Air maps are repetitive and too small. every match consists of the same 4 or 5 maps on repeat. These maps are also way to small as at top tier it take 2 minutes and you already have 3 missiles on you. There is always some person firing 12 fox-3s at you before you can see anyone and it just makes the top tier air experience hell. 12 fox 3-s on a plane is to many for the map sizes we have and bigger maps would fix this problem. I know there are already bigger maps than the usual ones where the fighting is more spread out but the maps are still to small.
Air is also way too compressed. You think that a non fox-3 carrier can meet vehicles that can carry 8 overpowered missiles. Just look at the 12.7 f15 in America and Japan, they can meet the su27sm which can carry 8 r77s when they can have only 4 aim7ms (bare in mind that in a head on you can just roll them and they will miss). these planes cant compete at the battle rating they are at.
Warthunder also has a premium problem, there are just way too many of them. Every game i go into there is at least 5 premiums if not more and most of these are copy and paste. I do like the aspect of having unique premiums but there shouldn’t be to many of them, this is because i think that just because a vehicle is unique doesn’t mean it has too be locked behind a paywall. Some vehicles such as the Turm III and t58 shouldn’t have been premiums and should have been event vehicles. just because the turm III and t58 would sell well they shouldn’t have been locked behind a paywall. Premiums should be less unique than vehicle such as the t58 but still have a unique aspect behind them, the more unique vehicles should be event. This is so people who may not have the money to spend on premiums have a chance to get them and also add a grind to be able to get them and not just spend £30-40 on a cool vehicle. Vehicles such as the Kv-8 are great examples on what an event vehicle should be like as it had a cool feature about it (its flame thrower).
The battle pass used to be good with cool unique vehicles that you could get but now its just boring vehicles. look at the spitfire LF Mk IXc for Israel, its just a regular old spitfire for Israel with nothing special about it. The battle pass vehicle should be fun and unique and not just some boring old plane. something like the pt-76-57 was one of the best battle pass vehicles added. but now its just boring vehicles that no one will grind for. If they want people to buy the battle pass they need vehicles that will be fun and will get everyone hyped otherwise no one will grind the battle pass and it will just die off.
I think if gaijin started to actually care about the vehicles they added and where they add them they can bring back in a lot of playes who may have left due to no unique and fun vehicles added.