A very specific message to Gaijin that everyone knows

jamal_is_cool1 · June 8, 2026, 3:30pm

I love War Thunder and have for the past two years. I love the level of detail, the realism every vehicle has, and how unique every vehicle is.

Every update, I used to be hyped. Every update, I expected some bugs and issues to be solved, some complaints to be addressed, and maybe even some suggestions to be added.

I love War Thunder, but my opinion of Gaijin has changed. It’s a massive, multi-million dollar company with 200–500 workers globally. They could fix bugs and pay more attention to the community, but instead they choose to make AI copy-and-paste vehicles (the anime OES), and copy-and-paste already existing in-game premiums (the next update was the F-16, if I’m correct).

I used to support Gaijin. Maybe they were trying, maybe they weren’t what everyone thought they were. But now I see it. Gaijin is obsessed with money, less about the game, more about profit. That’s why there are floating debris from destroyed tanks, why some tanks have missing machine guns, and why some tanks have their tracks sinking into concrete ground.

Gaijin adds many vehicles in every major update, but what if they left out the copy-and-paste vehicles and fixed bugs instead? What if they looked at what the community has been begging for (like the M1A2 Abrams being able to survive a 3BM42 on the LFP — 40 years of development should lead to change).

If you agree, just reply with “+1”.

Gaijin, start focusing on the community. Then this game has actual hope.

PAF_ACE_Nouman · June 8, 2026, 4:04pm

MightyBaozi · June 8, 2026, 4:19pm

We appreciate your support for the game, however, this is not the way to create posts on the Forum.

Lumping many different topics into one won’t really get your point across, given your entire premise is for people to +1 this anyway, not really creating a constructive discussion. The risk for such a thread is to spiral into an unfocused conversation between many different topics.

Additionally, our CMs have already put out statement to answer some of the points you’ve mentioned:

AI:

“Copy pasted” vehicles:

What Caused War Thunder's Shift Away From Free Tech Tree Vehicles?

Hey. This is actually not correct.

There is a number of errors and issues with this graph that, when factored in, actually significantly change a lot of the context here.

A big one that skews things here is for the second graph, “Unique Tech Tree models (No Copy - Paste)” has been a factor in removing elements from the tree numbers, but the same rule and logic has not been applied to the premium Colum too. Which makes it look like the number of premiums has grown whilst tree content has overall decreased. But holding both to entirely different standards of how that number is arrived at. This inflates the premium number but decreases the tree number at the same time.

A few other elements of consideration that also skew things:

“Unique Tech Tree models (No Copy - Paste)” - Its not really clear how this is has been defined or calculated. As you will see just by going around the forum or any WT platform, people have very different opinions on what a “clone” or “copy paste” is. Some people call unique variants of a vehicle already in game a “clone”, when its actually often a unique model or has multiple core changes. Its more than likely the case here that several unique variants have been “fobbed off” so to speak as “copy paste” here either due to personal opinion or misunderstanding, whereas in the earlier numbers, this likely hasn’t been done. As its become more common recently to make such claims without delving too deep into the facts. Its not uncommon now for people to discard new unique vehicles as a “copy paste” before investigating deeper into the details and facts.

Modern vehicles sharing multiple trees - Similarly linked to the above, has this graph accounted for the fact that in the modern world, countries co-develop vehicles as a group or partnership more than they did during WW2 or the cold war? For example, when looking back to the larger numbers on the second graph in 2013 - 2017, the game was mostly focusing around the WW2 and post-war areas. Where nations generally had their own singular vehicles like a Spitfire, Zero, Yak, Bf 109, P-51, Mb 157, C.205 etc. Fast forward to modern times, and most nations across the modern world have used an F-16 or MiG-29 during their history. In other cases, something like the Eurofighter, jointly developed by 4 nations and going to 3 nations in game as their leading primary fighter. Whereas in the past, they would have each had their own designs. This context is all very significant to look and when put into the perspective of what eras the game was mostly focusing on during 2013-2017 and where we are now.

Regarding the first graph, 2013-2016, this was the period the game was in open Beta. During this time, the game was developing and expanding from an aircraft game, to a full combined arms game. Entire ground trees that didn’t exist were introduced at a time after years of internal development. Naturally these early tree introductions are generally when the most vehicles are introduced at a given time, as that is the bulk of the trees vehicles coming into the game before its later expansion. Germany, USA, USSR, Britain and Japan all got their initial ground trees launched during this period. France and Italy joined the game, with the French air and ground trees making it by 2017 and the Italian Air tree. So these years where typically when the largest nations were added to the game and the most initial expansion has taken place. But even since then, new additions, new nations and new vehicles have continued to flow. As well as vehicle variants from existing families too. Since then, we have also introduced entirely new types. Helicopters, Bluewater and Costal Naval Forces, Infantry testing and much more in the way of other features, massive developments to the game and expansion across the board.

I hope this has clarified a little bit and provided some additional details and context.

Hundreds of bugs are addressed every single update, with the next one being one of the biggest when it comes to the addition of new mechanics and long-awaited features such as the maneuver kills:

Once again, we appreciate your feedback and we constantly have it sent to our devs, but we need to keep the Forum tidy while we’re at it.