War Thunder - WWII-Vietnam war Era tank and air battle game

[Catch The Rainbow]

For those coming from community happenings who aren't aware, the leaking of classified military documents to improve "accuracy" in videogames is not only a hilariously common enough occurrence, but this isn't even the first time it's happened for THIS game lmfao.

It's the 4th time this has happened. Also is it worth getting into this game as a casual player?

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

The thing is that all the links provided are freely available through archive or are currently online. Despite the fact that it may be a secret military document, it's not like the person actually disclosed the information, it was already available, they just made people aware of it.

 

[AngryGreg1960]

It's literally in the internet archive there is nothing wrong with that. Unless Gaijin Ent. is afraid of copyright infringement from a public domain material or the links that are posted scrapped from someone.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Imagine if this game was around in the days of Oppenheimer.

 

[King Possum]

>eurofighter teased
>people get their hands on it in dev test server
>its underperforming
>player created bug report leaks sekrit dockuments

Very clever as always Gaijin. Sorry for double posting but it is a happening.

Gaijin is so fucking retarded, even Wikipedia uses the eurofighter website as a source

 

[LikeAStone 2.0]

There’s enough autism on War Thunder’s forums that I’m sure they could build their own war planes

 

[Polock]

The thing is that all the links provided are freely available through archive or are currently online. Despite the fact that it may be a secret military document, it's not like the person actually disclosed the information, it was already available, they just made people aware of it.

This is usually what happens with most of the leaks - I think the Chinese APFSDS spec sheet was an actual serious leak and maybe one other I can't remember at the moment.

Its part of the reason why people get so frustrated with Gaijin. You either use the "super duper public approved documents" and Gaijin goes "haha these aren't good enough, report closed" or they use a real source to force Gaijin to fix their shit and then Gaijin handwaves it away as "Sekret dokuments now enjoy gulag, report closed".

 

[Google.com]

>documents posted on manufacturer's website
>available on archive.org
>listening to italians
>ItS tOp SeCrEt

Every single claim of "WuR THuNDeR LeAKInG" has been this except for that one tank operators manual and some Chinese guys sabot round documents. It's all so gay

 

[Breadbassket]

It's the 4th time this has happened. Also is it worth getting into this game as a casual player?

Can be fun at times but can also be a serious grind the further you get into it which incentivizes a person to spend money to make progression faster. It has more realism then its main competitor World of Tanks but still is arcade-like for the sake of fun in some aspects.

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

The most brilliant thing Russian intelligence has ever done is creating a place where autistic people spread classified info so they can sperg about and be proven right about in cash grab game.

 

[DAREToResistDrugs]

"Disagreeing with that is disagreeing with moderation now which is also against the rules."

For some reason that took me back like Anton biting into ratatouille, to the bygone days of the Bioware forums.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

This is usually what happens with most of the leaks - I think the Chinese APFSDS spec sheet was an actual serious leak and maybe one other I can't remember at the moment.

British chobam composite penetration stats for the gun mantlet + turret traverse was another major serrious one.
The Kraut who was arrested for espionage on the Eurocopter helo performance statistics and armor layout was the major oh shit one aside from vanned tanker dude. I think he was arrested but not charged by the MAD (Military Counter-intelligence)

If you look at kikepedia it has several "unclassified" leaks. Which leads me to believe snail is being purposely retarded to justify balancing.

 

[helvetika]

Also is it worth getting into this game as a casual player?

Absolutely not, unless you spend the ~60 euro for a premium top tier vehicle
It takes about 500 hours of optimized grinding with no premiums to reach top tier in air and about 700 for ground, not even mentioning helicopters or naval
But with premiums its about 10x faster so theres that
.t 4000 hours before quitting

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Absolutely not, unless you spend the ~60 euro for a premium top tier vehicle
It takes about 500 hours of optimized grinding with no premiums to reach top tier in air and about 700 for ground, not even mentioning helicopters or naval
But with premiums its about 10x faster so theres that
.t 4000 hours before quitting

>Implying that you need to reach top tier
Top tier is utter garbage. You will have a lot more fun in low tier, regardless of mode than top tier. I don't understand all the paypiggies draining their wallets to reach the worst aspect of the game as soon as possible.

