War Thunder needs help.

[Winters_Bane]

This discussion will probably receive some hate. You might not agree with me.

I don't care.

If you don't like what I have to say, then move on.

(Also this is about air mostly.)

War Thunder should be a great game. But its not. Why you may ask? This is because of two reasons: the players' idiocy and Gaijin's greed.

1: The players' idiocy.
How many times do people say 'I hate War Thunder'? How many people complain about the game being biased against them, and then still continue to play? If you don't like the game then don't play!
There are also so many noobs. Now this is not actually their fault (but ill get in to that later). Because of the amount of noobs, the BR of certain vehicles gets janked because the noobs usually underperform. Example is Wyvern. This plane needs to get nerfed hard. It is way too OP but noobs who think they can play like a pro buy Wyvern and then suck so Wyvern is 4.3 when it could still compete in a 5.0 match.
Also noobs clog up matches and die or teamkill or just act like idiots. Matchmaking should be based more around skill level, not just BR.
Don't even get me started on pay-to-winners. They are worse then noobs. Nine times out of ten some guy buys a premium in a country he has zero progress in, plays AB with one premium and three biplanes, and then sucks in the premium. The F-89 spam is crazy RN and nobody can actually use the plane.

Also people who think they are so good and could never die. This is wrong. You are most likely a noob like everyone else. Yes im sure you went in to top tier with a biplane and got 5 kills. Yes youre so cool. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. No one likes a person with a big ego.

People who play bombers in Air AB. Need I say more about that?

2. Gaijin's greed and misinformation campaign.
There is a way to fix the noob issue. Have decent tutorials, and a wiki, and fix the janked stat cards.
Tutorials that explain maneuvers and how to dogfight would be useful. The tutorials now seem designed to make people bad. Flying in a straight line and maybe turning left or right will not make anybody a better player. Explaining how planes work and why they do what they do will also help the mechanics of flying click for them.

Second, the wiki is garbage. Yes the new one is better. But the wiki itself doesn't do much for players besides turn stat cards into a webpage. It gives a short history and then gives information you can just go find in game. The player articles are okay I guess, but I've seen some where it just seems like people promoting their YouTube channel. In addition they often have nothing to do with the articles they are attached to. J7W1 has an article about tanks attached to it. Why? Only Gaijin knows.

Stat cards are garbage. The top speed is not practical (either being unobtainable or exceed-able.) and does nothing for AB players that can practically reach mach 1 in a prop. Turn time makes no sense. To achieve that time you must have a specific weight, speed, altitude and angle of bank. What are these magical numbers? No one can know. Again in AB turn time doesn't matter because you can easily exceed them. Energy retention would be a better stat.

So why doesn't Gaijin make this game better? Because they are greedy. It is designed to be frustrating and hard to play so you buy premium stuff to make your life better. Spoiler alert: they dont.


So, what can you do?
It is very unlikely for these issues to get better. Gaijin continues to improve graphics (why would they do this? i doubt very many people care) instead of caring for their player base and then they ask us for labor of love nominations. I have seen little love.

What you can do is become a better player. Enjoy every vehicle. Learn about the game and how it works. Spend some time outside the game learning real life mechanics and the history of interesting vehicles. Most importantly; play whatever is fun. Playing Rank V and the grind is getting to you? Maybe try a new country. Can't play one more tank match? Play air battles. Your plane is made of tofu and paper and the wings rip constantly? Play AB instead of RB for a bit. Changing it up is refreshing and fun.


Note to devs. Nothing against you or the game. I am not trying to stop people from playing or buying premiums. I love War Thunder and recommend it to everyone and I have a couple premiums myself. I am trying to make issues known, so maybe something will be done about it. If you want to block this post then thats fine I understand that criticism of the game is not something you want posted probably. But also, try and fix some issues, and posts like this wont be around.



Thank you all and merry Christmas.

[nirvana_sth]

Look, not everyone has the same skill level. Some people are really good at playing a game, and some people aren't.
Some people can acquire a skill if they have a go at it, some will learn sooner, some will learn later and some will hardly learn.
We cannot blame players for being bad, inexperienced or newbies.
We can however blame the game developer for the lack of team balancing system in their game.
It is very frustrating when one team is full of bad/inexperienced players and the other full of highly skilled ones.
Gaijin needs to introduce team balancing to this game, or it will only result in the frustration of the playerbase growing.

[ErickaUnlimited]

Originally posted by Winters_Bane:

If you want to block this post then thats fine I understand that criticism of the game is not something you want posted probably.

Threads fine. Carry on.

[redned]

there's a lot to go through here but I will focus on the part that caught my eye.
do you really think players that pay to skip the grind will bother to play tutorials.
they have already decided they do not wish to learn by gaining experience by just playing and grinding.

[redned]

another thing. you take issue with noobs. I am guessing that you don't like how people can just buy top tier.
there's a way to prevent everyone buying what ever premium they want at any time they want it. you will not like this solution because you already call gaijin greedy.
but the solution is to price people out of buying premiums.
the fact so many people are happy to just dumb their money into the game shows it's not exactly too pricey for them yet.

can't blame people buying premiums on the grind because most people I see buying top tier vehicles are fresh accounts who have yet to experience the grind.


when I started playing I would research and buy every vehicle in a rank before moving onto the next rank. I never had a specific goal in mind the whole time.
this allowed me to grind fairly freely without ever feeling burnt out from the grind .

people complaining they can't enjoy 1% of a game because they don't like the other 99% just need to realise maybe they don't like the game at all.
because I have no doubt that when they finally get to top tier they will feel underwhelmed and not enjoy themselves. so instead of fooling themselves into thinking they just need top tier to have fun they should quit now.

[Tankoslav Tepyatdesyatpyatovich]

'Wyvern is too OP'...Guess I don't need to read any further.