehicles operate or fire is more realistic than wot or wowp. the author might have "game" experience but def is lacking in knowing realism.

WarThunder and lack of realism? Someone didn't explore more than 5 min in the hanger UI. Tsk tsk. WarThunder offers 3 different gamestyle, arcade, realism and simulation. Please test those before claiming they lack of realism. If anyone lack realism its WoWp, but that just me. /rant

Both games have their own unique strength and weaknesses, both on ground and in the air. It is more of a preference of what kind of gamer each individual is and what each title has to offer.

Let's bring both to about same level of game difficulty (around Arcade mode). In Warthunder you can bring multiple tank/planes into same match and you don't have to spend as much time in queue as WoT or WoWp players do. On same note, WT arcade mode is bit less challenging because if you die in your first or 2nd tank/plane, well you got more, so players tend to be more reckless than a good fighter.

Realism: WT arcade mode is far less realistic by all means as well as compared to WoWp, however WT does offer 2 other difficulties therefor targeting a wide range of audience vs WoT/WoWp. Simulation in WT is full sim game pretty much against other players, WG on the other hand offers fairly well developed ClanWars.

Missions: WT offers both solo and multiplayer in depth Missions with various difficulties. If a group of friends like to enjoy bit of fun among themselves. Where as in WG titles missions primarily do in random matches without any standalone server.

Free XP: WG offers free experience that you own to spend on other vehicles to unlock research and of course allows you converting experience from Elite vehicles to unlock research for small price. Gaijin on the other hand is straight up cashcow when it comes exp conversion and completely denial about free experience.

Crew Training: WG is lacking on in depth crew training vs Gaijin.

At the end of the day, you can go on for hours, days, month debating which one is better or worse. Ultimately it comes down to what each individual prefer and they will play that game and support that title. I personally play both WG and Gaijin titles, depending on what I feel like doing.

Gotta, say personally I'm a world of warplanes fan but after a short time trying war thunder i must admit its better than anything wargaming has to offer in every way, whether you love the skies or the battlefield gaijin has wargaming unarguably trumped as they offer extreme amounts of realism if wanted or an unmatched arcade mode, to sit back and relax in. Compared to war thunder, world of war planes/world of tanks seems like a sloppy, lazy job.Not to say they aren't good games as i still play WoW frequently, i only argue war thunder is completely better in all ways. please do not flame me wargaming fans... just play war thunder and accept defeat -biddle

How is a con that it lacks realism? Does the person playing this not play realistic or simulator?

Meh... I hoped that it would be the WWII version of Airrivals but still a competitive game.