After years playing War Thunder, the thing that kills the desire to keep playing the most isn’t the insane grind, repetitive events, or questionable balance decisions.
It’s losing matches because of bad servers.
How is it possible that a game with such a massive player base still treats entire regions like they are secondary ?
South America is not a player desert. There are thousands of people logging in every day, full queues, active clans, huge communities… and yet the infrastructure feels like it’s stuck in 2014.
You join a match and the nightmare begins:
- Packet loss climbing to 10%, 20%, 40%
- Tank driving by itself
- Planes teleporting
- Missiles simply passing through targets
- The game deciding you crashed into a tree that wasn’t even there
Then of course… the enemy destroys you while your vehicle is literally frozen in place.
And this doesn’t happen just once.
It happens several matches in a row.
You restart your internet.
Restart the game.
Test ping in other services.
Everything is normal.
But the moment you join a server, it starts again:
Infinite packet loss.
The most irritating part is that this isn’t new. Players from South America have been complaining about this for years. Yet the solution always seems to be pushing everyone into distant or overloaded servers.
The result:
- High ping
- Instability
- Packet loss
- Inconsistent hit registration
In a game where milliseconds decide fights.
And the worst part is that you can play perfectly, do everything right, perfect positioning… and still lose simply because the server decided your tank is no longer at that position on the map.
This completely destroys any sense of competitiveness.
It doesn’t matter if you have 100 hours or 10,000 hours of experience the moment the server starts losing packets, skill means absolutely nothing.
It’s absurd that regions with large player bases still don’t have properly stable and dedicated server infrastructure.
Because in the end, what kills the experience isn’t dying in combat.
It’s dying because the game simply stopped working while you were still alive.
And after years investing time in the game, nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you lost the match to the server, not to the enemy.
Hey, surprise !! South American players exist ! 🎉 We’re not just a myth or some rare spawn in War Thunder. There are thousands of us playing every day, grinding tech trees and joining matches just like everyone else. The only difference is that half the time we’re fighting packet loss and unstable servers instead of actual enemies. Honestly, sometimes it feels like the real final boss in War Thunder isn’t another tank or jet… it’s the server trying to decide if our vehicle still exists on the map. Maybe one day the infrastructure will discover South America too. Until then, we’ll keep battling the true enemy: the servers. 😅