War Thunder

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Should I play this game?
I'm a pretty new player and have only invested 14 hours in the game, can someone give me a genuine review if I should play or drop, because I find it fun but don't know if its worth my time.
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SteT Jan 25 @ 6:14pm 
If you find it fun keep playing. Don't let other people tell you what you think should be fun.
IF you find it fun, what do you care what other people think?

Be an adult, form your own opinion.
its really up to you. just expect to either spend money on the game or spend an ungodly amount of hours if you wanna grind just one ground nation fully (like 2k hours, about half of that for air). grinding high tier takes way to long even though its for me personally my favorite area to play.

the grind is pretty managable if you only play ww2 stuff though.

personally i do enjoy the game especially simulator game mode for ground and air with a good amount of hours in the game.

dont fall into the trap of playing just for the sake of grinding, a lot of people really start to get burned out because of that and quit.
The one thing you have to ask yourself is what vehicle era you are interested in.

If it's WW2, then yes.
If it's Cold War and later, then no.

The grind above Rank 4 is abysmal and matches are flooded with people that buy one premium vehicle, die and leave the match, meaning often enough you will be faced with an uphill battle.

Once you get into top tier, the game also becomes a lot simplier, everything is made out of paper on the ground and rangefinder does the work of calculating ballistics for you, and in the air dogfights are essentially non-existent because the bulk of combat happens at over 10km with radar missiles.
Last edited by Wandering Flare; Jan 25 @ 10:53pm
Depends how much money you want to spend. If it's less than $300, quit now and save yourself the trouble.
Hypoel Jan 26 @ 1:51am 
Originally posted by pete.beshkov:
I'm a pretty new player and have only invested 14 hours in the game, can someone give me a genuine review if I should play or drop, because I find it fun but don't know if its worth my time.
Air Top Tier isn't worth it . You need to presse Like 3 DIFFERENT buttons to be able to activate and change your radar for the right missile . You get spawn kill in Naval , you can spawnkill jets not even after 2 minutes flying . Tanks are quite good tho , even if 6.7 is just you like it or not . Because fighting cold war tanks versus your diesel tiger II isn't very balanced.
Hypoel Jan 26 @ 1:51am 
Originally posted by RaysGoodLiquor:
Depends how much money you want to spend. If it's less than $300, quit now and save yourself the trouble.
I've only spent 20 Euros in 1250h of game.
No. just no.
mn 1-2 ranks will give you some fun, but when you go deep into how it works - you will wish a very painfull death to devs
Rasseru Jan 26 @ 5:17am 
Originally posted by pete.beshkov:
I'm a pretty new player and have only invested 14 hours in the game, can someone give me a genuine review if I should play or drop, because I find it fun but don't know if its worth my time.

Originally posted by Hypoel:
Originally posted by RaysGoodLiquor:
Depends how much money you want to spend. If it's less than $300, quit now and save yourself the trouble.
I've only spent 20 Euros in 1250h of game.

Originally posted by napoBapka.mp3:
No. just no.
mn 1-2 ranks will give you some fun, but when you go deep into how it works - you will wish a very painfull death to devs
These trolling/haters with their private profiles and 0 Steam level. Their opinions do not matter. Show us how long you played the game huh? Not just say you played the game.

To the OP, why post a question that opens trolling? Play the game and try it out... It is free to play. If you looking for reviews? Just look at the steam review or look up a video review. Playing 14 hours shows you should know if you like the game so far or not

Also spending over $300? I spent like less than $300 and grind to top rank. Also I only buy during sales... Plus, I never bought a "premium" vehicle to feel overpower or to skip to higher ranks.
Originally posted by Rasseru:
Play the game and try it out... It is free to play. If you looking for reviews? Just look at the steam review or look up a video review.
In WT's case there is a bit of a problem when it comes to these things. The game is advertised mainly as modern vehicle combat, so most likely someone who gets into the game will be looking forward to playing those, only to be met with WW2 vehicles that they'll have to deal with for a very long time, so they have no way to actually gauge if they like the game they came to play until like 1000 hours in when they finally cross the APFSDS+rangefinder threshold.

The reviews are also all over the place, many coming from better times, the days of the revolt, or just from people that play specifically WW2 and don't experience the issues of people that come to the game based on modern advertisement.

"Just play the game and see for yourself" is how "Wish I Knew" lists come to be, it's smart to ask people that have experience if a game is worth being recommended to other people or if flashy marketing hides an unpleasant reality.
Avoid it, no reason to play russ dream adventures.
v1ce Jan 26 @ 6:13am 
1000 hours in. Played every Battlerating. Don't do it. It's not worth it.
Play it until you don't like it anymore, then stop. All computer games are a complete waste of time, that is what they are for.

I would say you will probably have more fun playing lower tiers especially if you like military history. I prefer 2-4. Higher tiers require more time investment it depends on your tolerance for grind and loss. The players tend to be much better you have to be good and it can be expensive to lose repeatedly. The community is quite helpful for a PvP and there are surprisingly few cheaters. I think the premium modern vehicles are overpriced I would not consider buying them personally but a lot of people seem to really enjoy using them.

If you like modern warfare and want to just blow things up you are probably better playing something like Arma 3 or Battlefield. If you are the sort of person that like airfix kits, weird old military vehicles and statistics this is for you.
Hypoel Jan 26 @ 8:06am 
Originally posted by pete.beshkov:
I'm a pretty new player and have only invested 14 hours in the game, can someone give me a genuine review if I should play or drop, because I find it fun but don't know if its worth my time.
Go Play Hell let's loose , it's better .... or squad 44(post scriptum)
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