All reviews War Thunder

I started the game with CBT. It was an excellent game, you had to think about the battle strategy, know the mechanics of the game, study what shells are needed and where to shoot. Now the game has turned into a garbage dump for pumping money out of newcomers. The developers deny that the game has an RPU. But this is a complete lie. This is perhaps the only online game where the more you grow and raise your statistics, the more you will suffer from not getting through new players. And the more often you will be thrown at a BR higher than yours. To summarize, the game became not for relaxation but for hassle. 80% of at least my old friends abandoned it. I would have scored the same thing myself, but I feel sorry for the regiment that is in the top and the people who play in it (I am the regiment commander)

The trash can is full, how old is the game, and the developers don’t give a damn about it, the shells disappear, there is no balance in the game at all, 90% of the time you die from the tap hole, they wanted to shit on the players from a high bell tower, the cards are the maximum squalor, something new is just remade old ones with more long-range rep, damage model is maximum random, in the menu you poke and punch 100% on markers, in the game it didn’t hit or ricochet, there is no normal analogue, I think 70% of the players would get out of this garbage, plus the emphasis of the developers is set on johns, on the CIS to them shit as much as possible!

Exactly the same trash as wot and wot blitz. The same twists for some, and for others suffering. You shoot 5-7 times and get only hits, but the enemy is destroyed with the first shot.

Perhaps this review will help future players or will be useful in principle.

I have been playing this game since 2013, when tanks were just introduced, in comparison with what was and now it is heaven and earth, the gameplay was spoiled to zero, but it is understandable, the development staff changed 3 times.

The first were quietly removed because they were not profitable, the second were impudent ... well, I think it is clear who, the third is Pixelstorm, the RF division for pumping out money, not developing the game, the previous two were international.

At the moment, the game has sunk below the baseboard, it is not worth playing, especially not even donating a penny, you will simply be detrimental to your salary, or if you have an account, then sell it and forget about this garbage. There … Read full

After two updates to the game engine, Var Thunder has become more beautiful graphically, it has good physics of destruction of the surrounding landscape. However, the game has very bad physics in the movements of equipment, which is clearly controlled not by the game engine, but by scripts that work poorly and crookedly. The flight characteristics and performance characteristics of the equipment are set up very poorly, acceleration, dive, pitch-up are the same on all aircraft of the same group (pistons or jets), there is no difference between the acceleration of jets and piston aircraft, although the engines operate differently. When moving equipment, numerous unnatural movements are observed, such as tanks bouncing on invisible uneven terrain, and in airplanes, often after leaving the bar… Read full

The game is undoubtedly cool, I’ve been playing since 2013, BUT, dear developers, if you continue to shove all sorts of cr... (like helicopters, ships) into it, then your rating will fall lower and lower. I love to fly and I don’t need your ships at all. Make a separate game with ships, let anyone who likes it play. Many of my friends have already left this game due to the fact that computers simply stopped pulling the whole thing. My computer is also starting to give up because of all this unnecessary husk. Developers, think you've gone in the wrong direction. No offense.

I can’t say that the game is good, I even liked the stupid penetration system and the guns that can’t go down are annoying. The balance is off, the developers don’t give a damn about BR, the map structure is shoddy, the penetration system is stupid and there’s a lot of other shit such as toxics and swear words in the chat that not only are not blurted out, but also for this restriction you are not given in the chat (this is when you don’t you can write in the chat for a while) (in general, the game can be said to be normal, but even despite the fact that my BR is now 4.0, the game is already starting to look like a simulator of sitting and waiting for the enemy in the bushes.

What can you write about this unique fake, and this is so. The game turned into a total scam for money. To play it comfortably, on average you need to pour in 1.5-2k rubles a month if from the Russian region or 30 EU if from Europe. And then all the comfort will be questionable, about 40 to 60. There is no balance in the game, the developer does not want to bring any of his gaming equipment into balance. There are a lot of cheaters, especially from China. The game is highly politicized towards everything Soviet-Russian, but there are 9 nations in the game. In fact, success will be playing for the Soviet branch at any rank, especially at the top tier. The latest updates have finally turned the game itself into some kind of propaganda of everything Soviet. Although the developer himself is l… Read full

Periodically I receive messages about the game being damaged! During the game: many times when aiming and firing a shot, the sight was thrown to the side, or there was simply no shot when the enemy was in sight and I pressed the button, but there was no shot!!! Then my equipment was completely hit by one glancing hit of a projectile along the wing!!! My repeated hits on the vulnerable point of the enemy tank did not even lead to its disabling!!! My cool technique was amazed by the enemy's tin the first time! When firing at enemy aircraft, almost point blank, there were zero hits! Many players from their team, apparently offended by life, rushed at my tank and tried to throw it off the bridge or into the abyss! Also, the game often sent me warnings about sanctions if I shoot at my own peopl… Read full

War Thunder?? It's over!!!

The worst kind of garbage!!! The game used to be good, but now it's really bad and clearly on the decline!

I've been playing for several years now. And it's getting worse and worse. I absolutely CANNOT recommend this game. The frustration level is through the roof.

I now have over 1500 hours and more than 25,000 battles, and here are just a few points:

1) Major bugs are not fixed! Spawn camping is actively possible and is tolerated to the max.

2) Tanks of the USSR/Russia faction have built-in buffs and advantages. And these issues are getting worse with each major release (fun fact: hardly anyone, if anyone, plays this nation in esports).

