New vehicles are fun for about a week, and then its back to the same old same old.
What is needed is new maps and/or gamemodes. With major overhauls for existing gamemodes to add new and interseting gameplay.
For example. Air Sim hasnt gotten a new map in 3 years and has the exact same set of objectives its had for longer than that, which never change from BR 1 to BR 14.3.
I want aircraft carriers back in Air Sim EC. It’s legit 1/3 of why I even decided to start playing that mode and it’s just…removed, just like that.
I want the dumb “How to unlock your landing gear” bar on bottom gone from replay interface.
I want old visual damage models back. I can’t tell if I’m flying a damaged or structurally sound plane without having to check HUD in most planes because even a blackened wing looks good as new.
I want the EC SB bugs fixed (Objective logic, behaviour specifically).
I want TO GRB.
I want GRB to get maps suited for actual tank warfare rather than corner peeking FPS gameplay.
I want GSB to have more sensible lineups. Why can I only play a specific line up once per week, yet have to deal with captured vehicles and lend-lease IFF mess all the same? Either remove the lineup system and use ASB’s BR system instead or fix the IFF mess of italian wolverines/hellcats/shermans and premium Kv-1s and t-34s for germany.
About 5000, never too happy since I like to play tanks but there is no game mode for ground vehicles only. Would immediately leave if wot doesn’t look like shit and the gameplay also look like shit
It’s a PVP game, all PVP games are inherently stagnant so I don’t see that as a negative personally, just a fact of life.
Stagnant is why I watch film & shows, why I play many many games, why I read books.
I can’t get burnt out if I change BRs, game modes, games, activities, etc.
Nearly 5K hours in and unfortunately it still baffles me how Gaijin just continues to display such blatant and at times malicious incompetency when it comes to this game.
I’m really only still around due to Sunk Cost Fallacy, but I definitely don’t play it anywhere near as much as I used to. Far more engaging and better developed and cared for games to play.
Gaijin’s so far off the plot that they make even Green Butterbars look competent.
how they manage things like bugs etc. not the best and would need a huge rework (one of the staff mentioned they fix 1000 bugs per major update, but there is bugs e.g. tanks not performing as they should due to lack of armor (despite having it) or spaa not operating correctly because of rash last minute changes. or new features not working as intended)
I have over 4,000 hours and I still think its a good game, but there’s always room to improve.
A lot of the people who complain about the repetitive nature of gameplay need to assess their perspective and adjust their expectations.
If you feel like all you do is grind then maybe its time to take a step back and either play some of your favorite spaded vehicles, try a different game mode, or even take a break entirely.
When the core of the game is destroying other vehicles its inevitably going to become somewhat repetitive, that’s why its called a gameplay loop. To some degree its up to us to create our own goals within that loop, and to know when its time to give it a rest so we don’t burnout.
These days, unless there’s an event going on with a reward I want, I only play when I feel like it. That’s why I like the return of the monthly decal system so much. Its a nice event system with a very forgiving time frame, and a wide variety of rewards. Over the course of a month it provides the opportunity to play with vehicles from every nation for a collectible under parameters that can usually be accomplished in the course of normal play.
Had around 2800 hours on steam in October of 2024 when I switched to the launcher (dev server setup and other stuff). Statshark says 2400 but that’s only in battle and I am guessing it doesn’t count squadron battles. So I put 3000+ in the pool.
This is what I put for the second question.
The thing is this game has so much potential but it’s so wasted. I don’t need new vehicles or whatever but that’s the only thing Gaijin will implement. I would much rather have a rework of existing “Realistic” gamemodes.
For ARB this just means better mission. We don’t even need new maps. Sure it would be nice to have them and at some point they might become needed but you can make a much more functional and fun gamemode on existing ones. Why are we still stuck with beta showcase gamemodes? Half the planes are not even usable or useful in those.
For ground I would say say that new maps are desperately needed though.
I think this is absolute insanity. Say for example I wanted to make “War Thunder but better”. The amount of money and effort that would have to be put into getting all the models, licences, maps and systems implemented would be astronomical. But Gaijin has done all of that. They have it all. Only thing they are missing in their game is the “game” part.
We need just a little push to get this game from good to great or even more.
~ 3000 hours here
The gamplay loop is going to be repetetive for every PvP game however i feel like Gaijin could do more with their events and pages of history to break the repetetiveness. Like having specific EC style mission for the events instead of them just being a statcheck for some vehicles. Or maybe get some Air and ground EC on the weekends like naval. Pretty much anything thats not just a TDM with some caps in between
I really don’t like the way you have worded your options ngl.
I have voted “it’s great, no need to change” but that doesn’t really reflect what I think.
Change is always possible. WT has a lot of room for improvement and growth in many areas. That’s not in contradiction with it being great.
WT is always changing. Like, all the time. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Ground RB is noticeably different from when I started playing it in 2022.
I have almost 4k hours in this game. I would never spend so much time on anything if I didn’t think it’s absolutely fantastic.
It’s one of the most long lived and most played MMOs in the world. That isn’t by accident.
Played since jan after 10 years of arma 3… I really like WT.
But the pattern of buffs that break instead…
Vics and missiles nerfed to the point they are useless
Full trees of inflated BRs and cope- looking at you GB
Slowly eat away the actual fun.
Buy harrier for £££ - now it cant aim due to uncontrolable wobble
Buy ki200 - has 1 minute of fighting fuel- useless
Buy swift - waste hours trying to get fire flash missiles to work- they dont
Buy chinese f16… month later its now 13.3 and im down 2.5 mill
Buy f16 AJ - its being lobbied for being put to 13.3 like the other dead F16s so another 2.5 mill wasted silver imcoming.
My principles and patience are deffinitly being tested
I have around 2k hours or so, idk because I use the launcher.
Air sim could get some updates because it has like 5 maps and only denmark has enough objectives to keep people around for 3h, because pvp is hard (like fighting with your plane more times than the enemy, although its kind of skill issue). The other map is sinai, but it has not enough map features to visually recognise where you are or where is obj.
GRB has CAP issue where SPAA cost 70SP but plane with only aims cost almost as much as with some GBUs. Also maps are bland, uninspired and small for top tier tanks.
Top tier ARB is almost unplayable, FOX-3 are more luck based than skill based especially with those gamemode diesign as it is, because you spawn in front of the enemy instead do something like EC where you have 2-3 airfields and you can so a lot more things than fly in straight line.
Like this game need gamemodes overhaul ASAP, because when F35 or F22 come to the game it will be even more unplayable and boring
lot of issues, but i’ll focus one per Vehicule types:
Aircrafts : gameplay needs enlarged and revised gameplay at high tier (10.0BR+)
Tanks : no space for creativity (4.0 BR+) - feels like pigs going to meet their fate in a
slaughterhouse
Helicopters : insanely low rewards impossible to grind such vehicule correctly without premium
Just remember that such polls are always biased as the majority of War Thunder gamers are too busy enjoying the game and never even visit these forums. That’s to say, there will always be a high proportion of complainers. Thus, the poll results are to be expected.
Even with a premium Helicopter (I have a few and the G-LYNX is my favorite of them, though I haven’t gotten much use out of the Rooivalk yet) the issue has as much to do with the grind as it does the fact that you’re going up against SPAAs that are meant to take down jets, as well as the jets themselves, and by comparison you’re a relatively slow moving, easy target with fewer options for evasion. Sure you can hover behind a mountain but not every map has those, and even then you’re an easy target for the jets.
