Welcome to War Thunder: The Ultimate Game Review!

Hello Steemers and Welcome to my new series: The Ultimate Game Review Compilation!
In this Series, I share the very best thoughts from our friends in the comment section of Steam games. These thoughts are left by myself and thousands of other users on the Steam Platform. Every Review is Credited to the Original Poster by their steam name from the Steam Games App (http://store.steampowered.com). None or these reviews are taken from professional writers on blog sites, websites or articles. These are all just people like you and me and their thoughts after trying a game.

The reason I decided to do this was because most Gaming Reviews always seem so one sided, perhaps the Author has an agenda, perhaps they are predjeduce or a bigot. Who knows. With this series, I feel like Gamers, like you and I will get the absolute best experience possible when trying to determine whether the game is for you or not. The reason being, we will get to see the thoughts of not just 1 but many "Average Joes" like you and I and their thoughts after playing a game.

So please, sit back and Enjoy this Ultimate Game Review that I've compiled together for you!

50-50

By JoeTwoShots

Its a wonderfull game, fantastic physics, very detailed tank insides, realistic damage models, which dont base on hit points, but more on which insides are getting damaged. Game is fantastic...
But its being broken by ignorant, corrupted devs, who love to release OP vehicles. Latest child, HEAVY TANK IS-6, makes all previous, powerfull premium tanks at 6,7 Battle rating(tier4) absolutely weak in comparison. Bouncy armor, insanely small weakspots, and when you penetrate, buggy insides, that absorb shrapnels for no apparent reason...This HEAVY tank is also as fast and agile as a medium tank... Add to this the fact, that tank is on higher BR(7,0), but since russians dont really have many tanks in 6,7, it causes many of 6,7 tanks to be forcefully uptiered, just to fight russian 7,0 and 7,3...
BUT DO NOT WORRY!!! Devs assure you CAN penetrate IS-6 frontally with any of 6,7 tanks.
Some youtubers did vids on it. It barely requires one of three simple things - high skill at aiming, luck, or IS-6 to be AFK or not moving. See! Possible!
The complete inability to see, how this completely breaks fun in this specific bracket, and makes grind to higher tiers a torture, just baffles me. Forums are filled with complaints, but devs dont seem to have any care for whats happening. After all, revenue from all those IS-6 packs(IS-6 can be only purchased in expensive 49euro pack) is comming in, people want perfect sealclubber. Only thing they have to tolerate, is occasional uptier to the tier, where post war ammo can pierce any, even best armored tank. Small price for clubbing season, when downtiered...
In arcade mode its a little tolerable, since teams are mix of all nations. But in realistic, oh gosh. US and germans are most of the time teamed up against russians... Which in short means IS-6 stomps. Unbelievable, how gaming company could allow such things to happen...
Before i even knew, whats happening in game i have made a decision to buy two of US highest BR premiums, to lessen the grind. That forced me to suffer all this horror for a little less than a month, and now im done with it. I heard Gajin bans players, who posts negative reviews on Steam, but i dont care anymore. I have wasted enough mental health trying to deal with their matchmaking and marketing model, and i have stopped caring. I regret every euro spent on this game...

To anyone, that wants to play this game:
It is a great game, its realistic, but for the sake of you mind and mental health, dont go any higher, than 5,0 BR. This is magical border, where crazy things appear, and fantasy/paper tanks(some of them have never left testing facilities, and/ or are ONLY known from secret plans) make appearance on the battlefield. Enjoy yourselves with immersion of Sim and Realistic battles, go play fast and fun in Arcade. Cause, as i found, lower brackets are, where game shines...

Edit.
After digging more, i have found about suprising event, that transpired a year ago: Known youtuber posted video, trying to prove existence of hacks in WT. In response Gajin made poll, in which they gave choice to either destroy realistic mode(by putting arcade marker above every vehicle, effectively destroying core of the gameplay, spotting), or STRIKING youtuber video, effectively crippling his channel... Basically, we either ban anyone trying to prove we DO have cheaters in the game, of well destroy your game...

An in Depth Look

By IcewaterCreekStudios

"LOAD OF (Insert bad word here)"

Game is good but their Customer Service just ruined it and completly justified the complaints you read on the web. It took them a year to mess up and for us to have our first brush with disaster.

