Crates and battle trophies are inarguably rigged.

[Chaos]

Pretty much as the title says. I have opened plenty of crates and battle trophies in my time playing war thunder and I can say with 100% certainty that they are rigged.

Whenever the spin seems to end on the edge of a rare reward, it will somehow magically flip over to the common reward that's right next to it. Whenever it ends on the edge common reward, it won't similarly flip over to the rare reward next to it, it will flip back to the center of the common reward. It could literally be a single pixel away from the rare reward and yet it will flip back to the common whereas it can be almost to the center of a rare reward and still flip back to the common next to it. I'm so sick of it.

[CaptainSpacetime]

You have to hit escape right when it's on the rare rewards, then you get them basically all the time.

I got most of the rare ones with this tactic.

[chicks99]

Yeah the crate opening animation is retarded, it rarely makes it clear that all you're going to get is the stupid wager you already have hundreds of or some random junk.

Like others have said, the opening animation is just there to give you hope but the outcome was already decided the moment you clicked to consume it. The animation doesn't mean jack, even if it crossed the line of the box into something actually good - only to give you the trash next to it.

[Cha Cha Real Rough]

Gamblers hit it big

[karabaş 🐕‍🦺]

why do people think only war thunder has this fake animation, every game with gambling has it

[Eftwyrd]

You do realise the animation means nothing… they put a pretty picture on the screen but that’s all it has ever been, seeing it stop ‘so close’ to something is just intended to showcase what is in the drop table, you weren’t actually close because that is not how computer generated randomness works…

the outcome is determined before the roll even happens because a computer doesn’t need to animate a roulette wheel to generate a random result, doing so would be so ass backwards I would question the qualifications of any developer that tried it.

Most programming languages have an inbuilt random number generator, all you do is define the range of numbers to roll, for example an integer between one and one thousand, and define the ranges of different outcomes, ie super rare prize only if you get exactly 1, it doesn’t cycle through numbers deciding where to stop, it just spits out a number with a 2 being no ‘closer’ to 1 than 500 because that’s ain’t how it decided

Pretty sure any form of gambling that tried to make it actually work using an animation besides wasting their time doing something needlessly complex and against all good programming practice, would end up in a lot of hot water with any governing bodies because to put it bluntly the whole idea is unreliable and completely brain dead to boot…

I despair at the number of people posting such ‘revelations’ as if they were news, it shouldn’t be done any other way, just ignore the animation if it offends you

[Kogoro]

Yeah as the other person said the wheel is useless and the reward is decided as soon as it starts, I remember as an example someone showed that as soon as the wheel started they had more SL than before and sure enough it stopped on the SL, so it's all predetermined and the wheel is just a tactic to make you want to keep trying classic gambling.

Not that there is any gambling with the login box as you are not putting anything up to risk.