For new players - what you need to know

[Selgald]

1. The game is fun
2. The game can also suck
3. The netcode is not the best (you die around corners)
4. There is the same amount of cheating like in any other fps game
5. For beginners, aim for BR2 (For BR2 Ger - MP40 and Pre-War-Kar98k and for RU Winchester M1895 and PPS-43 (or PPS-42 if you aim is bad) are a good choice)
6. The economy is bad right now (you earn not enough silver)
7. only spend your silver on soldiers if you absolutely have to, or until you reach their max tier
8. don't buy random weapons, look on Reddit what is considered “the best” for certain situations and only upgrade these
9. stay with one nation until you have enough silver to play around a bit
10. don't start with Japan
11. the premium stuff is expansive, but there are many sales that drop prices by 50%
12. always wait for the sale
13. If you are good with spending, you can buy the BattlePass once (it always contains enough gold to buy the next one)
14. BattlePass usually gets 10 more days added in the end
15. Always choose the backpack upgrade and only use large ammo packs
16. Always use TNT Bundels for throwing or molotov for trolling

[odis]

4 = FAKE NEWS

[ItsFrosty]

To second his points

1. Swapping from front-line infantry squad to a tanker squad and being useful to your team in both is comparable to Battlefield.
2. You're playing Infantry Warthunder, you gotta expect this game to suck a little bit.
3. Yeah the netcode is pretty ass, and Heavy MG's/Cannons are inconsistent on walls you can shoot through.
4. Easy Anticheat is used
5. BR 1 is WWI-Interwar stuff while BR 2 pushes early WWII, which we all know is where the fun fps guns got made, right? The BR system is also not good, but at least they try.
6. The economy is bad unless you play a ton and buy the battlepass, it really needs improvement.
7. Don't spend money upgrading weapons to max either unless it's a special weapon to you or the Garand.
8. You'll buy the weapon once for the research (like Warthunder) but you'll realize the BR1 Bolt Action one shots people like the BR3 bolt action, so why buy so many.
9. USA's tech tree should really be called Allies and Germany as Axis but w/e
10. Japans start is rough, their first tank, the Ta-Se, has the Gunner and Loaders head poking up just enough for anyone on the map to want to play Whack-A-Mole. Japans military tech wasn't exactly "advanced" so the Allies are using Thompsons while you're still using Bolt Actions and Katana's (which the Japanese get as a melee weapon)
11. Only buy BR 1 stuff as anything further is overpriced to hell and back. Warthunder-like 50% off sale is sick, though
12. again, usual 50% off sale
13. The Battlepass is *okay*
14. The past two got end-of-season delays
15. Backpack Upgrade for troops lets you equip them with either: four grenades, three more mags/clips, or 5 medkits/tools. Ammo is cool when your HMG guy has more rounds than he could reasonably carry alone.
16. TNT is like a Heavy Grenade that can damage tanks and Molotovs also damage tanks engines. You pick tiny grenades when you dont want to buy more TNT and Molotovs.

[Slyke]

This game is not something you need to prepare yourself for. Especially not with a 16 point list. Calm down a bit.

[jeab]

1. 1 one vehicle will set you back 40-60 dollars
2. one squad is 40 dollars
3. you will be using springlock rifles only for the first 20 hours while your enemy will have thompsons etc
4. the grind is insane

[Goofy Goober]

1 Buying premium is needed for a enjoyable grind experience
2 The games main A.I feature is brain dead and will do nothing but annoy with no attempt to cover them self's and kill other A.I unless it a inch away from them , they serve as free kills and to fill up servers
3 you will be expected to do events at times you don't want to because if you don't you will miss out on exclusive rewards like paratroopers and Armed APC's and special weapons (not in the base free grind tree)
4 you will find yourself fighting for XP,Kills,Score against your own teammates just to survive in this game which ends up being exhausting to do every game and just shows how much of a job this game really is

[Flotch]

Originally posted by Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas:

2 The games main A.I feature is brain dead and will do nothing but annoy with no attempt to cover them self's and kill other A.I unless it a inch away from them , they serve as free kills and to fill up servers
4 you will find yourself fighting for XP,Kills,Score against your own teammates just to survive in this game which ends up being exhausting to do every game and just shows how much of a job this game really is

So far I've spent $0 on this game. However, I did spend probably 10 hours trying it out, and these arguments, as well as these ones:

Originally posted by Jebu:

3. you will be using springlock rifles only for the first 20 hours while your enemy will have thompsons etc
4. the grind is insane

All very accurate, honestly.

I can't stress enough how true it is that the AI ONLY serve as a "free kill" at this point. It reminds me of when I'd intentionally set the AI difficulty to 0% in Battlefield 1942 as a child, so that there was no difficulty in mowing down dozens of enemies. They basically just stand there or run out in the open and let you obliterate them, can't even defend a building and instead act as a points farm for the enemy team.

[Flotch]

The closest analogy I can find to the "AI-Controlled" soldiers in this game, is if your own team's creeps followed you wherever you went in a MOBA. They serve the primary purpose of being an easy points farm via explosives and automatic gunfire.

