War Thunder - upcoming F2P WW2/Korea flight sim

[naut]

I'd be up for the beta!

[Veho Nex]

I withdraw any recommendation I have put forward into this game. The community and they way moderators and administrators treat their users who disagree with something in the game isn't something that should be done.

[Ja'chyra]

Sounds like a story, do tell

[Graphic]

I still like it and recommend it. I just advise against spending money on it at this point unless you really like it because it does have an uncertain future.

[Veho Nex]

Sounds like a story, do tell

The Dev's never respond to any post made by English members, which I can understand barely posting but I don't think it would be too hard to find someone who is fluent in Russian and English to be a go between. I brought that up along with the fact that after 2 months of seeing people complain about something that nothing has been done and I don't think the dev's even care what happens on the english forums netted me a warning from a moderator who assured us they do in fact read them. (Despite the fact that of the 8 accounts who were tagged developer only 1 was active in the last 30 days. Or the 19 accounts tagged admin/dev/moderator only 4 were active)

Then my argument with reasonably stated facts about how one tree is more powerful than the others. This argument showed that one nation, the British tech tree, dominated the game till about lvl 13-14. Equivalent for world of tanks would be if Russia was op until other nations caught up around tier 6 or 7. I was continually countered with one statement which was "The flight models aren't done". Which had nothing to do with my argument, since my argument was just how things were unlocked. After a week/week and a half of me getting flamed by the same 3 guys the moderator banned me because I was disagreeing with his "moderating team"s point of view. My continued statement of the fact that a Beta is when the betatesters, ie me and others, are supposed to bring stuff up that will kill the game.

That combined with the fact that it took 4 weeks to get a response from the customer service after the account I used my credit card on was hacked, is another reason I don't recommend this game.


So three parts, Devs dont care about English users, hell an american server isn't even on the list until after release, Moderators use their power to make their view points dominant despite that it was 3 against the nine or so people backing me up, and customer service is crap.

These guys could learn a thing or two from the world of tanks beta. (That was one I actually enjoyed being a part of.)

[Hooahguy]

Veho gave me a beta key. Interesting game, but its tough to make progress when you are just crushed by players with better planes. Yeah, I get that you gotta start somewhere, but the fact that in an arcade match you only have 3 lives. Maybe for players who have better planes this is fine, but for the basic planes its tough to keep playing when 3 seconds under fire from a better plane and you blow up, and it seems like no matter how many bullets I put into an enemy plane it wont go down before Im shot down myself.
Ill keep playing while the beta is going on, but I cant see myself buying it.

EDIT: Kept playing, its gotten quite fun. Though my biggest annoyance is the lack of ammo level indicator and an inability to reload unless you are out of ammo. Kinda frustrating if I just ended a small dogfight and Im in a lull until I get to the next one and I cant reload for the next battle.

EDIT2: So there is a manual reload key. That just leaves for a lack of an ammo indicator, but I suppose thats ok. Ill manage.

Anyhow, fun game. So are we getting an Orgah squadron or something?

[Hooahguy]

Shameless bump.

Version 1.27 came out recently, and it made it all the more complex, and fantastic. The game is now free for all, though I think its been that way for a while. In the new patch, you can now control your critically damaged plane if physics allows for it, as well as a bunch of new maps and stuff.

But its a great game, and I know Veho had some hard times with the mods so that sucks, but I love this game so much, I would love to start an Org squadron.

[Graphic]

This game would be enjoyable if it wasn't for the harsh economy. It forces you to play an un-fun meta game where you have to constantly swap planes and nations in order to let planes repair part ways before you can think about making a profit if you lose even a couple planes that are higher than tier 6 (sorry, I don't want to play Early War Thunder). It's just unnecessary, especially when there's lots of things they're not capitalizing on monetarily, like plane skins and premium planes that ease the grind so they'd be worth more than $10. And now they just added more massive amounts of grind by making you unlock each bomb payload for bombers; I hope people enjoy playing dozens of rounds with twenty 50 kg bombs.

In World of Tanks, for all its faults, I can at least still make a tiny profit even in an E-75 without premium if I have an excellent round. If Gaijin ran World of Tanks I'd incur a 170,000 loss even if I got 5 kills and didn't die.

Look, all things considered, WT isn't a bad game. What makes me very pessimistic and down beat about it is it's significantly less fun than it was 7 months ago. They keep adding features, new buttons, new maps, etc. so yes the game is moving forward, but somehow it keeps getting less and less fun. Which can't but be due in no small part to the WT community, the only gaming community I know of that thinks harsh grind is a good thing.