 

[Ego]

Game is objectively the best from like 3.7 - 6.0 in ground and fun until you start getting anything past AIM-9B in air.
Ground does get fun again at 10.7 - 12.0 where its just top tier at that point and you're not absolutely turbo fucked on one of your many max uptiers.
Air gets worse and worse with jets cause the missiles keep getting better and better, God help you if you're using some of the first jets at that BR introduced into the game cause you're going to be bent over by the powercreep.

 

[Vibe_Guy]

Note to self: to obtain classified military documents I must make a kickass FTP game with such a cult following that losing a ranked match due to a bug outweights the legal consequences of leaking military secrets

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Air gets worse and worse with jets cause the missiles keep getting better and better, God help you if you're using some of the first jets at that BR introduced into the game cause you're going to be bent over by the powercreep.

Air is best about to 5.7. Anything after that you risk getting headhunted before you to even fighting alt by a jet or getting spawned in as one of two props in a jet matchup where you just die.
Or in the case of Germany, suffer because their jets suck ass compared the same BR (Me-262 @7.0 definitely equals the meteor or Mig-9...) or lmao HE-162 at 6.0 getting rekt by superprops all day long unless you build up speed/alt by which entire team is dead or won already against.

If you so go jets, there's three big BR brackets.

6.0 (only Germany rest 7.0)-7.3 jets - Prop plane body with jet engine,
7.3-9.0 - Jet body, top bracket gets early air to air missles (no counter measures)
9.3-max br - CM/Flares, mini bracket with radar missles and pulse doppler radar

If you're a minor (Japan) suffer because no flares/chaff until 11.0 (China has flares at 9.7, others at ~10.3). Which means you skirt the map and throw IR missles at max range and run away like a little bitch (boring and pain) unlike honorabu banzai charge when everyone else can bitchslap you the entire way through with radar based missles.

Oh, and snail nerfed the SHIT out of NATO radar warning receivers to where they can't ID NATO jets because Russian players got extra salty that the christmas tree RWR (SPO-15) sucks ass versus a digital one like the AN/ALR-46 on a F4.

Spoiler: YT video on dev changes

versus

And yes, dodging missiles with the Christmas tree RWR sucks ass. You basically have to guess the OPFOR jet and missile performance. Then need to visually ID (or try to dodge by RWR bearing estimate, pretty hard) dodge when the radar strength increases rapidly. Oh, and it only shows the priority (strongest) radar emission so you can get fucked if someone fires off another one at a different angle around the same time.

 

[sodomy lifestyle]

Game is objectively the best from like 3.7 - 6.0 in ground

This I agree with. WW2 tanks with actual historical battle records, plus some fun wonky Cold War designs. To me ground battles start to become boring point-and-click fests when everyone has stabilizers, thermals and LRFs.

I just wish Gaijin would stop spamming HE slingers at every BR. I know the M44 is a slow firing eggshell that can be hosed by anything heavier than MMGs, but still I think it'll encourage passive camping tactics.

 

[Snekposter]

This I agree with. WW2 tanks with actual historical battle records, plus some fun wonky Cold War designs. To me ground battles start to become boring point-and-click fests when everyone has stabilizers, thermals and LRFs.

I just wish Gaijin would stop spamming HE slingers at every BR. I know the M44 is a slow firing eggshell that can be hosed by anything heavier than MMGs, but still I think it'll encourage passive camping tactics.

Yeah, I got one-shot by a Rochev in a T26E5 thanks to being overpressured through my MG port. Not fun.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

I just wish Gaijin would stop spamming HE slingers at every BR. I know the M44 is a slow firing eggshell that can be hosed by anything heavier than MMGs, but still I think it'll encourage passive camping tactics.

It was a bad idea to introduce howitzers in the game. Plus the SPG copy-paste is like OSA copy paste but worse, lmao M109.