[Fair Play] Fair Play: August 2025

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You want to contact a Game Master to talk about that, but really, just report it and move on. If anything keeping them on your mind will just make you mad.

It can also lead to you fixating on them being something, when they are nothing, and you missing everything else.

I’ve seen people complain that squadrons are cheaters, but I know those squadrons as being VERY coordinated compared to being nefarious. I commonly call out the squadrons or even just the made 4 man squads as they are dangerous and are a high priority threat.

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I see Aimbot squadron (CNBC: https://warthunder.com/en/community/claninfo/Aimbot) lost another 3 members this pass, that’s 19 for them so far. I honestly can’t imagine how anyone could have guessed that squadron would be a problem.

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I just searched mine and found I had 3, but they’re all gone (Kicked way back for inactivity most likely as I didn’t know) lol xD

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I thought I’ve read the GMs can’t do anything about people cheating. Its just in game reports ie; Hate Speech, teamkilling etc.

This is one those peoples where I’ve had others watch the replay as well, and asked them for their opinions about it. Plus so many blatant times where he’s attempting to shoot people on the other side of the warehouse not realizing they’re on the other side.

It doesn’t make me mad, I just find it comical at this point. Gaijin makes you jump through all these hoops to report someone and you never know if the report was even handled or not.

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If you suspect someone of cheating, you use the server replays and make the complaint in that report section (In the replays website ‘complaint’ option) so you can give them a timestamp so they can get to the action of where you think they’re being dodgy.

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No, Game Masters do not handle cases of cheating. We get enough of those messages as it is x)

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If you’re using chrome on mobile you can press the three dots that appear at the very top of your browser screen, then you’ll see the option to find in page.

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Some of those are present, others are not.

Anyway, i am glad that the guy i reported last week is present in the list.

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Already done that. I like how they’re vague about each category. Just flat out make the options easier to understand. Especially if you haven’t reported someone before.

Again, there should be a way to know if the report was handled or not.

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aha :3

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How the heck is your name not against TOS lmao???

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It is, and has been noted :)

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renamed#2819292939 on the way 🗣️🗣️🗣️

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I hope you know that depending on the severity of the name there is a risk of an actual game ban, this isn’t funny.

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fair enough my bad !

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I see now for days low tier bot bombers (Potez 633) in Air RB.

If you watch this replay:

Gaijin Entertainment - Single Sign On

two of them (as usual) in the same match. I reported both.

They use a very cheap bot script (flying straight to a base, bomb and fly straight) die in (almost) every match & and have classic bot tags like “xcfrttzzujhh”. These guys weaken their teams like hell, especially in small 6 vs 5 - 9 vs 9 lobbies.

I do not understand why you allow those guys to fly more than 5 matches - identifying a cheap bot script is no rocket science. Why do their teams have to suffer from dead bot slots?

Btw: The Potez 630/633s are very potent fighters with incredible turn and 20 mm cannons - highly capable aircraft. I am not sure if the implemented flight model (turn) is realistic 😂

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Idk how often i have reported certain players with bot scripts - at the end it doesn’t matter as they are still active. I see now for ages several PBJ-1H at 3.7 just spawning and flying straight. They don’t attack anything just flying straight.

They get shot down thousands of times but their ai gunners killed also hundreds of careless fighter players.

Just an example:

Gaijin Entertainment - Single Sign On

In this replay you see the pattern: Spawn, damage an enemy player and getting killed without any manual input. The “player” has

  • 12,1 k matches
  • 11,9 k deaths
  • 3,5 k player kills

And there are more of those guys. All with “Task Force” as gamertag but in different squads.

Where is the problem to identify players without any manual control input during their matches?

I don’t care about these botters from a general pov - but they waste player slots for “real” players and have an impact In small 6 vs 6 lobbies.

Edit:

Found this replay:

Gaijin Entertainment - Single Sign On

Same plane, same pattern, same gamertag, different squad and stats.

  • 10,9k matches
  • 10,8k deaths
  • 3,2k kills

I played on the other team and played 1 vs 2 - the knowledge that one of them is a bot allowed me to go all in vs their last “real” player as there was no threat to get ambushed/jumped by a 0 mission score player…

If the enemy (my) airfield would not have been in his flight path i could have scored a few thousands mission points more without any danger - since when does gaijin allow getting free SL & RP?

Edit #2:

Another one:

Gaijin Entertainment - Single Sign On

Same gamertag, another squad, plane instead of a PB1J-H a J model:

11,1k battles
11 k deaths
3,2 (autogunner) player kills

Tbc…

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Nice. Love to see that.

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Correct.

My hope is that the current JP/Thai VT-4 discussion creates the awareness within gaijin that a separate server makes sense. You might check reddit - or just even the “official” gaijin thread:

We heard you - sounds familiar to May 2023…

The Chinese playerbase expects a special treatment - and some of the demands are quite reasonable. So why not take the chance and provide a Chinese server. Their huge pings have an impact on all players as gaijin’s game engine tries to flatten this by slowing down other players with much lower pings…