I mainly play War Thunder because it gives me a break from slow city builders and card/strat games that take a toll on my brain. War Thunder is easy and doesn’t require much thinking.
I had 1 week premium recently and I gained many, many Silver Lions. I found it was far more fun when I’m paying because I could suffer numerous bad matches and it didn’t have much effect on my Silver Lion bank.
Unfortunately I’m broke in real life so I can’t get premium, and worst of all, this game runs like trash on Series S and this is not because the developers aren’t talented. It’s the lack of GPU RAM on Series S, compared to the Series X. I’ve been torturing my eye balls for 3 years now, playing War Thunder on a system that’s getting weaker and weaker. The new map Attica is the worst, it stutters worse than Jungle or Ash River.
I have to quit War Thunder for a couple of years but I plan to return in the future, I just want a few things to make it easier:
Series X (or next-gen console when available)
A headset that’s not falling apart and doesn’t have the ear cups covered in tape
3 month premium time
An Xbox controller that’s designed for an adult male’s hand size (the Series S controller has grips shaped for children and the eastern market, adding a rubber grip texture only helps a little bit, the controller itself is still too small for my normal adult hands)
Without a good system, the game is torturing my eye balls from the horrible frame rate. Without premium, I’m grinding to lose Silver Lions and I have a frustrating experience trying to unlock tracks and parts kit. There’s no point in me playing Rank V and Rank VI without premium, I learned to hate it. It’s incredible how much I unlocked for free (even at Rank V) just by being better than most players, but it’s got too brutal for me lately. I’ve also wasted too much time and stayed up too late.
It’s been fun lads, but I’m done with the game for now.
I respect the people at Gaijin and I’m glad they’re not putting in LGBT decals or Skibidi toilet heads on tanks. They have a healthy focus on history and that’s really cool. Kids these days always go on about “the devs” or the “mechanics” but there is also an art team and a history research team. A few years ago I got a book about World War 2 from the library, all because of War Thunder. Prior to playing War Thunder I couldn’t recognise any of these tanks, nor did I understand the purpose of the vehicles or whether they were good or bad in battle. I grew up playing games like Secret Weapons Over Normandy, and the ground vehicles didn’t have much detail :-)
Sorry to see you go but I understand how necessary it is to take care of real life, first. We will miss you and Gaijin will miss your debit/credit card numbers.
Yes it’s called third party - it’ll cost 3x more but it’ll last 3x longer. Thrust Master, Razer and Turtle Beach all make Xbox controllers. Not all stores stock them, which is a shame, because I like a store where it’s easy to refund.
Hopefully OP will take the time off to reassess his life choices in being a console gamer. This day and age, you can build yourself a PC that will play War Thunder just fine for not much more than a console would cost. Heck, with how much they want for a PS5 Pro in many countries, you can get a cheaper PC.
Although its not going to perform on par with a 800$ PC set up.
I play on a series X and i have no performance or playability issues in the slightest, also no Overheating.
I think Console is more suited for those that are more casual gamers, while a PC is better suited for those who like the optimization and upgradeability.
It lacks a LARGE majority of games that would be open to any other standalone platform simply becuse of the manufacturing company’s greed, it struggle to handle quite a few modern games on a reasonable level due to the lack of configuration of said games, leaving specific models of console in the dust because the games are “fine tuned” to a far more higher end version, there’s a MYRIAD of reasons why playability and performance are worse.
Hell… I wouldn’t call something playable if VMware constitutes a 300ms latency on EVERY SINGLE INPUT I HAVE. It’s abhorrent.
It wouldn’t perform on-par with a $500 laptop, let alone an $800 pc.
Hell, through another month or two of saving into there and you can get yourself a $2k build that is twice as powerful as a “supercomputer” from 2018.
Congratulations, you’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel in the game industry while paying $600 for something designed for failure.
It isn’t an issue about being “casual” or not, it’s an issue of interfaceability and versatility. If my laptop can run War Thunder at 1440p at 240hz AND play standalone games? It’s immediately better than ANY console on the market. I can play Tarkov, I can play battlefield. Hell, I can play Rust, one of the most well known “survival” shooters out there and NOT be gimped by secondhand development.
You know what else I can do on top of that…? Listen to music. Open a calculator. Look up a country’s inflation rate.
I’m even typing this comment while in the middle of a spintires session (a game that isn’t available to any console on the market).
Console does nothing better while doing everything worse. It’s a cheap excuse to get something that openly exploits mainstream buyers while giving them far less than they’d have with ANY other system.
Yep, WT (and other things) plays great on my Series X, and no upgrades or compatibility issues (etc) to ever deal with either. Had the same original 2013 Xbox One for almost ten years before this, ran WT well enough until the next gen came out (certainly better than you’d expect for a ten year old console), all without having to do anything but let the console auto-update itself.