how long would it take to unlock modern tanks/ jet planes?

[S-Array 03]

I haven't played the game for a while and all the new modern vehicle kinda got my interest back, but I also remember the grind is hard in this game, so how long would it take for a player a bit under average to get to the end of a tree branch with around 2-3 games a day?

[Zalzany]

2-3 games a day will tak you months if not premium with a premium vehichl with a big fat RP bonus...

[MoonPrune]

2-3 games per day? I have 1500 hours and tier V in 2 nations. You might be at it a while :)

[S-Array 03]

:/ I kinda expected that awnser, is there a buy all vehicles pack for scurbs like me who don't like grinding? I just saw the vehicle packs on the steam page

well maybe not all but some interesting ones at least, not necessarily modern era

how does the free xp works? pay golds to use it or free xp lying around?

[Leinad]

Originally posted by sniperquikill:

:/ I kinda expected that awnser, is there a buy all vehicles pack for scurbs like me who don't like grinding? I just saw the vehicle packs on the steam page

well maybe not all but some interesting ones at least, not necessarily modern era

how does the free xp works? pay golds to use it or free xp lying around?

You can always buy premium vehicles from the Gaijin store for real money. The free exp are a certain ammount of exp, that you gain during battles, but are locked behind a pay wall.

[MoonPrune]

Originally posted by sniperquikill:

:/ I kinda expected that awnser, is there a buy all vehicles pack for scurbs like me who don't like grinding? I just saw the vehicle packs on the steam page

Well.. buy a high tier prem vehicle which will ease the grind a lot, add in premium time and for 2-3 matches you could earn about 10-15k RP. Will cost about £50 ($70) plus the ongoing cost for premium time.

Yeah it's only free exp in the sense it hasn't been assigned to research yet.

[S-Array 03]

seems expensive to me, what kind of stuff do you get for £50 ?

the steam pack on the steam store seems legit at 30€ since there are 2 campaigns with it and a 30days premium but how does that compare to the rest of the store?

also can I buy stuff there using my steam credit ?

[Rei]

I own a couple top tier jets, and I can say as far as they go, they're not all that. I know they seem really cool because they're like the end game stuff and look fancy, but I've always found prop planes to be more fun. I'm sure the same could be said for tanks. That's not even to go into the repair costs and modification grind for that sort of stuff.

[S-Array 03]

don't get me wrong I like the older vehicles too, but since modern era is in the game it'd be cool to try it too ^^ I really like the a6m fighters and the b17 and some of the low tier japanese tanks are pretty fun too

[ernest p. worrell]

The grind is extremely, extremely long and tedious even if you're paying for premium, and honestly it's not even worth it to do all the grinding. You can't even take the game's convertible research points and advance anything in any significant way if you're willing to pay... The majority of games are still being played from probably 2.0-5.0 in the air. I would argue the funnest and sweetest spot is from about 3.0-4.0 BR. I don't touch ground so I can't tell you what's happening there. The higher BR you queue (like the post-war turboprop planes) you have more chance of running into jets that are just gonna rake over you.

I don't think they have any idea what they're doing with the release of this higher tier stuff, they really don't have a game mode or a playerbase where this diversity of vehicles really matters or can work in a really harmonious way, again at least not in air battles. It's been a concern since before the game came out of beta... I figured they'd have put a dent in this by now but we really still don't have a game mode.

Think of some of the most successful games right now... Counter Strike, PUBG, Dota, Rainbow Six, League... there's something in common here, and the main thing is they all have a very well defined game mode that keeps the player engaged. Only when you have that can you really balance anything around anything and build a full game. Look at PUBG which was part game part phenomenon... they launched with a mode, that was all they have. War Thunder has sort of been taking the opposite approach from the beginning--work on vehicles and content, and kind of sporadically release them and try to piece it together into basically work in progress game modes that are being playertested until they find something fun.

I like War Thunder, I'm not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ all over it here, I would encourage you to play and have fun with it especially if you're new because those first 3 tiers are really fun for some hours. If you're interested in it for the persistent elements though as if it were an MMO and you're looking forward to the end-game content that you grind to... that's not really how it works. Unlike the MMO style they are trying to go with in how you level/unlock (and even billing the game as an MMO or at least for some time they did), the game works opposite to most of those games. In MMO games you keep playing and unlocking until you get to the end of the game where the "real" game begins... Here I think the real game is in the beginning and middle and peters off the further you go.

[YoWutSup]

It takes a long time. If you are going to play this for the high end vehicles, expect at least a couple years without premium. Probably shorter if you are using premium. It depends how much time and/or money you put into it.

But to be honest, the lower br/tiers are more entertaining. It's a lot more popular than the top vehicles anyways...at least for air battles.

[mjaco]

A lifetime, possibly two !

[MockingClone]

Alternatively, you can also buy a tailsman for your favorite high tier tank and use it to grind for tanks. You can speed grind in this game, though you will need a relatively fast tank for it. Basically, play arcade and rush capture as many points as you can. Die quickly and move on to the next game (never spend more than 6 min on one game).Do this with premium and a tailsman'd tank and you can easily grind 100K RP in like 3 hours.

[O.]

i played this game for 4 years "on" and "off", not yet unlocked everything in the tree and i have premium time + premium vehicles.

My best advice to you is to choose 1 or 2 nation you want to focus on instead of everything

[Ģ◊иℤ◊⚡ℤ∀муpΛй]

this game is very time consuming if you dont have enough free time i recommend to stay away.

[MoonPrune]

Originally posted by sniperquikill:

seems expensive to me, what kind of stuff do you get for £50 ?
also can I buy stuff there using my steam credit ?

If you spend it wisely, you could get a few talismans and some premium time for a while to boost research. However, getting any vehicles worth talismanning will take hundreds of hours alone - £50 will buy you a top tier premium tank with which to skip that process and grind even faster.

Yeah you can using your steam balance.