After ignoring the many, and I repeat.... MANY complaints/reviews.... stating WarThunder has no respect, no effort, blown off, lack of responses without reading the initial complaint, ect ect...

Lest... we abstained and still gave them a year of my money and time.
Like always the Review Crew spends our time getting to the truth, being fair to both sides of the coin. but now... the dragon rears its ugly head.... and we had our first problem in nearly a year (171 hours)... and you will be entertained more with our writings that follow, than the game or customer service. In short, we are completly done with this company and anyone affiliated with it!!

We begin our review... as we now... ENTIRELY agree with all complaints! After giving them (WarThunder) three (3) months.... to fix a legit, screen shot proven, paper trailing, document provided.... complaint/request for assistance!
Could of not had this any more obvious or proven if written in blood on a wall, with the killer standing there with a gun and a sign around his neck saying he did it!

No excuse for reundant, pathetic abuse of people, with proven and legit reasonable request(s).
Then to degrade us when they(WarThunder) were out of options! We thought ok... its time to give back to us for being so helpful and devoted in providing everything and anything requested (even if it had nothing to do with the request) we provided it.

For months we tried to help WarThunder to help us, patient, super nice people that just got screwed worse than a hooker at a five and dime. Could not believe the HUGE loads (check my hands) of money we have spent, and sadly... and then the comprehensible (HOLY F*ck we what a word!)

Back to the story... while away for a week with my son being born (truly freaking exciting past the point of pee!!! ), we returned as many do after many missed updates (9 to be exact in 2 weeks)
We return to find all our money(gold and coin) items(planes and tanks) gone, along with all experience and funds.. just a blank account.

Now to be fair, there was a post saying some updates had data dumps ect... just send us a screenshot and proof and we will do this and that.... ok... so we did.

Account not compromised, black and white proof of purchases, no acitivity on my end and they did nothing! Did not even bother to read the complaint, responded with requesting this and that and then redundantly doing it over and over.. with nothing to resolve in the complaint. So what was a legit complaint now has 8 more things piled on... but now they expected us to go away... so we asked and pleaded. Stated we had proof and sent it more times over than you see boobies on TV!

We received a reply that was... for the lack of a better word(s)... MOTHER EXPLATIVE EXPLATIVE... after ALL THE pateince AND respect, fulfilling request after request, for over a 3 months while unable to play!! (Listen people, you can dress a turd and call it chocolate, but its still SH*T!)

It was their (WarExplative) turn to do for us! Three months enough, I believe it is reasonable not to ask any more repititious questions and cater to them.
We said "there is nothing more we can send you that we havent already."
A week later we were returned to an email bearing the surreal....
"we dont care if you leave, your a bumb♥♥♥♥♥american and we have a million users that spend money, goodbye dumb American." from SERGI. So now we research and got attorneys looking into things because of the email. They reached dead end after dead end with the same name coming up as the sole person responsible located in Russia.

Explative, few more dirty words and gestures, and then sad face...!
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There is no need for that!
Unprovoked... bah.... oh I hope Mr. Karma checks this many times over and pays SERGI and the team behind him dearly.

We wont even focus much on the statement of ignorance, even if anyone does not like us for being from the USA, but hey, spread more racism and hate! Who's stopping you SERGI right? You sure like our/anyones hard earned money tho.

It proved what we read from others and didnt believe for over a year, being fair like we always are.
Always two sides to the coin... but in this case and thousands of others, the complaints just keep mounting and are legit.
So we call all the numbers we could find to discover one person... SERGEI... (Stupid Mother F*cker for short) handles all their USA complaints as the big man.

Ok so nothing I can do, or say, but sorry I was born in a country you dont like. (Here's a gun, use it as a toothpick you racist pig.)

In Closing;

You would think on the business side... here is a great repeat customer, legit to our requests, patient, and proved they had all securities in place, proven NO activity on the account from anyplace on the globe, and provided what we had and spent over the past year from their (WTF) own records... so lets give these items back to him and figure out where they went... but NO... not one reply had anything to do with our request. But because he from the USA... wow... just no words.