[Franss the Coffee Addict]

I 'member when bronze/silver/gold order card thingies where a thing. Are they not a thing anymore? What is the conversion rate on those things anyway, cause last time I played those were still in

[9TAILS]

Don't even buy premium squads, not worth. Premium squad soldiers and weaponry are maxed out level wise and you can't grind them. Premium squads are boring. You're paying to be bored lol.

[Slyke]

Originally posted by Mikery:

Don't even buy premium squads, not worth. Premium squad soldiers and weaponry are maxed out level wise and you can't grind them. Premium squads are boring. You're paying to be bored lol.

Squad progression is disastrously bad, you aren't missing out by skipping it.

Nevertheless, many premium squads have serious problems because of the recently introduced battle ratings system. It's the same with many non-premium things as well, but at least with those you aren't paying to suffer.

[Jackie Daytona]

I love how Japan always sucks simply because you can't code the sheer amount of ferocity they had into a game. Japan would in reality be OP as hell. These games based on tech are ass.

[snickii]

Originally posted by Selgald:

1. The game is fun
2. The game can also suck
3. The netcode is not the best (you die around corners)
4. There is the same amount of cheating like in any other fps game
5. For beginners, aim for BR2 (For BR2 Ger - MP40 and Pre-War-Kar98k and for RU Winchester M1895 and PPS-43 (or PPS-42 if you aim is bad) are a good choice)
6. The economy is bad right now (you earn not enough silver)
7. only spend your silver on soldiers if you absolutely have to, or until you reach their max tier
8. don't buy random weapons, look on Reddit what is considered “the best” for certain situations and only upgrade these
9. stay with one nation until you have enough silver to play around a bit
10. don't start with Japan
11. the premium stuff is expansive, but there are many sales that drop prices by 50%
12. always wait for the sale
13. If you are good with spending, you can buy the BattlePass once (it always contains enough gold to buy the next one)
14. BattlePass usually gets 10 more days added in the end
15. Always choose the backpack upgrade and only use large ammo packs
16. Always use TNT Bundels for throwing or molotov for trolling

So when I start I will play not the weapons at 5., i will spend silver not at soldiers, i will start with japan and buy random weapons.
Then I will buy everything but never at sale

[Cosmo 🐲]

Originally posted by Selgald:

1. The game is fun
2. The game can also suck
3. The netcode is not the best (you die around corners)
4. There is the same amount of cheating like in any other fps game
5. For beginners, aim for BR2 (For BR2 Ger - MP40 and Pre-War-Kar98k and for RU Winchester M1895 and PPS-43 (or PPS-42 if you aim is bad) are a good choice)
6. The economy is bad right now (you earn not enough silver)
7. only spend your silver on soldiers if you absolutely have to, or until you reach their max tier
8. don't buy random weapons, look on Reddit what is considered “the best” for certain situations and only upgrade these
9. stay with one nation until you have enough silver to play around a bit
10. don't start with Japan
11. the premium stuff is expansive, but there are many sales that drop prices by 50%
12. always wait for the sale
13. If you are good with spending, you can buy the BattlePass once (it always contains enough gold to buy the next one)
14. BattlePass usually gets 10 more days added in the end
15. Always choose the backpack upgrade and only use large ammo packs
16. Always use TNT Bundels for throwing or molotov for trolling

5. - This is prob the best advice, BR2 is where the fun is. BR5 is all about explotions everywhere, all the time. (i do prefer the VG.2 over the Pre-War-Kar98k tho)

[Slyke]

Originally posted by Player 1 (Cosmo):

5. - This is prob the best advice, BR2 is where the fun is. BR5 is all about explotions everywhere, all the time. (i do prefer the VG.2 over the Pre-War-Kar98k tho)

This isn't connected to BR directly, that's just how tryhards tend to play and BR 5 is where most of them are for now. This BRs system is new, there's no telling where they will end up staying.

The real point of that advice is that with the way BRs work right now (or rather that they are broken as hell), there's massive incentive to stay at BR 2 until you have a full BR 5 set. BR #1 and #4 get uptiered 100% of the time, #3 is a purgatory meant to make everyone suffer.

[Cosmo 🐲]

Originally posted by Slyke:

Originally posted by Player 1 (Cosmo):

5. - This is prob the best advice, BR2 is where the fun is. BR5 is all about explotions everywhere, all the time. (i do prefer the VG.2 over the Pre-War-Kar98k tho)

This isn't connected to BR directly, that's just how tryhards tend to play and BR 5 is where most of them are for now. This BRs system is new, there's no telling where they will end up staying.

The real point of that advice is that with the way BRs work right now (or rather that they are broken as hell), there's massive incentive to stay at BR 2 until you have a full BR 5 set. BR #1 and #4 get uptiered 100% of the time, #3 is a purgatory meant to make everyone suffer.

There are more and bigger explotions at higher BR so yes it is defo a BR thingy.
Big tanks and AT-cannons with big shells, and planes with a lot of explosive stuff ect.

I have most if not all the endgame stuff for Germany and all but some Tommy guns for US. And i am staying at BR2 because its much more fun and a lot less explotions.