I’ve been having serious issues with packet loss in War Thunder since the Spearhead update. It’s not that the problem didn’t exist before, but it used to be rare and occasional. Now it’s frequent, frustrating, and makes progression in the game almost impossible. In air battles, for example, you can end up crashing straight into the ground because of the connection.
Someone explained that our PC to connect to the servers it has to go through the internet highway. Those roads are maintained by different companies and can get congested or under maintenance, which can cause connection issues. That true, but the reality is that before the update it was manageable. After the update, it became constant and disruptive—unless all the internet providers suddenly made changes at the same time, which seems unlikely.
Today, a youtube channel I watch even commented that several players are having the same problem and that it’s becoming increasingly common… isn’t it time for Gaijin to focus on improving the server infrastructure? Instead of adding repetitive vehicles costing tens of dollars, I’m saying this about a game that’s in the top 10 most played multiplayer titles on Steam, having a server offering similar to a game from 2013, that’s kind of sad.
Some games are literally unplayable. Makes an already tedious event even more unbearable. Its gotten worse with every update in the latter half of this year.
Australian player here, been suffering with intermittent and often times unplayable amounts of packet loss especially in Air RB causing me to constantly lose control of my plane and spearhead into the ground. I’ve tried playing on NA servers and SA (Autoselect Server) but both are just as bad as each other. Sometimes it resolves after the start of a game (past top tier missile spam) other times its consistent throughout the whole match. I have an ethernet connection and this never used to be a frequent problem until recently for some reason. Has anyone found a fix to this???
Same here!. I play this game even before Ground Forces and on all of this years at least we could play this game. At this time this game is unplayable. Every single match has 2 or 3 PL peaks, and if you’re on a plane at that moment your are loss. After all those years playin WT I’m really about to quit it.
same here, i did send a report and this is the reply:
“Hello!
Connection problems cannot be resolved through a bug report. If the problem is still relevant, please contact support: https://support.gaijin.net”
They put me in a loop that no one solves the question, cant play right now because every battle the PL loss go to 60%+.
Honestly, it’s nothing new that Gaijin treats the players like nothing, we’re just there to spend money, but now it’s too much. It’s a known problem and nothing changes. The other times they blamed me, I changed internet providers and nothing changed.
If they don’t resolve this time, I’m going to request a refund of what I have spent, since I can’t use my digital products.
I just posted a thread about lost connection to the server, which is also linked to packet loss, but the company hardly pays attention to these things.
Of course, I showed some statistics about my connection with screenshots, but what can you do when the company in 2026 is focused on developing infantry…
