One of the most beautiful polls I ever did see 🥹
My good sir, you have both my approval and admiration 🫡
A couple things I would like to touch on:
I feel like there were a couple questions which I would have answered differently depending on Ground, Air or Naval, but generally the sentiment is the same so it’s no major issue.
I would also like to add my own two cents on the Russian Bias conversation because I know it can get very silly, and I myself have about 5k hours in the game by now. In my experience as a GRB player, Russia has always felt to me like some sort of Easy Mode. Especially at higher tiers. I think up until about 9.0, Russia definitely has a nice little gameplay niche that it has carved out for itself with the general lack of stabilisers, good but not incredible mobility and strong armour + post-pen damage, though there are some frustrating outliers along the way like the BMP, T34’s and some others being great benefactors of the old volumetric changes (not that there aren’t other culprits like the german viewports or gun mantlets).
Again though, generally I feel like both fighting Russian vehicles and playing them, they can so often feel grossly overpowered compared to other nations. I wouldn’t want to see them nerfed into the ground, but I struggle to believe they are truly this dominant in reality.
Another aspect that brings up for me is that I would really love more game modes and maps that encourage more teamwork and provide more opportunities to play to the specific strengths of our vehicles. This does a lot to give nation’s a sense of character within the game, though that’s a whole ‘nother tangent to be had that I’ll just cut off with “please stop homogenising tech trees”. I’m just reaching top tier for USA, I don’t want the Abrams in tech trees I’ve already grinded out. Same goes for the Leopards and T80s etc.
Copy paste is such a major issue for me personally. I get that I can just not play those vehicles (unless we’re talking about Israel which, ho-my-god Magachs…), but the matchmaker has pretty much devolved into some United Nations version of the Avenger Civil War simulator. It takes away so much of the immersion for me and that’s an element I always felt War Thunder had a ton of potential for. The other side of that coin is then the insane padding it brings to the grind. I am a premium player with plenty of premium vehicles that I’ve amassed over the years. Even for me, the progress feels Glacial. I have a job Gaijin. I should be able to make progress without no-lifing it when I spend this much. I can’t even begin to imagine completing 1 modern tech tree as a f2p player.
Traction! You can’t have a tank game where you can’t climb a hill. This was an awful fix to the problem and there are so many discussions out there about better solutions. Please sort this out.
Finally(!), Naval. Just give us some good game modes and you’re pretty much there. The community have incredible ideas on how to improve it. Please please please just listen to them more. We could go multiple major updates of no new vehicles, just testing game modes and most of us, let alone the curious newcomers who will have plenty left to research, will do just fine. You have all those expensive assets. Time to put the value in them.