While they have the "loose one wont break the company" mentality, those who supported their game and company for a year and still giving them a chance... with one complaint with legit backing and proof provided... and what did we get... A HUGE DC in the AS* with a side order of HUGE (Plenty of follow thru) SLAP then BEATING in our face! So after this for just a polite simple request that even had humor in it, and a proven complaint with legit screenshots and purchase information, there is nothing they can do or say to justifiy it as training as more than one CS agent in all our tickets repeated the same thing.

No excuse for reundant, pathetic abuse of people with proven legitimate complaints that were poilite, respectful and gave them everything and then some to their requests. Sad it took us a year for our first problem to discover such terrible abuse! Dont find out what we did, it may not happen in a month or a year but if you have anything you need for your account, simple or extensive... good luck.. go talk into a fan and have someone pour acid thru the other side... it would at least give back!
(ok.... dont really do it, no one should hurt themselves over these terrible people who f*ck people over daily man or woman)

World of Tanks or World of War Planes or World of Warships is where your money is appreciated and respected we have also supported for years as well... at least they are fair, read the complaints, share and compare facts and still even if you are found to be somewhat incorrect or interpret something incorrect, they take care of you, no issue, no hassle in my two prior problems in six years.

Discalimer; The Review Crew's evaluations are based on paying close attention to forum response and activity, system demand, fun of the game genre, position of originality in respective genre, growth of the project in its current state at time of review, graphics as a whole for end user, presentation of the game and display, replayability, patch/tweak progress, beginner friendliness & gameplay direction, content & depth, attention to detail on small things(polish), lag and multiplayer application if applicable, badge card availability, with a minimum 8 hours of gameplay and interaction with customer base after release. We are not affliliated with any specific brand or entity or on any payroll. All views are based on positive only feedback as we are in no position to criticise anyones craft, just current states of development and progress at the time of our participation. If we offend anyone with our content, it was not us! Our review was hacked!

A Veterans Review

By von Stroheim

I started playing the Game back in 2013 (Patch 1.27) and it was great. Since then the Game gradually went downhill. The Introduction of an excruciating, unnessecary Vehicle/Module Grind (especially at High Era Vehicles) and the outright broken Battle Rating System. Combined with the sheer amount of broken Features and the dismissal behaviour of Gaijin to Community Feedback, in addition to their Soviet-/Cold War Mentality made me stop Playing the Game a long Time ago.

The Grind

Barely noticeable at low Level Vehicles it will soon begin to get ridiciulous at Mid to High Era Planes where some unlockable Modules will cost more RP than most of the Era 3-4 Planes.
Starting with Patch 1.31, Gaijin continiously reduced the Credit/RP income which forces you at some point to buy a Premium Account and/or overpriced Premium Vehicles.

Btw: Don´t bother to convert your Free RP via Gold as the Conversion Rate isn´t worth your Money (1:45 Ratio)
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Battle Ratings

The Battle Rating System was originally designed to replace the Static 20-Tier System but made the Gameplay with every new major Patch procedural worse as more and more Vehicles are compressing the BR Brackets, resulting in Mid-WW2 Planes sealclubbing Pre-WW2 Biplanes or Korean War Jets clubbing late WW2 Prop Planes. Since its introduction Gaijin claims that the BR System is working as designed which simply isn´t true.

Gaijin

Gaijin went from an open, transparent Company to ignorant, nationalistic Bigots who don´t give a damn about their European/American Playerbase, effectively shielded by their Forum Mods/Community Managers from any constructive Criticism and have an openly sycophancy attitude towards Gaijin. Many of those Mods often resort to trolling and outright abusing their Powers against regular Players. Even Youtuber/Streamer are affected.

Historical Accuracy and Balance

To give them Credit, Gaijin manages to recreate Aircraft/Tank Models with great Details but that´s it. On multiple occasions many Tanks and Planes were "corrected" via "Secret Documents" from unverified Russian/Soviet Sources and were thus stripped from certain Equipment Modules and/or recieved inferior Performance Characteristics compared to their Real-World Counterparts. Most of these were applied to Non-Russian Vehicles. At the same time, many Russian Vehicles recieved considerable buffs (the Best example being Post-War Ammunition added to T-34/T-44/IS-2 Tanks).

This Russian Bias - which is constantly being denied by Gaijin - killed the Game for many of the Players.

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