I disagree with the notion that being able to play any part of the game means its OK if major sections of it go under gamebreaking bugs/or server outages. Just because you can go play grb or something IF YOU WANT TO does not mean its an applicable substitute for wanting to play the actual mode you wanted to. It would be proper and would be the right thing to do to refund premium days for the time during which the game has these issues.
I could easily just point out that, imagine if there was a bug where ALL of air/ground was disabled, but hey, the naval servers still worked! Would you be ok if they had this go on for a month and said “well you could play naval if you wanted to…”
As for why this is applicable, during that time I wanted to play air and couldn’t for weeks. It heavily, negatively hurt my enjoyment of the game in a way that is outside of my control but could have been fixed by gaijin refunding the time that was running in the time it was broken/down.
Since you won’t even mention what game breaking bugs in AirRB, we’re just taking your word for it, eitherway. Hopefully this isn’t some thinly disguised AlM120 vs Mica topic.
Your topic has no weight if you don’t mention the actual issues, not that Gaijin will ever compo you premium time. I’d hand you a virtual tissue if I could.
The issue is while he chose to only play top BR air, the rest of us were playing a perfectly serviceable game across the BRs and game modes.
I should not be refunded just because top BR air RB had buggy missiles for 7 - 10 days.
I report the bug and play other game modes and BRs until the bug is fixed because the game itself is not unplayable, and even that bug didn’t make top BR unplayable just missile-buggy.
If the game itself is unplayable, then yes, I deserve compensation such as when there were DDOS attacks a few years back and I got premium time back when servers went down.
The majority of the playerbase does not play all modes provided. This means that you cannot use the idea that “well just go play another mode” as an excuse. Said player may not WANT to play the other mode. War Thunder is an extremely large game that does not expect you to play every single thing provided. One person may like flying planes but have no interest in ground or navy modes. One person may play only naval.
Am I to believe that the only thing that would make the game unplayable to you is server outages? So long as you can connect to a game, that it is playable?
Literal game breaking bug affecting all but radar BRs. I for one only play WW2 aircraft. My only way to play WW2 aircraft during this period was to play Il2:GB.
I can’t find the exact thread that explain the HE shells breaking, but there was also that (it was something about the HE shell explosion desyncing from the plane it impacted IIRC?)
Yeah so I was playing that entire time and their were no air related bugs so bad that I couldn’t enjoy the game (well… as much as one can “enjoy” War Thunder…).
OP has said about Air sim, which was affected far more than air RB due to lack of markers and the bits I linked about spotting.
For just how bad it was:
On Sicily, I flew on air superiority point (8 by 8 kilometres) at ~3 km altitude and spent some 5-8 minutes at an impasse as my opponent couldn’t find me and I couldn’t find them despite it being daytime with no clouds.
Compare that to before or after the long-overdue fix where you can spot an enemy from up to 10-12 kilometers away as a tiny black dot and fly to engage.
I admit in air rb the only missiles I use are early AIM-9Bs, but I use a lot of proxy he and he in general in all different types of things and never had the problems to the level others said they had.
It mostly affected higher tier missile jets. I felt invincible the first couple games but turns out it was a really botched RNG because sometimes proxy worked for you, sometimes it didn’t, and sometimes the enemies proxy worked
Missiles were fully bugged into being RNG. Guns were fully bugged to where lots of guns were doing comically low levels of damage. Sim rendering was fully broken making sim unplayable besides bombing…
And currently, sim is fully disabled as a gamemode. That’s happening right now, and has occurred for the last ~24-36 hours.