3) NATO tanks have inherent disadvantages. Be it in damage analysis or behavior.

4) Bug reports are only addressed superficia… Read full

I really like the game visually; the sounds, music, and vehicles are all excellent. However, the gameplay is quite challenging, and sometimes shells don't penetrate what they're supposed to, or penetration doesn't cause any damage. Some shell types are completely useless. The leveling process is also terrible, especially at higher BRs, when your tank, which you spent a long time leveling, ends up being worse than the previous one because all its advantages need to be separately developed. An example would be the T-72B3, with a BR of 11.7, whose armor and firepower remain the same as the T-72B (1989), which has a BR of 10.3. The HEAT shell, for example, can't penetrate an enemy even at a lower BR, and the penetration damage from these shells is almost nonexistent in the game. Ultimately, to… Read full

The developers love Soviet technology, it’s not a tank that the USSR has, but all other nations hate it. Ground-to-air missiles simply cannot destroy anyone, the capture range is such that you don’t have time to release them before you fly into the hangar, but there is a Su25 cm3 which has x38 they capture from 15 km and destroy all living things and there are simply no analogues in the game for these missiles, only the USSR has them. 2s38 (dereviation) is a light tank that any anti-aircraft gun would envy, takes out everything and everyone, well, thank God, it’s a bit difficult to kill planes with it, but it won’t allow helicopters to take off normally even from respawn. The 1s armor annihilates all living things just above the surface at a distance of up to 18 km. In short, you want it to be normal play Download only the USSR, and all other equipment, plus or minus, is the same.

I don't recommend playing this garbage. The economy has been slashed to the bone, experience points are now worthless, and penetration is a complete gamble, with crowbars ricocheting and spinning. Who even started doing that, and what's the point of this? The point-crunching marathons are tedious and boring. I've been playing without donations all these years, and I can clearly see what's happened to the economy and vehicle upgrades!

If 10 years ago, I would have recommended this game! Now, NO, NO again!! The game has lost its meaning and interest! The introduction of new technology only makes the game worse! Go back to 10 years ago!

I don't recommend it. It's a terrible game, pitting World War II-era technology against 21st-century technology, making the experience simply awful. I don't want to play it at all, even for a minute. I just want to delete it and forget it, like a bad dream!

I started playing on August 29, 2025. I also played for just a couple of weeks in the winter before that. I had two official accounts and one guest account.

What can I say? When I first started playing, the minimum client required 11 GB, but now it's 22. The question is, WHY? Even the minimum requirements used to be easily handled by a very old, dusty laptop at 30-45 FPS. Now, a friend recently built a gaming PC for the Tundra with new components, played for a couple of months, and now his computer can barely handle it. Bottom line: the developers were already incredibly indifferent to the opinions of their players, and now they've crammed so many extra gigabytes into their useless, stupid updates (which are released literally every day) that it's now impossible to play on the same device I… Read full

3060 card, 12 GB, Ryzen 5 3600 processor. When you enter the hangar, everything hums))) In the potato, everything is on high or ultra settings, everything is quiet)) And in this game, it seems like only smoke and other crap is added. I won't even talk about balance. Previously, someone was winning with a minimal advantage, now one team is oppressing the other)) About the BMPT, it's a completely indestructible spaceship))) It breaks the launch))) I can't break these two pipes with a 120mm cannon))

Better than potatoes, but not by much.

Bugs that haven't been fixed for years (really years, there are complaints from 3-4 years ago about the same bugs that exist now).

There's practically no balance—BRs are designed solely to encourage donations. You either donate to jump straight to the top or enter battle to get a one-shot right at your respawn. Ships built in 1910 enter battle, where they're punished with impunity by 1960s bombers, and from behind the island, another piece of crap destroyer fires guided missiles. It's so exciting! (NO) Tanks from the early 1940s are getting one-sidedly beaten by post-war technology and, again, guided missiles. Piston-engine aircraft of the same period— They're being pummeled by jet whistles that are "uncatchable and unleashing."

Atrocious technical c… Read full

I will be brief, I will not explain to you all the mechanics of the game, write long texts (It turned out long, but interesting), etc. , because A bunch of people did it for me.

And so:

1: HOW DID I GET TO KNOW THE GAME?

I used to play potato (World of tanks), but after leveling up to the next top, I realized that it is practically no different from the others. Yes, there are some mechanics, such as hydraulic suspension, turbine, drum, loading mechanism, two driving modes and.... Ah.. but that's all. These are all more or less significant mechanics that are in wot. I started looking for a way out of this one-sided gameplay. And then I decided to try out the most important competitor, which I initially screwed up - War Thunder.

2: "Sorties"

I tried to start playing the game a couple of times, bu… Read full

War Thunder is currently one of the best multiplayer flight simulators. Of course, the game does not pretend to be a real simulation of airplane control, but even here, in the “Realistic Combat” mode, you will feel the full brunt of combat in the air: from an empty gas tank to the pilot’s overload. Since War Thunder is a free game, there is an element of leveling up here, for each nation individually. There are both disadvantages and advantages here: on the one hand, you are pushed to donate, on the other, you gradually move on to more advanced machines, and therefore to more difficult battles.

At the moment, the only competitor to War Thunder in the air is World of Warplanes, which is inferior to the game from Gaijin in many aspects. Moreover, War Thunder already offers players not only ai… Read full