Recent reviews by Podszywacz( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Sadly, devs don't understand the playerbase or they don't even play the game, what results in devs reducing the RP and SL income from battles + punishing players for playing tech tree vehicles, that players enjoy due to their repair costs being way too big. The premium vehicle spam, which causes most high br matches to contain more premium vehicles than their tech tree equivalents, since playing tech tree vehicles doesn't yield good SL income, while premium variants of vehicles not only have significantly lower repair cost, they also earn a lot more RP and SL thanks to their modifiers + some premiums that the entire community marks as harmful for the game/players/gamemode/BR or just op, are left undertiered just because most players buy and use this vehicle, since playing this type of vehicles yields you the most income/research progress. Playing without premium account is a waste of time if you have a job and you can't afford to spend most of your day playing War Thunder, and War Thunder events perfectly show you, that if you can't spend at least 4 hours daily for the entire event doing nothing but playing vehicles that you don't necessarily like, then you don't deserve the main prize/vehicle you may want to get. For several years, the game started getting more and more demanding. Not even challenging if it comes to the difficulty, it requires more and more grind to actually achieve what you want. If your aim is rank 3-5 vehicles, the grind is somewhat doable, especially if you can afford premium account. Anything past rank 5? The grind with stock and uplayable vehicles is just pain, since you lack FPE and repair parts, which should be free from the start, because without them you can't fully repair broken components of put out fire, which results in you not being capable of sustaining any non-fatal hit, that only sets you on fire or disables your cannon breech. I hope that I'll be able to change this review onto a positive one, once Gaijin actually listens to its' playerbase and actually make tha game better. For me, this game became too unbearable, it burnt me out because I wanted to enjoy playing vehicles, I liked.

If you want an example of how Gaijin broke the game, try out 5.7 - 6.3 BR Germany Realistic Air Battles or ~10.0 BR Realistic Air Battles for any country or 8.7 - 9.3 Air Realistic Battles with jets lacking flares, like sabres or G 91s. All of these BR ranges are either unplayable or unenjoyable due to premium aircraft spam.

P.S. 314 hours of playtime is just the fraction of the playtime. I was actively playing the game since 2013/14 on official Gaijin's launcher, which doesn't let you follow your real playtime, so I can only assume how much hours I spent in this game, since I only recently switched onto the steam launcher.

While it's a really fun game based on teamwork with other players on your side, the contact with devs is almost non-existant, both teams are infested by alt accounts (people buy additional instances of the game to grief the other side, which is bannable, but due to lack of any moderation, most alt accounts don't even get banned) and lack of the quality of life updates make it so after some hours into this game, you'll essentially get more and more frustrated by these issues. While this game sure is a good game and has the potential, due to the lack of fixing the issues I pointed out by devs, I'm not going to recommend this game to other players currently.